Chapter 24: The Lore
Although Luke's position on the field and his playing tasks are the same as Rick's, unlike Rick, Luke's strength lies in passing, not his skill at his feet. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
But Wang Shuai is no longer the hairy guy who has no sense of defense five years ago, coupled with the success rate of steals and the speed bonus provided by the skill of "defensive midfielder", every pass of Luke will be interfered with by Wang Shuai. Although they have not yet succeeded in regaining possession, Newcastle's attacks have been blocked again and again.
Luke reluctantly retreated a few steps, before Middlel could not break through Wang Shuai, it can also be said that his mentality was a little impatient. And now that he is also frustrated by Wang Shuai, Luke has to start paying attention to this Chinese player. It's just that with Wang Shuai in the middle, Luke really can't think of any good countermeasures for a while, so he can only transfer the ball to the side to break through the opportunity.
As the name suggests, the wave array is like a wave, sometimes layered, sometimes intertwined. Wang Shuai had previously formed a midfield defence with two central midfielders, and now Newcastle passed the ball to the wing, and Wang Shuai followed.
Suddenly, under the double pressure of Wang Shuai and Villa's left-back, Newcastle's right winger increased the pressure, and he did not have the same ball control and passing skills as Wang Shuai or his own midfielder. However, by this time, he had no chance to pass the ball again, and after two attempts, he still touched the ball off the touchline and the ball was back to Villa.
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Newcastle were unable to break through Wang's defence, and Aston Villa were unable to organise an effective attack, and the remaining 20 minutes of the first half were exhausted by the continuous attacking attempts of both sides.
In the home team's locker room, Wang Shuai frowned. Before, he thought that the team had eaten the arc formation thoroughly, but now it seems that it is far from enough. Facing Newcastle's three midfielders at the senior professional level, Villa's strength in the middle appeared to be too weak. Fortunately, the team's defense looks fine now, and the opponent's offense is not too threatening, which is the only good news so far.
The fifteen-minute half-time break was fleeting, and Wang Shuai still hadn't come up with an effective tactical adjustment. In fact, it's not that Wang Shuai can't think of it, but whether it is a breakthrough on the side or a breakthrough by relying on his own personal skills, he will finally face the end of fighting single-handedly in the middle, which is too risky. Rather than being seized by the opponent to counterattack, it is better to keep the next draw.
Not only Wang Shuai, but also Newcastle's coach is powerless to change the situation on the field. I have been paying attention to Wang Shuai's offensive ability before, but he really didn't expect the opponent's performance on the defensive end to be so good, which greatly surprised his expectations, and the team did not do targeted training for Wang Shuai's defense, which made Newcastle's tactics a little stretched.
With neither coach making tactical adjustments, the second half of the game became a replica of the first. The two teams seemed to have negotiated a good agreement, constantly attacking tentatively, and constantly conceding goals hastily. Even in the 75th minute, the two teams had just four shots on goal, one of which was a free-kick and the other three were just unthreatening long-range shots.
"Toot ~!"
The fourth official held up a sign to signal for substitutions, which was Wang Shuai's third substitution, replacing Wu Shi, who was physically exhausted, with Herman, adding a little vitality to the team's attacking end.
Newcastle's coach saw Wang Shuai's substitution adjustment for strikers, and instantly understood Wang Shuai's intentions. This is to take advantage of the physical strength of the new players and plan to launch a last-minute onslaught. Thankfully, there was only a quarter of an hour left in the game, which was enough time for Newcastle to hold for the next draw. And away from home to the top of the table, a draw is clearly acceptable.
But Wang Shuai doesn't think so, this is a home game, or a game against second in the table, and the second to fourth places are only three points away from Aston Villa, in which case a draw is not an ideal result.
In a quarter of an hour, Wang Shuai also knew that there was not much time left in the game, and because of this, he replaced Herman, intending to fight in the last time. It's just that now is not the time to launch an attack, and Wang Shuai is now replaced by Herman, just to let him warm up first and prepare for a decisive battle for a while.
After the game restarted, Newcastle's formation began to retreat according to the coach's instructions, and Wang Shuai had expected this change of the opponent, but he did not care. In Wang Shuai's opinion, he will break through in a moment anyway, and with the support of his strong breakthrough ability, the increase in the opponent's defense line to this extent does not pose any threat. Wang Shuai is now waiting for the passage of time, and then launching a wave of offensive at the last moment, anyway, even if he fails, there will be nothing to lose, because there is no time left for the opponent at that time.
It's just that Villa's side has not launched an attack for a long time, which has made Newcastle's coach a little dumbfounded. Just now he saw Wang Shuai change a striker, and he firmly thought that Villa was going to start attacking, so that his team could shrink the defense, why did Villa not see any movement on his side? Could it be that Wang Shuai just didn't want to waste his third substitution? The manager hesitated, watched for another five minutes, and then made another gesture for the team to attack, since Villa are not attacking, this is not giving himself a chance to fight for three points away.
Wang Shuai watched Newcastle's formation press back up, and smiled without a trace. It was a real surprise. Originally, Newcastle's dense defense would more or less add some difficulty to Wang Shuai's attack. But now it's okay, the opponent's formation is reopened, which is equivalent to giving Wang Shuai a chance to kill the game out of thin air.
Of course, the premise is that Villa's side must control the ball and not be killed by the opponent before they can kill the opponent.
87 minutes, Wang Shuai looked at his watch, there was still time to spare, and he could wait. At this moment, Wang Shuai is like a sniper lurking in the grass, waiting for a kill at the last moment.
On 88 minutes, the ball was moved to Villa's back and began to fall to the ground, and Newcastle's pressing was getting deeper and deeper.
In the 89th minute, Wang Shuai once again controlled the ball while constantly looking to the sidelines.
At 90 minutes, the fourth official finally raised his card and made up one minute of stoppage time.
"It's now!" Wang Shuai shouted in his heart, and the "Teng" ground was activated instantly, and at the same time he made a gesture of the arrow array. Herman, David, Laurie and substitute central midfielder Brandt also began to rush forward when they saw Wang Shuai's gesture. When Herman was substituted, Wang Shuai took the time to arrange this last-minute tactic for them, and now the time has finally come.
Newcastle's three central midfielders were the first to react, after all, they are senior professionals, and their awareness is quite good, and they start to defend almost as soon as Villa start attacking. It's just that compared to the three of them, Newcastle's four defenders can only be described as average, and they will only organize their defence when Villa's formation has rushed in front of them.
However, it was too late.
The ball had been transferred to David on the right flank, who saw Herman about to burst into the box and crossed the ball diagonally. At this time, Newcastle's left central defender was moving forward to fill in the position, and seeing the ball behind David's pass, he didn't have time to stabilize his body, and he staggered to the ground, allowing Herman to easily burst into the penalty area to receive the football.
Fortunately, the right centre-back reacted quickly and began to make up for the ball when David passed the ball, and when Herman received the pass, he was already stuck in front of Herman, blocking the opponent's shooting route.
Seeing that a chance to kill was in front of him, Herman didn't get up, because he remembered Wang Shuai's words in tactical training: don't shoot if you don't have a chance, stabilize the ball!
Not to mention, Wang Shuai has also directly given instructions now.
"Pass!"
Herman did not hesitate any longer, followed the direction of Wang Shuai's voice, and knocked the football to his left rear with his heel.
The big penalty area line, Wang Shuai and the movement route of the football intersect perfectly, and everyone's eyes are also focused here.
Wang Shuai took a deep breath, glanced at the top left corner of the goal, and then ......
Boom!
With a dull kick, the goalkeeper leaped high and pounced into the top left corner of the goal.
It's just that.
Wang Shuai shot the ball to the center of the goal.
Wang Shuai successfully deceived the goalkeeper with his sight.
Brush!
1:0!
Lore.