After a 15-minute rest, the two sides changed sides and fought again in the second half.
Cruzeiro, who had a draw in the first round and was lagging behind in this game, had no way out and could only attack aggressively, at least to equalize the score and try to come back and win.
However, after the halftime exchange, the Hurricanes became more united and their fighting spirit became higher and higher. They were like an iron wall. Cruzeiro's offensive opportunities were not even as good as those in the first half.
However, Willard did not use the tricks his coach taught him on opposing offensive players. Only when the opponent also makes small moves will he fight back.
Now that the opponent is playing football openly, he will not deliberately provoke the opponent with small actions or verbal provocations.
The methods taught by the coach can only be used as a reference for him to retaliate against his opponents, but they cannot be used as a means for him to actively stimulate his opponents. He has his own way of playing and principles.
After struggling for nearly half an hour, in the 74th minute, on the basis of solid defense, the Hurricanes seized another opportunity to counterattack, led by Velarde, Toranso, Alejandro Romero, The four members of Avila played a continuous pass and cut. Finally, Avila played the ball diagonally in the penalty area with his back to the goal. Toranso inserted from outside the penalty area and hit the ball without stopping two or three meters away from Avila's side. He shot and hit a very fast ground-breaking shot, heading straight to the lower right corner of the goal.
Goalkeeper Fabio failed to make another magical save this time. He fell to the ground at a speed that could not keep up with the speed of the ball flying to the ground. In the end, he could only watch the ball pass diagonally under his palm and fly into the goal.
0-2, Toranso expanded the score lead for Hurricanes Athletics, leading Cruzeiro by two goals in the away game.
This score basically sealed the victory of this game.
Therefore, after Toranso scored, Mario Binco began to make substitutions one after another, using up all three substitutions, replacing Lucas, Toranso and Avila.
After all, the Hurricanes' recent schedule is too tight.
After Lucas, Toranso, and Avila all took a break, the Hurricanes' offensive ability dropped sharply. After leading 2-0, everyone also consciously shrunk their formation and slowed down the offense. Cruzeiro's defense was severely affected. The pressure was much less and the whole team began to attack more boldly, even the two center backs crossed the halfway line.
In the 87th minute, Cruzeiro finally passed a corner kick. Their substitute centre-back Bruno Rodrigo grabbed the first point in the penalty area and successfully headed the ball into the Hurricanes' goal. Tied the score to 1-2.
But that's all.
In the remaining minutes, despite Cruzeiro's crazy attack, he still failed to break through the Hurricanes' defense and equalize the total score, and even almost lost the ball in the 92nd minute. Had it not been for Dalia, who came on as a substitute, to hit a good chance of a shot high and over the crossbar, maybe the Hurricanes would have scored one more goal.
In the end, Atletico Hurricanes defeated Cruzeiro 2-1 in an away game and won the second round of the Copa Libertadores group stage. They returned to first place in the group with two consecutive wins and 6 points. SUK University had one win and one loss. Ranked second with 4 points, Cruzeiro is third with 1 point, and Meñelas has lost two games in a row and is at the bottom of the group.
After the game, Willard received an experience reward of 1 million for the first start + 1 million for 1 goal + 1 million for winning prize + 5 million for A-level evaluation = 8 million. The total experience increased to level 27, 11.61 million/10 million. It was automatically upgraded to level 28, 1.61 million/20 million, and received an upgrade reward of 30 skill points, which can be used to add skills that were not added this week due to lack of skill points.
However, 20 million experience is required to move up to the next level. Even if you play in the third round of the Copa Libertadores, you will not be able to upgrade. The fourth round of the group stage will not be until April. Therefore, it is necessary to consider how to use this skill point.
After some thought, Willard only spent 5 skill points to increase "Header" from 85 to 86, leaving 25 skill points remaining. If you have enough skill points, you can naturally add one point to all of them, but the problem now is that there are not enough skill points.
Now his defense is basically adequate. In sports battles, he is behind the defense and has few opportunities to get into the opponent's penalty area and shoot. Therefore, he can add headers to increase his ability to score goals in set pieces.
After the game, Atletico Huracán, which had won two consecutive matches in the Copa Libertadores group stage, was naturally praised by the Argentine media.
You know, of the other Argentine teams, only Boca Juniors and Atletico Club also achieved two consecutive victories in the group stage. River Plate, Estudiantes of La Plata, and San Lorenzo failed to achieve two consecutive victories.
As a newly promoted team from the A-League, the performance of the Hurricanes Athletic Team is naturally quite worthy of recognition.
Especially Alan Willard, in addition to his strong defense, his performance of 4 goals in 7 games in the new season also surprised the media and fans.
This performance is certainly worthy of praise.
After returning to China, just three days later, the Hurricanes Athletic Team ushered in the fourth round of the A-League.
At 19:00 on the evening of March 6, the 4th round of the 2015 A-League League between Atletico Hurricanes and Gymnastics of La Plata officially started.
In this game, the Hurricanes Athletic Team, which had just played a cross-country away game, naturally made a considerable rotation. After all, the next game is the Copa Libertadores, and it is also an away game, so the interval is not long.
Even goalkeeper Diaz was replaced by No. 12 Gonzalez Marinelli.
La Plata Gymnastics ranked 14th in the A-League last season, sixth from the bottom. In the first three rounds of this season, it had one draw, two losses and no win. It is currently ranked 27th, which is the fourth from the bottom.
With such an opponent, even if the Hurricanes Athletic Team rotates, it will not be a waste. What's more, the Hurricanes Athletic Team also has Willard, Bismara, Mancinelli, Echeberria and others starting, so there is no need to worry about the defense in the middle of the penalty area.
Therefore, the players in the midfield and frontcourt can attack with confidence and boldness, as long as they can beat this weak team, it doesn't matter how many goals they win. With most of the main players already rotated, it would be good to win.
After the start of the new season, the Hurricanes Athletic Team fought on two fronts and became popular on both fronts. The current record of winning 7 games also made the Hurricanes fans more and more excited, and the home atmosphere became more and more enthusiastic and intense.
Amid the enthusiastic cheers of more than 40,000 home fans, the Hurricane Athletics team held firm on the defensive line and waited for opportunities to attack. In the 7th minute, they almost broke through the door of the La Plata Gymnastics team. Unfortunately, Montenegro's shooting skills were poor. He was only about 10 meters away from the goal in the penalty area, and he missed Ivan Boglo's cross shot and missed the post.
Although Gimnasia La Plata really wanted to take advantage of the substantial rotation of the Hurricanes Athletic Team to defeat the Hurricanes away from home and get their first victory of the season, but the defense led by Willard was too strong and there was nothing they could do.
Not only that, once the ball is lost and Villard takes the ball from the backcourt to launch a counterattack, the gymnastics team's goal is even more threatened.
After several counterattacks by the Hurricane Athletics, the Gymnastics team did not even dare to invest too much force in the offense, and the two sides entered a stalemate.
It wasn't until the 31st minute that La Plata Gymnastics launched a very threatening wing attack. Right midfielder Mesa made a pass from the bottom, and center Behti beat Santiago Echeberria with a header and succeeded. , a powerful head shake, heading the ball towards the goal.
The ball was too powerful, too fast, and too close. Goalkeeper Gonzalez Marinelli's subconscious reaction failed to touch the ball, and he was already in despair.
Unexpectedly, out of the corner of his eye, he saw the ball pass over his palm, hit the crossbar with a bang, bounce back into the penalty area, and was kicked away by captain Mancinelli to clear the ball.
La Plata Gymnastics made a threatening attack that hit the crossbar, but it didn't go in. No matter how much Beheti was upset and thought about it, it was useless.
An opportunity missed is a missed opportunity.
It is true that people who waste opportunities will be punished.
Just 5 minutes later, in the 36th minute, when Verard received a pass from his teammate in the backcourt, he first used his skills to pass the gymnastics midfielder Bloom who was counterattacking, then dribbled the ball forward, and then connected with the midfielder Monte. Negro hit the wall and then reached the top of the penalty area.
Faced with defender Bartettini's attack, Velard moved the ball to the right, attracting Bartettini to move a step to the right and then suddenly dunked the ball back, and then didn't wait for the opponent. He turned around to fight back and made a diagonal pass to the left side of the penalty spot in the penalty area.
Left midfielder Fabianesi rushed into the penalty area at high speed, shot the ball without stopping, and successfully kicked the ball into the far corner.
When goalkeeper Navarro saw Verard pass the ball to the left side of the penalty spot in the penalty area, he pounced from the center to the left. Unexpectedly, Fabianesi hit him in the far corner in the opposite direction. , could only watch helplessly as the ball flew into the goal against the far post.
In the stands, Chrisna, Alyssa, Bertha, and Desia, who were sitting together, jumped up excitedly, clapped and cheered:
"The ball is in!"
"Wow……"
"It's Allen's assist!"
"This goal is an assist from Allen!"
Indeed, although this goal was scored by Fabianesi, everyone could see that it was Willard who took the ball from the backcourt and drove the ball forward, first using a fried meatball to pass the counter-attacking Blue. Mu, then hit the wall with Montenegro and passed a midfielder. When faced with the interception of the central defender, he smashed the ball away from the opponent, and then sent a wonderful pass to assist Fabianesi's goal.
The commentators all sighed:
"Hurricane Athletics opened the scoring and finally took a 1-0 lead."
"With most of the main players rotated, Willard has deservedly become the core of the Hurricanes Athletic Team."
"Willard performed very well on both ends of the floor."
“Not only did he lead his teammates to keep the opponent clean and did not allow La Plata Gymnastics to score any goals, but through this sudden dribbling forward, he directly assisted Fabianesi to score the opening goal. "
"Judging from the strength shown by dribbling the ball forward this time, Willard's skills are no worse than those of ordinary organizing midfielders."
"Looking at his size, speed, stamina, jumping, heading, awareness, passing ability, etc., it's simply breathtaking."
"In the current A-League, Willard's ability is at least one of the top three midfielders."
"Maybe even the strongest."
"However, the start of the new season is still short and needs to be verified."
"But judging from the fact that Velarde has continued to improve from last year to this year and has never stopped, it will only be a matter of time before Velarde's strength improves to the top midfielder in the A-League."
"Willard's future is really exciting."
