Chapter 210 Season La Liga Finale, Part
In the last two games of the season, Juan Ramos will have to face the Fifa virus again. Not only Ricardo Richie was injured on the national team match day, but Alves, Adriano, Navarro and Navas were also injured in the national team match; and even Renato, who did not have a national team match mission, pulled his groin in training...
It seemed like a curse. In a crucial battle where they had to win and had to rely on others' favor, more than half of the main players in the frontcourt were injured! Add to that Kanoute who was suspended for the Copa del Rey red card, and Sevilla had only a few attackers left.
Juan Ramos had no choice but to make his own arrangements; fortunately, Maresca, who performed very well in the Italian national team, was able to come to the rescue. Maresca was also the only attacking midfielder left in the team!
Just as Juan Ramos was struggling with depression, time quietly came to the evening of June 2007, 6. Starting from this round of the league, which was the penultimate round of the La Liga this season, all the games would start at the same time.
Therefore, the top three teams in La Liga that still have a chance to win the title will start their matches at the same time. Real Madrid will challenge Zaragoza away, Barcelona will face their city rivals Espanyol at home, and Sevilla will also face Villarreal, who are in hot form recently and are fighting hard for a place in the UEFA Cup, at home.
It is the 06th round of the 07/37 Spanish Football League. Before the game, Real Madrid and Barcelona both had 72 points in the La Liga standings, but Real Madrid ranked first in the standings with the advantage of head-to-head matches over Barcelona. In other words, if Barcelona cannot surpass Real Madrid in points, they will not be able to shake Real Madrid's leading advantage.
In addition, if Barcelona loses this game and Real Madrid wins, Real Madrid will win the championship one round in advance.
Sevilla has only 68 points, 4 points behind the two teams. It must win this round, and if both Real Madrid and Barcelona fail to win, Sevilla can retain hope of winning the championship in the final round.
As for Valencia, which is fourth in the league, it only has 65 points and has already withdrawn from the competition for the league championship.
Real Madrid's opponent is Zaragoza, ranked 5th in the league and still striving for a place in the UEFA Cup next season. It can be said that it is the strongest of the three championship contenders.
However, the good news before the game was that Zaragoza not only lacked several main defenders, but also former Real Madrid player Diogo was suspended, Juanfran was also injured in the most recent training, and forward Sergio Garcia continued to be absent due to a right knee injury.
However, the 4-4-2 starting lineup sent by Zaragoza should not be underestimated, with Milito and Milito in the front and back, and the big head Dalessandro and the clown Aimar in the midfield.
On the other hand, Real Madrid's main right back Torres had a thigh strain during warm-up, so Helguera took over temporarily, and Ramos returned to the right back position. Even Beckham, who had injured his left ankle in the national team game, recovered quickly and started the game.
皇马的首发阵型也同样是4-4-2，然而阵容对比客队则是更加豪华：门将是国门1号卡西利亚斯，后卫则是5号卡纳瓦罗领衔，有4号拉莫斯、21号埃尔格拉与3号罗伯特卡洛斯；中场组合是23号贝克汉姆搭档6号迪亚拉、8号埃莫森与10号罗比尼奥；锋线上负责摧城拔寨的是7号劳尔与17号范尼斯特鲁伊。
However, in the match played in the thunderstorm, Zaragoza, who was striving for a place in the UEFA Cup next season, took the initiative and launched the offensive first. Real Madrid did not gain a foothold and win back some points until the 10th minute of the game...
Ricardo was at home in Milan, watching the Real Madrid game with his parents, brother, and his cousin Francis, who rarely visited the house. There was a laptop next to him, broadcasting the Barcelona game online on ESPN. They were watching both games at the same time.
As for Sevilla's game, Ricardo didn't plan to watch it. After all, if the results of these two games were unfriendly, it wouldn't matter how Sevilla played. He could just follow the text scores on his phone...
The match at Camp Nou was sunny and comfortable. However, the two teams in this match were sworn enemies in the same city. Such a derby match had nothing to do with the ranking or the nature of the match. After the opening, the two teams fought fiercely like Mars hitting the Earth!
The Spaniard, who missed the UEFA Cup this season, has recovered from its distraught state. After being massacred 34-5 by Getafe at home in the 1th round of the league, it has recovered in the last round of the league and won a 1-0 away victory over Recreativo.
In this match against Barcelona, even though the Spaniards have no desire to win, they still played their best and were determined to prove who is the representative team of Catalonia! In Ricardo's opinion, the 4-4-2 lineup of the Spaniards is more competitive and confrontational than the UEFA Cup final...
Barcelona had nothing to say. They were playing a derby game at home and were competing for the championship, so Rijkaard naturally arranged all the players who could play. However, Ronaldinho was suspended for a red card, so Gudjohnsen replaced him in the starting lineup, Zambrotta also returned from injury in time to replace Belletti, and Iniesta also replaced Edmilson in the midfield. This is a very aggressive offensive formation, just to get all three points at home!
巴萨的首发阵型是4-3-3，门将是1号巴尔德斯，后卫线组合是11号赞布罗塔、21号图拉姆、5号普约尔与12号范布隆特霍斯特，中场铁三角是6号哈维搭档24号伊涅斯塔与20号德科的技术型阵容，前锋三叉戟则是7号古德约翰森、配合着19号梅西与9号埃托奥。
However, unlike Real Madrid, although the Spaniard was the real culprit in the robbery, in Barcelona's home court, the Dream Team II without Ronaldinho still relied on its technical advantages to firmly control the situation of the game and suppressed the Spaniard in the half.
However, the game was always so unexpected. The passive Spaniards took the lead in the 30th minute through a quick counterattack...
De La Pena made a straight pass from the midfield, and Tamudo, who successfully broke through the offside trap, rushed into the left side of the penalty area and shot into the upper right corner of the goal before Valdes could attack from 14 yards in front of the goal!
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Barcelona was trailing 0-1 at home, and Real Madrid fans were ecstatic when they heard the news! Of course, there was also my cousin Francis who bet heavily on Real Madrid to win the championship...
However, before my cousin's excited dance performance was over, the situation in the Real Madrid game broadcast on TV also changed!
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Less than a minute after Zaragoza scored, Real Madrid's game reached the 1st minute.
Zaragoza's Dalisandro made a straight pass in the middle, Diego Milito cleverly missed the ball on the edge of the penalty area, and Aimar, who followed behind him, dribbled the ball nimbly past Elguera who was defending, but then fell to the ground. The referee decisively awarded a penalty!
Elguera was also given a yellow card and will miss the final league game. In slow motion, Elguera's trip was not obvious, but the ball seemed to bounce and hit Elguera's left hand.
Diego Milito then took the penalty kick and decisively pushed the ball into the lower right corner of the goal with his right foot! Real Madrid also fell behind 0-1 away from home...
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My cousin, who didn't dare to watch the whole process of Zaragoza's penalty kick, kept complaining about the black whistle, but his emotions were not out of control at this time; after all, if both Real Madrid and Barcelona lost, they would still be in the same position, and the only one who would benefit would be Sevilla, which is still tied.
So a heated discussion full of unrealistic optimism began in Ricardo's home. Is it possible that Sevilla could miraculously reverse the situation and win the La Liga championship by relying on the points lost by the two La Liga giants in this round?
So the cousin who was not short of money naturally patted Ricardo on the shoulder and said it didn't matter. It was a loss, but it was good for his nephew to win the first triple crown in his life! Which one was more important? Francis, the prodigal son of a wealthy family, still understood...
However, not long after my cousin expressed his generosity, Barcelona's game changed again, which immediately broke my cousin's defense...
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First, the visiting team's Espanyol's main midfielder Riera was injured and left the field while defending a corner kick in the 41st minute. Rufete, who came on as a substitute, had not yet gained his position, and Barcelona's offensive wave came back again.
As the first half was about to end, in the 43rd minute of the game, Barcelona's 15 shots in the first half finally paid off, but Barcelona's equalizing goal was controversial.
In slow-motion replay, Zambrotta received the pass from Eto'o in the penalty area and made a powerful low cross from the right side. The ball hit the defender's leg and bounced high, but still flew quickly to the middle of the small penalty area.
Messi, who was running at high speed, used the "Hand of God" to score the goal from 5 yards in front of the goal! After the Argentine flea replicated Maradona's long-distance run past 5 players in the King's Cup, he once again paid tribute to Maradona's performance of the year with his 11th goal in the league...
However, the referee still ruled the goal valid. This time, Barcelona equalized the score before halftime, and surpassed Real Madrid by 1 point in the real-time standings, becoming the leader of La Liga!
The score on Real Madrid's side remained unchanged. After Zaragoza goalkeeper Cesar magically blocked Van Nistelrooy's header from a small angle 6 yards in front of the goal with one hand, it was time for halftime...
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Although the extra time is slightly different, in 2007, the extra time in the first half will not be too long, so Real Madrid, Barcelona and Sevilla entered the halftime break almost at the same time.
巴萨与塞维利亚都是平局踢完上半场，不过巴萨是1比1，派上了4个防守中场的塞维利亚与黄色潜水艇的比赛则还是0比0。
However, Real Madrid, which originally had a half-point lead, is now in the most unfavorable situation among the three teams, temporarily trailing the home team Zaragoza 1-0, and is not in an advantageous position on the field.
During the half-time break, my cousin did not stop complaining, and kept repeating the dirty tricks of refereeing, how Real Madrid lost unfairly on penalties, how Messi's handball was counted as a goal, and how it was all the work of bookmakers, who controlled the game and faked things... a whole bunch of stuff.
Seeing his cousin sitting restlessly and talking nonsense, Ricardo's family was very curious about how many children his cousin had sired in Real Madrid...
However, the 15-minute break at halftime was over quickly, and the La Liga championship battle immediately began the second half.
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Real Madrid was the first to change its formation, with Capello replacing Raul with Higuain and Guti replacing Emerson and taking over the captain's armband; it was obvious that Real Madrid wanted to intensify its offensive in the second half, after all, it was time to fight to the death.
Barcelona also made personnel adjustments. Oleger replaced Van Bronckhorst, who received a card in the first half, in the second half. Rijkaard probably thought that victory was in his grasp and he only needed to resolve the hidden dangers in the defense.
Sevilla also made some changes to their formation, with Maresca taking the field in the second half. It seems that Juan Ramos also knew the scores of the two games and started to have some ideas...
But soon, reality told Juan Ramos that you shouldn't have any ideas.
In the 50th minute of the second half, Villarreal, who were visiting the Pizjuan Stadium, broke the deadlock.
Although Maresca's appearance helped the team's offense to a certain extent, the absence of a large number of offensive players made Sevilla's offensive organization extremely chaotic. Once Sevilla wanted to strengthen its offense in the second half, it made Sevilla's offense and defense a little disconnected.
The visiting team took advantage of the home team's confusion during this period and made the final decision.
First, through counterattack, French star Pires fired a shot in front of the penalty area, but the ball was bravely saved by Palop and went out of the bottom line. Villarreal got the first corner kick in the second half.
Then Cani took a corner kick, and Villarreal defender Fuentes, who missed the golden opportunity in the first half, made a powerful header in the middle of the small penalty area and headed the ball into the upper corner of the goal!
Villarreal leads Sevilla 1-0 away from home. If this score is the final score, no matter what the result of Barcelona and Real Madrid is, Sevilla will bid farewell to the La Liga championship trophy one round in advance.
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Ricardo saw Sevilla's lag through the text broadcast on his mobile phone and informed the four people who were watching the game nervously at home, but it was obvious that none of the four were surprised. After all, the extent to which Sevilla was short of players in this game could not be described as unexpected. No normal person would believe it unless it was a setup.
If Juan Ramos honestly stays in the backcourt and gets lucky enough to steal a goal before the end of the game, there will still be a chance; once Sevilla has some uneasy thoughts... everyone has long been pessimistic about Sevilla's performance at the end of the league.
They just pretended to be discussing enthusiastically the theoretically possible miracle of Sevilla's comeback, firstly to tease their cousin who seemed to be forgetting everything else, and secondly to test the reaction of the young and energetic Ricardo.
Ricardo seemed to be very open-minded, so naturally the whole family did not care about Sevilla's life or death. After all, Ricardo was only on loan for one season. Everyone with a discerning eye knew that Ricardo's future, or even next season, would definitely not be in Sevilla...
Moreover, if Sevilla loses, Ricardo doesn't have to rush back to play in the last round. Wouldn't it be nice to report to the U21 national team and play in the European Youth Championship? Wasn't that what Raiola originally arranged? Raiola must have received the news in advance and made a compromise with all parties in exchange for interests.
After the start of the second half, my cousin Francis stopped sitting on the sofa and squatted in front of the TV, shouting "Real Madrid, come on!"... When Ricardo reported that Sevilla was falling behind, my cousin did not change his posture. He was still staring at the Real Madrid players in the TV broadcast, as if he wanted to put pressure on the Real Madrid stars through the TV signal.
However, not long after Sevilla fell behind, Real Madrid equalized the score. In the 57th minute of the game, Ramos made a diagonal pass from the right, and Van Nistelrooy headed the ball from 9 meters in front of the goal. The ball bounced into the ground and went into the lower left corner of the goal, 1-1!
Van Nistelrooy's difficult header made my cousin excited like a 30-year-old kid again!
However, before his cousin could start dancing excitedly, Ricardo caught a glimpse of the delayed broadcast on the laptop computer, and the score of the Barcelona match was changed again...
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The Catalan derby was still fierce in the second half, but Barcelona was still the dominant side.
Barcelona also took the lead in the 57th minute of the game.
Deco sent a surgical pass from the middle, Messi broke into the right side of the penalty area, and pushed the ball into the far corner with his left foot from 7 yards in front of the goal! This was the second goal of the Argentine striker in this game and his 12th league goal this season.
Theoretically, Barcelona's goal should have been scored earlier than Real Madrid's equalizer, but the Internet broadcast signal is definitely delayed compared to the TV broadcast signal, especially in 2007. So for my cousin, it was like going from heaven to hell again. The two teams that were originally competing for the championship had returned to their original positions, but within a few seconds, Real Madrid was two points behind Barcelona again!
At this moment, Ricardo thought his cousin was already a genius. He had mastered the essence of China's intangible cultural heritage - Sichuan Opera face-changing - in just a few seconds!
There is no greater joy or sorrow in life than this...
