road to victory

Chapter 23 Continue to Dormant
In the match between the Bordeaux youth team and the Toulouse youth team, Vincent still adopted a defensive-oriented strategy.It is still the new four who defend and counterattack for the central axis.Today Vincent deliberately put Lamotte on the bench, wanting him to play in the second half to feel the atmosphere of the game.

After the opening, the Bordeaux youth team retreated into their own half like an ebb tide, and started a half-time offensive and defensive drill. In the eyes of Bordeaux players, this is already a common thing, and there will be no resistance, because the team always Yes, he will win, but the time is not enough now.

The style of the Toulouse youth team is similar to that of the previous Bordeaux youth team, with delicate skills, good at small cooperation, and mainly ground attack.Today they still continued their style, passing the ball back and forth about 20 meters in front of the Bordeaux penalty area, in order to pull out a gap to pass the ball.The time on the court just passed by every minute and every second, and the two teams were in such a stalemate on the court. It was not until 10 minutes after the opening that the Toulouse youth team organized an effective attack. Bottom line shot.

No. 17 minutes, Distin steals the direct pass from the Toulouse youth team and sends a long pass to Drogba. Passed back to the midfielder, the midfielder passed the ball to Sanuno, Sanuno flashed an empty long-range shot after passing an opponent's player, and the ball hit the side net.

Drogba stood helplessly in the penalty area and spread his hands to Sanuno, who raised his hand in apology.Seeing this action, Fan Shang is very satisfied, which shows that the team is united, at least the few players Fan Shang relies on are relatively friendly.

"Have you seen how the opponent's full-back defends?" Vincent said to Lamotte beside him, "Take a good look at his defense. That guy's position and defensive awareness are good, you learn from it."

Ramot nodded and fixed his eyes on the full-back of the Toulouse youth team.

In the 25th minute, the Bordeaux youth team launched a counterattack again. This time Sanuno directly dribbled the ball forward from the backcourt. After passing the center circle, he found that the opponent's central defender was a bit forward, and gestured for Drogba. Then it was a direct pass to find the central defender behind.While chasing the ball, Drogba struggled with the opponent's central defender, and finally squeezed the opponent's central defender away with his strength. Just when he was about to take the ball, the opponent's full-back rushed to destroy the ball.

"Have you seen it clearly?" Fan Shang turned his head and asked La Motte

"I see, I looked carefully." The implication is that there is no need for Fan Shang to remind.

Fan Shang felt that no one could be blamed for the ball, only bad luck.He didn't blow the wind to the players, but just let the players continue to defend and counterattack until the end of the first half.In the next 5 minutes, the Toulouse youth team attacked like chicken blood for 5 minutes, but in the end they all returned without success.

"Don't care about the conceded goal. It's just one exception. You didn't make any mistakes, but God doesn't want us to continue to defend. He wants to see our offense, so he makes us fall behind." Fan Shang used a relaxed attitude to communicate with the players They said, "What Toulouse must have thought in the second half was that we conceded the ball. After the opening, we must concentrate on attacking for a while. However, if we can't do what he wants, we will still defend in the second half and start attacking after defending for 20 minutes. We need to score in the last 25 minutes. The ball, try to create corners and free kicks, throw-ins are also fine."

"You can't lose the ball in the second half, Sylvain, Eric, you two pay attention to the opponent's forwards, they are faster and flexible on their feet, you two need to stand in advance, it will be very dangerous if you lose your position .” Vincent told Distin and Abidal
At the beginning of the second half of the game, the Toulouse youth team obviously accelerated the pace of attack, but the Bordeaux youth team still defended tightly and did not give the opponent a chance. The two strikers of the Toulouse youth team played awkwardly. They were vigilant nearby, for fear of repeating the situation in the first half.

At the end of the first half, Fan Shang encouraged the players one by one at the entrance of the tunnel, and then he returned to a more conscious mind.

Fan Shang was speechless, and turned his gaze back to the field.Until No. 40 minutes, the Toulouse youth team organized an attack, and then the midfielder saw that there was no chance, so he raised his foot and shot from ten meters in front of the penalty area. The ball was not fast and the angle was not tricky.The goalkeeper had already judged the position and was waiting to catch the ball, but just as he was about to crash into the goalkeeper's arms, the ball bounced on the turf and changed direction. The goalkeeper was stunned and subconsciously reached out to block it. The ball was hit by him luckily.The two opposing forwards and Distin and Abidal went, and the four went to grab the ball. The opposing forward moved a little away from the ball and raised his foot to shoot.Seeing the situation, Distin threw his body out to block the hole of the gun, but the opponent's striker was obviously faster, and the ball rolled into the goal lightly with his toes. 0:1 The Toulouse youth team led the Bordeaux youth team away.

"You, let me go out to warm up now. I'll tell you what you need to do at the beginning." Vincent pointed to La Motte.Ramot nodded and got up and went out of the locker room to warm up on the field with the substitute players.

At this time, Vincent said to Lamotte on the sidelines, "Don't attack after playing, don't go to the frontcourt except for free kicks and throw-ins, and try not to enter the penalty area of ​​your own side, which is easy to foul. You just go to the opponent's player Physical contact, make them afraid, make them afraid to make physical contact with you, and I will let you attack when the time comes, understand?"

"Okay, I see." Ramot nodded
In the 55th minute of the game, Lamotte replaced his right midfielder. Lamotte's position was a right back. The original right back moved forward to the position of a full-back and leaned a little towards the center. Vincent hoped that he could assist the midfielder. defense.

After Lamotte came on the field, he specifically had a physical confrontation with the opponent's left player, which knocked the left side of the Toulouse youth team upside down.He himself received a yellow card after 10 minutes on the pitch.But Toulouse players on the left no longer dare to approach Lamotte, for fear of being knocked into the air.Vincent stood up, called Sanuno, and told him to start attacking, mainly around Ramot's right, asking Sanuno to pass behind the opponent's left back, and let Ramot compete with them for speed and body.Afterwards, Vincent called Lamotte over again and told him to start attacking, run more off the ball, dribble less, pass more, try to create corner kicks, free kicks and throw-ins.

In the 70th minute, under the signal of Vincent, the team started to attack. First, Drogba received a header from Ramot's cross.Immediately afterwards, when Lamotte crossed again, the central defender kicked the ball out of the baseline first.Corner awarded to Bordeaux Youth Team.

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