fat man who can't play football

Chapter 67 Playoff Semifinals

Rao had imagined many adjustments that Karanka would make, and he did not expect that Karanka would replace Clayton with Forshaw at the beginning of the second half.

The fat man immediately searched the information collected before the game in his mind. Forshaw had just arrived in Middlesbrough from Wigan Athletic during the winter transfer.In the second half of the season, he played 16 games for Middlesbrough and scored 1 goal and 1 assist.

This season's performance may seem unremarkable, but the man scored eight goals for Brentford in League One (the third tier of English football) last season.

It seems that he has a certain ability to score goals. Is Kashuai planning to attack?The fat man was a little puzzled.

The replacement Clayton is the barrier of Middlesbrough's midfield defense, maintaining the offensive and defensive balance of Middlesbrough well.Fatty thought this substitution was risky, so he just replaced it with a metronome.

Fatty thought that if he changed his job, he would definitely not make such adjustments during this time period.Wait and see!

Karanka, who had already played two cards, couldn't sit still on the coach's bench, and squatted directly to the side of the court.

The fat man slowly discovered that Forshaw formed a good chemical reaction with Watson after he came on the field. The conduction of the two in the middle made Cook and Mowat a little exhausted.

It seems that the defensive space in the team's ribs has been stretched.

Adoma in Mibao made good use of this torn apart space and gradually became active.He even tried an inside cut shot in the 51st minute, but fortunately the ball hit Coady and popped out of the baseline.

The fat man yelled at Ali to recover a little and help the midfielder defend.

Among the three midfielders now, Mowat and Ali are too focused on offense, which caused the team's lack of interception ability.Always exposing the defense too much to the opponent's gunfire, which keeps Leeds' goals conceded at a high level.

With Watson and Forshaw on the field, the danger of Boro's offense has risen sharply. Ali is not good at defense, even if he retreats, it will not help.

The two sides of Boro also became active, and the situation began to be unfavorable for Leeds.

The fat man is very entangled now. If one of Ali and Mowat is removed at this time, the team will lose the ability to attack in a straight line or the threat of set balls.

At this moment of thinking, Adoma caught a pass from his teammate on the right side of the front court and fell into the encirclement of Mowat and Charlie.Bamford took the initiative to run to meet him, and Amado tactfully sent the ball to Bamford's feet.

At this time, Watson, who was in the front midfielder position, moved, and directly inserted into the rib space on the right side of Leeds.

Bamford noticed his teammate's running position, and without turning around, he sent a through ball, and the ball rolled through the gap between Coady and Cooper.Before Austin stretched his legs, Watson nimbly dunked the ball and pulled it back, and then knocked the ball back diagonally to the front of Leeds' penalty area.

Bamford cunningly bypassed Coady and ran to the front of the penalty area, just in time to receive the pass. These passes flowed smoothly and instantly tore a hole in front of the Leeds penalty area.

Bamford saw that Cooper, who was filling the position, was running up to block himself. He flicked the ball laterally to widen the angle, and then kicked and shot!

The ball was aimed at the far dead corner of the goal. In order to control the angle, the power of the shot was not particularly strong.

Just when Bamford thought he had the ball, Golini quickly bounced off the ground and made an extreme save with a single palm. When his fingertips lightly touched the ball, the angle changed a little, and the football slid out of the goal .

Bamford held his head in surprise.

The Leeds fans behind the goal originally thought that the ball must be lost, but after Gollini made a wonderful save, they couldn't help cheering for the Italian in surprise.

Gollini conceded a lot of goals this season, which put him under a lot of pressure.But the eyes of Leeds fans are discerning. If it weren't for Gollini's supernatural performance from time to time, Leeds' conceded goals would explode.

Carragher couldn't help but exclaimed in the commentary: "It's amazing, Golini magically saved this tricky shot. World-class save!"

"The ball from Middlesbrough just now cooperated very well. Let's see how Leeds will respond next."

Carragher looked at Steve on the coach's bench while explaining.

Fatty couldn't sit still anymore, he got up and paced around the command area.Fatty felt that the team still needed Ali's threat in the counterattack, so he could only sacrifice Mowat.

The fat man asked Murphy to run on the sidelines and prepare to appear on the stage.

In the 63rd minute, Leeds United replaced Mowat with Murphy. Before Murphy came on the field, the fat man kept telling him to pay attention to the protection and defense of the defense.

Although Karanka's tactics have the obvious brand of Mourinho, he still can't get rid of the Spaniard's obsession with passing and controlling football in his bones.

Boro always likes to cooperate in a small area in the offense. Karanka hopes that the offensive players will control the ball in the frontcourt, cooperate delicately, and pass the ball into the opponent's goal.

After Murphy came on the field, he quickly compressed the passing space in Boro's offense and helped the team stabilize the situation.

In the 73rd minute, Karanka made another substitution that made the fat man puzzled. He replaced left forward Tomlin with Venezuela's main left defender F. Amorebieta.

The fat man rubbed his eyes to make sure that he read correctly, Karanka did put on a left back!He also pushed him to the left winger position.

Fatty looked back at the information collected before the game and clearly remembered that the Venezuelan international had only played five games in total after being loaned out to Middlesbrough. Is this the secret weapon Karanka prepared?

The fat man couldn't keep up with Kalanka's brain circuit at all, so he had to observe first before making adjustments.

Amorebieta started dribbling after receiving the ball on the court, so slowly that people were about to fall asleep.Consistent with Fatty's conclusion after studying the video, Venezuelans have no speed.

Byram realized that the opponent sent such an extremely slow guy to face him, it was an insult to himself, and he was going to go straight up and steal the ball from the guy's feet.

Venezuelans don't have speed, but they have footwork!Seeing Byram's attack, he dodged his foot and made a pass. The placement of the pass was excellent!

Bamford took the lead and shot in front of the goal, which was a hair's breadth away!Just a little bit higher than the beam.

Fatty broke out in a cold sweat on the sidelines, and loudly reminded Byram not to rush too rashly.

The tense and high-intensity fighting caused the physical fitness of the players on both sides to decline quickly.In the 88th minute, Fatty replaced Hong Beibei, who was obviously unable to run, with Tong Ge, further strengthening the team's defense and determined to hold the advantage of this goal.

Yevez and Redfern also stepped forward to direct the players' positions together with Fatty.

But 1-0 was the most unsafe score on the court. Middlesbrough left-back Friend pressed the ball forward and returned the ball to Amorebieta. The Venezuelan made a cross.

Byram was tricked into jumping up, and the Venezuelan showed excellent ball sense, took the ball out one step, and directly shot vigorously.

The ball was played extremely trickily, hitting the lower edge of the crossbar and bouncing the goal.Gollini didn't even make a save!
Middlesbrough equalized in the away game.

Karanka raised his arms and shouted from the sidelines, yelling at the fat man.Even though they were far away, the fat man still felt saliva drifting over.

This is so disgusting.

After losing the ball, the Leeds players could no longer concentrate and failed to organize a decent attack.

With the referee's long whistle, Leeds gave away the victory at the last moment at home.

(End of this chapter)