Football: start copying peak Messi attributes

Chapter 304 Give fans all over the world a little shock of Emperor Lin!

After making two threatening attacks in a row, the Costa Rica players smelled danger.

They began to further shrink their defenses, not seeking merit, but seeking nothing.

If they can draw with Spain and drag the game into a penalty shootout, then they may still have a chance.

But if they continue to play at this pace, they are likely to be completely beaten by Spain.

After Costa Rica's defensive line shrunk, Spain's offense became more difficult.

Lin Quan tried to use his personal ability to break through a few times, but the opponent's defense was very tight, and he didn't give him a good chance.

If the belt is too deep, it is easy to be embattled on all sides, and the passing line to teammates is easy to be completely cut off, making it difficult to pass the ball.

Faced with such a dense defense, Spain began to try to take a long shot from outside the penalty area to see if it could catch one.

However, Navas' performance is really outstanding. With him guarding the goal, it is difficult for long-range shots to penetrate his fingers.

In the 37th minute, after receiving a pass from his teammate, Lin Quan pretended to speed up his breakthrough, and after attracting the opponent's defenders to follow up, he knocked the ball back to the middle.

Iniesta, who followed up, completed a powerful long-range shot at the top of the arc in the penalty area!

When Iniesta was shooting, Lin Quan just moved away from his front and opened the window for shooting.

While the defender following Lin Quan was moving, he just blocked the shorter Iniesta, causing Navas to fail to see Iniesta's shot in the first place.

However, in this case, with superhuman reaction speed, Navas flew to complete an almost impossible save.

With a snap, the football was shot out of the air by him with one hand.

Seeing that the opponent saved his shot again, Iniesta held his head in disbelief, and couldn't help but clutch the few remaining hairs on his head.

He couldn't figure it out, how did the other party complete such a god-level save without observing it in advance?

Lin Quan looked at Iniesta worriedly, not because he was worried that the other party's mentality would be affected.

Mainly worrying about the other party's precarious hairline!

When he was in the La Masia youth training camp in his early years, he often saw Iniesta.

At that time, Xiaobai's hairline was not so high. Over the years, his hairline has moved back a little bit firmly.

In a few years, maybe he will become bald like Guardiola.

"Lin, next time you shoot!"

Iniesta's mentality is still affected, let alone him, even a striker who takes scoring goals as his own responsibility, can't help but doubt his life when he misses several shots in a row.

"it is good!"

So after hearing Iniesta's request, Lin Quan readily agreed.

When Pellegrini told him that Manchester City took a fancy to and planned to introduce Navas, he didn't have any special feelings.

Although I have heard of Navas' fame, after all, he took away San Cassie's starting position after entering Real Madrid.

Those who can squeeze Casillas away will naturally not be mediocre.

However, he had only heard of Navas's name, because the two had never fought directly, so Lin Quan lacked an intuitive feeling for how powerful the opponent was.

Coincidentally, taking advantage of the opportunity of this competition, the two can have a good discussion.

In the previous match against Chile, Bravo left a deep impression on Lin Quan anyway. I don't know if Navas can reach the level of Bravo.

The end of the first half of the game is getting closer and closer, and the players of Costa Rica are becoming more and more united, desperately trying to hold the score of 0:0.

However, after they chose to hide and defend, the Spanish players overwhelmed the half-court and began to play pass-and-control football in the opponent's half-court.

Thanks to the investment of a large number of offensive troops, Spain's pass and control tactics can still exert a strong power under the close defense of the opponent.

After all, the personal strength of Costa Rica's players is still a bit weaker. If the teams in the five major leagues adopt this tactic, it may be very difficult for Spain to break through the opponent's goal.

But for Costa Rica, I am afraid it will be difficult to do this.

The only variable is probably the goalkeeper.

The strength of Navas is obvious to all. In this game, as the number of shots from Spain increased, his own state gradually improved during the save process.

At this time, it became more and more difficult to deal with.

In the 42nd minute, Spain played a wonderful cooperation at the front of the penalty area.

Under the opponent's intensive defense, they passed the ball extremely quickly and tore a hole in Costa Rica's defense.

Lin Quan dribbled the ball into the penalty area and passed it to Torres in a small area. Torres carried the interference of the opponent's defender, adjusted and passed the ball back to Lin Quan.

In this pass, Torres' tactical value is reflected.

Compared with Villa, a pure shooter, a player like him, a traditional center forward, can act as a fulcrum in the opponent's penalty area and play the ball for his teammates.

He didn't pass the ball directly to Lin Quan's feet, but gave him a little bit of advance, so that Lin Quan could accelerate and charge without slowing down.

Well done Torres!
Lin Quan secretly praised in his heart, accelerated his sprint, grabbed the ball before the opponent's defender destroyed it, and then took advantage of the trend to pull the ball to the right.

Navas strikes!

If it were another player, such as Torres, he might not attack.

But before the game, the head coach of Costa Rica showed him five hours of highlights of Lin Quan's shots, from his debut at Werder Bremen to the latest World Cup group stage and knockout shots, everything!
After watching these video tapes, Navas was very afraid of Lin Quan's strength.

This guy has all kinds of shooting skills, except for the header, he is proficient in all eighteen martial arts!
Especially his one-handed success rate, that is simply ridiculously high.

Although it is easy for him to pass by him when he takes the initiative, it is almost impossible to save his shot if he stays in the goal.

The lesser of two evils, relatively speaking, the success rate of the attack is higher, and it is better to grasp the initiative!

Seeing Navas move, Lin Quan was not surprised at all.

A good goalkeeper usually prefers to take the initiative in his own hands.

I don't like to passively follow the opponent's rhythm!

Coincidentally, Lin Quan also likes to take the initiative!
He dialed the ball laterally, trying to use the advantage of speed to widen the distance, bypassing the attacking Navas, and getting a chance to hit an empty goal.

Of course Navas would not give him such a chance, he rushed towards the football under Lin Quan's feet, forcing Lin Quan to shoot immediately, otherwise, the ball would be destroyed by him!

Even if Navas fails to snatch the ball from Lin Quan's feet successfully, as long as Lin Quan is forced to make a major adjustment, he can buy time for the defenders to complete this defense.

Goalkeepers never fight alone, they have many teammates fighting side by side!

Seeing Navas' choice, Lin Quan's expression became serious.

The opponent's intention is obvious, but even if he knows the opponent's purpose, he has no other choice but to follow the script set by Navas.

This guy, it seems, is not only strong in strength, but also strong in mentality.

This kind of saving method, which is close to gambling, is naturally glorious if it succeeds, but if it fails, it will become the sinner of the team's loss and become the target of criticism.

But Navas did it without any scruples!

For this, Lin Quan could only secretly praise, how courageous!
He is not an indecisive person either, he raised his foot without hesitation and aimed at the upper left corner of the goal to complete the shot.

Navas immediately waved his right arm, trying to intercept Lin Quan's shot in the air.

The distance between the two is very close, and Navas has a lot of blocking space, but the reaction time is too short.

Whether or not his saves touch the ball depends entirely on luck.

Fans from both sides at the scene saw Lin Quan and Navas fighting bayonets at close range, and all of them stopped breathing nervously, staring at the goal without blinking.

Can this goal be scored?
Fortunately for Navas, he felt as if his forearm touched the ball as he swung his arm.

The direction of the football has changed to a certain extent, from flying straight to the goal to flying towards the sky.

After feeling the touch from his arm, Navas, who had completed the save and lost his center of gravity, couldn't help but curled up at the corner of his mouth.

In the duel with Lin Quan, it seemed that he had the last laugh.

However, he was too happy.

Although the football was blocked by his forearm, the ball did not go completely out of bounds.

And because part of the strength was removed from his arm, and Lin Quan didn't use too much strength when he shot, the height of the ball flying was not high, and it began to fall back soon.

As soon as the football fell from the sky, Navas felt a shadow covering himself.

He fell to the ground, raised his head subconsciously, and saw Spain's No. 30 jumping high, and with a very standard movement, headed the ball into the goal.

boom!
After the Xinshuiyuan Arena was quiet for a while, it suddenly burst into deafening cheers like a volcanic eruption.

The Spanish fans are so happy!
They were not only happy for Lin Quan's goal that broke the deadlock, but also surprised and excited to see Lin Quan's header for the first time.

"Am I not mistaken, Lin Quan seems to have headed the ball into the goal?"

"Damn, Emperor Lin actually knows how to head the ball!?"

"Messi can score goals with a header. Lin Huang is 3 centimeters taller than Messi. There is no reason why he can't!"

"But it seems that I have never seen him score a goal with a header before. This is really rare!"

"I have the impression that he seems to have a record of headers when he was in the Bundesliga, but the number of times is very small."

"It must be very rare. I have watched so many games of Lin Huang, but I have never seen him score with a header. Today is an eye-opener!"

"Hehe, judging from Lin Huang's movements, he must have practiced it secretly. This lion's head-tossing movement still looks decent!"

"If Lin Huang's height is increased by ten centimeters, maybe he will be another header!"

"Hehe, are you talking about Ramos?"

"Steam, don't you hold your weapon? Master Shui is the second-highest scorer in the Spanish team. This header is amazing, okay?"

Ramos is not very tall, only 1.8 meters four, but his header is very powerful, at least much better than Pique who is 1.9 meters four.

Because Lin Quan's header goal is so rare, the Spanish players couldn't help being concerned when they ran over to hug and celebrate with him:

"Lin, when did you practice heading in secret, and you actually scored a header on the stage of the World Cup without making a fuss? You really deserve it!"

"I practiced blindly when I had nothing to do. It was originally just for emergencies, but I didn't expect it to be really useful!"

"Blindly practiced? This standard movement doesn't look like blindly practiced. Did you secretly learn from some header master?"

Hearing what his teammates said, Lin Quan hadn't answered yet, but Ramos on the side straightened his chest proudly.

Needless to say, of course I learned from Master Shui!
Our header level is said to be the number one in the Spanish team, no one has any objections, right?
On the sidelines, Bosque hugged Coach Tony excitedly.

While excited, he couldn't help asking curiously:

"When did this kid practice heading?"

Coach Tony was also at a loss: "I don't know. It stands to reason that with his height, it is difficult to grab points in the penalty area. Practicing headers is basically a waste of time, so we didn't arrange training for him in this area!"

"Could it be that it was trained at the Manchester City club?"

Bosque didn't remember that he had arranged header training for Lin Quan, so he couldn't help muttering curiously.

In this game, because Navas and Lin are all going to play, Pellegrini came to the court early.

At this time, after seeing Lin Quan complete a header goal, he couldn't help muttering like Bosque:

"For Lin's height, the Spanish team actually arranged for him to practice heading. I don't understand, what is Bosque going to do?"

He also felt that it was a waste of time for Lin Quan to practice heading because it was too impractical.

Instead of wasting time on heading training, it is better to improve other shortcomings and further improve one's own strength is the kingly way.

Navas looked at the football inside the goal frame in a daze. He guessed the beginning, but not the end.

Who knew that this guy actually hid his hand and broke through the goal he was guarding with a header he had never seen in the video.

This is really a bit of bad luck, because Lin Quan seldom uses a header to attack the goal. The header in the Bundesliga is almost like a hoodwink.

So when the coach of Costa Rica sorted out the videotape, he took the initiative to ignore Lin Quan's header.

This caused Navas to not know that Lin Quan still had this trick, and suffered a big loss in intelligence.

Navas quickly adjusted his mentality!
Just one goal behind, it's not like the sky is falling.

Believe in your teammates and the coach, you may not be unable to win the score in the second half.

As long as he continues to guard the goal and prevent the opponent from expanding his lead, there is still a chance of winning this game!

Since Costa Rica has reached the quarter-finals by setting a record in team history, why can't it look forward to the semi-finals?

There was not much time left in the first half. After the Spanish players finished celebrating, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game shortly after the ball was re-kicked off.

Taking the lead before the break was a very good result for Spain.

With this goal, the opponent's tactical play in the second half is easy to predict, and they have the initiative to take countermeasures against Costa Rica's tactics!

(End of this chapter)