Chapter 80: March is the best
After finishing the match with Mosgaulen, Yu Liang and the others rushed back to Antwerp overnight.
At the weekend, they will host the 28th round of the league against a scarcity Mechelen.
Playing three games in eight days, the players' fitness will be very challenged.
In order to ensure that his players were well rested, Van Ake changed the original practice plan to two practices a day and even cancelled the recovery training session in the afternoon the day after the match day.
But even so, after three days of adjustment, the players are still not in good shape.
Once the game started, there were three mistaken passes in the space of five minutes.
"Is this still Antwerp, with eight wins in a row? Overnight, it seems that I can't play football anymore! ”
Verbeek looked at the low-level mistakes of the Antwerp players and asked his own questions.
The low-level mistakes of the players also made the fans incomprehensible, and many fans looked at their favorite players with blank faces.
Looking at the low-level performance of the players, Van Ake, who was standing on the sidelines, frowned tightly.
Before the game, because of the sluggish form shown by the players in training, Adi Welsh had suggested that the substitutes should be used to play the game. This not only allows the substitutes to be trained, so that they can accumulate game experience, but also allows the main players who have been fighting in consecutive games to get enough rest.
In order to ensure that this game is won, Van Ake did not take Andy Welsh's advice and continued to play to the fullest.
But now that the game has just begun, he is too embarrassed to make any adjustments, isn't that a slap in the face? So he can only be in a hurry on the sidelines.
Mechelen, who was a guest, didn't think about winning this game, so the game started with a stubborn stance. But what they didn't expect was that Antwerp actually made a series of passing and receiving errors after the opening.
In the face of Antwerp's big gift, they were not prepared in a hurry. The counterattack after the two steals ended in nothing. However, these two counterattacks gave them hope, maybe through a sneak attack. They'll be able to take all three points. So they quickly changed their game strategy and started pressing inside the stadium.
"Uncle's!"
Looking at Kevin Jenson, after being directly tackled by the opponent, Yu Liang rushed over with an arrow and made a sliding tackle, destroying the ball out of the sideline and stifling the opponent's counterattack.
The form of his teammates was reflected in the two days of training. However, he thought that it should not be a problem to deal with Mechelen, but the state they showed after the opening made him worry.
This round ended yesterday with a 1-1 draw between Lum and Ham. This gives the Lumb team a total of 55 points.
Yu Liang still wants to win this game, and then come to overtake the Lomb team.
But now, all he thinks about is how to make sure the team doesn't concede goals. The contrast between before and after made him feel uncomfortable.
After watching Mihem be easily gotten rid of Mechelen's players, the anxious Yu Liang directly put a shovel behind his back and overturned the opponent.
He understands Mihem's quality and has no problem standing in the top five leagues. He also knew that Mihem was a competitive man and would not admit defeat easily. But looking at Mihem's performance, Yu Liang shouted a little angrily: "Stare." Pegged! ”
Yu Liang was very dissatisfied with the performance of his teammates, and shouted directly at his teammates! Most of Antwerp's players did not show their quality in this game. ”
Yu Liang's behavior of shouting at Mihem in the stadium was clearly seen by everyone in the stadium.
Looking at Mihem's iron face, Van Ake on the sidelines immediately became nervous.
Know at the beginning of the season. The two of them were fighting in the training ground. It's going to be done in the game, and the leak will be big.
Di Di Di Di ......
Yu Liang, who was angry, didn't notice Mihem's face at all, and was about to say something. It was interrupted by a sharp whistle.
Turning his head to see the referee waving there, Yu Liang let go of Mihem and walked towards the referee.
"Yellow card. Yu Liang paid the price for his foul! However, the yellow card was worth it, and if he hadn't made a timely tackle, Mechelen would have been more likely to tear through their defence and burst into the box! We take a look at the set-pieces this time. ”
Yu Liang knew that he would get a yellow card for this action, so he calmly accepted the referee's penalty.
Mechelen's free-kick did not threaten Antwerp's goal, as the ball went over the wall and was confiscated by the onrushing Willocks.
After receiving the ball from Willock in the backcourt, Yu Liang was a little difficult.
After all, he doesn't have the strength to single out a team, and in the face of the inexplicable slump of his teammates, he seems a little alone to be alone. After struggling to bring the ball from the back to the midfield, Yu Liang directly found King Dong in the front court with a long pass.
Stopping the ball and turning to accelerate, the whole action was done in one go, and King Dong directly threw off the defenders around him and burst into the penalty area.
However, the last kick was too powerful and was confiscated by the goalkeeper who came out in time.
King Dong's performance made Yu Liang's eyes shine.
"It doesn't seem like all of them are in a slump."
After muttering, Yu Liang had a way to solve the attack.
In the following time, Antwerp fans saw the most primitive and simple and crude way of attacking - long passes.
Yu Liang made a long pass in the backfield, and Dong Wang stopped the ball in the front court, turned around and accelerated to get rid of it, and then shot.
Such a picture appeared eleven times in the first half.
King Dong had eleven shots on goal and six on target, but unfortunately did not score.
After 45 minutes of the first half, Van Ake made two direct substitutions at half-time, replacing the sluggish Kevin Jensen and Michm with Darren Gibson and Nigalola.
The appearance of the two of them largely alleviated the unfavorable situation in Antwerp.
Under the escort of Nigalola, Yu Liang is becoming more and more threatening on the offensive end.
In the 62nd minute, Yu Liang made a diagonal pass, directly hitting Mechelen's rib gap, and Darren Gibson, who was inserted at high speed, was like a tank, and after receiving the ball, he directly passed a low flat ball, like a cannon, and the ball speed was fast and straight.
In the face of this fast low flat ball, King Dong, who was outflanked in the middle, shot directly into the net with a shovel, 1-0!
Antwerp finally took the lead at home.
King Dong's goal broke Mechelen's dream of winning all three points.
But after conceding the goal, they still attacked and tried to equalise. But after the strong attack failed, they immediately gave up the attack and began to retreat from the defense.
In the face of Mechelen's iron bucket formation, Antwerp, who are in a slump, do not have a good way to crack it. So take it when you see it, and control the ball directly in the backcourt.
Before the end of the game, though, there was a dramatic scene.
Perhaps Mechelen was not willing to lose this game like this, and when the game was about to go into injury time, they pressed out again and tried to make a last-ditch effort.
Facing Mechelen's sudden pressing, Antwerp was unprepared.
Yu Liang, who was in possession of the ball, was directly tackled by the rushing of the Mechelen striker.
After losing the ball, Yu Liang was ready to chase and counterattack, and as soon as he turned around, he saw that Nicalola had completed the steal.
After Nicalola broke the ball, he quickly divided the ball, and the football returned to Yu Liang's feet again.
At this time, Yu Liang did not have Mechelen's players around him, and Yu Liang, who was calmly adjusted, took a look at the situation in the front court and found that Mechelen's goalkeeper was standing very forward, so he shot directly near the middle line.
Although Mechelen's goalkeeper dropped back in time, he was unable to prevent the goal because of the speed of the ball and the fact that the ball had a bounce in the box.
After watching the football bounce to the ground, it flew directly past the goalkeeper's hands and into the goal, Yu Liang was a little surprised.
With little time left, he just wanted to waste time by lobbing, but he didn't expect to score.
Yu Liang's kick shot also won applause from the audience.
There was a round of applause at the Bosul Stadium.
The goal helped Antwerp beat Mechelen 2-0 at home to make it nine league wins in a row.
Shortly after the end of this round of matches, the official website of the Belgian Football Federation has a campaign to vote for the best player of the month in the second division. All the fans, as well as more than a dozen journalists in Belgium, have the right to vote. After a three-day voting, Yu Liang was elected the best player of the month in the second league with his performance of five assists and two goals in four games, beating King Dong, who scored eight goals in four games. (To be continued.) )