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Chapter 483 Familiarity
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A sharp whistle sounded from the Rhine-Neckar Stadium. Just now Long Bisheng was just about to take the ball 30 meters away from the goal and was about to turn around to pass others. He was unceremoniously knocked down by Li Jie behind him. The referee came up to warn Li Jie and awarded Newcastle an indirect free kick.

Long Bisheng got up a little depressed, and looked at Li Jie with a smug smile on his face—Li Jie was really familiar with him, and he would not have been knocked down so easily with his solid footing, but Li Jie caught him at the moment when he started to sprint and knocked him off his center of gravity, and his movement was not too big, so he would not easily get a yellow card.

But this distance...although it is a bit far away, my free kick should be able to pose a threat to the goal. Although it is an indirect free kick, the practice of stepping, stepping and shooting should be very appropriate.

On the training ground, Long Bisheng had already shown his long-distance free kick characteristics, so he did not enter the penalty area, but stood in front of the ball, with Bell and Essien standing on both sides of him.

Bell pushed the ball sideways, Essien stepped on the ball and let it go, the rushing Long Bisheng kicked the ball!
The ball quickly flew towards the penalty area, and a figure next to him rushed over and blocked the ball with his body!

It was Kolarov who prevented Long Bisheng from shooting!Obviously, Kolarov, who taught Long Bisheng to kick free kicks, is very familiar with the angle that Long Bisheng is used to shooting from this distance!

Seeing that his shot was blocked by Kolarov so accurately, Long Bisheng couldn't help being stunned. At this time, Messi was about to follow up and hit again, but Kolarov, who fell on the ground, raised his foot and stabbed the ball out.

The ball rolled to Fernandez's feet. The Chilean did not choose to take the ball himself, but sent the ball directly to the right, where Marin, who did not return to the defense, was waiting.

"Return to defense!" Long Bisheng was taken aback. He knew the speed of Marin's counterattack very well, and Newcastle's left back Bell was still by his side!

Bell soon realized this, and immediately turned around and rushed towards Marin, but the distance between him and Marin was already very far. Although he chased vigorously, it was obvious that he would not be able to catch up in a short while!
Originally, after the full-back stepped forward, the midfielder Essien should have filled his position, but Essien was also beside Long Bisheng. Only Maicon and Dawson were left in the backcourt of Newcastle. Dawson moved to the left to block Marin’s breakthrough, while Maicon filled the position in the middle of the penalty area to defend Zeko who was preparing to respond in the middle—it seemed so uncoordinated.

But there is no way around this. If Dawson doesn't make up for it, then Maicon will have to cross the entire half to stop Marin—then it's better to wait for Bell to return to the defense. When he runs, the day lily will be cold.

Dawson's frontal defense ability is a strong point, and his turning speed is not slow. These qualities are enough to make him a world-class defender, but running to the side of the penalty area to defend is not what he is good at, especially when his opponent is a short winger known for his excellent speed and personal skills.

Marin got rid of Dawson's defense almost in an instant. He didn't give Dawson a chance to force him up. Two consecutive fake moves confused Dawson's eyes. Then Marin immediately used a beautiful man-ball pass to pass by Dawson. Dawson turned around and planned to foul immediately, but saw that Marin had stepped into the penalty area with one foot. After hesitating for a moment, Marin had already thrown him away.

Maicon had to leave Zeko to block Marin's shooting route. At this moment, Marin passed the ball, and the ball flew to Zeko accurately. Zeko didn't give Maicon a chance to return to defense, and he turned sideways and raised his foot to volley!

Faced with this shot that was close at hand, Cech could not make a judgment no matter how fast he reacted. He just subconsciously threw a sideways shot, but the ball flew from his hand into the net!
"Zek! Zeko! Zeko!"

There was a huge cheer from the stands at the Rhein-Neckarstadion as the Hoffenheim fans shouted their love for their new striker, who scored Dzeko's seventh goal in all official competitions since the start of the new season!
Zeko roared and rushed to the stands and waved his fists. Breaking the gate of Newcastle was really relieved for him!The Bosnians almost saw their year in England as a nightmare!
"Damn it, Hoffenheim is so familiar with dragons, they actually took advantage of this to complete a counterattack!" Mourinho leaned back fiercely and said angrily.

Pei Wei also shook his head again and again: "This counterattack was indeed premeditated, including the foul! This guy, Lannick, is very good at arranging on-the-spot tactics! Jose, guess who he reminds me of?"

Mourinho and Pei Wei looked at each other, and at the same time spit out a name: "Rafael Benitez!"

Then the two shook their heads at the same time, Mourinho said: "It's okay, it's only 10 minutes, we still have enough time!"

The Hoffenheim fans are excited by a goal at home against the mighty Newcastle. They are already getting used to the Bundesliga victory. A real strong team!
Maybe they will be able to achieve this dream in this game!
After taking the lead, Hoffenheim was not conservative, and Rangnick's style was not to defend after leading. Crazy pressing in the frontcourt and concise and fast advancement were the magic weapon for Hoffenheim to defeat the enemy.

In terms of defense, Li Jie followed Long Bisheng stubbornly, and tried every means to stop Long Bisheng, including the ubiquitous small movements in the penalty area-Li Jie has always been a central defender with a lot of small movements, Long Bisheng is also well aware of this, but when these small movements are applied to him, Long Bisheng feels that it is really troublesome.

Ribery is tightly entangled by Beck. Beck is now the main right-back star of the German national team, and he is younger than Ribery and has much better physical fitness.

Messi was defended by the opponent's area. In the midfield, Gustavo and Weiss took turns to defend him. After entering the penalty area, he would face Comper and Kolarov.

With three forwards closely marked, it was Newcastle's midfielder who stepped up.

Bostock, who replaced Carrick, broke through Fernandez's defense beautifully, attracted Weiss to jump towards him, and immediately passed the ball to Gerrard in front of him.

The quality of this long-range shot is quite high, but Adler showed his strength as Germany's top goalkeeper, flying to save the incoming ball, and then pushed the ball out of the baseline with one hand!
"Pay attention to defending this corner kick!" Adler, who jumped up from the ground, was not very happy. Newcastle's average height is quite high, and Hoffenheim's air defense ability is good when Mertesacker is not on the field.

Li Jie stubbornly carried Long Bisheng on his shoulders, and tried every means to push him out of the small restricted area. Long Bisheng seemed to have taken root on the ground, and stood firmly to prevent Li Jie from pushing. The entanglement between the two quickly attracted the attention of the referee, who ordered them to separate temporarily, but when the referee turned his head, the two of them immediately stuck together like a magnet.

"Hey, buddy, can you stop sticking me so tightly? My girlfriend will be jealous." Long Bisheng said helplessly to Li Jie.

"Girlfriend? Ning Xi or Lu Xiaoshan?" Li Jie immediately provoked Long Bisheng, but what he didn't expect was that just after he finished saying this, Long Bisheng quickly left him and rushed forward.

"Damn it, this guy is actually deceitful! It's unreasonable, you have the virtues of an upright northern man..." Li Jie cursed in his heart, while chasing Long Bisheng fiercely. Now that the ball just came out, he should be able to catch up.

But just when he was about to catch up, Gerald rushed over and just stopped in front of him. Li Jie hurriedly did not rush over, and when he looked up, he saw that Long Bisheng had already jumped up.

Comper left Messi to defend Long Bisheng. His frontal defense ability and jumping ability are quite good. Although he only interfered from behind, it was not easy for Long Bisheng to shoot.

Seeing this, Li Jie was relieved a little. He knew Long Bisheng's ability to grab points. If he could effectively interfere with him from behind, then his shooting accuracy would not be too high.

Just when he was thinking this way, he found that Long Bisheng didn't shoot forcibly, but swung the ball with his head, and threw the ball directly from the front point to the back point!

"He made the ferry with his back to the back?" Li Jie was taken aback. He was quite familiar with Long Bisheng, but he had never seen Long Bisheng not even look at the position of his teammates when ferrying the header!

Of course he didn't know that this was a Newcastle corner kick tactic. If Long Bisheng in the front point can directly shake his head and attack the goal, he will attack the goal.

Appearing at the back point is Bostock!He was facing almost half of the empty goal, and he only needed to shoot lightly...

"GOAL! John - Bostock! His first goal of the season came at such a critical moment! Mourinho's rotation has achieved good results!"

(End of this chapter)