All the main players of the Milwaukee Bucks stood in a circle around Coach Carter. The atmosphere in the locker room was exciting yet tense.

Coach Carter began his pre-game speech: "Today is everyone's last game in high school! It's also the last game of this national tournament!"

"This game will be a full stop to your youth!"

"I know you are all very nervous at the moment. I know you are worried that your performance is not good enough. I also know that you are afraid of failure!"

"Relax, my children!"

"Because no matter success or failure, this is not your end! It's your starting point!"

"Yes! The overall strength of the Bucks Steelhorns is not as good as that of the Missionaries - this is an objective fact that we cannot deny!"

"For us at the Bucks Steelhorns, victory never comes as easy as flowers on the hillside."

"Other teams win easily, but we need to work harder!"

"But we fought our way through! We used our own way to carve out a bloody path for ourselves in a jungle full of carnivorous beasts!"

"Each of you is the best fighter! This is why Southampton people like you! You have perfectly demonstrated the Southampton spirit with every victory and struggle!"

"——Never give up! Fight to the bitter end!"

"For this final match, everyone doesn't need to have any burden, just keep trying your best!"

"Now, there is only one last enemy left in front of us who despises us!"

"They think we are worthless trash! They think they can easily kill us!"

"So, what do we do?"

All the players of the Bucks Steelhorns raised their arms and shouted: "Fuck him! Fuck him! Fuck him!"

"That's right! Go get him!" Coach Carter said in a deep voice, "What I want is not victory, but the Southampton people's spirit of never giving up! My little guys, are you all ready?"

“Ready!”

The players of the Bucks Steelhorns shouted in unison, and the roof of the entire north locker room was almost blown off!

"Okay!" Coach Carter waved his hand, "Go, kids! Follow the tactics we formulated before. Hold on to them tightly in the first half and don't let go. Do your best to consume their energy! Don't let them feel comfortable for even a second! God will be with you!"

The Bucks Steelhorns players put their hands together and shouted, “Roar!!!”

Immediately afterwards, the players of the Bucks Steelhorns walked out of the north locker room with murderous intent and lined up in the player tunnel.

The Missionaries also came to the player tunnel and lined up.

The players from both teams disliked each other. Although there was no verbal communication, the player tunnel was filled with a strong smell of gunpowder.

At 6:50! Led by three national-level referees, the players from both teams walked past the Young Talents Trophy and officially entered the field! Deafening cheers rang out in the Millennium Stadium! Various team flags were waved passionately in the stands! The whole scene was almost on fire!

When Gu Ran passed by the Young Talent Trophy, he subconsciously glanced at the trophy.

Olin from the Missionaries team was also looking at the trophy from the other side.

The moment their eyes met, sparks seemed to fly.

Olin gave Gu Ran a provocative look, then quickly retracted his gaze and followed the team onto the green field.

...A coward who likes to pretend.

Gu Ran sneered in his heart and complained.

The two teams lined up on the field and began the handshake ceremony.

When the players of the Bucks Steelhorns shook hands with Olin, everyone used all their strength, wishing they could break Olin's hand!

Olin was pinched hard 11 times and his face turned green!

After the handshake ceremony, the captains of the two teams came to the referee to toss a coin.

Bucks Steelhorns captain Bread guessed the front and back sides and got the priority to choose the side.

The captain of the Missionaries, No. 10 McEachran, won the kick-off for the Missionaries.

The two captains exchanged team flags as a sign of respect - although neither of them had any respect in their hearts.

Players from both teams went to their respective halves, took pictures, and then began to take their positions.

Gu Ran quickly observed the missionary team's position:

The Missionaries' position is clearly a 433 formation.

U17 international Wickham plays as a center forward, in the middle, with a winger on each side of him.

The midfield is organized and connected with captain No. 10 McEachran as the core.

On the defensive line, the two left and right full-backs have basically reached the wing-back positions, ready to attack at any time.

It can be said that this formation is very offensive.

It seems that the head coach of the Missionaries, Pratt, did not take the "grassroots weak team" like the Bucks Steelhorns seriously at all.

Pratt once played for Arsenal and Sampdoria in Serie A. Before retiring, he also briefly coached the English League One team Nottingham Forest - yes, at that time Pratt was both the head coach and the player of Nottingham Forest.

…the legendary “coach is warming up.”

Pratt himself plays in the midfield, so his understanding of the midfield must be deeper than other coaches.

Pratt, who has some Arsenal blood and European experience, has a more obvious continental style of play. Gu Ran can already predict that under this offensive 433 system, Pratt will inevitably place more emphasis on midfield control, with midfield ace No. 10 McEachran acting as the engine to distribute the ball, play short passes to control the ball, and then give full play to the players' ability to break through the flanks.

This means that the defensive pressure on the Bucks Steelers today will be unprecedentedly huge.

First of all, we must stick to No. 10 McEachran and try to limit the personal ability of the U17 international captain. Secondly, we must keep an eye on the advancement of the Missionaries' two wings and the penetration of center forward Wickham in the penalty area.

The players of the Missionaries have strong individual abilities, and with the support of the 433 attack formation, their overall strength will be even more formidable.

This will definitely be a huge test for the Bucks' defense.

On the other hand, the Bucks' Steelers' formation is still the "old" 442.

Head coach Carter almost uses the same formation to death - this is not Carter's fault, he has such a bad hand. The players' individual skills are not good enough, their physical strength is not good, and the overall coordination is not strong. Only their physical fitness and willpower are decent. How can they fight against strong teams head-on with such a hand?

442 defense and counterattack is the only correct choice for the Bucks Steelhorns.

Moreover, the key to winning or losing does not lie in the conflict between formations, but in the fine-tuning of details during the game.

The Bucks Steelhorns used to not have the ability to make on-the-spot adjustments, but now the Bucks Steelhorns have a trump card in this bad hand - Gu Ran, so this on-the-spot tactical fine-tuning is the biggest hidden advantage of the Bucks Steelhorns! Coach Carter is not a star player like Pratt, nor is he a big-name coach, but he has been in the games of weak teams for a long time, and he is definitely a professional in terms of self-awareness and control of the locker room.

In this game, Coach Carter still let Bread stay back as a defensive midfielder, while Minato, who had been rushing forward as a fake core in the previous games, retreated and no longer rushed forward - playing against a super strong team like the Missionaries, there was no need to act anymore, just focus on defense.

As for Gu Ran's position, he did not move to the left forward position in advance, but stood in his left back position in a proper manner.

The opponent had the ball at the start, so the blitz tactics used in the previous games were ineffective.

And... from the conversation with Olin, we can also learn that the Missionary Team has a "military intelligence scout". The Missionary Team must know Gu Ran's blitzkrieg tactics, and they will definitely focus on guarding against Gu Ran's blitzkrieg tactics.

At first glance, the Bucks' Steelers lineup seems ordinary, even mediocre.

However, every player on the Bucks Steel Horns team was full of murderous intent. Facing the top teams, they were not afraid at all! Gu Ran and Olin stood on the opposite corners. The left side of the Bucks Steel Horns team was the right side of the Missionaries team.

So Olin's counterpart is not Gu Ran, but the Bucks' right forward Blind Man and right back Hua Luo.

The blind man and Hua Luo looked at Olin with eyes full of knives.

The referee looked down at his watch.

The fans from Southampton and Cardiff cheered wildly:

"Gu Ran! Gu Ran!"

“Come on, come on!”

"Score a goal! Get first place in the scorer list!"

"Chinese dad! Beat the missionary team!"

"Black-haired Bell! Go ahead! We want to see you overtake in the outside lane!"

"Ahhhh! My god, I love you! My mom and I both love you!"

As the game approached, the atmosphere on the scene became more and more heated.

Gu Ran stood on the green field, took a deep breath calmly, and cleared all the messy thoughts in his mind.

Gu Ran focused his attention on his mind——

Now, there are 6 talent points left to use.

The physical contact in the early stages of this game will definitely be intense, and the players of the Missionaries are generally tall, and most of them are trained in professional youth training camps, so their attribute levels of 65 in strength and 67 in power are... enough in front of the Missionaries, but they don't have much advantage.

In the early stages of the confrontation, you must establish an advantage as quickly as possible, otherwise it will be easy to collapse.

Gu Ran didn't hesitate and directly took out 2 talent points, adding 1 point each to the strength attribute and the power attribute.

The strength attribute reached 66 points! The strength attribute reached 68 points! Gu Ran suddenly felt that the muscles of his whole body had become thicker, and the strength of his muscles and bones had also become stronger!

Cool! Just do it!

What is the best team in the country, what is the British U17 international, what is this ace and that core...

These titles will only make me more excited when I fuck you!

Gu Ran's eyes were filled with murderous intent !

With the referee's crisp opening whistle, the national competition finals officially began! "Yeah!!!"

The 50,000 fans at the scene had waited for a long time, and finally the moment of the game began! The missionary team kicked off first.

No. 9 Wickham passed the ball directly back to captain McEachran, and then quickly rushed into the penalty area of ​​the Bucks Steelhorns team.

After getting the ball, McEachran started quickly and advanced at high speed along the middle.

The other missionary players also started to sprint.

The entire missionary team started to blitz! Olin, who was not even a dog, sprinted the most vigorously!

As soon as the game started, the missionaries showed their ferocious fangs!

The Missionaries fans in the south stands roared with excitement!

The fans of the Bucks Steelhorns were booing like crazy! The players of the Bucks Steelhorns quickly shrank their defense! Watergate and Bread formed the first midfield defense line, intercepting McEachran who was dribbling the ball head-on.

The sissy also retreated to join in the defense.

Gu Ran let the Missionary Team's right forward go down the flank, while he himself retreated to the middle to help defend the goalkeeper and Bread - in this case, he would be on the wing defending the middle.

And Ximei was trying his best to chase the right forward.

The other players of the Bucks Steelhorns, except for the Glider who was at the frontcourt, all participated in the defense with physical confrontation to suppress the Missionaries' lightning speed!

After undergoing Gu Ran's involution training, the Bucks Steelhorns' overall defensive speed has been very fast! The Missionaries' blitz was blocked and failed to form an overall breakthrough.

Next, it will depend on the confrontation between the two sides on local details!

Minato, Bread, and Sissy formed a triangle defensive formation and teamed up to double-team the Missionaries' ace captain No. 10 McKellen.

Bread blocked McEachran's breakthrough path in advance, Watergate quickly approached McEachran, Sissy was the last one to come, and the three of them worked together to squeeze McEachran to Gu Ran's side -

This kind of defensive coordination has also been the focus of the Bucks Steelhorns' drills in recent stages.

In this way, even if McEachran can get past the bread, he will get into Gu Ran's hunting circle! At that time, Gu Ran will use his body to block McEachran, and Minato and others will follow up to steal the ball, forming a 4v1 tactical hunting! After successfully stealing the ball, you can launch a sharp counterattack!

but……

As a British U17 international, McEachran not only has rich experience in major competitions, but also has very clear ideas!

McEachran did not dribble the ball towards the "flaw", but suddenly stopped, followed by a beautiful Matthews shoulder drop -

"Wow!!!"

All the fans in the stadium couldn't help but exclaimed in amazement! Not only the fans of the Missionaries, but also the fans of the Bucks Steelhorns and Cardiff fans were amazed.

This move is so gorgeous! It's just right!

In British football, which is dominated by physical collisions, this kind of dribbling is simply a magical skill! The so-called "shoulder drop" is a dribbling skill that football players use when facing defense. As the name suggests, it is to press the shoulders down, lower the center of gravity, and instantly twist the body in the opposite direction to complete a quick turn, causing the defensive player to make a misjudgment, thereby shaking off the defender's defense, tearing open the defense line, and creating a breakthrough channel.

This extraordinary move was created by British football master Stanley Matthews.

Matthews is a true legend. He has lived a brilliant life. The thing he is most proud of is that he joined the professional team at the age of 16 and played until he was 50 years and 5 days old and was knighted. He officially retired.

This was once the record for the oldest player in football. It was broken by Miura Ryochi at the age of 50 years and 7 days 17 years after his death.

When Matthews retired, some sports media lamented: If Matthews is not knighted, he will probably play until Charles succeeds him.

In the British arena dominated by physical confrontation, Matthews is an absolute outlier. As a right winger, he is extremely fast and likes to play tricks. He even deliberately uses funny juggling moves to tease his opponents and arouse enthusiastic cheers from the fans.

He was a performing artist on the court of that era. He possessed excellent physical conditions and footwork. His sudden stops and turns were the nightmare of all opponents. His shoulder movements were very flexible, and he was often able to complete multiple changes of direction when facing multiple defensive players, making it impossible for opponents to predict his next direction of movement, thus creating more opportunities for the team.

The shoulder-dropping movement itself is not difficult, but the difficulty lies in the super control of the muscles in various parts of the body, as well as the ability to continuously change direction and control the ball in a small double-team space.

In fact, Matthews' shoulder drop is not his most amazing shoulder drop technique.

The most amazing thing is Messi's shoulder drop.

Messi's shoulder drop is known as "one of the magical skills of La Masia" and is also the skill with the highest success rate in breaking through defense in a small space in today's football.

To be honest, Messi is definitely one of the most talented players in the world. His strength lies not only in his natural skills, but also in his god-level motor reaction nerves that are almost born specifically for football.

If we compare Matthews' shoulder drop with Messi's shoulder drop, Matthews' shoulder drop is used more consciously. After all, the defensive technology in the British football environment is rough and there is more space for breakthroughs. In the La Liga environment where Messi is, there are more players involved in the defense, and the double-teaming on him is tighter and more targeted. Messi is almost always in a small space where multiple people double-team him. Under such conditions, Messi must react faster and more agilely to complete a breakthrough.

Other players' reaction times are measured in seconds, while Messi's are measured in milliseconds.

This means that Messi's shoulder movement changes almost synchronously with the opponent's double-team defense, and his ball control movements also change temporarily according to the opponent's temporary changes.

If the system attributes are used to score, Messi's flexibility attribute is definitely at the full 100-point level.

The flexibility attribute refers to the connection between two actions. The higher the flexibility attribute, the smoother the action connection and the more obvious the continuity.

Messi's breakthrough technique is essentially a combination of several neural-level reaction actions quickly connected together - precise and reasonable.

When you watch Messi break through the defense, you won't think he is fast, but when you use a close-up and slow down camera to analyze it in detail, you will find out how many highly controlled and subtle reaction movements his body muscles make in one second.

This is definitely not a specific instruction from the brain, but a neurologically induced physical reaction.

This kind of neural-level motor reaction also makes "Messi's shoulder drop" more unpredictable. Messi's shoulder drop is not a fixed pattern, but has reached a state similar to "no move is better than a move".

When Messi uses the shoulder drop method, it must be when the opposing player is too close to him. Messi will use the shoulder drop method to move sideways, turn around or suddenly change direction to accelerate. He may even use a series of actions such as shoulder drop, sudden stop, reverse shoulder drop, and sudden acceleration, which almost violate the laws of normal human motor nerves.

World-class players are all talented, but Messi not only has talent, he also has inhuman-level football motor nerves.

——Messi himself is a cheat.

Now, the skills used by the Missionaries' McEachran are certainly not comparable to Messi's shoulder sinking, but are just a lower-level Matthews' shoulder sinking.

But even with Matthews' shoulders lowered, it was already a dimensionality reduction attack in the amateur national competition.

Seeing Matthews of MacEachern lower his shoulders, Gu Ran's eyes lit up!!! This skill... I'm going to be fucked! ——At the moment when Matthews of MacEachern lowered his shoulders, the water gate who was defending him was directly shaken to the ground! The bread blocking the middle was also shaken away! The sissy didn't react at all! There was no way to catch up with MacEachern in the first time.

The triangle defense formation against McEachran was broken in an instant!

The Bucks Steelhorns' midfield defense was immediately torn open!

——This is really a crushing victory in terms of personal ability! McEachran then accelerated and rushed to the right side of the Bucks Steelhorns with the ball! Almost all the defensive players were chasing and blocking and assisting in the right side, while Gu Ran quickly retreated to the left side of the penalty area.

The 30-meter area has been broken through. As the left-back, Gu Ran’s next task is to prevent McEachran from using the width of the field after breaking through and suddenly passing the ball to the left sideline.

This is basketball IQ! At this time, on the right side of the Bucks Steelhorns, the missionary's left forward and left back Olin have already assisted.

The Bucks' Blind Man and Hua Luo tried their best to defend them and prevent them from breaking through further.

Central defenders Rusty and Painter also quickly marked No. 9 Wickham who had penetrated into the penalty area.

Minato also quickly climbed up from the grass and tried hard to chase after McEachran, while Bread retreated to the top of the penalty area.

In general, although the Bucks Steelhorns had one line of defense broken by McEachern's personal ability, their defensive formation was still there and had not been directly penetrated.

Facing the pursuit and blockade of the Bucks Steelhorns, McEachern remained calm and composed as he made a direct attack to the right rib.

While dribbling at high speed, McEachran suddenly looked up at the left side of the Bucks Steelhorns.

Here it comes!!!

(End of this chapter)