Chapter 158: Narrow Victory

In terms of ability and situation, there is no problem for Di Maria to replace Pereira. One is experienced and the other is aggressive. In the case of Rexos' intensive defense, the last new force is also good.

But under Sanchez's anger, there is one thing he didn't think about. Benfica's two full-backs Rodriguez and Di Maria are very unique people. They like to dribble when they get the ball. , in the team, they only served Costa, and were only willing to pass the ball to Costa. After Costa was stared at by Gao Xiaodong, neither of them was willing to pass the ball, so only chug chug was left. Benfica is best at penetrating and cooperating. All lost.

Sanchez replaced Di Maria. He wanted to attack Rexos' wing, but he did not expect to lose the overall cooperation. Di Maria could not break through Rexos' dense defense at all, and the ball was repeatedly intercepted and counterattacked. The quality of offense is worse than it was with Pereira on the court.

At 75 minutes into the game, Rexos' defensive pressure was even less. Sanchez was very annoyed, and he made another substitution. This time he replaced striker Gomez with winger Assis, and Rodriguez returned. In the midfield, both Assis and Di Maria reached the position of the winger.

The on-site commentator Wenkla was very speechless about this substitution, "This is to use a cross from the wing, and Cardoso bombed at high altitude! Since this is a substitution, why not replace Rodriguez, who has both offense and defense Perez, who likes to cooperate, looks like Sanchez really messed up."

In addition to his unique point, Di Maria's dribbling breakthrough is absolutely very powerful. After the wing was blocked by the opponent, he cleverly turned the bottom into an inside cut, and went to the front of the penalty area to find a chance to shoot.

This change of Di Maria caught Rexos off guard. For the first time, Di Maria volleyed a kick from the front of the penalty area, and the ball flew out of the baseline against the goal post.

When Di Maria crossed again, Dior pounced and was swayed by Di Maria. Zener was not familiar with Di Maria, and was pierced by an angel.

Gao Xiaodong didn't dare to let Di Maria continue to break through, otherwise Rexos' defense would be messed up.

Relying on his own speed, Gao Xiaodong gave up on Rui Costa and rushed towards Di Maria from behind. <>

Gao Xiaodong and Rui Costa have always been inseparable, but Di Maria was not prepared for Gao Xiaodong. Gao Xiaodong suddenly intercepted him from behind. took it down.

Before getting the super speed-speed shoes, Gao Xiaodong grabbed the ball and passed it out, but now, Gao Xiaodong has a very strong idea of ​​dribbling, breaking through with the ball like Maradona, and passing five levels like lightning It is also Gao Xiaodong's dream to kill six generals.

Feeling that even if the ball was intercepted, he could run back to make up for the defense, so Gao Xiaodong swung his heart and rushed towards Benfica's half with the ball.

The first thing Gao Xiaodong encountered was Rui Costa's defense. This was the first time Rui Costa defended Gao Xiaodong in this game. The game of cat and mouse finally entered the second season.

Gao Xiaodong is incomparable with Costa, who has perfected his skills. He is a semi-professional player, but what Gao Xiaodong is best at is using his own advantages to deal with opponents' disadvantages. Take Rui Costa by force.

The 35-year-old Rui Costa has no ability to race against the speeding up fat man, he can only reach out and grab Gao Xiaodong's jersey.

But the slow Gao Xiaodong charged like a tank, unstoppable,

After picking up the speed, it was even more unstoppable. Rui Costara couldn't hold back, so he could only watch Gao Xiaodong fight towards Benfica's half.

"Bastard! Why are you running up again!" Oliveira was very angry, Gao Xiaodong was violating his tactical record.

The defensive midfielder Pettit came to intercept, Gao Xiaodong repeated his old trick and continued to pass the ball. Pettit has rich defensive experience, so he turned around quickly and ran towards Gao Xiaodong's running line.

Portugal international Pettit has height, skills, and awareness, but he met Gao Xiaodong, who is unreasonable. Petit just ran on Gao Xiaodong's route, and Gao Xiaodong had already caught up. He bumped his shoulder and knocked Pettit away. Te bumped to the side. <>

Gao Xiaodong cleared the obstacle, but he lost the possession of the ball. He was a bit too big just now, and Benfica's defender rushed over and snatched the ball.

Just after a fast-paced addiction, Gao Xiaodong saw that the ball was lost, in order to be able to mark in time, he swooped first to scare Benfica's central defender Luisan. Run back and find Rui Costa, who is marking himself.

Fast is good. When Gao Xiaodong returned to the defense, the ball had not yet passed to Rui Costa.

Although the ball was snatched by the defender, it was rare to see Gao Xiaodong actually play a long-distance attack. The fans in the stands applauded Gao Xiaodong in surprise.

The head coach Oliveira also marveled secretly, Gao Xiaodong actually returned to the defense, this speed, by leaps and bounds! But if the fat man can't bear the loneliness so much, Oliveira is going to take him down. The game is not over yet, it's not time to play,

Gao Xiaodong did not forget his mission, but after he got the speed-speed shoes, he was so excited that he couldn't help running. After enjoying the stimulation of speed, Gao Xiaodong stopped advancing and continued Stare at Rui Costa.

Gao Xiaodong stared at Rui Costa to do nothing. The other players did not have Costa's go-betweens. In addition, Rodriguez and Di Maria did not cooperate with their teammates. , The requirements for pass and cut cooperation are very high. If you can't play a match, you can only circle around the periphery of Rexos.

Seeing that the game time was getting shorter and shorter, the Benfica players were in a hurry. The defense line aggressively pressed forward, constantly passing the ball to Rexos' penalty area, trying to open the situation with Cardoso's header.

Camacho in the stands saw the technically skilled Benfica play a long pass, and he couldn't help shaking his head. He used his own shortcomings to break through the opponent's dense defense. If he could break through, it would be a joke, unless he was lucky that day .

Seeing that at 80 minutes, the score was still 1:0 ahead of Benfica. At this time, Benfica chairman Philippe was in the VIP box. <> Vieira lost his face a little bit. Carus, the chairman of Rexos, who was sitting opposite him, kept applauding the wonderful defense of the players, but he could only sit in embarrassment. That's okay, in case Once the game is really lost in the end, it would be a big shame, Philip. The more Vieira thought about it, the more angry he became, and then he transferred this anger to the head coach Sanchez. It turned out that he hadn't made up his mind to replace Sanchez. Now he has made up his mind. Don't let him hang around in his own place anymore.

Entering the last ten minutes of the game, the victory was in sight. The players of Rexos were obviously nervous, and their movements were a bit large. At this time, the situation changed. Rexos took the lead. The referee Proka’s blow The punishment was also severe.

In the 83rd minute of the game, Dior assisted in the defense at the front of the penalty area, tackled Di Maria, was shown a yellow card by the referee, and awarded a free kick.

This is a free kick in a good position, just a little to the left of the center of the goal, only 25 or 6 meters away from the goal.

Rui Costa stood in front of the ball. Under Gao Xiaodong's strict marking, Rui Costa's chances to shoot were very limited. This free kick was also his best chance to break Rexos' goal.

Rui Costa is not good at direct free kicks, but as the core of the midfield, an excellent free kick is standard. After so many years of training, Costa believes that his free kick attainments have made a lot of progress. Capable of breaking the opponent's goal.

Gao Xiaodong was powerless at this time, he could only watch Rui Costa attack the goal, and could do nothing but pray and bless.

The Rexos fans in the stands held their breath nervously, and all their eyes were fixed on Costa.

Costa ran up gracefully, as if he was taking a walk, but the steps were very accurate. When he ran to the ball, Costa took his right foot and shot the upper right corner of the goal calmly. It seemed that he didn't exert much force, but the ball After leaving the foot, the speed is extremely fast and the rotation is very large.

Goalkeeper Beto was concentrating on it. After Rui Costa kicked the ball, he jumped up and patted the ball with one hand. However, Rui Costa's penalty was really tricky. The ball, and then the body falls down.

As the body fell, Beto's heart also fell, and then he heard a bang. As a goalkeeper, he understood what it was and hit the goal post!

Beto turned his head and saw that, sure enough, the ball bounced off the goal post.

Gao Xiaodong was also frightened into a cold sweat, and successfully marked for almost 90 minutes. If Rui Costa scored a goal at this time, all his defensive achievements today would be wiped out. Being a defensive player is like this. No one finds it hard to work hard for 90 minutes. One mistake becomes the object of criticism from fans and the media.

Seeing the ball hit the goal post, Gao Xiaodong didn't sit still, and rushed over to grab the spot.

The ball fell in front of Rodriguez, and Rodriguez was about to shoot, but Gao Xiaodong quickly inserted from behind, stabbing the ball out of the baseline.

Benfica got another chance for a corner kick, and it was Rui Costa who took the penalty.

This is what Costa is best at. Although there is no tacit understanding between Cardoso and Rui Costa, Rui Costa still passed a fast and well-placed pass to Cardoso. As long as Cardoso is upright, There is a 90 percent chance that the goalkeeper will miss the ball.

But Cardoso's grasp of Costa's ball path is not so accurate. This is a good pass, but Cardoso took off early, and the ball didn't arrive until his body fell.

Cardoso barely scored with a header, but the ball was confiscated by goalkeeper Beto.

Beto was still young, and he wanted to launch a counterattack as soon as he hugged the ball. Gao Xiaodong and Zener stopped him almost at the same time, letting him delay for a while and giving Rexos a chance to breathe.

Only then did Beto suddenly realize that he held the ball and ran two steps left and two steps right, pretending that he had nothing to pass the ball to.

However, the referee Proka had already seen Beto's thoughts, and he showed Beto a yellow card.

In a blink of an eye, 90 minutes is about to pass, and Rexos is getting closer and closer to a great victory. The fans in the stands stood up and silently prayed for the players of Rexos, hoping that they Able to resist the tide of attack of the opponent.

As time passed, Rexos' defense was just like their name, like rocks by the sea, hard and tenacious, not flinching at all, and not wavering at all.

Three minutes of stoppage time made the Benfica a little dissatisfied, but they had no time to complain and could only attack quickly.

At this time, Benfica didn't care about defending anymore. Everyone pressed the half court and bombarded Rexos' penalty area. The ball flew back and forth in Rexos' penalty area, and many Rexos South's fans couldn't bear it anymore, and wished the game would end soon.

Just in the last minute of stoppage time, Di Maria drilled two people in the dense space on the wing and crossed the ball from the penalty area line to the goal. Di Maria passed the ball too fast and Rexos The defender Bruno was unable to dodge, the ball hit his arm and was awarded a penalty by the referee.

In an instant, more than 20,000 Rexos fans in the stands quit. They all jumped up and raised strong objections to the referee.

The on-site commentator Winkla said: "At the last moment of stoppage time, the referee awarded a penalty kick. This is simply a robbery. They want to help Benfica steal two points from the March Stadium."

The players of Rexos also surrounded the referee Proka and asked him to withdraw his order. Not only did Proka not withdraw his order, but he also took out a yellow card to warn Elvis who came to talk to him.

Rui Costa stood on the penalty spot, and many Rexos fans were afraid to watch it anymore. They closed their eyes and let their companions tell them the result.

Xiao Le didn't dare to look, she closed her eyes, but listened with her ears.

The referee Oliveira covered his face with his hands and sat on the coach's bench, waiting for the final verdict.

The same is true for Sanchez in another coaching bench. This game is more important to him.

After Gao Xiaodong, Beto became another Lexos player against Rui Costa. In this game, Beto and Gao Xiaodong played the best for Rexos. The previous good performance also made Beto Confidence soared, he stood on the goal line and bounced back and forth, just like Liverpool goalkeeper Dudek.

Although it was a penalty kick that decided the outcome, Rui Costa did not feel nervous at all. He had seen such scenes many times, and a Portuguese Super League match was not enough to stimulate him.

After a small run-up, Rui Costa nudged the lower left corner of the goal with his right foot.

They made a save at the same time as Rui Costa's kick. He bet on the left side. He judged it right, touched the ball with his finger, and the ball bounced off the post.

Then the referee Proka blew the whistle for the end of the game, and a penalty kick was enough. He couldn't give Benfica any more chances, otherwise there would definitely be an uproar after the game.

Rui Costa stood at the penalty spot, without any sadness or pain, just a look of loneliness. One game, three goalposts, even if one bounced into the net, the result and process of the game would be different, but not a single one.

Maybe this is what God meant, I should retire.

Rui Costa listened to the tsunami-like voices of the fans of the home team, and made a silent decision. (To be continued.)