The first time, the second time.
Chapter 134 Do you think you are the Welshman? ! [Four thousand words combined chapter]
Just when the English players were depressed, a familiar voice sounded in their ears:
“Come on, guys!”
Looking in the direction of the voice, I saw Ling Feng clapping his hands and shouting loudly:
“The game has just started!”
“We still have plenty of time to equalize the score!”
Standing not far away, the captain of the Three Lions, Gerrard, was not angry that Ling Feng had taken his “job”.
On the contrary, he felt very relieved.
After a short time together, he knew that this young man was always full of fighting spirit and had a competitive spirit that never gave up!
Compared with other young international players with softer personalities, such as Wilshere, Sterling, Chamberlain and others, Ling Feng has a tougher personality.
In the team, Henderson is also this type of player.
However, perhaps because Gerrard, the club captain, is in the team, Henderson is very quiet both in the locker room and on the field.
On the contrary, Ling Feng, who was selected for the national team for the first time, is not stage fright at all.
He often calls out to his teammates on the field, verbally encourages and reminds them, even if his teammates have played for the national team more times than him.
The most important thing is that he is outstanding in strength. He can not only pass the ball to his teammates, but also is willing to actively defend in the frontcourt.
No matter which national team or club team, there are factions.
However, the strong are always worthy of respect.
What’s more, who doesn’t like a midfielder who can feed the forward and retreat to defend? !
And with Ling Feng’s amazing performance in this World Cup, his status in the locker room has long been different from the past.
No matter which faction, they all want to pull Ling Feng into their faction to increase their voice in the locker room.
Gerrard is also very optimistic about Ling Feng’s prospects in the Three Lions.
He even talked to Hodgson privately that Ling Feng has a natural leadership temperament.
This young man can take the initiative to stand up, motivate teammates and boost the morale of the team when the team is in adversity.
Such a sense of responsibility is not something every player has!
Perhaps, after Rooney, Ling Feng will be a new leader who will lead the Three Lions to move forward in the future.
Of course, those are things for the future.
Now, what they have to consider is how to arouse the team’s desire to win and compete with Brazil!
Thinking of this, Gerrard also clapped his hands and raised his arms, echoing:
“Ling is right!”
“The game has only started for five minutes, which means we still have 85 minutes to tie the score, or even overtake!”
“So, move your damn butts and run!”
With Ling Feng’s encouragement and Gerrard’s loud rebuke, the confusion on the faces of the Three Lions players faded slightly.
Instead, they were determined!
Hodgson, who was on the bench, had a worried look on his face.
Originally, before losing the ball, Hodgson was planning to show off and compete with the Brazilian team.
However, losing the ball so quickly was completely beyond his expectations.
He also realized that his tactics were not strong enough to protect the team’s right side!
The most urgent task is not to lose the ball again in a short time!
Once Brazil scores another goal, the team’s morale will definitely suffer a major blow.
Then, this game is likely to turn into a massacre!
So, Hodgson turned around and whispered a few words to his assistant.
The latter suddenly stood up from the coaching seat, came to the sidelines, and called Ling Feng, the commander on the field, to the sidelines.
“Ling, you let Jamie and Raheem retreat to the center circle, and you also retreat to the midfield. We can’t lose the ball again, understand!”
“Understood.”
As Hodgson made tactical changes, Vardy and Sterling, two wingers, retreated directly to the position of wing forwards, and Ling Feng also retreated to the midfield, standing parallel to Gerrard and Henderson, to assist the midfield defense.
The formation of the Three Lions changed from 4231 to 451, and they played a defensive counterattack.
Facing the aggressive Samba Army, playing a defensive counterattack is not shameful!
As the entire formation retreated significantly, all members of the Three Lions retreated to their own half.
Ling Feng’s retreat allowed Henderson to leave the center and move closer to the right side to closely guard Neymar.
With Sterling’s return defense, as soon as Neymar gets the ball, two people will come to press him.
Of course, Neymar is not the kind of person who will not easily give up dribbling when facing a key defense.
Dribbling with the ball to create threats is his playing style, and it is also the Samba DNA engraved in his bones!
Seeing Henderson following him all the way like a piece of taffy, it aroused his desire to dribble.
When Henderson came forward to press, he did not pass the ball back immediately, but deliberately kept controlling the ball in front of him, and then passed him over and over again with extraordinary footwork.
However, Henderson, who used his eyes to repel the beauty of the world, would not indulge him.
When Neymar tried to pass through the crotch again, Henderson turned sideways and exerted force on his shoulder, knocking him to the ground directly.
Accompanied by a very realistic and shrill scream of “Ah”, the referee’s whistle sounded in time!
The referee came to the “crime scene” immediately
“Hey, give this rough guy a card!”
Looking at Neymar sitting on the ground and making a card gesture to the referee, Henderson didn’t even look at him, but patted his shoulder and explained to the referee:
“You saw, I didn’t kick, it was just a reasonable confrontation!”
Considering that the nature of this foul was just an ordinary foul, and it was the first time, the referee did not give Henderson a card, but just gave him a verbal warning:
“The action is too big, stop it!”
“Okay.”
Nodding to the referee, Henderson slowly stepped back.
He didn’t speak Spanish.
Therefore, Henderson just stared at Neymar without saying a word, as if saying to him:
“If you dare to show off in front of me again, I will continue to do you!”
Even if he didn’t speak, through Henderson’s deterrent death gaze, Neymar, who was standing in front of the ball, still clearly felt the “message” conveyed by the other party.
Neymar is least afraid of players who talk trash.
Because in Brazil, all opponents who are easily passed by him will use trash talk to cover up the embarrassment and anger of being fooled by him.
However, he is really afraid of tough guys like Henderson who are ruthless and talk little.
Such players can be defeated.
But they will never be destroyed!
Sure enough, after this wave of deterrence by Henderson, Neymar also restrained himself a little and dared not continue to show off too much in front of him.
In Neymar’s view, he wants to lead Brazil to win the powerful gold cup at home.
If he angered his opponent because of too much dribbling and was tackled off the court, how can he help the team win the championship? !
So he reduced unnecessary showmanship and passed the ball more.
Neymar played more reasonably and the threat was still huge.
However, England’s tactical change of increasing the number of defenders on the right side still achieved significant results.
At least Neymar’s breakthrough space on the left became smaller, and he could not cooperate calmly with Marcelo who came in from behind.
As the offensive on the left languished, Oscar, who was responsible for organizing and dispatching in the middle, had to pass the ball to Hulk on the right.
Compared with Johnson on the right, the left-back Baines is both offensive and defensive. He is not tall, but has good speed and confrontation ability.
Of course, in front of Hulk, whose physical fitness is explosive, he still can’t stand it.
Fortunately, Vardy’s return defense greatly reduced his defensive pressure.
Vardy’s body is not tall and strong.
However, his excellent core strength allows him to not lose in the confrontation.
In front of Hulk, who is as strong as an ox, he is like a hyena, fighting again and again, constantly harassing his opponent.
Coupled with Ling Feng’s defense in the middle, Brazil’s two side attacks were restricted to a certain extent.
Oscar in the middle can only try to pass some penetrating passes to find Fred in front.
However, the latter is better at smelling the goal, and has no advantage in speed and confrontation.
Often, as soon as he got the ball, he was squeezed by Smalling or Cahill and lost the ball.
Over time, Oscar did not pass the ball to him, but patiently looked for better passing opportunities.
As Brazil’s offensive rhythm slowed down, England finally survived the fierce attack in the first fifteen minutes of the game and could take a breath and control the ball under his feet.
While running in the backcourt to receive the pass from the defender, Ling Feng observed the gaps in the opponent’s formation through his [God’s Vision].
As the overall formation pressed forward, Brazil’s backcourt had a lot of space.
The first step of the defensive counterattack tactic, “defense”, has been achieved.
Then, the next step is counterattack!
In his opinion, Brazil’s defense line is not impeccable.
In addition to Tia
Apart from Go Silva, the other three are all offensive defenders.
Especially the two wingers, Marcelo and Maicon, are both super full-backs who can play one-stop on the wing.
However, compared with Marcelo who is at his peak, Maicon, once the “world’s number one right back”, has become the weakest link in this line of defense.
Since he suffered a meniscus injury in his right knee in 2011, he has been frequently troubled by injuries in recent years, and his competitive state has declined greatly.
Once a professional player is over 30 years old, his physical function will decline significantly.
And the speed and physical fitness that Maicon once relied on have also declined significantly.
In order to avoid the situation where he makes an assist and then cannot come back.
Scolari specifically told him to make fewer forward runs and stay in the backcourt as much as possible to help defend.
In the tactical meeting before the game, Hodgson emphasized that Maicon on the right side might be their breakthrough.
Although Vardy, the starting left winger, is not as fast and capable as Bale, who is on a colorful cloud.
However, Maicon today is no longer the world’s No. 1 right back who swept across Europe with Inter Milan in 2010!
It’s worth a try!
So, when England was in possession of the ball, Ling Feng moved to the left and approached Vardy for cooperation.
In the 25th minute of the game, after Ling Feng retreated to the midfield to get the ball, he took two steps forward with the ball, and then made a diagonal pass to Vardy on the left.
The next second, Vardy heard a familiar voice in his ear:
“Jamie, pass him!”
Upon hearing this, Vardy seemed to have been injected with a dose of cardiotonic, his eyes were sharp, and his right leg pushed the ball to the left without hesitation.
Then, he kicked his legs hard, and the whole person suddenly accelerated to follow up!
A soup!
Maicon seemed to be slightly stunned as he didn’t expect Vardy to choose to make soup directly.
Fortunately, his rich experience in the game made him take action without hesitation and pull Vardy, who was about to run past him, to the ground.
Beep!
The whistle sounded.
Ling Feng, who was nearby, immediately stepped forward to put pressure on the referee.
“Hey, he blocked a favorable advance! He should be given a card!”
However, the referee waved his hands directly, indicating that this was a very normal foul and did not constitute a card.
Coming to Vardy, he stretched out his hand to pull him up, and Ling Feng whispered to him:
“That’s it!”
“We should play more wall-to-wall cooperation, and you should get behind him more.”
Hearing this, Vardy did not speak, but just nodded.
This set-piece on the left side of the front court was kicked by Ling Feng and flew directly to the back point of the penalty area.
However, the first landing point was still grabbed by David Luiz, who headed the ball cleanly out of the penalty area.
Sterling grabbed the second landing point and volleyed without hesitation.
However, he used too much force and failed to hold the ball down, so it flew directly into the stands.
Although the shot was very outrageous, it was England’s first shot of the game.
It was not good, but it was a start.
Then, the two sides entered a stalemate.
After being closely guarded on the left, Neymar began to cruise to the middle and exchanged positions with Oscar.
However, no matter where he went, Henderson followed him closely and did not let him leave his three-meter range.
Moreover, compared with the wing, the defense in the middle was more intensive!
As long as he dared to take two more steps, he would be trapped in the double team of Ling Feng, Henderson and Gerrard.
Neymar, who was unwilling to believe in evil, went straight to meet the man.
When he just passed Gerrard who was trying to steal the ball, his route forward was blocked by Ling Feng.
He paused, and Henderson behind him poked the ball with his foot, and poked the ball to Ling Feng’s feet.
“Jamie!”
The latter made a diagonal pass to Vardy on the left.
As soon as he got the ball, Brazilian right back Maicon came up.
Vardy once again got the chance to duel with the former world No. 1 right back!
Maicon stared at Vardy’s feet, concentrating.
Do you think you are the Welshman? !
However, just when Maicon thought that the opponent would start from the outside again, Vardy did not do so. Instead, he dribbled the ball forward for several meters and suddenly knocked the ball back to the middle!
Maicon turned his head suddenly.
As the ball rolled, he saw the person who received the ball, it was Ling Feng who came to the middle to receive the ball at some point!
In a flash, Ling Feng passed the ball behind him without stopping!
Damn it!
Maicon reacted and turned back immediately.
“Nice lob pass!”
“Ling Feng and Vardy’s wall pass helped the ball go behind Maicon.”
However, Maicon’s speed was hampered by his injury.
Awesome, plus Vardy took the advantage of starting first, caught up with the ball in front of him.
Under the pressure of Maicon behind him, he didn’t even look up, and directly sent a horizontal cross into the penalty area with his left foot!
Sturridge, who was flanking in the middle, accelerated suddenly, trying to get the first point of the cross from between the two central defenders.
However, the ball couldn’t get past Thiago Silva who was in the front position!
Facing the ball, the Brazilian captain kicked the ball out of the sideline with a big foot!
(End of this chapter)
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