Chapter 180: Substitution Adjustment
The head coach of Al Ain could not have imagined before the game that their team would be down 2-0 with 20 minutes to go.
Twenty minutes and two goals conceded, the UAE manager really realised for the first time the strength of the Spring City's attack. This kind of Spring City team made the head coach of Al Ain feel a deep fear, he felt that even if Al Ain was fully line-up, he might not be able to get out of the Spring City team in front of him, and he was simply dying.
There were a lot of beads of sweat on his forehead because of anxiety, and he racked his brains to think about countermeasures, twenty minutes, conceding two goals in a row, such a situation on the field was far beyond his expectations.
He's going to reconsider his boss's "advice......
He was wondering if he should put the core players on his team right now, but he quickly dismissed his idea.
Although the score of 0:2 made him almost unacceptable, in the eyes of the owner of the Al Ain team, who did not understand football at all, perhaps such a backwardness was nothing, and the Al Ain team was not at the point of exhaustion, and there was no need to replace the foreign players so early.
The head coach of Al Ain knows what their boss has in mind, and it is for this reason that he has been able to secure his position as head coach in a UAE giant like Al Ain.
Any decision he makes on the pitch is definitely not just about the team's results, he also has to take into account the feelings of his boss.
If he replaced the team's core foreign players now, it would be tantamount to telling his boss that he had done something wrong. Such accusations are simply unacceptable to the UAE oil tycoons. So as the head coach of Al Ain, he has to keep going!
Not only that, but he also has to pretend to be on the sidelines with an expression that everything is in control.
Only in this way is the best explanation for their boss.
Obviously, I don't have any bottom in my heart, but I still have to pretend to be full of confidence, and I want to make a calm appearance when I feel uncomfortable.
It's not easy for the manager of Al Ain, but if he knew what the owner of Al Ain was thinking at the moment sitting in front of the TV, then he would also think that it was worth it!
When the Springs scored the second goal. The owner of the Al Ain Club jumped up from the comfort of his couch. He had a bad feeling in his heart that his advice to the club's manager was wrong.
His expression became very tangled, and he didn't seem to want to admit that he had done something wrong.
But the facts are in front of him, and even if he doesn't admit it, he can't do anything. This time. He put all the blame on the head coach of the club.
"What a piece of crap. Against a team like Springs City, the weakest team in the quarterfinals can play like this! The boss of the Al Ain team cursed viciously in his heart. At this moment, he seems to have decided to fire his team's head coach after this game.
But then, he saw the head coach on the TV screen. The televised footage was duly pointed at the head coach of Al Ain.
In the camera, he looked serious, but he didn't show any anxiety, his eyes were full of determination, full of 100% confidence in his team! His expression was as if the situation on the pitch was still not beyond his tolerance, as if he could control everything even if he conceded two goals early!
The look on the face of the head coach of Al Ain reassured his boss that he was naïve enough to think that his club's head coach was in control of everything on the pitch.
He sat back in his seat and waited for the magic of the Al Ain team.
But the next game made him very disappointed, to be precise, quite disappointed......
After the Quancheng team scored the second goal, they became more and more courageous! They continued to press down on Al Ain and launched fierce attacks on Al Ain's goal.
Al Ain had to defend passively against the Springs attack, with all eleven of their players confined to their own half, trying to block the Springs attack with ferocious scrambles.
However, even if they fought fiercely, they still could not effectively stop the attack of the Quancheng team, and the Quancheng team threatened their goal with shots again and again.
Such an unfavourable situation has left the owners of Al Ain Club without any hope.
Even he, who doesn't understand football at all, sees the unfavorable situation on the field, let alone the head coach of the Al Ain team on the sidelines......
The owner of Al Ain was suddenly lost in thought, pondering his team's manager's intentions, wondering why the manager was still in control of the situation.
After some thought, he figured out the key point. He felt that the confidence shown by the head coach of his team was not the confidence of the players on the pitch at all, but the confidence in his own "advice"!
Thinking of this, he was moved in his heart, he was not a fool, when the Spring City team scored the second goal, he had actually deeply realized his mistake.
It's just that he won't admit it.
However, in the face of such a serious mistake of him, how can their head coach still hold on to his firm belief and continue to choose to believe in him?
Just when the owner of Al Ain FC was immersed in emotion, the situation on the pitch took a new turn - the Springs team scored their third goal of the game!
It's still Lin Qi! This time, Lin Qi relied on his header ability to make another game for the Quancheng team, and rewrote the score on the field to 3:0!
The score almost sealed the win for the Springs team, with the Springs players celebrating their third goal excitedly, while the Springs fans on the sidelines cheered hoarsely for the Springs team's performance in the game.
Listening to the cheers of the Spring City fans, the corners of the head coach of the Al Ain team couldn't help but twitch twice.
0:3…… What a bloody scoreline, the first half was not over yet, we were already down 0:3......
If this continues, then even if we return to the home stadium, we may not be able to complete the comeback.
We can't play like this anymore, because of the boss's mistake, we have already conceded three goals, and I am doing my best to do this, I hope my next decision will not make you resent me!
The head coach of the Al Ain team finally couldn't sit still, he had to make substitution adjustments, and he wanted to replace the foreign core of his team on the field!
This time he used up two substitutions, and he replaced his team's defensive backbone and midfield core in succession, as for the striker from Brazil, he did not change them all at the same time.
For today's Al Ain team, the most important thing is not to attack, but to stabilize their position first, only when the players do a good job of defense, they can find offensive opportunities on the field! (To be continued......)