On the evening of January 17, 2001, Ruiz Lopela Stadium!

"Dear friends in front of the TV, good evening! Welcome to watch the focus game of the Copa 8th-finals of the Copa REE brought to you by Spanish National Television. Real Betis vs. La Coruna! I am your old friend, Jessus!"[]

"Although Real Betis fell into the second division last season, they did not sink into it. This season, led by young Chinese coach Tang Feng, this young guard, which is mostly young people around 20 years old, has become the most outstanding team in the Spanish Second Division! With twenty-one rounds of the league, they firmly occupy the leading position in the Spanish Second Division standings with an unbeaten record of 17 wins and four draws."

"Not only did it well in the league, Real Betis also made great progress in the Copa del Rey. In the last round of the Copa del Rey, facing Mallorca, the third-placed La Liga, the young Betis scored a wonderful five-2 game and successfully reached the quarterfinals. I wonder what kind of performance will they perform when facing the defending champion of La Liga and now the second-placed league in the league?"

"In terms of La Coruna, after winning the league championship historic last season, their performance this season is still very good. However, in the league, their opponent is Real Madrid, which is crazy about investing this summer and preparing to build a superstar battleship. Now they are seven points behind Real Madrid, but when the league is only halfway through, they will definitely not give up the league championship. In addition, they just experienced a fierce battle with Valencia three days ago. I believe that they will retain this away game!"

"In this game, the most eye-catching thing is the offensive competition between the two teams! La Coruna's forward combination Tristan and Makai have already scored 21 goals in the first half of the season's league, while Betis' Adriano and Villa have teamed up to score 24 goals! Betis is the team with the strongest attack power in the Serie D.C. in La Coruna's goal number in La Liga is only behind Real Madrid and Barcelona..."

...

Before the game started, Jessus, who was in the stands of the Lopera Stadium, was analyzing both sides.

There was no strong dialogue in the traditional sense in the eight quarterfinals of the Copa RE. In addition, Betis in the Segunda Division performed very strongly this season, so when there were two conversations between La Liga teams in the Copa REIN 8 finals, Spanish National Television chose to broadcast the dialogue between the leader of the Segunda Division and the second in La Liga.

Just as Jessus was introducing the recent situation of the two teams in the stands, a huge cheer suddenly broke out in the stands at Lopela Stadium.

"Okay, we see that the players of both teams have appeared. Let's take a look at their starting lineup..."

With Jesus' words, the starting list of two teams appeared on the TV screen...

Real Betis starting lineup (4-2-3-1):

Goalkeeper: Reina

Defenders: Otero, Pablo Alfaro, Carvalho, Gialny

Middleback: Cascro, Xavi Alonso

Midfielder: Joaquin, Arteta, Vicente

Forward: Villa

"Betis still lined up their iconic 4231 formation today, but surprisingly, in such an important game, Tang Feng still withstood the pressure and did not put Adriano in the starting lineup. According to Betis's news, the Brazilian is still working hard to lose weight..."

La Coruña's starting lineup (4-4-2):

Goalkeeper: Molina

Defenders: Pablo, Sampayo, Nebet, Capdevila

Midfielder: Victor, Mauro Silva, Belleron, Dejaminha

Forward: Pandyani, Tristan

"We can see that La Coruna has made adjustments in the main lineup. Brazilian international Sampayo replaced Donato's position in the center back position. La Coruna sent the young Capdevila in the left back position. In the midfield, Belleron also got the starting position. Dutch shooter Makai on the front line was slightly injured in the last game, and Uruguayan scorer Pandyani was replaced in this game..."

...

When Jessus introduced the starting lineup of both sides, Tang Feng had already appeared in front of the coach's seat.

He had already obtained the starting list of La Coruna before. Although Iruetta made some personnel rotations, judging from the team lineup, he did not seem to have expressed his contempt because Betis is a Spanish Second Division team.

This made Tang Feng understand that this game may be an inevitable tough battle!

Dou~~~ With the whistle of the referee on duty, the game kicked off!

The visiting team La Coruna first got the right to serve. After they kicked off, they did not test too much, but directly launched an offensive.

After a few simple passes, the ball came to Victor on the right.

Victor is a versatile frontcourt. He can play for strikers and shadow strikers, and is also a good player on the wing.

In this game, he was placed in the right forward position.

Facing Betis' veteran Gianni, Victor did not choose to break through strongly. He just slowly dribbled the ball and waited for the opportunity to pass or break through.

Finally, after several consecutive shifts, he saw an empty stop, so he took the ball without hesitation and sent the ball into the penalty area!

The ball flew directly to Tristan who was in line with the middle!

This Spanish big man is known as "Vieri, Spain" and is a good header!

This time, in a direct conversation with Pablo Alfaro, he also gained the upper hand. After getting stuck, he headed and attacked!

Although Pablo Alfaro failed to get a advantage, he did not let Tristan get better. When Tristan was heading the ball, he secretly gave Tristan behind him.

This obviously affected Tristan's center of gravity in the air, but this time he headed the ball into the stands!

After seeing the team escape, Betis fans in the stands quickly presented their booing to Tristan!

These fans may not know that Tristan is a native Sevilla and was born in Betis' youth training camp.

He played for Betis B for three seasons, but he never got the call from Betis B’s coach.

In the summer of 1998, he was already twenty-two years old and still failed to get the call from Betis's first team coach, and chose to leave his hometown and come to the island team Mallorca.

During his season with Mallorca B, he received fifteen goals and was quickly called by a coach. Last season, he scored nineteen goals in the La Liga and immediately became the target of the major giants.

In fact, if Real Madrid's former chairman Sans could be re-elected, he might have already put on Real Madrid's white robe.

But the fact is that Florentino was elected as chairman of Real Madrid in an upset. Florentino, who is striving to build a superstar formation in the midfield and frontcourt, obviously looks down on this "copied version" of Vieri.

So Tristan chose to join the defending champion La Coruna.

Moreover, he seized the opportunity of Marque's injury at the beginning of the season and quickly got on the position, becoming the absolute main force of the La Coruna team's forward line!

Tang Feng on the sidelines knew something about Tristan's experience, but when he came to Betis, Tristan had already left. Therefore, he had no other choice but to regret that Betis' youth training camp had lost such a pearl.

However, Tang Feng believes that with his forward-looking vision, he can bring better shooters to Betis. For example, aren’t Adriano and Villa doing a good job now?

After resisting the attack from La Coruna at the beginning, Betis quickly launched a counterattack.

Like La Coruna, Betis's attack this time also came to the wing. However, the difference is that Betis's attack was launched on the left!

After receiving Arteta's sideline, Vicente was slowly dribbling the ball, just like Victor before.

However, Vicente did not just dribble the ball towards the bottom line, but dribble the ball in a diagonal step, which made Pablo, who was defending him, not knowing whether he wanted to cut inward or break through the bottom line!

Therefore, Pablo can only fight and retreat.

Vicente has excellent ball performance, and he can take time to observe the situation in the penalty area while dribbling!

Suddenly, Vicente's left shoulder sank, as if he was about to speed up the bottom line.

Faced with this situation, Pablo could only take a step back suddenly and prepare to defend against the outside.

Who knew that Vicente did not start at all, but took advantage of the time and time of retreating and kicking the ball with his left foot!

Seeing Vicente choose to kick, Pablo was relieved.

Because he knew that the center of Betis's team today was Villa who was only 175 tall.

He believed that it would be stress-free for two central defenders in the penalty area who were about 1.8 meters tall to defend Villa!

As Pablo thought, Sampayo and Nebert in the middle did double-team Villa, leaving Villa no chance to compete for the top.

"Vicent suddenly made a cross, oh, this is not a good choice. Villa in the middle is not in height, and he was firmly watched by the opponent!" After seeing this scene, Jessus also expressed his disapproval.

Tang Feng on the sidelines was not as disappointed as the commentator because he found a trace of unusualness...

Soon, players from both sides of the La Coruna team inside and outside the penalty area also discovered the unusual goal!

Similarly, fans in the stands also discovered this...

Molina in front of the goal of La Coruna is the most intuitive discoverer!

Because he wanted to defend Vicente from the cross from the wing, he was in a higher position so that he could attack and pick the ball or hit the ball at any time.

After seeing two central defenders control the opponent's forward, he gave up on his idea of ​​attacking.

Who knew that the ball in the air did not fly towards Villa, but flew towards the goal with a strange arc!

Oops!

This made Molina realize something was wrong!
Chapter completed!