Godfather of national football

Chapter 128 High Center Forward Tactics

In addition to football, Li Guo also likes to watch boxing matches. I remember that every Sunday morning, CCTV5 will broadcast boxing matches.

Once a guest commentator talked about the difference between professional boxers and ordinary people, that is, professional boxers must first train to be beaten, not to beat people. In fact, it is training to fight against beatings.

Ordinary people are bound to roll all over the floor when they are hit hard, but professional boxers can't do it, they have to hold on.

In fact, the same is true for football. Professional teams must have basic fighting ability, which is exactly what the Tonga team lacks.

Sure enough, after the goal was lost, the Tongan players were beating their hearts, "Is what Li Guo taught us useful?"

The game continued. Tahitian coach Etaeta stood up and walked to the sidelines. Seeing his coach get up, the Tahitian players worked harder.

Under the pressure, Tonga's formation became loose, and the three parallel lines of the 442 formation became crooked.

"It sucks, it sucks,"

"Big Sam, long time no see,"

Li Guo was very surprised that Allardyce appeared at this time.

"Li Guo, this kind of bad team, why should I show up?"

"Hehe, you can't say that. The joy of football belongs to all human beings. People here also love football."

Big Sam was silent for a while, then said, "Well, I'm going to sleep, don't wake me up."

At this time, Li Guo could see that Tonga's defense was full of loopholes from the sidelines. If Li Guo was on the court at this time, he could easily tear Tonga's defense with a pass.

"Palu, keep an eye on Chen Xiu!"

But obviously Chen Xiu, the fake Messi, is still very easy to get past Palu, "No way, I'll let Ji Ke come back to play the midfielder, just like Fellaini in Belgium, the tall guy's midfielder."

But before Li Guo changed his lineup, Tahiti scored again. This time it was Chen Xiu who dribbled the ball in the midfield and passed all the way. The Tonga players were like wooden figures.

After scoring the goal, Chen Xiu stretched out two fingers towards the audience, which means that I have already scored two goals.

If Tahiti's first goal was a counter-attack, there was still a certain element of luck, then the second goal was pure abuse, a one-stop midfielder, this goal hit the Tongan players hard.

"A small country with 10 people still wants to play in the quarter-finals, haha,"

"If we could change Tongan football in two weeks, we would have made it to the World Cup," he said.

"Dad was right. I should have played rugby, not football. There is no future in Tonga," he said.

Negative thoughts like these permeate the players. This game is different from the one in Samoa. You must know that Tahiti’s highest football FIFA ranking was 111 in the world, and Tahiti has won the Oceania Nations Cup runner-up three times, so the Tongans are afraid of Tahiti.

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Li Guo does not have the word "lose" in his dictionary, let alone admit defeat. Before the end of the first half, Li Guo walked to the sidelines, raised his right hand, and stretched out five fingers. The Tongan players saw it. This was Li Guo's order.

Li Guo once told the players that it is my responsibility to lose the game, but it is your responsibility to disobey orders.

So Palu was the first to implement Li Guo's new order. After he dribbled the ball across the midfield, he lobbed the ball into the opponent's penalty area.

The Tahitian spectators raised their heads high, followed the ball in a semi-circular motion with their eyes, and thought, "Have you changed to rugby?"

What I want to say here is that the figures of people from Oceania are similar to those in Southeast Asia. Have you ever watched Thai football? The players are small and fast, so the football here is basically impossible to pass long passes, so this is the first time for Tahitian fans to see such a style of play.

Just when everyone thought it was ridiculous, I saw a tall man jumping high in the penalty area, like a giant. In the Tahiti defense line with an average height of 1 meters, Ji Ke, who was 75 meters high, was really outstanding.

Ji Ke jumped up high, smashed the ball hard to the ground, and hit a rebound. The Tahitian goalkeeper didn't react at all.

The moment the ball flew into the goal, the Tongans were stunned and even forgot to celebrate until they saw Li Guo waving.

"Did we score?"

Although it was a foreign player who scored the goal, it was passed by a Tongan player anyway.

"Then we should celebrate."

Then the Tongans who reacted hugged and celebrated together, "We scored, we scored!"

On the other side, Tahiti's goalkeeper Roche was at a loss, "What is this? I'm going in here?"

But most Tahitian players didn't take it seriously, because the Chinese scored the goal, and everyone knew that such a thing would not happen in the official game.

The game continued, and after a goal was recovered, the Tongan players quickly recovered their mentality. Until the end of the first half, the score was still 2-1, with Tahiti leading.

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"Li Guo, your method really works, and you, Ji Ke, you are too good, how can you jump so high,"

The Tongan players were overjoyed during the intermission. In the past, when they faced Tahiti, they were slapped with stats by the opponent, but now they can still score one. On this point, the big guys can brag for a while when they go back.

Unexpectedly, Li Guo poured cold water on everyone at this time, "One ball is enough, are you satisfied? What I want is to beat the opponent."

"Li Guo is right," Palu continued.

In Tahiti, the head coach still followed the established tactics—playing fast and bullying amateur Tongan players.

Especially Chen Xiu, he didn't believe that a group of motley troops in Tonga who had been trained by Li Guo for two weeks could change anything.

After the start of the second half, Tonga still defended solidly, and then kicked forward with a big foot when they had the opportunity.

The tactics are simple and rough, but the effect is particularly good. Ji Ke has an absolute advantage in the opponent's penalty area. As long as the ball is not too outrageous, Ji Ke can create a certain threat. It is a pity that no one in Tonga is going to grab the second goal. Otherwise, the second goal would have been scored earlier.

In fact, Li Guo is already imagining the future Chinese team. Ji Ke is the fulcrum in the penalty area. If the Chinese team is playing at this time, then Ji Ke is surrounded by Chen Gelin, Shen Rui, and Sun Jihai. How many opportunities will there be?

Thinking of this, Li Guo became excited. Commanding Tonga was also rehearsing tactics for the Chinese team in the future.

But facing Tahiti, Ji Ke alone is enough. When the second half went on for 15 minutes, Ji Ke still smashed Tahiti's goal, 2 to 2.

Ji Ke made a domineering celebration, he was suspended for so long, and he was suppressed for so long. At this time, playing Tahiti was like venting his depression.

The head coach of Tahiti has sniffed out a dangerous signal. If Ji Ke is not suppressed, then Tahiti will be beaten into a sieve.

(End of this chapter)