Chapter 41: Chu Zhongtian's Answer Sheet(1/2)
※※※"Valencia shrank in his own penalty area and did not come out... Such a performance was really surprising. Originally, everyone thought they would witness a strong dialogue at the Bernabeu and see a wonderful game. Unexpectedly, Valencia's performance was disappointing..." The radio commentator of the pro-Real Madrid criticized Valencia's approach.
They definitely don't really say this from the perspective of a neutral.
Everyone knows that if you don’t want to fail, then don’t come out to fight against Real Madrid, as that will only make Real Madrid “successful”. There are more than 20 minutes left before the end of the first half. It is correct to not be able to defend at this time, and do not leave enough space for Real Madrid. As long as the score difference is not too large, there is hope of turning the table in the second half. If the opponent gets two goals in the first half, there is no chance... This is a very correct approach, but for the benefit of Real Madrid, the commentator of the pro-Real Madrid still has to "talk freely".
Chu Zhongtian knew that Valencia's approach was correct. The problem was that he now stood opposite Valencia. If Valencia was right, then Real Madrid would be difficult to deal with. If Valencia was confused, Real Madrid could reap the benefits.
Chu Zhongtian has to find a way to make the situation better for Real Madrid.
Valencia has obviously studied Real Madrid. His performance in the past season has proved that Real Madrid's continuous impact is very strong, but they lack control of rhythm. Generally speaking, Real Madrid's characteristic is speed. So they keep using speed to attack their opponents throughout the game. The players' running distance is very large and the physical strength requirements are also high. Therefore, as the league progresses, Real Madrid's performance becomes unstable in the final stage.
As long as Valencia can hold its own defense line, guard against the dead and prevent Real Madrid from rushing into the penalty area, it can still be done without conceding the ball for 20 minutes.
Although Real Madrid has Alonso, he lacks a master like Xavi who controls the rhythm. Alonso is still not at this point, so he can only assist Xavi in the Spanish national team, but cannot replace Xavi.
Obviously they have not studied the recent Real Madrid. They not only have their own Xavi, but also Xavi's enhanced version...※※※ Chu Zhongtian tried several methods and found that it was not possible. Valencia defended the penalty area, and he had no good solutions.
The football passed in was cleaned up by Valencia. Since they had accumulated a large number of heavy troops at the front of the penalty area to guard, it was very difficult for Real Madrid to attack within the opponent's 30-meter area. Although they could still play on the side, after crossing the side, after the cross from the side, the lack of high points and centers who could be strong in front of the goal, the effect of doing so was not very good.
c. Ronaldo tried a long shot, but he hit high.
Ronaldo scored a goal today, so he had a very strong desire to shoot and wanted to score twice.
However, Valencia's players are very careful to prevent his long-range shots. In Real Madrid, C. Ronaldo must be the player with the most shots in the team. He will shoot at any time and anywhere, whether outside the penalty area or inside the penalty area.
Chu Zhongtian looked at it and felt that there were not many ways to organize the pass.
What else do you have to use to break the deadlock?
A set piece?
c. Ronaldo is also a free kick expert, but... a good positioning ball is not so easy to get. If you are too deliberate, it will cause the referee to be alert. If you waste time, you will also seem particularly incompetent.
Chu Zhongtian decided to give Valencia some surprises.
What is an accident?
They would never have thought they would do this...※※※ Chu Zhongtian raised his hand to ask his teammate for the ball.
Khedira passed the football over, and Chu Zhongtian took two steps and passed it out again. This time he passed it to Ozil. Ozil had no good idea. His movements were very flexible and his footwork was also very delicate, but facing the penalty area of Valencia, which almost turned into a wall, no matter how flexible the body and delicate footwork were, the opponent did not give him the time and space to use his footwork.
Ozil walked around and saw that there was no chance, so he passed the football back.
When he was in Germany, Ozil showed a very rare quality for young players. That is, he is very conscious of the general principles and never blindly rushes forward when there is no chance. He rarely shows off his footwork, always considers the overall situation, is good at passing football to teammates with better positions, rather than force himself.
He passed the football back to Chu Zhongtian.
However, Chu Zhongtian did not make any more noises, but directly swung a long shot!
"Thirty-four meters...long shot!!"
The commentator was shocked, and he didn't expect Chu Zhongtian to shoot directly from such a distance. He did not stop the ball, but shot directly against Ozil's pass.
The football flew straight towards the goal, without any arc in the middle, and even the football itself did not rotate.
But the football shot like this is amazingly fast and has a very powerful force.
Valencia's goalkeeper Cesar originally planned to hug him directly, but when the football flew into the penalty area, he suddenly changed his mind. Because he found that the ball was coming with great momentum and was so fast, he probably couldn't hug him directly... He quickly changed his palms and fists and hit him directly.
With the "bang", even the noisy stands could be heard clearly.
The football was beaten far away by Cesar, but he fell to the ground and rolled over several times before he stopped. Although he was a little embarrassed, he finally did not let the football fly into the goal... "Oh!!" A burst of exclamation came from the stands.
The commentator also exclaimed: "What a powerful shot!"
"By the way, if you break the intensive defense, you must strengthen your long shot like this!" Some commentators thought that Real Madrid had finally found a way.
Cesar, who had climbed up from the ground, looked at Chu Zhongtian in the distance and shook his hand. He just hit the football with his fist, which made his wrist a little painful. The ball was indeed very powerful, so it was correct for him to choose to play it instead of hugging it directly. If he hugged it directly, he was afraid that the ball would lose his hand.
※※※ Chu Zhongtian's long-range shooting performance has not ended. His solution is simple and crude, which is to use frequent long-range shots to break Valencia's defense. If Cesar cannot resist, he will fly directly into the goal. If other Valencia players push out the defense because they are afraid of long-range shots, there will be more space behind them, and the shot will be turned into a pass, which can be fatal.
This method is not complicated, but it works very well.
Three minutes later, Chu Zhongtian made a comeback. This time, Kaka suddenly cut inside and passed the ball horizontally to his feet, and then continued to break into the penalty area.
Valencia's defender focused on Kaka, thinking that he would play two-for-one with Chu Zhongtian. Because Chu Zhongtian's previous role was such a midfield commander who sent a deadly first pass at the front of the penalty area.
Unexpectedly, Chu Zhongtian made a slight adjustment after receiving the ball and shot again!
This time it was twenty-five meters away from the goal.
The football flew straight towards the goal at a not-high height.
Cesar almost attracted Kaka's attention just now. Just when he was about to move the center of gravity to stop Kaka, Chu Zhongtian shot again.
He quickly adjusted his center of gravity again and turned sideways to play the football that had already flown in front of him again.
If he was a little half a second later, the football might have flew directly into the goal from his fist... After being fucked twice in a row, Cesar did not dare to be careless.
When Chu Zhongtian received the football in front of the penalty area again, he did not look at the others, but stared at Chu Zhongtian and prepared to take him to shoot him in a long shot.
Chu Zhongtian decisively shot again from a long shot!
This time the football hit Valencia defender Costa, who was blocking the eye, and created a change of line, deflected in front of the goal, and flew out of the baseline.
Corner kick.
Although there was no goal, Chu Zhongtian's three long shots posed a threat, which had aroused Valencia's vigilance.
After the corner kick was taken, C. Ronaldo headed the ball from the front point, but was saved by Cesar.
Not long after, Real Madrid reorganized the attack. Chu Zhongtian shot from a distance again.
"Chu! Chu-Chu!!"
This time it was slightly off.
"Oh--it's a pity, it's only a little bit off!"
"It's so dangerous! Real Madrid almost expanded the score, and Chu Zhongtian almost scored his first goal for Real Madrid..." He Ping sighed with regret. He almost blurted out the "ball in" just now and shouted out.
"But this may be a good phenomenon, because Chu began to increase his shot, which shows that he has a strong desire to score..."
This is of course a good phenomenon for Chinese fans, and they are all looking forward to Chu Zhongtian's goal.
However, in the eyes of the Spanish commentator, this may not be the case. Some people think that Chu Zhongtian's approach is a willful behavior that ignores the overall situation of the team. They have obviously classified Chu Zhongtian and C. Ronaldo together, both of which are selfish and ignoring the team.
In order to increase persuasion, they also gave Chu Zhongtian analyses the reason for his doing so.
"It seems that Real Madrid's anxiety has affected the entire team. Even the team's commander Chu has lost the necessary calmness and frequent long shots... This is definitely not the way a midfielder should choose... Didn't he see Kaka who raised his hand to ask for the ball on the side and Ozil who was interspersed in front of him?"
※※※ "What's going on? Is this his solution?" Caranca spread his hands and said to Mourinho. "This method is too simple, right? And it may not be effective... Ronaldo can also shoot long-range shots, and Kaka is also a good player in long-range shots. But they can't break Valencia's goal like this..."
Mourinho shrugged: "Look on slowly."
※※※ Of course, Chu Zhongtian wouldn't have missed it. In fact, he saw it, but he deliberately did not pass it. He just wanted to use long shots to create such a psychological illusion for Valencia's players - every time he gets the ball at this position, he may shoot long shots, and these four shots have proved that his long shot skills are enough to create a threat to Valencia.
At that time, the people in Valencia will not not pounce on it. As long as they come up, there will be a chance.
"Be careful of his long shot!!" Cesar just jumped to save, but did not touch the football. Fortunately, the football flew out against the goal post, which made him sweat.
The first thing he did when he got up from the ground was to loudly remind his teammates.
Chu Zhongtian heard Cesar's shouting, and he lowered his head and laughed.
※※※In the 39th minute, Real Madrid organized an attack again. Although Chu Zhongtian "wasted" four opportunities in the attack just now, he always chose a simple and rough long shot as soon as he approached the opponent's penalty area, rather than slowly organizing the attack and patiently looking for opportunities.
But as the core of his team, he still gained the most basic trust of his teammates - he appeared in every link of Real Madrid's offense. It was really difficult for you to bypass him and not pass the ball to him... It was still Kaka, he passed the football to Chu Zhongtian. Although Chu Zhongtian had made him run for nothing before, he still sent the football over. He always seemed to think that Chu Zhongtian had some solutions, but what was it? He didn't know.
But he had helped himself find his state again, so this matter was naturally no longer a problem.
Kaka believed in Chu Zhongtian and passed the football over. But it made the spectators sigh- "He can obviously pass it to Ozil!"
"It's passed to Chu again? Do you want him to shoot the football directly?"
"Real Madrid's time was wasted on this meaningless long shot... Could it be that Chu also replaced with goal anxiety like Ronaldo?"
After passing the ball, Kaka continued to cut in the sideline and ran into the penalty area. Regardless of whether Chu Zhongtian would pass the ball to him or not, he had to complete this set of actions. Even if Chu Zhongtian really didn't pass the ball, he could open Valencia's defense and provide Chu Zhongtian with a chance to shoot - if he still wanted to shoot... Chu Zhongtian did not pass the ball, and he stopped the football directly!
"Be careful of his long shot..." Cesar pointed at Chu Zhongtian and shouted.
Before he finished speaking, he saw Chu Zhongtian sending the football out with his left foot!
At the same time, Kaka happened to pass through Valencia's defense line in order to prevent Chu Zhongtian from shooting!
"He walked through!"
"Pass! Beautiful!"
"Two through one!"
Everyone was caught off guard by this change.
Valencia's defenders turned around and saw Kaka behind them. They didn't even go back to chase them back, but raised their arms to signal the referee to the Brazilian offside... How is this possible?
The moment Chu Zhongtian stopped the ball, he created time for Kaka, and he could reach the right place. If he passed it right away, Kaka would definitely not be offside, but he might not be able to receive the football pass. Just as he passed through Valencia's defense line, Chu Zhongtian was passing the football out, not offside!
Mourinho was still sitting in the coaching seat, but the assistant coach next to him was already excited. He leaned out, left the seat with his butt, ready to rush out to cheer with his arms open.
"Kaka!"
"Kaka——"
As soon as Kaka received the ball, the commentator became excited as if he was resurrected.
To be continued...