Chapter 138: A Worldwide Problem: How to Limit Lin Quan!
Inside El Salvador's Nueva Water Stadium, defending champions Spain and Costa Rica are playing match.
In this game, Costa Rica played very cautiously, and they lined up a 541 formation.
This choice can be said to be quite wise, as Spain are currently the team with the most attacking firepower in this World Cup.
They have scored a total of 16 goals in their last four matches, an average of four goals per game.
In the face of a team with such strong offensive firepower, if you don't stand on defense and play against them, you really don't even know how to die.
After the start of the game, Spain did not rush to attack.
Rather, it was through patient passing and cooperation to test Costa Rica's defensive weaknesses.
Most of Costa Rica's players play in their home league, and the level of the league is not very high, so their individual ability is definitely not as good as that of Spanish players.
There is a good way to deal with a backline of this level, and that is to speed up!
The main reason why the big five leagues are higher than other leagues is that the big five leagues have a lot of stars and a high level of technical and tactical skills, which allows them to increase the pace of the game quickly.
In the lower leagues, the pace of the game is generally slower because of the individual strength of the players.
Limited by fitness, passing skills and awareness, and vision make it difficult for players in the lower leagues to play fast-paced games, and once the tempo is raised, their turnover rate increases dramatically.
This can be seen in the annual Club World Cup, where Europe's top clubs meet champions from other continents.
Evergrande, which won the AFC Champions League, couldn't adapt to the rhythm of the opponent's game when facing Bayern in the Club World Cup.
And Evergrande is able to defeat the champion of Central America!
These weaknesses have been studied and summarized by the Spanish coaching staff before the game.
The Spanish players are well aware of their strengths and weaknesses, so they plan to play on their strengths and avoid their weaknesses.
In this game, Lin Quan finally felt the treatment of a superstar.
Of course, not a good thing.
The Costa Rican players named him the number one threat in the Spanish squad and were manned throughout the game.
Once he has the ball, he immediately arranges for multiple people to pack and press, and even uses fouls to deal with him.
Only 20 minutes into the first half, Lin Quan had already made three yellow cards.
The referee of this match, Ilmatov, is from Uzbekistan and is a referee who likes to control the field.
In the games he administered, it was rare for the game to get out of control.
Often, when the game shows the slightest sign of this, he will take action to kill it.
Before the start of this game, he guessed that the Costa Rican players might use foul tactics against Lin Quan.
It's not that this tactic can't be used, but if you do, you will have to bear the price.
Otherwise, the opponent's continued use of this foul tactic will definitely lead to the anger of the violated players, and in the end, the game will get out of control, and the two sides will fight on the field, which will be very bad.
And he gave three yellow cards in a row, which also calmed down the Costa Rican players a lot.
In the subsequent game, they didn't dare to foul easily, which made Lin Quan's room for activity a lot bigger.
In the 21st minute, Spain played a quick counterattack, Lin Quan took the ball to attract the attention of the opposing defenders, looked at the center of the court, but passed the ball to David Silva on the side with his heel.
The pass was so hidden that the Costa Rican full-back couldn't get his hands on David Silva in the first place, giving him a chance to dribble down and make a cross.
In order to avoid the ball being intercepted in the middle of the flight, David Silva's pass was more powerful.
Torres was a little slower to start and his outstretched foot failed to touch the ball, and Costa Rican goalkeeper Keylor Navas made a mistake and couldn't get his hands on the ball.
Unfortunately, there was no second Spanish player at the back post, which caused the ball to slide past without touching it.
On the sidelines, Spain's head coach Bosque stood up and gave his players a round of applause.
The attack failed to score, but it did create a threat.
And the most important thing is that Lin Quan's state has recovered!
In the 25th minute, Spain attacked again.
This time, they switched direction and attacked from the right.
Lin Quan drove forward with the ball while observing the position of the opposing defender.
Seeing that Lin Quan's attention was not on the football, the opposing fullback thought that there was an opportunity to take advantage of it, and suddenly stretched out his foot to grab the ball.
However, after his foot was extended, the other foot kicked the ball away at a faster pace.
Gamboa was dumbfounded!
Didn't he watch the ball?
Why is the reaction so fast?
No, it can't be a pure reaction!
Could it be that he deliberately pretended not to watch the ball and lured himself to stretch out his feet to intercept this trap?
The more he thought about it, the more he felt that this possibility was very high, but even if he figured it out at this time, it was useless.
Lin Quan had already completed the breakthrough against him, leaving the right side and cutting towards the penalty area.
Seeing that Gamboa was passed, the Costa Rican defenders retreated across the line, and their central midfielder Borges rushed towards Lin Quan as soon as possible.
He planned to stop Lin Quan, and if he really couldn't stop him, then use foul tactics to stop him.
When his teammates fouled Lin Quan and ate cards before, Borges was lucky to escape.
This results in him not being saddled with a yellow card at this point, so there is some room for error.
Lin Quan noticed Borges leaning over, but he didn't stop moving forward with the ball, nor did he pass the ball out at the first time.
Teammates have not been able to run out of space, and passing the ball out at this time will most likely fall into a positional battle, losing the suddenness of a quick attack.
As for the regrouping of the attack, Costa Rica's defenders are all in place, and it will not be easy to tear apart their defence.
Therefore, the best option is for him to continue to dribble the ball, take a distance, attract the attention of more defenders and intercept before passing.
At that time, there will be more Spanish players up front, and he will have a lot more options to play the ball.
Borges was overjoyed when he saw that Lin Quan didn't pass the ball at the first time, and unceremoniously bumped into Lin Quan.
In his opinion, he is half a head taller than Lin Quan, and he didn't easily knock the other party down this time?
However, what surprised him was that Lin Quan was like a small tank, and he didn't knock it down after hitting it.
Instead, he was knocked back a few steps and sat on the ground with his ass!
Borges was shocked in his heart, extremely surprised that he had failed in the physical confrontation!
Not to mention him, the fans at the scene, including the coaches of the two teams, were also very surprised when they saw this result.
After Lin Quan passed Borges, he was confronted by the two of them.
At this time, he did not continue to stick to the ball, but decisively passed the ball out.
Andres Iniesta received a pass from Lin Quan, and he took advantage of the situation to smash into the box and finish with a high-quality shot.
It's a pity that Navas continued his excellent performance in the previous game and made a difficult save to save Iniesta's shot!
Seeing that Iniesta's shot was saved, Lin Quan couldn't help but glance at Navas in front of the goal.
This guy's strength is really a bit strong, he wants to applaud the other party when he pounces on the ball!
Iniesta couldn't help but shake his head, he had already played a decisive goal, and the quality was good, if there was a different goalkeeper, maybe it would have gone in.
But the opponent is the best goalkeeper in La Liga, and this level of shooting, it doesn't seem like enough!
Although the Spanish fans at the scene were sorry for Iniesta's goal, they were still very happy that the team played a series of dangerous attacks in a short period of time.
The fans who can come to Brazil to watch the game are basically die-hard fans of the Spanish national team.
They've watched a lot of international games, so they're very confident about the quality of their team.
As long as Spain play their form and continue this momentum, it is only a matter of time before they score.
Compared with the fact that Iniesta's shot was saved, the fans who watched the game on the spot and on the Internet were more concerned about the funny and funny thing that Borges wanted to hit Lin Quan but knocked himself down!
"Haha, No. 5 in Costa Rica, this is trying to touch the porcelain forest emperor!"
"It's a pity, I failed to touch the porcelain!"
"Not only did he fail, but he was also embarrassed in front of the whole world, if I were him, I would want to find a crack in the field now!"
"Haha, don't say it, I can feel the feeling of him embarrassingly wanting to use his toes to deduct the three-bedroom apartment on the court!"
"Emperor Lin's small body looks inconspicuous, I didn't expect it to be able to carry it!"
"Hehe, Fulham's defender Richardson wanted to touch Emperor Lin, so he was educated by Emperor Lin, don't look at Emperor Lin's shortness, this physical confrontation ability is not bad at all!"
"I checked, Lin Huang's weight seems to have reached 74 kilograms, one kilogram heavier than Borges on the opposite side, plus he is short in height and has a low center of gravity, the two collide, Lin Huang really won't necessarily suffer!"
"Emperor Lin is 173, this height is not short, is it?"
"Normal people's height, right? It's still a shame to be taller than Messi! ”
"Hehe, if you compare the height, a certain player who likes to tiptoe in pictures has something to say!"
"Comparing the height of Ronaldo and Messi Lin Huang together, it's too bullying!"
"That is, what kind of hero is a hero compared to height, and if we have the ability, we can score goals compared to each other, such as a goal in the World Cup?"
"Cold knowledge, Messi has participated in a total of 3 World Cups, and so far, Messi's total World Cup goals are 5!"
"Cristiano Ronaldo has also played in 3 World Cups, and the current total number of goals is 4!"
"The point is that Lin Huang has only participated in this World Cup, and the current total number of goals is 6, and he is also the top scorer of this World Cup.
It's not better than not knowing, it's more frightening.
Fans know that Lin Quan has performed very well in this World Cup, scoring many goals.
But because Lin Quan has also scored a lot of goals in the league and the Champions League, many people don't know what these goals mean.
And when some fans listed the results of Messi and Ronaldo's three World Cups, they realized how terrifying Lin Quan's data of 6 goals in these 4 games was!
"This game is not over yet, Lin Huang can't still score, if he scores another goal, he will be able to get rid of J Ronaldo and dominate the top scorer list!"
"Hey, is Emperor Lin so fierce? I've always known he's great, but I feel like he's even better than I thought! ”
"Yes, I feel the same way, but why?"
"Why? It's not because Lin Huang is relatively young, he hasn't appeared in the professional arena for a long time, and the number of fans he has accumulated is not enough, so everyone subconsciously thinks that Messi and Ronaldo are more powerful! ”
"Well, it makes sense, it may also have something to do with Lin Huang's league and team!"
"After all, Messi and Ronaldo are both in La Liga, and Real Madrid and Barcelona are also the top teams in the world, and the topic brought by the collision between them is naturally much higher than that of Lin Huang in Manchester City, so not only fans pay more attention to the two of Melo, but even the news media prefer to report the collision between the two!"
This is probably the most convincing explanation, and fans agree with this reason.
"Then through this World Cup, let those guys who ignore Lin Huang take a good look and see how far Lin Huang has grown!"
"Rush, Emperor Lin!"
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Borges was indeed embarrassed, and when he was pulled up by his teammates, he couldn't help but explain:
"Just now my foot slipped and I didn't stand firm, it won't be like this next time!"
The teammate glanced at him with some suspicion, I don't blame you, why are you so excited to explain?
Borges failed to recognise his mistake, but Costa Rica coach Pinto saw it on the sidelines:
"The physical confrontation ability of the Spanish No. 30 seems to be stronger than we imagined!"
I thought that the other party was short, and he belonged to the type of person who was flexible in his feet and weak in physical confrontation.
That's why he arranged a strangulation tactic for Lin Quan!
Judging by the results of the first 20 minutes, this tactic seems to have had some effect.
However, the incident of Borges being knocked down by Lin Quan just now told him that it seems that the effect is not exactly the strangulation tactics of physical confrontation, but the strangulation tactics with foul tactics.
If there aren't enough fouls, it's still hard to limit him.
But the problem is that three of the players on the pitch have already been saddled with yellow cards.
If he had continued to enforce foul tactics, Ilmatov's law enforcement habits would have condoned Costa Rica's fouls.
By then, before the game is over, they may have to be sent off several people!
Therefore, this method does not work, and other methods have to be reconsidered.
It's just that the coaches of so many top clubs in Europe can't come up with countermeasures, so he can come up with a solution in a short time, which is too embarrassing.
So, the end result is no solution!
Costa Rica can't limit Lin Quan!
Thank you for your concern, report on the current situation in the hospital, my mother's condition has been relieved after being admitted to the hospital, the current state is relatively stable, the doctor will arrange for coronary angiography tomorrow to determine the blockage of the heart vessels, and then consider whether to do a stent or a bypass.
This chapter is in the hospital with a mobile phone code.,Mobile phone typing is a little unaccustomed.,Write very slowly.,I don't know if tomorrow's update can be written.,The update during this time may be very unstable.,Please bear with me.,Thank you!
PS: If you find a typo, please help correct it, I wrote it in a hurry, and I didn't have time to check it.
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