Chapter 290 – King Joe (4)
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How many points did you put in to maximize your strengths after you pledged to transcend humanity?
Even so, I am called the best dribbler in my current career.
What is active duty It’s compared to the best technicians of all time.
From Pele and Maradona to Ronaldo, Ronaldinho and Messi.
Against the best dribblers and technicians in football history, it is a situation where there is a lot of talk about who is better and who wins more.
No matter what field it is, the virtuousness of the ‘Jindeok’ is beyond imagination, so the impressions of watching the videos and analyzes of past GOATs are—
‘The peak is slightly higher than me, but on average I am higher.’
The way they play in their prime, especially when they’re in good form, certainly explains why these players are considered among the best in football history.
There is only a difference in style for each of them, and like the technicians who were considered the best of the time, they showed a terrifying high point that seemed inhuman… After all, they were only human.
As a human being, your skills will go up and down depending on your condition and physical condition.
But what if I am the owner of the status window?
It’s not that he’s not affected by the condition at all, but he can maintain his skills almost constantly by the stats in the status window.
That is to say,
“What!?”
Today, as always, you can show off your ‘high’ skills.
The game resumed after the opening goal was scored.
The Newcastle team, which started building up from the rear after a long time, spins the ball around and looks for an opportunity, pushing the ball toward my feet.
Originally, the primary goal of Newcastle’s rear playmakers was the pass toward ‘space’.
I believe in my overwhelming speed and personal skills and put up a contest, but against Man City, I failed repeatedly, and as a result of only handing over possession, I got the opening goal.
Simply put, it means that the Man City players’ understanding of space is much higher than our team’s rear playmaker’s passing ability and my off-the-ball movement.
If the horse understands the space and lists it in detail, it means that there is a difference in the ‘player individual and team class’, which includes various factors such as positioning when defending, defense organization, distance maintenance, judgment, and pressure.
Even the Newcastle squad that has grown like this can’t compare to the Man City squad full of world-class players, and it means that they are worse than Man City, who shared a consistent tactical framework from youth, than we, who have been in step with us for two years, in terms of organizational power.
No matter how confident he was, he could not deny this objective fact.
Then there is no need to forcefully insist on methods that have not worked so far.
After the opening goal, we took a detour with the second strategy.
Not directly into the space, but through the pass under my feet.
There is a ‘minor’ problem that I have to catch the ball from below… Like this, it’s easy to take off the opponent’s pressure.
As soon as I took off the pressure, I immediately tried the opposite conversion.
I am confident in breaking through the dribble, but it is much faster to run through an empty ground than to break through the piled up opponents.
However, Manchester City’s preparations were thorough.
As if reading Newcastle’s reverse conversion pattern, a player in a blue uniform kicks the ball away with a header ahead of the full-back who digs into the opponent’s camp with all his might.
“Ah— huh?”
I kicked the ground out of regret, but the ball floated in the air, changed uniforms, hit my head alternately, and then continued to me.
What kind of honey is this?
Tuk-tuk-tuk-tuk, and as soon as the light blue uniform blocks the front, he paints.
A flashy flip-flap unfolds without sacrificing speed. After breaking through the frozen idiot, he shoots straight away.
Pop-!
The laser shooting with added ankle strength, which was as strong as the increase in the shooting stat, flew away leaving a white afterimage in the air, but—
Pop!!
It is blocked by the thick goalkeeper gloves of the Manchester City goalkeeper who jumped up like a beast and bounced to the side.
“Tsk.”
* * *
“Hong Min-joon runs!! Ooh, fantastic flip flaps! Moving from side to side in an instant under your feet—Shooting!!”
“Ah~ the goalkeeper’s amazing save comes out!! It was a great shot followed by a great breakthrough, but it’s a pity.”
“Newcastle’s attack is getting better. The center of Newcastle’s attack is, of course, this player, Hong Min-joon.”
After conceding the opening goal, Hong Min-jun’s personal skills led Newcastle to continue the offensive, but—
“James Paul’s Early Cross! Hong Min-joon’s volley— Oh, I got caught on the defense again!”
“It’s too bad. A huge goal could have been scored. If it hadn’t been hit by the heel, it would have been the path that would have led to the goal, right?”
“Sakum Shakhi shooting! The goalkeeper clears it, and the second ball— Rock Woody catches it and again to Minjun Hong— shoot! No, fold, shoe, fold again, shooting!! Ah… It hits the post and goes out.”
Many times, the goalkeeper’s crazy save show and the defense team’s on-the-fly defense resulted in missed opportunities.
“Fantastic mid-range goal by Leon Maxim!! The ultimate goalscorer from Dortmund scores his 16th goal in the league!! Leon Maxim is ahead of the top scorer competition!”
Rather, starting with Leon Maxim’s wonderful mid-range goal in the 31st minute of the first half,
“We do it again!! The German killer solves it with his head this time!! Leon who scored the league’s 17th goal with a header~ Maxim!”
In the 38th minute of the first half, Leon Maxim’s header from a free kick chance led the game to 3:0 in an instant.
“Ah… The game has become difficult, Newcastle. 3 goals in the first half… If we want to turn the game around, we have to follow even one goal before the end of the first half.”
“Anyway, in Newcastle, Hong Min-joon should do it… Uh? What is it? Hong Min-jun, you are laughing in this situation!!”
* * *
Embarrass A.C.
He said it nicely and conceded two goals.
No matter how thick the skin on my face was, I couldn’t help but feel a little embarrassed.
What… Then what can I do? In order not to be embarrassing, you may have to show a little ‘seriousness’… ?
“… What has this bastard been muttering about since a while ago, while laughing?”
He smiled at the marksman who glanced at him with an awkward expression.
“Hey, focus. It’s not over yet.”
“Now I see, this is pure bravado—”
“My ball!”
“What!?”
To focus on that
The goalkeeper kicks the ball back and forth several times before landing in front of Luke.
It was Luke who won the possession at the end of a toss and turns with the Man City player who was pressuring him hard.
Luke, who took the ball snorting with a naive face that was not suitable for a tall rice cake stand over 190cm, fired a long long pass toward an empty space after a long time.
“Quit in front!!”
Can I catch the ball first, passing the Man City players who couldn’t keep up with my speed that started to accelerate—
Chew!
A tackle that came in just as the ball stuck to his front foot like a magnet.
No matter how good his reflexes were and his ability to slow down time, he couldn’t help being tackled at the moment he touched the ball.
“Oops!”
Thrush—
However, the concentration that has not lost until the moment they get tangled up and fall finds a single path.
In the still slow time, the balls colliding with each other’s feet and slowly rising into the air passed by their faces.
Tung—!
As he loses his balance and falls forward, his moving heel kicks the ball.
Like the tail of a scorpion floating in the air, the ball hit by the heel kicked back swims in the air once again, and bends as much as possible toward the approaching ground.
“What-!!”
It rolls around the ground one lap, and using that elasticity as momentum, as soon as it hits the ground, it hits the ball that lands in front of it as if it had been waiting for it.
“No, this is, huh… “
The unbelievable voice of the center back, who allowed a break through with eyes wide open as if he hadn’t even thought of stopping it, faded away, and after the frozen goalkeeper overcame even running out according to the instincts engraved in his body, tok—
The moment when a lightly kicked ball shakes the net.
The stadium, which had been silent, was shaken by shouts.
* * *
“Crazy! Crazy!! Unbelievable!!”
“A huge goal has been scored! Also Hong Min-joon!! Do it again!! You’re saving a team in crisis!!”
Everyone was enthusiastic about Hong Min-jun’s miracle goal at the end of the first half.
“No what the hell… What happened to this player? In the midst of falling, control the ball with your heel, get up with a front roll, accelerate as it is, and catch the ball that falls in front of you at the right time and shoot! What game is this!?”
“Man City players are frozen! I was completely overwhelmed!”
And the second half that followed.
The play of Man City players, who suffered from an incredible super play, shrank.
I know in my head that this shouldn’t be the case, but after so-called ‘Hong Min-joon’, I’m sure my mind is deeply scarred like PTSD.
No matter how normal you try to play, your body instinctively and unknowingly slows down step by step, which has cracked Manchester City’s organizational power.
“Man City completely subsided in the second half! Another goal is conceded!”
“Nicolas Hosman’s goal following Musam Pasha’s pass!”
And the moment when the goal was eaten again and the score was 3:2.
“Ah, the atmosphere changes. The more a team that was far ahead catches up, the more nervous they become.”
“You’re right. It was like that when I was on active duty. I can’t concentrate properly when I’m leading by 3 goals and conceding 2 goals to catch up, right? This is completely over the top.”
“Uh, Hong Min-jun, Hong Min-jun going in again!? Oh, it’s full! Awesome out-front shooting!!”
“Goal! Creates a 3:3 tie!!”
“This is a big deal. Manchester City, who had a three-goal lead, caught up to the tie. It seems that the Man City players’ mentality has collapsed now.”
* * *
『Great Reversal! Newcastle won 5:4 after a slugfest at home to Man City!!
The Ballon d’Or podium was announced while Newcastle, which had risen after the match against Man City, was on a winning streak.
Now, of course, it was Hong Min-joon who was listed as one of the three finalists, and the day before the third Ballon d’Or ceremony.
Newcastle documentary ‘Dawn of the Dynasty’ has been released.