Chapter 50: Under the Hot Derby

With a whistle, the first leg of the Belgian Cup quarter-finals was played at the Bosur Stadium, the home stadium of Antwerp.

Antwerp, playing at home, was cheered on by nearly 10,000 fans and launched an offensive immediately after the opening.

After a series of back-to-back kicks, Di Gregorio combined with Welbist's one-two on the right side to break through Biershot's defense on the left and successfully attract Biershot's defensive focus to the left.

After seeing that the opponent's defense was gathered on the left side, Di Gregorio directly shifted the ball to the other side with a cross-pass.

The unguarded Suleimani, after receiving the ball, went directly into the penalty area.

The fullbacks who returned to the defense in a hurry were thrown away by a change of direction by Soleimani before they could stop their steps.

While shaking off the opposition full-backs, Suleimani also lost his own angle of shot.

Seeing that the near corner was blocked by the opposing goalkeeper, Soleimani looked up and swept the situation in the middle and right flanks, and directly passed a low flat ball.

At the moment of Suleimani's pass, the opposing goalkeeper made a save.

But because of the speed of the pass, the Bill Shot goalkeeper made a save that sent the ball under his armpit and through the turf and scurrying towards the middle. In this case, as long as someone touches the ball, they can change the trajectory of the ball and cause a goal.

At this moment, everyone in the Bosur Stadium held their breath and stared at the ball rolling in front of the goal.

King Dong has been waiting for an opportunity to cut forward when Suleimani burst into the penalty area. After seeing Soleimani's shot angle blocked, King Dong knew his chance had come. After gently pushing the central defender next to him with his hand, he kicked with his left foot, and the whole person immediately jumped out, and King Dong, who had no time to adjust, directly stretched out his right foot and slid out, wanting to block the rolling ball into the goal.

Although Bill Shot's central defenders are tall, look a little bulky and inflexible, their mark-to-man defensive ability is indeed not a problem.

Delek, although he was pushed by King Dong, he still reacted quickly and immediately chased after King Dong. However, Delek, who is slightly inferior in explosiveness, still has a certain difficulty in catching up with King Dong.

Seeing that King Dong stretched out his right leg and was about to shoot, De Luck immediately made a judgment.

He was on the side of King Dong and immediately slid and tackled.

He knew that if one of the two of them touched the football, it could cause a goal, but he didn't hesitate to shovel it.

However, he didn't go to the ball, he slid out, and the huge impact directly hit King Dong, who also slid out. At the same time as the impact, Delek's right foot lightly tapped King Dong's right foot.

The ball grazed King Dong's toes and rolled over.

At this time, another central defender, Kurt, who rushed over, cleared the ball directly and kicked the ball off the sideline.

"Oh......"

When the ball grazed King Dong's toes and rolled out, there was a sigh in the stadium.

King Dong in front of the goal, watching the ball roll out on his toes, regardless of the pain in his right foot, immediately got up and found the referee.

"Foul, referee, it's a foul!"

King Dong tried his best to complain there, he believed that if it wasn't for the sliding tackle of the opposing defender who hit him, and if he hadn't hit his right foot with his right foot, he would have been 100% sure of the goal!

However, it was all between lightning and flint, and the players in the box were dense, and the referee could not see every move of De Luck clearly.

Even if he saw Delecker's movements clearly, he wouldn't have given a foul, not even a sign, in his opinion, it was just a normal confrontation.

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"Beautiful, Suleimani managed to get rid of Ajman, pass, Dong shot...... Oops, Delecker's defense managed to interfere with Dong. Kurt clears, touchline ball! The game was more exciting than expected, and Antwerp threatened Bilshot's door with a sharp attack, and they were using the attack to tell Bilshott that although they were in the second division, they still had the determination to win. ”

"Of course, in this round, Biershort didn't defend particularly well on the wing. Billshot did not do particularly well in the First Division this season, having beaten Westroux in the last round to get out of the relegation zone. Nineteen games, scoring 25 goals and conceding 35 goals shows that they need to improve not only offensively, but also defensively. ”

"The recent return of their main strikers Jurgen Cavins and Massoudi is believed to be a great help to the team in attack, but in terms of defense, I suggest that Darden, the head coach of Bill Shot, can replace Wilden and strengthen the defense on the wing. In terms of central defenders, remove Kurt or De Luck and replace it with Igor, who is not weak in defense and has a fast turn, which can complement each other. Okay, let's move on to the game......"

Seeing that the referee ignored it, King Dong was ready to continue to appeal, but was directly interrupted by Suleimani.

"Dong, invest, invest!"

Soleimani certainly knows what this game means to them, so he doesn't want King Dong to get a yellow card late for a trumped-up foul, so that the gain outweighs the loss.

After being reminded by Suleimani, King Dong also gave up his appeal.

Antwerp frontline ball.

Feljans threw it directly to full-back Dries. At this time, Bill Shot's players had formed two lines in front of the penalty area, and there was no possibility of a surprise attack, and it was not a wise move to choose a hard match, as Van Ake had warned of before the game. Having lost the opportunity to move forward, Dries chose to pass back.

The Antwerp players began to dip their feet at the back, patiently looking for opportunities.

Van Ake, who saw this scene on the sidelines, was relieved in his heart, at least his tactics were reflected on the pitch.

However, after a few failed forward passes, he frowned, although he controlled the ball at his feet and was able to take the initiative on the field. But after taking the initiative, you have to find a way to get the ball into the opponent's goal, and only if you score a goal can you win.

Although Bill Shot's defense is not ironclad in the Belgian League, conceding more than one goal per game.

But Antwerp's attacking combination is not the sharpest spear in the second division, and it is even less in the first division.

Yes, Bill Shot's two centre-backs are slow to turn and can play directly behind him, and there is nothing wrong with such an attacking tactical arrangement. And Di Gregorio has been resolutely executing his tactics during the game.

But he saw this, how could Bill Shot's head coach not know this?

The opponent's No. 7 Karel followed Di Gregorio directly and inseparably, as long as Di Gregorio could not form a forward attack or breakthrough, it would be fine, once the forward breakthrough was formed, he would directly foul on the spot.

Although it is known as a derby, there is no hot atmosphere in the stadium.

The players on both sides played the game very friendly, with any kind of attack that could threaten the goal, and they were directly fouled on the spot.

After more than ten minutes of intermittent play, Bill Shot gradually gained the upper hand.

Building on solid defence, their counter-attacks began to show a threat.

In the 27th minute, after Césaire was put to the ground by Biggar, he sent a quick serve. Guinea international Kamara on the wing directly used his explosiveness and physicality to shake off Verbist, and then cut inside with the ball.

Bill Shot's frontline players, Cavins and Massoudi, moved straight to either side and pulled out the middle.

Before Ferjans made up for it, Kamara, who was more than 30 meters away from the goal, shot directly from a distance. The ball arced straight into the far corner of the net to give away Bilshot a 1-0 lead.

'Kamara, Kamara, Kamara's long-range shot gave Bill Shot the lead, 1-0. Antwerp are on the back foot, and if they want to win this derby, they will need to keep putting pressure on their opponents, Van Ake frowned anxiously on the sidelines, for him, the next game will be even more difficult! ”

Kamara's stunning long-range shot silenced the inside of the Bosul Stadium.

But after a few seconds of silence, there was a cheer in the corner of the stadium, and the Bill Shott fans, who were less than five hundred, burst into cheers. But then it was drowned in a huge boo.

For Antwerp, the game is indeed getting more and more difficult.

Bill Shot, who scored a goal, began to gradually increase his attacking intensity.

Bill Shot, who had completely dominated the field, began to frequently attack the Antwerp defence from both flanks.

Although Van Ake had a targeted arrangement before the game, Antwerp's defense was still stretched under the strong impact of Biershot.

"Defend, wing, protect wing!"

"Suleimani, retrace, retrace, pay attention to the gap behind ......"

"Spencer, go up, go up, go up......"

Van Ake, who is under a lot of pressure, certainly does not want to lose this crucial derby. With each attack from Bill Shot, Van Ake shouted quietly from the sidelines, hoping to remind the players of what to look out for. And when attacking, he also keeps motivating the players with words.

As the whistle blew at the end of the first half, Van Ake, who was already soaked in sweat, breathed a sigh of relief.

The score of 0-1 is acceptable. All he has to do now is how to adjust the attack and tear down Bill Shot's defence.

Yu Liang, who sat in the stands and watched for forty-five minutes, was a little puzzled. Although the media had been emphasising the relationship between the two clubs before the game, after the game began, apart from the aggressiveness of the fans, the players on both sides played very friendly.

Although the atmosphere of the game was tense, Yu Liang did not feel a trace of heat.

"Is this a derby?"

With a hint of worry and doubt, the second half of the game began under Yu Liang's expectations.