Now that it has been decided to make a difference in the Emperor's Cup, some changes have to be made to the training content of Imabari FC.

These days, Takeshi Okada has developed an up-to-date training plan, which focuses on defensive points and formation drills with low possession, as well as defensive counter-attacks, which are inevitable problems when facing strong teams.

When defending, Takeshi Okada's requirements are very simple, that is, he is required to move cleanly, do not stick the ball in the backcourt, dribble no more than five meters unnecessarily, clear the ball quickly, and counterattack quickly.

When attacking, Takeshi Okada asked Lin Hong to play to his speed advantage, especially when facing a central defender who turned slowly, he must boldly step forward, and he must insert it in the middle, he believes that Lin Hong's speed can be caught up by few in Japan. And the middle is the fastest way to reach the goal.

Of course, wide crosses also need to be practiced, but it is difficult for Narihiro Takei to play JFL games against defenders of professional teams, so his tactical significance has also changed from a fulcrum center to a wingman.

Takeshi Okada's real point of interest is the young, somewhat over-the-top twin stars of Hayashi Hong and Daisuke Yoshii, who is betting that they will be able to withstand the pressure and play a tactical role against professional teams.

The last and most important part of the training is of course set-pieces, which are also the most practical means for the weak team to deal with the strong team.

Lin Hong was still quite depressed, he changed the training content for several days in a row, and increased the amount of training, why didn't a new learning task be triggered?

Hey, it seems that there are still too few sheep around.

But fortunately, Lin Hong's previous learning tasks have been accumulated with experience, such as Toda Kazuyuki's version of football basic skills have now reached 80%, which is not much worse than Toda Kazuyuki himself.

Lin Hong's Bati Gol, who has fused many long-range shooting masters, is now 63% proficient, and the progress has been getting slower and slower these days, and it seems that it is time to grind again.

And there is no communication barrier in Japanese, as for English, there is no problem with oral conversation, and even Italian Lin Hong now has a 20% proficiency, which makes Mashki and Todd call Lin Hong a mediocre language genius.

The remaining long-term tasks are still not in a hurry, such as the task of becoming famous as soon as possible, Lin Hong has now calmed down after eating a wave of dividends on social media, even if he has four Weibo posts a day at his peak, he has not been able to cause much shock among netizens, it seems that after all, he still has to rely on his performance on the court to speak, and JFL is still too far away from Chinese fans.

And although the task of forming a team is still 1/5 of the progress, it is not that Lin Hong does not want to complete the task to win rewards, the main thing is that he is too poor now, how can a guy who can only rely on rubbing the club restaurant to eat can afford to raise a team.

Hey, am I taking the script of farming?

On April 13, Lin Hong accompanied the team to challenge Wan Laure, who ranked third in the league, which is also the strongest opponent Imabari FC has faced so far this season.

In the first half, the two sides played back and forth 1:1, and it was Shoo Fukuda who scored the equalizer for Imabari FC.

On the surface, the two sides seem to have offense and defense against each other, and they are inseparable, but only Imabari FC himself knows that this is not the case.

"You can also see the problems in defense through the game, when the midfield retreats, you should pay attention to the two flanks, and don't easily shrink to the middle.

In addition, when defending and counterattacking, it is still too sticky to the ball, remember, what I ask is to dribble the ball no more than five meters, and the ball must pass through the half after three passes......"

Takeshi Okada was not satisfied with the offensive and defensive ends of Imabari FC in the first half, and finally met a good Wan Laure, who had some practice value, but the first half did not have the expected effect of the drill, and Takeshi Okada would of course be dissatisfied.

After being trained for about ten minutes, seeing that the halftime was about to end, Takeshi Okada directly replaced Takei Chenghao, who did not perform well in the first half, and poor Takei Chenghao became the chicken who killed the chicken and set an example.

The beaten Imabari FC was really different in the second half, everyone's movement was more active and reasonable when defending, and when attacking, they paid attention to a quick and concise approach.

When the time came to the 60th minute of the second half, the score had become 1:3, and Lin Hong and Yoshii Daisuke each scored a goal to overtake the score.

Wan Laure's players and coaches don't know what happened, you must know that in the first half they still felt that they were five or five with Imabari FC, but why in the second half, Imabari FC easily handled Wan Laurel at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, like a change of team.

The players who have Wan Laure have found that many times the reason why they can push the ball into the front 30 meters of the opponent's penalty area is intentional by the Imabari FC players, and the truth of the matter is that really how it is.

In the 86th minute, Lin Hong wanted to shoot from outside the penalty area and was fouled, and central defender Ryoya Iizumi scored a header from a set-piece.

Imabari FC won 4-1 away from home, and what satisfied Takeshi Okada more than the three points was the team's performance in the second half, and at the same time, he was looking forward to this season.

However, the coaches of other JFL clubs who got the video of this game suddenly felt that the score of 4:1 covered up a lot of problems, and Imabari FC was not impossible to break, Wan Laure did a very good job on the offensive end today, and got many offensive opportunities, but they were not decisive enough in the end, and their luck was also poor, which gave Imabari FC the opportunity to pretend to be away from home.

No one would have dared to think that Takeshi Okada would lead Imabari FC to use the game to practice offense and defense, so it is not for nothing that they will be reduced to JFL as the head coach, and the strategic and tactical gap between the two sides is insurmountable.

Four days later, on April 17, the first match of the Emperor's Cup Ehime Prefecture Qualifying Tournament of the season officially began, and Imabari FC drew away lots, so they had to take a boat to Uwajima City, a city with a smaller population than Imabari.

Don't look at Uwajima with a population of just over 80,000, but there are 6 community clubs registered with the Japan Football Association, and this year's registration is the Uwajima Bullfighters, this strange name is because the club was founded by several professional bullfighters, and the bullfighting show is the most famous tourist project in Uwajima.

Of course, even if the Uwajima Matadors dominate the Uwajima Community League, they can't compare with regular clubs like Imabari FC, and the strength level of the two sides is not at the same level at all.

In this game, Takeshi Okada still brought the usual main lineup for the sake of conservatism, but half of the main team, including Lin Hong and Kazuyuki Toda, sat on the bench.

Among the six players from China, except for Lin Hong and Qi Hong, the other four started the game.

At the end of the first half, Imabari FC was already 4:0 ahead, and Lin Hong didn't think it was strange that he could complete a hat trick at half time by pretending to be a criminal, but the group of nymphos in the stands who were screaming in short skirts and ribbon colored balls came and Lin Hong couldn't figure it out, Cool in the grass, is this guy Yoshii taking Rukawa Kaede's script?

Lin Hong originally thought that he could score a few goals in the second half to earn some pocket money, but he did not play at the end of the game, and Imabari FC finally eliminated the matador 8:0.

Although he couldn't play, Lin Hong was still very happy, because his compatriot Zhang Beishan scored, and several other people also performed decently, and I think he also added some impression points to Takeshi Okada.

After the game, the whole team of Imabari FC immediately boarded the ship and went back, at this time, the other three qualifiers in Ehime Prefecture were also divided, and Imabari FC's biggest opponent, Matsuyama Banner, advanced with an exaggerated score of 11:1, and they did not meet in the next round, and there is a high probability that they will compete for this representative qualification in Ehime Prefecture together.

Imabari FC's next round opponent is Saijo Hayayashi, a club originally formed by lumberjacks. Like the Uwajima Matadors, this is also destined to be cannon fodder, as it is said that they are not as strong as the Matadors.

The day after returning to Imabari City, all training was carried out as usual, and the coaching staff did not give a half-day off for the next day of the match day.

In fact, no one had the face to say that they wanted to take this half-day off, because yesterday's race was so easy, even the most running Mashki had only run less than 6,000 meters.

In short, after Takeshi Okada announced the club's new goals for the season, all his requirements have been raised and the intensity of his training has been increased.

Some people would privately complain about this intensity, but Takeshi Okada's authority at the club was too great for anyone to openly object.

Lin Hong's side welcomes the increase in intensity, because every time he has a special training intensity in the primary training ground, the intensity is stronger than in reality, after all, his current sparring partners are all at the J2 level.

On April 20, Imabari FC ushered in the eighth round of the league with Kochi United at home, and in the face of Kochi United, who have not tasted a win so far in the season and only have two points, Imabari FC won 4:0 in the first half.

Lin Hong broke the deadlock for Imabari FC with a long-range shot in the 8th minute, and he also continued his red-hot form of scoring in every league game, although this record Lin Hong is now only in third place, ahead of him with 13 and 15 consecutive games (which is common in amateur leagues).

In the 58th minute of the second half, Lin Hong was brought down in the penalty area to win a penalty, although he wanted to get a goal bonus, but Lin Hong did not practice a penalty, and still gave the penalty to the team's first penalty shooter, Kazuyuki Toda.

Immediately afterwards, Lin Hong was substituted on the field for 60 minutes, and the score was already 6:0 at this time.

It's another game that doesn't sweat much, and the quality of the game these days is too average, just like playing a game in the water experience, Lin Hong feels more and more that JFL can't satisfy him anymore.

If he hadn't been able to play against the J2 team in the junior training ground every day, it would have been difficult for him to guarantee his rapid growth.

On April 25, Imabari FC arrived in Osaka, Japan's second-largest city, and tomorrow they will challenge Osaka Kamikaze, who is fifth in the standings.

Everyone is excited to be in Osaka this time, not because of the league, but because tomorrow's league game will be followed by a two-week international break, and national teams from all over the world will make good use of the two weeks to organize warm-up matches for the World Cup that will kick off in June.

Two days later, the Japanese national team will play a warm-up match against five-star Brazil in Osaka, Takeshi Okada got some relationship votes through the Japanese Football Association, and several players such as Lin Hong and Mashki have performed well recently, so Takeshi Okada rewarded several people with some tickets.

Lin Hong got two, and they were serialized, just enough for Todd to watch the game together.

Lin Hong didn't expect that the first time he entered the field to watch the game as a spectator, it turned out to be a performance of the Brazilian team, and it would be a lie to say in his heart that he was not excited, it was the Brazilian team.

Come on, take out the little day... The Japanese team had a good time.

Looking left and right at his teammates, Lin Hong thought to himself that it was good that he didn't shout out in the second middle school.