Chapter 542: Apply More Bruise Medicine

Beckham's pass made all the English fans excited. They all exclaimed, "The legendary Beckham is back!" This made the fans very surprised because they could see the super winger who made wonderful arc passes on the court again and again.

What is the most famous thing in football in the early 21st century?

It was not Ronaldo's swinging pass, nor Zidane's Marseille turn, but Beckham's arc pass.

When he was in Manchester United, Beckham's passes always left Manchester United's opponents helpless, and they had no way to limit him. This was because in Manchester United's offense, Beckham would usually be dragged behind the team.

Many people blame Beckham, saying that his dribbling skills are very poor and that such skills are not worthy of being called a world-class star.

Yes, compared with stars like Ronaldo, Beckham is indeed at an absolute disadvantage in dribbling.

But so what?

Did Beckham really use anyone?

This curve ball tells everyone that David Beckham doesn't need to dribble past opponents. Those are unnecessary actions for him. A curve ball can directly bypass the defensive player, so what is the point of dribble past opponents?

The facts are there, and Beckham's performance is the most effective response to any doubts.

When the fans' excitement passed, they finally remembered a forgotten person, that was Joe Cole who was standing on the court complaining. Joe Cole scored a goal, but it seemed that no one cheered for him, and his brilliance was completely overshadowed by Beckham.

Of course, English fans would not show favoritism. When they reacted, the sound of "Joe!! Joe!! Joe!! Joe!" filled the entire stadium. Only then did a smile appear on Joe Cole's sad face.

"Congratulations, Joe!"

Seeing the expression on Joe Cole's face, Wang Li walked over and said sincerely, then walked to Joe Cole, immediately pushed Joe Cole to the ground, and then shouted "Congratulations on scoring a World Cup goal", and then pressed his body forward, and the teammates behind him followed suit.

Joe Cole, who is at the bottom of the "human fortress", is happy in pain.

These are just ways to celebrate goals. In fact, the England players' hearts are still on the game. They know very well that the game has just begun and it is too early to celebrate now.

After the England team finished celebrating, the players from both teams took their positions and prepared to kick off again.

In the media's evaluation, Paraguay's offense was belittled because they scored an average of only 0.8 goals per game in the South American zone of the World Cup qualifiers, which is indeed too low.

In fact, Paraguay's offense on the field now looks very good, and their style is pure South American offensive style.

What is South American football?

From the official languages ​​of South American countries, we can know that the Iberian Peninsula has the greatest influence on South America. Except for Suriname and French Guiana, the official languages ​​of other countries are Spanish and Portuguese. Most countries use Spanish as the official language, and only Brazil uses Portuguese as the official language.

This shows that the football style of the Iberian Peninsula has a great influence in South America.

Therefore, the unrestrained nature of Spanish football and the gorgeousness of Portuguese football can both be reflected in the South American teams.

Colombia and Argentina focus on short pass penetration, which is inherited from the Spanish style, while Brazil prefers gorgeous individual skills, which is obviously influenced by Portugal.

Other teams, such as Uruguay, Paraguay, Peru, Chile and other teams are also without exception with unrestrained styles and precise coordination. The Iberian football style is almost deeply rooted in South America.

Since the 19th century, many immigrants from all over the world have come to South America, bringing more and richer football styles. For example, there are many Italian immigrants in Argentina, who brought the rigorous style of Italian football to Argentina, making Argentina's playing style more conservative and traditional European style compared to Brazil.

Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay rely more on white players in their team formation. It is difficult to find black players in the main lineups of these three national teams, and mixed-race players are rare. Therefore, the playing styles of these three teams are closer to those of European teams.

In other words, Paraguay's South American style is a combination of Spain's boldness, Portugal's gorgeousness and Europe's conservatism.

If we use real football tactics and playing styles to describe it, teams with this style of football rely most on the cooperation between players and the individual performance of stars to find scoring opportunities when attacking.

This is completely different from the English style of attack.

Therefore, Paraguay's repeated short passes made the English defensive players very uncomfortable. As a result, Paraguay's counterattacks would also put some pressure on England's defense.

England was now two goals ahead and in order to equalise the score and get the two teams back on the same level, Paraguay attacked more and more.

The brightest star in the Paraguayan team is undoubtedly the forward Santa Cruz.

This player was reported by many media before the game, but he was not very impressive in the opening stage. Now that Paraguay has stepped up its offensive, Santa Cruz has a chance.

If we say that all Paraguayan players play South American football and have outstanding skills, then Santa Cruz is undoubtedly one of the best. In England's backcourt, whenever Santa Cruz gets the ball, his footwork skills always make the fans exclaim. Santa Cruz's football skills are very high, and his dribbling and passing can bring very good opportunities to the team.

Santa Cruz got the ball again, he dribbled past Beckham and Gary Neville, and then made a diagonal pass straight into the heart of the England penalty area! !

Chance!

There is Valdes

Perhaps, the previous players performed very well, and Valdez's performance should be said to be quite satisfactory. Unfortunately, such a player partnering with Santa Cruz may be the latter's sorrow.

Valdes is a midfielder who currently plays for Leicester in the Italian league. Last season, Valdes played 26 games for Leicester in the Italian Serie A and scored 0 goals. His performance was not good, and Leicester was relegated from Serie A to Serie B.

However, such a player still entered the Paraguay national team, and in this game, he became Santa Cruz's partner to lead Paraguay's forward line.

Perhaps he was still in a goal drought. Facing this hard-earned opportunity, with no one defending him, Valdez didn't kick hard enough, and the ball stumbled and slowly rolled into the arms of goalkeeper Thomas.

"call"

It was a false alarm for the England team. Paraguay head coach Anibal Ruiz even held his cheeks and couldn't bear to watch. Perhaps the 64-year-old man who once coached Argentina's River Plate was extremely disappointed with Valdes.

The English fans breathed a sigh of relief, but the intense game did not stop.

After catching the ball, goalkeeper Thomas subconsciously looked up at the frontcourt, ran forward two steps, raised his foot and kicked the ball hard towards the midfield.

Wang Li is in the middle.

At this time, he was being double-teamed by two Paraguayan players, Barreto and Dos Santos.

When Paraguay attacked, some players who failed to keep up fell back on their own initiative. After all, Paraguay could not launch a large-scale attack like England, and their tactical purpose was still defensive counterattack.

Neither Barreto nor Dos Santos provided assists. When they saw that the team did not score, they came to Wang Li's side immediately. This is a World Cup game, and they will not be careless at all.

Seeing the opponent's black-haired boy being double-teamed by two of their own players, the Paraguayan players breathed a sigh of relief.

Barreto is a left back, but he played as a left winger in this game. In 2004, he transferred from Cerro Porteno to the Dutch club NEC Nijmegen, and quickly established himself in the Netherlands with several wonderful long-range shots.

Barreto is 178cm tall but weighs 85kg. He looks strong and healthy. He also likes to use his advantages to play football. For example, now he is leaning tightly against Wang Li with his body, trying to prevent Wang Li from having the chance to grab the ball.

It seems that Dos Santos has great confidence in Barreto's ability, and the two have cooperated like this many times, so the former did not look back, but focused on watching the football passing through the air, and jumped up to stop the ball with his chest.

At this moment, Dos Santos saw a sudden blackness in front of his eyes, and then he could see clearly that there was an English player in front of him, who stopped the ball with his chest before him.

This player was of course Wang Li. Wang Li didn't care at all about the Paraguayan player leaning on him just now, and he didn't fight hard with the opponent. Instead, when the ball fell, he immediately took light steps and instantly came in front of Dos Santos and stopped the ball.

This was really nothing to Wang Li, but Dos Santos was confused - "Barreto, what are you doing!?"

Seeing the ball lost, dos Santos asked loudly, but the latter was still confused, because he just realized that the person behind him ran away. When he turned around, the black-haired boy was already in front of dos Santos. This scene made Barreto puzzled.

But this was not the time for them to argue. Taking advantage of the opportunity, Wang Li took the ball and rushed towards the Paraguayan half.

"Alan!!! Alan!!! Alan!!!"

Seeing the black-haired boy dribbling the ball on the field, many fans in the audience kept shouting loudly. Half of them were not England fans, but they really had reason to shout and cheer for the white figure on the field.

Santa Cruz's football was beautiful and technically sound, but compared to Wang Li's current football, the fans at the scene immediately saw the difference.

Now, when the black-haired boy on the field was dribbling the ball, every subtle movement seemed like a dance, and every shake was very casual. He seemed to be dribbling the ball gracefully on the field as if he was walking in a garden. This exciting game became much more spectacular because of the black-haired boy's dribbling of the ball.

Is this really a football game?

Many tourists who had never seen this scene asked.

In fact, this is nothing to Wang Li. Now, he has integrated the martial arts style of the Xiaoyao School into the sport of football, so even if he does not use the specific body movement such as Lingbo Weibu, it will still be very entertaining.

Of course, these are not what Wang Li is considering. What he is considering is how to invade the heartland of Paraguay.

Because of Paraguay's previous attack, their backcourt defense seemed much more sparse. In addition to Barreto and Dos Santos following Wang Li, there were three other players, namely Menzur, Gamara and Cáceres. Except for Calares who was on the wing, the other two were all near the penalty area line.

How far is the center line from the penalty area line?

Less than 30 meters.

The distance of thirty meters was just a matter of a flash for Wang Li. While he was observing Paraguay's defense, he had already dribbled the ball to the vicinity of the penalty area line.

At this time, Wang Li hesitated.

Now, he had two players behind him and two players in front of him. Even he himself was a little overwhelmed by the double-teaming of four defensive players. If the opponent's goalkeeper attacked again, it would be difficult for him to score. At this moment, he thought of his dream dance steps, but shook his head. That way of playing football consumed too much internal energy, so it was better to use it as little as possible if possible.

So how do you get past them?

Before Wang Li could figure out what to do, he had already reached the penalty area line.

When Wang Li encountered the first defensive player, he subconsciously used the "shadowless kick". At this time, all the fans saw the kid who was about to be double-teamed, his feet constantly swinging back and forth on the court. The speed was definitely the limit of human beings. This scene made everyone feel a little amazed.

This is real cycling!!

However, Menzul, who was actually facing Wang Li, was dazzled. Under the visual effect of the "shadowless kick", he had no idea where the ball was.

So, Menzuer got ruthless and fell to the ground to tackle the ball! !

This is outside the penalty area, so even if there is a foul it is just a free kick. If Wang Li is tackled or even injured, the Paraguayan team will not be severely punished, and Menzur will only get a yellow card at most.

But is Wang Li so easy to deal with?

If he was tackled so easily, he would not have achieved his current success. After all, on the court, technology is important, but physical strength is more important.

Facing Menzul's tackle, Wang Li's legs suddenly stopped, and he kicked the ball slightly forward with his toes. Then he changed direction of his body in an instant and dodged Menzul's right leg by a hair's breadth.

"He's really lucky, but..."

Paraguayan captain Gamara was feeling emotional because the football was rolling towards him quickly. Faced with this opportunity, he swung his leg to kick the ball out to clear the situation for Paraguay.

At this time, Wang Li was also secretly anxious.

Although he could use some footwork and body movements to dodge the opponent's interception, it would be difficult for him to control the football. For example, the force just now was a bit too strong. In that instant, he reacted and rushed forward with his footwork that left no trace. Although he was able to kick the ball before Gamarra, it was difficult for him to control the ball under his feet. After all, it was too difficult to control the force under his feet while rushing forward. The internal force attached to his feet was likely to increase the force. Even if he kicked the ball, it would inevitably fly far away.

But at this moment, Wang Li caught a glimpse of a white figure on the right side of the penalty area out of the corner of his eye.

That's an England player!!

Without even seeing who that person was, Wang Li rushed over and kicked the ball in that direction. At the same time, Gamara's right leg swung over. Wang Li couldn't stop himself and rushed past Gamara, who kicked Wang Li's right leg.

This scene made English fans a little worried.

At the same time, the ball has been passed to the right side, where Rooney is coming!!

Wayne Rooney!! Manchester United's star player!!

Although many fans criticize Rooney and think that this player relies entirely on his body to play football, in fact, Rooney is not inferior to the world's top players in terms of explosiveness and skills! !

This time, with no one guarding him, Rooney rushed straight into the Paraguayan penalty area. Facing the goalkeeper, he did not choose to shoot with force. Instead, he used a light lob, leaving the opponent's goalkeeper with nothing to do but sigh.

"Wayne~~~~~~Rooney!!!"

"Rooney! He scored England's third goal. Now the game is 3:0. No one could have imagined before the start of the game that England would be leading 3:0 at the end of the first half!!"

"This goal is also thanks to Wang Li. His continuous dribbling attracted the attention of all the Paraguayan players and gave Rooney a chance to score. This counterattack was really beautiful!!"

The little fat boy who scored a World Cup goal seemed very excited. He ran to Wang Li and wanted to give Wang Li a warm hug, but unfortunately Wang Li pushed him away.

"You're all sweaty and I don't like men."

This sentence was like a bucket of cold water, which directly poured on Rooney's excitement. The fat boy frowned and cursed "fuck!", and was then drowned out by the English players who ran over to celebrate the goal.

At this moment, Paraguay's captain Gamara walked up to Wang Li and looked at Wang Li's right leg in confusion. This expression attracted the attention of the English players who were celebrating the goal.

Gamarra asked Wang Li in confusion: "Don't your legs hurt?"

Gamarra was obviously referring to the collision just now.

He clearly remembered that he had just kicked the black-haired boy's right leg hard, but after the latter got up from the grass, he celebrated the goal with his teammates as if nothing had happened. It was really a weird scene.

Wang Li reacted and was about to say something, but Joe Cole came over and said to Gamarra with a smile: "You should check your feet to see if they are injured. Remember to apply more medicine for injuries."

Gamara was stunned, and before he could react, Joe Cole and Wang Li had already walked away.

Then, the Paraguayan captain felt that his right foot seemed to be a little swollen and painful.

(To be continued)