The sixth professional football player who started with Manchester United

Chapter 44 Croatia 2
However, after Croatia began to pay more attention to Dabao, especially Croatia consciously shrunk the defense line, so Dabao's long pass was basically difficult to achieve a great effect. Although the first landing point can be guaranteed under the defense of Croatia, it is difficult to guarantee the second landing point of football under the defense of Croatia.

Time passed by every minute and every second, and Croatia seemed to be willing to accept the current score.

There was no intention of pushing the formation out to attack.

Especially in the 69th minute of the game, Stimac actually replaced Modric and replaced it with a defensive midfielder. This substitution was also interpreted by many media after the game.

However, most people think that this substitution can be said to be a big turning point in this game.

Stimach's coaching ability has also been greatly questioned because of this substitution.

And here Dabao has been thinking about how to break the opponent's defense.

After several attempts, Dabao also knew that blindly passing the ball to the goal was not a good choice. The opponent was now consciously controlling the second landing point of the football, and was double-teaming the first landing point. Strategy.

So Dabao also decided to change his strategy.

Shortly after the Croatian substitution.

In the 76th minute of the game, Dabao intercepted Croatia's pass with a sliding shovel near the middle circle, then fell to the ground without getting up and swept the ball to Edwards not far away, and then he was He got up quickly, and when he rushed forward, he also made a gesture to Edwards, signaling the opponent to pass the ball.

Edwards, who understood in seconds, directly pushed with his right foot, and sent the ball in front of Dabao with a through ball.

However, because there was no tacit understanding, the ball still forced Dabao to slow down. If this were at Manchester United, Carrick and others would definitely take this into consideration when passing the ball knowing Dabao's sprint speed.

Feeling that the opponent's players were approaching, Dabao also knew that he should not get too entangled with the opponent, otherwise he would fall into the opponent's siege, so after catching up with the football, Dabao suddenly stepped on the football, and then made an emergency stop, followed by Flick the ball to the right with his left foot, then poke the ball forward with his right foot, followed by kicking the ground with all his strength, the amazing explosive power is suddenly launched at this time, and the terrifying starting speed makes Dabao easily throw away the opponent .

When entering the shooting range, after Dabao adjusted his pace, he just wanted to swing his right leg for a long-range shot. Suddenly, a strong force came, and then his body lost his balance. Fortunately, Dabao also took protective measures when he fell to the ground. .

After falling to the ground, it was discovered that the opponent's player who had just replaced him directly knocked him down.

The referee also showed a yellow card to the opponent without any hesitation, and Wales also received a well-positioned direct free kick.

"Are you all right? Are you here?" Bell stepped forward to pull Dabao up, and then asked.

"Well, I'll come!"

Dabao came to the penalty spot with the football in his arms.

The position of this free kick is not bad, slightly left of the center, but it is a bit far from the goal, at least nearly 33 meters.

After Dabao carefully placed the ball, he then glanced at the opponent's goal, and then began to carefully measure the step point. The ball must be accelerated in speed, so the strength must also keep up, about seven or eight steps. After measuring the run-up distance, Dabao stood there quietly watching the opponent line up in the wall under the command of the goalkeeper.

Koeman on the sidelines also stood there and looked nervously at the court. He knew that Dabao had a very good free kick.

But Stimach didn't care much, he believed that his players could defend it.

In fact, the main reason is that Croatia knows too little about Dabao. After all, Dabao was not within the scope of their consideration. He has just joined the national team and is very young.

Natural attention is also very low.

At the whistle of the referee, Dabao started to run up, at an increasing speed, and with the last step, Dabao's right foot slammed on the football,
The football immediately flew into the air. The height was not high, but the arc it drew in the air was extremely exaggerated. It flew over the head of the person on the far left of the wall, and then drew a wonderful arc in the air. At the beginning Kosa judged that the ball was hit in the middle, so he lowered his focus and started to prepare to save. However, as the football got closer and closer, Kosa doubted his judgment and quickly readjusted his focus, but by this time it was too late. Football had come to him.

In the end the football went into the goal through Xhosa's hastily outstretched hands.

1 to 1, in the 80th minute of the game, Dabao's free kick helped Wales equalize the score on the field.

At the moment when the football went into the goal, Koeman on the sidelines raised his hands high and then put them down and punched hard.

Dabao, who was standing there, was instantly overwhelmed by the Welsh players.

The Croatian players were annoyed. Stimach's face on the sidelines was also very ugly. The three-pointer suddenly turned into one point. The most important thing was that he replaced Modric. At this time, Stimach March also regretted replacing Modric.

However, the Croatian fans in the stands were still cheering for the team.

After Wales' celebration was interrupted by the referee, the players on both sides quickly returned to their positions.

Then at the referee's whistle, the game continued.

After the game restarted, Stimac also waved his hand to signal the players to press the formation forward, but it was this change that caused Stimac to be criticized by many Croatian media after the game.

If Croatia still maintains defensive tactics in the remaining time, then the hope of saving a point is still very high. After all, according to the current situation of the group, getting a point is not unacceptable for Croatia.

With the forward pressure of the formation, it seems that Croatia's offensive is very fierce, but there are also more gaps exposed.

And the most important thing is that the change in mentality allowed the Croatian players to launch a fierce attack on the Welsh position, but in fact there were not many opportunities.

The entire offense is mostly an offensive with a lot of thunder and little rain.

As the time of the game went on, the fourth official on the sidelines was also showing signs for stoppage time. Judging from the progress of the game between the two sides in the second half and the stoppage time, there were at most 7 left in the game. Minutes only.

(End of this chapter)