Chapter Two: Buying a "Worthless" Team

"In the sixty-seventh minute, Donggang will bring on thirty-four-year-old Luo Qiang. His first pressured back pass always goes toward his goalkeeper's right foot. Start running two seconds early." "You even know their substitution?" Chenzhou remembered the highlights he had watched in a hotel after being expelled from home. Lu Ye had entered in the sixty-eighth minute and nearly intercepted that back pass, missing by half a step. History was not an answer sheet. It was one chance to correct a mistake. "I don't know," he said. "But Coach Qin will bring the match to that point." On the tactics board, Chenzhou identified the pattern in Donggang's last five matches.