Football: King of Penalty Area
Ch. 87 - Munich 1906 II (2)

Munich coach of 1906 II, Koeman is a famous defender who has just retired. He spent his golden years as a player in Munich in 1906 until he retired. This is also the reason for being able to coach Munich 1906 II right after getting UEFA coaching certificate.

In addition to being a former defender, Koeman knows very well how to stop a typical attacker like Raynaldi. At the same time, the core role of the attack carried by Raynaldi also made Koeman more free to close it.

He sent Simmons who happened to still be in his team for the recovery of his post-injury condition to keep Raynaldi. Then with the addition of other players who closed the space around Raynaldi made it isolated from the game and tactical system Koln Athletics.

This kind of thing is often done to deal with teams that are stronger than them. Koeman could see that the Koln Athletics' attacking power could only revolve around Raynaldi, so simply shutting down Raynaldi would be tantamount to shutting down the entire Koln Athletics attack system.

Thomas Sobek who is on the sidelines can see that the position of his team is less profitable. Although they were still not worried about losing the ball, but the opponent's defense had already completely shut down their attack system.

Munich's 1906 II style of play was almost the same as their first team, using powerful attacks and freezing the core of the opponent's attack. The reason for using both of these strategies is because of the existence of the second team is to supply young players to the first team. So the same tactic is also used to polish players to make it easier to join the first team during promotion.

Moreover, once they could freeze the core of the opponent, Munich 1906 II only needed to invest the remaining manpower to build the attack. A simple but effective style of play, the only drawback is that they need a strength superior to their opponent to do this.

Simmons is also a core figure of this tactic, he is often used to freeze the core of the opponent, and this game, he is more useful.

However, Raynaldi's ability can only be said to be average at the level of five major leagues. So Simmons who are used to keeping experienced top players find it very easy to keep Raynaldi.

Simmons easily handled the ball Robert came up with with his head, and Raynaldi never even touched it again.

After doing this, Simmons continued to retreat and persevere, following Raynaldi not far away.

He also had some doubts in his heart. In fact, Raynaldi's ability is not strong.

With just a few passes and catches, Simmons thought he was a very ordinary player, no different to most players he had ever defended.

At least there was definitely no higher level, or even lower level, but there were so many goals he had?

“So what is special about this child?” Although Simmons is very confused, he is not a player who always asks why, as long as the coach asks him, he will do so without hesitation.

Usually a strong player will have at least one thing that goes beyond many which makes it difficult to hold back. However, Raynaldi only looked very ordinary. Simmons could hardly think about Raynaldi's advantages at all. But, he was still dedicated to doing his duty from start to finish.

Seeing that he could not find a chance, Raynaldi began to think of ways to change his playing style. When the ball came here once, Raynaldi was tough with Simmons.

Now Simmons is suffering, his physical fitness is very good, but he is still recovering from a big injury 3 days ago and is now taking time to recover.

Raynaldi almost dropped him, trying to force the ball to break through. Simmons quietly pulled Raynaldi with his hand after being thrown. Raynaldi showed no weakness, and pushed him to the ground.

The whistle goes, Raynaldi committed a foul.

Raynaldi was very upset. He was just in the game. The old and cunning Belgian knew that his body could not eat him, so he had some small movements in his hands. Then he wanted to throw away his hand in a hurry.

This is a clear violation. Although this is a bit of law enforcement fishing, referees will generally call the attacking team an offense.

In the first half, under Simmons' tutelage, Raynaldi did not play, this was probably the toughest round since the first show.

They started to attach importance to Raynaldi, really as a core player level figure to spread targeted tactics, before that, those teams more or less hated him.

Especially when dealing with a serious tactical player like Simmons, he will take every ball seriously and will always apply the tactics of the coach, players like this are indeed enemies of Raynaldi.

Luckily Koln Athletics also managed to seal their wicket without conceding in the first half.

Thomas Sobek must admit that his tactics in this game were completely defeated. He did not expect a big man like Simmons would come out to recover his condition.

Meanwhile, Munich coach of 1906 II, Koeman has done an excellent job of limiting the Athletics Cologne. First of all, Robert, he was very uncomfortable with the ball, and it was very difficult to give the ball to Raynaldi himself.

In the second half, Thomas Sobek made some adjustments. He included Deschamp, who was on the bench in this match, and replaced defensive midfielder Ruth. This is a signal to strengthen the offensive, and more players for the frontcourt side are providing assistance to Robert and size.

However, this decision is not correct. There was no point in piling forward blindly in an attack situation that could not be channeled. Pulling out a midfielder and replacing him with an attacker only reduces the midfield control that Koln Athletics has been guarding.

Simmons' job is to keep Raynaldi. However, after competing for a while, Raynaldi started to move more freely, but Simmons could only follow him closely.

After the two teams competed fruitlessly for more than 60 minutes, in the 61st minute of the match Koln Athletics finally got an attacking chance.

Deschamp's game of pace and individual action eventually created space, however, the 1906 II Munich defender needed to allocate energy to defend one more man.

The pressure on Robert's side eased slightly, and he eventually passed the ball to Raynaldi smoothly.

Simmons, who had run out of stamina, could not reach the ball, so he chose to wait for him in front of the box.

Raynaldi, who had no chance after playing for an hour, decided to attack on his own this time, he tried to use his foot technique to get past Simmons, when the opponent did not move.

Raynaldi knew that it was impossible to deceive Simmons and pass him by with his abilities now. So he changed the rhythm of his legs as if he wanted to break through, Simmons noticed Raynaldi's movements were still calm and controlled the distance.

Raynaldi who saw an opportunity to shoot without hesitation shot with his left foot.

Simmons finally made his move at this moment. He still had the advantage of his position without being fooled by Raynaldi's movements and tried to block the ball.

The ball bounced back out of the box and fell right into Buhari's position. When looking at the spacious firing room, Buhari unhesitatingly took a long shot.

The Munich goalkeeper of 1906 II jumped and blocked the ball.

When everyone thinks the ball is stopped a figure with a black jersey numbered 99 appears in front of the ball. Raynaldi easily scored on an empty goal and turned the scoreline to 1-0 for Koln Athletics' lead.