Chapter 17: The Return of Bacchini
Bacchini couldn't resist Zhang Shu, so he could only change his position to a right winger, and when he saw him coming up, Baggio also moved to the left side to leave him some space. The pen "Fun" www.biquge.info Tony, Baggio and Bacchini formed a triangle with Tony as the apex in front of the penalty area in Krakow. Krakow's players also strengthened their defense when they saw Brescia's change of formation, with two midfielders blocking Baggio and Bacini's route to receive the ball, and full-backs also adducted appropriately, ready to support in the penalty area at any time.
"Isn't it more difficult for Zhang to score goals like this?" Looking at the front of the crowded penalty area, Bacchini was guilty of Zhang Shu's arrangement.
Brescia's current formation has become a gourd, with three people at the front, and a thick defense line with four defenders and two midfielders at the back, except for Zhang Shu in the midfield. The waist of this gourd looks so slender that Brescia's front and back courts seem to be split in two.
Seeing that the front and back of the team were showing signs of disconnection again, Guardiola increased his own forward insertion in an attempt to string the whole team together.
"Ha, Pep, you came up before I said it, you really understand me!"
When Pep Guardiola came up, Zhang Shu said to him with a smile.
Guardiola shook his head, this kid always makes his own decisions, and always thinks that someone will help him wipe his ass. If you don't get rid of him, it's okay in Brescia now, Mazzoni Baggio and himself are still more used to him, and if he really goes to other teams, it won't be so easy.
At the very least, managers of other teams don't like players changing their formation on the pitch without permission.
Bacchini felt that his forward cut made no sense other than to make the box more crowded.
Look at the moment, the Krakow players are always circling around him like a bear with honey, and no matter how he runs, he is always followed by two Krakow players. One cuts off the soccer ball's route to his next step, while the other pesters him to prevent him from slipping away.
Bacchini looked back in the direction of Tony and Baggio, who were treated similarly to himself.
In such a situation, how can Zhang deliver the football to their feet?
He shook his head, the first issue now is to win this game, and the pursuit of goals should be put aside for the first time.
Zhang Shu didn't know what Bacchini was thinking, and compared to the crowding of the forward line, he now has a lot of space in the midfield.
Krakow's midfield is not small, at least more than Zhang Shu alone.
But in order for them to control the midfield, they need to spread out across the wide cross-plane of the entire midfield. Because they don't know from which direction Brescia's next offensive will come from.
So it's much easier for Zhang Shu, when he attacks with the ball, he doesn't need to worry about falling into the siege of the opponent.
As for one-on-one, these Krakow players are not Maldininesta, he doesn't care about it yet.
Krakow tried to continue to press Brescia as they did in the second half of the first half, but they met with huge resistance. Brescia, who had calmed down, showed their strength to finish third in Serie A, keeping Krakow's attack at bay outside their danger zone.
In order to break down Brescia's defence, Krakow invested more and more troops, and full-backs were inserted more and more frequently.
Barcchini could clearly feel that his opponent's defensive effort was decreasing. He looked in the direction of Baggio and Tony again.
Against Brescia, who had a front three, Krakow's full-backs were also very attentive when they plugged in. It will never go up at the same time. Most of the time, it was the left wing-back who was in charge of plugging in, with the right wing-back remaining in the back, following Baggio in the middle. And the two centre-backs who were keeping an eye on Tony were also inseparable from Tony.
On Bacchini's side, only one midfielder was left with him after the full-back was inserted, and this midfielder was also distracted from time to time to pay attention to the situation in the middle.
This differential treatment made Bacchini feel a little bitter inside.
I'm being underestimated by my opponent.
But this is also normal, Baggio is famous, Toney scored in the last game, and it is normal for opponents to take them seriously.
And what about yourself? In the last game, he came on as a substitute for 10 minutes, did not touch the ball a few times, and this game was ineffective, and he was injured halfway through last season, so it is really no wonder that the opponent despised him.
Barcini understood everything, but in addition to the bitterness in his heart, another emotion still came out uncontrollably.
Unwilling...
Brescia's point of attack, which was once second only to Baggio, has now been reduced to such a situation. The winger, who once competed with Juventus and Zambrotta, is now looked down upon by the players of the Polish league.
People say that heroes are late, but Bacchini is not yet at the age of twilight. He is only 28 years old, which is the golden age of a footballer.
Anger filled his heart, Krakow, I want you to pay for despising me!
Zhang Shu was carrying the ball forward on the right flank, and he looked up at the front as he brushed past Krakow's full-back.
Each teammate has the opposing defender on his side, two on Tony's side, two on Baggio's side, Bacchini... There is only one.
Okay, this is it.
He suddenly accelerated with the ball, shook off the opposing full-backs who were unwilling to follow and harass after being passed by him, and rushed forward along the right sideline.
Seeing Zhang Shu speed up, Krakow's players suddenly became nervous. The right full-back assisted the front court before, and now they are working hard with their right midfielder to catch up with Zhang Shu, and the back midfielder, who has been stuck between Zhang Shu and Bacini, also preceded his position and pressed towards Zhang Shu.
The three of them formed an encirclement of Zhang Shu who was dribbling the ball.
In the face of the opponent's back, Zhang Shu did not choose to force the pass, once his speed dropped, it was easy to be caught up by the players chasing behind. Although he was confident to protect the ball, he couldn't prevent the opponent's foul.
There had been a few times before when he had made a successful breakthrough on the wing, only to be pulled down by the opponent's hand. At the opponent's home stadium, the foul could only get a painless free kick from the side more than 40 meters from the goal. Zhang Shu didn't want this attack to end like this.
He suddenly raised his right foot in the middle of the run, passed the ball to the middle, and then took a small leap to bypass the opponent's back and continue to cut in towards the baseline.
Krakow's players didn't dare to foul at this time, violating the non-team players, even if it was at their home stadium, a yellow card could not be escaped.
It was only 10 minutes into the second half, and if you get a yellow card at this time, the rest of the game will be difficult for you as a midfielder.
So just as he hesitated, Zhang Shu was out of reach of his arm. By the time he turned around and wanted to chase back, Zhang Shu had already run away.
Guardiola, who was inserted in the middle, received a pass from Zhang Shu, and he did not stop the ball, directly pushing the football to the bottom line on the right side where Zhang Shu was.
"Watch out for their crosses!" Krakow's goalkeeper reminded his team-mates loudly. Now that no one on their right side can interfere with Zhang Shu, the Chinese can get up comfortably and even have time to aim.
Seeing Zhang Shu's successful bottoming, Tony also began to step forward, ready to meet Zhang Shu's cross.
But Zhang Shu did not cross, he received a through plug from Guardiola before the bottom line, went directly to the middle, and then continued to rush towards the goal along the opponent's bottom line.
The centre-back in Krakow could only get up and jam his path deeper into the box, while the goalkeeper began to move his position, standing near the front post to block Zhang's angle.
Facing the opponent's defender and goalkeeper, Zhang Shu raised his right foot and made a powerful volley.
The central defender had already rushed to Zhang Shu's face, and when he saw Zhang Shu bending his bow and arrow, he instinctively stretched out his legs, wanting to stab the football at Zhang Shu's feet before Zhang Shu could shoot.
But Zhang Shu's shot was just a feint, his right foot suddenly became soft, and his footwork changed to a buckle, the football was buckled to the left side of his body by his right foot, and then his left ankle quickly blocked the forward path of the football at 45 degrees, and the ball rolled forward after being hit by the inside of his left foot.
Krakow's goalkeeper saw the football flying towards him, and rushed up without hesitation, in his opinion, although Zhang Shu's "croquette" action successfully passed his teammates, but the force was too heavy, and he was definitely able to control the football earlier than the opponent.
He took a step forward, his center of gravity pressed down, and his body flew forward, but his posture was to fall in a sideways posture of throwing the ball on the ground.
It only takes a few tenths of a second for him to be able to hold the ball under him.
"This ball is mine!" Seeing the football grow bigger and bigger in his field of vision, he shouted in his heart.
But a few tenths of a second later, it wasn't a football in his arms, it was a foot.
After Zhang Shu passed the opponent's central defender, he took a step forward without hesitation, and then flew directly towards the football that was out of his control. This made him move a little faster than the opposing goalkeeper, and the ball was stabbed by his toes, and the kinetic energy of the tackle suddenly increased and escaped from the armpit of the Krakow goalkeeper.
Then, Zhang Shu turned on the active acceleration skill that he hadn't turned on before, and tried his best to retract his foot, and after an instant, the spikes on the soles of his feet made intimate contact with the chest of the opponent's goalkeeper.
Bacchini roamed around the penalty line, looking for an opportunity.
At first, he had people around him, but after Zhang Shu messed up the opponent's defence, the Krakow players couldn't care about him anymore.
has been following his back to defend Zhang Shu, the two central defenders were marking Toni at first, and then separated one to stop Zhang Shu who cut inside, and the other back and right full-back followed Baggio, and even the full-back who chased back to him later rushed into the penalty area as if he didn't see him, filling the gap between the central defenders who had defended Zhang Shu before.
In the midst of a chaotic forbidden area, Bacchini is as leisurely as a visitor stepping into a tranquil garden.
But in the blink of an eye, the seemingly forgotten area of his place became the focus of attention on the pitch.
The ball that was poked out by Zhang Shu did not roll towards the most crowded area in front of the goal, but flew outside the penalty area, where there was no one but Bacchini.
Tony turned his head in surprise to see the ball flying behind him, and even forgot to control the pace of his feet, mixing with the legs of the opposing centre-back, and the two men got entangled and rolled into the goal.
Baggio looked at the soccer ball flying out of the penalty area, and then looked at the end of the soccer flight path, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and his feet took several steps back to his back, although the two Krakow players who had been following him had already seen the direction of the soccer ball's flight, but their bodies instinctively followed their target to move several steps to the left wing.
These few steps made the gap in the Krakow goal, where the goalkeeper was still lying on the ground, even wider.
Behind Bacini, seeing Zhang Shu pour the football out of the penalty area, Guardiola has already raised his hands.
And at the back of Brescia, on the bench next to the stands, and even further, in front of countless televisions in Brescia, Italy.
Everyone held their breath, half-crouched, their butts slightly off the bench and couch, their hands slightly raised, ready to let out a cheer for a goal or a sigh after a missed opportunity.
It was such a long moment.
Barcchini's mind flashed through many images, from the ambition to join Juventus, to the humiliating moments when he was sent to Parma as an add-on, to the profligate wreckage in the bar, to the intense pain of lying on the training ground with his hands on his knees.
But in the next moment, the images shattered, and only one sentence remained in my mind.
"It doesn't make much difference to me whether you're slumping down or reinvigorating, it's just you who will change in your life."
This is what Zhang Shu said to him after he was injured, and now that I think about it, this stinky boy is really bad to talk about.
But that's exactly what happened.
I'm not here for the fans, not for my teammates, not for anyone else. I don't have lofty goals, I'm just doing it for myself.
I want to get back on the pitch, I want to taste the goal again, I want to make Juventus regret it, I want it, heavy! Return! Top! Peak!!!
As the ball flew closer and closer, Bacchini planted his left foot firmly on the turf and a solid sense of feedback from the ground through his ankle, tibia, past his previously injured knee and all the way to his waist.
He then twists his body and transmits the power from his crotch to the thigh of the other foot, driving the calf and the top of the foot of his right foot to swing in an arc.
The arc overlapped with the ball in the next moment, making a loud "bang" that echoed for a long time in the quiet Cracovia stadium.
The soccer ball was like a lightning bolt with a white light, speeding forward, and before the sound fell, the net had been driven by the soccer ball and raised a high agitation. (To be continued.) )