Chapter 129: Scavengers

The pleasant day passed quickly, only this time Ye Xin did not leave in a hurry after Lucas fell asleep.

He sat with Hannah on the couch in the living room.

"Hannah, can Lucas's condition be cured?" Ye Xin wanted to ask for a long time, but Lucas was always by his side, so it was inconvenient for him to say.

"I don't know, I asked my mentor, and he couldn't do anything" Hannah shook her head, her face downcast.

"Alas" Ye Xin sighed, he was not a person with overflowing sympathy, but when he saw someone like Lucas with his own eyes, he couldn't help but want to help.

"Actually, your arrival is the biggest help, the cause of Lucas is to close himself off for many years, and now he is a lot more cheerful" Hannah instantly saw through Ye Xin's thoughts, and she changed her depression just now and persuaded Ye Xin.

"Really?"

"Yes," Hannah said with certainty, but there was too much comfort in it, like comforting Ye Xin and comforting herself.

However, Ye Xin believed it, and he nodded vigorously.

"I'll come more often in the future, I hope it doesn't bother you"

"Thank you, Ye"

Ye Xin, who went back at night, naturally received Angus's teasing, although he also knew about Lucas, but no matter how Ye Xin explained it, he didn't believe it.

Fortunately, Nils would not be at home, otherwise the two would have to start telling stories again.

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"Uncle Fang, I have already investigated that woman, she is a student in the Department of Psychology of the University of Jena, and her parents died a few years ago...... Liang Tao is telling Fang Jincheng everything that has been investigated these days.

Fang Jincheng was still sitting by the lake, still fiddling with his beloved tea set, but his face was only cold.

"Ye Xin seems to have gone to her house for her brother, Lucas......"

"Did you shoot them all?" Fang Jincheng raised his hand to stop Liang Tao from continuing to report.

"Hmm" Liang Tao nodded, but then continued: "Uncle Fang, do you want to send it to Xiaorou now?"

"Not busy" Fang Jincheng picked up the cup and took a sip.

"A meeting doesn't mean anything, you have to kill a snake," he glanced at Liang Tao again after speaking.

"Xiaoliang, you're in a hurry."

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After a day off, Ye Xin started training again, but only Angus accompanied him to the training ground for the past two weeks.

The days were peaceful, except that on the 11th, the whole Jena team received a text message from Niels.

Even the team doctors in Jena didn't miss it.

"Brothers, remember to watch TV at night!"

Everyone looked at each other and smiled, Nils is really sassy, tonight is just a friendly match between Germany and Ukraine, but seeing that Nils is so positive, it is estimated that he will play in this friendly match.

In fact, even if Niels doesn't send this text message, most people will watch this game, it should be said that most Germans will watch it, although it is only a friendly match, but it is also a contest between the national teams.

Of course, Ukraine's strength is a little worse, but it does not affect everyone's enthusiasm.

So everyone went home after training and turned on the TV, and even Ye Xin rarely sat in front of the TV.

Angus also prepared a lot of beer and food to wait for the match between Germany and Ukraine.

It's just that the game passed ten, twenty, thirty minutes......

Nils was still on the bench, and although he was given a few shots on TV and mentioned by the commentator a few times, Joachim Loew was stunned not to let him play.

Because it was a friendly match, the substitution quota was set by the two teams, but four of the seven places were replaced, and Nils still did not move.

Ye Xin suddenly wanted to laugh a little, and it was difficult for Nils to sit comfortably on the bench now, if he was in Jena, he would have screamed a long time ago.

The first half ended before you knew it, but unfortunately Nils still didn't play.

Thankfully, Joachim Loew wasn't really trying to chill Nils, who was on the pitch at the start of the second half.

Ye Xin took a closer look at the game.

Angus saw that Ye Xin watched the game seriously, and also made a cameo appearance as a commentator, after all, Ye Xin had been taking care of eating in the first half, and Angus had no chance to talk to him about football.

"The Ukrainian formation is quite interesting, 1-2-2-3-2, scavenger defenders, two central defenders and two attacking full-backs, very classical"

"Scavengers?" This word is the first time Ye Xin has heard of it.

"Ye, you should charge more, although scavengers are rare now, they were popular for a while"

"Oh? Then you can talk about it" Ye Xin was a little interested, although Niels played, but both teams played more gentlely, it was completely like an ordinary training warm-up game, Ye Xin watched a little boring.

Angus saw that Ye Xin was interested, so he began to show off his football knowledge.

"The scavenger central defender is actually similar to the characteristics of the central defender, but the responsibilities are a little different, the scavenger is typically only responsible for defense and does not participate in the attack, is to do those so-called dirty work on the field, of course, the scavenger is not necessarily a central defender, can also be a midfielder, and the destructive big foot is basically synonymous with them"

"They don't have to think about attacking or anything, as long as the football is in his defensive area, destruction is their only goal, some defenders who are very predictive are just like scavengers, as long as he defends the same area as the off-ball zone, so the term scavenger appears"

"Oh" Ye Xin nodded as if he didn't understand, but he remembered the key word of a defender who predicts greatly.

"Don't underestimate this formation and style of play, in the 60s and 90s of the last century, basically the whole world used this kind of dragging central defenders, at that time it was very difficult to score goals, 0-0 was commonplace"

"Then why doesn't anyone use it now?"

"The offside rules have been modified, and if this continues, everyone will not play offensive football, and with the increase in anti-offside play, the scavengers are not as powerful as they were back then"

"I see"

"I can't imagine that Ukraine still retains this classical style of play, I don't know whether to say that they are traditional or conservative, although our German team did not score in the first half, but it was sooner or later"

"Look at Joachim Loew's formation, 4-2-3-1, it is very reasonable, it perfectly shows the aggression of Germany, it is that the substitutions in this game are a little diligent, otherwise the first half must have been scored"

Ye Xin glanced at Angus in surprise, Angus looked very confident at the moment, as if it was very simple for the German team to score a goal.