Chapter 17, Oolong Assist
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As the Granada players celebrated wildly on the pitch, the home fans at the Estadio Anoeta looked furious, with some irrational fans throwing banners into the pitch to express their emotions, and even hearing the words "MoyesVeteYa" from behind.
Qu Jing looked at Moyes, saw him clasped his hands in front of his chest, staring blankly at the field, presumably this Scotsman, who is called a famous coach in Europe, did not understand why this happened, the backline composed of Martinez and Reyes, who had always been solid, suddenly became San Sebastian's tapas, which made the Granada players who were not good at attacking coveted. For him, who has been trying to shape the defensive system, it is understandable that there are not many ways to open the situation on the offensive end, but the back line is so fragile and full of holes, which makes him puzzled, frankly speaking, these two goals are not good scoring opportunities, but the real goal is scored, the score of 0:2 in the center of the big screen is like a dark cloud, and the black pressure rushes towards him, he sits weakly on the coach's seat, looking at the past from the perspective of the Qujing, Moyes's slightly rickety back is full of loneliness, which makes people look sad.
The usually stubborn Scot made the decision to make a substitution immediately, with Prieto coming in for Jonathan and making changes accordingly: Canales returned to the middle and Vela pushed up front.
Returning to the middle, Canales' performance on the field immediately improved, Real Sociedad's attacking clarity changed from the TS version to SD, and when he controlled the ball, Vela and Agureche were also fully activated, and several small passes in the middle made the Granada players who were used to the "cross**" just now at a loss.
In the 42nd minute, Canales played a beautiful combination with Vela in the middle and volleyed, the ball grazed the post and flew into the stands, causing a wave of regret from the fans behind the goal.
Seeing that the situation on the field was a little chaotic, Granada coach Cireno shouted on the sidelines to calm the players, probably the old man who commanded the team in the first four rounds without scoring a goal tasted the sweetness of Real Sociedad, and even waved his arms to signal the team to attack.
It has to be said that the performance of the Granada players in this game is very eye-catching, not only running actively and pressing fiercely, but also very keen on the judgment of the situation on the field, in addition to keeping the number of defenders in the backfield more or less, they did not pay too much attention to the active Canales, but limited Ilia Ramendi.
There's no doubt that Ilia Ramendi has good defensive qualities, otherwise he wouldn't have been noticed and bought by Real Madrid two years ago. But Ilya Ramendi has a fatal flaw, that is, the ability to switch from defense to attack, as the main link between the central midfield and the front court, Ilia Ramendi rarely participates in threatening attacks except for regular transitions, let alone he creates penetrating through plugs and gap transfers.
The Granada player consciously cut off his contact with Canales, and after several attempts at big feet failed to find Vela and Agureche in front of him, he became impatient and received a yellow card for overacting Rossina during a defensive run.
At half-time, Agusli had a brief discussion with Qu Jing, asking him to share his views on the situation in the first half. Qu Jing believes that there are not many problems up front, especially in the second half after the switch between Vela and Canales, and the effect of the central coordination and attacking means is obvious. The biggest problem is still in the connection of the midfield, in addition to Aguirreche, the frontcourt like Vela, Canales and Granero are not obvious physical advantage of the point-grabbing players, the backfield players blindly long passes not only did not play effective, but also gave up possession again and again.
"Either run more and pass more, or insert the left and right sides forward and then invert the triangle pass, and hit the Granada defense by surprise", this is Qu Jing's point of view, of course, if he plays in the back of the midfield, he may appropriately increase some breakthroughs in the middle in addition to the medium and long-distance transfer without losing the opportunity to attack, but Ilia Ramendi obviously does not have a strong breakthrough ability.
Agusli nodded, judging from the game effect of the B team lineup, if Sans and Oyazoun are standard, then the combination of Sans and Qu Jing is a strengthened version, in the connection between the back and the front court players, the play of Qu Jing is very important, and he even has an idea: If Qu Jing plays and forms a central axis of Real Sociedad with several central players, will it greatly increase the viewing and winning odds in the game?
David Moyes and Cireno both looked to have set up the second half in the dressing room, Granada's formation was very tight, and from the outside of the field, their centre-back line and forward line were almost compressed into less than 30 meters of space, except for leaving a gap for Real Sociedad on the wing, they maintained enough defensive and pressing numbers in the local area to allow Real Sociedad to pass back to the backfield frequently.
Canales consciously retreated his position, and tried a few direct passes over the top under the condition that there was not much pressure on the backfield, so that Bella, who has absolute speed, could make full use of the space left by the Granada team's backfield, this move had an obvious effect, and finally got a good chance again after Bella was offside twice in a row, after receiving the pass from Canales, Bella dunked Doria who was defending one-on-one, and kicked a beautiful arc ball on the right side of the small penalty area to break the net.
After the goal, Vela was ecstatic, running frantically to the sideline with his shirt in both hands, roaring at the fans in the stands, and the fans also stood up and shook hands with him as close to the sideline as possible.
Counting the four games of the season and the last three rounds of last season, Vela has not scored in a competitive game for almost four months, which is a really bad situation for the team's positive strikers. He didn't look at the dugout after scoring, as if he was using this disregard to tell the coaching staff led by David Moyes: I want to play as a striker, I want to score, don't always let me play in midfield!
Cireno made his first change of the game, replacing Mendes with Lomban and continuing to press high, trying not to allow the Real Sociedad players to get the ball comfortably in dangerous areas, and causing them to make mistakes through high-intensity runs and interference.
The funniest scene of the game came in the 64th minute: after right-back Eloupondo received a pass from goalkeeper Oyer, he did not choose to pass the ball, but showed off his ball skills, and used a super realistic feint to fool the snatching Saxes and push forward, winning a burst of applause from the fans.
Granero on the right would have been a good option if he had opted for a long pass at this point, but Erostertondo was clearly a little excited, and when he tried to shake off Lomban, Saxes who continued to scramble up from behind made him a little flustered, and his attempt to pick out Reyes' pass was easily cut off by Alabi and turned into a perfect assist. Arabi dribbled two steps forward and stuffed it into the huge gap, and Saxes' unadjusted volley was saved by Oyer and bounced back to kill Arabi in the box.
Alabi made a light push with his right foot, and the ball went into the net between Oyer and Martinez, and the score became 3:1.