Chapter 3: Unexpected Substitute Appearance
As the referee blew a crisp whistle, the fourth round of the group stage of the "Seedlings Cup" football match began, and the home team, the football team of Jinzhong Olin Middle School, kicked off at the halftime.
The two teams came up with a tentative posture of testing each other and did not rush to attack.
Haoyu's second vocational school football team, because of the poor record in the first three rounds of the group stage, only achieved two losses and one draw, and that one point of the draw score, is in their home stadium by today's 'Olin Middle School football team' forced to draw and achieve, today's form is very severe for the second vocational school football team, this battle can be described as a backwater battle, if you can't get all three points away, the remaining two group games, even if you win all will be eliminated.
On the sidelines, Coach Qiu, who wore square-rimmed glasses and had a stubble on his face, kept waving and shouting from the moment he kicked off, and moved horizontally around the coaching area on the sidelines, making people dizzy.
"This Qiu monster does look quite boring," the young man sitting on the sidelines thought to himself, "Look at what he means, it should be that he wants the whole team to press, and grab a start by surprise at the opponent's home field, but I don't know why, it was discharged today." The second vocational school football team of the 4231' formation, the small man in the left front guard looks like he is in a state of dissociation, always either passing the ball, or unable to hold the ball, and is stealed by the opponent. ”
Jingcai was thinking, ' Olin Middle School's midfielder on the right side, sure enough, snatched the ball from the feet of the little man again, and quickly dribbled the ball down to the bottom line of the front court, and passed a high arc ball to the middle with his right foot, the striker of Olin Middle School rushed to the top, jumped up and rushed to the top, only to see the ball fly past with the hair of the striker, the cheerleaders on the side of the audience of the second vocational school, all of them let out an exclamation, fortunately, the opponent did not reach the ball, and the ball landed after the defender of the second vocational school football team destroyed the sideline, and resolved a dangerous situation!
I only heard Coach Qiu shouting violently: "Li Le, you are mental, how can you feel like you have lost your soul!"
Li Le, the little player who had just been robbed of the ball, shook his head desperately, cheered up, and continued to insist on the game, but his sluggish state was always worrying.
As the game progressed, the minutes passed nervously, and the first half had reached about thirty minutes.
At this time, the players of Olin Middle School once again snatched the ball from the feet of the little man Li Le, and launched an attack from the side of the midfield.
The single-arrow striker of the second vocational school, the smiling black baby Haoyu, also saw the urgency of the situation, and he shouted while running back from the front court for reinforcements: "Hold on!"
Who knew that Haoyu's shouting did not fall, the other party had already sent the football into the net of the goal of the second vocational school in a chaotic battle in front of the goal, only to see the goalkeeper of the second vocational school lying on the ground beating the turf, and the players of Olin Middle School had already cheered and ran to the sidelines to celebrate together!
"Alas, the left side of the back should be replaced," the young man Jingcai, who was fully engaged, said to himself with some emotion, "He has already become the hardest hit area of the opponent's blow, and if he continues like this, he will have to lose the ball!" ”
"Yes, I can see it too," a magnetic motherly voice sounded in Jingcai's ears, which made Jingcai come back to her senses and turn her head to look at her, well, it was a lady sitting next to herself, in her thirties, with a good face, I heard Haoyu introduce her just now, her name is Zhang Furong, she is the school doctor of the second vocational school, and the team doctor of the part-time football team, Zhang Furong continued: "However, several of the substitute players were recruited by the school to rehearse the chorus because of their participation in the city's chorus festival, and there seems to be only one person on the bench, And it's at right-back! With that, a worried look rose on her face.
"That's a bit of a bad thing...... Jingcai muttered as she heard her say it.
While talking, an accident suddenly happened on the field, and I saw that the little player Li Le suddenly fell to the ground after being snatched away by the opponent again.
Zhang Furong, the team doctor sitting next to Jingcai, hurriedly carried the medicine box and beckoned two student volunteers to run to the court with a stretcher.
After an urgent diagnosis, the school doctor Zhang Furong came to a worrying diagnosis: the little man Li Le suffered from heat stroke!
Coach Qiu had no choice but to let the substitute who played right back play on the field to play a cameo in the left midfield, which made a bigger hole!
Off the field, Zhang Furong was busy pinching Li Le and feeding the potion, and a group of student volunteers also gathered in a circle, very busy, but fortunately, the school doctor Zhang Furong was experienced and had excellent medical skills, and the little Li Le was treated, and the symptoms of heat stroke were quickly alleviated.
On the field, the situation is not optimistic.
It turned out that the new right-back player who temporarily changed to play the left back had never played an official game in the left position, plus this substitute player who was selected as a defender, his skills were rough, and he was used to opening a big foot, as long as the ball reached his feet, he was kicked into the front court, either directly out of the bottom line, or by the opponent's central defender, and easily got the ball and organized the attack, making the second vocational school more passive everywhere.
The first half passed in this unbearable ordeal, and under the help of the smiling black baby and other frontcourt players, they finally didn't let the opponent score another goal. At halftime, Coach Qiu was furious and reprimanded his players for not running actively, but tactically, due to the lack of major generals, they could not make better adjustments.
After the start of the second half, the two teams transposed and fought again, the Olin Middle School football team continued to occupy the initiative on the field, and the second vocational school was completely pressed by the opponent across the half, bombarding vigorously, but fortunately, the goalpost and crossbar helped the goalkeeper several times, so that the first 20 minutes were not scored by the opponent.
Who knew that at this time, there was a worse situation, the core midfielder who ran the most diligently in the football team of the second vocational school, had serious cramps and could not continue the game, looking at the empty bench, Coach Qiu, who was still passionate just now, was dumb at the moment, rolling his eyes and helpless.
At this time, the score on the field is 0-1 behind, and in the next 20 minutes, if the team plays one less person, even if it is stubbornly defended, it may not be able to hold the goal without conceding a goal, let alone recovering the score and turning defeat into victory!
At this moment when the whole team was panicking, Haoyu suddenly ran to the coach's seat from the forward position, stretched out his hand to point at Jingcai, and shouted to Coach Qiu: "Coach, my friend who came to watch the game has been playing football on the streets of Italy since he was a child, can you replace him?"
"Playing in Italy?" Coach Qiu, who was in a flustered mood at the moment, listened to it in a trance, and he suddenly saved, as if he had grasped a life-saving straw, this old Qiu was already very fond of his powerful striker lover - the smiling black baby Haoyu, so he shouted without hesitation: "You hurry up and call him over, call him over!"
At the beginning of the game, the heat emitted by the blazing sun in the sky seemed to be less intense as time went by, but among the players running on the field, there was one who was unusually hot in his heart, and he was the teenager who was forced to join the game.
However, to be honest, he was somewhat half-pushed for this substitute appearance, because he, like the other young guys on the field, had a desire to show and prove himself. However, he has probably always been lazy, and he can't always run and scramble actively like the other players, so in the eyes of the spectators in the stands, he is like an idle ghost floating on the football field, and Coach Qiu next to him looked helplessly at this "midfield soul" who didn't kick a ball for ten minutes, and laughed helplessly and self-deprecatingly, that smile, well, looked more uncomfortable than crying.
"Hey, kid, why are you going back home? Is Rome bad? The old and kind voice of the old Apennine shoemaker, who was too old to walk, echoed in his mind, and as he ran lazily and aimlessly on the pitch chasing the ball, he continued to recall the scene before he returned home: on a nondescript street corner in Rome, the old shoemaker took a thick silver toe ring from his pocket with his dirty, wrinkled hands, and handed it to him: "Give it to you as a souvenir, if it could be put on your toes." Then, Jingcai took the toe ring and took off his shoes, he tried to put the silver toe ring on his toe, and as a result, he really "got his wish" on his left female toe......
"Hey!" "Hah! The shouts and collisions in front of him interrupted his memories, and he saw that the smiling black baby Haoyu was hit in the face by the arm inadvertently picked up by the opposing defender when he was competing for the header, and fell to the ground in pain, so the referee's whistle sounded.
The second vocational school finally got a free kick from about 25 meters away from the opponent's goal, which was the first time since the opening.
The smiling black baby Haoyu was ready to take a free kick, to everyone's surprise, Haoyu called Jingcai to his side and whispered to him: "You haven't trained with the team, it's easy to help you to tear down the wall, just push me a ball to your feet, be accurate, just like when we practiced in the past two days......"
Soon, everything was ready for both the offense and the defense, and when the referee's whistle blew, Jingcai flicked the ball with his usual right foot, and the ball rolled to Haoyu's feet-
"I shoot!" With Haoyu's shout, I saw him take a step forward and shoot with one kick, but the whistling ball hit the wall and bounced in the direction where Jingcai was standing on the left!
"Do you want to kick?" This thought flashed through Jingcai's heart...... The soccer ball had rolled to his feet in the blink of an eye, and an inexplicable impulse made him recite the incantation—a spell that the old Apennine shoemaker had taught him to recite, a spell that would instantly make his left foot with a toe ring produce infinite magic! As the incantation was pronounced, the ring on the female toe of his left foot began to vibrate again, pulling his left foot towards the ball, as it did every time he tried—
"Peng"!
The ball was like a cannonball, drawing a parabola in the sky very quickly, and the almost non-rotating ball body shook back and forth in the air that was suddenly torn apart, and flashed towards the goal in the rapid fall, and the goalkeeper could not judge the line of the football that was flashing back and forth, so he stayed on the goal line!
The whole process happened in the blink of an eye, and before everyone had time to think, the ball had already crashed into the door.
"Elevator ball!" In the midst of consternation, someone shouted.
"Nope! That seems to be faster than Cristiano Ronaldo's elevator ball! Another excited-sounding voice questioned!