Romantic on the Field

54.

[Stoke City, who recruited the ‘Wales Express’, is it going well? ]

[Stoke City’s offensive tactics with the stigma of ‘Jamie Lee One Tool’. Could Ned Keating be the new answer? ]

[‘Excellent recruitment for Stoke City’, Sam Glucas, who was excited about the news of Ned Keating’s transfer. ]

b [“What Stoke needs right now is another attack option other than Jamie, and a player who will carry the ball excluding Jamie. There could be no player more suited to this than Ned Keating.” ]

[Preston North End FC manager, Alex Turner “The core of Stoke City will always be Lee. do not care.” ]

[ Stoke City manager, Charlie Adam “It doesn’t matter whether the other manager cares or not. At least I have high hopes.” ]

The surprise transfer of Ned Keating and the upcoming game against Preston North End FC drew the attention of many footballers.

And finally the game day dawned.

Preston home stadium, away team locker room at Deepdale Stadium.

“Right fullback Troy. Next to him in the center are Sancho and Mutombo. And the left full-back, Keating. This is how I start out.”

Contrary to the interview where he said he had high expectations, director Charlie said with a calm expression as usual.

“The opponent is a team that has been holding out for two seasons in the championship. However, I think we are far ahead in terms of objective strength. Everyone agree?”

“Yep.”

“Yes.”

Small answers came from here and there.

“Okay, let’s go.”

The locker room conversation ended with that.

‘Don’t you explain the tactics?’

Jamie quickly rolled his eyes. But Charlie and the coaching staff were already getting ready to go.

‘Yeah, I guess it’s because it’s okay to say this.’

Because I’ve been training hard all this time. Jamie climbed onto the field, trying hard to think positively.

Stoke City’s formation today is 4-1-4-1.

The formation itself was no different from last time.

However, several detailed factors have changed, the biggest change being the left fullback.

‘Ned Keating.’

In the meantime, it didn’t show because they mainly used an asymmetric formation that emptied the right winger, but instead of the left fullback, who couldn’t adapt to the new formation as much as Mario, Ned Keating, who just transferred, started as a starter.

Hue the great ducks army admiral is coming for u all

Ned Keating is quite an attack-oriented player for a fullback.

So, for the past three days, I focused on changing the movement of the attacking team when he overlapped.

When Ned Keating moved up the left flank, Brian moved to the center, and Jamie, who was originally in the center, moved to the vacant right side to play, and so on.

Fortunately, it was a movement that I used to do often during matches, so there was no great difficulty in adapting.

‘Well, if it doesn’t work, I just have to put it in by myself.’

After a while, the match started, and Jamie entered a moderately tense state.

In the last Wolverhampton game, there was a time when I showed anxiety in the side defense. So it was because I thought that the other person could make a similar attempt at any time.

Of course, as a central striker midfielder, what he could do was very limited. Still, it was to at least go down directly and put pressure together, or prepare your mind in advance so that you can proceed with a counterattack right away if the need arises.

‘Well?’

However, the situation that was feared did not happen.

Rather, it was more of the opposite.

‘I’m sitting down too…?’

It was because Preston entered the game with the entire line down, as if he had no intention of scoring a goal right away.

‘Well.’

Jamie quickly scanned the opposing camp.

Fortunately, it wasn’t the ‘two-line defense’ or ‘stopping the bus’ that is commonly said. There were only four defenses in the penalty box, and the gap between them and the midfielder in front of them was quite wide.

‘I’m going to look at the liver in the beginning.’

Jamie, who received Harry’s pass, moved forward little by little. There was no need to overdo it in a situation where the other person was dying.

Took. Then, he lightly kicked the ball towards Brian.

After receiving the pass, Brian hit inside and faked a few shots. However, the opponent seldom gave an angle, and he turned the ball back to Jamie.

Jamie stabbed Robbie, who was penetrating slightly to the right this time.

The pass was accurately delivered to Robin, who caught the ball with his left foot and immediately fired with his right foot.

puck-.

Unfortunately, Robin’s shot went out of the touchline after being hit by a defensive foot.

It’s not a team with weak defense. Jamie recalled a brief impression and took a seat outside the penalty box.

Soon after, Brian raised his hand and placed a corner kick.

The ball passed Mutombo’s head and connected to Harry’s head behind him.

whoa-oh

Home fans of Preston and away fans of Stoke let out a sigh of relief and a sigh at the same time. Harry’s header narrowly grazed the post and flew into the crowd.

‘great.’

I got a sense of how to develop an attack. It seemed like it would be difficult in a normal way.

Five minutes later, Jamie, who again caught the ball in the center above the half line, sped up.

“lee! run!”

“LEE! LEE!”

Jamie crossed the half line and started running. This fact alone was enough to excite Stoke away fans.

Preston players did not rush to catch up. He seemed to know how previous teams had done that.

Jamie was not disappointed. Pretending to go in front of the penalty box, he turned around and hit the right side.

At that moment, the opponent’s defender’s leg came in with a ‘wormwood’. Jamie veered to the right once more. I felt a slight strain on my knee for a moment, but it didn’t seem too much.

“Hey!”

Troy’s voice came from behind. It was proof that he had been overlapping from the fullback position to this area.

But I didn’t pass him.

Rather, he hit deeper and entered, and cast a Cruyff turn against the defender blocking the road.

ugh

The opposing defender groaned at the sudden change of direction. It’s not over yet. Jamie shook off the defender’s belated hand and turned to the left this time.

“Shooting!”

“Jamie! Hit it!”

‘no.’

Jamie shook his head internally. The shooting angle is not fully open.

Instead, the passing angle was open.

oh-oh

He crossed to the other side, left, with almost the same speed and power as shooting.

puck. Then there was a dull sound, as if hitting something with a blunt instrument.

Of course, there were no blunt weapons in the arena.

It was the sound of Ned Keating heading, overlapping all the way down the left side at very high speed.

[ EE-YEE! ]

Keating’s header was sucked into the net before the goalkeeper could react, and immediately the away Stoke fans on the other side rose from their seats and shouted.

“Ouch! These crazy bastards!”

“hahahaha! The one who puts up a cross like that, or the one who heads it!”

Brian and Harry enthusiastically congratulated the freshman on his first goal.

“Scoring a goal in the first game of transfer! uh!”

puck. Harry even hit Keating on the head, who was quite tingly right after a strong header.

“ha ha ha. it hurts.”

“He wasn’t Wales’ top-class prospect, he was Wales’ top-class head! hahahaha.”

“it hurts. sick······.”

hahahaha. Seeing this, Jamie couldn’t help but burst into laughter.

**

The first half ended 1-0.

Stoke City faced the second half without any other player substitutions or tactical changes.

On the other hand, Preston, who came out defensively and allowed the opening goal, looked very embarrassed.

At the start of the second half, I raised the defensive line up and tried to attack in a hurry, but it did not lead to a good opportunity because of the lack of detail.

Rather, it was Stoke City who got a chance.

“I told you not to go up the right side!”

“Back space, cover the back space!”

Keating had already beaten Preston while playing for Swansea City.

Knowing that, Jamie kept passing him, and Keating lived up to Jamie’s expectations perfectly.

“Keeting, run!”

The beginning was simple. It suddenly speeds up near the half-line and runs. It was the so-called ‘hit and run’.

However, as simple as it was, it was also very effective. Keating’s instantaneous speed was the fastest in the championship, or in all of Europe.

Two-woong.

He passed the opposing winger in an instant.

With this alone, his first mission, ‘carrying the ball’, was completed. Because I already brought the ball to the penalty box.

Still, Keating kept running.

Then, even the opponent’s defensive midfielder and fullback, who were trying rough physical fights and sliding tackles, were beaten with a simple ‘hit and run’.

Hue the great ducks army admiral is coming for u all

Next was Jamie’s specialty, the back shot.

In the end, he stripped even the central defender and fired a powerful left-footed shot, which became Stoke City’s second goal.

[EE-YAA! ]

2 to 0.

Against a team that came out defensively, he scored the first two goals. It was no exaggeration to say that the game had already tilted towards Stoke’s victory.

But that wasn’t the end.

The time when the match was about 10 minutes left. Keating scored the third goal by volleying Jamie’s surprise roving through pass.

[EE-YeeeA! ]

It was Keating to record a hat-trick in the first game after the transfer. It was a bonus that Jamie added three assist records in one game.

“Keeting! Keating!”

“You are the best, Keating!”

Stoke away fans who followed Preston did not hesitate to praise him.

“hahahahaha.”

Charlie laughed out loud as he watched the scene from the bench.

What Stoke City need most is a new attacking option. It was a story that Milo and other soccer pundits had said in unison.

Charlie agreed with them too. That’s what prompted the transfer of Ned Keating.

But Ned Keating wasn’t just a new offensive option. It seemed that he had found a scorer comparable to Jamie, Stoke City’s number one scorer in name and reality.

“Keeting! It’s been a long time since I’ve been interviewing MOM!”

if u see this you eather reading in epub or from somewhere other than noble so just bear with it it may break the flow but nothing can be done sigh

Moments later, after the game, Keating conducted a MOM interview on the side of the stadium.

“Ned Keating, you scored a hat-trick in your debut today and were named Man of Match. How do you feel?”

It was an obvious question.

“It doesn’t matter that I scored a hat-trick on my debut.”

But Keating’s answer wasn’t obvious.

“···uh? So what is important?”

The interviewer seemed taken aback for a moment, but calmly asked the next question like a professional.

“The fact that I finally got to play alongside my idol Jamie Lee as a teammate is important.”

[ ??? ]

[What is this bastard really?]

[ I’m scared. ]

[Isn’t this enough love, not an idol? ]

[Lee should be careful of Keating in the public shower. ]

His answer surprised fans who watched the interview online. But Keating, unable to see the live chat, continued to give creepy replies.

“Every moment, every second of the game was a thrill for me.”

“···hahahaha. Anyway, I think it’s good news for Stoke City. The team is continuing a good flow, how do you feel as a transfer student?”

“Of course, it’s a pleasure, but personally, with Jamie Lee, who is my idol…”

**

“Tzu-tzu.”

On the other hand, there was a man who clicked his tongue while watching this from the crowd.

In fact, unlike the rest of the crowd, he wasn’t watching Keating. His eyes were on Preston’s bench.

There sat the Preston coaching staff, looking desperate.

‘Stupid bastards.’

The name of the man looking at them pathetically is Kevin Linfort Stewart.

Stoke City’s next opponent was Shin Sung, the manager of Blackpool FC and nicknamed ‘defensive tactics master’.

‘I don’t do defense like that.’

He shook his head and rose from the stands. There was no need to look further.

“uh? Isn’t that Kevin Spacey?”

“who?”

“Hey, Director Black Pearl.”

“You fool. Kevin Spacey is learning movies. That’s Kevin Stewart.”

A few spectators around recognized him and whispered. Either that or not, he coolly left his seat and muttered something to himself.

That kind of attack can’t pierce my defensive tactics.