Chapter 96 Opportunity

Commentator Liu Hong praised the referee Hassan for giving the Australian players a card. He believed that this would help the referee control the situation on the field and let the Australian players know whose home court this is.

But the actual situation was different from what he imagined.

Although he received a yellow card, it did not change Australia's tactics.

Zhou Yi is their focus and the key to their victory in the away game. How could one be intimidated by a yellow card?

Some Zhou Yi Australian players will use their excellent physical fitness to backlog Zhou Yi. As long as the intensity of the movements is properly controlled, even if there is no foul, it can have an effect similar to a foul. Anyway, it is to prevent Zhou Yi from taking the ball comfortably.

They divided and surrounded Zhou Yi and pressed closely. This two-pronged tactic tried to prevent the Chinese team from functioning normally.

It can be said that this strategy is relatively successful and targeted.

Surrounding Zhou Yi not only cut off Zhou Yi's outward passing route, but also cut off the external passing route to Zhou Yi. Coupled with a "personal bodyguard", it made it difficult for other players of the Chinese team to pass the football to Zhou Yi, and even more Don't talk about Zhou Yi passing the ball to others.

Therefore, at the beginning of the game, Australia's tactics made the Chinese team a little embarrassed. Zhou Yi's repeated requests failed. However, Australia was very active in the offense. Through their physical advantage, they took advantage of the collision. Sometimes, relying on physical strength to grab the ball doesn't even count as a foul.

On this basis, they repeatedly launched attacks on the Chinese team's goal.

At this moment, Sun Pan has become the protagonist of the Chinese team. He has solved crises for the Chinese team many times with high and low blocks in front of the goal.

Of course, Guo Nu and Yang Muge are also very important in defense. Without their layers of filtering, Australia's offensive in front of the Chinese team might be even more fierce.

However, even if he can keep the ball without conceding, this is not the result Gao Hongbo wants, let alone what the Chinese media and fans want. Since it is at home, of course I hope to get all three points. In this way, when facing Australia again on the road, the Chinese team can appear more calm.

So just defending is not enough, you still have to attack. And if the offense cannot threaten Australia's goal, the pressure on defense will only increase but not decrease.

But how to improve the offense?

Yang Muge can come up to support Zhou Yi.

But he didn't dare to do this because he came up, but the Australian players used their physical advantage to steal the ball from Zhou Yi's feet, and then they could play directly in front of the back line because their midfield barrier was not in place. As a defensive midfielder, he cannot easily step in. The defensive position is more important than anything else. He can take over the reality that the team's offense is weak, but he must not rush forward to participate in the offense because the offense is unfavorable, causing the defense to be out of position.

So he can only stay behind. When Zhou Yi is in trouble, let Zhou Yi pass the football back to him and let him transfer it, or simply let him organize the offense.

It's just that his offensive organization ability is far behind compared to Zhou Yi...

But his presence does provide one more outlet. Therefore, after Zhou Yi is posted by the opponent, if it fails, he will decisively pass the football back to Yang Muge.

But this kind of return pass is of little help to the offense.

You can't always pass back or cross the ball in a game, right?

The key is to pass the ball forward.

But Australia was very strict in defending Zhou Yi's forward pass, and they were simply defensive.

This strict defense hindered the Chinese team's offense.

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When Zhou Yi was surrounded by Australian players and could only pass back, He Ying thought of what Zhou Yi said to him this morning.

They had just gotten up at that time. Zhou Yi came out after washing up and suddenly said to He Ying: "He Ying, in the evening game, if I am closely watched by them, you have to retreat to meet me."

He Ying was quite surprised at the time and didn't understand why Zhou Yi suddenly said that.

So Zhou Yi explained to him, because Australia will definitely focus on marking him, and they will definitely prevent themselves from passing the ball forward. At this time, He Ying needs to withdraw to meet him. When Zhou Yi was deeply surrounded, He Ying had to be his reinforcement.

"...and there is another very important point, He Ying. Your performance against the Japanese team in the last game must have been seen by the Australian coach. They must also know about your situation in the club. You guess they will What conclusion should be drawn?"

"I... am not in a good condition." He Ying said.

"Yes." Zhou Yi said. "Will they pay too much attention to you who are not in good condition? I think it is unlikely. So actually you have a high degree of freedom on the court, and you can do some things without being noticed by Australia. Your sudden retreat and turn forward will greatly surprise them."

"But my condition..."

"Don't think about it so much, the situation will be there."

He Ying finally agreed to Zhou Yi's request. He was envious of Zhou Yi's tactical qualities, but he didn't know that this was something Zhou Yi had verified in the virtual space.

In the virtual games he has played, Australia will implement a siege strategy against him in most games. In the virtual world, such a high probability means that this is a tactic that Australia is likely to adopt in reality. In order to deal with this tactic, Zhou Yi thought of many ways at first, but later he found that the key to dealing with this defensive strategy was to make He Ying active.

If He Ying is disengaged due to lack of confidence or other reasons, then this game will be very difficult to play.

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He Ying remembered what Zhou Yi said to him before the game. He still didn't quite understand why Zhou Yi knew Australia so well, but he now knew that this was not the time to figure it out. Anyway, he had seen Zhou Yi show it many times. "Miracle", he just needs to cooperate with Zhouyi.

He looked left and right. Just as Zhou Yi "predicted", the Australian players were not very strict in defending him. When Zhou Yi got the ball, everyone's eyes naturally turned to Zhou Yi without noticing them at all. Next to him, he is still moving.

He was really looked down upon.

He Ying would have been angry before. Although he would not show it on his expression, he would be angry, and there would be a fire burning in his heart. Essentially, he is a proud man. He is different from his friends like Zhou Yi, Sun Pan, Yang Muge, and Guo Nu. They all used to be the same characters. Zhou Yi was a student and amateur player; Sun Pan was Gangsters who fought and committed crimes in the basketball team and were kicked out of the football team; Yang Muge and Guo Nu are both marginal figures who are not taken seriously in the youth teams of their respective clubs.

He Ying is the only one who has attracted much attention from the team since he was a young player. He has never missed the national youth team and the national youth team at all levels as long as he is not injured. In the original reality show, he was a well-deserved star. .

With such a glorious past and outstanding talent, of course I would be proud.

But now, He Ying feels much calmer. Since Zhou Yi's strong rise, a lot of his star light has been robbed. Everything he encountered in Barcelona also made him feel more peaceful, which will help him figure out some questions that he couldn't figure out before, such as "I am so talented, why am I not as good as Sun Pan now?"

Because he is so ambitious and thinks that because he has outstanding talent, he should follow the path of a genius. Joining La Masia and finally choosing to stay in Barcelona are all based on this mentality. He always felt that only Barcelona could match his talent.

In this regard, Sun Pan's choice was much more sensible. I chose to go to Chelsea's youth training camp because Chelsea was the most interested in him and had the greatest sincerity. They had followed and observed him for many games, and they only observed him and were not interested in anyone else.

When he arrived at Chelsea, after playing in the youth team, because the first team had a goalkeeper like Cech guarding the goal, it was difficult for him to play in the first team, so it was better to loan him out. In order to be able to play in the game, he was even willing to go to a team in the third-tier German league. If it were He Ying, without Zhou Yi's persuasion, he would even think it was a shame to go to the Spanish second league.

But Sun Pan has carved out a niche for himself in the Bundesliga 3, and with his outstanding performance has attracted the favor of Atletico Madrid. Sun Pan himself also feels that although he has performed well in the Bundesliga 3, he has to be in the first line with Chelsea. It was still very difficult for the team to squeeze out Cech, so he chose to continue to be loaned out and went to Atletico Madrid, who favored him and had observed him for a long time.

In this way, he can naturally play games in Atletico Madrid.

At Atletico Madrid, because he had ample game opportunities, his talent had room to be used, and his status naturally rose.

To put it bluntly, if you don't have a chance to perform, no matter how talented you are, if you can't perform it, it's just a "concept."

Now there is an opportunity in front of He Ying. He did not have the opportunity to show his talent in the club, but in the national team, the head coach trusted him and continued to let him start in the face of the huge public pressure from the people across the country.

It's a lot of pressure, but it's also an opportunity.

As Zhou Yi said - when an opportunity appears in front of you, you must seize it before you are qualified to talk about it in the future.

Seeing Zhou Yi trapped in a tight siege, retreating would cost He Ying the opportunity to charge forward, but it gave him an opportunity that might change his career.

He ran back. (To be continued.)