The Glory of the Godfather

Thomason's goal helped Ibiza equalize.

Fang Jue finally breathed a sigh of relief, but it's not yet the time to completely relax. After all, Maritimo only needs to score one goal to equalize the total score and drag the game into overtime. Given that Ibiza Now there is one less player in the game, and his physical fitness is not as good as that of Maritimo. Once he is dragged into overtime, it is really hard to say who will win.

And Maritimo obviously knew this too. At the last moment of the game, this Portuguese super team launched a fierce attack on Ibiza's goal.

Bravo, who has squeezed out last season's main goalkeeper Simon Wright and is now firmly occupying the main position, performed very well. He opened high and low gear at the last moment of the game and completed at least two extremely critical saves.

When the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, Fang Jue clenched his fists and waved vigorously. One to one, the total score was 3 to 2. Ibiza successfully advanced to the UEFA Cup group stage.

Fang Jue admits that he has underestimated the enemy. Coupled with unexpected circumstances such as Royce's early injury and Boulahrouz's red card, Ibiza played passively in the whole game today. Fortunately, Fang Jue is the key The frequent substitutions had an effect, and the Danish veteran Thomason did not let him down.

This is why Fang Jue insisted on introducing such a veteran as Thomason. Lewandowski and Aubameyang are both excellent, but both are too young and lack experience in major competitions. Sen, an experienced veteran, is able to step up at critical moments.

Moreover, it is worth mentioning that when Thomasson played for AC Milan, he often played the role of a super substitute who scored goals after coming off the bench. In today's game, the Danish veteran showed his proficiency in business .

After the game, Fang Jue praised Thomason fiercely in the locker room.

The Danish veteran was very happy to hear that. Thomasson understood his role as a substitute. He was able to score goals in a limited playing time and win the recognition and praise of the coach. For a veteran, what he brought was Great psychological comfort.

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The two-round match between Ibiza and Maritimo, the media used to call it the third round of the UEFA Cup qualifying round, but in fact, according to the official statement, this should already be regarded as the main match of the UEFA Cup. There is a main match, which is more or less different from people's understanding. Many media are still accustomed to calling it the third round of qualifying.

A total of 80 teams participated in the first round, including 32 teams that directly advanced to the main match. As the Spanish King's Cup champion team, Ibiza is one of the 32 teams. The 16 teams that lost in the third round and the 32 teams that advanced from the UEFA Cup second qualifying round made a total of 80 teams.

The 80 teams will be knocked out at home and away, and the 40 winning teams will participate in the UEFA Cup group stage.

Now, Ibiza has eliminated Maritimo and successfully advanced to the UEFA Cup group stage in the 2008/2009 season.

A total of 40 teams participated in the group stage, divided into 8 groups.

The group stage adopts a single round-robin group stage system. A total of 24 teams from the top three in each group advance. These 24 teams and the eight third-team teams that were 'relegated' from the European Champions Cup group stage form a thirty-two group. Strong, and then fight against each other to start the knockout round.

It can be seen from this that the current UEFA Cup competition system is lengthy, which has been regarded as a streamlined schedule. After the previous UEFA Cup top 32 is formed, it will be grouped again, and after the group stage, there will be a knockout round of the top 16.

In the eyes of some media and fans, Ibiza does not have the ability to fight on multiple fronts now, and should focus on the league, and the UEFA Cup can be given up at an appropriate moment.

This is mainly because there is the European Champions Cup ahead, and the gold content of the UEFA Cup is obviously insufficient, which is why many teams do not pay attention to the UEFA Cup.

However, the Ibiza club executives, including the head coach Fang Jue, believe that Ibiza should go as far as possible in the European war. The results in the European war are excellent, and the influence of the club will be further expanded. As far as Fang Jue is concerned, the better the performance of Ibiza, the greater the influence, the higher the market value, and the more valuable the shares in his hands.

With Ibiza almost at full strength, they were tied at home by Maritimo and struggled to advance to the UEFA Cup group stage. There were also some eccentric voices in the media.

This is the media. Before that, some media said that Ibiza should give up the European competition and concentrate on playing in the league. However, the game between Ibiza and Maritimo was not ideal. The same media began to say strange things, Ah The Spanish newspaper criticized Ibiza, In a somewhat ugly game, Ibiza advanced in a thrilling manner, avoiding the embarrassment of being out in the third round of the qualifying round. While Real Madrid and Barcelona won European points for La Liga, We hope that some teams can also achieve the minimum bottom line...'

Fang Jue sneered. Judging from the Champions League results of La Liga teams in recent seasons, it is barely reasonable to say that Barcelona has won points and earned face for La Liga. After all, Barcelona won the Champions League in 2006. However, Real Madrid has fallen to the top 16 for many consecutive seasons. Aspen said so, it is not convincing, it will only make Fang feel unhappy.

Of course, feng shui has taken turns, and Barcelona has only improved in the European competition in recent seasons. Before that, Real Madrid's Galacticos had better results than Barcelona in the first phase, especially in 2002. With that kick in the sky, Real Madrid stands on the top of Europe, and the scenery of the Galaxy battleship is the same for a while.

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On October 6, Ibiza ushered in the sixth round of the league.

They face Huelva away.

In this game, about a few hundred Ibiza fans followed the team to the away game.

This is already very good for a small island team with a small population and area. After all, this is just an ordinary La Liga game, not an important game.

Obviously, in the first five rounds of the league, Ibiza ranked third in the league with three wins and two draws and 11 points, which completely ignited the enthusiasm of Ibiza fans to follow the team to watch away games.

Before the game, Fang Jue was in the visiting team’s locker room, watching the players who were ready to play and yelling loudly, “Win ​​the game! I only have one request! Win the game, surpass Real Madrid, and let the Madrid people shut up! Go ahead, do it damn it!

In the first game of this round, Real Madrid was tied 2-2 by the Spaniard at home. In this case, as long as Ibiza wins the game against Huelva, the points will surpass Real Madrid.

As for why Fang Jue only targeted Real Madrid and didn't call for surpassing Barcelona?

That's because, in the standings, Ibiza is third, and Barcelona is fifth under Ibiza.

If Huelva can be won, Ibiza can at least rank second in the league, under the pressure of the two ladies of Real Madrid and Barcelona. It doesn't feel too good.

With that said, Fang Jue forcefully opened the door of the locker room.

The noise from outside poured in instantly, and everyone's spirits were lifted.

Ibiza is a newly promoted team, and Huelva is also a traditional underdog. Such a game is definitely not a traditional focus game, but the football market is still hot. The atmosphere in the Spanish football stadium is very contagious. Driven by the on-site DJ and die-hard fans, the audience sang the home team anthem, and at the same time waved the team flag or scarves rhythmically, causing waves of people from time to time. Anyone who is in it can't help but be moved by the frenzied atmosphere.

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The overall style of play in La Liga is to delicately emphasize technology, and generally play ground offense. Generally, there are very few tall and big players. La Liga games are basically inverted, passing, ball control, and passing back. They have been seeing-saw in the midfield, and the game rhythm is relatively slow.

This is the style of La Liga. Moreover, it is worth noting that the more mid-lower teams, the more they insist on a technical-flow offensive style of play. It can be said that the general characteristics of mid-lower teams are strong offense and weak defense.

On the contrary, traditional La Liga teams such as Sevilla, Valencia and Atletico Madrid are generally good at playing defensive counterattacks.

There is another characteristic, that is, as long as the weak team is led by more than two goals by the opponent, they will have no fighting spirit to save and fight, which means that the fighting will is not strong enough.

In the Premier League or in Serie A, the middle and lower teams are not easy to play, especially in the Premier League, even giants like Manchester United and Chelsea have a headache facing the mid-lower teams.

For example, in the Premier League, mid-lower teams are not as skilled as strong teams. However, having a body, fierce confrontation, desperate fighting, and the team's tenacious defense can cause headaches for strong teams. In the Premier League or Serie A, Especially for the former, the probability of an upset for a weak team is much higher than that of La Liga.

However, in La Liga, as long as you are strong enough, the middle and lower teams are really good at playing, because opponents rarely focus on defense, even a newly promoted underdog dares to attack at the Bernabeu and Real Madrid, although The result is that these underdogs died miserably... But, they don’t care. It’s so cool to have a good time with Real Madrid and Barcelona at the Bernabeu or Camp Nou. Anyway, even relegation doesn’t take points from the giants. Hi just hi.

This may also have something to do with Spain's preference for Latin style, and the pursuit of romance and enjoyment in its bones.

At least, this is the style of La Liga now.

Therefore, Fang Jue actually likes to play against mid-lower teams like Huelva: After two or three shots, the opponent's body will be soft and let you ravage it.

Ibiza's youngsters are active in running and fighting, with strong firepower, speed, coordination, technology, and toughness, and they quickly controlled the game.

We must open up the situation as soon as possible. This is what Fang Jue told his players.

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In the fifteenth minute of the game, Ibiza played a beautiful offensive cooperation.

Makelele and Modric teamed up to steal the ball, and then Modric quickly played the ball to find Deisler.

Deisler had a good vision, and he thought about what to do when he received the ball. He kicked the ball diagonally and directly tore through Huelva's defense.

Ibiza's counterattack was very fast, and this sharp counterattack made Huelva very uncomfortable.

When Mata and Alba passed the ball continuously and finally cut into the penalty area horizontally, Huelva's defense line had completely collapsed, and the last thing was simple. Alba sent a ground ball to Lewandowski. With his back to the goal, he squeezed away defender Ameodo, knocked the football, and then Reus, who received the ball, was unguarded at this time. In this case, the German Little Rocket scored a goal without difficulty. , Facing the half-empty goal, he pushed lightly, and the football rolled into Huelva's goal...

Beautiful! Beautiful! Beautiful! Beautiful goal! Ibiza leads 1-0, this is not the point. Dolores said, although Ibiza is a newly promoted, but with Ibiza's ranking and previous performance Judging by the strength of Huelva, it is not surprising to score Huelva's goal, but the point is, The point is, the ball is very beautiful, Ibiza's counterattack is very fast, and the whole goal process is almost a kick. A pass, a few kicks and a few kicks tore through Huelva's defense, and the home team seemed to have no way to face this kind of attack.

David Zamora was also full of praise for this goal, The Huelva players seemed to have been hit on the head with a stick, and they were dizzy. They didn't know how to defend at all. They could only passively follow. But, in the end, the end result is - conceding the ball.

Fang Jue applauded from the sidelines, cheering for the team's goal.

He was very satisfied with scoring so early.

As long as he seizes the opportunity to score another goal, Huelva's determination to resist will be greatly reduced.

Although Fang Jue had confidence in his team's strength, he didn't expect the team's second goal to come so quickly.

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Ten minutes later, Mata's frontcourt breakthrough caused a foul, and Ibiza got the chance to set the ball in the frontcourt.

Royce took the set kick into the penalty area, Lewandowski's header caused Huelva goalkeeper Luke to drop the ball, Huelva defender Alvarez made a hasty clearance, Modric did not pass outside the penalty area When the football landed, the first long-range shot hit the defender and changed direction. Lewandowski stretched out his foot before the defender made a clearance, and hit the football into the net.

Two to zero.

Gooooooooooooooooool!

Two to zero! Lewandowski, the Pole scored his seventh goal in the league, and he continues to lead the scorer list. David Zamora shouted.

After scoring five goals in nine minutes against Valencia in the fourth round of the league, Lewandowski surpassed Atletico Madrid striker Forlan's four goals and occupied the top scorer list.

Ibiza's goal came again. Facing Ibiza, Huelva was almost powerless to fight back. You know, Ibiza is a newly promoted team, 8-3 Atletico Madrid, 7-2 Valencia , scored like hemp, ranked third in the league in five rounds of the league, we have never seen such a newly promoted horse, this is all brought by this Chinese coach, he has created such an Ibiza team...Ibiza Mr. Alfonso, the late chairman of Visa, must be proud of his original decision, he chose a great talent coach for Ibiza. Dolores spoke extremely fast, like a machine gun.

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Lewandowski and his teammates celebrate excitedly.

The Polish boy is very satisfied with his current state. He came to Spain from the Polish Second Division. In the first season, he helped the team to upgrade from the Spanish Second Division. He also won the Copa del Rey. Now, in La Liga, he He is also showing his football talents to the fullest.

He didn't expect his career to go so smoothly.

All this is because of that man.

Coach, how am I doing? Lewandowski said as he ran to the sidelines.

Go, go, it's just a goal. Fang Jue gave a disgusted expression and kicked Lewandowski.

The Polish shooter laughed and returned to the dojo, shouting, Guys, help me, the coach is not satisfied yet.