"Juan Mata!" The commentator shouted.
"Drop goal! — — What a GOOOOAL!!!! "
"Oh, oh, oh, oh! Sporting de Gijón! "
Cadani, who had his arms raised high in the air like he was surrendering, looked back and saw the football bouncing up the pitch. It had already entered the goal …
"Eight minutes and eleven seconds! Sporting de Gijón's sharp counterattack has broken through Cadiz's goal!! Beautiful! Brilliant! "The commentator, Dagestino, said with a laugh. "Javier Blanco's precise long pass, Mata's quick positioning, and his cool head when facing the goalkeeper. Maikel Pihra's positioning has also attracted the attention of the other defenders! Sporting de Gijón's counterattack is extremely fast! This is the characteristic of Sporting de Gijón. Fast! Really fast! "
Seeing that Mata had broken through the goal and scored, Li Ang led a group of coaches and substitutes and rushed out excitedly.
Before the game, he had explained the team's transition between offense and defense in the midfield. Previously, Sporting de Gijón's midfield had a characteristic. Many of the threatening passes were passed out by the team's captain, Mikel Kobas. After the other players took the ball, they would quickly find Mikel Kobas and let him organize the attack. This was because Mikel Kobas was the most experienced player in the team's midfield, had the best passing footwork, and had the best view of the overall situation.
However, when he was thinking about the game with Cadiz, Li Ang considered that the opponent must have focused on studying Sporting de Gijón's tactics. They must have noticed Mikel Kobas' role in Sporting de Gijón's transition between offense and defense. In this way, they would focus on marking Mikel Kobas. Therefore, Li Ang did the opposite. He explained to Javier Blanco that if there was a chance, he should directly launch an attack and not pass the football to Mikel Kobas. This way, they could catch the opponent off guard …
Obviously, during Sporting de Gijón's counterattack, Javier Blanco did this. He directly launched a counterattack, and Cadiz's defenders were all focused on Mikel Kobas at that moment. Fragoso was even ready to pounce on Mikel Kobas, who was "possibly going to receive the ball" …
Li Ang was very excited. He felt that his small tactical adjustment should be effective, but he did not expect this group of players to do so well. He had succeeded with just one counterattack!
"That's efficiency! That's offensive efficiency! After the game started, Cadiz took the initiative on the field and formed several shots. However, they were not able to really threaten Sporting de Gijón's goal, and Sporting de Gijón scored with one counterattack! " González was full of praise for Sporting de Gijón. "I believe many fans are familiar with this scene. Sporting de Gijón's sharp counterattack is an important way for them to score!"
"Sporting de Gijón's counterattack this time also benefited from the tactics adopted by Cadiz at the start of the game," Dagestino said. "The away team did not play conservatively. Instead, they launched a wave of attacks at the start of the game. Behind this wave of attacks is the hidden danger of being counterattacked by the opponent, and Sporting de Gijón seized the opportunity to counterattack and succeeded."
The entire El Molinon Stadium was filled with cheers. After the game started, the away team, Cadiz, took the initiative on the field, which made the home team's fans a little unhappy. Of course, this kind of situation was not rare after Li Ang took over the team. As the commentator said, everyone was familiar with Sporting de Gijón's counterattack efficiency in a passive situation.
Therefore, while they were unhappy, Sporting de Gijón's fans were also looking forward to the arrival of the team's counterattack. They were looking forward to the moment when Sporting de Gijón scored a goal!
Now, the team seized an opportunity to counterattack, and Mata scored a goal. Now, the home team was down 1-0. Was there anything more exciting than this?
*****
Li Ang looked to the side not far away. His colleague next door was roaring angrily on the sidelines. He could even hear the profanities from the Andlusan's mouth dancing in the night sky.
At this time, the game had already been going on for more than 30 minutes, and the score on the field was still 1-0.
After taking the lead, Li Ang immediately passed on his tactical instructions to stabilize the defense and wait for an opportunity to counterattack.
Sporting de Gijón took the lead of 1-0. This score meant that Sporting de Gijón would surpass Cadiz in the standings. In order to save their own fate, Cadiz had to press forward and attack.
Sporting de Gijón could stand on the defense and play the defensive counterattack that they were best at.
And the progress of the game was exactly like that. The players faithfully carried out Li Ang's tactics and pressed Cadiz tightly throughout the game. They used running and fighting to tear apart Cadiz's attacks.
As a result, both sides gathered a lot of players in the midfield and fell into a quagmire of strangulation in the midfield.
Cadiz wanted to comfortably push the football into Sporting de Gijón's penalty area, which was almost a very difficult task.
As a typical Segunda División team, Cadiz's main offensive method was based on coordination on the ground. When their layers of advances were torn apart by Sporting de Gijón's pressing and rushing, the effect of such an offensive tactic could be imagined.
Of course, Sporting de Gijón was entangled with their opponents and could not get a good opportunity to attack and counterattack for a while.
However, for Sporting de Gijón, the current lead was the best situation.
*****
According to the progress of the game at this time, Sporting de Gijón was likely to enter the halftime interval with a 1-0 lead. Li Ang was satisfied with this score.
However, a situation that no one expected occurred in the last seven or eight minutes of the first half.
In the 39th minute of the game, Cadiz attacked. Their striker, Edison, dribbled the ball and saw that he could not enter the penalty area. In the end, he chose to take a long shot from outside the penalty area. It was a breathtaking shot. The football drew a beautiful arc and hung directly in the top left corner of the goal. Sporting de Gijón's goalkeeper, Valencia, did not react at all.
Li Ang was stunned. Then, he stomped his feet and cursed in exasperation. He swore that the Cadiz player named Edison would not be able to replicate such a super goal even if he gave him a hundred, no, even a few hundred such long shots!
Football games were so wonderful. Such a goal was called a "fairy ball." On one hand, it meant that the goal was very beautiful. On the other hand, it meant that the goal was very strange.
Cadiz's goal was such a fairy ball!
1-1!
Cadiz equalized the score. This score meant that Cadiz was going to exclude Sporting de Gijón from the promotion play-offs!
Sporting de Gijón was completely stunned by their opponent's world-class goal. The mentality of Sporting de Gijón's players changed again.
Sporting de Gijón, who had been scored by Cadiz, began to worry. Their opponent only needed a draw to squeeze them behind. This goal was too fatal. What should we do? Can we not qualify for the promotion play-offs? With this thought, their actions changed, their minds were distracted, and their mentality was completely out of balance.
They began to be impatient. They wanted to attack in the last few minutes of the first half to equalize the score. Their eagerness to score made them press forward more and more.
Sporting de Gijón suddenly gave up fighting with Cadiz in the midfield. They began to press forward to attack, and the space behind them began to be exposed. Cadiz was able to remain in the top six of the league. Naturally, they had a certain level of ability.
It had to be said that the timing of Cadiz's goal was very crucial. There were only a few minutes before the end of the first half. At this time, the players' mentality was the easiest to have problems.
In the 44th minute of the game, Cadiz took advantage of the space after Sporting de Gijón pressed forward to launch a counterattack. Their team's top scorer, Gerard, volleyed the goal. 2: 1!
FC Gihon Racing had succeeded in their counterattack and successfully restrained their opponent's attack. They had basically controlled the rhythm of the match. Then, they were hit by the opponent's' God's Ball '. Then, they began to panic and their opponent seized the opportunity to score another goal.
This was the process of the home team's sudden change in the first half of the game.
*****
At this time, Li Ang became the person who was furious on the sidelines.
He was angry and puzzled by the players' sudden collapse after conceding the first goal.
In fact, the manager was powerless to do anything about this kind of collapse. In just a few minutes, the efforts of the first half of the game were in vain. The manager could only direct the game from the sidelines. It was very difficult for the manager on the sidelines to effectively stop and reverse the situation in time with the change in mentality that occurred in these few minutes.
Even to Li Ang, such an unforeseen event was completely out of his expectations.
To some extent, this was also a shortcoming of Li Ang's lack of coaching experience.
At this time, in the away team's stands at the El Molinon Stadium, the cheers and singing of the Cadiz fans were so ear-piercing.
Their team went from being behind to equalizing and then overtaking, which made the Cadiz fans very excited. In their eyes, Sporting de Gijón, who had already collapsed a little, could no longer pose a threat to them.
Some Cadiz fans deliberately provoked them. They gloated and sang, "Goodbye, Gijón people, goodbye, Gijón people, stay in Segunda División forever, la la la la la! Stay here forever! "
Amidst the provocative shouts of the Cadiz fans, the first half of the game ended. Sporting de Gijón was temporarily behind Cadiz at home with a score of one to two. For them, this was a terrible score that would exclude them from the promotion playoffs!
When the whistle blew at the end of the first half of the game, Li Ang's expression was gloomy. He walked straight to the players' corridor without looking back.
In his ears, he could even hear the Cadiz fans' unbridled singing. "Goodbye, Gijón people, goodbye, Gijón people, stay in Segunda División forever, la la la la la! Stay here forever! "
"This is the price of being young." The commentator Dagestino's voice rang out on the television. "Sporting de Gijón has paid the price for their youth. Their coach is young, their players are young. The manager is only 28 years old, and four of the starting players are under 18 years old. Youth means drive and vitality. It is this vitality and drive that helped Sporting de Gijón fight their way from the relegation zone to their current position. However, youth also means a lack of experience. After conceding the first goal, the young Sporting de Gijón began to collapse. Their young manager, Manager Li Ang, is now in the worst situation since he has coached Sporting de Gijón!"
In front of the television, the Sporting de Gijón fans had grim expressions, and the atmosphere in the bar was suffocating. Everyone's heart was heavy.
In a hotel in Madrid.
Shakira sighed. "In fact, it's already amazing to be able to lead the team to this point."
Obviously, the Latin female singer also thought that Li Ang and Sporting de Gijón's game today would not bode well.
"No!" Alice suddenly opened her mouth. The girl's expression was unusually firm, and her beautiful eyes seemed to be shining. "He will never admit defeat! He must have a way! "
"He can win!" Alice clenched her small fist and said very seriously.
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