There is a belief called football

Chapter 9 Black First Half

The game in the afternoon is scheduled to take place on the No. 60 training field, which is basically half the size of a standard football field. The game time is [-] minutes, divided into two halves.

Other than that, everything is very formal. Before the game, the head coaches of the two sides shook hands. The head coach of the Lille team is the Frenchman "Fontaine".

After the coaches of the two sides shook hands, the players from both sides entered the arena under the leadership of the referee. As usual, the national anthem (all Chinese national anthems) was played first, and then the players from both sides shook hands. Li Qiao was ranked second to last in the team.

When Li Qiao and the opponent's Hassler faced each other, the other party held his head high, as if the superior was receiving the subordinate, which made Li Qiao feel very upset.

When he was face to face with "Kuba", Li Qiao stretched out his hand in a friendly manner, and the other party held Li Qiao heavily. Kuba was already 1 meters tall, tall and big. This grip was originally intended to give Li Qiao a blow.

But unexpectedly, it angered Li Qiao. Li Qiao thought: "The best revenge on the football field is to score goals. Let's see how I will blow you up later."

A whistle sounded and the game started. The Lille team kicked off the ball first. Hassler, the core midfielder, made a long pass and saw the ball fly towards the Marseille team's penalty area.

"Oops," Stan shouted from the sidelines.

The opponent's high center forward "Kuba" is not slow at all, regardless of his height. This is the trend of choosing a center forward in the new era. In the past, it was good to choose a center forward as long as he was tall. For example, the German "Jankel" was basically a big fool. But now the requirements are like Ibrahimovic.

Feng Tian and Feng Zhuang saw something was wrong, so they retreated immediately, but it was too late. Feng Zhuang reacted quickly and jumped high to clear the ball from the bottom line, but he made a mistake in his judgment. He jumped up but missed the ball.

Under normal circumstances, even if Feng Zhuang jumps up to make a rescue, Feng Tian should still follow "Kuba", but Feng Tian has no experience, seeing Feng Zhuang jump up to make a rescue, he thinks everything will be fine, so he doesn't care.

In this way, after Kuba received the ball, he was faced with a single-handed opportunity. Qi Qi saw that he was still calm, and took two steps forward to block it.

Lightning scored a goal, or was wicketed, this is not just a problem of the ball, it is simply a slap in the face.

Even "Stan", who has experienced many battles on the sidelines, was caught off guard. Looking at the opponent's head coach "Fontaine", it was obvious that the opponent was more prepared than himself.

But football is not basketball. No matter whether you are right or wrong before the game, it is impossible to call a timeout to rearrange.

At this time, Coach Shi already felt that something was wrong. Sure enough, after the re-kick-off, the morale of the Marseille team members was obviously hit. El passed the ball to another midfielder "Luyou", but Luyou actually passed the ball directly to the opponent Hassler.

Hassler broke through with the ball, and "Feng Tian" who was hit with a sap just now, "Feng Zhuang" panicked and didn't know what to do. In a hurry, Feng Tian stretched his leg and brought Hassler down. The referee whistled a free kick in front of the penalty area! !

At this moment, Stan couldn't sit still anymore, stood up and went to the sidelines to encourage the players loudly, but the players basically couldn't hear what the coach shouted on the football field, which was actually a psychological effect.

The players of the Marseille team have known for a long time that Hassler's free kick is very strong, and they are all trembling. It is okay to concede one goal at the beginning. If they concede two consecutive goals, the game is basically dead.

Qi rate carefully commanded his teammates to line up the wall, "point to the left", "left again", "left again", Qi rate wanted to seal the angle of the other side as much as possible.

Hassler went over to set up the ball, and saw Hassler swinging it again and again, as if he was choosing a position he liked. At this time, the referee went to remind Hassler to set it up quickly, and Hassler raised his hand to signal that it will be ready soon. He looked like a big-name player.

Qi rate was guessing how the opponent would take the free kick, and he was extremely nervous. Hassler backed up, ran up, and kicked the ball. He saw Hassler's ball fly high, and there was no arc after bypassing the wall.

Seeing that this was a failed anti-aircraft gun, but when the ball flew about 5 meters away from the goal, it suddenly fell and flew into the upper left corner of the goal. Qi Qi couldn't believe his eyes and stayed there.

The goal was scored by Sandro because the ball drew an arc and he could see the flight path, but because of the high speed, it was too late to save.

And Hasler's free kick is a sudden turn. If Sandro's free kick is "meniscus", then Hasler's free kick is "sickle-shaped".

But no matter how unbelievable or unbelievable the Marseille players were, the ball has been scored, 2-0.

"Stan, I think the children are going to be abused," Coach Shi on the sidelines said to Stan.

Seeing the dejected children on the field, only Li Qiao and Sandro are still normal, Stan is also anxious, he hates himself for underestimating the enemy.

Re-kick-off, maybe leading by two goals, Lille team also appeared to relax, so Marseille can finally take a breath and get the ball.

El took the ball, Li Qiao immediately went to attract the opponent's defenders, Sandro stepped forward at this moment, everything looked like it was in training, but when El was about to pass the ball, the opponent's three immediately surrounded him, El was defended to death, this intensity is really different from that in training.

"Fuck," thought Stan on the sidelines.

Sure enough, El's ball had been intercepted, and the Lille team immediately found Hassler after stealing the ball. Hassler looked up and found "Kuba" accurately in front of him. Kuba didn't stop the ball. He flicked the outside of his instep and shot a volley against the opposite angle, 3-0.

The Lille players all rushed to the coach and began to celebrate, as if they had won the game, with the Marseille players bowing their heads behind them.

Stan looked at his watch. The game has only started 10 minutes, and there are 50 minutes left. It doesn't matter if a game wins or loses, but if the children are abused in their first game, they may not be able to hold their heads up for a long time. Stan has encountered this situation before. He knows that the most terrible thing for a player is loss of confidence.

At this moment, how much Stan wants to find the opponent's head coach Fontaine, bow his head and admit defeat, and let the game end. As long as he keeps the child's confidence, it doesn't matter how embarrassing he is.

But Stan knew that this was impossible on the football field, and Stan searched rapidly in his mind, hoping to find a way.

At this moment, Stan saw Li Qiao, and Li Qiao also looked at Stan. Stan made a fist gesture to Li Qiao, indicating to hold on, and Li Qiao also made a fist gesture to Stan.

Li Qiao used to encourage his teammates one by one. Although the captain's armband was worn on Sandro's arm, Li Qiao was more like a captain at this time.

After kick-off, Li Qiao and Sandro withdrew at the same time. Now the goal of the Marseille team is not to win the game, but not to crash. The joke before the game turned out to be true. Now the formation of the Marseille team is really 4-6, with 4 defenders and 6 midfielders.

With two more players in the midfield, the opponent would not be able to attack so easily, but Marseille would have to sacrifice a lot, and the opponent looked down on this kind of "rogue" formation. The opponent's coach "Fontaine" was talking about something with the assistant coach with a smile. He probably had never seen this "surrender" formation.

But no matter what, there is a saying that it is better to live than to die. At least the Marseille team persisted for 20 minutes and never conceded a goal by the end of the first half.

The whistle blew at halftime, and the first half ended. One side happily returned to the sidelines, while the other side walked to the sidelines in frustration.

There is no locker room for a game of this nature, and the players rest on the sidelines and listen to the coach's summary. First of all, Stan admits that the responsibility for all this lies with him alone. It is his underestimation of the enemy that led to this result. You are good.

But these words did not remove the burden in the players' hearts. Stan understood that the only thing that could change the form was scoring goals, and the sooner the better.

Then he asked the players to work hard to score goals in the first 10 minutes of the second half. Sandro and Li Qiao nodded, but the others did not respond, maybe they did not have confidence.

Coach Shi on the side said: "Do you still remember the 2000 European Cup between England and Portugal? Portugal was quickly beaten by England in the opening game and conceded 2 goals in a row. The whole world thought that Portugal would experience a disastrous defeat, but the result? Portugal held on and overtook it."

"The most valuable spirit on the football field is to never give up. The greatness of football lies in the unpredictability of the results. This is also the charm of football. Boys, are you confident in making a comeback?"

"Have",
Coach Shi's ideological work obviously played a good role, and everyone's mood improved obviously.

Of course, it is useless to rely on the mental victory method alone. From the fact that El was defended tightly in the first half, Stan knew that the opponent must have peeked at his training, and made a very targeted arrangement.

So Stan called a few players over and rearranged the tactics.

After a 15-minute break, the second half began. At the beginning, the Marseille team was still very passive. To see if there was no improvement, Coach Shi suggested whether to change players. As the saying goes, changing players is like changing a knife.

Stan shook his head and said: "Now we must trust them. This game is related to their confidence. I can't replace anyone. Besides, they are not wrong."

At this moment, Fang Ben's quick breakthrough ball from the wing was tackled out of the baseline, and Marseille won a corner kick. Stan knew that this might be a turning point, and made a two gesture to the players, which meant to follow the No. [-] tactic.

After the Marseille players received the coach's instruction, the defense player Feng Zhuang went to the opponent's penalty area, ready to fight for the top, and it was Sandro who was preparing to take a free throw at the corner.

At this time, the head coach of the opponent also stood up, walked to the sidelines, and stretched out his index finger, middle finger, and ring finger to his players. Stan didn't know what that meant. Every coach has a set of hand gestures with player coaches, but Stan's heart tightened: "Does he know my tactics again?"
(End of this chapter)