Football: My AI System Provides Max-Level Predictions-Chapter 55: This long pass with the outside of the foot left even the football king Maradona stunned!

Chapter 55: Chapter 55: This long pass with the outside of the foot left even the football king Maradona stunned!

Bonazzoli, who scored his first goal in the Coppa Italia in his career, was so excited that he jumped up and down in place three times~

"Scored! I scored again!"

Shaqiri ran over and hugged him.

Bonazzoli, who is 185 cm tall, picked up the 169 cm tall Shaqiri!

Then both of them simultaneously said to Tang Long, who came over to celebrate, "Tang, that pass was fantastic!"

Goalkeeper Berni took down the white towel tied to the goal net and waved it towards the sky!

On the sidelines, Chiwo clenched his fists and bent down to roar! ƒrēenovelkiss.com

"Beautiful! Sharp passing! Keep playing like this!"

"Wasting opportunities will be punished," Chiwo turned to the bench and said, "They hit the post twice in a row, haha, and we scored one immediately afterward, young lads, that’s football for you!"

The players on the bench nodded at Chiwo.

Assistant coach Herrera’s mouth twitched slightly.

He looked at Chiwo with a complicated expression, feeling this guy was too overbearing!

Who’s in charge here, me or you?

In the past, Mancini would strategize at the sidelines as the head coach, with Herrera standing behind him.

Today, Herrera was the acting head coach, but Chiwo was standing beside him.

He shouldn’t have been allowed to stand here, but Chiwo asked Mancini to allow him to be an assistant at the bench, and Mancini agreed.

"Christian, take a few players to the corner for routine warm-ups!" Herrera dismissively sent him away.

In the VIP box at the São Paulo stadium.

Football king Maradona curiously asked Naples boss De Laurentiis next to him.

"Who was the Inter player that made the pass?"

"Shaqiri, he played for Bayern, Swiss," De Lao replied grumpily.

"No, no, no," Maradona waved his hand, "I mean the second-to-last pass, the one that sent the ball from the midfield to the wing."

"Who knows, I didn’t pay attention, ugh! Our luck is just too bad, hitting the post twice, if we just scored one, we would be leading right now, really unlucky. My dear Diego, if you were still in Naples, I bet we could have taken them down in the first half, Higuain is far worse than you, can’t even score open goals, sigh..."

De Lao’s rambling didn’t enter Maradona’s ears at all.

His entire mind was recalling Inter’s second-to-last pass.

That number 99 player!

During his playing days, Maradona wasn’t just a goal scorer, but also excellent at assists.

He often made many incredible penetrating passes on the field.

Just now, he saw it very clearly!

This Inter player wearing number 99 didn’t even look towards Shaqiri’s sprinting side when making that pass!

If it was just a simple no-look pass, it wouldn’t have been worth the Argentine king’s surprise.

After all, for a top-level defensive player, the deceit of a no-look pass is limited, they aren’t easily fooled by a simple eye gesture.

But Maradona saw that this number 99, after receiving the ball, was completely turned away facing the left side!

This means that within his vision range, he couldn’t see Shaqiri on the left side.

He naturally didn’t know his position.

How did he know someone was exactly there?

Moreover, according to his body language, he was originally going to control the ball and slow the pace.

Yet, in a sudden moment, he accelerated, twisted his body, and made a long pass!

It seemed like he changed his mind in an instant?

Maradona pondered for a long time without figuring it out.

He could only explain it as Inter’s players being more familiar with each other, working together more harmoniously.

Inter opened the scoring.

But, Naples isn’t a pushover!

They are the defending champions of this competition and have more experience, not to mention, this isn’t any other stadium, it’s São Paulo!

Last season, Inter faced Naples twice with one draw and one loss, and they lost 2-4 away.

In this respect, Naples has a psychological advantage.

The players are not anxious, continuing to patiently pass in midfield.

The abilities of both teams’ main players are not much different, but with half their team as substitutes, Inter can’t hold up against an entire lineup of main players.

Soon, Naples launched a counterattack!

The threat of the attack started from the connection between two former Real Madrid players.

Podolski’s cross from the wing was deliberately headed towards the right by center-back Albiol!

There was former teammate Callejon!

The Spanish speedster is a top dribbler on the wings.

Facing Santon, Callejon first made an outward move, then controlled it, giving the illusion of not enough speed to pass.

Just when Santon thought he was going to pass to Hamsik cutting in from the middle—

Callejon made another move on the wing!

This rhythm of speed up, stop, and speed up again made Santon’s knee struggle to keep up.

Despite his desperate chase back, he could only watch Callejon charge into the penalty area flank.

After a one-two with the approaching Hamsik, Callejon passed Kuzmanovic, who came to cover, and dashed into the penalty area!

"Cut-back!"

Higuain, sprinting all the way, suddenly stopped sharply to throw off defender Ranocchia and smashed the ball fiercely into the net!

This time, the São Paulo stadium’s post did not favor Berni; the goal was scored briskly!

"Higuain quickly equalized the score!"

"It’s so interesting, this was a combination of three former Real Madrid players!"

"The three of them are hugging, I wonder if, at this moment, they remember the days when they fought together at the Bernabéu?"

"In the 30th minute of the match, the two have returned to the same starting line!"

In the box, boss De Laurentiis was overwhelmed with excitement!

He finished off his wine in one go and gave Maradona next to him a huge hug.

"Diego, I take back what I said earlier, Higuain is a genius striker, why is it that you Argentinians always produce genius players!"

Maradona smiled and replied, "That’s the normal level for Higuain, his goal-sense is, without a doubt, leading the Serie A!"

After both sides opened their scoring accounts.

Instead, they both played more cautiously.

In the last ten minutes of the first half, both teams were probing each other, without high-speed offenses, instead hoping to control the ball firmly and guard against the opponent’s counterattack.

After all, both Inter and Naples scored through counterattacks.

The game was slightly dull.

Maradona sat high up in the stadium, with a great view.

His gaze stayed fixed on Tang Long on the field.

Just moments ago.

He took out his phone and searched online for Inter’s number 99.

He found that this player, named Tang, wearing number 99, had just been promoted from the youth team to the first team before the winter break.

Maradona was shocked!

He initially thought that Tang Long’s back-facing no-look long pass was a reflection of the tacit understanding with his teammates honed during training, a muscle action formed through repetitive practice.

But Maradona now dismissed this thought!

Tang Long was promoted from the youth team only last year and, counting the time, has only played four or five matches with the first team, not for four or five years.

He couldn’t possibly be so familiar with his teammates, absolutely impossible!

Moreover, this Shaqiri also transferred in during the winter break and isn’t an old Inter player.

From any angle, Tang Long couldn’t have performed such a harmonious combination play!

Could it be that this was truly a sudden flash of insight, a spur-of-the-moment decision?

If that’s the case, then he’s incredibly strong!

Maradona increasingly felt that this number 99 player was indeed extraordinary.

Merely with that back-facing long pass, his perceptiveness of the overall situation crushed all the players on the field.

Thinking of this, Maradona shuddered...

"When did Inter Milan’s youth training become so strong? I remember during my time playing in Serie A, their bosses never focused on youth players, only waving cash around in the market to buy, buy, buy!"