Chapter 43 Scout from Chelsea
The team's main goalkeeper Sebastian Militz is practicing penalty kick tactics with the cooperation of his teammates. Telecom Cup games often drag on to penalty kicks.
Therefore, they need to practice penalty kicks and defensive penalty kicks in advance to avoid rushing into battle when the time comes.
Facing an empty goal and taking a free kick, I always felt that something was missing, so Lin Quan invited the team's substitute goalkeeper Wolfe to help guard the goal.
Although Wolf is a second-choice goalkeeper, he is certainly not weak because he can serve as a substitute for a Bundesliga team.
Facing the penalty kicks of De Bruyne and Lin Quan, he dived high and blocked almost all the shots of the two.
"Kevin, your ball speed is not fast enough. Your route is too good to judge. If the goalkeeper concentrates, it will be difficult to pose a threat to the goal!"
Wolf saw that De Bruyne wanted to practice the elevator ball, so he reminded:
"You have to add some variety to the ball!"
De Bruyne put his hands on his hips and stared at the ball on the ground, thinking.
Add some variety to the ball?
How do we do this?
The elevator ball needs to control the spin and the ball speed must be very fast. It is very difficult to kick this kind of ball.
He felt a little unable to add some more changes.
"Let me try?"
Lin Quan practiced the outside instep for a long time, but he still felt that it was not as good as Quaresma's outside instep, so he became interested in the elevator ball practiced by De Bruyne.
He didn't know if Messi had such a trick in his arsenal. It seemed that Messi always liked to kick arcing free kicks when taking free kicks. He had never seen an elevator kick before.
De Bruyne nodded and gave up his position.
Lin Quan stood at the penalty spot, took a deep breath, and thought about the kicking moves of several elevator ball masters.
Cristiano Ronaldo, Pirlo, Juninho...
He took a few steps back, took a quick run, and after looking at the right spot, he swung his foot forward.
Wolff stood in front of the goal without moving, and of course there was no football in the goal.
So, where did the football go?
At this time, a young man on the sidelines who was almost knocked unconscious by a football expressed his regrets!
"Sorry, sorry, I didn't hurt you!"
Lin Quan quickly ran to the sidelines and apologized to the opponent.
The angle of the ball was not controlled well and the anti-aircraft cannon was fired directly. The football flew more than fifty meters before landing.
The other party rubbed his dizzy head and looked up at the perpetrator, as if to remember clearly which bastard kicked him.
Seeing Lin's green uniform and the number 10 printed on it, the other party seemed to have thought of something.
"Are you the winger from Werder Bremen?"
Lin Quan was a little surprised. He had just played an official game, and a passerby actually recognized him?
Wait a minute, is this guy a spy sent by Dortmund to spy on intelligence?
Probably only competitors would focus on their opponents' players, Lin Quan thought.
"Let me introduce myself. My name is George Evans. I am a scout from Chelsea. I watched your game video yesterday. Your performance was great!"
"Thank you, Chelsea scout, are you here to follow up on Kevin's performance?"
When Lin Quan heard the other party announcing his home address, he suddenly realized.
Teammate De Bruyne is a Chelsea player. Chelsea spent 8 million pounds to introduce him, so they will definitely be concerned about his loan situation.
It is normal to send a scout over to follow and observe. However, the scout in front of him is too young, looking to be in his early twenties.
At this age, he looks like a newcomer among the scouts, and he has little say in the club.
Chelsea sent such a person to observe De Bruyne, which shows that they do not attach great importance to De Bruyne.
"That's right, but the team's forwards collectively performed abnormally, so I also shoulder the task of inspecting other teams' forwards from the outside!"
"Then who are you inspecting now?"
After hearing this, Lin Quan asked casually.
It's no secret in football that Chelsea's forwards are weak.
When they spent a high price of 50 million pounds to take away the opponent's leading striker Torres from Liverpool, they imagined that El Nino would be able to kill everyone at Stamford Bridge and score a lot of goals.
Unexpectedly, his 50 million pounds actually bought a "big parallel import". Due to injuries and tactical incompatibility, Torres struggled very much at Chelsea.
Two seasons later, he played 60 games on behalf of the team and only scored 10 goals for the team. His scoring efficiency was appallingly low!
Although Chelsea won the Champions League last season, their victory relied on defense rather than offense.
If the team's offensive problems are not solved, their performance this season will definitely plummet.
So, this summer, Chelsea waved their checks and searched for strikers all over the world.
They first spent 35 million euros to take Hazard from Lille, and then spent 8 million euros to buy Marco Marin from Werder Bremen.
Then he spent 32 million euros to buy Internazionale Brazil's attacking midfielder Oscar...
Chelsea have burned through hundreds of millions of euros this summer and don't seem to have any intention of stopping.
Abramovich, who is rich and wealthy, said that he is not short of money. He wants to find a big name for Chelsea, preferably the top striker in football.
Then there was the rumor that Chelsea made an offer to Barcelona to buy Messi.
Of course, this matter is mostly based on rumors. After all, Manchester City was willing to spend 250 million pounds to buy Messi last year, but Barcelona did not let him go. With the grievances between Chelsea and Barcelona, it is even more impossible for Barcelona to let him go.
George glanced at Lin Quan: "Why are you asking about this?"
The team's intention to buy someone must not be talked about casually. If this kind of thing is leaked in advance, it will easily cause other teams to rob or raise the price.
"Aren't we afraid that you will come to poach our team's forwards again!"
Lin Quan saw that the other party was unwilling to say more, so he said casually.
"That's not the case. Your team has too few stars. We have already bought Marco Marin. Which of the remaining players is worthy of Chelsea?"
Well……
This is true, although it sounds unpleasant.
The potential and future achievements of these Werder Bremen players are not high. They don't even have a star. They are all a group of cheap and easy-to-use engineers.
Therefore, the objects he came to inspect could only be players from Dortmund.
Considering Dortmund's results last season and the impact of Manchester United buying Shinji Kagawa from Dortmund, it is normal for Chelsea to poach people from Dortmund.
I just don’t know who they are looking at?
Is it the future top center Lewandowski, or Dortmund's core midfielder Gotze?
Considering Chelsea's player reserves in the forward and midfield, it is more likely that they want to buy Lewandowski.
None of this has anything to do with him. There is no way Chelsea would pay for him anyway. Even if the other party does pay, he doesn't want to go to Chelsea to play.
The fierce physical confrontation in the Premier League is too unfriendly to young players.
Before he acquires the talent of being immune to injuries, it would be better to stay in a place like the Bundesliga that is suitable for little demons to level up.
Holding the football in his arms, Lin Quan returned to the court and continued to discuss the secrets of the elevator ball with De Bruyne.
Lin Quan has rich theoretical knowledge, but is slightly lacking in strength.
De Bruyne has enough strength but lacks theoretical knowledge.
It is easy to learn theoretical knowledge, but it is not so easy to improve your strength.
So Lin Quan told De Bruyne his theoretical knowledge of elevator kicking and guided him to practice elevator kicking.
If De Bruyne can master this stunt, the team will have one more option for free kicks in the future.
…
The morning training only lasted for an hour and a half. After lunch, the team began to conduct tactical drills.
At 5:30 in the afternoon, the players took the bus to Dortmund's home stadium, the Westfalenstadion, to adapt to the venue in advance and warm up before the game.
At the same time, Dortmund's players also set off on the bus, and the two teams met unexpectedly at the entrance of the stadium.
The finals of the Telecom Cup are about to begin!
