Chapter 121: The Europa League (1)

The Europa League final, Aston Villa's most important match of the season, will be played at Lyon's home stadium, the Lumière Stadium, a stadium with a capacity of 60,000 people, according to UEFA rules, the two teams that reach the final can only get less than 50% of the stadium's capacity, so the Villa team received nearly 15,000 tickets, which were sold out in the first few days. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

The degree of attention for this game exceeded Li Haolong's estimate, and even he didn't have many tickets reserved in his hands, and many friends who asked for tickets couldn't meet them one by one, which made him feel guilty.

Sevilla have maintained a steady run over the years, with a number of players in the squad who have temporarily lost their positions at other big clubs, such as Nasri and Jovetic. Nasri spent last year on loan at Sevilla and was outright bought out this year.

Although former French international Nasri has strong strength, he often engages in some brain short-circuits, such as Nasri's disclosure on Twitter last year that he received essential oil and intravenous services provided by a health service company nurse MM, and was also with his ex-girlfriend Atanes, and then, Nasri's disclosure of brain damage also included **** calling on other men to "enjoy", which caused an uproar for a while.

Although Sevilla is a quasi-first-class team, but once he goes crazy, he really has a feeling of unstoppable, often knocking Real Madrid and Barcelona down in La Liga, and he also has Vazquez, Correa, Vietto, Ganso, Ben Yedder, Sarabia, Cranivit and a large number of cadres in his team, which is also his capital.

The Aston Villa team, which rested in the last round, came to France two days early to adapt to the venue, and the focus of the whole club was around this game, and Li Haolong, who has rarely been with the team since that incident, accompanied the team throughout the whole process.

Lyon in early summer is a bit muggy, the continuous drizzle has been falling non-stop for the past few days, the road outside the stadium has been washed by the rain is exceptionally clean, and several grasses surrounding the stadium are exceptionally green in the rain.

The romance of the French is everywhere, not only the walk by the Seine, the loitering in the shade of the Champs-Élysées, the slow drinking in the bar, the whispering in the café, and the passionate kissing young couples who can be seen outside the stadium at any time.

The highlight of the Stade Olimpico is the huge fibre canopy, which amplifies the shouts of the fans. From a distance, the stadium looks like a turtle because of the larger roof. The 53,700-square-metre canopy covers the stadium like a turtle shell, and the canopy that protrudes outside the stadium also provides shelter for fans before and after the game, and inside the stadium, the canopy covers almost 60,000 seats.

Days of drizzle, although not big, did not cause waterlogged, but still very slippery, the players have changed into spikes, the coaching staff also specially prepared a large number of bananas, playing in the rain is more physically demanding, and bananas are the best, most convenient food to replenish physical strength.

The sugar in bananas is quickly converted into glucose, which is immediately absorbed by the body and is a fast source of energy. Mobilization sweating is more, potassium consumption and loss are also relatively large, to always maintain a sensitive response in strong exercise, flexibility and stamina of action, you need to maintain a sufficient amount of potassium and magnesium, bananas just belong to high potassium food.

After Sampaoli left Arsenal, Sevilla invited Ranieri, who was out of Leicester, and the "tinker" unexpectedly discharged the 352 formation in this game, and Petrovve, who led the team to the final of the major tournament for the first time, discharged the 4231 formation out of prudence.

The game started in the drizzle, the two sides started with no more than tentative attacks, and the slippery field was a little unfavorable for the Villa team who were trying to control the ball, but the Villa team, who had adapted to the field, reduced the meaningless possession of the ball, and used concise footwork to try to guide the ball quickly, giving full play to the assault ability of Dembele and Amavi.

The back three of the defenders are very close to each other, and it is difficult to play an effective behind-the-back ball, because the filling is too timely, and the only way to make a fuss is from the two wings, after all, Sevilla's two wing-backs are not too strong, and Dembele and Amavi have strengthened the up-and-down assault and consciously reduced the in-cut.

Nzongzi facing the old master, is a big attraction of this game, after all, he won Nirvana in Sevilla, transformed his original rough style of play, he knows the technical characteristics of these former teammates very well, can give his teammates support, such as dealing with French defender Rami is to be fierce to steal, his ability to play the ball is really bad compared to his ability to cover the whole field and constantly intercept and fill positions.

After 20 minutes of the game, Sevilla took the lead, with the configuration of Jovetic and Ben Yedder as two strikers, they wanted to solve the battle in 90 minutes, and the Europa League, also known as the Sevilla Cup, is completely their own thing, they have a strong foundation.

In the game, Nasri and Joaquin Correa continued to attack behind the two strikers with good individual skills, especially Correa, the Argentine also has a tough body and lightning speed, and is the most threatening point in the Sevilla team, but fortunately, the Villa team is not lacking in speed in both offensive and defensive players, and is not too afraid of this type of player.

The ball can go far on the grass at once, and there are many mistakes in both sides that cross wide and then accelerate directly out of the baseline, which is unavoidable in the rain. At this time, it is most important to pay attention to this kind of straight plug, in case you get caught one, it will be over. During the time Sevilla launched the attack, both Amaoui and Henrichs opted to recycle a little and concentrate on defence.

The situation on the field has become a situation in which Sevilla attack and Villa defend, although such a scene is rare, it does not mean that they will not counterattack, in fact, when Li Haolong is still in the position of assistant coach, he often practices defensive counterattack tactics.

At this point, Arario is like a target for artillery fire, and Dembele and Griezmann will become the Villa's sharp-edged swordsmen, stabbing the enemy from all sorts of unexpected routes.

Today, Sevilla's two wing-backs Escudero and Mariano performed really abnormally, and they did not play at all at the level of La Liga, and it may be that they rarely came into contact with such rough wings as Dembele and Amavi, and they were not used to it, and they were a little embarrassed by the two of them.