Chapter 102

Chapter 102 No Zhe (Second Change)

Although a goal was conceded, for Irueta, this game has not yet reached the end of the mountain.

After all, this is a two-round knockout match.

The away win or loss is not important, what matters is the goals scored and goals conceded.

In the case of having lost the ball, there is no need for the lagging Deportivo to panic, because even if they lose the game in the end, as long as they score, they still have the advantage when they return to the home court.

For example, even if Valencia scored another goal and the score became 2:0, but as long as Deportivo scored a goal to make the score 1:2, Deportivo still had an advantage when they returned to the home court. They only need to score one more goal at the Riazor Stadium, with a total score of 2:2, and they can squeeze out Valencia with the advantage of away goals.

So losing the ball will not make Irueta panic. What makes him frown is that this game is always about scoring, but how to score?

Belleron was jointly restrained by the opponent's Marchena and Albelda.

Although there are others in Deportivo, Belleron is an important player to break the dense defense.

If he can't play out, Deportivo's offense will not be able to break through the opponent's goal.

It is very difficult to let Belleron play out.

Valencia seems to have been carefully prepared. Just a Marchena alone caused Belleron a lot of pain. Not to mention that there was Albelda who was eyeing him. Valencia's tough guy is not in vain. Tough defense, he is not much worse than Marchena.

Seeing this situation, Irueta turned to look at Chang Sheng next door.

The Chinese coach, like him, is also standing on the sidelines.

He just finished celebrating his goal, and now he still looks a little unsatisfied, shaking his fist and giving a thumbs up to the court.

When he saw Valencia's starting roster for this game, he wondered why Chang Sheng would leave Baraja and Guardiola unused, the last player who joined the team for only two days...

Now he understands.

Marchena has only one purpose in this game, and that is to completely freeze Belleron! In the game Marchena can do nothing else,

Just run with Belleron, no matter where Belleron is or what he does, Marchena is like a maggot attached to the bone, inseparable.

The other midfielder Albelda is responsible for the team's defense in the middle, doing what a normal midfielder should do.

In this way, it not only freezes Belleron, but also ensures that the team's defense in front of the central defender will not be torn apart by Belleron.

It really kills two birds with one stone...

In such an important game, the young Chinese coach dared to make such a decision to sacrifice a midfielder to completely destroy the opponent's offensive organization. The courage of that young Chinese coach is quite good.

No wonder Getafe's little-known team will be full of vitality after his injury, and Valencia can rank first in the league in his hands.

The level of this Chinese seems to be higher than everyone thought.

At least such a thing, Irueta can't do it.

Originally, there were two defensive midfielders in the midfield, and they had to be careful of the opponent's offensive breakthrough. I wish I could build a wall in the midfield. Fortunately, he directly withdrew a midfielder and asked Marchena to deal with Belleron...

Irueta thought about what the opponent would do if he wanted to deal with his Belleron.

He thought that the opponent's midfielder would be tougher on his Beleron. Just like what Marchena is doing now.

But he never thought that Marchena would be so inseparable, and he would go wherever Belleron really went.

This made it impossible for Belleron to play at a normal level.

On the court, there are two people who are completely out of this game, they are Belleron and Marchena.

Marchena drifted out of the game and had nothing to lose against Valencia, even if they had one less player. But they paid the price of one less person, and what they gained was the result of destroying the entire La Coruña offense.

For a match, they traded one person for the entire Deportivo team!

Irueta admitted that Chang Sheng did it harshly, but it worked out well.

Because I'm really lost.

After much deliberation, he only thought of one way, which is to divide the football and hand it over to the wide players to force a cross.

Then let Diego Tristan and Roy Mackay in the middle team solve the problem. Especially Ma Kai is very good at heading the ball. Even if it is so simple and rude, he has room to play. Irueta observed the opponent's two central defenders. Both Ayala and Carvalho are very short, which is the space for Deportivo.

Tristan's header is a bit poor, but he moves very well off the ball and is good at finding spaces.

Now that's the only way to play. As for the gorgeous football that Deportivo is proud of, and Belleron, the "Spanish Zidane", Irueta can't take care of it now.

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The Valencia players ended their celebration and returned to their own half.

They deliberately went around to a place closer to the coach's bench. Chang Sheng applauded and whistled on the sidelines, encouraging them and praising them.

When he saw Reyes in the crowd, he yelled, "Reyes! Reyes!"

Reyes turned to look at him again, an excited smile on his face.

"Good job! Just kick like this next time. When you think it's time to break through, break through. When you want to cross, cross. Don't hesitate to cut inside the shot! You have to be confident, even in the In the First Division, you and he are the best!"

Reyes nodded vigorously. He felt cordial and enjoyed the coach's swearing.

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When the game restarted, Deportivo continued to attack. They did not lose the courage to continue attacking because of this conceded goal. On the contrary, they attacked more fiercely.

Obviously, this was signaled by coach Irueta.

The two wingers continued to take the ball, sending all kinds of high balls to Valencia's goal, and then handed it over to the two forwards inside to compete for the top.

But at this time, they saw why Valencia was able to reach the Champions League final for two consecutive seasons by relying on defensive counterattacks...

Valencia's central defender combination was previously Pellegrino and Djukic, and was later replaced by Ayala and Djukic, or with Pellegrino.

Among the three, only Pellegrino is the tallest, with a height of 1.93 meters, and he has a good header and good air defense ability.

But he is only one person after all, and Ayala and Djukic beside him are only a little over 1.7 meters tall. As a central defender with such a height, his air defense ability is definitely not good.

But Valencia's air defense ability is very good, they rarely miss high balls.

Except for Pellegrino, Ayala and Djukic have good headers.

And Valencia has a whole set of ways to defend high balls.

Especially after Chang Sheng coached the team, he knew that his two central defenders were short, no matter whether they were good at header defense or not, the opponent would put their ideas on these two defenders.

Therefore, Valencia's air defense starts from the midfield, goes all the way to the wing, and finally in front of the goal.

In front of the goal, in addition to the two short central defenders who bounced well and headed the ball well, the goalkeeper Canizares also appropriately expanded the space for movement. He used his excellent height and aerial ball control The ability to attack frequently and intercept the opponent's cross ball.

With such a three-dimensional defense, Deportivo could not blast Valencia's goal through the air corridor!

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Facing a counter-attacking team, if you press all the way up but cannot break through the opponent's goal as soon as possible, then you may be facing a very terrible thing...

That was the opponent's sharp counterattack!

Chang Sheng put the two fast horses Vicente and Reyes on the wing, so that when Valencia counterattacked, Deportivo could not catch up at all!

In terms of quick counterattacks, Valencia has experience, and Changsheng also has experience. The combination of the two sides is definitely a strong combination of one plus one greater than two.

So in the 43rd minute, when Vicente used a quick counterattack to score a goal for Deportivo, it was not too surprising...

Because this goal was doomed as early as when Deportivo had besieged Valencia's goal for half a day without any results.

"Vicente -! 2:0! Can I say that the suspense is over? Not because of the score, but because of the scene of the game we saw. Deportivo's attack came to a complete halt, they were only able to pass Simple and rough crosses from the wide, send the football into the goal, and then expect Diego Tristan and Roy Mackay to hit the big luck like buying lottery tickets, and score one or two goals... Their tactics Completely restrained by Valencia's defensive counterattack! Vereron has disappeared on the field for more than ten minutes, and Marchena is almost like his shadow, following him every step of the way...Before, the Spanish football team How come no one in the altar has discovered that Marchena has the talent to be a defensive midfielder? His roughness, which was criticized by others, has now become a weapon to successfully freeze Belleron!"

Moen mercilessly criticized Deportivo, who performed poorly, and praised Valencia.

Mestalla has long been caught in the carnival.

And Deportivo, from the coach to the players, all looked gloomy and said nothing.

This was a big blow. They really didn't expect that the third Super Depor in the league would be beaten helplessly in Mestalla!

This reality is somewhat beyond their imagination and acceptable limits.

They came with the ambition to take away a victory in the away game, but they were hit so hard that they still haven't recovered.

If Belleron's problem is not resolved, Deportivo may not be able to do anything for forty-five minutes in the second half.

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That's right, in the second half, Deportivo still couldn't find a way to attack, so they shrunk their defense, hoping to lose less penalties, lose 0:2 away, and even return home to have a chance to reverse their opponents.

But if you lose 0:3, 0:4, the hope is very slim.

The victorious Valencia has always believed in the principle of "beating the dog in the water, Fairplay should slow down".

In pursuit of Deportivo.

Chang Sheng saw that Irueta had shrunk his defense, and immediately waved his hand. Valencia stopped defending and counterattacked, and played mad dog-taka.

After Belleron was replaced because he was ineffective in defense, Chang Sheng also replaced Marchena and replaced him with Guardiola. Marchena did not contribute much to the team's offense on the pitch, but When Guardiola comes up, it's different. It was as if Valencia had flipped a switch and immediately switched to attacking mode.

When Marchena was off the field, Chang Sheng took the initiative to reach out and hold Marchena.

"Excellent debut, Carlos."

The eyes of Marchena's smile almost disappeared, and he was very happy.

He was sure once again—that coming to Valencia from Benfica was the most fucking correct decision he had made in his life!

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