Chapter Seventy-Eight: Another Goal Missed
Originally, Chen Song's plan was to hold the first half steadily, and then in the second half of the game, he used the impact of the three forwards of the Quancheng team to break through the gate of the Osaka Gamba team.
Springs don't have to score too many goals in this game, they just need to win 1-0. Chen Song is very clear about the difference in strength between the two teams, even if he makes an adjustment to change the formation on the spot, the Quancheng team is not necessarily the opponent of the Osaka Gamba team.
So his request is simple, to defend solidly and wait for an opportunity to score.
As long as you can score a goal, it will be a victory for the Spring City team!
But he didn't expect that the originally foolproof defense was broken by the Osaka Gamba team when the game was only 24 minutes into the game.
Chen Song did not think that he would concede the goal, he was confident that in the second half of the game, he used Lin Qi and three people to penetrate the goal of the Osaka Gamba team twice, and the score was 2:1, and the Quancheng team could also win this game.
So conceding only one goal should be considered within his control.
It's just that what makes Chen Song uneasy is that this goal was lost too early. The first half of the game was just over halfway through, and the Quancheng team fell behind, and such an unexpected goal was quite a huge blow to the Quancheng team, and Chen Songzhen was worried that the players on the field would have strange emotions.
They may lose confidence in their formation, they may lose confidence in their defensive strategy.
Whether it is the formation or the tactics above the defense, the Spring City team is using it for the first time in this game. This practice of changing formations on the spot has obvious characteristics, if the effect is good. The players will be demoralized and win the game in one fell swoop, and if it doesn't work out well, the players will quickly become suspicious of their new tactics and even lose confidence in the game.
Chen Song is worried about this, once the players lose confidence in their tactics, then the game will be completely over.
After the game restarted, Chen Song stood nervously on the sidelines, wanting to see if the players' mentality had changed. Fortunately, the players were doing reasonably well and they weren't frustrated by conceding too early. On the contrary, there is a taste of frustration and courage.
The big stone in Chen Song's heart slowly fell to the ground. It seems that the Springs team should still be able to hold on to the first half of the game.
If he fell behind 0:1 in the first half, Chen Song was also acceptable.
But, immediately after. Chen Song's brows furrowed again. After the Springs team broke the ball at the back. There was a passing error, and the ball was returned to the players of the Gamba Osaka team.
The defense of the Quancheng team did not have much problem, but the counterattack seemed a little anxious. After the score is behind. The Springs players were hoping to equalise as soon as possible, and it looked as if they were going to bring forward what had been scheduled for the second half to the first half.
After all, this Quancheng team is still too young, and now the average age of the Quancheng team is the youngest in the Chinese League, less than twenty-three years old, and the average age of the Qilu team is higher than them.
It's good to be young and driven, but being young on the pitch also means being impulsive and not calm. After conceding such an early goal, the attacking players of the Springs team came out of a calm situation.
They couldn't pass the ball to Zhao Lin well after breaking the ball, and even if Zhao Lin received the ball, he repeatedly made mistakes when making long passes.
It's all due to a change in mentality.
The players are too afraid of falling behind, because falling behind means that even if they score a goal, they will only equalize, and if this game can only be a draw, it will be Gamba Osaka who will advance to the round of 16!
It was the situation of qualifying from the group that made the players afraid of falling behind, and they were afraid that Gamba Osaka would score again before they equalized, and every goal scored by Gamba Osaka meant that they had to score one more than Gamba Osaka.
If this continues, the situation of the Spring City team in this game will only get worse and worse.
So, the players were a little anxious when attacking, they were too eager to equalise, which led to frequent mistakes.
After conceding the goal, the Quancheng team couldn't even organize an effective counterattack.
Chen Song's heart was raised again, and there was no effective counterattack on the offense, which would seriously increase the pressure on the defense of the Quancheng team.
The defenders of the Izumi City team tried their best to defend, but at the end of the first half, Gamba Osaka once again seized the opportunity.
This was a typical mistake, after the Quancheng team broke the ball at the back, they were eager to launch a counterattack through Zhao Lin's long pass. However, before the ball reached Zhao Lin's feet, it was broken early by Keisuke Honda of the Osaka Gamba team.
Keisuke Honda played very smart when he was on the field, and the Quancheng team looked for Zhao Lin after a steal every time, such an obvious routine, how could Keisuke Honda not find it.
He had been waiting for Zhao Lin for a long time to steal, and this time he finally seized the opportunity!
Keisuke Honda, who successfully intercepted the Izumi Castle counter-attack, suddenly picked up the tempo of the game, and after a passing link with his teammates on the wing, he managed to burst into the Izumi Castle penalty area.
Keisuke Honda made a feint to shoot, but suddenly passed the ball to a teammate who was near the baseline.
It's another baseline pass, the same position, the same return, the only difference is that this time it's the player who hit the goal.
Keisuke Honda received a return pass from his teammates, kept the ball, and followed up with a strong shot!
The ball flew from the hands of the Springs goalkeeper and into the net!
"The ball is in!!!!! Keisuke Honda, the best player of our young generation in Japan, once again broke through the goal of the Izumi City team, and when he played, Keisuke Honda had a very good performance, and when he came to the away side, his performance was also amazing! The Japanese commentator at the scene looked up to the sky excitedly and roared.
"From stealing to organizing the attack, to finally hitting the ball into the goal of the Izumi Castle team, Keisuke Honda single-handedly planned the goal of the Osaka Gamba team! He is one of the best young players in Japan, and his performance gives us a lot of confidence for the upcoming World Junior Championships! ”
"This time, our island nation will definitely surprise the whole world!" The Japanese commentator was still chattering about Keisuke Honda to express his praise, and of course he did not forget to hit the Quancheng team and the Huaxia youth team: "Compared with Keisuke Honda, Lin Qi has almost no performance in this game so far. This young player, who is known as the god of war by the Chinese people, has no way to face the Osaka Gamba team. If this kind of performance can be called the god of war, then our Keisuke Honda is the main god! ”
The Japanese commentator tried his best to satirize Lin Qi, and the Japanese fans at the scene would not let go of this opportunity to hit Lin Qi and the Quancheng team.
Once again, they made Keisuke Honda's Chinese name resounding in the stadium of the Quancheng team: Stupid licking ghost oil!
The Japanese fans shouted, looking at the Izumi City fans who were silent due to frustration, as if they were villains.
"Stupid Licking Ghost Oil" was unusually excited after the goal. He ran to the sidelines, waving his arms excitedly, encouraging the Japanese fans to shout louder.
Tonight, he wants to make the four words "stupid licking ghost oil" resounding endlessly in Quancheng!
Occupy Lin Qi's hometown, haha, Keisuke Honda feels inexplicably excited just thinking about it. (To be continued......)