Chapter 255 Unbeaten halfway, winter champion
When the idea of "now is the time" sounded in Alonso's mind, Mallorca happened to launch another attack. ◎:◎%%◎
This attack was initiated by Alonso - Beletti, who was inserted on the right, failed to assist, passed the ball to Kaka who was receiving the ball, and Kaka passed it back again. After Alonso received the ball, he quickly knocked the ball to Capdevilla who was inserted on the left. Real Sociedad's original right-handed defense line began to move to the left, and his attention was more focused on the left.
Alonso saw that Ronaldo had already started to respond to the left, and his running attracted a lot of Real Sociedad defensive attention. Since scoring the wonderful side-length volley, Real Sociedad has paid great attention to this guy. After Kaka did not attack in the middle after the return pass, but waited on the right to participate in the attack, leaving some Real Sociedad defenders on the right and did not return to the middle. In the penalty area, Drogba and Etoo attracted enough defensive players - now the front of Real Sociedad's penalty area is blank, and it is the best time to get forward!
Alonso did not hesitate anymore and immediately started sprinting towards the frontcourt with big strides!
After Capdvilla received the ball, Ronaldo's response, which made him under low defense pressure. He began to sprint towards the baseline, observing the situation in the penalty area while sprinting. Although Drogba was defended, if there was a good cross, there was still a high possibility of scoring the goal.
While observing this, Capdvilla also saw a red figure running from the corner of her eyes, and there was no defensive player at the front of Real Sociedad's penalty area... a good opportunity!
After making up his mind, Capdvilla continued to break through to the bottom line, just like she wanted to make a cross directly from the bottom, then quickly hit the ball, stopped and turned around, then raised her right foot and passed the ball directly out!
This is a half-high ball, not a pass directly into the penalty area, but a pass to the front of the penalty area!
The first thing he reacted was De Pedro who returned to the backcourt. He was originally marking Kaka, but after Capdvilla passed the ball, he noticed that Alonso was sprinting towards the weakest defense of Real Sociedad!
Originally, Real Sociedad had sufficient defenders, but the entire defense was divided into three pieces, one of which was defending Capdvilla and Ronaldo on the left, one of which was defending Drogba and Etoo in the penalty area, and the other was defending on the right - the defense at the front of the penalty area became unprecedentedly weak!
Although he reacted, he was still one step slower!
"Good boy Alonso! Play a leaf ball and show me!"
Jose's butt left the coach's seat, his fists clenched and trembled slightly, and he started yelling loudly in his heart.
Albertini on the bench also stood up and looked at the situation on the court with concern.
This is a good opportunity. If Alonso can shoot a high-quality long shot...
"Capdvilla made a cross... He passed directly to the front of the penalty area! Alonso rushed up. This position is very good. Will he shoot directly?"
Everyone's attention began to focus on Alonso, and more than 20,000 people in the audience stared at Alonso!
Under the gaze of everyone, Alonso swung his right foot and swung it hard against the falling ball!
"When the foot touches the ball, kicks the ball two centimeters below the middle of the ball when it falls. While exerting force, the foot surface should have a lifting action - how much force it exerts determines how fast the ball itself rotates, and determines whether the ball will fall like a fallen leaf!"
Albertini's usual training words flashed through Alonso's mind like lightning. At this moment, the hard work of half a year made him almost instinctively complete this shot!
The part of the ball's stress was slightly weakened at that moment, then returned to its original state, and then flew out several times faster than before!
De Pedro's tackle was a step slower, and the ball flew past his toes and flew into the sky!
After flying quickly into the sky, the ball flew into the penalty area, then began a plain flight route, and finally began to fall suddenly!
Leaf balls!
Westved responded immediately. He jumped up hard, then stretched out his right hand against the ball, hoping to lift the ball out of the crossbar or block it before the ball entered the goal.
However, he still failed to touch the ball.
When a gust of wind passed by his hand, the Dutch goalkeeper had only one thought in his mind - it's over!
Then, a "swish" sound came from the goal behind him!
"gooooooooooooooal! The ball is scored! The ball is scored! A beautiful goal! A shocking long shot! A beautiful fallen leaf ball! Alonso showed Albertini's unique skill on the court and gave the old master a counterattack!"
With the commentator yelling loudly, the St. Mois Stadium instantly became an ocean of joy!
Jose jumped up from the coaching table and raised his hands high to celebrate the goal that once again gave Mallorca the lead.
Mallorca's players rushed from all directions and rushed towards Alonso to celebrate this wonderful goal. However, Alonso did not celebrate. He just smiled slightly in the hug of his teammates, then broke away from his teammates, and lowered his head to walk into his half.
This situation is also very common, especially when players face their old clubs after changing jobs, they often do not celebrate because they respect their old masters. Therefore, the players in Mallorca also understand it very well, and then return to their halftime after high-fives.
"It doesn't matter if you don't celebrate, Harvey, you have proved that it's not a mistake to leave Real Sociedad..." Jose thought off the court.
Organizational ability, forward penetration ability, long shot ability - After coming to Mallorca, it is an indisputable fact that Alonso's three abilities have made great progress. The progress in the past six months is even greater than the progress in the first team of Real Sociedad in the past three years, which is already the biggest proof!
After taking the lead again, Mallorca's eleventh straight win could no longer be reversed. Although Real Sociedad tried to equalize the score again, their offense was difficult to find an opportunity under Mallorca's defensive system. Matthias stared at Kovacevic tightly, allowing the center who had created many opportunities to make no contribution to Real Sociedad's offense in the next time. Before the final game, Etooho relied on a counterattack to score twice, four to two. Mallorca defeated Real Sociedad at home and won eleven consecutive victories in all competitions!
After the game, major media gave high praise to Jose's adjustments in the game. Marca commented on Jose's substitution: "When the opponent equalized the score, Jose did not blindly send the forward to strengthen the attack, but instead replaced the young central defender Matthias like a drug. In the end, Matthias stared at Real Sociedad's previous excellent center Kovacevic with his outstanding performance. This time the substitution completely stabilized Mallorca's defense, leaving their offense without any worries, and finally took the lead again and maintained the advantage until the end game - when the opponent scored two goals in a row, he could still ensure calmness in his mind. This trait of Jose has been shown in previous games.
However, he seems to be more mature than before. Last season, Mallorca lost the league championship and they couldn't withstand the pressure at a critical moment. However, this season, Mallorca and Jose are more mature than last season. We can expect the tenth team in La Liga history to win the top league championship this season. The last team to win the first top league championship was La Coruna three seasons ago. They have a lot of similarities with Mallorca. An excellent coach and a group of powerful players. After a long period of accumulation of strength, they broke out and won the league championship. They will be Real Madrid's biggest opponent to win the league championship this season."
"League champion? I haven't thought so far. We were in good shape in the first half of the season and achieved brilliant achievements. However, we are still very young and lack the experience to win the championship and the ability to fight pressure. We look forward to solving these problems in the next game."
Jose seemed very low-key in the interview - half of the league has just passed, and the strong teams have almost been running-in in the first half of the season, especially Real Madrid, while Mallorca has been running-in faster, which is their advantage. However, in the second half of the season, the situation they face may be much more difficult.
Now all Jose is thinking about is to win the last league against Vilva before Christmas. If he can win, Mallorca will end the second half of 2002 with an unbeaten record. Now their results in the league are ten wins and four draws, eight consecutive wins in the Champions League, and the King's Cup also won the first two rounds. As long as he wins the 15th round of the league, Mallorca will become the only team among the four major European leagues that remained unbeaten in the second half of 2002. In fact, they are now six points ahead of Valencia and winning the winter championship in La Liga is a foregone conclusion!
"You have to know that we were also the winter champions of La Liga last season. There is nothing to be happy about. If we cannot win the final league championship, the winter championship is just a gimmick." Jose said this on the team's training ground. Thinking about it, La Liga has only played fourteen rounds, and the entire league has thirty-eight rounds. Now it's just a little more than one-third passed, and it seems too early to be excited.
"Go away to win Vilva and welcome Christmas with an unbeaten record!"
Mallorca shouted such a slogan. Obviously, Vilva, who is at the bottom of the points, cannot resist Mallorca, a leader with high morale.
On December 22, Mallorca easily defeated Vilva with a score of 3-1 away - they still conceded the ball in the game. The league has played fifteen rounds so far, and they have only three rounds of the game without conceding the ball, but they have won eleven of the 15 rounds. At least Jose’s claim to “win the game with offense” is not a short check. They can indeed win with more goals, and conceal the ball with more goals to make up for it.
In the fifteen rounds of the league, they won 11 wins and four draws, and they scored 37 points, leading Real Madrid, which ranked second, was over eight points. After losing to Mallorca, Real Madrid also stubbornly won a row of victories. In addition, Valencia lost to Coruña in one goal at home, they returned to the second place. Mallorca's advantage in leading Valencia was nine points. As for Barcelona, their results were terrible. They lost six games in fifteen games. Now they only scored 19 points and ranked tenth. They barely occupied the top half of the standings and have indeed fallen to the bottom.
Compared with Barcelona, which has already begun to fall to the bottom, Mallorca is indeed booming now, but for Jose, he knows that Ronaldo will most likely not be able to save it. In history, Barcelona failed to pursue Beckham and took down Ronaldo, opening the dynasty of Dream Team 2. Jose really wanted to die and never sold Ronaldo to Barcelona. However, the existence of La Liga's breach of contract costs made him only pay a lot of money...
"Anyway, I don't want to sell it if I don't have 50 million." Jose thought to himself.
And now, he just wants to cheer for Mallorca's unbeaten halfway. @ya
Chapter completed!