Beast King Costa

Chapter 331 Cup Mission from the System

Diego, who was still in the locker room, heard the harsh metal machinery of the Real ball king system in his mind.

"The new season's cup mission is open! The Europa League front, the host Diego's mission for the new season is: to win the Europa League Golden Boot this season! And lead the team to win the championship! The mission is a double mission, one of which is not completed, it is regarded as a mission Failed. The mission failed, and the host Diego will lose the physical characteristics of a man forever!"

"What the hell!!!"

Diego almost jumped up in the visiting team's locker room: "There are league missions, and there are cup missions that are so tricky? Moreover, the Golden Boot and leading the team to win the championship are indispensable! Poaching! What a broken system! Fuck you..."

Before Diego could finish complaining, the piercing voice of the Real ball king system reverberated in Diego's mind again.

"It is detected that the host Diego has spoken badly about the Real ball king system! The new season's cup tasks continue to increase in difficulty - when winning the Golden Boot, you need to score at least 2 goals more than No.3!"

"Trench digging! Can you still do this?!"

"It was detected again that the host, Diego, was insulting the Real ball king system! The new season cup task continues to increase in difficulty - to win the Golden Boot, you need to score at least 2 goals more than No.5!"

"Nimma! Come again?!"

"It was detected again that the host, Diego, was insulting the Real ball king system! The new season cup task continues to increase in difficulty - to win the Golden Boot, you need to score at least 2 goals more than No.7!"

"My life is so happy! So happy! So happy! So happy! I accept the mission! Please stop increasing the difficulty. I beg you!"

In order to allow himself to complete the task assigned to him by the Real Ball King system with a little bit of ease, Diego began to use his ability to bargain with aunts and aunts in the later vegetable market, and started a new round of negotiations.

After 3 minutes.

Diego finally showed a helpless wry smile and nodded.

"All right, all right! Five more goals than No.2, I can't do it if I resign myself to it."

Ok……

At least, Diego still managed to "cut" 2 goals. The negotiation with the Real ball king system this time is not too bad.

This proves that if you bargain more often with the aunts and uncles in the vegetable market, once you have honed your various bargaining skills, you can apply them to all walks of life in other places.

"Hey……"

Diego couldn't help shaking his head helplessly: "Assists in the Portuguese Super League, the Europa League Golden Boot, and at least 2 goals more than No.5! You have to lead the team to win the Europa League in the new season, my Why is life so hard!"

After racking up assists like crazy in the Portuguese Super League, and then racking up goals like crazy in the Europa League, I wonder what the media will think of me - an assist maniac?A goal machine?Or both in one?But why not do all kinds of shooting on both lines, but scoring assists in the league, and scoring goals in the Europa League?

Fortunately for Diego at this moment, the Benfica club deliberately keeps the media from contacting him, so that he doesn't have to explain too much in front of the media.

Anyway!

According to the club's instructions, just be yourself!It doesn’t matter how the media tries to blow things up!Keep a calm mind, treat everything as floating clouds, and play football with a normal heart.

……

At almost 20 o'clock in the evening, the players of Alkmaar and Benfica left the locker room and gathered in the player tunnel.

Since the Alkmaar team basically does not have a big name, the Benfica international players will naturally not have any acquaintance with them. In addition, there are no Dutch players in the Benfica team, so when the two teams meet in the player channel , both sides are very indifferent, just chatting with their teammates to pass the time.

It is also miraculous to say.

When Ronald Koeman entered the Stadium of Light and took charge of Benfica, he did not introduce even a Dutch player, nor did he introduce his favorite players from the Eredivisie League. They were all based on the lineup provided by the Benfica club. There is a transfer operated by the marketing department to "watch and cook"

This also led to the fact that after Ronald Koeman dismissed get out of class, Benfica did not have any remaining "Dutch football brand".

Of course, this is also a good thing for the team's transformation work after the next coach takes office - there is no need to clean up the previous coach's confidants on a large scale, and there is no need to rebuild the player's locker room culture. Plug and play directly after taking office.

What's more, Fernando Santos himself is a famous Portuguese coach, and many Portuguese-speaking players in the Benfica team can easily accept the new coach's locker room culture.

As the time for the start of the game was almost approaching, players from the two teams walked into the Alkmaar City Stadium from the player tunnel.

Although the Alkmaar City Stadium tonight is full of seats, and there are even some fans who came to the small town of Alkmaar from other cities to watch the game, but because of the size of the stadium, the Benfica players really did not feel any away The pressure of combat.

During the preparations in Spain, the entire Benfica team has experienced the "devil's home stadium" of foreign teams at the Mestalla Stadium in the Valencia region. Most of the old players have experienced Lisbon more than once or twice. Derby, Portuguese national derby, even in the Champions League, to the Camp Nou, to the Bernabéu, to the "dream theater" Old Trafford to play games, what "devil atmosphere" have you never seen?
The Alkmaar City Stadium is like a training ground for them. No matter how crazy the Dutch fans are, it is just a child's play.

The referees for this game are from Spain.

After the players completed the opening ceremony, the referee Michel asked the captains of the two sides to choose the direction of attack and the possession of the ball in the first and second halves.

Alkmaar's captain is former Dutch international Averazze, and Benfica's captain is naturally Petit.

Just as the captains of the two sides were picking the direction of attack and the possession of the ball in the first half and the second half, the off-court scene also attracted the attention of the media—the Dutch football hero Louis van Gaal and the Portuguese coach Fernando Santos seemed to have a long-standing relationship. Already know each other?The two have been chatting enthusiastically in the player tunnel since the players entered the field. Until now, the game is about to start, and the two famous coaches are still reluctant to return to their respective coaching positions.

however……

What the media didn't know was that Louis van Gaal and Fernando Santos were not familiar with each other at all, and they barely even met each other a few times.

The so-called "enthusiastic chat" at the entrance of the player tunnel at this moment is nothing more than Luis van Gaal's smoke bomb for himself when he denounced Fernando Santos for training last night.

"I said, Coach Santos! Why do you give me smoke bombs? Your Benfica beat Boavista 8-0 in the first round of the Portuguese Super League in the new season. The score of this game is legendary in European football. It was so popular that Benfica’s offensive football philosophy was about to take over the EuroLeague. I didn’t believe you would focus on defense at the time.”

Speaking of this, Louis van Gaalpi complained with a smile: "Three defensive midfielders! Still based on defense! Is it necessary to do this?!"

"Oh? That means, your people still peeped at our training when we closed the field for training?"

Fernando Santos said with a half-smile: "Coach Van Gaal, you accidentally sold yourself out. You know, our club can report your sneaky behavior to UEFA. At that time, you will at least You have to be fined hundreds of thousands of euros."

"Oh...really? We are just a cleaning staff. We just happened to see it when we were cleaning the VIP stands. You can report it anyway. We don't care anyway."

Louis van Gaal doesn't care about these so-called reporting fines—whether it's the Champions League or the Europa League, the home team will definitely arrange people to watch the training the night before the away team's game, and the video will be used for reference. This is basically an agreement It's an unspoken rule.

Although UEFA has regulations that the home team cannot go to the visiting team's training after the away game requires closed training, but after such reports are appealed to UEFA, they will basically not rise to the Dutch Den Haag Football Court.

There are at least hundreds of such reports a year. If UEFA handles every report conscientiously and properly, the workload will be more than that of Futukang assembly line workers.

Europeans all enjoy life more.

They wouldn't spend time in their private lives for these trivial matters.

and so!
Louis van Gaal didn’t believe that Fernando Santos would report his coaching staff for spying on their on-field training.

What's more, Fernando Santos has been coaching European football longer than Louis van Gaal, and he has become a good old fritters. Doesn't Fernando Santos know these unspoken rules?

Those fledgling, hot-blooded "stunned young" coaches will do these thankless things.

Fernando Santos will definitely not show weakness, after all, the opponent is Dutch, not Portuguese.

I saw Fernando Santos asked with a smile: "Since you don't care about Coach Van Gaal, why do you still want to come to our field training? I'm not afraid to tell you that we were preparing for the next round of the Portuguese Super League. In the league, and later in the Europa League against La Liga powerhouse Sevilla, we can prepare for the defensive cards we can play."

"Haha! I don't believe Coach Santos, you have such a luxurious lineup full of offensive talents, and you will play defensive tactics in the Portuguese Super League or the Europa League. If your team's opponent is Barcelona, ​​maybe I will Will believe."

"It would be even better if you were coaching Barcelona under Van Gaal, wouldn't it?"

"Haha! Maybe I will return to the head coach position of Barcelona in the future? Who knows."

"Then I will very much look forward to playing against Barcelona under your leadership."

……

In the eyes of the public, the two famous European football coaches, who can be regarded as pivotal and highly anticipated, have been arguing for a long time at the entrance of the player tunnel. It was not until the game had started for almost a minute that they "reluctantly" returned to their respective teams. to the coaching position.

After all, both sides are focusing on offensive tactics in this game, and the pace of the field will definitely be very fast. This requires the head coach to keep an eye on the sidelines, otherwise, once the players get their heads off the game, the scene will easily get out of control.

however……

Before Fernando Santos came to the sidelines to command on the spot, one player on the field had already lost control.

Diego.

The kind you can't control yourself at all.

Crazy high-position pressing, all kinds of crazy balls hitting Alkmaar's goal, the desire to attack was so strong that Fernando Santos thought Diego had taken the wrong medicine.

You know, in the first half of the Portuguese Super League debut in the new season, Diego completely regarded himself as a midfielder. All kinds of midfielders pass and receive the ball, and all kinds of midfielders are not inferior The passing of the ball, making cakes and feeding the teammates made them feel comfortable and full.

In this game, they actually stormed Alkmaar's goal?

Could it be that, before joining Benfica, did Diego have any blood feud with Alkmaar?Or, did Diego have a problem with a certain player in Alkmaar, maybe even Louis van Gaal on the coaching bench, so he was uncharacteristically beaten to death at the beginning of the game?

Of course, now Fernando Santos has no way of knowing why.

At least, in the view of Fernando Santos, Diego has such a high level of aggression from the beginning, which is very helpful for Benfica to take three points in Alkmaar's away game-Diego is an important support for Benfica's striker, Once Diego's aggressiveness is played out and the opponent's defenders are suppressed, the three frontcourt attackers behind him must have benefited a lot.

In the 7th minute of the game, Diego used his personal ability to completely crush Alkmaar's double central defenders, and entered the Alkmaar penalty area with one enemy and two, and completed a powerful shot, which almost missed the goal. Knocked on Alkmaar's goal.

I don't know whether to say that Diego's feet are smooth or not.
Diego turned around and shot, and hit the post directly!

You know, when Diego took a shot, Alkmaar's goalkeeper didn't even react.

Diego's shot that almost broke the deadlock surprised Louis van Gaal on the sidelines.

"What the hell are you worrying about? The problem that the central defender can't handle Diego Costa is too serious! If this continues, the rhythm of the backcourt will definitely collapse!"

As a famous coach with rich coaching experience in European football, Louis van Gaal immediately made a contingency strategy.

I saw Louis van Gaal walking to the sidelines and shouting for Iceland international Joy Gujjonsson to quickly retreat to the backcourt and directly use it as a deep-back central defender, letting Joy Gujjonsson, who is quite explosive in physical confrontation, go Go straight up against Diego.

As for the defense of the midfield, it can only reduce the number of forward attacks by Charles and Medink, let them sit in the midfield and defend well, and ensure that the opponent's offense will not directly attack the back line many times.

(End of this chapter)