Full-Level Pass, Please Call Me The Boss Of The Three Lions

As the saying goes, “I’m a very good person, but I’m not going to do anything good.”

Chapter 100 Win the Europa League, lose the Europa League [4,000-word chapter]

“David (Nugent), you did a good job, keep pressing the central defender, and you can pass the ball to Ling who is running forward.”

“Riyad, you have to move more to the middle and receive the ball, especially when Ling is being watched.”

“Jamie, he is already alert, you retreat and run back, don’t run in front of him, but run from behind him.”

“Ling, you have to run more in the midfield and press their two midfielders. Also pay attention to the space behind the two full-backs.”

While sitting on the locker and receiving a calf massage from the team’s physiotherapist, Ling Feng listened to Pearson standing next to the tactical board and emphasizing the targeted arrangement of tactics.

This first half may be the most tiring one since he made his debut!

Arsenal’s passing and controlling style of play is very fast, and each player’s passing is not delayed, and basically passes the ball within two feet.

As the opponent frequently changes the formation through passing, Leicester City players must concentrate and move their bodies horizontally to keep the formation and space compact.

In football games, defense always consumes more physical energy than offense!

Pearson’s tactical ability is actually average.

The reason why Leicester City can win the Championship easily and reach the FA Cup final after many years is not because of his tactics.

It is mainly because the ability of Leicester City’s main players is relatively outstanding.

He knows the technical characteristics of each player.

More importantly, he will not make a living, and he does not have the arrogance of a big-name coach. He just honestly builds the most suitable tactics for several core players such as Vardy and Ling Feng in the team.

It is such a pragmatic head coach who can stimulate the team’s fighting power to the greatest extent and be invincible in the Championship!

After the first half of the game, Pearson believed that if his team wanted to equalize the score or even surpass the score, it would definitely depend on the performance of the front three on the offensive end.

Especially Ling Feng!

It can be said that Ling Feng is the barometer of Leicester City.

If he performs well, the team’s offense will be full of threats;

Once he is restricted, the team’s offense will be weak.

Therefore, most of his tactical arrangements during the halftime break were about how to allow Ling Feng to get more passing space, so as to have more passing and cooperation with Vardy and Mahrez.

Fifteen minutes passed in a flash.

After putting the last bite of banana into his mouth, Ling Feng put on a new jersey and followed his teammates out of the locker room.

Seeing Vardy in front of him, he quickened his pace, hooked his shoulder very skillfully, and whispered:

“Jamie, I will move more to the left in the second half, you pay attention to the tall guy and insert more behind him”

Arsenal’s two full-backs Sagna and Gibbs are both fast, confrontational, and can go up and down.

Although Sagna is over 30 years old, he relies on explosive physical fitness and excellent competitive state to firmly occupy the main position of Arsenal and the French national team.

He can be regarded as one of the top right backs in the Premier League.

Gibbs, who is known as the “successor of Ashley Cole”, is also good at both offense and defense, and is a relatively outstanding young player among England’s full-backs.

Therefore, when breaking through the wing, neither Vardy nor Mahrez has much advantage.

Perhaps in two years, after experiencing the baptism of the Premier League, they will be able to deal with it more calmly.

But now they have not fully released their potential, and it is a bit difficult to face the top-level defenders in the Premier League.

However, according to Ling Feng’s observation in the first half, Arsenal’s defense is not impeccable.

The right center back Mertesacker is tall and strong. Compared with Koscielny, his turning and step frequency are relatively slow, which is a breakthrough in Arsenal’s defense.

Especially against a fast striker like Vardy who has a fast foot frequency and strong impact, he will definitely be able to take advantage.

And the goal that was scored in the first half was that Mertesacker did not have time to make up for the defense, so Vardy inserted and shot from the rib space between the right back and the right center back.

The rib straight pass is originally a very important offensive means in modern football tactics.

Therefore, Ling Feng decided to focus on Mertesacker and do more work on this point

Listening to Ling Feng’s instructions

, Vardy nodded frequently to show that he understood.

Ling Feng’s skills have already conquered all the players in Leicester City’s first team.

Therefore, whether it is Vardy, Nugent or Mahrez, who are much older than him, they are very willing to listen to his command on the field.

Facts have also proved that under Ling Feng’s command, they are invincible and have won almost all the games!

Thanks to the victories in the Championship and the FA Cup, the atmosphere in Leicester City is very good and everyone is full of enthusiasm.

Even the substitutes who don’t play much are very dedicated off the court and cheer for their teammates all the time.

Especially Dean Hammond, who once complained to the head coach about the lack of playing time, would not show it in the locker room or in front of his teammates no matter how unhappy he was.

Because he knows very well that the better the team performs, the more he will benefit as a member of the team.

Even if he has made up his mind to transfer away after the season, he can still negotiate a good salary with his new club by virtue of his status as a “Championship Champion” or even “FA Cup Champion”.

Many times, in the world of sports, victory can cover up all problems!

. . .

“Well, welcome to continue watching the 133rd FA Cup final again. Let’s go back to Wembley Stadium.”

“In the first half, Arsenal took the lead with goals from Podolski and Cazorla. Then Leicester City scored a goal with Vardy’s volley. The score between the two sides is 2-1, with only one goal difference.”

“The second half of the game is about to begin!”

After the kick-off, Arsenal immediately got into shape.

They continued to calmly mobilize Leicester City’s formation through short passes with a faster rhythm.

While making Leicester City’s players run around, they also tried to open up space.

Perhaps due to Wenger’s instructions, Arsenal players do not easily pass the ball to the deep area.

Even if the ball comes to the feet of the two wingers, they will not easily pass the ball, but return the ball to the players in the middle to continue looking for opportunities to pass the ball through the ribs.

Arsenal kept passing the ball outside the 40-yard area of ​​Leicester City’s half, gradually flattening Leicester City’s formation.

Except for Nugent, who was at the front and put some pressure on the central defender, all the eleven Leicester City players returned to their own half.

In addition to the eight Arsenal players who pressed across the half, Leicester City’s half was as crowded as a subway during rush hour!

In the past, Ling Feng, as a front midfielder, did not need to put too much pressure in the frontcourt.

Because in the Championship League, only Leicester City controlled the ball and suppressed the opponent, and no opponent could suppress Leicester City!

However, when facing the stronger Premier League giants Arsenal, they became the party that was pressed in the half.

Therefore, from the beginning of the game, Ling Feng increased the number of times of frontcourt pressure, so that the two Arsenal midfielders Arteta and Ramsey, who were in the middle, could not pass the ball to the two wings so easily.

Although his defensive ability is not very good.

But he is very motivated, and can make certain predictions through [God’s Vision], so as to stand on the opponent’s best passing line and intercept.

In the second half, he continued to do so.

Because, under the situation of obvious gap in strength, they can only adopt a defensive counterattack tactic.

First, rely on defense to maintain a score difference of one goal, and then seize the fleeting opportunity to counterattack quickly, thereby threatening Arsenal’s goal!

Regarding the scene of the team being pressed in the half, Pearson on the coaching bench was not in a hurry at all.

In his opinion, it would be best to win this final, but it would be okay to lose.

If they win the game, they will win the FA Cup after many years and thus qualify for the Europa League;

If they lose the game, they can also qualify for the Europa League as the runner-up of the FA Cup through the FA Cup competition rules.

That’s right!

Because Arsenal, who won the FA Cup, has already qualified for the Champions League through the league ranking.

So, the Europa League qualification will be extended to Leicester City, the runner-up of the FA Cup!

Of course, as an ambitious and motivated head coach, Pearson also wants to win the FA Cup, a championship with great influence in England.

This will make his name firmly engraved in the club history of Leicester City!

However, as the head coach of the team, he needs to consider more issues and look further ahead.

His and the club’s goal is to continue to stay in the Premier League.

Rather than like last year’s Wigan Athletic, after winning the FA Cup, they left the Premier League.

Relegation!

If Pearson had to choose between the two options of “FA Cup champion” and “Premier League relegation”, he would choose the latter without hesitation!

In fact, no one knows that what Pearson is worried about now is not how to win this FA Cup final, but how to successfully relegate next season!

With Leicester City’s thin lineup, relegation in the Premier League is already a big challenge.

Another Europa League, fighting on two fronts, the team is directly forced to rest!

Therefore, he is very entangled, how can he convince the club’s top management to give up the Europa League and focus all their attention on the Premier League.

Of course, participating in the Europa League can make the club earn more income.

As long as you enter the group stage, you can earn millions of euros.

Every win will have a bonus of hundreds of thousands of euros.

However, even if you make it all the way to the Europa League final, you can only earn 20 million euros at most.

However, once you are relegated from the Premier League, the loss is nearly 100 million euros!

Unless the club recruits a lot of players in the summer window, otherwise, the Premier League and the Europa League can only be chosen!

And, you must choose the Premier League!

Of course, that is something that needs to be considered after this final.

Thinking of this, Pearson’s thoughts returned to the court again.

From another perspective, this final is a good opportunity.

An opportunity to test the team’s defensive counterattack tactics!

It is foreseeable that after being promoted to the Premier League next season, facing the Premier League giants, Leicester City, as a newly promoted team, will definitely not press the opponent like the English Championship.

Then defensive counterattack is definitely their best choice when facing strong teams!

If they can withstand the passing and controlling offensive of the Premier League giants Arsenal, and even succeed in stealing the chicken, this proves that their defensive counterattack tactics are feasible.

As long as they follow this set of tactics, they have a great chance to successfully avoid relegation!

Even give some small shocks to the Premier League Blue Foxes!

However, the scene of the counterattack tactics is definitely not good to watch.

In the 50th minute of the game, Cazorla dribbled on the right side of the frontcourt and caused the left back Schlupp to foul, and won a free kick about 40 meters away from the goal.

Carlos took the free kick, and the ball that flew into the penalty area was grabbed by the center back Mertesacker.

Unfortunately, due to Morgan’s interference, the ball that was headed out was slightly off the goal.

In the 57th minute of the game, Arsenal started on the left.

Left winger Podolski played a two-on-one match with his national team teammate Erdog on the left side of the frontcourt. After passing the right back De Wright, he cut inside to the penalty area line and fired a signature powerful shot with his left foot.

Fortunately, the shooting angle was relatively positive, and Schmeichel was focused, so he directly confiscated the ball steadily.

However, Leicester City was not suppressed throughout the whole process.

In the 65th minute of the game, Ling Feng seized the opportunity when Vardy pressed Arteta, and when Arteta turned around to get rid of him, he stretched out his foot to steal the ball.

Then he sent a through ball to the side, allowing Vardy and Sagna to have a race.

The early start allowed Vardy to get a half-body lead.

But Sagna did not let him escape from his palm, and knocked him down directly from the side and back.

He took the initiative to pay the price of a yellow card, and also resolved the possible threat of this wave of rapid counterattacks.

Ling Feng’s arc pass went straight to the front of the goal.

It’s a pity that Vardy’s legs were not long enough in the penalty area, and he threw the whole person out and didn’t kick the ball.

After this wave of counterattacks, Wenger immediately made a substitution, replacing the energetic “little threat” Wilshere with Arteta who was over 30 years old.

After Wilshere, who was full of energy, came up, Arsenal’s control in the midfield was more stable.

As time passed, the leading Arsenal still controlled the situation on the field and consumed the opponent in an orderly manner.

The physical strength of the Leicester City players dropped sharply, and their mentality also changed silently.

Until the 80th minute of the game, the score on the field was still 2-1.

In a fight, left-back Schlupp was forced to scramble with midfielder Drinker, but was shaken off by Erdog.

Seeing that he was about to take the ball into the penalty area, Schlupp got anxious and immediately landed and shoveled Erdog to the ground.

The next second, the screams of a dead man resounded throughout the stadium!

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(End of this chapter)