Chapter 169 – The 4 Series of Hell (1)
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Sevilla Fútbol Club S.A.D.
Founded in 1890, this club with a long history is a historic football club representing Andalusia in southern Spain along with Real Betis.
Sevilla, whose nickname is Andalusia’s best club El Grande de Andalucia, claims itself to be the leader in Andalusia, but has only won the league once.
Even that was a win achieved in the 1945/46 season, so it is a shameful honor to say that it was actually a league championship experience.
Nevertheless, it was thanks to the great performance in the Europa League that Sevilla was counted as a prestigious player in Andalusia, and beyond that, in Spain’s La Liga.
Sevilla is the most successful team in the Europa League.
Starting with the 05/06 season and ending in the 06/07 season, Sevilla won the Europa League championship 2 times in a row, followed by 13/14, 14/15, and 15/16. .
A truly unbelievable record that far surpasses second place Inter’s three championships.
It didn’t stop here and won again in the 19/20 season and increased the record of winning the Europa League to 6 times, which was a huge achievement that was twice as high as 2nd place Inter.
After that, Sevilla, who had been away from the Europa League throne for a while, recaptured the throne after a long time and increased the winning record to 7 times, that is last year’s 32/33 season.
And this year.
Sevilla’s challenge to recreate the glory of winning 2 consecutive championships in 2005-07 and 3 consecutive championships in 2013-16 was successfully carried out despite various difficulties and settled in the semi-finals.
The opponent this time standing in the way was Frankfurt in Germany.
It was Eintracht Frankfurt, which had never reached the final except for the 1980 championship.
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April 9, 2034 Estadio Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán, Seville, Andalusia, Spain.
Sevilla’s home stadium was filled with such enthusiastic spectators that all seats with more than 43,000 seats were sold out at the same time as ticketing for the first leg of the Europa semi-finals.
In the midst of a huge cheering match from home fans who wished for Sevilla’s second consecutive championship following last year, which is called the king of Europa, our team went to the ground for the first game of the four-game series of hell.
Even the away seats in Frankfurt were occupied by Sevilla fans, who had high expectations for this match, to the extent that even the scalping tickets, which were several times more expensive than usual, were sold out.
It was a hostile away game where only booing was heard at the introduction of our team, but at the start of the game, our team pulled up a lot of lines and launched an active offensive.
Number of bets for away win over away win.
I know it’s dangerous, but given the circumstances of the team with a thin squad, it was a desperate measure to endure the 4-game series of hell unfolding for 11 days.
We have to win with a high score in the away game to be able to rotate the rotation for the second game at home.
It’s damn good, but there’s not a game you can give up in any of the 4 games that lead to 11 days.
Since each and every one of them is an important game that will determine the performance of this season, I had to squeeze a thin squad somehow.
However, it is not possible to turn the starting lineup in all four games.
How can you play 4 games, going home and away for 11 days, leaving the important and Nabalgo?
The players are not machines, and no matter how good their stamina is, they are definitely made of cloth, so rotation was essential.
However, for a team with a large gap between starting and non-starting matches, the best way is to win the first game of the 4 consecutive matches and the first game of the semi-finals, and rotate full rotation in the second game.
The coach’s plan was to play anti-football and, even if we lose, to block the team with the least number of runs and advance to the final with a total score.
No, it’s a complex plan and a nabal, and as long as you don’t give up on anything, this is the only way.
It was a blitz for that—
Beep, beep!
“Under…”
“I’m going crazy. It won’t work out today.”
In the 13th minute of the first half, the opening goal was eaten.
It was also claimed Alexander Meyer’s own goal.
It was a catastrophe that took place in the midst of the stronger-than-expected Sevilla’s organizational power and the attack work was sluggish.
“I can’t do it! Raise the line more, the side! You guys also actively dig in!”
The defensive line was raised under the direction of the coach, and both fullbacks infiltrated the enemy line like wingers from time to time.
Sevilla was a typical Spanish team.
What do you mean—
Beep, Beep!!
“Whoaaaaa!! The equalizer!!”
“You can do anything with your head!!”
In order to play possession, even the center back was made up of players with good foot skills.
A player with good foot skills is not necessarily short, but if a center back has good foot skills and a good physique, why would he play for Sevilla? Where would you like to go to a big club?
The Sevilla centre-back duo were about the same height as me or slightly taller than me, which was perfect for Donald Cook, who is 193cm tall and weighs more than 90kg, with beastly physique.
At Chicharo’s corner kick, Donald Cook really flew up like a beast and slammed the earthen pot down.
The elastic sergeant jump unique to blacks scored a run a head above the Sevilla centre-back duo, and the exquisitely changed header shook the net and equalized.
Donald Cook, who has been scoring goals for the first time in a while, boasts white dry teeth that stand out from his pitch-black face, and runs actively, not befitting his massive size, helping the offense.
2 shots on target, 3 corner kicks, and 2 free kicks took the momentum, but unfortunately the second half ended after the first half.
Our team, which continued an active offensive that worked in the first half, gave up a penalty in the middle of the second half and conceded again.
Then, while continuing the offense to somehow score an equalizer, Alberto Mondi’s cross was again scored by Donald Cook’s heading pass to me through the opposing centre-back duo’s marking back and forth, but it was our team’s last goal.
At the end of the second half, the defense team, who ran out of stamina, continued to make mistakes, allowing 2 runs in a row, and eventually losing 2:4.
Perhaps it was a foreseeable disaster.
The defensive power is flawless, but we told our slow-footed centerback duo to raise the line and cover the wide back space, so the players who constantly sprinted from the first half to prevent the back space from being robbed could only be discharged.
If your stamina is low, mistakes will become frequent.
The defense, which had been barely holding on until the end of the second half, showed a decrease in concentration and conceded two goals in a row.
In fact, it was a strategy to score more goals at the risk of losing the back space… It’s rather poisonous.
Europa League semi-final first leg.
They scored 2 goals on the road, but collapsed after conceding 4 goals.
Ruined the first of the 4 series of Hell, but time doesn’t wait.
What awaited us after our gloomy return to Frankfurt was the second match against Munich in the 29th round of the league.
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2034. 4. 9.
Deutsche Bank Park, where the 29th round of the Bundesliga will be held between Frankfurt and Munich.
As the fans worried, the news of the defeat was announced with the start of the 4th series of Hell, but Die Adler of the Eagle Corps did not give up.
For the home game, all 51,500 seats at Deutsche Bank Parque were sold out, and a heated cheering battle was unfolding.
“It’s an enthusiastic atmosphere.”
“I guess. Fans are passionate when a team is doing better than expected.”
At the words of Cassie Rockbella, who looked around, Victor Showwell looked at his notebook with a cold reply.
“It must have been about this… I found it.”
In the eyes of Cathy, who wants to do something, the old notebook is full of passwords… Instead, letters and pictures came in.
‘I wonder who isn’t an analog human. Ugh, I’m really upset.’
Cassie glanced at Victor Showwell looking at something unknown, whether it was a code or handwriting, and took out her laptop.
“Hmm… It’s strange. I thought I had a perfect analysis of Hong Min-joon… Why? Why did this happen?”
Who would think that this shabby man muttering to himself over and over again was Victor Showwell, the “Jewel digger”?
Cathy Rock Bella, as usual, listened to her senior and manipulated her laptop. A report that was previously recorded while observing Hong Min-joon.
[Minjun Hong scouting report]
Nationality: Korea
Born : 2013. 08. 29
Position: Striker on the left side, but can play in both lines (Additional: Possibility as a central midfielder)
Advantages : –
Her report, which arranged Victor Showwell’s arbitrary scouting report in a format that the club’s leadership could recognize, was packed with information about Hong Min-joon.
It was already several months ago that the club set Hong Min-joon as a recruiting target.
I have already thoroughly analyzed and organized information about Hong Min-joon to the level of dismantling…
“Sweep— what the hell is that? How can a person, a player of this level, grow like this in just a few games?”
Just like what Victor Showwell muttered in doubt, Hong Min-joon has grown up again in the meantime.
“If you analyze it at best, it will change again soon. It’s not some kind of growing child, it’s evolving.”
“Evolution? Evolution… Yes, evolution.”
“Huh? Senpai? Were you listening?”
“Now, Hong Min-joon. Come on, show me. Show me. What is your evolution this time?”
“No way really. He only reacts when he wants to hear it.”
Lexie sighed as she looked at her senior who was constantly muttering to herself like a crazy person.
Oh hey, I’m not really a jerk.