Chapter 21: Let's Attack

Hu Xuefei stood in the command area of the away team and looked at the home team's bench, at this time the home team's head coach Osevio was standing leisurely in front of the bench, looking full of confidence.

In today's starting lineup of Girona, Hu Xuefei needs to pay attention to only their striker, Stuani. Stuani attended 33 of them last season, scoring 21 goals in all competitions, and scoring very efficiently, so Hu Xuefei made the four people in the backline pay high attention to the Girona striker.

Girona's left and right wingers are Borja Garcia and Patrick Roberts, for these two players, Hu Xuefei disdainful, one is Borja Garcia, who has worked hard for several years and can only eat in the bottom team, and the other has a lot of honors, Roberts, who was born in Manchester City, has started his loan career since 2016, and has been playing for Celtic in the Soviet Super League for the first two years, but his own ability is insufficient, and the team's scouting system evaluates his ability and potential on B+, and the threat is small.

Girona's midfield trio, with Pere at the back, has similar characteristics to his team's Semedo, but seems to prefer to be in the center of the midfield.

All-round midfielder Porto, in addition to Stuani, the most capable person in the Girona team, can wear and shoot, and can also assist Pere in defense, it can be said that he is the lungs of Girona's midfield, without him, Girona is not breathing well.

The core of their organization is Alex, and his organizational ability is average, Hu Xuefei did not respond to today's targeted tactics, and did not have a lot of tactical actions corresponding to him.

Girona have left-back Marc, centre-backs Beneteau and Juan, and right-back Pedro. Girona's starting right-back was Jonas injured and unable to play, so Osevio used Pedro, who was only 18 years old in his academy, to be promoted directly to fill the vacancy of right-back that Jonas had missed as soon as possible.

Before the start of the game, Hu Xuefei deliberately asked Roca, vice-captain Garcia and left-back Rika to focus on attacking the young Pedro's side, and presented a wonderful gift for his first-team debut.

"According to the previous style of play in Eurocello, this 80% is an offensive attitude, hehe, since I will choose to attack, then I am not stingy, the opening attack, for the fans present a big offensive battle."

Hu Xuefei is confident, he doesn't care about Girona, he simply treats Girona as a gift-giving boy.

At the start of the game, Girona's home stadium, the Stadio Mondilian, did not burst into flames and firecrackers because it was the first game of their favorite team, except for the shouts of some die-hard fans, the stadium seemed a little quieter than the home stadium of Espanyol.

When the game started, Girona proceeded with their manager's deployment in a step-by-step manner, focusing on both sides, and the middle was more often used as cover for both sides.

Girona's right-back Pedro did not have stage fright because he was making his debut, and frequently stepped forward to assist, which made the left-back Rika a little unprepared, and he was still depressed: "Didn't the manager say that this guy is making his first appearance?" How can you fight harder than the Manchester City guys from the UK. ”

Rika's lack of preparation brought the Spaniards their first defensive crisis of the game.

In the 3rd minute, after Pedro and Roberts collided with the wall, Rica thought that Pedro would send the ball back to Roberts, who cut inside, but Pedro crossed directly from a 45-degree angle.

Rika didn't react at all, and could only watch the ball fly towards the penalty area, and then Hermoso pressed Stuani to push the ball out.

After the two teams arrived, they showed their wolf-like offensive momentum.

The two teams also did not reverse their feet too much in the midfield, and passed directly to the side with three or two feet, relying on their own wingers to impact the opponent's backline.

Soon, Girona ushered in their second attack on the right flank, this time the cross was changed to Roberts, and Rika's defense was once again ignored by Girona's players, and a simple change of direction left and right shook Rika in place.

Roberts saw that Rica was confused by his feints, and did not follow up immediately, nor did he drag the mud and water, and directly crossed with his feet.

Roberts' cross was denied, and Roberts, who had been looking for a high cross, now saw the ball in a low flying path that was denied by Espanyol goalkeeper Diego Lopez, who was blocked at the near corner post.

Roberts was very annoyed by his cross, the original feint in front had dealt with the opposing full-back very well, but he didn't expect the last pass to be so tea, it was simply unforgivable.

Roberts shook his head in disappointment and slowly ran back to his defensive position.

Girona's two attacks after the opening kick-off threatened the Espanyol's goal, but it added to the excitement of the fans at the scene, who cheered from time to time for Girona's tackle in midfield and the successful defense on the wing.

Girona's attacks frequently threatened the Spaniards, and the visitors, who played against the home team, were not idle.

In the 9th minute, Igolesias came to the left side, blocked the depth of the opponent's back with his physical advantage, and after receiving a pass from Semedo's long pass, Igolesias saw that not far away, Roberts and Porto were quickly moving closer to his side.

Soon, the Spaniard striker will face Girona's three-man pack.

Igolesias is also knowledgeable, understanding that he is not Messi or Ronaldo, and he is not capable of successfully breaking through the encirclement of the three, and sent the ball out before the encirclement of the three was closed.

After receiving a pass from Igolesias, Dadel adjusted a little and directly shoved a straight kick into the open space on the right.

There is no doubt about Igolesias' individual ability, and the three-man package also makes Girona's defensive strength at the back a lot weaker on the right.

Only one full-back, Marc, was dealing with the huge empty space on Girona's left.

Dardell's almost 30-metre through ball crossed centre-back Beneteau's area of defence and got out of the control of left-back Mark to deliver the ball exactly where it should be.

Hu Xuefei's right winger Pérez was running at high speed, and behind him was Mark, who had spent a century turning, in a desperate chase.

The football was in front of him, Pérez did not slow down, and while running, he took the ball forward and slammed it to the bottom line.

Pérez observed the position of Igolesias in the middle while dribbling the ball, and found that Igolesias had not returned to the position where he should have received his pass in the penalty area at this time, and Pérez had to clasp the ball at his feet.

Mark, who was chasing back with all his might, found that Pérez dunked the ball, stopped in place, and immediately slowed down, but because of inertia, he still slightly broke away from the position of defending Pérez.

Pérez's abrupt stop caused Mark to be taken a few steps away by his own inertia. Perez glanced at Mark, smiled in surprise and let out a mouthful of white teeth, and he decided to cut inside.

Mark's disposition and Pérez's decision to cut inside made the Girona fans break out in a cold sweat and nervously watch what Pérez plans to do as he cuts inside into the box.

After Pérez burst into the penalty area, Beneteau naturally wanted to make up for the hole in his own full-back Mark and came to Pérez.

When Pérez received a through pass from Ddal, ran a few steps in a row, and was already on the edge of the bottom line, at this time facing Beneteau, Pérez calmly passed the ball back to the center of the penalty area, and in the center of the penalty area, Igolesias rushed to the ball.

With a nudge of his right foot, the ball flew towards the top left corner of the goal, and Igolesias was ready to celebrate the goal.

Igolesias' eyes were finally changed by Pedro, the opponent's magical youngster, who used his body to block the ball off the line. Igolesias couldn't believe the Girona youngster who was now lying on the grass, clutching his hair with both hands, his expression extremely ugly.

The strong attack of the two teams at the beginning of the game only made the fans on the scene chant continuously, and this time the Spaniards' attack ignited the whole stadium, and the disappointed exclamations of the Spaniard fans resounded throughout the stadium.