green mercenary

Chapter 138 The Simple Way
The Europa League, referred to as the UEFA Europa League.There are many countries and teams that can participate in the Europa League, and there are many conditions.For the Eredivisie at this time, the top two are eligible to participate in the Champions League, No.3 can participate in the Champions League qualifiers, and the fourth No.5 can participate in the Europa League.Those who fail the Champions League qualifiers can go to the Europa League, and those who are eliminated in the Champions League group stage can also go to the Europa League.

To put it bluntly, the UEFA Europa League is a competition to bring together those teams that could not qualify for the Champions League knockout rounds.It not only allows these teams to have games to play to vent, but also allows these teams to regain some face in some aspects.

Eindhoven is like this. After finishing third in the group stage last year, they were kicked to the side of the Europa League.But fortunately, the team was up to the challenge and defeated Greece's Thessaloniki in both home and away games, and successfully advanced to the top 16.

In the spring of this year, Eindhoven's first game is the 98-99 Europa League champion, Parma in Serie A.Speaking of Parma, it is the team with the best European record except for the top three in northern Italy.

92-93 European Cup Winners' Cup champion, 93 European Super Cup champion, 94-95 Europa League champion, 98-99 Europa League champion.So many champions are definitely inseparable from the support of world-class stars.

Hernan Crespo is one of them.But fortunately, this Argentine youth from River Plate moved to Lazio in Serie A last summer.If Eindhoven meets Valdano Jr., then the defense will definitely be torn to pieces.

However, Parma is not the end of the star after all. Last winter, when Bai Xiaotian was still in the winter training camp, Parma's powerful midfielder Dino Baggio also switched to Lazio with a worth of 563 million pounds.Many people only know Robert Baggio but don't know Dino Baggio. In the 94 World Cup, Italy can be said to have been dragged in by two Baggios. 2 Baggios scored 2 goals, and Dino Baggio scored 7 goals, which is very rare for a defensive midfielder.

The transfer of these two stars directly put Parma in trouble on both offense and defense.Now Parma, whether it is offense or defense, is not as neat as it was two years ago.

"What? Have you researched anything?" Van Bommel asked curiously when he saw Bai Xiaotian carefully flipping through Palma's data.

"Of course, this Parma team is in a period of blood change. If they are used well, it will not be so difficult to win them."

"Oh? What can you do?" Van Bommel became interested, and also wanted to hear this little roommate's "good opinion".

"It's very simple!" Bai Xiaotian turned to a certain page of the information, pointed to a person's head and said, "Just hit him, hit him to death!"

Van Bommel took the information from Bai Xiaotian and found that this page was the evergreen tree in Serie A - Nestor Sansini.Van Bommel frowned, "What do you mean?"

"The Argentine defender is old, and his physical fitness is no longer what it used to be. He just came to Parma from Lazio, and the tacit understanding with his teammates must not be high. In addition, he is less than 1.8 meters tall. I think it will be easier to find a breakthrough from him." Bai Xiaotian said to himself.

"Oh? Then do you know that he won the World Cup runner-up with Maradona in 90, and participated in the World Cup in 94 and 98?" Van Bommel asked rhetorically.

Hearing this, Bai Xiaotian sat up directly from the bed, "That's right, that's it!" Bai Xiaotian said excitedly, "San Sini does have a lot of experience in major competitions, which is why Coach Parma dared to send him to the starting line-up. Even if the fans still think that he is the hard-working and iron-blooded defender back then, don't forget that he is 34 years old this year. It is much easier to beat him than to face Thuram on the other side head-on!"

Van Bommel flipped through Lilian Thuram's information and couldn't help nodding.No one wants to collide with this iron guard from France, it's black and hard, it's not just for fun.

However, in order not to make Bai Xiaotian proud, Van Bommel still said, "You are thinking too simply, the football field is changing rapidly. Don't forget, Italy is the best defensive team in the world."

"I'm a striker, so of course it's not as complicated as I think!" Bai Xiaotian laughed, "Maybe Masaleni (Parma coach) didn't expect that I would use such a simple method to deal with them? You must know that sometimes, simple is effective."

Seeing Bai Xiaotian's confident appearance, Van Bommel didn't discourage his teammates, nor did he ask if Sansini didn't start or was substituted.As the captain of Eindhoven, Van Bommel still knows how to keep his teammates happy.

"What are you doing?" Seeing Bai Xiaotian getting up and putting on his shoes, Van Bommel couldn't help asking.

"I've almost read the information. Although it's raining a little outside, I don't want to spend the day in bed." Said Bai Xiaotian stepped on his red leather feet, and ran out of the dormitory.Running with leather feet is not a good training habit, but for football players, playing barefoot is not allowed.

Taking a breath of moist air, the drizzle fell on Bai Xiaotian's face, bringing a bit of coolness.Bai Xiaotian shrank his neck, and ran out along the small path at the door of the dormitory.Anyway, the existence of the stamina stopwatch allows him to save a lot of stamina, so it's like traveling on the "No. 11 bus".

Parma, who chatted with Van Bommel for a long time, actually ignored one person.It's just that Van Bommel doesn't need to pay attention to that person because he is still young, but Bai Xiaotian knows that as long as he sees this person's name, he knows that he has to put in 120 points of effort to deal with it.

That's right, he is Gianluigi Buffon, the chief goalkeeper of Italy. This one, together with Saint Cassie, has been debated who is the world's number one goalkeeper genius in later generations.

Of course, the current Buffon has not yet made his debut in the Italian national team. Although he completed his national team debut when he was 19 years old, he did not get 98 minute of playing time as the No. 3 goalkeeper in the 1 World Cup. In the just-concluded European Cup, Buffon missed due to injury.Therefore, even though he helped Parma beat AC Milan 99-2 to win the Coppa Italia in 1, Van Bommel still didn't notice this goalkeeper who was one year younger than him.

But Bai Xiaotian is different, having seen the young Saint Cassie, Bai Xiaotian can naturally deduce how difficult this goalkeeper who is no worse than Cassie is.Maybe Buffon doesn't know Bai Xiaotian yet, but Bai Xiaotian already regards Buffon as an imaginary enemy.Perhaps it is something every striker should do to pretend that all famous goalkeepers are his old enemies.

At this moment, coach Parma, who had just defeated Viola 1-0, was standing in front of the small blackboard, beating the small blackboard behind him with a stick in his hand, and spitting all over the place. The 22-year-old teenager Buffon sat at the back of the team, staring at the names on the blackboard, and clenched his goalkeeper gloves with all his strength.Mattya Kezman?I, Buffon, will never let this Batman of Serbia and Montenegro score a goal in my own hands!
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