Soccer: The Road to Extraordinary

Chapter 49 It's Time
What is Li Yi thinking?Doesn't he, as the head coach of a team, not want his team to win?Is he willing to watch his team sink step by step like this?
Of course the answer is no!

However, sometimes if everything is out of your control, it's best to wait until it hits the wall before turning back.

There is a popular saying on the Internet, if you want to deal with an idiot, the best thing you can do is to support all his views and train him to be a big idiot.

But now what Li Yi wants to do is this.Didn't you say that people with senior qualifications are more reliable?Then, as you wish, reuse them, reuse them desperately.Whether it is a mule or a horse can only be seen more clearly under the spotlight.

Although doing so will damage the team's interests, only by doing so can the team's longer-term interests be preserved.As the saying goes, short-term pain is worse than long-term pain.

And doing so, for a coach, is actually sacrificing his own interests.We must know that the biggest responsibility for the team's loss is the coach.

However, Li Yi can only go all out now.The intervention of the club's top management in the game arrangement has violated the authority of the head coach.Although this kind of thing is very normal in Chinese football, for example, Zhu Jun, the former Shenhua boss, went too far.But others are others, which does not mean that Li Yi has no anger in his heart.And Li Yi no longer wants to tolerate the current division in the team.

This game was Li Yi's heavy punch.He wants to smash the pride of the veteran faction and the team's seniority.Put the team completely under your control.

It was under Li Yi's strategy that he was noncommittal to Zhou Li, who performed very poorly.No matter how badly he performs, Li Yi will give him enough playing time. Li Yi must firmly follow the instructions of the higher-ups and give Zhou Li enough support.Let Zhou Li perform to his heart's content, to show everything about him, no matter good or bad.

Therefore, Li Yi will never make changes easily now.

In the next game, Li Yi's adjustment did not change the situation of the Shenzhen Red Diamonds on the field.The Shenzhen Red Diamonds, who were already at a disadvantage, were still passively beaten, looking like the wind and rain were drifting away.

When the game time came to 10 minutes in the second half, Brees of the Wuhan Zall team knocked on the goal of the Shenzhen Red Diamonds again with a long shot. 4:0, a disastrous defeat is inevitable for the Shenzhen Red Diamonds.The only question now is how many more losses will the Shenzhen Red Diamonds have to lose by the end of the game?

Seeing that the morale of the players on the Shenzhen Red Diamond team has fallen to the bottom, it will definitely be massacred if it goes on like this.Almost everyone lost their fighting spirit for the game, except Yan Feng off the court.At this moment, he was not discouraged by the team's doomed fiasco. What he thought more about was that the team could not go on like this, and Wuhan Zall could no longer score goals.Even if you are defeated, you can't be knocked down so helplessly, you have to lose like a man.Yan Feng wants to play!He wants to fight!
Yan Feng, with a fierce fighting spirit in his heart, looked at Li Yi, hoping that the emperor would understand his desire to fight and send himself on the field.

At this time, Li Yi did not disappoint Yan Feng anymore, and he finally made a substitution adjustment.

However, it was Wei Chao who was sent, not Yan Feng as everyone thought.

Yan Feng stood still, looking at Li Yi in astonishment.He didn't know what to say other than full of disappointment.Is the team really going to press themselves to death on the bench for those old players?
"Yan Feng, the time has not yet come. You should prepare first." At this time, Li Yi gave Yan Feng a serious and persistent look.

"Eh?" Yan Feng couldn't figure out what Li Yi meant.Isn't it the right time?
"Okay." Although he didn't understand Li Yi's thoughts, Yan Feng could only choose to believe Li Yi's serious eyes.

Regardless of whether he can play in the end, Yan Feng only knows that as a player, all he needs to do is to be ready to play, even for the last minute.

As for why Wei Chao was replaced instead of Yan Feng?Others think that Li Yi just wants to improve the team's offense, and make a last-ditch effort in another way, hoping to score even one goal to save a little face.

In fact, what Li Yi thinks is that at this point, with stoppage time, there are only more than 20 minutes left.It is impossible to recover the score.If Yan Feng is deployed too early, if there is no effect or the effect is not great, then Yan Feng will also bear certain responsibility for this loss.Besides, even if the team can launch a counterattack and score one or two goals, it will not help the game, and it will not be able to highlight his role on the court more strongly.So now is not the time.

The time passed minute by minute, and soon it was No. 1 minutes.During the period, the Shenzhen Red Diamonds also tried to launch several attacks, but they were all thunderous and rainy, which didn't work.The Wuhan Zall team also played several offenses, which were full of threats, but fortunately they failed to score.

Just when everyone thought that the game would be consumed slowly until the end, and the rest of the time would become garbage time, Li Yi made another personnel adjustment.

"Yan Feng, it's time." When he saw that the time came to No. 80 minutes, Li Yi suddenly turned his head and shouted to Yan Feng who was on the latent bench.

"Yes, coach!" Yan Feng stood up in a conditioned reaction almost as soon as he heard it.It's finally time to fight for yourself!

"Yan Feng, I don't need to say anything, you know how to do it. After playing, you let Lin Fan step forward, and I believe you should be fine afterwards, right?"

"No problem, just leave it to me!" Yan Feng stood steadfastly on the sidelines, with an extremely strong fighting spirit in his eyes.

I hope Yan Feng can show the effect he wants to see, otherwise this sacrifice will be meaningless.Li Yi calmly looked at Yan Feng's upright back standing on the sidelines, but his heart was not as good as it appeared on the surface.

"Brother Feng, come on!" After shaking hands with Yan Feng, Fei Yu, who was full of exhaustion, walked slowly towards the men's seat, still panting.It can be seen how tiring today's game was for him.

"Oh, Shenzhen replaced a front midfielder with a pure midfielder novice. It seems that they really gave up the game."

This time Yan Fengqian replaced the midfielder Fei Yu. Seeing such a substitution, Zheng Xiong, head coach of the Wuhan Zall team, smiled slightly.

He knew that Yan Feng was just a pure defensive player without the slightest offensive ability. In his opinion, the Shenzhen Red Diamonds' substitution this time was a complete abandonment of the game.He believes that the Shenzhen Red Diamonds just want to save this last bit of face, afraid of being scored again, and don't want to become a joke in Chinese football tomorrow.

"It seems that we also have to send young players to practice."

So Zheng Xiong, who was completely relaxed, also made adjustments, and replaced the two main players at once, namely Rafa and Li Xing; they sent two young players Su Yuanjie and Luo Yi.

The Wuhan Zall team changed two players at a time, and the message to everyone was that it was time for training, so the whole team took it easy, and seemed to have no desire for the game.

"It's time for training." Zhang Li said to his teammates with a smile.In his mind the game was won.

(End of this chapter)