Chapter 17: Falling Behind

After 30 minutes of the first half, the mood of the Sao Paulo players became a little impatient, and the physical strength also decreased significantly, especially the players in the midfield. Yin Sen looked at the opponent's coach on the side at this time, the other coach's head coach is a middle-aged man, short, wearing a sports plain clothes, sitting on the stool at this time, looking at the situation on the field very quietly, it seems that everything is under control, Yin Sen suddenly has a bad feeling, and, the home team has not scored for a long time, so that the head coach is also a little impatient, at this time, if you retreat to play a positional battle with the opponent, then the previous waste of physical strength will be worthless, and the ability of the positional battle Sao Paulo team is not as good as the Santos team, The assistant coach kept talking to the coach, Yin Sen couldn't understand it, but CACA, who was sitting next to him, understood it, and said something to the head coach from time to time, and after CACA was quiet for a while, Yin Sen asked curiously, "What are you talking to the coach?" ”

"Oh, I told the coach, I want to play. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info”

"And your feet?"

"It's not a big problem, I can hold on."

"Oh, you'd better be careful."

"Ethan, do you think we can win this one?"

"Judging from the current form, it's a bit hanging, I think the coach has realized it."

"Yes, the coach just said that the lineup should be adjusted, otherwise it will be very dangerous"

"So you want to go?"

"yes, it's the final, and I'm confident in myself."

"Well, I'll cheer you on when you play."

Listening to Yin Sen's words, CACA was stunned for a moment, turned his head to look at Yin Sen, and asked, "Don't you want to play?" ”

"I'll listen to the coach."

"I'm asking you your own wishes, don't you want to be Mr. Key in such a crucial game?"

Yin Sen replied lightly: "Well, so many viewers are watching, it should be very cool to play, of course I want to play." ”

But he helped his eyes on the bridge of his nose, "But I have congenital deficiencies." ”

Caca was puzzled for a moment, and then understood that Yin Sen was talking about myopia

"**, I don't think it has any effect on you."

"But it's different for others, isn't it?"

Cava didn't continue to speak, turned his face to watch the ball, and the arc of the corners of his mouth slowly revealed that Yin Sen felt a little unusual.

The first half of the game is about to end, when everyone thinks that the first half will end in this stalemate rhythm is, suddenly, the situation changed without warning, the tepid Santos team that has been playing does not know whether it is intentional or unintentional, after a regular break, suddenly force, a quick breakthrough forward, past two people, and the left and right sides of the team desperately as if along the side to insert forward, Sao Paulo suddenly reacted in time, there was a serious gap in the defense, although the reaction to the defenders desperately chased after it, The midfielders also basically moved quickly to their own backfield, but, Santos as a whole because of the early start, a momentary advantage has been very obvious, after the left side player received the ball, quickly went down to the bottom of the cross, the middle outflanking players grabbed the point after a cluster, the score on the field was rewritten, 0:1, Santos team lead, at the same time, the whistle at the end of the first half of the game also sounded, the moment of the goal, the bench next door came from a shout of joy, Yin Sen turned his head to look, but saw that their coach still had a breezy expression, Yin Sen looked at the pretending coach for a moment, got up and followed the head coach into the locker room, followed by 11 tired and demoralized Sao Paulo players.

In a standard football match, there is a 15-minute break after half-time, but due to the players entering and exiting the locker room, and some other unexpected circumstances, this time may not be very accurate, but after all, the rest time is not too long, generally at this time, the head coach will arrange some tactical arrangements for the second half, but at this time in the home locker room of the Sao Paulo team, it is quiet, the head coach, assistant coach and players are around a simple large round table, the head coach does not speak, and everyone does not speak, The players who played just now were in a bad mood due to the sudden loss of the ball at the last moment, but after all, they were professional players, while quickly recovering this physical strength, while wiping the sweat with the towel issued by the assistant coach just now, the small locker room was filled with this smell of sweat, Yin Sen sat with a few substitute players and translators, he waited quietly, he knew that the coach would definitely say something, sure enough, it didn't take long for the coach to speak, and Joe translated softly at the same time: "In the first half, everyone played well, for the goal conceded, It was my fault. This sentence immediately relieved the oppressive atmosphere in the dressing room, and eased the emotions of the players who had just come on the pitch a little, and the coach continued: "In the first half, I was calculated by the old boy Koeman, and we played very passively, because my judgment of the opponent was not accurate enough. Hearing the coach call Santos's coach an old boy, everyone was secretly amused, and Yin Sen also knew that the opponent's head coach's name was Koeman, and he should be younger than his own head coach.

'So in the second half, we had to make some changes.

"Willy, Santos's dense defense in the first half is not conducive to your support in the front court, and you have no advantage in speed, 10 minutes in the second half, I will replace you off, and you Cole, we still have to continue to attack in the second half, so I will replace you at the right time to further form an advantage in the front court."

Each head coach's arrangement has its own characteristics, and the head coach of São Paulo also has his own characteristics, that is, every time he makes a substitution, he will explain the reason for the substitution and his thoughts to the players, on the surface, this takes care of the emotions of the replaced players, but Yin Sen doesn't think so, the head coach is not a psychologist, the purpose of directing the game is to achieve victory, if you still consider the feelings of all parties for a substitution, the pressure is too great, Yin Sen looked at the coach's serious expression, and listened to the coach's substitution arrangement, He knows that changing a high school striker and a defender is not just to strengthen the attack, because the Sao Paulo team can be regarded as a high school forward for the time being, there is only Willy alone, replacing him means the adjustment of frontcourt tactics, and there is no absolute height in the front court to suppress the opponent, in a sense, liberating the opponent's guards, and the purpose of replacing the guards, Yin Sen is not very clear, but he understands that the head coach is in this way to mislead the opponent, create the illusion of emptiness in the rear, and induce the opponent to attack, And then rely on the flexibility of the front court to find opportunities, change the personnel on the field, Yin Sen speculated that it should be a midfielder, as well as a frontcourt player, the current advantage of the Sao Paulo team is on the side and the front, the rapid retreat of the two sides will increase the thickness of the back line, so the replacement of a defender actually has little impact on the defensive system, but it is necessary to increase the running on both sides.

Sure enough, the next coach specially told the two forwards to run actively in the second half and retreat more to help defend, and in the midfield substitution candidates, the head coach did not specifically designate, but Yin Sen saw the CACA sitting next to the coach, recalled what CACA had just said to himself, and decided that CACA must occupy a substitution place, and the other he was not sure, after all, the time to play with the team is still short, and the coach's employment habits are not very thorough, for the current Sao Paulo team, Yin Sen feels that the overall style of play has been relatively perfect, but from the level of personal skills, he always feels that there is a lack of good players in the offensive organization, otherwise the style of play may be richer, and his 10,000-year-old bench may be related to the design of the current tactical system, not that the coach does not trust himself, because a team's style of play is formed after a long period of running-in, and the adjustment and enrichment of the style of play will go through pains, maybe the coach feels that the team is not ready to go through this kind of torture now.

The 15 minutes were soon only the last minute or two, and the coach didn't speak anymore, but the assistant coach still gave the team a loud atmosphere, and CACA turned around and came to Yin Sen's side, and looked at Yin Sen from beginning to end, with inexplicable eyes.

"Are you ready to play?" Yin Sen asked with a smile

"Of course, at any time." CACA replied very casually, and Yin Sen listened with great confidence.

"Come on"

"Where's your shin guard?" Caca suddenly asked rhetorically

"In the bag."

"I'll get it later"

"Oh" After saying that, Yin Sen felt a little strange, it stands to reason that CACA hasn't played yet, could it be that the shin guards are broken?

He habitually glanced at Joe beside him, and although Caca spoke English, Yin Sen motioned for her to repeat it

"He told you to put shin guards on him"

Or this sentence.

At this time, the staff of the stadium entered the locker room and signaled that the game was about to start and it was time to go out, so with the continuous encouragement of the assistant coach, the players went out of the locker room, and Yin Sen, without saying anything more, turned out the shin guard board from his bag and followed CACA out of the locker room.