Chapter 43: Scouts from Chelsea
The team's main goalkeeper, Sebastian Militz, is practicing penalty tactics with his team-mates, and the Telecom Cup matches often drag on to penalty shootouts.
So they need to rehearse their penalties and defend them in advance so that they don't rush into action when the time comes.
In the face of an empty free kick, he always felt that something was missing, so Lin Quan went to bring in the team's substitute goalkeeper Wolf and asked him to help Zhen guard the goal.
Although Wolf is a second-goal, he can be a substitute for the Bundesliga team, and his strength is naturally not weak.
In the face of De Bruyne and Lin Quan's free throws, he made a high and low block, and almost all the shots of the two were confiscated.
"Kevin, your ball speed is not fast enough, the line is too easy to judge, if the goalkeeper is focused, it is difficult to pose a threat to the goal!"
Wolff saw that De Bruyne wanted to practice elevator ball, so he reminded:
"You've got to add some variety to the ball!"
De Bruyne crossed his hands on his hips and stared at the ball on the ground in thought.
Add some variation to the ball?
How?
The elevator ball has to control the spin and the ball has to be fast, which is difficult to kick out of itself.
Add a few more changes, and he feels a little unable to do it.
"Let me try?"
Lin Quan practiced the outside instep for a long time, but he never felt that it did not have the taste of Quaresma's outside instep, so he became interested in the elevator ball that De Bruyne practiced.
He doesn't know if Messi's arsenal has this kind of trick, it seems that Messi always likes to kick free kicks with arcs when he takes free kicks, and he has never seen an elevator ball himself.
De Bruyne nodded and gave up his seat.
Lin Quan stood at the penalty spot, took a deep breath, and thought about the actions of several elevator ball masters kicking the ball.
Cristiano Ronaldo, Andrea Pirlo, Juninho Jr......
He took a few steps back, ran quickly, and after spotting the spot, he slammed it up.
Wolf stood in front of the goal and didn't move, and of course there was no football in the goal.
So, where did football go?
At this time, a guy on the sidelines who was almost knocked out by a football said that he was very good!
"I'm sorry, I didn't hurt you!"
Lin Quan hurriedly ran to the sidelines and apologized to the other party.
The ball did not control the angle well, and the anti-aircraft gun was directly released, and the football flew out more than 50 meters before falling.
The other man rubbed his dizzy head and looked up at the perpetrator, as if to remember which bastard had kicked him.
Seeing the green jersey on Lin's whole body and the number 10 printed on it, the other party seemed to have thought of something.
"You're that winger for Werder Bremen?"
Lin Quan was a little surprised, he had only played an official game, and there were passers-by who knew him?
Wait a minute, this guy can't be a spy sent by Dortmund to spy on intelligence, right?
Probably only competitors will focus on the opponent's players, Lin Quan thought to himself.
'Introduce myself, my name is George Evans, I'm a scout, I'm from Chelsea, I've seen the footage of your game yesterday and you did great!'
"Thanks, Chelsea scouts, are you here to follow Kevin?"
When Lin Quan heard that the other party reported to his home, he suddenly realized.
Team-mate Kevin De Bruyne is a Chelsea player and Chelsea have spent £8 million to bring him in and will certainly be concerned about his loan move.
It's normal to send a scout over to follow and observe, but the scout in front of him is too young to look like he's in his early twenties.
At this age, he looks like a newcomer to scouting, and he doesn't have much say in the club.
Chelsea sent such a man to observe De Bruyne shows that they don't take De Bruyne very seriously.
"Sort of, but the team's forwards are collectively out of shape, so I'm tasked with scouting other teams' strikers from the outside!"
"And who are you looking at now?"
After Lin Quan heard this, he asked casually.
It's no secret that Chelsea are weak forwards.
When they spent £50 million to take away their dominant striker Fernando Torres from Liverpool, they fantasized that the Holy Infant would be able to score goals at Stamford Bridge.
Unexpectedly, he bought a 'big parallel import' for the 50 million pounds, and Torres struggled very much at Chelsea due to injuries and tactical discomfort.
In the past two seasons, he has only scored 10 goals for the team in 60 appearances for the team, and the scoring efficiency is outrageous!
Although Chelsea won the Champions League last season, they won defensively rather than offensively.
If they don't solve the team's attacking problems, their results will definitely plummet this season.
So, this summer, Chelsea waved cheques and searched the world for strikers.
They first spent €35 million to take Hazard from Lille and another €8 million to buy Marco Marin from Werder Bremen.
Then he spent 32 million euros to buy Oscar, the attacking midfielder of Internacional Brasil......
Chelsea have burned hundreds of millions of euros this summer and don't seem to be stopping.
The deep-pocketed Abou says he is not short of money and wants to find a big name for Chelsea, preferably one of the best strikers in football.
So there was the gossip that Chelsea had made an offer to Barcelona to buy Messi.
After all, last year, Manchester City was willing to pay 250 million pounds to buy Messi, and Barcelona did not release him, and with the grievances between Chelsea and Barcelona, Barcelona is even more unlikely to release him.
George glanced at Lin Quan: "Why are you inquiring about this?" ”
The team must not talk casually about buying people, and if this kind of thing is leaked in advance, it is easy to cause other teams to rush or raise the price.
"Don't talk about pulling down!"
Lin Quan was actually not very interested in inquiring and gossiping, but he knew that the other party definitely did not come to Werder Bremen to inspect the striker, after all, Werder Bremen's leading striker had been bought by the other party.
Therefore, he could only come to inspect the players from Borussia Dortmund's side.
Given Borussia Dortmund's results last season and the impact of Manchester United's purchase of Shinji Kagawa from Borussia Dortmund, it is normal for Chelsea to poach from Borussia Dortmund.
Just don't know who they fancied?
Will it be future top centre-forward Robert Lewandowski, or will it be Gotze, the heart of Dortmund's midfield?
Considering Chelsea's pool of players up front and in midfield, it is more likely that they will want to buy Robert Lewandowski.
None of this has anything to do with him, Chelsea can't afford to pay for him anyway, and even if they do, he doesn't want to play at Chelsea.
The fierce physical confrontation of the Premier League is too unfriendly for young players.
Before you get the talent of injury immunity, it's better to stay honestly in a place like the Bundesliga that is suitable for demon leveling.
Holding the football, Lin Quan returned to the pitch and continued to discuss the trick of elevator ball with De Bruyne.
Lin Quan has a wealth of theoretical knowledge, but his strength is slightly insufficient.
De Bruyne, on the other hand, is strong enough and lacks theoretical knowledge.
Theoretical knowledge is easy to learn, but it is not so easy to improve strength.
So Lin Quan told De Bruyne about the theoretical knowledge of kicking elevator ball that he understood, and instructed him to practice elevator ball.
If De Bruyne can practice this stunt, the team will have one more option in the future when it comes to free-kicks.
……
The morning training lasted only an hour and a half, and after lunch at noon, the team began to practice tactics.
At half past five in the afternoon, the players took a bus to Dortmund's home stadium, the Westphalia Stadium, to acclimatize to the venue and warm up before the game.
At the same time, the players from Dortmund's side also set off on the bus, and the two teams met unexpectedly at the entrance of the stadium.
The final of the Telecom Cup is about to start!