Chapter 183: Inside
Pique is good at this kind of long-range passing.
Of the five players up front, Timo Werner is the focus of Athletic Bilbao.
Timo Werner's speed, explosiveness and speed are among the top tiers in today's football, and Espanyol have suffered his opponents in previous league games.
So Athletic Bilbao is on his defensiveness at this time.
Chiro Immobile is not as fast as Timo Werner, but not too slow, and his sense of movement is even better than Timo Werner's, and Espanyol opponents have taught him a number of times in previous league games.
Although Wu Lei's speed and running awareness are not as good as the other two, in previous games, there are always some unexpected moves, such as man-ball passing, Marseille slaloms, etc., although these are not new, but being suddenly used by an underappreciated Chinese player often catches the opponent off guard.
So they must also pay attention not to let Wu Lei get the ball.
The two U16 Chinese youngsters scored with the goal just now, and they feel that they should not be underestimated, no matter what, they have to arrange personnel to pay attention to them.
All of a sudden, the players of Athletic Bilbao suddenly felt that the stadium was full of crises and there was a feeling of rumour. They used to feel that way only against Barcelona and Real Madrid at their peak, but now they have that feeling with Espanyol.
Of course, to put it bluntly, it's the feeling of conceding a goal.
Pique is on his feet!
When Pique got to his feet, the spirits of all the players in Athletic Bilbao tensed.
Who exactly will Pique pass the ball to? Is it one of the tridents in the middle, or Yuan Qiang on the left? Or is it Gong Chenglong on the right?
The Athletic Bilbao players subconsciously ran to the backfield, trying to quickly hide in the penalty area and set up a bus to avoid a repeat of the scene that had just been scored.
Although the tactics arranged by the coach were not to let them set up the bus, on the court, they were forced by their opponents to set up the bus, and it can only be said that the opponents were far stronger than they expected.
Athletic Bilbao, from coach to player, is only now aware of a problem.
That is, the two U16 players of the opposing side are not here to send warmth, but to send knives!
I thought it was the other party's two weaknesses that they could focus on breaking through, but I didn't expect it to be the other party's two sharp knives!
Gao Hong manipulated Pique to make a long leg swing, but did not kick the ball out.
Now that the players of Athletic Bilbao are retreating, the point of long passing is not very great at this time.
Therefore, Gao Hong immediately made a decision to let Pique dribble the ball to the opponent's half court.
After the Athletic Bilbao players spotted Pique dribbling the ball, they also realized that their reaction was a bit overdone, and one player rushed over to block Pique, and another player who was defending Gong Chenglong on the right side also stepped forward to cover Pique and try to steal the ball at his feet.
When the two players rushed over, Pique made a move, not a big kick, but a mid-length pass to Gong Chenglong, who was temporarily unguarded on the right side.
Athletic Bilbao's two players closest to Gong immediately came over to cover him, and before they could form a circle, Gong passed the ball to Chiro Immobile, a centre-forward diagonally forward.
Chiro?? Because Mobile took the ball with his back, he didn't stop the ball and passed the ball back to the forward Wu Lei, who was following him, and after passing the ball, he went directly to the penalty area.
Wu Lei looked at Chiro Immobile while preparing to receive the ball, and found that he was being closely targeted by the opponent's defenders, so he did not give him a two-one-one, but did not stop the ball and directly stuffed the ball to Werner who was running forward on the other side of the middle.
Timo Werner is a key target for the opposition and once the ball is at his feet, the goal could be threatened at any time. Sure enough, Werner took the ball and went straight forward, ready to use his speed to force his way away from the opposing defender.
The opposition's centre-backs were not as fast and explosive as Timo Werner, and the defense of Timo Werner obviously suffered a little, so he could only cling to Werner's body and force him out of the line, so as not to give him a chance to shoot calmly.
The players defending Yuan Qiang on the left found that the defense in the middle was very tight, and had to approach the middle, ready to meet the defense in the middle at any time.
After Werner caught up with his own ball, he glanced at the left side and did not hesitate to stuff the ball to Yuan Qiang, who was about to go down.
The player defending Yuan Qiang on the left side immediately turned around and approached Yuan Qiang, Yuan Qiang did not go down, nor did he stop the ball, and directly gave the ball back to Wu Lei, who was following him.
At this time, there seemed to be a gap on Chiro Immobile's side, and Wu Lei's through plug was likely to give Chiro Immobile a chance to shoot directly.
Athletic Bilbao's players are also aware of this, with both players nearby close to a possible breakthrough for Chiro Immobile, who had been in the middle of the past to help the defence.
But Wu Lei was surprised by all of them, and instead of passing the ball to the middle, he passed it back to Yuan Qiang, who had just passed the ball to him.
The situation on the field is unpredictable, after Yuan Qiang passed back to Wu Lei just now, he suddenly exploded in speed and continued to pull out to the left side, obviously wanting Wu Lei to cooperate with him at a time!
The moment Wu Lei passed to Yuan Qiang, Yuan Qiang was not in an offside position, but when Wu Lei's ball was passed, Yuan Qiang had already opened up at least two meters to the player who was defending him!
However, Athletic Bilbao is not very worried about Yuan Qiang's breakthrough, after all, Yuan Qiang is too close to the outside, and if Espanyol wants to score this attack, they must pass the ball to the middle of the penalty area.
On the one hand, one player of the Athletic Bilbao team pursued Yuan Qiang at high speed, and on the other hand, the players who retreated from the middle were all one-on-one or two-on-one to defend the trident of the Espanyol team, and were ready to clear Yuan Qiang's bottom cross with a header at any time.
But Yuan Qiang did not choose to cross from the bottom.
After he formed a breakthrough, he chose the most difficult inward cut with the ball for a winger!
It is extremely difficult to break through the inward, in the case of tight defense in the middle, this kind of thing is to cut inside with the ball, and today's football is also good at Ronaldo, Neymar, Salah, Mbappe, Sane and other players, and the result of other wingers trying to cut inside is often the ball is stealed.
In particular, Yuan Qiang's inward cut in the case of a breakthrough will allow the defender to quickly fill the position successfully, so that a chance to cross the bottom that may have been formed by the previous breakthrough will be wasted.
The players defending Yuan Qiang of Athletic Bilbao were happy at this time, and hurriedly filled in the past to successfully intercept Yuan Qiang's incut.
However, a very unexpected scene happened.
Yuan Qiang actually caught the ball with his feet, played a 'rainbow pass' on the defender, and lifted the ball high into the air, the defender watched the ball fly over his head, and then Yuan Qiang's whole person appeared behind him instantly!
Rainbow passing, Neymar's in-cutting stunt, extremely difficult to operate, extremely low success rate, once successful will cause great humiliation to the defenders, was actually successfully used by a Chinese U16 player!
However, now the defender has not had time to feel humiliated, because the defenders in the middle are focusing on the trident of the Espanyol team, and after Yuan Qiang forced him through with a rainbow pass, he is facing their goalkeeper.
The defenders in the middle didn't even care about the players they wanted to defend, and wanted to rush over to block Yuan Qiang, but it was obviously too late.
The goalkeeper of Athletic Bilbao had to abandon the goal and block the angle of Yuan Qiang's shot.
After Yuan Qiang completed the rainbow pass, he glanced at the goalkeeper who was attacking the opponent, did not stop at his feet, and directly rubbed out a curling ball to shoot, the ball passed over the goalkeeper's head, and hung directly on the other side of the player's dead corner!
The score on the field became 2-0!
The player defending Yuan Qiang knelt on the lawn on the spot, looking at the sky.
The rest of the players were also at a loss.
Their defence has been done to the extreme, but why can the opposition still score?
And another Chinese U16 player scored!
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