The midfield king of football life

Chapter 8 08 Playing as a full-back or as a midfielder?
In the blink of an eye, Li Feng has been in Rotterdam for two or three months. During these two or three months, luckily he had football to accompany him, otherwise he would die of loneliness.

When I was concentrating on training, I always felt that the time passed quickly. During this period of time, Li Feng and Bilal's football level has improved a lot, and the two of them have become more and more tacit on the court. They are simply the best partners on the court.

But the frightening thing is that the day of the year-end assessment is getting closer and closer. Although both of them are very confident, they are still very nervous when facing the elimination scene.

Today the assistant coach of the youth training camp is going to arrange a confrontation match, not the usual 8V8, but an actual 11-man system. In fact, the game itself is nothing to Li Feng, because usually he and Bilal often play games with other youth training camp members in Rotterdam in the Olympic Park, and the intensity may be more intense than this.The only question that confuses Li Feng is what position he should mention.Playing in the park, his tacit understanding with Bilal allows him to do well in the midfield position, and the effect is also obvious.However, in the Feyenoord youth academy, the assistant coach arranged for him to be a left back, which made the connection between him and Bilal a little further away.This made Li Feng a little confused.

Li Feng and Bilal were still assigned to the green team. They arranged a formation of 433, while the formation of the yellow team was 442. The members of the green team were as follows:
Goalkeeper: No. 1 Hahn

Defender: No. 2 Li Feng, No. 5 Woden Berg, No. 21 Tapia, No. 15 Nelong

Midfielder: 19 Burchus 7 Philchner 18 Achaba

Forward: No. 12 Ashabal No. 9 Pilar Damus No. 11

When the referee blew the whistle, the match officially began.

Many players of other age groups who did not have training programs came from the sidelines. They watched and studied from the sidelines in every match, to see who the best players in each age group are.Forward Bilal and midfielder Filhner are the better players in their pair. Li Feng is neither the worst nor the best. He belongs to the hard-working type.

The yellow team kicked off the ball first, and the two forwards of the yellow team passed the ball to the midfielder of the yellow team and started to run towards the half of the green team.After the players from both sides fought in the midfield, Achaba cut off the yellow team's ball and began to quickly advance towards the yellow team's half. Li Feng followed the team as a whole to press up.

Abacha advances to the yellow team's half, facing the two midfielders of the yellow team, unable to continue advancing, he passes a kick to Filchner, and Filchner sees that neither Pilar nor Dames has a good position to receive the ball, and immediately turns around and sends it to the rear. At this time, Burchus drags behind Filchner.

After Li Feng received the ball, he made an upward gesture with his right hand, and the ball went forward a little. Seeing Bilal running towards the penalty area, he made a long diagonal pass to Bilal, but unfortunately, when the ball was about to fall, he was cleared by the yellow team's defensive central defender with a header.Pilar gave a thumbs up to show encouragement.

In fact, Li Feng is a bit annoyed at this position. He doesn't have enough tacit understanding with other teammates, and his ability to pass long passes is not his specialty, so he feels that his role in this position is not too great.

In the whole first half, Li Feng only made one long pass, other than that, there was no good pass.During the intermission, Bilal walked up to Li Feng and said to him: "Feng, the full-backs can find opportunities to get assists. You don't have to stay in the backcourt all the time. You can try to find a tacit understanding with Bochus."

"Hmm, I'll try."

At the beginning of the second half, Bilal was very active in the frontcourt, and Filherner also launched several attacks, but the position passed to Bilal at critical moments was always a little bit worse, which also made Filherner very depressed.

Li Feng also felt that his teammates were getting impatient and making more and more mistakes.At this moment, Filchner's pass was intercepted by the opponent. Li Feng and the others were in the forward position in the midfield, and the opponent sent a long pass to their striker's feet, immediately forming a 2-on-4 situation. Li Feng quickly flanked one of the opponent's strikers with Warden Berg.

"Oops!" Li Feng secretly cried out in his heart.

Sure enough, things always go in a bad direction.

The opponent's follow-up player passed the ball to the striker who had just inserted diagonally, and immediately made him a 1v1 goalkeeper.

Watching the opponent's players celebrate, Li Feng was very depressed.

After kicking off again, Filchner still organized several attacks, but none of them scored a goal. The most threatening pass was missed by Bilal.

Li Feng couldn't stay at the full-back position anymore, so he decided to look for opportunities to advance and assist.After Li Feng received the pass from Bochus, he slowly moved forward, and when the opponent's wide player stepped forward to press, he quickly passed it to the midfielder Filchner, and then immediately ran to the space ahead.

"If you want to get the ball in front of me, just dream." The guard on the opposite side said beside Li Feng

When Li Feng saw that Filherna was surrounded by the opponent's two midfielders, Li Feng quickly ran to meet him. After receiving the ball, Li Feng walked to the side to attract the opponent's defensive players to follow. At this time, Pilar smiled.

"Feng, you finally moved, who said that defenders can't step forward?" Pilar thought silently in his heart
Bilal suddenly slashed towards the back of the opponent's full-back. Seeing that Bilal moved, Li Feng immediately pushed it straight to Bilal, and then he ran towards the center.

"Good!" Bilal received the ball and went into the penalty area. At this time, the opponent's central defender came to block Bilal, but at this moment, Li Feng just flashed a gap.

"Feng, shoot the ball in!" Pilar passed back to Li Feng in an inverted triangle. Li Feng adjusted slightly and volleyed with his right foot from a close corner. The goalkeeper had no choice but to watch the ball go into the net.

"Come in, come in"

Li Feng quickly ran to Pilar and hugged him tightly.

The players watching from the sidelines couldn't help applauding when they saw the cooperation between Li Feng and Bilal.

How simple and straightforward it is for two people to pass the ball into the goal with two feet!
The assistant coach on the sidelines saw Li Feng's attack this time, and thoughtfully recorded it.

Every player has his most suitable position on the court. This issue is something that the coach has to consider. The role and effect of players are different in different positions.

But what happened next was still unimaginable. Li Feng's team was still counterattacked by the opponent when the attack was blocked, and finally lost to the yellow team 1-3.This game made Li Feng very depressed, he felt that he could not use his strength, his physical strength was still very strong, but in the end they lost.

Aggrieved and depressed, this is Li Feng's feeling at this moment.

After the game, the assistant coach commented on everyone's performance. Bilal performed normally, Phil Hena's way of organizing offense was too single, and Li Feng's full-backs had too many defensive loopholes.

When Li Feng heard this, he really wanted to refute, but the facts were exactly as the coach said.But when Li Feng and Bilal played in the park, when he played in midfield, it felt completely different.Why did the coach put him at full-back?No matter how he thought about it, he couldn't understand it.

(End of this chapter)