After the substitution, the Pirates' central defender took the indirect free kick and passed the ball to Albert in the midfield.

Without the dog-skin plaster's defense, the pirate ship captain Albert obviously played more relaxed. After receiving the ball, Albert used his wide vision to suddenly make a lob pass to the right front field, hitting Gu Ran's back.

The Corsair winger immediately jumped up and accelerated to chase the ball! The Manchester students at the scene shouted wildly. What they were most looking forward to was the scene where the Corsair broke through the left side of the Bucks Steel Horns! However, Gu Ran's position on the left side was much better than the position of the temporary worker before.

Although the ball was picked behind Gu Ran, Gu Ran did not lose his position, but was in a more advantageous position than the Corsair winger.

As soon as Albert kicked the ball, Gu Ran quickly turned around and sprinted to chase the ball.

The football first landed thirty meters away from the right front field and continued to roll towards the sideline.

Gu Ran got the ball under his feet before the opposing winger rushed over! This was not only Gu Ran's advantage in speed, but also his advantage in physical fitness and positional sense!

The effect of Coach Carter's previous small lesson to Gu Ran was rewarded at this moment!

The opposing winger obviously didn't expect that Gu Ran's speed was faster than him. After all, the speed of the previous opponent's temporary worker was too slow, so the opposing winger didn't accelerate to full speed this time. He could only watch Gu Ran pass the ball horizontally to the midfielder.

Gu Ran completed a crucial clearance with his first touch! After getting the ball, Bread immediately dribbled towards the middle.

The tactical focus in the first half was defense. When the ball was available, long passes were made, allowing the frontcourt to fight on their own. However, after substitutions and changes in positions in the second half, the tactics also changed.

The tactical strategy for the second half is: control the ball! Play with each other! Pull the Pirates' defense line!

Bread calmly passed the ball to Minato who retreated to the midfield to receive the ball.

Minato was blocked by three defensive players in the middle and immediately passed the ball to the blind man on the right.

Although the Buccaneers played loosely, their defensive skills were still very solid and their defense was not easy to break.

The blind man had no better way to pass the ball, so he could only turn around and knock the ball back to Bread for reorganization.

Gu Ran raised his hand on the left side and asked for the ball.

Bread hesitated.

Gu Ran performed very well in the team training match, but this is a group match.

Just as Bread was hesitating, Coach Carter stood outside the court with his hands on his hips and yelled, "Bread, left! Left! Are you waiting for me to give you a shovel?!"

With the coach's shout, Mian Bao stopped hesitating.

Albert rushed forward to press, but Bread didn't wait for Albert to get close and passed the ball directly to the left.

Gu Ran received the ball while running forward.

The opposing winger came up to intercept and sneered from a distance: "Chinaman, can you dribble the ball?"

Gu Ran responded with a direct trash talk +1: "What I brought is your mother's snowball!"

The winger on the opposite side was stunned.

Gu Ran took the opportunity to change line, bypassing the opposing winger, and instead of advancing along the wing, he cut directly into the middle!

The opposing winger desperately chased Gu Ran while raising his hand to appeal to the referee: "Referee! Referee!! This Chinese guy cursed at me!!!"

The referee raised his arms forward and ran after the ball, shouting, "Good attack! Good attack!"

Gu Ran accelerated and cut inside with the ball. His abundant physical energy gave him a great advantage.

The main players of the Bucks Steel Horns were very familiar with Gu Ran's cut-in route and they all coordinated his movement.

The Corsairs were a bit confused! When Coach Carter directed Bread to pass the ball to the left, the Corsairs players were laughing secretly - it would be strange if they could succeed in breaking through after such an obvious intention to advance to the left was called out.

Therefore, the center of gravity of the Pirates' formation also shifted to the left side.

But they never expected that the Chinese kid, who had just come on as left-back, would not go to the left, but cut directly into the middle!

What kind of move is this? A left-back ran to the middle!

The other Corsair players also reacted and quickly moved their defense from the left to the middle, preparing for a quick counterattack.

Facing Albert's close combat, Gu Ran was not at all panicked.

After Gu Ran used his body to withstand Albert's collision, without waiting for Albert to stretch out his foot to steal the ball, he directly turned with a step-down move -

Gu Ran took a forward step with his left foot, and knocked the ball from behind to the other side of his body with his right foot! This is the step-down turn, commonly known as "C Ronaldo knocking the ball", which is the most common, most hidden, and most practical trick among all the passing skills! Although this trick does not require much technical skills, even beginners can easily learn it, but if used well, it is a magical skill to get rid of the opponent!

Gu Ran did not learn this move by picking up other people's skills, but by relying on the muscle memory of playing as a striker in the wild team in his previous life! Originally, with his current young body, it would be very stiff and unsmooth to do a step-down turn, and there would even be a risk of losing the ball in a high-level confrontation. However, before the game, Gu Ran had just picked up Albert's "dynamic ball control" training! With the results of 10 hours of high-end dynamic ball control training, plus Gu Ran's experience in wild ball in his previous life, this simple and effective step-down turn was done very smoothly!

As Gu Ran finished knocking the ball, he instantly changed direction and turned around, regaining control of the ball under his feet.

Albert subconsciously followed Gu Ran and turned around, but he lost his balance and fell to the ground! All the Manchester students at the scene were dumbfounded:

What's happening?!

Albert was actually passed? And he fell flat on his face? Albert is the ace of the Corsair! That guy is just a backup full-back! And he is Chinese!

But why was Albert actually overtaken and knocked down by the Chinese full-back?

Is this a performance? Albert himself was also full of disbelief, and he climbed up from the grass in a mess.

At this time, Gu Ran had already run five or six meters away.

Albert no longer had any chance to catch up with Gu Ran.

The Pirates' coach, still wearing a suit, stood on the sidelines with his hands in his trouser pockets and yelled, "Stop him! Stop the Chinese guy! Don't let him pass the ball! Keep a close eye on their two forwards, especially the tall one!"

The Corsair defenders all pressed to the middle.

Gu Ran was very calm and continued to dribble horizontally to the right in the 40-meter area in the front court.

This is no longer an incision, this is a cross-section.

At this time, the formation of the Bucks Steelhorns also underwent a drastic change -

Bian Bao retreated to the diagonal rear of Gu Ran to fill the gap left behind Gu Ran to avoid being counterattacked.

The two forwards, Sissy and Glider, boldly penetrated into the Corsair's penalty area, shouting for the ball and engaging in various movements.

The "9.5" water gate took the opportunity to quietly infiltrate the unguarded left side.

Gu Ran knew very well that Sissy and Glider's request for the ball was just a cover! Coach Carter's frontcourt attack tactics were still the "9 and a half" tactics! The whole team had to implement this tactic and pass the ball to Minato as much as possible.

When the water gate penetrated to the left side of the penalty area, Gu Ran immediately focused his mind and activated his golden right foot: an accurate long pass, a decisive kick! The football flew high - it was a 40-meter diagonal pass!

The accuracy of this kick was very high. Minato hardly needed to run. He just raised his foot and easily controlled the ball!

The entire central defense line of the pirate fleet was completely pierced by this sudden kick!

All the Corsair players opened their mouths exaggeratedly!

The Pirates' head coach in suits widened his eyes in disbelief!

The formation of the Pirates was torn open by the Chinese kid who was the left back just now, just like tearing a pair of stockings! The left side of the Pirates' restricted area was completely empty!

Minato dribbled the ball and cut inside.

Three against two in the small penalty area! The goalkeeper of the Pirates rushed out to block the shooting angle of the water gate! The other two defensive players also rushed up to press the water gate.

Minato didn't stick to the ball, but decisively knocked the ball to the sissy standing in the middle! Facing the almost empty goal, the sissy didn't even adjust, and pushed the ball! The ball...

In!!!

(End of this chapter)