I am the king of football

Chapter 49: Force Simpson
Qin Hu's change is not a flash in the pan. This is the conclusion Hunter came to after paying attention to Qin Hu's performance in a series of ball control training such as over-the-bar shooting, figure eight dribbling and crab step dribbling for five consecutive days.

Not only that, Hunter found that Qin Hu's change was not stagnant. Ever since he surprised him for the first time by dribbling the ball over the pole and hitting the goal, the young player has been making progress every day.

During this period, Qin Hu asked for advice from teammates who were good at dribbling the ball more than once. Both Colen and Kane gave him guidance more than once. This player was very purposeful in making up for his shortcomings in ball control.

Soon Bruce also got the first-hand information about Qin from Hunter. In the daily training games, Qin Hu showed flashes of dribbling from time to time, which had never been seen before.

Bruce is naturally very pleased with Qin Hu's changes. Everything is possible for players before the age of 20, because they are highly malleable at this age. Now it seems that Qin Hu's development direction is far from being locked.

Of course, Qin Hu's change is gratifying, but it does not mean that his ball control skills have directly improved. Compared with Simpson and Collen who are excellent in ball control in the team, he still has a lot of room for improvement.

After five days of training, the team's new round of league battle is about to begin. This time, Hull City will go away to challenge Peterborough United, an opponent that likes to control the ball and advance.

In Bruce's tactical arrangement, he did not want to play a defensive game. He wanted to use the team's momentum to control the ball and push back to truly prove the strength of his team. Therefore, in the final formation, Hull City chose a 433 formation.

This means that the team's forward selection must require several players with delicate ball control skills and certain breakthrough capabilities. In the end, Bruce fielded a trident of Simpson, Kane and Cooper.

As for Qin Hu, he was put on the bench after starting in four consecutive games. The reason Bruce gave was that first, the team's needs in this game were different, and secondly, Qin Hu was not very old, and if the continuous high-intensity games were too much of a burden, he still needed a rest.

Qin Hu naturally had no objection to this. As a player, it was his duty to obey the head coach's arrangements. The team was now in a good momentum, so it was no problem for him to take a rest on the bench.

Therefore, in the much-anticipated new round of the league, people did not see Qin Hu on the court, which made the domestic fans who began to gather in front of the screen as Qin Hu's fame grew quite disappointed.

On the court, Simpson, who finally returned from injury, was quite excited. In order to prove that he was the leading player on the team's front line, he did not fool around during the training time this week after returning from injury, which made his performance after the opening quite amazing.

"He dribbled past two players in a row. Simpson's movements were very delicate and the tall Petersburg defender looked quite clumsy in front of him."

Although Qin Hu was not there, Kono was also commenting on the game quite seriously. According to the platform owner, CCTV seemed to be about to get the broadcasting rights for the English Championship. He did not have many opportunities to commentate, so he had to perform well.

Simpson's performance in this round of the league was quite outstanding from the beginning to near halftime, and he showed people his excellent ball control skills as a product of the Gunners' youth training.

However, it is only ball handling skills, because Simpson hardly passes the ball!
"Shit!"

When the first half of the game ended, Simpson had just dribbled the ball from the left all the way to the left side of the penalty area and then ignored Kane's raised hand signal after running into the middle and shot his fifth shot of the game.

Because the Petersburg defenders adapted to his style and concentrated on blocking him, his shots still failed to threaten the Petersburg goalkeeper.

At the end of the first half, Hull City had the advantage but failed to score and temporarily tied with their opponent with a score of 0-0.

Then Simpson ignored Kane, who looked a little unhappy, and walked straight back to the locker room. He didn't think he needed to pay attention to the emotions of a rookie who had never even played in the Premier League.

"Simpson, you played a little too independently in the first half. After breaking through from the wing, the ball could have been passed to the middle. Do you understand?"

Since the team was really dominating the opponent in the first half, Bruce did not choose to speak to Simpson in an angry tone. He tried to give advice to the striker in front of him calmly. "Oh~ Sorry, coach, I may have paid too much attention to my feet. I did not notice the running position of my teammates in the middle when I shot a few times. Maybe he was too slow..."

Looking at Bruce sincerely, Simpson's words were quite intriguing. Indeed, the few times he chose to shoot, they were opportunities for either passing or shooting, which made Bruce speechless for a moment.

"Ahem, anyway, I want to see a change in the score in the second half. Having the advantage but not scoring is not a good sign."

"Don't worry coach, we've got this figured out, right Harry?"

"Humph!"

Kane on the side did not pay attention to Simpson's sudden words. He definitely created several excellent opportunities in the first half, and Simpson did not fail to see it as he said, but Bruce was not playing on the court and could not feel it directly.

This half-time communication did not ultimately change Hull City's style of play. After the start of the second half, Simpson continued to do his own thing and enjoyed the attention of the fans with his beautiful technique.

And luck seemed to be on his side. In the 73rd minute of the game, when Qin Hu was signaled by Bruce to stand up and warm up, Simpson suddenly broke out and grabbed the through ball that Colen had sent to him in front of Kane and shot directly at the goal.

This move forced Kane to fall to the right in an awkward position in order to dodge Simpson, but it also caught the Peterborough defense off guard. The home team's goalkeeper's center of gravity was shaken and he was unable to touch the ball that flew into the goal from his hand.

1-0, Hull City broke the deadlock and took the lead.

"I'm the fucking protagonist!!!"

Completely ignoring Kane who was lying on the ground, Simpson rushed to the corner area and started screaming.

Some of the other players in Hull City's midfield and backcourt who were not clear about the situation also ran over and started cheering. At one point, as the Hull City fans who were travelling with them also started cheering, Simpson, who rushed to the corner area and waved his fists, became the focus of everyone's attention.

"This, 1-0, the ball finally went in. Hull City leads 1-0 away from home. Simpson's crazy firing finally helped the team take the lead..."

For a moment, Kono in the live broadcast room didn't know what to say. As a Chinese fan, he and the audience still liked Kane, who had a good relationship with Qin Hu. And there was absolutely nothing wrong with some of Simpson's operations in this game being called unique.

But it was this lone player who scored the goal that changed the score, which made everyone so angry that they didn't know what to say.

And because the team took the lead at this moment, Qin Hu was arranged by Bruce to sit back on the bench after warming up, and the coach began to replace defensive players.

From then until the end of the game, Simpson's goal became the only goal of the game.

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