In two rounds of home and away games, Betis scored the last laugh in this youth guard battle, which was noticed by the whole of Europe, and advanced to the quarterfinals with his head held high!

If Europeans are familiar with Chinese, they will definitely use "the new wave of the Yangtze River pushes the old wave" and "the talented people come out of the generation" to describe trusting the young guards Betis!

After the game, Leeds United coach O'Reilly also admitted that there are indeed these problems within the club and the team, which is the key to their loss of two League Cups. However, he is still full of confidence in the following season. He believes that eliminating from the League Cup is not a completely bad thing for Leeds United, because it means that they will have more energy to devote themselves to the league and fight for the qualification of a European or even the Champions League!

As the winner, Tang Feng also praised Leeds United's strength with a graceful manner after the game: "Leeds United is a dynamic team. Many of their players are still very young. As long as their club can survive the economic crisis, I believe they will regroup soon!"

I have to say that Tang Feng, a 26-year-old young coach, commented on the scene when others were very young, was a bit weird. But there was no way, who told his team to laugh the last time?

Sports media in Spain and Europe have given high praise to Fantastic Don and his Betis team.

"There is only one young guard in European football...Real Betis!"... "Daily Sports"

"In the Battle of the Youth Guards, the younger magical Don and Betis have the last laugh!"... "Photo"

"Betis defeated Leeds United twice, European football will usher in a new young guard!"... "Milan Sports"

"The magical Tang is magical again, and the La Liga team has advanced to the quarterfinals of the League Cup!"... "Team News"

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When the outside world was generous in giving praise to Fantastic Don and Betis, they had no time to enjoy this praise for the time being, because three days later they had to rush to the home love song stadium of Villarreal to play the 28th round of the league!

Villarreal is not the yellow submarine that has been qualifying for the Champions League this season. They just advanced from the Spanish Second Division to La Liga two seasons ago and are still in a state of striving to stay in La Liga. This season ranks fifteenth, a standard mid- and lower-level team.

The biggest card in their lineup should be the Argentine madman Martin Palermo.

This Argentine scorer who once lost a penalty kick in the Copa America became famous in the world football world in a different way. He was already 29 years old and just entered European football last season.

However, his performance in Villarreal for more than a season can be said to be unsatisfactory, at least far below what fans expected him.

He just experienced a hard battle with Leeds United three days ago. Therefore, facing a lineup like Villarreal, Tang Feng naturally sent almost all the substitutes, and even goalkeeper Van der Sar got a chance to rest, and substitute goalkeeper Antonio Platz got a starting opportunity.

After the game started, it seemed that everything was going on according to Tang Feng's idea.

In the 18th minute, Betis used Drogba's forced turn and shot in the penalty area to break through Villarreal's shot, achieving a good start.

This is also Drogba scored goals in two consecutive rounds of games!

In the next game, the Betis team, which took the lead, can be said to be more and more courageous. Their continuous attacks made Villarreal's team panic in front of the goal. The Betis team seemed to be able to expand its lead at any time!

However, when the game reached the 36th minute, Villarreal took advantage of a rare counterattack opportunity, and right forward Box made a cross from the bottom and helped Palermo in the middle to score the goal!

This is a typical submarine style!

It has been potentially under the sea, and when it sees the opportunity, it secretly launches a missile!

The Betis players were obviously dissatisfied with being tied by Villarreal, so in the next game, the Betis players continued to strengthen their offensive in the hope of taking the lead again before the end of the half.

As a result, before the end of the first half, the score was indeed rewritten, but it was Villarreal who rewritten the score!

It is still an opportunity to counterattack, but this time Villarreal chose to pass directly to Palermo who was in the frontcourt.

Facing the long pass from the backcourt, Palermo stuck his position firmly, then waved the ball to his left hand with his chest against the ball, and completed the turn. Without any extra moves, he swung his right foot and turned around and volleyed!

This shot was quite similar to Palermo's compatriot Batistuta's meaning. The ball hit Betis' goal like a cannonball!

Facing Palermo's unexpected shot with an exaggerated speed angle, Antonio Platz in front of the goal failed to even make a symbolic save.

Finally, the ball hit the lower edge of the crossbar and flew into the goal!

Such a world suddenly made the entire Love Song Stadium crazy. Martin Palermo, who scored a goal, also showed a celebration method that was very consistent with his nickname "Madman". He took off his jersey and threw it into the stands!

Tang Feng on the sidelines seemed helpless about this goal conceding!

He can only sigh that his team is not lucky today!

The madman Palermo only scored three goals in the first half of the season, and only five goals before this game. As a result, when he met Betis, the guy seemed to have been crazy and scored two goals in the first half, and the second one was a world-class goal!

Do I have a grudge against this guy? Is it because before I traveled through time, I often joked about his failure to score a penalty kick and a hat trick in the novel?

Tang Feng thought helplessly, otherwise he wouldn't know how to understand Palermo's inexplicable outbreak!

In the end, the score in the first half was locked at one to two.

During the intermission, the statistics on the TV broadcast screen reflected the helplessness of the Betis team.

In terms of ball control, Betis 66% vs. Villarreal 34%, and Betis scored 11 times in the shooting numbers, while Villarreal only had only 3 times!

Unfortunately, football games are not entirely up to the statistics.

There are no shortage of some examples of weak teams seizing the few opportunities to win the game while at an absolute disadvantage!

Fortunately, this is only a half-time situation, and the Betis still has half-time to change this dilemma!

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During the halftime break, Tang Feng did not criticize the players. He just reminded the players to pay attention to preventing the opponent's quick counterattack in the second half. Moreover, in terms of offense, Tang Feng did not encourage the players to continue to bombard like in the first half, but hoped that the players could play efficiently and have an offensive success rate!

After the second half of the game began, Betis players strictly implemented Tang Feng's midfield arrangement. While continuing to control the situation on the field, they did not blindly attack wildly, but were patiently looking for opportunities!

Villarreal team simply retreated almost all the troops, leaving only Palermo in the frontcourt.

Villarreal's defense was very tenacious and did not give Betis too good a chance.

Seeing the team continue to gain strength and fail to score, Tang Feng on the sidelines also seemed a little anxious. He was walking back and forth there, and was considering whether he should replace two main attackers to attack the Villarreal's defense line.

After careful consideration, Tang Feng gave up this idea.

First of all, in his opinion, the team's substitute lineup is not much worse than the main lineup in terms of strength.

Furthermore, after experiencing the hard battle in the middle of the week, the main players are generally tired, and the effect of barely letting them play may not be better than these lively substitutes.

Therefore, Tang Feng decided to wait patiently for the players to surprise him.

It seemed that Tang Feng's trust gave the players on the court confidence. After almost half of the second half of the game, Betis finally had the opportunity they had been waiting for.

This was originally a counterattack opportunity for Villarreal to intercept the ball. Due to their limited reception points in the frontcourt, the ball was eventually intercepted by Xavi Navarro, and he handed the ball to Senna in front without hesitation.

After Senna got the ball, she made a long pass and launched a counterattack!

His long pass accurately found Drogba at the front of the penalty area!

Drogba took the lead in the face of the opponent's close-fitting defense, completed a header and rubbed it.

It seemed that he had long thought that Drogba would rub the ball over, and Maxi Rodriguez on the left decisively inserted into the penalty area.

After he caught up with the ball on the left side of the penalty area, he did not make any adjustments and directly made a volley with his left foot!

Maxi Rodriguez's usual foot is right foot, but his left foot skills are not bad. At least the quality of this volley is very high!

The ball hit the far corner of the goal like a missile!

Like Antonio Platz before, Villarreal's goalkeeper Urano did not react at all this time and watched the ball fly into the goal.

Maxi Rodriguez's world-shot wave made the entire love song stadium silent, and also helped Betis successfully equalize the score!

Tang Feng on the sidelines also waved his fists excitedly. At the same time, he calmed down, and he did not forget to remind the players that the game was not over yet and it was just a draw now. To strive for victory, it was the main thing to get three points!

After receiving a reminder from Tang Feng, the players on the court only celebrated for a while and then rejoined the game.

Villarreal, who was tied, seemed to understand that continuing to defend like this seemed to be a bit like waiting for death.

Therefore, they also gave up on defending and fought back like in the first half.

However, Betis was obviously alert to their counterattack, so their counterattack did not pose any threat.

After scoring this goal, Betis has not found any good opportunities.

Before we knew it, the game had entered the last few minutes!

A draw does not seem to be a bad result for the mid- and lower-level team Villarreal, but it is unacceptable for Betis, who wants to bite the top of the list.

As a result, the Betis' offensive rhythm became faster again, and they returned to the previous bombing situation.

At this time, Tang Feng would not stop the players, because he could not accept the result of the draw.

Gradually, Betis almost hit the whole line, and there was only one defensive player left in the backcourt.

Villarreal also took all the formation back to the backcourt.

Betis completely formed a siege in the frontcourt!

They sent the ball into the penalty area again and again and shot at Villarreal's goal, but returned in vain again and again.

Finally, ninety minutes had passed, and the fourth official on the sidelines raised the sign of stoppage time for two minutes.

At this time, Villarreal blocked a Betis attack. They didn't care about observing the situation ahead and drove directly to the frontcourt with one foot.

Xavi Navarro, who stayed in the backcourt, did not care too much. Facing this huge foot, his first reaction was to protect the ball to the goalkeeper behind him.

At this moment, a yellow figure suddenly flew past him quickly and rushed towards the ball first.

It turned out that Villarreal's fast Marquik Martin was inserted at high speed.

Fortunately, Antonio Platz in front of the goal had already rushed out. He rushed towards the ball before Martin and drove forward with a big foot.

However, I don’t know if it was Antonio Platz who hadn’t played the game for too long or because Martin’s speed put pressure on him, his big foot didn’t kick and started falling before he even flew to the midfield. What’s even more terrible is that the ball flew directly to Palermo, who had just run out of the middle circle arc!

Facing the extremely fast ball in the air, Palermo made a bold decision in the flash.

I saw him facing the ball in the air, lower his head slightly and push the ball directly towards the empty goal!

This scene surprised the Villarreal fans at the scene.
To be continued...