Volume 1: Playing football with me will break your legs Chapter 86 Are you the ace shooter?
January 21, 7:30 p.m.
White Hart Lane, London.
There is still half an hour before the first round of the League Cup semi-final officially begins.
Players from both teams are conducting their final warm-up activities.
In the home team's locker room, Tottenham Hotspur assistant coach Jesus Perez checked in with his boss one last time.
"Maurice, are you really not going to change your mind?"
Mauricio Pochettino looked at his assistant as if he had heard something funny:
"The game is about to start, and you still want to persuade me?"
Perez shook his head.
"I know it's impossible to change the starting lineup now, but you can still adjust the tactics immediately. After all... the FA Cup match will be in three days, and our opponent is Leicester City. Compared with today's English League Two team, isn't Leicester City more worthy of attention?"
Pochettino sighed:
"Don't I understand what you mean? But I have no choice."
He continued to explain:
"Leaving Southampton aside, Manchester United and Liverpool have become the laughing stock of the whole of England. I don't want to follow their example! If we lose to a League Two team with a substitute lineup, do you think our chairman, Mr. Levy, will pay a pound for the transfer fee in the summer?"
Perez opened his mouth and finally stopped insisting.
The most stingy chairman in the universe doesn't care whether the team will win the championship, but he certainly doesn't want to see the team become a laughing stock!
Pochettino raised his wrist, glanced at the dial, and patted his straight suit:
"Let's go, the game is about to begin!"
…
Goalkeeper: Lori (captain on the field).
Defenders: Walker, Dier, Vertonghen, Rose.
Midfielders: Townsend, Eriksen, Dembele, Chadli.
Forwards: Kane, Adebayor.
It looks like a very standard 442 formation, but after watching Tottenham videos many times, Wimbledon players all know that Pochettino is not a traditional British coach - after all, he is Argentine.
Borussia Dortmund doesn't like wingers in the traditional 442 formation. Although Townsend and Chadli, two fast wingers, have excellent statistics this season, they will soon fade out of Tottenham's main lineup - but this is only Borussia Dortmund's first season coaching Tottenham, and he has not yet started his drastic reforms.
Apart from Adebayor, the other 10 players are Tottenham's main players this season. Pochettino's determination to win is obvious.
Li Polo took a look at Tottenham's team and quickly found his target.
He walked up to Kane at the end of the team and said in a confident tone:
"Hey, Harry, you'd better not appear in my defensive area in this game!"
After all, there’s no need to waste traditional skills!
Sure enough, he immediately received the other party's experience points:
[Negative emotions from Harry Kane, +1]
Kane was stunned for a moment, then responded to his provocation coldly:
"@#￥%&!"
Li Polo shrugged his shoulders and turned to another forward, Adebayo:
"God, is he speaking English? Why can't I understand a word of it?"
Adebayo didn't care about the friendship between teammates at all, and he just grinned. Kane was so angry that his neck turned red.
[Harry Kane's negative emotions, +10! ]
He hates it most when people dislike his accent!
…
"drop!"
The effect of this wave of provocation was immediate. After the game started, Kane immediately appeared in front of Li Polo, looking like "I want to fight you to the death."
Li Polo looked at Kane, who was only 13 months older than him, and shook his head secretly:
[What a young man, you can't help yourself after someone says something to you? 】
But after all, he is the team's top scorer . Since Kane has shown such an attitude, his teammates cannot remain indifferent.
Anyway, the game has just begun, so it wouldn't hurt to do some warm-up exercises.
After four or five passes, Eriksen finally passed the ball to Kane's feet.
After getting the ball, Kane seemed like a different person, with a confident aura emanating from him.
He no longer considered boring questions like "whether his accent is pure". At this moment, the only thing in his eyes was the opponent's goal!
This is a natural shooter!
He used his left foot as a supporting axis and turned around while protecting the ball with his right foot!
As long as he creates a little space, he can shoot!
But he only turned less than 90 degrees before he was stuck in place by a leg that stretched out from the side and back...
The position of this leg was so perfect that it successfully separated Kane's right foot from the football without causing him to fall directly.
"???"
Looking at the football that was out of control, two question marks appeared in Kane's head.
Before he could think about whether he should throw himself to the ground and ask the referee for a free kick in the frontcourt, a pair of big hands held his waist.
Then he saw the No. 1 player on the opposite side smiling and saying:
"Be careful, buddy, the grass is too dirty, don't fall!"
Kane couldn't help but grit his teeth.
【Harry Kane, +2! 】
Looking at the pitifully small amount of negative emotions, Li Polo curled his lips in disdain and provoked them again:
"Come on, maybe next time you'll be lucky and be able to successfully turn with the ball!"
【Harry Kane, +4! 】
…
Just three minutes later, Kane made a comeback.
This time he did not take the ball with his back to the goalkeeper, but rushed directly towards Li Polo with the ball, ready for a fair duel.
Unfortunately, his dribbling skills are not as good as those of the "Brazilian Little Magician" Coutinho and the "Belgian Beckham" Januzai. I'm afraid he is even inferior to Dele Alli who plays for Milton Keynes .
Li Polo didn't even turn on his [Eagle Eye]. He just relied on his predictive ability to block the opponent's position in advance, thus blocking the opponent's way forward and forcing him to only choose to pass the ball to the sides.
Left winger Chadli successfully got past Fuller with his speed, but he rushed too hard and dribbled the ball directly out of the baseline, giving Wimbledon a goal kick.
Taking advantage of the home team's empty backcourt, Shea originally wanted to serve the ball quickly and let his forward teammates attack Tottenham's defense, but the little ball boy at White Hart Lane cleverly saw through his plot, held the ball and refused to give it to the Spurs, causing the Tottenham Hotspurs to miss a great opportunity for a counterattack.
"After the game, ask the finance department to give him a bonus of 10 pounds!"
Seeing that his caddie had thwarted the opponent's conspiracy, Pochettino waved his hand generously, and then instructed his assistant:
"Remind Kane not to be too obsessed with one-on-ones, that's not his strong point!"
Perez nodded, immediately stood up and went to the command area to convey the coach's promotion to the players on the field.
Eriksen, the brain of the midfield, quickly used practical actions to tell the head coach that he fully understood.
In the 9th minute, the No. 23 player received the ball in the midfield, and then kicked a "Crescent Moon Scimitar"!
Li Polo, who was struggling with Kane, looked up at the arc and was a little surprised.
Eriksen did not look for the 1.88-meter-tall Kane, but passed the ball to the head of the 1.92-meter-tall Adebayo!
He almost forgot that when Adebayor became famous in Arsenal, he was hailed as "Drogba's successor" and was nicknamed "Little Beast"!
Drogba’s successor…can his heading ability be bad?
[Can Phillips survive without my help? ]
Under the gaze of Li Polo, his partner Phillips jumped high almost at the same time as Adebayo and pushed hard towards the flying ball, but before they reached the highest point, the two people's "upward trajectories" parted ways!
The 1.92-meter-tall Adebayo was squeezed out by the 1.88-meter-tall Phillips!
As the saying goes, "When the snipe and the clam fight, the fisherman gains." When the two big fools were fighting in the air, Xie A jumped out from behind them, stretched out his arms to directly confiscate the ball, and then threw it out with force:
"Hey guys, here's a nice counterattack!"
After receiving the hand-thrown ball, Rigg first passed it to Porter, who then found Akinfenwa in the center circle. The strong man protected the ball for three seconds under the close defense of Vertonghen, and then passed it again to Porter who was chasing from behind.
Porter adjusted the rhythm slightly, and directly lifted the ball over Dyer's head and passed it directly behind Tottenham's defense!
Before, they pressed forward together, and the 40-meter area behind was completely empty!
And Rigg, who had fully accelerated, made a high-speed forward run from the left wing, leaving Tottenham's right-back and England international Kyle Walker, who had hurriedly returned to defense, helpless!
Rigg cut directly into the penalty area diagonally and shot towards Lori who was rushing out of the goal!
The French goalkeeper's blocking area was quite large, and he even touched the ball with his toes, but Rigg's shot was so powerful that although it changed direction, it still hit the net!
Less than 10 minutes into the game, the visiting Kuang Bang won the first game!
1:0!
Although Li Polo, who stayed behind, was very happy, he felt a little regretful in his heart.
[Come to think of it... this goal, it seems like it has nothing to do with me from beginning to end! ]
[These teammates... can actually score goals even without me? ]
【It’s incredible! 】
