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098 Winning streak ends

After defeating Extremadura, Betis ushered in an incredible seven-game winning streak in the Spanish Second Division!

In the seventh round, Betis's city rival Sevilla lost to the men of Villa's old club Sporting Gijon, ending his unbeaten Golden Body so far in the league.

At the same time, the gap between them and Betis was widened to five points!

It was almost time for Betis to stand out in the Spanish Second Division. However, in the eight rounds of the local game, Betis ushered in the Tenerife team, which is also the popular one.

In the first seven rounds, they achieved a good record of three wins, three draws and one loss, ranking fourth in the standings.

In terms of strength, Tenerife is still slightly worse than Betis. However, their advantage is that they will be at home in this round!

You know, Tenerife's home court is the famous devil's home court in Spanish football.

It’s not because of how popular the atmosphere of their home court, Rodriguez-Lopez Stadium, in fact, their home court can only accommodate more than 20,000 fans, which is far from the large stadiums in Spain that often have 40,000 or 50,000 or even more. But because of the geographical location of their home court!

Tenerife is on Tenerife, an island in the Canary Islands located near the Atlantic Ocean on the coast of Africa.

Geographically speaking, the Canary Islands are much closer to the African continent than to Spain. They can be said to be an island completely outside of Spain's territory.

Therefore, when most of the Spanish teams go to the two teams Las Palmas and Tenerife on this archipelago, they will feel like they go abroad or even participate in intercontinental competitions!

It is said that Las Palmas successfully rushed into La Liga last season because they have gained a lot of points at home.

When Las Palmas successfully entered La Liga, many La Liga teams expressed great pressure because they need to go to "Africa" ​​at least every season!

For Tang Feng, it was the first time he had been to such a faraway place to lead the team to Tenerife.

Of course, for Seville, which is located in southern Spain, they are much luckier than some northern Spanish teams to visit Tenerife, which is more than 1,100 kilometers away from Spain's southwest coast!

Even so, when Tang Feng led the team to Tenerife, Tang Feng and the players still felt the fatigue brought by the journey.

Therefore, in Tenerife, Tang Feng only arranged a simple adaptive training for the team, in order to allow the players to retain enough physical fitness.

In this game, Tang Feng also arranged the strongest lineup.

Adriano returned to the starting center position after a quit, while Vicente and Joaquin were still on both sides of him.

Behind Arteta, Xavi Alonso and Cascro formed Betis' midfield barrier.

From left to right on the back line are Girney, Pablo Alfaro, Carvalho and Otlo.

The goalkeeper gradually settled in the team's main position!

From the staff arrangement in the middle and backcourts, we can see that Tang Feng is preparing to focus on stability in this away game and seek opportunities when doing a good job of defense.

The situation after the start of the game also proves that Tang Feng’s strategy is very correct.

Almost as soon as the game started, Tenerife took advantage of his home court and launched a fierce attack on Betis's camp.

Tenerife is the highest island in the Canary Islands, and their active volcano Teide is the highest mountain in Spain!

For players who have been in coastal plains like Seville for a long time, Tenerife's high terrain has somewhat adapted.

Taking full advantage of the terrain, Canary Islands teams like Tenerife and Las Palmas have a lot of meaning in Ecuador in South America in the future.

Fortunately, although the offensive of this Tenerife team is fierce, their attack is monotonous because the team lacks stars and core!

In fact, although Tenerife is now a standard civilian team, in history, they have produced superstars like Redondo. In addition, the first stop for the Dutch scorer who performed extremely well in La Coruna in these two seasons was Tenerife!

Of course, Tang Feng, the time traveler, can see that there is no young player in this Tenerife team who will become a big star in the future.

After facing Tenerife's opening attack, Betis gradually adapted to the atmosphere on the field and began to have some opportunities to counterattack.

However, I don’t know if it was because of the fatigue of the boat and the inadequacy of the terrain, or the players themselves were in poor condition, the Betis’s counterattack today was far less sharp than usual.

Especially Adriano, the super shooter who has scored eight goals in the first five league rounds, has not shown very well in recent games.

With the rest of the last round, Adriano has not scored in two consecutive rounds.

In today's game, he still seemed to have forgotten to wear shooting boots. Faced with several excellent opportunities, he was incredibly squandering it.

Tang Feng couldn't help frowning in response to Adriano's state.

He didn't know if it was because Adriano's old habit of being unstable in his state, or if he had some problems in his life recently.

Maybe it's time to talk to him. Tang Feng doesn't want this talented genius center, like in history, to fall rapidly due to psychological reasons.

Since I have recruited him into the team, shouldn’t it be necessary to change his destiny?

When the referee blew the whistle at the end of the first half, the score on the field was still 0-0, and the two sides exchanged a blank sheet and entered the intermission.

...

In the locker room, Tang Feng could feel the players' obvious heavy breathing and sweat-soaked jerseys.

It can be seen that Tenerifena's terrain is significantly higher than Sevilla and the climatic conditions close to West Africa make the players very uncomfortable.

Adriano, as the center, also has obvious performance. Obviously, he has performed hard on the court, but he has only lacked some form, or the luck of scoring goals!

"How is it? Ade, are there any physical problems? Do you want to get off the court?" Tang Feng sat next to Adriano and asked.

Hearing Tang Feng's words of concern, a hint of gratitude flashed across Adriano's face, but he was very strong inside. He wasted so many opportunities in the first half but failed to score. He would not be willing to go off the court, so he squeezed out a smile, patted his chest and said, "No problem, I can recover to the pre-match after a 15-minute break!"

Looking at Ade's confident appearance, Tang Feng also restrained his plan to replace him in the midfield. He was going to give Ade some more time.

Because he knows very well that self-confidence is particularly important for a forward. Once a forward's confidence has a problem, he is very likely to fall into a goal drought. Therefore, Tang Feng does not want to undermine Ade's confidence!

"Okay, we did a good job in the first half. The only regret is that we failed to seize the opportunity to counterattack to score. In the second half, we continued to play according to the tactics of the first half. With the defense, we then sought a counterattack. In addition, I know that everyone is not very adaptable to Tenerife's terrain and climate. I hope everyone can allocate their physical fitness reasonably on the court. Of course, I don't want you to have some reservations on the court. You should fight and fight what you should grab. You just need to pay attention to waste physical fitness unnecessary. If anyone can't hold on, remember to tell me as soon as possible, I will replace you for rest..."

After Tang Feng arranged his second half, the time for the halftime break has passed.

...

After the second half of the game started, the situation did not improve much compared to the first half.

Tenerife still launched a fierce attack at the beginning.

However, there are not many substantial threats to Betis.

However, Betis' counterattack was very exciting. Unfortunately, Adriano, as the team's terminator, still seems to be out of shape.

In the 62nd minute, Adriano got a shot without defending near the penalty spot.

However, his strong volley of his left foot actually made a plane by a silence!

Seeing Adriano squandering the scoring opportunity in this game, the home fans of Rodriguez Lopez even gave Adriano a "warm" applause!

Tang Feng knew very well that in such an environment, Adriano was no longer suitable to continue playing on the court.

Otherwise, with his slightly fragile mentality, he would definitely lose himself completely amid the sarcastic applause of Tenerife fans.

Therefore, Tang Feng also called Villa from the bench.

And, in the 68th minute, Adriano was replaced.

Tang Feng noticed that when Adriano ended, he felt a little unwilling to accept his face, but he also felt relieved.

The reason why he was unwilling to do so was obviously because he expressed his dissatisfaction with his failure to score. He breathed a sigh of relief, perhaps because he felt that he would not finally not play football amid the sarcastic applause and cheers of Tenerife fans?

"Good job, Ade! Have a good rest!" Tang Feng took the initiative to meet him, regardless of Adriano's sweat, gave him a hug, then patted his shoulder and encouraged him.

Adriano didn't say anything, but just sat back on the bench. It was hard to tell what he was feeling.

Tang Feng was not in the mood to worry about these things for the time being, because his attention had returned to the field.

After Villa came on the court, Betis's frontcourt trident became even more "small" in size.

Although the lack of impact force prevents Villa from getting the opportunity as easily as Adriano, he still created several good opportunities to score through cooperation with the two wings and breakthroughs under his feet.

However, today the goal at Rodriguez-Lopez Stadium seemed to be cursed.

Villa's several threatening shots were either sliding out or being saved by the opponent's goalkeeper.

Similarly, in the final stage of the game, when Tenerife took advantage of Betis' physical strength to launch a final pounce, they also had several good opportunities to be turned away.

Finally, when the referee blew the whistle at the end of the game, the score was locked at zero to zero!

Tang Feng did not show any disappointment about this result.

As usual, he politely took the initiative to shake hands with the other coach, and also encouraged and hugged the players who came out of the game one by one.

Although this draw ended Betis' seven consecutive league wins this season and eight consecutive wins in various competitions, it was also the first game in which Betis did not score goals this season.

But in Tang Feng's opinion, this is not a bad thing. In fact, Tang Feng believes that if the team keeps winning, there will inevitably be some arrogance in the team. Occasionally draws one game or even loses the previous game can appropriately cool down the players' inflated self-confidence!

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