Chapter 79: Give way
"Take a look at the line-ups of both sides."
"Today's Granada can be described as a strong army, the goalkeeper is last season's best goalkeeper in La Liga, Silva, the back line is led by former Manchester City captain Kompany, and there are three excellent defenders such as Herman, Dias and Martinez!"
'In midfield, Dutch international Klaassen partnered former England talent Rodwell.
"On the offensive line, Ibrahimovic and Vuray are in the forward position, with Real Madrid's loanee Vinicius on the left and England's new talent Clark on the right!"
"Hopefully the British star won't have a bright future like his team's predecessors!"
Leganes' side sent a 4411 formation, the goalkeeper is Ivan Cuellar, and the back line is composed of Dimitris Ciowas, Kevin Rodriguez, Roberto Rosales and Chelsea's seven-year "celebrity" Kenneth O'Mero! ”
In midfield, 30-year-old veterans Roque Mesa and Chidoje Awazeyim from Sevilla were partnered in midfield, with striker Sabinov Melino, who joined from Athletic Bilbao this season, on the left. On the right stands Mark Navarro, a former Spaniard on loan from Workford! ”
"Standing in the midfield position is Oscar on loan from Real Madrid, and up front is Guido Carrillo!"
Although Granada is the promotion horse this season, there has been a lot of movement in the summer transfer window, so Leganés did not take the enemy lightly, and directly sent a full main team to face it, vowing to take away three points from Granada's home stadium!
After Granada opened, they did not choose to defend and counterattack conservatively, but pressed on it vigorously, taking high-intensity pressing and pressing, trying to catch Leganés off guard at the beginning of the game and firmly suppress Leganes.
In the 4th minute of the game, Granada got a penalty kick for the first time!
Vinicius dribbled the ball wide and shook off Leganés' full-back Navarro in a couple of bike moves before cutting inside and being fouled behind midfielder Avazeim in the penalty area, tripping Vinicius to the ground.
And this foul action was seen by the referee who followed the football movement, and directly blew the whistle to award a penalty for Granada, and also showed a yellow card to Awazeim!
"What is Avazeim doing? Is he crazy? Seeing that his own back man dared to foul in the penalty area, or under the nose of the referee, Leganes' head coach Javier Aguirre felt that his brain hurt, and the 60-year-old felt that his already small hair had to fall out again.
By the way, Leganés' head coach Javier Aguirre is a former head coach of Atletico Madrid, and has also coached the national teams of Mexico, Japan, Egypt, and Espanyol.
After Vinicius fell, Ibrahimovic, who was on the sidelines, saw that the referee directly gave a yellow card and a penalty, so he ignored the Leganes players who surrounded the referee to defend Avazeim, walked straight to Vinicius, squatted down and said: "How is it?" Didn't get hurt, did you? ”
Vinicius grabbed Ibrahimovic's hand and stood up, jumped on the spot and showed his big white teeth at Ibrahimovich and said, "It's okay, I'm fine!" ”
Vinicius has shown enough respect for the world-class striker in front of him, maybe he thinks that his future results will not be worse than Ibrahimovic, or even higher, but now, the juniors must have the consciousness of the juniors!
And Ibrahimovic is also optimistic about this young teammate who is only half his age, in the football world, strength is the best business card, and the level of Vinicius in the warm-up game has impressed the proud Swedes.
"Go ahead, you can take the penalty you created!"
Ibrahimovic patted Vinicius on the arm and said, and Vinicius was surprised.
Under Martinez's policy, Ibrahimovic is the team's first penalty taker, followed by Vuray and Klaassen, and Vinicius's shortcomings in shooting ability have long been discovered, so he has to practice shooting after the end of the daily training session.
Although the penalty was set by Vinicius, no one will accuse Ibrahimovic of being selfish in terms of team tactics or personal strength.
However, Ibrahimovic took the initiative to give up the penalty opportunity to Vinicius, which not only surprised Vinicius, but even the coach Martinez on the side couldn't help jumping to his feet.
"Hey, Zlatan isn't a madman and a gentleman today? What are you doing? "Martinez knows too well the level of Vinicius's penalty kicks, it's on the same level as his shot, so the chances that the team has created are going to be wasted?
Of course, Ibrahimovic will not be a gentleman, and giving a penalty to Vinicius is because he does not want to return to the top five leagues, and the first goal was scored by penalty, although it sounds ridiculous, but it is about his dignity!
On the other hand, although Vinicius's shooting skills and penalty skills are really not good, he has been serious after the training session every day, and he has not slackened in the slightest. Ibrahimovic is very optimistic about Vinicius' future, so he is willing to use this penalty opportunity that he doesn't like to let Vinicius break the obstacles in his heart, and scoring is the best medicine.
This is also the demeanor of a captain of a team!
Vinicius, who was standing at the penalty spot, took a deep breath, then looked directly at the goalkeeper, ran and volleyed!
The ball flew high from the turf and headed straight for the bottom left corner of the goal, and Leganés goalkeeper Cuellar was on the right track, but the ball sliced through the tip of his finger.
“Gooooaaaaallll!!!!”
1:0! In the 4th minute of the opening game, Vinicius scored a penalty kick to help Granada lead Leganes at home!
After Vinicius scored the penalty, he ran over and hugged Ibrahimovic and said in Ibrahimovic's ear very seriously: "Thank you!" ”
Vinicius, who is only 178 in height, is more than a head shorter in front of Ibrahimovic at 195, so Ibrahimovic smiled and patted Vinicius's head, and said in the tone of a big brother: "Be polite to me, you are doing very well, believe in yourself!" Your efforts deserve it! ”
The goal in the first 4 minutes was like a reassurance for the players, and at this time the players of Granada had already surrounded them, hugged Vinicius, the hero of the goal, and pressed them to the ground, happily playing the game of stacking Arhats.
Martinez, who was on the sidelines, was relieved to see Vinicius withstanding the pressure and scoring a penalty, his eyes were aimed at the away team's head coach Aguirre, and the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned.
Fantastic start!