freeallnovels Chapter 400 Don't Fall Behind
Chapter 400 Don't Fall Behind
Chapter 400 Don't Fall Behind
The draw against Eibar at home made Yan Feng depressed not only by only scoring one point.What made him even more depressed was that the Granada team failed to seize the opportunity to score points, while the direct competitors Villarreal and Athletic Bilbao both won this round.
As a result of this, after this round, the Granada team dropped two places in a row, dropping from No.5 to No.7 in the standings.
Faced with this situation, in order to ensure that the Granada team does not fall behind, the next round of the game becomes very important.
In the fifth round of No.20, Granada's opponent will be Girona, the weakest team in La Liga this season.As a newly promoted Girona, so far ranked No.1 from the bottom, it may be that a place for relegation has been booked in advance.
Facing relegation favourites, Granada will have to win if they want to qualify for the next Europa League.Even a tie is considered a loss.
Because of the above reasons, the game against Girona has received unprecedented attention from the Granada team.
In order to increase the chips for victory in this game, after the game against Eibar, the whole team immediately turned to preparations.
"Winning is the only goal in this game."
"I only accept the result of winning. Other possible outcomes are not in my consideration."
In training, Pirlo said this directly to everyone.
Although Pirlo took over the Granada team, the record is not bad.However, at present, it is not much better than Alcaraz.This led to some outsiders doubting him after the Eibar team was tied.This made Pirlo feel a lot of pressure.
If the Girona team can't win, Pirlo will face more severe pressure of doubt.
"Come on everyone, we must win the next game. Brothers, we can do it, we have the ability to win Girona!"
Yan Feng supports Pirlo's idea 100%.Therefore, he will help encourage Pirlo when he speaks for mobilization.
"Granada must win!"
Thanks to everyone's efforts, the thoughts of the Granada team have been highly unified.It made everyone actively participate in the preparations, and the preparation effect was not bad.
Time flies, and in the tense preparations, the Granada team soon ushered in this highly valued game.
In the No.20 fifth round of La Liga, Granada challenged Girona away.
Granada is determined to win.However, the outside world did not feel that they had the certainty of victory.
"The heavy damage caused by Samper's departure seems to have not yet been made up. The away game against Girona has little chance of winning. A draw may be the final outcome of this game."
"Girona's chance to stop the losing streak has come. Granada, which is weak in attack, will find it difficult to beat them."
Pre-match predictions for this game were almost all a draw.Even the local media in Granada made such speculations.
I don't know if these predictions from the outside world have played a role. In the pre-match warm-up for this game, the Girona players at home looked confident, and they did not have the low morale of the relegation favorites.
Faced with the situation he saw, Yan Feng was quite speechless.Why, when other teams meet Granada, don't they have the mentality that when they meet a strong team, they will lose in all likelihood?
That made Yan Feng depressed.Especially after the start of the game, it is even more so after seeing the opponents all piled up in the backcourt full of confidence and set up a bucket formation.
"It's 541 formations again!"
To be honest, since this season, Yan Feng's biggest headache is seeing the opponent put up this formation.
"Made, it's time to attack the city again."
"Brothers, it's a hard bone again. Let's cheer up, we can't miss the chance to get three points this time." Yan Feng understood the difficulties that were expected before the game.
Sure enough, after kicking, this is simply a replica of the last round against Eibar.
Seeing the opponents excitedly and inexplicably beaten by his own side, Yan Feng was very depressed in his heart, contrary to the scene of taking the initiative.
To fight against the opponent, if you have a very good level of positional warfare, it is definitely a beautiful thing.And if this is the opponent's initiative, and the own side's method of breaking the goal is not good.For the attacking side, it was so depressing that they wanted to vomit blood.
As the game progressed, the Granada team, which had been unable to find a better way to break the goal, became more and more impatient.
This rush, on the contrary, had the opposite effect, and the mistakes began to increase.And this also gave the home team a chance to counterattack.No, if it wasn't for Yan Feng's return to defense fast enough, Girona would almost have been attacked successfully.
As the defense began to pose a threat, this began to contain the Granada team's already not ideal attack.No goal can be scored even in the siege, and the offensive slows down, making it even more difficult to score.
The game is ebb and flow, when one side loses momentum, the other side will gain momentum.The Girona team's offensive, which is gradually gaining momentum, has increased, and the threat to Grana's team has also increased.It even allowed the Girona team to play a beautiful tactic that they have rarely seen this season.Looking at the performance of Girona's players on the field, who would not be familiar with them think that they are the favorites for relegation this season?
In the first half, the two sides ended in a dull tie.The Granada team wanted to score but was powerless, but the defense made the Girona team feel powerless as well.
At the end of the first half, Girona played better than Granada.For this reason, Yan Feng felt very worried about the second half.But Pirlo maintains the opposite view.During the intermission, he was very happy to express to everyone. "If the opponent becomes more active and aggressive in the second half, then our chance will come."
Pirlo's words made everyone's eyes shine.They hate each other's tortoise array, but they are not afraid of their opponent's attack.
But to their disappointment, after the start of the second half, the Girona team did not take the initiative to attack as they expected, but retreated as hard as the first half.
"Wow super!"
After seeing his opponents retreating to the backcourt, Yan Feng swears directly.While he was depressed, he had to admire the head coach of the Girona team. "This is their home field. They are really shameless. They are invincible."
Apart from cursing and cursing in his heart, the reality made him very helpless.The offense of the entire team cannot be organized, and he has to take care of defense, and he is not a player who is good at organization.He didn't have a good idea.
If you can't think of a solution, you can only have no way to start.There is no better way than to smash hard.The effect of the hard hit depends on the character.Unfortunately, the Granada team was unable to break through the opponent's goal until 80 minutes into the game.And it seems that it is very likely that the rest of the time will not be able to score goals.
"Yan, set-piece tactics. Find a way to create set-piece opportunities. We can only rely on this method now." Seeing that time was running out, Pirlo took advantage of a dead ball to call Yan Feng to the sidelines, and said so.
Yes.Yan Feng's eyes lit up.Surprisingly, tactics such as short-pass penetration cannot achieve results in positional warfare, so the high-altitude bombing tactic of using set balls is the best choice.
If this is the case, all that remains is to create set-piece opportunities.After Yan Feng returned, he immediately conveyed Pirlo's meaning to Costa and others.
Next, the Granada team began to use dribbling by Costa and Pereira, who have good ball handling skills, to constantly lure opponents into fouls.
This change of the Granada team began to show good results.Taking advantage of the opportunity of set kicks, they constantly bombarded Girona's penalty area, which created a great threat.
Different from the big foot in the midfield to make a long pass, the positioning ball tactic is far more than that in terms of creating threats.With a long pass, the only ones hitting the penalty area are the kittens on the front line.As for the set kick opportunity, a bunch of people compete for the top in the penalty area, and the chance of winning is half and half.In this way, the murderous intent created began to make the Girona team feel tremendous pressure.
Huang Tian paid off, among the several set-kick opportunities created, the Granada team finally seized one of them.Chaos was caused by the header, but it was Sandel who poked the ball into Girona's goal in the scuffle.
After nearly nine and 10 minutes of hard work, the Granada team was finally lucky enough to score.And this goal was the only goal in the game.
Granada eventually won the game with this goal.
"Finally won. It's really not easy to win a game. If you score these three points, you won't fall behind." Yan Feng was already exhausted during the game.Such a difficult game, sometimes really tortures people.
(End of this chapter)