Chapter 393: Edmilson's Medal
Edmilson cut off the ball of glory, and no one took it to heart, not even glory himself.
In the game, it is quite common to be cut off, even if it is glory, it is impossible to guarantee that every time he dribbles the ball can form a successful breakthrough, no one can break his ball.
There is no such person.
Once is just an accident.
The commentator didn't even mention it, as if Glory hadn't been cut off by Edmilson......
Werder Bremen fans continue to look forward to a strong performance from Glory in the game to help the team beat Barcelona at home.
Scharaff didn't take Edmilson seriously either. On the one hand, he doesn't believe that the Brazilian player can suppress his offensive genes, can always endure loneliness, and defend at the back, which means that he doesn't believe that Edmilson can maintain such defensive intensity against Glory all the time.
On the other hand, even if Edmilson can always defend Glory, how can he defend Glory alone? If you don't send at least two people to prevent glory, it's definitely no fun!
Schaaf has such confidence in Glory.
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Schauff looked at Edmilson with contempt, and Glory didn't take the man seriously. The commentator didn't mention Edmilson's successful defence.
Glory is rampant in the Bundesliga, and even midfielders like Jeremes and Ballack can't take glory, let alone you as a substitute?
But as the game progressed, someone discovered that something wasn't quite right.
Glory allowed Edmilson to break the ball three times in a row.
Except for the first time when Edmilson used a very violent body to help break the ball, the other two times relied on Edmilson's defensive awareness and quick reactions. He went up to interfere with Glory as soon as possible, so that Glory could not control the ball well, and then Edmilson's second reaction was very fast, and when Glory was not firmly established, he quickly launched a second steal attack and broke the football.
Either it will be cut directly at his feet, or the football will be stabbed away, and the teammates who are guarding next to him at this time will definitely appear in front of the landing point of the football as soon as possible and snatch the football away.
In order to deal with glory, Barcelona has put a lot of effort into defense, and it is not an exaggeration to say that Edmilson is the core in defense.
Where he is, there are bound to be other Barcelona players around.
It may seem like Edmilson is alone against Glory, but in reality, Rijkaard's defense against Glory has not relaxed at all.
Next, although Edmilson was not able to break the ball of Glory every time, his defense made it impossible for Glory to deal with the ball in the first place, and always needed more time and action, so that the opportunity to attack was lost.
In football, the situation is always changing, and the space you saw one second ago may be gone a second later. So I really can't afford to delay.
If you make even one more second of adjustment in attack, your teammate may be offside......
Eldermilson doesn't need to cut off Glory's ball every time, as long as he makes Glory uncomfortable, his mission is done.
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Schaaf's expression, which he saw from the sidelines, became solemn.
He found himself underestimating Rijkaard, and underestimating Edmilson.
People are not alone!
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Rongguang also noticed that this substitute was a little different.
When he defends, he is like a chewed piece of gum, which sticks to his body and is not easy to shake off.
He tried to shake off the opponent with his speed.
Soon he received the ball from Miku.
Miku is also closely guarded by the opposition, so it is difficult to pass high-quality through balls, and the balls given to Glory are all decent short-to-medium distance passes.
He can't even wait for Glory to turn and run, and then plug it straight, which can allow Glory to take advantage of his speed advantage to the extreme - if he passes the ball later, he may be cut off by Deco - Deco's defense of Glory in the last game was not successful, but defending Miku, he suddenly felt much easier. Miku has better skills at his feet, especially passing, but he doesn't have the pace and he can't easily get away from his own defence. Unlike Glory, if you give him a little chance, he can get rid of you by speed, and when you want to, you can't catch up. Defend Miku, even if you are thrown away by him once in a while, you can immediately catch up with him again and re-entangle him.
When Rongguang received the ball, he slowed down, knocked the ball behind him with the outside of his left foot, and then turned to chase it.
This passing action does not have too high technical content, and there is no deceptive feint, it is to use the characteristics of Rongguang's fast turn and fast speed.
As long as there's a lot of space behind him, there's almost no solution to Glory's move - you know he's going to do it, but you can't stop him except for an early foul.
But if you foul in advance, it is a foul in the back, and you have to eat a yellow card, and it is possible to get a red card.
But Rongguang didn't take his speed to the extreme today.
He didn't go too far with the pluck of the ball - he tried to get it away, but it fell directly to Barcelona centre-back Puyol, and since then Glory has known that Barcelona don't give themselves much space in this area, and he has to be careful and precisely control the distance between the ball and his body. If it's too far, the ball will be broken.
But the result of this is that his speed cannot be fully utilized.
As soon as he turned around, Edmilson followed suit, and with this notice, he flew towards the football...... Or rather, glory!
He didn't tackle the ball.
He stumbled upon glory.
Glory loses his center of gravity and balance, and falls directly to the ground.
The referee's whistle sounded.
"It's a foul! Edmilson tackle foul! This is a yellow card for a foul! The German commentator Marcel Leif shouted as if he was putting pressure on the referee through the huge stands and pitch.
The Werder Bremen fans in the stands also collectively let out a deafening boo, which was quite a way to put pressure on the referee......
But the referee didn't mean to draw the cards.
He blew the whistle and called a timeout, then ran to the foul and pointed there for the Werder Bremen player to take the free-kick, but his hand did not reach for his pocket, either on his chest or behind his buttocks. He just stood at the spot where the foul was committed and marked the spot where the free kick was taken.
The Werder Bremen players gathered around to ask the referee for an explanation.
As the captain, Bowman naturally took the lead and rushed to the front.
"This is a deliberate foul! And it's diagonally rear! Shouldn't a yellow card be given? ”
The referee shook his head and did not change his decision.
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Just as the Werder Bremen players were surrounding the referee to explain, Edmilson had already gotten up from the ground and patted Glory on the back who was lying on the ground: "Hey, boy, it's okay, right?" "As a sign of friendliness.
After a simple question, he hunched over and buried his head and ran away in a very low-key manner.
He didn't dare to dangle in front of the referee all the time, what if the referee couldn't withstand the pressure of those Werder Bremen players and really gave himself a yellow card? This game has only started for more than ten minutes, and he has a yellow card on his back, and the rest of the game is not easy to play......
He had just run away, and Glory had raised his head from the ground, his eyes fixed on Edmilson!
Depend on! Bad for me, good thing!
Glory gritted his teeth and stared at Edmilson's back, clutching the turf with both hands, and then got up from the ground.
The Werder Bremen players, who were talking about the referee, noticed that Rongguang had gotten up from the ground, so they threw down the referee and ran to care about Rongguang.
Glory is now the heart of the team, and no matter what they think, Werder Bremen is indeed inseparable from Glory now.
Therefore, no one wants to be hurt by glory.
Bowman also threw down the referee and ran to ask Rongguang: "You're okay, Rong?" ”
Rongguang saw that his teammates were looking at him with concern, so he grinned: "It's nothing, it's just a fall, it's commonplace!" ”
"Don't be pushy, Rong." Bowman looked at Rong Guang with a serious expression.
Glory smiled at him, "I mean seriously, Captain. That guy is far worse than your defense! ”
Bowman laughed and reached out to rub Glory's hair.
However, the last one still told Rongguang: "Be careful, pay attention to protect yourself, I see him menacing, this game is very exciting, be careful of his unintentional fouls...... Anyway, we can draw at home in this game, so there is no need to fight too hard. ”
Rongguang nodded, indicating that he had listened.
But in fact, Rongguang did not agree with the captain's statement.
He wasn't thinking about whether the team would qualify from the group, for him it was the minimum goal, and it would be a shame to not even qualify from the group.
But this is the game against Barcelona, who have Ronaldinho and he doesn't want to lose to Ronaldinho.
In the first meeting, Werder Bremen lost to Barcelona, and although he scored twice, it still made him feel like he had lost to Ronaldinho.
This time, he must lead Werder Bremen to defeat Ronaldinho's Barcelona, only in this way can he prove that he has beaten the other side!
So he wasn't going to hold it back.
Seeing that Glory was fine, Bowman turned around and was about to leave, but was stopped by Glory.
"Captain."
Bowman stopped and looked back at the glory.
"You defend Ronaldinho...... Struggling? ”
Bowman shook his head: "The last opponent I want to meet in the game is not him, but you, Rong." ”
With that, Bowman turned and ran away.
Glory was in the same place as he recalled the captain's words.
That's what it says...... I'm better than Ronaldinho...... Is it still amazing?
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Edmilson's foul allowed Werder Bremen a free-kick, but it was in the centre circle, far from Barcelona's goal.
There is no way to hit the goal directly, and it is too difficult to control the accuracy of the pass through a long pass directly to the vicinity of the penalty area.
Therefore, Werder Bremen was able to reorganize the attack with short passes in the end.
And Barcelona's players have already been back in place, so the threat to Barcelona's goal is much smaller.
Edmilson's defense was successful this time, and he paid almost nothing.
This made Werder Bremen fans very unhappy. In the ensuing game, as soon as Edmilson got the ball, there was a deafening boo at Weser Stadium.
Before that, Werder Bremen fans were quite friendly to the Barcelona stars, just cheering for their players, but not booing the Barcelona players.
The kicks on both sides didn't smell of gunpowder, they were relatively clean, and there was nothing to boo.
Edmilson didn't care about the boos, he only glanced at the away dugout once in a while, and once again he spotted Rijkaard, who was standing on the sidelines, giving him a thumbs up as he looked over.
He laughed.
He knew that his efforts were worthwhile and meaningful.
He was not afraid of the boos of the hostile fans. He's a defender, it's his job to disrupt the opposition's offense and ruin the opposition's hopes, and he's glad to see the opposition fans so angry because of his defense.
This is his Medal of Honor!