Zhou Yi finished his morning run, ate breakfast, and returned to the room to rest again, and at the same time was about to pack up his things to go to the competition in the afternoon, he suddenly turned out a hardcover book from his schoolbag, which was his student ID. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Picking up his student ID, Zhou Yi remembered why he had to take this thing abroad in the first place - he wanted to experiment with China's student ID card and enjoy a half-price discount when buying a train ticket abroad......

I have to say that Zhou Yi's brain-opening angle is very strange, and most people can't think of bringing a student ID card to Europe to buy a half-price ticket.

As a result, when he came to Europe, he was airplane and bus throughout the whole journey, and he was not given the opportunity to do this social practice at all.

So the student ID was stuffed into the bag and never touched again.

As the backpack walked around, the student ID gradually sank to the bottom of the bag, so much so that he almost forgot about it.

Or did he suddenly turn it over today, looking at this student ID, Zhou Yi suddenly had a flash of inspiration in his mind.

His mind opened again.

He put his student ID back in his bag, which he would have to carry to the game when the time came, and his sneakers and everything else would be in the bag.

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Before the start of the game in the afternoon, Zhou Yi found substitute goalkeeper Lai Cong.

Then solemnly handed him something.

"What are you doing?" Lai Cong looked at the student ID card in his hand, not understanding what was going on.

"Please keep it for me. ”

"It's not...... It's okay to keep it, I'm curious about what you're doing with your student ID when you play a game?" Lai Cong was confused.

"Oh, that's something important. To put it bluntly, the core of this game is it!" Zhou Yi said, pointing to the student ID card in Lai Cong's hand.

Lai Cong grinned, is Zhou Yi telling himself in a very subtle way that he is the core of this team?

But...... He can't do that, can he?

Lai Cong didn't figure it out, but he didn't continue to ask, he was afraid that the question would be too straightforward, in case Zhou Yi meant this, wouldn't everyone be embarrassed?

Seeing that Lai Cong did not refuse, Zhou Yi thanked Lai Cong again, and then followed the other starters who appeared on the field to prepare for the game.

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Zhou Yi said that this Manchester United team is actually not strong, of course, it does not mean that Manchester United's first team is not strong.

Having just beaten Chelsea in the Champions League final to give Alex Ferguson his second Champions League title in charge, United remain one of the best club teams in the world.

But compared to their glamorous first team, it is also true that Manchester United's academy has not improved much in more than a decade.

As mentioned before, Chelsea's youth training is not very good, Abramovich spent a lot of money, and even poached Tottenham Hotspur's youth director Arneson for five million pounds, and offered the Dane an annual salary of two million pounds for the Dane who once unearthed superstars such as Ronaldo and Stam.

But the last Academy player at Chelsea to find their ground in the first team was ...... John Terry, who is twenty-eight years old.

Chelsea later changed their tactics and went from developing themselves to digging all over the world, but despite this, no one managed to make it to the first team.

Manchester United and Chelsea are a little different.

Manchester United has a very glorious tradition in youth training, such as the famous "92 class", Beckham, Phil Neville, Gary Neville, Ryan Giggs, Bart, Scholes are all the main force of Manchester United, and even the core.

Their maturity led directly to Manchester United's treble in 1999.

Class 92 has always been mentioned repeatedly as a symbol of Manchester United's academy.

But this also illustrates a very embarrassing thing, that is, after the 92 class, Manchester United's youth training ...... There is no sign that can be mentioned again and again.

Class 92 is not only a witness to the glory of Manchester United's youth training, but also the beginning of the decline of Manchester United's local youth training.

Both O'Shea and Wes Brown have struggled to match the achievements of their predecessors in the first team, and neither would have been able to establish themselves in the first team if it weren't for the Reds' Academy signature. Manchester United's main centre-back partners are Nemanja Vidic and Rio Ferdinand, who have nothing to do with Manchester United's academy.

Fletcher is also a Manchester United Academy player, but compared to his talent, his body is too fragile, because of injuries he has always struggled to continue to perform at a high level in the first team of Manchester United, otherwise, Ferguson would not have brought in Carrick and Hargreaves successively.

Since the departure of Roy Keane, United have not been able to find a good replacement in midfield, and Fletcher has been expected to be high, but now it seems difficult to take on the role.

Of course, Zhou Yi said that Manchester United's youth team is not strong because he has played against Manchester United's under-17 youth team more than 20 times in his sleep, and he really hasn't found any players who are too prominent. Borussia Dortmund have Gotze, Arsenal have Wilshere, and neither Chelsea nor Manchester United have such a leader.

So Zhou Yicai said that their youth team is not strong.

However, this Manchester United youth team is still better than Chelsea's youth team.

This was evident from their performances on the pitch, which was directly reflected in the first half, with Manchester United leading the youth team.

1:0, they are ahead of the Chinese teenagers.

On the pitch, it was also Manchester United who had a slight upper hand.

The Chinese team was a little silent.

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At the start of the second half, Manchester United, who had a one-goal lead, stepped up their defence in the 30-metre zone.

When the Chinese team attack the front, there is no good way to penetrate their defense.

In the face of their defense, the Chinese team was also only able to pass back and forth outside their defensive line.

In terms of the integrity of the defence, Manchester United's youth team did a little better than Chelsea's youth team, and with them strengthening their defense against He Ying, it was not easy for the Chinese team to score.

That's been the case from the first half.

Zhou Yi passed the football to He Ying, He Ying couldn't even turn around, and passed the football back. Then he runs but is always followed by two players from Manchester United's youth team.

This game has always been like this, as a player who scored a hat-trick against Chelsea youth in the last game and was out of the limelight, it is only natural that He Ying was heavily targeted by Manchester United's youth team in this game.

In comparison, the other striker, Zhang Tao, faced much less defensive pressure, but it didn't help.

There is a reason why there is little defensive pressure on the face, because the threat posed by Zhang Tao is too small.

Zhang Tao is tall and has an excellent header, but this excellence is only compared to He Ying.

The obvious disadvantage of his football is that he can't run, he can only stand and play. As a result, he is only a substitute in the echelons of domestic clubs, let alone fighting England defenders for headers here.

It's not that Zhou Yi didn't pass the ball to him, but he wasted it.

Zhou Yi passed the football out, and the football passed at the feet of the Chinese team players, and the rhythm was very fast, and the Manchester United players couldn't easily grab it for a while.

But it didn't work.

Because these passes are all crosses and backpasses. Not to mention whether it can threaten the goal of Manchester United's youth team, it is difficult to even threaten the penalty area of Manchester United's youth team.

Seeing this scene, Xu Yang shook his head off the field: "It's hard to score goals......"

Hao Dong didn't speak, but from his frowning brows, it could be seen that he was also at a loss.

In the match against Chelsea's youth team, the Chinese team stubbornly defended, and now it is Manchester United that the youth team shrinks the defense and allows the Chinese team to break the dense defense.

Really...... It's teachable.

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Although the match between the Chinese team and Manchester United's youth team was not closed, there were not many spectators on the sidelines, after all, it was a youth team game, and the attention was not high.

However, you can still see some figures watching the football game on the sidelines, and they all watch it with relish.

Tim Kist and Alan Powell are among them, but they don't know each other exists.

In the last game against Chelsea's youth team, Zhou Yi assisted three goals, and in the eyes of these two scouts, it was naturally out of the limelight.

In the first half of this game, Zhou Yi's performance was a little bleak.

Tim Keyter, who had already watched Zhou Yi's two games, naturally knew what was going on - he guessed that it was mostly related to Zhou Yi's physical fitness.

Zhou Yi played the whole game against Dortmund Youth Team, but as a result, he was physically exhausted, and Zhou Yi was replaced after only half the game against Arsenal Youth Team.

Because he had an extra half of the game, Zhou Yiduo played 24 minutes in the game against Chelsea's youth team, and after completing three assists, he ran out of energy and was substituted due to cramps.

In this game, Zhou Yi's performance in the first half was not very active, obviously because of physical reasons. The last win against Chelsea's youth team was too hard and it was a sequelae.

However, Arsenal's scout Alan Powell was a little disappointed with Zhou Yi's performance in this game - could it be that Zhou Yi's performance in the last game was blindfolded?

Watching Zhou Yi pass the football around, but could not hit the heart of Manchester United's youth team, Powell shook his head.

Since football is a sport that creates as much space as possible in the attack, when the team gets possession when it is close to the opponent's goal, it should reduce the number of players and the number of passes, so as to help create more space.

It's common sense.

But now Zhou Yi and his teammates are frequently falling in front of the opponent's 30-meter area, which is obviously not a very good sign.

Too many passes in front of the opposition penalty area can also lead to a huge risk of losing possession.

So what the Chinese team is doing now is not right and has a lot of risks.

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In fact, Zhou Yi himself knows that he may not have risen to the height of any theory, but playing and watching football since he was a child also made him understand that it is not a good thing to pass too many meaningless horizontal passes in front of the opponent's penalty area.

It is impossible for Manchester United's side to be like watching a play, allowing Chinese players to pass the ball back and forth to brush up on possession.

They're ready to break the ball.

But he really couldn't find any vacancy.

Manchester United's backline remains very intact, the players advance and retreat consistently, coupled with the close marking of He Ying, if you just force the football out, I am afraid that it is no different from letting the opponent break the ball.

Return?

Zhou Yi also tried to pass back, the effect is not very good, Manchester United youth team is not a fool, you can see what he wants to do, even if he keeps passing back to goalkeeper Sun Pan, it is not much use, as long as the Chinese team re-passes the football forward, Manchester United youth team's retreat will be very fast.

Perhaps it was the loss of the Chelsea youth team to the Chinese team, which attracted the attention of Manchester United, so the Manchester United youth team was not very light in this game, and there were naturally fewer loopholes for the Chinese teenagers to exploit. Coupled with the fact that they are now leading by one goal, they can naturally seek stability first.

The football was passed to He Ying's feet, and He Ying still couldn't break through with the ball, and he couldn't form any shooting opportunities.

When He Ying got the ball, Zhou Yi was still observing the situation on the field.

There is still no time, Zhang Tao can't run, he stands dead, He Ying can't run when he gets the ball, the position of this forward line is basically fixed, and the opponent's defender is also fixed, which is particularly easy to defend.

He Ying saw that he didn't have much chance to shoot or break through, so he first turned around and protected the football.

The football is protected, but it has also become a posture with its back to the attacking direction, and it is not easy to threaten the goal.

He saw Zhou Yi.

So he passed the football back to Zhou Yi.

Manchester United finally got tired of letting Chinese players pass around in front of them like this, and they decided to be more aggressive.

So a player from Manchester United's youth team rushed to Zhou Yi with the football, intending to break the ball directly and counterattack!

Football is rolling towards Zhou Yi, but Zhou Yi's eyes did not fall on football, even at this time, he did not give up and continue to look for vacancy.

He suddenly raised his eyes to the goal.

Since there's not much time for him to pass the ball, why can't he try his shot?

He noticed that the goalkeeper for Manchester United's youth team was standing a little to the left and a little forward.

He soon found a relatively large space near the far post of the goal.

If you can't find a gap between players on the ground, go to the sky and look for space in the goal!

You can take advantage of this vacancy!

Zhou Yi had an idea in his heart.

As the football rolled in front of him, the players of Manchester United's youth team rushed to the front.

Zhou Yi picked up his right leg facing the football, not stopping the ball, nor passing, but ...... Shoot straight with one kick!

The right ankle is skimmed outward, the instep of the inside foot is wrapped around the football, and the calf is pumped outward like a whip.

The ball flew up before the Manchester United youth team players blocked it and flew towards the far end of the goal!

Players on both sides at the edge of the penalty area are looking up at the ball at this time, and their necks are like radar, turning with the ball.

Anyone who sees this kick has a thought in their head - this ball must fly!

The soccer ball flies high and gives the feeling of "running for the corner flag and going".

The goalkeeper of Manchester United's youth team also had this idea in mind, and when he saw the football flying, he stood in front of the goal and did not move, but just turned his head, intending to watch the football fly off the bottom line.

Xu Yang off the field is also complaining: "This ball is easy to deal with in a hurry!"

He believes that Zhou Yi should not choose to shoot, this kind of non-stop direct shooting is too difficult, and the goal rate is also very low, this ball basically means that the Chinese team's attack is over, and the possession will return to the Manchester United youth team. As for what will happen next, it's hard to say......

Liang Qiqi snorted coldly in his heart: Give a little sunshine and it will be bright, and after a few assists, I think I can do anything! Hmph! I would lose to such a person!

But in front of everyone's eyes, the football suddenly turned in the air!

Then, the ball flew in at the junction of the goalpost and the crossbar, and crashed into the net!

The ball is in!