Chapter 59: Creating Our Own Miracles

The place where De Luck fouled was about 35 meters away from the goal, and the direct shot was a bit far away.

What's more, they deliberately practiced set-piece tactics before the game, so naturally they couldn't let go of this set-piece opportunity.

After setting up the football, standing in front of the football, watching Yu Liang, who was constantly commanding the opposing goalkeeper to the human wall, felt a little abrupt in his heart. He doesn't have a good footwork, and he doesn't understand why Van Ake would take the free-kick to himself. You know, before this game, it was all Di Gregorio's job.

Looking at the box crowded with players from both sides, Yu Liang didn't know if his pass could find his teammates.

Backbite!

After the referee's whistle, Yu Liang took a few deep breaths to calm down some nervousness.

After raising his right hand and pointing four fingers into the penalty area, Yu Liang began to run, and then used the instep of his right foot to make an arc.

When the Antwerp players saw Yu Liang raise four fingers, they immediately rushed towards the front point.

In the process of set-pieces and corners, the average team will have a targeted tactic.

So when Yu Liang raised four fingers, Bill Shot's players knew it was their tactical signal. Seeing that the Antwerp players were rushing to the front point, Bill Shot's players immediately rushed towards the front point.

However, when they rushed to the front point, they realized that they had made a mistake in their judgment, and perhaps this was not a tactical gesture at all, because the flying ball bypassed the front point and flew directly to the back point.

While all the players were rushing forward for a header, Christopher dropped back and moved to the back post.

Not all of the Billshot players rushed forward and there was a defender at Christopher's side, Billshot centre-back Mario Tswitanovic who stayed on Christopher's side. The experience of the veteran is vividly displayed at this moment.

The experienced Tsvetanovic was the first thing he did when the football flew to the back post, and the first thing he did was to jam Christopher next to him with his body.

Although experienced, when it comes to physical confrontations, Mario Zvetanovic is still a gap compared to Christopher.

Coupled with Christopher's return to the pitch, Christophe urgently needs to repay Van Ake's trust with a goal, and a series of set-piece tactical training before the game has been carried out around him.

Looking at the soccer ball that was flying towards him, Christopher didn't force his jump directly.

Although Yu Liang's pass came to the back point, the quality of the pass was not particularly high. Although the ball is fast, the path of the ball is not stable, and it is difficult to grasp the left and right.

After retreating and adjusting, Christopher judged the path of the ball and jumped directly. At the same time, Tsvetanovich in front of him also jumped. Although Tsvetanovic's take-off distracted him, it was not able to stop Christopher.

Christopher's forehead was firmly pressed against the football, and then his head flicked.

The ball flew towards the goal right away.

Although Luciano made an early adjustment, he was still out of reach in the face of Christopher's header, and the ball flew into the goal against the underside of the crossbar.

“Goooooooooal…… Christopher, Christopher's goal put Antwerp 2-1 up, and Antwerp took the lead on the road. After scoring two goals in a row, Antwerp made it 2-3 on aggregate and only needed one more goal to secure progress! ”

Watching Christopher put the ball into the back of the net, Verbeek immediately burst into the air. As a fan of Antwerp, he vented his inner joy with his shouts at this moment.

In the same way as him, there are also Antwerp fans.

More than 300 fans in the stadium have been cheering there since King Dong scored a goal. The shouts of this moment, even the boos of Bill Shot's 10,000-strong fans, could not be concealed.

"Well done! Man, but it's not enough, it's not enough! ”

Christophe rushed to the sidelines as soon as he scored and thanked Van Ake for going.

He is very grateful to Van Ake for giving him a chance to get back on the pitch.

Van Ake was thrilled to have such a performance from Christopher, but it wasn't enough to qualify for the semi-finals.

"Tell the guys to defend well for the next period of time and don't give the opposition a chance at set-pieces at the edge of the box. Tell Yu to control the ball! ”

After a few words, Van Ake asked Christopher and his teammates to celebrate.

In the 29th minute, the aggregate score was changed to 2-3 and the hopes of promotion were greatly increased, so the Antwerp players celebrated a little longer than after the first goal.

When they returned to their own half, the Bill Shot players, who had been waiting for kick-off, started attacking as soon as the whistle blew.

As they celebrated their goal, Christophe conveyed Van Ake's plan to them.

So in the face of Bill Shot's attack, they are prepared. Even the three strikers who had been in front of them retreated to the midfield and began to press.

A crowded midfield where both sides fought for every inch of turf.

Under such circumstances, Yu Liang's characteristics have been fully reflected.

Excellent judgment and running ability allowed Yu Liang to break the ball from the feet of Bill Shot's players again and again.

However, Yu Liang has also received high-standard treatment from the opposing players during this period of time, as long as Yu Liang breaks the ball, there will always be a player who will come over to foul and put down Yu Liang as soon as possible.

This made it impossible for Yu Liang to form an effective organization in the first place, and Bill Shot did a good job of stifling Antwerp's counterattack.

"Antwerp's defence was tenacious, and Yu Liang was like a barrier in midfield, blocking Bill Shot's passes again and again. However, Bill Shot's on-the-spot counter-robbery was also quite in place, and it did not give Antwerp a chance to counterattack quickly! This is the derby, although the game is intermittent and not spectacular, but he is full of power confrontation! ”

The high-intensity midfield strangulation did not last long.

As the physical strength burned, the players on both sides began to deliberately slow down the pace of pressing.

And after a period of impatience caused by losing the ball, Billshot began to deliberately tighten his control of the rhythm to regulate his fitness. After Billshot made the change, Antwerp immediately reverted to their formation and started to counter-attack again.

The change of the two sides made the game refreshing.

After two or three minutes of de-escalation, Bill Shot went on the attack again in an attempt to equalise before half-time and add a security note to progress to the last four.

In the 42nd minute, Cesaire stepped forward with the ball in the middle, and Yu Liang posted it as soon as possible.

The Turkish player from Bayer Leverkusen didn't have much to show for his close marking in the first leg between the two sides. This game has passed for so long, except for the decent conduction, there is nothing outstanding, even so, Yu Liang does not dare to take it lightly.

Facing this Turk who was about the same age as himself, Yu Liang kept using his body to exert pressure.

Unlike Hendrix, Césaire's confrontation ability is very poor, and he has a fight with Yu Liang in the national youth team. Sure enough, under the pressure exerted by Yu Liang, Césaire was not able to hold on for a while, and fell directly to the ground.

Yu Liang raised his hands at the first time, signaling that he did not push anyone, but the referee still awarded a foul.

"Yellow card, it's a yellow card!"

"No, no, it's definitely not a yellow card!"

Listening to Césaire's complaint, Yu Liang explained it as soon as possible.

Watching Yu Liang explain there, a smile appeared on Césaire's face, his purpose was not really to ask the referee to show Yu Liang a yellow card, he just wanted to divert Yu Liang's attention. Seeing Yu Liang explaining beside the referee, he immediately got up and passed the ball directly.

"Hurry up! Uncle's ......"

Yu Liang, who didn't have time to explain, turned around directly to chase Cezaire, but it was too late.

Césaire played a link up with the retreating Cavins and played the ball straight down the left flank, still trying to open a gap on Antwerp's right-back Braque.

In the face of the defender, Kamara directly instepped the ball to Montney, who came up with the assist. The two made a wall-to-wall coordination and shook off Braque.

Kamara, who shook off Braque and entered the penalty area, led the ball and, without waiting for adjustments, directly kicked back and passed the ball to the edge of the penalty area.

At this time, Césaire, who was inserted, faced the pass, a button, and after dodging the angle, he directly shot low and broke the goal, 2-2!

Before the end of the first half, Bill Shot equalized and rewrote the overall score to 4-2!

……

The dressing room in Antwerp was quiet, and everyone sat gloomily in front of the closet panting.

Before the game, they boasted that they wanted to qualify for the semi-finals of the Cup. Although they were a little disappointed after conceding in the opening goal, they bounced together and scored two goals in no time. At that moment, it was not impossible for them to reverse the promotion.

However, before the end of first-half regulation time, they were again suspicious after Bill Shot equalised again.

Will we really make the cut?

"Of course we can make it!"

Van Ake's words broke the silence in the dressing room.

"I've always been confident about making the cut! The source of these faiths is you! Because of you, I dare to talk about promotion! Liverpool can create their own Istanbul night, so why can't we create our own magical night? Come on, guys, the game isn't over yet, let's create our own miracle! ”

Van Ake isn't the type of manager who can motivate his players with words, but tonight he did his own miracle in the dressing room and his words rekindled the passion of his players.

"Okay, create a miracle that belongs to us!"