Chapter 135: Seville's Advancement, Part

After attacking fiercely for half the game, Atletico Madrid did not score a goal until the 85th minute of the game.

Taking advantage of Alves' cramps and inability to form an effective defense, Maxi Rodriguez got the ball in the midfield and passed it directly to Petrov on the left to break through Sevilla's right defense. Li Qi and Paulson made mistakes in their haste and actually came over to help defend, leaving Sevilla's center wide open!

Seeing this, Petrov directly knocked the ball back to Maniche in the middle; the latter paused for a moment and raised his leg to make a long shot. This time, Marty and Navarro made the same mistake as the two defensive midfielders in the previous match, and they both flew over to block the shot.

Unexpectedly, Maniche paused and passed the ball to the left side of Sevilla's penalty area again... and Puerta on this side had already filled in the gap left by Navarro and entered the middle of the penalty area. The left side of Sevilla's penalty area was like a main road at 4 a.m., with no one in sight.

Only Maxi Rodriguez, who came in from behind, calmly stopped the ball and had enough time and space to adjust his posture and angle, and then shot a powerful shot from 15 yards in front of the goal, and the ball went straight to the lower right corner of the goal...

Palop, who had been in great form for half the game, was too late to land in time when faced with such a close-range shot. The ball whizzed through his armpit and into the net.

Atletico Madrid, with a two-and-a-half-man advantage, finally equalized the score!

Afterwards, Atletico's morale was greatly boosted, and they completely pressed Sevilla near the penalty area and attacked them back and forth; they constantly deployed their players left and right to pull at the visiting team's already tattered defense.

Just three minutes later, Atletico Madrid took the lead in the 3th minute; the scoring process was very similar to the first goal.

However, this time Atletico opened a gap on the right first; Maxi Rodriguez successfully broke through Puerta, who was on the verge of physical collapse, on the right, attracted Marti and Navarro to defend at the same time, and then made an inverted triangle pass to the middle.

Maniche repeated his old trick, faking a shot and then passing the ball in the middle, which not only locked Paulson in the middle, but also attracted Dragutinovic out of the small penalty area... Then Maniche passed the ball straight to the golden boy Torres who was pulled to the left.

Torres was not ambiguous after receiving the ball. Facing Hinkle, who had just come on as a substitute, he made a fake move and directly accelerated to overtake the outside line, successfully breaking into the corner of the small penalty area. Facing Li Qi who came to defend and the goalkeeper who was blocking the near corner, Torres calmly passed the ball in front of the goal, and the ball just passed through the crotch of Li Qi who was trying to block Torres' shot...

Maxi Rodriguez cut in from the right and easily shot into the empty goal, scoring twice! Atletico Madrid scored two goals in the final moments of the game, overtaking Sevilla with 2 players 1-9!

Looking at the Atletico players celebrating passionately, Li Qi was also a little helpless, after all, the ball went through his crotch. Li Qi suddenly realized that there was no explosive moment in the past few minutes. Was it because of the sharp decline in physical strength, resulting in insufficient oxygen supply to the brain?

In the end, Atletico Madrid won with a score of 2-1, ending Sevilla's 12-game winning streak in all competitions.

Li Qi seized the opportunity to exchange jerseys with Torres to compensate for being penetrated in the crotch...

At the press conference after the game, Atletico's head coach Javier Aguirre was very excited and praised the team's fighting spirit: "The boys are great. They never give up until the very end and they are calm and patient, especially Maxi, the best player of the game. He scored twice in the last 5 minutes to help the team turn defeat into victory..."

As for Juan Ramos, he was a little disappointed. After all, they lost the game and had two main players sent off. "We had the absolute initiative, but the referee's decision changed the situation... Even if we had one less player, we still had a chance; but in an 11-man game, having two less players made the game very difficult... I won't blame my players, they all did a good job and fought until the last minute. We will win the next game..."

Without further ado, since the capital Madrid is the transportation hub of Spain, Sevilla took a night flight back to Seville that night to rest and prepare for the Europa League in the middle of the week.

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On Monday morning, Ricardo slept in for a rare time because the team had a day off as they only returned to Seville late at night. Ricardo also scheduled his private lessons originally scheduled for Monday for Tuesday morning.

However, at noon, Ricardo, who had finished strength training at home, was invited to visit Eva's small apartment.

Eva, who had just returned from her parents' house, insisted that Ricardo come to taste her cooking. This single mother brought back a lot of local specialties and special seasonings from the town; on the way back from the insurance company after punching in that morning, she also went to the supermarket to buy a lot of ingredients.

Today's main dish is the beauty of Seville, oh no, it's Seville tripe stew...

After dinner, the scumbag Li hugged the single mother who was lying on him, savoring the afterglow of climbing the peak, and reflected on his sinful behavior: On what day or at what time should he tell Eva about Chiara? Chiara is coming to Seville for vacation this weekend...

Before the scumbag Li could make a decision, the defeated jockey suddenly went to the closet to find a new suit, which turned out to be a purple lace suspender suit! (＾??＾)

It seems that Eva wants to use the equipment to close the gap between her and the professional scumbag, oh no, the professional football player, in an attempt to turn the tide and catch up with the score...

However, after the fierce battle in the second half and extra time, Ricardo proved with reality that in the face of absolute strength... innovative uniforms and props are still very useful. The jockeys wearing new uniforms successfully narrowed the score from the original 1-4 deficit to 3-9. o(〃'▽'〃)o

Although the absolute difference seems to be bigger, the proportion has shrunk!

The scumbag Li looked at the completely powerless female warrior beside him and couldn't help but blame himself: Should I buy Eva a new bed? After a few times, this antique seems to be falling apart. Should I also buy a leather sofa, a soft carpet, a floor-length mirror, etc.? It's definitely not to expand the battlefield...

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Soon it was Thursday, September 2006, 9. Tonight, the second leg of the first round of the 28/06 UEFA Cup will kick off. Sevilla will host the visiting Greek team Atromitos at the Pizjuan Stadium.

Until before the game, Ricardo had not taken Eva to buy new furniture, because the confession after last night's passion, although only one-third, still made Eva a little bit unable to accept it for a while...

So the scumbag Li was thinking of waiting for Eva to come to him for insurance confirmation next week, and then taking her shopping, using the following despicable shopping spree to save his happy sex life in Seville.

The scumbag who didn't feel ashamed at all began to concentrate and observe the game seriously. Yes, Ricardo was put on the bench again; after all, Ricardo, who fought hard throughout the last round, did not have his stamina restored to full.

Moreover, Sevilla had already established a huge advantage in the first round, so in the second round, the defending champions playing at home had plenty of room to deploy their troops.

Not only did Ricardo not make the starting lineup, coach Juan Ramos did not even include several main players such as Alves, Navarro, Adriano, Renato, Poulsen, Kanoute and others in the match roster.

Why use a butcher knife to kill a chicken? Moreover, Sevilla's substitute lineup is still strong enough. On the contrary, Greek Atromitos still had several main players unable to play due to injuries.

In this game, Sevilla sent out the second goalkeeper Kobinho, and the defense line was Dragutinovic and Osio with Hinkel and David on the two wings.

In the midfield and frontcourt, there are Duda and Hesuli, who have played less before, as the two defensive midfielders - Mati and Maresca; the two forwards are Fabiano and Copa, who are extremely eager for the game.

In addition to Li Qi, the bench also includes Sales, Puerta, Escude and Palop with two young second-line players to fill in the numbers.

Naturally, such a deployment attracted a lot of criticism from the media before the game, with many people believing that Juan Ramos was too arrogant; the Greek media was just short of pointing fingers and scolding him for being arrogant, self-willed and conceited.

However, after the game started, the media was severely slapped in the face, and it was a very quick and fierce four-hit combo.

The game had just started for two minutes and some fans had not even found their positions, but the score on the field had already been changed: the visiting team defender Apostolopoulos accidentally hit the ball into his own goal while clearing the ball, giving the home team fans a welcome gift.

However, before the home team could make any response, 8 minutes later, the Greek team Atromitos once again paid tribute to the home team. Another defender of the Atromitos team, Dimitrios, imitated Apostolopoulos and once again accidentally created a second own goal, once again stabbing his own team with a sword, and this own goal basically announced the elimination of Atromitos.

This also made the Sevilla players a little confused: What's going on? The visiting team has already hit themselves twice and fallen down before we even started to exert our strength? Should we make things worse or beat the enemy when they are down?

But it is obvious that Atromitos does not want to give Sevilla's substitutes any chance to perform!

In the 29th minute of the game, Apostopoulos, who opened the scoring, took advantage of Fabiano's originally ridiculously off-target shot, once again demonstrated the attributes of a magical defender with a knife, blocked the ball into his own goal again, and once again slashed the shame of his own goalkeeper, performing a wonderful performance of scoring twice in 30 minutes! He did not give the Sevilla striker any chance to break through his own goal!

Ricardo was stunned on the sidelines. What was going on? Did they steal the show to such an extent? Did they know that the home team Sevilla's goal was hard to break, so they turned their guns around and shot at their own goal? It was only 30 minutes, and they had already scored three goals.

Is the game over? For most people, yes, but for the self-respecting Sevilla substitutes, no! Although it was 3-0, their own players hadn't scored yet...

So the Sevilla bench had already started betting on whether there would be a fourth goal, and whether the fourth goal would be scored by the away team or the home team, regardless of whether it was an own goal or not. Although the odds of the away team scoring again were very high, enough to reward two seafood buffets at the Hilton Hotel, Ricardo still decided to stand with his teammates.

As expected, although the visiting team tried hard to score another own goal in the second half, this time it was stubbornly rejected by the visiting team's goalkeeper who still had some bottom line!

However, the visiting team failed to score the fourth own goal, so Sevilla's players scored the fourth goal of the game, as well as the first goal scored by their own players.

Just when the game was about to end and Ricardo was about to invite several teammates who bet on not scoring the fourth goal to have a seafood buffet, in the 86th minute of the game, the new beast Copa scored with a low shot from the edge of the penalty area!

Sevilla scored a face-saving goal and also saved Ricardo's wallet; Ricardo won a 5% discount coupon for the Hilton Hotel seafood buffet, paid by the opener Sales, and Sales received 10 Hilton Hotel seafood buffets (including bets from the coaching staff).

In the end, Sevilla easily eliminated their opponents with a total score of 7-1 and advanced.

At the press conference after the game, Juan Ramos was embarrassed to praise his players because of the opponent's amazing performance. After all, there were 4 goals in the whole game, and his players only scored one: "Our players obviously overwhelmed the opponent. We played too comfortably. Scoring early made us calm and also made the opponent nervous. This is the reason why the game was one-sided."

Juan Ramos also explained the reason why many main players were rested and not included in the squad: "Yes, we had a tough battle in the last game, and we will face Getafe again in three days. Our main goal this season is to enter the Champions League zone... In addition, I brought Li Qi to the bench. This young man with unlimited physical strength can play all positions except goalkeeper. Isn't this equivalent to preparing half of the main lineup?"

What Juan Ramos did not explain is that Ricardo, as a young player on loan, is most suitable to be on the bench when the schedule is tight. Not playing will not affect the overall situation. If there is a problem in the last game, it will also affect Barcelona's balance sheet, right? The best scapegoat.

The next day, AS published an article titled "Greek Own Goal Hat-Trick" for this UEFA Cup match: To terrify the Sevilla fans, the Greeks performed a magical hat-trick at the Pizjuan Stadium - an unprecedented own goal hat-trick!

Sevilla fans were generally optimistic about their team before the game. Despite fielding most of the rotation and substitute players, they should be able to beat the Greek Atromitos team, which they had easily defeated away, at home. But no one expected that the game would be so wonderful and the problem would be solved so quickly.

This is not like a European game, but more like a joke, or rather, a satirical comedy. We have to look through history books to see if there have been similar funny scenes in past European competitions. It is unbelievable that a team committed suicide by scoring three own goals in a row.

In the 2003 Champions League, Real Madrid lost 1-3 to Juventus away. Hierro made three mistakes, which led to the team conceding three goals, but that was not considered a real own goal hat trick.

In the friendly match between the Netherlands and Italy in November 2005, Vlaar from Ajax made two major mistakes that led to the loss of points and one own goal, but it was also not comparable to the "own goal" of the Greek team...

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Because he was temporarily sidelined by Eva and had no substitutes, Ricardo could only use his energy that had nowhere to vent in the private lessons on Friday morning. He even went out an hour early to warm up and do morning exercises. After all, according to the plan, Chiara would not arrive until Friday night, close to midnight.

But I didn't expect that when I looked at my phone after the training, there were several missed calls from Chiara. I called back but the phone was turned off. I looked at the text message and found that Chiara had changed to the earliest flight and was expected to arrive after a transfer in Madrid and Ricardo would arrive after a nap. She asked Ricardo to pick her up at the airport because she had important good news to share!

What good news? Why are you in such a hurry? Are you pregnant?

＼(o□ol|l)/

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