Born to be a coach [soccer]

Chapter 125

As soon as Messi scored the goal, the young people in Bern seemed to have a "barrier" broken-this fully shows that facing top stars, no matter how many people are piled up, they can't hold back the opponent's personal ability. Password is useless.

The two sides have returned to the same starting line, but their mentality is still slightly different.After all, Sunderland played at home and even looked down on themselves with only 1 point. It is still acceptable for young people to bring home a draw.

However, at this time, Anton replaced the goal hero Messi.

The Bern youngsters and the fans in the stands were taken aback, watching Messi leave the field happily, and happily high-fived the red-haired boy Kolbeck who came off the bench.

Anyone who knows it can understand. After all, the next game will be against Arsenal. An absolute main force like Messi needs to conserve energy to a certain extent.Those who don't know will inevitably doubt Anton: What is this young coach thinking?Replacing Messi so early?I read that right, the scoreboard is only 1 to 1. Wow.

But the Sunderland players all knew in their hearts: the head coach is saying that the first experiment has been completed, and the second experiment will start next.

After Colbeck, who wore a head of fiery red hair, came on the field, Sunderland's position changed immediately.Shaqili pushed forward, and the trident changed from Luovamei to Luovasha.Colbeck's position is similar to that of Henderson, with Eriksson in front of the midfield alone.

Without Messi's personal ability, it is necessary to rely on teamwork to break the dense defense.

Both Royce and Vardy have good sprinting abilities, but facing the dense defense of young people, their routes are blocked most of the time, and this advantage cannot be brought into play.As a result, the two are more and more inclined to frequently quarrel with each other, to open up the opponent's formation, and to create opportunities for the teammates behind them.

Muller is an experienced coach. As soon as he saw Sunderland's change of formation, he probably knew the opponent's intentions. He rushed to the field and yelled to remind his players.

It is also thanks to the proficiency of the "young people" formation. Under the repeated tugging of Vardy and Royce, the young people's positions are basically not chaotic, and every chance they want to "take advantage of the chaos" to shoot is blocked by the opponent. Defender and goalkeeper resolve.For nearly 15 minutes after Messi went off the pitch, Sunderland's efforts were ineffective.On the contrary, the "young man" formed a counterattack and attacked Sunderland's goal.

The highly concentrated goalkeeper Gordon finally made a solid save this time.

Not many Sunderland fans can remember, but the goalkeeper knows that this time, it has been 8 months and 18 days since his disastrous performance.

With the ball in his arms, he knelt on the Sunderland turf.Both Hyypia and Godin gave him thumbs up, praising him for his solid saves.Even Pickford, who was on the bench, stood up and cheered loudly for his teammates: This kid has a big heart. He felt frustrated just now, and he almost lost the golden bean in public. Now everything is forgotten.

Only then did Gordon breathe a sigh of relief, as if a knot in his heart was gradually loosening.He took a deep breath and drove the ball hard to the applause of the Stadium of Light fans.

This kick went far, directly to Royce's feet. Royce unloaded the ball lightly, slowed down, and pushed forward slowly.

"Be patient, be patient!" the young man said to himself.He always remembers Anton's words - football is a game of gaining an advantage in time and space, and the key to gaining an advantage is to let the opponent never guess his own rhythm.

So facing the closely guarded opponent, Royce slowly rubbed the ball up and took two steps forward—just when the young players thought he was going to speed up and hit the bottom, Royce suddenly took the ball again. As soon as the ball stopped, he returned the ball to Eriksson behind him——

For the first trial, Royce chose to pass back;

In the second trial, Royce chose to pass back;

the third time……

The opponent's patience was immediately challenged: Didn't Sunderland need to attack?

On the other side, Vardy is playing similar tricks, but instead of passing back, he chooses to pass the ball to Colbeck who is inserted behind him-so the red-haired boy tirelessly goes down again and again... …Anyway, he just came on the field, and his fitness is just right.

The young players suddenly became a little silly: What's wrong with the opponent, just repeating the fixed cooperation again and again?Can't do anything else?

The fans in the stands couldn't care less: anyway, their team is attacking!Can't manage so much, just come on.

In the 78th minute, the patience of the "young man" was almost exhausted, but Sunderland was still repeating the play of the previous minute.Vardy continued to push the ball forward, and Kaulbeck next to him was ready to go to the bottom-but suddenly the ball missed, Vardy flew up, and the ball drew a beautiful arc across the entire front Field, to the right to find Royce exactly.

Royce made a gesture to pass back, hooked the arch of his foot, a beautiful feint - this time he didn't pass back, but chose to take it himself.The young player who had been shaken woke up and hurried back to chase and block. He never thought that Royce was about to break through to the small penalty area, but suddenly chose to pass back.

Every player in Sunderland today seems so selfless.

Shaqiri was behind him, facing the goal.The little player raised his foot and kicked towards the goal, as if responding to the "young man"'s shot in the first half. This kick was heavy, like a cannonball. But he didn't even change the direction, and went straight to the bottom of the net.

2 to 1, Sunderland go-ahead.

The Stadium of Light is boiling again.All the fans in the stadium were shouting the nickname "Junior Brother Sha", and the pronunciation was quite accurate.

Shaqiri was so excited that he rushed to Royce - he was so grateful for the assist from his teammates.Royce saw that Junior Brother Sha came to this state too quickly, so he quickly lowered his head and put his hands on the ground.This is the occasional little game they play when warming up before training.Sure enough, Shaqiri ran up to Royce, without even thinking about it, put his hands together, and immediately made a "jumping goat" movement, and jumped over Royce's back.

The fans near the goal burst into laughter: I have seen so many celebrations, but I have never seen a "jumping goat" celebrate.But think about it, wasn't Royce supporting Shaqiri's goal just now?

Brother Sha himself succeeded in "jumping the goat", but he was still a little dazed: He obviously wanted to celebrate with his teammates, but why did he suddenly become "jumping the goat"?But seeing the fans overwhelmingly praising him for his ingenuity in this celebration, Junior Brother Sha stretched out his hand to touch the back of his neck and smiled embarrassedly.

Anton finally shook his fist on the sidelines to celebrate - just now Messi scored a goal, he just smiled, as if thinking that it should be so, this kind of goal is just a trivial matter to Messi.But now he clenched his fists and waved the air, his excitement palpable.

The "young man" coach Muller, who was not far from him, looked at his "friend and opponent" with some resentment.

Everyone is a coach, so they naturally understand the difference between the two goals: Messi's first goal came from a penalty kick created by his amazing talent, and everything was done in one go; Players such as Vardy, Royce, and Colbeck tried and pulled repeatedly, creating opportunities out of no opportunities.Even if anyone is greedy or aggressive during the whole process, the goal will not be achieved.

No wonder Anton was so happy.

But the next moment Anton had returned to the bench, discussed with the coaching staff for a while, and made the last substitution adjustment for this game.

Royce, who just completed a beautiful assist, was replaced at this time.Crouch, who was over two meters tall, finally had a chance to play.

The young players are a bit depressed: Most teams use tall centers to break through dense defenses. Now that the dense defenses have been broken, why do you replace such a tall center?

Sunderland's players are all in high spirits: they know that the first and second trials agreed with coach Anton earlier have been completed.The current substitution is the clarion call to start Trial Three.

At this time, it was close to the 82nd minute. Seeing that the "young man" couldn't even keep the tie, he quickly removed a midfielder and replaced it with a frontcourt player, preparing for the last fight.But Anton's team just changed a striker.

Standing on the field, Crouch was thin and tall. From a distance, he really stood out from the crowd, like a long and thin bamboo pole.He just threw a club in front of the opponent's penalty area, and the "young man" didn't dare to hit the high ball immediately-who can compete with Crouch for the top?

Sunderland has changed the practice of ground warfare, instead of fighting high and high.This sudden change in passing caused the "young people" to be uncomfortable. Those who were ready to launch a fast break all failed because they did not unload the ball cleanly.

Even if they want to counterattack, the "young" players try not to make mistakes. They have already had the experience of being awarded a penalty kick. They have always been cautious in their own half and dare not create any set-piece opportunities.

But sometimes throw-ins are unavoidable.

In the 89th minute, Sunderland got a throw-in. Godin was about to throw the ball, but before raising the ball above his head, he suddenly put his hand down.The red-haired kid Colbeck almost crossed half of the field, and came all the way to throw this throw-in—

The fans who watched Sunderland's game last season were all secretly excited, but the "young" players didn't understand it all - is this delaying time?

Colback received the ball from Godin, held it in his arms, and wiped it with his jersey.The ball boy at the Stadium of Light rushed up and handed Colback a rag.

The game is almost over, do we still need to clean the ball?

Colbeck carefully wiped off the sweat and stains on the surface of the ball, and then held the ball with both hands and raised it above his head. At the same time, he took six or seven steps back and started a run-up——

The "young" players finally felt something was wrong: it was just a throw-in, not a grenade!Why such a run-up?Still that far?

The red-haired boy threw the ball far away, even with a little spin.The ball was far and floating, and it went straight to Crouch's sky cover in the penalty area.Crouch hardly had to take off, just shook his head hard towards the goal. The "young man" goalkeeper made a one-handed save, but no matter how long his hand was, he couldn't reach it. He watched the ball pass by his fingertips and fell into the net with a "crack".

3:1.

The "experiment" of the ultra-long throw-in was also successful, breaking the defense of the "young man" at the end of the game.

Sunderland turned defeat into victory this time, and reversed to win the game.

After the goal, Crouch ran to the sidelines with great excitement, opened his arms and began to dance the robot dance-he had long thought about this way of celebrating.Uncle Thompson, the driver, could dance without him last time!

The author has something to say: Crouch: I am the best dancing striker in the Premier League.