Chapter 325 Unlucky Cooper

There was a sigh in the stands, and Valencia escaped again.

In addition to thanking God and Canizarez, the fans should also thank Robben. If he passed the ball to Tomasson behind the side instead of shooting by himself, Canizares would have died, but Robben chose to shoot by himself and gave Canissarace a chance to be a hero.

Alkmaar's assistant coaches shouted at Robben angrily, and the players also accused Robben of not passing the ball, but Jiang Mu just waved his fist with regret and said nothing more.

It's not that Jiang Mu is not angry. The main reason is that in his last life, he was used to seeing Robben many times more than now, so he has greater tolerance for the current Robben. In the face of the goalkeeper, it is smarter for Robben to pass the ball to Tomasson. He can't completely blame him for not passing the ball. After all, he is only a little over 16 years old. And from the perspective of the striker, shooting is always the first choice.

But when Luo Ben passed Jiang Mu, Jiang Mu still yelled at him a few words to broaden his vision. Don't just think about passing people and shooting.

At this time, Robben also knew that he had just made a wrong choice, because Tomasson had complained about him. He made an apology gesture to Jiang Mu and turned around and ran away.

Although Robben's counterattack gave Valencia a huge psychological shock, Valencia has become a desperado at this time. They die early and die late, and they also have the idea of breaking the pot. After two or three minutes of conservation, they continue to attack.

In the 37th minute of the game, Valencia ushered in its best shooting opportunity since the start of the game.

A defensive mistake by Clonekamp gave Angulo a chance to successfully cross. Because there was no interception from the side, it was very dangerous for the ball to hit the middle, because the defender in the middle was under the pressure of the own goal.

The caution of the defensive players gave the Valencia strikers a chance. Although Ilie's quick grab point in the middle did not touch the ball, it interfered with Alkmaar's defender. The ball was not touched by anyone in the middle and directly missed the back post. At this time, the back point was Keely. Gonzalez just accelerated in place. Before Riser's foot to relieve the siege, the Argentine Keeley poked Riser in the back.

The ball is near the goal post. As long as the ball is shot straight, God can't stop the ball from flying into the net, but Cooper's luck is really a little worse. The ball actually hit the post and bounces back to Riser's leg and pops up the bottom line, but it does not bounce into the net.

The passing and attack were so fast that the fans didn't have time to prepare in advance. They only shouted regret after the ball went out of bounds.

The time was very tight for Valencia. They quickly opened a tactical corner kick, and the ball was shot by Kili, who had just been shot. Gonzalez passed to the penalty area again. Under Alkmaar's defense, the ground ball couldn't pass in, Keeley. Gonzalez passed a high-altitude ball.

Valencia's high-altitude ball is not dominant, but under their rush, Alkmaar is also very nervous. Lucio and Martens grabbed the landing point of the ball together, but these two people, one is the main force and the other is a substitute. Lucio and Martens do not cooperate well with Ismail. The two at the same time I hit the ball.

The ball suddenly changed direction under the attack of Ismail and Lucio and flew to the goal instead of the sideline.

Cesar was very scared this time, because it was too close to the goal. He almost subconsciously held it with his hand. Cesar reacted quickly. The ball was originally flying into the goal, but when he held it, the ball hit the lower edge of the crossbar and bounced down, but it did not bounce into the net.

Illier quickly grabbed the spot and stabbed, but he was squeezed by the frightened Lucio. The stabbing close at hand did not reach it. The ball was pressed under him by Cesar's second save.

Two consecutive distresses have made Alkmar's fans and the players on the bench say something nervously. They are still very sorry in front of them. They feel that their opponents are too lucky. Now they are also thanking God for his help and not letting their opponents score goals.

Jiang Mu couldn't help sighing that Cooper's luck was really not good enough. Such a ball appeared twice in a row, but it didn't score. He was really a guy abandoned by God.

He remembers that Cooper was also a bad guy in the last life. Cooper moved from Malloka to Valencia. In just a few years, Cooper reached the Champions League final twice. However, even in the heyday of Valencia, Cooper always had only the life of the second. The league was the runner-up, the Champions League was still the runner-up, and the golden The championship trophy is always one step away from him and his disciples. In the 2001-2002 season, Cooper left Valencia for Inter Milan. Valencia also left Mendieta, Lopez, Herard and Farinos. Valencia was almost injured. But in this situation, the Protestant leader Benitez led a group of unknown young people to take Valencia to the championship podium with the 1-0 competition philosophy. In the distant Apennine Peninsula, Inter Milan conceded the league championship to Juventus in a good situation due to the defeat in the last round. As a powerful coach, but he doesn't have a champion, his luck can't be worse.

The continuous creation of good opportunities but not being able to score goals made Cooper very anxious. They couldn't help roaring at the players and asking them to calm down before shooting, but the players were also eager to attack at this time. How could they hear what the coach was saying on the sidelines?

In the last ten minutes of the first half of the game, Valencia attacked more fiercely, as if it were the end of the whole game. They scored a goal in the first half, but Alkmaar's defense was very dense and did not rely on the accumulation of people to win. Under Jiang Mu's more than two years of **, these young people The players cooperate tacitly, and the defense is very layered. They have been interfering with the opponent's pass from the front line, making the opponent uncomfortable. The role of the midfield in defense is almost similar to that of the defender. The opponent's attack has lost its sharpness under the first two levels of defense, and then entangled with the wolf-like Alkmaar defender. Even big teams like Barcelona, Bayern and Manchester United are very uncomfortable, not to mention a quasi-strong team like Valencia.

As time went by, Valencia, who was eager to score a goal, had been unable to break through Alkmaar's door, and Alkmaar's counterattack did not achieve good results. Only Robben had two long-range shots, and both sides could only accept the result of 0:0 in the half.

After returning to the locker room, the silent Cooper seemed to be possessed by Ferguson. With a gloomy face, he pushed the door open with a bang, and then shouted at the player.

"We have been eliminated! There are 45 minutes of garbage time in the second half. How do you want to spend these 45 minutes and continue to waste time and opportunities on the field? I've always been proud of you, but today, I can't think like this anymore, and our fans can't think so. I think they are all ready to boo us. We are not facing Real Madrid Barcelona, we are only facing an upstart in the Dutch League..."

There was silence in the locker room, and there was a real grave-like silence. The players were all with their heads down. None of the goals set before the game was completed, and none of the opportunities on the field were grasped. They really had no face to deal with the accusations of the head coach. Even old players like Caponi and Angloma lowered their heads and said no words, allowing Cooper to scold.

After venting fiercely for a while, Cooper's mood calmed down a little. He took a deep breath and said, "You work very hard. I've seen this. Even when you play Barcelona Real Madrid, you just have such a game attitude, but this is not enough, because Alkma, which is three goals ahead of us. You still work hard, so if we want to win, we not only need to show all our energy and courage, but also play better than our opponents, so that we can defeat our opponents!"

Cooper's words resonated with Valencian players. They also felt this in the game. They felt that they were very good at fighting, but they didn't expect their opponents to be more able to fight. They just looked at the performance of the players, not the scene, and did not know the result of the first game. No one could guess that Alkmaar had a huge The lead.

"They are a bunch of crazy people. They are so good at fighting." Carboni is almost 35 years old. The Italian player who has moved to six clubs is rich in experience, but he has never seen a team that can fight so well with a 4:1 lead.

Cooper said: "This shows that their desire to advance is very strong. In the group stage, their head coach Jiang Mu said that Alkmaar's goal is to reach the finals, and our desire and confidence are not enough. This is the reason why we have been unable to overwhelm the opponent. There are still 45 minutes left until now. At the moment, any tactics are not so good. What we need most at this moment is everyone's hard work, take out 120 percent of the efforts to fight against the opponent. No matter what the final result is, as long as we fight, the fans will definitely give us applause, not boo us... Next, let me talk about how to play. The opponent's defense looks perfect without any defects, but their central defender is a small flaw, because the main central defender Ismail is suspended, Lucio and Martens don't cooperate well, and Martens is too old, and his physical fitness and reaction are not in the same beat as his teammates. We will attack in the second half. This point of them..."

Cooper asked the players to attack Alkmaar's central defender Martens in the locker room, and Jiang Mu also talked about the two problems of attack and defense in the locker room. In terms of defense, Jiang Mu stressed that the back should do a good job of defense, protect the two central defenders, and try to solve the danger outside the penalty area, rather than facing the last line of defense. Dangerous, because the closer you are to the goal, the more dangerous the mistakes you make.

In terms of offense, Jiang Mu severely criticized Robben, asking him to pay attention to passing the ball and not shooting with a stuffy head. Goals are not all for the striker. The striker is first of all a player, and a striker who can pass the ball is an excellent player.

Finally, Jiang Mu reminded the players not to be careless. Valencia will definitely work hard in the second half, so that they can remember the tragedy of Bayern in last season's Champions League finals and must fight against each other like the first half.