Chapter 57: Tacit Understanding

Ten minutes passed, with China having two shots on goal and Chelsea completing one. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Most of the time, football is going back and forth in the midfield, and most of them are controlled by the Chinese team. It's just a youth game, so there isn't a lot of high-tech equipment on the sidelines to do a technical analysis of the players on both sides, otherwise you can see that the Chinese team has surpassed the Chelsea youth team in terms of possession!

This is a welcome statistic.

But Zhou Yi will not be happy about this.

Because he cares more about scoring goals, after all, he is a striker, and even the importance of scoring goals - so many passes and runs before, isn't it just for the last shot?

What's the point of just passing around if you can't shoot and score?

Just like in the first half with the Arsenal youth team, he took the whole team around, the scene was good, he didn't concede a goal, and he played 0:0 at half-time, but it didn't work. In the end, it was Arsenal who scored seven goals in one breath in the second half, and the blood flowed.

From that game, Zhou Yi knew very well that the advantage on the field was meaningless if it could not be translated into goals.

The ultimate goal of both cross-pass and backhaul is to move forward.

There have to be goals, there has to be progress!

But how do you move forward?

Forward, must move forward.

It's just a sentence, it's easy to say, even the fans will shout at the players who only know how to fall in the middle and back when they watch the game: "Don't keep passing in the back, go forward, pass the ball forward!"

They waved their arms and yelled, just like the manager on the sidelines.

But how to move forward?

Kicking the big foot forward is also passing the football forward, which is too inefficient and useless, and for people who really want to pursue goals, they will not choose this way rashly.

Passing through the ground, advancing layer by layer?

Very good, the idea is almost right, but how to advance layer by layer, this is not an onion, you can see the core by peeling layer by layer.

That's when a player, or a team, is tested.

However, for Zhou Yi, this does not seem to be too much of a problem.

He's played against the Chelsea youth team more than 20 times in the virtual system, almost 30 times, and he's familiar with the team.

At the same time, he and his teammates have also cooperated hundreds of times in the virtual system, and he is more familiar with his teammates.

He knows how to get the ball up.

The difficult thing is the last pass, how can we tear apart the Chelsea defence and hit the nail on the head?

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Through back-and-forth and running with his team-mates, Zhou Yi led the team to the 30-metre zone of the Chelsea youth team, where they were subsequently blocked by the Chelsea youth team.

Now it's time to test the last pass.

But the test is not only Zhou Yi's passing ability, but also the ability of his teammates who cooperate with him.

If everyone stands in their position and doesn't move, then Zhou Yi will only be strong by himself.

It is necessary to run for the openings and opportunities to appear.

Naturally, the opponent also wants the Chinese players to stand still, so that their defense will be too easy.

Zhou Yi received and passed the ball in the midfield, and at the same time, he took advantage of the time when the football was not under his feet, kept turning his head to observe the situation, and through the scanning of his eyes, he generated a floor plan of the position relationship between the players on both sides that he saw.

Through this floor plan, you can see that Zhang Tao and He Ying, the forwards of the ******** team, each have a Chelsea centre-back to follow, standing behind them, not letting them turn around.

Meanwhile, on the wings, the two Chelsea youth full-backs were also stuck in key places, preventing the Chinese wide players from cutting in at will.

Usually at this time, the players who organize the attack will focus on the wings, and if they go on the wings, there will be crosses.

But Zhou Yi didn't do that, because he knew the two strikers in his team.

Zhang Tao's height is good, and his header should be good, but his sense of position is too poor, and once he can't bargain in terms of physical fitness, he basically can't grab points in front of the goal.

He Ying's consciousness is good, but ...... His heading ability is average, not bad, but it's not the way he is good at scoring. Whether it is in the virtual system or in reality, Zhou Yi rarely sees He Ying use the ball with his head on the court, whether it is attacking or passing. Although he is 1.8 meters tall, He Ying is not an air tyrant.

Therefore, if you cross from the side, it is basically equivalent to giving possession to the opponent.

Zhou Yi still chooses the middle lane, although there are few opportunities in the middle, but once he has a chance to qualify, he can kill with one blow.

In the middle, there are two forwards, Zhang Tao and He Ying.

For Zhang Tao and He Ying, Zhou Yi no longer needs to observe to know what it is like for them to play, because they have cooperated too many times in the world of FIFAOL3.

Zhang Tao has a rigid thinking in playing football and doesn't run much, especially when he is in a positional battle, he won't move in the main position, he only knows how to lean on the opponent's defender and raise his hand to ask for the ball. He can't turn around and give him the ball, either he will be cut off by the opponent or pass the ball back.

It's a completely pointless and efficient pass, a waste of time.

And He Ying is better at running, and his running position is more flexible, he will rarely stay in one place, as if the place where he stands is the three-second zone in basketball, he will rarely stand still in a fixed place for more than three seconds.

Zhou Yi likes to cooperate with people like He Ying, because in this way he can create opportunities, and he can play comfortably.

So without thinking about it, Zhou Yi regarded He Ying as his passing target.

But it's just such a simple pass, and that's not going to work.

Be cautious with your pass in this position, and if you miss it, it will end the attack.

Passing in this position is also about taking risks, as chances don't come in bland and purposeless passes, and it takes a bit of ...... Imagination.

Tacit understanding is also required.

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When Zhou Yi received the ball from his teammates again, He Ying, who was originally standing at the front of the penalty area with his back to the goal, suddenly turned around and wanted to insert it in front of the goal.

Behind him, the Chelsea youth defenders also turned to follow, denying him a chance to get the ball.

Seeing He Ying turn around and run into the penalty area like this, he also took away the defenders who were defending him, so there was a small space where the two of them were standing.

Zhou Yi suddenly had an inspiration in his mind, he picked up his foot and passed the football out, like a golf ball was about to reach the hole, a putt, and the ball rolled steadily forward on the turf according to the preset trajectory.

But it was not passed to He Ying, or it was not directly passed to He Ying's feet, but to He Ying's back—the side that was completely opposite to He Ying's turn!

It's in that small space!

It is correct to pass the ball to the empty field, but if no one can see or run to the empty space, the ball is considered a bad pass.

When Zhou Yi passed the ball, Zhang Tao stood still and didn't move, and when he saw the football rolling towards the vacancy, he realized that it was an vacancy, but it was too late to run.

At this time, He Ying, who was originally turning around and inserting into the forbidden area, suddenly made a sudden stop and turned around at the same time!

He spun back again!

Just like that, he brushed shoulders with the centre-backs who defended him, one to the left and the other to the right.

In fact, the first time he turned around, he made up his mind to turn back, he was just a fake run to take away the defender, and only then could he create an opening.

But the void was created, and he didn't know if anyone could see it and use it.

So He Ying, who turned back, turned his head to look at Zhou Yi, and he saw the football

He Ying, who turned back, did not stop, but ran straight to the empty space that he pulled out, and at the same time, Zhou Yi's pass just arrived!

The timing was just right!

He Ying didn't pause after receiving Zhou Yi's pass, but wiped it into the penalty area - he was going to go here, but this time he changed directions.

But it was this change that allowed him to shake off the Chelsea youth defenders. When the defender turned back, he was already blocked by He Ying.

Then facing the goalkeeper, He Ying calmly chose to shoot, and the football went around the attacking goalkeeper and hit the net behind him!

The ball is in!

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"Good shot!!" There was a burst of cheers on the coach's bench and bench of the Chinese team at the same time.

This time, they were nowhere near as surprised as they were when China scored the first goal for Borussia Dortmund's youth team.

Blasting out the goals of these European giants' youth teams...... We can do it too, it's nothing incredible.

They are happy now not because the team scored against the big youth team, but because they are ahead!

After the goal, He Ying waved his fist and ran to the coach's box, and the other players also ran over, and a group of people gathered in front of the coach's seat from all directions and hugged each other.

Zhou Yi was also among them, he was hugged by Yang Muge and Sun Pan, laughing and screaming, very happy.

That's the beauty of football, accomplishing a task with your mates.

This is also the charm of team sports, and the sense of accomplishment of coordinating different people to work together to accomplish something is overflowing!

Everyone is an individual with their own thoughts, and when these ideas collide and are not the same, there may be contradictions, and the fierce contradictions may cause the team to fall apart.

How can we unite these people with very different personalities and different ideas, twist them into a rope, and work hard to accomplish one thing?

It's not just a coach's thing, it's a player's thing.

At the moment of cooperation, although it was not Zhou Yi who scored the goal, Zhou Yi had a feeling of no less pleasure than scoring a goal.

The feeling of having everything under his own control made Zhou Yi feel that it was good not to play as a striker and to play as a midfielder. ※※※PS, two things.