Chapter 39: The Rainstorm Comes

To Xiao Longtao's surprise, just this Saturday, Chen Jianhao regained the opportunity to play. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

On this day, the air smelled of dampness. Dark clouds cover the top, as if the demon has opened its mouth wide from the sky, wanting to engulf everything around it. When he got up in the morning, Chen Jianhao felt that the sky was as dark as midnight. After washing, I walked to the balcony and looked into the distance, only to see a piece of black oppression, and the atmosphere was particularly terrifying.

The surrounding buildings are lit up. Until noon, the sky did not clear. It was a sign before the storm, but there was not even a hint of wind in all directions. The dark clouds in the sky were suppressed for several hours, and a few drops of rain fell, and after a while, they stopped again.

On the way to the club, pedestrians hurried to their homes for fear of being suddenly hit by the torrential rain. Chen Jianhao and his entourage must not retreat because of this. At 12:00 p.m., Group 7 of the Youth League ushered in the 29th round of matches, with Boavista playing at home against Sporting-Clube-de-Espinho from the northern Aveiro region.

Atletico Espinho's first team, the performance so far this season can be described as outstanding, with 20 wins, 5 draws and 4 losses, accumulating 65 points, temporarily ranked first in the northern zone of the Portuguese second league. Their youth team is not to be underestimated, having broken into the top three after three consecutive wins, and as things stand, there is still a good chance of fighting for the top spot. Last year's Boavista youth team may have been able to compete with one of them, but since the talented children in the squad have been transferred to the first team early, it is likely to be a one-sided situation.

The only advantage is to sit at home. But for Silva, it is impossible to win, and it is better to win than to lose. In the first half against Espinho, they were beaten 3-0. The score didn't seem to be big, but they were suppressed all over the game, and even Ray Romero, who scored almost in turn, was deflated in this game and had no way to fight back.

Boavista Juniors continued the 'fine tradition' of the first team, with midfielders above average and a poor defence in defence. Although there is a goalkeeper Pedro Ferreira in the team who is known as a rising star, he is excellent in terms of reflexes, explosiveness, saves, and attacks, and with his height of nearly 188 cm at the age of 17, he is undoubtedly a malleable goalkeeper embryo. However, his ability to anticipate the ball is poor and his composure is lacking, and the defenders in his team are overwhelmed, often causing constant danger in front of goal, which exposes his lack of experience and difficulty in defending the goal on his own.

Left-back and captain Danny Fernandes, on the other hand, is a typical player who has been transformed from the front to the back. Although he has good tackling and marking ability, as well as excellent speed and explosiveness, his weakness lies in his fitness. The whole game constantly switched from defense to attack and from attack to defense, and at the end of the game, the physical condition will be stretched. And he is not willing to stay only in the backfield to defend, and the requirements of modern football for full-backs are by no means as simple as hiding in the backfield to defend, so he cannot bring qualitative changes to the team.

The most balanced offensive and defensive ability in the team is 16-year-old midfielder Andre Gomez. Now he is only 169 centimeters tall, but he has shown good strength. His tireless running, combined with great aggression, has made him a worthy core player in the youth team. According to Silva, he once ran more than 10,000 meters in 70 minutes, which is also unusual in professional football. Andre Gomez has an excellent level of passing, a wide field of vision, and often uses subtle split-balls in the middle to break through, taking on most of the responsibility for combing the attack. Although his defensive ability is also excellent in the team, after all, he is not tall enough, and he is only a midfielder, even if he can run, he cannot completely replace the role of defender.

To sum up, Boavista is a very uneven team in attack and defence. Except for the first half against the weak Coimbros, who poured a 7:0 and did not concede a goal, in most of the other games, conceding 2 goals is already considered less, and conceding more than 3 goals from time to time. Today's opponent, Espinho, is a team with a lot of attacking power, and they also concede the best goals in the group, and the overall performance is very good.

Therefore, for Silva, it is unrealistic to dream of attacking. He knows very well that when there is a big difference in strength between the two, solid defense is the first criterion. If you can score early, it's a good option to attack, but when you concede a goal and concede more and more, the players will inevitably get frizzy. At this time, the opponent will also begin to concentrate on retreating, even if the team's offensive ability is strong, it will be difficult to turn the tide.

But the defense is not as simple as it sounds, otherwise they wouldn't have conceded so many goals this season. Today, however, things seemed to be different, and seeing that the sky was getting darker and darker, Silva suddenly felt that something unexpected might happen.

During the pre-match mobilization, Silva just kept emphasizing their fighting spirit, telling them not to care too much about the result and letting go of the kick. Less than a minute into the game, torrential rain poured down without warning.

Chen Jianhao and his entourage sat on the bench. Although the top was covered by a roof, it couldn't stop the torrential rain, and the sneakers and socks were soaked in an instant. They were still not in the starting line-up for this game, but Silva still demanded that they have to be there because there are not many players in the squad and if someone gets injured, there has to be someone on top.

Since Silva spoke to Chen Jianhao in his office last week, he no longer has any complaints - with Chen Jinwu to be precise, but it is inevitable to watch others fight on the field. For the first time, Francis was put in the starting line-up, alongside Ray Romero as a double striker. Silva's traditional 4-4-2 formation is a "nine-and-a-half" positioning for Francis, and the main task is to find the space between the opposition midfielder and the defender, and when the opponent has the ball, he does not have to participate in the defense, but continues to run to find the space and wait for the opportunity to counterattack.

After returning from injury, Francis, who had been resting for nearly seven weeks, was arranged by Silva to do more than half a month of rehabilitation. Among them, physical reserves are the mainstay. Then, step by step, after three weeks of adaptive training, they were allowed to participate in actual combat confrontations. Silva seems to prefer Franciscan to the other three. Because he was very mature after the injury, he insisted on reporting to the team every day, and he was not discouraged and did not need to be worried about by others.

This awareness is obviously not innate, and usually takes a period of time in a professional team to develop. The other players are actually not too much of a problem, but compared to Fang Jizhou, the diligence is still a big difference. Chan is very attentive to the training programme he approves, but he is always a bit perfunctory when he doesn't like something he doesn't like, such as Silva sometimes asking him to try to kick the midfield, especially when he is asked to drop back frequently.

However, his Portuguese language skills have improved considerably. After more than two months of studying, he is now able to communicate most of his time with his teammates alone, although he often needs to cooperate with gestures. And Wu Tianchang's chatter also shows his amazing talent for language. Maybe it's because he's used to chatting with people when he catches them, but he's making rapid progress and getting to know his teammates well. The only thing that is inferior to Chen Jianhao is his pronunciation, which always has a strong Chinese flavor when he speaks, and it sounds very awkward.

Fang Jizhou's progress has been slow, and even basic communication has become a problem until now. He seems to be limited by his thinking, and he can't speak quickly. Just like when he spoke Chinese, he could only spit out word by word, and there was a sense of frustration when middle-aged and elderly people spoke. But this is a taboo for learning foreign languages, especially Portuguese, which belongs to the Indo-European language family, and many long words are said by him, which seems to be scattered and untight, strange and difficult to understand. And when he listens to others, he often can't keep up with the speed of the other party's speech, even if people patiently disassemble a sentence for a long time, he always listens to half of it.

But the matter of language is not urgent. After learning that Chen Jianhao and Wu Tianchang had started tutoring at night, Fang Jizhou also changed his previous attitude of not caring about school, and even worked much harder than them. Silva understood his difficulties, and considering that he had just suffered a serious injury not long ago, he made an exception and allowed Xiao Pan and Chen Jinwu to help him translate.

Chen Jinwu readily agreed, but Xiao Pan was a little unhappy. Having to spare two hours a night for free teaching was already a chore for him. If it weren't for helping Chen Jianhao before, he wouldn't have bothered to do such a thankless job. But Fang Jizhou is in his charge after all, and he can't favor one over the other, so he reluctantly agreed, helping to convey the manager's tactical arrangements during the game, and at other times, he either went to Chen Jinwu to translate, or found a way to solve it himself.

And today, after two full months in Portugal, Francis' first official race is finally being played despite setbacks along the way. What he never expected was that God actually played a joke with him, how could he kick it when it rained like this?

After kick-off at home, the ball stayed at the back. At the moment of the great enemy, they are not in a hurry to attack, but they keep falling to their feet. Everyone blended in with the rain, and it was a spectacular sight.

Because the sky was very wrong in the early morning, and the rainstorm was inevitable, there was naturally no spectator on the sidelines.

Fang Jizhou didn't care about this, he cared more about his body. The rain became heavier and heavier, and the site became very slippery with water in an instant. He ran cautiously, looking at his right wrist from time to time, for fear of another accident.

He focused all his energy on the matter of "not falling", and his cadence slowed down. Fortunately, his teammates had no intention of attacking at the moment, and although Silva kept looking at the field, he didn't notice anything unusual about him.

As the minutes ticked by, Fang Jizhou began to get nervous as he watched the ball gradually push to the front. He deliberately ran to the opposition's right flank and pretended to get tangled up with the opposition defender to prevent his team-mates from passing the ball to him. didn't expect the other party to see him come forward, but he overturned him.

"Beep-beep-" The referee immediately blew for a halt to the game. Although the action was relatively large, it was seen that there was no yellow card given shortly after the opening.

Luckily, it was the other side that fell......

Franciscan got up from the ground, thinking to himself.

In fact, his body was nowhere near as fragile as he thought, but it was normal for a child who had just experienced a severe fracture to have such a shadow. He suddenly wanted the coach to replace him, but he didn't dare to say anything.

Forget it, just it!