Chapter 13: Confronting A Coruña

In the 2018/2019 Spanish second division season, the 24th round has been played, and Granada's record is 13 wins, 7 draws and 4 losses, with 46 points, 2 points behind Osasuna, who is at the top of the table, and is in second place! This team, which was not a big favorite for promotion before the season, now seems to be closer to the Spanish first division than teams such as Sporting Gijón, a traditional powerhouse in La Liga!

The 25th round of matches is played first by Osasuna, who drew away from club Numancia and took only one point away from home, which means that if Granada wins this game against Deportivo La Coruna, they will have three points equal with Osasuna on 49 points, and will lead the La Liga standings with a goal difference!

This will be a key match for Granada's title race!

The attendance rate of the Menes Stadium, which can accommodate 16,212 people, has reached more than 50%, which is already a very good figure in the La Liga League, and in the home team's audience, there is a bright red, which is that the Chinese in Granada or nearby cities specially came to cheer for Wu Lei!

"Wu Lei, come on!"

Huge banners were held high, and the bright five-star red flag was waved by Chinese fans, which not only attracted the attention of the players and fans of both sides, but even the director of the live broadcast of the game frequently turned the camera to the audience.

When Wu Lei warmed up before the game, he also went to the audience to thank these lovely fans.

In February this year, Deportivo coach Gonzalez left the team, and the club did not find a suitable head coach for the time being, so it promoted U19 coach Comundez to the position, which was also the first game that Comondez led the first team.

Granada's 4231 lineup, Adrian, who has played for Dortmund and Chongqing Sway, is at the front, behind him is the midfielder composed of captain Raul, Nicolas Aguirre, and veteran Forlan, the left winger is the new signing Vico this season, and the right winger is the young player Pozzo who is on loan from Sevilla in La Liga.

It is worth mentioning that Pozzo was nominated for the 2017 European Golden Boy Award, and he is just 20 years old this year, a proper future star!

The backline is composed of Alex, Albert, Michelle, and Victor, and the goalkeeper stands Portugal goalkeeper Silva, who is the star excavated by Jiang Lizhang's HOPE system, and only conceded 26 goals in the league in reality, and was rated as the best goalkeeper in the Spanish Second Division by the Spanish Football Federation!

As soon as the game began, Wu Lei sat on the bench with the other substitutes. There is no opinion on the substitute Wu Lei, although Jiang Lizhang promised Wu Lei the opportunity to play and the game time before the transfer, but it was the head coach Martinez who finally decided who would play, and Wu Lei did not intend to use Jiang Lizhang's words to pressure Martinez and force him to arrange his own start. Wu Lei hopes to impress Martinez with his performance and get a starting position in a dignified manner!

If you can't start in the second division team, then why do you come out to stay abroad? My goal is to be based on the five major leagues!

Granada, who was sitting at home, took the lead, Adrian just passed the ball back to captain Raul, and the Deportivo players rushed up like leopards out of the cage to press, and the style of play was extremely aggressive!

Granada's players had just kicked off before they could get into the groove when they were caught off guard by Deportivo LaCoruna's wolf-like attack. Aguirre kicked the ball forward in a panic, but the opposition midfielder got the second point, and the header was fed to the inserted full-back Catavia.

Catavia received the ball and ran to the Granada backfield, facing the defense of the Granada players, a long pass unhurriedly found striker Fernandez, Fernandez shot directly with his left foot without stopping, Silva jumped high and saved the ball!

"Huh~" Martinez on the side of the pitch was frightened by Deportivo La Coruna's attack, and saw Silva play steadily to save the ball, so he breathed a sigh of relief, and then stood on the sidelines to signal the players to concentrate and pay attention to defense.

The game had just begun, and the commentators were still introducing the line-ups of both sides, and Deportivo La Coruna fired a very dangerous shot on goal.

"Yikes! It's a pity for Fernandez! Silva is still very steady! ”

"But Deportivo La Coruna started the game, and it seems that Granada has to be careful!"

On the field, Deportivo played an absolute advantage at the beginning and immediately took the initiative, while Granada's players could only defend passively.

In the 11th minute of the game, Deportivo striker Cole Deli had a cold shot from the edge of the perimeter that hit defender Michel and flew off the line.

A corner for Deportivo La Coruna!

Left midfielder Santos kicked the ball out, Silva predicted the landing point, lifted the ball out of the penalty area with one palm, and the second point was ferried to the penalty area by Fernandez's header, defender Pablo followed up and kicked the ball into the goal!

“Goooooooooal! The ball is in! ”

The away fans, who seemed to be less than 100 people around, suddenly let out cheers, and the sound was so loud that it gave people the feeling that thousands of away fans were there to cheer!

Deportivo La Coruna leads Granada 1-0 away!

In the 25th minute, Deportivo midfielder Moreno set up a side, galloped all the way to the corner kick spot, and passed the ball to the penalty area before the defenders pressed.

Fernandez had his back to the vice-captain of Granada and defender Albert took the ball.

He was more than ten metres from the penalty area, and it was impossible to pose a threat, and Albert pressed his body against him. Just when everyone thought that Fernandez would pass the ball to his teammates who came to pick it up, he forced himself to turn around, kicked the ball to the left, and then quickly chased after it.

Fernandez forced a turn, and although Albert was a little too late to react to him, he still followed him closely behind him and interfered with him, intending to snatch the ball down. Fernandez took two steps forward after receiving the ball and suddenly made a sharp stop, knocked the ball to the right, Albert stretched out his long legs and did not block the ball, and Cordelli, who was inserted in the back, received the ball and shot angrily, before the other Granada players rushed over, the football and the grass rushed into the sky, like a cannonball, towards the Granada goal.

Silva stood in front of goal, he was on the right track, but to no avail, his fingers touching the ball but unable to save it.

“Goooooooooal!!!!”

"The ball is in! The goal was scored by the 35-year-old veteran Cordeley!! ”

"Although Cordelli is 35 years old, he is still young, and the goalkeeper of Granada has no way to do this shooting power!"

"Deportivo La Coruna is 2-0 ahead of Granada, who are second in the standings, at the Stadio de Carmenez!"