bestfiction Chapter 226 Chapter 226
Chapter 226 Chapter 226
Lobant picked the football out of the goal and kicked it limply forward.
He seemed a bit frustrated. The goalkeeper relied on the defensive players, but when Porto was about to serve a free kick, Ajax's defense was a bit slower, which can be said to make the goalkeeper very helpless.
The football that rolled outside the penalty area stopped there, and no one cared about it.
Garasek held De Jong and kept him awake.
At this time, the Ajax players were a little frustrated on the field. The frontcourt players lowered their heads slightly and walked towards the backcourt, while the backcourt players looked unnatural.
Too much pressure!
Champions League final!
There are still more than 20 minutes, and now we are behind!
There is only one exception.
Qin Xiong!
He trotted back to his own half, and this time Porto counterattacked, he couldn't help it.
He went directly into Porto's penalty area before, and failed to make that attack with a cross from the baseline. Turning his head around, Porto quickly launched an offensive in the frontcourt. When Porto scored, he just ran to the center line.
He trotted past De Jong and Garasek, walked to the football with a calm face, picked it up and turned around, passed De Jong again, and came to the kick-off point in the middle circle , pressed the football on the kick-off point, retreated slowly, retreated outside the middle circle and stood in place, raised his chin slightly, showing a very standard combat posture!
Qin Xiong was not surprised by De Jong's "explosion". If you understand his character, you will understand that even if such a thing happens, it is understandable.
But since Garasek is appeasing De Jong, with the qualifications of a veteran, it shouldn't be a big problem.
For the rest, he can't help. Should he repeat what Garasek said to De Jong?
No need.
He didn't know that it was the calmness and fighting spirit he showed invisibly when he picked up the football and put it on the kick-off point at this moment, which made De Jong calm down quickly, gritted his teeth and regained his strength!
It's just that his expression seems to be ruthless, which is quite scary.
Qin Xiong can't remember exactly which teammate once asked himself: Did a player with such outstanding ability like you always win in the past?
Qin Xiong smiled and shook his head.
As a matter of fact, on the way of his growth, the coaches who trained him always made it more difficult for him. The number of players in the game was unbalanced, and he always played more with less. The intention of the coaches initially required him to recognize the team The importance of Qin Xiong, because Qin Xiong played football very selfishly when he was very young.
Later, after developing a sense of teamwork and a vision of the overall situation, it is necessary to give him "frustration education". Football games are like this, you can't always have smooth sailing!
How to face adversity and difficulties is the place to test players' willpower.
It often also determines whether a player can go from mediocrity to refinement, from excellence to altar!
So when Qin Xiong grows up, he will lose, many times, but every time he will make himself lose better!Then don't lose!In the end it was victory!
This process has been repeated repeatedly, and only then has he tempered his willpower and a good attitude towards the game.
If you lose, you don't lose!
No matter how difficult it is, he will not lower his head, he will always raise his chin slightly, as long as the game is not over, he will never give up!
call......
Qin Xiong let out a long breath.
He watched Porto's players walking to the backcourt, they were cheering each other on, and Ajax's players were already in formation.
Qin Xiong looked at his teammates. He didn't realize what he had done, so he let his teammates get rid of their frustration quickly, and glowed with a new round of high fighting spirit.
He just knew the game was tougher than before.
In addition to the trailing score and the race against the rest of the time, Porto is more inclined to defend than after the opening!
It is undeniable that Qin Xiong doesn't like Porto's style of play, but he must also admire the opponent's young coach Mourinho.
Before the game, Qin Xiong and his teammates thought McCarthy would be the striker, but Mourinho sent Alberto to play, and the teenager scored.
And Mourinho's substitution had an immediate effect, and Alenichev scored the second goal.
As far as the art of on-the-spot command is concerned, there may not be many head coaches who can impress Qin Xiong after this season. Mourinho must have the strongest impact, perhaps because it is the Champions League final, so He may be more impressed than AC Milan coach Ancelotti, even if Ancelotti is more famous.
No wonder Chelsea, Real Madrid, Liverpool and other top clubs are inviting him to coach.
The game restarted, and Porto did not relax because of the leading score, and they did not stop using foul harassment to reshape the game situation.
Although the time passed by every minute and every second, Ajax did not press hard. They knew the power of Porto's defensive counterattack. If they conceded another goal, the game would officially end!
Because Porto pays more attention to defense, it makes it difficult for Ajax to push the offense into the opponent's penalty area in the offensive of positional warfare. Even because the opponent is overly vigilant about Qin Xiong's possession of the ball in the frontcourt, they do not hesitate to stop Qin Xiong at the cost of fouls The pace, which led to the reduction of Ajax's chances of getting long shots from the outside.
In the 73rd minute of the game, Deco was finally shown a yellow card by the referee after pulling Qin Xiong's jersey again.
After this, Mourinho made a second substitution, forward McCarthy replaced Dellei.
Considering that Dellei is also carrying a yellow card, McCarthy can continue to maintain the forward's pressure on the midfielder after he comes on the field.
Koeman was a little helpless. Ajax mainly focused on offensive football, so they were a little passive in the substitution process.
Because of the high requirements of the offensive football style on the team, the effect of the players on the bench is definitely not as good as that of the opponent.
From another perspective, if Ajax plays counter-defense and has space, maybe Sotals, Sikora, and Songk who are sitting on the bench will all be useful, but in the current game situation, only Pisces Gnar can be considered for substitution, but who?
In the ideal design, such a substitution does not have a better effect than the existing players on the field.
Qin Xiong began to hand over the organizational tasks to Garasek.
Due to the importance attached to him by the Porto players, especially after McCarthy came on the field, Qin Xiong became less efficient in controlling the ball in the midfield due to the encirclement and pressing mode formed against the midfielder after McCarthy came on the field. He was even successfully intercepted once.
If it weren't for Porto's striker's starting position, maybe that conceded goal would have become a fatal mistake.
Qin Xiong began to take the initiative to move to the frontcourt, so that his starting position in the offense was closer to the penalty area, so that the frontcourt players could connect.
The task of attacking the front and back courts in series falls on the shoulders of Garasek. He organizes in the midfielder area, and the risk factor is not high.
Qin Xiong can't withdraw to the midfielder area to organize. Although that will definitely allow him to easily control the ball, but there are only three teammates in the frontcourt and they are spread out. It is meaningless for him to just control the ball.
So he moved to the frontcourt to increase the strength of the frontcourt attack to directly threaten the opponent's goal.
As time passed, Porto's counterattack was much more cautious than before. When Ajax did not come out in full force, their counterattack efficiency also dropped.
But Mourinho on the sidelines had no worries.
It seems that Ajax has exhausted its creativity and cannot play more subtle coordination on the offensive end. His on-the-spot adjustments are correct, compressing the space in the midfield and backcourt, collaborating with forwards to return to press the midfield line, and to contain Qin Xiong in the midfield After cutting off the source of inspiration for Ajax's attack, Ajax is like a tiger whose teeth have been pulled out!
The Porto fans in the stands became more and more excited, and the concerns of Ajax fans became more and more obvious.
Mourinho looked up at the time on the big screen.
79:47
There are only the last 10 minutes left in the game, and including injury time, it will not exceed 15 minutes.
The young marshal, who had shown a confident temperament before the game, began to prepare to play the last card, and it was over!
He will not let the team defend, he will always retain the threat of counterattack, but will weaken the attacking power a little to enrich the defense line, so that if Ajax has to press heavily at the last moment, Porto will get the counterattack Opportunities do not need three or four players to cooperate, maybe the impact of one or two players is enough to drive Ajax into the abyss!