Ground football: Ronaldo thought I was going to assist him

Seventeenth minute.

Cristiano Ronaldo received the ball again and attempted to dribble past an opponent, but this time the opponent rushed over and knocked him down.

The referee blew his whistle and awarded Moreirense a free kick in the attacking third.

However, after knocking Ronaldo over, the other person said, "Kid, this isn't a circus. Stop your ridiculous and ugly dance performance! You're like a monkey jumping around!"

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"What did you say?" Cristiano Ronaldo stood up.

"What? Want to fight?" The other person puffed out his chest.

He's taller and stronger than Cristiano Ronaldo, with a full beard; you can tell at a glance he's not someone to mess with.

Cristiano Ronaldo seemed a bit taken aback and remained silent.

Fortunately, his teammates arrived quickly and helped Ronaldo out of the predicament.

He's only a fifteen-year-old kid. Entering the professional arena rashly, he's facing overwhelming competition, and he'll be at a loss for a while.

This isn't cowardice, it's unfamiliarity.

If something like this happens in a youth training match, even if the opponent is stronger than Ronaldo, Ronaldo will head back or even fight with them, because he knows what to do in that situation.

This is similar to how many young men in their mid-twenties who have just graduated from university will habitually greet working women, office women, or women in their thirties with "Hello, Auntie."

What was meant to be polite became an offense to the latter.

It's not that I don't know how to call people "sister" because I'm not used to it.

After this conflict, Ronaldo reduced his dribbling and started passing back more often, causing a stalemate on the team's left flank.

Cristiano Ronaldo seemed a bit unsure of how he should play.

Deng Kai noticed Ronaldo's confusion, so he began to shift the ball to the right flank, changing the focus of the attack.

Thirty-first minute.

After receiving a back pass from Flavio on the right wing, Deng Kai suddenly lofted a long pass into the box.

Alex, the right-back who had already made a run forward, took off and used his speed to overtake the opposing left-back, successfully receiving the ball.

Alex made a quick cut and a push, then crossed the ball directly after a slight feint.

The move wasn't particularly sophisticated, but the opponent was caught off guard.

The football arced through the air and flew into the penalty area.

boom!

Anderson outjumped the opposing center-back to head the ball into the net.

"Goal! Anderson! Beautiful header!"

"I didn't expect Alex to have this kind of cross; he didn't show any of these in the first half of the season."

"Dunkai's lobbed pass was too long, giving Alex plenty of space to sprint. Was this something they planned beforehand? No one but Alex could have received that ball, at least not Flavio."

"If Moreirense can get three points today, they will go from last place to third from last. Because the other two last-placed teams have already lost."

Deng Kai thought everything would be alright after scoring the goal.

Because the momentum builds, the intensity increases unconsciously, making it easier to score again.

However, this team of Moreirense was different from the teams that Duncan had played for before. After scoring, the whole team became surprisingly "passive".

How should I put it? It's that kind of situation where the whole team retreats to defend.

This must have been the head coach's tactical arrangement.

But this arrangement is clearly wrong.

Because there are techniques to retreating and defending.

As mentioned in "Arteta's Tactical Whiteboard", the focus of positioning defense is not on positioning, but on defense.

Defense is a verb.

When you're defending against your opponent, you need to take the initiative.

Apply pressure to the opponent, compressing their space with the ball and their reaction time.

But what about Morellens?

Their players understood retreating to defend as staying close to the edge of the penalty area, denying the opponent any space to break through.

At the same time, prepare to contest for the opponent's cross from the wing.

But couldn't you at least stop them from crossing the ball? At the very least, you shouldn't let them cross so easily, right?

These things are hard to notice during regular training, but by the time they are discovered in a competition, it is too late.

In the ten minutes following Moreirense's goal, Penafil launched a relentless and relentless attack. The number of attacks in those ten minutes exceeded the total number of attacks by both sides in the previous thirty minutes.

Has Penafil suddenly become stronger?

Deng Kai's shot was incredibly frustrating.

How is this different from the future Manchester United?

Can't that lousy Manchester United team score goals?

Yes, they can get in, and they always get in first.

Can't we take the lead?

They can always be ahead, always ahead.

But they always get tied or overtaken.

Why?

Because they felt even worse after scoring than after conceding, the entire team retreated to defense, but instead of defending, it was as if they were helping others launch an attack since they couldn't do so.

In this situation, it is almost like deliberately breaking down one's own forward and midfield lines, completely exposing one's own defense to the opponent and allowing them to wreak havoc.

Such a defensive line will naturally be full of holes.

Even if you send in four of the world's best center-backs, they'd still get ripped apart.

"No, you can't play like that. Go up front." Deng Kai told Ronaldo to go back to the front line and not come back.

Because the team's center forward Anderson and right winger Flavio have both returned.

The team's structure was completely compressed by the opponent, losing its sense of layering, and the opponent could break through the entire team with just a single pass.

So Ronaldo stepped up.

Some boos were heard from the surrounding area as a result.

Everyone else is tracking back to defend, but you, Ronaldo, are the only one not tracking back. Do you think you're Ronaldo?

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Fortunately, Ronaldo is never afraid of being questioned, and there must be a reason why Kai called him up.

Forty-second minute.

Fonte made a crucial interception; if he hadn't stopped the ball, there would have been two Penafil players behind him waiting to shoot from the penalty spot.

There, Cado will absolutely collapse.

boom!

Fonte passes the ball to Deng Kai.

boom!

Deng Kai turned halfway and fired a shot without even looking.

The pace of the game suddenly accelerated.

A typical game rhythm, starting with defense, generally involves retreating, intense defense, contesting for possession, clearing the ball, maintaining possession, waiting for teammates to make runs, penetrating and advancing, and key passes for the attack...

But Deng Kai suddenly turned the ball possession contest into a key pass for the attack.

Too many steps were omitted.

This is the function of the attack-defense switching metronome.

It was only through the effectiveness of Ding Ding's intuitive passing that Deng Kai was able to do this.

"what!"

After Deng Kai passed the ball, he was fouled by the opposing player number eight.

It's clear that the opponent intended to take down Deng Kai from the start, denying him any chance to organize an attack.

But the other party was clearly a step too slow, or rather, Deng Kai was clearly too fast.

The referee gave a signal that the attack was in the favor.

Because in the attacking third, Ronaldo is sprinting all the way.

Peñafil was positioned too high up; Ronaldo was left alone less than three seconds after his initial start.

The ball was too far away, and the Peñafil goalkeeper couldn't come out to intercept it, so he could only watch as Ronaldo received the ball and continued to rush towards him.

After Ronaldo broke into the penalty area, the Peñafil goalkeeper made a run to try and cause trouble for Ronaldo.

But Ronaldo was in good form, and after a quick lateral movement to create space, he scored with a low shot.

He did not disappoint with that one-on-one chance.

I like playing football on the ground: Ronaldo thought I was going to assist him.