Born to be a coach [soccer]

Chapter 248

Jamie Vardy, a former prosthetic repair shop technician, stood in the locker room at this moment, facing Anton, nodding vigorously while listening.

Standing beside him is his teammate Jack Colbeck. These two young men had a lot of conflicts when Vardy first arrived in Sunderland, but they "did not know each other without fighting". Now they have a tacit understanding in the team. A pair of help "pairs".

Colbeck is also an outlier on the green field. He has the "stunt" of throwing a throw-in. It has received more and more attention from the Premier League teams.His reputation has gradually spread to the European arena. In the first half that just ended, Braga also focused on marking the red-haired teenager's frontcourt throw-in. It seems that he should have studied all the tactical types of Sunderland. up.

Finally, Anton said to Vardy: "I am very satisfied with your performance this season. You and Jack are both. But when the team is in trouble, I still hope that you can stand up bravely, even 'alone', I believe You yourself, take the opportunity that falls at your feet."

Vardy opened his mouth slightly, froze for a moment before nodding vigorously.He always listens to Anton to teach Ibrahimovic, so that the big man should not be too "independent".Seeing that Anton treats the star players in the team like this, Vardy naturally practiced it in the game.

But in fact, Vardy himself knows that he still lacks confidence in himself-after all, he was a player who had interrupted his career and was brought back from the amateur team by Anton after leaving football.He clearly remembers the "scoring drought" for a long time after he first came to Sunderland. This memory is so clear that he later "opened up" and "broke the wasteland", and even scored for the team in the competition. He didn't have much impression of the few crucial goals.

This kind of lack of self-confidence was put on the court, and it gradually became "selfless", and when he had the opportunity to patronize his teammates, Royce also played for his teammates in the Sunderland team, but Royce got it by himself. Chances also kick in.Therefore, Royce's assists are in double figures, and the number of goals is about to break through 10.And Vardy himself...

Vardy understood Anton's meaning, and stretched out his hand and scratched his head in embarrassment.

"You are a very talented player. It is not impossible for the team to build an entire attack line around you in the future." Anton casually helped him tidy up the wrinkles on the shoulders of his jersey. Satisfied, just—be braver and go! See the opportunity and hit it.”

Vardy stayed for a moment, turned around with a blushing face, and left the locker room with Colbeck.

Colbeck was really happy for his friend at the moment, his face was flushed with excitement, and he reached out and patted Vardy on the shoulder: "Listen, how high the head coach thinks of you... build an entire attack line around you..."

Vardy lowered his head and started running slowly, trotting all the way out of the player tunnel.

Anton is satisfied with his mentality during the game, that's because he has always placed his position low enough, and it is also because of this that he supports him to work hard, work tirelessly, and patiently wait for the next opportunity to come—but Now he obviously needs to be more proactive, take a bigger step, dare to stand up when the team encounters difficulties, and take the burden on his shoulders...

Vardy turned his head to look at Colbeck: "Man, just as Anton said, we will cooperate like this in the second half!"

In the live broadcast room of Sky Sports, a lonely Richard Keith looked at the cut image on the big screen and said quietly: "The intermission is over, and the last two Sunderland players who ran out of the locker room were It's Jamie Vardy and Jack Colback - we're all expecting Anton to make a tactical change in the second half to turn things around. Don't know if those two are Anton's 'secret sauce'..."

"We all know that Colbeck has a throw-in stunt, let's see what kind of sparks he and Vardy can have!"

Keith himself also felt that his comments were dry, if Andy Gray hadn't casually commented on Miss Marcie, the female frontiersman.

"Colbeck got a chance for a throw-in in the frontcourt... Braga players are obviously prepared for this, their tall players have all gathered in the penalty area to defend-"

"Anton, this trick of yours is no longer fresh enough. Even friends who came all the way from Portugal know your purpose... What, Colbeck handed over the throw-in to Shaqiri?" Keith himself I was also very surprised: It seems that in this game, Anton is going to do the opposite. Braga guessed what he was going to do, but he didn't do it?

"Braga's defense is really good..." Keith shook his head and sighed again, "so watching their games is really annoying!"

Because no matter how you attack, you can't get in.

Sure enough, Sunderland's attack was once again resolved by Braga. The opponent's defense kicked the ball out with a big foot. The ball flew to Sunderland's backcourt and went out of bounds there.

This time Colbeck ran over excitedly.

Even the Sunderland players were a little confused: This is a throw-in from the backcourt, why is Colbeck so active?

Humans have limited arm strength, and goalkeepers can easily blast the ball across the half-court, but it is difficult to achieve such an effect with a two-armed throw-in.

Could it be that Colbeck is really a head-starter, and wants to try to "make a miracle with great strength" and throw this foul ball from the backcourt to the penalty area?

Just when Colbeck started his run-up and was about to throw the ball in his hand into the field, Vardy started silently.

I saw Colbeck take a long run-up, and threw the ball in his hand along the sideline. Raja's defense.

"Can you still pass the ball like this?" Richard Keith was shocked, and then clapped his hands excitedly, shouting: "Valdy, go!"

I saw Vardy riding the dust, and the throw-in of Colbeck seemed to be delivered to his feet.

"Single sword—" Keith yelled into the microphone, and the sound from the earphones made his own ears buzz.

"Drip--" The linesman whistled and blew Vardy offside.

Keith was dumbfounded: "Why is it offside?"

When the director cut the slow motion, Keith looked at Vardy's arm that was only a few inches past the Braga defender and smacked his lips: "It's a pity!"

With Braga's tight defense, it is really not easy to create a one-handed goal.

But look at Vardy on the field. This guy ran back calmly, and he didn't forget to give a thumbs up to Colbeck to express his gratitude.

"But Vardy's sprint speed is really enviable!" Richard Keith continued, with a little more excitement in his voice.This well-informed "famous mouth" suddenly realized that Sunderland had an extra sharp offensive point, a new offensive method, which at least Braga had not prepared in advance.

In the first 20 minutes of the second half, Sunderland played very patiently. Vardy's regrettable "single sword" seemed to be a flash in the pan, and he seemed to be invisible again after that.

But the fans couldn't sit still anymore. Many fans stood up from their seats, watched the game on the field anxiously, and looked up at the scoreboard on the field from time to time. The score of 0 to 1 made them anxious. After all, Sunderland has not played such a stalemate game for a long time.

"If Sunderland has no way to break the goal, the game enters the last 20 minutes, and Braga continues to defend the range, it may be more difficult for Sunderland."

Richard Keys is very reluctant to talk about Sunderland's "pill", but it does look like the game is headed in that direction.

As soon as he finished speaking, the commentator couldn't help but slapped the table again: "Valdy!"

At this moment, Keith had no time to explain.

Vardy, who was invisible earlier, appeared in front of Braga's goal again - this time not alone, Vardy has two Braga defenders beside him, and Ibrahimovic and Eriksson have also reached the goal .

This unexpected attack still came from Colbeck's cooperation, and it was still a throw-in from his hands, but this time Colbeck didn't make a run-up, didn't throw a super long ball, but threw the ball lightly to the near The captain Garner in front of him, Garner pushed the arch of his foot lightly, and pushed the ball back to Colbeck.

Colbeck immediately played a high ball and went forward to find Vardy.Some people just have a tacit understanding. The ball behind Calbeck to Vardy always seems to have eyes.But this time Vardy moved forward, the Braga defenders all caught up, and Sunderland's teammates also returned to the defense at this time.

"Here!" Keith shouted habitually, "Don't be so 'independent'!".In my impression, Vardy is a guy who passes the ball to his teammates. If he doesn't make a move now, it will be too late for the opposing defender to come up and block the angle.

Even Richard Keys has such a "stereotype", especially the Braga players who studied Sunderland carefully before the game-two defenders stretched their feet at the same time, trying to block the angle of Vardy's cross.

Who knew Vardy kicked himself at this time.

He was in a position very close to the goal, almost zero angle, and the Braga goalkeeper was coming up to block it.

Vardy suddenly kicked a kick, the ball went upwards, passed the goalkeeper's head and then flew into the net with an unbelievable speed.

The Sunderland fans on the sidelines are watching with bated breath at this moment, and it is even difficult for most fans to see how the goal was scored from the perspective of most fans.Therefore, the entire Stadium of Light was silent for a full two seconds before the first cheers burst out of the throats of the fans.

"GOAL!"

"Goal scored!"

This is an extremely thrilling and extremely exciting shot from a small angle.Vardy didn't pass the ball to his teammate, but took advantage of the moment when the opponent's goalkeeper shifted his center of gravity down, he suddenly lobbed a shot with great power and a tricky angle. The goal was extremely thrilling but quite beautiful.

"This is one of the best goals in this year's Europa League!" Keith also reacted and shouted into the microphone.This "famous mouth" secretly regretted breaking his promise before. If he had known that Vardy could score such a wonderful goal, he should have been more "independent" earlier, the more "independent" the better.

At this time, Vardy ran out from Braga's goal. Seeing the confused expression on his face, he probably didn't even think about how to celebrate.