Football should be played like me

Chapter 147 Defense is important, but defense is worthless
As soon as the second half started, the little Kante noticed something was wrong.

Because the 1.8-meter-five guy across from him actually fucked him!

Whether with the ball or without the ball, Lu Yang is looking for Kante to line up and try to make physical contact.

Kante began to deliberately avoid Lu Yang.

But Morici's running was always in the area where Lu Yang was, and Kant couldn't do anything if he didn't want to touch Lu Yang.

On the other hand, Lu Yang actually felt a little emotional in his heart.

This little man's physical resistance is actually very strong!
It is also the essence of human height.

The 1.7-meter-four Morici Lu Yang can knock him over casually.

But this 1.6-meter-eight Kante is as hard as a small soy bean, man!

This familiar process was not a good experience for both parties.

Kante and Lu Yang were both very uncomfortable.

boom!
It was another physical contact, but Kant suddenly turned and changed direction, taking Lu Yang as the axis, and slipped away from Lu Yang.

Because of the blind spot caused by Lu Yang's body, Moric wasn't fully prepared, so when he saw Kant rushing over, his reaction was already a step slower.

boom!
Kant shoveled the ball head-on, successfully shoveled the football away from Morici's feet, and got up and dribbled the ball forward in the first place.

Moric made a serious mistake!

Lu Yang retreated quickly, cutting off Kante's passing route.

Kante's dribbling is not terrible, and his passing is hard to describe.

Boe interspersed and ran in time at this time, trying to catch Kante, or wanting to take the ball to launch an attack.

But Lu Yang firmly stuck Boai, and let Boai feel the joy of a plate of Kant.

The other players in Nice ran one after another, all of them were extremely excited, for fear that their position was not good enough and Kant's pass would not be in place.

If you want to receive a pass from Kante, it is best that there are no defensive players within ten meters of you, otherwise Kante is likely to pass the football directly to the opponent's feet.

In this way, under the pursuit of Moric and the blockade of Lu Yang, Kante dribbled the ball all the way to the offensive third area and appeared outside the penalty area on the left side of San Remo.

This is a very good chance to cross.

Kante's professionalism told him he should have crossed.

His teammates also swarmed into the San Remo penalty area, ready to head the ball.

boom!
Kant kicked.

No one can stand in his way.

Although he is not a left-footed player, his left foot is not a crippled foot, and the accuracy of left-footed crosses without defense is still good...

In the restricted area.

Areola stared at the football in mid-air, ready to attack and knock it down at any time.

A goalkeeper who is confident in his height, jumping and landing point judgment will perform this kind of very dominant clearance.

However, the next moment, Areola quickly moved to the goal line, flew forward, and shot the football.

But there was no excitement on his face. Instead, he pursed his lips and looked at Kante who was passing the ball rather speechlessly.

He was one step too late.

He fished out the football in mid-air!
The football crossed the goal line by nearly half a meter. This is an undisputed goal.

really!

The referee blows his whistle to indicate that the goal is valid.

But both the Nice fans and the on-site commentary were a little dazed.

The camera locked on the goal scorer Kant, the little black man was also confused, and then a shy smile appeared on his face.

Lu Yang and Morici glanced at each other, and they both had expressions of "Tesco".

Is this possible?

This is so obvious that it is a cross, and the little guy can kick it to such an extent?
This is no one anymore!

You shouldn't be called Kante, you should be called Sane!

After more than ten seconds, the commentator reacted: "Wow! Kante scored a goal! This is a very strange goal, because if our judgment is correct, it should be a pass. of."

"Kante himself was very embarrassed. He didn't celebrate. He didn't know whether he should wave his hand to his teammates to say sorry, or his teammates should give him a thumbs up and say hello."

"San Remo's conceded the ball is a bit wronged."

"If you have to say that someone didn't do a good job, maybe Lu Yang, who chose to cut off the passing route between Kante and Boe, and didn't press Kante's kick in the first place, has a certain responsibility."

"Of course, this pot is very reluctant."

The Nice players then celebrated enthusiastically.

No one is ashamed to celebrate this kind of goal too much, after all, everyone has a heart of shame.

And Morici walked towards Lu Yang, his eyes full of suspicion: "Are you sure the method you said is effective? If this buddy gets another one, it may be really difficult for us to win this game."

Lu Yang said speechlessly: "How lucky do you think he is for this goal? I think the full score is the amount of luck for his goal. This is too outrageous, outrageous enough to prove my previous judgment, right? ?”

Morici also felt very painful, nodded and said: "Okay, then, I will hand him over to you."

The game restarts.

The leading Nice did not show more confidence on the offensive end.

Tell the truth.

Kant's goal made the whole Nice very embarrassed.

This kind of passing goal makes it easier for people to think that Nice is a rookie with a good fortune.

Even they were a little afraid to face the eyes of the San Remo players.

San Remo players: Come on, you have the ability to shoot. Anyway, your shooting is not as threatening to the goal as passing the ball!
Nice player: Brother, if I don’t shoot, don’t mock us, okay?

For a while, on the contrary, San Remo, who was put into a "lucky ball", showed more strength.

The momentum of the team is a very mysterious existence.

Sometimes it's the weaker side, but the momentum always makes people feel that they will win, they will score goals.

Lu Yang pushed the ball from the backcourt to the frontcourt. He took the initiative to find Kante and used a dribbling trap.

However, Kante saw through Lu Yang's trap very insidiously, and set up a defensive trap with all his plans.

Kante had mental calculations but didn't care, and made continuous feints to grab, retreat, and grab.

He actually snatched the football from Lu Yang's feet.

But Lu Yang is not someone who has never conceded the ball.

Boss Mei has to lose the ball more than 20 times in a game. It is common for Lu Yang to lose the ball since he moved forward.

Lu Yang's strength is not not in not conceding the ball, but in his counterattack after conceding the ball. Don't forget his running ability and defensive ability.

Lu Yang chased Kante all the way, but kept a certain distance.

Most people can't understand Lu Yang's intentions, but Kante's head is already sweating.

too strong!
Kante kept feeling in his heart that Lu Yang was simply an aniseed spider!
Completely covered all his ball routes!
all!
Kante's dribbling is beyond the sideline, because the sideline is under much less defensive pressure.

Dribbling the ball in the middle will be under various defensive pressures.

A normal midfielder can actually handle the pressure.

But Kanter doesn't have it.

It's not that his vision is poor, and he has no time to take into account the enemies in many aspects.

It's that his passing ability is too poor, and his passing ability is even weaker if he doesn't adjust it. He can't play the ball at all when he is attacked from the back.

Everyone saw the goal before, and it was still his adjusted cross without defense.

If this is not adjusted, it is really difficult to predict where the football will fly.

And close to the sideline, you only need to deal with the defender on one side, which will be much easier.

But Kant did not expect that the appearance of Lu Yang turned his right choice of approaching the sideline into a dead end.

"Pass the ball, Kante!"

"Enge! This way!"

"In the middle, there are people in the middle!"

"I'm right behind you, Kant!"

"Straight plug, straight plug in front!"

The teammates around Kante yelled at him through Lu Yang.

But Engels still could only dribble the ball head-on, not pass at all.

He didn't even look up at his teammates.

Kante's teammates couldn't understand Kante's behavior at all, because in their view, Lu Yang followed Kante, why didn't Kante pass?
Can one player kill another player?

Anyone who has played football knows that this is almost impossible!
but……

Kante's teammates had no idea what Kante was going through at this moment.

There is a route for the ball ahead, a good opportunity, etc... Lu Yang was about to speed up, he saw the open space!Passing the ball now, the probability of being intercepted by him is as high as 90.00%!

What about the pick pass in the middle?The teammate's position is very good... No, no, no, this is sending the ball to Lu Yang. He just ran away from me by one meter, and he saw his side and rear?

Behind, behind should be... no!Lu Yang's quick stop and quick start skills are better than mine, the few shifts just now didn't shake him at all, my pass couldn't get out!
Kane's forehead was sweating urgently, but there was nothing he could do.

Because he knows that Lu Yang, like him and Morici, is a player with a strong talent in vision!
This is the sense of identity among geniuses.

An excellent offensive player needs to have many qualities, but one quality is particularly outstanding, and they can be very strong even if other qualities are lacking, such as a player like Bajzami.

Unlike defensive players, defensive players have a hard target.

It's not height and weight, nor is it frontal stealing ability, but... vision!
Top defensive players are definitely vision masters!
This probability is easier than finding vision masters from top midfielders, because some top midfielders really don't have good vision.

Therefore, Lu Yang can also see all the ball routes that Kante saw, and personally implemented a "defensive cover" on Kante!
Of course, this is also related to Kante's poor personal passing ability.

For Kant, passing the ball over ten meters is extremely difficult. If it exceeds 20 meters, it is not in his "precision passing" range, and even if it is passed, it will be very biased.

Therefore, Kante's passing options are extremely small.

If it was Moric, even if he was surrounded by Lu Yang, he could easily pass the football, even without hindering the team's offensive momentum.

Because Moric's passing radius is more than 30 meters, if the position is right, it can basically cover the entire stadium without dead ends.

But Kante experienced all this, only him, Lu Yang, and Morici who was swimming beside him to fill in some defensive loopholes that Lu Yang couldn't control.

The two vision gods jointly blocked the other vision god.

At this moment, Kante Ningyuan himself did not steal Lu Yang's ball.

Now this football is just a hot potato.

boom!
Finally, during Kante's hesitation, Lu Yang let go!
Kante's dribbling is also not outstanding.

A clean tackle and keep the ball!

Not only completed the steal, but also allowed Lu Yang to gain control of the football in the first place.

boom!
Lu Yang almost made the movements of getting up and raising his feet at the same time.

The football flew to Nice's backcourt in an instant like a shell.

Totti's spoon pass!
Nice is fighting a counterattack. In order to meet Kante, the teammates in the backcourt are all rushing forward, and some people are coming towards Lu Yang and Kante.

As a result, a huge loophole was exposed instead.

Sogel is used to it very well, and he is not in the offside area. After Lu Yang's pass came out, his speed increased instantly.

Also big and tall, he is more or less faster than Nice's central defender.

A big center like Sogel even relies on speed to overwhelm his opponents and hold the ball single-handedly.

This is simply a textbook counterattack.

Sogel controlled the football three meters away from the penalty area and continued to dribble for two steps.

The Nice goalkeeper didn't have the confidence to attack before, and now it seems too late to attack. Looking forward and backward, it is impossible to prevent Sogel's high-precision push.

One to one!

San Remo chased back within 5 minutes of conceding the goal and equalized the score!

"GOAL! Sogel scored a single-handed goal! He scored the first goal for Sanremo in the Europa League journey of this team, which will be recorded in the history of Sanremo forever!"

"Lu Yang's pass is so ingenious, the position puts the Nice goalkeeper in a dilemma, it's hard to believe that this is his fast pass! At this moment, Luyang Moric has possessed him!"

"Of course, the most exciting part of this ball actually happened before Lu Yang passed the ball!"

"After Lu Yang was intercepted by Kante, he never gave up and chased him back. Not only did he get the ball back, but he also completed an assist! This kind of spirit is the most important reason why the Miracle of San Remo can go to today!"

The fans of the team who went from San Remo to Nice to watch the game began to celebrate wildly!
They were few in number, but louder than the Nice fans had been celebrating a few minutes earlier.

At this time, the Nice fans regretted it. If I knew today, why bother?

They should have celebrated 5 minutes ago.

Hemp egg!

So what if the goal is passed?

A goal is a goal!

It's all Kante's fault, you're celebrating the goal!
What's with your embarrassed look?

Look at Lin Huang, no matter how he scored the goal, he just said one word, hi!

If you are like this, why are we so passive now?
The fans secretly scolded Kant in their hearts.

At the same time, several players of the Nice team also ran towards Kant.

"Dude? What about you? Are you so lonely?"

"Hey, what's wrong with you? Can you pass the ball?"

"What the hell are you going to do? Can I play football all by myself?"

"Kante, your handling of this ball is really bad!"

"Brother, will you let us know if we have the zero seal award?"

A bunch of people accused Kant, and even Kant's good friend Boey chose to remain silent at this time.

Lu Yang watched coldly from the sidelines, feeling a little sorry for Kante.

This is the biggest tragedy of team players and defensive players.

Their value has not been realized by the team and teammates.

Kante's current situation is not an exception, but a general situation.

I think Real Madrid provided more than five superstars in the team with annual salary contracts of more than 600 million euros.

And their defensive hub Makelele's annual salary is only 120 million euros.

Later, Makelele asked for a salary increase, but Real Madrid refused. After Makelele left, the first phase of the Galacticos collapsed instantly!
This is the true portrayal of defensive non-star players.

Kante's poor passing and average dribbling make him very ordinary among midfielders who like to be technically high or low.Neither he nor his teammates think he is an excellent midfielder.

At the same time, although Kante's personal defensive data is excellent, it has not reached the level of Tihua's show.

The reason is that he sacrificed some "personal performances" in order to make the team's defensive system more efficient and stable.

In fact, just like Lu Yang, in the backcourt, in order to keep the defensive players in line, he went up to grab more.In the frontcourt, in order to prevent the opponent from posing a threat as much as possible, he occupied the position and played support, and forced the opponent into the defensive range of his teammates, and let his teammates take action to solve the opponent.

In this way, in fact, the data of the defensive core is apportioned.

And...if your teammates haven't reached a sufficient level, you may even think that your defensive strength is good, and you don't know that it is actually the person next to you who created this good stealing opportunity.

People can only see what they know.

You'll never be Bergkamp when you don't have the concept of scoring the ball in your head.

When you don't have the concept of a midfield lob in your mind, even if the opponent's goalkeeper walks outside the penalty area, you don't know how to try a super long lob.

When you have no player in your mind who is over 33 years old and can perform at a high level, you will easily let Ronaldo and Messi go.

When you don't have top-level vision and a sensitivity to openings in mind, you'll never see the value of Kante.

"I admit that your approach is correct." Morici, who also witnessed all this, had mixed feelings in his heart.

A commander-in-chief defense who forced such an excellent future "Shiyi Middle School" like that, was scolded like a dog by a group of teammates at this time.

The key point is that Kante himself has a very honest character. Although he feels wronged, he never argues with his teammates, but just nods silently and expresses his apology.

Such behavior is very sad, and it will not usher in the so-called respect.

"If your plan is successful, Nice's performance this season will not be very good, because they don't even know who their real defensive father is!" Moric was very angry.

He empathizes with Kante's experience, because the organizational midfielder has been underestimated by people for a certain period of time in the past and has not received due respect.

……

Soon, the game resumed.

The Nice players knew their shame and were brave, wanting to take the lead again.

Because they are the only team from the five major leagues in Group C of the Europa League.

It doesn't matter what the Russian Super League and the competition are, but Serie B dares to take the lead?
But under the tandem of Moric, Nice's stealing efficiency is not high, and they have not been able to organize the operation of Sanremo's midfield.

The reason, first, is that their personal defensive ability is not as strong as they thought.

Without Kant to organize the defense and guide the two sides, Nice's frontcourt players' pressing was full of loopholes.

The second is...why there is no organized defense by Kante?
Because this time, although Morici was in charge of connecting with San Remo, Lu Yang was in charge of facing Kant.

Morici passed the ball to Lu Yang, and Lu Yang took the initiative to find Kant after holding the ball.

After Kante takes charge of Lu Yang, the rest of the defensive players will naturally have to withdraw a little bit, and at the same time take charge of Moric, who should have been in charge of Kante.

But on Nice's side, except for Kant, no one can freeze Moric, and Moric has regained his vitality.

And Lu Yang's dribbling and ball control may be lower than Moric's, but...his physical strength, confrontation, height, and weight are much better than Moric's.

And these are the only things that Kante can't make up for by vision, prediction, grabbing, and impact.

After a half-court battle, Lu Yang can guarantee that Kante will not be able to defend against a player of the "iron tower" type like himself.

To put it bluntly, no matter how good a perimeter defensive player is, he can't prevent big butts from behind the three-point line.

Lu Yang is now using the "back hit" style of ball control, wrestling with Kant.

Kante retreated steadily.

Although some bruises gradually appeared on Lu Yang's body, in the scene, Lu Yang had a great advantage.

On the other hand, on the defensive end, San Remo made a move to "short Kante".

They will not press Kante, but mainly cut off Kante's passing route, and follow Kante roughly five meters away.

Whether Kante wants to drive forward with the ball or hit the goal with a long shot, it doesn't matter, San Remo will not stop it.

As a result, the other members of the Nice team were defended by San Remo.

And Kante, the only one who enjoys a relaxed environment, can't help the team's offense.

His performance at this time is even worse than Manchester United's recent Sancho.

Sancho's characteristic is that he can't attack the opponent's defense after taking the ball. He habitually chooses to pass back, and his personal dribbling speed is quite slow, becoming an offensive constipation device.

But Sancho's pass control still has some skills.

As for Kante, he was poor in all aspects.

Therefore, Nice's offense completely stagnated, and within almost 10 minutes, he failed to make an effective offense.

This made the Nice team eager to equalize the score very anxious.

For the Nice coaching staff, problems have already arisen.

The person who affects the team's offense is obviously Kante.But as long as a player with organizational offensive ability is replaced in Kant's "position", Nice will definitely score a goal now!

The reason why this position is in quotation marks is because this position does not refer to Kant's "midfielder" position.It's about the chances Kante has had on the pitch.

But the Nice coaching staff didn't think about it, if it was another player, would he be able to get the same treatment as Kante?
It's like Werner, Chelsea's golden reconnaissance machine, really catches the shot. If these opportunities are replaced by other reliable strikers, they will score ten more goals than him.

But... Switching to other strikers, it is impossible to have as many opportunities as Werner to threaten the goal.

So although Werner's scoring efficiency is indeed very low, it is actually much higher than what everyone sees.

beep!

A tactical foul by Kante stifled Sanremo's counter-attack, and he didn't even get a yellow card for his clever move.

Destroying the counterattack, if you start the moment the opponent gets the ball, you may not win the card.

But if the opponent has been dribbling the ball for a while, and you see that this is a good opportunity to counterattack, then you will get the card.

Kante has enough football intelligence.

Kante took the initiative to reach out and pulled up Lu Yang who had been brought down by him.

Lu Yang smiled helplessly.

It was helpless because Kante was really smart, but Lu Yang took off as soon as Kante hesitated.

And the reason for laughing is... Lu Yang saw the sidelines!

The next moment, the sideline substitution board lights up.

Nice replaced Kant with a substitute midfielder.

(End of this chapter)