Chapter 64: Unplanned Goals, Planned Counterattacks

"Ladies and gentlemen, watch BeINSports bring you the first round of Group H of the Champions League group stage, where Lille travels to Anderlecht, where AC Milan, the strongest team in the group, and Athens, the weakest of the group, will battle it out for second place. "www.biquge.info The broadcast rights of the Champions League in France belong to BeINSports TV, and today's commentator is BeINSports TV's ace commentator Florente, and the guest commentator is French legend Jean Amadou Tigana.

"Looking at the squad, Lille replaced the injured Oblagnac with youngster Cabaye, Tavlaridis returned from injury, and Dimont and Tavro remained in Lille with injuries."

'The change on Anderlecht's side is that midfielder Mbak Busofa has replaced Mbo Mponsa as a striker.

'One of the highlights of this game is Reves, the in-form youngster in the league who has his first competitive Champions League game and it will be interesting to see if he can score against the Belgian giants and become the youngest goalscorer in the Champions League with a record of 17 years and 195 days. Commentator Florent is very good at grasping the psychology of the audience and looking for highlights for this game.

In the 1997-98 season, Olympiacos played Rosenborg in the Champions League group stage, and Greek teenager Peter O'Forry Quaye sat on the bench, and the powerful Norwegian quickly took an easy four-goal lead, which gave him the opportunity to play. It took just nine minutes for the 17-year-old Quayer to break the Champions League record for the age to score.

With the referee's long whistle, the 2006-2007 Champions League group stage Group H, Lille Lille away to Anderlecht kicked off, and Reeves' Champions League journey also kicked off.

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Antlecht coach Frank Faircourten stood on the sidelines with his hands in his trouser pockets and watched the situation on the field since the whistle.

Although the arrangement was based on various intelligence, there were always some deviations, and he needed to correct these deviations by observing the opening situation.

Among the observation targets is Reeves, who is constantly running, in the first 10 minutes, this player has not received the ball, obviously outside the system, more affirming the previous guess, personal ability is good, as long as he is not allowed to catch the ball, it has been arranged before, he believes that his disciples can carry it out well, under normal circumstances, this kind of individualistic player does not pose a threat.

After looking at it for a while, Faircourt withdrew his gaze and began to observe the Lille players in other positions.

The key to this game is the battle for midfield, and the coaches of both sides know that Anderlehead's midfield four are over 30 years old except for Lucas Biglia, and the average age of Lille's midfielder plus two wingers is only 25 years old, which is a confrontation of experience and physical strength.

Puel thinks his youngsters will break down the middle, while Faircourt thinks experience will help him.

Both managers are confident that the ideas of both sides are well-founded and successful, but the victory will only belong to one of them, and it will be the performance on the pitch that will prove who will win.

Looking at the situation after the opening, Faircourtren's arrangement had the upper hand slightly, with the midfield led by Van der Hag and Goul firmly controlling the tempo of the pitch.

Faircourt nodded in satisfaction and turned to walk to the dugout.

At this time, there was a brief silence in the field, and Faircourten's heart sank, this silence represented only one point, that is, the home team had conceded the goal, and when he looked back, the corner flag area had become a sea of joy, and the silence was followed by a flood of boos.

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The other party has studied himself, and Reeves is very sure of this, because he has been following a guard next to him, and if he doesn't do anything, he won't let himself catch the ball, which he hasn't encountered in the previous games, and he has encountered close defense before, but he is all to prevent himself from breaking through, and there are not many ways to cut off his receiving line with fouls like this.

The way to get rid of it is also very simple, that is, to run relentlessly and throw out the gap to catch the ball, but because he is not the main offensive line, so when he sees that the passing line is blocked here, the first thing his teammates think of is not to wait for himself to run out of the gap, but to pass to someone else who is in a better position. So Reeves didn't touch the ball after the opening.

Reeves was a little helpless, this is the fate of the tactical supporting role. However, Reeves did not give up running, because his duty is not only to score goals, but also to attack. So as soon as Lille's attack advanced into the Antlecht penalty area, Reeves began to run frequently.

Reeves' luck on the pitch has never been great, of course, referring to the chance to hit in front of him, but Reeves, who left his Ligue 1 home, was unexpectedly favored by the Belgian gods.

In the 9th minute, Antrecht goalkeeper Daniel Ztka sent a goal kick, Reeves did not retreat with his teammates, but stayed where he was, standing parallel to the last defender of the opposing team, and no one paid attention to him, because the ball was in the goalkeeper's hand and was about to drive to the front.

When Daniel Ztka threw the ball to the ground in front of him and was ready to run before kicking it forward, Reeves suddenly started and rushed from behind the last defender to the Antlecht goalkeeper who was not far away.

Ztka hadn't noticed Reeves at all, but when Reeves started up, he reacted and rushed towards the ball on the ground in front of him.

Fortunately, the ball was one step closer to Ztka, Ztka kicked the ball out before Reeves arrived, but because it was too hasty, Ztka didn't control his footwork, the moment the ball was kicked out, Ztka already knew that the ball was not high enough, but fortunately, the force was strong enough to make the ball fly out of the danger area, Ztka couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, ready to retreat back to the goal.

It's not a pity that Reeves didn't get the ball, because he knows that the success rate of this kind of stealing on the court is not high, but as long as he has the opportunity, he still needs to try. I just wanted to turn around and run away to avoid offside next time. Suddenly seeing that Ztka's face changed, Reeves instantly thought of something, hurriedly turned around, and saw the defender holding his back to the ground and the football rolling back, it was obvious that the big kick shot smashed the ball on the defender's back and bounced.

The scene reappeared, as just now, the two started almost at the same time and pounced on the rolling football, one after the other ran out of the big penalty area, but this time the ball was a little closer to Reeves,

Without any surprise, Reeves grabbed the ball first, dunked the ball, turned and stabbed it to the side in front of him, and accelerated to avoid goalkeeper Ztka's cross-pounce, Reeves took the ball all the way into the net.

1-0

“goal! goal! goal! ”

"An unexpected goal!"

'Reeves scored, a goal of drama! Reeves broke the record for youngest goal in the Champions League, held by Ofrey Quayer. ”

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Faircourt didn't see the process of this goal, and asked the assistant coach next to him to know what happened on the field just now, and patted his forehead depressedly after hearing it, his luck was really bad, the goal ball actually hit his own person and bounced back, so that the kid missed it.

However, Faircourt did not make adjustments, just got up and walked to the sideline to the side of the field and yelled in the direction of the penalty area before sitting back. Because he thinks it was just an accident, not a tactical mistake, and it was still early, there was no need to change tactics at this time, just remind the players not to be affected by the goals conceded.

On the other side, Puel saw the goal all the way through, and he was so lucky! Puel clenched his fists hard and got off to a good start. However, there were no tactical changes as it was still early and the unexpected goal had little impact on the situation on the pitch, so there was no need to make any changes.

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"Reeves, cunning guy, lucky guy."

Florent, the ace commentator of BeINSports, said with a smile.

"Let's take a look at the replay of this goal, Ztka kicked off in the middle of the big and small penalty area, Reeves was on the penalty line, but he didn't show any signs of grabbing the ball, his steps confused everyone around him, so when he suddenly accelerated, no one reacted, he was a cunning guy"

"Actually, this break was a failure, because although it confused everyone, the sprint at this distance was enough for the goalkeeper to react, and Ztka did the same, he drove the ball out before Reeves, but the kicking angle was not mastered, and the luck was really bad, the ball that went out actually hit his own player and rolled back, so Reeves is a lucky guy."

'Dedication to scoring and plenty of luck made it a surprise goal a long time ago, congratulations to Reeves for scoring his first goal in the Champions League and the record for the youngest goalscorer in the Champions League.

"16 years and 330 days, this is a new record for the youngest goalscorer in the Champions League!"

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Reeves first ran to the stands where the Lille fans were to celebrate the goal, and then remembered one thing, before his teammates surrounded him, he lifted his jersey, bit the lower edge of the jersey in his mouth, exposed the T-shirt inside, spread his hands in a gliding shape, and ran to his own coach's box.

On the T-shirt is a makeshift figure drawing before the game, showing a short man dressed in a military uniform, leaning slightly sideways, arms crossed over his chest, and his eyes looking straight ahead.

This is the portrait of Napoleon that Reeves asked Forvegue to paint.

Faircourtren in the coach's seat saw at a glance the figure in the painting, not the realism of Forveguet's painting, but the prototype of this painting is the bronze statue of Napoleon at the entrance to Waterloo Town, dozens of miles away from Brussels.

Neither the commentators nor the fans knew what this meant, and even if they recognized the portrait of Napoleon, they were confused.

However, Faircourt understood that the painting of the Battle of Waterloo was the one he had hung in the visitors' dressing room. And he saw that there was a small line underneath the portrait that Waterloo would not happen here.

Faircourt knew that the bastard kid in front of him was demonstrating and fighting back, but he could only endure and not react, because this kid was too slippery, just lifting his clothes and passing by, not stopping, it was difficult to reflect his lifting of his clothes as a provocation to the fourth official, and the referee would not take out the card. And the small actions before the game can't be put on the table, and he doesn't want to make a big deal about it. I could only sit firmly in the coach's seat and ignore Reeves's actions.

The referee didn't play a card.

The rules stipulate that the celebration of running with the head covered with the jersey and taking off the shirt **** after scoring a goal is sure to get a yellow card, while just lifting the jersey below the chest will not be punished. Reeves just lifted the ball to his neck and didn't break the rules.

In the eyes of the referee, the portrait on Reeves's chest did not have any provocation to the home team, and the German referee did not recognize that the painting was Napoleon, so he did not think that there was anything wrong with the portrait of a general, he had his own guess based on experience, maybe this little guy expressed his love for a certain relative and elder, and thought that he was really a good young man.

And the clever Reeves hid the demonstration in the celebration, lifted the jersey in advance, took the opportunity to slow down when passing by the home team's coach's box, and slightly sideways to reveal the portrait of Napoleon, until he saw the annoyance on the face of the opposing coach and confirmed the successful provocation, he accelerated and went straight to his own coach's box, put down the shirt, and hugged Puel to celebrate.

Within the rules, making a counter-attack that is free from a yellow card is Reeves' style.