Chapter 101: Turning Problems into Goals
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At half-time, the starting eleven of both sides returned to their own dressing rooms, while the substitutes could see if they had to warm up according to the needs of each body, so as to be ready to play at any time.
So, as soon as the starting eleven left the pitch, Iello and David Silva were on the pitch.
The fans in the stands immediately erupted in cheers.
The Chinese reporters in the stands couldn't keep their mouths shut at the moment, as if the fans were not calling for Ailo at the moment, but for them.
Click, click, click...
With Elo's long-range shot, the cheers from the stands came again.
wooooooooooooooo――
"Hey, I can't see it—it's so influential now."
"That has to be good!" Then he added, "Don't look at who I am." ”
"What a narcissist!"
David Silva and Albiol said in unison, raising their middle fingers high.
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Home team dressing room
After Ranieri entered the locker room, his face darkened rarely, and the starting eleven in front of him bowed their heads tacitly, and no one dared to say a word for fear of angering him.
"Are you at the Stadio La Romarda now?"
Ranieri said.
“……”
No one replied.
At the moment, the home team's dressing room was so quiet that even their own breathing could be heard clearly.
"I ask you if you're at La Romarda right now? Didn't anyone answer me?? ”
Ranieri repeats the previous question.
“……”
Still no one answered.
One minute
Two minutes
Five minutes
"Not bad! Not to mention being led away at home, I didn't even dare to answer my question! Good! Since they don't speak, then who doesn't want to kick, say it! I'll change him right away!! ”
Ranieri said angrily.
"If the rules allow, I'll definitely replace all 11 of you!"
Still no one spoke.
The oppressive atmosphere suddenly filled the entire home team's locker room.
At this moment, assistant coach Benetti didn't know why, cold sweat broke out, and the locker room was air-conditioned!
After a while, Ranieri seemed to have had enough, and his voice gradually became softer, "Reuben, you are the captain - what do you think of the team's performance in the first half?" ”
Baraja was subconsciously stunned, but reacted quickly, "The teammates worked hard in the first half, but they didn't take the opportunity, otherwise we would have equalized or overtaken." ”
Unexpectedly, at this moment, the captain directly pointed the finger at the Italian striker Corradi!
Neither the Italian strikers Di Vaio nor Corradi, who had been injured before, spent a lot of the club's budget, but they didn't score goals after coming to the team, which led to the team's winless run of five rounds at the end of the first half of the season and the beginning of next season.
"Humph!"
Corradi snorted coldly and didn't speak.
Ranieri saw the Qiē in front of him, but he couldn't help it, he found that he was more and more in control of this group of players, and sighed, "Let's talk about the next half of the game!" ”
In fact, in the final analysis, the biggest problem of this team is not the weakness, but the players' hunger for honor, most of the main players have won last year's La Liga and UEFA Cup under the leadership of Benitez, and the pursuit of honor is not so strong, which is the biggest problem!
And Ranieri, who only took over the team last summer, did not instill a breath of fresh blood in the team, keeping the team hungry for glory!
At the same time, the away team's dressing room is extraordinarily harmonious.
"Hey! Congratulations, David!! ”
"David! Remember to have dinner tomorrow!! ”
"If you run a single, I won't pass the ball to you at that time!!"
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This kind of joke makes the atmosphere in the away team's dressing room more harmonious.
Zaragoza can be said to have no desire this season, with no hope of relegation and promotion to European competitions in sight, which is why they played so relaxed in this game, ahead of the home team Valencia.
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The fifteen minutes of the break passed quickly.
At the urging of the assistant referee, the starting players of both sides walked out of their dressing rooms.
"Beep-"
With the referee's whistle, the second half of the game officially began!
At the start of the second half, Corradi's form was significantly worse than in the first half, apparently due to the captain's aggression at half-time, and several passes and catches were not handled well.
Gradually, his teammates didn't pass the ball to him very much.
Even if he stood out in the crowd and raised his hand to ask for the ball, no teammates passed the ball to him, and some keen reporters immediately noticed this change on the field.
"Could it be that Italian striker Corradi has completely lost his place in the dressing room?"
Such thoughts kept popping up in the minds of major journalists.
Time passed quickly, but the home team Valencia did not equalize the score with the passage of time, and if it weren't for several supernatural performances of Canizares, it is estimated that the score would have been stretched long ago.
"Ai, David go warm up!"
Ranieri looked at the time, and the second half was just ten minutes into the game, and quickly turned his head to look at the bench and shouted loudly.
"Yes!"
"Yes!"
The two hurriedly replied, for fear that they would make the head coach regret it if they were half a beat.
David Silva was even more in a hurry, and the guide stumbled under his feet, almost falling a dog and eating.
"Haha, David—you don't want to play, do you?"
Albiol quipped.
David Silva's scene also made Ranieri laugh, and his sideways gaze at the two became kind.
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In the fifteenth minute of the second half, the sixtieth minute of the game, Iroh stood on the sideline of the center circle and waited for the dead ball before coming on as a substitute.
He kicked the turf.
Plenty of power and good condition!
Just then, Albelda's long-range shot went over the crossbar before the referee blew the whistle and pointed his finger to the touchline of the centre circle.
Valencia made a substitution.
The fourth assistant referee holds up the electronic card.
No. 9 under No. 28 up.
The main fans in the stands immediately let out a tsunami-like cheer, and they felt like they had been around the beam for three days.
Italian Corradi was obviously unhappy when he saw that he was being replaced, and he ran to the substitution slowly, not even doing the most basic high-five etiquette before leaving the field.
Shhh
His action immediately caused a wave of unhappiness among the home team fans in the East Stand.
It doesn't matter if you don't score a goal on the court, you don't give a high-five when you go down, encourage our wonder boy? This is unforgivable!
Standing on the sidelines waiting for the game, Ailuo was extremely embarrassed, and Mu Ne stretched out his right palm and stayed there until the fourth assistant referee pushed him before he reacted and ran to the field.
While slowly walking towards his position, the corner of his eye accidentally aimed at the time on the screen in the North Stand, 60 minutes and 45 seconds.
No way! The old man is a strict German, right? Thirty minutes, no more, no less!
Iello replaced the centre-forward Corradi, so his job was to take over from Corradi and help the team break down and score.
However, the problem arises.
He is not a natural centre-forward, and every time the midfielder gives him a pass, he habitually takes the sideline, which can confuse Valencia's formation, and steals Vicente's position several times.
"Ai - your position is in the middle lane!"
After Iroh snatched his place for the third time, Vicente finally couldn't help but speak up.
"Hey, hey, I'm used to it, I'm sorry—"
Iroh replied with a smile as he ran towards his spot in the middle.
Ranieri on the sidelines raised his eyebrows, "Isn't Ai really not the material to play center?" ”
Ranieri, who originally only suspected that Ayroh was not the material to play center, was completely sure after a while that he was not a center-forward, and the most basic strategy of the center could not be done well.
So, he turned his head and shouted to Ferrer on the bench, "Mista, go warm up." "And once again, I set my sights on the field.
In the 68th minute of the game, Albelda launched a counterattack with a long pass, and Vicente on the left side caught up with him, cushioned the ball in the air, and knocked the ball to Aimar, who was pulled to the back of the middle side.
Someone came to the middle lane, and Iroh naturally pulled to the right side where Aimar was before, but now the problem comes again? Zaragoza did not have a Valencian player at the edge of the penalty area, which made Aimar, who was receiving the ball and ready to organize the attack, to make a mess!
"Ai - hurry back to your position, mid lane !!"
Ranieri really can't help it, how difficult should it be to give up the key position in the middle? So I had to yell at Iroh.
At the same time, after Aimar received the ball from Vicente, he first used his body's reasonable position to block Cuatro behind him, and then his dexterous body swiped to the left, like a loach, from Cuatro's left.
After hearing the old man's roar, Airo decisively abandoned the gap on the right side and hurriedly moved closer to the middle, and at this time Aimar happened to pass Cuatro and looked at him very spiritually.
Mind to heart
After wiping Cuatro, Aimar raised his head to look at the shape of the front court, and his eyes lit up! There was no ambiguity at the foot, and the arch of his right foot pushed hard towards the middle and lower part of the football, and the ball obediently rolled quickly according to the route he had observed.
At the same time, Iroh suddenly accelerated in a diagonal line, leaving Carney and Milito behind.
wooooooooooooooooooo――
The main fan who was close to the Zaragoza goal immediately stood up and cheered.
After seeing Aimar easily wipe Cuatro, Movira hurriedly rushed up to prepare to continue defending, but he didn't expect the opponent to pass the ball! Subconsciously his body pressed down, and he was ready to make a difficult tackle!!
yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa――
The lord in the stands cheered again to the fans because Movira didn't tackle the ball!
Aymar's penetrating through ball!
The football leaked from Movila's feet, which Zaragoza's defenders did not expect, the moment he fell to the ground to tackle, Carney and Milito, who were following Elo, subconsciously paused, and after realizing that the football was leaking, it was too late to accelerate again, Elo had already run to the line of the big penalty area, and at the same time the football had rolled to his feet.
Zaragoza goalkeeper Garcia was still stupidly raising his hand towards the assistant referee to signal that the opposing striker was offside.
Nice through balls and runs!
Directly after receiving the football, Iroh saw that the opponent's goalkeeper had come to the penalty spot, and he could only use one trick to deal with such a goalkeeper.
Rub your toes against the bottom of the soccer ball
Then the ball obediently flew high above Garcia's raised right arm and fell on the goal line, flying into the arms of the net by inertia.
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