Born to be a coach [soccer]

Chapter 206

Ibrahimovic is an arrogant and conceited player, provided that his personal ability is very strong and he is not stupid.

As early as when Kaulbeck stepped back with the ball and prepared to run up, Ibrahimovic knew that this was not an ordinary foul ball, and then saw that the players on both sides looked like they were facing a big enemy, and all the tall ones went into the penalty area Come on, what else does he not understand?Far away, just to open up space for the run-up and take-off.

After he snatched the header with his super bouncing and grabbing ability, Ibrahimovic, facing the closely guarded opponent's goalkeeper, very cleverly chose to head the ball to the ground and bypass the goalkeeper's defense with a rebounding ball.

And just like that, Sunderland leveled the score in an instant and Russell's first substitution worked.

When the fans cheered and celebrated the equalizer, Ibrahimovic had already rushed to the kick-off point in the middle circle with the ball-he had just scored a goal, and he was still two away from the hat-trick.

When Ibrahimovic scored just now, Van der Vaart was next to him in defense.But with Ibrahimovic's physical fitness, how can van der Vaart easily guard against it?Originally, Tottenham should be able to defend against Ibrahimovic if they chose two-man defense - but at that time everyone was "deceived" by Ibrahimovic's blank face. I couldn't prevent it either.

Russell was standing on the sidelines, seeing Ibrahimovic scoring a goal, he couldn't help but clenched his fists tightly and shouted: "Yes——"

——Stay calm in times of danger, he, Russell, can also do it.

Then Russell turned his head and looked in the direction of Anton in the stands, but only saw a group of jubilant fans celebrating.In a moment, Anton and Larry the little black cat had disappeared from the stands.

Russell was originally excited, but suddenly lost his mind.

Anton disappeared again—he immediately felt "forlorn" again.Russell hurriedly coughed to cheer himself up: He had already proved himself just now, and now that Anton is not around, he wanted to prove it even more—not to prove to Anton, not to prove to others, but to prove himself completely!

At this time, Ibrahimovic had already run into the middle circle, dunked the ball heavily on the kick-off point, straightened up, and looked at the Tottenham players who came to prepare for the kick-off with provocative eyes, especially the old enemy Van der Vaart.Ibrahimovic yelled at Van der Vaart, immediately turning Van der Vaart's face livid with anger.

Even though Russell was excited about the equalizer, he pricked up his ears vigilantly.But the court was extremely noisy. He couldn't hear a word of what Ibrahimovic said just now.

In addition to Van der Vaart's face was livid with anger, other Tottenham players were also angry: Ibrahimovic should have stabbed Van der Vaart's sore foot just now.

Russell immediately yelled that it was not good. As soon as he stretched out his hand, he pointed to Sunderland's backcourt: "Matz, Jordan, show me Fanfa!" Russell pointed at Hummels and Pickford and shouted. Full of energy, the voice spread far away.

He reminded it at the right time, and then the Tottenham players kicked off, Van der Vaart reached out for the ball, and then rushed towards Sunderland's goal. Pass one by one.When Henderson stepped forward to steal, Van der Vaart even grabbed the jersey on his chest and threw it to the ground with a flick of his hand.

Hummels and Pickford, the "doorkeeper" combination, were concentrating on defending Van der Vaart-they were already Sunderland's last line of defense. Fortunately, Van der Vaart attacked so suddenly that even Tottenham's teammates were still waiting The future has time to keep up. Facing Van der Vaart, who is alone and deep, the "doorkeeper" group defends with all their strength, trying to keep the goal...

"Drip--" The referee's whistle blew, and Van der Vaart pushed Henderson for a foul when he attacked.

Van der Vaart stopped resentfully, but stared fiercely at the "guard" duo, gritted his teeth and turned away.

The "Guardian" duo was dumbfounded. The two of them had been staying in the backcourt earlier, not knowing what happened in the middle circle.Seeing this scene now, both of them are puzzled.I saw that Van der Vaart was fine earlier, but now I feel like I have a sworn feud with Sunderland.

Russell was also very puzzled.

While Henderson got up and was about to take a free kick, Russell called Colbeck to his side and asked him if he heard what Ibrahimovic said just now.

Colbeck is a sincere child, and now he replied obediently: "I didn't listen to the whole thing, I heard something like 'World Cup Final'..."

Russell: ...

He guessed that it was Ibrahimovic who satirized Van der Vaart with the World Cup final that had just passed more than half a year.Thinking of what happened in the World Cup final, Russell was so angry that he hit his left palm with his right fist—this little bastard, his mouth is really bad enough.

In last year's World Cup, Van der Vaart's Dutch team played against Spain, and the two teams played a rather dull final.The two sides fought 0-0 in regular time. It was not until the end of overtime that Spain scored a goal from Iniesta, breaking the deadlock and beating the Netherlands, making the Oranje once again the "uncrowned king". "The curse.

And Xiaobai's goal fell to Iniesta's feet precisely because Van der Vaart's clearance did not kick far.

As the saying goes, you don't hit someone in the face, and you don't expose your faults when you swear - Ibrahimovic is so straightforward to expose people's scars, it's no wonder that Van der Vaart is not crazy!

Russell was so angry that he wanted to curse.

He wanted to say that the Swedish national team, where Ibrahimovic is, didn't even make it to the finals, okay?

Seeing that Anton managed to stimulate this guy's enthusiasm for scoring goals, he adjusted his tactics through substitutions to assist Ibrahimovic to break the deadlock and score goals, but now, because of Ibrahimovic's "venomous tongue", Van der Vaart's anger.

Redknapp, who had been sitting on the coach's bench before, suddenly stood up and came to the sidelines.Russell watched him call Van der Vaart to the sidelines, whispered a few words, Van der Vaart nodded, and ran back to the court.

When Sunderland's free kick was sent, Tottenham's tactics on the field changed again.Van der Vaart stopped staring at Ibrahimovic, and the Tottenham players desperately intercepted the ball at Garner's feet, looking for Modric, and Modric went forward to Van der Vaart, and Van der Vaart relied on his personal ability to kill. Sunderland's restricted area, facing the "keeper" combination...

By this point, 63 minutes into the game, the score was tied at 1-1, and it seemed the game was finally back on track.

Ibrahimovic and van der Vaart were activated (anger), and the two teams started a confrontation.The long-awaited goal battle of the fans finally started.

Both sides of the game seem to have given up control of the midfield, and often a big foot from the backcourt goes to the frontcourt, and then the opponent's goal is in danger.Once the opponent clears or intercepts successfully, the ball will immediately pass through the half court and come to our own side - the offensive and defensive rhythm is amazingly fast, and the fans on the court are constantly moving their necks, left and right, as if they are watching a tennis match .

At this time, even if Russell wanted to replace the troubled Ibrahimovic, it was impossible.In this case, he even a little wants to remove another defender and replace it with an attacking midfielder, or replace it with a striker.This is equivalent to abandoning defense, relying only on offense, relying on the numerical advantage on the offensive end, and finally winning the game by scoring goals-this is also a tactic.

But the decision of "abandoning defense" is not easy to make. It requires the head coach to have a gambler's mentality. word.

Russell hesitated for a moment, and suddenly made up his mind to make a substitution - because Tottenham scored a goal.

This time it was Van der Vaart, who received a wonderful pass from Modly and slammed a long shot from outside the penalty area.

At that time, there were a lot of people in the penalty area, and Pickford's line of sight was blocked. When he realized something was wrong, the ball had already rushed towards the dead corner of the goal frame.Pickford flew to pounce, but he only touched the ball lightly with his gloves, unable to change the direction. He rushed out of the goal and fell out, but the ball fell into the goal.

Pickford straightened up, furious, and raised his hand and beat the ground heavily: Today is the day Anton returns, but he has conceded two goals in a row.

There was a sigh in the stands, mixed with sparse applause - even the frustrated Sunderland fans had to admit that this kick was quite beautiful, beyond imagination.

Van der Vaart is one of the few people who scored so many goals against Sunderland and can still enjoy applause on the court.

Without any hesitation, Russell immediately made a substitution, removed a full-back, and replaced Shaqiri, who had been on the bench due to the rotation earlier, on the field.He didn't hesitate at all, and he didn't care what Anton would think—it was his instinct as a football coach to be desperate at such a time, and it was a manifestation of his desire to win: since no matter how much he defends, he will be a loser. It's better to go out and attack.

Before Shaqiri came on the field, Russell gave an opportunity: "...I have nothing to say, just the offense. You can score one on the field. The big guys are the same."

Shaqiri: So simple? ... Before going on the court, as the head coach, does he really not have a trick up his sleeve?

Russell continued: "Just tell everyone that we have no one to rely on, neither Anton nor Larry the black cat, nor luck in the sky. Whether this is a good or a bad one depends entirely on you Yourselves, the outcome is entirely in your own hands... Even if you lose in the end, you can't lose to yourself, right?"

As he spoke, he patted Shaqiri heavily on the shoulder: "Go—"

Shaqiri just heard Russell's words, almost thought that Russell had resigned to his fate, and ordered two blindly on the sidelines.But after hearing it, Shaqiri suddenly felt passionate, and he rushed into the court quickly with the strength of Russell's palm.In addition to his height and stride like Messi, the young man rushed to the frontcourt, and each of the Tottenham players inevitably recalled the horror of being dominated by Messi, and the defense immediately shrank back.

But not everyone at Tottenham has this reaction: at least not Van der Vaart.

Van der Vaart was irritated by Ibrahimovic just now. Even if he scored a goal, he still hasn't recovered.

With two strokes and one pull, Tottenham's formation was immediately cut in half.

Shaqiri is a fresh blood who has just played, with [-]% physical fitness. He ran wildly as soon as he came on the court, but forgot to tell Russell's "heartfelt words" to his teammates.

The Sunderland player took a look: Hey, maybe the instruction from the head coach is to run faster and put pressure on the opponent, right?

No matter how much stamina they have left, the remaining players on the field all followed Shaqiri's rhythm and ran quickly on the field.

Russell didn't care, just stood on the sidelines with a serious face, and the Sunderland players felt that they had fully understood the intention of the head coach and continued to run wildly.It just so happened that Tottenham's formation was cut off at this time, and the team didn't care about their heads and tails, and there was a large gap.

Ibrahimovic came back to the midfield to take the ball in person - he used to be self-confident and hoped that someone would "feed the cake", but now he can't care about the hat-trick.

As soon as he got the ball, he immediately passed it to Colbeck. The red-haired guy kicked forward, and Ibrahimovic was already waiting in front-Van der Vaart yelled near the midfield: "Don't let him take it with his back ball!"

But it was too late, Ibrahimovic got the ball with his back.

The situation was urgent, and van der Vaart, who knew how powerful he was, rushed forward to defend with his teammates.However, the previous physical consumption was too high, and the speed of the Dutchman was not as fast as before. This time he failed to catch up——

Ibrahimovic holding the ball behind his back and then turning around is a stunt. No matter how many defenders are holding him to death, I am afraid that they will not be able to hold him back and shoot.

But at this time, Ibrahimovic made a big joke on the Tottenham players.After he got the ball with his back, he resisted the three defenders rushing up in one breath, but he didn't turn around at all, but passed the ball to Shaqiri with a light and skillful kick.

The two cooperated in a triangle attack. Shaqiri moved forward, without sticking the ball under his feet, and immediately passed the ball back to Ibrahimovic.

At this time, Ibrahimovic had already passed all three defenders, and it was too late for the rest of Tottenham to defend.Only van der Vaart rushed to the goal, and the shot at Ibrahimovic was a sliding shovel——

If Ibrahimovic shoots at this time, I'm sorry, his shot has been shoveled away by Van der Vaart.

It's a pity that although Ibrahimovic is crazy and irritable, his brain is still very good--it was only when Van der Vaart "slid" out with his sliding shovel that he found out in despair that the ball was still at Ibrahimovic's feet.

Ibrahimovic was not in a hurry to shoot, he only cared about playing with Van der Vaart, and even stopped the ball for a while.

When Van der Vaart slipped and fell, Ibrahimovic calmed down. Although Gomez made a save, but the opponent was too close and the angle of the shot was tricky. Gomez almost touched the ball with his fingertips, but he still watched helplessly. Watching the ball fly into the net.

"wipe--"

The score became 2-2.

This time Ibrahimovic is the same, rushing directly into the opponent's goal, "snatching" the ball from Gomez's arms, and carrying it back to the center circle-he is urging the opponent to kick off quickly so that he can complete his hat-trick.

From Tottenham down to van der Vaart, everyone hated Ibrahimovic, but they had to admire: this guy is too tough, no matter how they intercept him, they can't stop Ibrahimovic.

At this time, there was not too much time left in the game. Lao Lei removed Bell and replaced him with a central defender. Tottenham switched to playing five defenders.As soon as this signal came out, Tottenham players knew that Lao Lei planned to keep the tie.

Lao Lei's arrangement is to let Tottenham play a defensive counterattack and try to prevent Sunderland's offense. At the same time, let Van der Vaart cruise alone in the frontcourt. If there is a chance, he will directly counterattack. Relying on Van der Vaart's personal ability Threat to Sunderland's goal.

According to the current situation in the standings, even if Tottenham draw with Sunderland away, there will definitely be other teams in the Premier League who are grateful to them.

It's a pity that when Lao Lei made this decision, he forgot Ibrahimovic. Ibrahimovic is still obsessed with his hat-trick! ——Since Messi and van der Vaart both scored hat-tricks when the two teams played against each other, what can he do?

So, Ibrahimovic just stood near the Tottenham player who was about to kick off, staring at the opponent condescendingly——

I'll see how you plan to tee off!

Among Tottenham players, except for Fanfa, no one has experienced Ibrahimovic's strong style.In desperation, the opponent's kick-off player returned the pass in fear, wanting his teammates to kick a few feet in the backcourt to avoid Ibrahimovic.Unexpectedly, under a lot of psychological pressure, the pass was immediately missed, and the pass that was originally intended to be passed to the central defender who had just entered the field was missed.It just so happened that the central defender who had just played was not concentrated, and if he missed two times, the ball would be passed to whom.

A shadow rushed towards the ball, it was Ibrahimovic.

The Tottenham players were instantly nervous, they subconsciously felt that Ibrahimovic would take a pill when he took the ball.

So the two Tottenham players ran towards the direction of the ball at the same time, intending to intercept the ball before Ibrahimovic got the ball.The two of them got stuck at the same time while running, blocking Ibrahimovic in an instant.

The Tottenham players breathed a sigh of relief at the same time - who would have thought that the red and white flashed by in front of their eyes, and the ball had already been taken away with a toe hook.

Messi?

But all the Tottenham defenders who have seen Messi play can't help but break out in a cold sweat - after a closer look, they know that it is the Swiss Messi Shaqiri.

This is so scary.

Shaqiri dribbled the ball inside, and Ibrahimovic had already run to the edge of the penalty area. Shaqiri faced the opponent's intercepting defender and knocked the ball back to Ibrahimovic's feet.

And Ibrahimovic is indeed "alone". He didn't have a good chance to kick, so he took the ball to the other side of the penalty area by himself-at this time, Sunderland's teammates on both sides had already killed, and there were still good players behind him. Henderson with a long shot.

The ball is still at Ibrahimovic's feet.

He just won't give it.

"Here!" Russell on the sidelines couldn't help roaring.

Who knew that Ibrahimovic had time to stop the ball for a while, and even took a glance, then kicked up suddenly and forced a shot——

"Wow—" Russell hadn't finished shouting, and there was still half of the ending in his mouth before he had time to curse, and the ball went in? !

Not only Russell was surprised, but even Ibrahimovic's opponents were surprised: Ibrahimovic was absolutely impossible, and he shot abruptly, and the ball got in through the cracks in Tottenham's penalty area.After the shot, Ibrahimovic could no longer control the balance of his body and fell directly to the ground. However, when he saw the ball fly into the net, Ibrahimovic jumped up again and ran a few steps towards the Sunderland stands. With a leap, he clenched his fist in his hand, waved it vigorously, and opened his mouth to shout wildly.

—He scored a hat-trick!

——As long as he wants to, who can stop him?

At this moment, no one in the world can compete with him, it seems that there is no one in heaven and earth, and only I, Da Yibu, is the only one.