Chapter 443: A Big Question Mark?
Racing Santander manager Alcaraz is very serious about this game, partly because he is eager to beat Leon, and partly because Racing Santander are currently 15th in the league and are not in good shape. In Alcaraz's view, Sporting Gijón has been winless for three rounds, and the situation is not good, and 'take advantage of your illness, kill you' is the most popular credo in football.www.biquge.info
Of course, Leon's return to the team after the ban ended, which did make Alcaraz a little vigilant, and he had to guard against Leon.
It was a difficult game to play, and Atletico Gijón was good and difficult to play against, he knew it, but he still thought his team could take a win away from Ermolinnon. Carlos continues to be sidelined for this game, which Alcaraz sees as a good chance for his team to win.
However, Alcaraz overestimated the impact of Carlos' absence on Sporting Gijón and underestimated the impact of Leon's return on Sporting Gijón. He didn't figure out that the most important and indispensable person at Sporting Gijón was Leon, and as long as this person was in the dugout on the sidelines, the team would still be the feared super dark horse.
Alcaraz fielded the best team he could on the road against Sporting Gijón without Juan Carlos. After Juan Carlos was suspended, Sporting Gijón's starting midfielder has been another young man, Marcos, who has a very different defensive coverage than Carlos, whose defensive area is mainly in the area between the central defenders and the breakthrough point between the central defenders.
To use an analogy, Carlos is a moving wall, Marcos is the last wall outside the Sporting Gijón penalty area, Alcaraz believes that Marcos is easier to deal with than Carlos, and he also hopes to find a chance to win from here, so they focus on the middle of the attack, forcing Marcos.
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These players of Racing Santander, although they are not famous, but they are all players who have played in La Liga for many years, if they really play well, their strength should not be underestimated, their starting goalkeeper today is Anott, the central defender is the tall Casal, and the stealing ferocious Alvarez, the right wingback is Moura, who is good at inserting assists, and the left full-back is Ayoze who has a long-range shooting skill.
At the heart of their midfield are Uruguay international Reguero, as well as the skilled Anderson Silva, the ferocious Jofti and the attacking and defensive Matteo.
The strikers are Benayoun, who has the nickname 'Zidane of Israel', and Gurero, a relatively fast striker.
Racing Santander has a squad with great hopes of relegation, and it will be difficult to continue to achieve a better ranking, but for such a small club, this is a state they can fully accept.
If such a team goes crazy, it will burst out with a lot of energy, as was the case with the fact that they almost toppled Real Madrid in the last game.
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Li Ang naturally will not let the opponent's wishful thinking succeed, this game, in the backline, Pepe finally ended the three-game ban in this game, lifted the ban and returned, the team's captain, veteran Hierro and Pepe partnered in the central defender.
Leon arranged Albertini to continue to start, and the Italian veteran was given some defensive tasks today and will need to be involved in the defense alongside Marcos.
Elsewhere in midfield, Juan Mata continued to be injured, while Luka Modric was not given a starting role in the game.
Leon's simple tactics in today's game surprised Alcaraz, and the visiting coach was caught off guard.
Sporting Gijón put two defensive midfielders in the middle of the midfield, and then the team's attack relied entirely on the wide flanks and Albertini's precise long balls. The offensive line is simple, but very practical.
In this game, Leon Leon decided to play the idea of playing on the wing.
Carlos couldn't play, so he let the whole team work hard to make up for the defense in this position, and the offense was all on the counterattack. Milito because of muscle soreness, so this game was arranged on the bench by Leon, Sporting Gijón's starting strikers today are Benzema and Di Natale, with the French lad on the field, Sporting Gijon's attack speed will be faster, after all, Milito is not a speed-type striker.
In this game, the Sporting Gijón team's attack was still flying on both wings, so Modric, who is not his strongest point, did not get the start, and it was Javier Blanco who started on the right flank.
Leondi meant that every attacking player could dribble into the opponent's box to threaten or score a goal, and in this game, he asked Sporting Gijon's attacking players to give full play to their attacking talents as much as possible. If it were to be replaced by other strong teams in La Liga as opponents, Li Ang might not dare to arrange it like this, but Racing Santander is indeed a good training opponent.
After joining Sporting Gijon, Di Natale continued to start this game, but Di Natale was more tasked with scoring goals, but to provide support for Ribery and Javier Blanco in the back, as well as Benzema in attack, to attract defensive fire.
Di Natale can dribble through on his own and score with a shot, and he has the ability to help other players attract defensive fire.
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Leon didn't expect the Santander to have a lot of luck. Ten minutes into the game, Racing Santander tore a hole in the middle.
This was an accident caused by the rear air defense.
Marcos blocked Anderson Silva with a tackle, who fell to the ground, but the ball rolled to the feet of the other Santander players and the referee's whistle did not sound, signaling that the attack was in favour and the game continued.
Racing Santander's attacking strategy in the middle finally paid off, as they seized the space behind Marcos and played a quick counter-attack, Andrew Gureiro was successfully countered offside, and after receiving a through ball from Reguero, he shook off the onrushing Valencia and sent the ball into the empty net.
“goooooooooooool!”
"Andrew Guerrero - he scored, Racing Santander scored, Santander got off to a great start, Sporting Gijón suffered a major blow, will they continue their three-game winless run?"
The gold medal commentator of National Radio 3 asked a big question mark.
Racing Santander players celebrated their goals at the Estadio El Morinnon, boos from the stands, and the whole stadium was noisy and noisy.
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