A day before heading to Seville.

Donetsk, in a luxurious manor.

The team held a celebration banquet here, after all, it surpassed Dynamo Kiev in the league standings and eliminated him in the Ukrainian Cup.

It is said to be a celebration, but it is actually a morale-boosting banquet, because next, the more critical Champions League match is coming again.

This banquet was also a speech by Akmetov to boost morale in order to fight Sevilla next.

In fact, there is no need to encourage you at all. The team has been in a hot state recently and is about to wash away the shame of losing to Sevilla at home.

"They can beat us at our home court, and we can naturally defeat them at their home court! It's not that difficult!" Xu Xiao said.

"Right! That's it! We must kill Sevilla!" other players also shouted loudly.

"Boss, just prepare your money, haha!" Naturally, many players are also very concerned about the huge winning prizes Akmetov has given.

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With the opening prelude of the Champions League, Xu stood in the Pisjuan Stadium, which could accommodate 45,000 people, and looked around and the fans were already full.

Thinking back to his relaxed mood when he came from Sevilla, Xu Zhen felt a strange feeling at this time. He could feel that the Sevilla team was even stronger in his home court than they were in the Donbas Arena at that time.

Away defeat them?

It doesn't seem difficult to say, but it's not certain to do it.

This atmosphere is worthy of being a famous devil's stadium in La Liga.

There was a legend circulating in this stadium, and as long as Sevilla and the Spanish national team use this stadium for international competitions, they will not fail.

This record has been around since the completion of Pisjuan Stadium.

Sevilla once maintained an unbeaten 26 international games here, and the Spanish national team also had a record of unbeaten 22 international games here.

However, Sevilla's twenty-six unbeaten games have been broken. In 26 years, which is three years ago, in the last round of the Europa League group stage, Sevilla lost to the Netherlands' Alkmar at his home court without qualifying early.

So, it is almost impossible to defeat them at Pisjuan Stadium!

"Stand on this stadium, it really feels very difficult to defeat them, but I like this kind of challenge!" Xu's lips curled up slightly, "Come on! Let's stand!"

"Shh!"

The referee whistle sounds and the game begins!

This game will be broadcast live by Sky Sports in the UK, CCTV in China, or Ukrainian TV stations. According to statistics, more than 20 countries around the world will broadcast the game live.

Of course, such data is indeed a lot bleaker than the Spanish national derby or the Premier League’s Double Red Club level battle, but this is still one of the more popular battles in this round of the Champions League.

He Wei explained the opening remarks as always, and then introduced the starters of both sides.

"In fact, the starting players of both sides in this game have changed some changes from the previous round, especially for the Sevilla team. Their starting players have changed a lot. Many of the injured players in the last round have now returned, but they have new injured players." He Wei introduced.

"Sevilla's main center Canute, who was injured in the last game, is now a high-level battle card, which is a major injury in their lineup. Of course, the substitute forward Negredo paid and entered the bench. The one who partnered with Fabiano to the front line was Aruna Conne from Côte d'Ivoire."

"At the same time, Palop returned from injury and occupied the starting goalkeeper position. Kong Ke also returned, returning to his familiar right-back position."

The Donetsk miners on the other side adopted a 4--4- formation this time.

Hubbschman did not play, but let Fernandinho make one midfielder, and the four forwards naturally return to William, Xu, Judson, and Douglas Costa.

There has been no change in other positions.

In Pisjuan, Lucescu actually set up a formation that pays more attention to offense. Obviously, his purpose here is to make three-pointers, not to protect the score.

For the Donetsk Miners, the draw doesn't make sense.

Because at this time, Sevilla, the first team in the group, had nine points, the Donetsk Miners only had four points, and the difference between the two teams had reached five points.

If this away game cannot defeat Sevilla, the Donetsk Miners will have to hope for Sevilla to lose two consecutive games in the last two consecutive games. The Donetsk Miners will win two consecutive games, which is obviously impossible.

Only by defeating Sevilla and shortening the points gap to two points can you have the hope of finally reaching the first place in the group!

However, although they acted like they were going to attack, the team retreated as they fought.

There is no way, there is still a gap in the midfield's control ability. La Liga teams have too many advantages in passing and control technology. Even if Sevilla is not Barcelona, ​​it is still quite difficult to deal with.

"During the opening period, Sevilla took advantage of their home advantage and took a very strong initiative in the field. We see that Xu has even retreated to the same line as Fernandinho and became a midfielder. Obviously, Sevilla puts a lot of pressure on the Donetsk miners."

"Xu has excellent defensive interception ability, and he can fully assume the position of a midfielder. But is this a bit impregnable for Xu's offensive ability? The team shouldn't have used a single midfielder tactic at the beginning. If there are two midfielders, they can liberate Xu's offensive talent."

He Wei commented lightly, it seemed that he was not surprised by this situation.

Indeed, he knows the strength of Sevilla, so Sevilla has the advantage at home, so naturally he will not surprise him.

He was a little surprised, but unexpectedly, the Donetsk miners dared to attack?

When setting up an attacking formation, he naturally has the idea of ​​attacking. He Wei does not agree with the Donetsk Miners' idea of ​​attacking.

However, Lucescu was relatively calm on the sidelines. He knew Sevilla's offensive ability. It seemed that this was not realistic to rely on defense to defend against Pisjuan and not lose the ball. So in Lucescu's view, it would be better to make a try on the offense!

However, the team is a bit too dependent on Xu. Although Fernandinho's defense range is large, someone still needs to assist him in the midfield. So Lucescu arranged for Xu to retreat deeper to assist Fernandinho's defense, and then, during the offense, Xu rushed up again.

This will undoubtedly cause a lot of energy to Xu's physical fitness, but Xu talked to Lucescu before the game, and Xu had already realized it.

He told Lucescu that he would try his best at the beginning of the game as much as possible. Perhaps his physical fitness would not support the entire game, and hoped that Lucescu would be prepared.

Lucescu also agreed after some consideration.

If the team takes the lead during Xu's physical fitness, then after Xu's overdrawn, Lucescu will naturally replace Xu and replace him with a midfielder to strengthen his defense. In that case, the team will quickly adjust the formation back.

The key is to see when Xu can bring surprises to the team, and how many minutes he can hold on to...
Chapter completed!