Born to be a coach [soccer]

Chapter 241

The Sunderland team doctor was almost scared to death by Ibrahimovic, but Anton knew that Ibrahimovic, like him, had practiced taekwondo for many years and knew how to best use his waist strength.In addition, Ibrahimovic's bounce and flexibility are very good, even if he does these movements that seem difficult to outsiders, there is no problem for him.

But seeing Ibrahimovic caring so much about Royce, and even jumping out to celebrate him, Anton can only sigh: This is probably the fate between people.Ibrahimovic and his roommate Eriksson are not so speculative with Royce-probably in Ibrahimovic's mind, the first one is the little black cat Larry, and the next one should be Royce.

As for Anton himself, Anton couldn't figure out how important he was in Ibrahimovic's heart: one moment he was annoyed like that, and the other moment he was completely healed because of Royce.Now Ibrahimovic is standing next to Anton very kindly, "shoulder to shoulder" with the head coach, it seems that the two have never had the slightest disagreement.

Probably because the goal Royce scored just now was really beautiful, Anton thought.

Speaking of today, Sunderland's four goals were all sports goals, and none of them were set-pieces.Royce's goal just now, from taking the ball to shooting, was almost entirely handled by Royce himself, and he never faked it.As a center forward, he retreated about [-] yards to steal the ball, and his teammates on the two wings had already stepped in, drawing most of the opponent's attention.

At that time Anton was thinking: Marco, do it yourself!First of all, the best opportunity is in the hands of Royce himself, don't think about being "Lei Feng", come by yourself.

Sure enough, the next moment Royce took a shot. The position, angle, and power of his shot all had the domineering feeling of Ibrahimovic when he shot. "The reason.

This "heavy cannon" hit a defender in Eindhoven who "blocked the hole" and bounced back.

Eindhoven's goalkeeper threw himself, just missed.

At this moment, Royce stepped forward by himself, jumped to the top, and directly headed the ball towards the goal—his own shot was also made by himself.

Eindhoven's goalkeeper had just made an empty shot, and it was too late to make a save at this time. We could only watch Royce head the football that had been blocked out of the small penalty area into the goal.

He shoots, he shoots - Royce is always like this, always ready for the goal.

Anton watched from the sidelines, very satisfied in his heart: he knew that Royce's conditions were very good, but he was placed in the center position just to let him have a try, but Royce would shine immediately.

Moreover, this kind of performance actually conquered Ibrahimovic, who has always been rebellious, and made Ibrahimovic bow his head, automatically reconcile with Anton, and staged a "reconciliation between generals and prime ministers" in Sunderland.

I don't know how Loew will feel after watching Royce's performance in the stands.

Anton also patted Ibrahimovic on the back, and told him to go back to the bench and have a good rest. By the way, he asked the team doctor to help him relax his muscles—Anton’s real purpose was to let the team doctor hold down Ibrahimovic, and don’t let him just play like that Woke up.

So far, Sunderland scored 4 goals.And Eindhoven hasn't opened yet.

The head coaches of both sides reacted differently.Eindhoven coach Roten shouted loudly on the sidelines, asking his players to get back a point anyway and strive for an away goal.

And Anton stretched out his hand in the direction of his own goal, and made a fist - zero!This time he wants a clean sheet.

In the distance, Pickford put on his gloves and stretched out his finger at Anton, making an "OK" gesture.

Eindhoven had no choice but to attack at the last moment of the game.The offensive and defensive rhythm of the two teams accelerated again. All the players were desperately giving up their last bit of physical strength. The offensive was desperately attacking, while the opponent quickly returned to defense.

The Eindhoven players who pushed in front of Sunderland made a sudden cold shot and kicked hard - they all said that "strength makes miracles". If the home team can do it, why can't the visiting team do it?

Just listening to the crisp sound of "bang", Pickford struck out with both fists and blocked the shot out of the goal.

In the stands, the exclamation of the Sunderland fans had just come out - this kick made all the fans of the home team break into a cold sweat, because the ball had a change of direction.

When the Eindhoven player shot, the ball just touched Godin's calf, who was about to step forward to block it, and a change of direction occurred.

Pickford had already started at this time, his body moved to the left, but the ball deviated from the existing trajectory and flew to the right.Pickford abruptly moved his hands in the direction he stretched out, and punched the ball the way it came from—bang!

If it wasn't for the change of direction, he could have hugged the ball, but now he decisively chose to strike with both fists and smash the ball into the air. Although he got an opponent's throw-in, the danger of losing the ball has basically been eliminated.

After saving the ball, Pickford himself fell to the turf.Godin hurried forward to pull his teammates up from the ground.

Pickford jumped up, and then directed his teammates to defend and defend the opponent's throw-in: Although he was young, he yelled at his teammates without any ambiguity.

Anton watched Pickford's save from a distance, and was quite satisfied.

This young goalkeeper originally only had solid basic skills, very good technique on the goal line, super fast response, and good psychological quality; but he lacked discipline, sometimes got carried away, and even made "huge" mistakes like butter hands.

But now it looks more and more like an upgraded version 2.0 of himself.

Anton couldn't help but think of what he saw at Guangming Academy a few days ago.

At that time, everyone in the team had completed their respective training, and the players returned from the training ground in twos and threes, ready to go swimming to relax.Only Pickford is still practicing penalty kicks on the court.

Not to mention that the goalkeeper should only practice hitting points. In some extreme cases, the goalkeeper will also participate in penalty kicks.In the penalty shootout, if the winner cannot be decided for a long time, then the goalkeeper will also participate in the penalty shootout.

Sunderland has now reached the critical stage of the Europa League knockout round. Just in case, the coaching staff also asked Pickford to practice penalty kicks.Pickford has been trained as a goalkeeper by the coaches in the youth academy since he was a child. In terms of penalty kick skills, he is still a little behind his teammates.

So this little goalkeeper practiced tirelessly under the "surveillance" of goalkeeper coach Nick and assistant coach Russell.

Unexpectedly, the guard of Guangming College came over and shouted: "Jordan, someone is looking for you! It's a little girl, she said her name is Vanessa..."

Pickford heard it, and ran away. After running a dozen steps, he immediately turned around and ran back. Facing Russell and Nick, he said a few words in embarrassment. Russell waved his hand impatiently. Ford immediately looked happy, turned around and rushed towards the entrance of Guangming College.

Anton has been observing from a distance. At this moment, of course he thought that Pickford had asked for leave to take care of Vanessa, but Nick and Russell were still waiting in place.

Anton was curious, so he simply waited together.

Not long after, Pickford was sweating profusely, ran all the way, returned to the training ground, apologized to Russell and Nick, picked up the ball by himself and continued to practice.

How did this kid arrange his family's "Little Qingmei"?

Anton thought for a while without an answer, then walked away from the training ground, wandered around the Guangming Academy, and casually asked the front desk, who said, "That little girlfriend from Pickford? Go to Mommy Qiao's!"

Where is Joe's mother? ——Anton thought about it, and became more and more absolutely sure that this was a good choice.

Vanessa has communication barriers with others, but Joyce is a gentle and patient woman. Vanessa must be able to get good care from Joe's mother, and it will not affect Pickford's own training.

Anton originally thought that Pickford was a considerate person, but for those important people and important things, Pickford always needed to prioritize.But it seems that this time Pickford handled it quite well, and it doesn't affect the two.

So An Dongwan went to the cafeteria to take a look, and saw that Qiao's mother put on an apron and a chef's hat for Vanessa, and was instructing her to knead the dough. It was estimated that she was going to prepare sausage bread for the staff of the whole club the next morning. roll.

Vanessa is very nervous whenever she sees strangers, but once she holds a ball of dough in her hands and concentrates all her attention on the work of kneading the dough, she is very relaxed.Mother Qiao kindly taught her to divide the dough into pieces, wrap them in sausages and roll them up.Vanessa was quite focused, and she looked like a pastry chef...

Looking back now, Anton feels that Pickford has indeed matured a lot in his life. While training hard, his optimistic nature has never been lost.

Just as Anton was thinking, the referee's whistle blew.Pickford gave a thumbs up to his team-mates who gathered at the back of Sunderland to help him defend in the final moments of the game, and then went on to talk to Godin and Hummels. They hugged and congratulated, and finally waved to Anton's side. A pair of bright eyes opened and opened at Anton's side, as if to say: Coach, look, we have achieved zero seals!

Anton also raised his hands high and applauded Pickford. The young man was overjoyed and grinned silly, his face flushed red.

The Sunderland players all returned to the locker room, all excited and discussing the situation of today's game enthusiastically.A 4-0 victory in the first leg at home means that they will have a very easy away game.

After Anton accepted the interview, he returned to the locker room.He wanted to try Pickford again, so he called the young man aside alone and asked him: "The next league game against West Bromwich Albion, I also want to keep a clean sheet, can you do it?"

Pickford raised his chest, patted himself, and said, "Boss, it's okay..."

He glanced at Anton's eyes, reacted immediately, and added: "West Bromwich Albion's striker formation and offensive characteristics, I will go to Mr. Black with Matz and others early tomorrow morning to ask for information! "

As the young man said, the face covered with tiny freckles was impressively written: I only have study in my heart.