Chapter 67: Battle against Manchester United (Part 4)
Eggsy's game-changing performance made him the brightest player on the field. With 10 minutes left in the first half, Eggsy was like an invincible transfer machine, transferring all of Manchester United's luck in the first half to Leicester City.
Leicester City is in a very good momentum now. As long as Manchester United's attack passes half the court, the ball will be pressed by Eggesie or Mahrez, and the defenders will come up to steal the ball. Moreover, they all start pressing in the midfield. This is clearly bullying Manchester United's defensive midfielder who does not have enough skills to dribble the ball.
How can Manchester United not be angry?
This kind of adaptability and organizational ability on the court is definitely something that Eggsy has figured out by himself, because most of the time when he is on the court, the head coach can't control this. We are all professional players, and some small mistakes will not be made. The head coach can only give a general guideline and ask the players to pay more attention to something.
Then, when they get on the field, everyone relies on their skills and experience. Eggsy is only 16 years old and a new member who just registered this year. What experience does he have? So this kid relies entirely on his brain and instinct to play football. Such a kid is really scary.
"Guard it! Guard it!"
Manchester United's head coach was shouting and gesturing on the sidelines, but it was useless. Eggsy kept charging as he should, and it was slippery. Rooney now had a headache trying to stop Eggsy.
Because Rooney is a power player, the impact of his running is his strong point, but Eggsy is here to counter him. He dodges when Rooney rushes at him and entangles him when Rooney dribbles the ball. Manchester United's impact and offensive ability in the first half all depended on Rooney. Now Eggsy has come up and almost blocked Manchester United's vanguard tank. What should he do?
Let Van Persie go!
But the problem is that Van Persie is a typical striker who can score goals. He will not play well without them. He has always relied on Rooney to score goals. Rooney is now entangled, so Van Persie has to score goals himself.
But as long as Van Persie had the ball, Mahrez and Shinji Okazaki would surround him. It was physically demanding for Van Persie just to break through and score. After finally getting to the point, he had to look for opportunities to shoot amidst the defenders' defense.
...At this moment, Van Persie was looking at Rooney in various ways: Are you able to get better?
In this way, the entanglement strategy lasted until the end of the first half. Manchester United was attacking anxiously, but found themselves wasting opportunities again and again, and they were so angry that they were bubbling.
Even the players at Manchester United's home stadium were furious and started to sing in unison. The lyrics they sang were actually insulting their own players, which was amazing. Eggsy listened to it specially when he returned to the Leicester City rest area and almost laughed out loud.
Captain Morgan directly covered Eggsy's head with his big towel to prevent his little guy from laughing and being discovered. Otherwise, he could just wait to be scolded by these crazy fans.
You should know that Vardy of their team once mocked the opposing fans who booed him after scoring a goal. As a result, there are still fans scolding him on his Facebook and Twitter.
Of course Vardy doesn't care at all, he thinks the more the opposing fans hate him, the more successful he is. Iggy Aggy is much more obedient than Vardy, who is a troublesome guy. He probably can't stand being scolded every day, so he should be protected as much as possible.
"Wow." When Eggsy heard Manchester United fans scolding Van Persie for spitting the ball, he looked at his own players.
Vardy, who was seen by the crowd, immediately shuddered and said, "I won't spit the ball!"
Mahrez glanced at Vardy and Eggsy, and immediately said: "I won't vomit either!"
As a result, Leicester City was like an infectious disease, and everyone told Eggsy that they would not shoot the ball. In fact, everyone had the desire to shoot the ball, and if Eggsy really fed them the ball, would they not like it?
Unfortunately, just as the conversation reached halfway point, Mr. Ranieri interrupted it with something.
"What are you all doing here? Why don't you go back to the locker room?"
Everyone quickly picked up what they found and went to the locker room.
At Leicester City, if Mr. Ranieri asked you to go to the dressing room during the halftime break, it was probably because there would be a tactical change in the second half. Judging from the situation after Eggsy came on in the first half, they would definitely have to adjust their tactics in the second half to face Manchester United's counterattack.
Sure enough, as soon as the door of the locker room was closed, Mr. Ranieri took out the tactical board that he had prepared long ago and announced the arrangements for the second half.
Also in the Manchester United locker room, Manchester United's head coach was tapping on the tactical board and said to the players below: "Pay attention to this middle position!"
"This midfielder of Leicester City is the core of their core," the coach pointed to the blue dot representing Eggsy in the midfield and said, "Defend him tightly! If we can't defend him, we won't be able to use any tactics in the second half!"
"Did you hear that?"
Manchester United responded immediately: We heard it!
At the beginning of the second half, Manchester United had obviously recovered. Compared with the state in the first half when they were stunned by Leicester City, Manchester United's spirit and energy were now in its best state. The Leicester City players did not panic when they saw this, because they knew that the second half was the most critical moment.
This time it was Leicester City that took the lead in launching the attack. Captain Morgan scanned the field and kicked the first ball under the gaze of all the players.
The order of Leicester City's attack was very rhythmic. Of course, as soon as the ball crossed half court, it was given to Eggsy who was running with the striker. Then the next second, the whole stadium burst into a huge gasp.
Not for anything else, there were almost 6 Manchester United players around Eggsy, almost surrounding him and the ball.
"Eggsy!" Vardy and Mahrez in the distance ran to the position and started waving.
But when he turned around and saw that Eggsy was surrounded by three layers inside and three layers outside, he saw that Eggsy was not panicked at all and accelerated directly.
You have to know that behind Eggsy are Rooney and Van Persie. They both came together to defend Eggsy, but Eggsy still ran very fast. Rooney behind him couldn't catch up, and Van Persie didn't even have time to kick.
The defensive players on both sides quickly approached Eggsy, but were thrown back and forth by Eggsy's sudden stop and turn. The players on the periphery not only had to keep an eye on Eggsy, but also had to keep an eye on the other players, so they didn't dare to approach rashly.
But Eggsy was already surrounded, and the whole audience was in uproar! But soon, a bigger group of explosions followed. When Eggsy accelerated and ran almost parallel to Vardy, he suddenly passed the ball, as accurate as a scalpel, and it landed at the feet of Vardy who was running wildly.
Then Vardy started to run wildly, and all the players who had just stopped Eggsy had to follow Vardy, but Rooney still followed Eggsy to prevent him from taking another shot.
But Vardy didn't hesitate this time. He accelerated to the left and shot!
De Gea had been waiting for a long time, and rushed out to hug the ball directly. Eggsy turned around and ran back, and Rooney, who was fast, almost couldn't catch up when he turned!
"What a pity, Vardy had a good chance this time." The host shook his head repeatedly, watching Leicester City quickly return to defense, and said: "Leicester City's attack speed is very fast, will this speed up Manchester United's attack as well?"
In fact, this is true. Perhaps it is because Leicester City's defense speed is too fast, so Manchester United, who want to find flaws when attacking, also have to speed up and run all the way to chase Leicester City.
"Both sides started running wildly. The main force of Manchester United's attack this time is Van Persie!"
Of course it was Van Persie, Rooney was keeping an eye on Eggsy the whole time. He followed Eggsy at the speed of a cannonball, and when the two were in the midfield, Rooney bumped into Eggsy because he didn't brake in time when chasing him.
In fact, the impact was not too strong, but Eggsy felt a pain on his shoulder blade. This pain was not from being hit, but from the bone. He was so painful that he couldn't catch his breath and coughed a few times.
But even so, Eggsy still reached his point, turned around and began to let go of Rooney.
Rooney followed Eggsy back and forth, and even though it was only the beginning of the second half, he already felt that he might not be able to hold on. For the moment, he had no temper for this swift boy in front of him.
"Really, he can run."
Eggsy happened to hear it, and said with a smile: "You are quite good at chasing."
Rooney was about to say something when he felt that Eggsy had suddenly disappeared! Then he looked around and saw that Eggsy had already run towards Van Persie. Just as Van Persie was about to shoot, Eggsy rushed over and made a beautiful sliding tackle!
Of course, Eggsy's sliding tackles were always aimed at the ball, not at the person, so Van Persie's ball was just tackled away, and he was fine, and he didn't even trip.
Eggsy watched the ball being tackled and just as he was about to get up, he felt a sudden pain in his shoulder, and almost made him fall down again as he was about to turn over.
"No way..." Eggsy covered his shoulder in surprise, and looked back at his shoulder with wide eyes: "I'm not... injured?"
Eggsy moved his shoulders again, ready to stretch out his hands to prop himself up, and felt a pain in his left shoulder, almost falling off the ground. But he quickly supported himself with his right hand, climbed up quickly, and continued running.
But compared to before, the sliding tackle seemed to make his shoulder more painful, and now even swinging his arm made him sweat. This pain visibly slowed down Eggsy's speed, but he continued to run on the court.
For no other reason, because his main responsibility in the second half was to attract Manchester United's attention, control the ball, and do his best to increase Manchester United's offensive speed and fight a war of physical attrition!
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