Chapter 258: The Terminator (3)
Papadopoulos was born in 92 and is two years younger than Ai Huan, and he is also a hopeful star in the eyes of everyone, although he also understands that he lost his main position because of his strong attack and weak defense, but he is only eighteen years old and he still has a chance. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
At this time, he found that the other party had regarded his side as the main position of the attack, and he didn't dare to assist easily, and he stubbornly defended his position, plus Maputi also consciously came over to help, the two young people said that they were still a little in a hurry, but they finally saved a lot of disadvantages on this side.
But even so, they could not stop the opposition's attack, and in the 25th minute, Domingos again crossed Papadopoulos from near the bottom line on the left, and the ball almost flew straight into the goal, but Neuer concentrated and held the ball firmly in his arms.
Then Neuer sent a quick goalball, Escudero crossed from the bottom, and Holtby at the back post pressed Miguel to head a big parabolic lob that Guaita struggled to hold the ball on, and the ball hit the lintel and went out of the line, and Valencia escaped.
A minute later, though, Valencia also had the colours, when Tino Costa's powerful low shot was pinned down by Neuer.
After that, the speed of the transition between the two sides was significantly accelerated, and in the cheers of the home fans, Valencia was no longer confined to whether to play defensive counterattacks, but took the initiative to attack.
At this time, Ai Huan did not dare to press easily, because Maputi went to the side to assist in the defense, he had to take on the entire back line, although a few good long passes were passed in a row, but they did not pose an actual threat. Fallan in form today in particular was a bit confusing, he missed two chances in a row, which also made Schalke's scene a bit ugly.
Magath involuntarily frowned again, although the score is dominant now, but the scene is very passive, Ai Huan's suppressed movement is not what he wants, what he needs is this terminator to go to the front, only in this way can he exert his true power, and how can he do it now?
"Did you say you had to make a substitution in the first half?" also made him a little undecided, knowing that this would only indicate that there was a problem with the coach's pre-game set-up, and he really didn't want to admit the mistake himself.
Time passed little by little, and in the 43rd minute, Ai Huan broke the ball at the back and found Farfan again with a long pass, who shook off the edge of the opposition penalty area and fired a powerful shot from an angle, the ball bounced off the Valencia defender and bounced out of bounds, failing to pose a threat, but finally switching back to a corner.
Jurado took a corner, but the ball did not fly into the box, but flew directly to the feet of Ai Huan outside the box, and Ai Huan also took advantage of the overall forward movement of the Valencia back line to create an offside position to pick the ball into the box, Holtby seized the opportunity to hit the ball into the opponent's net.
But before he could start to celebrate, he heard the referee's whistle, and when he looked back, he saw that the assistant referee had already raised the flag in his hand, and the goal just now was ruled offside.
Like a cat with his tail stepped on all the time, Holterby ran straight to the linesman and yelled at him "I wasn't offside, I ran in from outside the box and it was a very clean anti-offside." ”
The referee was in a good position just now, and he saw the whole process of the goal, so he also knew very well that Holtby was not lying, the kid did rush in from outside the penalty area just now, and he was not offside.
But the linesman immediately gave a very clear answer: "I didn't say you were offside, I said that Farfan was offside, just now he was in an offside position but followed the reflexive attack, which affected the judgment of the opposing goalkeeper." ”
Ai Huan also arrived at the scene at this time, and couldn't help but feel a little helpless when he heard this answer, there was really nothing to say, but who would have thought that such an experienced player as Farfan would make such a low-level mistake?
Magath's face was ugly, he had already understood what was happening on the field, and he couldn't help but clench his fist fiercely and turn to Pukki who was sitting on the bench and said, "You get ready, play in the second half!" Although Pukki was the last to join the team in the winter transfer, because it was a transfer in Europe, he was not affected, but the first supplementary registration was successful, so he also had the qualifications to play, and he could play as a substitute player in this game.
But even he didn't expect that there would be a place for him in such an important game, and he thought that he would have to stay on the bench for a while, and when he heard that there was his place in the second half, he immediately smiled.
But before he could express his loyalty to Magath, Magath had already strode off the bench and walked straight to the lounge, and the first half of the game was over, and everything had to be seen in the second half.
"It has to change!"
In the lounge, Magath did not get angry as everyone imagined, he just announced that he would replace Farfan with Pukki, which is also reasonable, even Farfan felt that his state today was too bad, so he didn't say a word. And Papadopoulos, who performed very poorly in the first half, did not receive any criticism, which was also beyond all expectations, you must know that Magath is not unusable, but his old man did not mention this at all, which also made many people feel a little surprised, why?
On the other side of the Valencia lounge, the head coach has also made corresponding adjustments, and he also has to change his established tactics and turn defensive counterattacks into all-out attacks, and only in this way can there be a glimmer of life.
Vicente and Joaquín were replaced by him at the same time, even if he knew that the state of these two people was generally still wanting to fight, the real problem of Valencia in the first half would be that there were too few points they could attack, and now with these two experienced and powerful attackers, it should be able to achieve immediate results.
Sure enough, after the start of the second half, Valencia's attack was much more fluid, and in the 54th minute, after the smooth cooperation of the front, Soldado handed the ball to Banega, who made the ball to Vicente, who touched the ball and turned the ball to Joaquín on the left side, Joaquín shot the far corner of the goal with his right foot, but the limp shot was easily saved by Neuer.