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Chapter 18 The Swansea Trial
Li Mo has been a little distressed recently.

Because he was targeted by the opponent in the game before, the whole team's offense was not running smoothly, so Li Mo wanted to start improving his dribbling skills in advance.

Originally, he planned to spend one or two offseasons to slowly improve his dribbling after being promoted to the Premier League. After all, he is a center forward, and his scoring and outstanding confrontation ability are his core advantages. What, he has always thought that enough is enough.

But his partner is really not good. Every time he attracts the opponent's multi-person defense, he can basically transfer the ball to the weak side in time, but Ched Evans and Jamie Ward just can't grasp the opportunity. The team has a teammate who is skilled and explosive, so Li Mo can also seek cooperation with him. When he attracts the defense, Li Mo can go up and score by himself, but unfortunately there is no such teammate.

Li Mo doesn't like to complain, and he tries to solve the problems as much as possible. He is currently the best one in the frontcourt. He came to try to be a hot spot.

But when he told the master about this idea, the master directly sprayed him. Although he was a little upset, Li Mo couldn't find any reason to refute.

Because at the beginning of this season, he and his master have made a general training direction. In the team, training to maintain their own state, usually there will be normal shooting, confrontation, header and physical training. These are also his core advantages.

The additional training in private is mainly to further strengthen the core strength and the flexibility and coordination of the body. Occasionally there will be passing and penalty training, but not many. Two hours of specialized training.

Training in the training system will hardly affect the physical reserve in reality, so Li Mo will basically choose high-intensity confrontation training to further sprint his confrontation limit.

His abilities are just like this. He has been improved bit by bit through unremitting training. It is different from adding points to improve abilities in the game. You may add abilities in the game and you can use them directly without affecting other skills. .

But the reality is that when he focuses on training confrontation and is unrestrained, it will inevitably affect dribbling, passing, and even his shooting, because your body strength is different, and you need to adapt, so This will involve a question of balance.

Correspondingly, if he focuses more on practicing dribbling breakthroughs, he may need to lose a certain amount of weight first, at the cost of losing part of his confrontation ability, to improve his dribbling, but this is the only way for Li Mo now. The gain outweighs the loss.

Of course, if it is the offseason, the master will calculate according to his physical condition, to what extent the weight has been reduced, the practice of dribbling will greatly increase the speed, and at the same time, it will not greatly weaken the strength, but now it is It is difficult to change the training plan during the competition, because every time you make adjustments, the body has to adapt to a certain period, but the competition will not wait for anyone.

Li Mo naturally gave up the idea of ​​improving his dribbling ability in the short term, and he should wait for the offseason to make adjustments. He still needs to focus on improving his superiority. He also believes that coach Speed ​​has long seen the team's current situation. Hidden danger on the offensive line.

Either Dongchuang buys a technical player who can be an explosive point to cooperate with him in the frontcourt, or buy a striker who can help him share the pressure of scoring.

If Dongchuang buys the former, he can seek cooperation to score goals more easily, because the explosive players can help him contain the opponent's defender, and if the latter comes, that's okay too, he can retreat and pass the ball to The striker offers great chances, provided he shoots well.

However, there is still half a month before the winter window, and now he has to partner with the old man Ched Evans, and in the next game they will face Swansea, which is ranked third in the league. The state is very good, although the offensive firepower is only in the middle of the league, but the defense is very good.

In the 21 rounds of the league, their defense conceded only [-] goals, ranking second, with an average conceded less than one goal per game, only behind the top team Queens Park Rangers.

In the last game against Barnsley, a team with mid-lower defensive capabilities, after Li Mo was targeted tactically, Ched Evans couldn't stand up at all, and in the end it had to rely on Matthew Lorton's help The cross helped Li Mo score the winning header.

Swansea's defensive system is very mature, Matthew Lorton may not get a good chance in the next game, and Andy Taylor, who started on the left, can only defend and can't count on offense. We can only wait and see when the time comes .

On December 12th, it was still 18 pm, at the Bramall Lane Stadium, Sheffield United played at home against the No.4 team in the league, Swansea.

Speed ​​chose a very conservative style of play. Jamie Ward did not play today. Speed ​​chose to play another defensive midfielder and directly formed a five-three-two formation. Eight people piled up in the backcourt. At the forefront is still the double center combination of Ched Evans and Li Mo, but today Speed ​​gave Li Mo more tactical freedom, allowing him to choose whether to retreat to hold the ball or Into the penalty area of ​​Swansea waiting for the opportunity.

To put it bluntly, today I just rushed to defend to get a point. It is not a bad thing for Sheffield United to tie for third place in the league. If Li Mo can steal one, that would be even better. It doesn't matter if he can't. Speed ​​made one request to Li Mo, not to get hurt.

Before the winter window signings, he can count on Li Mo to support the offensive line. If Li Mo is injured in front of the winter window, then he can only use Ched Evans, and there will be nowhere to cry.

The Bramall Lane Stadium was full again this afternoon. The team's performance has improved recently. Li Mo and Maguire have also played very well. The fans are naturally willing to enter the home court to cheer for the team on the match day. Moreover, Li Mo and Maguire are the hearts and minds of the fans now. Even if there is one youth player in the general team who can be kicked out, he will immediately gain the love and support of the fans, let alone the twin stars.

Even against the third place in the league, Sheffield United has a very small chance of winning, but the fans still enthusiastically filled the stands in order to see more of Li Mo and Maguire. When the players from Swansea were introduced on the spot , The boos in the stadium were loud, and when the Sheffield United players started to be introduced, the boos gradually turned into cheers, and the cheers reached the maximum when Li Mo and Maguire finally walked out of the player tunnel.

This made the commentator of the game sigh: "Look, now the whole city seems to be supporting the young Sheffield United players. The appearance of Lee and Harry has reversed the critical situation of Sheffield United. Three games ago, they were about to fall into the relegation zone, and they are now ranked in the middle of the league. Although there is still a big difference in points from the play-off zone, the fans of Sheffield United have already seen hope."

"After scoring goals in his debut, we are all wondering how long Lee's magic will last, and after three league rounds, I think many people can't believe it. The 17-year-old striker has scored four goals. [-] goal, [-] points, these cheers are the best thanks to Li from the local fans."

"However, Sheffield United is about to face the test of the top teams in the league today. Swansea's defense will bring a lot of trouble to Lee. Can this magical young player maintain the momentum of scoring consecutive games tonight? Let We will wait and see!"

(End of this chapter)