shadow striker

In the evening of that day, the Torino team arrived at Lecce's home stadium, Via del Mare Stadium.Torino captain Francisco was rotated, did not start as a starter, but sat on the bench.Deputy captain Derico took over the captain's armband from Francisco and led the team as the captain on the field.

Compared with Turin, the third largest city in Italy, Lecce, which can basically be regarded as an ancient city, is of course a small place.Even Lecce has a total population of less than 33876.But it is such a place that has a veteran Serie A team, and this team also has a main stadium that can accommodate [-] spectators.

It is conceivable how much the people living in this ancient city love football and how much they love the Lecce team.

On this day, the Via del Mare stadium was packed.

Fans of Lecce flocked here one after another for their home team's success in relegation, cheering for them and praying for them.

Lecce's home kit is very similar to the midfield kit of another club in Turin, Juventus, with black and white stripes.The Torino team is wearing a white away jersey with a red ribbon today.It looked... like Torino were fighting Juventus at home.

And this strange premonition turned out to be a strange harbinger of the future situation in the arena.

Yes, before the start of this game, the players of the Torino team were already ready for a tough battle.Under the repeated care of Delo, this group of players who won the Europa League championship did not underestimate Lecce, who is in the relegation zone.And as the last game of this season, they all want to draw a perfect end to this season with their outstanding performance.

However...the situation on the field afterwards exceeded their expectations.

The will to never lose made Lecce explode with energy beyond imagination.Their chain defense... is nearly impenetrable.

As Dro guessed before the game, Lecce faced the attacking Turin in this game. It is a classic defensive counterattack formation, 4411, and the four defenders and four forwards are very close. In the last position, even the two players responsible for the series and the offense have to undertake part of the defensive tasks.

Turin pressed all the players on their offensive line. In the 42121 formation, Uster, who was in charge of playing the central midfielder, was almost always pressed in the area from Lecce's half court to the penalty area line. With Lecce's penalty area attacking, they just couldn't score and shoot...

The terrible chain defense is like two chains that can support each other at any time, and the pressure is constantly approaching the position of the ball.The excellent card position makes the speed that Turin's forward players are proud of impossible to use at all.Facing the close defense of the opponent's avant-garde defenders, it has become almost impossible to get rid of them and connect the wonderful cooperation between teammates.

And the Turin team must always be alert to Lecce's quick counterattack.

Although the Lecce center forward at the top does not have any advantage in speed, Ke Sheng has an outstanding goal awareness, and almost every counterattack moment can qualify. It is almost the same as the Turin team's back line s position.

In the first 15 minutes of the game, Torino launched many attacks in the away game, but every time they were successfully resolved by Lecce, and as long as the players of the Torino team rushed to Lecce's half with the ball, the whole game would be blocked. drowned out by boos.

Yue Yihuang and Dricaro became Lecce's key targets.As the captain of Lecce, the seasoned Seymour also played a role in balancing the front line and the back line. Timely replacement made their chain defense more difficult to break through.

No.301 minutes, Kassel finally created a wonderful offensive opportunity with the support of his teammates, but it was successfully resolved by a not tall defender of Lecce with a header.

No.40 In the second minute, Yue Yihuang successfully got rid of the opponent's defender's close marking with his dazzling skills, and even gave the ball to Garay after encountering the precise positioning of the opponent's three players.It's just that this frontcourt bomber still failed to break through Lecce's back line in the end, and could only kick a very positive kick in the end, which was successfully resolved by Lecce's goalkeeper.

55 minutes into the game, there was still no breakthrough in the score on the field.

A large number of opportunities have been cut off by Lecce's terrible chain defense before they are actually formed.

Even though Lecce has paid a great deal of physical energy for this, but this group of players did not relax at all. The kind of tragic morale is faintly hopeful that they will never play the game again and must not lose this battle. significance.

This season is a perfect season for Turin.They are wandering in the two-line battle between the Europa League and the Serie A League, but this team, which has not been reborn for a long time, has surprised the European football world and entered the Europa League for the first time in half a century. The top four won the championship trophy.And at the same time, they also beat Milan at home in the league.

However, in the last game of this season, a team wandering near the relegation zone gave Turin an indescribable sense of frustration.

In this season, they have not played such a game.Let them be unable to attack for a long time, and even almost lost their patience.

Yue Yihuang was in charge of appeasing the players on the front line, and Dericaro also used his calmness to suppress the restlessness of the midfielders.It's just that they may not be able to maintain the situation on the field for long.

Dro, who watched the game silently from the sidelines, began to use the substitutions in his hands.

He first removed the left winger Cassel and replaced him with the more explosive Parel, allowing Turin's offensive to move from the left to the right. Five minutes later, he replaced Francisco who had just finished the national team game.

Obviously, Dro hopes that these two powerful attackers can open up the situation on the court, so that the offensive can be more violent and sharper. The presence of the two fierce players will of course have a great impact on the situation on the court.Turin's offense shifted from the already weak left to the right, and central midfielder Uster also quickly defended between offense and defense, trying to suppress the overly strong Lecce defense for his teammates, but that situation was only maintained. In a few minutes, Parel gradually disappeared under the precise positioning behind Lecce.

Francisco's powerful offensive actually caused Lecce to fall into a lot of panic, and a chance for a corner kick was formed.

Torino's corner kicks have always been powerful, thanks to their fine-footed midfielders and tall centre-backs.

Lecce's goalkeeper yelled at his teammates, wanting them to stand in a more suitable defensive position, but he just yelled a few words and walked over to the few teammates who were lined up in front of the goal After dragging to a better position, he raised his hand and compared the direction to the players who were waiting at the second landing point farther away, signaling them to move left and right or move forward and backward.

The Lecce players wanted to defend to the death, while the Turin players were eager to compete with the Lecce players for a better offensive position.

This is the No. 60 minute of the game. The players on both sides were very nervous because of the corner kick, worrying or expecting that the penalty kick could rewrite the score on the field.At this moment, once Torino scored a goal, everything would be different.

The corner kick on Turin's side should be the most skilled and experienced Dericalo.

But this time, Yue Yihuang, who was anxious in his heart, took the initiative to run in front of Drikalo.

When Derikalo thought that the young shadow forward wanted to take the corner kick and give him his position, Yue Yihuang shook his head slightly at Derikalo.

Yue Yihuang stood there and turned around to take a look at the chaotic situation in front of the goal.

Whether it is the tall Innedi or Francisco, who has good header skills, there are Lecce players pulling the jerseys with them, trying to fight or confuse them, giving the penalty shooter a better chance. big pressure.Looking further afield, at the second landing point, Lecce's defense line was unrelenting.

Dricaro understood Yue Yihuang's meaning, and made a gesture to take a corner kick vigorously, but he landed lightly and pushed the ball to Yue Yihuang's feet, which was further behind the horizontal line of the goal.

Yue Yihuang hardly ran after taking the ball, only made some adjustments after taking the ball, turned around and shot!He actually wanted to challenge another shot at a near-zero angle after the Europa League final against Roma! !

"God, this is crazy! Torino's Yue tried to score with a zero angle straight after the technical corner kick! I... oh my god!!! The ball it... it hit the post and bounced It's coming!!! From the sound from the scene, we can know that this is really a powerful kick! Unfortunately, it hit the goal post! After the ejection, the Torino player wanted to head the goal. A zero-degree shot into the goal! That's Innedi!"

Innedi, who has the best header skills in the Turin team, took off quickly after Yue Yihuang's almost zero-degree shot hit the post and popped out.The Lecce player next to him pulled his jersey and pulled his arm but failed to stop Innedi from taking off.It's just that this obstruction makes the quality of the header drop.

What ensued...was a scuffle in front of the goal.

Innedi's head brushed against the ball and sent it flying towards the goal again after deflecting a slight angle.This time, the arc of the ball's flight was a little more floating, and the speed was also much slower.Two Lecce defenders rushed into the goal and one of them's kickers caught the ball in a dangerous way before it reached the goal line and kicked it out.Seeing that the header had been blocked by the opponent, Francisco simply kicked up and shot backwards.

It was at this moment that the tense goalkeeper no longer dared to catch it with his palm, and turned to punching the ball head-on with Francisco.

A shocking counterattack began like this...

The player in the 4411 formation who was standing at the second landing point was in charge of connecting the forward line and the team's center. He stopped the ball with his chest and ran quickly with the ball. In the Ling team's half-court position, the Lecce center is located.

It was an empty half, except for Lecce's center forward, only Corell and Sanche stood there.

Heart beating wildly as vision transmits that scene to brain.I don't know who shouted, and the Turin team's defense line began to retreat with all its strength.Before that, however, the center forward of the Lecce team, who was far ahead of them, had the ball.

He starts up the pace the moment his teammate makes a strong through pass.As long as he does not jump over the last two defenders of Torino at the moment of the pass, he is not offside.This round of offense was too sudden, so suddenly that Corell and Sanche couldn't intercept this extremely high-quality pass before the Lecce center forward got the ball.

Corell and Sanchee chased back quickly. Sanchee, who often played an offensive role on the sidewalk, could not catch up. He quickly shoveled Sanchee's center forward from behind.

He was successful, but not quite successful.

Although Sanche's shovel greatly affected the forward state of the Lecce center, it failed to really poke the ball away.After a quick adjustment, the Lecce center continued to bring the ball forward, seeing that he was about to take a shot after the adjustment was successful.Only at this time, the goalkeeper of the Turin team, Aubrey, had already rushed out, one-on-one with the center of Lecce.

This is a contest of courage, brainpower and experience.

Not long ago, Aubrey also encountered a similar one-handed ball.However, Aubrey's hard attack that time directly caused the referee to show a red card and allowed the team to engage in a penalty shootout with the opposing team in the absence of a goalkeeper.

So, can Aubrey overcome the shadow of being unfortunately stained red in a one-handed ball this time?

When that extremely quick counterattack went straight to the Turin position, Delo couldn't sit comfortably on his handsome seat. Until then, he even walked to the sidelines, raised his head and looked hard at Everything that's happening there right now.

The fans near the goal of the Turin team booed Aubrey vigorously, trying to bring huge psychological pressure to the heavy and steady German goalkeeper and directly lead to his failure to save the ball.

However, this time, Aubrey finally defeated the center forward of Lecce, and also defeated himself.He still rushed forward as before, and that swift speed directly prevented the Lecce center from picking the ball, and he hugged the ball tightly after touching the ball with his gloved hands. Let any Lecce player in black and white stripes touch it.

Until this moment, the Turin team's defense was all in place.

Aubrey's successful save saved Turin, but that shot inevitably left a knife in the hearts of the Turin players.The thrilling sense of fear swept over their hearts like a ghost just a moment ago.And in the same way, this shot also raised Lecce's morale to a new level.

The fans at the scene sang, and the vertical fans in the stands raised their arms while standing up from their seats, and lowered their arms when sitting down.When they stood up, the fans sitting next to them stood up and repeated the same action.

When every fan sitting in the main stadium starts and passes this simple action in the same direction, the fans who stand up and sit down, raise their arms and put them down seem to form a sea of ​​people in the stadium. The wave seems to have involved the 22 people on the football field into the huge wave vortex...