Chapter 216 of the text volume, isn’t it just about scoring goals? “Penalty kick?! Penalty kick! Yes, that’s right, it’s a penalty kick! Only twelve minutes into the second half, Leeds City, playing away from home, suffered another defeat.
Blow! Quinn fouled Palacio in the penalty area... It can be seen from the slow motion that his leg did trip Palacio... There is no problem with the penalty!"
With huge cheers, Stan Park Rangers players rushed up to hug Palacio to celebrate winning the penalty kick.
Leeds City players surrounded the referee.
But this penalty is indeed okay. Even if they surrounded the referee, it would not help.
The head coach Tony Clark looked solemn on the sidelines.
He said so much during the halftime break, I feel like this penalty kick is enough to reduce the effect of his words by half...
But what can we do?
Complaining about the referee?
Slamming this as Stan Park Rangers’ home advantage?
Obviously, this is not the referee's problem, his own player did commit a foul.
The Leeds City players on the field quickly realized that nothing would change, and in the end they honestly exited the penalty area and accepted the result.
At this time, Bernard, the captain of Stan Park Rangers, was already standing in front of the penalty spot with the football in his arms, preparing to take the penalty kick.
The cheers above the Stan Park pitch died down slightly, allowing Bernard to gain some peace of mind so he could concentrate on taking the penalty kick.
Soon, with a whistle, Bernard started to take off!
One of Bernard's signature powerful kicks!
Although Leeds City goalkeeper Van de Ven judged the right direction, he still failed to save the penalty kick because the football was flying too fast!
“GOOOOOOOAL!! Harry Bernard!! The decisive penalty! Stan Park Rangers take the lead for the third time in this game!”
After scoring the goal, Bernard did not run wildly to celebrate. Instead, he stood on the penalty spot and waved his fist vigorously to celebrate the goal.
His teammates swarmed him, hugged him, and celebrated wildly in the Leeds penalty area.
Leeds City goalkeeper Van de Ven angrily picked up the football from the goal, threw it to the center circle, then put his hands on his hips and looked helplessly at the Stan Park Rangers players who were celebrating crazily in front of him.
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Brooks on the sidelines did not celebrate the goal with the coaches around him this time, but looked very calm.
He even said to the assistant coach around him: "Don't be too happy, let's see if we will concede the goal immediately after scoring the goal!"
It’s no wonder he was so careful, it really made Leeds City’s performance a bit shadowy in the first half...
The Stan Park Rangers players ended their celebrations, returned to their own half, and the game restarted.
Brooks raised his wrist and looked at his watch. Three minutes had passed since Bernard scored, and Leeds City failed to score this time.
Another three minutes later, Brooks raised his wrist to look at his watch again. The score was still 3:2.
Three minutes and six minutes, which is how long it took Leeds City to equalize twice before.
And now they haven't scored a goal.
It was Stan Park Rangers who had the upper hand.
But Brooks was not completely relieved yet. He still stood on the sidelines with a solemn expression.
Until another four minutes had passed, ten minutes had passed since Bernard's penalty kick, the score was still 3:2, and Leeds City still failed to score.
Brooks felt a little relieved.
Under the high-pressure situation, Leeds City could only rely on long passes or through balls to organize their offense, which greatly reduced their offensive success rate. There were only a handful of opportunities to threaten Stan Park Rangers' defense.
After stabilizing the lead, the next thing to do is to score another goal and expand the lead to two goals.
In this way, the pressure on Stan Park Rangers players will be reduced a lot.
And Leeds City will also lose fighting spirit. After all, they can still catch up if they are one goal behind. How can they catch up if they are two goals behind in the away game?
Thinking of this, Brooks shouted from the sidelines and gestured to the players who were looking at him to continue attacking and pressing. He asked the players not to relax just because they were ahead by one goal, but to continue to implement the tactics formulated before the game.
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I believe that after conceding two goals in the first half, Stan Park Rangers players should also know that facing Leeds City, a one-goal lead is not safe.
It is true that even when being pressed high by Stan Park Rangers, Leeds City are still looking for opportunities to attack forward, although many times their passes look like they are just kicking...
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Ben Grist passed the ball back to his own Pete Williams at the back line.
Williams turned around after receiving the ball. Kamara on the sideline immediately started to advance at high speed. Upon seeing this, Johnson Law turned around and retreated to catch up with Kamara.
Williams did not pass the football when he saw this, but tried to dribble forward himself. Stan Park Rangers midfielders immediately came up to surround him. This was Stan Park Rangers' high pressing tactic.
Midfielder Schneider turned and chased back, while right midfielder David Conlon stepped forward to block Williams.
At the same time that Williams caught the ball, Jay Adams who was nearby immediately started running forward. He went around the side and then turned directly in front of Williams.
After Williams saw his movement, he did not pass the ball immediately. Instead, he made a sudden move to the center, deceiving David Conlon and completely exposing the space behind him.
Then he made a through ball and passed the football to Adams who was running in front.
At this time, Adams was already in an unguarded space.
Upon seeing this, Stan Park Rangers' center back Zach Gordon quickly stepped forward to press. Because of Stan Park's high-pressing strategy, their three lines were pressed very high, and the center backs were basically on the center line.
Jay Adams did not pass the ball immediately after receiving the ball, although winger Farrak Quinn had already come up.
He still controlled the ball and waited a moment, because Williams had not yet reached the position...
At this point, Gordon was allowed to stick to him, and he could only turn around to protect the football. It seemed that there was nothing he could do.
Then he passed the ball to Quinn who came in behind.
At the same time he shouted to Quinn: "Pass forward!"
Even though his back was facing the direction of the attack, before passing the ball, he had already caught a glimpse of Williams running forward at high speed from the corner of his eye before passing the ball, running into the space where Gordon came up!
Since Kamara's forward penetration took away the full-back Lao, there is no need to worry about offside at this time.
Quinn caught the ball and pushed the football diagonally forward, which was the huge space behind Gordon!
“Beautiful coordination!”
As the commentator shouted, Williams accelerated towards the football.
Because Gordon has moved forward, the other central defender Jacobs can only fill in the ribs to defend Williams.
At the same time, Johnson Law, who was originally guarding Kamara on the wing, decisively dropped Kamara and returned to the center, intending to flank Williams with Jacobs.
Gordon sprinted hard to return to defense, and midfielder Bernard also accelerated back to the center back line, acting as a temporary center back, keeping an eye on... Hu Lai.
He did not go to Lorenzo because in his opinion, Hulay, who had scored twice in this game, was obviously a much greater threat than Lorenzo.
Seeing that their team's defense was in trouble, Leeds City's counterattack was quite threatening. The home team fans in the stands immediately used deafening boos to make noise and disrupt the attacking Leeds City players.
When 55,000 fans collectively booed, the stadium instantly turned into a noise hell!
Pete Williams did not lose his composure despite the boos. While chasing the football, he did not forget to turn his head to observe the situation in the middle.
Other players from Stan Park Rangers are quickly returning to defense, running desperately into the penalty area.
He glanced at Hu Lai again, and found that Hu Lai was followed by Bernard, and the synchronization rate between the two reached almost 100%. In all likelihood, the pass would be interrupted by the other party, and the best result might be that he would be entangled. Waiting for Stan
After other Park Rangers players returned to their defensive positions, Leeds City also lost its best opportunity to attack.
He can actually pass the football to the wing to Kamara.
But if you can go to the middle lane, why go to the side lane?
Williams still remembers the arrangements the manager made at half-time.
So after catching up with the football, he swung his left foot and swept the football sideways towards the center!
But it was not passed to Hu Lai in the middle, but to Jay Adams who was inserted in the back!
Jay Adams, who had previously served as a temporary fulcrum, rushed forward after Quinn passed the ball.
At the right moment now!
"Adams!"
After receiving the pass from Pete Williams, he suddenly paused and came to an emergency stop. Then Stan Park Rangers midfielder Matthews Schneider, who was returning to defense, dodged past him!
"nice shot!"
After Jay Adams shook Schneider away, he gently moved the football forward, then raised his right leg and fired from the penalty area line!
The football flew forward quickly against the turf of Stan Park, plowing a shallow ravine.
Goalkeeper Victor Lemos stepped on the ground to pounce, reaching the lower left corner of the goal with one hand!
But before he could get it, the ball went into the goal!
"OOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! OOOOOOOOO!!! Incredible! Oh my God! This is incredible! Leeds City equalized for the third time in this game! This team...
...This team is amazing!" Commentator Cox screamed in the commentary box. "So why are they ranked second in the league? Is it simply because of good luck? Of course not! Look at them here
How many teams can achieve this level of performance in each game? Three times behind, three times equalizer! Stan Park Rangers tried every means but could not kill them!"
Lemos, who fell to the ground, turned his head and saw the football in the goal, his eyes widened.
Captain Bernard turned his head and looked at the goal, and Hu Lai's cheers rang in his ears, which was a Chinese sentence he couldn't understand...
When head coach Brooks saw the ball thrown, he jumped up: "What the hell! What the hell! What is going on?!"
He asked angrily to his coaching bench, but no one on the coaching bench opposite him could give an answer. Most of them had their heads in their hands and sat on the chairs in the coaching bench.
In fact, this time Stan Park Rangers performed better than before. They held on for fifteen minutes after taking the lead, and then were equalized by Leeds City again...
Tony Clark hugged Sam Randall and shouted in his ear: "There's a show, Sam! We've got a show!! This is Stan Park, but we're not afraid of the Rangers!"