Chapter 154: Pride Heart!
Compared with the excited Leon, the head coach of the Leganes team, Ace Alder, was silent. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 He frowned, stared at the situation in the field, and after a while returned to the dugout and sat down, without making any adjustments.
Leon glanced over there, he understood Aceald's consideration, the first half of the game was over with more than ten minutes, and Coach Leganes wanted to wait until the end of the first half to make adjustments.
With a two-goal lead, Leon did not ask the team to speed up the attacking tempo, and in today's game, his calculation was very clear, that is, to play a tug-of-war with Leganés in the first half, so as not to concede goals, and at the same time use the opportunity of set-pieces to seek goals.
Now that the basic strategic objective has been achieved, Leon does not want to risk the next match, which would give Leganés the opportunity to take advantage of the loophole in Sporting Gijón.
That's when Leon started to mature, and if it had been two months ago, he might have impulsively asked the team to push for another goal in order to finish the game in the first half, which was a huge risk.
So, in the rest of the first half, Sporting Gijón took a two-goal lead and deliberately slowed down the tempo, so the game returned to the opening fifteen minutes, and the two sides started a tug-of-war in the midfield.
Li Ang is not afraid of such a tug-of-war, his team's defense is one of the best teams in the current La Liga Division, and even the league leader Levante has not been able to score on Sporting Gijón, let alone Leganes, whose offensive ability is far inferior to Levante.
In this way, until the referee blew the whistle at the end of the first half, the score did not change again.
Almost as soon as the whistle blew, Leganés head coach Ace Alder stepped out of his seat and walked straight to the players' corridor.
Leganes, the head coach, had a gloomy face, and his silent back disappeared into the passage.
On the other side, after hearing the whistle, Leon got up and high-fived assistant coach Scott Ferry before happily walking back to the locker room. His tactical plan was all realized, the team did not concede a goal, and a two-goal lead ended the first half, which was the best result.
Dagstino looked at the coach's bench and smiled, "Sporting Gijón showed more maturity in the first half than before. ”
"Yes, in fact, Sporting Gijón didn't have much of an advantage in the first half, but they took a two-goal lead, which is a sign of the beginning of a team's maturity. Gonzalez also said.
Leon would have been quite happy if he had heard what the two commentators had said, and that was exactly what he was looking for, a sign that a team was starting to mature.
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In the home dressing room at the Estadio El Molinon, the players of Sporting Gijón were in a good mood as everyone discussed the first half of the game, and some players were even surprised that they were able to take a two-goal lead so easily.
Unlike the previous 3-1 win over Zaragoza in the Copa del Rey, and the three-goal win over Alaves, Sporting Gijón played a defensive counter-attacking game in those games, and they were more passive on the pitch and relied on sneak attacks.
And in today's game, the two sides fell into a strangulation in the midfield, it seems that Sporting Gijón has no advantage, neither side has too good chances, however, they seized the opportunity of two free kicks, and two goals came!
The players' reading of the game was the most straightforward, and they began to discuss it, and the team's performance in this half of the game also made them interested and relaxed.
Li Ang listened to the players talking and laughing, he did not make a sound to stop, facing the direct opponent of relegation, such a relaxed mentality is a good thing in his opinion.
If it was when he first took over the team, when he met Leganes, Leon would never indulge the relaxed mentality of the players, it was because the team was in the shadow of a losing streak, needed to win, needed to be motivated, and needed to be nervous!
Now it's different, Leon has earned the respect and trust of the players through game after game, and the team has gradually regained confidence through these three months of play.
At this time, in the face of Leganes, a direct opponent, Sporting Gijón will go all out in the game and relax off the field, which shows that the players are also becoming more confident and mature, which is a good thing.
Leon was thinking about the second half of the game, and although he was satisfied with the first half and confident of winning the game, he knew that he could never be careless, and as long as the game was not over, anything was possible.
This is a relegation battle, Leganes will definitely not be willing to be relegated, they will definitely work hard, their head coach Ace Ald will definitely not surrender, he will definitely make some changes in the second half, Leganes is pondering Leganes' possible changes, and he himself must have enough contingency plans.
Ace Alder will certainly ask Leganés to step up their attack, two goals down, and they must step up if they want to survive.
Leon decided to respond to the situation with the same attitude, relying on the defensive hardness of Marcos and Carlos in midfield to contain Leganés and strangle Leganés' attacking line, just as they did in the first half, but the defensive strength had to be strengthened.
In terms of offense, Sporting Gijón adopts the tactics of defensive counterattack, anyway, with two goals in hand, Sporting Gijón is not in a hurry, it is Leganes who is in a hurry, what Sporting Gijón has to do is to seize the possible loophole behind Leganes' attack, and strive to seize the opportunity to score again, giving the opponent a fatal blow!
When two goals down, Leganés may still have the courage and morale to fight back!
However, if they are three goals behind, I am afraid it will be despair!
And what Leon hopes for is that the team can seize the opportunity to give Leganes another chisel and make the opponent desperate!
Leon conveyed his tactical instructions to the players: increase the intensity of the midfield scramble, do everything possible to keep the opponent in the middle of the quagmire, and emphasize the speed and efficiency of the counter-attack.
The players nodded their heads and counter-attacked, which was what they were best at all this time.
"I have only one request, win the game, win the stability!" Leon finally said, "Let the opponent have nothing to say, let them despair, we have to use this match to show everyone that Leganes is not worthy of being our opponent at all! Our current ranking is just an accident for ******!" he said viciously.
There was a scream in the locker room, and everyone was stimulated by the coach's words.
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"Aren't you afraid of their pride?" assistant coach Scottry asked Leon in confusion, he didn't understand why Leon kept emphasizing the strength of Sporting Gijón today.
"Isn't it proud?" Leon looked at the players who had already run onto the field, and he said seriously, "When we begin to get used to victory, and when the strong desire to move forward in our hearts is urging us forward, we can be proud! Only a proud team will cherish the glory and work harder!"
"What I need is pride in my bones, we have to straighten our backs, dare to face all strong enemies, for opponents who are not as strong as us, pride is due! However, pride is in the heart, as long as the attitude is correct, as long as the feet are not proud and can't kick the ball!"
"A team needs to have that pride!" Li Ang said, his vision is deep, he knows what he needs, his team is not a team with the goal of relegation, his team wants to dominate on a broader stage, a team that is satisfied with the status quo, suffers from gains and losses, does not dare to despise the opponent, and has no pride, there is no future!
He is not afraid of the pride of the team, because he is still the head coach!
Like the captain of a huge ship, he will take care of everything, whether it is a reef or a storm, he will take care of it.
When the wind is beautiful, and enjoy the sunshine and sea breeze, when the storm is stormy, we will brave the wind and waves, all the way forward!
ps: second update.
The body is improving...... Weakly asked for a monthly pass, but during his illness, he never dared to ask for a monthly pass.
The monthly pass list was continuously exploded...... In the last few days of the month, I will surprise everyone.
It's just a battle. (To be continued.) )