As Willard's heavy bombardment succeeded, both the players and the fans of the Hurricanes Club immediately regained their morale.
This is right!
They are the champions of the Copa Libertadores and top of the A-League standings. How could they lose against Newell's Old Boys, who are ranked in the middle and have no desires?
It was just that everyone failed to adjust well before, and something unexpected happened. Now that the whole team is back to normal, with Willard leading the team, goals and reversals are what they should be.
However, there was not much time left for Hurricanes Athletics in the first half, not enough to score the second goal.
Soon, the first half of the game was over, and the two sides entered the halftime break with a score of 1-1.
During the intermission, Boca Juniors' game also ended. As expected, Boca Juniors defeated Cruzeiro Norte 1-0 and won this round, with 61 points.
As for Hurricanes, after a 1-1 draw with Newell's Old Boys in the first half, the real-time score was 70 points. Although they were 9 points ahead of Boca Juniors, they also had a goal difference advantage of more than ten goals. , but in the last three rounds there is still a theoretical possibility that the Hurricanes will lose all, Boca Juniors will win all and reverse the goal difference.
Therefore, if the Hurricanes really draw with Newell's Old Boys in this game, the Football Association cannot award them the championship trophy.
This matter must be 100% certain, no joke. Therefore, the Hurricanes Athletic Team must continue to score goals in the second half, reverse the score, and defeat Newell's Old Boys in order to win the championship and award immediately after the game.
But Mario Binco, who got the result of another game in the locker room, said to everyone: "You can't think about Boca Juniors and winning the championship and awarding awards. You yourself felt it deeply during the first half." , having too many thoughts in your mind will seriously affect your on-the-spot performance. Therefore, in the second half, everyone must devote themselves to the game and just finish the game. Even if you can't win, win the championship and award the award in advance, it's not a big deal. Wouldn't it be better to celebrate the next game at home to win the championship?"
Everyone nodded, and the pressure in their hearts was indeed not as heavy as it was in the first half. One is that in the first half, everyone has already felt the seriousness of their thoughts wandering. The other is, as the coach said, even if we can't win this game and win the championship, so what? It's just a postponement of one or two games. Winning the championship at home in the next game will have more atmosphere and a warm celebration with all the home fans.
But just in case, after the second half started, Mario Binco ordered everyone to shrink the defense first and stabilize the position. They could not be affected by Boca's 1-0 Cruzeiro Norte at halftime.
Mario Binco's decision-making can not but be said to be quite wise. Although the impact on the Hurricanes players in the second half was not as great as in the first half, sometimes it is really uncontrollable for people to have their minds wander. Therefore, in the first ten minutes of the second half, everyone really didn't. Fully into the game.
Newell's Old Boys also launched an attack at the beginning of the second half, preparing to catch the Hurricanes Athletic Team off guard. However, the Hurricanes reduced their defense, took advantage of their numerical advantage, and formed an iron barrel formation with a few players with relatively good mental qualities such as Velarde and Bismara, blocking all Newell's Old Boys' weak attacks.
After more than ten minutes of adapting to the game, all the players of the Hurricane Athletic Team basically gradually integrated into the game atmosphere, entered the game state, and devoted themselves to the game. After no longer thinking about things, the Hurricane Athletic Team started Gradually the formation was pressed forward and a counterattack began.
At this time, Newell's Old Boys also stopped attacking and began to shrink their formation, using their 4321 defensive formation to defend.
The score between the two sides is now 1-1. As long as Newell's Old Boys can keep this score until the end of the game, the Hurricanes will not be able to win the championship and hold the award ceremony at their home court. Although the championship must go to the Hurricanes Athletics, as long as the award ceremony is not held at their home court.
But the Hurricanes Athletic Team with Alan Willard, after returning to normal condition, plus a little luck, it is very easy to score goals even on the away road.
In the 70th minute, Willard took the ball on the right side of the midfield and found that most of the players on both sides were attracted to the right side, leaving the left side empty. And his teammate Alejandro Romero was waving to him for the ball in the left space.
So what's there to hesitate about?
Willard made a decisive long-distance pass and moved the ball to the left. Although Newell's Old Boys immediately changed their defensive direction after seeing Velarde's big foot move, Velarde's pass was in place, and Alejandro Romero also stopped very well without making any mistakes.
Romero stopped the ball without any defender and then sent the ball into the gap in the penalty area before the opponent's full-back Franco Escobar blocked the passing lane. .
Avila appeared in the passing route in time and shot a volley. The angle was not very good and it might have hit the goalkeeper. However, Avila was lucky. The defender of the home team behind him flew to intercept the ball, but did not break the ball outside the goal frame. Instead, he touched the ball with his toes, just in time for the ball to change its line slightly, avoid the goalkeeper, and fly past the feet of goalkeeper Wen Sain. Got into the goal.
After conceding a goal first, the Hurricanes finally reversed the score 2-1 with Avila's goal in the 70th minute of the second half and took the lead.
If the game ends with this score, the Hurricanes will be 11 points ahead of the second-placed Boca Juniors. They are sure to win the championship three rounds in advance. The championship award ceremony can be held immediately.
Therefore, whether it was Avila who scored the goal, Alejandro Romero who assisted, or Velard who made the long pass, as well as all his teammates and fans, they all celebrated excitedly.
The A-League championship is really close.
After the Hurricanes finished celebrating and the game restarted, Newell's Old Boys naturally did not want the Hurricanes to hold an award ceremony and championship celebration at their home court, so they began to make substitutions, replacing two offensive players, strengthening the offense, and trying to Scored a goal before the end of the game to equalize the score.
The bet is on the psychological imbalance after the Hurricanes scored a goal and were about to win the championship early.
As long as there is a tie, Hurricanes will not be able to hold the championship ceremony at the Marcelo Bielsa Stadium.
However, after lessons learned in the first half and the opening stages of the second half, Mario Binco has noticed this. After Avila scored, he immediately beckoned the players to retreat significantly and strengthen their defense. At the same time, Alejandro Romero was replaced with Fabianesi, and Tulaza was replaced with Dalia to strengthen the defense.
Regardless of whether the players will suffer from psychological imbalance or decline in condition because of Avila's goal, Mario Binco first shrinks the defense and uses the numerical advantage to defend the penalty area.
