Football: My AI System Provides Max-Level Predictions-Chapter 719 - 510: AI Empowerment, Shooting Power Soars! A Kick Blasts the Football, Shocking the Referee!

Chapter 719: Chapter 510: AI Empowerment, Shooting Power Soars! A Kick Blasts the Football, Shocking the Referee!

In the next Premier League round, it is the national team matchday in Europe, with a full half-month break.

During this time, Tang Long has been intensifying his training at the AI Cloud Training Ground, while also coming to Manchester City’s training ground every morning for some physical training.

The combination of virtual and physical training is more efficient.

This AI system from the year 2084 offers training guidance far ahead of what Tang Long was accustomed to in 2016.

Thanks to these advanced training methods, Tang Long’s progress on the physical training ground was much faster than his teammates.

Coach Chiwo, although feeling particularly fatigued during this period, also lacked energy when waking up in the morning.

Luckily, he had only retired a few years ago, still maintaining the lifestyle habits of a professional player, and his diet was very regulated. After a week, he gradually got through it.

After these two weeks of training, Tang Long’s shooting ability improved significantly, mainly in terms of shot power.

"Ding!"

"Fierce Tiger Shot phase training completed!"

"Shot power increased!"

"88——94!"

"Activated Fierce Tiger Shot primary skill——Fierce Tiger Emerges from the Mountain!"

Brazilian full-back Carlos is known for his powerful shooting ability. When he swings his leg, both defenders and goalkeepers face immense physical and psychological pressure!

If Carlos’s shot were defined as the most powerful shot in world football, then his shot power would be a perfect 99.

After Carlos retired, his shots became legendary in the football world, unable to be replicated by anyone.

In the 2016 football world, solely from the aspect of power, no current player could match Robert Carlos’s shot, but players with power around 95 were few and far between.

Eevee, C Luo, Hulk, and others are among the standout players.

Looking at this score of 94, Tang Long felt quite satisfied with himself.

After all, he improved by a full 6 points!

With diminishing marginal effects, once any value exceeds 90, each further increase by a point becomes extremely difficult.

Competitions between masters often are reflected in the difference of just one or two value points.

On amateur wild soccer fields, a player receives the ball, stops, looks, dribbles, and shoots.

This process could take four or five seconds or even longer.

Because there are no defensive players around him providing effective interference.

However, in professional matches, especially those representing the highest level of world football, the five major league fields do not allow for this amount of preparation time before a shot.

Typically, players must already decide their next step before receiving the ball, and even then, as a striker, the time to swing the leg and shoot is extremely brief.

Often, after a player completes a shot, they are knocked down or toppled by surrounding defensive players due to the sudden increase in defensive pressure at the moment of shooting. Defensive players usually push or slide tackle to disrupt the ball, thereby taking down the shooting player.

In a flash, opportunities vanish.

Being able to seize the chance to add even 1% more power to a shot might make the goalkeeper unable to react!

Even the slightest difference, when applied on the field, can result in the extreme outcomes of a goal or a miss, leading to a world of difference!

On November 19th, half a month later, the Premier League’s 12th round fires up again.

This time, the entire Manchester City team traveled to London for an away match against Crystal Palace.

"Ah, I can’t remember how many times I’ve come to London!" Tang Long exclaimed.

"Certainly, there are too many teams in London—Tottenham, Arsenal, Chelsea, Fulham, West Ham United, Charlton, anyway a lot, I can’t name them all," Sterling said.

Kompany smiled slightly, "So what if there are many teams? The center of Premier League football is not in London, it’s in our Manchester!"

However, in this away challenge against Crystal Palace, Tang Long did not get many opportunities for long shots.

Perhaps after the national team matchday break, Crystal Palace was full of energy and initiated a counterattack against Manchester City on their home ground.

Especially their black forward Zaha was actively engaged.

This player, who had once played for Manchester United for only a season, had deeply buried the seed of hatred towards Manchester City and played fiercely.

Tang Long paid particular attention to this player and found that what Chiwo said was true. Zaha’s talent gave him extraordinary flexibility, allowing him to often perform extreme maneuvers.

Neither Stones nor Ranocchia, who played as midfielders and center-backs, could keep up with Zaha’s pace during 50-50 ball challenges.

However, just one Zaha wasn’t enough. In this match, Zaha’s partner was none other than Benteke, the king of missed opportunities.

On one hand, it was difficult for the two to cooperate effectively, and on the other hand, Crystal Palace pressed forward but couldn’t recover, leaving a large gap behind for Manchester City.

Manchester City, usually known for their possession style of play, surprisingly started to frequently launch counterattacks, using various through balls to continuously tear apart the opponent’s defense.

The players could deliver the ball into the box for a shot through passing, naturally negating the need for long shots, as long-range shots are often the last resort, indicating that the ball cannot penetrate the opponent’s box, thus resorting to firing from the periphery.

According to statistics, the vast majority of goals occur inside the penalty area;

The chance of converting shots into goals is much higher inside the penalty area than outside.

However, Tang Long still got a chance to test his skills.

In the 54th minute of the second half.

Kolarov took a left corner kick, and players from both teams engaged in a chaotic scramble inside the box.

Several people stumbled and fell, unclear on who stepped on whom.

Pulling, cursing, colliding, shoving, the small penalty area was as lively as a cramped train carriage during the spring travel season.

At some point, Tang Long quietly withdrew from the penalty area, silently positioning himself at the edge of the box, away from the chaos, only to await a deadly strike from outside the box.

Kolarov unexpectedly sent a low-driven ball, and after the ball bounced into the penalty area, it got tangled up among several legs, making it hard to see who kicked it. After multiple bounces and deflections, the ball came to the edge of the box, where Tang Long rushed forward and unleashed a powerful shot!

The shooting posture resembled a fierce tiger emerging from the mountain, full of momentum!

His whole body followed through with the momentum of the strike, taking a heavy step forward, and upon landing, his sharp studs kicked up a large chunk of turf.

With a bang, an earth-shattering sound exploded, the ball striking the joint corner of the crossbar and the post, rebounding heavily into the air!

Agüero tilted his head, leaning back on defenders to control the ball, but when it reached his foot, a strange sensation transmitted through.

The ball drooped on the ground and wouldn’t roll.

Agüero turned and managed a weak shot, the ball rolling slowly out of bounds; it was only then that everyone realized Tang Long had burst the ball. 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

Tang Long’s stunning long shot hit the perfect spot, the seam of the ball striking the sharp metal corner of the crossbar and the post, tearing open the football’s seam and deflating the ball.

The referee was taken aback!

Although he pretended to stay calm instructing the players to change the match ball, his heart was in turmoil.

At nearly 50 years old, with only a few more years until retirement, in the hundreds of matches he had overseen, he had never seen a player burst the ball with one kick;

Such a scene isn’t unheard of, his peers had experienced it, but witnessing such a bizarre moment firsthand was a first in his career.

Crystal Palace’s goalkeeper Hennessey was also drenched in sweat, exclaiming to himself how close it was!

Though the penalty area was packed, severely blocking his line of sight, in the instant of Tang Long’s shot, as a Premier League-level goalkeeper, Hennessey’s instincts allowed him to see through the gaps and observe Tang Long’s leg-swing motion through a small opening.

He strained to bend and tilt his head, attempting to determine which way to dive from Tang Long’s shooting posture, and the ball’s instantaneous movement after contact.

However, he saw nothing, only hearing the crisp sound of the instep striking the ball, then almost fractions of a second later, hearing the dull thud of the post behind him, and then the crossbar wobbling shakily.

"Fortunately, it didn’t hit inside the frame; otherwise, it would have gone in!"

Tang Long tested his leg strength, reaching 94 with the force of a Fierce Tiger Shot!

However, this shot didn’t attract much attention from the other players on the field.

Everyone believed that Tang Long managed to burst the ball mainly because it hit the joint corner of the crossbar and post.

Also, during Tang Long’s shot, the penalty area was in utter chaos, with many defensive and attacking players still tangled in physical confrontations, and no one noticed anything peculiar about Tang Long’s shooting posture compared to regular players.

After taking this shot, Tang Long was substituted off.

Although Tang Long didn’t score in this match, he provided an assist to Bonazzoli for the opener, and then Sterling, substituting for Agüero, scored a rare solo goal.

The opponents pulled one back in the 89th minute but couldn’t reverse the defeat, with Manchester City eventually beating Crystal Palace 2-1 away.

They traveled countless times to London, regardless of the process, always managing to bring back three points, achieving a satisfying result and returning triumphant.

Three days later.

Manchester City traveled to face Celtic in the fifth round of the Champions League group stage.

During the pre-match tactical briefing, Guardiola specifically reminded the players:

"Celtic suffered in our previous encounter; they definitely won’t press forward this match but will stay back. For them, taking one point and vying for third place in the group to reach the UEFA Europa League is their goal, so if our possession play doesn’t break through, we can resort to some long-range shots."

"If we secure this match, achieving full 15 points in five rounds, we’ll have enough of an advantage to suppress Barcelona and qualify as group leaders!"

Tang Long only sensed the opportunity, with his calf muscles involuntarily tensing.