Chapter 14: Nardo

Hu Xuefei didn't pay attention to football before, and as far as watching football games, he Hu Xuefei was most concerned about whether he could score goals, and he never paid attention to other aspects of the game.

When Hu Xuefei became a real head coach, he began to understand that a team's midfield, backfield and frontcourt are inseparable.

And this first round of La Liga, which was only 20 minutes long, made him understand this.

The front court directly created the first goal of the league for Espanyol, allowing his striker Iglesias to score on his La Liga debut, and the second goal was the foundation for midfielder Dadel's direct free-kick with the efforts of the front. Now, after falling behind 2-0, Getafe is finally no longer calm, and manager Jose has begun to shout and signal that his team can press in formation.

Hu Xuefei began to stabilize after leading by two goals, the game just started 20 minutes, in the 10th and 18th minutes, the Spaniards have scored two goals, for morale, it is undoubtedly a stimulant, but now that Getafe is pressing, the best way to deal with it is to seize the gap in Getafe's defense and counterattack.

Under Hu Xuefei's shouting, the Espanyol players had to suppress their excitement and stabilize themselves in their own backfield to deal with the counterattack started by Getafe.

Getafe coach Jose rubbed his temples on the bench, originally wanted to rely on his team's defensive advantages to spend the first 20 minutes of the opening game steadily, after all, this is the first round of the league, and it is the Espanyol home game, Jose does not plan to fight hard.

But now the situation is reversed, the Spaniards relied on two unreasonable goals to break the idea in his heart, and in desperation, he had no choice but to press out and attack, otherwise he would continue to be pressed by the Spaniards, and when the opponent's morale was high, he might score another goal.

In this case, there is no way to remedy it.

Getafe pressed out to attack, and for a while, the Spaniard's midfield was unable to feed the front field.

Although Getafe's full-backs are weaker in attack than in defense, they have invested more attacking troops, which has correspondingly pulled back the two wingers of Espanyol.

If it was last season, Piatti and Pérez would not have come back to defend deeply, but Hu Xuefei is different, he wants all the defense, that is, even Iglesias, he asks to force the opponent's midfield when the opponent is attacking.

Despite the physical exertion, it allows for more counter-attacking opportunities in Spanish clubs, which are more ground-oriented.

Hu Xuefei frowned on the sidelines, the first few warm-up games before the league could not make all the players familiar with and integrated into the tactics he designed.

Rosales has a fixed defensive awareness in Malaga, even if Hu Xuefei gives him a certain amount of offensive rights, he will still care more about his defensive position, and his awareness of the edge is still very weak.

Defensively, Piatti is also vague about his defensive position, and he will press it, but many times, the position will mislead Semedo or Villa into thinking that Piatti is in charge of the attacking player.

With this unproductive defensive attitude, Maksimovic and Mata played a combination, and Mata drew Villa's attention, while Piatti did not keep up with Maksimovic and only looked at the defense behind him.

Naldo saw that Maksimovic was unguarded, and Semedo was marking Portillo's position and did not fill the vacancy at the first time, so he had to step forward himself, and accidentally ate Maksimovich's feints and fouled.

The referee gave Naldo a yellow card, which immediately made Hu Xuefei unhappy.

Lao Hu ran to the fourth official, pointed to his eyes and said: "What are you doing, it's just simple physical contact, chest to chest, do you need a yellow card?" Is it that the referee needs to bring his contact eye in order to make a good decision? ”

The fourth official looked at Hu Xuefei angrily, and didn't bother to say anything to Hu Xuefei, still standing quietly in place.

Hu Xuefei talked for a long time, and when he saw that the fourth official ignored him, he had to leave angrily.

Naldo, who received a yellow card, faced the referee and said: "I was wronged!" The referee didn't appreciate it and wrote down Naldo's name directly on the yellow card.

After Getafe's attack caused a yellow card for Naldo, coach Jose thought about it for a while, seemed to realize something, called his captain on the field, Markle, and said: "Play Piatti's side, it seems that Piatti is very dissatisfied with the defensive task given to him by their manager, play that side more, and see if he can create another yellow card for Naldo." ”

Markle nodded his head in understanding as he listened, and when Jose finished speaking, he immediately went on the field to convey to everyone the arrangement of the head coach just now.

Hu Xuefei naturally observed Jose's small movements on the Getafe bench, and saw that Naldo was shown a yellow card by the referee, and instantly guessed Jose's intentions.

"Semedo look at this!" Hu Xuefei made two villain movements with both hands, and shouted at Semedo on the field at the same time.

After Semedo saw Hu Xuefei's gesture, he saw Hu Xuefei pointing to the back line, and immediately understood what Hu Xuefei meant.

Jose's temporary adjustment made the Getafe midfielder more inclined to attack Piatti's side, frequently attacking Villa's defense, making Villa even more dissatisfied with Piati's ineffective defense.

In the 37th minute of the game, Portillo easily bypassed Piatti and came behind him, and left-back Diene accelerated slightly to get out of Piati's defense, and after hitting the wall with Portillo, he easily passed the defense line from Roca's versatile midfield.

This time, Diène confronted Villa.

Villa were unable to defend Diène, who had moved to the ribs of the edge of the penalty area, and if he did, it was clear that Diene would pass to Maksimovic to pose a greater threat.

Seeing that Villa did not come up and there was no one behind him to help the defense, Diene unhurriedly observed the situation in the penalty area.

In the box, Getafe striker Juan Mata moved early into the Espanyol penalty area after seeing Diene break through Piati's defence.

Seeing that Mata was in position early, Diene did not hesitate, taking two more steps, and after bringing out space for his own kick-up cross, he directly picked up his left leg and crossed.

Diene's cross focused everyone's attention on Juan Mata in the box, and Mata lived up to expectations, jumping off the ground with Naldo's clothes and pushing.

Diene's cross was a curling shot, which was extremely fast and not off the line. At the moment, Mata was standing at the front of the cross, and under the interference of Naldo, Mata jumped up and did not touch the football.

Mata's rise to the top caught Espanyol goalkeeper Diego Lopez by surprise as the ball flew before his eyes and rowed to the back post.

'Diene's cross, Juan Mata went up in front of him, the ball flew to the back post, is there anyone at the back post? It doesn't seem to be, it's a big open space......... Wait, it's Antunes, Antunes is outflanked, can he touch the ball? Like a balloon about to explode, Torres spoke with a heart-rending voice about Getafe's attack.

"Wo!! Antunes was a step too late, and the football passed at his feet, so dangerous. Torres patted his chest, and secretly said in his heart that it was so dangerous.

.....The referee ran to Naldo and Juan Mata, pointed to the penalty spot with his left hand, and pulled a yellow card from his pocket.

"Eh, eh, eh, what do you mean, what do you mean? Brother! Hu Xuefei was so surprised by this inexplicable punishment that he even came out in Mandarin.

Everyone watched intently as the cross was attacked, leaving out Getafe striker Juan Mata lying on the grass.

The referee's decision instantly ignited the emotions of all the Espanyol players, they all thought it was an unwarranted decision, and captain Diego even came to the referee to protest: "What are you doing, he fell on his own, what does it matter to us?" ”

The Espanyol players gathered around the referee, and Hu Xuefei pleaded to the fourth official: "I want to watch the VAR, we want to watch the VAR, it shouldn't be a penalty." ”

The fourth official remained expressionless and said coldly: "The viewing of the VAR is decided by the referee, not by the head coach of the club, sir." ”

"I'm a fairy banban!"

No matter how the Espanyol players protested and Hu Xuefei complained, the referee of this game, Mr. Gonzalez, did not change the decision, nor did he decide to watch the VAR.

He confidently pointed to his eyes and explained to the Espanyol player in a particularly firm tone: "His hand pushed down the opposing player, I saw it very clearly. ”

Naldo is helpless, when Mata jumped, he also jumped, maybe it was accidentally brought by his arm at that time, hey, bad luck today.

After a sigh, Naldo walked straight to the players' tunnel, his head bowed in frustration.

"In the 38th minute, Espanyol's Naldo was sent off by the referee and awarded a penalty for pushing down an opposing player in the box.

Getafe had their best chance of scoring of the game. ”

Torres explained weakly, it was obvious that he was also dissatisfied with the decision, but there was nothing to do, the penalty was still a penalty, and now he could only pin his hopes on the captain of the field, Diego Lopez.

The on-site commentators pinned their hopes on Diego, and the Espanyol fans were not the same, and the fans behind the Espanyol goal made all sorts of grimaces and strange screams, intending to make Getafe's penalty taker Mata mentally unbalanced.

Hu Xuefei, who was on the sidelines, returned to the bench and did not go to see the penalty this time. Whether the penalty goes in or not, he needs to make adjustments, and now the team has one less man to play, and Piati's defensive attitude is really not flattering.

Now, Hu Xuefei is going to solve these problems, he doesn't have time to care about this penalty, he wants to win the first game, in front of the home fans, he has to prove himself, he wants to get his own start.