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Chapter 341 Europa League Records

Lisbon, Stadium of Light.

This stadium, which was rebuilt in 04 because Portugal hosted the European Championship in 02, is one of the best stadiums in Europe and can accommodate more than 5000 people. This stadium is also the home court of the Benfica club nicknamed "Flying Eagle".

As one of the traditional top three in Portugal, Benfica's strength should not be underestimated. At the same time, they were also the champions of the Portuguese Super League last season. Although the Argentine winger Di Maria moved to Inter Milan in Serie A, they did not lose such a young talent.

The former River Plate twins, 29-year-old Saviola and 31-year-old Aimar are the absolute main force of Benfica. These two former Argentine internationals who became famous in River Plate and then became world superstars in Spain are now dedicating their spare heat in Portugal. Super, the star who is famous for his instep curve ball has found his feeling again.

For this game, Rangnick has already prepared for this game. Unlike the league, the current Europa League has a large amount of income in one step forward, and it will not be much worse than the income of the Champions League. The current Europa League has some confidence to challenge the Champions League in terms of income, fame, and level.

The main players who rested in the last league game all played, Hildebrand, Baker, Comper, Simunić, Li Jie, Gustavo, Marin, Salihovic, Eduardo, Ibisevic, Long Bisheng, this is Hoffenheim's main lineup in recent months, no matter in terms of height, strength, technique, coordination, speed, there is no big defect.

Benfica's starting lineup is not simple. The goalkeeper is Jose Moreira, the active goalkeeper of the Portuguese national team. Although the goalkeeper is only 1.8 meters tall, he has inherited the characteristics of the Portuguese goalkeeper, who is flexible, quick and good at attacking. The defenders are the Brazilian midfielder Ramirez and the Portuguese international Amorim. Aimar is in the middle to support, and Quaresma is more flexible. The left and right sides take turns. The forward is Saviola and Cardoso.

From the starting list of Benfica, it can be seen that this is a fairly technical team. Apart from Portuguese local players, the starting players are players from South America. Portugal is known as the Brazilian team in Europe, and other Brazilian, Argentine and Paraguayan players are also skilled.

Therefore, Rangnick's tactics before the game are very simple, close to the press, reducing the space for them to cooperate, forcing them to fight alone - in this way, the physical and physical advantages of the Hoffenheim players can be brought into play, and no matter how good the opponent's skills are, it is difficult to play them out.

At the same time to deal with Benfica, one thing that needs to be done is to completely cut off the connection between Aimar, their offensive and defensive center, and other teammates. Although Aimar is 31 years old, his experience and skills are exceptionally good. He was also one of the best attacking midfielders in the world at his peak. The threat is reduced by more than half. No matter how powerful Saviola and Cardoso are, they still have to rely on others to pass the ball.

It is not particularly difficult to achieve this. Hoffenheim came to the away game, and Rangnick was satisfied with a draw. The dense defense is a big problem for Benfica, which is not very good at attacking.

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Long Bisheng followed Li Jie and ran onto the field. When he stepped onto the lawn, he turned around and saw Lu Xiaoshan standing next to the bench with several other team doctors giving him a thumbs up. Long Bisheng smiled at Lu Xiaoshan, and then turned his head to look at the stands. Although he couldn't see Ning Xi, he knew that Ning Xi must be watching him from the stands.

The captains of both sides, Hildebrand and Moreira shook hands and then took sides. Hildebrand lost to the opponent and also got the opportunity to kick off first.

The referee blew the whistle for the start of the game. Long Bisheng handed the ball to Ibisevic and started to run forward. At the same time, Marin and Salihovic on the two flanks also started to accelerate and sprint towards the two flanks at the same time. Rangnick explained before the start of the game that he would give the opponent a surprise attack at the beginning of the game. Benfica is now mostly veterans, so one of their characteristics is that they are slow.
Marin's speed is quite fast, and Salihovic is not slow. Eduardo received Ibisevic's return pass, stopped under his feet, and then immediately spotted Marin in front of him and passed the ball.

The ball landed in front of Marin accurately, and Eduardo seemed very satisfied with his pass—it was not easy for Eduardo to pass such an accurate long pass of nearly 30 meters.

Marin stretched out his foot to unload the ball while running, Schafer came up, and Quaresma also chased him from behind. Without fear, Marin first made a fake move of dribbling the ball laterally, and then immediately kicked the ball behind Schafer with all his strength, and rushed past Schafer quickly!

Beautiful man scored!
Schafer was about to turn around, but he collided with Quaresma who was rushing back to defend. Quaresma, who was relatively thin, was knocked to the ground.

At this time, Long Bisheng had rushed to the edge of Benfica's penalty area, and Miranda immediately went up to him, trying to block him from outside the penalty area.

"This young man... is 1.9 meters tall." Looking at Miranda, who was not much shorter than Long Bisheng, Lannick looked through the information and said.

"In Benfica's usual league, this kid can only be regarded as a main substitute, but this game he is the main player... It seems that Hessus has also studied us very well. Knowing that Long is in good shape recently, he sent a defender who is not much taller than him to defend him." Assistant coach Maric said.

"Our information is not difficult to find." Lannik said lightly: "But I believe in the ability of dragons."

As soon as he finished speaking, Long Bisheng first pretended to move sideways to grab the back point, but when Miranda moved over, he flexibly stepped on the ground, ran past Miranda who was caught off guard, and immediately rushed to the middle of the penalty area, blocking Miranda tightly behind him!

At this moment, Marin passed the ball!
A high-altitude ball accurately landed on the top of Long Bisheng's head.

Long Bisheng carried Miranda behind him. This Portuguese defender, who was two years younger than him, was obviously not very experienced. After several attempts, he failed to get in front of Long Bisheng. When he was about to interfere with Long Bisheng from behind, Long Bisheng jumped up high!

A textbook-like head shake!

Many Benfica fans in the stands of the Stadium of Light have already started to exclaim. At this moment, Moreira made a wonderful save, flying the ball with one palm and struggling to flick the ball away, and the ball was about to go in!
Watching Moreira save this must-go goal, Long Bisheng was regretting why he still couldn't grasp the opportunity well, but just in time to see the ball fly back to the penalty area-this header was very sudden, and Moreira could only block the ball instead of pushing it out of the baseline or directly pounced.

Long Bisheng took a step forward, ignoring Miranda yanking his jersey behind him. Before the well-made jersey started to moan, he had already stretched out his foot and poked the ball. The ball flew upwards slowly, and then flew over the head of Moreira who had just fallen to the ground...

Moreira went up far enough in vain, but couldn't reach the ball at all, it went over his head and landed in the goal.

There was silence at the Stadium of Light. The Benfica fans couldn't believe that they would concede a goal in less than 1 minute. Then in a corner of the stadium, hundreds of Hoffenheim fans who came from afar began to cheer. Their team scored a precious away goal in less than 1 minute!

Rangnick raised his hands and stood up from the coach's bench. The performance of the players exceeded his expectations. He thought that the team's attack at the beginning would just scare the opponent, but the players really scored a goal!

"Let me tell you that the Portuguese boy is no match for Dragon!" Lannick laughed and said to Maric: "Although the height is not much different, but he is far inferior to Dragon in terms of judgment and even movement! Not to mention experience!"

Maric had already smiled so much that his face blossomed, but he kept nodding.

After scoring the goal, Long Bisheng rushed all the way to the stands where the Hoffenheim fans were, and shook his fist vigorously. In the stands, a girl waved to him with a smile on her face.

At this time, the TV commentator in charge of broadcasting the game was still chattering: "Dragon's goal happened in six seconds of the game. This is the fastest goal in the Europa League this season! We should congratulate Hoffenheim and Long. After they got an excellent situation, they also created a record in the Europa League this season!"

(End of this chapter)