The game had already begun.
The roars in the stands were deafening. From the first second of the game, the Gijon people were expressing their enthusiasm to their heart's content! The fans' enthusiasm for the team's magical season was unstoppable. This erupting volcano was the expression of their energy!
"Michael Pihra and Juan Mata, this is the starting striker combination of Sporting de Gijón. A seventeen-year-old kid and a thirty-five-year-old man. Perhaps we don't find such a combination strange now. This combination has attacked Sporting de Gijón in the last dozen rounds of the league …" Dagestino was commenting on the starting lineup of the home team, Sporting de Gijón.
Li Ang was also observing Cadiz's starting lineup today.
He also had a piece of paper in his hand. This was the starting lineup list for Cadiz that he had just received. He looked at the opposing players on the field and matched the names of these people with the names on the paper.
After figuring out Cadiz's starting lineup, Li Ang breathed a sigh of relief. At the same time, he was also somewhat pleased with himself.
Three strikers!
Cadiz was impressively in a three strikers lineup. He did not know if they were influenced by Li Ang's provocation, but the result was that Cadiz's manager, Stekelenberg, seemed to be ready to raise the flag of offense in this game!
And after the game began, the Cadiz players on the field also showed their offensive attitude with their actions!
Cadiz's midfielder, Heffron, passed the ball over the top. Their striker, Edison, did not handle the ball well at first. Then, under Marcos's pressure, he forced his leg to shoot and hit the ball high.
Then, a minute later, Cadiz completed another shot. Their fullback, Mandela, assisted by a high pass into the penalty area. The high school striker, Schiller, headed the ball over. Then, Gardner got the chance to shoot. However, the shot was predicted by Carlos in advance and blocked with his body. Heffron shot again, but it was high.
"The game has only started three minutes ago and Cadiz has already gotten two chances to shoot," Dagestino said. "Obviously, Cadiz is not here for a draw. They want to play more actively. They want to win and eliminate all danger."
*****
The camera zoomed in on Cadiz's manager, Stekelenberger. The bearded manager was jumping up and down on the sidelines. He was angry and regretful that Heffron's long shot had gone over the crossbar.
Li Ang glanced over there and suddenly wanted to laugh. The character of the opponent's manager was no different from what he had guessed and understood. Such a bad temper. The match had only started a few minutes ago and he was already so agitated?!
As the match went on, the away team, Cadiz, completely turned the tables. They constantly put pressure on Sporting de Gijón's goal, and at one point, they had the absolute initiative on the field.
This also made more than a thousand Cadiz fans in the away team's stands at the El Molinon Stadium very excited. They roared and screamed, as if they could see the scene of the team stepping on Sporting de Gijón's corpse to enter the promotion playoffs.
The fans of the home team, Sporting de Gijón, naturally would not allow the fans of the away team to be so rampant. The cheers for Sporting de Gijón from the stands were loud and clear.
In the media box, Cadiz's reporters were very happy. They felt that the team's momentum was good at the start. They had a high chance of winning this away game.
Sporting de Gijón's reporters were a little anxious. There was no doubt about the importance of this game. It was not a good sign to be in a passive position from the start of the game.
*****
Li Ang sat calmly on the fishing platform. After the game started, he suddenly felt that his nervousness seemed to have disappeared.
It was like a general who was familiar with the smoke of the battlefield. When the familiar smell of gunpowder wafted through the air, his chest burned with hot blood. His mind was only filled with the battlefield, with the familiar smell and rhythm!
Li Ang was not worried about the situation on the field at all.
He understood that even though Cadiz's offensive momentum was very big, and even though the opponent seemed to have the initiative on the field and had already shot three times, Cadiz's offensive momentum was very strong.
However, Cadiz was not able to really threaten Sporting de Gijón's goal. Marcos did a good job of protecting in front of the penalty area. Carlos also constantly filled in, which made it difficult for Cadiz's players to get space to shoot. More often than not, they chose to hurriedly shoot long shots to end the offense.
Therefore, Cadiz's current offense could be described as loud as thunder but small as raindrops.
This was another attack by Cadiz.
Cortez was dribbling the ball. Heffron gave him a look. The former understood tacitly and passed the football to Heffron, while he rushed forward.
Heffron adjusted the football and pretended to pass it to Cortez, who was rushing forward. Almost at the same time, their left back, Redit, sprinted forward at full speed.
Heffron immediately passed the football over.
*****
Cadiz's left back, Redit's assist was one of the important means of their offense.
Heffron thought that he had pretended to pass the ball to Cortez, but in fact, the pass to Redit was very subtle.
On the sidelines, Li Ang stood up. Before the game, he had especially emphasized to be careful of the opponent's left back, Redit, who was plugging forward. At the same time, he also emphasized that if there was a chance, they should seize the gap after Redit came up to launch a quick counterattack!
Now was the chance!
It all depended on whether they could intercept Cadiz's pass!
"Good job!" There was a smile on Li Ang's face. He saw Carlos rush up. Taking advantage of the moment when Redit stopped the ball, he directly stretched out his foot and poked the football away. Then Javier Blanco very agilely stepped forward and controlled the football that Carlos intercepted.
One went to intercept, and the other went to seize control of the football!
Tacit cooperation!
Li Ang praised the cooperation of these two little guys.
Just as Javier Blanco controlled the football at his feet, Mata began to run forward with all his strength.
In addition, Maikel Pihra was also plugging forward with all his strength!
The seventeen-year-old Mata and the thirty-five-year-old Pihra were running forward with all their might. It was as if they were not playing football, but running a hundred-meter race.
Javier Blanco did not pass the ball to his other teammates. He even ignored the captain, Maikel Kobas, who raised his hand to ask for the ball.
Maikel Kobas was the hub of Sporting de Gijón's midfield offense. The Cadiz players were well aware of this. At this time, Fragoso, who was about to pounce on Maikel Kobas, saw that Javier Blanco had no intention of passing the ball. His heart inexplicably beat wildly.
"Don't let him …" Before he could finish shouting, he saw Javier Blanco make a slight adjustment and whip the football!
*****
A long pass!
At this moment, there was a moment of panic in Cadiz's rear defensive line. Some pounced on Maikel Pihra, while others looked at the sprinting Mata and suddenly ran forward to create an offside position!
"Javier Blanco passes the ball!" The commentator, González, shouted.
Just as the football soared into the air, Mata was like a fighter jet rushing out from layers of dark clouds. He charged out from behind Cadiz's entire rear defensive line!
The Cadiz players who were just about to create an offside position immediately raised their arms to signal to the assistant referee that Mata was offside.
But the assistant referee ignored them and just continued to run down with Mata.
Cadiz's goalkeeper, Cadani, reacted faster than his defenders. When he saw Mata charging out from the rear defensive line, he decisively abandoned the goal and attacked. The defenders might hesitate and habitually protest to the referee, but the goalkeeper absolutely could not hesitate and be distracted. Their job was to protect the goal and stop the opponent's attack first.
Cadiz's goalkeeper, Cadani, attacked.
Mata slowed down slightly. He was ready to receive the ball. At this time, Mata noticed that the goalkeeper had attacked. At this time, the goalkeeper attacked in the middle between him and the goal. Mata immediately had an idea. Was he going to shoot?
Without hesitation!
Mata immediately chose to shoot!
Cadani saw through Mata's intention. He suddenly leaped up, stretched his body in the air, and opened his arms in an attempt to block the opponent's space for a looping shot.
Then, people saw the football pass over the hands of the Cadiz goalkeeper, Cadani, who had his hands raised high in the air …
Then, after passing the goalkeeper, it continued to fly forward. Then the trajectory of the ball began to fall, fall …
It fell into the empty goal …
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