Rebirth 1994: Football Situation

Chapter 693 An Unsatisfactory Victory

"With referee Graham Barber blowing the whistle for the end of the game, there wasn't a huge cheer going on at St James' Park, and yes, Newcastle did get their first win of the season at home. , and the ranking immediately rose to fifth, but this process is not satisfactory anyway..."

On August 24th, St. James' Park Stadium was empty, and 1000 fanatical Newcastle fans occupied most of the stands. They suppressed the singing of more than [-] Norwich fans of the visiting team with their fanatical and loud singing. No, although Newcastle's start to the new season was not smooth, the past suffering experience has already honed the nerves of Newcastle fans to be extremely strong, and this setback will not make them lose confidence in the team.

What's more, today's opponent is only Norwich!What's more, this game is at St. James' Park, which is considered by the entire league to be "the most difficult home field to conquer"!How could you lose?How could it be possible not to win a victory!
"We are the European champions! We will win!"

This is not only the voice of Newcastle fans, but also the voice of Newcastle fans!

In this game, Mourinho made some fine-tuning of the lineup. Ibrahimovic suffered a small injury. Mourinho put him on the bench. Veteran Larson started, and Dyer replaced Jay Nurse appeared in the midfield, Janus also suffered a little injury, and on the defensive line, Hart replaced Bernard at left back.

Newcastle launched a fierce attack on the opponent's goal at the beginning of the game, and Norwich also played the role of a newly promoted team very well-all their players huddled in the penalty area and guarded their own goal.

Newcastle felt very troubled by this tactic. If they couldn’t get in from the center, they could only break through the sidewalk and take long shots to break the deadlock. The Newcastle fans in the stands booed loudly, but the Norwich players turned a deaf ear. Still sticking to it with an almost ugly tactic.

Half an hour later, Newcastle still failed to create any good opportunities. Norwich City did not invest too much money in the summer transfer. The Danish veteran Helveg, who was transferred from Inter Milan on a free transfer, is their team. The number one star in China, but this team promoted from the League One has inherited the tradition of the English team. The goal is tightly blocked.

Dyer's performance on the field was not good. He didn't provide much help to the strikers in the penalty area on the wing. Nie Fei had to pull to the wing again and again to let Newcastle's right wing also fly. It was such a transposition that brought Newcastle their first goal.

After passing the ball to Trabelsi, Nie Fei slipped to the right, and the captain of the Tunisian national team quickly passed the ball to him. Facing the opposing defender who rushed up, Nie Fei did not entangle with the opponent, but Pass the ball directly into the penalty area with one kick!

The ball quickly flew into the penalty area, and Shearer quickly moved a step in the penalty area, carrying the opponent's central defender tightly behind him, then jumped high, and swung the ball!
The ball was accurately thrown into a small gap in the penalty area, and a figure wearing a Newcastle black and white sword-striped shirt quickly rushed out of the crowd, flying and volleying the ball into the goal!
Huge cheers immediately erupted over St. James' Park, and Larsson's No. 40 minute goal ignited their enthusiasm!
"Henrik - Larsson! The Swedish veteran opened the door to victory for Newcastle! This is his first goal after joining in the summer! Keen, experienced, olfactory, Larsson showed his in this moment The biggest feature! And the captain Shearer who assisted him, 34-year-old Shearer, 33-year-old Larson, Newcastle's veteran combination has shown its power!"

No. This goal in the 40th minute was very timely. Norwich did a very good defense before. If they can successfully maintain the tie until the end of the first half, then it will be a big boost to their morale Encouragement, but now they still conceded the ball after four or 10 minutes of defense, which will be a big blow to their psychology.

Sure enough, after the start of the second half, Norwich's defense was far less tight than in the first half. Robert's breakthrough won a corner kick. He took the corner kick and drove into the penalty area. After rushing down to the front point, with a powerful shake of his head to attack the goal, the ball quickly flew into the upper left corner of the goal!
Two to zero, Newcastle quickly expanded their lead!

The resounding Newcastle team anthem "Ben to Newcastle" sounded over the stands at St. James' Park, while the Norwich players seemed to be stunned. Not long after the kick-off, Makelele quickly steals the ball from the opponent's striker. , and then gave the ball to Robert on the left!

Robert moved forward quickly with the ball, and other players rushed into Norwich's half, planning to take advantage of the trend and score another goal to completely seal the victory.

Robert kept advancing under Helvig's defense. He knew that the opponent was also an experienced player, but Helvig was excellent in assisting ability, and his defensive ability seemed...

When he reached the corner of the penalty area, Robert pretended to cut across, luring Helvig to move across the middle, and then immediately dunked the ball near the baseline, and he was about to break through!

But when he broke through, he realized that the ball had been left by Helvig!
It turned out that although Helveg passed across just now, his feet remained in place...

After stealing the ball, Hellwig saw that Hart had pushed towards him, and immediately kicked the ball far and passed it to Bent, the only Norwich striker in the Newcastle half. profit!

I have to say that the pass was quite good. Bentley got the ball smoothly, but what he had to face was a three-person double-team!

Although Bentley was less than 30 meters away from Newcastle's goal, Dawson in front of him had already rushed up viciously, Makelele behind him also rushed towards him, and behind Dawson, there was Lucio Filling in!
Some Newcastle fans in the stands jeered - can this little-known striker break through the double-teaming of these three famous Premier League defenders?Of course it's impossible!

However, Bentley did not break through, but took a long shot from more than 20 meters away!

The ball flew out, but Bentley felt very regretful, because the shot was right on goal, and on his flank, a Norwich player had already rushed into the penalty area to respond, if the ball could be passed to him ...

Facing the ball flying towards him, Ji Wen planned to hit the ball, because the power of this shot was relatively strong, but the striker who rushed into the penalty area made him hesitate—what if he hit the ball at the opponent's feet? ?So Ji Wen was about to come to catch the ball again. After hesitating, he made a terrible mistake...

Shay didn't catch the ball!
The ball flew past his armpit and flew into the goal behind him!
St. James' Park was completely silent, and everyone couldn't believe their eyes!

Even Bentley, who scored the goal, couldn't believe that he could score Newcastle's goal with such a long shot!

Poor Ji Wen knelt on the lawn, unable to believe that he would make such a mistake that an amateur goalkeeper would make!

"Damn it!" Mourinho cursed, and then shouted into the field: "It's okay, it's just a conceded goal! Keep attacking and beat them!"

Mourinho knows that this conceded goal is irrelevant, but if the team becomes passive because of such a conceded goal, it will not be worth the loss!

But even though he yelled, the situation on the court inevitably developed into a bad situation. Because this goal gave Norwich enough courage, they began to suppress Newcastle in their own half and attack!

Shay performed well in the following time, saving several dangerous balls in a row, but this still could not reverse Newcastle's disadvantage on the field.

Finally, through a corner kick, Norwich City caused a scuffle in Newcastle's penalty area. Defender Dougherty stretched out his foot in the chaos and stabbed the ball into the gate guarded by Shay again. For this goal, Shay I can only sigh in vain!
Mourinho's face was livid, his worst worry finally appeared, and now Newcastle's advantage no longer exists!

Mourinho started to make substitutions, he replaced Drogba with Dyer who ran aimlessly in the midfield for more than 70 minutes, then replaced Trabelsi with Maicon, and finally replaced Ribery. Robert, whose physical strength has dropped a lot, has changed to three forwards to strengthen his offense!
He can't take it anymore, and the Newcastle players can't take it either!
Now there are only two central defenders and midfielder Makelele in charge of defense on the Newcastle field. The other players are all involved in the attack. Then he went to the position of the left winger to deliver shells to the three forwards in the penalty area, and Nie Fei was in charge of organizing in the midfield.

This kind of desperate attack should have only appeared in the last moments of key games, but now Newcastle is desperately starting in an ordinary league game, which also proves how much Newcastle hopes to win this game.

This hunger for victory allowed Newcastle to finally get the result they wanted, and after 10 minutes of onslaught, Ribery and Nie Fei made a cross run and finally tore a hole in the Norwich defense. , Franck Ribery made a long shot from outside the penalty area, and the ball was saved by the opponent's goalkeeper. Shearer used his body to hold the opponent's defender who was constantly harassing him, and poked the ball into the goal first!

Three to two, Newcastle finally won a difficult victory, although the victory was not satisfactory.

(End of this chapter)