1.060 Europa League final
There was not much disappointment on the faces of the players of the backward Aston Villa, they already knew that Liverpool had a two-goal lead over Portsmouth in the other game, even if Aston Villa lost to Sheffield Wednesday in this game, they have already been relegated, so why bother to offend people.
In the 77th minute, Sheffield Wednesday scored another goal to seal the win, when Luka Modric distributed the ball down the left and Ribery fired a long-range shot into the net from the corner of the box.
The rest of the game was uneventful, with Sheffield Wednesday's players basking in the joy of a successful season and not being focused enough, while Aston Villa had nothing to pursue, and the two sides began to drag out their time. The fans on the sidelines were not disappointed either, singing loudly from the stands to celebrate their home side's relegation success this season.
However, the final moments of the game were a little disappointing for Li Chengfeng, and in the 88th minute, a long-range shot from 40 meters away actually scored the goal of Sheffield Wednesday. It was a complete team-wide mistake, Bam Adebayo snatched the header, but the second drop was won by the opponent, and the slow defense of the midfield allowed the opponent's midfielder to calmly dribble forward, calmly start to shoot from a distance, and finally the goalkeeper's spirit was not focused enough, so that this small threatening long-range shot broke the Sheffield Wednesday goal.
Lee Seung-fong's angry roar at the pitch brought some composure to the youngsters, who had been carried away by the excitement, and they worked diligently to keep the score until the end, and Sheffield Wednesday finally held on to the top four of the league by two points and qualified for next season's Champions League, if there were no surprises.
Poor Arsenal, if they had been a little more consistent in the league, Sheffield Wednesday wouldn't have had a chance. There is also Tottenham, after the game, Lee Seung-peak heard that their players had a collective food poisoning before the start of the game, affecting at least 10 players, including a few main players, so they lost to West Ham United in the last round of the league and could only finish sixth. But what does it make if it's fifth or sixth, they can only play in next season's Europa League, and only the top four are valuable.
However, Arsenal still have a chance, as they reached the final of the Champions League this season and will face La Liga side Barcelona for the title on 18 May. If they can win the Champions Cup, then they will squeeze Sheffield Wednesday out of the Champions League for next season, which is also because UEFA changed the standards after Liverpool's Champions Cup triumph last season, otherwise Lee Seungfeng would not have to worry about the Champions League result in 10 days, he would have just had to watch the excitement.
But now Li Chengfeng can't take care of the Champions Cup, and the final of the Europa League will be in 4 days, and Li Chengfeng is busy.
CM World on May 11, 2006 at the Philips Stadium in Einhorn, the Netherlands, Lee Seung-peak will lead Sheffield Wednesday to face Sevilla FC from Spain in the 2006 Europa League title. In the real world, this final was played between Middlesbrough and Sevilla in the Premier League, and Serbia had the last laugh. But Lee Seungfeng is not afraid, Sheffield Wednesday is not Middlesbrough, he is much stronger than Middlesbrough, the Premier League ranking can prove that Sheffield Wednesday is in the top four and will be able to play in next season's European Champions Cup, while Middlesbrough is only 15th this season.
For this game, Li Chengfeng made careful preparations. Sevilla FC are a strong team, winning the Europa League in the real world for two consecutive years. They have a strong attack on the right, and winger Keylor Navas is extremely fast, good at breaking down the flanks and crossings, but his function is relatively simple. The right-back was later Barcelona's main right-back Alves, who had a strong desire to attack, but the current defense is very average. The forward line is the former golden boy Argentine Saviola and Brazilian Fabiano, although the two have not performed well since arriving in Spain, but they still have some strength.
The rest of Seville are more ordinary, and Li Chengfeng has not even heard of their names. As long as he can contain the right side of the Sevillans, Lee Seungfeng is confident of winning the championship.
Lee Seung-bong is determined to press down Sevilla's right side with an attack, and what is Navas, Ribery will only be stronger. Keylor Navas is nothing more than a cross from the wing, nothing from the wing, and Franck Ribery breaks through the cross and cuts inside to shoot the ball just fine. However, the two defenders are scum, so it's just a mutual explosion, Li Chengfeng wants this is not the case, he wants to completely blow up Sevilla's right side.
He arranged for Modric to retreat to the left to help defend when defending, and the undead Modric was much better than Ribery in this regard. Ribery is also more flexible in his position, with more areas of activity in the flanks, using his attacks to contain both Navas and Alves. Lescott is more defence-oriented, he is a full-back who was originally a central defender, and there is no problem playing back to central defender. Lee believes that with such an arrangement, Sevilla's right side will not have many chances.
In the midfield position, Lee Seung-bong arranged to partner Las Diarra, who has more defensive ability, and Yaya Toure, who has a stronger defensive coverage.
The passive situation of the knockout rounds of the previous two rounds of the Europa League, Li Chengfeng has also reflected. In the four games of these two rounds, in addition to the first one because Antonini's sudden injury was an accident factor, there was also a very important reason for his own line-up. In order to be able to equalize the situation as soon as possible in the case of falling behind, Li Chengfeng arranged Juan with stronger attacking power in the position of defender last time, instead of the more balanced Francis, and the difference in strength between Onuoha and Antonini weakened Sheffield Wednesday's defensive ability. The mentality of rushing to attack also affects the team's defense, which can lead to the team falling into a desperate situation. Although it was still pulled back in the end, it was more of a factor of luck, and the opponent's mentality was also wrong, and Sheffield Wednesday was able to make two big comebacks in a row to enter the final.
But Lee really didn't want to dance on the edge of a cliff, and in a final at this level, there were fewer mistakes, so Lee chose the more defensively capable Las Diarra to partner Toure, and he believes it was the better option.
With Diarra's appearance, Lee Seung-peak dared to send the Spaniard Juanfran with more assist ability in the right-back position. Out of the front guard, he should play right back under the tutelage of Li Chengfeng, and the defense has improved a lot, but his offensive desire has not converged, and he is not inferior to Alves.
Juan Franga's Aaron Lennon's wing combination is very similar to Sevilla's right Alves Gannavas combination, Li Chengfeng used them to simulate the right side of the Sevilla team and the left side of Ribery and others during training to conduct many exercises, for how to deal with this set of preparations, now let Sevilla taste the power of their own tactics.
After the opening kick-off, Sevilla took the initiative to press, but Sheffield Wednesday's defensive formation was well maintained, and Serbia were not a team that was good at attacking from position, and their specialty was the quick counter-attack between attack and defence. The attack ended with Alves' long-range shot that went wide and Sheffield Wednesday's goalkeeper Abondan Cherry didn't move.
Sheffield Wednesday kicked the ball in the open and the ball was passed to Ribery on the left, which was also the request of Lee Chengfeng, who first attacked from the left, completely suppressed Sevilla's right flank, and cut off their most advantageous weapon.
Ribery's breakthrough was terminated by a foul, he easily broke through Navas, Sevilla's defender Navarro hurriedly made up for it, but he couldn't prevent Ribery's change of direction at all, and he had no choice but to reach out and pull Ribery.
Sheffield Wednesday won a well-placed free-kick from just over 20 yards on the left, when Toure's powerful right-footed volley grazed the wall and headed straight into the far corner, where the Sevilla goalkeeper flew to bounce the ball back on. Seeing Sheffield Wednesday striker Bam Adebayo preparing to shoot, the Sevilla defender hurriedly kicked the ball to the touchline.
It's a pity, Li Chengfeng is a little sorry, Adebayo's speed is still a little slower, if Bent is on the field, he will be able to grab the opportunity to shoot. From a tactical point of view, Adebayo, who is strong and good at heading, is obviously more suitable for such a game, and there will be a lot of crosses for him to exert his power, and Bent has less room to play in such a positional battle.
Yaya Toure dropped the touchline ball to Ribery, and Ribery wiped the ball with his left foot and turned to break through the Navas defender, and it has to be said that this Navas's defense is really the same as paper. However, Alves, who made up for the defense, was not much better, Ribery dodged a space after stopping the ball, knocked the ball horizontally, and wanted to hand it to Modric who was inserted in the middle, and the opposing defender Navarro saw that the situation was critical, and hurriedly put the tackle and destroyed the ball before Modric. The ball went wide of the post and almost resulted in an own goal. The captain of Sevilla, who stood up, breathed heavily, still palpitating.
The Sevillens were not willing to give up, and they organized a counterattack. Adebayor's header was snatched into second place by Sevilla, who played the ball down the right and Keylor Navas took the ball and made a feint past Franck Franck Ribery, who was defending him. The defensive ability of these two people is about the same, and they are better than nothing.
Keylor Navas ran wildly along the flank, but was soon stopped by Diarra and Lescott combined. In this game, Lee Seung-bong's main task for Lescott was to defend, and the attack on the left side was handed over to Ribery and Modric.