I AM the Football Star-Chapter 511 - 140: Everyone Is Showing Off—Except Naji, Who’s Getting Beaten Up
San Remo’s right-wing attack completely opened up.
Fernandez’s coordination, Canyes’s runs to the baseline, Lu Yang’s cutting inside, completely overwhelmed Chitadella.
They felt like they were facing a top Serie B team.
On the football field, it’s always about using a point to influence the whole.
Once there is an advantage in one area, it could mean an advantage for the entire game.
Bam!
Canyes and Lu Yang overlapped, but this time he didn’t go to the baseline. Instead, he drew enough of the opponent’s attention and passed back to Fernandez behind him.
Fernandez received the ball and quickly transferred it to midfield.
Morici got the ball.
This was a routine switch of attack focus.
The San Remo players on the left-wing were mostly undefended at this moment.
Morici passed the ball to Bai Zhami.
Bai Zhami instantly started off.
While the opponent closed in, Bai Zhami cleverly heel-flicked the ball, kicking it backward.
San Remo’s left-back Camihong, charging from near the midfield to the attacking third, crossed without stopping the ball.
In the penalty area, Sogel rose high.
Bam!
The aerial bombardment was complete!
San Remo scored again!
Three to zero!
San Remo went wild!
When a team can score even through such routine attacks, it shows they have absolute control over this match.
Their advantage will be substantial; their tactics and team configuration are superior to their opponent.
Of course, if a team has many scoring opportunities but doesn’t score, then... then maybe it’s time to consider changing the striker, right, Guardiola?
"Well done, Camihong!"
Lu Yang came over from afar to celebrate with Camihong.
Camihong was ecstatic, with a radiant smile.
Getting an assist in his first Serie B match felt great.
Bernulin had been watching Lu Yang closely because Lu Yang already had a yellow card, so he couldn’t get too excited.
But... looking at it now, Lu Yang behaved perfectly.
Including this encouragement for Camihong, which was quite meaningful.
Bernulin has the ability to play as a central defender and left-back. With Bernulin’s arrival and Sotu wanting to set up a 3-5-2 formation, Camihong and Bernulin have effectively become competitors.
There’s no doubt Camihong’s order of appearance in these two positions is behind Bernulin.
Just like Matthias and Canyes.
Matias’s situation is hard to handle; if Bernulin were Matias, he would definitely leave after this season to pursue a high salary and a main position.
But Camihong is different; he is young enough, as long as the communication and care are in place, Camihong can accept a substitute rotation arrangement.
That’s why Lu Yang comforts and has rational talks with Matthias, while he primarily encourages Camihong.
Facing different people, you need to have different attitudes.
But the core philosophy remains unchanged, which is to protect the team’s interests while respecting others.
Back to the field.
Some believe that Lu Yang’s verbal conflict with the opponent’s goalkeeper after causing an own goal in the opening ten minutes was unnecessary, and he shouldn’t have gotten that yellow card.
But if you ask Bernulin, he would think that yellow card was the crucial turning point of the match.
Before that yellow card, the whole San Remo was indignantly holding their breath because Chitadella’s goalkeeper had previously taunted Lu Yang and Morici regarding the penalty issue.
San Remo was very united; taunting Lu Yang and Morici meant taunting the whole team.
Bai Zhami, Fernandez, Naji, and others were almost about to rush up to confront that goalkeeper.
So, even if Lu Yang scored, rationally, this matter had come to an end. But emotions sometimes don’t follow rationality; feeling displeased is just feeling displeased.
Only when Lu Yang retorted to the opponent, causing the opponent to receive a yellow card, and vented anger for all teammates did this matter officially conclude for San Remo.
Because of this, San Remo could calmly organize, play tactically as planned, and no one acted impulsively.
Otherwise, if anyone kept sending through balls to the front continuously, how could you implement tactics?
Conversely, Chitadella’s emotions were never released.
As a result, their moves became larger, which led to even more serious tactical deformities, with more pronounced gaps.
Their current state could absolutely be described as "collapsed mentality."
More crucially, their head coach seemed helpless against this situation, unable to control the dressing room or the players’ mindset on the field.
Thirty-seventh minute of the match.
Bernulin held the ball in the backfield.
Chitadella had no players pressuring him, anticipating that he, as a central defender, would have to pass the ball anyway.
Who would have thought Bernulin didn’t pass the ball to Camihong but instead carried it up the middle himself, pushing forward all the way.
In almost no time, Bernulin took the ball across the midfield line, positioning closer to the opponent’s goal than Latu Yidi.
As exaggerated as it could be.
Bam!
Bernulin, with great game intelligence, didn’t keep advancing when the opponent prepared to press him but made a long pass to the front middle.
Because San Remo rarely played from the backfield directly to the center, they mostly pushed from the sides and then crossed or cut inside from the wing.
