Chapter 35: Free Kick
In fact, when Grigor was shooting, Zhou Aniu made a move of stretching his legs to intercept, but his reaction speed was half a beat slower, and Wang Shuai on the other side was even more out of reach, and the two of them could only watch the football fly into the net. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
"It's broken!" This was Wang Shuai's first thought after seeing Grigor score.
Originally, according to Wang Shuai's assumption, if the score of 0:0 could be maintained in the first half, then in the second half, after Aston Villa mastered the kick-off, and then relied on the physical advantage of young players, Villa may not have no advantage.
But now, Wang Shuai knows that things are getting rather unoptimistic. After the score was rewritten, the initiative was completely in the hands of Tottenham, and whether they were attacking or defending in the following games, Aston Villa was uncomfortable.
If Tottenham choose to attack, then Villa will have to defend, which will inevitably reduce the intensity of Villa's attack. And if Tottenham choose to defend, although it seems that Villa can let go of the attack, in fact, from the first 30 minutes of the first half, it can be seen that Villa's attack does not pose much of a threat to Tottenham who are shrinking their defence.
Wang Shuai has also discovered now that the team he is leading is still too young, and he himself is fine, and his strength is enough. But the remaining few people, although they can grow into world-class superstars in the future, but that is also a matter for the future, and now their strength is really not qualified.
Wang Shuai was very helpless, but he had to accept such a reality, the current Aston Villa, really does not have the strength to compete with the first-class teams in the Premier League, and the last League Cup match with Liverpool only took advantage of the opponent's light enemy. If you really have to play against Liverpool, who have a full main lineup, the result is very likely to be lost.
After thinking about it so much, Wang Shuai also saw that a Championship team in the FA Cup can't go too far, and it should be like this to meet a team like Tottenham in the first game.
So, after Wang Shuai withdrew to his own half, he did not adjust the existing tactics, but just said to other teammates: If you lose, you will lose, and you can play how you want.
Hearing Wang Shuai's words, the players of Aston Villa were a little surprised, this is not Wang Shuai's consistent style. Shouldn't Wang Shuai win every game? But then they also figured out that the opponent was Tottenham after all, and it was really difficult to play against a team of this strength, and then let Wang Shuai win.
Wang Shuai's inaction not only surprised Villa's players, but also made Tottenham's side scratch their heads. Both the manager and the players on the pitch thought it was time for Villa to shrink their defence after falling behind. However, Villa maintained the previous balanced offensive and defensive style of play, which caught Tottenham off guard.
In the 30th minute, Wang Shuai was on his feet near the midline and the backfield players, and Farma defended not far in front of Wang Shuai. Just when Falma thought that Vera's inverted foot would continue for a while, Wang Shuai suddenly activated and rushed directly past him.
Damn, what about the contraction defense that you said you were okay?! Falma cursed in her heart, and had to hurry up with Wang Shuai to return to defense. It's just that Wang Shuai's speed, even the speed of dribbling, is not something that Falma can catch up with within a few steps.
It was not only Farma who did not react, but also the other two midfielders of Tottenham, they did not expect Wang Shuai to suddenly start attacking, and before they had time to make up the defense, the midfield defense line was completely broken by Wang Shuai.
Wang Shuai himself didn't expect that this breakthrough would be so easy, and in the face of this rare opportunity, Wang Shuai didn't have time to think about why Tottenham's defense suddenly relaxed.
In a few breaths, Wang Shuai had advanced to the front of the penalty area, Wu Shi and Ibu were also in position in the penalty area, and David and Laurie were constantly roaming around the side, ready to meet Wang Shuai at any time.
Wang Shuai looked at the situation in front of him, this was really an excellent opportunity, he broke through to the front court by himself, forming a situation of more local play and less play. It's just that just when Wang Shuai was about to burst into the penalty area, he just kicked the ball out, and before he could move, he felt that his clothes were being dragged and fell directly to the ground under inertia. Immediately after that, someone ran past him and grabbed the football, and the name on the back of the jersey was Falma.
"Toot ~!"
The referee blew the whistle without hesitation, such an obvious foul, the referee would not care if this was Tottenham's home stadium.
When Falma heard the whistle and saw the referee signal that she had committed a foul, she subconsciously raised her hands to show that she was innocent. It's just that Falma himself knows in his heart that his action just now is indeed an out-and-out foul action. Thinking of this, Falma was also a little helpless, and he hurriedly caught up with Wang Shuai, and saw that the other party began to break through to the penalty area, and he really couldn't help but reach out to stop the other party. When Falma grabbed Wang Shuai's clothes, he realized that it would be a bad thing to do so, but it was too late.
The referee didn't know what Falma was thinking, he only saw that Farma actually showed his innocence after the foul, which made the referee a little annoyed. He didn't give Farma a card for the sake of Tottenham's home face, but the other party still didn't appreciate it. So, poor Falma added a stroke to his "merit book" because of his subconscious actions. With a direct free-kick in front of the penalty area, plus a yellow card, Farma knew she would have to be disciplined by Pacio after the game, no, probably at half-time.
Regardless of Falma's thoughts, Wang Shuai was already standing in front of the free kick. In the games leading up to this season, Villa's free-kicks were mostly taken by David. But David knows that his current free kick skills are not as good as Wang Shuai's, and letting him take the penalty before was only for him to practice his feet, after all, those free kicks are not very important. But now it's different, and it could have been the equaliser, or even the turning point of the game. As a result, the penalty for this free kick was replaced by Wang Shuai.
Wang Shuai has yet to take a free-kick since leaving the country, so his trademark leaf-falling shot has not been seen in England either. In Tottenham's goalkeeper Thomas's view, the free kick shot is nothing more than a larger arc and a little tricky angle, as long as the human wall is lined up, there is nothing difficult to defend the ball.
Wang Shuai looked up and saw that Tottenham's wall had completely blocked the path of the near corner shot, and Thomas himself was guarding the position outside the center of the goal. Although the position of the ball is quite good, if it were someone else, the probability of scoring a goal was really small.
It's just that most of Wang Shuai's opponents in recent years have adopted intensive defensive tactics, and set-pieces have become one of Wang Shuai's main scoring methods, and Wang Shuai's usual shooting training is also a free kick. Therefore, in Wang Shuai's opinion, the difficulty of this ball is really not too big. What's more, Wang Shuai had just practiced a new shooting method in the season before going abroad, which had not been officially used in the game, and now it is just right to use it.
Boom!
Wang Shuai ran two steps, rounded his right leg and shot the ball out, and the football flew over the head of the human wall and went straight to the center of the goal.
Thomas glanced at the direction of rotation of the football and instantly judged that although the football was now being kicked towards the center of the goal, it would eventually turn to the far corner of the goal. Just looking at the height of the ball, Thomas felt that it should be high above the crossbar without accident, but to be on the safe side, he still made a save towards the far corner of the goal.
Thomas was right, Wang Shuai used the outside of his instep to shoot, and the ball did fly to the far corner of the goal in the end. And after seeing the football start to turn, a smile began to appear on Thomas's face, the ball was not in danger.
But soon, the smile on Thomas's face was gone, because the ball suddenly began to fall, and he himself had jumped into the air, and there was no way to change the save move, only to watch the ball go under him.
Brush!
The outside instep falls the ball and the ball goes in.
1:1!