Beast King Costa

Chapter 240

Back from the halftime break, the head coaches of both sides seemed to have reached an agreement after the first half - to let the starting players play for a while before making substitution adjustments.

Therefore, the starting players of both sides are still on the court, but the players on the bench have begun to warm up and are waiting to play at any time.

"Beep..."

With the whistle of the referee, the second half of the game begins!
Compared with the "three-axe" attack at the beginning of the first half, the Shandong team played more cautiously after returning from the second half.

In addition to the foreign aid high center Igor at the forefront, the team captain Li Yinyu retreated to the midfield and participated more in the midfield pass control scheduling.

As the current top scorer in the country, Li Yinyu not only has a good sense of smell in front of the goal, but also his footwork is quite good.

Same as Zheng Zhi, not fancy, but very solid basic skills!
As long as Li Yinyu has the ball, the midfielders of the Shandong team dare to run forward, and they will not worry that Li Yinyu will be robbed by the opponent and lose the ball, or there will be some low-level pass errors.

In this way, Tubakovic's team played more like a 4-5-1 formation in the second half of the game.

This is a bit of an imitation of Fernando Santos' tactical formation, but in about 5 minutes from the start of the second half to the present, the players of the Shandong team did not have any dissatisfaction with this formation.

Perhaps, the Shandong team has practiced this formation mainly based on midfield control and defense before, right?
Although it can be regarded as going sideways in the domestic arena, in the AFC Champions League, the Shandong team has to face many strong teams-such as the giants Gamba Osaka in the J-League of Japan, the class bully Jeonbuk Hyundai and West Asia in the K-League of South Korea. Al Sadd, the "Golden Dollar Battleship" of the Qatar League, and Persepolis, the Iranian giants.

Seeing that the teammates in the midfield fell silent, Diego also felt a little helpless in the frontcourt.

After all, if there is no midfield teammate to deliver shells to him, his running and activities in the frontcourt will seem futile.

That being the case, why not find a way to grab the ball yourself!

Just do it!

When Diego hadn't touched the ball since the beginning of the second half, he directly retreated to the midfield and began to press against Li Yinyu, the captain of the Shandong team who held the ball more often.

Now, it became very difficult for Li Yinyu to hold the ball.

After all, Diego's physical fitness is not comparable to several young midfielders in Benfica.

That granite-like body forced Li Yinyu to the point where he couldn't even stand firmly, let alone sort out a good distribution line for his teammates who were advancing forward.

In the 53rd minute of the game, Diego successfully robbed the midfielder!
What Diego robbed was the ball at the foot of Shandong team captain Li Yinyu!

Immediately afterwards, Diego subconsciously played a two-for-one cooperation with the teammate closest to him, and directly passed Zhou Haibin who was robbing.

It's just a pity that this teammate, who didn't even care about Diego's name, gave the ball too hard. Before Diego could hold the ball, Liu Jindong, who had already been intercepted, made a big clearance.

If this were to be replaced by Beto or Nelson playing two-for-one with himself, then such low-level mistakes would definitely not occur.

There is a high probability that I can get a chance to directly challenge the two central defenders of the Shandong team.

Just when Diego complained like that young teammate, "This ball can be given a little bit of force, you are sending it directly to the opponent's central defender", Liu Jindong actually gave it to the big ball by accident. On top of the front foreign aid Igor!

Since he was not directly facing David Luiz who was defending the gate, Igor easily used his height of 190 cm to hold the ball.

Igor did not have Diego's footwork and individual impact ability. After he caught the ball, he played a good role as a "bridgehead" and returned the ball to the feet of Zheng Zhi who came forward!

At this moment, Benfica's defense sounded the alarm!

Fernando Santos on the sidelines also sensed the danger of losing the ball. He shouted to the players on the field: "Defend the Shandong team's No. 10 player! Don't let him play the ball!"

Although Benfica's two regular main players, Assis and Nelson, both rushed forward immediately, Zheng Zhi calmly passed the ball to the center.

Li Yinyu, the captain of the Shandong team who followed up in the middle, took the ball and did not shoot directly.

Under the interception of David Luiz and another central defender, he actually made a breakthrough from the middle and moved into the small penalty area!

After attracting Moreto to follow him to the right goal post, Li Yinyu suddenly stabbed with his left foot in a concealed way, and hit Moreto with a ball through the crotch!

As a tall goalkeeper with a height of 196 centimeters, what Moretto is most afraid of is being hit by his opponent.

Even though he had reacted in time, he still couldn't stop the ball before it passed through his crotch.

1 is better than 2!

More than 3 spectators at the Jinan Olympic Sports Center cheered thunderously!

After scoring the goal, Li Yinyu also gave Zheng Zhi a high-five to celebrate. His confident smile was enough to show that he was not surprised that he scored a goal today.

"This goal made me see the shadow of Ruud van Nistelrooy, the 'King of the Small Box'!"

The old coach Fernando Santos said to his coaching staff with emotion: "Indeed! The No. 7 captain of the Shandong team, if he is not a little bit older, otherwise he should really play in the five major leagues. In China Playing in the league is really a waste of such a rare striker talent!"

Fernando Santos' assistant coach nodded and said: "The data shows that this player is 29 years old this year."

"It's a pity! If he can be four or five years younger, I will definitely consider introducing him to my team! What a small penalty area killer."

Fernando Santos is looking forward to it. The No. 7 player of the Shandong team can score another wonderful goal.

But it is a pity that Tubakovic is very conservative about the goal of this game-it is enough to score one goal.

After Li Yinyu scored the goal, the entire Shandong team withdrew and began to control the rhythm of the game.

The small players on the sidelines of the Shandong team also finished their warm-up and began to change their jerseys to prepare to replace the main players of the first team to rest.

Seeing that the Shandong team was about to make a substitution, the old coach Santos explained to his assistant: "It is almost the 60th minute that we negotiated with coach Tubakovic, and we should also make substitution adjustments so that more The young players went up and kicked."

As a friendly match, the number of substitutions is not subject to any restrictions.

Benfica's assistant coaches greeted 6 young players to prepare to play, and he prepared to replace all the main players including Moreto.

Let the last 30 minutes of the game become a direct dialogue between the young players of the two countries.

(End of this chapter)