The first time, the second time.
Chapter 128 If the sky has feelings, it will also grow old, seeing Hart [4,000 words combined chapter]
“A beautiful kick!”
“He doesn’t even need to look up to observe, and he knows the running position of his teammates!”
“Ling Feng almost dominates the midfield!”
“This young man reminds me of Xavi and Pirlo. These world-class midfielders have one thing in common, that is, they pass the ball very reasonably! There is no unnecessary movement!”
As the chief commentator of Sky Sports, Martin Taylor is the special guest commentator of this World Cup in Brazil.
He was also invited to comment passionately on this England-Columbia battle.
From the beginning of the game, he did not hesitate to praise Ling Feng in various ways.
Anyway, the audience facing his live broadcast signal are all fans in the UK, all of them are his own people.
The more he praises his country’s players, the more comfortable the audience will be.
Moreover, he did not exaggerate, but just explained Ling Feng’s outstanding performance on the field truthfully.
However, what Martin Taylor did not know was that it was not that Ling Feng did not want to take two more steps, but that once he held the ball for more than one second, the Colombian defender would come up and hit him with his body!
Sweep him with his legs!
In order to protect himself and to create space for his teammates, Ling Feng called Rooney, who was in front, to come closer to him and respond.
“Wayne, come back a little!”
“We can play two-on-one”
Hearing Ling Feng’s call, Rooney just nodded to show that he understood.
And such a small change soon paid off!
In the 40th minute of the game, Colombia failed to encircle Ling Feng in the midfield, allowing him and Rooney to play a two-on-one wall match to gain space for the pass.
Then, before the winger retreated to assist, Ling Feng made a diagonal pass to Sterling on the right.
Sterling, who got the ball, immediately took a special duck step and broke through along the side!
A standard happy soup, after going to the bottom line, Sterling made a reverse triangle pass back to find Ling Feng who was inserted from behind.
However, Colombian midfielder Sanchez followed Ling Feng closely, and the latter did not dare to take the ball.
Just as the ball rolled towards him, Ling Feng suddenly had an idea and imitated Pirlo and passed it with his legs!
“Reverse triangle pass!”
“Ling Feng. Oh my God, he passed the ball!”
The ball passed between his legs and came to the area slightly outside the top of the penalty area.
At this time, the two midfielders had been taken away by Ling Feng, and Gerrard, who was inserted at high speed, was not guarded!
He was not polite and shot directly at the ball!
“Gerrard!!!”
The players from both sides heard a loud “bang” and the ball shot out with a strong sound of breaking wind, heading straight for the goal.
Unfortunately, the angle was too straight, and Ospina directly punched the ball with both fists, blocking the ball out of the goal.
The ball flew to the right, and Sturridge, who reacted quickly, wanted to follow up with a supplementary shot, but was cleared by Colombian right back Suniga, who got ahead of him, and resolved this threatening attack.
Even so, the English fans at the scene still gave their players warm applause.
“Ling’s missed ball is wonderful!”
“It seems that this young man has a strong learning ability. This wave of combination of wing and center is exactly the same as the first goal scored by Italy in the first round!”
“Unfortunately, Gerrard’s long shot was too straight.”
Gerrard’s powerful shot scared the Colombian fans in the audience.
Colombian coach Pekerman on the sidelines suddenly frowned.
Ling Feng’s threat in the front court was too great, so he had to send someone to closely guard him.
However, Ling Feng was not the only one in the England team who could threaten the goal!
Even if Ling Feng did not have the ball, he could attract defense and create space for his teammates to shoot.
There were five or six minutes left before the end of the first half. If another goal was scored in the first half, the game would be over.
Thinking of this, Pekerman shouted to his disciples on the field without hesitation:
“Go back to the half court!”
“Defend well!”
So, with a big wave of the head coach on the sidelines, Colombia once again contracted its defense and stopped pressing in the front court.
On the one hand, they pressed for more than ten minutes and needed to take a breath;
On the other hand, they also realized that England’s counterattack was very threatening.
Once they pressed too high, England’s counterattack could put them to death
!
You know, in football matches, goals are often more likely to appear at the last moment of the first and second half.
That’s because after maintaining a long period of concentration, the players on the field will inevitably feel tired.
Whenever you think that there are only a few minutes left before the half-time, you will inevitably relax a little.
And it is at this time that running will become lazy, defense will become careless, and the opponent will have a better chance to score a goal!
Gerrard’s long shot was a wake-up call for them.
Of course, it’s not just the Colombian players who need to take a breath, the English players who have been suppressed for 20 minutes also need to take a breath.
In this way, under England’s back-to-back control, the little time left in the first half was also consumed.
. . .
Due to the lead in the score, the atmosphere in the English locker room was relatively relaxed.
“Guys, you did a great job in the first half! I am very satisfied with your performance!”
“But the game is not over yet, don’t relax!”
“Keep focusing!”
After affirming and encouraging his disciples’ performance, Hodgson immediately made specific tactical arrangements:
“Ling, Wayne!”
“The number three on the opposite side is very slow and turns slowly, we can play more behind-the-back balls.”
The number three is Yepes, the captain and defensive leader of Colombia.
For the Colombian central defender combination, Zapata is responsible for intercepting and Yepes is responsible for back-up defense.
In the first half, it was Yepes’s delay that allowed Rooney to successfully counter-offside, receive Ling Feng’s through-the-crotch pass, and face the goalkeeper alone.
So, this is definitely a weakness that the opponent can exploit.
The two full-backs of Colombia are fast enough and can go up and down, and Sturridge and Sterling’s breakthrough success rate is not high.
Letting Rooney retreat and increase the coordinated attack with Ling Feng in the middle was Hodgson’s tactical change in the second half.
Upon hearing this, Ling Feng and Rooney nodded to show that they understood.
This was what they were doing in the second half of the first half, so they were not unfamiliar with it.
Rooney’s retreat has two advantages.
It can not only support Ling Feng who was being marked, but also lead out the faster central defender Zapata, and then counter-insert behind another central defender Yepes, so as to achieve the goal of threatening the goal.
Although the two did not play together on the court for a short time.
However, the football quotient of top players is enough to make them reach a certain tacit understanding and understand each other’s ideas.
The first goal is enough to prove this!
After a short halftime break, the players of both sides returned to the court again.
Colombia, which was behind, took the lead in making substitutions, replacing Gutierrez, who was mediocre in the first half, with Carlos Bacca, a striker who played for Sevilla in La Liga.
At this time, the camera was focused on Ling Feng, who walked slowly into the stadium with a calm face.
“Ling Feng’s performance today is as steady as ever. This 19-year-old supernova from the newly promoted Leicester City in the Premier League is using his strength to tell the world that England has a future midfield master.”
After a while, the camera immediately found the number 10 of Colombia.
Compared with Ling Feng, James Rodriguez frowned, as if thinking about how to help the team overcome this backward adversity.
The language of the camera is self-evident.
“Compared to Ling Feng, who once again sent out a fatal assist today, James Rodriguez, who was killing in the group stage, seemed a little quiet under the key defense of Gerrard and Henderson.”
“However, he is still the most threatening player in Colombia’s frontcourt. We can’t relax our defense against him, otherwise, we will definitely pay the price.”
“Okay, the referee blew the whistle, and the second half of the game between England and Colombia began!”
In the second half, Colombia kicked off.
After receiving Bacca’s pass, James Rodriguez directly passed the ball to Cuadrado on the right.
In this Colombian team, the strongest explosive point in the frontcourt is definitely Cuadrado, who is nicknamed “Baoqiang”.
Playing for the “Flavian Lily” in Serie A, Cuadrado is fast and has excellent footwork. He is one of the best dribblers in Serie A.
In the first half, Colombia’s several threatening attacks all came from the right side where he was.
His explosive cross from the bottom of the right side, combined with James Rodriguez’s long shot in the middle, is also an offensive routine that Colombia relies on very much.
After getting the ball, Cuadrado looked at the left back Baines in front of him, and Gerrard who came to assist in defense, and did not hesitate to carry the ball forward.
However, Baines is not a vegetarian.
Although he is nearly 30 years old, his speed and confrontation still show no signs of decline.
Facing Quadrado
In the one-on-one duel with Cuadrado, he first stepped back sideways and waited for Gerrard to come to assist.
Then when the opponent was about to start to cook soup, he seized the opportunity to block his position and poked the ball out of the sideline.
Obviously, Baines had the upper hand in this round of offense and defense.
However, in football games, the offense and defense are inherently unequal.
The attacker can make mistakes when attacking.
However, the defender cannot make mistakes!
Once a mistake is made, it will be fatal!
Obviously, Colombia has changed its offensive strategy and played more simply, directly and aggressively.
The back midfielder or full-back takes the ball and directly divides it to the right side.
And J Luo in the middle will also cruise to the right side, pass and cooperate with Cuadrado, and attack the right side.
Compared with Henderson who is close to the left side, Gerrard’s defensive speed is slower.
Therefore, the right side has become the main attack direction of Colombia!
In the 53rd minute of the game, Colombia attacked on the right side again!
“Baoqiang” advanced along the wing with the ball, but was defended by Gerrard and Baines.
Seeing the space being squeezed smaller and smaller, Cuadrado shook his ankle and passed the ball between Gerrard’s legs to James Rodriguez who came to the middle to receive it.
And James Rodriguez passed a straight pass without stopping the ball.
“Beautiful pass!”
“Two-on-two!”
This beautiful wall-to-wall cooperation allowed Cuadrado to break out of the encirclement and get a breakthrough space on the right side of the front court.
There was an open space in front of him, and Cuadrado dribbled the ball forward at high speed and went down the bottom.
In desperation, Cahill could only come over to make up for the defense immediately.
There was no way, compared with Jagielka, his speed was still a little faster.
But not much faster.
Cahill blocked the space for Cuadrado to cut inside, and the latter looked up at the middle and directly kicked a low pass.
Bacca, who had just come on the field, was desperately trying to get to the front point.
Fortunately, Jagielka in the middle reacted quickly and kicked the ball forward before Bacca.
With a “bang”, the ball flew to the top of the midfield arc.
Ling Feng was waiting here!
However, before Ling Feng could stop the ball with his chest, the Colombian midfielder Aguilar rushed up from behind.
He raised his hands and pressed on Ling Feng’s shoulders, preventing the latter from jumping, and at the same time, he jumped high and headed the ball back.
The landing point of the ball was just J. Luo not far in front!
Facing the ball flying towards him, J. Luo first used his chest to cushion it and turned around.
Then when the ball fell to the mid-air, he swung his left leg violently and volleyed it directly!
He didn’t even observe the position of the goal and the goalkeeper before shooting, and just shot directly.
With a “bang”, the ball turned into a cannonball and went straight to the upper right corner of the goal.
Then, when it was close to the goal, it suddenly fell significantly.
Even though Joe Hart tried his best to jump up and make a save, he couldn’t stop the ball from going into the dead corner.
“Wow!”
“James Rodriguez!”
“What an amazing goal!”
“This goal is so wonderful! It can be selected as the best goal of this World Cup!!!”
Whether it is the tens of thousands of fans in the Maracana Stadium or the millions of viewers in front of the TV, they were almost shocked by James Rodriguez’s shot.
Then, the Colombian fans in the stands celebrated wildly, giving the warmest cheers for this wonderful goal and the team’s equalizer!
In sharp contrast, the English fans all put their hands on their heads and showed an incredible expression.
At the same time, Ling Feng, who witnessed the entire process of the goal, suddenly widened his eyes, and his heart was filled with shock.
Damn!
This goal is very similar to the shocking world wave that James Rodriguez scored in the knockout match between Colombia and Uruguay in history!
He paused with his chest, turned half way and volleyed!
Comparing the two goals in his mind, except for the different opponents and goalkeepers, all the details are almost the same!
Ling Feng did not expect that his butterfly changed the fate of England’s elimination in the group stage, and also changed the fate of many people, but failed to change James Rodriguez’s one-goal fame!
This Colombian national treasure scored this amazing goal that shocked the world in the quarter-finals!
However, when he saw Joe Hart standing in front of the goal with a helpless look on his face, he blinked his eyes and suddenly felt that everything made sense.
As the saying goes, the sky is also sentimental and the sky is old, seeing Hart’s kick!
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