Beast King Costa

Chapter 288
Diego's celebration took a full three minutes.

Anyway, I'm not in a hurry to chase points at this moment. It's important to celebrate such a wonderful goal. What's the rush?
Fernando Santos didn't ask for it, he wanted the team to overtake the score in the first half of the game.

In the 36th minute, the game continued.

Villarreal kick off!
Since the score has returned to the same starting line, after the game continues, Villarreal will continue to return to the strategy at the beginning of the game.

They still resumed their radical 3-4-3 position, taking the initiative in the game and pressing towards Benfica's penalty area.

Pellegrini still looked calm about the 1V3 crushing goal of the young center of Benfica, as if he had a paralyzed face.

He waved his hands on the sidelines, as if gesticulating some tactics.

However, Villarreal's players don't seem to be aware of anything. It is still Matias Fernandez, the young Chilean midfielder and Bruno Soriano who control the rhythm in the midfield. Clear offensive organization.

After all, the three offensive points in the frontcourt are all marked by Benfica, and they don't have a clear point to find the ball.

Guillermo Franco is already on the bar with Nelson, and Nelson can be said to be entangled with Guillermo Franco every step of the way, leaving no room for the ball.

Leonard Somersa on the other side, because of Leonardo Bastos' height disadvantage, was almost beaten into an attack by Villarreal, so Fernando · Santos intentionally let Manu recover a little on the left wing, helping Leonardo Bastos to keep a close eye on Leonard Somersa.

Not to mention Diego Forlan, the leading shooter in the middle.

Luizon and David Luiz are double-teamed. They have already figured out the way Diego Forlan plays, and now they don't catch the ball for Diego Forlan at all, let alone for Diego Forlan. This is the opportunity for Lan to strike right and left.

Even Diego Forlan himself knew very well that his space for receiving the ball had been blocked by Luisson and David Luiz.

Diego Forlan even took the initiative to wave to his midfield teammates: "Don't play the ball to me! There is no chance! Go to the side!"

Therefore, Mathias Fernandez is also very helpless!

He also wants to press the offense, but there is no support point in the frontcourt to hold the ball. Is it possible that he wants to let himself hold the ball and attack the frontcourt?

This ability, Mathias Fernandez has not yet been illuminated.

At this moment, if Villarreal's midfielder is replaced by Riquelme, he may be able to get rid of the two national midfielders Petit and Carter Solanis and advance forward with the ball, but Madrid Tias Fernandez and Bruno Soriano are really young.

Even, because there is really no suitable support point in the frontcourt, Mathias Fernandez and Bruno Soriano procrastinated in holding the ball in the midfield, and they were almost directly robbed by Petit to launch a counterattack.

Fortunately, Bruno Soriano was quick to think and passed the ball back to Musk Senna behind him, which temporarily relieved the crisis.

Of course, with such a "big killer" like Diego around him, Musk Senna didn't dare to stick the ball in the midfield and backcourt, for fear of being directly pressed by Diego in the high position in the frontcourt.

Seeing how difficult the midfield was, Pellegrini finally realized that there are still two big killers on his bench.

Robert Pires, Riquelme!
One is a former Arsenal winger, and the other is Boca Youth's greatest midfielder in the 21st century.

however……

In the "yellow submarine" under the wise helm of the "Chilean engineer", such two great gods can only sit dryly on the bench and wait for the opportunity.

Seeing the two midfielders playing so hard, Pellegrini finally realized that he still has two strong midfielders on the bench.

I saw Pellegrini turned back to signal Roberto Pires and Riquelme to warm up.

Robert Pires was self-conscious, and was called by Pellegrini to warm up, so he left the bench and went to the sidelines to start warming up.

Riquelme is a very character player.

Even though he knew that the team needed him at this moment, he completely ignored Pellegrini, as if his butt was stuck to the stool, and he did not move.

"Riquelme, warm up! Get ready for the second half."

"Oh! Got it."

Although the mouth said "Got it", the body still said it very honestly.

Riquelme remained motionless, not intending to warm up at all.

Pellegrini seems to have been used to this situation for a long time, and it is not surprising.

He did not blame Riquelme, but chose to ignore it and return his attention to the court.

Benfica's bench also discovered the episode of Villarreal's bench, Rui Costa said with a smile: "Argentine players are very individual, and Riquelme, who has played in Argentina for many years MVP, that’s even more bohemian—since he hates Pellegrini, he definitely won’t listen to Pellegrini’s arrangements.”

"Boss Rui, what do you mean, Riquelme will refuse to play in the second half?"

"No way. The team will punish him like this!"

"Fuck me! This is the first time I know that Argentine players are so willful."

"No, no, I believe that Riquelme will definitely play in the second half of the game. And! What is certain is that after he plays, he will definitely not play according to Pellegrini's arrangement..."

Speaking of this, Rui Costa said a little seriously: "But this is the scariest part! Riquelme, a classic midfielder, is like the existence of his own tactical system. He is fully capable of making his teammates Take it to the rhythm of the game that you are most familiar with. Once you get rid of Pellegrini's wonderful 3-4-3 tactics and replace it with Riquelme's active attack, then Villarreal will play in the second half of the game. The offensive will become very terrifying!"

"hiss……"

Everyone couldn't help but gasped.

After all, there are fewer and fewer classical front midfielders now, and there are fewer and fewer.

Therefore, young players have little understanding of the traditional midfielder's style of play.

In fact, Rui Costa's playing style is somewhat similar to a classical midfielder, so he has a deeper understanding of what help Riquelme can bring to his teammates in the midfield.

Just because he knows how rare the classic midfielder is, Rui Costa is quite reluctant to see Riquelme leave the European arena.

Some voices say: With the development of modern football, Riquelme is likely to be the last classical midfielder in football history.Once Riquelme leaves the mainstream European leagues and returns to Argentina to play, it will be a great loss for European football.

However, Riquelme, who has a free and easy personality, doesn't care about these public opinions. His attitude is quite firm: Europe is not suitable for me!I must go back to Argentina!

In the last year of his career, which was also the last season of Riquelme playing in Europe, Rui Costa has a lot of sympathy for this free and easy midfield genius.

Even Rui Costa quietly applied to Fernando Santos before the game: "If Riquelme has a chance to play, I hope to compete with him on the same stage for the last time."

When playing for AC Milan, Rui Costa had a record in the Champions League against Riquelme who was playing for Barcelona at the time, but Rui Costa hopes to have one last time!
At the end of the first half, Pellegrini did not dare to hope that his team could overtake the score.

The score of 1 to 1 is not too ugly-at least, Pellegrini himself thinks it is not ugly...

Anyway, the audience at the Mestalla Stadium felt that the 1V3 crushing goal scored by Diego just now, Villarreal's defense was crushed by Diego was ugly enough.

But fortunately, Fernando Santos also felt that he could accept that the first half ended with a 1-1 score.

Seeing that the game time has come to the 40th minute, Fernando Santos on the sidelines waved his hand.

Players are quite familiar with this gesture: Ming Jin retreats!

Therefore, Benfica and Villarreal finally swept away the previous tense situation, and spent the last 5 minutes of the first half of the game in a rare "harmony and creating a better society".

The referee saw that the players on both sides did not have a strong desire to attack, and even did not give stoppage time for the first half of the game.

As soon as the game time came to the 45th minute, the referee directly blew the whistle for the end of the first half!
"Beep……"

The first half is over!
1 is better than 1!

Whether it is the perception of the scene or the score data, Benfica and Villarreal are evenly divided, and no one has taken advantage of the other.

But there are changes on the bench on both sides.

Obviously, in the second half of the game, after the coaches of both sides complete the substitutions, the game will officially begin!
After the end of the first half, there were some unpleasant episodes between the players of both sides.

Guillermo Franco quarreled with Nelson again, and the two seemed to have a dispute over Campos and Cheney, who is the best goalkeeper.

On the other end, Villarreal's defensive players pointed at Diego's dissatisfaction.

Obviously, they were very dissatisfied with Diego's arrogant remarks after scoring just now, and they were looking for Diego for an explanation.

"What's there to say! If you want to win respect, guard me in the second half of the game!"

Diego didn't get angry because of his opponent's gesticulation, he still had a smile on his face: "You guys should work harder! Don't give me a chance to score in the second half! If you want to win respect, what is the skill of relying on lip service? You have to rely on real skills!"

"Yes! Diego is right!"

"Respect is earned by strength!"

Captain Pettit and Nuno Gomez seemed worried that the younger brother would be bullied, so they rushed over to help Diego out.

Manuel Peña watched Petit and Nuno Gomez rushing up, and his expression eased a little.

"In the second half of the game, we will not let you have a chance to score again!"

"Okay!"

Diego smiled confidently: "Then you guys have to work hard for the second half of the game!"

(End of this chapter)