Chapter 123

Of course, this old and young joke is a joke, and after returning to this game, Deportivo La Coruna still made a very adequate response plan.

First of all, this game is played at the weekend, Deportivo have a league game to play before, although this league is not that important, but Deportivo La Coruna is ready.

Prepare your opponent as if it were Arsenal to practice.

Before the game against Arsenal, Deportivo Lacoruna's opponent was Real Betis, and their manager Ferrer is also a beautiful footballer, so it can be said that in addition to not being able to compare with Arsenal in terms of personnel, Real Betis is synonymous with La Liga Arsenal.

…… Of course, we also said that there is a little gap in staffing, so there is also a little gap in the rankings and playing styles of the two sides.

Real Betis coach Ferrer had already made his attitude clear before the game: Deportivo La Coruna will kill or chop at will, and they are not some kind of fish to be slaughtered by others anyway.

Here's what he said: "Deportivo La Coruna are a very surprising team, there is a lot of competition against them, but Real Betis will not back down on their home turf and we will give our best squad for this game." ”

Real Betis is located in Sevilla, the capital of Andalusia, and is a sworn enemy of Sevilla next door, but because they are too attack-oriented, this team is often ranked bottom of the league, forever hovering in the soy sauce zone and the relegation zone.

Their configuration is indeed very similar to Arsenal, but they do not have Thierry Henry the Great, nor do they have Bergkamp, the ice prince, and their defense is too weak to be penetrated by opponents.

In this game, they did come up with the strongest lineup according to their words, goalkeeper Contreras; defenders Juanito, Barella, Luis Fernandez, Castellini; midfielders Joaquin, Denilson, Asunsan; Forwards Ricardo Oliveira, Alfonso, Martin Dani.

Obviously, Real Betis is full of confidence and wants to give Deportivo a good look at the Stadio Lopera.

Compared to Real Betis, who are full of energy, Deportivo are much calmer here, and in this game, Juan started his rotation**.

In terms of backline and goalkeeper, Deportivo La Coruna has not changed much, with Andrade, Capdevilla, Juan Sorin and Pablo Ibanez plus Diego López, Juan suddenly feels a bit like he is leading the Real Madrid Five Eagles - and of course, he is only thinking about it for a moment.

However, Deportivo La Coruna has made a big change up front, with Fernando Redondo in the back, Juan Vellerón in support, Fernando Gago and Pablo Aimar on the wings, and Portillo and Morientes in attack.

Aimar did not play in the last game against Valencia, sitting on the bench for 90 minutes, and Juan did not ask him at half-time if he wanted to get a feel for it.

- Revenge on Valencia, revenge on Ranieri, originally he was the main force in Valencia, but as soon as Ranieri came over, he said that Aimar was not necessary, and then he quickly sold Aimar, and Deportivo quickly picked up the leak, which is why he is now in Deportivo La Coruna.

But Aimar refused.

"It's not that I don't hate it, and it's not that I don't hate Ranieri...... But I want to be a good example for my juniors. ”

At this point, Aimar smiled, and everyone knew who he was talking about.

Lionel Messi.

The children are busy running at both ends, and now they not only have to help Deportivo La Coruna youth training games, but also participate in the first team's cup from time to time, for him to run back and forth like this, at the beginning, the entire La Liga and La B League had very opinions, especially those teams in the La B League, every time I saw Leonel Messi warming up on the sidelines, the first reaction was to shiver, and then I wanted to cry without tears.

――Big brother, what about the one who said that he would not be the first to use nuclear weapons?

And at the beginning, everyone thought that since Deportivo had reported him to the first team, he shouldn't run back and forth, but the number announced by Deportivo was directly dumbfounded.

David Luiz, Leonel Messi, Kylor Navas...... All of them were signed in the youth academy of Deportivo La Coruna, but they were called up after the start of the season to train with the team, which was the main reason why Messi's transfer fee was suffocating at the beginning.

A 16-year-old and 17-year-old youth training this year, why did he spend 30 million euros?

To be honest, even after more than ten years in 2016, there is no such price increase!

However, Lionel Messi has proven his worth, which has caused many clubs to itch their hearts.

This method of exploiting the loopholes was really eye-opening, but they soon realized that such a method was not feasible.

First, they are well-staffed and do not need to summon teenagers to play football. Second, there are no perverted little monsters in their youth academy who can mix well in the top professional adult leagues at the age of sixteen or seventeen.

In desperation, most clubs gave up on such an idea, and then coveted Deportivo La Coruna.

But today, Messi didn't come, and Deportivo La Coruna has reached a very crucial step in the second division - their opponent is La Masia, and this is where Messi's real war lies.

Aimar is willing to give Messi a model, in fact, he is afraid that this kid will go further and further on the road of hatred in the future.

And those who are blinded by hatred will not be happy in life.

At the beginning of the game, Real Betis launched a crazy attack from the first minute of the game, they naturally can't weaken their momentum at their home stadium, and they can stand on La Liga, relying on running and attacking, every season they score a lot of goals, concede a lot of goals, it is by running and attacking, they stubbornly grab the points, so that they can have a little foothold in La Liga.

Just two minutes into the game, Real Betis' Denilson made a sharp break down the right flank, and Fernando Gago flew to shovel the ball off the line and take a corner.

"Gago...... The young midfielder is more adept at getting forward than defending, and Real Betis will certainly take advantage of the hole on this side to attack aggressively. Frank looked at the situation on the field with some concern.

Fernando Gago is indeed very suitable for assists, but although he has a lot of opportunities to practice, but his characteristics are not a good defensive midfielder, the characteristics of inserting assists and wing all-rounder make him always have omissions in defense, and as a small character, plugging in the offensive This kind of thing often makes him unable to do it lightly, barely playing on the defensive end, and can only play more and more depressed.

Redondo naturally saw his depression, and he also knew that although his juniors were very similar to him, they were still a little impatient, and they still needed to be trained in the game to get better.

The corner kick from Real Betis was headed out by Andrade at the front post, Deportivo La Coruna quickly launched a counterattack, Juan Sorin received Andrade's ball at the edge of the box, Aimar on the right had already begun to step forward, Sorin did not hesitate, immediately raised his foot and passed the ball out.

Aimar did not dribble the ball, but dunked the ball and passed it to Juan Bellerón, who turned around to take the ball, looked up at the situation in the front court, and then raised his foot and stuffed the ball straight to Portillo near the middle, Portillo did not dribble the ball after receiving the ball, but passed the ball directly into the half of Real Betis!

A flurry of fancy passes left the Real Betis players dizzy and began to show their flaws, and it was at this point that Fernando Gago rumbled into the Real Betis half like a tank.

He was tall and stocky, but he moved very fast with his feet, catching up with the ball in a few big steps, and then using his skills to dribble forward with his skills even as three Real Betis defenders chased him down.

"Fernando Gago, you've dribbled too much!"

Juan's voice came clearly, and Gago was startled and almost slipped on his foot, but he quickly dunked the ball, turned around with a sharp stop, and glanced at the people on the sidelines, and found that a layer of frost had begun to gather on Juan's face.

…… Well, didn't he just stay a little longer...... QAQ

At this moment, a gradient blue jersey rushed up from his left side, and Gago did not hesitate, but raised his left foot and passed the ball directly diagonally!

It's Morientes in front!

After catching up with the ball, he quickly picked up his left foot and shot hard before the opposition defender could return on the run!

The ball flew to the ground in the near corner, and Real Betis goalkeeper Contreras reacted quickly to block the ball with one hand, and then flew to press the ball under him, completely stopping Deportivo La Coruna's attack.

'Morientes' forward cut was very timely, it was a quality counter-attack! We found that Juan Díaz seems to be a manager who is very good at getting his team to play a quick counter-attack, especially on the ground, although this attack does not seem to be very exciting, but such a fast, efficient and accurate ground counterattack may be what Deportivo La Coruna is most pursuing right now. ”

Juan didn't know anything about Frank's complaints, in fact he was now watching the situation on the pitch with full attention, and Deportivo showed their ability to counter-attack quickly and smoothly in the forward cut, which made Juan breathe a sigh of relief.

The next thing to be realized is Deportivo Riuna's positional warfare capabilities.

Deportivo were not discouraged after the attack, and soon attacked again, Aimar distributed the ball to Fernando Gago in midfield, Gago forced his way into the box with the ball, and then intended to cross to Portillo, Real Betis midfielder Joaquin cut the ball in the middle of the game, causing a loud cheer from the Real Betis fans in the stands.

While they were glad that Deportivo had been stopped again, Juan didn't care about the defeat this time.

"Well, it's not stubborn." Juan pondered off the pitch that Fernando Gago hadn't shown his dribbling ability on the past few occasions, but he had done a very good job of passing, at least thinking about passing the ball to his teammates, and at least at this point, he wasn't arrogant enough to think he could solve all the problems alone.

Deportivo La Coruna gradually made some name in attack, but defensively, Deportivo Lacoruna's midfield was still under a lot of pressure, and the goalscorers on the opposite side seemed to be on target, constantly breaking through from the right side, putting a lot of pressure on Aimar, and in the twelfth minute, it was his breakthrough on the wing that forced Denilson to foul, thus receiving a yellow card.

"Gago, remember to help defend more!" Juan frowned and shouted into the room.

Fernando Gago and Juan gave him a new definition of position, but it doesn't seem like he's getting used to the change.

Gago nodded in Juan's direction and began to help Aimar defend more and share his pressure, and after Gago was less troubled on the field, the scene gradually became quieter.

Just when Real Betis was a little glad that the game might be so drawn, Fernando Redondo, who had been relatively quiet since the opening, suddenly had an outburst.

He dropped back into the middle to receive a through ball from Belleron, then turned around and got away from the opposition midfielder Joaquin, who lifted his foot to deliver a long diagonal pass when the rest of Real Betis players tried to come up to defend him.

- To be honest, at the beginning, Real Betis didn't expect Redondo to play, after all, according to what I knew about Deportivo in the past, it was basically not an important game, and players like Redondo and Romario were placed in the club.

Just as Redondo made a long pass, Gago and Belleron's left-to-right runs attracted the attention of the other Real Betis defenders, and Morientes almost silently plugged in from the right and received Redondo's pass very smoothly!

In the penalty area, Morientes unloaded Redondo's long pass with his chest very casually, and then Morientes grabbed a left-footed volley directly in front of the attacking Real Betis goalkeeper Contreras, and the football jumped past Contreras, like a cute little girl, and then flew into the goal that he had been guarding behind him!

“Gooooal！！ Fernando Morientes!! Very beautiful goal! But from this goal, we see more of a performance between several stars, is that all Juan can do? That's a little disappointing......" Frank muttered, then looked at Dean, who was a pure Juan Díaz fan, and would have said something to contradict him.

Sure enough, Dean looked up and explained very seriously: "That's you wrong Frank, although this beautiful goal does look like a flash of inspiration for Redondo and Morientes, such goals can be seen many times in Real Madrid's games, which is also the most criticized point of the Galaxy Battleship, they have always bought superstars, and they have always wanted superstars to play an important role, but superstars are not omnipotent, when they don't play well in some important games, The team's results can have a huge impact. ”

"......," Frank opened his mouth, "and?" ”

"Then, even without those big guys, Deportivo La Coruna's results are still so stable and efficient, maybe the superstar can play a certain auxiliary role, but it turns out that they can get to this point, relying on strength! And it also proves that Juan Díaz is not the kind of manager who is rigid and does not limit the individual performance of the players, which is the favorite manager of those South American players, isn't it? ”

But there is a good saying, you must not keep losing character in the game, otherwise you will be punished, and it turns out that it is so, in the next game, Deportivo La Coruna is like being cursed by someone, all kinds of shots can not score.

Belleron's through ball gave Portillo a one-on-one chance, but Portillo was a little slower to get out of the way and the ball was held in the arms of the attacking Contreras.

Portillo then split the side and Morientes' long-range shot was denied, followed by another chance, with Morientes heading over from twelve yards......

Gago also missed a close-range header just before half-time, and his own header wasn't very good, so it wasn't too hard to swallow......

As the half-time whistle blew, Juan Díaz got up and walked into the dressing room first.