Chapter 111: There Is Still Hope

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Ferrer headed a goal kick from Canizares to Albelda at the top of the centre circle.

Seeing this, Ailo realized that the opportunity was coming, and quietly and slowly moved to the left side of Valencia, that is, the right side of CSKA Moscow.

After Albelda received the football, he did not pass the ball forward as before, but tacitly exchanged a look with Moretti, who walked forward a few times knowingly, giving the opponent a false impression that he was going to attack.

As Moretti walked forward, Carvalho had an eye on him, and if Albelda's pass was to this side, he would be confident that he would be able to get the ball in the first place, and he had plenty of confidence in his speed!

However, Albelda did not pass the ball to Moretti, he pulled the ball and passed it back to central defender Ayala.

Ayala was puzzled when he received the football, didn't he speed up the pace of the attack at the end of the game according to the coach's request? How do you pass the ball back at this point? Isn't it about stabilizing the offensive tempo?

Ranieri in the stands and Benetti in front of the dugout frowned at the same time.

After Ayala received the football, Albelda quickly signaled himself to pass the ball back to him, and the former saw the Croatian Olic who was only following behind Albelda, Ayala was a little uneasy, so he passed the ball to Navarro, the central defender next to him.

After Albelda saw Ayala pass the ball to Navarro, he raised his eyebrows, turned sideways again, ran towards Navarro, and motioned for the opponent to pass the ball to him, but Navarro saw Olic behind Albelda, and spread his hands to signal that you have someone on the other side and I am not good at passing.

But Albelda's expression was a little resolute, his fingers hooked, and he asked Navarro for the ball again, with a few years of teammate relationship, he still chose to believe Albelda, and passed the ball without hesitation.

Olic who was not far behind Albelda saw Navarro pass the ball to the Valencia player in front of him, and he suddenly felt that his fourth chance to score was coming, and his feet suddenly picked up speed and rushed towards Albelda.

The defenders of the CSKA Moscow half saw Olic rushing towards Albelda like a cheetah, instinctively moving the pace of progress, and even the two defensive midfielders who had just changed to the field consciously accelerated their pace and walked forward, they had already decided to speed up towards Valencia's half as soon as Olic broke the football to support the attack.

"Danger!"

The centre-back Ayala reminded loudly when he saw Olic rushing towards Albelda as if he were going crazy.

Albelda heard the sound of the wind with his right foot, pulled the football to the left with his right foot, and at the same time his body was sideways to the right, just enough to block Olich's rushing body, as before, he stumbled under his feet, and 'subconsciously' took a few steps forward, while the football remained in the position where he had just received the ball.

The referee put the whistle in his mouth, hesitated, and did not blow the whistle.

"The referee didn't blow the whistle, this is the chance!!"

The local commentator in Moscow stood up excitedly and shouted.

Olic didn't hear the referee's whistle and reacted quickly and slammed the ball in the opposite direction of Albelda's lunge.

At the same time, Carvalho, Wagner, Odiach, Zherkov, and even the two defensive midfielders Semberas and Gusev, who had just been replaced, rushed forward, and the fullbacks on both sides also subconsciously pressed forward.

In an instant, a seven-on-five situation was formed.

After half an hour of silence, the home fans in the stands stood up again with loud cheers, and they used this way to support the team's pressing counterattack.

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Just as Olic slid the ball out in the opposite direction of Albelda, Marchena rushed towards Olic like a silent machine, and the latter was in the excitement of breaking the ball and didn't notice it for a while!

"Ivica, be careful!!"

Olic didn't notice Marchena who was silently following behind him, but Carvalho behind him could see it clearly, so he reminded loudly.

However, he didn't stop and chose to trust Olich's personal skills.

After hearing Carvalho's reminder behind him, Olic subconsciously took the ball to the left, and at the same time that the football left Olich's right foot, Marchena quickly cut through the mess, saw the opportunity, and fell to the ground to tackle!

Olic couldn't do it anymore if he wanted to speed up the chase after 90 minutes, after all, after running for 90 minutes, his physical strength was completely unable to keep up, and after being brought down by Marchena's tackle foot, he rolled on the turf several times due to inertia to stop the momentum of his body.

"This is your chance!"

Marchena poked the ball with his toe and the ball rolled in the direction of 'Designer' Albelda.

Seeing the football rolling towards him, Albelda was overjoyed, first looked up at Iro, who was turning, and then aimed his right foot at the middle and lower part of the football, and kicked the ball out hard.

At the same time, Iroh just crossed the center line and ran to the right side of CSKA Moscow.

The fans who just stood up to cheer for the home team were stunned, this attack ended too quickly, right? Some fans even sat down again as soon as they stood up.

wooooooooooooo――

At this moment, the fans of the visiting team who came with the team stood up excitedly, because they saw a white figure running towards the football landing point at high speed.

And so their shouts skyrocketed again!

When the fans of the home team heard this cheer, they were not impressed at first, wasn't it just a clearance? As for being so excited? Immediately, when the shouts of the away team fans added another point, they immediately realized that the situation was wrong, and turned their faces sharply, just to see a player wearing the away team's white jersey was rapidly approaching the football, and there was not a single defender within a radius of ten meters around him, and they were dumbfounded! The butt that had just sat down was jerked up again.

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"Albelda retreats to pick up Navarro, danger! Olich rushed forward, bad!! The ball was broken - huh? Good!! Marchena broke the ball back again! And at the same time he poked the ball to Albelda, who conceded the goal!! Albelda drove the ball out without stopping! ――Is this a break? Oh no - Ai ran towards the soccer ball at high speed, the distance between him and the soccer ball was rapidly shortening, and more importantly, there was not a single defender around him!! This is our chance!! ”

“oh――my――god!! Isn't that a foul? Our Olich all fell out of the way for several meters - alas, the opponent reacted quickly and cleared the siege!! It's a pity that this front court steal counterattack - this is ?? Bastard, how come he doesn't have a single defender around him?? ”

Albelda's kick seemed to be a clearance kick, but it was almost kicked to the half of CSKA Moscow, and the away team Valencia's wonder boy ran to the football landing point! Now the home team is in danger!! ”

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The live commentators from various countries in the studio of the Luzhniki Stadium began to explain the words in a gulp of words.

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When CSKA Moscow's attacking players were still lamenting that they did not score in this counter-attack, the angry roar of head coach Gazaev on the sidelines reached their ears.

"Back to the defense!! Defend back—"

Back to what defense? Didn't they break the siege?

Ignashevic thought disapprehantly.

However, he noticed that something was wrong, and it seemed that the flight trajectory of the football was not flying towards the sideline, but ...

He didn't dare to continue to think about it, his heart trembled violently, he was more than 1.9 meters tall, he wanted to turn around quickly, but because his body was too large, the guide lost his center of gravity and fell to the ground.

Ignashevic, who fell to the ground, just saw the back of a white No. 28, and ran towards the landing point of the football at a gallop.

Iroh saw the landing point of the football, kicked hard with his right foot, raised his left foot high, and followed the fall of the football, relieving the momentum of the football, and the football was like a docile pet, lying quietly on the surface of his left foot.

"Nice stop!"

At the same time, the young captain of CSKA Moscow, Akinfeev, decided to abandon the door the moment he saw Ailo receiving the ball, and he already had the consciousness of self-sacrifice!

Roar!!

But there is no long memory at all, half an hour ago he was shot by Ielo because of his self-sacrificing spirit, but-

In the face of Akinfeev's attack, Ailo had at least ten ways to break the goal, although the hanging shot was the most exciting, but he decided to use the safest way -

After Akinfeev, and then hit the empty goal!

The distance between the two was rapidly shortening.

Just when the distance between the two was still five meters, Arlo suddenly slammed the ball to the left with his left foot and accelerated to break through from the right!

In the face of such a rapid disguised pass, Akinfeev's head was big at this time, but he had to do the same disguised movement hard, bent his knees slightly, adjusted his breathing, looked at Iro's feet, and pounced like a tiger!

He's ready to stop Iroh with a red card move!!

But he underestimated Iro's reaction speed too much, and as soon as Akinfeev pounced, Ailo poked the ball out, and at the same time, the whole person jumped up like a dragonfly, and narrowly avoided Akinfeev's foul.

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa――

The away fans in the stands have already celebrated the goal in advance at this moment!

To make sure there was nothing to be done, Iroh took the ball down to the penalty spot before he pushed the ball with his right foot and sent the ball into the unguarded empty net.

Even the chief controller of the Luzhniki Stadium was stunned for a moment this time, and it took a while to react and turn the 3:1 on the screen into a 3:1

3:2

Valencia pulled a goal back at the last moment, which stunned the players of CSKA Moscow at home, their mouths naturally opened, and their eyes stared at Iello who came to the center circle with the football in his arms.

If the eyes can kill people, then Iroh, who scored twice in this game, has died tens of thousands of times...

A one-goal lead was the least secure advantage and allowed the visitors to pick up two crucial away goals, meaning Valencia only needed 1-0 or 2-1 at home to win CSKA Moscow at the Alvalad Stadium in the next round.

aiaiaiiaiaaiiiiiiiiiii――

The visiting fans who came with the team were in a complete frenzy at the moment, shouting Elo's name as if they wanted to vent all the negativity of the game.

As the 90 minutes of regular time drew to a close, the fourth assistant referee raised the electronic card for three minutes of stoppage time.

All the Valencia players ran back into their own half, they still didn't celebrate, they just stood back in their positions, and at this moment they saw hope of an equaliser.