Chapter 073 The look of deja vu
The football was sent to Liu Ruofan's feet on the right side. Facing Bai Jiajun who was approaching quickly, Liu Ruofan, who changed to the right forward in the second consecutive game, leaned forward with his upper body and quickly took a small step to the left front. The whole movement looked like he wanted to use the speed to break through to the bottom line. His fake move successfully forced Bai Jiajun, who was rushing up, to pause for a moment.
Facing the rising star who is eight years younger than him, the current main left defender of Shenhua team, Bai Jiajun, did not dare to be careless at all. While slightly slowing down the speed of pressing up, his body began to consciously move towards the left sideline, preventing the opponent from easily using speed to break through to the bottom line.
A defender who is only 1.65 meters tall, it is impossible to gain a foothold in the cruel professional league without any special points: make a judgment in advance, and then quickly seize the advantageous defensive position on the field. For defenders who are proficient in this, this will bring twice the result with half the effort - just like the piece that fell in a key position in the enemy's hinterland that blocks all the opponent's life paths.
This is also the biggest advantage of Bai Jiajun being able to play as the team's main central defender in the game. He was known as Trex's "Canavaro", once helped the National Games win the gold medal in the men's football event in the 2009 National Games. From the quarter-finals to the semi-finals, and then to the finals, the National Games' defense line did not lose a goal in three knockout matches. Among them, the game against the host SD National Games in the semi-finals was the most eye-catching. Under his one-on-one defense, Yu Liang, a high center forward with an opponent's height of 1.90 meters, shots in the 90-minute game time were zero!
There is no doubt that every time this "one-on-one" confrontation victory, a huge satisfaction after the adrenaline surge brought by the confrontation between men, will allow players who "sweep their opponents" to gain greater self-confidence!
This also makes Bai Jiajun, who is now re-arranged by the head coach to the left back position he is most familiar with, and his cooperation with Cao Yunding, the former teammate of East Asia. After all, in the position of the central defender, his height is obviously at a disadvantage. In the Chinese Super League, especially when opponents often buy foreign forwards, this disadvantage in defending high-altitude balls will be infinitely amplified under the targeted tactical arrangement of the opponents' coaches!
Sharp prediction, fierce defensive style, and background from the Genbao system made Bai Jiajun quickly become the darling of Shenhua fans. He cooperated with Cao Yunding, who also came from the Genbao system. Last season, Shenhua was able to finally defeat his city rival Shanghai SIPG to win the FA Cup championship, which was an indelible contribution to the left duo!
Taking advantage of Bai Jiajun's momentary hesitation, Liu Ruofan quickly passed the ball across the middle, and ran over to meet Qiu Hao. Following him was Sun Shilin, the middle midfielder of Shenhua's first team. When he observed that Qiu Hao, who was defending the ball with his right foot, turned to the left while turning his body, as if he wanted to dribble the ball directly from the middle between Bai Jiajun and left center defender Eddie to the bottom line.
This breakthrough timing can be said to be quite accurate. It happened that the left guard Bai Jiajun was attracted to the wing by Liu Ruofan. The left central defender Eddie was just pressed back to the penalty area because of defending Lin Tao. There seemed to be a defensive vacuum between the two defenders, and this short moment seemed to be keenly captured by Qiu Hao!
Sun Shilin, who judged his next move from Qiu Hao's actions, almost responded in the next moment. In his first season after joining SSH Shenhua, he quickly became the team's main midfielder - Guarin, the organization, Sun Shilin's main defense, and a combination of Chinese and Western double midfielders successfully helped SSH Shenhua win the FA Cup championship of the season from strong teams such as Guangzhou Evergrande, SIPG, BJ Guoan and JS Suning.
Sun Shilin, who responded quickly, pulled Qiu Hao's jersey very little. With the pulling force, he quickly rushed forward and successfully blocked Qiu Hao's inside line where he wanted to break through to the bottom line. In this way, even if he successfully broke through to the bottom line, all he could do was to pass it. As for whether it was possible to pass the ball to the middle, at least in Sun Shilin's opinion, there was no such possibility at all.
However, Sun Shilin, who completed the backup defense, felt a little strange, because Qiu Hao's previous turn to the left seemed to be a little slower. If this were not the case, perhaps he would still be half a position behind the opponent, rather than being completely repaired and defended like now.
Almost in the next second, Qiu Hao gave the answer!
Qiu Hao, who turned a little slow in Sun Shilin's eyes, was pulled by the jersey, and the speed of turning left was obviously slowed down a little. However, just as Sun Shilin successfully got stuck in the inside line where Qiu Hao broke through to the bottom line, Qiu Hao's left-turning body unexpectedly stopped and began to turn right in a very short time. This was a fake move that was unexpected to Sun Shilin. Of course, this level of fake move is not enough to get rid of him, who started as a defense.
Sun Shilin, who was 1.78 meters tall, was quick and agile. After Qiu Hao exposed his true intentions, Shenhua's first team's midfielder quickly turned left. His height was not high, and he would not cause a center of gravity imbalance. However, because it was an emergency second reaction, the speed this time was a few points faster than the previous time...
If Sun Shilin was at Qiu Hao's outside line, not the inside line, he would see Qiu Hao turn twice, and the football under his feet never moved. Only Qiu Hao's right foot moved quickly on the left and right sides of the football. Sun Shilin's left turn just violated the biggest taboo of defenders on the football field - using his back to face the offensive players, even in a moment, it would be enough for the defenders to pay a serious price!
Just when Sun Shilin turned left and wanted to block Qiu Hao from leading the route in front of the penalty area, Qiu Hao's right foot returned to the inside of the right foot when Liu Ruofan passed the ball. His figure turned from the right side to the left again. However, this time, after two consecutive realistic fake moves, Qiu Hao's speed of turning suddenly accelerated, and his right foot moved the ball forward...
At this moment, a black figure rushed out from the slant. The slightly larger football was kicked out of the boundary by a big foot by the visitor, and landed far away outside the barbed wire that isolated the other areas of the training base of the training ground.
After clearing the ball's big feet, the opponent's player turned around and laughed at Qiu. The teeth looked particularly white against the complexion of his skin.
Eddie Francis!
Qiu Hao felt familiar with the eager look on the opponent's players' faces!
Chapter completed!