The commentators were right. After Velard celebrated the goal to his heart's content and received blessings from his teammates and fans, River Plate still failed to score a single goal in the rest of the game.
In the end, Hurricanes beat River Plate 2-0 away from home and won the domestic derby in the Copa Libertadores quarter-finals.
Not only do Hurricanes hold the lead on aggregate, they also have two away goals. This advantage is greater than that of playing Sao Paulo in the previous round. The probability of the Hurricanes advancing to the semi-finals is naturally greater.
As for River Plate, after losing 0-2 at home, the possibility of a comeback in the away game is infinitely close to zero.
The probability of Hurricane Athletics advancing to the semi-finals is basically 99%.
Therefore, after the final whistle sounded, the home players of River Plate sat on the ground one by one, or were dejected and depressed.
The players and fans of the Hurricanes Athletic Team celebrated heartily.
Of course, the most important thing is Willard. As everyone knows, today is Willard’s birthday. After everyone hugged and celebrated for a while, they caught Willard, lifted him up, and carried him like a king to the stands where away fans gathered to pay tribute to thousands of Hurricanes away fans.
The fans were also very excited. They held various banners in the stands to support Velarde or congratulate Velarde on his birthday. They kept chanting Velarde's name and paid homage to him.
Krisna, Alyssa, Bertha, and Desia were also in the stands, protected by bodyguards, blowing kisses to Willard to express their love.
As a defensive midfielder, Velarde has scored 12 goals and 5 assists in 24 games since 2015. He is the player with the second most goals in the Hurricanes, second only to Zhengyin center Avi. pull.
But Avila can only score goals, but Velard can make a greater contribution defensively than offensively.
With such a performance, it's no wonder that fans want to worship him, and several girlfriends are also deeply impressed by Willard.
However, this is the opponent's away game after all. If you celebrate too much, you may stimulate the opponent's extreme fans and be in danger. Therefore, everyone did not celebrate for too long. They only celebrated for ten minutes and then returned to the locker room.
In the locker room, everyone took out the birthday cake and champagne prepared in advance to celebrate Willard.
Someone originally proposed to find a bar to celebrate Willard's birthday after the game, but considering that the next game was only three days apart and the schedule was very tight, Willard took the initiative to refuse.
But we can't celebrate his birthday and mess up everyone's schedule, and then lose on this day with a tight schedule. That would be more gain than loss.
So the teammates simply celebrated Velarde in the locker room after the game. But even so, Willard was grateful.
Because other teammates have not received this kind of treatment on their birthdays, this is the first time for Willard. The reason is self-evident, that is, Velarde's contribution to the team is too great. Everyone sincerely hopes that Velarde is healthy and can lead them to win at least one of the Ajax or Libertadores championships.
At that time, as members of the championship team, even if they cannot transfer back to the five major leagues, they will still be able to gain a lot of benefits in terms of contract renewal or transfer, as well as image endorsement.
The players of the Hurricanes are not like the veterans of River Plate and Boca Juniors, who have already won the championship. The players of the Hurricanes have not yet tasted the taste of winning the Argentine League or the Copa Libertadores. Everyone is very eager and sincerely supports Velard, the leader who may lead them to win the championship.
Willard refused to let his teammates celebrate his birthday in the bar, not only because of the schedule, but also because today is not only his birthday, but also the birthday of his girlfriend Heidi Alisa.
Their birthdays are on the same day.
Therefore, after celebrating with his teammates, Velarde did not take the team bus with everyone, but was sent home directly by driver Jeremiah Montellillo.
Hurrying slowly, I finally arrived home before 24:00. Otherwise, I don’t know how Heidi Alyssa would feel sad after missing today’s birthday!
Sure enough, when they got home, the girlfriends all had anxious faces on their faces. Seeing Willard come back, everyone relaxed.
Willard and Alyssa celebrated their birthday together, so naturally they would not call outsiders, it was just Willard and his four girlfriends.
Willard also gave a special thanks to Heidi Alyssa, because she is the first real girlfriend. It was her tolerance that allowed Rhys Bertha, Desia, and Krisna to join smoothly, and Willard was able to enjoy the blessings of everyone in an open and honest manner.
Although Alyssa has accepted the fact that she shares her boyfriend with Krisna and others, but now taking advantage of her birthday, Willard took Krisna and others to thank her, but let Alyssa I felt very moved.
That night, Willard also belonged to Alyssa alone, and Krisna and others did not come to compete with Alyssa for men.
Three days later, on May 22, in the 13th round of the A-League, Hurricane Athletic challenged CA Tamboli away.
This is the old rival of Hurricanes in the A-League last year, but Tamboli's performance is far inferior to that of Hurricanes. It is currently only ranked 23rd in the A-League standings, a standard performance for a newly promoted team.
Although Hurricane Athletics rotated almost half of its main players due to a tight schedule and played away from home, CA Tamboli still failed to stop the Hurricanes' attack.
In just the 7th minute of the game, Alan Willard took the ball in the backcourt and made a long pass, sending the ball to the feet of starting forward Ivan Boglo.
Boglo turned his back to the direction of the attack and leaned against the opponent's defender. After stopping the ball, he looked at his teammates who were inserted in the back row. He made an inverted triangle pass and sent the ball to the feet of the full midfielder Fabianesi who was inserted in the back row. .
After taking the ball, Fabianesi moved the ball towards the side and then passed it down. Although Ivan Boglo did not hit the ball, he attracted firepower at the front point and rushed in diagonally from the other side. No. 20 Dalia in the penalty area made a diving dive near the back corner of the small penalty area and headed the ball into the goal.
Hurricane Athletics easily took a 1-0 lead on the road, and the goal was scored by a substitute player like Dalia.
The subsequent game completely entered the rhythm of the Hurricane Athletics team.
In the 37th minute of the first half, Villard stepped in from the back row to participate in the assist and once again sent an exquisite pass into the penalty area. Alejandro Romero, who was the starting midfielder in this game, grabbed the point with a kick. Shot and successfully kicked the ball into the lower right corner.
Hurricane Athletics expanded the score to 2-0, and Velard received an assist.
In the 65th minute of the second half, the Hurricanes took another corner kick. Captain Mancinelli grabbed a point and headed the ball into the opponent's goal to gain another victory.
In the end, Hurricanes beat CA Tamboli 3-0 in an away game, taking all three points again, continuing to top the standings, and making rapid progress in the A-League.
