Football: King of Penalty Area
Ch. 71 - Change of Position

After the game, Raynaldi's goal became the focus. During this time, most of Raynaldi's goals were performances of great shooting ability and the instinct to find empty space in the opponent's defense.

In addition, he has also shown some spectacular goals through his long-range shots. However, still everyone who knows Raynaldi will brand him as a player with exceptional shooting ability and nothing more.

However, Raynaldi's heading goal when faced with 2 players as high as 1.9 meters by relying on his body as high as 1.79 meters attracted a lot of attention football fans.

Moreover, after the game was completed, Raynaldi's jump was successfully measured as high as 56 cm which is equivalent to the average jump of basketball players in the NBA who are torpedoed at 60 cm.

They all didn't know if this was just a short moment or Raynaldi's true jumping ability. However, his action against this high player seems to show that nothing is impossible in football.

Fans are also very interested in this issue. Ever since Raynaldi came into the team, Thomas Sobek has thrown his battle tactics high. The ground attack has been playing pretty well recently, and fans very rarely see Raynaldi jumping to compete in the heading.

They only found out by now that Raynaldi's jumping ability was terrifying. In addition, the assists made by Raynaldi in the last seconds also showed that he is a player with a broad vision and full of calm when facing important situations.

There was also Thomas Sobek who had the same doubts. Not only in games, but also in training, Raynaldi rarely received a ball of this height. In a recovery exercise the next day, Thomas Sobek asked Raynaldi to jump several times and the result was only about 30-40 cm.

Without waiting for Raynaldi to explain himself, Thomas Sobek came to the conclusion: Raynaldi is a competitive player. In a high-intensity confrontation in the official game, there may be several reasons such as an adrenaline rush, and it is likely to explode with tremendous energy.

The next day the game was still training. After all, the twelve-day four-game schedule was extremely tight, and after this too there would be opponents to deal with.

The opponent in the next game is ranked 12th in the standings. This is Ratingen United. The last round of the league Koln Athletics narrowly won against Velbert FC with a score of 2-1, and Ratingen United, also surprisingly beat Chemnitz with a score of 1-0.

This left Ratingen United theoretically out of relegation while Koln Athletics also cut the points gap with Chemnitz to 2 points.

Robert had already returned to his best condition after 6 days of rest. Thomas Sobek was very satisfied with this. He will have to pick up as many points as possible to finish his relegation career while Raynaldi is still on the line, otherwise nothing will happen after the loan period ends.

Robert's return gave Koln Athletics more tactical options. Along with Raynaldi's goal in the previous game, the high ball continued to be an offensive method. In this way, Raynaldi's peak ball possession is also more.

As for him not jumping high most of the time?

There's no problem. The performance of the player in the game itself is influenced by various factors. Raynaldi did not need to jump more than two meters each time to prove himself. As long as he assessed the landing point, he could fly at a critical moment. Just up.

The intensity of recovery training is very small, only some physical training, Raynaldi can see Robert training very hard.

Of course, he was also very careful not to injure himself anymore. On this basis, he trained very hard.

He said he really admired Raynaldi. He admits that Raynaldi is very capable and can score a lot of goals, but he feels that he is not bad.

However, the distance between the two is clear, in the first seven rounds of the league, Robert scored twice, while Raynaldi scored 16 goals in the last nine games.

As a player from the football desert in North America, Robert has paid a lot for this career. He trains hard every day and scores as many goals as possible to attract the attention of European scouts. Then he left his family and came to this distant Europe the same as Raynaldi.

In terms of Robert's strength, as well as his luck, things are much worse, and he's still not very well known in his game, but he's really working very hard. Because he also wants to bring his family after establishing his position in Europe.

Robert did not have such a high talent. The football path is made by itself step by step. It's not easy to come here to play. Last season, he just came into the team and started playing as a substitute. This season, it is difficult to stand firm as a starter and his heels are injured, which is really unlucky.

Raynaldi has luck. After the rebirth, I don't know what blessing he got. He has gained the attention of a European club scout and acquired a system to speed up his training, but most of them are not so lucky. They can only walk on their own.

In this regard, Raynaldi, who in his first life failed in his football dream, was also deeply touched. In fact, compared to Robert, Raynaldi in his previous life had more help, and he was not even a professional player yet.

Therefore, even if it was to fulfill his system and dream, Raynaldi told himself to work harder, but he did not, he had taken a shortcut and already possessed a talent that no one else could ask for.

The training schedule this week is very busy. The day after the game against Velbert FC was a restorative exercise. The next day continued with technical training and some new tactics to be applied in the next game.

Eventually the 3-day break ended and the Koln Athletics team departed for Ratingen City, a town in the Mettmann district of North Rhine-Westphalia to face Ratingen United away.

On the bus on the way to Ratingen City, the players were generally a little bored and tired. There were a lot of players rotated and not brought in this match, Lindbergh who had not fully recovered was left in Cologne to rest.

On the day of this match, Thomas Sobek brought in a young Kevin Kroos and intended to let him play as a double midfielder with Van Buren. At the same time Dario Robert who has fully recovered was brought back in this match because Thomas Sobek also intends to try to make him the team's centre forward and let Raynaldi play as a false nine right behind him.

After more than 2 months of bringing Raynaldi in his team. Thomas Sobek found that Raynaldi's ability not only lies in his extraordinary finishing ability. But Raynaldi also has a broad vision and calmness in the face of pressure.

These two things are the skills most needed to be a good attacking midfielder. So instead of putting Raynaldi on the cutting edge as a one-way arrow, Thomas Sobek decided to pull him a little backwards so Raynaldi would find more options in his attacking options.

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Sorry for not updating the new chapter long enough, last July I had a final semester exam for my 7th semester of college and spent more time focusing on college than my job. So long enough I can't write a new chapter.