Li Ang chose to announce the news of Carlos signing with the team so quickly after careful consideration.
He wanted to send a signal to all of his opponents — Sporting de Gijón was very united. He would not let the team's important players leave. Even powerhouses like Real Madrid, Barcelona, and Milan could forget about poaching players from Sporting de Gijón!
At the same time, the contract renewal of the team's most important youngster, Carlos, would boost the team's morale and morale. Carlos was able to choose to stay at Sporting de Gijón in the face of invitations from powerhouses like Real Madrid. Almost everyone knew that Carlos was Head Coach Li Ang's personal player, which meant that Li Ang would not leave Sporting Gijón in the short term. This also made the players who were brought in by Li Ang feel at ease.
Also, no one would be harassed by gossipy reporters during training anymore. Everyone's mind was only thinking about how to win the game.
Li Ang was in a good mood after settling the matter of Carlos's signing.
Of course, this was not the only reason for his good mood. After all, Carlos had signed the contract. Li Ang did not doubt it at all. Therefore, it was more of a matter of course than a surprise.
He was happy that he was about to be promoted.
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Sporting de Gijón's form was good. They kept winning in the league. Li Ang gained more and more experience points, especially in the games against Deportivo de La Coruña, Real Madrid, Lazio, and Valencia. The experience points he gained were huge.
The accumulated experience points were enough for Li Ang to directly upgrade to the eighth level of the football system. However, because the medical system was temporarily stuck at the third level, Li Ang was temporarily unable to upgrade because the two-way system's level difference was limited to three levels.
However, Li Ang went to visit his little neighbor Barthez after dinner. The little guy's recovery was very good. Li Ang gave Barthez acupuncture and massage. He was pleasantly surprised to find that Barthez would be able to recover in less than three months. Of course, this recovery referred to Carlos being able to stand up and walk like a normal person. Even so, for a child who had been in a wheelchair since young, this could be considered a great miracle.
[Treating Barthez] was a medical mission. It was a graded mission. Depending on the completion of the mission, the reward would be different.
Li Ang did some calculations. If Barthez could stand up and walk normally, the experience points Li Ang would gain would be enough for him to upgrade from the third level to the fifth level. In that case, his football system would be able to upgrade from the sixth level to the eighth level.
If Carlos could run like an ordinary child, Li Ang's experience points would also increase greatly. He could even directly upgrade to the seventh level!
If Carlos could be completely like a healthy child, not only could he walk and run, but he could also play football and participate in various sports. As long as he had the talent and interest, he could do whatever he wanted like any other child. If he could achieve this step, Li Ang could at least upgrade the medical system to the tenth level.
It was just a system mission, and he could even upgrade from the third level to the tenth level. This kind of upgrade speed was simply amazing. However, it could also be seen how difficult the mission was. The system was not a good person who would give experience points for free. On the contrary, it was relatively harsh.
In a sense, upgrading the medical system was relatively more difficult.
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In the game against Ponte Bedela, Sporting de Gijón's condition was not good. The players were not excited enough. As a result, they were forced to a draw with a Serie C team during the regular game time. After half an hour of overtime, there was still no clear winner. In the end, they barely made it through the second round of the league. The team could have easily passed, but they gave it their all.
This game made Li Ang furious.
Later, Li Ang gave the team a battle cry that they must win the eleventh round of the league.
In the eleventh round of the league, Sporting de Gijón's opponent was Málaga, a mid-to-lower level opponent.
Therefore, Li Ang tried his best to appear confident. He encouraged the team to win the game. However, in this La Liga game, where the opponent was not considered strong, Sporting de Gijón, who had just experienced the games against Real Madrid, Lazio, Valencia, and even the midweek Copa del Rey game, Ponte Bedela, faced another problem. The gap between Sporting de Gijón's starting lineup and the players on the bench was too big. Therefore, Li Ang could not use a large-scale rotation. The result was that the first half of the league had entered the later part of the season. Sporting de Gijón's players were starting to get tired.
This was the case in the game against Málaga. The physically and mentally exhausted Sporting de Gijón was completely out of shape. They were forced to a 0-0 home game by Málaga, which ended their winning streak in the league.
Sporting de Gijón also lost the opportunity to further reduce the gap with the leader, Barcelona, and widen the gap with Levante, Sevilla, and Atlético Madrid.
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In this round, Barcelona had an away game against Real Betis. Real Betis' home game was not easy to deal with.
In the original history, Real Betis was the biggest dark horse of the season. Their home game was terrifying.
In the end, after 90 minutes of intense fighting, an upset appeared. Real Betis defeated Rijkaard's Barcelona!
This defeat was also the first time that the leader, Barcelona, had lost this season.
In the other game, Real Madrid defeated Albacete 6-1. They seemed to have vented all their frustrations on the poor Albacete.
Levante, the dark horse team that had been promoted this season like Sporting de Gijón, lost this round of the league. They lost to Super Deportivo La Coruña 0-1 away game.
In addition, Valencia, who had just lost to Sporting de Gijón, was forced to a draw by Zaragoza. Atlético Madrid was forced to a draw by Mallorca in their away game. Sevilla, who was close to Sporting de Gijón, lost this round of the league. They lost to the newly promoted team, Numancia, in their away game!
In this way, after the 11th round of the La Liga Championship, the situation in the La Liga Championship table had changed a lot.
Barcelona, 8 wins, 2 draws, 1 loss, accumulated 26 points, ranked first in the league.
Sporting de Gijón, 6 wins, 2 draws, 3 losses, accumulated 20 points, ranked second in the league.
Levante, 6 wins, 1 draw, 4 losses, accumulated 19 points, ranked third in the league.
Sevilla, 5 wins, 3 draws, 3 losses, accumulated 18 points, ranked fourth in the league.
RCD Espanyol, 5 wins, 2 draws, 4 losses, accumulated 17 points, ranked fifth in the league.
Real Madrid, 5 wins, 1 draw, 5 losses, accumulated 16 points, ranked sixth in the league.
At the end of this round of the league tournament, the biggest upset was Barcelona's away loss to Real Betis. In addition, the previously unbeatable dark horse Sporting de Gijón, who had won consecutive matches, had been forced into a draw by Malaga. This was another upset.
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Due to this draw, the media's praises for Li Ang had decreased significantly. Some of them even began to discuss whether this meant that the Sporting Gihon Racing, which was obviously a truck, was driving at the speed of a luxury sports car. Had the car broken down after it had been speeding at an abnormal speed?
Of course, such discussions were not loud for the time being. After nearly a year, the Spanish media was very familiar with Li Ang's nature of seeking revenge for the smallest grievance. There were also many media who had gloated and criticized Li Ang before being instantly slapped in the face by Li Ang. Now, they were smarter and knew to endure for the time being. Also, it was only a draw. For the time being, it was not enough to criticize Li Ang.
The happiest were the Madrid media. Their arch-rival, Barcelona, had finally lost, and their new enemy, Sporting de Gijón, had also stopped their winning streak. They were happy that both old and new grudges were unlucky. Of course, Real Madrid, who had won two games in a row, had killed their way back up the rankings. This was even more worth celebrating.
And Real Madrid's manager, Luxemburgo, had finally barely overcome the difficult hurdle of losing to Sporting de Gijón. In a happy mood, Luxemburgo expressed his confidence in leading Real Madrid to success in an interview with the media.
"Real Madrid will eventually return to the glorious position they should be in. Just like some teams, even though they are in a good situation now, the results at the end of the season are hard to say."
Luxemburgo was obviously alluding to Sporting de Gijón, expressing his eagerness to see Sporting de Gijón decline!
Of course, he did not mention Sporting de Gijón. However, everyone was not stupid. They could all guess who Luxemburgo was talking about.
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Luxemburgo wanted to maintain the courtesy of a powerhouse. He did not mention names, but Li Ang did not have so many scruples.
"Warm congratulations to Real Madrid for successfully returning to the top six in the league!" Li Ang posted such a report on his own column in the Voice of Gijón, congratulating the Galácticos.
The picture he used was the latest league standings situation. It was a newspaper. In the newspaper, Real Madrid was ranked sixth in the league. Then someone drew a cartoon image of the Real Madrid team emblem looking up next to Real Madrid's name. There was also an upward arrow pointing to the second-ranked Sporting de Gijón. Next to Sporting de Gijón's name, there was a cartoon head of the Sporting de Gijón team emblem looking down triumphantly …
Next to the picture, there were words written in Chinese and Spanish: Hey, I'm calling you. Can you hear me?!
PS: Second update, K League 1/12/14.
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