fat man who can't play football

Chapter 69 Duel

After half an hour of the game, Leeds United didn't even score a goal.But at the same time, the Leeds players were very resolute in implementing Fatty's tactics. They kept encircling and pressing on the field, so Middleburg only got three chances to hit the goal, and none of them hit the target.

Gary Neville couldn't sit still on the sidelines: "I have to say that Steve's tactics are too negative. This is simply killing football games. If I were the head coach, I would definitely not adopt this boring tactic."

Carragher responded: "Yes, Gary. So you can only be Hodgson's deputy in the national team. It is even more unfortunate that the England you led failed to even pass the group stage in last year's World Cup."

Neville ended the conversation with a polite but awkward smile.

Steve stood on the sidelines and carefully observed what happened on the court. So far, the fat man is very satisfied with the performance of the players.

It seemed that the players were not dissatisfied with this passive tactic at all, which made Fatty very relieved that the players trusted him.

I must bring you into the Premier League! Fatty shouted silently in his heart.

Originally, the fat man was a little worried about Tong Ge's performance. After all, the veteran has not yet been able to get the team's contract extension, so he must have foreseen the end of his departure.Even so, he still tried his best in the game and galloped all over the field.

In his previous life, Fatty would always hear some rumors: Some players in the Chinese Super League team would inexplicably perform abnormally in key games, because they knew their own strength, once the team reached the Chinese Super League, they would lose their jobs .

So every year in the last few rounds of the Chinese Premier League team, many strange things will happen.

Fatty is very fortunate that Tongge has a high professional ethics, as long as he is in the team for a day, he will give his all.

The Middlesbrough players who were forced away from the penalty area by Leeds United's excellent defense slowly lost patience and began to try to solve the problem with long shots. This may be the most feasible way to break the dense defense.

But the feet of the Boro players are too bad. Most of the shots were fired with anti-aircraft guns. Perhaps the constant entanglement of the Leeds players consumed them too much energy.

The head coaches of the two teams focused on the situation on the field, but the fans in the stands felt that the game was extremely boring.

Middlesbrough fans began to boo louder and louder, dissatisfied with Leeds' wretched tactics.But Leeds United couldn't control the ball most of the time, and these boos affected the Middlesbrough players who were attacking with the ball, which was really not worth the candle.

Under various pressures, the Boro players became more impatient in handling the ball, causing the Leeds players to break the ball several times.But Leeds had too few frontcourt players to form an effective counterattack.

Middlesbrough looked like they were playing against Leeds United, but most of the time they could only make some ineffective passes. Although the number of passes and pass success rate were beautiful, they were useless.

Most of these passes were inversions and meaningless crosses by midfielders, which did not threaten Leeds' goal at all.

The first half passed like this. The fans of both sides may be dissatisfied with this kind of game. There was no wonderful surmounting, not even a few decent shots, let alone a goal. The stadium was full of boos.

But Fatty was very satisfied, everything that happened on the field was exactly what he wanted.

In fact, Fatty knew in his heart that this tactic would consume a lot of physical strength of the players. Thanks to the stamina stored during the previous intermission, the players seemed to be able to hold on.

But at this time, they must be given some psychological massage.

"How are you feeling, lads?"

"It's okay, boss. Our defense didn't give them much chance."

"Beautiful, continue to play like this in the second half and completely suppress the rhythm of the game, they will become more and more impatient."

"Okay, boss."

"Relax and relax now, and tighten up as soon as I play."

The players started to slap their thighs, how happy it is to have obedient disciples, Fatty couldn't help feeling.

At the beginning of the second half, Karanka replaced Kike with Bamford.After all, Bamford still has a bit of skill at his feet, and he might be able to solve the problem with his personal ability.

Boro obviously wanted to speed up, they accelerated the speed of passing and receiving the ball on the field.

All of this was expected by the fat man. Can such a simple change break the Leeds bus?It is too naive.

Fatty saw that the problem with Boro was that there was no hot spot on the field.There is no player with strong technical ability and fast speed who can take the ball out of Leeds' encirclement by himself. If there is such a person, Leeds' defense will be very passive.

After surviving the first 15 minutes of the second half, the hearts of the Boro players were obviously worn out.

This gave the fat man a little more thought, and he immediately turned around and asked Ali to go out to warm up.

In the 61st minute, Fatty replaced Mowat with Ali, which gave the Leeds players a signal to counterattack.

In training, Ali and the single striker couldn't play a quick counterattack, but there may be a chance in the current situation. Even the central defenders of Middlesbrough have overwhelmed the central circle.

The opportunity came faster than the fat man expected, 3 minutes later.Cook tackled Bamford's ball in the backcourt and drove directly to the frontcourt with a big kick.

Wood relied on his tall body to grab this point and ferry the ball to Ali who had just played.

Seeing that there was only one central defender left in front of him, Ali chose to go it alone.

Directly passing the ball alone, Ayala's turn was obviously slow.

Ali picked up the speed, and he caught up with the ball going out.

Ayala kept pulling and interfering behind him.

But I can't hold back Ali who has started to speed up!

Ali strode the ball to the front of the Middlesbrough penalty area, and the goalkeeper abandoned the goal.

A flying tackle with legs splayed, the ball rolled out of the touchline, and Ali fell hard, writhing in agony on the grass.

"Foul!" Fatty yelled loudly from the sidelines.

"Breaking NM's rules!" Kalanka responded.

The referee put the whistle to his lips, put it down after thinking about it, and made a throw-in gesture.

Leeds United players quickly stepped forward and surrounded the referee, they couldn't believe their eyes!They felt it was an obvious foul!

Fatty hit the ceiling of the coach's bench with a punch from the sidelines. Like his disciples, he didn't understand the referee's decision.

Neville watched the replay on the sidelines and said: "Maybe Leeds United will be dissatisfied with this penalty, but judging from the slow-motion replay, the Middlesbrough goalkeeper did tackle the ball first."

Carragher went on to say: "But the ball moves too much. The referee may have been disturbed by the home fans."

In the end, Leeds could only choose to accept the referee's penalty, but this counterattack also gave Fatty more confidence in the game. With an aggressive defense, the Middlesbrough players will be more cautious in attacking.

Kalanka obviously felt that the situation was not good and decided to make some adjustments.He chose to use the "lucky star" Amorebeta from the previous game to open the game, and Tomlin was still replaced.

After the Venezuelan came on the field, he communicated with captain Leadbite, and Leadbite then just stuck to Ali.

Seeing this scene, Fatty's brows began to twist, and the loophole seemed to be plugged by Kalanka.

Bamford still wanted to rely on his own ability to solve problems, but soon he found that his thinking was too simple.

He wanted to rely on changes in the rhythm of dribbling to get rid of Cook's defense. After pulling the ball with his left and right feet, he suddenly waded out the ball and began to accelerate.

But he made a stupid choice. Cook turned quickly and scooped the ball away from his feet.

Bamford was cut off again.

(End of this chapter)