Beast King Costa

Chapter 39 Difficult Choice
Although the team has jumped to the third place in the league and entered the UEFA Champions League qualifying zone, the whole Braga team is not happy at all.

Joao Thomas alone created nearly half of the team's goals and can be said to be Braga's only fig leaf on the offensive end.

Now that Joao Thomas is down, Braga's already inefficient offensive end will only become even more unimaginably bleak.

In order to deal with the team's scoring problem during Joao Thomas' recovery, as the team's absolute main force in the frontcourt, two Brazilian players Wende and Sessin practiced extra shooting in the training session. Even after the training session, the two Still stay and continue to run in the frontcourt.

Even at the back line, Paul Jorge and Fabiano Rosato also took the initiative to practice set-piece offense, hoping to use their header ability to make up for the time when Joao Thomas was recovering from injury. The problem of grabbing points in set-piece offense.

But in the final analysis, no matter how hard everyone tries to make up for it, it cannot perfectly replace Joao Thomas' indispensable position in Braga's tactical system.

As an excellent tactical fulcrum, Joao Thomas not only has a fairly balanced left and right foot shooting accuracy, he can also act as a frontcourt organizer, creating better breakthrough space for Wende on the wing, and creating a better breakthrough space for the back. The second forward Sessin plays the ball, and the most important thing is that Joao Thomas has an average running distance of 10000 meters per game!

Such active running is enough to allow Joao Thomas' running heat map to cover the entire frontcourt without dead ends, thus making up for the simple and inefficient problem of Braga's offensive tactics to a certain extent.

In Jesúaldo Ferreira's view, striker players can have low scoring efficiency, but they must not be lazy!

Whether you have the ball or not, you must run!
Only by actively running can more opportunities be created.

However, judging from the enthusiasm of the team's two substitute centers on the court, coach Ferreira is really unsatisfied.

Although Montenegro center Deli Basic has outstanding confrontation ability and top-notch air control ability, he can basically compete for the first spot every time.

But the problem is that Delibac is too clumsy in the frontcourt.

Perhaps affected by the tall body of more than 187 centimeters, Deli Basic's running speed is very slow.Even if he runs actively, his physical energy will be consumed very quickly-after the running distance exceeds 7000 meters, he is basically "invisible" on the court.

The Argentine Julio Bemarca is very flexible. As a traditional Argentine player, Bemarca can even do embroidery at his feet.

On the training ground, all kinds of gorgeous flower-arranging feet passing and shooting, and all kinds of clever changes of direction dazzled everyone and gave them admiration.

It's just... this kind of spirituality only stays on the training ground.

Entering the official game, under the high-intensity physical confrontation, Bemaca couldn't do any tricks-the Argentine striker's body is too thin!It can even be said to be extremely weak!

Last season, Jesualdo Ferreira signed the Argentine striker because he took a fancy to his spirituality in the frontcourt and hoped that he could train his physical confrontation as soon as possible.

However, I don’t know if it’s an illusion. Jesúaldo Ferreira even thinks that Bemaca is thinner than when he first joined the team...

With a body that is so thin that he feels malnourished, Jesualdo Ferreira dare not hope that Bemaca can run 10000 meters per game for himself-if he runs too much and is too tired, Bema If there is something wrong with the card's body function, then I can't bear the responsibility by throwing pots and pieces of iron...

Therefore, after Joao Thomas was injured, Jesualdo Ferreira focused more on Diego Costa in the training session.

Although Diego Costa does not have Delibasic's ability to dominate the air over 187 centimeters, his physical confrontation ability is even better than that of Delibasic, even Paul Jorge and Fabianolo Neither of Sato's two main central defenders was able to take advantage of Diego Costa in a physical confrontation.

Of course, in terms of technical work, Diego Costa is even more incomparable with Julio Bemarca.

Judging from the footwork shown by Diego Costa in the training session, in the last round of the Portuguese Liga match against Estoril, Diego's instep and body ball was undoubtedly a stroke of genius-as far as Diego Costa is currently Judging from the work at his feet, let him try twenty times without confrontation, and he may not be able to pass that bright behind the ball again.

However, Diego's enthusiasm and desire to win, including his cleverness in dealing with various situations on the court, made Ferreira feel unsatisfied.

In Diego’s first training session with the first team, Jesúaldo Ferreira suddenly asked Diego with great interest: “When you played against Estoril in the last round of Portuguese Liga, did you play with the minibus? What did Reis say that made him so emotional later?"

"Oh...it's nothing."

When asked by coach Ferreira, Diego, who was slightly embarrassed, did not hide it and told Sergio Barres the exact words he said at that time.

After saying that, Diego stuck out his tongue helplessly: "I'm just telling the truth! He really couldn't fight me, so he had to use those dirty moves to prevent me from catching the ball."

"You kid...hahahahaha!"

At that time, Diego's answer still had that innocent expression, which almost didn't make Jesúaldo Ferreira laugh out loud.

But Ferreira also had to admit that there was nothing wrong with Diego saying that—this was telling the truth, the words were very civilized, and he was not afraid of being 404 at all.

On the football field, a striker should be like this, not only fighting bravely with the opponent's defenders, but also knowing how to fight wits with the opponent!

Use words that are not excessive to irritate the opponent and make the opponent more emotional in the following games, which will make it easier for the opponent to make mistakes that should not be made due to emotional fluctuations.

Even a big brother like Joao Thomas, who is highly respected in the team, will use irritating words during the game to "talk nonsense" with the opponent's defenders.

Therefore, Jesúaldo Ferreira even supported Diego: "Very good! In the Portuguese Super League in the future, we will 'communicate' more with the opponent's defenders, so that they can make mistakes in emotional fluctuations! Words It can be more provocative, just don't use insulting terms."

"Uh... good! This is no problem!"

Diego was even a little dumbfounded at the time. He didn't expect that under the elegant appearance of the old coach Ferreira, there was such an open heart hidden!
I thought I would be criticized fiercely, but I didn't expect to be praised instead?This really surprised Diego.

Of course, this kind of psychological warfare is not the key item in Diego's current training - integrating it into the tactical system of the first team and mastering the fine work under the feet is the most important thing in Diego's training class.

Seeing that Diego is actively looking for Wende, Sessin, and even the team's core Andres Madrid to continue to ask for advice after the daily training session, and pulling Mateus to continue to practice with his feet, Jesu Aldo Ferreira only felt that he was caught in a difficult choice.

Obviously, Diego's rough footwork is not enough to play in official games, but that kind of positive spirit makes people want to give him a chance to show himself.

Therefore, the day before Braga played against Rio Avi in ​​the 24th round of the Portuguese Super League, Jesúaldo Ferreira still hadn't confirmed the team's starting 11 players.

(PS: So, do you think Diego will be selected as the starter? Ahem... Lao Mouzi will tell you the answer tomorrow!)
(End of this chapter)