Chapter 125 Goalkeeper plays as center forward
Captain Martinez tossed the ball to divide the teams, and two teams were quickly formed.

Game name: Dinner life and death battle

A队

Defenders: Danilo, Alex Sandro, Maicon

Midfielders: Casemiro, Neves, Juan Quintero

Forwards: Elton, Jiang Yuan

Goalkeeper: Andres Fernandez

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B队

Defenders: Marcano, Indi, Oliver Torres, Ricardo Pereira

Midfielders: Campania, Martinez, Hector Herrera

Striker: Quaresma

Goalkeeper: Fabiano

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Since there are three goalkeepers, one of them is bound to play outfield.

Unfortunately, Group A, where Jiang Yuan was, was assigned to two goalkeepers.

"Jiang, you made a good suggestion. We have no food to eat today!"

Neves smiled and said to Jiang Yuan, of course he didn't really blame Jiang Yuan. Jiang Yuan was just the first person to put forward the opinion, and when Neves agreed with the opinion, the responsibility was no longer on Jiang Yuan.

Jiang Yuan spread his hands towards Neves, then looked at Elton with an awkward expression: "Silva, are you sure you want to play as a center forward? How about you play as a center back and replace Oliver?"

However, Elton just waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, Jiang. I used to play as a center forward. Oliver may not be as good as me as a center forward!"

"real or fake?"

"fake"

"I……"

Jiang Yuan licked his lips. He didn't know what to say anymore.

The goalkeeper plays as a center forward. This incredible operation can only be seen in games!
"Is it ok?"

Quaresma, who was standing opposite Jiang Yuan, raised his hand, and Elton raised his hand in response, and the competition officially began!
Elton kicked the ball out and reminded Jiang Yuan at the same time: "Jiang, you must come to support me when I get the ball. I'm afraid I can't protect the ball..."

Jiang Yuan's mouth twitched, and after receiving the pass, he gave Elton a thumbs up. What he was actually thinking was: There must be something fishy if I let you get the ball!
Quaresma rushed up immediately after the kick-off. He played the role of center forward for Team B. Jiang Yuan looked left and right, and decided to pass the ball back, and Neves behind him got the ball.

"Carlos!"

Neves called out and the ball was kicked out from under his feet. It was a precise through ball. The ball passed between Jiang Yuan and Quaresma and landed at Casemiro's feet.

Casemiro did not dribble the ball after getting it. He knew that his speed was not an advantage and was waiting for Jiang Yuan to arrive.

"Hey!"

Jiang Yuan stretched out his hand, and just as Casemiro was about to pass the ball, Martinez suddenly rushed out from behind Jiang Yuan. The Porto captain stuck to Jiang Yuan tightly and said, "Jiang, I won't let you get the ball!"

Seeing this, Casemiro gave up and chose to pass the ball to Elton between Neves and Elton. The latter still wanted to pass the ball to Jiang Yuan, but Martinez was too close to him, and passing the ball to Jiang Yuan was undoubtedly giving away the ball.

Jiang Yuan spread his hands: "Is there a referee? This is a defensive foul!"

"Haha, Jiang, I didn't do anything!"

Martinez raised his hands to show his innocence. Of course, it is hard to say whether he is really innocent. Just now, Martinez's left hand almost grabbed Jiang Yuan's little brother, otherwise Jiang Yuan would not have shouted!
Elton, who had the ball, signaled a timeout: "I agree with Jiang, Jackson, your action was really too big!"

"All right"

Jackson showed an aggrieved expression, pulled his hand away from Jiang Yuan's waist, and put his head on Jiang Yuan's shoulder again.

A captain is a captain. Martinez's defense is not professional, but the effect is surprisingly good. In the first 15 minutes of the game, Jiang Yuan only touched the ball 7 times, and was invisible the rest of the time.

Not only that, Martinez, who was marking Jiang Yuan at close range, also found an opportunity for Team B.

"Give me!"

Martinez suddenly rushed out in front of Jiang Yuan and headed the ball into the goal after receiving Quaresma's cross.

"Fuck!"

Jiang Yuan cursed loudly, and the ball went into the net, and Team B scored the first goal.

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At the other end of the Gaya base, Lopetegui drove his AMG G to the office building with Klein. According to Lopetegui's habit, they needed to make a training plan for Porto for the next week before tomorrow morning.

But the problem arises again. The players' training data are recorded in the Macbook in the office, but Lopetegui and Klein forgot to bring the notebook home, so they need to come to the training center.

The Gaya Center should have been quiet tonight, but sporadic noises kept coming from outside the office window.

"What's going on here?"

Klein put the notebook in his bag and ran to the window again.

Lopetegui was already used to the "duang duang" sound of the ball hitting the crossbar. "Klein, I guess Jiang Yuan is secretly practicing free kicks again. This kid is really worrying!"

Lopetegui often complained to others about how Jiang Yuan worked out too much and how he didn't take care of his body. But only he knew whether he was complaining or showing off.

Klein glanced out the window and suddenly widened his eyes. He said to Lopetegui, "Hu Lun, come over here and take a look at these guys..."

"This group?"

Lopetegui walked towards Klein with curiosity and stuck his head out to look out the window.

You won't know how shocking it is until you see it. On the small football field downstairs, a dozen Porto players in casual clothes were running back and forth, and it looked like they were playing a competition.

"Did you arrange this?"

Lopetegui looked at Klein, who was also confused: "I heard from Jackson that they are going to have a celebration party today to celebrate the big win against Benfica, but I don't know why they are still playing football"

"Hullen, do you want me to go down and tell them to stop?"

Lopetegui quickly waved his hands: "No, no, no, let's wait and see"

Klein placed his hands on the windowsill: "But I remember you didn't really like seeing Jiang Yuan practice more..."

Klein was right. Extra training could easily lead to injuries. Lopetegui often complained to others about Jiang Yuan's extra training despite dissuasion. Klein was the poor guy who was complained to the most.

Hearing this, Lopetegui glared at Klein unhappily: "We can't dampen the enthusiasm of the players, can we? Besides, you see, their intensity of play is not very high, so it's okay for them to just play around!"

After saying that, Lopetegui imitated Klein, put his hands on the windowsill, and his eyes kept rolling around. I wonder what the Spaniard was thinking about.

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"Aqui! (Here!)"

Quaresma held the ball, and Martinez was standing in front of Jiang Yuan, so he first twisted his knee to the left, then suddenly turned to the right. The sudden change of direction and acceleration successfully got rid of Martinez's close defense.

Jiang Yuan then ran towards Quaresma. Wan Bissaka's defensive template made Jiang Yuan subconsciously want to make a diving tackle, but his reason stopped him from doing so.

Jiang Yuan ran in front of Quaresma, stood sideways with his feet in front and behind, and made a standard wing defensive posture.

This is the most basic defensive move. When standing sideways, Jiang Yuan has two paths on the left and right for Quaresma to pass through. The path Jiang Yuan is facing is open, that is, if Quaresma chooses to run past Jiang Yuan, Jiang Yuan will quickly chase back to defend.

Similarly, the road that Jiang Yuan is facing with his back is the one he needs to defend with extra attention, because if Quaresma successfully breaks through from behind Jiang Yuan, Jiang Yuan will have to turn 120 degrees if he wants to chase back, which will undoubtedly greatly slow down Jiang Yuan's starting speed.

Quaresma pulled the ball with his foot and moved towards Jiang Yuan, and the two formed a one-on-one situation on the left. The Portuguese star knew Jiang Yuan's technical characteristics very well. Without a doubt, he pulled the ball horizontally with his right foot and began to break through Jiang Yuan's defensive side.

At this critical moment, Jiang Yuan stretched out his right foot. Just when Jiang Yuan was about to touch the ball, Quaresma suddenly pulled his right foot to the right, and the ball moved from Jiang Yuan's right side to Jiang Yuan's left side - the path that Jiang Yuan let go.

Quaresma pulled the ball right and left, and after a series of moves, Jiang Yuan changed direction, and the original defensive route now became the route he should have taken to chase back.

The result was that Quaresma successfully got rid of Jiang Yuan.

"Fuck!"

Jiang Yuan cursed loudly and turned 150 degrees to chase back, but it was too late. Quaresma successfully passed the ball.

It can only be said that Jiang Yuan successfully predicted Quaresma's actions, but Quaresma successfully predicted Jiang Yuan's prediction!

Herrera received the pass from Quaresma and passed the ball to Torres with his heel, who took the shot.

"Snapped!"

The ball spun forward, hit Sandro's hip and went into the net.

0: 2!

At the same time, the 20-minute first half ended and the two teams had a 10-minute break.

The players of Team A gathered together, looking rather unhappy. Goalkeeper Fernandez spoke first: “I know my performance was terrible, but I can only say that you guys were terrible too.”

"Haha! Andres, if you can't speak, then don't talk."

Neves jumped up and hugged Fernandez from behind, completing a monkey climbing a tree. In Casemiro's words, Neves's behavior was: look at what the giant's perspective is like.

Elton licked his lips and said, "We are not going to have any dinner, are we? I feel like we can't win the game!"

"Don't panic!"

Jiang Yuan quickly calmed the troops: "Don't panic, watch my performance in the second half"

Hearing Jiang Yuan's words, Casemiro complained: "Jiang, you've been locked up by Jackson, how can you still perform, hahahaha!"

Jiang Yuan signaled everyone to be quiet and said seriously: "Believe me, I have found a way to get rid of Jackson's defense."

Seeing Jiang Yuan’s serious expression, everyone had no choice but to believe in the only “genuine forward” of Team A.

"Then how can I cooperate with you?"

Elton asked, this is Porto's second goalkeeper and also the "best striker" of Team A in this dinner life-and-death battle.

Jiang Yuan pointed at Martinez and said, "They all think you will pass the ball to me, but why don't you pass it? Jackson and I will switch one for one, you guys play your game, we may not lose."

Jiang Yuan's words were shocking, and he was ready to die together with Martinez.

In this way, Team A's new tactics emerged. The main forward was used as a false forward, and the false forward was used as a real forward. The main purpose was to confuse the opponent.

The two sides were so engrossed in the kick that they didn't notice that there were two people on the windowsill of the office staring at them.

"Not bad, not bad. Although it is a competition, everyone is very serious!"

Lopetegui praised the team's performance. Even though the coach was not there, both teams were seriously discussing the tactics for the second half during the halftime break.

Even the team led by Martinez, who was leading by two goals, was the same. Quaresma and Martinez both had frowns on their faces and looked extremely serious.

Klein was puzzled: "I feel like they are not so serious in training matches. What's going on?" Lopetegui smiled: "Klein, don't you understand this? Now we are only 2 points behind Benfica, but there are still 4 games left. They are training with the attitude of winning the championship!"

"Benfica is so strong this season that I thought we had no hope of winning the championship. But now it seems that we not only may win the championship, but we must win it!"

There was a gleam of ferocity in Lopetegui's eyes.

Klein suddenly said, "Hu Lun, have you noticed that since Jiang came to the first team, everyone has become more and more serious, and the gap in points between us and Benfica has become smaller and smaller?"

"You don't understand. This is what is called the 'Inner Spring'!"

Lopetegui said meaningfully.

"Neiquan? What is this?"

Klein was surprised by this word he had never heard of before. Strictly speaking, it was not a Portuguese word.

Lopetegui stretched out a hand and pointed at Jiang Yuan who was talking nonstop on the court: "This is what they say in China. If one person works hard, others have to follow suit, otherwise the originally strong ones will be surpassed. When Jiang first came to the first team, he was not even a substitute, but what about now? Klein, you know, between Nasser Brahimi and Jiang, I prefer to let Jiang start."

Klein nodded, not quite understanding, and asked, "Why does Jiang work so hard? He trains at least 1.5 times as much as other players every day, right?"

Unexpectedly, Lopetegui suddenly put his mouth close to Klein's ear and said mysteriously: "Sky Walker Shoe Road!"

"Sky Walker Shoe Road?"

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At the beginning of the second half, Team A, which was lagging behind, played very aggressively under the leadership of Casemiro, while Team B still maintained their original tactics - using Martinez to defend Team A's only striker Jiang Yuan.

As for Elton, Porto's second goalkeeper has no shooting ability at all, so just let him play.

"River!"

Neves in the backcourt passed the ball directly to Jiang Yuan, Jiang Yuan used his back to hold Martinez, and then passed the ball to Elton on the right, who passed the ball to Casemiro.

But after getting the ball, Casemiro was suddenly stunned. In the past, Jiang Yuan would make an overlap to create space for Casemiro, but today Jiang Yuan was already stuck with Martinez, so it was a complete dream for him to make an overlap.

Fortunately, Danilo arrived in the backcourt in time and took over Jiang Yuan's side-by-side work, and Casemiro successfully sent the ball to the frontcourt.

At the same time, Jiang Yuan began to sway left and right, constantly looking for opportunities to bypass Martinez.

"Hey, Jiang, I won't let you pass!"

Martinez stood in front of Jiang Yuan, and his meaning was very clear. He had to defend Jiang Yuan even if he didn't return to defend.

Unexpectedly, Jiang Yuan suddenly pointed in the direction of Danilo and shouted: "This is a foul!"

"what?"

Martinez looked back and saw that there was no defensive player in front of Danilo, so how could it be a foul?
Wait!

Martinez turned his head back, but there was no sign of Jiang Yuan in front of him.

"goodbye!"

Jiang Yuan turned around and blew Martinez a kiss, then reached out for the ball.

"Snapped!"

After a cross from Danilo, Jiang Yuan simply stopped the ball with his chest and the ball came to Neves' feet.

Neves looked up and saw that the shooting angle was average, so he passed the ball to Jiang Yuan. Martinez had already caught up, but now Jiang Yuan had entered the penalty area, and Martinez could no longer make a big move.

Team B gave enough respect to Jiang Yuan, the only striker. Martinez returned to defense, and Indi and Marcano were always ready to block Jiang Yuan's shot.

Even Casemiro and Neves on the sidelines were targeted by Herrera and Torres respectively.

"I can only knock on the door..."

Lopetegui, who was watching the game, muttered and gave his judgment.

Jiang Yuan seemed to hear Lopetegui's words. He used his hands to block Martinez in front of him, and then swung out his right leg.

"Right foot!"

Indi yelled, and Marcano put his hands behind his back, ready to block with Martinez.

As a result, Jiang Yuan kicked the ball with his right foot, the ball came in front of his left foot, and then he swung his left leg.

"Left foot!"

Indi yelled again, Jiang Yuan's two-footed shooting ability is well known.

Martinez quickly adjusted his direction, preparing to block Jiang Yuan's left-foot shot.

Jiang Yuan hit the ball with the inside of his left foot. This was no longer a feint. The ball rotated to the left and slowly deviated out of the penalty area.

At this time, a figure appeared on the left side of Team B's penalty area.

Elton!
Elton stopped the ball and kicked it directly. Fabiano couldn't react in time and Elton scored.

“1:2! 1:2!”

After scoring the goal, Elton held his head with his eyes wide open.

I never thought that as a goalkeeper, I would actually score a goal in a training match!
"Come!"

Jiang Yuan signaled Elton to turn around, and then the two hugged each other.

"Jiang, good to pass!"

Elton grabbed Jiang Yuan's shoulders with both hands and pressed Jiang Yuan against his chest. Scoring a goal in a training match shouldn't have caused such excitement, but Elton is a goalkeeper.

Goals are more precious to him than the annual Leonid meteor shower!

The two teams returned to their respective positions one after another, but the game was not over yet.

In the office upstairs, Klein looked at Lopetegui and said, "Hulun, didn't you say that I should shoot the ball myself?"

Lopetegui blushed: "I didn't expect Jiang to pass the ball to Elton, and to be honest, this ball can also be scored by shooting directly!"

“Can you really score a goal?”

Klein recalled the situation one minute ago. There were three people standing in front of Jiang Yuan in the penalty area: Martinez, Indi and Marcano.

Can the shot really go in in this situation?
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Jiang Yuan ran to the sidelines, picked up Neves's iwatch and took a look: "Five minutes, we still have a chance!"

Elton raised his thumb and said, "No problem, just pass the ball to me!"

After scoring the goal, Elton's morale increased greatly. His status as a goalkeeper did not affect his determination to shoot at all!

Quaresma in the frontcourt passed the ball to Martinez, who then passed it to Herrera next to him.

Then Martinez rushed towards Jiang Yuan. Although a goal was scored, the main theme of Team B did not change. Martinez, who was good at both offense and defense, was responsible for locking down Jiang Yuan.

Even though Elton scored a goal, in the eyes of the players of Team B, the only player of Team A who could pose a threat to their goal was Jiang Yuan.

"coming!"

Jiang Yuan thought to himself that he had already guessed Team B's moves.

I saw that Yuan accelerated his run while Martinez was not completely close to him. At that moment, Herrera's pass had a fatal error and was intercepted by Neves, and the ball came to Juan Quintero's feet.

"Hector!"

Martinez thought something was wrong and shouted quickly, signaling Herrera who was still in the midfield to defend Jiang Yuan. The latter immediately ran and tried to block Jiang Yuan's route forward in the middle.

But Jiang Yuan, as the fastest player in Porto, was not so easy to defend. Jiang Yuan stopped suddenly beside Herrera, then suddenly accelerated, leaving the Mexican far behind.

Seeing this, Quintero quickly passed the ball to Jiang Yuan. Jiang Yuan stretched out his left leg forward and hit the ball with the inner instep of his left foot, stopping the ball firmly.

"Hurry, hurry, here!"

Elton stretched out his hand on the right side to ask for the ball. With the experience from last time, Team B cannot take this "fake striker" of Elton lightly and chooses to send Marcano to mark Elton.

But Team B's blockade was in vain. Jiang Yuan had no intention of passing the ball at all. He took a step towards the ball with his right foot, stepped his right foot on the original position of his left foot, and then used the outside of his foot to push the ball to the right while accelerating.

Step inside!

Herrera knew very well that he could not let Jiang Yuan complete the shot, so he gently pulled his clothes before Jiang Yuan shot, successfully destroying Jiang Yuan's center of gravity. He reached out and hugged him before Jiang Yuan fell to the ground, preventing Jiang Yuan from falling directly on the grass.

"Free kick!"

Jiang Yuan spread his hands, the top of the penalty area, this is his favorite free kick spot!

"Hey!"

Herrera patted Jiang Yuan on the shoulder and sighed. It was clearly a pulling foul. Team B did not argue and went to set up a human wall in front of the goal.

"Jiang, it's up to you!"

Casemiro walked past Jiang Yuan. If nothing unexpected happened, this would be Team A's last chance to attack.

Whether Team A can have dinner tonight depends on Jiang Yuan’s shot!

Jiang Yuan rubbed his left thumb, which was the secret signal to knock on the door directly.

"Is it ok?"

Without a referee, Jiang Yuan could only ask Team B goalkeeper Fabiano about the arrangement of the human wall. After getting Fabiano's confirmation, Jiang Yuan began to make adjustments.

"boom!"

It was a familiar elevator shot, the ball passed over Martinez's head and suddenly dropped at the highest point.

"Ha!"

Fabiano jumped up and punched the ball with both hands.

The ball was hit outside the penalty area.

At Neves' feet!

"Fight quickly!"

Jiang Yuan shouted, and Neves swung his right leg and shot directly.

result……

"nonono!"

The ball hit the right post of the goal and Neves' long shot missed!

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(End of this chapter)