striker cool brother

Chapter 2 It's time for real technology

Just like the tactics arranged before, Rossi, as the center forward, has to penetrate deep into the opponent's penalty area to attract the defense. At the same time, he has to respond to the cross ball from his teammates and head the ball into it.

Nugent has speed and passing, and can get the ball at the front of the penalty area to attract defense.

The combination of the two, one high and one fast, can create breakthrough space for Mahrez on the wing.

This is the flexible collocation of Leicester City's striker and the diversity of attack methods.

But no one in the penalty area attracts defense. No matter who the ball is passed to the striker, the opponent has enough time to take targeted defense.

Unless it is a lineup of three small fast forwards, they can use speed and passing to tear apart the defense.

Therefore, Rossi's retreat undoubtedly weakened the offensive depth and disrupted the team's entire offensive deployment.

But Rossi did nothing wrong. After all, both ball control and dribbling have reached 80, which is much more proficient than Nugent.

Nugent, who has shooting skills and rich experience, is at the forefront and retreating by himself is the best solution.

However, looking at the gloomy face of the head coach, Rossi still obediently obeyed.

If a player is disobedient, no matter how good his performance is, he will definitely be banned in the future.

Both teams use a lineup of three central defenders. The midfield is the focus of the two sides' competition. The strangulation is particularly fierce, and it is difficult for the ball to pass to the forwards of both sides.

If you make a long pass, let alone Rossi, even if Vardy is on the court, there is no guarantee that he will securely win the ball in front of the opponent's tall central defender.

In the last few minutes of the first half, neither side could threaten the goal.

During the intermission, Pearson walked into the locker room with a stern face, holding a tactical board under his arm.

Vardy's injury has not yet been found out. If he misses the next game due to injury, the head coach may regret sending him on the field.

If this game is lost, then there will only be one point difference between the team and Burnley.

In the remaining 8 rounds, there is no room for loss in each game, so it is too passive.

"Luo, you continued to be at the top in the second half and pay attention to passing the ball. As long as you can stop the ball, we have a chance."

Although I know that it is difficult for rookie Rossi to head and take the ball under the opponent's tight defense, but the tactics have to be explained, after all, he is one goal behind.

Right now, we can only pin our hopes on Nugent, the team's top scorer.

As long as they get a tie, the team still has a 4-point lead.

In the second half, the Burnley team began to shrink their defense and concentrate on defensive counterattacks.

Burnley's back line is full of tall central defenders, with a large horizontal defensive area, and there is absolutely no chance of frontal attack. Rossi can only wander in the gap between the three central defenders.

Coach Pearson also saw Rossi's movement, which is very smart.

The central defenders in the English league all have good one-defense, one-defense interception and stealing capabilities. It is almost impossible to get the ball in front of them.

However, a tall guard means a lack of turn and speed.

And Rossi moves between the two central defenders, which can attract the defense of both at the same time.

Once there is a mistake in the cooperation between the two, only one anti-offside is needed to run out of the open space.

In the 58th minute of the game, Leicester City midfielder Derink Cowart got rid of the defense and passed a through ball towards Rossi.

Shaker, who was defending him, made up the defense in time to prevent Rossi from turning around easily.

Facing a center forward with poor skills at the feet of Rossi, he must be physically confronted immediately so that he cannot stop the ball easily and does not give him a chance to turn around.

But looking at Rossi's body, Shaker wanted to take advantage of his body and put him down directly. Even if the referee called him a foul, he would not get a card.

This is in the British Championship, and this kind of physical confrontation is simply commonplace.

Rossi seemed to have known that Shaker was going to step forward to fight, so he opened his feet slightly, lowered his center of gravity, and took advantage of his body position to stand still.

Under such circumstances, if the defender still wants to use his body to fight, as long as Rossi falls to the ground, it is definitely a defensive foul.

Moreover, the two had a physical confrontation before, and the referee's penalty will definitely favor Rossi.

Although Schalke is a rough guy, years of defensive experience told him that with the physical confrontation last time, if he took the initiative to exert force again, Rossi only needs to roll a few laps, and the yellow card is inevitable.

With his back to the defender, Rossi faces the ball and stretches out his right foot to meet it.

Shaker had an expression of "as expected", and thought that since he couldn't fight, he should be restricted from turning around, stretching his feet to interfere with his receiving the ball, and as soon as he moved, he would immediately fight back.

Everything is under control.

But Rossi didn't choose to stop the ball. Instead, he lifted the outside of his toes slightly, flicked the ball backwards, and turned around from the other direction.

Although there is no "Ice Prince" Bergkamp's dexterity and elegance, and the ball is too far to the right, the effect is not bad at all.

In the past, Rossi would never be able to do such a skill.

However, his ball control and dribbling skills have improved by leaps and bounds, and he has already grasped the fine handling of the ball at his feet.

Divided the ball?

Shaker, who was about to exert his strength, looked shocked, and kicked the air with his right foot.

Not only the ball, but also no one was touched, and the U21 rookie lived cleanly in an instant.

Shocked together, and the coach of Leicester City.

He is very familiar with Rossi's technical style, but he has never seen him have such a dexterous and elegant style of play.

But seeing such an exquisite ball pass, he still clenched his fists and held his breath.

The opportunity is coming!

Under the system of three central defenders, defensive players must not let the opponent's striker break through easily.

Once a breakthrough is made, another central defender must rush to defend, and the gap behind him will be completely exposed to another forward on the attacking side.

Shaker hurriedly chased him back, his face turned red with embarrassment and indignation, what's the point of letting a U21 kid do it?
But the gap in stature is difficult to make up.

Shaker was in a hurry, and his legs rushed back to catch up. When he saw the right time, he brought Rossi down with a sliding shovel.

drop!
The referee stopped the game, it was a tackle from behind, and Shaker was shown a yellow card.

Leicester City players stepped forward one after another, arguing with the referee that this was clearly a red card foul.

But the referee indicated that Burnley's defender Michael Duff was in the final position and was the last defender. Rossi did not form an absolute single-handedly.

In such an important game, the referee's mentality will be affected to some extent, and the penalty is also very cautious.

Seeing Rossi showing a smug smile, Shaker suddenly realized that he had been tricked by this rookie.

Rossi was looking for his own foul from the start.

Wow, actually tricked me.

Shaker, who had a fierce look on his face, stared fiercely at the little rookie in front of him.

This kind of trivial skill, dare to use an ax in my class, next time I don't see you directly knocked down, let the stretcher carry you off.

Leicester City get a chance to set the ball in the frontcourt.

Mahrez took a set kick, the ball crossed the front point and rushed to the back point of the goal.

It was Shaker who defended Nugent at the back, and he had to keep an eye on Leicester City's leading striker at all times.

Seeing the ball flying towards the back point, he took advantage of his height and jumped hard, trying to push the ball out of the penalty area to make up for the foul.

However, the arc of the ball passed by Mahrez was obviously further back than he expected, and the landing point was the same.

When he found something was wrong, his body had already jumped to the highest point, unable to adjust in mid-air.

Oops!

When Shaker realized his major mistake, the ball just passed over his head and fell in front of Nugent behind him.

Nugent saw Shaker jumping high, blocking him like a mountain, and was about to give up, but the opponent missed the ball due to a mistake in the fight for the top.

Surprised and delighted, he raised his left foot slightly and gently unloaded the ball with his thigh.

The ingenious stop of the ball caused panic in front of Burnley. The goalkeeper was stunned for a moment, and after only 0.1s, he rushed forward to block the shooting angle.

Nugent, who had played in the Premier League, would never miss the opportunity. After unloading the ball, he hit the goal with his right foot.

The Burnley goalkeeper had no time to react to a volley from close range, but out of professionalism, his whole body still rushed over.

However, Nugent's powerful shot made him feel a whistle in his ears.

When he looked back, the ball had already hung into the near corner of the goal.

1:1! ! !

Leicester City equalized the score away from home.

The teammates embraced the hero of the goal. This goal is too important, so that the points of both sides are back on the same starting line.

After scoring this goal, Nugent also surpassed Vardy with 17 league goals and became the team's top scorer.

(End of this chapter)