When Villani ran onto the pitch wearing the Stan Park Rangers No. 11 jersey, the cheers from the Stan Park Rangers fans in the stands became louder and louder.
This substitution seemed to let them hear the clarion call for the team's counterattack.
South African youngster Tristan Villani, who once played for Sebastian Villani, has performed well since moving to Stan Park Rangers last season.
His speed and breakthrough are impressive.
He certainly played an indispensable role in Stan Park Rangers reaching the Champions League final last season.
He scored a total of 23 goals in all competitions last season and has firmly established himself as the team's main forward.
In the first half of this season, he scored fifteen goals in all competitions and his performance was remarkable.
However, a muscle strain in January this year interrupted his excellent performance.
Even so, when Stan Park Rangers encountered difficulties, fans still pinned their hopes on this talented forward.
I hope he can use his personal abilities to help the team win back the initiative.
The introduction of Stokes allowed Stan Park Rangers to gradually stabilize the midfield. Now replacing Villani, of course, it is necessary to replace the empty-handed Rangers with a sharp blade.
Otherwise, it would be too difficult to defeat an opponent of the level of the Madrid Pirates with just fists.
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After Villani came on the field, he did use his speed to create a threat. At that time, he picked up the ball on the wing, faced the Pirates right back Irazusta who was throwing a bit fiercely, and gently poked the football with his toe.
The man jumped up again and avoided Erasusa's tackle.
Then he accelerated after landing, caught up with the football, and went straight to the Madrid Pirates penalty area.
Fortunately, his final cross was blocked by Pirates center back Riva Moreno.
Although there was no final shot, Villani's breakthrough still made the temperature at Stan Park rise several degrees.
They waved their fists and scarves, sang songs, and cheered for the team.
"This is a good sign!"
England commentator Matthew Cox also said excitedly:
"After replacing Stokes and Villani successively, Stan Park Rangers finally have the ability to compete with the Pirates. Among them, Stokes' performance is really eye-catching, facing the pressure of the Madrid Pirates
, but he withstood Kyrie. His performance gave Stan Park Rangers a chance to counterattack!"
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Faced with Stan Park Rangers' imminent move, Pirates head coach Parotti did not sit still.
He did not allow the team to go head-to-head with Stan Park Rangers in midfield, despite Pirates' ability to do so.
But from an economic point of view, it is not worth it.
After all, they are two goals ahead now. If they can choose a more economical approach, why should they go head-to-head?
The so-called more economical approach is actually to let the team recover appropriately, then counterattack, and send the football directly to the 30-meter area of Stan Park Rangers through long passes from the two wings and the backcourt.
Simple and crude, this approach is not "conveying control" at all.
Therefore, fans of the Catalan United look down on the Madrid Pirates and think that this team is a "fake pass and control". They will only pass and control when they are stronger than their opponents. If they encounter an opponent who is stronger, or they encounter them in the game
When encountering difficulties, he immediately changed his tactics and launched a defensive counterattack, which was a simple, crude and outdated tactic of flying both wings together.
In this regard, Pirates fans said: It doesn’t matter whether it’s fake passing or real passing, it’s not outdated or anything like that, as long as you can win and win the championship, then you are really awesome!
Therefore, the Madrid Pirates were the La Liga champions last season, while Catalonia United, which insisted on passing the ball at all times, did not even win the Copa del Rey...
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Madrid Pirates gave up control of the frontcourt and Stan Park Rangers pressed forward.
While the Rangers fans in the stands cheered for every attack of the team, they also looked forward to Stan Park Rangers scoring an early goal.
After all, they were two goals behind and there was only half an hour left in the game.
If no goal is scored in ten minutes, it will be very difficult for Stan Park Rangers to get a draw, let alone win.
"Villani does have two brushes..."
Yan Kang commented after seeing the threat posed by Villani's breakthrough.
"Why don't we call him 'South African Melli'?" He Feng said with a smile, "Villani's playing style is indeed very similar to Melli, and he has a strong ability to fight alone. If he had not been injured, he would have started the game.
Maybe the Madrid Pirates won't play so easily in the first half, at least Villani's quick counterattack can still threaten their goal..."
Hearing what the two commentators said, Xie Lan said angrily: "Hey, Meili already has a successor, how old is he? Why don't you see anyone who is 'Hu Lai from nowhere'?"
Hu Lixin knew that his wife had a problem with Meili because she was his son's competitor, but he didn't take it seriously. He just smiled and said: "Because it is easy to become the second Meili, but it is easy to become the second Meili."
It's not easy to be a Hu Lai. Players with his style are very rare in today's football. In fact, it is a bit inconsistent with the trend of today's football..."
"Success is valuable only if you go against the trend!" Xie Lan commented proudly.
She also knew what her husband said. After all, she often read various articles and videos on the Internet analyzing and praising her son.
Indeed, the current popular trend in football is to make centers more versatile. Players trained under this mentality, if they can only score goals, will most likely be slowly eliminated when they enter the professional team from the youth team.
After all, scoring goals is a relatively simple thing in youth football games. There are many young players who can score a lot of goals in their teenage years. They often only need to have one quality that stands out from their peers to do it.
For example, faster, stronger, taller...
But the effect of these single outstanding qualities will be greatly reduced after they enter the adult world.
Therefore, we often see some talented players killing everyone in youth-level games, scoring triple-digit goals in double-digit games.
When they come to the senior team, such magical performance will be difficult to repeat.
There are tactical reasons, physical reasons, and technical reasons... Taking all aspects into account, those players who only score goals as teenagers will naturally have a high probability of being dropped by the adult team.
It is difficult to cultivate players like Hu Lai deliberately.
Now, no matter in Flash Star or the Dongchuan Middle School football team coached by Li Ziqiang, there is no other player with Hu Lai's ability and talent.
Everyone can only lament that any top genius cannot be mass-produced...
Or to put it another way, no one who produces energy can be a top genius.
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Villani on the field switched to the center this time to attack, trying to disrupt the Madrid Pirates' defense.
But he met Danny Drew.
Although Villani is called "South African Melli", he is not the real Melly after all.
Drew is not afraid when facing the real Mellie, let alone a "copycat" version.
He stared at Villani's feet without moving, and when Villani took a step to push the football away, he took it out with lightning speed!
Knocked out the football as fast as lightning!
Vukovich, who was not far from Drew, quickly stepped forward to intercept the football. Then, instead of trying a delicate short pass, he passed the football forward with a big foot.
Hu Lai received the ball in the corner of the penalty area.
The ball flying dozens of meters in the air brought him to a steady stop.
"What a stop! Beautiful!"
He Feng couldn't help but marvel.
A good stop is half the battle, and Hu Lai is already half the battle!
As soon as he stopped the ball, Stan Park Rangers center back Eric Jacobs came over.
Seeing this, Hu Lai raised his left foot and pushed the football towards the center.
Jacobs quickly stepped forward to intercept.
Hu Lai, who had taken a step forward with the ball, swung his left leg again. This time his swing was much wider than before. This was a typical preparation before shooting!
Jacobs took a lunge and stretched out his legs to block!
But Hu Lai's left foot was just a feint. He dunked the football to the right, and at the same time he twisted inward to break through!
It is indeed difficult for Hulay to dribble past several people like Meli or Villani, but he can still get rid of a defensive player in the penalty area.
Especially under the aura of "extremely efficient shooting", which defensive player dares to be indifferent to Hu Lai who is about to shoot?
Jacobs was detained by Hu Lai!
Stan Park Rangers' response strategy was to immediately add another defensive player - their right back and captain Johnson Law came from the wing to defend.
Hu Lai didn't wait for him to come over and just dunked Jacobs before taking a shot!
The action moves very quickly!
Caught Johnson Law off guard...
The football was shot from the right rib of the penalty area to the near corner of the goal!
Goalkeeper Lemos saw Hulay taking a shot and it bounced out, but he still failed to touch the ball!
The ball... flew into the goal he was guarding for the third time in this game!