Football: King of Penalty Area
Ch. 38 - Rest and Training

After the match against DJK Wurzburg, Raynaldi's reputation in Cologne gradually became popular. In his previous match against Dynamo Aue, the infamous Raynaldi also started to gain fans.

Now in the virtual stadium there were some fans appearing in the stands. After the match, Raynaldi found that the stadium had not changed. It's just, the stand is starting to come alive. The previously empty stand chair began to contain fans as if the original match with the audience.

Raynaldi did not know the importance of the changes happening to the virtual stadium, but one thing was clear. It is a testament to popularity. When Raynaldi arrived in Germany, he was just a little unknown person who could not even blow any wind.

Now after Raynaldi became famous in Cologne, so the number of fans increased, and many European faces came. In addition, the stadium has also been changed and expanded, as if to become a more real stadium with professional league standards in Europe.

Raynaldi did not know what new functions appeared in his virtual stadium, whether they were useful or not. After Raynaldi came to Cologne and played in the professional league, he didn't go to school anymore and just needed to put together his mandatory duties, so he could do fewer things, so he spent more time in the virtual stadium.

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This team received it much better than when it first arrived in Cologne. Now in addition to Buhari who is already familiar with him, defensive midfielder Van Buren team and main goalkeeper Tony Karl also began to be familiar with Raynaldi. Van Buren and Tony Karl became more familiar with Raynaldi as they often spent extra practice time together.

Moreover, at the training ground all the teammates around Raynaldi smiled at him. Now the team has scored two wins in a row for a total of 31 points after 20 league rounds and is starting to get better and the previous target might be achieved if this performance continues to be maintained. Of course, the players are in a good mood.

But the main reason is very simple, Raynaldi has shown his ability. In the professional world as long as you show your good skills, then you will easily get recognition from teammates.

Therefore, it is actually very easy to join the team, perform well in the game, and help the team to win. As long as you have the ability to do both of these things you will definitely be accepted into any team. Of course, but the conditions are very simple, it is not easy to do this.

Raynaldi still clearly remembered that he had just arrived at the training ground two weeks ago, these players were clearly dissatisfied and there were even some who looked at him disdainfully.

But they all kept their mouths shut the next day, which relied on strength on the pitch.

However, Raynaldi's performance made the team-mates quite confused and strange.

During practice, Raynaldi's appearance was very ordinary. He did everything he had to do in training, but everything he showed was only at the level of the average player, not better or worse. It's even possible he brought in a striker from the youth team, and his performances on the training pitch weren't much worse.

Of course Raynaldi also has the ability that is above average, can even be included in the ability of the top players in the league. For example, the unexpected shooting in this game proves that Raynaldi has good long-range shooting skills.

Even his ability to shoot at long range can be said to be as high or maybe better than the ability of Buhari who has the ability to kick far in the team. Buhari's long-range shooting ability could be considered a mid-to-high or even top level in the league.

Thomas Sobek saw Raynaldi's training, and inevitably complained to his assistant, Danny Hooks. He said that Raynaldi might be very lucky.

Danny Hooks looked at him blankly and said. "This is probably an attacker sent by God, because you said, his luck must be good."

Thomas Sobek thought about it, and felt it might be true.

“Competition and exercise are not the same. Besides my style of play relies more on finding gaps in defense than breaking through with force.” Raynaldi. “Because in the game, it is more important to consider the odds of a kick than the accuracy of a long shot. In other words, you can keep a long shot on the training field. The efficiency is simple, but there is no way to maintain the same efficiency in the game."

Buhari nodded in agreement and accepted Raynaldi's explanation.

"And I can maintain the efficiency of the training field on the playing field, do you understand what I mean?" Raynaldi.

"Oh ......" Buhari.

"There's not a lot of space that comes up as we go through the game. You have to make your own space. In a real game, a player who can create space will definitely perform better, so you have to read the space like me..." Raynaldi.

Buhari nodded excitedly, "That's it!"

I don't know what Buhari understands. In the following training game, he paid close attention to the use of space.

But he found it a very painful fact that even if he found space, he could not make good use of this space to finish the shot. For his own reason was because his movements were too big.

A long shot is an option on the field of play. It can be said that it was not a wise choice. Most of the time, the coach will not ask the players to do more shots away.

The main reason is that the success rate is too low.

Of course there are various reasons, one of which is how Buhari feels today.

As long as he made a long shot attempt, the opposing player would come to block. In this case, the three possibilities are the highest. First, it was instantly blocked by the defenders. This situation is the most common. There were too many people in the forbidden area, and they might be blocked by their own people.

The second was saved by the goalkeeper. Shots with insufficient energy can be immediately confiscated. Even a lot of long-range shots were not enough. Long range shots and take a long time. The goalkeeper has enough reaction time for the goalkeeper.

The third may be a direct steal Except for a direct shot towards the ball, the preparation time for a long shot with the ball along the way is too long to race against time, and it is meaningless without enough space.

Of course, there is a purpose, but very little.

Buhari also found that even if there was real space, he might as well pass the ball.

Passing is much simpler than long shots, and the turnover rate is not high.

So during the training game, Raynaldi found that Buhari passed more passes. This is a good thing for him. His true abilities can be fully utilized.