When the Stan Park Rangers players all ran back to their own half, the game restarted with a whistle.
Stan Park Rangers, who had taken the lead, took advantage of this momentum and continued to attack Leeds City's goal.
In the 20th minute, their center forward, Spanish international Marty Palacio, received a through ball from midfielder Schneider and shot in the penalty area. The football flew into Leeds City's goal for the second time.
But this time the cheers that rang out were interrupted by the referee’s crisp whistle:
"Offside! Palacio is offside! What a danger!" He Feng exhaled and shouted with lingering fear. "Looking at the slow motion, Palacio was indeed in an offside position when Schneider passed the ball. This penalty was not
question……"
"Be careful! Although Palacio's goal was offside, if they continue to attack like this unscrupulously, I'm afraid they won't be able to score the next goal..." Yan Kang said worriedly.
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After the goal was ruled offside, Palacio just waved and then shook his head with a smile.
He didn't seem to feel any pity or unwillingness.
Then he noticed that Leeds City goalkeeper Van de Ven passed the backcourt free kick to Jay Adams who was retreating. He immediately rushed over to pounce on Adams and re-entered the game.
Because he was so timely on the ball, Adams couldn't even turn around and could only pass the ball back to goalkeeper Van der Ven.
In the end, Van der Veen drove forward in front of the goal, looking for winger Ismail Kamara on the left.
But Kamara failed to catch the ball and was pushed back by Johnson Law.
Stan Park Rangers captain Harry Bernard, who dropped back to receive the ball, controlled the second ball and the ball returned to Rangers.
"Against Leeds City, Brooks adopted a high-pressing style of play, pressing from Leeds City's backcourt, squeezing their ball-taking space and preventing them from organizing an effective attack... In fact, this is what Stan Park Rangers did
The style of play is not new, but in their own home court, they can often achieve good results. The terrifying home atmosphere combined with the team's high-pressing tactics in the frontcourt can indeed create a lot of psychological pressure on the opponent...
I hope Leeds City can withstand it!"
Although Stan Park Rangers, as a traditional giant in English football, also has a large fan base in China, He Feng and Yan Kang will still stand firmly on Leeds City's side when commentating on this game.
side.
This cannot be said to be a "crooked butt". After all, Leeds City has Chinese players, but Stan Park Rangers does not. If we were not on Leeds City's side, then it would be called a "crooked butt".
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Facing Stan Park Rangers' high-pressing style of play, Leeds City was not completely helpless and could only be beaten passively.
Stan Park Rangers' tactics are no secret. Before the game, Clark made arrangements to deal with this situation. He pursued a deep play on the offensive end, making more long passes and through balls, and less back and forth in the midfield.
Pass down.
After all, when Stan Park presses high, there will definitely be a lot of space behind them.
And Leeds City has a fast player like Ismael Kamara in front of them, which is indeed very suitable for this tactic.
It's just that this deep style of play requires too high a passing accuracy, and is limited by the passing success rate, making it difficult to create a threatening offense.
Clark also knew it very well, but he had no choice.
He could only take a gamble.
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Leeds City once again played a high ball from the backcourt, and Hu Lai ran horizontally in front, running towards the spot where the football landed, preparing to grab the ball.
But he couldn't get any advantage at all in front of the 1.9-meter-tall Stan Park Rangers main center back Eric Jacobs.
He was only halfway through the jump when he was pinned down by the opponent.
Belgian international Jacobs used his body advantage to get over Hulay's head and push the football back.
This is the frustration of Leeds City's offensive tactics. There are many times when they try to pass the football forward from the backcourt, but it is difficult to pass the ball to their teammates.
Such a ball makes it difficult for Hu Lai to get it.
"Hu Lai doesn't do this kind of work!" Yan Kang sighed.
The football was pushed back by Jacobs and fell to Bernard's feet.
As the core of the Rangers' midfield, Bernard is responsible for controlling the team's rhythm. He often wanders in front of the back line and is responsible for controlling the second point after the defender competes for the top.
This time is no exception.
After receiving the ball, he dribbled the ball forward. After crossing the center line, he passed the ball directly, trying to pass the ball to forward Palacio who was running in front to receive the ball.
However, his intention to pass the ball was seen through by Jay Adams, who took a step forward in time, got stuck in the passing route, raised his foot and intercepted the flying football.
At the same time, Adams saw the opponent's midfielder Sheppard approaching him, so he did not stop the ball and control it himself, but directly blocked the ball to his nearby right back teammate Josh Lawler.
Seeing this, Shepard quickly turned to Lawler.
After Lawler caught the ball, he passed the football back to Adams.
By this time, Adams had gotten rid of Shepard's pressing and came to a relatively loose space, where he could stop the ball and turn around calmly.
After turning around, Adams saw Pete Williams in front of him and passed the football up.
Bernard, who just made a mistake in passing the ball, pounced on Williams, preparing to redeem himself, cut off the football, and then launch a counterattack directly in the frontcourt.
And Williams devoted all his attention to the football, as if he didn't notice what was happening behind him at all...
"Be careful!" John in the stands couldn't help but exclaimed when he saw this scene.
But his voice was completely drowned in the continuous singing and shouting at the scene, like a pebble thrown into the huge sea, unable to stir up even the smallest wave.
John was doing well. At this moment, the other Leeds City fans around him had their eyes wide open, their mouths slightly opened, looking at the stadium in horror, but they were completely speechless.
Under their collective gaze, Williams retreated to face the football, but turned suddenly forward after the football rolled over!
He didn't catch the ball, but passed the football in front of him, and at the same time used his body to block Bernard from the other side!
When Bernard saw that he was about to miss, he quickly stretched out his foot to hook Williams.
He didn't intend to steal the ball and the football had already been passed. He just wanted to foul and kick Williams down. Leeds City's offense would not be able to start.
But as if he expected Bernard to do this, Williams jumped up while turning around, just in time to avoid Bernard's feet!
Then he successfully completed his turn and ran towards the center line to chase the ball!
"Nice turn! Williams!!"
While chasing the ball, Williams looked up and looked ahead and found Hulay at the front, rushing towards the Stan Park Rangers penalty area!
Behind him is Johnson Law, and in front of him in the center is center back Jacobs.
As Jacobs ran back, he looked back in the direction of Williams and didn't seem to pay attention to Hu Lai behind him. Perhaps it was because he knew there was Johnson Law behind him, so he felt more at ease.
In Williams' eyes, it was like there was a passing line marked by a dotted line, which bypassed Jacobs and reached the huge space in front of Hulay.
If he can pass the football there, Hulay will directly face goalkeeper Lemos, which is a one-man attack!
When he thought of this, Williams had already caught up with the football. He lowered his head to confirm where the football was, then directly raised his right leg... and passed the ball diagonally!
The football kicked out by him flew forward quickly, drawing a very obvious arc on the court, and then fell to the ground in front of Jacobs. The latter tried to directly tackle and destroy the football during the chase, but he could
He couldn't touch the ball!
Empty!
The football almost brushed past his toes and turned towards the... space behind him!
"Wonderful long ball! Extremely accurate! Beautiful!"
"Jacobs missed it! He missed it!"
The moment Jacobs missed the tackle, Hu Lai seemed to predict that Jacobs would not be able to touch the ball, and suddenly sped forward!
Johnson Law, who was originally behind him, was still waiting for the situation on Jacobs' side. When he saw that the latter had not tackled the ball and wanted to speed up, Hu Lai had already rushed about five meters away from him!
"Hu Lai!! Hu Lai!! Single sword!"
Huge boos rang out over Stan Park Stadium, which had been noisy for a moment since the start of the game...
Amid the boos, Stan Park Rangers goalkeeper Lemos decisively abandoned the goal and attacked, rushing out to fight Hulay, who was now on his own!
Boy, don't even think about it!
Lemos lowered his center of gravity and stared at Hu Lai, trying to find clues from his running rhythm, leg swing, and movement of his body's center of gravity to determine what Hu Lai would do next.
At this moment, Hu Lai caught up with the ball passed by Williams. He leaned slightly to the left and naturally swung his right leg forward while running. There was no general movement of accumulating power before shooting. It seemed that
It seemed like he was trying to pull the ball to the left past Lemos.
So Lemos' body center of gravity also turned that way, and at the same time he quickly lowered his body, trying to wait for Hu Lai to pull the football over, and then immediately move the ball away with his hands to complete this single-handed defense...
But at this moment, Lemos suddenly saw that when Hu Lai's right foot touched the ball, he did not pull the ball, but shook his ankle!
He rubbed the football with his toes!
The football just flew diagonally above the shoulder of Lemos who was attacking without any warning...
Remus' outstretched hand was in vain, and he could only kneel half on the ground, turning around and looking behind him.
Hu Lai ran past him on the other side, turned his head and took a look, then turned straight towards the corner flag area and parted ways with the shot football.
The football falls from the air to the ground, bounces once and then rushes towards the goal.
Hu Lai strode like a meteor and jumped into the air after accelerating.
When the football flew into Stan Park Rangers' goal, he turned 180 degrees in the air and swung down his hands folded on his chest!
The football was eventually caught by the net and fell into the goal.
Hu Lai landed, his legs firmly planted on the turf.
"Hu Lai!! Beautiful!! Amazing!! This kick was light and freehand, lifting the weight with ease! He drew a rainbow in front of the Stan Park Rangers goal! As graceful as a giant, as graceful as a swimming dragon!! Leeds City is conceding the ball
The score was evened after six minutes! And this was Hu Lai’s first shot in this game!!”