Chapter 113 2+1 Template, Fast but Must Be Shoveled

Porto reached the final with a score of 3:1 and completed a double kill against the University of Coimbra with a substitute lineup.

The most eye-catching thing was of course Jiang Yuan's performance in this game, with 2 shots and 1 assist, which also shut up many black fans who thought that Jiang Yuan was not good enough to start in the Portuguese Super League.

After beating up the Portuguese Super League team, can you still say that I don’t have the quality to be a starter in the Portuguese Super League?
……

At nine o'clock the next morning, all the first-team players gathered on the field of the Gaya Training Center, and Lopetegui stood in the middle ready to speak.

Logically speaking, the team will have at least one day off after a regular match, but considering that the day after tomorrow is the second Champions League match against Bayern, Lopetegui canceled the players' holiday.

If you ask the players if they have any complaints, I can only say that they have none. If you don’t ask, it’s hard to say…

"You know, our opponent is the Bundesliga champion Bayern. You should all be aware of Bayern's strength. Although we luckily won by one goal in the first round..."

When talking about "beating Bayern by one goal", Lopetegui glanced at Jiang Yuan inadvertently, with mixed feelings in his heart.

Who could have thought that the one who scored the winning goal against Bayern was this young Chinese player who came on as a substitute and was worth only 75 euros?

"Today we are going to do some targeted training, targeting Bayern's various positions and their formation. If you hear my name, please stand to my left."

"Reuben, Alex, Ricardo!"

"Next, those whose names are called go to the right..."

"..."

After Lopetegui finished speaking according to the notes, only Casemiro and He Jiangyuan were left in the semicircle formed by more than 20 people in the first team. The others were divided into groups and assigned tasks, which were under the charge of assistant coaches Hemiel and Ruan.

Casemiro and Jiang Yuan looked at each other, and finally Jiang Yuan asked first: "Mr. Hu Lun, what should Carlos and I do..."

Lopetegui glanced at Jiang Yuan and said unhappily, "What do you think you should practice the most?"

Ok……

Jiang Yuan lowered his head and thought for a moment, then hesitantly said, "Pass...pass someone?"

"Asshole, you're still thinking about dribbling past the defense. Did you know that your average dribbles per game are in the top five in the Portuguese Premier League?"

Lopetegui was overwhelmed when he found that Jiang Yuan still hadn't realized it. "Your training task today is to learn one-on-one defense with Casemiro. As for the wing defense, Coach Luan will teach you how to do it later."

"Defense?"

Jiang Yuan suddenly realized that Lopetegui wanted to improve his defensive skills. This was beyond Jiang Yuan's expectations, but also within reason.

After all, Jiang Yuan’s defensive performance in the game has nothing to do with the words “Portuguese Super League player”.

After saying that, Lopetegui walked to the side. He was also responsible for the five-corner attack in the frontcourt with Neves, Quaresma and others.

At this moment, the familiar mechanical sound of the system rang in Jiang Yuan's mind.

[Defense training begins, triggering the attached defense template! ]

[You have obtained... "Shovel" Wan-Bissaka defensive template (100%)]

[Note: Wan-Bissaka's defensive template has a total of five skills]

"Five skills!?"

Jiang Yuan was delighted. He did not expect that the defensive training that Lopetegui arranged for him would trigger the hidden template of the system. Moreover, the Wan-Bissaka template and the Mbappe and Ronaldo templates he got this time were different. He got 100%.

The most important thing is that this template comes with five skills right from the start, which is simply too cool!
Thinking of this, Jiang Yuan moved his mind and checked the five new skills he had acquired.

A full-back who has played for a Premier League giant! What are his five skills?

Your defensive template skill card:

【Front Tackle】

【Side Tackle】

【Tackle from behind】

【Tackling ball】

【No-fall tackle】

"..."

Ten thousand alpacas were galloping past Jiang Yuan’s head.

Aren't these 5 skills the same?

At this moment, Casemiro noticed that Jiang Yuan was distracted and asked kindly: "Jiang, what's wrong with you?"

"what?"

Jiang Yuan came back to his senses. The sudden appearance of the system just now made him forget that Casemiro was still standing next to him: "Nothing, let's start training. Remember to let him win."

"Haha, Jiang, there's no way I'm going to let you off the hook!"

As Lopetegui said, Jiang Yuan is now in the top five in the Portuguese Super League in terms of the number of dribbles per game. His offensive ability is off the charts, and his defense is almost there. As a good teammate of Jiang Yuan, Casemiro is determined to improve Jiang Yuan's defensive ability.

"So…what do we start with?"

Jiang Yuan asked.

Casemiro took out a small note, which was handed to him by Lopetegui before he left: "Jiang, you are a winger, helping the midfielder and defenders to assist in defense is the most important thing, let's practice this today!"

After saying that, Casemiro fished a ball out of the goal.

"The most important thing about help defense is positioning. You need to block the opponent's offensive player. The difficulty is that some offensive players are very fast, just like you."

Casemiro pointed at Jiang Yuan and continued, "This kind of speed-type offensive player is very difficult to defend. If you want to assist in defense, you must catch up with him at a speed that is not inferior to his, or block the possible passers near him. It is very difficult for ordinary defensive players to do this, but for you... Jiang, do you understand what I mean?"

After listening to what Casemiro said, Jiang Yuan nodded.

He was right. Jiang Yuan's biggest advantage was his acceleration when starting. However, even though Jiang Yuan had good starting and acceleration abilities, defense was still very difficult for him.

So, Jiang Yuan continued: "Carlos, I will be deceived, I think this is the key"

"Ha ha"

Casemiro kicked the ball to Jiang Yuan, indicating that Jiang Yuan should play one-on-one with him. The Brazilian has already regarded himself as Jiang Yuan's personal coach!
Jiang Yuan did not hesitate and rushed forward with the ball, swaying left and right. Casemiro stretched out his legs to intercept his right foot. As a result, Jiang Yuan pulled the ball in a small range, switched to shooting with his left foot, and the ball went accurately into the net.

"Forehead……"

Casemiro licked his lips and said: "Wait, you are not a good example, I will go and call someone"

After saying that, Casemiro ran to the court and called the team's substitute striker Adrian Lopez.

The two completed a one-on-one confrontation under the witness of Jiang Yuan, with Casemiro successfully defending once and failing once.

After finishing, Casemiro wiped the sweat off his forehead with his clothes and asked Jiang Yuan: "Did you see any problem?"

Jiang Yuan nodded: "When attacking for the second time, Adrian didn't see your center of gravity clearly. He should have made another fake move."

"Asshole, Jiang! I'm asking you about your defense!"

Casemiro was furious. There was a reason why Jiang Yuan's defense was so bad. He didn't even have these two words in his mind.

"All right"

Jiang Yuan licked his lips, feeling a little aggrieved. Casemiro only said "problem", but didn't really say what the problem was. As a striker, Jiang Yuan simply pointed out the problem with Lopez's attack.

Is it reasonable? It is quite reasonable!
"Okay, Jiang, tell me what you have seen."

"..."

Jiang Yuan was silent for a while, then hesitantly said: "Sorry, Carlos... I really can't see what's wrong."

"Hey--"

Casemiro sighed. It seemed that Jiang Yuan was not as easy to teach as he had imagined!

"Dominant foot, dominant foot!"

Casemiro shouted twice: "The first time I defended, I blocked Adrian's dominant foot, so he didn't finish the shot. The second time I defended, I blocked his non-dominant foot, so he successfully finished the shot with his dominant foot."

"In front-court defense, you can think of shooting as a pass. What we need to do is to block the attacker's dominant foot. You know, there are many players who can't kick the ball with their non-dominant heel!"

After Casemiro said this, Jiang Yuan finally understood.

The key is to force the attacking player to use his non-dominant foot. Although the Portuguese Super League is a top league, there are not many players whose dominant foot ability exceeds 3 stars!

"but……"

Casemiro then changed the subject: "You also need to learn to judge which foot your opponent has, which is very troublesome to operate."

However, Jiang Yuan shook his head: "We don't need to judge this!"

"why?"

Casemiro widened his eyes. Could it be that Jiang Yuan had some special method?

Jiang Yuan slowly explained: "We play in the Portuguese Super League, and the players all have records in FIFA."

"What does this have to do with your dominant foot?"

Jiang Yuan smiled and said, "Carlos, you haven't reacted yet?"

"We can check the data of players' dominant foot on FIFA. It's too troublesome to judge by ourselves. If we see a player whose non-dominant foot is only 1 or 2 stars, we can just block his dominant foot and that's it!"

Jiang Yuan's words were shocking, and Casemiro froze in place.

Although a bit outrageous.

But...it seems to be correct?

In this way, Casemiro and Jiang Yuan learned from each other and the training lasted for an hour and a half.

I have to say that Jiang Yuan's understanding is quite good, and now he has almost found that defensive feeling.

Although it's still a bit shabby, it's at least watchable compared to before.

……

"Beep!"

Hemiel blew the whistle. There were 40 minutes left before the end of the morning training session, and Lopetegui arranged an intra-squad match.

This kind of temporary extra training does not last long. In order to make the players remember these tactics before the match against Bayern, it must be put into practice.

Hearing Lopetegui's words about playing a competition, Jiang Yuan secretly made up his mind to show the results of his extra training!

So, Jiang Yuan, holding a bunch of fluorescent vests in his hands, started today's competition training.

Casemiro stood next to Lopetegui. Since he had no special training tasks today, Lopetegui arranged him to be next to him to observe the team's tactical execution.

It was said that he was observing the execution of tactics, but in fact he was just seeing how Jiang Yuan was doing in his training.

"Carlos, how is Jiang Yuan's defense going?"

Casemiro waved his hand: "Jiang's talent is definitely not bad, but the time is too short. It is still a bit difficult to defend well now."

"It's okay. I didn't expect Jiang to learn defense in such a short time. At least, I don't want him to have any side effects on defense."

Lopetegui smiled and said that as the head coach, he had the most thorough understanding of Jiang Yuan's technical characteristics.

Diode forward, you need to attack with offense, and you need to defend with offense.

At the beginning of the training match, Neves's through pass from the midfield was intercepted by Torres, who immediately passed the ball to Quaresma.

The Portuguese star ran with the ball, and when he saw the right opportunity, he passed the ball to Kurt who was running in from the right.

"The opportunity has come!"

Jiang Yuan rushed forward and blocked Kurt's attack position before Marcano.

Kurt obviously did not anticipate Jiang Yuan's active defense and almost took the ball out of the sideline, but he adjusted himself immediately.

Quaresma should have reached out for the ball at this time, but when he saw Jiang Yuan's focused eyes, he chose to let the two play one-on-one.

Jiang Yuan moved little by little following Kurt's footsteps. Kurt's dominant foot is his left foot, and his right foot is average. Jiang Yuan kept Casemiro's teachings in mind and used both his hands and feet to force Kurt to use his right foot.

But Jiang Yuan still lacked some experience and was fooled by Kurt's fake move, so he failed to block Kurt's path.

"Fuck!"

Just when Jiang Yuan's defense was about to fail, his brain suddenly felt an electric shock.

Then, Jiang Yuan fell to the ground sideways, with his right leg on the grass and his left leg stretched out.

A tackle sent Kurt's ball straight out of the sideline.

clean!

decisive!

gorgeous!

"Wow!"

The players on and off the field cheered at the same time.

Is this Jiang Yuan?
Lopetegui on the side widened his eyes and put his hand on Casemiro's shoulder: "??? Carlos, why did you teach him this?"

Casemiro looked aggrieved: "Well, can I say I didn't teach him..."

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PS: I was so addicted to watching the penalty shootout last night that I forgot to set the time. Sorry!
There will be more than 10 updates at 1 o'clock later, please keep reading!

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