Football: The Strongest Hexagon Warrior

Porto U17's final match in the Triwizard Tournament is two days later, against Benfica U17.

That was a super team full of real talent.

The first brother in Portugal’s youth training!

Genius of geniuses!

Head coach Simon feels a little nervous, even though he now has Martin as his super trump card.

After all, football is a team sport.

After all, individual efforts cannot be compared with that of the team.

However, the presence of Martin can increase the team's probability of winning to a new level.

Dominating the entire right wing means that the team's tactical play and formation position can be greatly adjusted.

In addition, Martin's aura of being able to take charge of others will also bring strong self-confidence to the players.

How successful a person is depends more on whether his heart is strong enough!

With Martin, the confidence of the team members has also been greatly increased!

But then again, whether it can be effective depends on Martin's specific performance in the game.

Once it starts to gain momentum and turns the entire right wing into its own backyard, the whole team will be greatly inspired.

Defeating Benfica U17 will be a piece of cake!

After Simon explained the game tactics, he raised his right hand and put it on Martin's right shoulder, and said solemnly: "Martin, whether we can defeat Benfica U17, the most critical point is you. If we can completely restrict Benfica U17's left attack, we We will definitely win, do you have the confidence to do it?"

Martin turned his head and looked not far away, where was the Benfica U17 base camp.

Among these players, only Renato Sanchez, Ruben Dias and Gedson Fernandez look familiar.

No one else had any impression, which meant that they were not kicked out in the end.

The three hopefuls who have high hopes from Benfica fans look very young at the age of 16 or 17. Only Renato Sanchez is mature beyond his years (he is older).

"Of course I have confidence."

He looked back, looked down at the captain's armband on his left upper arm, smiled and nodded.

Immediately afterwards, he impassionedly asked his teammates loudly: "Do you have the confidence to defeat Benfica U17 here?"

"Of course!"

Felix, Ricardinho, Mady Queta and three Diogo and other players shouted in unison.

Simon looked at Martin with increasingly satisfied eyes. Not only was he gradually realizing his talent, he also showed strong leadership.

If he regains his former vigor earlier, he is now the backbone of the U19 and even U23 teams, and may even be promoted to the first team like Ruben Neves.

On the other end, the Benfica U17 players did not pay much attention to the Porto U17 players, even though Mafei defeated Sporting CP U17 in this stadium three days ago.

Benfica's youth training has been recognized as the number one in Portugal in recent years, and it has won various championships with ease.

The players are proud of themselves, they are the pride of heaven, the geniuses among geniuses, and they have the capital of pride.

After explaining the game tactics, head coach Helder Cristobao encouraged his players with applause and said with excitement: "This team has lost to us for eight consecutive years. I firmly believe that after the game, it will be nine." Winning streak!”

"victory!"

the players chanted in unison.

……

Benfica U17 fielded the strongest lineup in theory. Except for goalkeeper Fabio Duarte, who is weaker than Diogo Costa, the other three lines are stronger than Porto U17.

In the 433 formation, Portugal U17 national youth main defender Ruben Dias is holding the line in the backcourt, and his partner Diogo Cabral is quite stable.

There are also Diogo Mendes and Renato Sanchez in the midfield, and Gedson Fernandez, Eddie Semedo and Jota Jr. charge forward and destroy the city.

If it were the previous Porto U17, there would definitely be great concerns.

Now that Martin has given them enough confidence, everyone is thinking about giving the pretentious best U17 youth team of Portugal's youth training a head-on blow in this stadium!

Martin served as captain and walked at the front of the line.

Next comes the handshake, the most common part of the game, which means friendship comes first and competition comes second.

However, the Benfica U17 players behaved a bit arrogantly, which made the Porto U17 players feel a little unhappy.

It is precisely because of this that Porto U17, whose confidence has greatly increased, has greater determination to defeat the invincible Benfica U17.

"Beep~"

The whistle sounded, and the 2014 Triwizard Tournament U17 Championship, Benfica U17 Youth Team VS Porto U17 Youth Team officially started.

Porto U17 took the lead in the kick-off, and the head coach Simon formulated an offensive routine with Martin as the core before the game, which was proceeding in an orderly manner.

The passing speed is not fast and there is a lot of movement between players.

Benfica's U17 players are indeed geniuses, but it is difficult for players of this age group to have % tactical discipline and they are easily led around.

Held knew that Porto U17's offense mainly relied on Martin + Felix, and the starting point of the attack was also on the right, so he also formulated corresponding defensive tactics before the game.

However, the players' defensive positions will always shift back and forth with Porto U17's offense, inadvertently exposing fleeting defensive gaps.

After a series of offensive preparations, Estrela, who attacked the left flank, unexpectedly received the football and dunked the ball back.

From the corner of his eye, he caught the defensive focus of Benfica U17 completely tilted to the right.

Including the left back, left center midfielder and left winger, they are all attracted to the center or right, which means that the defense on the left is almost wide open.

Martin, who was originally on the same level as the defense, quietly pressed forward, but when he saw the football passed to Estrella, who was responsible for dispatching long passes, he started decisively.

"Pay attention to the defense on the left!"

Head coach Held suddenly noticed that the familiar offensive routine of Porto U17 suddenly came out and blurted out.

His voice was loud enough, and there were no tsunami-like roars from tens of thousands of fans at the scene, so the players on the field could hear it clearly.

How can Keren's movement speed be confused with the movement of football?

Estrella sent a relatively accurate long diagonal pass to the left rib of the attack.

"Hmm~ The pass was good this time."

Martin considered that Estrella's long pass was not particularly stable, so he followed up at full speed after judging the path of the long pass with a certain amount of advance.

Familiar formula, familiar taste.

But, it just can’t be prevented.

It was too late for Benfica U17 Dutch left-back Frimpong to pull out to defend, and Martin, who was running, still had enough time to observe the movements of his teammates.

Before the game, Held mentioned that Martin and Felix were connected. When Martin could not be guarded, captain Ruben Dias focused on Felix.

However, Martin did not want to go to Felix at all. He knew that Benfica U17 must have a coach who watched the last game against Sporting CP U17 and would impose restrictions on this game.

Offensive routines are dead, but people are alive!

If the perimeter attackers are too far away from the goal, the defense will naturally slack off, and it will be too late to move until the offense becomes substantial.

Martin made a small mistake when he raised his leg to stop the ball while running, and the stopping distance was more than one meter farther than expected.

Fortunately, Frimpong is a little far away, so the impact is not that big.

Coincidentally, stopping the ball a little further away brings unexpected opportunities.

At the same time, he also shook Frimpong, who was pulled out to defend.

After observing for a second longer, Martin saw that Felix's movement completely attracted the attention of the two central defenders Ruben Dias and Diogo Cabral.

Mady Queta, who has limited future achievements, made a conscious stop and turned the corner, handing the ball to Felix in the middle of the penalty area.

Martin probably guessed Madi Guetta's intentions.

Turn to the far end of the penalty area!

This is the usual running habit shown by Xiao Hei in the training ground.

With a firm idea in mind, Martin raised his right foot without hesitation, and the ball-touching part was on the inside of the instep.

The kicked football shot up from the right wing and flew past Frimpong, who was hastily pulled out to defend and was shaken.

The football flying into the air passed two meters in front of Ruben Dias, Felix and Cabral with a clear instep arc from the outside to the inside.

The tall Ruben Dias looked at the ball and tried to stretch his legs to reach it, but did not touch the ball.

Goalkeeper Duarte looked over as the football moved and was shocked.

Oops!

It was too late for right back Ricardo Mangas to get close to Mady Queta. He could only watch the opponent complete the kick...

Cross pass.

Mady Queta is very self-aware and knows that a shot with his left foot from the left side of the small penalty area will most likely result in an anti-aircraft cannon.

Therefore, he had a rare moment of cleverness when he was full of physical energy. He used the arch of his left foot to pass the football that had dropped to knee height with the arch of his left foot towards the penalty spot.

Half inverted triangle pass!

No one thought that Mady Queta would pass the ball with a certain shooting angle, and they were all stunned.

Ricardinho appeared ghostly at the passing point.

I saw him adjusting his steps while running, supporting his body with his right foot, and facing the ball with the taut arch of his left foot.

Goalkeeper Fabio Duarte watched the football change direction and quickly move towards the lower right corner of the goal (GK perspective)...

Just as his body was getting ready to hit the ground, the football quickly swept towards the lower left corner of the goal.

Almost grazing the inner edge of the left goal post (offensive side's perspective), it hit the snow-white net...

Martin, who sent the cross, had already thought about the high probability that Mady Queta would fire an anti-aircraft gun, and even thought about the extremely small probability of hitting the ball and completing the goal with his back foot.

Unexpectedly, he saw Ricardinho come to the middle of the penalty area...

This ball... was passed so damn beautifully!

Head coach Simon did not expect that the goal would be so beautiful. The offensive tactics developed and practiced before the game had never seen such a goal.

The players' on-the-spot performance is really good!