Football: King of Penalty Area
Ch. 41 - 1. Karcraft (3)
In the final fifteen minutes of the match, the exhausted Raynaldi was back on, twice coming into the box in the 77th and 84th minutes, creating danger.
As the time of the match was running out, Raynaldi's physical energy was also in the same condition, although it did not look out of breath, but his power to run and shoot had been reduced. However, Raynaldi regulated his energy well and recovered it slightly while walking lightly in the middle of the field during 1.Mainz attacked Koln Athletics.
Seeing Raynaldi's behavior, neither Thomas Sobek nor Danny Hooks were speechless. They felt that what Raynaldi was doing was quite wise, but at the same time they also felt that Raynaldi's endurance and stamina were a little bad.
In the 84th minute, Raynaldi grabbed the ball in the box and quickly sent a triangular pass inverted out of the box which was greeted by a hard kick Lindbergh.
The fans 1.Mainz in the stadium exclaims. Luckily, Lindbergh was ill-fated. The ball was actually angled well, but he still failed to score.
Lindbergh, who failed to score, shook his head in disappointment, then gave Raynaldi a thumbs-up. "What a nice addition!"
Defender 1.Mainz was surprised. Because Raynaldi previously showed poor defensive ability suddenly managed to grab the ball easily. This was completely different from what he had shown before.
Regular game time is coming to an end, and everyone's focus is starting to wane. In eighty-nine minutes, Raynaldi once again got the ball and dribbled into the box.
On the left side of the box, Raynaldi faced two defenders and unexpectedly chose to keep dribbling. His movements did not look luxurious, and it was not very good, but very practical.
Facing his second double-team, Raynaldi suddenly became nimble at his feet. After turning the ball to the right, he quickly returned the ball to the left. Then his left heel takes over the ball to the left, and a proper upper body swing also makes the player 1.Mainz was tricked and made a wrong judgement, the ball was taken out in a small area after passing a double-team defender 1.Mainz.
Raynaldi looked ahead, the angle of the goal was already very small, and Raynaldi chose to pass the ball rather than shoot himself.
The ball slid past the front of the small penalty box between the two centre-backs, and the goalkeeper could not get it. At the same time Deschamp, who was put in the back row, greeted the ball with an angry shot, and the ball flew into the net from a near post!
This is the deciding goal!
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Koln Athletics picked up three wins in a row after ten games without a win and moved up to 6th in the standings by 9 points from 3rd in 1st.Mainz. The story kind of sounds unique, considering their team almost lost all their front lines. Moreover, the main character of this counterattack came from players who had never heard of it which made this story even more interesting.
Three games, 6 goals and 1 assist. Such statistics are great for any player. The statistical performance has made Raynaldi famous in Germany.
But the fans watching the game still think that Raynaldi's hard power is average, but he has a lot of imagination and can sometimes perform at a phenomenal level.
The reason why he can perform well now is because his opponent does not know enough about Raynaldi, which allows him to give the full game for some unexpected performances and bring about magical effects in the game. When Raynaldi begins to be taken into account, such an effect will probably cease to exist.
This is a more reasonable explanation that football fans can think of.
If not, it's hard to say. Why is physical confrontation so commonplace? Raynaldi politely said that when he managed to overturn the opponent's defender it was just luck plus his strong running momentum.
Why is his technique average, but can suddenly make a smooth dribble action, and then accurately send the ball into the most dangerous position in the penalty area to complete an assist?
Finally the fans, the media, and the experts were associated with Raynaldi's imagination while on the pitch.
In short, whether this argument is reliable or not, one thing is clear, Raynaldi has also been a minor star through these three games in the last two weeks. Raynaldi's three perfect debut matches made him a new rising star in Germany.
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The day after the Raynaldi game, Adinda Dwi Putri got a newspaper from her roommate who rented a house together near the University of Cologne. She is a student majoring in information engineering and computer science at the University of Koln who comes from Indonesia.
Adinda is now in her second year of college, she got a college scholarship from one of the media giants in Indonesia, New Compas Corp. So, Adinda often buys newspapers or magazines to learn to make interesting news.
Currently it just so happens that the friend who rented the house along with Adinda bought a sports newspaper issued Deutsch Sports. In fact, Adinda has also bought a wide variety of newspapers and magazines including sports newspapers, sports newspapers, and, he also already knows that in the German second league team there is a player from the same country with him showing phenomenal performances.
Then, Adinda put the latest newspaper with two other newspapers from two weeks ago. There are similarities in the paper, they are Deutsch Sports newspaper published in Cologne after every game of Koln Athletics.
"Deutsch Sports": “Der Jager” Ray. Did the hunter change his hunting area?
"Deutsch Sports": A 60-minute action by an Asian boy silences DJK Wurzburg.
"Games Sports": 1.Mainz third victim, “Der Jager” Ray.
Adinda who also works part-time as a news journalist for New Compas Corp. is also quite interested in this news. After all, if a news about a young soccer player who became the main force of a German second league team came out back home it would definitely become popular in a few days.
However, Indonesia is not a strong country from Asian football such as Japan and South Korea which are World Cup subscriptions. However, Indonesia is a true football desert country, because the FIFA ranking that Indonesia has now is 115 which is not even in the top 100 of the world.
“This will definitely be interesting news.” The sister smiled happily. Then he looked at the match ticket his roommate gave him and intended to go to the stadium to cover Raynaldi's news.
In the city of Cologne, Koln Athletics is the only football club in the city, and one that will always be sought after by football lovers in Cologne.
Because of being the only football club in the City of Koln, Koln Athletics has many fans, it's just that Koln Athletics who have only played in the lower leagues in recent years has made people pay a little less attention to it, but in fact there are still a lot of people who support this team.
After beating 1.Mainz, Koln Athletics scored 34 points in 21 games, and suddenly rose to 6th in the standings, but still 9 points adrift of third-placed league 1.Mainz scored 43 points in 21 games.
Surprisingly, the first and second-placed teams in the league - Armina Oldenburg and Chemnitz - also lost to their opponents. So rarely rank 1 to rank 3 is still the same 3 points. And the distance of Koln Athletics with standings leader Armina Oldenburg reduced to 12 points.
Koln Athletics' three-match winning streak could be considered invaluable and come on time, so their hopes of promotion to the Bundesliga for the first time are still not covered. Because there are still 17 league games left and there is still a lot of hope to overtake the top three positions.
Seeing the condition of the team that became much better, Thomas Sobek also felt calmer. But while talking about Raynaldi, he also published a lot of opinions.
For example, a player like Raynaldi has a great appetite for him, but the general manager is not necessarily using him, because Raynaldi's circumstances are difficult to understand, and he needs to adjust his tactics to have a good performance.
Thomas Sobek himself has tried to adjust tactics for Raynaldi, in the previous three games the style of play Koln Athletics also changed slightly. Previously teams often used crosses and used a centre forward to hold the ball. But when Raynaldi came on, Koln Athletics no longer used a two-sided cross and rather looked for a breakthrough pass. After all, Raynaldi was not a tall and powerful centre-forward.