After the score became 2-0, Atletico Madrid played more calmly and with ease.
They can retreat slightly, attract Mallorca to attack, and then steal the ball to counterattack.
Even if they knew Atletico Madrid's plan, Mallorca had no choice. After all, they were the ones behind, and they were two goals behind, so they had no choice but to press forward and attack.
In the 35th minute, Mallorca played a good team game. In the end, winger Birrell Kayman dribbled the ball into the left rib of the penalty area and then passed it across the middle. Center Macmillan Fried grabbed it.
Atletico Madrid center back Berkeley Hans made a flying tackle before and shoveled the ball towards the goal.
However, goalkeeper Gregor was in an excellent position, and after falling down, he just blocked Fried's shovel with his belly.
Although Fried didn't stop his foot and hit the goalkeeper, causing Gregor to not get up for a long time, the ball was successfully blocked and kicked out of the sideline by left back Hobbs Alger.
The game was suspended, and the team doctor came in to check and said there was nothing wrong with Gregor.
After a while, Gregor did stand up and was able to continue the game.
If this ball were played in a professional league, McMillan Fried would basically have no problem, but this is a youth team game, and actions that may cause injury are not encouraged, even if it is not your fault.
According to the guiding ideology of the youth league, if McMillan Fried cannot grab the ball, he should not rush to tackle it, but just give up.
But McMillan Fried, who was eager to score, finally made a flying shovel shot, and then couldn't hold back his foot and hit Gregor's stomach, almost injuring Gregor. It was a very dangerous move.
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Therefore, the referee finally gave McMillan Fried a yellow card as a warning.
After the incident in which the goalkeeper was almost injured, the actions and rhythm of both sides slowed down a lot, and there were no very threatening attacks.
In the 44th minute, just when everyone thought the first half was going to end with a score of 2-0, Mallorca made a tacit passing error when passing and cooperating in the frontcourt. Right winger Ford Willie suddenly started and passed along the wing.
Bypassing Atletico Madrid left-back Jamie Matthews, he inserted in front of the wing.
As a result, midfielder Maltz Warner did not understand Willy's intention to move forward, and passed the ball to the position where Willy was standing before. After the ball was passed out, he was surprised to realize that Ford Willy had already started, pushed forward, and then
When I wanted to regret it and chased the ball, it was already too late.
The ball was easily intercepted by Jamie Matthews.
After taking a step forward, he looked up at the frontcourt, and then without waiting for Maltz Warner and Ford Willie to counterattack, he immediately transferred a long diagonal pass and drove the ball to the right side of the frontcourt.
The ball had been on the left just now, causing players from both sides to pile up to one side, and Mallorca also neglected to mark Joan Chen.
At this time, they saw Jamie Matthews transfer the ball to the right with a long pass. Everyone turned around and saw the unguarded Qiao Anchen easily receiving Matthews' pass in the gap on the right.
Pass the ball.
However, the Mallorca players were not too worried, because the position where Joan Chen received the ball was on the right side, not only diagonally opposite the goal, the angle was small, but the distance was also very far, more than 30 meters by visual inspection.
Everyone subconsciously believed that Qiao Anchen would not shoot from such a long distance.
Unexpectedly, after Qiao Anchen unloaded the ball, he looked up and glanced at goalkeeper Clutter Norton, who was standing too far forward in the penalty area. After adjusting a step, he was actually 30 meters away from the goal.
Shot from distance.
With Qiao Anchen's current shooting power, he couldn't hit the world with heavy artillery from 30 meters away. He didn't want to hit the goal with heavy artillery. He just wanted to hang past the goalkeeper who was standing far ahead.
Therefore, Qiao Anchen used all his strength to hit a ball in the air. The ball rose into the air and flew towards the goal with the blessing of 88 shooting skills.
Goalkeeper Clutter Norton, who was standing in the penalty area, did not expect that Qiao Anchen would take a long shot and lob from such a distance. Moreover, looking at the direction of the flight of the ball, it was really within the goal frame behind him.
Clutter Norton's expression changed drastically, and he immediately turned around and retreated toward the goal. While retreating, he turned his head to see the direction of the ball, and then adjusted his retreat route.
The ball can't fly to the left side of the goal and he retreats to the right side of the goal? That would mean he's not doing it.
But turning his head to watch the direction of the ball's flight affected Norton's speed of retreat.
A person's running speed is inherently slower than the speed of a ball flying in the air. In addition, he has to turn his head to observe the ball and constantly adjust his retreat route. Clutter Norton's retreat save ultimately failed.
The ball drew a big parabola in the air and flew over the head of Clutter Norton who retreated into the small penalty area. Norton jumped up hard to reach the ball and lifted the ball over the crossbar, but he missed it by a length.
to the ball.
The ball passed through the hands of Clutter Norton and fell smoothly into the Mallorca U17 goal under the watchful eyes of all the players and fans.
In the 44th minute, Qiao Anchen took advantage of the goalkeeper's advanced position during the counterattack and scored a long-range lob shot from 30 meters away, breaking through Mallorca's goal again and helping Atletico Madrid expand the score to 3-0.
This long-range lob fully demonstrated Qiao Anchen's superb footwork.
If it were someone else, everyone might think he was fooled. But how many goals did Qiao Anchen score during this period? How could it be possible that he was fooled.
Everyone can be sure that this is the goal caused by Qiao Anchen's superb shooting skills.
The fans applauded and cheered wildly on the sidelines, and teammates gathered around Qiao Anchen, all talking:
"Awesome, Qiao Anchen, you can hit it from such a distance!"
"If this goal of yours were played in La Liga, it would definitely be one of the top ten goals of the week!"
"Yes, it's a pity, this is U17, not La Liga!"
"No matter what, this goal is very exciting and deserves a big celebration."
Indeed, although this goal was only scored in the U17a league, it was also the farthest goal scored by Qiao Anchen, and it certainly deserves a big celebration.
Moreover, now that he has only played half the game, Qiao Anchen has already scored two goals and one assist. If he adds another assist in the second half, he will be rewarded with two goals and two assists.
Whether it is the excitement of the goal or the importance to Qiao Anchen himself, he deserves to be happy.
Qiao Anchen even ran to the sidelines to hug his aunt, uncle, and Stephen Byron, which showed his excitement.
Not long after the game restarted, the referee blew the whistle to end the first half. With Joan Chen's pass and two shots, Atletico Madrid U17 temporarily led Mallorca U17 3-0.