After a 5-0 victory over La Ferna, Velarde's performance in this game won unanimous praise from the media and fans across Argentina.
As a member of the final 23-man roster of the national team, Velarde's outstanding performance and state as the start of the America's Cup is approaching has undoubtedly made everyone more optimistic about the prospects of the Pampas Eagles winning this America's Cup. Added some confidence.
According to the national team's schedule, the Argentina national team will play a friendly match against Bolivia on June 7. Then, the first group match of the America's Cup will be played on June 13th.
This friendly match is the last opportunity for the Argentina national team to train before the official start of the Copa America.
But on June 6th, Hurricane Athletics will have the last game of the first half of the season, the 15th round of the A-League.
Gerardo Martino called Mario Binco and wanted Velarde to not play in the 15th round of the league on June 6, but to report directly to the national team and participate in the friendly match against Bolivia on June 7. , but was rejected by Mario Binco.
At present, after playing the first 14 rounds of the league, the Hurricanes have achieved a high score of 39 points with 13 wins, 0 draws and 1 loss. They rank first in the A-League standings, leading the second place and Derby rival San Lorenzo by as many as 8 points. . Obviously, Hurricane Racing is very likely to win the A-League championship as a newly promoted team this season, creating a miracle for a newly promoted team to win the championship.
There is still the last 15th round game in the first half of the season, and it is also an away game. It is definitely more difficult than the previous 5-0 victory over La Ferna. Mario Binco does not want any surprises, so he needs Willard stayed on the team, started the game, led the team to win, and established a larger points lead in the first half of the season.
Although the Copa America is a major tournament recognized by FIFA, if Gerardo Martino is forced to call up through the FIFA recruitment mechanism, Atletico Huracán will have to let him go.
But Mario Binco told Martino that there were three group matches. With Argentina’s strength, qualifying from the group would definitely not be a problem. Martino could use the three group matches to slow down Velarde. Slowly integrate into the national team instead of having to use the friendly match on June 7.
Although Mario Binco's words were somewhat unreasonable, and the ultimate goal was to keep Velarde in the team for the 15th round of the league on June 6, Gerardo Martino, based on the principle of not stalemate the relationship, In the end, it was agreed to let Willard finish the 15th round of the league before concentrating.
After all, Messi, Mascherano and others have to delay their return to the team because of playing in the Champions League final. They can't just hold on to Alan Willard, which would be a bit unfair to Peter the Sinner.
Willard also breathed a sigh of relief when he learned that he could stay in the team and continue playing in the 15th round of the league. After all, the game against Bolivia was not a FIFA A-level event, and it could not have as high experience as the national team's official game. What's more, he himself wants to help the Hurricanes win the 15th round of the league and establish a greater advantage for the newly promoted team to win the championship in the second half of the season.
After several days of preparations, at 15:00 on June 6th, the 15th round of the 2015 A-League and the last round of the first half of the season, the away match of the Hurricanes against Sporting Cologne officially began.
Sporting Cologne ranked first in Group A of the Albanian Second Division last season. They had a chance to compete for the championship of the Albanian Second Division. However, the points of the Hurricane Racing Team in Group B were too high. Sporting Cologne couldn't even see the tail lights and could only watch. The Hurricanes won the A-League Championship last season.
After being promoted to the A-League, Sporting Cologne has performed mediocrely this season and is currently ranked 21st in the A-League, unable to compare with the Hurricanes. Although this game was at home, Sporting Cologne did not boldly attack, but carefully sent out a 451 formation, preparing to defend and counterattack.
Anyway, their goal is just to avoid relegation and there is no need to compete for the championship. Facing the powerful enemy at the top of the list, Hurricane Athletics, they only wanted to maintain a draw and score one point to win.
However, at the beginning of the game, Sporting Cologne still took advantage of the visiting team Hurricanes' inability to enter the game quickly, and took advantage of their own home field to launch a wave of blitzes. The entire midfielder and the two full-backs were bold Press forward, attack with all-out force, and try to score a lightning goal.
But in this game, the Hurricanes Atletico team also played all their main players. Anyway, after this game, they will enter the winter break (June and July are winter in Argentina), so Mario Binco does not need to be reserved for the players. Physical fitness, so the last game is also the main force, vowing to win this game.
Moreover, in the midfielder position, in order to release Velarde's stronger forward attack power, the partner midfielder was also replaced by Federico Bismara from Lucas Villaruel.
With such a main lineup coupled with Bismara, who has stronger defensive ability and more experience, Sporting Cologne's blitzkrieg in the opening ten minutes did not achieve any effect.
After the Hurricanes gradually entered the game, Sporting Cologne, who saw that the opening raid had no effect, retreated and began to shrink and defend according to their established strategy.
Hurricane Athletics had to fight a positional battle.
At this time, Villard's height, physique, consciousness, technology, speed, heading, passing, shooting and other advantages were immediately revealed.
Although Sporting Cologne has placed Velarde in a key defensive position, Velarde is too fast and his movement is too flexible, and Sporting Cologne cannot guard him at all. And even if someone keeps up with him and guards him closely, he is often at a disadvantage in the confrontation with Willard's strong physique, and cannot cause much interference to Willard at all.
When the time came to the 28th minute, Villard ran into a fleeting gap at the front of the penalty area, and Toranso happened to find this gap and passed the ball in time.
Velarde ran over diagonally, shot the ball without stopping, hit the ball hard, and kicked the ball in the direction of Sporting Cologne's goal.
The shooting technique of 83 and the huge power supported by the physique of 90 made the ball fly towards the goal like a cannonball. Judging from the route, it did not deviate from the goal frame.
Sporting Cologne defender Lazzaroni in the penalty area tried to fly to block the hole of the gun, but failed to touch the ball; goalkeeper Bronn flew to save and touched the ball with his fingertips, but was unable to completely push the ball out of the post under the huge force.
The ball just hit the fingertips of goalkeeper Bronn and changed its line slightly, but it still flew into the goal unswervingly.
"Goooooooooooooooooooooal..."
"The ball went in!!!"
"Alan Willard!"
"Open the record!"
"Villad received Toranso's assist from outside the penalty area and shot directly from a long distance without stopping. He hit a powerful and heavy shot that broke Sporting Cologne's goal."
"Goalkeeper Bronn pounced on the ball, but the ball was too powerful. He couldn't completely push the ball out of the baseline, and the ball eventually flew into the goal."
"Atlético Huracán 1-0 Sporting Cologne away."
