Dad was a Genius - Chapter 16
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My Dad Was a Genius Episode 016
[Is it just a coincidence or a new trend? Everyone’s eyes are on Taesan Cheonan.]
[A sense of success? Cheonan hit the jackpot from the first game. Game ticket sales surpass the highest in the club’s history!]
[It’s too early to judge based on the first game. There’s harsh criticism from experts.]
It’s now the second week since the K-League started.
The person who is currently receiving the most attention is definitely Taesan Cheonan and the team’s leader, Cha Seong-eun.
Even in the chaebol family, Cha Seong-eun had a bad reputation. On top of that, he was appointed as the temporary manager of Cheonan by parachute, and all kinds of gossip spread about him, and he was attacked so much that he was branded a traitor by the entire nation.
“But is it okay for public opinion to change so suddenly just because we did well in one game?”
“He is popular among women because he looks good and suits him well.”
“Tsk tsk. This is such a mess.”
They say a woman’s heart is like a reed.
The people’s minds were the same at the time.
Until the day before the game, no, even on the day of the game, Cha Seong-eun was treated like a murderer, but now he is being treated with great respect.
“But won’t this public opinion change in the end today? Because the director will completely trample on that bastard.”
Director Won burst into laughter.
“Yeah. This guy is also hanging on tightrope. Honestly, it was a bit dramatic, wasn’t it? The guy who was getting all that hate defeated his opponent 5-0 in the first match. People are going to like him. But what if we see him crumble today?”
Public opinion will undoubtedly turn around again.
I knew it.
The first game was just beginner’s luck.
It was obvious that a much larger attack than before was coming.
“Hehe. Who can I blame? It’s the guy who got involved in this without any fear that’s at fault.”
Director Won was full of confidence.
Jeonnam finished the season in the middle of last season.
This time, we will definitely climb to the top and secure a spot in the Asian Champions League.
To achieve that goal, didn’t you go abroad and receive special training?
“Just like last game, they’re going to try to apply that crazy pressure again, right?”
“Try it. It’s a tactic that will destroy the team anyway. Coach Kim saw it too. And there are more loopholes than you think. You can just easily break through those.”
However, that does not mean that Coach Won came up with tactics without watching Cheonan’s game.
I’ve already analyzed the last game and figured out what tactics they’re using.
Cheonan was using a very unique tactic called extreme pressure, and it was enough to be disconcerting when you first encountered them.
“Even so, Director Yang’s response was too strange. We need to show that we are different.”
The tactic was exposed in the last match, and it doesn’t work twice.
Even this seemed like nothing more than an attempt to drain the stamina of his own team’s players.
In Director Won’s eyes, it just looked like the spirit of a young man suffering from a chronic illness.
“They will pressure us from the start of the game. Don’t panic and just do what you’ve been trained to do. Then we will win.”
The players nodded at Coach Won’s words.
This is Jeonnam’s home ground.
We will defeat Cheonan here with the passionate support of our home fans.
As always, they will spit out points to Jeonnam like a vending machine this time too.
* * *
“I think Jeonnam has figured out our tactics by now and believes they can defeat us.”
After seeing Gangwon’s crushing defeat to us, Jeollanam-do may have felt a bit wary of Cheonan.
And we must have identified the weaknesses in the tactics we used in that game and made thorough preparations to exploit them.
“But they didn’t understand even half of our tactics, because I intentionally exposed their weaknesses in the last game.”
“… … ?”
At those words, the players looked at me with their eyes wide open.
“The areas you guys gave us feedback on after the game. The weaknesses that were revealed in certain situations. In fact, we could have improved on them before the game against Gangwon. However, we didn’t fix them in advance because we wanted to use them as a strategy in today’s game.”
“omg…….”
“Really?”
It was extremely risky to go into the game without making up for those weaknesses, but it was a strategy we were able to implement because we were certain that Gangwon would never be able to get through to us.
But neither the players nor our coaches knew this.
“There is a saying in The Art of War: deceive the enemy while deceiving your own forces at the same time. There was also the risk of the strategy being exposed, and above all, if it had been announced in advance, the tactics would have been more likely to have been tangled.”
As a result, we beat Gangwon by a large margin and now face Jeonnam.
They will only remember the tactics they saw in the last game.
In the end, they were going to be stuck with tactics that were less than half-baked.
“But the most important thing is you. It is because of you that my tactics were successful in the last game, and I believe they will be successful today as well.”
The players’ expressions changed.
They became very serious and listened to what I would say next.
“Please show Jeonnam, who came out to play against us today, and other teams who are watching this game closely. Our tactics, our strength, are different from what you see on the screen.”
They evaluate our tactics just by looking at the screen, just by what they see with their eyes.
But the moment you experience our tactics firsthand, you will realize it.
It is by no means true that Gangwon was foolish and suffered a crushing defeat against us.
“Yes, Director!!”
And the high morale of our players will never be broken by the aggressive cheering of Jeonnam home fans.
* * *
[Let’s sing for victory, raising yellow waves~!]
Fans gathered at Jeonnam’s home stadium sang loudly.
Although the K-League’s popularity has definitely declined compared to the past, it seemed strangely crowded today.
But not all of them were rooting for Jeonnam.
Cha Seong-eun became famous because he was covered so much in the media, and because he showed a surprising performance in the last game, people were interested and came to watch the game.
“This is also an opportunity for us.”
It was a great opportunity to show the charm of the Jeonnam team to the general public who are from Jeonnam but are not particularly interested in the team.
Today I will make them all new fans of Jeonnam.
With that determination, Coach Won waited for the whistle to blow.
Beep-!!
Finally, the long-awaited referee’s whistle blew.
The Jeonnam players moved as planned in advance and quickly advanced through build-up using short passes.
‘It’s definitely working.’
Coach Won saw that the game was going according to the tactics he had prepared from the beginning.
Although they came out in a pressing position, they were shaking up the defensive line with short passes and the attackers’ quick breakthrough.
If we kept going like this, it seemed like we would definitely be able to shake the goal net.
Five minutes, ten minutes, twenty minutes passed like that.
“……what?”
Director Won began to feel that something was increasingly strange.
Clearly, the market share is being led by this side.
The ball is also spinning a lot more.
however,
“Hey, stop it!!”
“It’s piercing!”
It was not Cheonan but Jeonnam that was being pushed back.
Clearly, Jeonnam’s early momentum was good.
They were clearly dominant until the first 20 minutes.
But what is this feeling of alienation that I keep feeling?
‘Left side. The left side is not penetrated.’
Based on the coaches’ analysis of tactics from the last game, Cheonan often opened up space on the left side.
They were so focused on applying pressure that they allowed space on the left, but last time Gangwon broke through that space on the left and managed to score a valid shot.
So, coach Won trained his players so that when the guys used extreme pressure tactics, the ball would naturally go to the left.
but,
“Again… the left side is blocked again.”
The left space, which was considered a surefire strategy, was never breached.
Whenever I thought there was some space and tried to pass, the defenders inevitably ran over and blocked the pass.
In the meantime, was the left space reinforced?
But even with all the reinforcement, it happened this quickly?
“Give up the left and break through to the right!”
In the end, Coach Won shouted and gave new instructions to the players.
But this time again, the same situation happened again.
It seemed like they were giving up a little space on the right, but immediately the defense, midfielders, and attackers joined in to apply pressure, steal the ball, and then launch a counterattack.
This is like, what should I say?
“Director. Doesn’t this seem like a bait to lure us?”
It was just as the tactical coach said.
Cheonan was throwing bait into the space that Jeonnam’s attackers were trying to break through, forcing them to enter there.
And if you fall for that bait, you’ll be stuck there, unable to dribble or pass, and you’ll end up losing the ball.
“Why on earth! Why do I keep losing the ball!”
It’s a pressure that makes it impossible to breathe.
Coach Won felt as if his throat was being strangled by the defense that was unable to build up the game.
Is this what Director Yang was talking about?
His words that seeing something with your own eyes and experiencing it in person are different seemed to ring in my ears.
“In the last game, Gangwon clearly tried to pressure the flanks so that they could gather at the center line. But in this game, it seems like they are trying to induce them to go to the flanks instead of the midfield… … .”
The pressure tactic that Cheonan showed in the last game was a tactic that unconditionally spread a net down from the side to ensure that the match could be decided in the center.
But now, unlike before, they were forcing flank attacks by applying pressure from the center to the sides.
like-.
“It’s as if they had figured out our tactics in advance.”
Coach Won’s spine went cold at the coach’s words.
Could it be that the little director who fell through the parachute?
Does that mean he’s been planning this since the last game?
Are you saying that you waited for today, laying out bait there, so that they would intentionally attack the flank?
It’s not someone else, it’s that guy!?
“… … .”
Coach Won glared at Cha Seong-eun, who was quietly watching the game while standing in the coaching zone next to him.
It seemed as if he was watching the entire arena with his menacing, sharp eyes, as if he were a predator quietly waiting for his prey.
There was no way to know what he was thinking just by looking at him.
‘I will definitely break through it.’
Coach Won gritted his teeth and gave new instructions to the players.
If the flanks don’t work, why not just abandon them and break through to the center?
however,
“hmm?”
Cha Seong-eun, who had been frozen in place like a rock, finally moved.
Did you even notice the changes taking place at the stadium?
He was extending his hand and moving it, giving instructions to the players.
And as if it were a promise,
“Hey!”
“Ah, no! Stop it!”
Crash~!
Surprisingly, Jeonnam’s goal net shook first.
“Gooooo-!!”
The supporters gathered at Jeonnam’s home stadium fell silent, while the general public who came to watch and the Cheonan supporters who came on the away game cheered loudly.
That’s because it was a surprising, storm-like counterattack.
“… … .”
Coach Won blankly stared at the stadium with trembling lips.
I just realized it with that goal.
He said that he was completely in the hands of the director.
The real bait for the bastard wasn’t the ones scattered along the side lines, it was right in the center.
They were quietly waiting for Coach Won to give up on the flanks and forcefully attack the center.
And when that moment came, he bit the nape of the neck of the prey that had taken the bait.
‘Don’t make me laugh… …. Is this really a director who parachuted in?’
As coach Won, something unbelievable was happening here at Jeonnam’s home stadium.