The Godfather of Greenery

Chapter 88 Handball!Penalty!
Ye Qiu has always felt that as a central defender, Lucio still has deep tactical value that can be tapped.

Generally speaking, any team advances the ball either on the side or in the middle, and the side is relatively weak in defense and has a relatively large space, so the side is generally an important means of ball advancement .

For example, Figo, Overmars, Ryan Giggs and a series of excellent wing breakthrough players, they are an important means of advancing the ball, and teams with this type will often design tactics. Create one-on-one opportunities for them on the wing, and then maximize their tactical value.

What about the middle lane?Why is no one in the middle?
If you advance from the side, when you reach the front court, you still have to try to transfer the ball from the side to the center. Why not just advance from the center, isn't it more convenient?

The middle lane is often the most densely defended area by the opponent, and it is often easy to fall into the encirclement when advancing through the middle lane. However, once a player has the ability to forcibly break through the dense area in the middle lane, then the tactical value of this player will be huge.

After AC Milan introduced Kaka, they entrusted the Brazilian with a heavy responsibility in the first season. Afterwards, Ancelotti did not hesitate to let Kaka out of the team's offensive and defensive system. The ability to break through dense areas, because as long as Kaka breaks through, it can directly pose a threat.

Kaka's success is not so much the success of his personal ability, but rather the success of his tactical value!

The value of the breakthrough in the middle has been best reflected in Kaka, and more importantly, Kaka is the midfielder.

For the front midfielder, as long as he can push the ball forward 10 meters, he has reached the most threatening area of ​​his own attack.

Perhaps, from the perspective of tactical value, the central defender Lucio, who also has the ability to advance in the middle, is not as good as Kaka who plays the attacking midfielder, but he is rich in tactics for any team. On the other hand, the value is equally huge.

However, because he is a central defender, his tactical value often represents an increase in the cost of defensive risk. Therefore, Ye Qiu has always focused on refining the defensive line. Gilberto Silva, Lucy The cooperation and tacit understanding between the three Brazilian players Ao and Maicon, as well as Kolo Toure and Heitinga, are also the objects of Ye Qiu's key consideration.

Tactics are always relative, and it is impossible to have an absolutely safe and secure defense. Therefore, what Ye Qiu considers is to maximize Lucio's advantage in driving the ball in the middle, and minimize the impact of the Brazilian central defender's advancement. As long as he does this, he will dare to liberate Lucio on a large scale.

The Brazilian central defender did not disappoint Ye Qiu. Although he was the one who made the most mistakes in Ajax's defense, he was also the defender who brought the most surprises to the team, just like this time.

Liverpool tried to play Litmanen on the left side many times and failed. Maicon reminded the former Ajax senior again and again, you are 30 years old, you are not young, you have many injuries, and you are not in good condition. Back then, time and time again, Liverpool's left attack failed, and the Red Army's offensive direction was forced to shift to the right.

Gerrard became Houllier's key offensive weapon.

In the 59th minute, Gerrard cooperated with McAllister on the right once, and after avoiding Abidal's ball, he made a low pass to the front of the penalty area, trying to find Husky.

Husky firmly stuck in his position. He was always fighting with Lucio. The Brazilian's physical fitness is too good. Time and time again to stop in advance.

But this time, the Brazilian chose to go around.

My goodness!

Husky stared dumbfounded at the Brazilian who was going around in front of him. It was hard for him to understand how such a tall and strong guy could have such flexibility and explosive power.

Because Gerrard passed the ball on the horizon, and defended around the front. After stealing the ball, Lucio did not hesitate at all. After all, it was a Brazilian player. There is no need to say the skills. He raised his head and looked at the front. It was very wide. Liverpool's group of players who had been rushing forward suddenly slammed on the brakes, preparing to return to defense.

Can you make it?

There is a saying on the football field that is unmistakable, that is, people will never be as fast as the ball!
Lucio advanced more than ten meters, and he saw that Robben and Van der Meyde were already in place.

This is a major feature of Ajax's offense. The two wingers are always able to get close to the opponent's defense line in the shortest time at the moment of the transition from offense to defense. At this time, they need someone to pass the ball to them from behind.

Lucio swung his right foot and kicked an overhead kick hard.

The ball crossed an arc and flew up from Lucio's side. After reaching the apex, it fell quickly, but it landed on the left side of Liverpool's penalty area. Ye Qiu called this attacking method a diagonal attack.

Robben is like a gust of wind, flashing past the tall but cumbersome Babel. This is also a very interesting part of Liverpool's defense line. They are all a group of tall guys with excellent frontal defensive ability, but they have huge weaknesses in turning around and defending behind. .

Therefore, Houllier's defense can only choose to retreat, to avoid being hit behind as much as possible.

But once someone hits the back, I'm sorry, it's almost a hit.

The hearts of the Red Army fans in the entire Anfield stadium jumped to their throats, and Houllier pressed his chest hard. Obviously, they all knew that Ajax's most threatening counterattack was coming. up.

Robben was very fast, sprinting forward like lightning, and at the same time did not forget to look around. Van der Meyde slowed down a little on purpose, and Zlatan Ibrahimovic was driving forward vigorously. The explosive power of the Swede is It's not very good, but the speed is not slow, and coupled with his tall and strong body, the impact is very frightening.

Stopping the ball, dunking, making an emergency stop, Robben stopped the ball steadily on the left.

At this time, Henkoz had already chased back into the penalty area. He went out to intercept Robben, Hyypia followed closely behind Zlatan Ibrahimovic, and the Swede leaned to the left, as if looking for a forward point. Forcing Hypia to follow to the left, giving up a large space on the right.

Robben faced Hencoz, stopped abruptly, and accelerated suddenly. This continuous speed change made Henkoz helpless. Facing the following Robben's cross, he could only lift his foot symbolically, but did not In the slightest way.

The ball in this pass was high, and the landing point was at the back point.

When Hyypia realized this, he wanted to go back, but it was too late, so he could only remind his teammates loudly, "Back!"

Ziggy and Van der Meyer were speeding up, but the latter was obviously faster than Ziggy. He took a step ahead and stuck in front of Ziggy with his body. Facing Robben's pass, the two jumped high at the same time. rise.

Everyone watched this scene, which happened in the blink of an eye, but made everyone's heart beat faster.

Ye Qiu even clenched his fists on the sidelines. This was one of his key offensive routines. Attacking diagonally, finding the opponent's weakness after getting the ball, this is equivalent to handing over part of the power to organize the attack to the two wingers. In the case of being unable to make an effective counterattack, the effect is still obvious.

But when Ye Qiu was expecting Van der Meyde to smash the ball into Liverpool's goal, he saw the ball flying high over the crossbar and out of the baseline. It looked like Chigurh made a clearance first.

huh~~

The Liverpool fans in the audience felt a little bit after the catastrophe. Ajax's quick counterattack was too fast and too sharp.

Whether it's Robben on the left or Van der Meyde on the right, they are both very fast. Robben's speed is even a bit like Michael Owen in Liverpool's interior, and Zlatan Ibrahimovic is even more impressive. Liang, at least the performance of this Swedish tall guy is much better than that of Husky, and his ability to hold and handle the ball is nothing to say.

But just when the Liverpool fans thought they had escaped, Van der Meyde raised his hands high, slapped his right hand with his left hand, ran towards the referee, pointed at Zieg, "Hey, the referee Sir, he handballed, he deliberately handballed!"

"Handball, I obviously saw that he shot the ball with his hands!" Ibrahimovic was the closest, and regardless of whether he could see it clearly, anyway, he wanted to support his teammates at this time.

"I don't have a handball!" Zieg was the first to force him to defend himself!
"I can see very clearly that he hit the ball with his head, not his hands!" Liverpool's players also came to support their teammates.

This is a kind of time that often happens on the court. Both sides are fighting for reason and putting pressure on the referee, but they all maintain a certain limit, at least it will not give people a feeling of collision and threat to the referee.

The referee kept using his hands to calm down and stop moving forward, then ran to the linesman, and quickly walked back to the field, first separating the players of Ajax and Liverpool, and then towards Liverpool Zieger showed a yellow card, which turned into a red card, because he had already received a yellow card in the first half, and finally pointed to the penalty spot.

"Intentional handball, yellow card and penalty kick!" The on-site commentator explained the referee's move.

The Liverpool players seemed a little dissatisfied with the referee's decision, but the referee seemed very determined and kept shaking his head, while the Red Army fans at the scene boos and cursed regardless of the three or seven.

"Judging from the slow motion, Zieg was indeed behind Van der Meyde at that time, and his hand was also out of his body at that time. It's hard to explain that he didn't intend to shoot the ball. It can only be said that Ziggy couldn't catch Van der Meyer. An intentional handball, trying to find a loophole for the referee."

Slow motion explains this foul from many different angles, all of which clearly show that this is indeed an intentional handball, but sometimes, the naked eye can’t keep up with the changes in the game, so there are still many Many fans and players feel that they have been wronged.

On the contrary, Chigurh, who received the ruby ​​truce card, turned around and walked out of the field without much entanglement, without saying hello to the head coach Houllier, and went directly into the player tunnel. He must be well aware of his behavior of.

"Ajax got a penalty kick in the 74th minute of the second half. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Ajax. We should make good use of this opportunity. Let's see who they get. Take the penalty!"

Ajax's chief penalty shooter is van der Vaart, but this player is not playing now. When he was in the second team, Sneijder's penalty kicks were also good, but now he is in the first team. Ned is behind Ibrahimovic in penalty kicks.

The Swede was Ye Qiu's handpicked penalty shooter, but his performance in taking penalties was not very satisfactory, which had something to do with his personality.

"Do you want another one?" Bobby Harms asked when he came to Ye Qiu's side.

This penalty was hard-won. If it is scored, it will be Ajax's most precious away goal, and it may bring a victory, but if it is not scored, the morale of the team will be severely damaged.

Ibrahimovic's psychological quality has always been relatively emotional. Firstly, he is relatively young, and secondly, it has something to do with his personality, so he is prone to make trouble at critical moments, but Ye Qiu is more aware that if Ibrahimovic is overruled at this time Cloth's penalty kick, that is bound to have a huge impact on the Swedes.

With Ibrahimovic's sensitive and fragile emotions, it is estimated that he will turn back to Ajax and escape here.

"Let him punish you!" Ye Qiu gritted his teeth.

He didn't score the goal, and he still had a chance to score again, but he managed to clean up Ibrahimovic and let this kid obediently listen to his instructions. He couldn't just fall short because of a penalty kick, right?

Seeing Ibrahimovic looking over inquiringly, Ye Qiu nodded and made a soothing gesture towards him.

"Your greatest stupidity is impatience and easy letting your emotions control your thoughts!"

After getting Ye Qiu's nod, Ibrahimovic carried the ball to the penalty spot, and involuntarily thought of Ye Qiu's reminder in his mind, as well as the words Ye Qiu said that day at the police station when he scolded him.

It's not that he doesn't understand a lot of things, and he just didn't say a lot of things, but that doesn't mean he's an idiot or a fool.

Since he was a child, he has been used to living a self-centered life, because only in this way can he protect himself, not be bullied by others, and he can go to today, all because of his kind character.

In Ibrahimovic's life until now, there are two people who made him think about changing for them.

One is Hass Borg, but this person he once regarded as his father has always been using, deceiving, and defrauding him, which made him feel an unprecedented betrayal, so when he saw When Haas Borg still wanted to show his favor to him like in the past, he swung his fist furiously.

The other one is Ye Qiu.

Although they have only been together for more than half a year, Ye Qiu gave him a feeling that this person knows him very well and trusts him, but he has always maintained a kind of distance with him, which makes him feel very comfortable and harmonious. For Ibrahimovic, who never knew how to trust and understand each other since he was a child, this is already the best way to get along.

But at the same time, Ye Qiu put forward very high demands on him. This not only did not make Ibrahimovic feel rebellious, but made Ibrahimovic feel that this is a product of trust, and that he is ambitious and Knowing that rewards are often directly proportional to sacrifices, he did not object to Ye Qiu's high demands at all.

Sometimes, getting along with people doesn't have to be intimacy to be called understanding!

Taking a deep breath, Ibrahimovic raised his head, looked at the night sky at Liverpool's Anfield Stadium, and closed his eyes. What he heard was the roaring and tsunami-like sound waves from the fans floating in the Anfield Stadium.

He felt as if he was in the vast ocean, but he didn't feel scared at all, and his mood gradually calmed down. Looking at Liverpool's goalkeeper Westerveld again, Ibrahimovic let out a soft breath.

With a whistle, Ibrahimovic rushed forward quickly. His legs were long and his strides were large. After getting close to the ball, he shot a powerful reshoot with his right foot.

The ball went straight into Westerveld's goal at a speed that was indistinguishable to the naked eye. The latter jumped in the wrong direction and chose Ibrahimovic's left side, because the Swede is right-footed, but Ibrahimovic this time hit It is the right side, and it is still the most difficult half-high ball.

"The ball went in!" The on-site commentator shouted cleanly at the moment the ball went into the goal.

"From the Swedish teenager Zlatan Ibrahimovic's penalty kick, Ajax finally took the lead in breaking the deadlock on the field in the 75th minute of the second half, 1:0!"

"This is not an interesting game. The most important thing for both sides to consider is defense. Ajax in the away game adopts a defensive and counterattack strategy. At one point, people even had the idea of ​​​​wanting to ask for a draw. In the first half and most of the time, he also put defense first, which is also Houllier's typical defensive thinking."

"It was a dull game, but we have reason to believe that with Zlatan Ibrahimovic's goal, the situation of the game was broken, and both sides should adjust and change."

Sure enough, after Ibrahimovic scored a goal, Liverpool took the lead in making adjustments.

This time, Houllier learned from the pain and replaced Michael Owen with Fowler. He wanted to strengthen his ability to seize opportunities in the penalty area, and then replaced Litmanen on the left with Smicer to strengthen the center. Field organization and passing ability.

This is obviously an arrangement for Ajax's defensive counterattack.

But as soon as Houllier adjusted, Ye Qiu also adjusted accordingly.

Van der Vaart replaced Van der Meyde, who was not physically fit, and Yaya Toure replaced Sneijder. Although Ajax made a counter-substitution, they changed their previous shrinking defensive strategy and boldly adopted a pressing strategy. The offensive high defensive tactics further strengthen the pressing and oppression of the midfield.

This made Houllier vomit blood with anger, because he wanted Ajax to press out and play high defense and take advantage of Owen's speed to counterattack, but Ye Qiu chose to defend to the end, but when he replaced Owen, he replaced The speed was not fast, but when Fowler was in front of the door with a keen sense of smell, Ye Qiu pushed out in a big way.

Just imagine, how can Liverpool attack with a Fowler who is far away from the penalty area and a Husky who has no advantage in speed?

(End of this chapter)