Football: The strongest post-zero generation

Chapter 40 The long pass begins to show its edge
Gerrard informed Neil Critchley of his thoughts, who smiled and shook his head: "Lee's scoring rate is so high that there is no need to defend at all. As long as he is in front, it can act as a deterrent."

"The Premier League is different from the group competitions, the National Youth Super League and the FA Youth Cup."

Gerald said.

Neil Critchley shrugged his shoulders: "The Premier League is indeed a headache, but I believe in Lee's offensive attributes. Not everyone needs to be so comprehensive. Don't forget, being too comprehensive means mediocrity. I personally decided to train Li into a top killer."

"I am also optimistic that Lee will become a top killer, but the core of Jurgen's technical and tactical play is high-position pressure. If Lee's counterattack enthusiasm is not high, he will not be able to integrate into the first team's tactical system, and it may even be difficult to get Jurgen. Root’s approval.”

Neil Critchley was deep in thought. What Gerrard said was not wrong. On the contrary, it was correct. After a moment of thought, he said: "Then strengthen his physical reserve training."

Li Qing has fast sudden speed, strong breaking ability, outstanding scoring ability, accurate long passes, and wide vision. From a professional perspective, these can be perfectly integrated, but defense is another system, just like Tottenham player Garay. S. Bell, he started as a left back. As his offensive ability was developed, he was out of control and never defended much anymore.

In addition to his personal fame, the main reason is that his physical fitness and energy are limited, and he cannot take care of both ends.

In order to ensure that Li Qing's talent and integration into the first team are both at the same time, the most important thing to do is to have better physical fitness.

Therefore, Li Qing added another physical training in addition to regular training.

However, he was not dissatisfied, on the contrary, he was very positive.

He is a good guy physically. In addition to being able to complete a high-quality game, he can also have a long time!

Time flies very fast, and January is already halfway through. At 18pm local time in Great Britain, Liverpool U18 are visiting as a guest to challenge Everton U18. This game is a Merseyside derby in the National Youth Football Super League, attracting many local fans. Attention, but due to the limited overall strength of Everton U, it has not received much attention nationwide.

However, Li Qing, as the most watched rising star of Liverpool U18 for more than a month, has his own traffic, attracting a lot of media attention. In addition, some media broke the news that Li Qing is the latest signing of Mendes, the biggest player in the European agent world. The players who played the game indirectly brought a lot of attention.

The players signed by Mendes are generally strong players who follow the high-quality route. Although Li Qing is not yet 16 years old, the talent he has shown is obvious to all.

Li Qing's characteristics of fast speed, strong breakthrough ability and outstanding goal scoring ability have appeared in various U18 head coach profiles as early as a month ago. Everton head coach U18 head coach Brian Tate has already set a target Li Qing’s characteristic techniques and tactics.

Half an hour into the game, Li Qing could only pick up the ball outside the heavily defended area. Once he entered the dangerous area, a dedicated defensive player committed a foul. The action was not big, and the referee did not even give a warning, but just called an ordinary foul.

Li Qing, who was almost completely frozen, seemed to be like those geniuses lost on the court. He stopped and walked and rarely accelerated, as if he had resigned to his fate.

In fact, he is waiting for the opportunity.

The football came to Li Qing's feet again. Facing two defensive players, he chose to dribble forward along the right sideline. Fullback Johnstone immediately understood and accelerated towards the right rib of the attack, creating space for passing.

The Everton U18 defensive players suddenly had the idea that Li Qing was going to pass the ball to Johnstone. Since the head coach issued a request before the game for at least two people to defend Li Qing, one of his teammates was guarding Johnstone. Naturally, another teammate has to come over to defend.

Where are they coming from? A centre-back is out of the question, so only a midfielder.

If there are fewer people in the middle, then the far-end players will automatically be added to the middle.

I don't know if they were afraid of Li Qing's extraordinary ability, but the two defensive players just stood still and did not attack.

Without many people noticing, Liverpool U18 left-back Adam Lewis 'quietly' advanced forward.

Li Qing's field of vision was so red that it turned purple. From the corner of his eye, he noticed his teammates advancing forward and pushing the ball out with the instep of his left foot. Without looking up, he directly completed a long diagonal pass.

The football is fast and flat, flying towards the attacking left rib.

The coach's bench had a better view. Everton U18 head coach Tate's pupils suddenly shrank: "Oops!"

No one thought that Li Qing, who had been responsible for scoring goals in the past three games, would actually make a precise long pass!
Most of the defensive players are gathered in the center and left, and there is no one on the right side of our defense!
In this case, the defensive players tilt towards the right side of the defense like a tide, the full-back presses out, and the central defender makes up for it.

It seems to be very efficient, but Li Qing's long pass is so accurate that Adam Lewis doesn't need to stop at all. He only needs to send a high-quality cross while running.

This set of techniques and tactics has been tried many times after the New Year. Adam Lewis performed completely normally, directly completing a powerful sweep pass with his left foot towards the incoming ball.

Glenn Macaulay, who crossed diagonally from the center of the penalty area to the left rib of the penalty area, completed a shot before the opponent's central defender could clear the ball. Everton U18 goalkeeper De Freitas reacted very quickly, or was extremely lucky. A left foot in behind blocked Glenn McCauley's must-goal.

The defensive player who returned to the goal made a clearance against the bouncing football hook, and the audience suddenly burst into exclamations.

"Oh oh oh-"

The player who made the overhead kick did not touch the ball accurately and kicked the ball incorrectly. Brewster's eyes lit up when he ran to the penalty spot, and he finished the kick before the defensive player made the second clearance.

The football hit the snow-white net without any suspense, and the guest Liverpool U18 took the lead to break the deadlock.

Although the goal was scored by Brewster with a supplementary shot, the coaches standing in front of their respective coaching benches knew who the real hero was.

Li Qing’s precise transfer!
The great hero who lives in seclusion behind the scenes!

Of course, Li Qing only did this kind of thing occasionally, because... the one who gets the most attention is always the forward who scores the goal.

(End of this chapter)