At this moment, the north locker room.
All the main players of the Bucks Steel Horns stood in a circle around Coach Carter, and the atmosphere in the locker room was filled with excitement and tension.
Coach Carter started the pre-match training:
"Today is the last game in everyone's high school career! It is also the last game in this national competition!"
"This game will be the end of your youth!"
"I know you are all very nervous at the moment. I know you are worried that your performance is not good enough. I also know that you are afraid of failure!"
"Relax, my children!"
"Because no matter you succeed or fail, this is not your end! It's the starting point!"
"Yes! The Bucks Steel Horns are not as good as the Missionaries in terms of overall strength - this is an objective fact we cannot deny!"
“For us Bucks Steelhorns, victory is never as easy as the flowers on the hillside.”
"Other teams win easily, but we need to work twice as hard!"
"But, we fought all the way! We used our own way to carve out our own bloody path in the jungle full of carnivorous beasts!"
"Each of you is the best fighter! This is why Southamptonians like you! With your victories and struggles, you have perfectly interpreted what the Southampton spirit is!"
"——Never give up! Fight till the end!"
"In this last game, everyone doesn't need to have any baggage, just continue to try your best!"
"Now, in front of us, there is only the last enemy who despises us!"
"They think we are weak trash! They think they can kill us easily!"
"So, what do we do?"
All the Bucks Steel Horns players raised their arms and roared: "Fuck him! Fuck him! Fuck him!"
"That's right! Fuck him!" Coach Carter said solemnly: "What I want is not victory, but the spirit of Southampton people who never admit defeat! My boys, are you ready?"
"Ready!"
The Bucks Steel Horns players roared in unison, and the roof of the entire north locker room was almost torn off!
"Okay!" Coach Carter waved his hand, "Go, kids! According to the tactics we formulated before, in the first half, bite them hard and don't let go, and do your best to consume their physical energy! Every second Don’t make them comfortable! God will be with you!”
The Bucks Steelhorns players folded their hands together and said, "ROAR!!!"
Immediately afterwards, the Bucks Steel Horns players walked out of the north locker room with murderous intent and lined up in the player tunnel.
The Missionaries also lined up in the tunnel.
Players from both sides disliked each other. Although there was no verbal communication, there was a strong smell of gunpowder in the player tunnel.
6:50!
Under the guidance of three national-level referees, players from both sides walked past the Young Talent Trophy and officially debuted!
The Millennium Stadium was filled with deafening cheers!
Various team flags were waved enthusiastically in the stands!
The whole place was almost on fire!
When Gu Ran passed by the Young Genius Trophy, he glanced at the trophy subconsciously.
Olin of the Missionaries happened to be looking at the trophy from the other side.
The moment the two people's eyes came into contact, sparks seemed to collide.
Olin gave Gu Ran a provocative look, then quickly withdrew his gaze and followed the team into the green field.
...I'm more of a coward than a pretender.
Gu Ran sneered and complained in his heart.
The two teams lined up on the court and then began the handshake ceremony.
When the Bucks Steel Horns players shook hands with Olin, everyone tried their best and wanted to crush Olin's hand!
Orin was pinched so hard 11 times that his face turned green!
After the handshake ceremony, the captains of the two teams came to the referee to guess coins.
Bread, the captain of the Bucks Steel Horns, guessed right or wrong and got the priority to pick sides.
Missionary team captain No. 10 McCachran got the kickoff for the Missionaries.
The two captains exchanged team flags as a sign of respect—even though neither of them had any respect in mind.
Players from both sides went to their respective halves, took a group photo, and then began to take their positions.
Gu Ran quickly observed the missionary team's position:
The Missionaries' position is an obvious 4-3-3 formation.
U17 international player Wickham is the center forward, in the middle, with a winger on each side of him.
The midfielder is organized and connected with captain No. 10 McKellen as the core.
On the back line, the two left and right full-backs basically occupied the position of wing-backs, ready to step in at any time.
It can be said that this formation is very aggressive.
It seems that Pratt, the head coach of the Missionaries, does not take a "weak grassroots team" like the Bucks Steelhorns into his eyes at all.
Platt once played for Arsenal and Sampdoria in Serie A. Before retiring, he briefly coached the English team Nottingham Forest - yes, Platt was both a player of Nottingham Forest at the time. The head coach is also a Nottingham Forest player.
…The legendary “head coach is warming up.”
Platt himself plays as a midfielder, so he must have a deeper understanding of the midfielder than other coaches.
Platt, who has some Arsenal blood and experience in Europe, has a relatively obvious continental style of play. Gu Ran can already predict that under this offensive 433 system, Platt will inevitably place more emphasis on midfield control. The midfielder's ace No. 10 McKellen will serve as the engine to distribute the ball, play short passes and control the ball, and then give full play to the player's flank breakthrough ability.
This also means that the defensive pressure on the Bucks Steel Horns today will be unprecedentedly huge.
First of all, we must bite No. 10 McCachran and try to limit the personal ability of the U17 captain. Secondly, we must keep an eye on the missionaries' advancement on both wings and center Wickham's penetration in the penalty area.
The Missionaries players have very strong personal abilities, and with the support of the 433 offensive formation, their overall performance will be even more terrifying.
This will definitely be a huge test for the Bucks Steel Horns defense.
On the other hand, the Bucks Steel Horns' formation is still the "old" 442 position.
Coach Carter almost always uses one formation to death - this is not Carter's fault. He has such a bad set of cards. The players' personal skills are not enough, their physical strength is not good enough, and their overall coordination is not strong. They only have physical fitness and will. It's still a bit like that. How can it be possible to go head-to-head with a strong team with this kind of card?
442 anti-counterattack is the only correct choice for the Bucks Steel Horns.
Moreover, the key to winning or losing is not the incompatibility of formations, but the fine-tuning of details during the game.
In the past, the Bucks Steel Horns did not have the ability to fine-tune on the spot, but now the Bucks Steel Horns have a bad hand with a king bomb - Gu Ran, so this kind of on-the-spot tactical fine-tuning is what the Bucks Steel Horns hide. The biggest advantage!
Coach Carter is not a star like Pratt, nor is he a big-name coach, but he has been involved in the games of weak teams for a long time, and he is definitely professional in terms of self-awareness and control of the locker room.
In this game, Coach Carter still asked Bread to stay behind and act as a defensive midfielder, while Minato, who had been a false core in the previous games, shrank back and no longer advanced - playing against a super team like the Missionaries, he has already There's no need to act any more, just defend with all your strength.
As for Gu Ran's position, he did not advance to the left midfielder position, but stood at his left back position.
The opponent had the ball at the beginning, so the blitz tactics used in previous games were ineffective.
And... from the conversation with Olin, we also learned that the Missionary Team has "military intelligence scouts". The Missionary Team must be aware of Gu Ran's blitz tactics, and they will definitely focus on guarding against Gu Ran's blitz tactics.
At first glance, the Bucks Steel Horns' formation is very ordinary, and can even be described as mediocre.
However, every player on the field of the Bucks Steel Horns is full of murderous spirit, and they are not afraid at all when facing the top teams!
Gu Ran and Olin were standing on opposite corners. The Bucks Steel Horns' left wing was the Missionaries' right wing.
So Olin's counterpart is not Gu Ran, but the right midfielder Blind Man and right back Hua Luo of the Bucks Steel Horns.
The blind man and Hua Luo looked at Orin with daggers in their eyes.
The referee lowered his head and looked at his watch——
The fans from Southampton and the fans from Cardiff shouted wildly:
"Gu Ran! Gu Ran!"
"come on! Come on!"
"Score a goal! Be the top scorer!"
"Chinese dad! Defeat the missionary team!"
"Black-haired Bell! Come on! We want to see your overtaking on the outer lane!"
"Ahhhh! God, I love you! My mother and I both love you!"
As the game approaches, the atmosphere at the scene becomes more and more heated.
Gu Ran stood on the green field, took a deep breath calmly, and cleared all the messy thoughts in his mind.
At this moment, the deafening shouts at the Millennium Stadium turned into white noise.
Gu Ran focused his attention on his mind——
Now, there are still 6 talent points available.
The physical contact in the early stages of this game must have been intense, and the players on the Missionaries are generally tall, and they are basically trained in professional youth training camps, so with strength of 65 and strength of 67, such attribute levels cannot be achieved in Missionaries. In front of the team...it's enough, but it doesn't have many advantages.
In the early confrontation, the advantage must be established as soon as possible, otherwise it will easily collapse.
Without much hesitation, Gu Ran took out 2 talent points and added 1 point each to the strength attribute and strength attribute.
The strength attribute reaches 66 points!
The strength attribute reaches 68 points!
Gu Ran suddenly felt that the muscles all over his body were thicker, and the strength of his muscles and bones was also stronger!
Cool!
Just do it!
What's the best team in the country, what's the British U17 international, what's this ace and that core...
These titles will only make me more excited when I fuck you!
Gu Ran's eyes were filled with murderous intent!
beep--
With the referee's crisp opening whistle, the national competition finals officially began!
"yeah!!!"
More than 50,000 fans at the scene have been waiting for a long time, and finally waited for the moment when the game started!
First up was the Missionaries kicking off the game.
No. 9 Wickham passed the ball directly back to captain McKellen, and then quickly penetrated into the Bucks Steel Horns' penalty area.
After taking the ball, McKellen started quickly and advanced along the middle at high speed.
Other Missionaries players followed suit.
The whole missionary team starts blitzing!
Olin, who couldn't even catch a dog, sprinted with the greatest vigor!
As soon as the game started, the missionaries showed their ferocious fangs!
The Missionaries fans in the south stands screamed with excitement!
Bucks Steel Horns fans were booing wildly!
The Bucks Steel Horns players quickly shrank their defense!
Minato and Bread formed the first midfield line of defense, intercepting McKellen who was carrying the ball head-on.
The sissy also retreated to join in the defense.
Gu Ran put the right forward of the Missionaries down, and he shrank towards the center to help behind the goal and bread - in this case, he put himself on the wing to guard the center.
And Sime is trying his best to chase the right forward.
The other Bucks Steel Horns players, except for the glider in the frontcourt, are all participating in the defense with physical confrontation, suppressing the Missionaries' blitzing speed!
After enduring Gu Ran's involution training, the overall defensive speed of the Bucks Steel Horns team was already very fast!
The Missionaries' blitz was blocked and failed to form an overall breakthrough.
Next, it depends on the confrontation between the two sides in local details!
Watergate, Bread, and Sissy formed a triangle defensive formation and teamed up to double-team the missionary team's ace captain No. 10 McCachran.
The bread blocked McCachran's breakthrough channel in advance, and Minato quickly approached McCachran. After the mother-in-law broke, the three of them worked together to squeeze McCachran toward Gu Ran——
This kind of defensive cooperation is also the focus of the Bucks Steel Horns' drills in the latest stage.
In this way, even if McEachlan can get past the bread, he will still get into Gu Ran's hunting circle!
When the time comes, Gu Ran uses his body to block McClun, and Minato and others follow up to steal, creating a 4v1 tactical hunt! After successfully stealing the ball, you can launch a sharp counterattack!
but……
As a British U17 international, McKechran is not only rich in competition experience, but also has very clear thinking!
McCachran did not dribble the ball in the direction of the "flaw", but suddenly made an emergency stop, followed by a beautiful move by Matthews to sink his shoulders——
"wow!!!"
All the fans in the audience couldn't help but let out a cry of exclamation!
Not only Preachers fans, but Bucks Steelhorns fans and Cardiff fans were in awe.
This move is so gorgeous! It’s just right!
In British football, which is dominated by physical collisions, this kind of passing action is simply miraculous!
——The so-called "shoulder sinking" is an extraordinary skill used by football players when facing defenses. As the name suggests, it is to press the shoulders down, while lowering the center of gravity, and instantly reverse the body to complete a quick turn, allowing the defensive player to A mistake in judgment occurred, thus throwing off the defender's marking, tearing open the defense line, and creating a breakthrough channel.
This extraordinary move was created by British football master Stanley Matthews.
Matthews is a true legend. His life is brilliant. His most proud deed is that he entered the professional team at the age of 16 and played until he was knighted at the age of 50. Officially retired after 5 days.
This was once the oldest record in football. It was broken by Miura Yoshitomo at 50 years and 7 days 17 years after his death.
When Matthews retired, some sports media lamented: If Matthews is not knighted, he may be kicked out until Charles succeeds to the throne.
In the British arena, which is dominated by physical confrontation, Matthews is an absolute anomaly. As a right winger, he is extremely fast and loves to play tricks. He even deliberately uses funny acrobatics to tease his opponents. This triggered enthusiastic cheers from the fans.
He was a performing artist on the court of that era. He had excellent physical conditions and foot skills. His sudden stops and turns were a nightmare for all opponents. His shoulder-sinking movements were very flexible and he was often able to defeat multiple defensive players. Complete multiple changes of direction so that opponents cannot predict his next movement direction, thus creating more opportunities for the team.
The action of shoulder sinking is actually not difficult in itself, but what is difficult is the super control of the muscles in various parts of the body, as well as the ability to continuously change directions and control the ball in a small double-teaming space.
In fact, Matthews' shoulder-sinking is not the most awesome shoulder-sinking skill.
The most awesome thing is Messi's heavy shoulders.
Messi's shoulder-sinking is known as "one of La Masia's magical skills", and it is also the skill with the highest penetration success rate in today's football in a small space.
There is one thing to say, Messi is definitely one of the most talented players in the world, and his strength lies not only in his talent-level skills, but also in his god-level athletic reactions that are almost exclusively born for football. nerve.
If we compare Matthews' heavy shoulders with Messi's heavy shoulders, Matthews' heavy shoulders are more consciously used. After all, the defensive skills in the British football environment are also rough, and the space for breakthroughs is also large, and In the La Liga environment where Messi is located, there are more players involved in defense, and the double-teaming on him is tighter and more targeted. Messi is almost always in a small space with multiple double-teams. Under such conditions, Messi must react faster and more agilely to complete the breakthrough.
Other players' reactions are measured in seconds, while Messi's reactions are measured in milliseconds.
This also means that Messi's shoulder-sinking changes almost simultaneously with the opponent's double-teaming defensive actions, and the micro-manipulation of the ball at his feet also makes temporary changes with the opponent's temporary changes.
If scored based on the attributes of the system, Messi's flexible attributes are definitely 100 points at the full grading level.
The flexibility attribute refers to the connection between two actions. The higher the flexibility attribute, the smoother the action connection and the more obvious the coherence.
Messi's breakthrough skills are essentially a combination of several nerve-level reactions that are quickly connected together - accurate and reasonable.
When you watch Messi break through, you won't think he is fast, but when you use a close-up and slow down to analyze it in detail, you will find how many extremely controlled and subtle reactions his body muscles make in one second. action.
This is definitely not a specific instruction from the brain, but a neurological knife-level physical reaction.
This kind of nerve-level motor reaction also makes "Messi's shoulder sinking" even more unpredictable. Messi's shoulder sinking is not a fixed formula, but has reached a state similar to "no move to win, but one move to win".
When Messi uses his shoulders, it must be when the opponent player is too close to him. Messi will use his shoulders to turn sideways, turn around, or suddenly change directions to accelerate. He may even use his shoulders continuously, make an emergency stop, reverse his shoulders, and then suddenly Acceleration and a series of actions that almost violate the laws of ordinary people's motor nerves.
World-class players are all talented, but Messi not only has talent, but also has inhuman football nerves.
——Messi himself is a fool.
Now, the skills used by McCachran of the Missionaries are naturally not comparable to Messi's heavy shoulders, but only a lower level of Matthews' heavy shoulders.
But even Matthews's shoulders are low, and in the amateur-level national competition, he is already a dimensionally reduced attack.
Gu Ran's eyes lit up when he saw McEachran's Matthews slumping his shoulders! ! !
This skill... I have to go whoring!
——At the moment when McEachran Matthews slumped his shoulders, Minato, who was closely guarding him, was knocked to the ground! The bread blocking the middle road was also moved away! The sissy didn’t react at all! There was no way to catch up with McEachlan in the first place.
The triangle defensive formation against McCachran was broken instantly!
The Bucks Steel Horns' midfield defense was immediately torn open with a big hole!
——This is really a crushing of personal abilities!
McEachlan then accelerated and rushed with the ball towards the right rib area of the Bucks Steel Horns!
Almost all the defensive players were chasing, blocking and assisting in the right rib area, while Gu Ran quickly retreated to the left side of the penalty area.
The 30-meter area has been broken through. As the left back, Gu Ran's next thing is to prevent McCachran from using the width of the court after breaking through and suddenly passing the ball to the bottom line on the left side.
This is golf quotient!
At this time, on the right side of the Bucks Steel Horns, the missionary's left forward and left back Olin had already assisted.
The Bucks Steel Horns' blind man and Hua Luo defended desperately to prevent them from making further breakthroughs.
The center backs Rusty Bar and Painter also quickly marked No. 9 Wickham who had penetrated into the penalty area.
Minato also quickly got up from the turf and chased McCachran hard, while Bread retreated to the top of the penalty area.
Overall, although the Bucks Steel Horns were able to break through a layer of defense through McKechran's personal ability, the defensive formation was still there and had not been directly penetrated.
Facing the pursuit and interception of the Bucks Steel Horns, McCachran still calmly and calmly penetrated the right side of the ribs.
While dribbling at high speed, McCachran suddenly looked up and looked towards the left wing of the Bucks Steel Horns——
coming! ! !
(End of chapter)
