Chapter 122: Moya's counterattack

In the last few minutes of the first half, Leeds, who took the lead, slowed down significantly and did not "attack to the end".
This made the Alvara fans in the stands, including Joao Valente, relieved-they are really afraid that Leeds will be popular, and they will go back to the city at the last moment before the end of the first half. This game can end early.
In fact, it is not that Leeds does not want to attack, it is really incapable of continuing to maintain the rhythm of the previous game.
Their players are not tireless robots.
Need to adjust the rhythm appropriately, slow down, and slow down.
It is understandable to make appropriate adjustments after the two-ball lead.
Leeds' self-adjustment allowed Alvara to catch his breath in the last few minutes of the first half, but they had no room to counterattack.
After all, they have been stunned by the fierce offensive of Leeds City.
Now I only hope that the first half of the game will end as soon as possible, so that they can really get a respite.
Head coach Moya did not stand on the sidelines and direct the players to continue the offense with gestures.
Thinking about how to adjust during the intermission.
So the last few minutes of the first half were reduced to "garbage time."
Until the end of the first half, the score did not change.
2:0, Leeds, who played away, entered the halftime with a two-goal lead.
There are forty-five minutes left for Alvara.
They must make changes and adjustments in the second half to restore the crisis in the second half.
The pressure on the shoulders of Alvara coach Ricardo Moya is not light-the league lost the league title last season, leading to miss the Champions League and can only participate in the Europa League this season. As a result, the performance of the Europa League was not satisfactory. In the group stage, he did not even get the first place. He could only be second in the group and Leeds, who was eliminated from the UEFA Champions League group stage, in the sixteenth finals. Meet.
In addition to the Europa League, the league was also overwhelmed by the rival Portuguese in the same city. He is currently ranked second in the league, six points away from the first Portuguese.
Such results naturally cannot satisfy the arrogant Alvara club, nor can it satisfy the fans.
If the Europa League is eliminated again, Moya's life will be difficult...
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"You have to cheer up! This is our home court! Our home court!" Ricardo Moya paced back and forth in the locker room as he tried to boost the morale of his players.
"Relax, relax... Think better, we are two goals behind, so what else can we lose? Get rid of the habit that you left from the era of away goals, and put these two Forget the ball, we have a full forty-five minutes to equalize the score, and if we are lucky, we can even do something more! For example, reverse to win!"
"And Igor, you have to pull out more in the second half, and then reverse the line to disrupt the Leeds defense! Although their two central defenders have excellent air defense capabilities, they are slower to turn around. As long as you put them Pull it out, the empty space behind them will hardly be covered..."
"When Igor brings the opposing central defender out, Lesignio, you must resolutely move forward! Insert behind them and insert into the penalty area! In the second half, you must be more aggressive. When defending, you must dare to foul and attack. Be more decisive! Don't be frightened by the Frenchman's speed, your speed is also fast! Even if you fight him for speed, you may not lose! Like the emergency stop in the first half... there is no need at all! That only shows that you are afraid of him!"
Moya began to make adjustments and arrangements one by one, he must let go, not only for the team to retain the hope of qualifying to the Europa League semi-finals, but also for himself to retain the hope of continuing to coach in this team.
He also knows that his situation is not so good now...
In fact, at the end of last year, when he led his team to only get second in the Europa League group stage, it was announced that he was going to dismiss get out of class.
At that time, the senior management of the Alvara club came out to support him, saying that he would not consider a coaching change.
But Moya himself knew very well that this was just a rhetoric used to fool people.
After all, it is impossible for the club to admit the fact that "we have not found a suitable candidate, so now we have to let Ricardo Moya continue to coach."
Alvara had intended to coach Manuel Boggs, who is currently at home in Portugal, to coach. The coach, who has won the Champions League, also led the Portuguese national team to the quarter-finals in the World Cup, which is the best result of the Portuguese national team in the World Cup in the past two decades.
The biggest problem is that Boggs is the legendary coach of the Portuguese. The Champions League he won was won by this team.
The Portuguese are Alvara's rivals in the same city.
At the beginning, the Alvara Club used "rumors" to confess their intention to invite Boggs to coach, just to see everyone's reaction to the matter. Not surprisingly, it was opposed by almost all Alvara fans-they would rather the team perform poorly, and never accept the result of letting a mortal enemy heroic coach come to coach.
Also strongly opposed are the Portuguese fans, who even went to the door of Boggs's residence to ask him not to coach his arch-enemy Alvara.
In the end, it was the Alvara club who came forward to clarify the so-called rumors that Boggs was invited to coach the team, and that was the end.
But this bought Moya time.
If he can lead the team to achieve good results at the end of the season, he can still continue to coach in Alvara.
The league is a long marathon. In the remaining half of the season, anything can happen. Affected by the ups and downs of the team's state, it is difficult for Moya to lead his team to win the championship.
But by comparison, the Europa League will be easier.
After all, it is the nature of the cup competition. Although there are more accidents, it also means that there are more opportunities.
So starting from the winter break, Moya set the goal of leading the team to win the Europa League.
According to the rules set by UEFA, the UEFA Cup winner is eligible to participate in the Champions League next season. So even in the league, as long as he can win the Europa League, Moya can also realize the strategy of "curving the country to save the country".
Compared to the Champions League, the competition in the Europa League is slightly less intense.
As a result, he did not expect to enter the knockout game, Alvara was hit hard.
Leeds was ridiculed in the Champions League as the "weakest seeded team", it seems that the strength is really bad.
People ignore that they are only the weakest seeded team. Even if they can't advance to the knockout rounds in the Champions League, they are still a big catfish in the Europa League.
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After Moya's adjustment, after the start of the second half, Alvara's fans can clearly see the changes in the team.
"They attacked more aggressively than in the first half... but are you afraid of conceding more goals then?"
Joao Valente raised this question after watching the game in the stands for a few minutes.
This is also the question of many Alvara fans.
Xia Xiaoyu said: "Because we have no better way except to continue to attack and attack more vigorously...At this time, we must choose to take risks."
"But it's still difficult to chase two goals in a row!" Valente lamented.
"It's better than doing nothing."
"But what if we lose the ball before scoring?"
"Then there is no way." Xia Xiaoyu spread out his hand, "But the game is not like this. You always have to make a variety of choices. Every choice is like a gambling. Sometimes you win the bet, and sometimes you win. It’s normal to lose a bet. If you don’t dare to bet because you are afraid of losing, then you can only accept the result of losing the game 0:2. And if we can score a goal, even if we lose the game 1:2, then Better than 0:2. At least we only need to recover one ball in the next round."
Valente sighed: "You are right, Xia. I'm a little bit worried about gains and losses..."
He did have some troubles.
Especially after seeing the crazy attack of Leeds City in the first half-he even desperately thought that Alvara would be difficult to win the game at halftime, and the suspense of winning has ended early.
"Well, let us continue to cheer Alvara!"
Valente took a deep breath~EbookFREE.me~ to re-energize, follow the other Alvara fans in the stands, clap and slap rhythmically, and sing again. They sang just after the beginning of the first half. Songs from:
"Alvara! Alvara! Oleoleole!! Alvara!"
"Alvara! Alvara! Oleoleole!! Alvara!"
Xia Xiaoyu grinned upon seeing this.
The mind of this friend he met in the reserve team is really simple, and his few words made him optimistic again...
But as a defensive midfielder, what's wrong with being simple-minded?
Xia Xiaoyu did not sing with his friends, but clapped to the rhythm to cheer for his home team.
Hu has scored a goal, and now he still hopes that Alvara can complete the reversal at home and win the game...