Beckham raised his hand and complained to the referee that he found that Sporting Gijon's wall was too close. He motioned to the referee to come over.
The referee ran over, took a look first, and then warned the Sporting Gijon players who were lining up against the wall, telling them to take two steps back.
The Sporting Gijon players reluctantly complied. But when the referee turned around and walked away, the wall moved forward again in small steps.
Beckham frowned, but he did not continue to complain. Such small tricks from opposing players are common, and you cannot dwell on it. Beckham decided to improve the football a little bit to get over the wall.
.
As soon as the whistle blew, the referee signaled that Beckham could take the free kick.
Beckham kicks the football out.
The football went around the wall.
It should be said that the quality of Beckham's free kick was quite high, as it almost hit the top of Helguera's head.
Helgra jumped up and wanted to header the ball.
However, there is someone faster than him.
Isma jumped so high that he got ahead of Helguera and pushed the football out.
Zidane and Miguel Cobas both rushed towards the football and jumped up together. However, no one could grab the football. The football hit Zidane on the back and bounced out.
Figo keenly caught the ball's landing point and passed the ball to Guti with his right foot.
Guti**** stopped the ball and adjusted it.
Then I saw Juan Carlos rushing over.
Guti didn't even have time to think. He relied on his memory and made a pass. He used his heel to rub the football towards his side and behind.
He remembered Carlos from his team just now, Roberto Carlos was there.
***********
Guti is a player who plays football with his brain, and he is very beautiful when he hits the ball with his heel. However, he has forgotten one thing. He is the team's defensive midfielder, and the football is at his feet. Once the ball is intercepted, Real Madrid is now
A big space in the backcourt...
Carlos gave Guti almost no time to consider the hard force and showed its effect.
After Guti passed the ball, he turned around and ran forward. He looked at Roberto Carlos, meaning to pass the football back again and let him organize the attack.
However, he discovered a problem - too bad: Roberto Carlos was running forward without the ball, and there was no football at Robert Carlos' feet.
Roberto Carlos is advancing. He is facing forward and has no idea what is going on behind him. He does not know that the football is cut off.
What about football?!
Just as Guti knocked the ball with his heel, Sporting Gijon captain Miguel Cobas suddenly rushed out and poked the ball away with his toe.
Then, Carlos from Sporting Gijon immediately moved his body.
Juan Carlos's move was very clever, or rather thief.
Guti was shocked to find that the football was not at Roberto Carlos's feet, and then saw Miguel Cobas rushing towards the football.
Guti was about to rush towards Miguel Cobas, but felt like he hit a wall.
Juan Carlos' clever movement withstood Guti.
***********
"Defense!" Real Madrid coach Rosenborg suddenly stood up from the sidelines, rushed out of the coaching bench, and shouted to the sidelines.
Zidane and Figo were still waiting in the penalty area to receive the pass, and Ronaldo was the same as them. They didn't hear the shouts of the coach on the sidelines because the scene was too noisy. They were preoccupied with waiting for the attack.
Captain Raul reacted immediately and was about to rush out to defend when he saw someone rushing towards the Sporting Gijon player who was holding the ball.
It's Beckham!
Raul breathed a sigh of relief.
When Li Ang saw this scene on the sidelines, he also praised Beckham's attitude. Although playing as a defensive midfielder is not Beckham's specialty, the Englishman is conscientious and has a professional attitude.
However, Beckham's reaction was still slow.
To be precise, this was not Beckham's fault. Guti's pass was intercepted. From that moment on, it was doomed that something was wrong with Real Madrid's luxurious battleship.
Miguel Cobas didn't give Beckham a chance to steal the ball. He suddenly made a long pass with his foot!
The football went over Beckham's head and flew to the wing.
Juan Mata, who had been lurking there earlier, received the football.
This seemed to have been planned a long time ago. It only took a short time for Sporting Gijon to switch from defense to offense. Carlos pressed Guti, Miguel Cobas stole the ball, Carlos prevented Guti from counterattacking, and Miguel
- Cobas took the opportunity to adjust the football, Beckham rushed to defend, Miguel Cobas had already passed the ball!
From stealing to passing the ball, it only takes a second or two!
It can be said that this almost perfectly fulfilled Li Ang's tactical requirements before the game: counterattack must be fast! Fast! Fast! Fast!
***********
Li Ang stood on the sidelines, craned his neck to watch, clenched his fists, and his palms were sweaty.
This is the counterattack opportunity that Sporting Gijon has been waiting for and pursuing. Whether it can succeed or not depends on Mata!
At this time, Real Madrid's center back Helguera was running back, but Helguera had not yet crossed the center circle - Helguera was not a fast player to begin with, and his condition this season has even declined.
Very powerful.
Roberto Carlos is also running back. He is very fast, but what is quite darkly humorous is: he just moved forward very quickly, and waited until he found that Guti's pass was intercepted, and waited until he reacted to the opponent.
He needs to counterattack and then run back, which requires reaction time! What's more, his extremely fast forward thrust just now made the distance he ran back longer...
Mata received the ball.
When Mata received the ball, Salgado, who was left in midfield by Real Madrid, rushed up.
Salgado was very aggressive.
"Idiot!" Real Madrid coach Luxenberg scolded angrily on the sidelines.
"Well done!" Li Ang applauded Salgado.
Salgado's attack was so fierce that he threw his entire center of gravity away. Such an attack was the easiest thing to deal with for the ball holder!
The moment Mata stopped the ball, he cleverly speeded up and broke through. This was a good opportunity to leave behind Salgado who had just come up.
***********
Salgado can be said to be the only person in front of Real Madrid's penalty area who can hinder Mata with the ball. Roberto Carlos is still chasing after him desperately, and so is Helguera.
In the entire Real Madrid team, only these two people were chasing after him desperately.
Raul stopped halfway after chasing him.
The same goes for Beckham.
They saw Salgado pounce on Mata and thought their teammates could successfully stop Mata.
But I didn't expect Salgado to be passed by so easily... This scene is so familiar.
Rosenberg covered his face in despair.
Li Ang opened his eyes wide in excitement.
Salgado lost the defense here, and Mata can dribble the ball straight into the penalty area.
There is only Pavin alone in the penalty area, and this person cannot stop Mata! Li Ang has this confidence.
Can Pavon stop the Sporting Gijon player who is dribbling the ball? Rosenborg is quite unsure!
"Beautiful breakthrough! Now there is a lot of space in front of Mata!" D'Agostino shouted, "This is Sporting Gijon's counterattack! Their counterattack is so fast!"
"Pavon! He is the only one who can stop Mata now," Gonzalez shouted.
***********
From the beginning of the game, Pavin was in a very nervous state.
Although in fact after the game started, Sporting Gijon focused all its energy on defense and did not pressure or threaten Real Madrid's goal, but Pavin was nervous.
He thought of the incident that the media had been hyping up like crazy these days, and of the 'slamming' that Sporting Gijon's head coach had given him. He also thought of how almost all the players on the other side were staring at him when he came on the field just now.
Scenes……
Throughout the season, Real Madrid's midfielder did not have Makelele from last season. The most direct consequence of this is that Pavin faced the opponent's forward many times. This resulted in that whenever Real Madrid lost the ball, many of them came from behind.
Pavin broke in here, and then the media criticized this poor player verbally. They didn't care what the reason was, why Pavin was the unlucky guy who was penetrated every time...
This made the youth training star appointed by Florentino lose his self-confidence little by little... There was already a shadow in his heart.
Before this game, because of the war of words with Li Ang, the media suddenly praised Pavin, the player they had criticized all season, and almost touted Pavin as the most promising defender in Spain.
This kind of praise is to cheer up Pavin.
However, the media did not know that this made Pavin even more flustered, because what he felt was not encouragement, but huge pressure. He felt that he had become the focus of attention again, the focus of this game, which was not good.
Memories.
At this moment, I saw Mata coming over with the ball.
Pavin couldn't hide his fear in his heart. Perhaps Mata's childish face was the biggest comfort in his heart now. This kid is so young, so he might be easy to deal with.
Pavin rushed forward, ready to stop Mata.
Saw Parveen rushing up.
Mata's eyes were full of excitement. He remembered what Li Ang said, attack Pavan and destroy Pavan!
Mata likes this job very much.
While Mata was dribbling the ball at high speed, there was a sudden change in speed and then a spike.
Parveen immediately shoveled down the shovel.
Then, Mata pulled the football back easily and freely, accelerated, and drove the ball away from the fallen Pavin...
Mata didn't even glance at the fallen man out of the corner of his eye: He's really weak. The boss is right, this guy is Real Madrid's biggest weakness.
***********
From the moment Sporting Gijon intercepted the ball and counterattacked, the sky above the Bernabeu Stadium was filled with huge noises and boos.
The Real Madrid fans used a sound screen of overwhelming boos to try to influence the Sporting Gijon players. To be precise, they tried to put huge pressure on Mata who was dribbling the ball. They hoped that this seventeen-year-old youngster would
He performed abnormally under this huge pressure.
However, looking at the process of Mata getting past Pavin, does this kid look timid at all?!
Casillas stood ready in front of the goal.
Seeing that Pavin was passed so easily, he was shocked and rushed out of the goal.
Mata didn't give Casillas time to attack. After passing Pavin, he made a slight adjustment and suddenly shot!
This shot was sudden and not very powerful, but its arc was amazing.
The football draws a beautiful arc.
It bypassed the control range of Casillas who was mid-attack and continued flying.
Finally, hit the inside of the far post... and then...
Everyone saw it, the football bounced into the net.
In an instant, the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium, which had been extremely noisy just now, with loud boos:
