Volume 1: Heroes Appear, People Pay Attention Chapter 195: A Cloud-Piercing Arrow! (Second Update Asking for Monthly Tickets)
Chapter 195: A cloud-piercing arrow! (Second update, please vote for me)
Advocaat seemed extremely cautious when facing Chen Yingxiong, but Chelsea players may not think so. ""
Of course they also know how powerful Chen Yingxiong is, but they feel that their boss is too cautious.
No matter how powerful Chen Yingxiong is, he is only one person. Whether he can exert 100% or 50% of his strength mainly depends on the level of his teammates. Center is a position that relies heavily on teammates. If his teammates are strong, he will be stronger; if his teammates are weak, he will definitely be dragged down.
In terms of Chelsea's strength, it is not even a little bit higher than Liverpool's reserve team.
No matter how good Chen Yingxiong is, if they bring out half the team, they can always offset Chen Yingxiong's influence, right?
The next half of the team is stronger than Liverpool's entire reserve team. In this comparison, Chelsea still has the advantage.
So there is no need to be too cautious. If the focus is just on Chen Yingxiong, then Chelsea will not be able to do anything.
Although they accepted the boss's arrangement on the surface - after all, he is the head coach, privately, Chelsea players still felt that there was no need to do so.
It is right to be cautious with Chen Yingxiong, but is it necessary to be cautious with Liverpool as a whole?
They even believed that Advocaat had been Chen Yingxiong's head coach. Perhaps it was out of the mentality of "all his disciples are the best" and his love for the house that he paid so much attention to the Liverpool reserve team.
In their opinion, they couldn't afford to offend Chen Yingxiong, but what was the reserve team?
We charged a few times, and the defense line of this ragtag group collapsed.
As long as we score first and score more goals, won't you Chen Yingxiong be just a chaser if you can score again? We can only eat ashes behind our butts.
Chelsea players believe that Liverpool's defense is easy to break down and goals are easy to score.
But fifteen minutes into the game, they still didn't score a goal.
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"Fifteen minutes into the game, this is the first stage. The score on the field is still 0:0, and neither side has scored. This is really beyond the expectations of many people. Everyone originally thought this would be It was a very fierce offensive battle, because Liverpool has Chen Yingxiong, and Chelsea's overall strength is higher than this Liverpool... But judging from the fifteen minutes of the game, the two sides played very cautiously, maybe because This is because of the finals..."
There was no goal for fifteen minutes, and Chelsea's players didn't think there was anything unusual. Anyway, there was still time, and given the poor defense of the Liverpool reserve team, they could score whenever they wanted. (《》)
So they are not in a hurry.
Liverpool didn't score in fifteen minutes because they had few attacks.
Chelsea's steady response gave Liverpool few chances to counterattack.
Chelsea's defense is very well organized. It would be difficult for Chen Yingxiong to break through Chelsea's defense alone.
So the two sides were in a stalemate.
Another ten minutes passed, and the score was still 0:0. Not to mention scoring goals, there were not even any exciting scenes - there was a thrilling scene at the beginning of the game, which gave many people the illusion that this would be a very exciting game.
Unexpectedly, the game quickly returned to normal. This is what the final should be like... In the final, it is difficult to play well, because the two teams will always worry about gains and losses. Attack wins the audience, and defense wins the championship. This is clearly reflected in the final. Everyone wants to win the championship. Don’t concede the ball first. Even if no goal is scored in the end and the game ends in a draw, there will still be a penalty shootout.
So it's totally fine not to attack, but big trouble will happen if you don't defend.
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In these 25 minutes, Chelsea had a total of five shots, Liverpool had three, and Chelsea had the upper hand in terms of ball possession rate of 68%.
Whether it is shooting data, time of possession, or other data, Liverpool does not have an advantage.
Many people feel that it will be more difficult for Liverpool to score in this game. Facing Chelsea's steady attack, it would be difficult to break their goal unless they sent in Liverpool's first team.
The commentators and guests also expressed their opinions on the current form of the game, believing that the initiative lies in Chelsea's hands, and they are still cautiously optimistic about Chelsea.
After all, Chelsea's caution was a bit too much, but the effect was very good-it was too much to deal with Chen Yingxiong. If he had just defended according to general standards, he might have been scored by Chen Yingxiong.
"Advocaat's caution is justified. He was Chen Yingxiong's head coach when he debuted, and he knows Chen Yingxiong's abilities and potential very well. That's why he made such an arrangement. And this arrangement just curbed the performance of Chen Yingxiong and Liverpool... As expected, only those who are most familiar with him can deal with him..."
What the commentators said was good, but they all seemed to have forgotten that Chen Yingxiong had a weapon that could break the goal no matter how careful you were...
That's a free kick.
No matter how careful you are, you can't avoid committing a foul...
You can commit fewer fouls in dangerous areas, but this is something you can't control.
When Barcelona swept European football, many teams that defended them faced the same problem - without fouling, Barcelona's defense at the front of the penalty area was too loose, giving Barcelona players a lot of room to play, allowing They easily broke into the penalty area through small-scale cooperation. If the defense is too strict, it is easy to get fouled and get cards. Not only will you give the opponent a free kick, but you will also have to get a yellow card, which will cause a lot of trouble for future defense.
The result of deliberate control is that you cannot control it at all, because you never know whether the foul is worth it. What if you don't foul and let the opponent get into the penalty area? If a foul is committed but the opponent uses the free kick to score, who does it count?
Well, even if it can be strictly controlled, even if it can be guaranteed not to foul at the front of the penalty area, so what?
Chen Yingxiong is not like other free kick takers. His original shooting range can reach 40 meters! And no matter how off the angle is.
How can we strictly control such a huge free kick range?
It’s not easy to just control the frontier area of the penalty area without fouling, not to mention the non-fouling that almost extends to half-court...
So when Spearing was tripped by Mikel thirty-eight meters from the goal, winning a free kick for Liverpool, it was only natural.
But even Mikel, who committed the foul, did not realize what the foul meant to Chelsea and himself.
This is quite normal. Thirty-eight meters is really too far.
Although we said that Chen Yingxiong's free kick range can reach up to 40 meters.
But this is a theoretical range, and theoretical range and effective range are not the same concept.
Just like an assault rifle, with a theoretical range of one thousand meters, the effective killing range may be only 500 meters, and the optimal killing range may be only more than 100 meters...
Therefore, Chen Yingxiong's theoretical shooting range is 40 meters, which does not mean that his effective killing range is also 40 meters. It just means that within these 40 meters, his free kicks are still threatening. But the optimal range is not this number, but thirty-three to thirty-five meters. Among them, thirty-five meters is the best, because the distance is far enough for him to exert force, and at the same time, it can give his falling leaf ball enough time and space to fly and fall.
The difference between thirty-eight meters and thirty-five meters is only three meters, but these three meters are the dividing line between a sure goal and a threat.
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Mikel didn't even say anything after the foul. He quickly got up from the ground, then turned around and ran back.
The referee signaled Liverpool to come up and take the free kick.
Chen Yingxiong ran back from the front.
Sure enough, it was him who took the penalty, there was no suspense. In this Liverpool reserve team, Chen Yingxiong is the best free kicker. Who dares to compete with him?
Chen Yingxiong ran back, took the football from Spearing, and placed it at the penalty spot.
From his position, the goal was a bit far away, and the originally huge goal now looked like a window.
In addition, there are people blocking the way, so it is not easy to kick the ball in.
But these are not problems for Chen Yingxiong. He has been contacting free kicks in the dungeon for a year, and even now he still practices occasionally.
And the best thing about the copy is that he can simulate the situation on the field at will according to his requirements and ideas, so no matter what position, what distance, what angle, what kind of human wall combination, he has tried it, and he even made it The ten people in the Human Wall Sect were short of being able to form a Shaolin Eighteen Bronze Man Formation...
It is precisely because he has experienced almost every imaginable free kick situation in the copy that he can find a way to deal with any free kick in the game.
What does thirty-seven meters count? He also tried to score a direct free kick from the center circle of the backcourt... but the success rate was very low.
But compared to that, thirty-seven meters is not far at all.
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Because the distance was too far, there were only four people standing in Chelsea's wall.
Offensive players like Hulk did not even return to the penalty area to defend, but stayed in the frontcourt, closer to the Liverpool goal than Chen Yingxiong, waiting for the opportunity to counterattack.
It makes sense for Chelsea to do this, after all, Liverpool themselves don’t have many players...
This kind of set-piece market is the easiest for the opponent to seize the opportunity to counterattack, so in order to ensure that the defense line does not get messed up when the time comes, Martin O'Neill asked the players of the reserve team to try not to go up even if it is a set-piece, even if it is a corner kick... because the front One Chen Yingxiong is enough. Could it be that if these people go up, will Chelsea leave Chen Yingxiong to defend them, thereby reducing some defensive pressure on Chen Yingxiong?
Impossible, the reserve team's offense was not taken seriously at all.
In this case, why let your players go up and waste energy and give the opponent a chance to counterattack?
So even if it was a free kick, no one from Liverpool took it. There was only one full-back doing a symbolic show in front, and the others stayed in the backcourt.
Faced with such a strange situation, why did Chelsea players come back to defend?
This scene also stunned the commentator: "Liverpool's free kick opportunity... but the Liverpool players don't seem to be very active... Should it be said that they believe in Chen Yingxiong's scoring ability too much? Or they don't believe it too much. What? So they stayed in the backcourt to prevent Chelsea's counterattack..."
As he spoke, the referee stepped back and blew his whistle.
Chen Yingxiong leaned forward, took a running start, and then hit the football with his right leg like a whip.
Just like the launch of a road-based cruise missile, the murderous aura in the sky was like the smoke and dust after the missile was launched. The football roared into the sky first, as if it was about to pierce the sky.
During the flight, the football continuously corrects its course and always keeps itself facing the target.
By the time it reaches its highest point, the football has already passed the wall.
When it roared past the wall, the Chelsea players on the wall could only look up at it and watch him go away.
Then it started falling, falling, falling!
Falling rapidly!
Plunged into it.
But the height is still very high, as if it might fly over the beam at any time...
But only at such a height can it be possible to avoid Cech's fingers.
So when Cech jumped up, his hand did not touch the football.
After escaping Cech's interception, the football was still falling at a high speed.
Finally, it rubbed the lower edge of the crossbar and got into the goal!
Dead end!