Chapter 432: Locking the group first
There was a clash of players in the match between Sporting Gijón and Barcelona, and the news spread around the world the next day. Pen ~ fun ~ Ge www.biquge.info Sporting Gijón is not a nobody now, they are the biggest dark horse in La Liga this season, not to mention Barcelona, La Liga giants, league leaders. Such a heavyweight game, many countries around the world have chosen to broadcast it live, and many people have witnessed it all in front of the TV: whether it is the process or result of the game, or the conflict between the players and the quarrel after the game, it is enough to attract attention.
Li Ang and Rijkaard, who were still arguing at the press conference before, actually had a tacit understanding of the temporary truce, and both chose to point the finger at the referee on duty Cadilramendi.
Obviously, both Leon and Rijkaard are very smart, the two of them are pressuring the Football Association with such an attitude, there is no problem with the game itself, there is no problem with the players, it is the referee who lost control of the game and caused all this to happen.
Since it is the referee's problem, then the punishment of our players should be dealt with leniently.
The attitude of the two clubs is clearly not afraid of offending the referee committee, Barcelona is a giant, so naturally it has the qualifications to compete with the referee committee, what about Leon and Athletic Gijón? This is a typical barefoot who is not afraid to wear shoes.
All eyes are on the Spanish Football Federation, wanting to see whether the president of the Spanish Football Federation, Villa, will raise the stick high this time and kill the killer, or will choose to deal with it gently.
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On November 29, the relevant personnel of the Spanish Football Federation met with the referee Cadilramendi, hoping that he would explain the enforcement of the game.
Subsequently, Sporting Gijón announced that the club had complained about some unfair decisions made by the referee in this match.
At the same time, FC Barcelona also announced that the club had submitted a report to the Spanish Football Federation regarding the enforcement errors of referee Cadil Ramendi.
The Spanish Football Federation also announced that it had received complaints from the two clubs, and had an interview with the referee Cadil Ramendi, and the Football Association set up a special discussion group on the matter to discuss a solution, and the specific results will be announced in three days.
This can't help but make the media complain again, criticizing the Spanish Football Association for being too bureaucratic and procrastinating, and a punishment result has to drag on for three days.
And during this period, the media still continued to hype the matter, and there were even signs of over-fermentation.
Marca newspaper reported an interesting story, it is said that Eto'o was so angry that he was 'cursed' by Sporting Gijón coach Leon and would never score a penalty after he was given, and shouted that he would see Leon's team in the future and play it once.
Considering the pro-Real Madrid nature of Marca, as well as the extreme unfriendliness towards Barcelona and Sporting Gijón, this news has a certain suspicion of inciting trouble.
Some media found Li Ang and asked him for his opinion on the matter.
Leon's response was: Hehe.
This is a very connotative word, and after pondering for a while, the Spanish people finally understood the breadth and profundity of this word, so that the word actually began to become popular in Spain.
It has even been suggested that Spanish educational institutions should make the most accurate annotation for 'hehe', 'hehe': an onomatopoeia, which describes a person's laughter, now with a new definition, which can be understood as lazy to ignore someone or something.
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Two days later, Sporting Gijón will face an away match in the group stage of the UEFA Cup, where they will travel to the Belgian cultural city of Club Brugge to take on Belgian Ligue 1 giants Club Brugge.
Having just experienced that player clash incident, Sporting Gijón must be a little flustered now, and the media want to see if Sporting Gijón's away match with the Belgian giants will suffer a defeat?
Anyway, there are a lot of people waiting to see the joke, and for the sake of maximizing profits, these media naturally want Sporting Gijón to lose, so that they can hype it up.
But what...... Leon wouldn't let those who were waiting to see the joke get their way.
In this UEFA Cup group stage match against Club Brugge, Sporting Gijón won away.
The ban penalty in the league is only valid for the league and does not affect Sporting Gijón's European matches, so in the UEFA Cup, Sporting Gijón can field the strongest squad.
In the match against Club Brugge, except for Ivanovic, who was absent due to injury, and the replacement of Marcos with Modric, Leon almost lined up the same lineup as Barcelona.
Scotteri once suggested that Lejon rotate to a certain extent, because the players were more tired, but Leon rejected the rotation suggestion, on the one hand, the difference between the strength level of the players on the bench and the main force of Sporting Gijón is relatively large, and Sporting Gijón does not have the cost of rotation, and on the other hand, Leon clearly grasps the psychological state of his players, this game, although the players may be slightly tired, but there is a situation to take into account, these players are holding their breath now, they are likely to vent their frustration in the league to the group stage of the League Cup。
Especially Carlos and Pepe, who will be suspended. This game is sure to be a game of life.
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As it turned out, Sporting Gijón played merrily at the Bruges Stadium at the Bruges, not conservative at all, but bold, playing attacking football on the road with a surprising impact that did not take Club Brugge's attack seriously at all.
Just replacing Marcos with Luka Modric makes Sporting Gijon's squad even more aggressive.
In the end, the game was tied 4-2.
A total of six goals were scored by both sides, with Sporting Gijón's side, Di Natale and Franck Franck Ribery scoring one each, while the most shocking was centre-back Pepe, who scored with a header in the game, and Carlos was involved in the attack with a non-threatening long-range shot that resulted in an own goal.
Carlos and Pepe, two players who have just received a red card in the league, one is almost a pure defender and the other is a central defender, both of whom have made achievements in attack, which is really surprising.
The commentators are joking that the players of Sporting Gijón, from the coach to the players, must be holding their breath in their hearts, everyone is working very hard in this game, and Cluj is not playing badly, but he just met a Sporting Gijón in a 'violent state'.
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After winning away at Club Brugge, Sporting Gijón won all three games in the group stage, and has already qualified for the group one round ahead of schedule, and has locked the first place in the group in advance.
Of course, the current competition system of the League Cup is really wonderful, five teams in a group, three teams get the right to qualify, and it is a single round-robin system, the most bizarre thing is that the group ranking does not affect the draw of the knockout round, that is, the first place in the group and the third place are actually the same meaning, so, for Sporting Gijón, to get the first place in the group, at most is a little proud, in fact, it is not very useful. Of course, the first place is the first place after all, and for Sporting Gijón, who is playing in Europe again after many years, it can still boost morale.
The first place in the group in advance to obtain the right to qualify, which is the biggest significance for Sporting Gijón, is that in the last game of the group stage, a quick match with Vienna in Austria, Sporting Gijón can be easily faced, and even as long as Leon is willing, it can be completely rotated to a large extent, which can temporarily relieve the pressure of employment for Sporting Gijón, whose squad bench depth is very average.
After playing the game with Brugge and confirming that he had entered the next stage of the knockout round one round earlier, Leon received a prompt from the system, and a main quest was triggered.
And just as the entire Sporting Gijón team was returning to Spain from Brugge, while they were still on the flight, the Spanish Football Federation announced the results of its handling of the 'Camp Nou player clash incident'.
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