OBS Chapter 343 Defeating the Bat Legion
Chapter 343 Defeating the Bat Legion
Chapter 343 Defeating the Bat Legion
Chapter 337 Destroying the Bat Legion
After determining the goal, the players of Atletico Madrid have unprecedented confidence.
On September 23, the third day after the game against Barcelona, the team will go to an away game against Valencia.
Originally, the season had just started, and the game schedule did not need to be so intensive. However, due to the power struggle between La Liga and the Spanish Football Association, the new season of La Liga was suspended for two weeks just after the first round. After the schedule was rescheduled, the game time had to be compressed in September.
Valencia is the third largest city in Spain, and the Valencia club is considered a veteran team in Spain. They won the third place in the league last season, and at the turn of the century, Valencia even reached the Champions League final for two consecutive seasons.
It's a pity that they failed in the Champions League final twice and failed to make a breakthrough in the European arena.
After they entered the new century, Valencia gradually fell behind Barcelona and Real Madrid in the competition. However, apart from these two teams, Valencia's performance in the league is still quite good. They can enter the Champions League almost every season and maintain a stable performance in the top four in the league.
Valencia won No.3 in the league last season, but this season, Valencia's two core players left.
Forward Villa was taken away by Barcelona at a price of 4000 million euros, while midfielder Silva was taken away by Premier League upstart Manchester City for 3000 million euros!
Another main striker, Zikic, was also taken away by the Premier League team Birmingham for 700 million euros.
Last season, Valencia's main lineup suddenly lost three players.
However, after the start of the season, Valencia's state does not seem to be affected by the departure of the main force.
In the three league rounds, Valencia defeated Malaga 3-1 away, Racing Santander 1-0 at home, and Herkus [-]-[-] away.
With three victories in three games and nine points, they are behind Atletico Madrid on goal difference.
Now in the standings, there are currently three teams with nine points. In addition to Atletico Madrid and Valencia, Sevilla also won three consecutive games.
It's just that Valencia and Sevilla haven't encountered strong opponents after the first three rounds, so public opinion generally believes that Atletico Madrid's three-game winning streak is more valuable, because their victory also includes games like defeating Barcelona!
After this game, one team's winning streak is destined to be ended.
Valencia naturally does not want to lose to Atletico Madrid at home. At the press conference before the game, Valencia's coach Emery seemed very confident in Valencia's home victory against Atletico Madrid.
"Atletico Madrid has indeed shown a very good state after the start of the league, but this game is our home game. I don't think Valencia's strength will be weaker than Atletico Madrid. Valencia, who are playing at home, will try their best to win!"
The local media in Valencia also started with confidence.
The first is the performance of the two sides.
In the past 20 years of Valencia's home game against Atletico Madrid, except for losing a goal in 2002-2003, Valencia has remained unbeaten!
Valencia showed its past record, but this kind of behavior is more like whistling to embolden itself. After all, after Atletico Madrid defeated Barcelona, Valencia's media dream is still very uncertain about the current strength of Atletico Madrid.
Valencia's midfielder Juan Mata also said in an interview that Valencia will go all out to win at home and maintain their winning streak.
When Gao Bo was studying the current Valencia team, he found that there were still many players Gao Bo was very familiar with in their lineup.
Goalkeeper Cesar, of course he is not the Cesar of the Brazilian national team, but this goalkeeper is also a famous player in Spain.
Of course, the story that fans have the most profound impact on Cesar is undoubtedly the Champions League final in the 2001-2002 season.At that time, Cesar played as Real Madrid's main goalkeeper, but in the No.608 minute of the game, Cesar was accidentally injured and Casillas was ordered in danger. Since then, Casillas has secured the position of Real Madrid's main goalkeeper.
If it is a story with Casillas as the protagonist, in this story, the unlucky ghost is Cesar who lost his main position due to injury.
Since then, Cesar has moved to many teams and played for Tottenham in the Premier League for a short time, but he didn't get any chance to play.
Cesar returned to Spain last season, joined Valencia, and soon became the main goalkeeper of the Bat Corps.
Although Cesar's experience seems to be unlucky, Cesar's strength is beyond doubt as the main goalkeeper of the first phase of the Galaxy Battleship at that time.
In addition to Cesar, Valencia's lineup also includes Mata!
The player who later moved to Chelsea and won a career Grand Slam is now the star of hope in Valencia's frontcourt.
In addition to Mata, Valencia also has Joaquin, Mathieu, Soldado, Alba and other familiar stars in the Valencia team.
It can be said that Valencia's strength should not be underestimated.
Gao Bo also emphasized this point with the players all the time when preparing for the game.
The opponent is also a team that has won three consecutive victories at the start of the game. If the players of Atletico Madrid do not know enough about the strength of the opponent, it is not certain who will win and who will lose at the Mestaly Stadium.
On the evening of September 23, the Mestaly Stadium was full of seats, and more than 5 Valencia fans created a huge decibel noise in their home stadium.
Players from both sides line up to enter the field.
Valencia's starting was not a big surprise, all their main players started.
"Valencia sent the main lineup for this game, goalkeeper Cesar, right back Miguel, center back combination Navarro and Maduro, left back Mathieu, two midfielders Tino Costa and Albelda, right midfielder Joaquin, midfielder Mata, left midfielder Dominguez, forward Aduriz!"
After the commentator finished reading Valencia's starting name in the commentary booth, another commentator, Mateo, continued.
Compared with Valencia, Atletico Madrid's starting lineup has changed a lot compared to their previous list. Goalkeeper De Gea, center back Godin and Boateng partnered, left back Antonio Lopez, right back Barrera, in midfield, Mario Suarez replaced Modric in the starting lineup, and Thiago Cardoso replaced Raul Garcia. Queiro appeared on the starting list, while Reyes also sat on the bench for this game, and the starting player was the teenager Mane!! Atletico Madrid has six personnel changes in this game!"
"This is because there is only three days between this game and Atletico Madrid's last match. Gao Bo must also allow his players to have enough rest. Valencia's last match was on September [-]th. They had one day more rest than Atletico Madrid. Valencia is playing at home, and the rest time is one day longer than Atletico Madrid. It is really not easy for Atletico Madrid to win this game!"
The two commentators sang together, and the players from both sides had already entered the stadium.
Gao Bo and Emery shook hands and greeted each other, and then returned to the coaching bench.
Gao Bo was quite familiar with Emery in his previous life. In his previous life, Emery came to Seville and led Seville to three consecutive Europa League titles. During that time, the Europa League was also ridiculed as the Seville Cup.
Emery is undoubtedly a head coach who is very familiar with Spanish football and has considerable ability.
The opponent's coach is quite capable, and Valencia's strength is also good.
So when the game started 15 minutes later, Atletico Madrid conceded the goal!
"Aduris!!!!!!!!! Beautiful!!!!!!!" The commentator Aduris was shouting for the player Aduris.
Valencia's NO.11 striker Aduriz overwhelmed Boateng in the penalty area, jumped high and scored with a header!
Before that, Valencia's counterattack was quite fast!
Midfielder Alberdal received a precise diagonal pass from Mata on the right, and then sent the ball into the penalty area.
Aduriz's powerful header made De Gea helpless.
Valencia scored and the score became one to zero!
At the Mestaly Stadium, the Valencia players were cheering heartily, and Aduriz also celebrated wantonly in the stadium under the chase of the Valencia players.
Gao Bo's face was very ugly.
At the beginning of the game, Atletico Madrid took the initiative. After the start of the game, they used the continuous passing cooperation in the frontcourt to suppress Valencia.
However, Valencia's only counterattack made a goal!
This made the Atletico Madrid players very helpless. Before Valencia counterattacked, they still had a few shots.
It's a pity that they were all rejected by Cesar!
"In the 15 minutes of the first half, Valencia took the lead. Now Atletico Madrid is in trouble. They will face Valencia's iron wall next. Valencia is the team that is best at defensive counterattacks!!!" Aduriz sat back on his seat.
The Mestaly Stadium is still cheering.
"That's right, especially when they have two fast wingers and a midfielder who can pass a threatening ball at any time!" Mateo echoed.
Mane's attacking side happened to be close to Gao Bo's side, so Gao Bo immediately called Mane over.
"Hey, listen! Sadio!!!" Gao Bo grabbed Mane, who looked thin and weak, and said, "You need to strengthen your breakthrough on the wing!! Use your speed and explosive power to break through Miguel!!! Do you understand?!"
Mane, who just came out of the youth academy, does not seem to have much confidence.
"I" Mane hesitated, Valencia's main right back Miguel, and he is just a little guy from Senegal, can he really do it?
"Don't think so much, Sadio! I brought you to Madrid because of your strength!! Believe me, Sadio!! You can definitely pass him easily!!" Gao Bo patted Mane on the shoulder and said, "Go up! Don't think so much! You have the opportunity to attack him!!!"
Before Mane had time to say anything, he was pushed back to the pitch by Gao Bo.
Gao Bo naturally has confidence in Mane. When it comes to speed, there is no player in the Atletico Madrid team that can catch up with Mane's speed!What shocked Gao Bo even more was Mane's explosive power!
Mane's ability to become famous in the Premier League in the future will largely depend on his explosive power.
And Miguel is an experienced right back, but if Mane relies on speed to attack him, Miguel really has no good way!
On the football field, speed and explosive power are sometimes unreasonable.
It didn't take long for Mane to get the ball on the left!
Mane's basic skills are very good, he stopped the ball, and then looked up to Miguel who was defending!
"What are you hesitating!!! Sadio!!!!"
Gao Bo covered his mouth with both hands, forming a temporary loudspeaker, and then shouted at Mane in the distance!
Mane paused, then gritted his teeth!
It's not easy to have a chance to start! ! !
Fight! ! !
Mane immediately took the initiative to approach the opponent's right-back Miguel with the ball.
Miguel was no exception. He stepped back, looked left and right, and then stared at Mane.
Miguel doesn't care too much about Mane. This black guy who looks like a bamboo pole is really not deterrent. If he is facing a player like Reyes, Miguel must not dare to look left and right, and wants to strengthen the defense in other positions.
And the moment Mane approached him, in Miguel's eyes, the black guy on the opposite side suddenly disappeared from his eyes!
Miguel turned around hastily, but Miguel who reacted at this time only saw Mane's back!
"What a fast start speed!!!" Aduriz exclaimed from the stands.
You can really see it from the stands looking out to the pitch.
Mane almost went from stillness to movement, accelerating in an instant!And the careless Miguel didn't have time to react at all! !
After gaining speed, Mane turned into a black shadow, and he didn't use any special skills, pure speed was enough for him to pass Miguel!
Then Mane passed the ball to the penalty area near the baseline!
In the penalty area, Diego Costa put the defender behind him, then blocked the ball into the goal with his thigh! !
"GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!!!!!!!"
"Diego Costa!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"Atlético Madrid equalized the score not long after conceding the goal. The player who scored the goal was the starting striker Diego Costa! And 80.00% of the credit for this goal should be credited to the teenager Mane. His sudden start was really too fast, so fast that Miguel couldn't react at all!!!!"
After the goal, Diego Costa also knew who deserved the most credit for the goal, so after the goal, Diego pointed to Mane and motioned him to come up and celebrate together.
Other Atletico Madrid players surrounded the two of them, and many players put their hands on Mane's head, messing up the boy's hairstyle.
Before that, Mane’s presence in the team was not high. After all, in the eyes of the first-team players, Mane was no different from other players in the youth academy, because in the first-team training, Gao Bo still often selected some young players from the youth academy to train with the first-team players, and Mane had never started in the league. It is normal that he could not attract the attention of other players.
After all, in professional teams, there is a huge gap between the first-team players who have regular appearances and those young players in their teens, which is the gap in strength.
And when Mane shows his ability on the court, the players will naturally regard him as a member of the team and let him integrate into this group.
And this breakthrough also gave Mane confidence.
In the next game, Miguel was overwhelmed by Mane. The Valencia right back probably had Mane roaring past him after this game.
And Mane's breakthrough naturally caused him to be attacked by Valencia players. Mane frequently fell to the ground in the frontcourt, and Atletico Madrid also frequently got set kicks in the frontcourt.
Set-pieces are an offensive method that Gao Bo attaches great importance to. After several attempts, Atletico Madrid finally achieved results through set-piece attacks in the No. 308 minute of the first half.
Mane broke through on the left to create a set kick, and then Griezmann came to take a free kick. This time Griezmann did not pass the ball into the penalty area, but waited until Atletico Madrid's attackers in the penalty area flattened the opponent's defense. Griezmann suddenly passed the ball near the top of the arc.
Thiago Cardoso hits the ball and the ball flies into the goal from the dead corner on the left!
Before the end of the first half, Atletico Madrid overtook the score!
After Atletico Madrid took the lead, Valencia's defensive counterattack would naturally fail.
In the No.608 minute of the second half, Griezmann received a pass from Kanter on the right and dribbled into the penalty area. After shaking the angle, he shot again from a small angle!
The football is sent to the goal again!
Three to one, Atletico Madrid secured the victory!
In the following game, neither side scored again.
After the game, Atletico Madrid won four consecutive victories since the start of the game, while Valencia's winning streak was ended by Atletico Madrid.
(End of this chapter)