Chapter 489: Advance to the Final Four

At present, Sporting Gijón has five forwards in the team: Diego Milito, Di Natale, Benzema, Magur Pihra and Enrique Chiesa. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

However, Di Natale has been used by Leon as a shadow striker, and Chiesa has also been seen by Leon as Di Natale's replacement.

As for Macoul Pihra's age, there is no room for further action this season.

Therefore, when Leon was considering which player to use the skill of [Intermediate Hundred Steps], he could only choose between Diego Milito and Benzema.

Twenty-five-year-old Diego Milito is in his prime, and the late bloomer has improved rapidly and is currently the top scorer in La Liga. He is the present of Sporting Gijón.

Benzema, who is just 17 years old, has scored six goals in his limited playing time, and is the fourth scorer in the Sporting Gijón team.

Choosing between the present and the future, Leon was a little undecided.

After just two days, though, he realized that he didn't need to worry about the multiple-choice question.

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On 4 February 2005, in the second leg of the quarter-finals of the 2004/2005 Copa del Rey, Sporting Gijón faced Sevilla away.

On this trip to the Estadio Pizjuán, Sevilla coach Caparos vowed to be disgraced.

The match was extremely intense, and the intensity exceeded Leon's expectations.

The referee showed two red cards and six yellow cards in the game, Sevilla captain Navarro was sent off with a red card, and on the side of Sporting Gijón, Pepe was sent off with a red card and six yellow cards, Sevilla got four and Sporting Gijón received two.

In the words of commentator Dagstino, this match is almost untechnical on both sides, and it can be described as hand-to-hand combat.

In the end, Sporting Gijón drew 2-2 away and advanced to the semi-finals of the Spanish Copa del Rey with an aggregate score of 4-2.

Li Ang's biggest regret is that he didn't estimate the tragedy of this game, otherwise, he would have used the [Primary Doom Transfer] skill in advance to avoid the possibility of injury to his own players.

Diego Milito scored a goal in the game, but the Argentine striker went off injured in the second half and the Argentine will be out for at least a month, according to the team doctor's diagnosis.

After the game, Leon almost went berserk, angrily denouncing Sevilla for playing dirty football at a press conference.

Not to be outdone, Sevilla coach Caparros slammed Sporting Gijón for not playing cleanly.

After the previous 5-1 away win over Sevilla in the previous league match of Sporting Gijón and the two-legged meeting in the Copa del Rey, the feud between Sporting Gijón and Sevilla, or Leon and Caparos, has deepened.

Spain's national station 3 also joked that Sporting Gijón and Sevilla are feuding, and there is another pair of hateful enemies in La Liga.

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With Diego Milito injured and Leon no longer having to make a choice question, he will only be able to give Benzema more starts in the coming games.

Therefore, in the training on the second day after the game, Li Ang applied the skill of [Intermediate 100 Steps through Yang] to Benzema's body.

The effect can be said to be immediate.

On this day of intra-team matching, the seventeen-year-old Frenchman impressed his teammates, and in the forty-five minutes of the confrontation, Benzema scored three goals with an overhead kick!

"Milito's injury irritated the French boy. Assistant coach Scott Tree said.

It was almost everyone's consensus that Milito was injured, which gave Benzema an opportunity to fight for a start, and he exploded in training.

What they think can't be said to be completely wrong, Benzema is indeed working harder than ever in training, coupled with the effect of the [Intermediate 100 Steps] skill, the seventeen-year-old French teenager is eye-catching.

Li Ang can only sigh in his heart, Benzema's luck is really good, Milito was injured, giving Benzema a chance, and he can only give that 'big benefit' to Benzema.

Benzema didn't know that the manager had given him a big benefit, he was very happy, he was excited, he just felt that he was improving very quickly and that he was shooting great, which gave the kid more confidence to fight for a starting position.

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Sporting Gijón is close to the last four of the Copa del Rey.

This made Leon happy, but also a little helpless, an event he was going to give up, because of Atletico Madrid's little Hill's 'trouble', in order to stabilize the morale of the army, he also had to do his best in the game with Sevilla to stabilize the morale of the army, with victory and promotion to stabilize the morale of the army, so he reached the semi-finals of the Copa del Rey.

He has already reached the semi-finals, and he is not thinking about giving up the Copa del Rey, after all, the Copa del Rey is also a championship trophy, for the grassroots team of Sporting Gijón, there is really no reason to give up, that is, he wants to give up the Copa del Rey, and the president of the club, Manuel Arango, will not agree: on the night when the team eliminated Sevilla to reach the semi-finals, the old Arango congratulated the team and asked about the possibility of the team defending the Copa del Rey title...... Obviously, for the Copa del Rey title, the elder Arango is looking forward to it.

Sporting Gijón's opponent in the semi-finals of the Spanish Copa del Rey is another old rival, it is Atletico Madrid that they just beat 7-2 in the league, coupled with the admiration of Atletico Madrid owner Angel Hill for Leon, which also makes the current Atletico Madrid coach Aguirre feel embarrassed, so this Copa del Rey semi-final is also a gimmick in the eyes of some media.

Fortunately, the semi-finals of the Copa del Rey will not start until mid-April, and Leon does not have to think about the Copa del Rey for the time being.

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On 5 February, the Malayo training base.

After training, Leon announced to the players the starting line-up for the 22nd round of La Liga against Numancia the following day.

In the goalkeeper position, Leon chose to rest the veteran Valencia in favor of the young Handanovic.

Grosso at left-back at the back, and at right-back, Leon chose to rotate and gave Dorado, who had returned from injury, a chance to start.

In the position of central defender, Pepe was banned for two games by the Spanish Football Federation because he received a direct red card in the Copa del Rey, and the veteran Hierro accumulated yellow cards and was suspended for this game, so Li Ang had no choice but to choose the starting combination of Vermaelen and Lamy, after Rami came to Sporting Gijon, he first trained with the reserve team for a month, played a few reserve team games, and then trained with the first team, but he has not yet represented the first team Playing record, this game can directly get the starting opportunity, and Leon's choice is really bold。

In midfield, Marcos was given a start, Carlos was rotated and rested, Albertini was rotated, Juan Arango was given a start, Franck Ribery and Luka Modric started, while Juan Mata, who returned from injury, was put on the bench and if he could come off the bench, it would be after more than two months out due to injury.

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Finally, there is the choice of the front line.

"Antonio Di Natale. Leon pronounced Di Natale's name.

Then he paused.

Benzema in the crowd was breathing heavily, holding his breath.

"Karimi Benzema!" Finally, Leon pronounced the last name.

Benzema waved his arm vigorously and roared, and although he guessed in his heart that he should get a chance to start, he couldn't hide his excitement.

Leon glanced at the excited boy, folded the paper on which the starting list was written, and encouraged the players a few more words, then turned to leave.

The players also came up and touched the head of the French kid to congratulate them, in the team, the younger players are more taken care of by the old guys, and Benzema is a more clever and troubled guy, and his popularity is good.

"Hey, boy, don't worry, I'll give you an assist. Ribery came up and put his arm around Benzema's neck and said.

"How many goals are you going to score?" Di Natale also quipped, and Benzema's form in training over the past two days is simply amazing, which is why he made this joke.

The French kid didn't answer, just smiled, secretly clenched his fists, in the case of the main striker Diego Milito injured, this game is his opportunity, he must take advantage of it!

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