Chapter 144: Kill back to the top four
After a thrilling night in Villarreal, Spain, Villarreal finally defeated Manchester City 3-1 to make it 6-6 and squeeze Manchester City out of the quarter-finals by away goals.
No team had previously failed to advance after scoring as many as five goals in a single game, and now Pep Guardiola has broken that record, which is certainly not what he wanted.
Imagine scoring as many as six goals in two legs and going out with fewer away goals?
Unbelievable!
And Dai Zhiwei, who scored all the goals of Villarreal in the two legs and scored a hat trick in a row, became the biggest winner of the night!
After this knockout round, he topped the scorer list with 14 Champions League goals, leaving second place far behind.
What is the most immediate impact?
After Villarreal advanced to the quarterfinals of the Champions League, Pepsi approached Mendes to discuss the endorsement of Dai Zhiwei, with the initial intention of a three-year contract, with a total of at least $10 million for three years!
In addition, Dai Zhiwei, who has never appeared in the Ballon d'Or prediction before, suddenly entered the top ten on the prediction list of major football media, and is the youngest player on this list!
In the 24th round of La Liga between Villarreal and Real Madrid three days later, Ronaldo also congratulated Dai Zhiwei during the pre-match warm-up.
Although the two of them are both Mendes players and have greeted each other before, they are not familiar with each other and can only be regarded as nodding friends.
Obviously, Dai Zhiwei won the respect of Ronaldo with his performance.
However, respect is respect, and Ronaldo's Real Madrid did not save face for Villarreal at the Love Song Stadium in this game.
Less than a minute into the game, after Ronaldo got a pass from Marcelo on the left, he tried to cut inside and volleyed hard, but his long-range shot went wide of the near corner, but it also shocked Asenjo into a cold sweat.
Three minutes later, Dai Zhiwei also responded, breaking through the right side to return the pass, and Gaspar's powerful shot from the edge of the box was saved by Navas in the top left corner.
In the 16th minute, Real Madrid formed a series of attacks, Bale crossed from the left, and Benzema's header was blocked by Ruiz. Ronaldo's header from a corner scuffle was then blocked, and his follow-up shot from the left side of the box was blocked.
For the next 10 minutes, Villarreal took the lead.
First, Gaspar's cross from the right was nodded wide of the near corner by Dos Santos.
Immediately afterwards, Bakambu passed the ball and Castillejo volleyed high in front of the six-yard box.
Subsequently, Dai Zhiwei split the ball in the front of the penalty area, and Bakambu's shot from a small angle on the left side of the penalty area was also saved by Navas.
Real Madrid also missed the chance when Bale headed wide from close range after Marcelo's cross.
Bale's strike had a different effect, though, as Assenjo was replaced by Andres Fernandez injured after saving his shot.
In the first half, the two sides played a dull battle, and neither took their chances. After a second-half restart, Villarreal finally seized their chance.
In the 50th minute of the game, Villarreal launched an offensive on the right side, Dai Zhiwei pulled a wide range in the middle, and finally sent the ball to Dos Santos on the right side.
Dos Santos used his personal skills to sway left and right, and entered the penalty area, and saw Real Madrid central defender Pepe blocking it, and the box was crowded again, and there were messy feet everywhere.
Dos Santos had no room to kick out of the box, only quickly passed the ball outside the box and reorganized.
When Dos Santos sent the ball to the middle of the penalty area, he didn't expect Dai Zhiwei to suddenly run out of the penalty area and just run to the route of Dos Santos's pass.
He easily unloaded the ball, adjusted his body slightly, half turned, faced the ball, quickly threw his right foot, and pumped heavily in the middle and lower part, the ball roared out, unexpectedly drew a banana arc, and quickly fell to the left side of the goal.
The football drew a beautiful world wave, an unexpected shot, Navas couldn't save at all, had to watch the ball fall into the goal, and also broke the deadlock on the field for Villarreal!
1:0!
Dai Zhiwei excitedly rushed to the nearest stand in front of the nearest stand in the chase of his teammates, raised his arms, and set off a bigger cheer from the fans of the home team at the Love Song Stadium!
After the restart, Real Madrid were completely stunned by Villarreal's lightning goal, and at the same time, they heard from the bench that Barcelona had a 2-0 lead over Atletico Madrid in another highlight game of the round.
Before this round, the Real Madrid soldiers also expected that Barcelona would fall behind Atletico Madrid, but they didn't expect that it would become themselves as if they were going to fall behind.
After the restart, the Real Madrid players were eager to equalize, but unexpectedly lost the ball again in the attacking midfield, Roberto Soriano broke the ball on the left rib and quickly burst into the edge of the penalty area, Casemiro was panicking from the middle circle and chasing after Roberto Soriano.
At this time, Dai Zhiwei was like a sensitive beast, jumping out, throwing off Ramos, who had been entangled, and rushing to the restricted area, raising his arms high.
Roberto Soriano naturally received Dai Zhiwei's message, and as soon as he entered the penalty area, Dai Zhiwei immediately accelerated and threw off a vacancy.
Roberto Soriano saw the momentum and the ball passed through their encirclement and rolled to Dai Zhiwei's route.
Dai Zhiwei slapped his horse to catch up, stabbed directly, and the ball quickly scurried into the net in front of Navas's eyes, stirring up a white wave.
“goooooooooooooooooooooooooal! 2:0! The on-site commentator still clearly transmitted his voice in the boiling tide of the Love Song Stadium, "Our love song prince Dai Zhiwei scored his second goal of the game!" Our genius continues his great performance, and there is no line of defense that can stop our Dai Zhiwei! ”
After the goal, Dai Zhiwei still made his trademark blowgun celebration, but his "muzzle" was also hot - this is his 24th league goal this season, maintaining an average of at least one goal per game, and continuing to consolidate his glory as the top scorer in the league and the Champions League!
Unfortunately, he didn't have to wait a few minutes after scoring before Escriva replaced him with former Real Madrid winger Cheryshev.
Although Escriva was helpless after Dai Zhiwei ran out of fitness after consecutive battles, it was considered by the Real Madrid soldiers to be a humiliation after the opponent thought that the victory was decided.
Replacing the team's number one player with more than 30 minutes left at the end of the game is not humiliating the opponent, what can it be?
Zidane immediately replaced Casemiro with Isco to strengthen the attack.
Real Madrid pulled one back in the 64th minute, Carvajal crossed from the right edge of the penalty area, and Bale headed into the net from close range, 2-1.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Dai Zhiwei couldn't sit still, but what could he do when he had been replaced? I can only sit on the sidelines and cheer.
Real Madrid equalized in the 74th minute, Kroos's unthreatening long-range shot was blocked by Ruiz, the ball deflected and hit Bruno, and the referee sentenced him to death!
"This is a passive thug, are you blind? Do you know where this is? "Escriva had obviously predicted that the media would seize the scene after the game and besiege him by replacing Dai Zhiwei in advance, so this time he was surprisingly angry, and grabbing the fourth referee was a wild spray!
"Dididi!" Before Escriva could play, the referee had already run over and showed him a red card, and he was sent off the field!
"I'll go! Is this excessive? Just because they're Real Madrid, can they be taken care of? Dai Zhiwei could have remained calm, but this penalty really struck him angry, which club in La Liga has not sprayed the referee?
Moreover, Escriva didn't say anything drastic.
The referee who had just sent Escriva off heard Dai Zhiwei roaring on the other side, and immediately turned around, and another yellow card was revealed!
"I ......" Dai Zhiwei was stunned for a moment, and was about to break out, but he was directly pulled back to the bench by the assistant coach behind him and Big Brother Bonella.
"Eliminate gas, eliminate gas!"
Dai Zhiwei also knew that it was useless to scare the referee, so he could only barely suppress his anger, watching Ronaldo hit the penalty kick, 2:2.
Zidane was also happy to see Eskriva sent off, and hurriedly replaced Benzema with Morata, ready to overtake the score.
Real Madrid reversed in the 83rd minute, Ronaldo counterattacked with a diagonal pass, Marcelo crossed from the left, and Morata, who had just come on as a substitute, scored with a header from the edge of the small penalty area, 3:2.
Villarreal are beaten at home!
After the game, Ronaldo, who won + scored, was in a good mood, and deliberately found Dai Zhiwei and said: "Although it is not polite to say this, Villarreal does not deserve you!" Looking forward to the next time you lead a strong enough team, let's compete again! ”
Dai Zhiwei and Ronaldo slapped their hands and laughed, "Don't be too happy, although we won't meet in the league this season, maybe in the Champions League!" ”
"Hehe, that's going to be until you break into Dortmund." Ronaldo also looks like a domineering president in private.
"We'll see!" Dai Zhiwei pretended to be more arrogant - although he seemed to be a secondary two.
Although Villarreal lost to Real Madrid in this round, but fortunately, Atletico Madrid also lost to Barcelona, so the point gap between the two sides is still only 1 point, and they soon ushered in a chance to overtake.
On March 2, the 25th round of La Liga began, and Atletico Madrid, which was the first to play, challenged Deportivo La Coruna away.
In the 13th minute, Oblak made a mistake on the start and Deportivo Andona's Andone burst onto the edge of the box and fired a low shot.
Atletico equalised in the 68th minute when Antoine Griezmann combined with Carrasco to kick the wall and fired a left-footed volley into the net from 25 yards.
Fernando Torres came off the bench in the 65th minute, but he was rushed to hospital with a head injury in the 89th minute, by which point Atletico had run out of substitutions and had to accept one man less.
In the end, the two teams shook hands, and Atletico Madrid was 2 points ahead of Villarreal, who had one round less!
After learning of the outcome of Atletico Madrid's away draw, the morale of the Yellow Submarine players who went to the Sadar Stadium in Pamplo was even more high.
In the face of Osasuna's "dessert", Dai Zhiwei completed the goal in the opening 2 minutes - Rukavina broke through the side and passed back in the triangle, Dai Zhiwei shot with his left foot on the left side of the small penalty area, and the ball flew into the goal from the middle side, 1:0!
The Osasuna defenders made a big mistake in the defense of this goal, and they also defended Dai Zhiwei's right foot according to the strategy of the previous game, but they didn't expect that Dai Zhiwei was no longer Wuxia Amon, and now his left foot is not inferior to his right foot at all!
In the 25th minute, Dai Zhiwei burst into the penalty area at a right angle and was tripped by Osasuna's Berenguer with a behind-the-back tackle, and the referee did not hesitate to award a penalty.
Naturally, he would not waste such a God-given opportunity, and the penalty was awarded in one fell swoop, 2:0!
However, Osasuna also won a penalty in the 64th minute, when Musacchio was fouled in the box and the opponent was awarded a penalty, and then Torres scored a penalty to make it 1:2.
Fortunately, this time Escriva did not make the mistake of the previous game, and replaced Dai Zhiwei after seeing a two-goal lead - in fact, Escriva who could only watch the game from the stands had no way to replace Dai Zhiwei even if he wanted to.
In the 74th minute, Dai Zhiwei drove straight in, suddenly cut inside after breaking through the side, and sent a diagonal pass after disrupting the Osasuna defense, and after Bakambu got the ball, he shot with his right foot on the right side of the big penalty area and burst into the net, 3:1!
After locking up the win, Dai Zhiwei was replaced by the teenager Rafael - in fact, compared to Dai Zhiwei, Rafael Santos Borre, who was born in 1995, is not a young player, only one year younger than Dai Zhiwei, who is not yet 23 years old.
can only say that Dai Zhiwei is too demonic!
As soon as he was substituted, Rafael extended the score advantage for Villarreal, receiving a long pass from Musacchio and shooting with his right foot at a small angle on the right side of the goal, and the ball flew into the goal from the bottom right corner, 4:1!
After beating Osasuna, Villarreal finally finished one point ahead of Atletico Madrid again and regained fourth place in the standings.
No one could have imagined that Atletico Madrid would not be able to qualify for the Champions League after the 25th round of the league, but it is the case.
In the 26th round, the shameful and courageous Atletico Madrid defeated Valencia 3:0 at home with Griezmann's brace and Gameiro's goal.
However, Villarreal were no less successful in this round, winning 2-0 at home to Espanyol, with Dai Zhiwei and Bakambu scoring in the 45th and 80th minutes respectively.
The two teams chased after each other, evenly matched, and no one dared to let go.
In the 27th round, this time the first player was replaced by Villarreal, and in the 45th minute, a free kick from Dos Santos was passed into the penalty area, and Musacchio's header hit Dai Zhiwei's head and deflected into the net, 1:0.
It was also the only goal of the game, and with this lucky goal, Dai Zhiwei increased his league goal tally this season to 28 goals and also scored all three points for the team.
Atletico Madrid, who came in after Villarreal, also beat Granada 1-0 to keep the yellow submarine in the hot spot.
However, Sevilla, who are third in the standings in this round, drew with Leganés in this round after being forced to draw 1:1 by Alaves in the previous round, leaving only 2 points ahead of Villarreal.
The next league game will be a direct meeting between Sevilla and Atletico Madrid, and Villarreal will benefit from the outcome of the two teams.
As the saying goes: the snipe and the clam compete, and the fisherman profits.
(End of chapter)