Winger King

Seeing Sun Yu coming over, Stam walked to the sideline and asked, "What's the matter?"

Sun Yu covered his mouth with his hand and said, "Our frontcourt can't restrict them. I think we should withdraw the formation."

Stam asked with his arms folded, "Why?"

Sun Yu continued, "Once our formation is recovered, their full-backs will frequently assist the frontcourt."

"As long as we complete the steal, we can directly form a counterattack."

Stam pondered for a few seconds: "This will put a lot of pressure on the left. If we lose another goal, this game will be difficult."

Sun Yu said firmly, "I can retreat to the backcourt to participate in defense."

Stam glanced at Sun Yu: "Can your physical strength hold up?"

Sun Yu smiled faintly and said, "I will try my best!"

Stam nodded: "Go back to the court and tell them that the midfielders retreat ten meters behind the arc, and the midfielders keep a certain distance."

"The back line retreats to the penalty area line, don't give them the opportunity to pass directly into the penalty area."

Back on the court, Sun Yu fed back the tactical adjustment to his teammates, and Ajax U21's three lines were greatly recovered.

As they retreated, the Arsenal U21 players naturally pressed forward.

They were cautiously testing at first, but when they saw the opponent's defensive counterattack, they began to move forward.

Arsenal U21 first tried to stuff the ball to the two sides, but neither Afobi nor Iwobi had a strong cross-court ability.

Midfielders Bansfield and Niles tried a long shot respectively, but they did not pose much threat, so they could only rely on Iwobi's personal ability.

In the 40th minute, Iwobi got the ball on the right, and he passed Riedewald in the first place after he stopped the ball.

Sun Yu immediately rushed up from the side and hit Iwobi hard with his body.

Although he did not make Iwobi lose his balance, he finally stopped the opponent.

Riedewald chased up from behind and continued to fight with Sun Yu with his body.

In the fierce physical confrontation, Iwobi was a little too excited, and he used brute force to bring the ball to the 30-meter area of ​​the goal.

At this time, the left back of Ajax U21 also came up, and the three of them forced Iwobi to the side.

Iwobi saw that he could not break through, so he could only dribble the ball to the backcourt and then pass the ball to Bellerin who came up to assist.

Bellerin passed the ball to the back point, and Afobi's header went straight to the near corner of the goal.

Onana barely blocked the ball, and the central defender kicked the ball out of the sideline.

Seeing that the team had the advantage, the two full-backs of Arsenal U21 became more and more courageous and pressed across the half court.

The formation retreat did put a lot of pressure on the defense, but Arsenal U21 had found the rhythm of breaking the high-pressure defense.

If the hard header was in the frontcourt, it would give Arsenal's two wingers more space, and the threat to the goal would not be small.

By attracting the opponent, Sun Yu can at least show his speed and breakthrough ability.

In the 43rd minute, Arsenal U21 once again pressed forward.

Iwobi and Bellerin passed the ball continuously in the frontcourt, and Sun Yu entangled Bellerin tightly, and the latter stuffed the ball to the edge of the penalty area.

Iwobi rushed to the edge of the penalty area and swept the ball to the penalty spot with one foot.

The Ajax U21 central defender blocked the ball out of the penalty area, and Van der Beck stopped the ball with his chest, and soon fell into the opponent's double-teaming. This time, Arsenal U21 changed to high-position pressing.

Van der Beck could only pass the ball back to Onana. At the moment when the latter received the ball, Afobi rushed up from the right and pounced on the football.

Onana calmly pulled the ball back behind him, shook off Afobi, and pushed the ball to the right front, and looked forward.

On the left side of the midfield, Sun Yu was sprinting at full speed, and Bellerin had been thrown seven or eight meters away by him.

The moment Van der Beck got the ball, Sun Yu started to sprint desperately.

Onana made a slight adjustment and immediately passed the ball to the left.

The football drew a not very high and extremely fast arc in the air.

A few seconds later, the football had flown in front of Sun Yu, and the midfielder Niles also rushed up.

When the two sides met, Sun Yu turned sideways and lifted the ball forward, letting the football fly over Niles' head.

Sun Yu rushed to the front court with all his strength, adjusted without slowing down, and immediately turned to the left when facing the central defender.

Before catching up with the football, Sun Yu adjusted his pace, looked at the near corner with his eyes, and then kicked the football to the far corner with force.

The goalkeeper was guided by Sun Yu's eyes and rushed to the near corner the moment he kicked.

However!

The next moment!

The football flew to the far corner!

The goalkeeper paused in the air, but there was no turning back.

At this time,The only thing he could do was to watch the ball fly into the goal.

1:2!

Amid the whistles and sparse applause from the stands, Sun Yu ran to the sideline while breathing heavily, jumped high and punched hard.

The first half was too frustrating, and this goal was a vent for his anger.

All the teammates nearby ran over, and Sun Yu high-fived everyone while shouting, "Keep going! We will definitely win!"

On the sidelines, Stam smiled, which was rare.

After losing the ball, the Arsenal U21 players played very skillfully. They almost kept the ball under their feet until the referee blew the whistle to end the first half.

At the end of the first half, the mood of both players was not bad.

The Arsenal U21 players all had one or two seasons of experience in the English Football Championship, and they gained sufficient game experience in the games against League One and League Two.

Although they lost a goal before the end of the first half, they had already taken the initiative in the game in the last ten minutes.

Ajax U21 scored a goal and their morale was good.

After entering the professional football system, everyone learned a lesson: as long as you lose confidence, you will lose the game.

Arsenal players gathered in twos and threes and walked back to the locker room, while Ajax surrounded Sun Yu in the middle, and everyone bragged all the way back to the player tunnel.

Back to the locker room.

Stam fully affirmed the players' attitude in the game, because in the game, high-pressure pressing is definitely less psychologically stressful than defensive counterattacks.

Under the high-pressure situation of the top European youth team such as Arsenal U21, the players can still hold on when they are two goals behind.

With the joint efforts of all the players, the team scored a goal back. Such a process is not easy for a youth team, and many professional teams cannot do this.

"Before we lost the ball, our performance was fine."

"We lost the ball because we were not focused enough. I believe what happened today will allow you to gain more."

"After the formation was recovered, we held our position and then gained something. This is worth affirming."

"In the Eredivisie, we will encounter seven or eight teams that are stronger than us overall."

"Today's game shows that as long as we are focused enough, it is not easy to score a goal even if the opponent takes the initiative."

"In the first twenty minutes of the second half, we still maintained the tactics of the last ten minutes of the first half."

"Starting from the 65th minute, their midfielders will have physical problems, and we will press the formation at that time."

"But we must put enough pressure on their midfielders and never give them the opportunity to easily handle the ball."

"In the first twenty minutes of the second half, we mainly launched the attack from the right side, and after pressing forward, we mainly attacked Sun Yu's route."

Sun Yu understood that the coach's arrangement was to let him save his physical strength and then fight in the final stage.

No problem.

Just do it!