Chapter Seventy-One: Coming off the bench to fight the hurricane

Founded in 1908 and also located in Buenos Aires, the Argentine Hurricanes won four championships in the early days of the Argentine league and had a large number of fans, but after the league became professional, the Hurricanes could not return to their former glory and only won one league championship in 1973.

After being relegated in 2004, they were unable to make their debut in the first division for several years, and although the Hurricanes finished seventh in the 2007-08 spring league as promoted horses, they were on a rollercoaster ride and fell down the league rankings after a inconsistent performance.

After three rounds this season, the Hurricanes have one win and two losses, and the situation is very bad, and this time against Boca Juniors, one of the hegemons of the A-League, it is conceivable that neither public opinion nor industry insiders are optimistic about the Hurricanes.

And that's exactly how things went, with Boca Juniors opening the scoring just 18 minutes through striker Palamo, who excitedly defended his wrist after the goal, tattooing the name of his newborn son.

Despite his lack of fame in Europe, Palamo is a goal-scoring man in South America, scoring an average of 18 goals per season after returning to Boca Juniors from Estudiantes de La Plata, and even 32 goals in the 98-99 season, during which time he was named the top scorer in the La Liga, helping Boca Juniors to many honors.

Palamo, who made a name for himself in Boca, was of course a natural landing in Europe, but after moving to La Liga Villarreal, he lost his once omnipotent brilliance, and gradually disappeared into the public, and his goal tally for the season stabilized in single digits. After going to several clubs without improvement, Palamo could only return to Boca Juniors gloomily, but what he didn't expect was that in a familiar place, he regained the feeling of the year and became a cold-blooded shooter who blocked and killed, and Buddha blocked and killed Buddha.

The geniuses who came out of Boca Juniors have almost all weakened to varying degrees in Europe, and when they return to Boca, they will show their talent again, which makes people wonder if Boca Juniors is the only one who has the instructions for this group of stars. Riquelme is like this, Palamo is like this, Patagoria is like this, and now San Tiago, who has just terminated his contract with Milan and joined Boca Juniors as a free agent!

It's amazing that this guy has a new look before it has even been officially reported.

Boca Juniors completely dominated the situation after a goal, and then it was Palamo who scored again fifteen minutes later to give Boca Juniors a two-goal lead just after the end of the first half.

The huge disadvantage caused the already disgruntled Hurricanes fans to turn against each other before the game was over, sending waves of boos to the coach on the sidelines.

Seeing such a situation with great advantages, Boca coach Ischea waved his hand with relief, allowing Santiago, who had been sitting for 45 minutes in the first half, to get up and go to the sidelines to start warming up and preparing to play.

Santo Thiago looked very calm under the coach's orders, and he immediately started to warm up on the sidelines, but when he saw this scene, the Hurricanes fans who had just been scolding their coach with pleasure and abuse were the wind turned in a different direction, and many people began to applaud Santiago who was warming up on the sidelines.

"Huh?"

Santiago was stunned and stunned by the fact that he had no idea that he would receive such special treatment, but after hearing the encouragement from the Hurricanes fans, he realized that it was the Argentine's success in winning gold at the Olympics that had rekindled his affection for him. Hurricane fans, who are now vigorously launching the "downfall" campaign, are no longer bothering to care about winning or losing the game, and begin to cheer for themselves, the supernova who has been selected for the national team.

Santiago, who was difficult to adapt to for a while, was obviously a little embarrassed by such strange cheers, and even began to run with his hands and feet, which was hilarious.

No way, in the European League, even if the home team fans hate the coach, they will not give such applause to the enemy players, after all, San Tiago has not played yet! But then again, it's South America, it's Argentina, and the fans here are whatever they want! As long as you're happy!

It is said that not only Santiago, but also players who played in their own league and participated in the Olympics received such a special award, despite the fact that there were only a handful of them.

With that in mind, Santhiago's pace returned to normal, and a few minutes later when the Hurricanes countered and fired over the crossbar, they had the opportunity to play.

Both the Argentine Liga and the Brazilian league are primitive South American football, but compared to Brazilian samba football, Argentine tango football is less fancy, more tough and sharp. The Argentine football style is wild and bold, does not pay attention to tactics, and pursues Argentine-style individualism, while the teams in the Argentine Liga attach great importance to attack, and the technical level of the players is at the top level in world football, but this does not mean that the Argentine Liga has scored a lot of goals.

The total number of goals scored in the A-League in most seasons is less than 400, which also means that the average number of goals per game is less than two, which is very low even compared to the Serie A in Europe, not to mention the European Eredivisie, the Portuguese Super League and other leagues that advocate attack. Therefore, the strength of the clubs is extremely close, so that although there are not many goals scored in each game, the rhythm is tense and intense.

You must know that the overall style of the A-League is open, and the style of play is mainly attack-oriented, so there is no particularly obvious difference between strength and weakness in the A-League teams, and even Boca Juniors themselves have experienced the dilemma of being on the verge of relegation in previous years. It's just that now, under the creation of two consecutive coaches, Boca has become the club with the strongest defense in the A-League, conceding only 6 goals last season, with an average of less than 0.3 goals per game! Coupled with a group of high-level returnees such as Riquelme, Boca Juniors can dominate to a certain extent.

In addition, due to the overall number of goals scored in the league, the probability of a draw is also very high, with a total of 190 matches played in the spring league last season, with 67 draws, and the chance of a draw reaching 35%, which is almost the highest chance of a draw among any major league in the world.

Saint-Tiago, who has worked hard here, naturally knows it, and after coming on the field, he is not in a hurry to ask for the ball, but tries to run without the ball, and at the same time devotes himself to defense, trying to adapt to the rhythm of the game as soon as possible, anyway, only half time, his physical strength is absolutely enough.

Serie A and La Liga are quite different in all aspects, and it is undeniable that it is difficult to re-adapt to La Liga right away, but fortunately, Santhiago is not stupid, he knows one thing, that is, the show is over.

After getting the ball, show your skills first, use your performance to convince those young talents in the team, and then give the right assist, otherwise those self-righteous geniuses will not take credit for their own merits even if they eat cakes, and Saint-Tiago is not a kind person. And Riquelme also hinted at Stanti in private, intentionally or unintentionally, to which Stanti of course nodded happily and accepted the opinion.

The game quickly entered the 70th minute, when the Hurricanes' half-time adjusted defense was already crumbling again under the onslaught of Boca Juniors, but perhaps it was the boos of the home fans in the stands that made the Hurricanes players humiliated, or maybe the Hurricanes coach Rivoya, who is known as a professional in the first game, was stabbed by the boos and hurt his self-esteem, and under the command of Rivoya, the Hurricanes suddenly burst out with great strength and launched several powerful counterattacks in a row.

On the other hand, Boca Juniors, when midfielder Riquelme, who was still on vacation, was on vacation, the young geniuses were difficult to organize an effective response to being beaten for a while, so that several counterattacks by the Hurricanes directly penetrated the first line of defense in the midfield, smashed into the backfield, and forced the pillars of the rear, and the team's vice-captain Ibarra received a yellow card to alleviate the situation.

Seeing this, Saint-Tiago knew that it was time for him to stand up, otherwise he would likely be taken advantage of by the Hurricanes to pull a goal back, and it would be dangerous to boost morale at that time!