Chapter 66: No Left Behind

This draw at home against Eibar made Yan Feng depressed more than just getting a point. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 What made him even more frustrating was that Granada failed to take advantage of the opportunity to pick up points, while direct rivals Villarreal and Athletic Bilbao both won in this round.

As a result, Granada dropped two places in a row from fifth to seventh place in the standings after this round.

Faced with this situation, the next round of matches will be very important for the Granada team to ensure that they do not fall behind.

In the twenty-fifth round, Granada's opponent will be Girona, the weakest team in La Liga this season. Girona, who are promoted to the bottom of the table, can book a relegation spot in advance.

Facing the relegation favourites, Granada must win if they are to qualify for the next Europa League. Even a tie is a loss.

Because of the above reasons, this match against Girona has received unprecedented attention from the Granada team.

In order to increase the stakes of victory in this game, after playing the match against the Eibar team, the whole team immediately turned to preparation.

"Victory is the only goal of this game. ”

"I only accept the result of winning. The other possible outcomes are not on my radar. ”

In training, Pirlo said this to everyone.

Although Pirlo's record is not bad after taking over the Granada team. However, at the moment, it is not much better than Alcaraz. This led to suspicion from the outside world after the draw with Eibar. This also made Pirlo feel a lot of pressure.

If they can't win against Girona, Pirlo will face even more pressure of doubt.

"Come on, everyone, we have to win the next game. Brothers, we can, we have the ability to win Girona!"

Yan Feng is 100% supportive of Pirlo's idea. Therefore, he always helped to cheer up Pirlo when he gave a mobilization speech.

"Granada must win!"

Thanks to everyone's efforts, the thinking of the whole Granada team has been highly unified. So that everyone is actively engaged in the preparation, and the preparation effect is not bad.

Time flew fast and in the midst of intense preparations, the Granada team soon ushered in this high-profile match.

In the 25th round of La Liga, Granada challenged Girona away.

The Granada team is determined to win. However, the outside world did not feel that they were sure of victory.

"The damage caused by Samper's departure does not seem to have been made up for at the moment. Away to Girona, the chances of winning are not very good. A draw could be the final outcome of this game. ”

"Girona's chance to stop their losing streak has come. Attacking a lacklustre Granada team will be difficult to beat. ”

The pre-match predictions for this game were almost exclusively a draw. Even the local media in Granada are speculating.

I don't know if these predictions from the outside world played a role, but in the pre-match warm-up of this game, the Girona players at home looked full of confidence, and there was no low morale like the relegation favorites.

Faced with the situation he saw, Yan Feng was quite speechless. Why, when other teams meet Granada, they don't have the mentality that they will lose nine times out of ten when they meet a strong team?

Just made Yan Feng depressed. Especially after the start of the game, after seeing the opponents confidently piled up in the backcourt to set up a bucket formation.

"It's 541 again!"

To be honest, since the beginning of this season, Yan Feng's biggest headache is seeing the other party put on this formation.

"Made, it's time to storm the city again. ”

"Brothers, it's a tough bone again. Let's get mental, we can't afford to miss the three points this time. Yan Feng understood the difficulties he had anticipated before the game.

Sure enough, after kicking, it was a remake of the previous round against Eibar.

Seeing the opponents being excited and inexplicably beaten by their own side, Yan Feng was very depressed in his heart, contrary to the scene of taking the initiative.

Pressing the opponent to fight, if there is a very good level of positional warfare, it is definitely a beautiful thing. And if this is when the opponent takes the initiative and his own side does not have a good way to score a goal. For the attacking side, it was so depressed that it wanted to vomit blood.

As the game progressed, the Granada team, who had been unable to find a better way to score the goal, became more and more impatient.

This rush had the opposite effect, and mistakes began to increase. And that gave the home side the chance to counter-attack. No, if it wasn't for Yan Feng's defense fast enough, he almost let the Girona team succeed in the sneak attack.

As the threat began to emerge at the back, this began to contain Granada's attack, which was not too ideal. The siege can't score goals, and the offensive slows down, so it's even more difficult to score.

The game is one after the other, one side loses momentum, and the other team rises. As the momentum gradually increased, the attack of the Girona team increased, and the threat to the Grana team also increased. It even allowed Girona to play a beautiful tactic that they have rarely played this season. Looking at the performance of the players on the pitch of the Girona team, who would think that they are the relegation favourites this season?

In the first half, the two sides ended in a dull draw. Granada want to score but are powerless, but defensively they can make Girona feel equally powerless.

Later in the first half, Girona played better than Granada. For this reason, Yan Feng felt very worried about the second half. Pirlo, on the other hand, maintains the opposite view. At halftime, he was very happy to say to everyone. 'If the opponent becomes more aggressive and aggressive in the second half, then our chance comes. ”

Pirlo's words made everyone's eyes shine. They hated each other's turtle formations, but they were not afraid of their opponents attacking them at all.

However, they were disappointed that after the start of the second half, the Girona team did not take the initiative as they expected, but instead retreated as hard as they did in the early part of the first half.

"Wow!"

After seeing that the opponent retracted all of them back to the backcourt, Yan Feng directly burst into a foul language. While he was depressed, he had to admire the manager of the Girona team. "This is their home field, it's really shameless, invincible in the world. ”

In addition to scolding in his heart, the reality made him very helpless. The offense of the whole team is not organized, he has to take care of the defense, and he is not a player who is good at playmaking. He didn't have a good idea.

If you can't think of a solution, you just don't know where to start. There is no better way than to smash hard. And the effect of hard smashing depends on the character. Unfortunately, until the 80th minute of the game, Granada were unable to find the back of the net. And it looks like there is probably no way to score for the rest of the game.

"Strict, set-piece tactics. Finding a way to create set-piece chances, that's all we can do now. Seeing that time was running out, Pirlo took advantage of a dead ball opportunity to call Yan Feng to the sidelines and said so.

Oh yes. Yan Feng's eyes lit up. Tactics such as short pass penetration cannot be effective in positional warfare, so the use of high-altitude bombing tactics such as set-pieces is the best choice.

If that happens, all that's left is to create set-piece opportunities. After Yan Feng went back, he immediately conveyed Pirlo's meaning to Costa and the others.

Next, the Granada team began to use dribbling to lure opponents to foul by Costa and Pereira, who have good ball control skills.

This change in the Granada team is starting to show good results. Taking advantage of set-pieces and constantly bombing the Girona penalty area, it created a big threat.

Unlike the central midfield, which plays long balls and hangs, set-pieces are far superior in creating threats. Long passes rush to hang, and only the kittens on the front line are often in the impact of the penalty area. And set-piece opportunities, a bunch of people compete in the penalty area, and the chance of winning is half and half. In this way, the killing opportunities created began to make the Girona team feel a lot of pressure.

Huang Tian paid off, and of the few set-piece opportunities created, Granada finally seized one of them. There was chaos in the aerial battle, but it was Sandel who stabbed the ball into the Girona goal in the scuffle.

After nearly 90 minutes of hard fighting, Granada finally got lucky to score. And this goal was the only goal of the game.

Granada won the game with this goal.

"Finally won. It's not easy to win. Take those three points and you won't be left behind. "When the game came, Yan Feng was already tired enough. It's a tough game like this, and sometimes it's really torturous.