The day before Christmas Eve, December 23, quickly shifted. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

On this day, almost all eyes on the Iberian Peninsula are focused on Catalonia, and at the Camp Nou, Barcelona will face the visiting Real Madrid at their home stadium.

In the small city of eastern Spain on the edge of the Mediterranean, Villarreal's home game against Huelva did not attract much attention from the outside world.

However, on this day, the Love Song Stadium was still full, with nearly 30,000 seats full, and despite the team's poor results in recent cycles, the enthusiasm of the small town fans has not diminished much, and they are still looking forward to the team's resurgence, hoping that the team can give them a perfect Christmas gift when Christmas Eve is approaching.

In this game, Fan Bizhuang entered the team's eighteen-man squad for two consecutive games, but his name was still not in the starting lineup, and the home commentator Alces sighed with a slightly disappointed tone after getting the starting list: "A week ago, Fan has returned from injury, Mr. Manuel may have sent Fan out of action for protection reasons, and it seems that this game is the same, Fan will not start, just hope, as the game progresses, Fan can have a chance to play." Of course, what we are looking forward to is that the team can perform well even when there is no fan, and Christmas is coming, this is the last game before Christmas, good luck to the team. Good luck to us too! ”

In recent times, Villarreal's luck has been terrible, either losing or losing in a row, and the team seems to be unable to play in an instant after Fan Bizhuang's injury, and the standings have dropped again and again, as if there is no end in sight. Many media and fans attribute the reason why the team can't win to Fan Bizhuang, but no matter how big the impact of a player on the team, it is difficult to cause such catastrophic serious consequences, in other words, Fan Bizhuang is really important to today's Villarreal, but the core of the team is not him, Riquelme is still on the field, and most of the main players are not absent, so it is a bit far-fetched to blame all the "guilt" on Fan Bizhuang.

So in Arces's view, the reason for the team's poor results is "bad luck". Every team has its highs and lows, but Villarreal are a bit more unlucky, their lows are too long and a little bit helpless.

All he hopes is for the team to have a good performance just around the corner of Christmas, to get a little luckier and to bounce back at the holiday season.

"Victory! We need to win! ”

"Long live Villarreal! Long live the Love Song Stadium! ”

"Fan-Fan-Fan!"

The cheers in the stands rose one after another, and the fans either held up slogans and shouted, or waved their arms and jumped, and the game began with this cheering and shouting.

For this game, Villarreal is extremely serious, not only because of the team's recent poor results and the urgent need for a win to alleviate the decline, but also because the New Year needs a good omen, football, in some ways is still very superstitious, a good start and a good "end", the meaning contained in it, is completely different. Christmas is the equivalent of the Chinese New Year, and on this day, the team naturally wants a perfect "ending", and at the same time, it is also a good consolation to the fans who have been supporting the team.

In this week, the team naturally prepared well, and in this game, Pellegrini even discharged the attacking formation of three forwards. Fran, Giuseppe. Rossi, as well as Turkish striker Nihart, who returned from injury, and behind the three, Cazorla and Riquelme are in the back, and in the midfield position, Senna, who has also returned from injury, is lined up with four defenders at the back, and the starting goalkeeper is Barbosa.

The division of labor is clear, the attack group of five people in the front court is aimed at attacking, while the back court is dedicated to defense. This is somewhat different from Villarreal's line-up in the past, and it can also be seen from this that Pellegrini was also forced to be ruthless, vowing to win this game with an extremely aggressive 4-3-3 attacking formation.

From the beginning of the game, Villarreal launched a tidal wave of offensive towards the opponent's half without any temptation, Huelva is not a strong team, the strength is very average, although the submarine has not been in good shape recently, but the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, the foundation of the strong team is still there, they quickly occupied the initiative on the field, and firmly controlled the rhythm of the game in their own hands.

Huelva is also a bit of a cup, and Villarreal's recent poor form is all too clear, and it seems that anyone can get up and bully for a while. Although it was an away game, before they came to the Love Song Stadium, they also had the intention of snatching points from here, but they didn't expect that Villarreal went crazy at the beginning, almost bombarding them indiscriminately, and more than ten minutes after the game, the away team was almost exhausted and had no power to fight back.

And their luck is also very bad, in the eighteenth minute, Villarreal, who has been attacking fiercely, finally broke through their defense, Riquelme in front of a highly imaginative through the stopper, tearing the entire defense, Italian striker Rossi successfully countered offside, when facing the goalkeeper alone, the Grand Duke selflessly knocked the football to the middle, and the unguarded Nihat easily pushed the ball into the empty goal, scoring the first league goal after returning from injury.

Villarreal also took the lead.

“GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL！ Nihat! Nihat! Nihat ...... Kayvuki! He scored the leading goal for the team! It was his first goal since returning from injury! It was also his third league goal of the season! The Turkish little man is still the team's most reliable scoring guarantee! 1:0！ We...... Ahead! ”

Arces's passionate and high-pitched cry echoed over the Love Song Stadium, and the phrase "GOAL" was shouted for more than half a minute. It's no wonder that Arcez shouted so ungracefully with excitement, Villarreal have had a poor record over the years, taking the lead in a number of games, and most of the time, they either couldn't find the back of the net or struggled to catch up, and now they have taken the lead after only 18 minutes of play, which is a dream start.

There was also jubilation in the stands, the fans jumped up from their seats, raised their fists and shouted wildly, screaming, screaming, shouting, roaring, and the fans were venting their excitement and cheering for the team, but they were also venting the depression and depression of the recent period.

"Good! Pretty! Cach, this guy did a great job! ”

"Giuseppe is not bad, he is not greedy at all, so good!"

"Roman's pass, it's amazing! He deceived almost the entire backline of the opponent! Terrible! ”

On the sidelines, the coaches hugged each other in celebration with relief, and on the bench, Fan Bizhuang and a group of substitute players also jumped up one after another, some waved their fists, some clapped their hands, and some hugged each other and yelled.

Fan Bizhuang clapped his hands twice, and then sat down, and Thorin next to him joked with him: "That's it, if the absolute lead is determined in the first half, then Fan, you kid will probably play early." ”

Fan Bizhuang's injury has long been fine, and in the usual training, he has shown good competitive form, and it stands to reason that he should return to the starting line-up, but the manager still pressed him to the bench. For this, what is the reason, the big guys are well aware.

Thorin ridiculed like this, which was to comfort Fan Bizhuang.

Fan Bizhuang nodded: "That's the best, but no matter what the situation is, I like to be able to get back on the court early." ”

Pires leaned over and laughed: "Mr. Manuel loves you too much, and he doesn't want you to suffer even a little harm to you as a baby bump, ha, I said boy, you shouldn't be Manuel's illegitimate son, right?" ”

Fan Bizhuang rolled his eyes, stretched out two hands to pull Pires's mouth full of nonsense, Pires repeatedly told him to forgive, Fan Bizhuang didn't care, Solin and others also came to help, some pulled their hands, some pulled their hair, and some people held Pires still, so that Fan Bizhuang could "do whatever he wanted".

Pellegrini turned his head and glanced behind him, the disciples were playing in a relaxed mood, he didn't stop it, on the contrary, nodded gently, such a relaxed scene, he hadn't seen it for a long time, the team's results were bad, and the atmosphere brought to the team was dignified, and now, because of Fan Bizhuang's return, it seems that everything is gradually getting better.

Of course, it's not enough, the most important thing is that they need to win, keep winning, and the most important thing is to win the game in front of them.

For the rest of the first half, Villarreal played more vigorously and confidently after taking the lead, and their attack was like a frenzy, and Huelva became a small boat in the ocean, in danger of capsizing at any moment.

By the end of the first half, the comparison of the shooting statistics of the two teams was simply a sky low, the home team had a total of 8 shots, 5 of which were within the frame of the goal, while the away team only had a pitiful shot on goal, and that's it, still put the anti-aircraft gun.

However, Huelva's luck and resilience were good, and although they were almost beaten into dogs, they barely resisted, and at the end of the first half, they did not concede another goal, and the score was maintained 1-0 until halftime.

The two sides returned to the dressing room, while Fan Bizhuang stayed on the pitch with a group of substitutes to warm up.

"In the second half, you'll play, Fan!"

These are the words that Pellegrini left before returning to the dressing room.

Fan Bizhuang's eyes flashed with joy, clenched his fists, and took advantage of the intermission to warm up hard.