Chapter 17: The Champion

Li Yongle's R University quarter-finals were played first, and they beat the second C University in Group D 5-0 without any suspense, and in this game, Li Yongle changed his usual style of assisting more than shooting, and scored his own hat-trick with overhead kicks.

After that, all the U majors of the game sat in the stands to watch the opponents in the semi-finals. When Li Yongle scored the third goal with a header that he was not good at, he deliberately ran to the stands and yelled at it.

"See? He's demonstrating to us! Yang Pan said to Zhang Jun beside him.

"Just shoot him back." Zhang Jun shrugged.

The next quarter-final match, U big vs. S big. In the same way, after the game, R Da did not leave, and they all went to the stands to observe the opponent.

U University did not disappoint R University in the stands, and they eliminated S University, also from the Eastern Division, with a score of 4:1. Zhang Jun scored two goals, Yang Pan scored one goal and one assist, and captain Xie Yun scored the fourth goal.

When U University led 3:1 in the second half, R University had already gotten up and left, and everyone left the court directly, only Li Yongle glanced back at the field when he left.

Zhang Jun was celebrating his second goal when he waved his fist at Lee. "See? Li Yongle, see you in the semifinals! ”

Li Yongle smiled and waved his fist at Zhang Jun: "I won't let you down!" ”

Subsequently, Zhang Jun was replaced by Zhao Yu, and there was a semi-final the day after tomorrow, so he needed to let the main team rest and rest. Yang Pan is an exception, he has been playing a full ninety minutes on the field, as long as he is there, you can firmly control the situation in his own hands, although he is a side attacker, but he has become the irreplaceable core of Zhao Yu's heart.

In the past two days, everyone has been talking about an upcoming highlight, an early encounter between the top favorite and the biggest dark horse, and the home team's big game has not been popular.

A day later, in the afternoon, the two teams collided and filled the stands early.

Zhang Jun felt that Li Yongle used his strength when he shook hands with Li Yongle, and he also shook it back. The contest between the two began silently.

The referee blows the whistle and the game begins!

The U-Vars wore their traditional blue jerseys and attacked from left to right. R big wears a white jersey and attacks from right to left. Zhao Yu still followed the consistent 451 formation of U University, and Bai Hongfei of R University did not make any adjustments, and Li Yongle was still the core.

The game lasted fifteen minutes and the two sides were evenly matched. This surprised some coaches watching from the stands, although U University is a dark horse, it is not easy to have a draw with R University. What surprised them even more was that Zhao Yu didn't assign that special person to keep an eye on Li Yongle at all, which was no different from suicide in their eyes! But judging from these fifteen minutes, the U major not only did not die, but also lived a nourishing life - they threatened the gate of the R major several times.

In fact, after carefully studying Li Yongle's characteristics and R's tactical play, Zhao Yu finally figured it out, since he can't prevent Li Yongle, and defense is not U's strength, so he simply uses his strengths and avoids weaknesses, and does not use special personnel to mark Li Yongle, wherever he goes, he will defend him. Try to use the offense to suppress the r, so that Li Yongle can only defend in the second half and has no time to participate in the attack.

In the first half, Zhao Yu's tactics worked, and Li Yongle did participate in the defense in his own half many times, but Li Yongle's defense also gave Zhang Jun no chance. Fifteen minutes later, Bai Hongfei sensed the intention of the U University, so he asked Li Yongle to keep an eye on Zhang Jun, the arrow figure of the U University, which was exactly what Li Yongle could not ask for. So the scene of the sophomore finals was repeated, Zhang Jun was watched to death by Li Yongle, and there were not many opportunities. Yang Pan was also pressed on the side by the fullbacks and full-backs of the R-big team, as a small amount. Zhao Yu also sacrificed his own attack after containing the attack of the R University. In the 45th minute of the first half, the two sides reached a stalemate, and the score was fixed at 0:0.

At halftime, Zhang Yu also realized that some changes had to be made, otherwise it would be bad for him to go on with R, and he asked Zhang Jun: "How is your left foot?" ”

"It's as flexible as your right foot." Zhang Jun replied with a sip of water.

"Okay, in the second half, you and Zhang Fan will swap off, you play left forward, and Zhang Fan will play center!" Zhao Yu thought well, Zhang Jun's speed was no less than Yang Pan's, and his acceleration of 5 to 15 meters made him more dangerous than Yang Pan in tight spaces. In the case that R University implements shrink defense and the space is small, let Zhang Jun play on the side, one can get rid of Li Yongle's entanglement, and the other can use his speed to impact R big defense.

At the beginning of the second half, R Da felt that something was wrong, which No. 11 actually went to the side, and in turn, No. 9, who had been the main left midfielder in the previous game, became a center forward! Li Yongle didn't know whether he should continue to follow to the side, or stay in the middle to stop the U big attack and launch the R big attack. Because the captain and the front of the U big are not easy to mess with. At this time, Bai Hongfei was also surprised by the change in the second half of the U major, letting the team's top scorer, the main center, play as a wingback! It's really overwhelmed.

In the first 5 minutes, Zhang Jun received Zhu Hui's pass, and in the face of the R-big fullback, he used the simplest and most direct move: strong burst. He only bobbed it for a moment, then slammed the ball forward and started chasing it himself. I don't know if I underestimated Zhang Jun's starting speed, or if I really couldn't outrun Zhang Jun, just one step, the defender was left behind by Zhang Jun, but Zhang Jun didn't completely get rid of the other party, and the space left for himself was not large, he immediately made a decisive cross!

Zhang Fan's height is not high in the high-ranking penalty area, but his bounce is too outstanding, coupled with his perfect header kung fu, he still grabbed the front point and made a powerful header! The ball hit the crossbar and bounced off the line. This made the R big goalkeeper break out in a cold sweat, because he didn't have time to make a move just now.

The next U big attack, Li Yongle pounced on Zhang Jun without hesitation, but Zhu Hui's action to pass to Zhang Jun was fake, and after he saw Li Yongle's center of gravity move, he made a straight stopper, and Zhang Fan appeared on the ball again!

But Li Yongle turned to Zhang Fan with a reaction beyond ordinary people!

Zhang Fan seemed to feel someone pounce behind him, and he made a feint to shoot the goal, deceiving the defender in front of him, but moving the ball to the right.

Over there, Yang Pan, who was unconsciously ignored, relied on his speed to shake off the defender who was defending him, rushed up, and stabbed the ball into the goal before another defender cleared the siege.

The ball is in! In the 60th minute, U University took the lead!

After conceding the goal, R attacked with all his might, and the players rushed to the U goal with great momentum. The offensive was wave after wave, and the U big guard was very embarrassed. But Bai Hongfei was not complacent because his team had mastered the situation on the field, but there was always a feeling that danger was in front of him, why did the U Dalian center No. 9 return to defense, but the fullback No. 11 was still in front? Always keep a distance from his own back line.

Bai Hongfei's premonition soon became a reality. In the 72nd minute, a long-range shot from R Da hit the defender's body and bounced out, Lele kicked forward, and heard a burst of cheers from the U big bench, but they were not glad to be out of danger again, but because Lele drove over with a big foot, R Da because the attack was too fierce, there are currently only two defenders in the back, and Zhang Jun is also there.

Zhang Jun ran towards the landing point of the ball, and the nearest defender of the two defenders, Zhang Jun, naturally followed. After the ball fell, Zhang Jun used the outside of his right foot to take the ball very lightly, and the football obediently fell in front of him, and then he leaned forward, and the defender thought that Zhang Jun would repeat his old tricks, and hurriedly moved to Zhang Jun's body in advance. But Zhang Jun took a step forward, but the outside of his right foot knocked the football into the penalty area, and then he turned around very quickly and burst into the penalty area from behind the defender!

At this time, another defender was also in place, he pounced on Zhang Jun, because he was still some distance away from Zhang Jun when he saw the ball, thinking that he could clear the football first, but he obviously underestimated Zhang Jun's acceleration, Zhang Jun took two steps tightly, arrived a little earlier than the defender, picked up his left foot, pretended to shoot, the defender was really fooled, a flying shovel, and wanted to use his body to stop Zhang Jun's shot. But Zhang Jun slammed down with his left foot, but he buckled the ball to the right, deducted the last defender, and then raised his right foot to shoot!

There was a slight arc that bypassed the goalkeeper's hands and the ball flew into the far end of the goal!

2:0! U Big expands the score advantage!

This ball is almost fatal, Bai Hongfei sat on the chair weakly, watching the players of this carnival, when the other party changed, they did not follow up and adjust in time, and the result was a wrong step, a wrong step!

The players of the R big team were going to give up because there were 18 minutes left and they were two goals behind. Judging by these 73 minutes of play, the chances of scoring two goals in a row in the remaining games are almost nil.

Li Yongle admitted that he was too impulsive just now, only thinking about how to equalize the score and rushing forward vigorously, but the most dangerous person was forgotten by himself. However, there are still 18 minutes left in the game, and now if you don't attack, you will die, and there is still a glimmer of hope in attacking, so you can only attack, even if you die because of attacking, you will die much more heroically.

Li Yongle's efforts finally paid off, in the 80th minute, Li Yongle burst into the penalty area with the ball, was tackled by Lele, and the referee did not hesitate to award a penalty. Li Yongle personally slashed the knife, he made it overnight, and the score was 1:2, and then he saw the crazy counterattack of the hopeful R Da, and all 11 people of the U University also returned to their own half, and the penalty area was guarded impenetrable.

When Li Yongle watched Zhang Jun's flying leg kick his follow-up shot out of the bottom line, he knew that this time he had lost again. The referee blew the final whistle, and the game ended, and U University narrowly defeated R University 2:1 and entered the final for the first time!

Li Yongle looked at the ecstatic U team members around him, and just pouted, he had experienced two years of high school and was used to such a scene.

"I'm losing again." He said to Zhang Jun, "But don't be complacent, it's only 3:1 now, there are still three years left in college, and I will get it back!" ”

"Waiting for you at any time!" Zhang Jun said with a smile.

"I'm leaving." Li Yongle turned his head to look at his teammates who were packing up their things, "Hurry up what I said, go and get the championship on my behalf!" Also, wait for me to catch up with you! Li Yongle shouted back to Zhang Jun as he ran.

Zhang Jun looked at Li Yongle's back, and said in his heart that he was afraid that in the future, whether it was once, twice, three, or nine or ten times, as long as he lost the game, he would say this: "Don't be complacent, I will definitely get it back!" "He's not going to throw in the towel easily, or he's not going to throw in the towel at all. With such an opponent, it seems that as long as he still plays, he will never be able to get rid of it, but "when are you going to find a girlfriend...... "Zhang Jun muttered.

Two days later, in the final, U University relied on two goals from Zhang Jun and Yang Pan to defeat D University at home, and finally lifted the championship trophy of the 2001-02 National University Football League. And Li Yongle led R University to win the bronze medal.

Zhang Jun was named the top scorer with 17 goals, while Yang Pan was named the best player of the tournament for his brilliant offensive and defensive performances. This award is a bit controversial, and some people think that Zhang Jun deserves the title of best player, but throughout the competition, Yang Pan's play is more stable, and although his role in the team is not as good as Zhang Jun's scenery with many goals, it is more practical, his assists and long-range shots, as well as his physical running and tenacious defense, make him almost the ruler of the right side of the court. So the judges finally awarded Yang Pan the best player, and of course, Zhang Jun won the Silver Globe Award, which can be regarded as an affirmation of him. However, the announcement of the results of one of the strangest awards was the least controversial: the vacancy of the best goalkeeper of the tournament. Because of the appearance of Zhang Jun and Yang Pan, almost no goalkeeper in this tournament can survive in front of them. On the other hand, the R University led by Li Yongle also gave many goalkeepers enough of picking up the ball from the goal. For goalkeepers who are looking to make a difference in this tournament, this tournament is a nightmare for them.

The first time they represented the school in the competition, they helped the school win the national championship, Zhang Jun and Yang Pan were not in a bad mood, although their original intentions, high school won the national championship, but every championship still made them excited. But even better news is yet to come, the sponsor of the University League, Philips of the Netherlands, said that it will sponsor the top scorers and best players of the tournament to go to the Netherlands to PSV Eindhoven, one of the top three in the Eredivisie, for a ten-day "Dutch Football Full Contact"!

Happiness is always like this, one after another, and people are overwhelmed. At this time, the men's football team of the Chinese national team is looking forward to the upcoming World Cup, and our protagonists will also begin to dream of another dream, a distant dream, but it seems to be able to touch with their own hands.

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