Chapter 115: The Amazing Ramos
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"Beep-"
With the referee's whistle, the 35th round of the 04-05 La Liga season, the home team Valencia against Sevilla officially began.
Valencia made a number of changes in this game, Caponi, who just turned 40 this season, replaced Navarro and fellow Italian Moretti in central defence, and there were no changes at full-back, Angulo and Baraja, who returned from injury in midfield, partnered in central midfield, the two wing-backs were David Silva and Albiol, and the two forwards were Corradi and Elo.
Although Iello played as a striker in the official starting line-up, he started the game and ran to his familiar left winger position, while David Silva ran to the right winger position, with Albiol, Baraja and Angulo in the middle, with Angulo in charge of organizing the attack and threading the needle, and Albiol and Baraja in charge of interception and protection.
In less than a minute of the game, when Iroh turned around to catch the ball and was about to turn around and break through, he was rushed up by Ramos in the back of the side and kicked to the ground with the ball, and Ramos took the lead in giving Iroh a dismount.
The referee on duty, in order to control the scale, only warned Ramos slightly, did not show a yellow card, and then signaled Valencia to take a free kick in front.
Such a penalty, of course, the fans in the stands did not do it, and immediately let out a piercing boo, in their minds the player who violated us should get a red card, even if you don't referee you don't give a red card, then at least give a yellow card meaning, right? But you're just warning you, isn't that interesting?
"Interesting!"
After Iroh got up, he just saw the back of the number five in the white jersey, smiled weirdly, and then sorted out his socks and got up.
Seeing Ramos walking towards the penalty area, instead of standing near him, pouting, it was only then that he realized that Ramos was playing at centre-back instead of full-back, and immediately wondered.
It turns out that this guy is just here to say hello to himself, which is really boring!
Opposite him is Alves, the future king of Barcelona's right.
Obviously, this match will be tougher than expected, with the diminutive Alves being much more agile than the tall Ramos, and being quicker than Ramos and harder to get rid of.
Angulo took a free kick in front, and a crowd in Sevilla's penalty area flipped on their backs, and a Sevilla with long hair fluttering and wearing a No. 5 jersey jumped high in the penalty area, grabbed Elo's shoulders in the air, and pushed the football out of the penalty area in style.
"Hey, Chinese boy, your header skills still haven't improved!"
When he landed, Ramos looked at Iroh and sneered.
Iroh crossed his eyes and pouted, "Sample! Gotta sรจ - see how the master will 'explode' you later! โ
"I'll wait!"
Ramos smiled even more.
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Valencia, which lacks a number of main players, is a bit unable to cooperate in this game.
If you want to win this game, then you can only rely on the flash of inspiration of individual play rather than collective cooperation, because Angulo has not yet found the form and rhythm of the game before the injury, and it is very difficult to play under the oppressive defense of the opponent.
In the sixth minute, Ilo singled out Alves on the side, and kicked the ball to the bottom line at a distance of one meter from the latter, but what I didn't expect was that Alves's reaction was extremely fast, and he did not chase the ball at the first time, but turned around and stuck the position first, and then escorted the football out of the bottom line.
Seeing Alves's reaction speed, he sighed depressedly, okay - since you can't break through, then use technology!
Iroh thought so.
In the ninth minute, Angulo passed the ball to Ailo on the left side, who faced Alves' defense again, and at a distance of about two meters from Alves, the soles of his feet continued to pull the ball forward, Alves retreated with Ailo's forward, his knees were slightly bent, and he always maintained the safest distance, when Alves retreated to balance with the line of the big penalty area, Ailo suddenly moved the ball to the right, looking like he was going to go to the middle.
In order to maintain the safest distance, Alves also moved to his left with Aelo's right, but what he didn't expect was that Aelo's breakthrough to the right was an illusion, and when Alves moved to the left, his right heel slammed the ball to the left back, and at the same time turned around and led the ball forward with his left foot, ready to break through.
If it was an ordinary tall defender, he would definitely be shaken down temporarily, but at this moment, Alves's dexterity came into play, his knees were slightly bent, and at the moment when he was about to lose his center of gravity, he had his palm slammed the turf, and with this force, he temporarily stabilized his center of gravity, and his feet moved to the right rear at the same time, gritting his teeth and following closely with Iro.
But what he didn't expect was that when he adjusted his center of gravity and was about to keep up with Iro, Iro's left heel pulled the ball back again, that is, he buckled the ball in the opposite direction again, that is, the position he was standing in before, Alves adjusted the center of gravity twice in a row with high intensity, and it was impossible to complete the third turn, at this moment his left foot was a little out of force, and of course he couldn't keep up with Iro's footsteps for a while!
Seeing this, the fans in the stands habitually stood up and held their breath, which was a must-do for them to appreciate Iello's wonderful moments.
Just as Iroh broke through Alves and was about to enter the penalty area, he was caught off guard by an opposing player in a white jersey who stepped forward from behind the side and kicked the ball out of the sideline.
Airo looked back, yo... It turned out to be the water master!
He didn't hesitate to give a thumbs up, and at the same time praised, "Not bad!" โ
"It has to be, okay?"
Ramos really doesn't know how to be modest, and he is really European!
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The game lasted nearly half an hour, and the two sides still did not penetrate each other's goals, although you went back and forth in this half hour, but the most threatening was Angullo's long-range shot from 30 yards away from the goal, and the football was shot out of the bottom line by Notalino.
It can be seen that the two sides are not focusing on defense, but the two sides are slightly lacking in seizing opportunities.
Alves and Ramos were undoubtedly successful in marking Elo, leaving the latter without forming good chances to hit the ball or assist.
That's why Valencia hasn't opened the impasse so far.
Sevilla's success in freezing Aiello this time was undoubtedly a good tactical lesson to CSKA Moscow head coach Gazaev in the stands, and he also took inspiration from this game.
"A change has to be made!"
Iroh was entangled by Alves again, and then Ramos took the opportunity to kick the ball off the sideline, crossed his waist, panting and muttering.
He then made a pitch-shifting gesture towards David Silva on the right, who nodded and took advantage of a dead-ball opportunity to switch positions with Elloh.
But what I didn't expect was that after Iello and David Silva switched positions, Alves actually changed positions with left-back Davide, and it seems that the manager of Sevilla spent a lot of energy for this game, using Alves, who is full of energy and balanced attack and defense, to defend Arlo, the current first attacker in Valencia.
Airo was completely frozen by Sevilla, which also made Valencia's attack three-dimensional, David Silva has the ability to attack, but without the cut inside, if it is a direct cross, it will be difficult for Corradi to take advantage of Ramos and Navarro.
Sevilla has no character who can threaten Valencia's backline except for the extremely fast Navas, Baptista's ability is more reflected in the organizational aspect, and the final pass is not what he is good at, and the single striker Antonito's individual combat ability is not obvious.
So, at the end of the first half, the score was still 0-0.
"Throughout the first half, Ai was in the middle of the double between Alves and Ramos, and did not get any good chances, and David Silva on the right did not have any decent breakthroughs... Angulo was still in a state of looking for a game... It seems that Ranieri needed to make a little change to the team at halftime, and the visiting team Sevilla did not get any decent chances, Navas was more like a winger who broke through the cross, and did not break through the inside cut, the midfielder' The Beast's Baptista is more like a midfield meat grinder. โ
Taking advantage of the half-time break, Hyde gave a brief explanation of the first half of the game.
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Ranieri made a change to Valencia's midfield at the start of the second half, with Aimar coming on in place of Angullo.
Sevilla also made adjustments, central defender Pablo replaced left-back Davide... From Sevilla's substitution adjustment, it can be seen that they want to strengthen the attack, and Alves, who can play the left and right wingbacks, will be able to adjust the left and right wing-back Alves to the left-back position, and the central defender Ramos has also returned to his familiar right side, Sevilla's tactical idea in the second half is to strengthen the assistance of the two wings.
Both sides made changes to their line-ups, but it was the visitors Sevilla who were the first to make the difference.
Less than ten minutes into the second half, the visitors Sevilla took the lead.
Sevilla combined in the middle of the side, Navas organized the attack on the left side, passed the ball from the side to Baptista in the middle, and then Baptista in the middle attracted the attention of Baraja and Albiol's defense, and then passed the football back to Navas, Navas used his personal ability to cut inside after receiving the ball, and by the way, he gave the gap on the left side to Alves, and at the same time pulled the entire back line of Valencia, and the right wingback Ramos also inserted into the Valencia penalty area.
When Keylor Navas broke to the edge of the box, he suddenly passed the ball to Alves, who cut in at high speed and crossed the ball directly without stopping, and the full-back Ramos, who followed in the middle, rushed to the aging Calboni to head the ball into the gate guarded by Canizares.
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After confirming that the football was in the net, Ramos did not celebrate at the first time, but turned his head to look at Iello defiantly.
"What's the big deal?"
Iroh pursed his lips and muttered to himself.
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Falling behind by a goal less than ten minutes into the second half, Ielo shook his head helplessly, turned around and ran towards his own half, and it seemed that he could only wait for his chance.
After Valencia restarted, Sevilla took advantage of the momentum of just scoring a goal, and quickly controlled the ball, once pressing the home team Valencia in their own half, seeing this, the chairman of the VIP seats in the stands Soler frowned, and he is only now beginning to seriously consider the general manager Carboni's construction, Ranieri's tactics are too soft, and they are not suitable for the ambitious Valencia at all.
Ranieri, who was also frowning on the sideline, had no idea that the team's soft style of play had made the team president extremely unhappy, and he was still thinking about how to solve the problem in front of him.