114 Villa who slaughtered the old master(1/2)
After winning the rushing opponent Albasett 1-0, Betis's winning streak in the league expanded to five more games.
Sevilla, who was originally ranked second in the league, achieved a record of two wins and one loss after losing the Sevilla derby, widening the gap between himself and Betis to nine points, and even handed over the second place in the league to Tenerife behind him.
Now in the standings, Betis has a crazy record of 13 wins and 3 draws, ranking first with 42 points.
Tenerife's team ranked second with a record of 10 wins, four draws and two losses.
Sevilla won ten wins, three draws and three losses, and lost 33 points to third place.
After experiencing a poor performance at the beginning of the season, Atletico Madrid has gradually caught up with teams such as Albasett, Vilva, Sporting Gijon and Levante.
When the winter break is about to enter, Betis can be said to be the only one in the Segunda Division!
Major bookmakers have also continuously lowered the odds of Betis's first place in the Spanish Second Division, and some small bookmakers have even closed the options for Betis' upgrade this season.
This shows that the outside world is optimistic about Betis.
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After playing Albasett, Betis welcomed another team from the second group!
This team is Villa's old club, Sporting Gijon!
Sporting Gijon has performed very stably in the Segunda Division in the past two seasons, one of which stays in the second group.
Although they were only ranked ninth last season, they were only five points away from the top three.
This season they also continued to perform stably, following closely in the Second Group. As long as the opponent makes mistakes, they have the hope of entering the upgrade zone.
When facing such a team, Tang Feng naturally attaches great importance to it.
However, he still made adjustments in individual positions.
As a producer of Sporting Gijon youth training camp, Villa was placed as the starting winger by Tang Feng.
When a player faces his old club, he always wants to perform well. It’s like if he meets his ex-boyfriend or girlfriend on the street, he always tries to make the other party feel that he is living better now than before!
Tang Feng obviously understood this mood more, and it also gave Vicente a chance to rest.
In fact, before this season, Sporting Gijon was not very optimistic about Villa. Their internal evaluation of Villa was just a young forward with some talent. When they negotiated with Tang Feng, they said how optimistic they were about Villa. The words that Villa was not selling were just a means of raising prices.
However, with Villa's outstanding performance this season, Sporting Gijon obviously knew that they had made a loss deal!
Villa is not Betis' absolute main player this season. He is just a starting center when Adriano is in poor form or rotates. Most of the time, he is a substitute forward or occasionally a guest appearance as a winger.
Even so, he still helped Betis score eight goals this season, including seven in the league and one in the Cup of del Rey.
If such data is put into Sporting Gijon, they are already the best scorer in the team.
Selling a talented player with the strength to become the team's top scorer for $1.2 million. Sporting Gijon Club is so regretful that it is so blue!
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The game was played at Betis' home court Lopela Stadium!
The team's outstanding record this season has remained unbeaten so far, and the team's offense is also very gorgeous. Therefore, the tickets for every home game of Betis will basically be sold out.
This game is no exception. The Lopela Stadium, which can accommodate 55,000 people, is almost full.
After the game started, he was particularly positive in facing his old club Villa!
In the third minute of the game, Villa created the first threatening attack in this game!
After he and Arteta in the middle played a two-pass and one-on-one match, he used his speed to get rid of Sporting Gijon's right back.
After reaching the left penalty area line at high speed, Villa suddenly pulled the ball back, as if he was about to cut in!
After attracting the attention of Sporting Gijon's central defender, he cleverly turned his ankle and stuffed the ball into the left rib of the penalty area!
A beautiful straight ball!
Adriano in the middle lane understood and appeared on the ball, and shot with a shot with his left foot!
The goalkeeper Gijon in front of the goal had no time to make any reaction.
Unfortunately, the ball eventually missed the far post and missed the goal!
This really made Betis fans on the scene very regretful!
Adriano, who missed the opportunity, was also very depressed, but he did not forget to give him a thumbs up to Villa who gave him a wonderful assist.
Villa just smiled slightly and ran to the midfield.
The game continued, and Betis still had an absolute advantage on the field.
He continued to attack through the two wings, and then relied on Adriano's personal impact to threaten the gate of Sporting Gijon.
Sporting Gijon just silently defended. Although it looked very embarrassed, it was actually always safe.
In fact, Sporting Gijon is the kind of team that relies on overall play. There is no particularly outstanding point in the team, whether it is offensive or defensive. It is a standard civilian team.
Such a team usually seems to be a little "not amazing", but sometimes they make people feel a little overwhelmed.
Their lineup is also very interesting. The three foreign players in the team are all former international players over 30 years old. However, local players are just young players.
This also shows their team building policy, which is to focus on youth training camps, and then use a few experienced and powerful veterans to drive the entire team.
In the 16th minute, they launched an extremely threatening counterattack.
Sporting Gijon's midfielder and former Russian international Rediakokhov directly passed the ball to the right side of Betis' penalty area after receiving the ball in the midfield.
Their young forward, Ruben, who was very fast, stabbed Betis in the ribs like a sharp knife.
Facing Rediakokhov's long pass, he volleyed without waiting for the ball to land!
Fortunately, the ball was a bit difficult to grasp, and he finally hit the stands with a kick.
Even so, Tang Feng on the sidelines expressed his dissatisfaction with the players on the field's inattention!
The head coach of the Sporting Athletics team seemed very regretful, because in his opinion, this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to counterattack!
Almost stolen by the opponent did not affect Betis' determination to attack!
Especially Villa on the left, he still performed very positively.
In the subsequent attack, Villa completed a powerful volley after cutting in the left side!
Unfortunately, this shot was a bit straight and was taken into his arms by Sporting Gijon goalkeeper Varénsi.
Four minutes later, it was Villa again. He faced two Sporting Gijon players on the left, but he still shook the gap and passed the ball back to the front of the penalty area!
Arteta, who was inserted in the back, was a fury shot!
Unfortunately, the ball slipped out of the door again!
In this way, Betis' offensive in the first half basically never stopped.
The cheers of anticipation of Betis fans in the stands were heard again and again, and then their regretful sighs were heard again and again.
Finally, when the game reached the 32nd minute, the cheers of Betis fans could finally burst out without reservation.
This time the attack was still launched on the left, with left back Garney intervening in to assist.
A high ball was sent directly at the forty-five degrees to the nearest penalty area line!
Adriano leaned against the opponent's central defender Samuel, then gently waved the ball to his right, and the ball landed one meter away from him!
Villa, who was originally on the wing, had already penetrated into the front of the penalty area when Garni passed the ball, and Adriano's header was for him!
Facing Adriano's extremely comfortable ferry, Villa in the running didn't even need to make any adjustments, just need to directly shoot the ball!
Villa swung this kick firmly, and the ball was like a heavy cannon, leaving his feet and hitting the gate of Sporting Gijon!
What's even more terrible is that the angle of this shot was also very tricky, and he almost went straight to the blind spot at the intersection of the pillar and the beam in the upper right corner of the goal!
After the goalkeeper of Sporting Gijon glanced at the ball, he chose to surrender!
In the end, the ball flew directly into the dead corner!
The entire Lopela Stadium fell into a state of madness!
Side-side!
Tang Feng couldn't help but cheer for Villa's rushing into the world wave!
However, Villa himself acted very calmly on the court.
He didn't feel excited about the celebration. He just gave Adriano, who assisted him with the header, and then quietly clapped his teammates and ran back!
It seems that although he wants to prove his strength with goals in front of his old club, he has no hostility towards his old club. On the contrary, he is grateful to this team that has cultivated his hometown. Therefore, after breaking through the door of his old club, he does not intend to celebrate!
The Betis fans in the stands obviously also saw Villa's intentions.
The performance of this young shooter also infected Betis' fans, who sincerely gave their applause. The applause was both for Villa's goal and for Villa's spirit of not forgetting their roots.
Soon, Tang Feng on the sidelines, as well as the players and coaches on the bench, also applauded Villa.
The few Sporting Gijon fans in the stands who followed the team to Lopela Stadium couldn't help but give Villa a roar, although they didn't see the young player playing even a game on behalf of the team.
But just his performance of not celebrating after scoring the goal is enough to win the respect of Gijons!
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The game continues!
To be continued...