Chapter 239: Winning the Championship

Thiago. Silva's departure with an injury gave Simeone a glimmer of hope for victory. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Thiago. Silva's importance to PSG is self-evident, with his defender stats leading the Ligue 1 in both seasons, and PSG with and without him are completely two tiers. If in the frontcourt, PSG's attack relied on an invincible trident, then Thiago. Silva is the anchor of the Paris Saint-Germain defence.

Now, with two fewer tridents and a departure from the field, this season's Paris Saint-Germain squad has never looked so thin.

Simeone was quick to use David. Villa replaces Raul. Garcia, go all out. Blanco has no cards to play, and Paris Saint-Germain's bench depth is indeed not as good as other giants.

In the 74th minute, Villa hit the goal from a tight angle in the penalty area, which was blocked by Sirigu with his legs. In the 76th minute, Atletico Madrid won a free kick in front, Koke flicked it, Gabi met the ball and volleyed, and it was Sirigu who flew to block the ball.

But after all, Sirigu is only a human, not a god, and as soon as the time to ask the god to possess the body has passed, a skill CD appears. In the 78th minute, Koke, who was completely in the groove, crossed diagonally from the right in front of the goal, Costa nodded the ball at the back, Sirigu couldn't save, and Atletico Madrid finally equalized the score.

Blanco would have liked to have another defender at this point, but he had no cards in his hand. In desperation, he replaced Shi Hao with Pastore, after all, Pastore's defensive ability is a little stronger than Shi Hao, and Shi Hao's physical strength has obviously bottomed out, and he hasn't run much in the past few minutes.

Despite his reluctance, Shi Hao obeyed the arrangement. Blanco gave him a hug after he left the pitch and whispered in his ear: "You did a great job, but it was a tactical need to replace you this time." ”

Shi Hao nodded in understanding.

At the same time, Ravic was replaced, and Blanco was replaced by Mane in an attempt to create a little threat to Atletico Madrid with a counter-attack.

But the crazy Atletico Madrid didn't care about Paris Saint-Germain's counterattack at all, and attacked again and again.

In the 81st minute, Juanfran assisted to the bottom line and crossed after breaking through Maxwell's defense on the right flank, and Turan nodded the ball into the back of the net, but the ball went just wide. In the 82nd minute, Simeone used the last card in his hand and used Jose. Sousa replaced midfielder Suarez and continued to strengthen the attack.

The Argentinian player, who has played for Bayern Munich and Napoli, has never played, but he is still qualified as a role player.

Sosa made a chance shortly after coming on and in the 84th minute he found Costa on the flank, who chested the ball on the edge of the box and fired a straight hook just wide of the post. If this goal is scored, it is really a good chance to compete with Shi Hao's previous goal for the best goal in this Champions League.

In the 86th minute, Juanfran broke through to the bottom line again and crossed, and Villa, who was not tall, hit the goal with a header at the back point, and the ball flew high against the crossbar.

In the 90th minute, Felipe took a free-kick and his powerful volley went over the crossbar again.

At this time, the fourth referee held up the electronic card for five minutes of stoppage time, and Blanco was unhappy about this, believing that there was not much dead ball time in the second half of the game, and that stoppage time should not be so long. After being given a verbal warning by the referee, he sat back in his seat.

Shi Hao never went back to the locker room, approved a coat and stood there watching the game, witnessing this scene and suddenly had a bad premonition. Blanco cares so much about the length of stoppage time, could it be that he has no confidence in his team whether he can hold on for another five minutes?

In the second minute of stoppage time, Felipe crossed, Costa pressed the teenager Digne in the box to head the goal, and Sirigu pulled the ball out in embarrassment. But the trials he endured were not over.

Atletico Madrid took a corner, Gabi burst out of the crowd in the chaos and stabbed a shot, this time God favored Atletico Madrid, Gabi's shot was denied by the post.

In the fourth minute of stoppage time, Atletico Madrid was still attacking with perseverance. Juanfran again assisted in the Paris Saint-Germain penalty area, passed the ball to Koke and immediately ran to the baseline, and Koke's return pass also arrived as expected. Juanfran didn't stop the ball and swept it straight towards goal.

The young Villa snatched a shot from the front post, and the ball passed between Kamara's legs, but it touched the inside of Kamara's calf, and there was a slight line change, Sirigu couldn't react, did not touch the ball, and the ball continued to roll towards the far post.

Several long legs reached for the ball at the same time, and finally Costa's legs touched the ball first, and in the eyes of the crowd, the ball rolled into the Paris Saint-Germain goal.

The referee blows the whistle and points to the center circle! Costa's brace overtook Atletico Madrid! The 25-year-old Spaniard is really in purple form!

Blanco excitedly rushed to the field and signaled to the referee that Juan Fran was offside when he received the ball, but was shown a yellow card by the referee. If it weren't for assistant coach Claude Makelele desperately pulling him off, he might have missed the next game.

The PSG players looked frustrated, with 94 minutes of effort destroyed at the last minute, and their mood was understandable.

When they restarted, the referee blew the whistle three times and the game was over. In the first leg of the semi-finals of this Champions Cup, Atletico Madrid beat Paris Saint-Germain 2:1 at home.

The Paris Saint-Germain team did not stop in Madrid and chartered a flight back to Paris that night.

Shi Hao asked Blanco for leave, wanting to stay in Madrid for one more day and accompany Liu Xiyu for a walk. Originally, the team would have taken a day off after the away game, and this game was not ugly for PSG, and it was a valuable away goal.

Blanco just couldn't accept the result of winning first and then losing, in fact, he was still accepting in his heart that the players could play like this when the squad was incomplete.

So he readily agreed to Shi Hao's leave.

Although he lost, Shi Hao's mentality was very peaceful. It's just a goal, and you can win it back when you go back to home, so why bother about it? So he put aside the impact of this defeat, played happily with Liu Xiyu for a night, and walked around Madrid for a morning the next day before taking a plane back to Paris.

In the 35th round of Ligue 1 on April 27, Paris Saint-Germain, who came on as a substitute, were held to a 1-1 draw away by Sochaux, thus narrowing the gap between them and Monaco to 10 points. Still, with 3 rounds left in the league, they have already won the championship ahead of schedule!

When the team returned to Paris, they quickly celebrated, but the celebrations didn't last long as they had to prepare for the second leg against Atletico Madrid.

On the 29th, Blanco and all the players rewatched the video of the previous round to make the final tactical arrangements.