Beast King Costa

Chapter 5 Tactical Fulcrum
"Let's take a look at this game first, some textbook tactical fulcrum performances of Joao Thomas."

With a big wave of Caesar's hand, Diego unexpectedly teleported with Caesar to the VIP stand of Real Ball King Stadium, overlooking everything on the field with the best view.

"Don't be surprised, in the Real ball king system, I, the ball king Caesar, is an omnipotent existence!" Caesar arrogantly pointed to the stadium outside the VIP stand: "Now, I have virtualized the Real ball king stadium into the dragon stadium , and now take you to watch the highlights of tonight's game again."

"Wow!"

Diego's eyes lit up: "Is the Real Ball King system so magical?"

"Hmm, what do you think?"

Caesar didn't bother to continue bragging to Diego anymore. He continued to wave his hand, and the frozen virtual players on the court immediately moved.

"Beep..."

The referee sounded a long whistle, and the game began!
The home team Porto kicks off!
"Look carefully, I need you to tell me what formation Porto is using."

"Uh, good!"

With Caesar's reminder, Diego's attention was basically focused on Porto.

As a hardcore fan, Diego can naturally recognize several familiar faces immediately.

For example, the meritorious defender of Real Madrid, the Portuguese international Pepe who is called a "monk" by the media, the talented winger, Quaresma, one of the examples of "injury Zhongyong" in football, and the meritorious defender Bosingwa of Chelsea.

At the beginning of the game, Porto bombarded Braga's penalty area.

However, Braga's defensive formation stood very solid and was not blown away by Porto's opening frenzy.

As Caesar said, Braga coach Jesúardo Ferreira learned from the defensive essence of Italian football and trained the defense in an orderly manner. The defense players stood in reasonable positions and guaranteed not to give The opponent cooperates with the short pass to penetrate into the penalty area.

Of course, Porto also tried a few simple and rough tactics of kicking the ball from the side and directly smashing it into the penalty area of ​​Braga.

Although the average height of Braga's defense line does not have an advantage visible to the naked eye, the defenders have a very good grasp of the first point of the cross, and they did not give Porto's strikers a chance to head the ball.

After Quaresma passed the ball twice in a row on the left, and Braga's main central defender Noel pushed out of the penalty area, Porto stopped the opening three tricks.

After the opening, Braga's defensive formation shrunk very flat, which left Porto with nothing to do.Therefore, they stopped the inefficient bombardment, and instead passed the ball through the midfield to induce the opponent's overall formation to press up. Only then did they have enough space for them to make a fuss on the offensive end.

As a result, the pace of the game immediately slowed down.

Diego didn't dare to neglect, and quickly observed the positioning of Porto's players to judge what kind of tactical formation the opponent had put up.

"Uh, three defenders, this is definitely true. But why does the positioning of the midfield look a bit chaotic?"

Diego scratched the back of his head helplessly, and looked at Caesar beside him in a daze: "I think it's a 3-3-4 formation?"

"Oh? Are you sure?"

"Of course I'm not sure..."

Diego rolled his eyes: "I want to be sure, but I still ask you?"

"Hey! Let me tell you in this book. To be precise, Porto's formation is a 3-4-3 formation. As the best team in the Iberian Peninsula, Porto does not need to fear any team in the Portuguese Super League. It's the best defense for them..."

"Okay, okay, stop, stop!"

Now Diego is afraid that Caesar is bragging. This guy, when he brags, it can be said to be endless. It is a waste of his precious growth time.

"Caesar! Didn't you say that you want me to read the tactical fulcrum performance in Joao Thomas' textbook? Hurry up."

"Young man, just impatient..."

After Caesar gave Diego a blank look, he continued to speak slowly: "I let you know Porto's tactical formation, which is naturally related to what I will say later."

After all, Caesar waved his hand again, and the screen fast forwarded to the 25th minute of the game.

At this time, after Paul Jorge intercepted the pass from Lucho Gonzalez to Adriano in the backcourt, he took a glance at the frontcourt, and then directly made a long pass to Joao Thomas in the frontcourt. area.

At this time, Joao Thomas was the only player left in Braga's frontcourt. He directly faced the fierce Bosingwa on the left.

Caesar reminded in a low voice: "See what Joao Thomas is doing."

"Ok?"

Joao Thomas was not afraid of any physical confrontation. He used his strong back to withstand the fierce Bosingwa, stuck Bosingwa's body firmly behind him, and raised his right foot to push the long backcourt The pass is easily removed.

At the same time, Pepe in the middle also helped to defend immediately.

However, Joao Thomas, an experienced veteran, did not have any fear. Although Pepe hadn't won the reputation of "monk" given to him by the media at that time, he could be regarded as a well-known backcourt in the Portuguese Super League.

Even though Pepe and Bosingwa continued to exert pressure, João Thomas was still able to comfortably protect the ball in front of his body under the double-teaming of two top Portuguese central defenders.

Immediately, Joao Thomas took aim at the second striker Sessin who was plugging in at a high speed in the middle. With a flick of the outside of his right foot, he transferred the ball to the middle. Pei and Bosingwa got rid of it completely and ran diagonally into the Porto penalty area.

In this wonderful counterattack, in the end, Sessin knocked across the goal until Joao Thomas completed the goal. However, Porto's main goalkeeper Helton was like a god, and firmly held down Joao Thomas' push.

In this regard, Diego said with emotion: "It's a pity, if this goal is scored, it will be wonderful!"

"This is not the key..."

Diego's emotion made Caesar want to go crazy: "The main thing is to show you Joao Thomas' tactical fulcrum ability! Whether the goal is scored or not is another matter!"

"what……"

It was only then that Diego came back to his senses from Braga's smooth counterattack of the two frontcourt just now. He recalled Joao Thomas' series of smooth moves just now.

"Well... probably, use your body to hold the interception of the central defender, turn your back to unload the long pass from the backcourt, and protect the ball so that it will not be intercepted by the opponent's double-team. And you have to watch all directions , I saw my teammate plug in from the open position, immediately complete the ball, get rid of the defense of the defender, and participate in the offense again... Hmm! That's about all I thought of."

"hey-hey!"

Very rare, Caesar nodded with a satisfied smile: "Not bad, the interpretation of this attack is quite good."

"So..." Diego tentatively asked, "Is this the so-called tactical fulcrum capability?"

"Of course it's not that simple!"

Caesar once again showed his iconic arrogant face: "This is just one example of the tactical fulcrum. There are many, many battle examples waiting for you to continue to understand."

"Then hurry up!"

Diego seemed impatient: "Let's continue to look at the other examples of this game with Boss Joao."

(End of this chapter)