From the man behind the football king to the football king.

Chapter 285 Hidden

After getting the ball, Sanchez faced Udinese's defense without any hesitation. He chose to force a breakthrough!

Sanchez, who is confident in his skills and speed, completely ignored Udinese's right back Ivan Piris, his fellow South American.

In fact, Piris' speed is not weak, but when facing Sanchez, he still seemed to be struggling. As soon as he turned around, Sanchez pulled him away.

Sanchez thought he would be able to successfully break into the penalty area after breaking through Piris. But he didn't expect that there would be another person next to him - a guy wearing Udinese's No. 8 jersey.

Bruno has been keeping an eye on Sanchez since Arsenal's kick-off. Although Arsenal's starting forwards for this game include Frenchman Giroud and Englishman Theo Walcott, he knows very well that Sanchez is the most threatening one.

Sure enough, the bad beggar gave the football to Sanchez from the beginning, instead of giving it to Walcott or Giroud.

From the moment the football was transferred to Sanchez, Bruno ran over. Seeing that Piris was easily broken through, he also accelerated over and blocked Sanchez's running route on the inside. If he allowed him to continue dribbling, he would only You can take him to the corner flag area, otherwise you have to force one-on-one with him.

Bruno is not afraid of such a confrontation.

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"Sanchez thought he had broken through, but now he faces a difficult opponent - Bruno! Bruno is the core of Udinese's offensive organization, but his long-term offensive performance makes people easily ignore another reality , that is, he actually has a strong defensive ability."

After two and a half seasons, Italian commentators have become completely familiar with Bruno.

Nowadays, when they explain the game, they have never completely ignored Bruno's contribution. If they insist on continuing to ignore Bruno, then Udinese's game will basically be impossible to explain.

"Bruno is pushing Sanchez outward..."

At this time, Sanchez was thinking about whether to force past this annoying guy in front of him - he has now been squeezed to the wing. Originally, he was in front of the penalty area after breaking through Piris, but now he is in the big area. The side of the penalty area is so tragic.

If he doesn't break through, he will really only get a corner kick. This is not the result Sanchez wants.

Sanchez suddenly made an emergency stop, intending to shake Bruno away, and then broke into the penalty area from the inside.

But just as he came to a sudden stop, he found that Udinese No. 8 on the inside also made a sudden stop. As if they had agreed upon it in advance, the two people stopped suddenly at the same time!

Sanchez was a little surprised. He felt that he had no obvious signs before the emergency stop. In order to deceive his opponent, he did not even slow down at all.

How did that kid guess it?

How did he know that when he was about to make an emergency stop, Bruno's intuition told him this, so at the same time as Sanchez made an emergency stop, no, even before he made an emergency stop, Bruno's brain had already ordered his body to make a decision. The action of slowing down and making an emergency stop.

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He made a sudden stop but the other party was not fooled. It would be difficult for him to break through.

Under normal circumstances, the forward who gets the ball at this time should hand the ball back to his teammates, then cut and run to look for the next opportunity.

But Sanchez didn't do that. He was very confident in his skills, and he still planned to fight hard even under such circumstances.

It started again, and Bruno followed suit, continuing to get stuck on the inside and squeezing him to the outside.

This time Sanchez planned to rush to the bottom line and then sneak in from the bottom line.

This time when he made a fake move to break through again, Bruno did not cooperate and was shaken around, but directly tackled with his foot!

He made the tackle very decisively, without any hesitation, and stamped on the football between Sanchez's legs!

Seeing Bruno's aggressive tackle, Sanchez backed down slightly because he was worried about being injured.

His right leg was supposed to move the football behind Bruno, but because he was worried that Bruno's tackle would break his ankle, he retracted his foot.

Bruno seized this opportunity, fell sideways, and hooked the football to his feet.

Save the ball!

Sanchez moved aside to avoid the tackle.

Bruno didn't give him a chance to turn around and fight back, and quickly got up from the ground.

In fact, when Sanchez saw that the football was not shoveled out of the baseline by the opponent, but stayed on the court, he immediately turned around to grab the ball, but he obviously underestimated Bruno's speed of getting up from the ground. When he turned around , Bruno has completed the action of getting up to protect the ball.

Then Sanchez had no choice. He was stuck in his position and any movement he made might be a foul.

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Bruno successfully intercepted Sanchez's ball, which made the Udinese fans in the stands cheer for a while, and the commentator also praised Bruno's watertight defense this time. It’s no big deal to intercept Sanchez’s ball, but to regain possession of the ball without letting it go out of bounds is a test of skill.

Bruno intercepted the ball and did not continue to dribble. Arsenal's left back Monreal and left midfielder Ramsey both rushed forward. Together with Sanchez, the three of them were bound to surround him.

He was considered a hero when he successfully intercepted the ball from Sanchez before, but if he was intercepted by the opponent again, the hero would become a bear.

Bruno saw Piris coming back to pick him up, so he passed the football through the gap and ran forward.

Just like that, Udinese took possession of the ball just one minute into the game.

After regaining the ball, the Udinese team began to implement the tactics formulated before the game-play against Arsenal!

Bruno always keeps his thoughts in mind: his teammates are not confident enough to defeat Arsenal, so it is up to him, Di Natale, Immobile and a few others to boost everyone's confidence.

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Bruno ran into the midfield and left the defensive midfielder position.

Arsenal arranged a 433 formation for this game. The midfield trio is defensive midfielder Coquelin, offensive midfielder Ramsey and attacking midfielder Beggar.

Such three midfielders are full of offensive power, but they are a bit miserable defensively.

Originally, Coquelin was a very strong defensive midfielder in the first half of the season, but since he was injured in November last year, he did not return from injury until January this year. However, his form is not as good as before, and Arsenal is also competing in the league. On the way to the championship, they were overtaken by Leicester City.

Therefore, when Bruno ran up, only Coquelin was paying attention to him from a distance, but he did not press forward immediately. Coquelin has not yet played against Bruno on the court. His understanding of Bruno may come from the media and some instructions from the coach, and lacks first-hand information.

He obviously knew nothing about Bruno's greatness.

Ramsey knew very well who Bruno was. He withdrew from the offensive midfielder position, turned around and ran towards Bruno, preparing to interfere with Bruno when he received the ball, or directly steal the ball.

After Bruno received the pass from teammate Badu, he did not take the ball more, but passed it to Immobile in front, who organized the attack.

Immobile's position is between the attacking midfielder and the forward, and he can be used as either the attacking midfielder or the forward. What he does with the ball is entirely his business, Bruno doesn't care. Anyway, Guidolin has already told Immobile to be decisive in handling the ball and not to be sloppy.

Bruno believes that with Immobile's talent, doing this well will be enough to threaten Arsenal's goal.

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Because Mobile was hanging, he faked a pass and passed Koscielny before passing the ball. It's a pity that Di Natale and Immobile didn't think of going together. He ran away when he faked the pass for the first time. When Immobile passed the ball again, the Udinese captain was already offside.

Several times after that, Bruno quickly handed the ball to Immobile and asked him to complete the task of organizing the offense.

Arsenal's players began to realize that the offensive organizer of this game was not Bruno, but Immobile.

The evil beggar was a little surprised, but he quickly realized - maybe Bruno's mission is to defend himself?

In the subsequent games, Bruno's performance also proved this - every time the bad beggar got the ball, the person who went up to mark him was Bruno, not Badu.

In fact, Immobile himself was quite surprised. Before the game, coach Guidolin asked him and Bruno to decide who would be in charge of the organization depending on the situation. If Bruno is closely guarded by the opponent, he will do it himself. If he is taken care of by the opponent, Bruno will do it.

But seven or eight minutes into the game, he felt that Bruno basically had no defensive pressure. Why didn't he participate in the organization of the team's offense?

But since Bruno wants to organize the offense himself, then let him do it. He is not afraid of taking responsibility.

It's just that the cooperation between himself, Di Natale and others is not yet up to scratch.

Coach Guidolin asked him to handle the ball cleanly before the game, and he was very obedient and did it cleanly, but he didn't master the timing and rhythm of passing the ball well. Either he passed the ball too early, or his teammates ran too early.

In terms of control of the team and timing of passing, he is really not as good as Bruno.

In fact, in today's world football, when it comes to organizing offense, there are really few who can compare with Bruno. That is to say, Modric in Real Madrid, Barcelona midfielder Iniesta, and the German attacking midfielder in today's opponent Arsenal can barely distinguish themselves from Bruno.

These three people, plus Bruno, are also rated by many media as the four major organizational midfielders in world football today.

(End of this chapter)