princely elegance

Chapter 15 Football Is Round

Although the fans at home were shouting "penalty kick", the referee still saw clearly that the place of the foul was outside the penalty area.So in the face of the surrounding Real Madrid generals, he refused to award a penalty, but still showed a yellow card to Meli who put the shovel.

However, this foul still aroused the anger of everyone in Real Madrid. Ramos used the same tackle to put the opponent's forward in a counterattack of the opponent.However, this action still brought him a yellow card.Capello on the sidelines waved his hand a little helplessly after seeing this scene, and you, who just washed off the yellow card, dyed me yellow again.I thought that if Real Madrid hadn't only had you as a reliable defender, I would let you sit on the bench for the whole season.

In the ensuing match, the two sides became more and more angry, and dangerous moves appeared frequently.At this time, the referee blew the whistle continuously and called the captains of both sides to let them control the anger of their teammates.

Helguera has stayed in Real Madrid for a long time, and he is old, and everyone on the field still admires him.Therefore, under the control of the captains of both sides, the game gradually returned to the right track.

However, the chaos during this period still caused a fatal flaw in Real Madrid's defense.

No.307 minutes, Betis teenager Isidoro made an accurate cross from the right, and Maldonado, who plugged in, nodded the ball to ferry. Lopez made a wrong attack and failed to get the ball. After getting the ball, face the empty goal and score easily.

1:1, Betty equalized the score.

Capello immediately stepped on a bottle of water at his feet, he was very angry.The back line of this bean curd dregs.

Gago had no choice but to face this loss. The opponent directly evaded his defense with a high ball. His short stature is flawed.Moreover, the ball landed very accurately, and it was directly assigned to the feet of Isidoro, who was inserted at high speed from the right of Real Madrid.Bravo, who put in the assist, didn't have time to return to the defense, allowing the opponent to pass the ball calmly.

Betis, who equalized the score, suddenly gained confidence, and in the next period of time, the offensive wave after wave.Real Madrid's goal looked like it was about to be scored.

The media reporters in the stands were all excited at once. Real Madrid has nothing to report for winning, which is a matter of course.Losing is what the fans care about. Only when Real Madrid loses will their newspaper sales be high.What they are thinking now is that sentence... "Football is round, anything is possible."

Gago had to retreat with the midfielder at this time. The double midfielders composed of him and Diarra protected the front of the penalty area very well, making it difficult for the opponent's pass breakthrough to enter the penalty area easily.It has to be said that the biggest change for Capello this season is the double midfielder's tactics. If it wasn't for the double midfielder, he might have fallen behind with his tofu defense.

After receiving the opponent's three-axes, Gago began to direct the team to counterattack.He is the command tower of the midfield and the initiator of the transition between offense and defense.As a result, Real Madrid's offense began to suppress Betis again. At this time, Gago frequently sent the ball into the penalty area.

The two strikers Ruud van Nistelrooy and Higuain are the kind of opportunists, but also give them a chance to put the ball into the goal.Faced with Gago's tactics, the opponent's defender felt a headache.Although the success rate of this kind of through ball is not high, they must concentrate every time to prevent it, so that they can't be careless at all, and they must try their best to clear every ball.In this way, their physical strength was exhausted to the warning line in half time.

In the end, 2 minutes before the end of the first half, the opponent's defender made a mistake due to the decline in physical strength, and his pace slowed down a step.Gago's pass went into the paint against his skin.Higuain succeeded in anti-offside in an instant, seized this opportunity, and scored the ball into the opponent's goal.

Smoker was about to cheer his first goal in Real Madrid when the linesman signaled that the goal would not be counted. Before he scored, Ruud van Nistelrooy was already offside.

This made the Real Madrid players very angry, and they surrounded the referee one after another.The slow-motion playback found that Van Nistelrooy and Higuain were anti-offside at the same time, but Van Nistelrooy's body was leaning out, so it looked like he was offside, but in fact he was not.

The goal was blown away, allowing Real Madrid's players to attack even more frantically. Reyes and Robinho on both sides continued to break through and cross.Even Gago and Diarra took the opportunity to take a long shot.

In stoppage time, Maldonado violated Robinho and was given a yellow card.

During the intermission, Capello angrily criticized the defense, and at the same time replaced Cannavaro, replacing Bravo who made a fatal mistake, Ramos returned to the right, and the teenager Torres cameo left back.

After the opening of the second half, Real Madrid saw Betis in a defensive posture, and the current score is 1:1.If the game ends like this, Real Madrid will be eliminated because of fewer away goals.Although the head coach of Betis originally planned to give up the Copa del Rey, seeing this situation, he decisively put up an iron bucket formation and planned to fight hard.

After the opening, Real Madrid's attacking lineup suddenly entered the state, constantly testing the opponent's goalkeeper with long shots.In midfield, Capello also relaxed the restrictions on Gago, allowing him to plug in, but he must pay attention to returning to the defense in time.

Gago, whose seal was lifted, had a surprise at the beginning of the game. He cooperated with Reyes in consecutive twos and ones.The ball went straight to the upper left corner. If the opponent's goalkeeper hadn't concentrated and lifted the ball out of the goal, the score would have been overtaken.

Gago's activeness in the second half made the opponent have to allocate more defensive power, and at the same time kept using fouls to block Real Madrid's smooth attack.Romero and Cisco of Betis received consecutive yellow cards.

In the 60th minute, Gago distributed the ball to the right, and Ramos kicked in after receiving the ball. Robinho kicked the ball after receiving the ball in the penalty area and shot, which was confiscated by the goalkeeper.

After 3 minutes, after receiving the ball from Diarra, Gago made a long pass directly, and Ramos jumped to the top of the penalty area and missed the goal.

At this time, Capello replaced Reyes, who was physically declining, with the teenager Neto, and the head coach of Betis also replaced Cisco, who had a yellow card, with Pursau.

Although two people have been changed, the situation on the field has not changed at all, and Real Madrid is still holding the ball and attacking.Betis defended and counterattacked, and Ramos basically didn't go back after he came up.Gago constantly transfers the ball into the penalty area, and using his height, whether it is a direct header or a ferry, can give an additional change to the offensive tactics.

In the 73rd minute, Robinho made a cross from the left, and Ramos's close-range header in front of the goal was bravely saved by the opponent's goalkeeper Dobras.But then Dobras dawdled after getting the ball, not in a hurry to kick off, and the grumpy Ramos almost rushed up.

Fortunately, the referee blew the whistle directly at this time, and the yellow card warned Dobras to delay the time.A more irritable Real Madrid fan behind him threw his mobile phone down, and hit Dobras very accurately, and the game was interrupted for a while.

In the 81st minute, Neto passed the ball back to the center after a beautiful breakthrough from the right, and Gago just ran to that place.People who are good at long-range shots can easily shoot high-quality shots in this place, and the Betis defenders who were apprehensive about Gago's opening shot immediately surrounded him.

At this moment, Gago didn't catch the ball, but missed the ball sideways, and the opponent's defender was attracted by him.Robinho followed up with a low shot with his right foot, but the opponent's goalkeeper quickly fell to the ground and confiscated the ball.

At this time, Capello has already given up and replaced Diarra, the only defensive player in the midfield, with De La Reid.Gago admires this decision from the bottom of his heart. Although Capello is defensive first, he never lacks the courage to break the boat.

In the 85th minute, Gago broke through Juande in the middle, but was pushed down by him from behind.This action directly triggered a conflict between the two sides. Ramos came over and pushed Juand directly, and the Betis players immediately surrounded him.Of course, Gago would not let Ramos fight alone. While climbing up to stop the Betis players, he stepped on Juand who was pushed by Ramos.

Juand screamed, and the sharp-eyed Romero saw Gago's small movements, and Betis's people exploded, pushing Gago to the ground again.Poor Gago, just got up and fell on the grass that had gnawed all over the ground.This also aroused his anger. In his previous life, he was a young man practicing martial arts, and his temper was also explosive.He got up and swung his fist and punched him. Fortunately, Higuain hugged him at this time. Otherwise, he would never have stood on the court if he punched him.

At this time, the people of Real Madrid and Betis gathered together, and the crowd seemed to be ready to fight.

The media reporters at the scene were instantly excited, and the cameras in their hands flickered non-stop.There will be a lot of news tomorrow, it would be even better if Real Madrid can lose.Brothers in the media, your dark psychology.

But things didn't fight as they wished. The head coaches of the two teams, Capello and Luiz, roared continuously on the sidelines, coupled with the dissuasion of the referee and the captains of the two teams, the matter finally subsided.The referee saw that there were too many people making troubles. If all the cards were given, the game might not even be played.After looking at it, it was only a few minutes anyway, but Juande who pushed to Gago was given a yellow card, and the rest waved their hands to let them disperse.

The referee awarded a free kick at the same time. At this time, everyone on the field was a little embarrassed. There are no players who are good at free kicks.If this was in the era of the Galaxy Battleship, the opponent would not dare to give them a free kick in a better position.

In football at that time, if there were top ten free kick players, Beckham, Zidane, Carlos, and Figo would definitely be among them, and they must be at the top.But now, one is gone, one is retired, one is injured, and one is in a suit and leather shoes in the box.

Gago wanted to take a penalty, but just as he was about to speak, Ramos directly shot the goal vigorously. After the ball crossed the opponent's wall, it also flew over the goal at the same time.

At this time, time was running out, and Betis didn't even want to counterattack directly. The forwards came back and retreated across the board.

In the 88th minute, after Gago gave the ball to Ramos, Ramos made a pass from the right, and captain Elguera ran into the penalty area, shaking his head and attacking the goal with all his strength.Facing the header in front of him, Dobras could no longer continue to be brave, and the ball scored into the net.But the linesman whistled again to indicate that Elguera was offside first, and the goal was not counted.

Fuck, seeing this result, Ramos cursed directly. He wanted to rush forward to argue even though his anger had not subsided just now, but luckily he was stopped by Gaggo.

(End of this chapter)