Chapter 29 Shortcomings

Li Qing's inaccurate long pass brought a positive effect. The Derby County U18 defense system quickly shifted from the left side of its own defense to the right side, so that the most threatening Li Qing was ignored.

Glennon completed a very good quality cross ball before the opponent's defensive players approached. Center forward Glenn McCauley jumped high, but he was unable to jump completely due to the interference of the opponent's central defender. The attacking goalkeeper saw the football in the air and did not dare to catch it directly with his hands, but punched it out.

The football flew outside the penalty area. The fans watching the game saw a familiar face at the landing point of the football, and subconsciously shouted: "Ahhhhh——"

Liverpool U18 head coach Neil Critchley saw Li Qing swinging his left foot while running, as if he was going to shoot directly from a distance without stopping the ball. The Derby County U18 players who were pressing outward were startled and subconsciously jumped up to block the ball.

Li Qing's mouth curled up slightly, thinking: "Five-star technology card, use it."

The five-star technology experience card obtained from the novice gift package has been used up. This time, the five-star technology card that was just "purchased" from the system mall is used. The price is 5 gold coins, and the effect is exactly the same as the experience card.

Li Qing, who exaggeratedly swung his left foot, seemed to have established a natural tacit understanding with the football at this moment. He lightly tapped the football to the right with the inside of his instep, and slammed the landing football into the penalty area with his right foot.

The outstanding explosive power was perfectly reflected at this moment. The whole dribbling action was done in one go, which was very ornamental. It was completed almost in a flash, so that the Derby County U18 defensive players did not react. They wanted to foul, but Li Qing had already dribbled the ball into the penalty area.

The panicked central defender Mills stretched his foot to try to steal the ball, but Li Qing kicked faster and took the ball away one step ahead, facing the goalkeeper directly.

Li Qing, who has a precision shooting level 2, made a very decisive choice. He completed a push shot with the arch of his left foot, and the football rolled along the grass to the near goal, helping Liverpool U18 to open the scoring at home.

Jack Walker, head coach of Derby County U18, shook his head depressedly. The defensive tactics he formulated before the game were correct. What he didn't expect was that Li Qing, who had sharp breakthroughs and calm shots before, also had such a broad vision.

Neil Critchley, head coach of Liverpool U18, was excited, and his eyes also shone with excitement.

It turned out that Li Qing was more comprehensive than imagined!

Li Qing, who scored a goal, was not too excited because he saw his own shortcomings.

If you want to fight in the Premier League, there is still a long way to go.

In this game, facing the tight defense of Derby County U18 defenders, they were almost helpless. What about the Premier League, which is several levels more intense?

The technical ability of the foot must be improved, otherwise the five-star technical card with 5 gold coins is a bottomless pit. Long passes also need to be practiced more. After all, not every long pass will be as "extraordinary" as the one just now.

As for the ability to grab points in front of the goal, it is not urgent to improve.

Eat one bite at a time.

According to the schedule, Liverpool U18's next league game will be a guest challenge against Everton U18 in mid-January next year, which is a full month away, so he decided to improve himself during this time!

Derby County U18, which restarted the game, had a tentative attack. Perhaps it was because of fear of Liverpool U18's almost abnormal counterattack ability, and the number of people participating in the attack was always limited.

Neil Critchley shook his head. He hoped to see the opponent press out to attack, leaving Li Qing with counterattack space, but the Derby County U18 players did not invest much in the attack, which meant that the visiting team was more concerned about defense.

Fortunately, the score was already ahead, and Neil Critchley was not in a hurry for the team to expand the score.

Derby County U18's Buddhist style of play lasted until the 70th minute of the game. Three consecutive substitutions on the offensive end easily showed their determination.

Li Qing, who had been resting up before, became energetic because... he knew his chance was coming!

Sure enough!

The quality of Derby County U18's defense, which strengthened its offense, declined significantly. In the 79th minute, Li Qing received a long pass from goalkeeper Camille Grabara and passed two people. He was quite calm in front of the goalkeeper. He faked a shot and dribbled past the goalkeeper who had abandoned the goal, and then scored the ball into the empty goal, helping Liverpool U18 to expand the score to two goals.

Due to the serious physical consumption, Li Qing was basically in a state of inaction in the rest of the game, but he was able to bring great pressure to the Derby County U18 players on the field by staying on the field.

Until the end of the game, the score of 2:0 did not change.

Since Manchester City U18 also won the game in this round, the gap between them did not narrow.

However, Li Qing, who scored twice in this round, once again attracted the attention of major media focusing on youth training, and occupied a large proportion of the football section of many media.

With the end of the last round of the National Youth Super League in 2016, the media focusing on youth training are already looking forward to the FA Youth Cup 1/16 finals to be held at the Manchester City Football Academy in mid-January next year.

According to the recent performance of the two teams, some media changed the name of this game to a strong dialogue in advance, but Manchester City U18 is more optimistic, they have Nick Gonzalez, Jaden Sancho, Phil Foden and Braim Diaz and other talented young players, while Liverpool U18 only has Glenn Macaulay, Li Qing and Brewster...

However, Li Qing did not pay too much attention to these media reports, because he still needs to continue to go to school and improve himself.

The shortcomings exposed in the previous home game against the highly targeted Derby County U18 must be made up as soon as possible!