1 win, 3 draws, 3 losses, 7 rounds of matches, Pavia Juniors only 6 points, ranked last among the 11 teams.

Even at the height of their downfall, the Pavia Junior Team had never had such a poor record.

Because no matter how bad the Pavia junior team is, they are supported by a professional football club, while in Lombardy, the small towns of Cremona, Sondrio and Varese do not even have a professional football club, and their players are all from the primary and secondary schools in the region.

It is such a group of teams with little training to surpass the Pavia junior team, which makes Descartes and others embarrassed?

To add insult to injury, he will also be suspended for one match for the next game because of Descartes' yellow card.

Thankfully, the opponent in this match was the second-to-last Sondrio Regional Juniors, a doll team made up of student troops, and even without Descartes, the Pavia Juniors were superior to them.

So Descartes sat on the sidelines for 90 minutes, watching his teammates do their best to get back a hard-earned victory.

And this feeling of not being able to sweat for his beloved team on the court made Descartes feel on pins and needles, and he secretly vowed in his heart that he would never let such a situation happen again.

The 11 teams, playing each other twice at home and away, will play a total of 20 games for the whole season, of course, this is not all the tournaments that the junior team needs to participate in, after the regional league, they will also participate in a tournament called the Lombardy Regional Junior Football Championship, which is an event organized by the Lombardy District Governor, open to all 10-13 year olds in the society, using a cup elimination system, until the winner is decided.

But now is not the time to think about tournaments.

Nearly halfway through the 2000-2001 league season, Pavia Juniors are still barely in the penultimate position, much to the concern of their players and supporters.

After all, some of these children will become part of Pavia Football Club in the future, and if their future is measured by such achievements, where will Pavia FC go?

The D-League?

Oh my God, this is unimaginable for football fans in the small town of Pavia!

So they organized a large number of fans and prepared to go to the side of the stadium to cheer for the teenagers of Pavia, and they hoped that the teenagers could regain their strength in the next games and fight for the future of Pavia.

The only thing that pleased them was that they were at home to another underdog in Lombardy, Varese Juniors, and that their number one young star Descartes was about to return, so everything was going on a positive note.

And after two frustrating games in a row, Descartes once again gained the right to step on the football field, and he was like a hungry tiger that was suffocating and couldn't wait to show his fangs to his enemies.

So in this game, the Varese junior team saw how terrible a full-powered Descartes really was.

9:0, a bloody victory, shows not only the gap between the two teams, but also the hot state after Descartes' return.

He scored six goals in the game and pushed his league tally to 23, finishing third in the scorers list behind Inter Milan's Balotelli and AC Milan's Paloski.

However, both Balotelli and Palowski have a strong team behind them, and Descartes has almost half the playing time of them.

Such data caused more sighs, and it would be nice if he didn't suffer from that disease......

Descartes was no longer swayed by these words of pity or ridicule, and while he was actively treated with the help of Mr. Aristotle, he began to learn to enjoy his football.

What if you can't play at those big clubs? I will still show up in the Pavia club, lead the team to the first division, and let everyone see that I, Descartes, am a strong man who can't even defeat the disease!

With that in mind, Descartes continued in the final game of the first half of the season, scoring three more goals to help the team win 4-2 over Brescia Juniors.

Brescia are not an underdog, they are also a veteran Serie A team that has been in the first division for many years, and they have brought in one of Italy's greatest players this season, the "Prince of Eternal Melancholy" Roberto Brown. Baggio is in the middle of a spring breeze.

In fact, it was indeed Brescia's best season, finishing seventh in the league and even earning a place in Europe.

But luckily for Robert. Baggio will not be playing in the junior team, so Descartes led his team to a comfortable victory here.

An easy victory indeed.

Although the Brescia junior team is also a member of the Brescia football club, they are clearly not as good as the two bullies of their neighbors, Milan City, in the competition for football resources.

So their junior team can only be considered mid-table at best in Lombardy.

Such a team met Descartes, who was in great form, and of course died a very ugly death.

In fact, Brescia did not struggle - they imitated Inter's tactics against Descartes in the second half, setting up a dedicated midfielder to defend Descartes, and adopting extremely dirty trapping tactics against him.

But after the defeat at Sbalbarro Road, Mr. Mancard has figured out a way to deal with the situation.

His solution was simple, increase the assists of the two wide players, try to provide more support to Descartes up front, and at the same time free Descartes from the forward position and make him a free man up front, left or right? Let him judge for himself based on the situation on the field.

This was an unconditional trust in Descartes, and at the same time a great test for him.

Descartes had talents that ordinary people could hardly match, but how to turn these talents into practical ability? Mr. Mankaard made an important decision: to free his place and make him a free man on the pitch.

Even if you send a player to follow him, you can't really go where he goes, right? The football field is 105x68 meters long and wide, and even the training ground of the junior team has an area of 99x64, and the most basic defensive strategy of each team is to divide these areas into standard areas, so that the players can defend their own areas, so that they can do their own responsibilities and not cause chaos.

If a player follows Descartes from left to right and from right to front, who will fill the gaps he leaves?

This is not a problem that can be solved by rotating the defensive areas in the order of the players on the field, because if this player follows Descartes and constantly invades someone else's defensive area, it will definitely cause confusion for the players in that defensive area: if Descartes runs towards him with the ball, should he defend or not?

The reason why Inter Milan restrained Descartes very well was because their tactical thinking was clear, letting go of others and trying their best to contain Descartes.

However, this tactic was based on the scarcity of Pavia's frontcourt players and the fact that Descartes was alone.

As long as the Pavia Juniors add the receiving points in the front court and let Descartes constantly organize and organize between these fulcrums, then such a bag will be in trouble: you can stop him from breaking through, you can't stop all his passes, right?

And after Descartes' position was liberated, his desperate Saburo-like running ability was shown to the maximum, even if the opponent's back back also had good physical strength, but after following him lap after lap, he finally began to feel dizzy.

Because one is running with a purpose, the other is purely following others, so the former knows the direction of his running and the next purpose, while the other needs to passively bear all kinds of changes, the player with a slightly lower ball quotient will appear in the Brescia junior team such a situation as a midfielder, running and running, he suddenly found that his target was missing.

In fact, Descartes was not missing, he was only temporarily throwing off his opponent by using flexible movement.

In such a situation, Descartes scored a hat-trick with ease, and the Brescia manager's painstaking pre-match arrangement was in vain.

Descartes was even approached by Brescia's coach after the game and asked if he would like to play for Brescia Juniors - a less sincere invitation because he did not have the authority to decide whether Descartes would be in the senior Brescia team, he was only making such a decision for the sake of Brescia's short-term results.

Descartes easily read through his thoughts, and although he felt a little annoyed, he did not have a seizure, and only politely rejected the other manager's offer.

After two failed trials at Milan and Juventus, Descartes had figured out that if he couldn't get the commitment of the senior team, he would rather stay in the small city of Pavia, although the Pavia club is not a strong team and not a good stage to make a name for itself, but at least they will give themselves the opportunity to play for the senior team, which is better than being abandoned after a few years of playing in those big clubs, isn't it?

After a two-game winning streak, Pavia Juniors finally climbed to fourth from bottom in the table, with Inter Milan and AC Milan still in the top two, winning one and losing one, which shows the strength of these two teams in Lombardy.

However, Descartes and their teammates did not lose confidence, Inter Milan and AC Milan were not the same world teams as them, all they had to do was to continue their victory, no matter what position they were in in the end, they at least fought hard for it, then they have no regrets.

Since the junior team does not play too many games, they will not experience any winter break, let alone be affected by any national team competitions, and after the first half of the league season, they will start the second half of the season.

The Pavia Juniors have seen their old rivals, Bergamo Juniors.

The team, which had lost and won in the first half of the season and brought Pavia Juniors to a black start, are currently fourth in the league with 6 wins, 1 draw and 3 losses, and before them there are 6 wins, 2 draws and 2 defeats for Como Juniors.

Como also have a senior professional football team that was briefly promoted to Serie A in 1949, 1980 and 2002 and although they were reinstated, they are still a well-known powerhouse in Lombardy.

Well, for Pavia FC, they're definitely a powerhouse.

And in the 2000-2001 season, it was the rise of the Como club, and they not only achieved excellent results in the senior team competition, but also had a lot of good seedlings in the junior team.

So they were able to beat the Bergamo Juniors and become third in the standings after the Milan duo.

And the Bergamo junior team is of course unwilling to be crushed by such a team, when it comes to the senior team record, their owner Atalanta is also a perennial team in Serie A, right? How can you be crushed by Como in such a game?

So against Pavia Juniors, Bergamo Juniors are aiming for three points.

Even though Descartes gave them a great shock in the first game of last season, they finally survived and completed a big comeback, so they have no fear of the Pavia Juniors, the little guy is strong, but he can only play 45 minutes, we can use the other 45 minutes to solve the battle!

So the Bergamo Juniors chose to attack in the first half, they wanted to establish a big lead before Descartes came on, even if Descartes became a superman, he couldn't have looked at the goal like a mustard under Bergamo's all-out defense, right?

It's a pity that the ideal is always plump, but the reality is too skinny.

Bergamo's attacking strategy played into the hands of the Pavia Juniors, who had been determined to defend in the first half and counter-attack in the second half since the match against AC Milan, so they were used to the ferocious attack of the enemy in the first half.

And in the junior team game, the defense is actually the best adjustment.

Because I've said before that offense depends on talent, defense depends on discipline.

If you want to strengthen the team's attack, it's useless to rely on any tiki-taka alone, it's even more to attack and defend all the time, and if you don't have good players, you don't want to get any advantage on the offensive end.

But defense is different, even if there are four or five mediocre players, once they can perfectly execute the tactics assigned by the head coach and meticulously complete their duties, they will immediately bring a new change to the defensive end.

What did Italy start with? It's a chain defense!

So in Italy, defense has become a compulsory subject for almost every coach, and with Mr. Mancard's coaching experience, he can't know anything about defense.

In the past, the reason why Pavia Juniors was not very good defensively was because he did not adopt such extreme tactics and preferred to find a balance on both sides of the court, so he was not as attentive to the team's defense as he is now.

And once he decided to defend with all his might, his coaching skills were on display, and although the current defense of the Pavia Juniors team is not impregnable, it only allowed Milan and Inter to score one goal in two 45 minutes, which is the best proof of this.

When they were defending at full strength, Bergamo Juniors couldn't find the back of the net against them.

After 45 minutes of stubborn and desperate attack, the Bergamo Juniors were in a dilemma: the pre-match policy of grabbing points in the first half was not realized, and the next 45 minutes, should they attack or not?

The head coach of the Bergamo Juniors team is also in trouble.

Attack, he is really afraid of Descartes' individual ability, in the beginning of the season, Descartes almost single-handedly kicked the Bergamo Juniors to the ground, if it wasn't for the long chaos that Pavia fell into after he left the field in the second half, that game Bergamo might have been dead.

But what if you don't attack? He is not willing to bring back only one point from Pavia, you know, the Como junior team is only one point ahead of them now, if they take all three points in this game, maybe they have a chance to surpass Como.

After thinking about it, the Bergamo manager finally waved the flag and continued to attack!

Anyway, there was no relegation or relegation in the junior team's competition, and no one fired him because of his results, so what else did he have to worry about?

Speaking of which, I have to say that the head coaches of the junior team are really happy, there is no pressure of grades, and there is no need to worry about getting out of class, the position of the head coach of the junior team is really a good position that everyone envies.

Look at Madrid's hot position, where they have changed 11 managers in nine years, and they have literally turned that position that has been in the spotlight of the whole world into a crater.

People are more angry than people.

The Bergamo Juniors, who had established an offensive mentality, also put down their burdens in the second half and launched a wonderful offensive battle with the Pavia Juniors.

As Mr. Mankaard encouraged the two full-backs to attack with all their might in the second half, Pavia's defence was clearly not as solid in the second half as it was in the first half, but it didn't matter, their focus in the second half had shifted to attacking, and if their strategy in the first half was to defend in a retrenched manner, in the second half they played "Zeman-style" football: it doesn't matter how many goals you score, as long as I score one more goal than you, I am the winner.

So the second half of this game suddenly became a top one, the two sides went back and forth, and the game was very happy, and even the originally sleepy spectators on the sidelines cheered up and began to cheer for the Bergamo Youth Team like chicken blood.

If you remember, the first half of the season was played at the home of Pavia, so this match is the home of Bergamo Juniors.

And the score of this game, I don't say, you must not know (nonsense, you are the author, you don't say that of course we don't know!). The two teams ended up 7:5, yes, you read that right, there were no penalties, no overtime, and the final score was 7:5.

The two crazy teams have forgotten about defending and they have entered a fairly open mode: just score one more goal than you and I'll be the winner!

And the Pavia Juniors team, with Descartes' 5 dollars, finally had the last laugh in this crazy goal battle.

After returning from Inter's red card, Descartes led his team to three wins in a row.

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ps: I really can't get up at seven o'clock, I really don't fit to do such a desperate thing as rushing to the list~~~