Chapter 88 - Double Dragon (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

“The game resumes again and Zhongyuan is now in the lead by 2: 0. This goal by Li Yongle can almost be said to have sealed their victory!”

“True, the two goals are now in the hands of the defensive Zhongyuan. The game’s initiative naturally falls into their hands. Shu GUang won’t have an easy time trying to score two goals in the remaining 30 minutes. Moreover, Sun Laihong’s tactical arrangement against Shu Guang has been very successful. Zhang Jun has no chance under Luo Bin’s defense and Kaka has been supressed by Li Yongle to the point where he can’t pass the ball out properly. Ren Yu De seems to lack confidence when facing Liu Chao, while Yang Pan has only been forced to shoot from a distance. On top of that, Zhang Lintao’s bravery today has gotten his long shots killed. Shu Guang may have no other way to score a goal.”

Despite that, the game was not over yet, so it was still too early to say anything.

Soon after, Zhang Jun suddenly became very active. He continued to run in the forward line; from left to right and front to back. He ran through a very large area, which made Luo Bin a little loss as he defended against him. There werea few times where he actually lost his positioning.

Yang Pan then took the ball again. He was the captain and everyone often chose to pass the ball to him. Even though his misjudgment before the end of the first half led to a goal for the opposition, his teammates still trusted him as always.

Perhaps it was the two goals in their grasp that made Lu Qing pretty lax. This time, it was real and not a trick to fool anyone into believing that Zhongyuan was in a relaxed mode.

His slacking demeanor allowed Yang Pan to break through easily. As Yang Pan ran past him like the wind, he could not even stretch out his feet in time.

“What the hell is he doing?” Sun Laihong could not help but raise an eyebrow. Since the team scored two goals, he had been feeling more psychological pressure. It was even more so during this period of time when Shu Guang fought back wildly. The stones in his heart were becoming increasingly heavy as time passed.

Lu Qing was broken through and Deng Rui went ahead to block. However, his movements were too slow for Yang Pan, who could travel 100m in 10 seconds.

“Yang Pan takes another shot in front of the penalty area!”

Zhang Lintao leaped and attacked the ball with both of fists!

“It didn’t go in!”

But the crisis in Zhongyuan’s penalty area had not been lifted. Zhang Jun rushed to the ball as Luo Bin lost his positioning due to Zhang Jun’s constant running. Then, he kicked!

Now it was Zhang Yang’s turn! Zhang Yang used his body to block the ball out!

And Deng Rui quickly kicked the ball off the side.

When the ball was out, Zhang Lintao suddenly roared, “Grr—”

“Even Zhang Lintao is roaring. He’s always been relatively calm on the pitch. That was a fierce one indeed. Shu Guang’s frantic counter-attacks are making Zhonyuan a little bit more active, with Zhang Lintao displaying extraordinary strength to make sure that they don’t lose any goals. His blocking of Yang Pan’s big shot was for him and Zhongyuan; you can practically sense his ominous aura!”

Actually, Yang Pan’s shot earlier had a huge amount of strength in it and the distance was not far either. Although Zhang Lintao bravely tackled it out but the ball in his hands did not ease his pain. To lessen his pain, he let out a loud roar to relieve it. Before he roared, was his hands still in a tight fist?

However, no matter what, because of Zhang Lintao’s loud roar, it made the stands aroused and roared along, the game gradually became more intense with this enthusiasm.

Li Yongle managed to see it, Luo Bin has become more and more strenuous and this kind of strenuous was difficult on one’s physical strength. With Zhang Jun constant running, he became the arrow for Shu Guang and combined with Shu Guang’s indefinitely front field play, there wasn’t anything wrong with him running like this. However, Luo Bin was the core of the defense line in Zhongyuan. If he ran around like that, the entire line of defense would be out oforder. Therefore, Luo Bin was very hesitant for most of the time. If he followed, the back defense line would become chaotic; If he did not, the others would not be able to deal with Zhang Jun. Whether or not he was following this multiple choice, it would still be difficult.

At this time, Li Yongle began to consciously withdraw a bit to help Luo Bin’s concerns.

But Sun Laihong saw it and waved at him to get to his original position and mark Kaka. Being helpless, he could only follow his coach’s instructions.

As a result, Luo Bin continued to be hesitant with his decision to follow or not to follow.

Zhang Lintao was in a good state today that he managed to pounce on Yang Pan’s big shot forthree times in a row. His own dragons might have unexpected advantages but they must have already seen it during the semi-finals and they would definitely think of ways to deal with the Dragon. And now he couldn’t turn without being seen, let alone bringing the ball to the penalty zone, how would he bring out his dragons then, perhaps this might be their ways. Besides the Dragon, Zhang Jun could not think of other good ways to break through the goalkeeper’s fingers.

Once, just one chance would be enough for him. Zhang Jun thought of it that way.

“Shu Guang hasn’t been offensive for quite a while and Zhongyuan seized the opportunity to get back! Li Yongle passed the ball to Zhao Defeng and Zhao Defeng dribbled the ball forward!Wang Ning and Li Hao are doing their best to stop him from advancing! Beautiful! After breaking through, Zhao Defeng quickly assigned the ball to Zhang Yulin from the side and Zhang Yulin slanted into the penalty zone by 45 °! But An Ke got the ball out. An Ke was in a l arge range of activities and he can be seen in the entire restricted area!”

Zhongyuan went into offense and Shu Guang naturally had to defend. Between the entering and retreats, Zhongyuan’s tight defense line had an insignificant space behind them.

After An Ke received the ball, he immediately attacked with a big kick and the ball flew to Kaka, it seemed like they were bullying Li Yongle who was bad at heading.

Sure enough, in the face of this kind of ball, Li Yongle was at loss and the ball was obtained by Kaka.

In the space behind the defense line of Zhongyuan, Kaka had already looked ahead before catching the ball. He believed that as a striker, Zhang Jun would certainly saw it clearly too and waited to pass the ball to him.

Kaka used his chest to stop the ball by his side, he suddenly turned and followed by a right leg,the ball was picked up. Although Li Yongle quickly stuck up, there was still no way of stopping Kaka from making a pass.

In the hurry of the pass, the pass became a graceful arc behind Deng Rui and immediately fell into the space behind the defense line of Zhongyuan! There’s no doubt that Kaka immersed himself in samba soccer.

Zhang Jun instantly started moving when Kaka was passing the ball, he got passed all the back defenders and ran to the placement of the ball.

When other teammates were raising their hands to the referee to indicate that Zhang Jun was offside, Li Yongle left Kaka and ran to the goal.

The side referee did not raise the flag and the main referee also ignored it.