Chapter 33: The First Home Win (I)
Chu Zhongtian only worked at the Dons Bar for one day, and on the 19th he went to the King's Ranch to participate in training. As soon as the league began, the previous days of training two days a week were shattered as the training schedule had to be adjusted to match the league schedule. From August 21 to 26, they will play three league games in six days, which is a rare occurrence in a professional league.
On the 21st, 24th, and 26th, there was a game almost every other day.
These three games are a test of the team's fitness. Fortunately, the team has enough numbers to rotate calmly, but the results will be affected......
An amateur team is no bigger than a professional team with guaranteed bench thickness. Even if it is a professional team, as long as it is not a giant, the difference in strength between the substitute lineup and the main team is very large.
Chu Zhongtian is very confident in his physical fitness, he is the best physical person in the team, no matter how much he rotates, he can't be rotated.
He is hungry to help the team win, just like in the first league game, a direct assist, a move, to help the team complete the comeback. But it's not always the case, and there are no teams in the world who win every game - Wimbledon lost 2-1 to Chipstead 1-2 at home on the 21st. He started that game and played the whole game, but as a defensive player, he couldn't directly help the team score.
Chipsti scored early on the game when their number eight, attacking striker Mick Berry headed home from a set-piece. Chu Zhongtian was not named to mark the opponent, so when the opponent scored, he was not around, but was responsible for defending the striker of the Chipsti team on the other side.
Trailing Wimbledon, they began to fight back to the shouts of the home fans, and their efforts paid off at the thirty-minute mark. Russell assisted captain Kevin Cooper to score a goal to level the score at 1-1.
The King's Ranch, which can accommodate 4,200 people, came today with more than 4,100 people, and 4,000 of them are Wimbledon fans. After Wimbledon equalised, the crowd erupted in a tsunami-like cheer. Chu Zhongtian once again felt the enthusiasm of the Wimbledon fans.
So with the fans cheering on, Wimbledon then launched a siege on the Chipsty goal, and it looked like the opponent could concede another goal at every second.
Whenever he saw his team besieging the opponent, Chu Zhongtian would have a feeling of being left out - he was a completely defensive midfielder, and he had no role in attacking, so at this time, he could only watch the play from behind, and at the same time be careful of the opponent's counterattack.
But most of the time, Chipsty's attack couldn't get through midfield. He only needs to jump up and use his head to push the opponent's long pass back with big feet.
This situation of Wimbledon besieging Chipste remained until 80 minutes, the score was still 1:1, and Wimbledon did not score. On the contrary, Russell also received a yellow card for his irritable emotions.
In the 83rd minute, Chipste took advantage of Wimbledon's pressure and suddenly counterattacked. Chu Zhongtian was in charge of the first line of defense, and he immediately made direct contact with the opponent's offensive players, intending to cut off the ball at the opponent's feet.
But the player with the ball on the Chipsti team was not Russell when he was bent on fighting with Chu Zhongtian, and now he had a lot of opportunities to get rid of the lonely Chu Zhongtian, so he didn't even give Chu Zhongtian a chance to get close to him, so he moved the football from the air to the other side of the court.
Chu Zhongtian's line of defense instantly became an ornament......
He turned and chased back, but at this point he was thirty meters away from the opponent's player with the ball, and no matter how fast he ran, he couldn't catch up. But he didn't give up, he ran to the middle of the box, the opponent got the ball on the wing, and in the end the football still had to go back to the middle anyway, that would be the only chance he could stop the opponent's attack, and he was waiting for this time.
The man who received the ball was none other than Chipste's goal-scorer, No. 8 Mick Berry. He stopped a team-mate's long ball on the flank and slashed diagonally into the box. Facing the rushing Wimbledon central defender Sim Johnston, he made a feint to shoot and easily shook Johnston who lost his center of gravity.
At this time, Chu Zhongtian had already rushed into the forbidden area, and he accelerated and rushed towards Berry. It seems that Berry, who is holding the ball, seems to be a beautiful woman who has taken off his clothes, and he Chu Zhongtian is a sturdy man who has not seen a woman in thirty years.
Berry obviously noticed Chu Zhongtian's movement as well, and experience told him that he had to shoot before Chu Zhongtian arrived. Otherwise, this smooth counterattack is likely to be sideways...... So instead of dribbling the ball to the middle again, he shot directly at a small angle!
At the same time, Chu Zhongtian completely threw out his center of gravity, and flew away when he was still five or six meters away from the other party!
At this time, he didn't think that his action might give the opponent a penalty, he only had one thought in his mind: to stop his shot!
He was a step late...... After the ball flew out, his toes slid past Berry's shot foot, and then his body rushed to him, knocking Berry to the ground, and then due to inertia, the two men became entangled and slid off the baseline.
Chu Zhongtian, who stopped outside the field, made the first move to turn his head to look at the goal, he wanted to see the final result of the opponent's shot.
He saw the ball fall right from the net and bounce off the ground......
"Fuck me!" Chu Zhongtian hammered the turf beside him hard, and when he raised his hand again, he grabbed a large piece of grass clippings.
The ball went in.
Mick Berry, who was originally pressed under him, pushed Chu Zhongtian away with all his might, jumped up, spread his arms, and waved his fists, running towards his teammates.
Dressed in green and white striped shirts, the players of Cipste Skill, who looked like the Celtics of the Soviet Super League, hugged and cheered as they heard the last-minute goal.
The 4,000 Wimbledon fans in the stands fell into a brief silence.
After besieging almost the entire game, the result was not reversed, but in the 83rd minute, the opponent took the lead again through a counterattack. It was a bit of a blow for the Wimbledon players......
Head coach Eames also kept shaking his head off the field and besieging the opponent, which was already at risk. He just wanted to be able to score first before danger arose, so he took the initiative. Unexpectedly, the opponent's defense is very tenacious, and the offensive means on his side are also a bit single, and in the end, the more he plays, the more impatient he becomes, and the fullbacks don't go back after the assist, leaving four players in the entire backfield, a goalkeeper, two central defenders, and a back.
The flanks are completely defenceless, and they are simply two free corridors where anyone can roam and roam. It's not that he didn't see it, the problem is that he can't solve this problem, so he can only wait passively.
Russell, who kept organizing attacks in the front court but did not receive any results, looked back at the back court, and he saw Chu Zhongtian lying motionless on the ground. When the opponent just launched a counterattack, he remembered that this guy was still near the center circle......
In the course of the opponent's short goal, he has already hit the baseline.
reminded me of the first time I fought with Chu. Putting aside the grievances at that time, Russell had to admit that this Chinese kid had a strength that did not admit defeat, allowing him to create "miracles" many times.
This time, he also almost finished blocking the No. 8 of the Chipste team, which is a pity......
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The game ended with Wimbledon losing 2-1 to Chipste at their home stadium.
Despite the loss, the Wimbledon fans did not blame the team's performance, they still applauded the players after the game, and none of the 4,000 Wimbledon fans in the stadium left the stadium early, and all stood up at the end of the game to applaud the Wimbledon players who fought on the pitch for 90 minutes but finally lost the game.
That's the style of England fans. They rarely rant at a team they support after they lose a game, unless the team is not performing like a team.
When Wimbledon were relegated from the Premier League. At the end of the game, the Wimbledon fans still held the Wimbledon team's scarves, and sang the Wimbledon team song while crying, which deeply touched many people.
This is the real "love you even if you win, love you when you lose".
Of course, the fans can do that, but that doesn't mean the players have to accept a defeat.
For losing the game at the last moment, Chu Zhongtian was angry. What's more, this conceded goal is inextricably linked to him - if he arrives earlier, maybe the opponent won't be able to shoot the ball. He felt that he couldn't help the team when they were attacking, so he should be perfect defensively. It's just that this kind of perfection is clearly beyond the limits of what humans can achieve, and he is too himself, but he doesn't realize what's wrong with doing so.
So after the game, he was sullen all the time, even in the face of the enthusiastic fans in the stands, he just waved his hand with a straight face.
After losing, he also rejected Schilling's offer to find a place to relax, insisting on working at the Dons Bar. It's okay to say that you win the ball, and you're in the mood to have fun. He really couldn't think of any mood to play after losing. Although Schilling insisted that it was because of the loss that he should relax, forget about the defeat completely, and start all over again.
Maybe Shirin is right, one cannot always dwell on the failures of the past, but always learn to look forward. Otherwise, a professional player will face countless failures in his life, and if each failure will make him feel bad for several days, then he will definitely suffer from depression.
But the current Chu Zhongtian just can't do this. He's not a professional footballer, he doesn't have to think about how many defeats he has to face in his life, he just hates failure.
In the evening at the Dons Bar, those drinkers who didn't go to the scene to watch the game because they had something to do came in and habitually asked someone to inquire about the results of the afternoon game, but the people who were asked only asked to see the bartender Chu Zhongtian's expression.
Seeing his gloomy face, everyone understood - they lost the game.
So a group of people sat down to ask for wine and chatted, and the voice was much quieter. On this day, the Dons Bar was a little quieter than usual.
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