Chapter 472: The First Goal
Valencia's six midfielders are all very good at basic skills, even if the two midfielders who are given more defensive tasks by Vincent, are also Spanish players, and possession and passing are innate.
In the 3rd minute, Mendieta and Belleron, two teammates who have worked together in Bordeaux for many years, came to a tacit cooperation this time, passing the ball through three defenders with two feet, and directly allowing Mendieta to send a cross to Toni very comfortably on the bottom line. Tony's pinching of Hierro and Elguera directly relied on his height and early positioning to push the ball down, and then followed Aimar to make a kick, but unfortunately the ball did not press and flew out of the bottom line.
Fan Shang's cooperation this time is very good, especially Mendieta and Belleron, the tacit understanding that they have practiced all year round allows them to tear apart Real Madrid's defense with two feet.
Real Madrid didn't care much about this failed defense, only Makelle knew that there was such a time to cooperate with Fan Shang would definitely continue to attack this weakness of the team, until Real Madrid changed, Makelele was also weak, he had just stepped forward to force Belleron, but he was afraid that there would be something on Aimar's side to defend Aimar again, and the other teammates did not mean to help.
Several of Real Madrid's masters were still walking near the midfield when Valencia attacked just now. However, they are quite serious when attacking, but they are not cooperating, but fighting separately.
In the same situation as Valencia's attack just now, Figo was a beat slower when he passed the ball to Zidane in the middle, and then Zidane also tried to pass Baraja, who was guarding him, and felt that it was not good and distributed it to Figo on the side, Figo did not get rid of Albelda's follow-up until the ball went out of the bottom line.
Valencia's defence was largely tested in this attack today, with two of the three centre-backs to keep two in front of goal, while the wide side of the pitch was handed over to the midfielders, and if there was a wide shift, another centre-back would pull in to fill in the gap.
This kind of defense must be based on the abundant physical fitness of the players, which is why Fan Shang frantically let the players practice physical fitness in the first half of the month, but fortunately, Valencia's overall age is relatively young now, and this style of play can still resist.
In the 7th minute, Valencia made a comeback, this time on the other side, Aimar and Angulo obviously did not have the tacit understanding between Bellerón and Mendieta just now, but Aimar still sent Angulo a kick behind him in the stumble, allowing him to take a step forward Salgado to send the ball into the penalty area.
This time, Tony still regarded himself as a bridgehead, jumping high to make the ball for his teammates, but this time it was unfortunately destroyed by Makelele in the penalty area before the ball could reach the feet of his teammates.
Hierro, the captain, is now very unhappy, he and Elgra did not fight Tony alone, let the family grab the header in the box twice. So the captain had a few words with Elgra.
In the 9th minute, Mendieta directly dropped the ball to the penalty area at 45 degrees, this time Hierro and Elgra sandwiched Tony in the middle like a hamburger, and Elgra behind was very covertly pulling Tony's jersey, so Tony didn't even have a chance to jump at all, and Hierro easily pushed the ball out of the penalty area.
This situation was actually expected by Vincent, seeing that the two central defenders had joined forces to limit Toney, Vincent planted two fingers on the field to make the players pay attention to the second point of scramble.
In the 13th minute, Zidane's shot outside the penalty area grazed the post and flew out of the bottom line, which was the most threatening shot from the beginning to now, but it also showed that Real Madrid's offensive organization was unfavorable, the side cross could not grab the point, and the number of attackers in the middle was not enough to threaten Valencia's door.
Fan Shang felt lucky today, he had been worried about Valencia's defense before, but today's sluggish attack of Real Madrid made him breathe a sigh of relief. "Fortunately, the Galaxy Battleship is still running-in," Fan Shang thought to himself.
In the 19th minute, Mendieta no longer went down, but quickly pulled the ball back after receiving the ball after making a downward movement, and then cut inside the box, Carlos could only follow behind Mendieta. Mendieta immediately observes Tony's position as soon as he enters the box, but when he looks inside, Hierro and Elgra are immediately alert to Tony's sides.
The corners of Mendieta's mouth lined up, and he directly made a shot action, Carlos didn't have time to think about this action, and jumped in front of Mendieta to block it in one step.
But Carlos didn't expect this time to be empty, this kind of shot less than 30 degrees is really too difficult, Mendieta passed Carlos again, but the person is closer to the bottom line.
At this time, Mendieta had to pass the ball, looking at Toney, before his foot touched the ball, all the defenders thought that Mendieta would sweep the ball to the middle, only Makelle saw some clues, he knew that Vincent liked the inverted triangle tactic, which Bordeaux had often used before.
As Makelele expected, Mendieta did send the ball back to the penalty spot. And Makelle just pasted Aimar one step in advance, not allowing him to shoot and catch the ball easily, Aimar did not fight hard with Makelele this ball, did not pick up the ball after seeing it, did not shoot, jumped lightly and tried not to touch the ball, and the ball slid past the two of them like this.
There are really no defenders of Real Madrid in the back, Belleron got the ball at the top of the arc of the penalty area, and after a little adjustment, he hit a high-quality shot that hung in the upper right corner of the door of Real Madrid, and everyone's attention was on the left side of Real Madrid, including goalkeeper Casillas, at this time Belleron suddenly came in the opposite direction, and all the people could only see, and they couldn't do any action, of course, it still included Casillas.
“goooooooooooooooooooooooooooool!” Although Valencia's local commentary does not have the miracle of a long note that drags on for more than 20 seconds, ten seconds can also highlight the passion of Spanish football commentary.
After listening to this, Fan Shang realized that the young student at the scene of Bordeaux explained that he was learning the Spanish style.
The celebration after Belleron's goal was very simple, running two steps and clenching a punch, but the other teammates stopped doing it, because there were many old Fan Shangs, several people pulled Belleron to Fan Shang's side, and without saying a word, it was a mess and pressed Fan Shang to the ground.