When Insmail Kamara, wearing a yellow vest, ran from the bench to the warm-up area, the stands were filled with the cheers of Madrid Pirates fans.
They shouted Kamala's name in unison, welcoming him back.
Since Kamara was injured a month ago, a lot has happened. The team has completely lost hope of competing for the league title in the league, and has also encountered big problems in the Champions League.
Many people have long been looking forward to Kamara's comeback.
Now the wait is finally here.
Although the biggest crisis seems to have been resolved, fans welcomed Kamara's return.
Because they need Kamara to come back and help the team face the arch-rival Madrid Kings in the Champions League final - no one doubts that the Madrid Kings have already entered the Champions League final ahead of schedule.
Amid the cheers, Kamala warmed up very seriously, making every move meticulous.
He also knows very well what this return means to him.
Thanks to his teammates, Pirates currently has an advantage in the two legs of the Champions League semi-finals.
He originally thought that the club would be empty-handed this season, but he never thought that he would still have a chance to compete for the championship.
There is also the World Cup this summer.
He not only needs a healthy body, but also needs to be in good condition.
Kamara was warming up on the sidelines. There was a large screen above the stands opposite the warm-up area, which showed the real-time score of the game:
2:0
In the 56th minute of the game, Madrid Pirates already led their opponent Samirspor 2:0.
Parotti made a substantial rotation of the starting lineup in this game. Originally, everyone thought they would lose to Samirspor cleanly, even at their home court.
After all, they have no hope of winning the league, and there will be a second leg of the Champions League semi-finals against Vesuvius next Wednesday. The total score is only one goal, and the Madrid Pirates must be prepared for this game - Parotti is playing
He said at the post-match press conference of the Champions League semi-finals that he did not believe that a one-goal lead could guarantee his team's advancement.
Based on the above factors, the entire Madrid Pirates team should be uninterested in competing in the league.
This speculation was confirmed when seeing the starting lineup of Madrid Pirates - except for Hu Lai, Farias and goalkeeper Hewel, all other Pirates players who started in the last Champions League game were not included in the starting lineup.
Unexpectedly, Madrid Pirates, who came on the bench, led Samirspor by two goals in the first half.
Hu Lai scored both goals by himself.
The assists came from two people: Alejandro Lopez and Nestor Farias.
Yes, after the Champions League semi-finals in midweek, Farias provided another assist to Hu Lai.
From the outside, the strike pairing of Hu Lai and Farias seemed to have found a sense of synergy in the last Champions League game.
The connection between the two people in this game is obviously much stronger than before.
And this connection works.
Farias relied on his super personal ability to tear apart Samir Sports' defense line on the left again and again.
While disrupting the opponent's defense, it creates openings for Hu Lai.
As long as Hu Lai can run into those spaces, scoring goals will become very simple.
After seeing Hu Lai score the goal, he ran to find Farias for a hug. The two hugged each other, both smiling happily. I don’t know how many Madrid Pirates fans breathed a sigh of relief - this stupid soap opera is finally coming to an end.
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When Kamara finished his warm-up and returned to the sidelines, head coach Parotti pulled him and gave him face-to-face instructions.
He only said one sentence:
"There are no requirements, just enjoy the game and find the feeling, Insmail."
Kamala nodded and walked to the sideline.
Following his move, huge cheers erupted from the Pirates Park stadium again.
After the cheers, Pirates fans sang "Kamara's Song."
During the song, Camara replaced the starting right winger Alejandro Lopez.
As a substitute player from the youth training, Lopez completed an assist in this game and his performance was remarkable.
So when he came off the field, Madrid Pirates fans also applauded him.
After Kamara high-fived Lopez on the sidelines, he ran onto the court.
When passing by Hu Lai, the latter stretched out his hand to him in advance and waited in front of him.
Kamala also reached out her hand when she saw this, and the two of them gave each other a high-five while passing by.
"After a month's injury break, Hu Lai's golden partner is finally back!" Seeing this scene, He Feng said excitedly, "Kamara's return can give the Madrid Pirates more opportunities to attack in the midfield and frontcourt.
Multiple changes can also reduce the pressure on Farias on the left wing. Coupled with Hu Lai's flexible movement, this offensive combination makes it difficult for opponents to defend!"
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Farias stopped on the left wing, ready to receive the ball.
He used his right foot as a supporting foot and raised his left foot to stop the ball.
But he put his left foot behind his right leg and stopped the flying football by his side in a flower-like manner.
After finishing his chores, Farias heard the cheers from the stands and became even more excited.
Facing the Samir Sports defensive player who rushed towards him, he only relied on a quick shake of his upper body to let the opponent overtake him...
Then he used the outside instep of his right foot to move the football horizontally and cut inside with the ball.
A second Samir Sports player rushed up.
Farias took a lunge, stepped on the football with his left foot, and then used his right foot to push the stepped football to Hu Lai who retreated outside the penalty area to meet him.
Then he bypassed the Samir Sports players who were being tossed around by him and drove straight into the penalty area.
At the same time, he also made a gesture with his hands to ask Hu Lai to pass the ball to him.
His sprint attracted great attention from Samir Sports players, and the defensive focus naturally tilted that way.
But Hu Lai didn't do it. Instead, he turned around and passed the football to the other side!
It was given to Kamara who crossed into the penalty area from the wing!
"Hu... nice pass! Kamara -!"
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Amid Spanish commentator Alvarez Sanchez's long-drawn-out roar, less than two minutes after he came on the field, the French winger, who had never touched the ball, swung his right leg...
Direct blast!
The football roared towards the upper corner of the goal like a shell!
The goalkeeper of Samir Sports blocked the near corner and made a save reflexively, but in the face of the powerful and heavy kick, his save was just "doing his best"...
“GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!
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Sanchez's lung capacity seemed to be inexhaustible. He just shouted Kamara's name in a long voice, and then continued the same tone and shouted a goal in a long voice again!
“Wow beautiful!
Kamara! This was his first touch of the ball after coming off the bench! He scored! So beautiful! Perfect return from injury! Hu Lai’s pass was so unexpected! None of the Samir Sports defenders thought of him
Will choose to pass the ball to Kamara..." He Feng was also very excited.
Kamara was so excited after scoring the goal that he turned around and rushed to the sideline reflexively.
After running for two steps, he remembered that Hu Lai had passed the ball to him, so he turned around, stepped back, and stretched out his hands to Hu Lai, gesturing for him to come up and celebrate with him.
He was not polite at all, but while running towards Kamala, he turned around and waved to Farias, asking the latter to join him in the celebration.
Farias was not upset because Hu Lai finally passed the ball to Kamara instead of him. He also ran towards Hu Lai with a smile.
In the end, Kamara hugged Hu Lai, Hu Lai hugged Farias, and hugged together with other Madrid Pirates players who flocked to celebrate the goal.
Watching this scene, La Liga commentator Alvarez Sanchez couldn't help but sigh: "Such a harmonious and loving scene has returned to the Madrid Pirates team. We saw Faria in this ball.
Si selflessly passed the football to Hu, and then moved to attract defensive firepower; he also saw that after the goal, no matter who the team was, they could celebrate together...
"Although Vesuvius' head coach Renzetti said that he is confident that he can lead the team to reverse the away game and advance to the finals, but looking at the performance of this Pirates, I am not sure whether he still feels that his team can come back! Just like the Pirates
As the team song says: United they are invincible!"
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As the referee blew three whistles, cheers erupted above the Alpine Stadium, home of the Turin Bulls.
The final score was printed on the scoreboard in the stands:
2:0
The Turin Bulls defeated Sardinia at home.
After winning the game, the Turin Bulls players did not stay on the court to celebrate their victory. Instead, they turned around and left the court and walked quickly to the locker room.
Winning the game seven points behind Vesuvius is nothing to be happy about.
The players of the Turin Bulls are more concerned about the lineup of their rival Vesuvius in the next game.
Only a handful of people remained on the court and went under the stands to thank the fans.
Mauro Albertazzi, wearing the captain's armband, is one of them.
After he finished interacting with the fans, he turned around and saw that there were not many teammates behind him.
Albertazzi completely understands what his teammates are thinking.
He just didn't think it was necessary.
It is simply fantastic to expect Vesuvius to lose the last three league games and "walk" the Turin Bulls to come back and win the championship.
When Albertazzi opened the locker room door, he heard his teammates cheering:
"All substitutes start!"
"The two main central defenders, Wang and Giordano, are on the bench!"
An hour and a half before the start of the game, Vesuvius' head coach Renzetti announced their starting lineup for the game against Roma City.
There is not even a single main player in this starting list.
Even a strong central defender like Wang Guangwei sat on the bench.
Challenging Roma City away from home, which is not bad at strength, such a formation means that Renzetti has almost given up on this league game.
This was Renzetti's answer to Madrid Pirates' good form.
You must know that before this league game, Vesuvius led the Turin Bulls by seven points in the standings.
As long as they win the game against Roma City, they can win the league championship two rounds in advance.
This is Vesuvius' second league championship after 38 years - the last time they won the Serie A championship was way back in the 1990s, in the 1995-1996 season.
For such a moment and championship of great historical significance, Renzetti chose to give up: in order to advance to the Champions League final, he would rather delay the time for the team to win the championship!
Albertazzi saw that his teammates were so happy and did not remind them out loud not to dream.
After all, it can give everyone hope, which will help everyone play the rest of the league.
To pour cold water on everyone now will not help solve the team's problems, but will only make people dislike it.
Mauro Albertazzi, who is already the first captain of the team, is no longer the young boy he was before. He knows very well how to manage the locker room.
He just smiled and watched his teammates shouting and excitedly discussing the upcoming league situation.
The game between Vesuvius and the City of Rome has not started yet, but listening to the content of their discussion, it seems as if Vesuvius has already lost...
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Xia Xiaoyu, who was on the court, turned around and saw the fourth official on the sidelines holding up a substitution sign. The number of the team being replaced was "8".
So he turned around and walked off to the field.
At the same time, Roma fans burst into applause from the stands of the Rome Municipal Stadium.
This applause is for him.
The game has reached the 79th minute, the score is 2:0, and Rome City, playing at home, leads by two goals.
Xia Xiaoyu assisted one of the goals.
In addition, he also organized Rome City's midfield in an orderly manner and firmly held the initiative on his side.
If Roma City can win this game in the end, then Xia Xiaoyu will be one of the biggest contributors to the victory.
At the end of the league, if Roma City wants to finish in the top four of the league and qualify for next season's Champions League, these three points are very important.
Amid the applause and cheers, Xia Xiaoyu didn't walk very fast.
Vesuvius's players also showed no intention of urging him.
On the one hand, this is because the rules of injury time have been modified. In situations such as substitutions and goal celebrations, the game clock will be stopped, and then these times will be added to the final injury time.
Ten minutes of injury time in a game is nothing new now.
On the other hand, the Vesuvius players' minds are obviously not on the current league. Although they all know that as long as they defeat Rome City away from home, they can win the league in advance.
But how easy is it to beat a team competing for Champions League qualification in an away game?
Instead of fighting Rome in this game, it is better to give up the strategy and prepare for the Champions League with peace of mind.
Anyway, even if they lose this game, as long as Vesuvius wins the league next weekend, they can still win the championship in advance.
They don't have to clash with Roma players just to add half a minute of stoppage time.
The distance to the sidelines was not far. Even if Xia Xiaoyu walked slowly, he actually reached the sidelines very quickly amidst the applause and cheers of the home fans.
After high-fiving his teammates on the sidelines, he walked out of the stadium and did not rush back to the bench. Instead, he continued to stand on the sidelines and applauded the fans in the stands.
Since moving to Roma four years ago, he has quickly conquered the fans here. Today, he is the unstoppable main midfielder of Roma.
After doing this, he turned around and walked to the bench.
He also hugged the Roma coach on the sidelines.
After returning to the bench, he wiped the sweat from his body with a towel, then turned to look at the Vesuvius bench.
Wang Guangwei's profile can be seen in the distance.
In this game, Wang Guangwei warmed up several times, but he never played.
Of course, when the team is already two goals behind, there is no need to let a central defender come off the bench. If you want to change the situation, you have to replace it with an offensive player.
So even though Vesuvius actually has one substitution, Wang Guangwei should not be able to play.
Xia Xiaoyu did not regret that he could not meet Brother Wang in the game - since he came to Rome, there have been many "Chinese Derbys" with Brother Wang.
He doesn't care about it anymore.
He also understood why Brother Wang failed to play in this game.
Everything is for the second leg of the Champions League semi-finals next Wednesday...
Regarding the duel between Brother Hu and Brother Wang, Xia Xiaoyu has no position. The palms and backs of his hands are full of flesh. He will be sad for whoever is eliminated, but he will also be happy for whoever advances.
What's more, for him, the most concerning thing is actually not the Champions League, but Roma's league ranking.
Roma City, who are currently in fourth place, have no guarantee they will still be there by the end of the season - they are only two points ahead of fifth-placed Ferenc.
Roma City's results this season are not good, but if they can still finish fourth in the league and qualify for next season's Champions League, then this season can be considered a success.
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"... There are still three rounds left in the league, but the league championship has long been missed by Manchester United... Although they are ranked third, they are nine points behind Tramed, who is second in the league, and third in the league.
The London Bridge of 1 is also 12 points different...
"This is a 'strategic abandonment' made by head coach Jopp Munster for the Champions League. Before this Wednesday, facts proved that he was right to abandon the league, because Manchester United reached the semi-finals of the Champions League. But in
After losing 0:2 to the Kings of Madrid in the first round, there were many voices on the Internet criticizing Munster for their desperate measures...
"So the question before Munster now is very practical - if Manchester United cannot reverse the King of Madrid in the second leg of the Champions League semi-finals next Tuesday and advance to the Champions League final, he will have to bear much more pressure than usual..."
As England commentator Matthew Cox faces the game that is still going on, the focus of his discussion is entirely on the second leg of the Champions League semi-finals next Tuesday.
Because there is really nothing to talk about in this game:
Manchester United, which has strategically abandoned its domestic league, fielded a lineup of almost all substitutes in the league.
Manchester Athletic faced the mid-table team Liverpool United at home. In the last ten minutes of the game, the score was 1:3.
By convention, the home team goes first and the away team goes last.
Manchester United are destined not to win the league title this season, but it doesn't matter, they were the Premier League champions last season anyway.
This league championship also allowed Jopp Munster to win all the championships he could win in England.
For Munster and Manchester United, the only mountain yet to be conquered is the Champions League.
What?
You mean Europa League?
joke!
For a team that can regularly participate in the Champions League every season, the Europa League is simply out of sight!
Not only has Munster failed to win the Champions League during his coaching career, Manchester Athletic Club also lacks such a championship in its history as the biggest and most dazzling jewel in its crown.
After so many years, the closest they came to the Champions League championship was in the 2026-2027 season. At that time, under the leadership of Brazilian superstar Kabangca, they reached the Champions League final.
Unfortunately, they lost to the Blue and White Munich in the final.
Therefore, Munster's approach of giving up the domestic league and studying for the Champions League has also won the support of the club's senior management and fans - of course, this is on the premise that they can reach the final.
If we can't reach the finals, who knows what the media and fans will say...
"No chance."
Chen Xingyi leaned back in his chair as he watched Munster's head coach replace starting forward Jorge Cáceres with right back William Kolarenc.
This is the last substitution for Manchester United in this game.
"You actually expect to play, Star?"
Janus Erdmann, who was sitting next to him, covered his mouth with his hand and asked in surprise.
"It would be nice to go up there to warm up and get a feel for the competition." Chen Xingyi also covered his mouth and replied.
"It's not important how the game feels, the most important thing is not to get injured..." Edelman said.
He transferred to Manchester United from Ruhrlein two seasons ago. When he first arrived, he performed very well, scoring goals in nine consecutive league games. The media and fans compared him to Hu Lai.
As a result, I was suddenly injured.
One injury lasted half a season.
The originally good upward momentum came to an abrupt end.
It took until this season to gradually recover.
The World Cup is approaching and he is even more afraid of getting injured.
Chen Xingyi glanced at the cowardly Edelman: "Are you worried about getting injured in the semifinals next Tuesday?"
Edman puffed up his chest: "I'm ready to give my best in the game!"
Chen Xingyi's mouth, which was covered by his hand, curled up.
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“Merry Banega!
He came off the bench and saved the team!
Just like he saved the team countless times before! The goal in the 95th minute! He pulled the rope on the edge of the cliff to prevent the team from falling into the abyss!"
The commentator of King Radio shouted excitedly.
The Crown Stadium was filled with cheers.
Melli excitedly rushed to the stands after scoring the goal.
There were jubilant Kings fans in the stands, and their dancing figures seemed like rolling waves.
Above these Kings fans is a large live screen.
The real-time score was played on the big screen:
1:1
"Melli's goal helped us draw with Sevilla Navigator at the last minute and get a point. This point is very important! Because Catalonia has won the game earlier... At present
The two teams are still two points apart. With two rounds left in the league, we still have the upper hand...
"Winning this point is very crucial. The Kings, who played as a substitute, finally passed the test... Next is the second leg of the semi-finals next Tuesday night. Although Manchester United rested all the main players in the weekend league, but
Our players have also been fully rested! All preparations...are in place!"
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After receiving his passport and boarding pass from the staff at the airport security check channel, Qin Lin turned around with a smile and waved to the media cameras outside the security check channel.
Then he picked up his suitcase again and walked into the security checkpoint separated by a screen, where he underwent security inspection.
After the media cameras failed to capture him, Ding Gaoyi, who was already waiting for him in the security check channel, complained to Qin Lin: "Which media company did the person who asked that question just now belong to? An intern, right? The question was too low-level, wasn't it?
Asking if you hope Manchester United will make a comeback at home..."
Qin Lin laughed when he heard his assistant coach's complaint.
Ding Gaoyi continued to complain: "What answer does he want to get for this question? Does he expect you to publicly express your hope that your players will lose? Even if we really think so, we can't tell him. What are you thinking..."
"There are indeed many fans in China who are worried about this issue." Qin Lin expressed his understanding. The public is concerned, so reporters naturally have to ask. "Although the question is really not good..."
Then he patted Ding Gaoyi on the shoulder: "It's your turn."
Ding Gaoyi turned around and saw the security inspector waving to him behind the security gate.
He turned around and walked up.
Qin Lin took out his laptop and tablet from his backpack and put them together with his mobile phone, passport and other items into the tray handed to him by the security inspector.
Then he followed Ding Gaoyi and passed through the security gate.
After successfully passing the security check, they packed their luggage behind the security machine and walked toward the boarding gate together.
The two of them will go on a two-week business trip to Europe to inspect Chinese players scattered across Europe.
The first stop was Manchester, England, to watch Chen Xingyi's Manchester Athletic play against the Madrid Kings, who own Melli, at home.