The development of a football team is inseparable from the drive of stars, especially for small countries. Forward arrows like Levan and Salah led the team to the World Cup almost single-handedly. It shows that for these small football countries, a good striker is the best promotion.
Scotland's upward trend in recent years has been clear: their tough performances in the European Cup have been impressive, the World Cup qualifiers have also reached the play-offs, and some stars have played in the Premier League.
But Scotland's biggest problem is with the two strongest stars in the team: Robertson for Liverpool and Tierney for Arsenal, both in the same position on the pitch – left-back!
Scottish national team coach Clark cleverly lined up and shoved two "left-backs" into the system of three centre-backs, with the tougher Tierney playing left centre-back and Robertson, who was more capable of running up and down, playing left-wing back. It has alleviated the waste of personnel to a certain extent.
The rest of The Scotland team is sorely undermanned, especially in terms of goalkeepers: Scotland's current main goalkeeper will be the 38-year-old veteran goalkeeper Gordon, and the main goalkeeper at the European Championships in the middle of the year will be the 36-year-old veteran goalkeeper Marshall. Some people may ask, there is no good goalkeeper in the Soviet Premier League?
In fact, there is, the main goalkeeper of the defending champion Glasgow Rangers will be 39-year-old McGregor, who is also the main goalkeeper of Scotland before Marshall. Rangers' backup goalkeeper will be McLaughlin, 34, who is also Scotland's backup goalkeeper. It's so hard to find a good goalkeeper under 30 in Scotland!
For Scotland, more young talent needs to emerge to help the "two left-back stars" in the team share the pressure. A Scottish youngster has emerged in Serie A recently, and the 19-year-old has already established himself in Bologna and scored four goals. However, this youngster is also a left-back...
Aaron Hickey was born on 10 June 2002 in Glasgow, Scotland, and is 185cm tall. His growth history is undoubtedly a process of genius slowly cashing in on his talents. In the 18-19 season, Hickey, then 16, made his debut in the Soviet Premier League Harts team. In the 19-20 season, the 17-year-old Hickey became the main force of Hartz, making 22 appearances throughout the year, all starting, but Hartz was unfortunately relegated at the end of the season. Such a treasure, Hats is determined not to keep.
At that time, the Soviet Premier League giants Celtic, Bundesliga banba Bayern Munich and many other well-known european teams became very interested in him. However, after careful thinking, he felt that he had established a foothold in the Soviet Super League and wanted to try the five major leagues, but Bayern's threshold was too high, and he certainly did not get many opportunities to play.
After weighing the weight between left and right, Hickey chose Bologna in Serie A and left a transfer fee of 1.7 million euros for the relegated old club.
In the 20-21 season, the impact of the new crown epidemic is still very large, and Hickey has unfortunately been recruited. He was plagued by injuries and played only 11 games in the season. But in the 21-22 season, Hicki made a huge leap in his career, firmly occupying the main position of Bologna.
He started 18 games in 19 league games and scored 4 goals, making him a "knife defender". For young coach Mikhailovic, Hicki is his latest masterpiece!
And Hicki scored these 4 goals are very exciting, but also showed a "rare ability" of Hicchi: in the 5th round of Serie A, Bologna drew 2-2 with Genoa, Hicki deftly fired the ball at the front of the penalty area, a sticker from the crowd to drill the net, the Old Italian international Sirigu can only look at the ball and sigh.
In the 7th round of Serie A, Bologna beat Lazio 3-0, Hickey scored the ball on the left, Lazio defender thought he would only have left foot, to the bottom of the cross, so when he chased to the defensive position, the center of gravity of the body had tilted to the right. Unexpectedly, Hickey cut inside the box like a winger, easily swinging away the opposing defender and scoring with a low right-footed shot.
In the 16th round of Serie A, although Bologna lost 3-2 to Fiorentina, Hickey scored another wonderful goal. In the same position, after cutting inside, he threw off two defenders through a rhythm change, and his right foot shot was refracted into the net through a change of line. Just looking at the action before the shooting, it has a bit of a taste of Coutinho.
In the 19th round of Serie A, Bologna beat Sassuolo 3-0, in a tactical corner, Hicki ran in the direction of the ball, scoring a world wave outside the box, this 10-point corner believes that the world's top goalkeepers are difficult to touch, and the ball is scored with his right foot!
I believe that everyone has discovered Hickey's "rare ability" - he seems to have no reverse foot! As a left-back, the left-footed ability must be good enough, and it is clear that he used his left foot to shoot smoothly in the first goal. But he scored three goals with his right foot, proving that he was confident enough in his right foot.
It's a very scary trait for a full-back. As a defender, you can't subconsciously tell whether his next move is to cut inside or cross from the bottom. And the moment the defender thinks, his movements must be faster than yours.
This may also be one of the reasons bayern Munich still has a crush on him to this day, because the last full-back with such an all-rounder on the left and right feet was called Philippe Ram.