“...Leeds City, who were playing at home in this game, still adopted active offensive tactics. From the beginning of the game, they continued to attack London Bridge’s goal. London Bridge chose a defensive counterattack in a targeted manner.
, they first stabilize their defense, and then plan to counterattack... For London Bridge, they have a very fast forward Park Suntae, who is indeed very suitable for defensive counterattacks..."
When commentator Cox said this, the game had already been going on for twenty-five minutes.
The score on the field is still 0:0.
Generally speaking, Leeds City had the upper hand and had many offensive opportunities, but failed to score the London Bridge goal.
London Bridge's defense has been very good. They are famous in the Premier League for their defensive skills.
Coupled with a forward with speed advantage like Park Soon-tae, the defensive counterattack is even more powerful.
However, although Park Suntae is fast and has good dribbling skills, his final kick is not very interesting. Therefore, he only scored one goal in the Premier League this season, which was the goal he scored against Abion in the last round of the league.
Fortunately, Park Soon-tae scored the goal, otherwise he would still be in a drawless state when facing Hu Lai in this game. The Korean reporters in the media box would feel a little embarrassed because of this...
London Bridge is on the defensive and has few offensive opportunities, so it is normal that no goals were scored.
Leeds City has been attacking and has many offensive opportunities, but has not scored. This has something to do with the performance of their main forward Hu Lai.
"... Hu Lai tried more long-range shots from outside the penalty area today, but his shooting aim was not very good..." He Feng said worriedly. "But there is nothing we can do, even when shooting from long range, there are many people around him
There will also be London Bridge players who interfere with the defense. In this kind of intense physical confrontation, it is really not easy for him to shoot on target..."
As a Chinese commentator, he must always stand by his player's side. Once he performs poorly, he must find excuses for him. Only in this way can he be considered a qualified Chinese commentator.
He does not need to criticize Hu Lai, because Hu Lai's past performance is good enough, and these good performances give him a death-free gold medal now.
It is very pretentious to talk about being objective and neutral at this time.
Yan Kang was also looking for reasons for Hu Lai's frequent long shots outside the penalty area: "London Bridge, which used defensive counterattacks in this game, strengthened its defense in the penalty area. Most of the time, their players shrank very deeply.
It was crowded with people and there was almost no room to move. So it is normal for Hu Laira to come out and shoot long shots..."
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Park Soon-tae set his sights on Hu Lai, and felt a little proud that he had guessed it right. Hu Lai's number of long-range shots increased significantly in this game.
Because he reminded his teammates, London Bridge was now well prepared and guarded Hu Lai without any temper at all.
His long-range shot never hit the door frame!
Is this your interpretation of swastika?
Seeing Hu Lai holding his head in his hands who was just annoyed that he had missed another kick, Pu Chuntai smiled slightly in his heart.
He felt that the bad breath before and after the top 12 matches had finally been released a little bit.
I didn’t expect that the same trick would be useless to me, right?
Goalkeeper Bueno, who was standing in front of the London Bridge goal, retracted his gaze and looked behind the goal. The ball boy had already thrown the football into the field immediately, but he ignored it and turned his attention to Hulay.
He was a little confused.
According to Park Soon-tae, Hu Lai should be somewhat capable of long-range shooting. Otherwise, if he wants to shoot from long-range, he can just shoot from long-range. What should he be particularly concerned about?
It was precisely because he listened to Park Soon-tae's story about Hu Lai's performance in the match against the South Korean team that he guarded against Hu Lai's long shot as if he were facing a formidable enemy.
But Hu Lai has already had three long-range shots since the start of the game, but look at what he shot...
Three long-range shots, none of which hit the door frame.
The kick just now was even more ridiculously high.
He at least made saves on the first two long-range shots. Although he didn't save them, as a goalkeeper, this is enough to express the importance he attaches to Hu Lai's long-range shots.
This third kick, he didn't even have the interest to raise his hand in greeting. He just turned his head and watched the football fly towards the rear stands.
This is different from what Park Suntae said before the game...
The long shot is a long shot, but with this level of long shot, it might be a bit difficult to threaten my goal.
Does this also require special attention?
He shook his head, picked up the ball that rolled to his feet, and prepared to take the goal kick. If he didn't take the kick, the referee would think that he was deliberately delaying time, and there were already sporadic boos in the stands.
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“This is not Hu’s normal level.” Assistant coach Sam Landill shook his head in front of Leeds City’s coaching bench. “Even if someone interfered with his shot, he wouldn’t have played like this...”
“Didn’t I tell you, Sam?” said Tony Clark.
Randhir asked in confusion: "What did you say?"
“I have already asked Hu this question about you. He told me that he hopes to take this opportunity to confuse the opponent and make the opponent think that his long-range shooting level is quite average..."
Clark told Randhir the contents of his conversation with Hu Lai that day.
After hearing this, Randhir had a...complex expression on his face: "It's really something he can do!"
"In this game, London Bridge strengthened its defense in the penalty area, which did not leave much room for Hu to move in the penalty area. His long-range shots just happened to come in handy. But now, Tavares should still be
Having made arrangements for Hu Lai's long shot, the London Bridge players are obviously focused on defending Hu Lai's long shot... I hope his performance can make the London Bridge defensive players relax their vigilance..."
As he said this, he also glanced at London Bridge manager Miguel Tavares, the Portuguese.
Tavares stood expressionless on the sidelines watching the game. There was no emotion on his face about the current situation.
It’s normal. The game has only started less than thirty minutes ago. No one can tell what will happen next.
In fact, Tavares was feeling gratified for his players in his heart. They really faithfully implemented their tactical arrangements, even better.
Achieved more than what I asked for.
I asked them to focus on marking Hu Lai before the game. Look at their performance in the game. Even when Hu Lai went to take a long shot from outside the penalty area, they did not let it go easily...
Just keep playing like this. When we use tight defense to make Leeds City's offense come back time and time again, they will definitely become more and more impatient. At that time, it will be our time to counterattack. Now we just need to be patient!
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Hulela’s long shot wasn’t exactly what he wanted. Another very important factor is that London Bridge did a very good job defending in the penalty area.
Especially their two central defenders, both in terms of personal ability and mutual understanding, are among the best in the Premier League.
George Birx and Tim Martin are not only the main center back pairing at London Bridge, but also the main center back pairing in the England national team.
Tim Martin is 1.96 meters tall, has excellent height, good header ability, and first-class frontal defense. The disadvantage is that he is slow to turn and run slowly.
Even though Birx is 1.88 meters tall, which is close to 1.9 meters, he is quite flexible despite his thin body. His flexibility makes up for Martin's shortcomings. The two complement each other and work together seamlessly. They form London Bridge and England.
A pair of world-famous iron gates.
This is the first time Hulay has played against this "golden partner" in the back line. When he transferred to Leeds City last season, all home and away games between Leeds City and London Bridge were played.
From the beginning of the game, he felt the pressure from these two world-class central defenders.
When two people looked down at him, it was like a giant looking at a dwarf.
Hulay's physical confrontation ability, which has been improved through hard training, is of no use in front of these two central defenders, especially Tim Martin. His little strength is simply not enough.
And once he wants to use his running position to bypass Martin, he will encounter the flexible Birx again.
The latter is tall and has long legs. Even if he is temporarily pulled away by half to one height by Hu Lailai, he can still catch up with him in one step by taking advantage of his long legs.
Hu Lai didn't mean to only shoot long shots from outside. He also tried to look for opportunities in front of the goal. As a result, once he seemed to have got the opportunity, but just when he started to shoot, the football was blocked by Birx.
He stretched out his leg to poke it off, causing his kick to miss, and he almost pulled his knee down...
To be honest, even though he currently ranks first in the league's scorer list, it does not mean that he can equal the Premier League.
He also had times when his opponents were so defensive that he couldn't score a goal for the entire game.
There were also situations where a perfect scoring opportunity was blocked by the opponent.
He is neither omnipotent nor invincible.
When he met Birx and Martin, he would also be helpless.
That's why he took the initiative to move out of the penalty area to look for long-range shot opportunities.
This way, you can stay away from the two perverted combinations of two opponents who have a tacit understanding and seem to be having an affair, or you can use your running position to pull the opponent out of the penalty area, and you can also create opportunities for your teammates to get into space.
As a striker, scoring goals is of course the most important task, but if sometimes the task cannot be completed, the same goes for creating opportunities for teammates.
For example, if his small body does not give him any advantage when facing Martin, then he can leave Martin to captain Lorenzo and go against Birx himself.
Then let the remaining teammates take charge of the offense.
This person can be Jay Adams who can come in from behind, or it can be Pete Williams who can pass and shoot.
Or Ismail Kamara, who is as slippery as a loach.
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