I am the king of football

Chapter 62 Looking Northwest

At Kingston Communications Stadium, a textbook game of bus breaking and bus defense is taking place.

The attacking side constantly pulls and dispatches high catches to try to break through the opponent's defense from all directions, while the defending side tries its best to block the opponent's attack in various ways, and sometimes even has to commit tactical fouls at the cost of a yellow card.

The two sides on the field are blocking each other, attacking and defending, and the side that parks the bus has only one goal, which is to prevent you from scoring.

When Cardiff City's 0-minute bombardment resulted in a score of 0-, the visiting team players, who had been told by their coach more than once before the game that Hull City was a team with very strong offensive capabilities, began to doubt themselves.

In fact, it was not just them. The fans sitting at the scene and in front of the TV were also a little confused at the moment.

You have to know that this is Hull City's home ground. It was really beyond their expectations that the team, which had just won nine consecutive games and was one game away from tying Reading's Championship winning streak record, would play like this.

Zhan Jun, who was sitting in the commentary room, understood it. He kept making excuses for Hull City during the commentary. However, it was true that Hull City's style of play was contrary to what the fans who were looking forward to watching the game wanted to see.

"Hull City's bench is not deep enough to support them to field a new starting lineup after the team just finished a tough game. Bruce made such a tactical arrangement helplessly."

After all, Hull City is not a wealthy club. Domestic fans who follow the games of the five major leagues mostly have their own home teams, and these home teams are often wealthy clubs with certain achievements and stars.

Therefore, it may be natural for everyone to think that Hull City should not play any defense but instead play offensively in every game to please the fans.

Unlike the fans, the Hull City players on the field were very sober. All the substitutes were experienced veterans. Although their defense was not flawless, they made it difficult for Cardiff City's offensive players.

In the process of constantly double-teaming and stealing the ball, they also had opportunities to counterattack. Qin Hu had a total of three counterattack opportunities since the start of the first half. Every time he received the pass from his teammates, he burst out at an extremely fast speed and moved forward.

Unfortunately, Cardiff City's initial tactical arrangement was not to go all out and suppress Hull City, so their defensive arrangements were still very good.

When a person needs to face the joint interception of three or even four defensive players, Qin Hu's ball-control and breakthrough skills, which he has not even mastered yet, are not good enough.

In other words, in the defensive counterattack tactics, there is no setting for a single striker to score a goal against a complete back line. It is too difficult. Even Messi has not been able to score many goals by passing the entire back line.

So, when the first half of the game ended, both sides shook hands and made peace very reasonably.

During the half-time break, Bruce was very pleased to praise the starting players for their tenacious defense. Although they were still somewhat lacking compared to the main players in their respective positions, at least they managed to lock down the opponent's offense and prevent them from scoring goals.

"Keep this form in the second half and never give the opponent a chance to score!"

"Understood Coach~"

"Qin, Cardiff City will definitely increase their offensive power in the second half of the game. I think you can try a long shot then."

Turning to look at Qin Hu, Bruce also gave him advice. He also saw several counterattack opportunities in the first half. Although Qin Hu was very fast and had enough impact, he still lacked some skills.

Instead of continuing to fight with the opponent, it is better to just shoot a few goals to boost the morale of the fans.

"Okay coach, I will find a chance." Soon the short halftime break ended and the two teams returned to the court.

As Bruce expected, after Cardiff City determined throughout the first half that Hull City was not setting a trap but was really out of stock, their coach decisively gave the order to increase their offensive investment.

Being able to rank at the top of the league, although there are no superstars in the team, Cardiff City's execution rate must be good. As a large number of players began to press on Hull City's midfield, the pressure on the home team really came.

In the 50th minute of the game, just five minutes into the second half, Hull City committed a foul on the left side of the top of the penalty area, which gave Cardiff City a free kick opportunity in an excellent position.

The visiting team's first free kicker Whittingham kicked a beautiful arc ball, and the ball went straight to the upper right corner of the goal. Fortunately, Hull City's home goal protected them. When the goalkeeper could no longer touch the ball, the crossbar on the right blocked the ball and bounced it out of the field.

"In the moment of life and death, the goal saved Hull City!"

Zhan Jun and the fans were all sweating coldly. They didn't expect the visiting team to launch such a fierce attack at the beginning of the second half. Now everyone began to worry that Hull City's unbeaten record was about to come to an end.

This series of attacks continued for more than ten minutes. During this time, Bruce had to make substitutions. He replaced two players in succession to replace the players who had received cards in key defensive positions.

After 65 minutes, his eyes began to wander to Qin Hu and Kane who were warming up on the sidelines. He thought that since they were being suppressed like this, why not replace Qin Hu and let him have a rest.

Qin Hu himself did not notice the actions of the head coach on the sidelines. He could really be said to have carried the game alone.

However, after the second half of the game started, he had almost come into contact with the entire Cardiff City defense line and was pleasantly surprised to find that as Cardiff City's attack became more and more fierce, there were fewer and fewer defensive players left in the backcourt to watch him.

So he began to look for opportunities after every team stole the ball and kept running forward while reaching for the ball. Driven by this, the already small number of Cardiff City players left behind were thrown into chaos.

The opportunity just came like that.

In the 99th minute of the game, Hull City intercepted the ball in the backcourt. Paul, who came on as a substitute, received the ball from his defender teammate and looked up to see No. Qin Hu running forward. The ball then flew into the air with his legs.

"Paul made a long pass from the backcourt, the ball flew straight to the frontcourt, and Qin Hu was running towards the point where the ball landed!"

"Roar!!!"

This game did not give Hull City fans many opportunities to roar. Seeing Qin Hu successfully unload the ball and then dribble it diagonally away, the whole stadium finally erupted with the loudest cheer of the game.

With such momentum, Qin Hu, who had quickly advanced a distance, finally found space to kick the ball not far from the top of the penalty area. At this moment, he no longer hesitated!

"Oh!"

"Qin Hu shot directly at the door!!!"

The horse is as fast as Lu, and the bow is as loud as thunder. This kick is like bending the bow and looking northwest, shooting at Sirius!
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