Chapter 60 The blood is burning! This is football!
Author: You want Cayenne
Chapter 60 The blood is burning! This is football!
There are still 5 minutes left before the official start.
The smell in the visiting team's locker room is still bad.
The starting players of the Bucks Steel Horns can't wait to leave the locker room right now and line up in the tunnel.
But Coach Carter had a calm face and was not affected by the harsh environment in the locker room at all.
"The Corsairs have an obvious home field advantage, and their fighting is very fierce, so our players with the ball must pay attention to protecting the ball at their feet and not cause their own mistakes due to their fighting."
"In addition, our basic strategy in the first half was to play defensive counterattack, and our formation was 4231."
As soon as these words came out, the team members all looked at each other.
When they usually train in the team, the most common formation is 442, and the most familiar is the 442 diamond positioning. Although they have also practiced the 4231 formation, the number of times is too few.
Coach Carter said: "Who is that - Bol, you and Bread play as double midfielders."
"Yes! Coach!" A burly sparring team player said excitedly.
Coach Carter arranged: "Boll, your mission, you don't have to worry about anything in the whole process, just keep an eye on No. 10 Albert on the opposite side. Wherever he goes, you go. If he goes to the sidelines to replenish water, you have to go."
Go and pee! Do you understand?"
Bol put his hands behind his back and said solemnly: "Yes, coach! I promise to target that bastard to death!"
Carter then said to the temporary worker: "Temporary worker, your task is not to attack, but to defend with all your strength. In the first half, if your left side is penetrated, you will die!"
The temporary worker trembled and said, "Coach, I will work hard."
"Work hard? Is hard work enough?" Carter sneered, "What I want is to work hard! I want you to spare no effort in your physical fitness in the first half and run until you die!"
The temporary worker gritted his teeth and said, "Yes! Coach! I will work hard!"
Carter turned to Bread again and said: "Bread, you have to always help the left wing. I don't need you to assist. You just need to see the space behind Boll on the left wing."
Bread nodded heavily, "Yes, coach."
Carter continued: "Remember, the focus of our tactics in the first half is defense, and then counterattack! As long as the ball hits the 30-meter danger zone in our half, don't hesitate to shoot wide to the opposite half.
Let the frontcourt players fight for their own opportunities."
"If we can get the ball, the attack in the frontcourt should be centered around the water gate."
"Minato, your role in the first half is No. 9 and a half. I will give you 80% of the right to fire. If you have the chance, you can shoot boldly."
Minato said happily: "Yes! Coach!"
No. 9 and a half is a very awesome position.
On the football field, some numbers have clear positional attributes. For example, No. 1 is definitely the number of the main goalkeeper, No. 2 and No. 3 are basically the numbers of the main full-back, and No. 4 and No. 5 are the typical central defender numbers.
No. 8 is the number of the defensive midfielder in the middle of the midfield who is responsible for connecting front and back. No. 9 and No. 11 are the numbers of the forwards responsible for scoring goals. No. 9 is more focused on the center forward, while No. 10 is generally the core of the frontcourt organizer.
, attacking midfielder, and also has the characteristic number of "the most awesome person in the team".
Normally when playing pick-up football, the players from the two teams don't know each other, but as long as they fight the opponent's No. 10 and have sex, then there's nothing wrong with it.
As for No. 9 and a half, it does not refer to the jersey number, but a frontcourt free agent position between No. 9 and No. 10.
The number 9 and a half is the shadow forward. Players in this position need to have the ability to score goals as a forward, but at the same time they can drop back to the midfield to organize offense.
The whole team's tactics will revolve around the No. 9 and a half. Even the forwards should try to give the No. 9 and a half the ball if possible.
but……
What made Gu Ran deeply puzzled was that such tactics could be described as "rough".
Logically speaking, this shouldn't be Carter's coaching level. After all, Carter is the coach who can take the Southampton school team to the top thirty-two high schools in the country.
Could it be that Carter wanted to rely on such a defensive strategy to draw against the powerful Corsairs?
To be able to tie the opponent on the road is actually a big victory for the Bucks Steel Horns.
But the problem is that such a crude tactic may not be possible to defend, let alone score a goal.
Gu Ran couldn't help but frown slightly.
I heard Coach Carter say to Glider again: "Glider, you have to try your best to move as much as possible in the opponent's penalty area, open up as many spaces as possible, shoot when you are sure, and hand the ball over if you are not sure, just like what we practiced before."
"Yes, coach!" The glider nodded in response.
"Also, Rusty Stripe!" Carter said solemnly: "You guys have to defend me honestly today and help the temporary worker on your left to fill the gap behind you."
Rusty Strip patted his chest and said: "Coach, don't worry, as long as I'm here, the defense will be fine! Coach, can we go to the players' tunnel? It's too uncomfortable to stay here!"
Other players also nodded in agreement with Rusty's statement.
Coach Carter looked around and said coldly: "This is unbearable? Do you feel that coming to Manchester this time is aggrieved? Do you feel angry? Do you feel that you have been treated unfairly?"
The players all lowered their heads and responded silently.
Carter sneered: "That's right."
"Competitive games are never as glamorous as what you see on TV."
"It's full of hostility, full of discrimination, and full of all kinds of dirty tricks!"
"You feel aggrieved, angry, and unfair. This is totally meaningless."
"Your grievances cannot change anything."
"The only thing you can do is to go on the field and act like a real man, use your body to collide with your opponent, use your cooperation to block your opponent, and use your will to defeat your opponent!
"
"This is the spirit of the Bucks Steel Horns!"
"You have to act like a real man and stomp your opponent's face in front of their fans and make them realize that we are not to be trifled with!"
"Otherwise, you have no right to complain!"
Carter's voice was not high-pitched, but every word he said was loud and sonorous.
The eyes of all the players present were red, and their fists were clenching.
Gu Ran tried hard to control his surging heartbeat and secretly warned himself:
Don’t be the second best, don’t be the second best…
Coaching at PUA…
Coach Carter's sharp eyes passed over each player's face, and his voice suddenly rose:
"Tell me, are you cowards? Are you cowards from Southampton?!"
"No! Coach! We are not!"
The entire visiting team's locker room roared loudly!
Every Bucks Steel Horns player is murderous!
Carter continued to ask loudly: "Tell me, did you come to Manchester just to have lunch with them?"
"No! Coach! We are not!"
"Tell me, did you come to Manchester just to lose to those bastards who humiliated you so that they can comfortably enter the top 16?"
"NO!!! COACH!!! WE ARE NOT!!!"
Carter nodded with satisfaction, "Very good - then prove it to me!"
Captain Bread stood up, raised his arms and shouted: "Bucks Steel Horns! Fuck them!"
"Fuck them! Fuck them!!!"
The roar of the Bucks Steel Horns players almost lifted the roof of the locker room, and even the iron lockers buzzed!
...It's too middle-class.
Gu Ran was complaining in his heart, and at the same time his blood was boiling, and he roared along with the whole team!
The blood is rushing wildly in the blood vessels, and the adrenaline is soaring, uncontrollable!
This is football!
The two teams walked out of their respective locker rooms at the same time and lined up in the tunnel, waiting to enter.
The home team, the Corsairs, stood on the left side of the players' tunnel, and the visiting team, the Bucks and Steelhorns, stood on the right side of the players' tunnel. Although it was an amateur game, everything was conducted in accordance with the formal procedures of a professional game.
The referees appointed by the English Football Association were in place and led the starting players of the two teams onto the green field.
The Manchester students at the scene were waving flags and shouting wildly!