He had just told his players that the French boy was nothing to be afraid of, and here Benzema scored. It was a quick slap in the face.
However, he still didn't want to believe that a seventeen-year-old young striker would be Sporting Gijon's biggest threat!
Lopez's expression changed continuously as he was thinking about Sporting Gijon's goal.
Finally, his eyes rested on Di Natale: this Italian!
Yes, it’s this Italian!
Di Natale is the key to Sporting Gijon's goal!
Di Natale moved flexibly, cooperated with Ribery, and then gave a beautiful assist.
Of course, there is that Frenchman: Franck Ribery!
Ribery's breakthrough and distribution from the wing are also the highlights of this attack!
It was the tacit cooperation of these two people that resulted in Di Natale's assist pass.
If the team had restricted Ribery or Di Natale, this goal would not have happened!
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Lopez despises Benzema, which is human nature. Although Benzema has performed well before and is considered a popular rookie among players under the age of 18 in La Liga, and has attracted the attention of La Liga football.
Compared with Ribery and Di Natale, he is still a bit inferior.
There are already rumors that the French national team coach Domenech is already inspecting Ribery, and the news that the Italian national team coach Lippi visited Gijon before is also known to everyone. Both of them can be said to be
The quasi-national player of France and Italy, he is very capable!
Therefore, Lopez felt that he had found the key to the problem. It was not the great boy named Karim Benzema, but the outstanding performance of Ribery and Di Natale that caused the goal!
And among Sporting Gijon's starting players, only Grosso, Ribery and Di Natale are the real main players, and these three players are all on the left. Therefore, Sporting Gijon's offensive focus is on hard work.
Mancia's right wing!
Defending the right wing, or to be precise, restricting Ribery and Di Natale, is tantamount to tying up Sporting Gijon's offensive legs!
Therefore, Lopez then conveyed his instructions: Ignore Benzema! Focus on guarding Ribery and Di Natale!
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Ribery soon found that it became difficult to find breakthroughs on the wing.
Lopez quickly adjusted Numancia's midfield position. He asked the midfielder Palazios, who has relatively good defensive ability, to mark Ribery, and at the same time asked the team's central midfielder Velasco to tilt to this side.
Ready to cover at any time. At the same time, right back Juanpa is also ready.
In this way, if Ribery wants to break through, he will face the defense of two Numancia players (a full-back and a full-back).
Numancia's defense also paid special attention to defending Di Natale, which made Ribery try to cooperate with Di Natale twice, but the results were not satisfactory.
Seeing that Ribery and Di Natale's left-side attack was contained, Lopez on the sidelines breathed a sigh of relief. Although he had already conceded a goal, as long as he could contain the Gijon, a goal would be enough.
Due to the gap, Numancia has no hope of chasing points.
Li Ang noticed the opponent's adjustment on the sidelines: Numancia focused on defending Ribery and Di Natale. This Numancia looked a bit strange - leaning to the right!
That's right, it's leaning to the right. Numancia's entire defense line is leaning to the right!
Then Leon understood, Grosso - Ribery - Di Natale!
In Sporting Gijon's starting lineup, only the left line is the main lineup. It's no wonder that Lopez focuses on the right side.
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Compared to the left side and Sporting Gijon's right side, Modric's position is closer to the center, so here is Dorado - Juan Arango - Benzema!
Arango's performance was average.
Dorado has also just returned from injury!
Benzema is a seventeen-year-old boy.
Even the right center back of Sporting Gijon is only the former Corsican gardener Rami who gets a starting opportunity for the first time!
Sporting Gijon's first goal was a pass from Ribery's side after the team broke through and scored. Compared with the previous success on the left, Arango's right
The road is relatively quiet.
It's no wonder that Numancia's head coach Lopez doesn't pay much attention to his own left defense.
Li Ang touched his chin to see if he could use Numancia's adjustment to make a tit-for-tat arrangement and make something interesting.
Then he walked to the sidelines. On a dead ball opportunity, he called Modric to the sidelines and the Croatian gave him instructions.
"Luka, you have to put more pressure on me."
"If Frank encounters trouble, you come to organize an attack."
Modric nodded, indicating that he understood.
At this time, Li Ang glanced at Benzema, who was lifting his jersey to wipe his sweat in the stadium, and his heart moved, "If you have the opportunity, pass the ball to Karim more!"
Modric nodded and obeyed.
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Li Ang just felt that Di Natale and Ribery were restricted, but Benzema didn't seem to attract the attention of the opponent, so he let Benzema try to attack more.
This is the correct deployment based on the keen observation of a good head coach.
He didn't think about anything else, but invisibly, the French boy who was very excited today became more comfortable after getting more support.
Five minutes later, Ribery dribbled the ball into the encirclement and chose to pass the football back. Arango passed the ball and Modric advanced with the ball.
Benzema ran over to receive the ball. Seeing that there was no chance in front, he took the initiative to retreat to get the ball.
Modric did not pass the ball to Benzema immediately. He signaled Benzema to move forward and rush into the penalty area, preparing to grab the header.
Then Modric passed the ball to Arango, who took two steps and passed it back to Modric.
The Croatian looked at Benzema again. After running forward for a certain distance, Benzema actually ran back again and kept raising his hands to signal for the pass.
Modric was almost furious.
However, thinking about the coach's instruction to pass the ball to Benzema just now, and how conspicuous the latter's raised right hand is, it makes no sense not to pass the ball. Moreover, this kid Benzema is very different from him in the team.
The relationship is good.
The football was passed close to the ground. Then Modric ran forward, preparing to hit the wall with Benzema, but the Croatian boy was surprised to see what happened next.
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The seventeen-year-old French boy had no intention of cooperating like hitting the wall. He faced the football, pulled the ball, turned around, and then suddenly accelerated and dribbled the ball. He took a few steps like this. When he saw that the opponent's defender did not come up to intercept, it was obvious that the opponent
He didn't take himself seriously, which made Benzema a little angry!
He raised his eyes and looked in the direction of the goal, feeling that he was within his shooting range. He made a slight adjustment, and was followed by a powerful and heavy long-range shot!
The shot was taken about thirty meters from the goal!
This shot was so sudden!
Numancia's goalkeeper Juanma tried his best to save the ball, but all he could do was touch the ball, which could not completely change its flight path. The ball hit the net!
Until they saw the football flying into the goal and the shaking of the net, the Numancia players thought they were wrong - they thought the football hit the side netting and no goal was scored! They could not accept that France
The boy actually scored again in such a short period of time?!
But the fact is cruel. The referee's whistle and gestures clearly indicate: the ball has been scored!
The ball went in!
Not only the Numancians were stunned, but also the Sporting Gijon fans. The goal was so sudden! Even the Sporting Gijon fans didn’t react at the first time. The goal was scored, and they were also stunned for the first time.
One reaction was: The football hit the side netting!
Then they saw the referee's gesture and the football in the net!
The gesture is clear: the ball is in!
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In the stands of El Molinon Stadium, after a moment of silence, there was a larger and crazier eruption. The entire stadium was like a volcanic eruption!
In the crazy volcanic lava, the seventeen-year-old Benzema ran, opened his arms, spread his wings and flew... flew to the sidelines, and then plunged into the arms of Li Ang, who was laughing and spreading his arms.
Throughout the stadium, 30,000 people were chanting: Benzema! Benzema! Benzema! Benzema! Benzema!
The sound is getting louder and louder...it can lift the roof of the stadium!
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