In the locker room, before training, the Flash Star players were changing clothes and chatting. The topic was of course the upcoming FA Cup semi-finals. With this game, there have been many noises recently, and the players will also chat privately.
these sounds.
Of course they don't agree with the outside world's badmouthing of them and their lack of understanding of Director Zhao.
After all, the outside world has no idea what the team has done in the past half month.
But Zhao Kangming also imposed discipline on the team, that is, the internal situation of the team is not allowed to be disclosed to the outside world. Everyone consciously abides by it and strictly implements it, because they know that if the opponent does not understand them, then their chance of defeating the opponent will increase.
Some people on the Internet wonder that Zhao Kangming is thinking about revenge, but how exactly is he going to take revenge? How can he defeat the Poseidons, the sixth team of the Chinese Super League, at the level of Flash Star?
All the players on the Flash Star team knew what they were going to do, but they couldn't tell anyone.
"Obviously, Director Zhao wants us to go to the away game and set up a bus with the Poseidons..."
There are still two days left before the game. After this period of training, everyone knows what tactics the team will use.
"And then it's a penalty shootout?"
Speaking of penalty kicks, everyone turned their attention to Hu Lai.
Since Hu Lai became the team's top penalty kicker, Flash Star has not won a penalty kick in the game. However, Hu Lai still insists on practicing penalty kicks for half an hour after every day's training.
Obviously, if the Stars can draw with Poseidon in the 90-minute away game, then it will be Hu Lai's penalty kick.
Under everyone's attention, Hu Lai had a different opinion: "It's not necessarily just penalty kicks, there are also set kicks."
"Of course set kicks are our main scoring weapon, but they are also risky. The central defenders are all fighting for the top. If the Poseidon team makes a quick counterattack, wouldn't it be a disaster?" Zhang Qinghuan said.
"Then use the set piece to score the ball!" Hu Lai said with great momentum.
But Chen Xingyi sneered from the side: "You put it simply, Hu Lai. With your small body, if you are competing with Poseidon players in the penalty area, you might not be able to touch the ball!"
"Who said that? The mountain man has his own clever plan!" Hu Lai said proudly.
Everyone looked at Hu Lai's posture: "Hey, Hu Lai, it seems you have some ideas?"
Hu Lai chuckled: "I do have some bold ideas..."
"I'm going, I can hear the sound of bad water sloshing in your stomach, Hu Lai..." Chen Xingyi shouted exaggeratedly.
Others were also very curious: "What do you think? Please tell me what you think?"
Hu Lai was not polite, walked to the whiteboard in the locker room, picked up a marker and started writing and drawing on it.
A group of people stood behind him with their arms folded, looking at the whiteboard with smiles.
But as they watched, the expressions on their faces changed.
"Holy shit, Hu Lai, what are you thinking about all day long?!"
Hu Lai turned back and looked at them: "What do you think? We can make time for special training..."
Qin Lin spoke: "I think Hu Lai, you can try to give advice to Director Zhao and ask him to allow us to practice such set-piece tactics. It is impossible for us to practice secretly on our own, and we must obtain the consent of the coaching staff.
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"But will Director Zhao agree?" Hu Lai was not sure.
"If it were you, I think he would agree." Zhang Qinghuan said from the side. "You and Director Zhao have an unusual relationship!"
Qin Lin also nodded: "Zhang Qinghuan is right."
In this way, the important task of communicating with Director Zhao was handed over to Director Zhao's "godson" Hu Lai.
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"There are still two days left before the semi-finals. Today we have only one training content, which is various set-piece tactical training. In the game against the Poseidons, if we want to win, we must make sufficient efforts in positioning.
effort!"
Before the start of a new day of training, Zhao Kangming emphasized training tasks for all first-team players participating in training.
At this moment, Hu Lai raised his hand.
"What's the matter with you, Hu Lai?" Zhao Kangming asked.
"Director Zhao, I have some ideas that I think can be used in set-piece tactics." Hu Lai saw the change in Zhao Kangming's face and quickly explained. "I thought that Poseidon would never have thought that we would play set-pieces like this...
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There was a burst of laughter among the team members.
Hearing everyone's laughter, Zhao Kangming's face looked a little unhappy. As usual, he thought Hu Lai was playing tricks again...
At this moment, Qin Lin stood up and said to Zhao Kangming: "Coach Zhao, this is what we discussed in the locker room... Just before today's training started, Hu Lai told us something in the locker room about what he was doing.
Creative creativity in free kick tactics. We all think we can try it."
When Zhao Kangming saw Qin Lin saying this, he swallowed the words he wanted to refuse.
At the same time, Qin Lin's words also reminded him that the reason why everyone was so motivated and wanted to fight Poseidon was to avenge Hu Lai... He also benefited from this, so he still had to give Hu Lai this face.
So he nodded: "If everyone has no objections, I will give you thirty minutes of extra practice time after the normal training in the morning."
Hu Lai breathed out: "Thank you, Director Zhao!"
Seeing him like this, Zhao Kangming couldn't help but laugh: "What other clever ideas do you have?"
Hu Lai waved his hand quickly: "There are no clever ideas, Director Zhao, just some... uh, ideas, small ideas."
He pinched the thumb and index finger of his right hand almost together, raised it up, then squinted his eyes and smiled and explained to Zhao Kangming.
Zhao Kangming felt that Hu Lai could just explain it, but why were both his expressions and actions so...obscene?
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After the normal training, Zhao Kangming followed his promise and gave the team thirty minutes of additional training time, allowing them to conduct special set-piece tactical training.
Because the specific tactics were Hu Lai's idea, this training session did not require any guidance from Zhao Kangming.
Logically speaking, he could leave, but he stood on the sidelines, wanting to see what Hu Lai's so-called "little idea" was.
Chen Mo went to help as an assistant coach. In fact, he mainly just blew the whistle. He also didn't know how the team was going to train, so what he could do was very limited.
As for how the players position themselves, how they run... these are all Hu Lai's final say.
The other players follow his orders.
If a teammate didn't understand what he meant, he would directly pull the other person to the correct position with his hands.
Zhao Kangming, who was on the sidelines, always had a strange sense of déjà vu when he saw this scene: This guy just directed his teammates' positions, he really looked a bit like a coach...
After directing everyone to stand in position, Hu Lai told them how to run next, and pulled out Chen Xingyi and Zhang Qinghuan to demonstrate with him.
Looking at it, Zhao Kangming's eyes widened:
What the hell is this “little” creativity?!
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The thirty-minute special training was over, and the whole training process was filled with laughter and laughter. If it weren't for training, others would have thought that the Flash Star players were playing games on the training ground.
Although the scene looked very informal, the training did achieve some results. At least they had practiced the corner kick tactics Hu Lai mentioned to a great extent.
After the training, everyone walked to the locker room chatting and laughing, took a shower and changed clothes. They would go to the base restaurant to have a meal, and then go to the dormitory building for a lunch break to prepare for the afternoon training.
Today's training is twice a day, with training sessions in the morning and afternoon.
Hu Lai also walked toward the locker room among his teammates, but he was stopped by Zhao Kangming, who had been standing on the sidelines.
"Hu Lai, please stay for a while."
Hu Lai came out of the team and ran to the head coach: "What are your instructions, Coach Zhao?"
Seeing him nodding and bowing, Zhao Kangming wanted to laugh: "Hu Lai, what is the name of your corner kick attack tactic?"
"The goddess scatters flowers!"
Zhao Kangming thought about what he saw during training and nodded: "It's quite appropriate..."
"Hey!" Hu Lai scratched his head.
Seeing him like this, Zhao Kangming asked again: "Honestly, do you have any other set-piece tactics like this?"
"Yes, there is..." Hu Lai hesitated a little, not understanding what Director Zhao meant by asking this question, and he didn't know how to answer it.
"Use your lunch break to pour out all the bad water, sort it out, and give it to me before training in the afternoon." Zhao Kangming said.
Hu Lai was surprised when he heard this: "What do you want to do, Director Zhao?"
"Huh? You didn't refute the idea of 'bad water'?" Zhao Kangming's eyes widened slightly.
"No... Director Zhao, this is the fruit of my wisdom. How can it be bad water? In addition, Director Zhao's wisdom tree is quite big and has many wisdom fruits. I can't finish it in one lunch break..."
Zhao Kangming ignored Hu Lai's nonsense: "Then there will be five corner kicks and five free kicks. After sorting it out, we will spend all the afternoon practicing these set-piece tactics."
Hu Lai looked at the head coach in disbelief. Unexpectedly, Director Zhao would confirm his fantastic ideas and even use them to replace normal set-piece training!
He quickly puffed up his chest: "Don't worry, Coach Zhao, I promise to come up with ten sets of tactics before training in the afternoon!"
Zhao Kangming smiled and nodded: "Okay, hurry up and change clothes and eat."
Looking at Hu Lai's back, Chen Mo came up and shook his head and said: "This kid has grown up in all directions, and he can even be a coach... although I think he just has a big brain."
Zhao Kangming smiled happily: "He will always surprise us, Lao Chen. Whether it is on the field or off the field. To be honest, I didn't have much hope for the set kick. I was more inclined to defend it.
Penalty kick, there is no overtime in the FA Cup anyway."
Chen Mo nodded: "I can see that you have arranged a lot of penalty kick training in training."
"But now I want to try a set kick. Isn't it said that no matter how hard they try, they can't figure out how Flash Star can defeat Poseidon? Indeed, even if they try hard, they can't figure out this 'Tiannu Sanhua' corner kick tactic.
.At first glance, I would just think, 'What kind of crap is this?', but I watched them train on the sidelines, and the more I watched, the more I realized that this is not a joke, even though it looks like...ha!"
"Don't tell me, I feel the same way. From the beginning, I thought it was Hu Lai who was messing around again, but his seemingly random approach actually made sense... He just scattered everyone so suddenly, so that
The opponent is confused and it is really difficult to defend." Chen Mo nodded in agreement. "And this position itself can confuse the opponent and distract the opponent from defense."
Zhao Kangming smiled and turned around: "Let's go, Lao Chen, let's go have dinner too, and then wait and see what other surprises Hu Lai can bring us."