Born to be a coach [soccer]

Chapter 251

Anton was pacing on the sidelines, thinking about the changes after Ibrahimovic joined Sunderland.

Like his size, Ibrahimovic has a very large "ego".This "self" caused him to call himself "God" all the time, with his eyes high above his head and no one in his eyes.

Ibrahimovic came to Sunderland, one is to save a few more championships for his career, and the other is to bid farewell to Guardiola and leave Barcelona to play "life in the green" in England.He probably never thought of leaving any affection for this club.

This point was also highlighted in the first few games after Ibrahimovic arrived in Sunderland. Ibrahimovic only took off his jersey, took off his jersey if he wanted to, fouled if he wanted to foul, and did not hesitate to be sent off. Come first.

Anton had a lot of headaches for this guy.He even wondered sometimes: Did Ibrahimovic never have a collective concept and spirit in his heart.

Indeed, for Anton, the sense of collective spirit and teamwork comes from the background culture of his origin. For Ibrahimovic, a guy who advocates individual heroes and firmly believes that he can carry the whole team by himself, it is a bit out of place.

But after coming to Sunderland, Ibrahimovic's changes are obvious to all.

He began to support his teammates and began to selflessly serve his teammates. Although the target was limited to Royce, who was more compatible with him, this was a big step he took on his own initiative.

In addition, he managed to respect the authority of the team. Sunderland's captain and team deputy are both younger than him. From the very beginning, Ibrahimovic regarded Garner as a "passerby" teammate, caring and respecting him. , and today's righteous indignation, we must stand up for Ghana.

However, Ibrahimovic still puts his own emotional likes and dislikes before the collective, so that today Garner was forced to enter the field to prevent Ibrahimovic from going crazy, avoiding his yellow card suspension, which indirectly caused Sunderland to concede again.

But just now Garner rushed into the field regardless of his injuries and shouted when he stopped Ibrahimovic-Anton could guess what Garner said.

Sunderland needs Ibrahimovic and everyone in the team.

All for one, one for all, this is the universal truth.In this moment Anton hopes with all his heart that Ibrahimovic will realize this.He very much hopes that Ibrahimovic can understand this point. Winning this game should not be for Ibrahimovic, nor for Anton, nor for any of them, nor even for the fans.

For Sunderland! ——Anton hopes that one day Ibrahimovic can burst out this sentence from the bottom of his heart.

Anton was pacing on the sidelines, keeping his eyes on Ibrahimovic.This big man was actually looked down by Anton, looking disheartened, throwing off his arms and rushing towards the middle circle, and quickly slipped to kick off, like a wolf with its tail between its legs.

Behind Anton, Russell was ready to make a substitution. He replaced Garner, whose head was wrapped in gauze and pale.

Sunderland did not go well in this game. Not only did the captain end up injured so early, but the opponent seized the opportunity and scored a goal. They fell behind 0-1 in the away game.

Not only that, there are less than 3 home fans in the Braga City Stadium, which has indeed caused a lot of trouble for Sunderland. In addition to the noise that never stops for a moment, the small stadium continues to affect Sunderland players.

Whether it is Sunderland's corner kick or a throw-in, the fans in the stands will try their best to interfere with the visiting team players. There was even an "violation" in a throw-in by Colbeck: he held the ball with both hands above his head, but felt that someone was there. Scratching himself behind him, he was so frightened that he quickly put the ball down again-the referee immediately called a violation, and Sunderland lost the foul ball again.

However, the Hungarian referee also waved towards the Braga stands, signaling that the fans should stop disturbing the players on the field-it is not known whether it will be useful or not.

Sunderland was at a disadvantage, until the 81st minute of the second half, still failed to equalize the score.

The Braga fans were already celebrating in the stands.They began to shout rhythmically: "Porto, Porto, here we come!"

The two cities of Porto and Braga are next to each other. Porto double-killed Braga in the league. Local fans naturally want to "revenge" in the Europa League.The match between Porto and Villarreal was held at the same time. At this time, Villarreal and Porto drew 2 to 2. Porto has an advantage of 4 goal difference, and there is no suspense to advance to the final.

The Braga fans believed that they had the advantage at home and that their opponents had not been able to equalize for a long time. There was no suspense for Braga to qualify, and they had already sang happily in the stands.

The few Sunderland fans who came from afar are mostly standing in the stands at the moment, watching the fierce competition in the field, anxious and silent.

The location of the Sunderland fans happened to be the location of the Braga goal in the second half.They often saw Sunderland attacking in front of them, but returning in vain in front of Braga's tight defense.Sunderland fans have been disappointed time and time again.

I don't know who shouted: "Look, Anton's place..."

The fans followed the prestige and saw Anton standing on the sidelines, waving his arms in their direction. This is...

"Does Anton let us... make some noise too?"

The Sunderland fans watched Eriksson make a wonderful pass near the center circle. After taking the ball, Royce inserted it at high speed, approached them, and yelled "Aww".

"Brothers, if you don't fight now, when will you wait?" Several fans shouted loudly together: "Sunderland, Sunderland, Sunderland..."

That's right, if they can't tie the score again, Sunderland will lose and be eliminated from the Europa League. At that time, it will be useless for the fans to cry their father and mother.Anyone who still has the strength, at this time, all try their best and shout out.

Under the influence of a few of them, the few Sunderland fans gradually got together, and rhythmic shouts sounded in the stadium: "Sunderland, Sunderland, Sunderland... "

Royce has quickly advanced near the bottom line. When he wanted to pass an inverted triangle pass to his teammate in front of the goal, he was blocked by the opponent's defender and blocked the bottom line-a corner kick.

At this time, all the defenders of Sunderland came up to help fight for the top, especially the tall ones.At this time, the game has reached the 83rd minute. If it is delayed for a few more minutes, I am afraid that Pickford will come up to participate in the attack.

As with the previous few corner kicks, three Braga players surrounded Ibrahimovic firmly, and one hugged Hummels with a backhand after Eriksen took the ball.Under such tight marking, neither Ibrahimovic nor Hummels could grab the first spot. On the contrary, the Braga player grabbed it, dared not neglect, and pushed out of the bottom line—another corner kick .

Eriksson sprints to the other side of the pitch to take a corner.

At this time, Ibrahimovic found Hummels and said a few words to him quickly.Hummels nodded after listening, and continued to get a position in the penalty area of ​​Braga.

But Ibrahimovic turned around and walked out of the penalty area. His back was tall and poked people. Whether it was a Braga player or a Sunderland fan, they were stunned at the moment: What's wrong?This is... no more kicks?

Sunderland fans thought to themselves: Where can I just give up? ... This is not Sunderland!So one by one they shouted the slogan even louder.

But Ibrahimovic did look like he didn't want to play anymore. He even waved to Pickford who had already run near the middle circle, telling him to go back to Sunderland's own penalty area.

Pickford saw Ibrahimovic winking at him, so he nodded and backed away slowly.

And Hummels has reached out to Eriksson for the ball in the opponent's penalty area.Eriksson took a corner kick to find Hummels, and the ball went straight to Hummels' head.Braga has two defenders standing in front of Hummels, blocking his run-up jump to his own goal.

Unexpectedly, Hummels is not so top. He shook his head in the opposite direction, and the ball flew out of the penalty area steadily, looking for Ibrahimovic on the edge of the penalty area.

The Braga players reacted quickly, and immediately two people rushed forward to intercept, trying to block the angle of Ibrahimovic's shot before he stopped the ball.

But Ibrahimovic did not stop the ball, he ran two steps along the path of the ball, leaped sideways, vacated, turned his waist hard, turned his body, turned his back to the sky, swept his left leg, and made an upside-down golden hook——

Ibrahimovic's movements are very coherent, and his posture after jumping is elegant and gorgeous, which is pleasing to the eye.But the two Braga players had no time to appreciate it. When they looked back, the ball had already hit the net.

This is Ibrahimovic's barb on the edge of the penalty area. With his back to the goal and facing an interception, he chose this barb as if he was desperate. He seemed to concentrate all his energy on his left foot and shot a volley.

He fell from the sky, didn't even look back at the ball, ran with his back to the goal, arms outstretched - and Ibrahimovic knew he must have scored.

Almost all the [-] Sunderland loyalists who came from afar sat at the goal on this side, watching the ball go into the net.The stimulation of adrenaline made them scream crazily, and the few fans standing at the front even burst into tears.

This is superstar!Using such a domineering way helped them equalize the score and pulled the team back from the brink of being eliminated.

Ibrahimovic ran a few steps on the field and suddenly remembered something. He turned around and ran directly behind Braga's goal, facing the small area where the Sunderland fans were.He made an unexpected move in front of the fans. Ibrahimovic grabbed his jersey with his right hand, brought the Sunderland team emblem on the jersey to his mouth, and gently stuck it to his lips.

This action greatly stimulated the Sunderland fans. More than a dozen Sunderland fans leaned out from the stands desperately and hugged Ibrahimovic one by one.The fans standing in the rows behind all had red eyes, wishing they could burst into tears.

It is conceivable that from now on, Ibrahimovic will have a brand new name in the mouth of Sunderland fans - "our Zlatan!"

Immediately afterwards, all Sunderland players on the field rushed up, and everyone formed a circle and hugged Ibrahimovic tightly.The whole team never thought that Ibrahimovic would become part of them so logically.

Ibrahimovic was there when they needed him the most, it's that simple!

The only Pickford who was too far away to step forward ignored the Braga fans behind him, knelt on the ground, held up his gloves, looked up to the sky and laughed, and didn't care about the disappointment of the Braga fans behind him Sigh.