Chapter 574: The Faded Black Horse

Leiden Oriental fans, with good wishes, believe that after Ronaldo's goal, Villarreal, who had completely opened the city gate, could only bear Leiden Oriental's endless attack like Juventus last time, and then Leiden Oriental continued to break through the goal, or pay the price that several players could not play in the next game...

However, the final result disappointed them.

In the second half, Leiden Dongfang still had an absolute advantage on the field. With the two offensive focus blocked Villarreal, their offense became unscrupulous and created quite a lot of shooting opportunities. However, I don’t know whether it was luck or other reasons, but I could not break through the opponent’s goal guarding. In the first half, Barbosa, who was like a nervous rookie, seemed to be very excited in the second half, and saved Leden Dongfang’s threatening shots several times in a row...

In the 80th minute of the game, Xiao Ming replaced Messi and Ronaldo with White and Bentley, but he still couldn't break the opponent's goal. When the referee blew the whistle to the end of the game, the score was frozen to one-to-zero.

Leiden East won the home victory, without allowing the opponent to score away goals at home, and expanded his record of unconfiscated goals in the Champions League to seven games - however, this series of happy things did not bring too many smiles on Xiao Ming and his players' faces.

"We were wasting too many opportunities in this game, which brought some trouble to our away games. However, no matter how terrible the Love Song Stadium is, we were the ones who finally entered the finals. In the past few seasons, we have been to Spain almost every season, and we are not unfamiliar with playing there. At the same time, we have beaten almost all the strong teams in Spain in that place, and Villarreal is no exception."

Xiao Ming made a high-profile declaration with a stern face after the game, while Villarreal's head coach Chilean engineer Pellegrino seemed much more low-key. He just said that Villarreal had basically achieved the set goal in this game. At the Love Song Stadium, they would do their best to maintain the honor of the yellow submarine.

Villarreal's fans were a little dissatisfied with Pellegrino's remarks, believing that he was completely enhancing the ambition of others and destroying his own prestige. Xiao Ming's words made the fans of Leiden East happy again. Yes, although he only won one goal, Leiden East's advantage in this game is very big. Isn't their midfielder Tacinadi also unable to play in the second round because of accumulating yellow cards?

For Villarreal, they want to enter the finals for the first time they want to participate in the Champions League and win Leiden Oriental at home. The last team to enter the finals for the first time in the Champions League was Leiden Oriental in the 99-00 season, and the other one was Sampdoria in 1992...

I only won one goal at home in this game, which was not just a matter of luck, but because the physical fitness of Leiden Oriental players was indeed not in the best state. In the second half of the game, I failed to create too many threats to Villarreal. The next week, I need to make good adjustments.

So in the next league game, Xiao Ming sent most of the substitutes to let the main players rest, but Leiden East still beat Charlton, who was 4-1 at home. With Manchester United tied by Middlesbrough at home in this round, the original seven-point gap between Leiden East and them before playing against Manchester United narrowed to two points. Manchester United will face Chelsea in the next league game. Perhaps Leiden East can take this opportunity to overtake Manchester United and return to the second position.

However, Liverpool also won stubbornly, and also ranked behind Leiden East with a two-point advantage.

With two rounds left in the league, Chelsea has won the championship ahead of schedule, and the four teams participating in the Champions League next season have already settled. But what is surprising is that for the second, third and fourth ranking, Manchester United Leiden Oriental and Liverpool have a fierce competition, which has added more attractiveness to the league.

After the game, Leiden East flew to Valencia, Spain, in the province of Castellón, where Villarreal is located, to prepare for the second round of the game.

For this small town on the Mediterranean where Villarreal is located, this season is undoubtedly a fantastic. Crazy fans have snatched most of the tickets, so that only 1,000 fans of the more than 3,000 Leiden Oriental who came to Spain with Leiden Oriental have bought tickets. For this reason, Villarreal Club had to open a square near the stadium to accommodate those fans who did not buy tickets. The local police also attached great importance to this. After all, English fans have a reputation in the world.

"Actually, our fans are all good people." Xiao Ming said to MacDonald innocently, and MacDonald shrugged.

April 26th, Love Song Stadium.

What surprised many people or secretly scolded the two head coaches that there was no truth in their words, after the first round, Xiao Ming said high-profilely that he would continue to win away games, and Pellegrino said low-key that he would fight with all his strength at home. However, at the beginning of the game, Villarreal took on a stance of a big attack, while Leiden East began to defend and counterattack with a clear stand...

In this game, Xiao Ming replaced Hypia with Campbell who returned from injury, Jin Claze started, Van Nie continued to be substitute, Ronaldo still started, while Villarreal midfielder Josico replaced Tacinadi who was suspended, defender Peña returned from injury, and returned to the main lineup. Mexican forward Franco replaced Jose Mali and Fran. What was more surprising was that the main goalkeeper Vieira sat on the bench, and the starting goalkeeper was still Barbosa. It seems that Pellegrino felt that Barbosa's performance in the last game was quite good.

Villarreal, who was at home, launched a fierce attack from the beginning. Franco seemed very active in the game. At the beginning, he made a long shot of nearly 30 meters, and then passed the ball to Fran. Although it was not a threat, he successfully dispatched the enthusiasm of the fans on the scene.

Compared with the opponent's fierce attack, Leiden East began to shrink its defense, deployed heavily at the front of the penalty area, and handed it over to two central defenders in the penalty area. This kind of defense method, which is virtual, inside and outside, is very targeted. After all, Fran and Rikelme are both players who are more threatening outside the penalty area than in the penalty area.

However, in this game, Leiden Oriental did not seem to have good luck.

Less than ten minutes into the game, Ashley Cole's thigh wound was injured in a defense and was forced to leave the court. Xiao Ming had no choice but to let Sun Jihai, who had been hastily warmed up, come on the court, and let Pirlo help to fill the team on the left to maintain the integrity of the defense line. However, Ashley Cole's fate had the greatest impact on Leiden East. After all, Sun Jihai's defense and fill ability were also quite good, but he was at least one level worse than Ashley Cole in assists.

After Ashley Cole's assists were not inserted in time, Leiden East's offense was also affected, which in turn made Villarreal's offense more worry-free. Villarreal, who died without victory, began to frequently create opportunities for shooting, and the atmosphere of the Love Song Stadium began to become white-hot.

In the 18th minute, Villarreal played a smooth cooperation. Riquelme, who was on the wing, broke through and passed the ball. Senna, who was receiving the front point, knocked back, and Fran, who followed, pushed the shot in front of the goal, was waited by Jasquelenen.

However, after this shot, it was difficult for Villarreal to create better opportunities. After Leiden East got the ball, if she saw no chance to counterattack, she began to keep killing her time in the midfield. Tacinadi was not on the court, Villarreal's midfield running ability and interception ability have decreased a lot, and Leiden East also has relatively free space for ball control.

Time passed by minute by minute, and Villarreal's fans did not seem too impatient. After all, they knew that they were just one goal behind away games. If they pressed too much on the offense, they would reveal flaws in their defense. If Leiden Oriental scored the goal in the first place, the game would be even more difficult. After all, they only needed one ball to get back their disadvantages, and if they lost one ball, they would need to score three.

The two sides were entangled until the end of the first half. Fran's breakthrough created a free kick in the frontcourt. Xiao Ming stood up with his chin and stared at the situation inside the court.

A direct free kick of 26 meters, ideal position - this is not a good place.

Jasquelinen loudly directed the defenders to line up a wall of six people. Everyone knew that Rikelme would definitely shoot by himself at this distance, without seeking any cooperation.

The referee's whistle rang, and Riquelme began to run, approached the ball, and shot with his right foot!

The ball drew an arc and crossed the wall. Jasklenn responded in time. He flew over, then reached out his hands to grab the ball, and then quickly reclaimed the ball and hugged it tightly in his arms.

Xiao Ming, off the court, breathed a sigh of relief. Rikelme's free kick might be too concerned about bypassing the wall. The angle of the game was not very clever, and Yasquelenn saved it easily.

"You must pay attention to fouls, fouls. Don't forget that they have an excellent free kick player... Be careful when fighting, especially in those dangerous areas. Do you understand? Also, you must pay attention to efficiency when counterattacking, but you cannot just control the ball in the midfield. Sometimes you have to take risks. If you lose the ball in the midfield, it will be more harmful to the defense! They will definitely attack more fiercely in the second half of this game, because they must have a goal, and this is our chance! A goal, all I want is a goal!"

Xiao Ming shouted a few times in the locker room. Although most people were optimistic about Leiden Dongfang before the game, Villarreal was definitely not just lucky. Faced with opponents who could explode at any time, one goal advantage at home is really nothing. Only by scoring a goal away from home can Leiden Dongfang's advantage become unshakable.

Leiden Oriental players nodded together, and it was time to play. Of course, they did not want to be squeezed out of the Champions League final by this season's biggest dark horse.

After walking out of the locker room, they were greeted by more than 20,000 Villarreal fans, and a thousand Leiden Oriental fans tried their best to support the team they supported with their voices, but they were still suppressed by the lunatic Villarreal fans.

"Their fans are really enthusiastic." McDonald couldn't help but sigh.

"The fans will of course be stimulated when they get such a result for the first time." Xiao Ming smiled: "But I believe that it will be us who will enter the finals - in front of our biggest dark horse in the Champions League, all dark horses will fade!"

Xiao Ming said it very confidently, and he does have the capital to be confident, and his players did not disappoint his expectations.

After the opening, Villarreal was still the main attacker. As Xiao Ming said in the locker room, in the second half, Villarreal, who was forced to a dead end and did not want to suffocate, had to strengthen the offense. Strengthening the offense means that the backcourt became more and more empty.

Senna made a long shot from the beginning and was held in his arms by Yasquelenin, who was in good standing. Yasquelenin's condition has been getting better and better recently, which has also given Xiao Ming greater confidence in his team's defense.

Two minutes later, Franco's header in front of the goal was slightly higher, and Lucio interfered with his header well.

Seeing that the team continued to have an advantage but couldn't score the goal, Pellegrino became a little impatient. Finally, in the 60th minute of the game, he made the first substitution in this game. Jose Mali came on the court, replaced the midfielder Josico, and Villarreal, who changed to the three forwards, began to launch a strong attack.

However, in the east of Leiden, what he waited for was this moment.

Jose Mali had a header as soon as he came on the court. Campbell collided with him on the head while defending and then bleeded. After receiving bandage on the sidelines, he continued to play. While there were only ten people on the Leiden Oriental field, Villarreal's offense became more and more fierce, but was defended by the united Leiden Oriental players without missing a trace.

The game reached the 71st minute.

Villarreal launched an attack from the right, and after Ashley Cole came out, their attacks were more concentrated on this side. Obviously, they thought Sun Jihai was better against it - this is also a fact.

Sun Jihai stared at Rikelme with all his attention. After changing his feet twice in a row, Rikelme made a force to break through, and then turned around and knocked the ball to Wenta who had assisted!

At this moment, Sun Jihai made a key steal.

He almost flew out his entire body, then poked the ball out in the air!

Xiao Ming stood up! He saw that the ball was flying towards Pirlo a little in front, and at this time, Villarreal's two full-backs were pressing up, and the backcourt was a big gap!

"Passed it!" Xiao Ming shouted in his heart, and Pirlo's grasp of the timing of defensiveness and offense did not disappoint him. He completed the turn when he received the ball, and did not hand the ball to the front as soon as possible, but passed it to Gerald a little in front.

Gerald received the ball, passed it for a long time, and the ball flew accurately to Ronaldo in front of him. Ronaldo quickly turned around and started, and in a blink of an eye, he threw away the opponent's defender Alvarez!

He dribbled the ball forward at high speed. Under the interference of another defender, Peña, Ronaldo still brought the ball into the penalty area. Then he stopped quickly, and then stepped out of the gap and passed the ball horizontally. Ronaldo, who followed, faced most of the empty goal. The young Portuguese was not polite and lifted his foot to stab the ball into the goal while running!

"gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Key goal! Beautiful cooperation between the two Ronaldos! Leiden Oriental scored a key goal. If Villarreal wants to enter the final, he has to score three goals in the remaining twenty minutes. This is almost an impossible task!"

Amid the crazy shouts of a thousand Leiden Oriental fans, the love song stadium that was so boiling just now became quiet, and the fans of Villarreal were depressed as if they were depressed...

The balloons of the yellow submarine floating above the stands seemed to be in vain, floating listlessly on the stands.

Xiao Ming let out a long sigh. He knew that with this ball at the bottom, Leiden Oriental entered the Champions League final for the second consecutive year, but it was just a matter of time.

In the following game, Villarreal launched a suicide attack almost tragically, attacking midfielder Roger Garcia replaced defender Aru Abarena, while Xiao Ming replaced Kinclair with Hypia to strengthen the defense and delay the subsequent attack.

When the time entered the stoppage time period, Leiden East was already celebrating in advance. At this time, Jose Mali was pushed down by Sun Jihai who was returning to defense while fighting in the penalty area. The referee awarded a penalty kick, which was a chance for Villarreal to save face.

But Jasquelinen obviously didn't want his record of not losing the ball to end, and he flew out of the bottom line by Riquelme's penalty kick!

"Beautiful save! No goal was lost in eight consecutive Champions League games! I don't know what the longest record of not losing the ball in the Champions League, but it is definitely the longest record of not losing the ball this season! Jasquelinen's performance is so outstanding!"

When the referee blew the whistle at the end of the game, Jasqueline shouted, using his performance to maintain his record of not losing the ball, which was created by him personally!

Villarreal, the biggest dark horse in the Champions League this season, has finally lost its quality in front of Leiden East!
Chapter completed!