Chapter 120 The national team’s skills in competition shocked everyone and alarmed the boss of Manch

Time flies so fast, and it’s February in a blink of an eye.

On February 2, Werder Bremen faced Hannover 96 at home.

In this game, Lin Quan made one pass and one shot, helping the team easily defeat the opponent and win two consecutive games.

After playing this game, FIFA's international match day arrived.

Lin Quan flew directly to Doha, the capital of Qatar, where Spain will play a friendly match with Uruguay, a South American football team.

Originally, Spain wanted to invite Argentina, but Argentina made an appointment with the Swedish team first, causing Spain's plan to come to nothing.

Because Uruguay is one of the participating teams in this year's Confederations Cup, Spain did not plan to invite them at the beginning.

Before major competitions, participating teams generally do not schedule friendly matches with each other.

But this time after they tentatively extended the invitation, Uruguay unexpectedly agreed.

Uruguay initially made an appointment with the French team, but the French team let them go, leaving them with no ball to play.

Just then, the invitation from Spain was handed over. Uruguay looked over and saw that Spain was sponsored by a rich man from the Middle East. They could get more than 2 million euros in sponsorship fees for playing friendly matches. If you don't take this money, you won't get it.

So I readily agreed.

Because the opponent is one of the participating teams in the Confederations Cup and a traditional strong team in South America.

Therefore, everyone in Spain attaches great importance to this game. Bosque, with a training mentality and the idea of ​​testing the opponent's quality, arranged a lineup with most of the main players and a small number of substitutes.

In this game, Chelsea's Mata replaced David Silva, Arsenal's Cazorla replaced Xavi, Barcelona's Valdes replaced Casillas, and the old captain Puyol made his debut after returning from injury. Game status.

However, Lin Quan's starting position is still stable. Del Bosque did not choose to try to rotate as a free agent in the frontcourt.

In fact, there is no such rotation player in Spain's lineup.

After the game started, Spain played more cautiously and did not launch an attack immediately.

On the contrary, Uruguay was eager to try. When Spain had the ball, they launched a high press against them, trying to steal the ball and counterattack in Spain's half.

This tactic may work against ordinary teams, but it is not so effective against Spain.

Seeing Uruguay's three forwards rushing over, Spain's backcourt masters began to show off their passing skills.

Cazorla, who has no inverse foot and balanced feet, directs and dispatches from the midfield position and distributes the ball reasonably, allowing the opponent's three forwards to run back and forth, but they cannot touch the ball at all.

Seeing that he couldn't grab the ball and had to be walked by the opponent, Suarez's eyes turned red!

He stared at Cazorla's shoulder and licked his tongue.

Cazorla, who had experienced the opponent's strength at Arsenal, was so frightened that the ball was snatched away by Cavani.

After Cavani intercepted the ball, he quickly passed it to Rodriguez and ran towards the Spanish penalty area.

After Rodriguez received the ball, he was about to run with the ball on the wing, but he met the opponent's No. 30 head-on.

After seeing that the player who came to defend him was Lin Quan, Rodriguez looked very disdainful.

Playing for Atletico Madrid, under the guidance of Simeone, he is very good at defense.

The opponent's defensive actions look like an amateur at first glance, and he can easily get past them with just one move.

That’s what Rodriguez thought, and that’s what he did.

Look at me once and again!

Hey!

Isn’t this coming?

Hey, wait, where is my ball?

Rodriguez's man passed by, but the ball was missing.

Looking back, good guy, the ball was stolen by the opponent at some point, and the opponent is now rushing towards their half with the ball!

"Stop him!"

Uruguay's head coach Oscar saw the opponent's No. 30 grab the ball in the dead room, and he jumped up from his seat with a frightened sound.

The biggest threat in the opponent's lineup is No. 30, allowing the opponent to easily get the ball, which is very dangerous for Uruguay.

Tasware's shouts were drowned out by the cheers of tens of thousands of spectators, and the players on the field did not hear his shouts.

But even if the head coach didn't shout, they knew Lin Quan's threat.

Their left back, Pereira, who plays for Inter Milan, rushed forward immediately.

It's not that Pereira has never heard of Lin Quan's name, but he thinks he is only 17 years old, how great can he be?

He scored so many goals in the Bundesliga, that's entirely because the Bundesliga teams don't know how to defend, and we are from Serie A.

In front of the reinforced concrete defense line of Serie A, defending these forwards from the Bundesliga is not like playing?

It just so happened that when Lin Quan hit the ball, his force was a little stronger, and the ball was a little far away from him.

Pereira took a look and realized this was a good opportunity!

So without thinking, I just reached out and grabbed it!

Lin Quan didn't expect that the opponent would be fooled so easily. His trick no longer worked well in the Bundesliga, and the defenders had learned it well.

When Pereira raised his foot, Lin Quan took the first step and knocked the ball, and the ball hit his left foot.

He gently pushed the ball with his left foot, and the ball rolled forward.

The connection between these two actions is very natural and very fast!

While kicking the ball out, Lin Quan's men also accelerated and rushed past Pereira's right.

Pereira kicked the air like a clown.

The ball wasn't kicked, so he lost his balance and fell to the ground with a thud.

Until he fell, his mind didn't even turn around:

How did I get through this?

Seeing that his left back was passed like a clown, Tasware couldn't help but put his hand to his face.

Before the game, he warned the defensive players to be careful of the opponent's No. 30's dribbling and fake moves.

This guy's dribbling skills are very good, and his fake moves are also very realistic.

If you want to steal the ball from his feet when he is dribbling, you must have multiple double-teams or physical confrontation.

Pereira did nothing, just shot directly from the front, making a huge mistake. It was too normal for him to be passed.

Lin Quan immediately cut inside after passing Pereira. When he saw Muslera attacking to block his shot, he faked a shot and passed the ball, knocking the ball into the gap in the middle.

Iniesta, who came in from behind, received the ball in the open space and easily pushed the shot into the empty goal, rewriting the score to 1:0!

After scoring the goal, Iniesta smiled and pointed at Lin Quan, indicating that the main credit for the goal was Lin Quan's.

Lin Quan also gave Iniesta a thumbs up. Xiaobai's running position and timing of the back-up were also excellent, otherwise he would have passed the ball to the opponent's defender.

For Lin Quan, the feeling of playing for the Spanish national team and playing for the club is completely different.

His teammates in the club are generally weak in strength. Except for De Bruyne, other players are far behind them in terms of awareness and skills, and often lack of coordination.

This resulted in them having to change their playing style to suit their teammates.

But when it comes to the national team, his teammates are all the world's top players.

There is no need for any communication between them at all, and they can easily understand each other's intentions.

This makes their coordination very easy to achieve, and they are always pleasing to the eye.

This kind of game feels very easy.

Similar to Lin Quan's feelings, his teammates also found it very relaxing to play with Lin Quan.

At least they don't have to worry about the offensive firepower in the frontcourt now. With Lin Quan here, Spain doesn't have to worry about not scoring goals.

Not to mention that his breakthrough, dribbling and shooting are at the top level. Even if his breakthrough and dribbling are removed and he only retains his shooting ability, as long as he stays in the frontcourt and eats the cake, Spain's top midfield masters can do it. Feed him until he vomits!

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The goal was scored very easily. Del Bosque just clapped on the sidelines, his expression looking quite calm and not very excited.

He was still wondering:

Uruguay, which is ranked third in Latin America, is at this level?

This strength is not that great!

Although super forwards such as Suarez and Cavani in the frontcourt look scary, the opponent's midfielder is not very good.

Moreover, the left back seemed to be a fool for being so reckless when facing Lin Quan.

Del Bosque is very curious. When Uruguay played against Argentina, would Pereira be so easy to take action against Messi?

After scoring early, Spain played more and more relaxedly.

After gradually gaining control of the midfield, Spain began to attack the opponent's half.

In the 19th minute of the game, Lin Quan got the ball in the frontcourt. After hitting the wall with teammates Iniesta, Fabregas and others three times in a row, he entered the penalty area.

Facing the attacking goalkeeper, he chose to shoot into the far corner.

This kick was very coquettish. The ball took a beautiful arc and bypassed the goalkeeper's fingers, flying towards the left side of the goal.

After Lin Quan kicked the ball, he felt it. Looking at the arc of the ball flying out, he raised his hands and was ready to celebrate.

Who would have thought that with a clang, the ball hit the post in the near corner.

Ah this...

Seeing the football being ejected from the post, Lin Quan was stunned!

Didn't this goal even get scored?

Xiao Fa on the side saw the ball fly out and came over to rub Lin Quan's head.

"Haha, it's a beautiful shot, but the arc is too big. The next time you take off, the position where you touch the ball will move a little higher!"

Lin Quan nodded, his expression a little embarrassed.

He intended to hit the ball to the far corner, but the arc of the ball was too exaggerated and it flew back to the near corner.

If you don’t score one goal, then try another one.

Five minutes later, Spain made a comeback.

Iniesta saw Lin Quan running out of space and found him with a precise through ball.

The position where Lin Quan received the ball was almost exactly the same as the previous pass shot, so he repeated his trick and took another pass shot.

This time he listened to Xiaofa's advice. When he touched the ball, he swung his calf and used the inner arc of his foot close to the arch of his foot to exert force, and kicked a ball that was not fast but had a relatively large arc.

When the goalkeeper saw the opponent's shot, his heart trembled:

Come again?

He reacted quickly, kicked off the ground quickly, jumped up high, and made a sideways pounce.

But just like before, this time he still didn't touch the ball, and the football almost flew past his fingertips.

The fans at the scene widened their eyes in curiosity: Will this ball still go out of bounds?

The arc of the ball was still very large, but after all, it didn't fly back and bounce out from the near corner like last time.

Lin Quan breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the football hit the net.

If he doesn't score this goal, he will start to doubt his life.

Lin Quan did not doubt life, but the opponent's goalkeeper began to doubt life.

Is it so difficult to hit a shot?

It’s not like I’ve never been attacked by others before, so how come I’ve never had such a weird arc like this kid?

On the sidelines, Bosque finally smiled when he saw Lin Quan score.

He smiled and hugged his old partner Tony:

"Why does it feel like this kid is using Uruguay as a testing ground to practice his footwork?"

Tony nodded: "I feel that way. The main reason is that the opponent did not put enough pressure on us. The players played more relaxedly, right?"

Uruguay is not a loser. They were scored twice by Spain in 25 minutes, which made their players feel a little humiliated.

I know you are the world champion, but we are not stupid and cannot tolerate you being so presumptuous.

After the restart, Uruguay's fighting movements began to increase, and their attack became more simple and direct.

Their midfielder is indeed not good, but their forwards are amazing!

Suarez, Cavani, and Forlan, these three super forwards will make people tremble no matter where they are placed!

The Uruguayans didn't play any fancy tricks with the Spaniards. They kicked the ball directly from the backcourt to find their own striker.

Rely on the forward's personal ability to score goals!

Not to mention, this trick is actually quite effective.

Relying on their super personal abilities, Suarez and Cavani disturbed Spain's defense line.

However, without the support of the midfield, it is too easy for them to fall into double teams when playing alone in the frontcourt.

Although it can cause some trouble for Spain's defenders, it cannot score goals.

Bosque saw that the opponent's forward was attacking aggressively, so he asked the midfielder to move back and get close to the back line, protecting the back line while further compressing the opponent's offensive space.

Tasvare's eyes suddenly lit up when he saw Bosque's adjustment.

What a great opportunity!

Spain's midfielder is very strong, but the midfielder is a group of technical players, not the type of players who play hard and are physically strong.

If they stand very far apart, it will be difficult for the Uruguay players to steal the ball from their feet.

But if they retreat into their own backcourt, Uruguay will have a chance.

So he waved his hand and motioned for the Uruguayan players to press forward.

As long as the passing space on the field is compressed and combined with high-intensity physical confrontation, Spain will not be able to continue to control their passing.

This trick worked as expected. Uruguay's players ran rampant and pressed the Spanish ball-carrying players like mad dogs.

At this time, football has simply become a hot potato. No one dares to carry more at their feet. They want to pass the ball as soon as they catch the ball.

And such a hasty pass is prone to mistakes.

In the 32nd minute, taking advantage of a passing error by Cazorla, Uruguay quickly counterattacked after stealing the ball. Rodriguez scored a goal and rewritten the score to 2:1.

After scoring this goal, Uruguay's morale skyrocketed and they saw hope of winning.

Although this is just a friendly match for training, it is still very attractive to them to win the world championship.

So, after the restart, they continued to play like this, using all possible means of pressing, physical confrontation, and foot tackles.

The Spanish players felt that this was just a friendly match, and the opponent's actions made them a little worried about injuries.

It's not worth it if you get injured in such an unimportant game and affect your performance in the club.

After having such a mental burden, they became even more restrained in playing.

The more this happened, the more powerful Uruguay's tactics became, and the situation suddenly turned around.

Spain, who was leading the score, lost the initiative on the court and was a bit beaten by the opponent.

This can't go on like this!

On the sidelines, Bosque was already a little anxious.

He could finally see that his previous adjustments had no effect at all, but rather did him a disservice.

"Alonso, Martinez, go warm up and get ready to play!"

Before the first half was over, Del Bosque was already restless and ready to make substitutions.

The reason for Spain's current passive situation is that the midfielder is not strong enough. Cazorla is afraid of injury and plays too restrained.

And his physical confrontation was really off. He couldn't hold the ball under the impact of the opponent, and he didn't dare to take the ball.

If this continues, I'm afraid he will lose the ball, so Bosque is ready to replace him.

Both Xavi Martinez and Xabi Alonso are tough and have strong defensive abilities.

Send them up, and Spain's midfielder can withstand the opponent's strangulation.

As long as they can regain control of the midfield, the game will return to their familiar rhythm.

At that point, it will be easy for them to win.

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On the field, Lin Quan also felt the problems of the team.

So, when Cazorla received a pass from his teammate again, he immediately leaned over.

Cazorla was scrambled by the opponent. When he saw Lin Quan approaching, he immediately passed the ball to him as if he had found a life-saving straw.

After Lin Quan received the ball, two people from Uruguay rushed out to press him.

After more than ten minutes of pressing, they had already gained some insights.

Spanish players are afraid of physical confrontation and injury.

As long as they act fiercely, the other party will hesitate or even retreat.

That way, they have a chance to take the ball away from their opponent.

In their opinion, Lin Quan is so young and must be more afraid of injury than ordinary players.

So as long as you scare him, this kid will get into trouble himself.

But what surprised them was that Lin Quan didn't panic at all when faced with the pressing pressure of two Uruguay players.

After receiving the ball, he calmly adjusted his pace and avoided the first player who attacked him. Anthony made another smart circle and avoided the second player.

This action was so gorgeous that it caused bursts of exclamations from the fans at the scene!

Anthony's spinning is actually very beautiful. The reason why he is criticized is because he keeps spinning like a compass. This turns the spinning into a flashy performance, which will naturally be criticized by others.

But in Lin Quan's hands, Anthony's circling is not a flashy performance, but a gorgeous and effective way to surpass others.

How could the wealthy spectators in the Middle East understand this? They just felt that Lin Quan's dribbling was like an elf dancing on the court, using graceful movements to resolve the opponent's fierce press, just like a gentle prince taming a violent beast.

They were so excited when they saw this scene that they couldn't help but applaud and cheer for Lin Quan.

In the box of the stadium, Mansour, who bought Manchester City and invested more than one billion pounds, saw Lin Quan's extraordinary performance and could not restrain his excitement and applauded Lin Quan!

Why doesn't such an outstanding player come to our Manchester City?

It must be that we didn't give enough money, that must be it!