After dinner, Santa Malaga rested in the hotel for half an hour while the group prepared their luggage and set off.
After tonight's game, they will take the train back to Malaga. As a D-level team, funding is the biggest difficulty.
Spain's economy is currently in poor condition, and giant clubs like Real Madrid and Barcelona are tightening their belts this summer.
Li Xiaofeng and Pablo's sister Yaisa, dressed in colorful "cheerleading" uniforms, ran into Li Chuanqi's room like a treasure offering, euphemistically calling it a "sneak peek."
It's so annoying...
But Li Chuanqi can only say that it looks good, very good-looking, without conscience.
Liag quickly praised: "Youth is invincible! I guarantee that you will be the most beautiful scenery of Pajaritos Stadium tonight!"
The eyes of the two beautiful girls were full of stars: "Really?"
Li Xiaofeng smiled and said: "Just because I said this to you, I will reluctantly become your fan tonight and will give you extra cheer."
Liage bowed to the two beautiful girls to express his gratitude.
Set off!
Santa Malaga and his entourage got on the bus and rushed to the Pajaritos Stadium. Along the way, there was laughter and laughter in the car, but there was no solemnity like before the war.
Pablo sighed to Antonio next to him: "If funds were not tight, I would like to take them with me in every away game."
Antonio nodded and said: "Yes...but...hey..."
Soria is a small city, and Santa Malaga and his party arrived at the stadium in ten minutes.
When they got off the bus, they found many reporters taking pictures of them, and some even called them.
"Let's go..."
Liage patted Li Chuanqi on the shoulder: "It is not easy for them to leave this opportunity to go abroad to the coach, boss, and captain."
With stars in her eyes, Li Xiaofeng took Yaissa and ran towards the reporter.
"Excuse me, are you family members of Santa Malaga?"
The reporter immediately started working.
"My brother is Pablo, the captain of Santa Malaga, and I am his sister... That is my brother."
Yaisa was a little nervous and pointed at Pablo, who was being interviewed by reporters not far away.
Li Xiaofeng stretched out her head and said into the microphone: "We are the family of Santa Malaga. My brother and her brother scored all the team's goals in the first two games, and each of them scored two!"
The reporter's eyes lit up. Santa Malaga's consecutive victories over two high-level teams have attracted the attention of the Spanish media.
However, as a "mysterious team", most Spanish media do not know much about Santa Malaga.
Since these two people in front of me are the sisters of the team's promotion hero, we can dig around and see if we can dig out any news.
…
After entering the locker room, Santa Malaga's morale was obviously much higher, and they felt like they were stars.
The media is here...
After quickly changing their jerseys, the players walked onto the court to warm up.
"Come on Santa Malaga!"
There was a sound coming from the stands.
Li Chuanqi looked up and saw that in addition to the supporters from Malaga, there were other unknown people cheering them on.
It seems that Santa Malaga is indeed the hope of becoming the D-League.
During the warm-up in Santa Malaga, the Numancia coach had been observing carefully, and he wanted to take this opportunity to understand the characteristics of the Santa Malaga players.
Finally, he remembered the faces of Liage, Li Chuanqi and Pablo in his heart.
Well, these people must be the core of this team. As long as they are dealt with, tonight's game can be won.
After the warm-up, the players from both sides returned to the locker room to make final preparations for the game.
Away team locker room.
Antonio began to lay out tactics: "Tonight our tactics are still defensive counterattacks, everyone must follow the tactical requirements!"
Someone had previously proposed to fight against the opponent, so Antonio emphasized this point again.
"Liag is roaming the frontcourt, always ready to counterattack."
Antonio looked at Li Chuanqi and another winger and said: "When fighting a counterattack, you two must intervene!"
After Antonio finished arranging the tactics, captain Pablo stood up. He was going to give a pre-war morale boost.
I saw him walking to the middle of the locker room, looking at his teammates and saying in a deep voice: "Brothers, to be honest, I never thought that I would be able to make it this far."
Everyone laughed, and someone said: "Yeah, I thought we were in the first round, but who knew we actually reached the third round..."
Pablo waited for everyone to calm down and sighed: "Yeah, we thought we were in the first round, but we ended up in the third round!
Why do we think this way?
It's because we are a team at the lowest level and our opponents are teams at a higher level.
They play football professionally, but we are amateurs.
Their job is to play football, but our job is not to play football.
Playing football can't feed us, it can't feed our families.
We can only train and compete in our spare time!"
He paused slightly, glanced around and then continued: "But there is one thing, we are the same as them!
That’s the love of football!
It can even be said that we love football more than they do!
We continue to play football because we love it, and some of them just use football as a means of making a living!
Therefore, we have reason to advance to the fourth round, fifth round, even the quarter-finals, semi-finals..."
These words boosted morale so much that the players cheered: "Okay! Well said!"
After everyone calmed down, Pablo continued: "Everyone in our team has received training from high-level clubs, so our starting point is similar to theirs.
The level of many of us is not much worse than them!"
Liag agreed very much with this statement and nodded: "If I want to play in a real professional league, I will definitely be in a better team than Numancia now!"
The reason why Pablo wants to analyze these is to eliminate the sense of gap in the minds of his teammates.
A sense of gap with high-level teams.
Against the background of consecutive victories over two professional teams, the players nodded in approval of this statement.
“There are many supporters here today, they come from all over the country, and we are the hope for their football dreams!
The last words I want to say are the words we said at halftime of the last game - we must play every game as a final!"
"good!"
MiG was the first to stand up and applaud, and the locker room burst into applause. The atmosphere was enthusiastic and the fighting spirit was burning!
…
Home team locker room.
After arranging the tactics, the coach specifically explained: "I have been observing them during the warm-up, and I think three or four of their players are really good.
One is their forward, who is said to have come from Real Madrid's youth training camp. I feel his level is really good.
The second one is their midfielder, who is physically strong and very decisive in handling the ball.
The third one is very easy to recognize. He is the Asian, black-haired and yellow-skinned boy.
This young man's explosive power is particularly strong. When you are defending, you must pay attention to your position and distance...
