Chapter 86 Fame with one goal?
Yan Min was also very anxious. After he came on the court, he had no other performance to praise except for that cross.
No matter what expectations others have for his appearance, or if they don't have any expectations... Yan Min has requirements for himself in his heart. He is unwilling to end his first appearance in Dortmund in such a mediocre way.
He remembered what Zhou Yi said to him on weekdays: "It doesn't matter if there is no chance, just wait patiently. The key is not whether there is a chance, but whether you can seize it after the opportunity comes. If you want to get more opportunities to play, you must seize any opportunity!"
For him, isn’t it just an opportunity that must be seized?
So he was very anxious.
Before, the football fell to his feet. If there was no particularly good opportunity, he would choose to pass the football out, and he would not want to leave a unique impression.
But now seeing that there is little time left for the game and his teammates are at a loss, he is a little reluctant to pass the football easily.
In the 88th minute of the game, he received the ball from the left line.
Yan Min has a label of "fast speed" because his speed is really fast, and he also likes to do movements while running at high speed. However, in the final stage of the game, Arsenal retreated from defense at all, compressing the space to the limit. It seems that Yan Min's speed is useless.
But in fact, Yan Min's fast speed is different from Aubameyang's fast speed. Yan Min's starting speed is very fast, but he is better at various emergency stops and direction changes, as well as precise control of football in this emergency stop changes - this was what he practiced day after day at the Chongming Island training base in order to relieve his longing for his hometown parents.
When he was getting the ball on the sideline, there was Cuba three meters away from him, and he was rushing forward from the ribs. If Yan Min wanted to pass the ball, he could pass the ball to him. Almost the same distance, in front of Yan Min, there was Arsenal's right-back Sanya, who blocked Yan Min. If Yan Min wanted to dribble the ball directly, in such a small space, he would almost hit the ball and the football would fall to Sanya's feet.
For some players, when the defensive players are ready to go two or three meters away from them, they will not choose to drive the ball and break through, but will pass the ball out.
Yan Min did this before.
But that was just because he didn't want to make himself too independent after the first time on the court, not because he was worried about failure in breakthroughs, nor because he did not have the ability to break through.
Now, compared with the possible defeats the team has encountered, his personal image is not worth worrying about...
It just so happened that Kuba's running position attracted Sarnia's attention, and he turned his head slightly and went to Kuba's action with the corner of his eyes.
Yan Min keenly captured this opportunity. The moment when Sarnia turned his head, he suddenly turned the football horizontally into the inside line and wanted to cut in!
Of course, Sarnia also noticed the situation on Yan Min's side. Seeing that he was moving, he quickly focused his attention on him again and followed him.
But as soon as he moved his center of gravity, Yan Min shook his right foot and buckled the football he had stranded to the bottom line!
For those players with tall and long legs, it is rare to do two completely different leg movements so quickly, after all, inertia is placing there.
But for Yan Min, there is nothing difficult. He is not tall, 1.76 meters tall, of course, his legs are not long, and his weight is not heavy. This makes him have very small inertia and small strides, which provides him with a natural advantage for so fast and frequent ball control.
He just used his right foot to tread the football in the middle, and then he used the inside of his right foot to tweak the football to the bottom line.
At the same time, he shook his whole body and chased the football.
Sarnia was a little confused. He was going to block Dortmund's No. 13 player from cutting inside, but why did the opponent go to the bottom line just after he came to his senses?
Due to inertia, his body stiffened a little.
It was just this that gave Yan Min the chance to get rid of him!
When he turned around, Yan Min was already heading towards the bottom line like a rabbit!
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"Good ball, Yan Min! Beautiful change of direction!" After more than ten minutes of silence, He Ping became excited again.
Yan Min, who was leaning down, swung his two short legs quickly, but his speed was not slow at all. He quickly caught up with the football. However, at this time he faced another problem - because of Kuba's forward insertion, the positions of the two seemed to overlap... In other words, they might collide!
If my players collided and lost this offensive opportunity, it would be awkward!
Kuba also realized this problem. He was thinking that Yan Min would pass the football to him. Unexpectedly, Yan Min chose to break through with little chance. Now Kuba's own running position is a bit embarrassing...
So he quickly braked and slowed down.
Just as he slowed down, Yan Min rushed into the penalty area from front of him. If he slowed down a little later, the two would undoubtedly collide!
But this is not necessarily a bad thing. Because Kuba's emergency stop slowing down, Yan Min blocked Arsenal's defensive players, allowing Yan Min to rush into the penalty area without any interference!
"Yan Min has entered!" He Ping increased his voice, but he didn't shout out more, as if he was afraid that he would interfere with Yan Min's next move.
After entering the penalty area, you must be very careful and calm, but at the same time make a decision quickly. The space in the penalty area is much narrower than outside. The defensive players will look very cautious, but once they make moves, they will be more accurate and decisive, so the success rate of breakthroughs in the penalty area is the lowest.
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Seeing Yan Min dribbling the ball into the penalty area from Kuba, everyone on the coach's table stood up, leaning forward, leaning forward, looking towards Arsenal's penalty area.
Not only them, the Dortmund players on the bench also ran out and stared nervously at Arsenal's goal.
Yan Min, who had already entered the penalty area and approached the bottom line, also encountered an interruption from Arsenal - Arsenal's central defender Mertesak ran towards him with his long legs!
Yan Min swung his left foot and made a gesture of crossing. Mertesak immediately came over, intending to stop his crossing.
But Yan Min was just a fake move. After his left foot fell down, he pushed the ball to the right on the inside of his foot!
At the same time, he stopped urgently, and Mertsack could only watch him, and then slid past him, a little desperate...
Yan Min, who stopped and dodged Mertsack, quickly took a step to the right and caught up with the football.
The advantages of being small are small inertia, fast start acceleration, and agile body.
For some players, once the brake is stopped and then they want to start, they are like an old truck, slow. Yan Min is agile like a mechanical mouse...
He caught up with the football with one step, and then swung his right foot!
In the eyes of many people, it would be better if he broke through and crossed, so the responsibility for scoring or not has nothing to do with him. His work has been completed and has been done well.
But Yan Min did not choose this seemingly relaxed path.
He swung his right foot and rubbed the football inside.
The football drew a very obvious arc and headed straight to the back corner of the goal!
Arsenal goalkeeper Szczesni was originally blocking the near corner. When he saw the football flew to the back corner, he quickly rushed to the side and wanted to stop it, but Yan Min's step was very big. Perhaps because he considered the movements that Szczesni might make, so Szczesni did not encounter the football!
"Yan Min... shoot directly!?" He Ping was a little surprised. He shot directly at such a small angle, even if he shot with his right foot, there was a great risk...
If the ball is not scored, wouldn’t he have to take the blame for the final loss?
At this moment, he could only pray in his heart that the football flew into the goal... and staged a good show of becoming famous with one goal!
But He Ping's prayer was not heard. After the football bypassed Szczesny, it drew a large arc toward the back corner of the goal, but this arc was too big... If you really want to enter, you might have to surpass the arc of the super free kick that Robert Carlos scored in the Four Nations Invitational Tournament...
The football bypassed everyone in front of the goal, and then flew out of the bottom line from the back post...
The ball didn't go in!
"Ah!!" exclaimed the British commentator. "Arsenal escaped!"
"The ball... went out! The young Dortmund No. 13, Yan Min! His previous performance was perfect, but the last shot... Maybe his choice was a bit problematic. If it were a cross to Mark who was circling in front of the goal, would Reus be better?" Marcel Leif also questioned Yan Min when he felt sorry for him.
And this is exactly what He Ping is worried about. If Dortmund did not win this game, Yan Min's shot in the 89th minute would definitely be taken out by people and said it carefully.
Of course this is not the result He Ping wants to see.
Chapter completed!