Chapter 5 The unexpected training match

During the half-month training period, Everton occasionally played a teaching game with the reserve team. Today, it was a training match with the reserve team. Li Yu was arranged in the starting lineup and Andy Johnson partnered with the striker. The two took turns to hit the opponent's defense line. Moyes discussed the players on the field with his assistant from time to time on the sidelines. The performance.

Recently, in the teaching competition, Li Yu has always been the best player and the most goals. Both breakthroughs and shots are impeccable. The defensive players of the Everton reserve team don't seem to have a good way for Li Yu and can't curb his performance on the court at all.

"I think I should change Li Yu to the reserve team later and let him feel the real Premier League defense!" Assistant Alan Avigny observed the form on the field. The players of the reserve team have a clear gap with the main force of the first team in terms of physical and defensive ability. Everton is not those rich teams. It has a huge salary structure and can reserve some strong players in the reserve team. In order to make Li Yu To adapt to the defense of Premier League players faster, the teaching assistant put forward his own unique ideas.

"Alan, your idea is the same as I thought, but it's not the second half, but now. I want to observe that the team's midfield is chaotic and can't provide due help. This young man faces all the defenders alone. What can he do!" Moyes nodded to agree with the assistant, but he also wanted to observe Li Yu's performance at a deeper level.

The game ended immediately. The first team changed to 4-5-1, changing Li Yu to the reserve team's front line, and the midfielder of the first team added Yagarka to defend Li Yu.

Before Li Yu changed the team, the reserve team had been passively beaten. Now Li Yu has changed, and it is still the same. The midfielder has received his own goal at the forefront. He finally got the ball, and gave it to the first team after three and two passes. Li Yu was alone on the front line for 5 minutes and did not get the opportunity to take the ball at all. Will.

These reserve team players did not have the power to fight back at all. In the training match a few days ago, they could still create a lot of trouble for the first team. Today, the head coach appeared on the side of the training ground to observe. All the young players wanted to perform well and strive to enter the first team, but their strength was originally the same as that of the first-line players. There is a big gap. What else can we rely on without relying on the whole? The little players are excited and eager to perform. They often want to leave the ball under their feet and show more of their outstanding skills. There is no tacit cooperation in normal training.

At this time, without any support, Li Yu had to keep retreating and throw himself into the interception of the midfield.

When Moyes saw Li Yu's move, he nodded and praised, "This boy began to retreat, and the space in front of him is increasing. Now it depends on whether our young teammates can support him!"

"Ha ha, the young people in the reserve team are trying to show themselves when they see you coming, which makes them messy and completely fall into a situation of separate battles. It is very difficult for Li Yu to get the ball now! The space left by the first team is getting smaller and smaller, and it is reasonable for Pinal to distribute the ball in the position of the front waist. It is difficult to reverse the current situation on the field with Li Yu alone. Avini also saw the situation on the court.

As Avini said, Pinal responds back and forth in the midfield, controlling Everton's offensive rhythm. Moyes wants to transform him into a passer who can break through, not a second attacker who can score directly, so that he has more activities in the midfield. Space, more free than he played in Dortmund, and there is not so much burden.

"Beautiful attack!" Avini saw Pinar's simple score and accurately found Arteta, who was standing in the air. The latter immediately took a long-range shot and made a beautiful goal. The first team won a chance to kick a corner.

Li Yu, who played for 10 minutes and only took the ball once, returned to the penalty area with a serious expression to assist in defense. She looked at the active defense of her reserve teammates, but they did not communicate with each other at all. "If the leader is watching on the sidelines, you guys will not play football? The boss is also a normal person with a head and two eyes. You rubbish forget how to play football because he looks at it? Take out the cooperation of the previous two days for everyone to see," Li Yu suddenly shouted in the penalty area.

The players of the reserve team all looked at the roaring young man, "You don't hurt when you stand and talk!"

"How do you know our difficulties when playing the main striker in the first team? There is no chance if you don't perform!"

"If you have the ability to stay in the reserve team for a few years, you will know why we have seen the head coach like this."

Li Yu's roar was exchanged for the cynicism of some reserve players. Obviously, they did not agree with what Li Yu said at all.

"If it goes on like this, there can't be any chance at all. It will only be suppressed by the first-team players. I have to think of a way, at least to create some trouble for the defense of the first-team, so that they can't easily pass the half-time."

At this time, Pinal's corner kick has been sent out, and the ball draws an arc in the air and quickly flies to the front of the goal. There, the first team's 188CM Nigerian central defender Yabo has taken off and is ready to throw his head at the goal.

The one-on-one defense of Yabo's reserve team players was pressed under him and was powerless at all.

"It's not good!" Li Yu shouted, and the ball hit the ground fiercely and bounced straight to the goal. Fortunately, the goalkeeper stood near the post, and the ball was subconsciously blocked by the goalkeeper.

There was chaos in front of the goal. Li Yu knew that the second landing point this time was not a big foot to relieve the siege, but the opponent's shot. At this time, Li Yu could only bet that her teammates could be the first to relieve the siege, and the ball to break the siege was to open the field.

Li Yu is like a sharp knife, running forward with all her strength. Li Yu doesn't want to give up this seemingly slim opportunity, because this is one of the few counterattack opportunities, and he must run.

The ball was finally kicked out of the sideline by the reserve players, and Li Yu has sprinted to the midfield line with all her strength in order to win this opportunity.

Three minutes later, the first team made a comeback. You should know that Everton's midfield was not just a loaned Pinal. This time, he was replaced by Dutch winger Van der Med. He made two-on-one cooperation with Baines in the backcourt in a row. He easily broke through near the bottom line, and suddenly an inner cut knocked down in front of him to make up for the defense. The player pulled the ball hard in the middle of the penalty area.

Johnson's alertly cushion in front of the goal and the ball scored!

The score on the court is 1:0.

Johnson also comforted Li Yu in the midfield, "You are also unlucky!"

less than 5 minutes after the previous goal, Arteta of the first team received Cahill's score and did not hesitate, assuming that the real pass assisted Johnson scored another goal.

2: 0!

In less than 10 minutes, the reserve team swallowed 2 goals in a row.

They want to perform in front of the head coach, but the boys in the reserve team didn't expect such a result anyway. It's not that they don't want to play this game well, but that they all want to perform well, but they don't have a whole.

Some young people who realized this began to change, but the first team with high morale still launched a fierce offensive.

Now the reserve team wants to cooperate but there is no room for them to seek cooperation. The space has been compressed to the extreme, and the defender Yabo has now stood 25 meters in front of the opponent's penalty area.

"Take the ball and give me a big foot forward, and leave the rest to me!" Li Yu had to shout out, hoping that these young people could give him some support.

During the rest of the game time in the first half, as long as his teammates took the ball, Li Yu would run crazily to the front court at the expense of physical strength. No matter whether the ball was finally passed or not, he continued to run in front of the position without complaint. Gradually, when the reserve team players can't take the ball and form a breakthrough, they will occasionally choose to open their feet forward. Looking for Li Yu, who inserted in front of the running position, although he did not pose a great threat because of his own footwork, Li Yu had to fight for every ball. Even if the ball came out of the sideline in the end, he would turn around and give a thumbs up to the passer.

At the end of 45 minutes, the reserve team fell behind 0:2.

As the first training game open to fans this season, many hardcore toffee fans came to the Bellefield training base today. Looking at the first team relaxed 2-0, they talked about it during the halftime.

"Johnson's condition is simply excellent. Both goals are wonderful!"

"That Oriental also works very hard. In the first half, he may be the player who runs the most on the court, but he didn't pose much threat, but his speed is really fast!"

"It's useless to be fast! Those little guys from the reserve team didn't play well today. They didn't pass the ball well at all. No matter how fast it was, it was a complete waste of physical strength.

The fans chatted very lively, and the reserve team players who were resting on the sidelines were not in such a good mood. They were all listless and bored, waiting for the coach's instructions. They knew that the storm could not be avoided.

"TMD, do you still want to show off your footwork on the court again? What about cooperation? If the circus clown plays better than you on the court today, at least he can amuse people! You idiots are on the field, and I want to rush into the field and kill you!" Jimmy Ramsden, the leader of the reserve team, a hot Scot, came up and scolded, telling the young man of the reserve team that he couldn't wait to find a seam to get in.

Li Yu listened and poured ice water on his head from time to time. In the first half, he not only played depressed, but also played hard. In the past, he had a tacit understanding of his teammates in Juventus. This game even reminded him of the ball in Juventus' first trial. At that time, he didn't know so much, and he kicked it randomly. Instead, It has an unexpected effect. Does it have to be like that in the second half?