"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the 20042005 season's UEFA Europa League quarterfinal match! The two sides are Sporting de Gijón from Spain and Parma from Italy. The former is back in the top eight of the European competition after nearly thirty years, and the latter is the former UEFA Cup Winners' Cup champion, Parma. This is a contest between a super dark horse in La Liga and a veteran team in Serie A. Parma's current situation is a bit bad. The team's next home has not been determined, and now they are in the relegation zone. However, this team's foundation is still there. It will not be easy for Sporting de Gijón to withdraw from the Tardini Stadium, "said the Spanish commentator, Dagestino.
"When the Italian clubs face the Spanish clubs, most of the Italian clubs advance in the end. In this regard, Parma has a great psychological advantage. As long as Parma shows their form from last season, they have a good chance of beating Sporting de Gijón. The charm of the knockout stage is that as long as one team performs well in this game, it can determine the victory, "said the Italian commentator, Viviano.
However, at the pre-match press conference, when asked about the psychological advantage the Italian clubs had against the Spanish clubs, the Sporting de Gijón manager, Li Ang, flatly denied this kind of bullsh * t psychological disadvantage. He did not believe in the so-called psychological advantage at all. The reason was simple. Even if the Spanish clubs had lost more than they won against the Italian clubs before, did this have anything to do with him? Aside from Monaco, who won the French Ligue 1 title a long time ago as a newly promoted team, and the Ipswich and Nottingham Forest miracles during the English First Division era, there was no other example of a newly promoted team winning the top league title in the entire European football world in recent years, except for the Kaiserslautern miracle. However, was Sporting de Gijón not currently on the road to creating miracles? Li Ang did not believe in historical achievements, only in the feet.
Facing the abject Parma, Li Ang was full of confidence.
In this game, Li Ang's request for the team was to take the initiative and control the rhythm under their feet. Against the Italian team, if they were led into a slow rhythm by the other side, then they would be worn down to death.
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Parma was given the right to choose the side, and Sporting de Gijón was given the right to kick off. This made Li Ang satisfied, because it meant that the football was at their feet from the beginning of the game.
Sporting de Gijón took advantage of their convenient kickoff. From the beginning, they were determined to play offensive football, especially on the two sides. Li gave Mata and Ribéry the heavy responsibility of letting them play their speed and technical advantage to play on the sides.
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"Ah!" Benzema looked very depressed. He held his head in his hands in regret. If this goal had gone in, Sporting de Gijón would have broken the deadlock early on and the game would have been much easier to play.
Li Ang spread his hands regretfully on the sidelines.
Sporting de Gijón got a corner kick.
Mata drove the football into the penalty area and Ivanović squeezed past Bowo, who was defending him, to head the ball into the goal. After the football was hit by Freto, it went over the crossbar, which shocked the Parma fans in the stands.
It was a corner kick again.
This time, it was Sporting de Gijón's tactical corner kick. After several passes, Di Natale passed the ball into the penalty area. Modric's header was firmly held in Frey's arms.
There was a round of applause from the stands of the Tardini Stadium, which was dedicated to the goalkeeper, Frey. After the start of the game, the Frenchman became the busiest Parma player.
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Li Ang shook his head on the sidelines. Frey's form today was unusually good, which was not good news for Sporting de Gijón. Sometimes, the most feared opponent in a game was the goalkeeper's outburst. At this time, the goalkeeper was as if he had the help of God. Furthermore, Frey was not a nobody. This French goalkeeper was definitely one of the top five goalkeepers in Serie A.
In fact, if one only looked at Parma's starting lineup today, their strength was quite good. The goalkeeper was the Frenchman, Frey. On the defensive line was the center back partnership of Young Cannavaro and Bowo. The left back was Contini, and the right back was Bonera. At this time, Bonera was not the god-like striker he was at AC Milan. At this time, Bonera was a hot potato and was regarded by the Italian media as Nesta's successor.
In the midfield, there was Simplicio and Viñaroli, as well as the Australian star Bresciano. In addition, in the forward line, there was the most outstanding striker of Italy's new generation, Gilardino. This 22-year-old Italian striker was regarded by the Italian media and fans as the best striker in Italy at this age. Big clubs such as AC Milan and Juventus had their eyes on Gilardino.
To put it bluntly, Parma's current lineup on paper was stronger than Sporting de Gijón's, at least in the eyes of many people.
Therefore, such a 'luxurious team' was now ranked third from the bottom in Serie A. It was really lamentable.
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Sporting de Gijón firmly held the initiative on the field. They increased the intensity of their attacks.
19th minute. After Ribéry received a pass from Carlos, he forced a breakthrough from the flank and shot. The quality of the shot was good, but it was still saved by Frey.
Sporting de Gijón's corner kick, the football was driven into the penalty area and was punched out of the penalty area by Frey.
Sporting de Gijón spurred on the attack again. Ribéry controlled the ball at the top of the arc of the penalty area. After he looked like he was going to cut inside horizontally, he suddenly diverted to the side. Grosso, who plugged in, received the ball from Ribéry. After a slight adjustment, he raised his leg to pass the ball.
The football streaked over the top of the penalty area and was headed back by Benzema at the back. Di Natale wanted to attack again, but unfortunately, he was not tall enough. Frey decisively attacked and took the football from Di Natale's head.
Parma intercepted the ball. It was a good opportunity to counterattack.
"The game has been going on for 20 minutes. What we see is a battle between Sporting de Gijón's attacking players and Frey …" Dagestino described in a slightly exaggerated manner.
"Frey! He took the ball steadily. He used his excellent form to tell the Gijón people that this is a dead end. "The Italian commentator, Viviano, shouted excitedly.
On the sidelines, Li Ang rubbed his chin and stared at the field in deep thought. It was troublesome to encounter an explosive goalkeeper.
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