Chapter 295: Take a Gamble!
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Melberg's foul was committed on the left, 3 metres from the penalty line, at a 45-degree angle to the goal.
This position is not too good, mainly because the angle is a little off, but it is only about 23 meters away from the goal, and in terms of distance, it is quite suitable for direct free kicks.
After a brief deliberation, Morris stood in front of the ball.
A few years ago, England's main penalty takers were Steven Gerrard, Frank Lampard and James Milner, but as Morris got better and better, he became the number one penalty taker, and even Steven Gerrard couldn't compete.
Generally speaking, free-kicks that are a little further away need Gerrard to take the penalty, and closer, skillful balls belong to Morris.
In the England squad, Morris has become very important.
The competition in the England team is still very fierce, in many games, the penalty rights need to be contested, Morris is a good old man's temper, he doesn't like to fight with other teammates, when he represents England in the game, there are not many direct free throws, but every time Morris makes free throws, he can play a good ball.
Over the past three years, including European Championship qualifiers and the warm-up games leading up to the European Championships, Morris has only made nine appearances for England and scored five goals as former boss Fabio Capello did not call up Morris for several months, making him an excellent goalscoring performer at the heart of the organisation.
Two of Morris' five goals have come from direct free-kicks, while he has taken just four free-kicks, a 50 per cent free-kick clearance efficiency.
Although the number of penalties was too small to be judged, Morris's efficiency from free-kicks was evident.
In official competitions, teammates naturally don't compete.
When Morris stood in front of the ball, all the cameras were worth it.
Morris is the most high-profile player in the England team, not even Rooney, because Morris has just led Atletico Madrid to the 'treble', is the core midfielder of Atletico Madrid, and is considered one of the best players in the past season.
This evaluation is still because Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo have too many goals, which are not comparable to a midfielder at all, otherwise they can't compare with Morris at all.
Now Morris has attracted all the attention.
The England commentator looked forward to it, "Morris is already the absolute main core in the England national team, completely replacing Gerrard's role, and in front of Morris, Gerrard can only hand over the core position." ”
"Morris's footwork is widely regarded as the best in the world, he is a genius unearthed from Derby County by Wansheng, before the age of 25, Morris was unknown, and then he jumped to the top and showed his own dazzling brilliance in Derby County and Manchester City. Now that he represents the best football in the world, we are proud to have such a veteran! ”
"It's a pity that Morris is 34 years old, veterans of this age are going to retire, Morris will definitely not be able to play for England for too long, this European Championship is likely to be Morris's last European Cup, 14 World Cup England team, whether Morris's name can appear, it is not certain."
'Now he's in front of the ball and helping England take free-kicks, so we can expect him to ......'
Wan Sheng stood on the sidelines and asked Gary Neville next to him, "Did you say Lee could score?" ”
"It's hard." Neville shook his head and said, "That's a little too far away. ”
"Take a gamble!"
"Oh?"
"I said take a gamble." Wan Sheng smiled, "I believe that Li can score the ball directly." If I win, when the game is over, you just stay here and don't understand, and let everyone lift you up to celebrate the victory, or else you can be me, how about it? ”
Neville thought for a moment, "Yes. But are you sure you'll win? ”
"You don't even have that confidence?"
“…… All right. ”
Neville looked at Morris, who was about to make a free throw, and felt like he had taken advantage of it.
What are the chances of a direct free-kick in Europe's top leagues? This question is difficult to judge, and few media will make complete statistics, but "Milan Sports Newspaper" made a statistic at the end of March last year, the number of free kick shots in the three seasons from 2008 to 2011 was 882, 794, and 795 respectively, while in the first 19 rounds of the 2011-2012 season, there were only 340 shots, and the number of direct free kick goals in the three seasons from 2008 to 2011 was 43, 30, 35, and only 9 in the first 19 rounds of the 2011-2012 season.
According to this data, the probability of scoring a goal from a direct free kick is only about 5%.
The efficiency of scoring from free kick is certainly different from player to player, but even if it is a world-class free kick master, the efficiency of direct free kick scoring will not exceed 30%.
Is Morris a world-class free-kick master?
It's hard to say.
Gary Neville can't be sure, but even a world-class free-kick master wouldn't have a 30 per cent chance of scoring against a ball in such a position.
In this way, Neville felt that he had won.
He didn't have much doubt about England's ability to win, so his mind was already imagining the embarrassment of seeing Wan Sheng thrown into the air after the game.
But what Neville didn't know was that Wansheng had already started 'cheating'.
The moment he saw Morris standing in front of the ball, Wansheng opened the football training master system and added the "national competition honor halo" to Morris's personal attribute ability.
In official matches, Morris' set-piece ability rating is '97'.
This statistic is already outstanding, coupled with the effect of the "aura of national honor", his set-piece ability evaluation has reached '106', which is definitely an unimaginable value, only higher than Beckham's winning period.
If this is the case, it is difficult to improve the efficiency of free kicks too much, after all, the evaluation value is on the one hand, the play on the field and the position of the free kick are more important, but the "shooting technique" and "long-range shooting ability increase" can also be used in the free kick goal.
With the effect bonus of these two skills, as long as Morris does not make personal mistakes, he is still somewhat sure of kicking a free kick in this position.
Wan Sheng didn't know the specific odds, but he estimated in his heart that it was at least more than 50 percent.
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on the playing field.
The Swedes were 'slowly' lining up the wall, and the slow pace was a bit of a hurry, and Gerrard protested to the referee that 'they were stalling for time', and the referee immediately went over and told the Swedes to pick things up.
The Swedish players were thinking about delaying the first half and getting the first half to end quickly, completely unaware that the goal behind them was facing a huge crisis.
Finally, the referee signaled that the penalty was available.
With everyone's attention, Morris took two steps back and trotted forward.
In the rhythm of the run, Morris swung his right foot and rubbed the ball with the inside instep!
Soccer balls rush up from the grass!
Under the camera lens, the Swedish human wall jumped up, and the neat human waves were lying across the penalty area, as if they could block everything, but the football spun around the human wall and turned straight to the far corner of the goal!
Sweden didn't care about the free-kick at all.
In their opinion, the free-kick is close to each other but not at a good angle, and they have always felt that even if England want to score, they will use tactics, such as Morris to kick a high ball and let other team-mates fight for the top.
If Morris opts for a direct free-kick, they won't have anything to fear because the probability of a goal is too low.
When the wall was lined up just now, the Swedish players paid more attention to the positions of Lescott, Gerrard and others to prevent them from suddenly inserting into the penalty area to grab points.
The Swedish player guessed wrong!
They still don't know about Morris, they don't know about the England team, if it is a tactical free kick, Morris is almost impossible to take the penalty, he is not going to the front to grab points, but also to sit in the back, ready to deal with the Swedish team's next possible counterattack.
Morris stood in front of the ball and would almost certainly opt for a direct shot.
It was a beautiful shot!
The ball scurried up on the grass, sliced through the instep arc, flew less than half a meter above the wall, and then quickly spun and fell, in a knife-edge arc, straight into the far corner of the goal.
Swedish goalkeeper Isaksen stands in front of goal.
He had been paying attention to Morris just now, but like other teammates, he also thought that Morris would not choose to shoot directly, but as a goalkeeper, he must consider comprehensively, even if Morris does not shoot directly, he also needs to judge the route of football in advance by observing Morris's movements, what he didn't expect at all was that Morris's direct free kick shot would be so sharp.
By the time Isaacsen reacted, it was too late.
With his past experience, Isakson knew that he could not save, and at that moment, he was anxious and a little desperate, because England scored two goals and Sweden became even more disadvantaged.
The rest of Sweden were also desperate, following the course of the football and turning their heads to see goalkeeper Isaksson standing still.
The only hope for Sweden is for the football to crash into the post.
"Bang!"
A muffled sound was like a beautiful note, but the Swedes didn't have time to breathe a sigh of relief when they saw the ball bounce inside across the goal line.
“Goooooooooooooooal!!!”
The England commentator let out a long roar, "The ball is in!" Goal!! 2 to 0! Morris's direct free-kick netted England's second goal! ”
"I dare say this goal is comparable to Beckham's scimitar arc! It's so exciting! It's wonderful! At the end of the first half, England scored another goal! ”
"2 to 0! 2 to 0! ”
"Well done! Maurice! His footwork left the Swedish team powerless! ”
The Dynamo Kyiv National Stadium was filled with cheers, and every England fan cheered to the fullest, and even the local Polish fans cheered together to celebrate the goal in the face of such a wonderful free-kick.
Amid the cheers, Morris raised his single punch and ran towards his own half.
A few England teammates followed, waving excitedly and running excitedly, as if they had already won the game.
Wan Sheng stood on the sidelines and celebrated with the others.
Looking at the excited Morris, Wan Sheng was also proud of him, and then he didn't forget to turn his head and say to Neville, "How about it, I won!" ”
Neville also smiled, completely unconcerned that he had lost the bet.
"How do you know he's going to score?"
'He's my player and I know him well, like yes, I know we're going to win.'
Neville shook his head with a wry smile.
Although he has been working with Wansheng for more than half a month, Neville still can't stand Wansheng's excitement, he knows that Wansheng is a very good manager, but sometimes he just feels difficult to communicate.
"It's like knowing we're going to win?" What is the answer?
What game is guaranteed to be won?
Neville couldn't understand why Wan Sheng was so confident in every game.
"Maybe this is a world-class manager? Or is this why he was able to succeed? ”
Neville thought.
But in any case, it was a crucial second goal, and as Wan Sheng said, with the second goal, the team's hopes of winning are greater.
If Sweden wants to equalize again, it can already be called a 'miracle'.
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Wansheng doesn't like miracles, which means that the game is out of control; I don't like the opponent to create a miracle, that proves his failure.
In the second half of the game, Wan Sheng let the team adopt the 'stifling miracle' style of play.
England slowed down the tempo and tightened up defensively.
England attacked the entire first half, unable to play the half that the Swedish team once suppressed, and suddenly shrunk the formation, making the Swedish team a little uncomfortable.
Swedish coach Hamrun at halftime, let the team open the formation, ready to fight with England at half the court, for that line of equalization opportunities, but what I didn't expect is that Sweden encountered not a sword out of the sheath, but a hard iron ball, the iron ball is hard without gaps, it is difficult to be attacked by external objects inside, at the same time, the iron ball is not powerless, just used to smash people, but also has considerable lethality, Sweden must also face the England team at any time possible fast attack.
The situation of the game made the Swedish team proud.
They need to score as soon as possible, but it's hard enough to attack, but you have to keep an eye on the defence at all times.
The whole Swedish team is feeling a headache.
The same can be said of Sweden coach Hamlen, who had no idea that he would face such a difficult opponent.
Wan Sheng is very famous, he has also heard of it, but he doesn't think that the other party is really much better than his coaching ability, but he has some ability and luck, but he found that he has always been at a disadvantage in the official competition.
A large part of the reason why Sweden are facing such a predicament is due to the pre-match tactical development, and almost all of the explanations he gave to the players came in handy.
How will you play in the next time?
Hamrun has no clue.
He only hopes that the team can try their best, but he knows very well in his heart that the Swedish team has few chances, and in this European Championship finals, the Swedish team may become the first team to be eliminated from the group.