Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Twin Stars Shine
Lu Bing, who was standing on the sidelines, saw Yu Liang standing on the sidelines, waiting for the chance to kill the ball, and immediately picked up his camera and kept pressing the shutter there. He wants to record this moment, this moment is not only for Yu Liang, but even for Lu Bing himself, it is a memorable moment.
"Come on!"
After the opposing player failed to shoot, Yu Liang replaced No. 13 Verbist, and Lu Bing clenched his fists and secretly cheered for Yu Liang.
After coming on the pitch, Yu Liang went directly to the backfield, and at the same time conveyed the latest instructions of head coach Van Ack to his teammates.
After Ivan Willocks gave Yu Liang a thumbs up, he passed the ball directly to Yu Liang.
Seeing the captain pass the ball to him, Yu Liang quickly turned sideways to observe the situation in the field.
Then facing the football, he directly knocked the ball horizontally and passed the ball to the central defender.
After dodging the pressing of the opposing striker, the ball came to Yu Liang's feet again.
At the same time, the opponent's striker, Daniz, who equalized the score, has a particularly strong desire to attack at the moment, and the players are also very active in the field to counter-attack.
In the face of the menacing pressing of the opponent's forward, Yu Liang did not choose to break through, but once again made a horizontal pass and stuffed the ball to his teammates on the side. At the same time, the whole person moves sideways to meet his teammates.
After coming on the field, Yu Liang made full use of the width of the court, where he kept transferring crosses.
The continuous lateral transfer not only stabilized the team's rhythm, dodged the opponent's pressing, slowed down the pressure given by the opponent's pressing, and at the same time pulled the opponent's defense.
The forward pressure of the Antwerp formation seems to further compress the space of the midfield, but because of the continuous lateral passing, Deniz's defense is not dense. The seemingly crowded midfield is not crowded because it makes full use of the width of the pitch.
For Yu Liang, who has an excellent view of the overall situation, Deniz's current defense line is full of holes.
After a one-two with Kevin Jensen on the side, Yu Liang directly made a long pass to hit the gap in the opponent's left ribs.
Darko Lukovic, who was involved in the opponent's left central defender on the penalty line, immediately pulled in the opposite direction at the moment of Yu Liang's pass, creating space for Dong Wang, who was diagonally inserted.
King Dong, who was interspersed in place, faced the ball and shot directly without making any adjustments.
"Hey......"
Watching King Dong's shot go wide of the post, Yu Liang sighed.
With no one to defend, it's really not easy to miss at such a close distance.
However, when he saw King Dong giving him a thumbs up, Yu Liang's face showed a confident smile.
If he can create one chance, he will be able to create a second chance. Since a teammate doesn't take advantage of one chance, create a few more chances and provide them to your teammates.
Although King Dong's shot failed to score, it really threatened Deniz's goal.
Deniz significantly reduced the number of troops invested in the offensive. The offensive method is also simple and rough, after a few passes in the backfield, it will directly make a long pass, and the next thing is to look at the assault ability of Dal and Duminik in the frontcourt.
As the head coach of a team, Eddie is not stupid, and he does not rely on immediacy to take things for granted.
Especially after Yu Liang came on the court, he didn't show an indifferent attitude there just because Yu Liang was a Chinese player.
On the contrary, his heart also reminded him of fear.
The World Youth Championships in the Netherlands have only ended for more than two months, and the brilliant achievements created by the Chinese youth team in the World Youth Championships have caused a sensation for a while. Although he did not pay attention to the performance of the Chinese youth team in the World Youth Championships, he still had a certain understanding of the promotion process of the Chinese youth team after reading Yu Liang's information. Officially, the new Manchester United youngster, with his excellent performance in the stadium, the Chinese youth team was able to eliminate Germany and Brazil and break into the semi-finals.
And Yu Liang's performance on the court also confirmed that his inner worries were correct.
In particular, a long pass after multiple lateral passes stabilized the rhythm was just right to tear apart the team's defense.
And his timely adjustment also avoided the team's excessive consumption in the midfield, which can be said to be simple and effective.
The 1.82-meter-tall striker Duminik has a strong body and good skills at his feet.
After receiving a long ball from a team-mate, Duminik relied on Antwerp's centre-back Mohamed Cisse to head the ball directly to Delal next to him.
Delal is a speed striker, although the middle is not suitable for assault, but at the moment Antwerp is empty at the back, once he rushes up, it remains to be seen whether he can stop it at that time.
So Yu Liang, who retreated to the backfield, went up to interfere with Draal as soon as possible.
Seeing Yu Liang, who was also wearing the No. 10 jersey, rush over, Dral's eyes lit up.
Here I have to admire Deniz head coach Eddie's meticulous pre-match preparations.
In the current Antwerp team, in addition to Diggregorio, Mihem and Verbist, there are only a few overseas players to watch, including Yu Liang.
"The mark-to-man defense is very good, and he has a pretty good ability to anticipate and pick positions."
Seeing Yu Liang, Draal's mind rang with what Eddie had said before the game.
Unlike head coach Eddie, he has always reserved his attitude towards Yu Liang's ability.
In fact, not only him, but also many players in the Denitz team have an attitude towards Yu Liang's strength.
It's not because Yu Liang is not good enough, Yu Liang's game video at the World Youth Championships, they also watched it before the game, this is the only way they know Yu Liang so far.
Although the World Youth Championship is a top-level competition for young players, it is not the same thing as the league.
Yu Liang did not show the strength to conquer them in the league, and they had reason to keep their attitude.
Young people are competitive.
Draal is no exception.
Facing Yu Liang, there was only one thought in Draal's mind, and that was to pass him, pass him, and pass him again.
So Draal's feet kept playing with the ball, moving left and right, and there were a lot of feints.
Seeing that Draal was about to shake himself with his foot technique, a smile appeared on the corner of Yu Liang's mouth.
His tackles are just to give his teammates time to get back to the defense, and he doesn't really intend to steal.
So Draal kept feints there, Yu Liang was not fooled, and at the same time he didn't rush to rob, but just kept a distance of nearly half a body from Draal.
The feint couldn't fool Yu Liang, and Draal began to advance with the ball.
However, by this time, he had lost the best opportunity to swoop.
After watching his teammates return to the defense and form two lines of defense in front of the goal, Yu Liang saw the timing and directly stretched out his foot to poke the ball at Draal's feet.
At this time, Dral, who was about to change direction and accelerate, was stabbed by Yu Liang like this, and the football immediately lost control and rolled behind him.
After stabbing the football, Yu Liang turned sideways, jumped from Draal's side immediately, caught up with the ball, and directly strode forward.
Because Draal took time, the Deniz players who had just come out had to turn around and return to the defense at this time.
Between offense and defensive transitions, teams are the most prone to error.
Previously, because of Deniz's counterattack, Lukovic retreated deeper, involving one of the opponent's central defenders, and there were more breakthroughs.
And King Dong has been pressing at the front, against their backline, so there is a big gap between the two central defenders at this time.
After taking a few steps, Yu Liang made another long pass and sent the ball to the gap.
King Dong's explosive power was fully displayed at this moment.
An arrow step directly shook off the central defender next to him, and after catching up with the football, he strode directly towards the goal.
Single Knife!
King Dong, who had already scored a solo goal in this game, did not waste this time after missing their best chance to score a few minutes ago.
Facing the attacking goalkeeper, King Dong picked his toes.
The ball flew past the goalkeeper's hands and into the goal.
"Beautiful!"
After King Dong scored a goal, Yu Liang immediately rushed to his side and celebrated the goal with him.
"You've done a good job! If I had an assist like you in every game, I would definitely be the top scorer in the league! ”
Looking at Yu Liang beside him, a smile bloomed on King Dong's face.
It took 19 appearances last season and only scored six goals. In his second appearance this season, he has already scored three goals, and this is only the fourth round of games, and if you calculate this efficiency, he will definitely win the league Golden Boot at the end of the season.
"No problem!"
Yu Liang was naturally happy to see King Dong get the golden boots, so he patted his chest directly and agreed.
"Well done!"
As soon as he finished committing to King Dong, the rest of his teammates gradually gathered around to celebrate the goal with them.
"Well done!"
Lu Bing, who was on the sidelines, saw that King Dong received Yu Liang's pass, and after hitting the goal, he immediately clenched his fists and shouted excitedly.
He kept pressing the shutter of his camera on the sidelines for this game.
He can't wait to record every moment of the game.
If it weren't for the fear of running out of memory, he really wanted to record the game.
As a sports journalist, he certainly won't let go of this wonderful moment. He quickly pressed the shutter and recorded the picture of King Dong and Yu Liang celebrating the goal.
Looking at Yu Liang and King Dong, who were surrounded by Antwerp soldiers, Lu Bing's face showed a confident smile, his choice was right.
He was excited in his heart, and he couldn't wait to wait for the game to start quickly again.