297 Come out to mix, sooner or later you will have to pay it back!
With three goals kicked by Drogba, Betis defeated Celta three-to-two and completed four consecutive league wins. Betis was able to tie La Coruña in the standings and climbed to the second place in the league with the advantage of winning the ball.
Unfortunately, in this round of the league, Valencia, who faced a strong rival Barcelona, actually won 2-0 with a clean victory. They also completed four consecutive victories, maintaining the four-point gap with Betis!
After the game, what is more eye-catching than the victory of Betis is undoubtedly Drogba who performed his bravely in this game!
In previous games, the Ivory Coast striker left the impression that he was strong and headed well. In sharp contrast to his excellent heading was his poor foot skills.
In the first half of the season, some media edited some highlights of Drogba missing some good shots under his feet, thus mocking Tang Feng for buying a rough guy who should play in the Premier League!
But as the season deepened, people found that this big black man was improving almost every day.
Not only did he significantly improve his shooting accuracy, but he could even occasionally see his passing by with the ball.
Although the two goals under the two feet in this game don’t seem to be difficult, the situation where both shots hit the inside of the post and bounced into the network also shows that this big black guy now has a good shooting feeling!
More importantly, the media quietly discovered that after Drogba completed this hat trick, the number of goals in the league this season has reached eight, and with the goals in the Copa del Rey and League Cup, his number of goals has reached thirteen!
Such data also made him only ranked after the breakup between Adriano and Villa, becoming Betis' No. 3 scorer.
Moreover, Drogba added some substitutes to play in various games this season, and only played twenty-one games in total. In this way, Drogba's average goal rate in a single game is as high as 0.62. If calculated by minutes, his efficiency is even higher!
In this way, this Ivorian big man who only spent one million dollars on Betis is undoubtedly another great acquisition by Fantastic Don!
Someone else did some calculations. Drogba and two other strikers, Adriano and Villa, scored a total of 57 goals in various competitions. Such data is not only the highest number of goals in the La Liga forward, but also the top five European leagues!
In other words, whether it is Inter Milan, which has five major strikers such as Ronaldo and Vieri, or AC Milan, which has the super killers of Inzagi and Shevchenko, the scoring efficiency of these super giants' forward combinations is not as good as those of the three young men from Betis!
And how much did these three terrifying attackers cost Betis?
Adriano is the most expensive of the three. His transfer fee is 6 million US dollars. Villa and Drogba are worth about the same price. The former is 1.2 million US dollars, and the latter only costs one million US dollars!
The combined value of the three people is only 8.2 million US dollars!
This value is not even as valuable as Ronaldo, Vieri, Inzaghi and others!
Once you calculate this, the magical Tang vision became famous throughout Europe.
Many media and fans even said that Lopela's greatest contribution to Betis Club may not be that he raised funds to save the club, nor that he helped the club repair the stadium and training base, but that he had put the young Fantastic Don into the head coach of Betis Club under pressure.
Of course, the reason they think so is because they don’t know the gambling between Lopela and Tang Sen when Tang Feng became the head coach.
They believe that the arrival of Magic Don not only brings outstanding record and good-looking style to Betis Club, but more importantly, it brings a large number of young talented players to Betis Club.
Now, Fantastic Don has become a shareholder of Betis Club, and his cousin is the chairman of the club. His hope of staying in Betis Club for a long time will be very great.
According to this momentum, it is only a matter of time for Fantastic Don to become a club godfather-level coach like Manchester United's Ferguson and Arsenal's Wenger!
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Tang Feng did not respond too much to the praise from the outside world, he just accepted it silently...
At the same time, his energy was immediately devoted to the second leg of the League Cup with Leeds United three days later.
In the first leg, Betis won a four-to-three victory at Elland Road Stadium. One goal lead and four away wins almost made Betis step into the quarterfinals of the League Cup with one foot. However, Tang Feng did not dare to take it lightly for the second leg.
Tang Feng knew very well that a young and motivated team like Leeds United would be very scary if they played crazy. Because the same is true for his own team!
Therefore, his strategy for the second leg was to prevent the game from entering the rhythm of Leeds United.
Of course, at the same time, Betis' offense will not stop at all. Because as long as Betis scores one goal, Leeds United will score two or more goals. This is undoubtedly much more reliable than simple defense!
During these days of competition, Tang Feng focused on controlling the rhythm of the game.
In the midfield, Tang Feng arranged a combination of Xavi Alonso and Senna, which had strong control.
Both of them have the ability to hold the ball and protect the ball, especially after Tang Feng asked them to practice some ball protection techniques such as spinning in place. Generally speaking, even when facing two people's attacks, they can basically ensure that they do not lose the ball.
Especially Xavi Alonso, under the guidance of Tang Feng and Guardiola's words and deeds, his style of play has become more and more elegant, and more and more people have called Xavi Alonso Betis Redono.
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When preparing for the game, both teams will inevitably accept interviews from the media.
For Leeds United, bad guys like Bowyer don't seem to be affected by the loss in the last game.
In an interview before the game, Bower still kept saying that he would give Betis a little color at Lopela Stadium, and he also firmly believed that Leeds United could eliminate Betis and advance to the quarterfinals!
Ferdinand also made excuses for his performance in the game. He said that he was a little careless in the game. He will use all his strength to deal with Adriano in this game, and he will not give the Brazilian any chance again!
Compared with his arrogant disciples, Leeds United coach O'Reilly seems much more stable.
When asked if he had the confidence to lead the team to the quarterfinals at Lopela Stadium, O'Reilly put his posture low: "Betis is a very outstanding team. They proved this with their performance in the last game. In this game, they will play at home, so the game will become more difficult. Of course, we will not give up on the game because of this! Even if there is only a little hope, we will not give up easily!"
Compared with Leeds United players, Betis' players did not make any harsh words this time.
Obviously, in their opinion, they had already slapped the arrogant guys of Leeds United with practical actions in the last game. This time, they no longer needed to make any verbal counterattacks.
As the head coach, Tang Feng is also as low-key as O'Reilly. He said in an interview before the game: "Leeds United is a very difficult team. They have rich European experience. These cannot be denied just because we defeated them in the last game. The victory in the first round just allows us to start the game as the leader in the second round. If we are not careful, we may leave Leeds United with a chance. Of course, we will try not to give them any chance!"
This time, the smell of gunpowder before the game seemed to fade a lot. However, this did not reduce the fans' expectations for this game.
In the last game, two young teams played a four-to-three goal battle like Mars colliding between the earth, which really made the fans who watched that game excited.
In the second round of the game, the fans obviously hoped to see such a passionate and exciting showdown again.
Especially those neutral fans, they are not fans of Leeds United or Betis. It doesn’t matter who advances to the quarterfinals. What’s important is that the game should be exciting and the goals should be scored! Judging from the performance of the two teams in the game, they can obviously do both of these points!
Therefore, this young guard battle still attracted the attention of countless fans.
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The day before the game, the group of Leeds United arrived in Seville in advance.
However, from the moment they walked out of the airport, they deeply felt the "passion" of Betis fans!
Perhaps it was because of the bullying of Leeds United fans in Leeds in the first leg, which made Betis fans really hold their breath, so they naturally had to vent their anger during this home game.
So, almost all the places where Leeds United appear are accompanied by the booing of Betis fans!
Especially after the evening, outside the hotel where Leeds United became a gathering place for some Betis fans.
They tried their best to make all kinds of noises just to prevent Leeds United from having a good night's sleep.
Obviously, they all knew what happened to Betis when he was at Leeds in the last round.
This time, they decided to give him the other person's way!
In the past two days, Betis Club has received protest calls from Leeds United on several occasions.
On the phone, Betis said that these are activities organized by fans and are not controlled by the club.
In addition, Betis Club also stated that it was willing to provide a batch of earplugs to Leeds United players and coaches for free. Of course, this meaningless plan was rejected by Leeds United.
When Tang Feng learned the news from Tang Sen, he immediately burst into laughter without any grace.
Although he claims to be an idol coach, Tang Feng will not pay any attention to demeanor in such matters!
He still remembers his encounter at the Leeds Hotel a week ago, but now he is just passing the same experience onto the Leeds United.
Not to mention stopping it, he would have shown mercy if he didn't call on the fans to do this!
If you come out and have to pay it back sooner or later!
When you used this trick to deal with us last time, you should have thought of what’s going on today, right?
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Chapter completed!