Since the last communication with Moratti, Facchetti has been paying attention to Sporting Gijon and Liang during this period.
Objectively speaking, the president of Inter Milan has a positive and appreciative attitude towards Liang. Sporting Gijon can lead La Liga, which is the most telling thing. It can take the first place in the league from Barcelona, which has led for almost half the season.
It is not easy to win the throne. The competition for the league championship is a tug-of-war and a long-term battle, which shows the stability of the team.
Considering the newly promoted nature of Sporting Gijon, this is a team built by Li Ang himself. This also illustrates Li Ang's ability to build a team, and his vision for players and his ability to train players are also excellent.
Under such circumstances, Facchetti's remaining consideration is Li Ang's ability to lead the team to cup matches, especially cup finals.
The league is long-term and is a test of stability.
Cup matches are mostly accidental and more cruel. It is a great test for the head coach's on-the-spot command and even his ability to withstand pressure.
"What if Li Ang leads Sporting Gijon to win the UEFA Cup?" Moratti asked Facchetti.
"I will fully support him." Facchetti said decisively, "As long as he can bring victory and championship to Inter Milan!"
What Moratti was waiting for was Facchetti's words. The Inter Milan boss was looking forward to the second half of the game. He felt that his Inter Milan was a little lifeless after not having a championship for many years and needed some fresh air.
What could be more direct than an extremely young championship coach?!
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In the visiting team's locker room at the Alvalade Stadium.
"In the second half of the game, we have to be patient, so the tactics for the second half are to defend and counterattack." Li Ang finally said.
When Li Ang said this, no one was surprised. During the pre-match tactical analysis, Li Ang focused on analyzing the mentality of the players in this game. Sporting Lisbon is the host and a Portuguese Super League giant. The Portuguese do not want to continue.
They were the losing side in the finals in Lisbon for two years, so Sporting Lisbon was even more eager to resolve the battle within 90 minutes of the game. Sporting Gijon equalized the score in the first half, and the opponent also missed a penalty kick.
This makes Sporting Lisbon even more impatient, so in the second half of the game, Sporting Lisbon is very likely to continue to attack. What Sporting Gijon has to do is to take advantage of Sporting Lisbon's eagerness to equalize the score, wait for opportunities to sneak attacks, and strive to exceed the score.
This is Sporting Gijon's wishful thinking, but no one knows whether it can be successful or not.
"You have to be fast when counterattacking..." At this point, Li Ang glanced at Ribery. Ribery has amazing speed, which is a very important weapon in counterattacks.
"Frank, you must always be ready to speed up your counterattack." Li Ang said, and then glanced at Mata, "Mata, the same goes for you!"
The counterattack Li Ang planned for Sporting Gijon is not to focus on one point, but to activate both sides, which can harass Sporting Lisbon's defensive attention to the greatest extent.
"Antonio." Liang called Di Natale's name again, "You have to work harder in the second half. You have to actively retreat and come to the midfield to catch the ball. We also try to pass the ball in front of us and pass it to the midfielder.
There is room for Berry and Mata to run. But if the counterattack is blocked, stabilize immediately, keep the ball at your feet, and don't waste offensive opportunities easily."
Hearing what Li Ang said, Di Natale nodded. This is the trust of the head coach, asking him to deliver cannonballs to Ribery and Mata.
"Diego, your task is to harass their penalty area. When your teammates pass the football into the penalty area, the penalty area can control the football. Whether it is shooting or passing, it depends on your choice!" Li Ang said to
Diego Milito said.
The Argentinian striker nodded and understood his role. He should act as a fulcrum in the penalty area and in the frontcourt to ensure that the team's counterattack can control the football. Anyway, he is trying his best to stir up trouble in Sporting Lisbon's penalty area and create opportunities for other teammates.
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The second half of the game begins.
Sporting Gijon put on a defensive posture, hoping that Sporting Lisbon would attack.
This situation of giving up the initiative made Sporting Lisbon head coach Peseiro very happy.
Sporting Lisbon did what Sporting Gijon hoped and attacked aggressively.
Pesero saw that his team began to take advantage of the field and Sporting Gijon's formation was compressed, which made him very happy. Unfortunately, he was not happy for long because he found that Li Ang had made very careful arrangements on how to defend. Lisbon
Sporting seems to have the advantage in possession, but it is difficult to truly threaten Sporting Gijon's goal.
Li Ang was sitting on the coaching bench, and he suddenly felt that Sporting Lisbon's head coach Pezzello was really overconfident. I wonder if the head coach thought that Sporting Gijon's counterattack was not a big threat. He had no choice.
Appropriately retracting the reasonable tactics of counterattack, and seeing Sporting Gijon voluntarily giving up the initiative, Pesero stood on the sidelines many times and ordered the fullback to press forward again, creating more pressure on the opponent.
However, the actual result is that Sporting Lisbon's wing breakthrough did not work in front of Sporting Gijon's defenders. After Ledson's goal in the first half, Sporting Gijon's defense made no more mistakes.
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In this case, Li Ang keenly noticed that Sporting Lisbon's defense leaked a huge gap. For a long time, there were only goalkeeper Ricardo, center back, and captain Beto between the center circle and the bottom line.
Liang immediately recognized that this was Sporting Gijon's opportunity: his team might be able to advance down the flanks with ease.
Li Ang immediately made adjustments. He conveyed instructions to the team and asked the full-backs to attack.
However, in order to avoid too much space after the full-backs press at the same time, Li Ang does not allow two full-backs to come up at the same time. When Grosso goes up to assist, Ivanovic must be dragged behind, so that Albertini can stay behind.
In the middle, Juan Carlos went to fill Grosso's position. Ivanovic stepped forward to assist, and Grosso retreated. At the same time, Carlos temporarily filled Ivanovic's position.
The most direct result of this is that no matter which side goes up, the number of people on the back line will not decrease, and there will be no obvious loopholes.
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Sporting Lisbon head coach Peseiro did not realize the careful arrangement behind Sporting Gijon's full-back pressing. He was overjoyed when he saw Sporting Gijon's full-back pressing out, thinking that there was room after Sporting Gijon's pressing.
It can be used, so instead of asking the team to be more vigilant, Pesero asked the team to continue to strengthen their offense.
In the 69th minute of the game, Sporting Gijon launched a quick counterattack from the right.
Albertini's long ball found Di Natale, who dribbled the ball forward.
Rogelio pressed forward. While he was leaning against Di Natale, he stretched out his foot to stab Di Natale on the ground, forcing the Italian to turn around.
Di Natale turned around as he wished, but passed the ball directly to Ivanovic who broke in.
Ivanovic directly dribbled the ball in from a long distance.
Sporting Lisbon's captain Beto could only rush up to defend Ivanovic.
Ivanovic made an emergency stop and then knocked the football to the center again. Milito came out to respond. He leaned against Sporting Lisbon defender Roosevelt Ncahire and suddenly knocked the back of Roosevelt Ncahire with his heel.
Empty time.
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"Mata!!!"
Mata ran up with all his strength and appeared right behind Roosevelt Nkahire.
He is not offside!
Because Ivanovic's forward penetration suppressed Beto's side, Beto was dragged very far back. Therefore, although Mata got the ball in the hinterland of the penalty area, it was not offside. At the far end, Beto was
later.
Mata dribbled the ball directly to the bottom line and then raised his left foot.
"Be careful with his cross..." before Sporting Lisbon goalkeeper Ricardo finished shouting, he saw Mata pass the football back in the opposite direction.
Milito has successfully blocked Roosevelt Nkashire. For a forward like him, when he is stuck in position and faces the goal, all he has to do is very simple: facing the football rolling towards him, he
Just stretch out your foot!
Ricardo fell to the ground to save.
Before his center of gravity came down, the football had jumped up from under him and rolled into the net behind him.
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"Goooooooooooooooooooooooooool!"
Milito, who scored the goal, ran wildly. Behind him were other Sporting Gijon players.
On the sidelines, Li Ang rushed out of the coaching bench, pointed his hands at the night sky, and muttered something.
Around him were the excited coaching staff and players on the bench.
"Two to one! The Gijon people took the lead!"
"For Sporting Lisbon people, this is an extremely cruel fact. They are now behind."
Sporting Gijon head coach Pesero's expression was stiff. He was expecting Sporting Lisbon's goal to arrive. At this time, the team was conceded by an opponent's attack. For Pesero and Lisbon,
It's a huge blow.
In the VIP box, Sporting Lisbon head coach Diaz looked a little ugly. He felt that in the eyes of the presidents of more than 30 Portuguese clubs looking at him, some people must be gloating and mocking.
In the honor box, Figo's face was filled with frustration. "It's like this again." He murmured. This season, Real Madrid and Sporting Gijon met twice, and Real Madrid was defeated by Sporting Gijon.
Real Madrid tried every means during the game, but in the end they still lost to Sporting Gijon.
It is a bit exaggerated to say that after seeing Sporting Lisbon falling behind, Figo may have a shadow when he faces Sporting Gijon or Liang's team in the future.
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The game restarted, and Sporting Lisbon was now behind. In this case, they had to attack. They had no other way.
However, Lisbon suffered a more violent blow ten minutes later.
This was Sporting Lisbon's massive pressure. However, their pass was intercepted by Carlos after he fell to the ground and slid to the ground. Then Sporting Gijon counterattacked after several passes. After Ribery and Grosso cooperated on the left wing,
, Ribery was dribbling the ball along the sideline, and Sporting Lisbon's defensive focus tilted towards him.
Seeing this, Ribery tried to continue to break through, but passed the ball to Albertini.
Albertini passes the ball to Di Natale.
At the same time, Ribery and Mata suddenly moved from the wing to the ribs on both sides, causing Sporting Lisbon's defenders to adjust accordingly.
At this moment of opportunity, Di Natale saw a gap in the middle, and he did not hesitate to push the football straight into the middle!
Sporting Lisbon full-back Miguel Garcia was moved away due to following Mata, and in the center, Beto pounced on Di Natale, so the center was temporarily empty.
Carlos, who rarely assists the opponent's penalty area, took advantage of the situation and received the ball.
"Carlos is totally defenseless!!" the Spanish commentator exclaimed.
"Missed someone!" the Portuguese commentator shouted, and then after seeing who the person who received the ball was, he shouted, "Fortunately it's Carlos!"
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Rosenbach rushed forward immediately, trying to steal the ball from Carlos' feet.
Carlos was very calm. He knew that his foot skills were average. When Rosenbach rushed over fiercely, Carlos poked the football to Ribery who was running in from the wing in time.
Ribery did not pass the ball, but slipped into the penalty area along the baseline!
"Breakthrough! Beautiful coordination!"
After seeing Ribery break through, there was chaos in front of Sporting Lisbon's goal.
Diego Milito, with Beto pulling him from behind, still pushed forward and prepared to grab the point.
The other Sporting Lisbon defensive players also swarmed towards Ribery, intending to stop him before he passed the ball or shot, and used their bodies to block the ball from the baseline.
Ribery saw their intention, and he would not be stupid enough to give them that opportunity. Before the encirclement was closed, he swept the football towards the center with a sweep of his left foot!
Diego Milito made a shovel shot in front of Beto behind him, but he failed to grab the ball. The goalkeeper Ricardo who was interfered by him fell to the ground and did not touch the ball. Other Sporting Lisbon defenders
None of them touched the ball.
The football just passed by them, and then people saw Carlos rush up, meet the ball and push it!
The football flew into Sporting Lisbon's empty goal without any suspense... Sporting Lisbon goalkeeper Ricardo, who was shaken by Milito's shooting action just now and made a save, was still lying on the ground and not getting up at this moment.
PS: I went home during the Dragon Boat Festival. I am unfamiliar with the computer, the unfamiliar keyboard, and the coding speed has dropped...
