On Monday, August 31st, after Willard spent another 2 skill points to increase the reverse foot from 68 to 69, the remaining skill points were 296.
Then, the team continues daily training to prepare for the next round of the league.
On September 5th, the Hurricanes Atletico team sat at home and ushered in the challenge of Argentina's independence in the 23rd round of the A-League.
Independiente is currently ranked 7th in the standings, just outside the top 6 qualifying lines for the Copa Libertadores. Therefore, although Independiente does not have the possibility of competing for the championship now, it needs to compete for qualification for the Copa Libertadores next season.
This round of the game is a guest at the Thomas Duke Stadium to challenge the top-ranked Hurricanes Athletic Team. Independiente Argentina also has to find a way to score points. Of course, facing the powerful Hurricanes, the Independence team did not choose to attack. Instead, they adopted a defensive counterattack posture in the away game to maintain a tie and win. Even if they only take one point from the away game, it is still a good record.
Therefore, in this game, the Hurricanes Athletic Team could no longer shrink their defense to counterattack the opponent. They could only press forward and engage in positional warfare.
The shrinking defense of the Independiente team caused certain problems for the technical performance of Alejandro Romero, Toranso, Turaza, Avila and others, but Velarde, who participated in the offense based on his position, did not have these problems. question.
His superb skills, awareness, speed and passing ability allow him to still perform with ease when facing the intensive defense of the Independence team.
In the 12th minute, Velarde passed the ball and assisted Avila, who almost scored with a volley in the penalty area. Unfortunately, Avila's shot was too good and hit the goalkeeper Diego Rodriguez's thigh and was deflected. Come out and get cleared by the defender.
In the 18th minute, Velarde's long-range shot from outside the penalty area hit defender Cuesta who flew to block the hole of the gun, and bounced out of the baseline.
In the 23rd minute, Alejandro Romero made a pass from the wing. Velard rushed into the penalty area and jumped high to grab the first header, but the angle was too right and was missed by goalkeeper Diego. · Rodriguez confiscated it directly.
Although Argentina Independiente tried its best to defend and blocked the Hurricanes' shots many times. But the Hurricanes, led by Velarde, attacked wave after wave, and Argentina Independiente was finally scored in the 30th minute.
In the 30th minute, Willard dribbled the ball from the right and cut inside. During this period, he used his superb dribbling skills to continuously break through the interceptions of two players, and then cut inside into the penalty area near the baseline.
With the defender and goalkeeper guarding the near corner, Willard looked up at the situation in the penalty area and made an inverted triangle pass.
The defender in front of him, Pellerano, was deceived into moving a step outside, trying to block Willard's inverted triangle pass. Goalkeeper Diego Rodriguez also moved slightly outside to prevent Velarde's inverted triangle pass and the Hurricanes player's frontal shot.
As a result, Willard's foot did not pass the ball in an inverted triangle when he landed. Instead, he suddenly exerted force and stabbed the ball towards the goal.
Defender Pellerano's move outwards just opened up space for Velarde's shot, allowing the ball to pass by Pellerano's feet. Pellerano failed to make any effective interference.
Although goalkeeper Diego Rodriguez was still standing in the near corner to guard the goal, the problem was that in order to prevent Velarde's inverted triangle pass and the Hurricanes' frontal shot, he was squatting and spreading his legs a little wide.
Velarde's shooting skills as high as 90 and a deliberately chosen ground ball shot just passed between the legs of Diego Rodriguez who was caught off guard and rolled into the goal behind him.
By the time Diego Rodriguez saw Velarde shooting and the ball was about to go between his legs, and reacted by squatting down and closing his legs, it was already too late.
In the end, Diego Rodriguez, who was sitting on the ground, could only turn his head in despair and look at the ball that rolled between his legs and into the goal, feeling quite humiliated.
Because he was pierced through the small door.
"Wow!"
"The ball is in!"
"A shot from a small angle after Willard cut inside from the wing."
"Villad caught the Independiente defender and goalkeeper off guard with this ball."
"The opponent thought that Velard was going to pass the ball in an inverted triangle to his teammate in the center for a shot. Unexpectedly, after Velard deceived the defender Pellerano to move a step outside, he suddenly used his strength to stab the ball past the goalkeeper. Diego Rodriguez stabbed him between his legs."
"Willard opened the scoring and gave Hurricanes a 1-0 lead."
"After taking the lead, the game will be much easier for Hurricanes Athletics."
Indeed, as the commentator said, after taking the lead, the Hurricanes can start to shrink their formation, attract opponents to attack, and then use the opponent's larger backcourt space to counterattack.
Such a tactic is a conspiracy. Even if the opponent knows the intention of the Hurricane Athletic Team, there is nothing they can do because they are behind in the score and they can only press out and attack. Otherwise, you still lose.
The Hurricanes' defense, led by Willard, has little impact on offense. With more people, there will naturally be holes in the backcourt for Velarde and his teammates to exploit.
In the remaining ten minutes of the first half, Argentina did not dare to attack too much. Only two or three people went into attack every time they got the ball.
In this way, although enough defensive numbers were retained in the backcourt and no more goals were conceded in the rest of the first half, the offensive intensity was too weak and they also failed to break through the Hurricanes Athletic goal and equalize the score.
After 1 minute of stoppage time, the referee blew the whistle to end the first half. The two sides entered the halftime break with a score of 1-0. The Hurricanes Athletic Team, playing at home, temporarily led by one goal.
After a 15-minute rest, the two sides changed sides and fought again in the second half. In the beginning, Argentina still did not attack aggressively. After all, they were only one goal behind, and even at the last moment of the game, they still had a chance to equalize.
Therefore, Argentina's independent offense still seemed weak and failed to cause too much trouble for the Hurricanes' defense.
The Hurricanes are also happy about this. Anyway, they are now the leading side. If the game ends with this score, the Hurricanes Athletics can still get all three points.
In such a low-intensity grind, the game time came to the 70th minute.
At this time, plus injury time, there was only a little more than 20 minutes left before the end of the game. Time began to become less abundant. Argentina finally became anxious and increased its offensive intensity.
In the 74th minute, the four frontcourt members of the Independence team played a good team game, avoiding Velarde's defense and advancing the attack to the penalty area line of the Hurricanes Athletic Team, which was finally completed by forward Al Vertengo. A powerful kick.
Unfortunately, the angle of the shot was not tricky enough, and Marcos Dias fought hard to save the ball from the baseline. In the subsequent corner kick, Independence failed to grab the first point and was saved by Hurricanes center back Eduardo Domingos from the penalty area.
