Chapter 25: West Ham United (1)
Eggsy had never been as free as he was today. His eyes were like the best proof of his good mood, and they turned golden the moment he touched the ball.
The gold color was much richer than usual! The rich golden eyes could be seen from the audience, and it was clear how passionate the owner of these eyes was right now!
Many viewers are now watching Eggsy. Just looking at him may not be enough, so they immediately take out their mobile phones and use the camera to zoom in on his face, sighing: Damn, this boy is good-looking!
Then I sighed: Hiss… there is something about these eyes, are they really not wearing contact lenses? ?
Of course, many people who watched the live show knew that it was impossible to wear contact lenses, but there were still many people who watched the live broadcast who couldn't believe it when they saw Eggsy, and they wanted to take out a magnifying glass to look at it on TV!
“Is there really someone with golden eyes?”
"Didn't you hear the host say that it was a pupil mutation?"
“Very beautiful!”
“Love it!”
In fact, today's game was not originally a battle between top teams, but because of Eggsy's outstanding appearance and eyes, the ratings of their game suddenly increased.
As soon as the game started, many broadcasting vehicles arrived outside the Olympus Stadium. Even Twitter and Facebook were full of Eggsy's information, animated pictures, and short videos. Everyone who watched was curious at first, and then they were really obsessed.
On this side of the field, Leicester City and West Ham seemed to be under a spell at the same time. Can you imagine that two teams that both like to play fast breaks are now playing possession ball?
After receiving the ball, Eggsy did not speed up immediately like before. He ran neither hurriedly nor slowly, and it seemed that the entire lineup was very loose.
But if you really look closely, the overall feeling of Leicester City seems to have formed an overall offensive mode. Everyone starts to attack synchronously with Eggsy as the core, so that all the players are standing in accordance with the tactical positions that Mr. Ranieri said in the locker room.
But this is quite unusual in the eyes of Leicester City fans. In all the previous games, Leicester City would charge forward first and score a goal first, regardless of anything else.
But today Leicester City felt very roundabout, as if they were holding back on something bad.
West Ham originally wanted to rush forward when they saw this, but seeing Leicester City's bad intentions, they suddenly restrained themselves a bit, so a very strange situation was formed. West Ham wanted to fight but didn't dare to, while Leicester City seemed to attack slowly.
Of course, this is Mr. Ranieri's strategy. He needs to know where West Ham's attacking point is. To put it bluntly, he wants to know how West Ham plans to play.
Eggsy dribbled the ball forward, but was soon defended by the two tallest West Ham defenders. As for Eggsy, his technical level today was surprisingly low.
In previous games, when Eggsy passed the ball, he mostly imitated the moves made by Mr. Modric. But now Eggsy's moves are really not fancy at all, they are direct and concise, and in his opinion, they are just to save energy.
The two burly guards were almost dribbled past by Eggsy several times. They no longer had much patience at this point. One of the players who had his back to the fatal player even grabbed Eggsy's jersey!
But Eggsy didn't even turn his head. He took a step back and used his back to shift the center of pressure on the player. The player lost his balance and fell backwards, falling flat on his face.
The player rolled over on the court and stopped with a confused look on his face. But the others were not much better, Eggsy's move was unexpected!
Eggsy didn't even turn his head, and he dribbled the ball effortlessly. The referee didn't even put the whistle in his mouth, and he ran in the direction of Eggsy's attack. The player who fell to the ground could only quickly get up and look back at his own rest area.
Please keep the head coach's death glare.
However, Mr. Ranieri was relieved when he saw this scene. Eggsy did not fight hard with the opponent. He just used the method of destroying the opponent's center of gravity balance in an instant, which was also powerful.
The teammates watched Eggsy escape quickly and immediately began to enter West Ham's home court. But just as they entered and everyone was trying to find a good position, a defender saw Eggsy coming and slid forward.
But Eggsy was not afraid at all, he jumped up with the ball, protected the ball with his heel, turned half a circle, and avoided the aggressive sliding tackle. He continued to move forward with the ball, of course, the speed was still not fast at all.
At first, fans thought that this midfielder was young and weak, but after he really passed the half-court, Eggsy almost always played with three people, that is, he ran alone in front and there were people constantly maintaining a two-man double-team state, but even so, Eggsy could still dribble the ball steadily!
The fans understood: This guy is not weak, he is holding back a big move!
Along the way, he sometimes ran forward and backward, and even turned and twisted, with fake moves and flexibility at full capacity. If you want to fight him physically, Eggsy will use his cleverness to shake you off, and if you foul and pull your clothes, he will do a "Iron Mountain Lean" and make you fall backwards!
If a tackle is made, Eggsy will run and then jump, dribbling the ball into the air. He is as agile as a fox. You can't catch him at all, and you can't predict what his next move will be.
Of course, it wasn't that simple in front of the penalty area. Eggsy was surrounded by people, and he was entangled endlessly. Kante and Mahrez also came to help from behind. In fact, they also felt that Eggsy might not be able to pass the ball when surrounded by three people.
But no one expected that in the chaos of four people and eight legs, Eggsy had distributed the ball. Anyway, Mahrez, who was passing by, felt that a ball suddenly landed in front of him. He even looked back to see if a fan had deliberately thrown a ball in to cause trouble.
But in fact, it was Eggsy who really passed the ball. He saw the people defending him all around constantly trying to block his ball with their feet, so he simply jumped up with his toes and passed the ball directly over the heads of those who were looking down at his feet and trying to grab the ball.
This small oversight was enough for Mahrez to break into the penalty area with the ball. Eggsy also penetrated from the other side and directly threatened West Ham's penalty area.
Vardy, unwilling to be left out, saw that his good friend and the cub had actually gone in, and immediately saw the opportunity to follow them all the way in from the left. He was still accelerating, preparing to overtake them directly and pick up the cake that Eggsy had prepared to make an outflanking move.
Eggsy clearly had his back to Vardy, but he seemed to have eyes on his back and immediately made a breakthrough to the deeper left.
The two defenders following him immediately started to block the player on the right. Eggsy also ran over at this time, but the ball under his feet had been kicked to Vardy from behind with his heel without anyone noticing. Vardy, who was covering from the left, received the ball almost seamlessly.
"Amazing! This 16-year-old who has only played three times doesn't look like a novice at all."
The host's voice resounded in the field. Although he had been praising Eggsy from the beginning, Eggsy's performance was indeed worthy of his praise: "Every step was very mature. Compared with the previous fast attack, this dribbling did not have any beautiful technical moves, but the rhythm was well controlled. The offensive rhythm of Lesrui City is really beautiful."
"From this pass, we can see that he definitely knows the positions of his teammates on the field!"
The two defenders realized it was too late for Eggsy to pass the ball, and Vardy rushed straight into the penalty area with the ball!
"Vardy, Vardy shoots - oops!" the host shouted. At this time, the West Ham goalkeeper had already made a save, but Vardy was not a pushover, so he used a fake move to deceive the opponent early on.
At this moment, there was no suspense about the ball going into the net, but just when Vardy kicked the ball, the West Ham defender rushed out, stretching out his foot and hitting Vardy with his body.
Not only was Vardy knocked flying, but the ball was also blocked by the opponent's calf and bounced out.
There were many Leicester City players nearby at the time. They did not rush to save the ball because they thought the referee would definitely blow the whistle at this time, but they were also dumbfounded.
The referee didn't even pick up the whistle!
hiss……
Is this an attempt to let them kick freely?
Just when everyone was stunned, the kicked ball was still rolling outwards under everyone's feet, and it was about to reach the sideline. But just when everyone thought that this ball was hopeless, a sea-blue figure with the number 17 on his back and the name: EGGSY rushed out!
"Eggsy! Oh my god! He's trying to save the ball!"
Eggsy ran straight to the sideline, and while he was running, he also glanced at the current situation in the West Ham penalty area. All the players from both sides were together, so a direct ground pass would definitely not work and would be easily intercepted.
But if the high altitude -
Give it a try!
Eggsy slid out and kicked the ball towards the goal just as it was about to roll out of the sideline. The ball flew in a parabola under Eggsy's arch, and all the players who saw it jumped up, wanting to head the ball in or out.
But Eggsy's shot was obviously a little high. Even the host was saying, "Oh, this shot might be a little high, but Eggsy's overall awareness is very good. He...wait!"
Everyone jumped up to watch the ball pass over their heads, but there was one person in the crowd who didn't jump! That was Vardy who had just gotten up!
Vardy had just been knocked to the ground, and as soon as he stood up, he saw a ball flying towards his head. He could even swear that the ball was definitely aimed at his face!
So Vardy didn't think much about it, and fell backwards instinctively. His feet went up and gave a big gift to the West Ham goalkeeper behind him!
The West Ham goalkeeper's position was blocked tightly by Vardy from beginning to end. The ball went straight in and he even only raised half of his hand!
"Beautiful! In the 12th minute of the first half, after such a long period of dribbling and possession, Leicester City's Eggsy and Vardy cooperated tacitly, snatched the ball from the sideline, and made a overhead kick! Successfully scored a point!
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