Chapter 18 Etoo's appearance (")

"Mallorca took the lead away, which was Tristan's third goal scored in two consecutive games, and he scored only five goals in the league in the first half of the season! Two games left Tristan's goals more than half of the half of the season, which proves that Jose knows better than his predecessor Gomez, and can activate this excellent scorer. Jose is enough to appear better than Gomez. For the Spanish national team, Tristan's rise seems to make them worry about the lack of centers in the European Championship this summer."

The commentator commented that in Jose's second coaching game, the commentators began to affirm Jose's role. Regardless of whether his father was the chairman of Mallorca or not, he won the victory as soon as he took office and continued to lead the game, which could not be achieved by luck alone.

However, if you want to talk about luck, Mallorca was indeed a little lucky to defeat Vallecano three to zero in the first half. Although Jose's tactics arranged by him may have more restrained Vallecano's offense, he did not get any good shooting opportunities in the whole game, which proved that Vallecano was indeed unlucky, and in this game, Numancia's luck seemed to be better.

In the last game, the young goalkeeper Franco did not seem to have been tested much. Vallecano's limited shots within the frame were not very threatening, and he easily rushed to the frame, while the most threatening shot also hit the frame. Franco's luck was also quite good, at least when he was nervous, he did not have been tested much.

In this game, Franco's performance opportunities began to increase.

After Tristan scored the first goal, Numancia's offense began to become more fierce. He had been entangled with Mallorca in the midfield before, because even if he tied in this game, it didn't matter much. However, now he is behind. Numancia's players do not need to shout from the head coach, and they know that they have started attacking at this time.

Mallorca's defense is very stable, but being steady does not mean that there will be no loopholes. In fact, this is impossible. What they can do is to reduce the number of shots that threaten the opponent and try not to shoot in dangerous areas.

In the last game, Mallorca basically did not give the opponent such a chance. It was half of strength and half of luck. In this game, they no longer had the luck of the previous game.

In the 21st minute, Numancia's forward received a pass from his teammate and stopped the ball smoothly in the penalty area. Then, he immediately took a foot before Nadal rushed over to block it. Franco flew to the side and blocked the ball. The ball rolling to the side was intercepted by the player who was inserted into the sideline, and then continued to make a cross.

Franco, who had fallen to the ground, quickly climbed up from the lawn, then jumped up high, and took the ball from the air in advance in front of the opponent's forward.

Franco, who landed, quickly rolled around, then stood up and threw the ball out with force.

Jose nodded slightly. He activated Franco instead of continuing to use Boggs, who has experience in Argentina's national team, because Franco is younger and has more potential to grow. Boggs is already thirty years old and has no outstanding performance. Instead of doing this, he might as well train a goalkeeper of his own and use it more at ease.

Franco himself is not a player who can't help but support him. Jose remembers that he will also be Argentina's national goalkeeper in the future. Although Argentina's national goalkeeper after Roa is a bit unreliable, no matter what, he is also a qualified and reassuring goalkeeper.

Next, Franco made several good saves. With his save, Mallorca stabilized the situation on the court and launched several attacks. Tristan's performance was still active, and Numancia also strengthened his defense. Tristan, who played in the top league for the first time this season, has become the focus of the opponent's defenders.

Jose is not very worried about this. Tristan's type striker cannot be stopped by just intensive defense. You should know that for the striker, even if he is unknown for eighty-nine minutes of a game, his wonderful performance is enough to make up for all his shortcomings!

What's more, Numancia's offense cannot bring too many problems to Mallorca's defense. Although it created several opportunities, another young player promoted by Jose, Franco, also showed good form in this game. His save made Mallorca's defense more stable.

It's not bad to just keep entangled like this. Mallorca's attacks are not small. As long as you can continue to seize one or two opportunities, it will not be a problem to expand the score.

However, as the game progressed, Jose's brows began to frown more - Mallorca's offensive tactics were very simple, passing the ball in the middle and crossing the two wings, allowing Tristan to grab the points. However, the threat created by this tactic is not small. In addition to being able to score directly, Tristan's goal can also attract the defense of most opponent's defenders. In this case, another striker will have more opportunities. However, Carlos' performance in this game made Jose only describe it as speechless. Most of the time, he ran around like a headless fly, not tall, only 1.6 meters tall, and his running ability is average. What's more, his speed is not fast.

Maybe he is an Inzagi-style striker, but Jose no longer has the patience to wait for him to recover - now Mallorca's most deadly problem is relegation, not anything else.

What's more, in Jose's opinion, Carlos, who is already twenty-six years old this year, really has no possibility of training.

After the start of the second half, Carlos' performance still did not improve. After shaking his head, Jose said to Etoo on the bench: "Samuel, go warm up."

From the beginning of the game, Etoo's chin was watching the game. What disappointed him was that Mallorca's offense seemed to be more concentrated on the wing, middle-side-middle, which was the most commonly used offensive method. This offensive method is of course very effective for a typical center like Tristan, but it is not very good for agile and technical forward like Etoo's - what he needs more is ground passes rather than air passes.

However, after carefully observing Carlos' performance, Etoo began to know why Jose told him that Mallorca needed him - the forward Carlos did perform a bit poorly. Even if Etoo himself was not good at scoring points with running positions, he would not miss those few opportunities to have a shot with obvious follow-up.

"Although this tactic is not suitable for me, as long as I am on the court, I still have a chance to score a goal." Etoo thought in his heart.

Not long after, he heard Jose asked him to warm up. After hearing this, Etoo's heart beat violently for a few times, then nodded slowly, quickly took off his coat, and ran out.

While warming up, Etoo looked at the situation on the court, just like what he had observed before. Although Numancia had always played very stably, one goal behind allowed them to slowly press the formation up, which also had a lot to do with Mallorca's not as fast as he said. As he said just now, Tristan was average in speed, and Carlos was short, but his speed was not fast.

"Mallorca has players warming up...Mallorca's head coach Jose did not change players in the middle in the last game, so I thought Mallorca only had those eleven players... The warm-up was the 19-year-old young forward who had just come to loan from Real Madrid, Cameroonian Samuel Etoo. This forward was from Real Madrid's youth training, but he had not scored a goal in Real Madrid. When Jose took office, La Liga transfer period had passed, so he could only choose to loan players. It seems that this was a helpless move. Now let's see what outstanding performance the young forward who was replaced by a young coach can do..."

After Etoo warmed up, Jose pulled him past and said in his ear: "After playing, he was ambushed behind Diego... Tell Vicente that after getting the ball in the backcourt, you can leave the side without dividing the side, but try to pass directly, find Diego this point, and tell Diego, when such a long pass comes, try to ferry it to you as soon as possible. As for what you are going to do, I don't need to say anything else, right?"

Etoo nodded vigorously. He understood what Jose meant. Although this tactic is very simple, it is very consistent with his characteristics - a long pass from the backcourt, the center flew directly, and with his speed, he might be able to get a single shot in an instant!

When his teammates were not familiar with him and could not send out a beautiful straight pass to fully display his characteristics, this simple tactic can greatly enable him to show his characteristics and abilities!

This targeted tactical arrangement just proves that Jose's previous words were not casually said - for Etoo, no head coach has ever made such considerate arrangements based on his characteristics! If he didn't really appreciate him and really think he is very important to the team, how could he be prepared for this when he first came?

The so-called "scholars die for their confidants" - Eto'o did not know this sentence, but at this moment, he felt a sense of gratitude to Jose!

After the deal, Jose pushed Etoo hard behind: "Go, Samuel... Maybe you won't score, but your appearance will definitely make us play more relaxed in this game!"
Chapter completed!