Football career: From winning the championship to becoming a legend

Fortunately, the UEFA Cup match in the next week will be held at Sevilla's home stadium, and they don't have to go to an away game. Otherwise, the whole Sevilla team would have almost collapsed. The continuous intensive schedule and double games a week, La Liga, Copa del Rey and UEFA Cup, all three lines have not failed, so all three lines have to try their best, but everyone from the coaching staff to the substitutes are exhausted, not only physically, but also mentally.

So after the league match with Atletico Madrid, Juan Ramos gave the whole team another day off. Ricardo naturally knew about this in advance, and asked Chiarado, who was on annual leave, to accompany him for two days. After all, he hadn't played enough with Huaguohong's full-body jersey. Ahaha, it was all about celebrating the Chinese New Year...

However, Ricardo still had his private lessons as scheduled on Monday morning, and discussed the problems he encountered during the Atletico Madrid game with his private training team. It seems that the current ball control training is no longer sufficient to deal with the problems Ricardo encountered in actual combat.

Ricardo's personal training team promised to contact a well-known tactical analysis team in the industry to carefully study Ricardo's recent game videos, summarize some of the practical problems Ricardo encountered, and compile the latest personal training plan based on the most prominent problems... Fortunately, the header training is about to come to an end, and Ricardo can fully undertake the new training module.

However, when he heard that the tactical analysis team would need about a month to compile an analysis report, Ricardo couldn't help but worry. Is it time to prepare his own tactical analysis team? And also build a rehabilitation center? He had previously tinkered with many databases and software application modules, which could all be used directly...

Well, let’s wait until the summer, when Raiola and Uncle Charles can help me recruit more talents, and then we can start.

Thinking of this, Ricardo directly called Raiola and Uncle Charles respectively and told them about his ideas. Both of them thought that Ricardo's ideas were good, but they were very curious about where Ricardo got the funds to support so many plans at the same time?

On the surface, Ricardo's annual endorsement fee has been arranged, and the team's salary is pitifully low, not even enough for Ricardo to pick up girls...

Ricardo just said: Don’t worry about it, I have made a lot of money from stock trading, I have enough budget, just help me find the talents!

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Just as Ricardo was spending a wonderful night with Chiara, oh no, while celebrating the Spring Festival, he was also planning the next five years with Raiola and Uncle Charles. Time quietly came to February 2007, 2.

Chiara also returned to Milan the day before the last day of 07. Eva, who seamlessly provided logistical support for Chiara, discussed with Riccardo the plan to bring Sofia to the city to adapt to life on the weekend...

Ricardo is of course a good choice, because there is a high probability that he will travel with the team to play away in La Liga at the weekend.

However, Ricardo also has to report back to the club first and prepare to face the challenge of Steaua Bucharest tonight; as long as Sevilla does not lose by more than one goal in this game, it will successfully advance to the round of 1 of the UEFA Cup.

Although the game is not demanding, Juan Ramos is still a little entangled in the lineup for this game. After all, this is Europe, and he is afraid of a setback. However, the team's main lineup is really tired...

So Juan Ramos, who has been struggling recently, decided to use all his main players to attack in the first half, give full play to his advantages, and try to lock in the victory in the first half to kill the suspense. In this way, he can calmly rotate some of the main players in the second half, and can also reduce the game rhythm and consumption to a minimum...

After discussing with the coaching and medical staff, Juan Ramos still arranged a starting lineup of 4-4-2 parallel positions with almost all the main players.

The goalkeeper is No. 1 Palop;

The left and right backs are No. 16 Puerta and No. 4 Alves, and the double central defenders are No. 20 Osio and No. 19 Dragutinovic, giving Escud a rest.

The left and right wingers are No. 6 Adriano and No. 25 Maresca, and the double defensive midfielders are No. 18 Marti and No. 7 Li Qi.

This is the last test of Li Qi's effectiveness as a defensive midfielder, and because of a red card in the last round of the league, Marty will be suspended for 3 games in the future league and King's Cup, so he will try his best in this game to create opportunities for other players to rest.

Navas, Renato and Poulsen were rested, and together with Escudé, the other four were not included in the match roster.

The two strikers are the main No. 10 Fabiano and No. 12 Kanoute; Juan Ramos hopes that the main striker can seize the opportunity to break through the visiting team's goal as soon as possible and lock in the victory so that he can arrange rotation calmly.

Alfaro, Korzakov, Sales, Duda, Hinkle and Navarro were all on the bench.

However, not long after the game started, just a few minutes into the game, Li Qi, who was in charge of organization and scheduling, knew that the trend of the game might not be what the head coach wanted.

Because Steaua Bucharest had obviously learned lessons from the previous match, they started off the game by defensively defending and counterattacking very cautiously, and definitely did not take risks; after all, if they lost the ball again, Steaua would basically be eliminated.

Li Qi guessed that the tactics of the Star team was to defend in the first half, wear down the home team's spirit and stamina, and then exert their strength in the last 30 minutes of the second half, trying to return a 2-0 score to the home team, drag the game into overtime or even a penalty shootout to decide the outcome; obviously the Star team knew that Sevilla's recent schedule was intensive and its condition was not the best.

However, Li Qi felt that the Star team's tactics were wishful thinking. Of course, this was also a better tactical choice for the Star team. Even if it could not be achieved, at least they would not lose too shamefully and could return to their home league to dominate the league until next year.

If that's the case, Li Qike won't be able to carry out a violent attack as arranged by the head coach before the start of the game. Not to mention that the visiting team has plenty of physical strength and morale, it will be difficult to achieve results if they retreat and defend. If they are careless and the visiting team steals a point first, it is possible that the Star team's tactics will be implemented.

Therefore, Li Qi also had to save enough energy to deal with the visiting team's counterattack in the second half. Instead, he could take advantage of the visiting team's lack of attack in the first half to control the ball as much as possible, coordinate the visiting team's defense, and consume the visiting team's energy and spirit...

During a dead ball opportunity, Li Qi walked to the sidelines and briefly exchanged views with Juan Ramos and obtained the latter's reluctant support. After all, a general is not bound by the orders of the king when he is away from home. However, this is indeed different from Ramos's idea before the game.

So Li Qi started to pass the ball back and forth repeatedly, and manipulated the opponent's defense to move left and right. This lasted for nearly 20 minutes, and there were not many deep attacks, let alone shots. The scene was very ugly; even Maresca and Fabiano, who were both hot-tempered, lost their patience and repeatedly asked Li Qi to pass the ball directly...

Seeing this, Li Qi smiled and pressed his hands together, indicating that he should be patient and wait a little longer. However, he quietly used gestures and passed and cut to switch Fabiano to the right side on the same side as Maresca, and pulled Canuta to the left side of Adriano. He cooperated with his repeated short passes, as if he wanted to break through the defense line on the left side through passing and cutting...

However, the coaching staff on the sidelines and the commentators watching the TV broadcast looked at the situation through the panoramic view for a while and knew that Li Qi was going to use his old trick of making a feint to the east and attacking in the west. Now it just depended on when the fatal long pass would be sent to whom on the other side, whether it would be Fabiano, Alves or Maresca.

Sure enough, when the game reached the 26th minute, seeing that Li Qi and Adriano were too sticky to the ball and were about to be trapped in the visiting team's defense line by playing too small, there was no longer enough space for short passes; Li Qi suddenly exerted force and used the last half step of space to send a long pass across half the court, straight in front of Maresca who had been waiting for an opportunity.

On Maresca's side, Fabiano was at the front, deep into the penalty spot, and Alves was also ready to make a run at the side; however, there were only three defensive players in front of him, making it a 3-on-3 situation, and there was still a lot of space for breakthroughs and passing.

Li Qi's long pass created a rare offensive opportunity!

However, the right-wing attack line, which had been silent for most of the game, was obviously not prepared. Maresca, who received the ball, not only failed to stop the ball the first time, but took three actions to adjust the ball. Moreover, he obviously had no mature idea on how to develop and handle the ball.

The other two were no better. Fabiano just stood in the penalty area as a center forward, without thinking about how to cooperate. Alves was stunned for a moment, as if he had not yet decided whether to go inside or outside to open up space. Finally, after about 1 second, he started with the most traditional shingled-style dribble-style bottom routine...

Maresca, who had the ball in his hands, couldn't wait any longer. He didn't think about it and just went for it! After adjusting for a long time, Alves hadn't made a move yet, Fabiano hadn't made any moves, and even the opposing defensive players hadn't come over yet...

Maresca flicked the ball inside and dodged the defender who was rushing to defend, then near the penalty area line, he shot at his own striker Fabiano! At this time, Fabiano's role was useless except blocking the goalkeeper's vision.

However, Maresca's shot obviously did not test the visiting team's goalkeeper, because it flew directly. Although it was not much higher, it was obviously higher than the crossbar...

Maresca, Li Qi, Adriano, Alves, Juan Ramos and others all held their heads at the same time! Of course, Maresca was embarrassed and held his head, while others held their heads in regret.

However, this was not Sevilla's only chance in the first half. Ten minutes later, Li Qi repeated the same trick and once again made a feint on the left wing to create a gap for the attack on the right wing, and Li Qi's long pass also arrived as expected.

However, Li Qi did not choose Maresca as the first contact point this time, but chose Alves, the best player of last season's Europa League. Alves was indeed very competitive, and his control of the ball was much better than Maresca, and he directly unloaded the ball on the running route.

(Maresca: Damn it, I'm prepared this time. I can definitely park it well too!)

Alves rushed along the right, and the visiting team was mentally prepared, and the defense line quickly moved left to fill the gap. However, this time Fabiano did not stay in the middle of the penalty area, but crossed with Maresca, the former cut into the bottom corner of the penalty area to drive away the central defender, and Maresca cut into the middle of the penalty area to prepare for a flanking move.

Just as Maresca arrived near the penalty spot, Alves' cross was delivered in time. Maresca turned sideways and prepared to make a difficult volley, but due to the interference of the players who came to defend, Maresca's shot missed again. After all, the difficulty coefficient of this move was close to full marks.

However, Maresca's shot was a bit outrageous. Although it hit the instep, it hit the side of the foot, and the ball almost went straight up and down.

Fortunately, when the defender of the Stars team was about to head the ball away, he did not realize that the straight volley actually had a strong rotation, so instead of heading the ball out of the threatening area, he headed the ball to the right side of the penalty area.

The ball took a strong arc and passed over the heads of Kanoute and the defenders. The away team's goalkeeper was also stunned and did not attack immediately. Of course, the ball was still a little far from the goal, and with such a big rotation, it was not easy to judge where it would land...

However, Li Qi, who triggered the breaking point, had already guessed the possible direction of the ball when the defensive player headed the ball away. As for the landing point, it didn't matter. He could just use his broad chest to get the ball in the approximate direction.

It was this half-second advance start that allowed Li Qi to get the ball before everyone else, and then he made a run in without being offside!

Then Li Qi didn't need to stop the ball. He just used his chest to reach the edge of the small penalty area, only five or six yards away from the goal. He raised his foot and gently cushioned the ball, right in front of the goalkeeper, into the upper corner of the goal...

Unlike La Liga, but like the King's Cup, Sevilla's match in the UEFA Cup is broadcast on TV; at this time, Julian in Chicago is doing research in the laboratory while watching the TV broadcast, so she is not afraid of being distracted and causing experimental accidents.

"Ricci... Canute... Adriano... Ricci..."

"The three of them combined to make a small pass and cut on the left, trying to break through the Stars' defense..."

"Long pass to the right! No! It's the same old trick of making a feint to the east and attacking in the west. Sevilla's attack on the left is a feint, or they need to create space on the right!"

"Li Qi is looking for Alves this time!"

“This time Alves didn’t hesitate. He took the ball and headed straight for the penalty area of ​​the Stars!”

"Fabiano and Maresca made a cross run. It depends on whether Alves will choose to pass the ball straight to the bottom corner or directly cross the ball to shoot!"

"Cross! Alves chose the most direct way!"

"Maresca! Sideways volley!"

"Pfft... Sorry, the ball went wrong, it went straight up and down, but I got full marks for the action..."

"Oh! The Stars defender heads the ball to clear it!"

"Pfft... Sorry, this ball went wrong, it actually went into the penalty area..."

"The ball was spinning strongly..."

"Oh! Li Qi! Cut in from behind! Not offside!"

"The goalkeeper didn't attack immediately! Li Qi stopped the ball with his chest! He raised his foot and volleyed it..."

"Ditch oooooh! Ditch oooooh! Ditch!"

"After Li Qi stopped the ball with his chest near the small penalty area, he took advantage of the goalkeeper not being able to block it and volleyed the ball into the near corner of the goal!"

"First, Maresca's volley missed the target and the ball went almost straight up and down. But the little horse probably used a lot of force, so the ball had a strong rotation, which trapped the defender who wanted to head the ball away."

"In slow motion replay, the defender originally wanted to head the ball out of the penalty area, but the strong rotation of the ball in the air caused the landing point to deviate from the normal prediction, hitting the back of the head of the defender who was clearing the ball, and then bounced directly into the penalty area..."

"And the ball had an irregular arc in the air, causing most of the players on both teams to be stunned and not rush to grab the ball immediately, including the goalkeeper who was probably closest to the ball. After all, it was difficult to judge the landing point!"

"But Li Qi started early, as if he guessed that the defender's header would go off target... This led to Li Qi's lucky interception of the ball near the corner of the small penalty area, and with no one marking him, he pushed the ball into the near corner from 5 yards in front of the goal and scored."

"But don't mention it, Li Qi's stopping the ball and releasing the force also requires a lot of basic skills. After all, it's hard to judge the landing point of a high-altitude ball with strong rotation. If you're not careful, it might stop flying, which would be embarrassing..."

“In general, the attack originally initiated by Li Qi was fortunately returned to Li Qi’s feet in the end, and he himself completed the final blow, which was an own goal assisted by the visiting team, helping Sevilla break the deadlock in the 36th minute of the first half and lead the visiting team 1-0.

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