Chapter 10: Substitute appears ()

"You are so fast," Van der Fate said with a smile, "I thought I would pass you just now, but I didn't expect you to break the football under my feet."

Mark directly reached out and pulled Van der Fatt up and said modestly: "Your skills are simply excellent. I was just lucky just now."

People are willing to listen to compliments. Although Mark defeated Van der Fate just now, his modest character quickly brought the relationship between the two closer. It can be said that Mark left a very good impression on Van der Fate, the young Captain Ajax.

After the training competition, Van der Fate specially invited Mark to sit at his home. Mark also met Van der Fate's girlfriend Sylvie at Van der Fate's home. Mark listened to Van der Fate's introduction and said that Sylvie, who has Asian descent, is the chief vj of the Dutch music station (similar to Hong Kong channelv).

Mark was indeed very talkative when he looked at this beautiful Dutch woman from Van der Fate. She always motivated the topic. However, the mystery that Mark had as a Chinese was also very appreciated by Sylvia. Moreover, Mark's Chinese humor often made Van der Fate and Sylvia laugh. In fact, Mark did not know anything about humor. Even if he saw some small jokes on the Internet before, it might be because of the different concepts of Easterners and Westerners. They would think Mark's way of speaking was very interesting and humorous, which was something Mark did not expect.

Sometimes life is a very wonderful opinion. When Mark met Sylvia for the first time, he became a friend who could talk about everything, which made Van der Fate wonder. He used to think that Mark was his friend, maybe Sylvia would have no common language with Mark, but now he has become Van der Fate who can't get in. After dinner at Van der Fate's home, Mark returned to his home and continued to train in the dream space.

As the training was about to be completed, Freeman's voice sounded again, "Main position task, use the opportunity to take the bench to save the team from the main position, complete the 50 honor points, and a hundred honor points will be deducted for failure. The master wishes you good luck."

"Damn, you're playing with me again." Mark was sent out of the dream space after hearing Freeman's words and jumped up and scolded: "You don't tell me how to get the main position. I know what the head coach will arrange, what if I can't play."

However, no matter how much Mark scolds him, he has no choice but to enter the "dream space" once a day. Today is Friday, and the next match will be held on the weekend. The opponent is the mid-range team of the Eredivisie Alkmar Football Club. The scam system sets that the weekend is Freeman's rest time. Now Mark has no way to ask what to do, so Mark can only take one step at a time.

Soon, the tenth round of the Netherlands Super League on November 2, Ajax played against Alkmaar Football Club at home. The starting lineup sent by Ajax in this game was such a traditional 433 lineup goalkeeper: Marten Stekrenberg's four players on the defense line, Maxville, Heatinga, who returned from injury at the beginning of this season, and Czech country Grigra, and Tunisian international Trabelsi, who was favored by many European giants this season.

The three parallel midfielders are the captain of the Czech national team, Galasek, and De Jong and Van der Fate, respectively, in the midfield. De Jong and Galasek are responsible for the defense, and Van der Fate is responsible for organizing and initiating the offense. However, in addition to De Jong playing the role of the midfield butcher, Galasek is also an excellent offensive organizer. Galasek is a player with a very tough style. Since the 2000 European Championship, Galasek has begun to play defensive midfielder and has also performed very well in this position.

The two wingers are right winger Moroccan international Norddin Bocari, and left winger is Belgian international Tom Sotals center is Swedish international Ibrahimovic.

The seven players on the bench are goalkeeper Romanian goalkeeper Bogdan Lobonte, French central defender Escud, US defender O'Brien, Dutch talent midfielder Sneider, Finnish ice snatch Litmanin, and seven substitute players including Mark who has been on the roster for the first time, Belgian league scorer Wang Songke.

After introducing Ajax's lineup, the commentator on the scene said: "Look at Ajax's main player or substitute player, there is a characteristic, that is, whether he has played for his country's youth team or his national team, and only Mark has no experience with any national team. This is also a very strange phenomenon. What specialties does this boy from China have to appear on the bench of the first team. Let's wait and see."

Mark is now unable to hear the commentator's evaluation of himself. He is observing the performance of the players on the court. Mark is also learning now. He hopes that through close observation, he can collect some useful information for him and then use this useful information when he comes on the bench to make his performance better on the court.

This game is related to Mark's own life. The honor point is life, and life is honor point, so Mark cannot be relaxed at all. At the same time, Mark also hopes that Alkmaar can perform well so that the serious coach Koeman can send himself on the court to save the team as soon as possible.

Perhaps Mark's prayer really worked. After the opening, Ajax pushed the attack heavily. Ajax is now pounding Alkmaar's defense like a hammer. However, Alkmaar is not a bottom team either. Perhaps they were a bottom team before, but now they have become a force that cannot be ignored. The person who changed them is the former head coach of Ajax team, Adriansse, who has the title of "brutal coach". The Dutch who signed with Alkmaar last season has built the team that had previously targeted relegation into an iron-blooded team. The current ranking is basically stable in the top five, and it is very hopeful to lead the team to participate in next season's European competition.

The weapon they are now in the Eredivisie league is their defense. In the past few rounds, they relied on excellent defense to defeat Ajax's direct rival Eindhoven Football Club away, and the most important thing is that they did not concede goals in that game.

Alkmaar has many excellent players on the court, such as the assist madman Tim Decler from the Ajax youth training camp, and the right back who has both offense and defense. Dennomingoes Landzaat from the Ajax youth training camp, and many well-known Dutch players such as the Dutch national team substitute goalkeeper Henktimmer.

Mark observed Alkmaer's forward Kenneth Perezdahljensen's position on the court, and his position was very free. He now runs well on the court and has excellent dribbling. He is recognized as the "dribble master" of the Eredivisie. Neither central defenders Heatinga and Grigra can completely stop Perez's ball-holding attack. Mark also saw that Perez's performance on the court was too unique. He hardly passes, but Alkmaer's tactical style seems to be very suitable for him.

After Alkmaar defended, he would pass it to Perez in front of him and then ask him to find a way to shoot. Anyway, this guy would not pass the ball, so he would just leave it all to him to solve the battle. If he couldn't score, he would have another chance. Anyway, Alkmaar has his own patience.

Perez indeed gave Ajax a heavy blow after the opening. In the fifth minute of the game, Perez took advantage of a quick counterattack opportunity to break through Ajax in a row. Ajax fell behind with one goal, but Perez's performance was not over yet. In the 23rd minute, Perez showed his excellent dribbling skills and showed his particularly "independent" side. Heatinga shot and shot. Although this opportunity was not the best, the scoring was the hard truth. Perez cheered wildly in the entire competitive stadium, and his teammates around him also congratulated him forward, but he shook his opponent and cheered alone. He believed that the two goals he had scored before were completely his credit and had nothing to do with others. Such an independent personality also made it difficult for him to integrate into the small group of Alkmaar.

"What are you pretending to be? You're just a fool." Litmanin, who was sitting next to Mark, swears.

Mark smiled after hearing this, but he did not express his opinion. He just thought in his heart how to defend this player with excellent skills and strong shooting ability after he came on the court. Mark felt that Perez's outstanding state today might become a key to his chance to play. Only when he plays his best, he can reflect his value.

However, Mark is not the head coach Koeman after all. He doesn't know what Koeman is thinking. Perhaps Koeman thinks that the players on the court can solve Perez, or it may be that Koeman thinks that the team's strong attack line can be completely added to Alkmaar's team.

It's true that Ajax's players on the court are really powerful. Ibrahimovic got the ball in the penalty area after two minutes. He used his outstanding personal skills to shake off the free kick and scored the score as one-to-two.

The entire competitive stadium was sensational, and the fans cheered loudly for Ibrahimovic's outstanding performance. They believed that an excellent striker like Ibrahimovic was not a problem at all to equalize or even overtake the score. Koman was also very excited about Ibrahimovic's goal. Koman jumped up excitedly after seeing Ibrahimovic score. It can be imagined that the mental pressure brought to Koman after falling behind Alkmaar two goals. Koman now believes that if the team can continue to perform like this, it is definitely not a problem to equalize the score or even overtake. Maybe Ajax can solve the battle in the first half.

However, the development of the game did not follow Koeman's idea. Although Alkmaar was scored a goal, they still insisted on their own defensive counterattack and were dealing with Ajax. Every shot from their forward Perez could shock the Ajax players.

Koeman has now allowed De Jong Perez to defend himself. In fact, it is easy to defend against such a "independent" player because he can't pass the ball, so he needs to defend his breakthrough. However, De Jong is not the kind of defensive player with super man-tapping ability. His advantage lies in his interception ability and stealing, so De Jong's current defense cannot completely suppress Perez's breakthrough shot. However, ordinary head coaches will not be able to substitute players in the first half unless they are extremely dissatisfied with the game on the court.

After the head coach blew the whistle at the end of the half game, the players of both sides returned to the locker room. In the locker room, Koman was furious and gave harsh training to the starting players one by one. These players became speechless in Koman's tsunami-like anger. In fact, Ajax's performance in the first half was indeed not very good. The team's midfield defense completely failed and did not make an effective interception on Alkmaar at all. De Jong has no way to defend Perez's breakthrough now, so Koman decided to make substitution adjustments in the second half. The person who replaced was naturally the midfield engineer De Jong. Because Galassek had a stronger attack ability than De Jong, Mark came on the field and left.

When De Jong heard that he was substituted, he raised his head slightly and looked at head coach Koeman and lowered the ball. He knew that the coach was dissatisfied with his performance on the court, but he felt that his style was not suitable for defending players like Perez who ran around the court. His characteristics should be more about appearing in the middle of the midfield and blocking the opponent, rather than being a target center back and being led to the opponent's attacking player.

But after all, De Jong is not the head coach, and head coach Koeman has his own ideas. In fact, the reason why he replaced De Jong was not because Galasek did better than him, but because his offensive ability was worse than Galasek. In Koeman's impression, Mark should be a player who only heads off and defends, so now the score is behind cannot appear two defensive players on the court. Now it is time to catch up with the score, so naturally, we must try our best to retain the offensive power and then not allow the opponent's players to perform freely.

"In the second half we increase the chance of long shots, and then the forward players strive to capture the second chance to score. Mark, your task is to keep an eye on the opponent's forward Perez, and you don't need to worry about the rest."

Koeman briefly explained the tactics of the second half and then specially arranged the next task of the players. Mark made his debut in the second half with Koeman's expectations for him.

The No. 44 jersey worn by Mark is so conspicuous. It is estimated that only Ajax's hardcore fans can understand who Mark is now.

"In the second half, Ajax made personnel adjustments. No. 16 player De Jong left the court. The 18-year-old Chinese player Mark, selected by the youth team, came on as a substitute. He was wearing the No. 44 jersey. I don't know what he thought he would choose such a large jersey number, so that players from the mysterious East can bring us some surprises." The on-site commentator introduced conscientiously. The scene of this game was transmitted to the entire Dutch family through the TV signal. This was a milestone scene. He was finally able to represent the first team on the game. Although he was just a substitute, it was a good start after all.

After Mark came on the court, he found the goal of this game, which was to mark Perez, who had performed well in the first half. This was also the task Koeman gave Mark. Before Mark got on the court, he touched his necklace and suddenly a message flashed out of his mind.

"Stop Perez from completing a hat trick, and complete the task to get twenty honor points, and forty honor points will be deducted if the failure is done."

"Damn" Mark couldn't help but curse in his heart when he heard this message. He didn't expect that he would receive a task for the first time when he came on as a substitute. However, the task given by the system that depressed Mark the most was not very clear. The meaning of not allowing Perez to score a goal is to say that not only can Perez break through and shoot, but he also needs to pray that Ajax's players and the referee will not be able to award a penalty or free kick. If Alkmaar gets a free kick or penalty kick, Mark will be powerless and can only watch Perez shoot by himself, and then everything will be the result. He can only pray that he is not lucky and cannot shoot in.

But now this is the case, Mark can only accept this tricky task. Anyway, let go of Perez first. As long as he works hard, it should not be difficult. Now Mark still has to thank De Jong for his demonstration on the field for Mark in the first half, which allows Mark to see how to defend Perez more effectively. Moreover, due to De Jong's strong body and Perez's battle, the 29-year-old Danish striker's physical strength declined very quickly. As a new force, Mark is not likely to be unable to defeat him.
Chapter completed!