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Mendieta flopped and received a yellow card, which aroused the anger of the Valencia players. They then launched a more violent attack, while Alkmaar patiently dealt with it and attacked quickly when he had the opportunity, although only Ronaldinho and the striker launched the attack Three players, except for Thomason, all three of them are very capable of holding the ball and breaking through. Although Robben is young, but his wind-like speed and quick change of direction tortured Valencia's defensive players. In other words, especially Ronaldinho, after letting him turn around with the ball, it is not possible for one player to block it. At least two players are needed to defend, otherwise you have to use a foul to solve the counterattack.

Valencia has scattered a lot of troops on defense, and its offense is not so smooth. Valencia played so smoothly under Cooper, often sweeping Barcelona and Real Madrid. The main reason is that his striker can hold the ball. Players can come out of the waist, and Mendieta's organizational and creative abilities are in the middle.

Angulo on Valencia's striker was originally a midfielder. This gentleman retreats to take the ball, breaks through with the ball, plays the ball, and shoots very well. He is used as a half midfielder. When counterattacking, he can follow the The situation on the field determines whether to divide the ball, or break through, or control the ball and wait for teammates to come up, and then organize the attack! Coupled with the breakthrough and speed of the wings Illie and Kiley Gonzalez, the cooperation of the three They have a tacit understanding and can often play very clever cooperation. Both Falinos and Albelda are players with outstanding physical fitness and wide vision. Mendieta often retreats to help them play the ball. Valencia played It is naturally handy to rise up, making it difficult for opponents to guard against.

But today's Alkmaar has specially deployed Valencia's defensive counterattack. The backcourt shrinks the defense and does not give space to the three forwards. chance to get the ball.

Alkmaar's first task in this game is not to score goals, but to prevent Valencia from scoring goals, so striker Thomason also has a defensive task. His task is to press high and prevent Valencia from playing in the backcourt. Speed, although Jiang Mu didn't mark Valencia's midfielder like he did with Barcelona's Guardiola, but Valencia's midfielder is not as strong as Guardiola. If there are players harassing it, it will not be so neat to play the ball.

From the beginning of the game, Valencia felt very awkward. Their original anti-counterattack was smooth and flowing, like mercury pouring into the ground. Even in the match against Real Madrid and Barcelona, ​​​​the opponents could hardly block their attack, but in this game, they It is not like a fish swimming in the water, but like a running horse stuck in the mud. It is difficult to take a step, the pass is not smooth, the serve is difficult, and the dribbling is blocked. In short, their offense just cannot be played.

In a blink of an eye, 20 minutes into the game, Valencia shot 4 times, all of which were long shots and headers, and only one shot was on target. This was Mendieta's long shot, but it was weak and still hit Very positive, easily picked up by goalkeeper Cesar.

Alkmaar, who played a defensive counterattack, had only one shot less than Valencia, but three shots, two of which were in Valencia's penalty area, and a long-range shot was also quite threatening. Whoever is more threatening in minutes and who should score more goals can only be Alkmaar.

Faced with this situation, Cooper is very anxious. His goal is to score in the first three 10 minutes, at least one goal in the first half. This is the bottom line. If they can’t score in the first half, they basically equal to Sentenced to death with a suspended death sentence, there is no hope left.

Cooper's football philosophy is holism. He said, "What I need is a team that is united and forging ahead. The most important thing for this team is not to lose collective consciousness and will under any circumstances. A player who plays well does not mean meaningless 70000 dribbles, but an effective attack and an iron defense."

"Attack! Go forward boldly!"

"Press! Keep pressing!"

Cooper stood on the sidelines, waving his arms, and roaring loudly. Now he can only let the players attack regardless of the danger. The danger of not scoring is the greatest danger. At this time, being scored by the opponent is an immediate execution , and if he doesn't score a goal, the execution is suspended. The two differences have nothing to do with each other. Of course, Cooper chose to give it a go.

Under Cooper's command, Valencia's players began to fight for their lives in about 20 minutes. They all pressed near the midfield and pushed Alkmaar's striker to the center circle, leaving only one goalkeeper in the backcourt. Nisares came to meet and take the ball.

This is of course extremely dangerous, but there are also many benefits. In this way, Alkmaar’s high frontcourt press is gone, the ball is basically played in Alkmaar’s half, and the offense is launched more directly. It requires excessive backcourt and midfield. Even a central defender can drive the ball directly to Alkmaar's penalty area to attack.

The number of times the ball is passed into Alkmaar's penalty area has increased, the bottom pass, the diagonal pass, the 45-degree angle pass, the long shot, the lob, the ball flies in the Alkmaar penalty area, and is pushed out , kicked in again, kicked out again, passed in again, but under Alkmaar's tight defense, Valencia just couldn't score, because at this time there was too little space for kicking and jumping in the penalty area, The crowd is so dense, the reaction time for the players is too short, even if you can react, you can't guarantee the space to shoot, there are so many people in front of the goal, but the Valencia players have to shoot in the fastest time, and it happens It takes a lot of luck and character to pass through the seams.

If at this time, Valencia has a powerful center like Vieira and Morientes, even if it has a striker with a strong body and header ability like Drogba and Klose, it will be easier to score goals, but Valencia only has players like Illie, Angulo, and Kiley Gonzalez. They can only kill with a dagger, but they can't swing a heavy hammer.

Huang Jian, the commentator of China Central Television Five, thought: "This time is cruel for Cooper. They can see the opponent's goal, but they can't get the ball in. They have Sanchez, Guerra on the bench. Germany, but they don’t even have a powerful center. At this time, the alien Ronaldo is useless. What they need is Vieri and Drogba. What makes Cooper even more painful is that Alkmaar’s bench But there are two powerful centers, Drogba and Klose, they can only look at the pitch dryly, but have no chance to play."

For Cooper, this is true. He misses the center very much now. Next season, he thinks that no matter whether Valencia has money or not, he must buy a center to avoid being helpless when he encounters this kind of iron barrel formation. goal.

Valencia's aggressive attack did not cause Alkmaar's players to panic. He dealt with the opponent's attack in an orderly manner, and then counterattacked calmly.Now, they still have two and a half chances of making mistakes, and the opponent needs to score at least three goals to eliminate them. This is the prerequisite for Alkmaar to be calm and confident, just like walking on the edge of a cliff and walking on a wide road , people's mood must be completely different.

When the game reached 30 minutes, Valencia still hadn't scored, which meant that Cooper's plan before the game had failed. Their bottom line was to score one in the first half. At this time, Valencia's offense was even stronger. Crazy, even more desperate, and the movements have become very large. It seems that they are not a La Liga team, but a Premier League team.

However, Valencia's onslaught still did not get a goal, but it got Alkmaar's sharper counterattack.

In the 32nd minute, Alkmaar's defender Lucio made a header and the ball fell in front of Robben. Robben made an easy pick in front of the red-eyed Albelda, and the ball passed Albelda's head. Albelda reached out to catch Robben, but Robben dodged like a fish, avoided Albelda, moved forward quickly, hit the ball with his forehead, and rushed towards Valencia's half like the wind. There is no one in Rencia's half, and the defenders are all standing on the center circle.To kill is to face the goalkeeper.

Robben's speed is extremely fast, he passed the midfielder Albelda, the right back Carboni has no chance to foul, the space is so large, Robben dribbles the ball very fast, the ball seems to stick to his feet, dodge to the left Dodged right, knocking Carboni to the ground, and then Robben rode straight to Valencia's restricted area.

At this time, the Valencia fans are completely desperate. This is not because they only have Canizares as the goalkeeper in the backcourt, but because Alkmaar has the fastest speed in addition to Robben with the ball. After following up, the two forwards formed a situation of double ghosts hitting the goal, and Valencia was already close to death.

Robben was like a runaway wild horse galloping across Valencia's half. He dribbled the ball from the side and hit the center of the penalty area, but only Thomason followed closely behind him. It was the defensive players Djukic and Peregrino.

There was a dead silence in the stands. Both Alkmaar fans and Valencia fans knew that this was a life-and-death goal.

On the bench and the coach's bench, the players and coaches of both sides stared nervously at the court to see the performance of Robben and Canizares.

Canizares is Valencia's last line of defense at this time. His battlefield is in the penalty area. The experienced Canizares knows it very well, so he did not steal like a defender, but kept retreating. Ten meters away from the front of the restricted area retreated back to the restricted area.

Robben also hit the penalty area at this time. Canizares originally retreated, but at this time he suddenly retreated and attacked quickly, coming up to pounce on the ball at Robben's feet.

At this time, Robben has three choices. He can shoot, pass Canizares, or pass the ball to Thomason. But at this time, Robben has forgotten the existence of his teammates. goal.

Pull the ball, pass!

Robben made the worst choice, he chose the goalkeeper.

Canizares' strongest point is single-handed attacking. He is short and quick to react, and he fished the ball out of Robben's feet in an instant.

Rowe himself passed and the ball was gone.