Chapter 6 First match ()

Soon, the time comes March 19. The 29th round of the 9900 La Liga season will start on this day.

Betis's opponent is Valencia, one of the traditional three top three in La Liga, and will also play away. There is no doubt that this is another tough battle!

This is also the first time Tang Feng has participated in a competition with Betis since he traveled through time.

For Tang Feng, an otaku who had never been abroad in his life, it was good for the team to have away games, just treat it as a public travel.

As Spain's third largest city, Valencia can be regarded as a combination of modern and classical. It has modern high-rise buildings, but it also retains an antique old town.

Of course, when the team's future was worrying, as a member of the team, Tang Feng didn't act blatantly like a tourist, but could only take advantage of the bus passing by the city and enjoy the scenery of Valencia through the car window.

At 9:00 that night, the game was officially held at the Mestalia Stadium.

In the visiting team's locker room before the game, Tang Feng had already vaguely felt the hot atmosphere of Mestalia Stadium. The singing and cheers of the fans in the stands passed through the walls to the locker room... After all, it is the famous devil's home court in La Liga.

Hiddink's arrangement before the game was very detailed, and he attached great importance to this game.

Because he has been coaching Betis for six rounds, the team has reached the point where he can no longer lose. At the same time, he has had a failed coaching experience in Valencia and hopes to prove himself in Mestalia!

After setting up the tactics, Hiddink still repeatedly emphasized that the players would strengthen their pressing!

"Actively fight, do you know? I hope you can figure out that pressing is not just the responsibility of the defensive players. Each of you should join in the pressing. After losing the ball, counterattack on the spot. Set a barrier for the Valencians from the midfield, so that they can't organize the attack calmly. After intercepting the ball in the midfield, they quickly counterattack... Are you clear?" Tang Feng vividly translated Hiddink's words, and seemed very stylish!

Obviously, this guy has completely put himself in the role of coach.

After hearing Tang Feng's translation, the players gave positive answers, but some people were confident in answering, while others were weak.

After the players appeared, Tang Feng followed Hiddink's pace and walked out of the locker room and prepared to walk towards the coach's seat on the side of the court.

As soon as he walked out of the player channel, Tang Feng felt that his eardrum was about to be broken.

Only a "boom" sound was heard, and more than 50,000 Valencia fans at the scene sent their teams thrilling and thundering cheers.

Of course, Tang Feng soon heard some boos for Betis... fans are so clear about their love and hate!

The magnificent professional football field, the packed stands, and the deafening cheers. All of this made Tang Feng, who was standing in front of the visiting team coach's seat, excited!

This is professional football!

These scenes that were only seen on TV before are now unreservedly presented to Tang Feng!

He knew that he had fallen in love with this crazy feeling!

The feeling of falling in love with professional football!

This also made Tang Feng even more determined to become a football coach!

Standing in front of Mestalia's coach's seat, Tang Feng's eyes looking forward were full of determination!

"Hey, Don! You blocked me!"

Just as Tang Feng was full of confidence and passion, Hiddink's voice interrupted his yy.

"Uh...ahhaha, OK." Tang Feng retreated back to the coach seat with an awkward look. He suddenly remembered that he was just an interpreter now, not even an assistant coach.

After coming back from yy, Tang Feng began to observe the situation on the field.

These seasons are the heyday of Valencia, which is not difficult to find out from their lineup.

At least, for Tang Feng, a professional fan, he knows most of the players in the starting lineup of Valencia.

The little bug on the front line is the most threatening speed striker in La Liga. Angulo behind him is also a famous player in La Liga. Kiri Gonzalez, Mendeta and Alberda in the midfield have also become famous in La Liga for a long time. There are also veteran stars like Jukic, Angeloma and Caniseres on the defense line, and powerful players like Javi Navarro.

Let’s look at the lineup of Betis. Combined with the team’s recent sluggish morale, even Tang Feng himself is not optimistic about the team’s ability to defeat strong opponents in Mestalia.

Sure enough, after the game started, the Bat Legion completely controlled the situation on the court amid the cheers of more than 50,000 fans in the audience.

Due to his role as a defender in the player era, Valencia coach Cooper has always been conservative in style. Even when facing the low morale Betis, he did not take advantage of the home field to attack. Instead, he was in control of the situation on the court with his strong control in the midfield and frontcourt.

Mendeta is the well-deserved core of Valencia's midfield, and he was also the world-class midfield master at this time. He almost easily sorted out Valencia's midfield and frontcourt in an orderly manner.

Halfway through the first half, it was his long pass after just passing the midfield that tear open Betis's defense.

Unfortunately, the little bug Lopez shot in the plug was a bit straight, and the ball was blocked by Betis goalkeeper Antonio Platz with his body.

Seeing this scene, Tang Feng and everyone on the bench of Betis took a breath.

The Valencia fans in the stands sighed with regret and then gave their players another applause.

Seeing that the team was always in a passive situation, Hiddink couldn't sit still. He walked near the sideline and shouted a few words to the players on the court.

"Pressure! Pressure! People in the frontcourt, run for me and grab the ball! Don't watch others pour the ball! Especially you, Alfonso! Are you a wooden stake? Standing there motionless!" Tang Feng shouted to the field in Hiddink's tone. Of course... the second half of the sentence was added by him.

Obviously, this guy is taking the opportunity to avenge his private revenge.

After hearing the shouts from the sidelines, several people from Betis' midfield and frontcourt moved. However, their running was not active. The pressure on Valencia's midfield and backcourt players was very limited.

Not long after, Hiddink couldn't help but come to the sidelines and yelled a few more times.

"Run! Go grab the ball! Damn it, what about you! Alfonso, have you not had supper?" According to convention, Tang Feng added some ingredients himself when translating.

In fact, this cannot be completely blamed for taking personal revenge, because Alfonso is indeed lazy on the court. He is more like walking than pressing in the frontcourt!

Alfonso on the court obviously heard Tang Feng's words on the sidelines. He didn't know that Tang Feng was taking revenge on the public. In his opinion, Hiddink seemed very dissatisfied with him.

Although he was a little reluctant, he still had to increase his running efforts.

Just when Betis' midfield and frontcourt pressing gradually improved, and even had two successful steals and threatening counterattacks, Valencia broke through Betis's goal with an extremely efficient counterattack.

This was originally a positional attack by Betis. After Denilson on the left received the ball, he started a solo performance and dribbled the ball continuously.

His bicycles were very ecstatic, but he was facing the senior of Toram who had completely beaten him in the 1998 World Cup, former French international Angeloma.

Angeloma, who is nearly 35 years old, may have declined significantly in his physical fitness, but after struggling on the football field for more than ten years, his experience can be said to be a master.

Facing Denilson's fancy bicycle performance, Angeloma was still unmoved. After stabilizing his center of gravity, he saw the opportunity to poke the ball away.

After the interception was successful, Angeloma immediately handed the ball to Mundeta who retreated to the backcourt.

Mendita received the ball and turned around and finished it in one go, then directly teleported to the left with one kick!

Kiri Gonzalez appeared on the left. After getting the ball, he dribbled the ball all the way, dribbled past Betis' right-back Otero's defense, and sent a low goal from the bottom!

The pass speed of the ball was very fast, but it was not sent to the front of the goal, but was passed to the near penalty spot!

Two central defenders of Betis were attracted by the little bug Lopez, but ignored Angulo who was inserted behind him.

Although Angulo is a midfielder, he has always had a good scoring rate. Faced with such an opportunity, he will naturally not miss it.

I saw him pushing the ball towards the bottom right corner of the goal!

Facing such a close shot, Betis goalkeeper Antonio Platz could only sigh at the ball.

"goal!" The commentator on the scene burst into an excited cry.

The atmosphere in the Mestalia stands was also instantly ignited, erupting like a volcano!

Angulo, who scored the goal, rushed to the stands on the sidelines excitedly and celebrated with the fans!

Side-side!

Tang Feng hugged his head with annoyance, looking very depressed.

Although he had only been through time for a few days, he had already entered the role and regarded himself as a Betis!

Hiddink and several of his assistants were also depressed.

"We must strengthen the offensive. If this continues, it is not a solution!" Tang Feng walked to Hiddink's side anxiously and said in Dutch.

However, Hiddink and his assistants ignored him.

Obviously, at this time, anyone who knows the ball knows that Betis needs to strengthen his offense. Therefore, in their opinion, Tang Feng's words are nonsense.

After the game started again, Hiddink also came to the sidelines to remind the team to strengthen its offense.

In the subsequent games, Betis did strengthen its offensive. Unfortunately, Betis basically did not cooperate well in the frontcourt. Either Denilson and Pablonino were "kelp" there, or Finidi George blindly used speed to cross the bottom at the wing. Alfonso in the penalty area did not have an advantage in height, so it was difficult for him to grab the point between the two central defenders.

In the end, until the referee blew the whistle at the end of the first half, the score was still 1-0.

During the break, Hiddink and his assistants didn't seem to have any solution. He was just repeatedly emphasizing that the team needed to strengthen pressing and invest more troops in the offense in the second half.

In the second half, the two sides changed sides and fought again.

The Betis players followed Hiddink's intentions and launched a fierce attack at the beginning.

Just seven minutes into the second half, Denilson completed a wonderful breakthrough on the left and broke into the penalty area.

After reaching the left side of the penalty area, Denilson used a fake move to shake off Valencia's central defender Navarro. At this time, Valencia's team had a fatal gap in the penalty area. As long as he knocked the ball across the goal, Alfonso would get a chance to face most of the empty goal!

However, DeNelson seemed to have only the ball under his feet in his eyes. After swaying past Navarro, he directly chose to shoot from a small angle!

Although the quality of this shot is very high, but Ganisseres has blocked his shooting angle very well, and the ball was blocked from the bottom line by the Spanish national goal.

"Damn, pass the ball! This ball is passed by an empty goal!" Tang Feng stomped his feet excitedly and shouted.

The Betis coach's seat also burst into sighs of regret.

On the field!

Alfonso also complained a few times to DeNilson in dissatisfaction. However, DeNilson ignored him. He just shook his head helplessly and ran to the corner kick.

After seeing this scene, Tang Feng on the sidelines couldn't help but sigh that Denilson is really a bit introverted. No wonder he has never made a name for himself in the European football world, which focuses on the overall situation.

After that, Betis launched several consecutive attacks, but all of them returned in vain.

On the contrary, when the game reached the 68th minute, Valencia seized a counterattack opportunity and expanded the score to 2-0 with the little bug Lopez!

With only about twenty minutes left in the game, he was two goals behind Valencia. Even the most optimistic Betis fans probably don't think their team can win the score.

After all, under Cooper's training, Valencia can be regarded as the best team in La Liga defense. Once this old Argentine decides to defend the victory, even Real Madrid and Barcelona will find it difficult to tear their defense easily.
Chapter completed!