The green devil

Winter transfers are different from summer transfers. After all, it is the middle of the season and there is no special reason. Few players will choose to transfer at this time.

In other words, during the winter transfer period, even if you have money, you don't have many choices.

And the Spaniard is a small club, even if they have money, big-name players are not willing to come.

Now that the Spaniard has achieved excellent results, the management has changed the goal of this season from relegation to the Champions League. According to this goal, low-level players will not help the Spaniard.

This resulted in a situation where almost half of the winter transfers have passed, but the Spaniards still have nothing to gain.

The transfer has stalled, but the league and the Copa del Rey are still in full swing.

After the game with Eibar, the Spaniard played the second round of the Copa del Rey with Barcelona in the middle of the week.

Due to a big loss in the first round, the Spaniard gave up in the second round and used half of the substitute.

In fact, if the opponent is not the same city rival Barcelona, ​​the Spaniard will completely use the substitute to play this game.

The opponent was a mortal enemy in the same city, and the Spaniard was worried about being beaten into a tragedy, so he sent half of the main force, and even Zhao Yang was put on the bench.

Barcelona led by 3 goals in the first round. They didn't believe that the Spaniard could comeback at home, so they also sent half of the substitutes to play.

In the derby, Barcelona of course hoped to score as many goals as possible, but the Spaniard defended fiercely and made a lot of injuries. Barcelona did not dare to provoke the Spaniard. In the end, after Barcelona led 2-0, they failed to score again. In the end, Barcelona beat Espanyol 5-0 on aggregate to advance to the quarterfinals of the Copa del Rey.

After the game, the Spaniard didn't take the defeat to heart.

With the current strength of the Spaniard, there is no hope of winning the Copa del Rey at all. It does not make any practical sense to go to the top 16 or the top 8. The best choice is to focus energy and physical strength on a league with a bright future.

Even ordinary fans understand this truth.

In the 20th round of La Liga, the Spaniard challenged Getafe away.

Getafe was ranked 14th last season and ranked 12th this season. It is also a relegation-oriented team.

In order to prepare for this game, in the Copa del Rey in the middle of the week, the Spaniard hid half of his main players.

Even so, the Spaniard's physical fitness cannot be compared with Getafe who is waiting for work.

Under Getafe's active press, the Spaniard played very hard. It was not until the last moment that the teenager Moreno, who came off the bench, made a header and helped the Spaniard beat Getafe 1-0 away.

But the Spaniard's victory was also a tragic victory.

Captain Lopez's thigh was hit by a defensive player when he was fighting with his opponent, which caused a torn thigh muscle. It will take at least three weeks before he can play again.

The main defender Rocco and the defensive midfielder Diop accumulated five yellow cards and were suspended for one game. They missed the next focus battle with No.5 Villarreal.

Lopez's injury and the suspension of Rocco and Diop made the Spaniard's starting lineup also stretched.

Short of men and horses, short of major generals, at this time the yellow submarine Villarreal is the last opponent the Espanyol team wants to encounter.

Villarreal ranked sixth last season, last season, Villarreal still ranked sixth, and now, they rank fifth.

Now Villarreal and the Spaniard are very close in strength and points, and the two teams are also the biggest competitors for the Champions League seats.

This is a game where 3 points can be used as 6 points.

The Spaniard is exhausted and short of major generals, and the outside world is generally not optimistic about the Spaniard winning at home, thinking that the two teams may draw.

Before the game, the Spaniards were also very low-key up and down, claiming that Villarreal is very strong, and this will be a very difficult game.

Villarreal attaches more importance to this game than the Spaniard.

Villarreal coach Marcelino Garcia said before the game that this is a game that affects the success or failure of Villarreal this season. If Villarreal can beat the Spaniard away, they will There is hope to enter the Champions League. If they lose the game, unless the Espanyol team collapses later, they will have little hope this season.

On the 23rd, the first four La Liga matches, the focus of the battle between Sevilla and Atletico Madrid, the two sides shook hands and made a draw, while Barcelona beat Malaga 2:1 in the away game.

Atletico Madrid's draw means that as long as the Spaniard beats Villarreal, they can once again climb to the top of the standings.

In the early morning of the 24th, the game between Villarreal and the Spaniard officially started.

Aiming for three points, Villarreal and the Spaniard started a confrontation at the beginning.

In the 3rd minute, the Spaniard striker Caicedo took the ball in the midfield and rushed to the penalty area.

Villarreal's central defender fell to the ground to intercept, and the ball bounced off Caicedo's leg and bounced forward, which was equivalent to Caicedo hitting a wall with himself.

Caicedo caught up with the ball and entered the penalty area without any defense. Facing the attacking goalkeeper, Caicedo scored through his crotch and rewritten the score to 1:0.

It's a dream start.

When Zhao Yang and Asensio were marked to death for two consecutive games, Moreno and Caicedo both stood up.

Then there was a fierce counterattack by the Villarreals.

Villarreal coach Marcelino Garcia has been the coach of the team since January 2013, and helped Villarreal, who was still in the middle and lower reaches of West Second Division at the time, to obtain a miraculous upgrade. It can be said that Villarreal Al's godfather.

Marcelino is good at promoting and training young players, and he also contributed a lot to the transformation of the submarine offense.The Villarreal team he created was quick, direct, and sharp in counterattacks. It is a giant killer that many giants have a headache for.

Once Villarreal launched an offensive, the offensive continued continuously, overwhelming the Spaniard.

In the 23rd minute of the game, Villarreal went straight in the middle to find the team's top star Soldado.

Soldado is moving laterally with a Spaniard defender at his side.

Seeing the ball pass to Soldado, the central defender Alvarez is also moving towards Soldado, ready to double-team.

Soldado was very clever not to take the ball, but knocked the ball back with his heel and passed it to his forward teammate Terry Gross.

Terry Gross inserted into the penalty area at high speed, fell to the ground and scored the goal without any defense, tying the score at 1:1.

Only 10 minutes into the game, the two sides have already scored two goals. It is amazing that the two goals are very similar, both in the same position and using the same shooting method.