Chapter 281: Reaching the quarterfinals counts as success

There has never been such a crazy individual performance in the first season in the history of the Champions League. Even in many past seasons, eight Champions League goals were enough for Li Mo to become the top scorer in the Champions League in a single season.

Four Champions League group matches, eight goals and one assist. In the face of this data, Melo can only avoid the edge for the time being!

Many Li Mo fans have already begun to skate and kneel in their living rooms to celebrate.

Now they only blame themselves for being short of words and don't know how to brag about Li Mo's performance.

The main reason is that Li Mo is usually too low-key, and he is always flamboyant on the court. When he is off the court, he acts like an otaku. When interviewed, he is the same as Speed. He always says that he and the team still need to work hard, which makes him a lot of people.

The fans also followed the Buddha's lead.

But no matter how Buddhist you are, the football world is all about strength. They don't brag, and other fans help to praise Li Mo. All the major sports forums are full of praise.

After all, the real data is here. Li Mo's current performance is indeed unprecedented in football, and it is useless to belittle him.

The Sheffield United fans at the Bramall Lane Stadium paid homage to the young king again. Vardy was unwilling to let go of the celebrating Li Mo. Other Sheffield United players also gathered around at this time.

He patted Li Mo on the head very excitedly.

Speed ​​put his hands on his hips proudly, and looked at Li Mo with only endless pride in his eyes.

On the other side, Schalke 04 head coach Stevens was very irritable and depressed. He paced the sidelines and cursed a few words with his head down in anger.

It's not that he didn't make tactical arrangements before the game, but Li Mo passed two midfielders!

The big center played with his skills and passed two defenders before cutting in and shooting the goal. This was like being in a fucking science fiction movie!

There was really nothing to do. In the last game, Li Mo used his skills to give out wonderful assists. He did it again in this game. Not to mention the players on the field, Stevens himself felt a sense of powerlessness.

But the game must continue, and Schalke 04 cannot surrender now and must continue to find ways to survive.

However, when the game restarted, the commentators quickly discovered that Schalke 04 did not choose to press forward and try to equalize. Instead, after testing to no avail, they very conservatively chose to stabilize the situation first.

This surprised the Sheffield United players who were ready to let their opponents pass halftime and wait for opportunities to counterattack.

But as the old saying goes, don't worry.

You Schalke 04 are not in a hurry, why should Sheffield United, which I have the advantage over, be in a hurry?

Sheffield United, which was beaten hard by Everton in the last league game, changed their style again in this Champions League game and emphasized the word stability.

Li Mo's sudden outburst has helped Sheffield United gain a one-goal lead, and Drinkwater simply led his teammates to temper Schalke 04.

Anyway, if you want to score points, you have to attack. You have to attack early and late. The attack is the one you press hard. Sheffield United players are very familiar with this game.

The Schalke 04 players felt more and more frustrated the more they played.

Sheffield United knew that sooner or later they would attack, and they themselves knew that sooner or later they would have to attack, but there was nothing they could do with Sheffield United's counterattack.

It's like knowing that there is a big pit ahead, but you can't take a detour and have to jump in first and then figure out how to climb out. It's so uncomfortable.

The commentators from various countries had different moods at this time. Some were thinking of a solution for Schalke 04, some were praising Sheffield United for their sound tactics. On the Chinese side, Zhan Jun and Zhang Lu almost couldn't hold back their laughter.

The two of them must support Sheffield United. At this moment, seeing Speed ​​and the Sheffield United players on the field causing mischief again, putting Schalke 04 in a dilemma, they were already happy.

However, due to his status as a commentator, he must maintain a certain degree of neutrality at this time, at least speaking politely on the surface, but the smiles in the two people's words could not be hidden.

In the remaining time of the first half, Schalke 04 players finally chose to take it slow and did not launch a general attack. Sheffield United was naturally happy to relax, allowing Bell and Li Mo to try to attack Schalke again.

Erke 04's defense line stopped testing again after getting no results.

In the second half, Speed ​​did not make any mistakes and directly made substitutions. Before the game restarted, Medel replaced Joaquín to strengthen his coverage and interception ability in the midfield.

Such a change of tactics clearly tells Schalke 04:

Today, my brother is satisfied with scoring a goal, and he will play defensive counterattack from behind. If you don't make any mistakes, everyone will leave the game 1-0, which will also give you face. Do you have any bad intentions? Have you seen Medel? Last season's Premier League player

The steal king, plus the three fast horse forwards in front, you will suffer a lot!

Stevens turned green with anger, but Speed ​​had the confidence. Speed ​​bet that Schalke 04's offense could not penetrate Sheffield United's defense, but Steven

But Si didn't dare to gamble.

If Huntelaar is still in the same form as last season, Stevens is willing to give it a try and play against Sheffield United.

But this season, Huntelaar seems to have quit the extraordinary state of last season, and has regressed to the level of a top center in the Bundesliga, not even the top Bundesliga.

There was no guarantee of scoring, and Farfan was a genius. Stevens could only endure this and kept telling himself not to be fooled by Speed.

From this point of view, Stevens is indeed a coach with two skills. He can at least restrain his emotions and make tactical adjustments based on the actual situation of the team and in line with the development of the situation on the field.

But the players on the Schalke 04 field couldn't bear it anymore.

The main thing is Farfan. Skilled players will have a certain amount of arrogance in them.

However, some technical players use this arrogance as a motivation to constantly encourage themselves to become stronger, while others let this arrogance control their emotions and use it as an excuse to keep making mistakes.

Farfan obviously does not belong to the former, otherwise he would not have been stuck on the threshold of a first-class winger and never been favored by wealthy teams.

Farfan, who had committed an old habit, began to continuously attack Sheffield United's wing defense when he got the ball.

But at this moment, Schalke 04's tactical thinking is to wait patiently for opportunities. What he did broke the unity of the team's thinking.

Some players want to follow Farfan and make more attempts and do not want to "slowly die", such as Huntelaar and Holtby.

The main reason is that they are used to opening and closing in the Bundesliga. They have no problem playing hedging offense with Premier League players. However, Sheffield United constantly divides the space on the court and does not give them the opportunity and space to attack quickly.

I felt very uncomfortable.

Stevens, who was on the sidelines, saw Farfan's impulsive move and became really angry. He rushed to the sidelines and kept roaring.

But the Schalke 04 players, who had already been forced to press forward, could not stop at this moment.

To be more precise, Holtby, the team's core midfielder, is no longer willing to control the field and defend, and Neustadt in the defensive midfield position is also more willing to devote more energy to offense. The two have a tacit understanding.

It speeds up the team's operation and conflicts with the head coach's ideas.

"I don't know if Coach Stevens has made new adjustments on the sidelines. Schalke 04 has obviously begun to speed up. Maybe they think the time has come. Let's take a look at their attack first.

"

Zhan Jun was very smart to tell the changes that happened on the court, but the fans could clearly see that Stevens was already furious standing on the sidelines. If the assistant coach hadn't pulled him back in time,

The old coach might have to personally catch the "ghost".

Li Mo was dumbfounded on the court. He never expected that one day he would witness a conflict between players and coaches on the court.

Although there have been many such instances in the past, Li Mo has also heard more often, for example, that the head coach and players of a certain team had a quarrel in the locker room.

For example, in Chelsea last season, most of the conflicts between Villas-Boas and several veterans happened in private, but the specific situation is not clear to the outside world. Most of them are rumors, including the news that Abramovich reprimanded the veteran players.

True or false.

It's rare for something like this to happen on the playing field.

If a player at Sheffield United dares to openly resist and refuse to accept the tactical instructions and adjustments made by Speed, then this player will not be able to stay on the court for more than three minutes and will definitely be replaced and never get a chance to play again.

Private dissatisfaction can be resolved behind closed doors in the locker room, but if it is brought to the field for the whole world to see, that is absolutely unforgivable.

Of course, the head coach can't stumble by making small moves behind his back, and just say whatever he wants. A head coach who does one thing in front of him and does another behind his back will definitely not be liked by the players, regardless of his coaching level.

Li Mo didn't know whether Stevens was upright or not, and he didn't care much about the joke being made by the Schalke 04 players at the moment. After a brief shock, Li Mo quickly reacted.

He realized this was a good opportunity to win.

Not only him, but many other Sheffield United players also reacted.

Drinkwater looked towards the sidelines. The handsome old man Speed ​​had stood up and nodded towards him.

Drinkwater instantly understood what Speed ​​meant.

"Grab the ball, press forward, press forward!"

As soon as the instructions came out, from front to back, in less than a minute, the entire Sheffield United team unified their thinking.

Other fans may be confused when they see Sheffield United going head-to-head and fighting fiercely with Schalke 04's forward pressing players.

At this time, wouldn't it be more energy-saving to wait for Schalke 04 to get into chaos and then counterattack after being discouraged?

But the real Sheffield United fans were already cheering crazily for their own players on the field, cheering hard.

This is Sheffield United!

When you see an opportunity, execute your tactics decisively and move forward bravely, regardless of whether the opponent team is defensive or offensive at this time.

Should I avoid his edge?

Get the knife!

As soon as the strangulation tactic started, Sheffield United's midfield immediately turned into a cold meat grinding machine.

Matic and Medel began their performance, and Vardy and Bale, who were retreating, also tried their best to run in the midfield to interfere with Schalke 04's players.

Drinkwater, who looked gentle and gentle in the first half, has completely transformed into a tough sweeper.

Grace? Elegance?

nonexistent.

Sheffield is a city of steel, and Sheffield United is also a team that represents the working class. Their football style, whether it is now after their rebirth or before they struggled to reach the Premier League, has nothing to do with elegance and beauty.

They are blades, sharp speed and lethal counterattacks are their characteristics, while tough defense and an attitude of never admitting defeat are their soul!
To be continued...