At the Mérida Metropolitan Stadium, the game is still going on. As the world's number one super-rich club, Argentina naturally wants to continue scoring goals, reverse the victory and take all three points.
On the Venezuelan side, there was some reluctance to admit defeat, because they had been leading until more than 70 minutes, but Rojo equalized the score with a long shot.
They also want to score goals, win, and get their first victory in this World Cup preliminaries. Even if they face Argentina, they still have ideals.
However, Argentina did not underestimate them in the second half. The defense was always cautious and did not give them any decent opportunities. On the contrary, when Argentina got the ball, Velard organized the attack in the backcourt and Di Maria, Messi and Prato counterattacked, which was very threatening.
As time passed, when the time came to the 88th minute, many Venezuelan players and fans already felt that it was good to get a draw against Argentina. Venezuela’s frontcourt pass and cut cooperation was interrupted by Argentina and handed the ball to Willard.
Willard stood in his own half and took a look at the movement of the three frontcourt players. Messi attracted two defenders, Di Maria attracted a full-back, and there was only one central defender next to center Prato.
For a center, no matter how little-known, because the center is directly facing the goal, the marking of a defender is still a little weak. Once they get a chance, they can shoot and create a threat.
Therefore, Velarde did not hesitate or pass the ball to Messi or Di Maria. Instead, he passed the ball directly to the front of Venezuela's penalty area.
Pratofor understood Velarde's intention with his heart. The moment after Velarde passed the ball, he immediately rushed towards Venezuela's penalty area and got ahead of Venezuelan defender Vilasquez who turned back in a hurry. Received a long pass from Willard.
Although Vilasquez continued to interfere around him, Prato still opened his arms to block the opponent. After observing the position of goalkeeper Hernandez, he lobbed the ball over the goalkeeper's head. , flying toward the goal.
In Prato's expectant eyes, the ball finally hit the crossbar and bounced out.
Just when the Venezuelan fans wanted to breathe a sigh of relief, Messi, who rushed into the penalty area diagonally from the right, got ahead of goalkeeper Hernandez and made a diving dive to head the ball into the goal.
"Goooooooooooooooooal..."
"The ball is in!"
"Messi's header shot back, he made a rare header and put the ball into the Venezuelan goal."
"Argentina reversed the score 2-1."
"If Venezuela can't score again, then this will be a winning goal."
"Argentina will complete the comeback from conceding one goal first and take away three points from the Mérida Metropolitano Stadium."
The Argentinian team celebrated enthusiastically and took the opportunity to stall for a while. The difficulty of this game was beyond everyone's expectations. Fortunately, the reversal was completed in the end. A small victory is also a victory. As long as we can get three points, it is a victory.
As for the Venezuelan side, they were naturally very unwilling. They were the ones who scored first, but they were the ones who lost in the end. This made them very unwilling.
Therefore, the head coach directly used up all the substitutions and replaced offensive players to attack aggressively in the remaining minutes, trying to score goals.
However, Argentina also made substitutions, removing Messi and Di Maria and replacing them with two defensive players to strengthen defense.
What's more, Argentina also has Velarde, a super midfielder who can appear in any position as a free agent.
Until the end of 3 minutes of injury time, referee Baskunian blew the final whistle, and Venezuela failed to score another goal.
In the end, Argentina reversed Venezuela 2-1 in an away game and won the 8th round of the World Cup preliminaries. It continued to top the standings with an undefeated record. The probability of qualifying for the World Cup preliminaries is getting higher and higher.
After all the qualifying rounds of this round of World Cup, Argentina topped the list with an unbeaten record of 7 wins, 1 draw, 0 losses and 22 points. Uruguay ranked second with 16 points, Brazil ranked third with 14 points, Chile and Colombia both scored 13 points, and Ecuador Level with Paraguay on 11 points.
Ecuador has suffered a losing streak and has fallen out of the qualifying zone, with little hope of qualifying.
After completing this round of FIFA World Cup preliminaries, Willard was successfully upgraded to level 48 and received an upgrade reward of 50 skill points.
50 skill points can exactly upgrade a skill from 99 to 100, and Willard is going to use it for "shooting". He said he was looking forward to seeing what the effect would be after raising the "shooting" from 99 to 100 early next month.
After playing the national team game and hanging out with his girlfriends for a day, Willard set off back to Europe.
At 16:00 on September 10th, in the fourth round of the 2016/2017 Premier League season, Liverpool faced the defending champion Leicester City at Anfield.
This is Liverpool's first home game of the season, and the opponent is Leicester City, which won the Reds' first Premier League title last season.
There is no doubt that Liverpool will definitely go all out in this game to defeat the Blue Fox and win three points. Not only for the championship this season, but also to vent the anger of last season.
After the game officially started, Liverpool launched a fierce attack on Leicester City amid the cheers of more than 50,000 Red Army fans at Anfield.
Although Leicester City defended with all their strength, and Schmeichel also tried his best to protect the goal, Liverpool's ferocious offensive still allowed Leicester City's goal to last for only more than ten minutes before being declared defeated.
In the 17th minute, with Willard, Wijnaldum, Firmino, Mane and others attracting a large number of defensive players from Leicester City, Milner, who was the starting left back in this game, took the ball. Dribbling the ball along the left wing at high speed, and then suddenly cutting in about 20 meters from the baseline, causing chaos in Leicester City's defense.
As a result, when the Blue Fox defender went to steal him, he passed the ball diagonally to the baseline.
No. 20 Lallana, who started this game as a left winger, went down and received Milner's pass and passed directly.
Velarde and Firmino competed for the top in the middle, but the ball was too high and the two missed the landing point. However, it attracted a lot of defensive attention from Leicester City, allowing Mane to press the opponent's side from the back. Defender Fuchs easily headed the ball into the goal.
In the 17th minute, Mane opened the scoring for Liverpool and took a 1-0 lead. This goal kicked off Liverpool's indiscriminate bombardment against the Blue Fox.
As the defending champion, Leicester City only had one win, one draw and one loss in the first three rounds, ranking in the middle, which is inconsistent with the status of the defending champion.
But there is no way. Everyone knows that Leicester City last season was a collective outbreak of an extraordinary state and is not universal. This season, the Blue Fox has been brought back to its original form.
Take this game as an example. Leicester City had almost nothing to do in the face of Liverpool's indiscriminate bombardment.
Offensive players Vardy, Mahrez, Shinji Okazaki, etc. worked hard, but Liverpool's defense had Willard checking for gaps and directing, and they didn't get a chance at all.
On defense, after Kante moved to Chelsea, the Blue Fox's midfield defensive ability also declined drastically, and they were even less able to stop the Red Army's indiscriminate bombardment.
More than ten minutes later, in the 32nd minute, it was Mane again. He received a wonderful pass from Velarde from outside the penalty area, stopped and evaded the Blue Fox defender Huth, who was about 23 meters away from the goal. He kicked off the ball from a distance and fired a heavy cannon to the world, once again blasting open the door of Leicester City.
Mane scored twice and Liverpool led 2-0. After Alan Willard joined last season, Liverpool's strength has greatly improved. After introducing Mane this season and moving Firmino to the center position, their offensive capabilities have been greatly improved. Even Leicester Defending champions like Cheng couldn't handle it.
Before the end of the first half, Mane, who had already scored twice, took the ball outside the right corner of the penalty area and advanced it, attracting three Leicester City defenders to surround him. However, he did not force the shot this time, but passed the ball across. To Firmino in the middle.
Firmino received the ball with his back and responded with a kick. Velarde, who came in from the back row, shot the ball furiously. He kept shooting and hit the goal with another heavy shot.
The angle of Willard's shot was not very good, and goalkeeper Schmeichel also touched the ball. However, the force was too great. The ball was only slightly changed by Schmeichel, but it eventually flew into the goal.
Subsequent statistics showed that the speed of Willard's shot exceeded 100 kilometers per hour, reaching 109 kilometers per hour. No wonder the angle was not very good, and Schmeichel clearly touched the ball, but could not prevent the birth of this goal.
Willard scored another victory for the Red Army, and Liverpool led 3-0. More importantly, this is the 99th official game goal of Willard's career (excluding Olympic U23 level goals).
Therefore, many fans and fans in the stands held up 100 signs, hoping that Willard would score another goal quickly and complete the 100-goal milestone in his career.
However, there was too little time left in the first half. The referee quickly blew the whistle to end the first half. The two sides entered the halftime break with a 3-0 score. Liverpool, playing at home, temporarily led by three goals.
During the halftime break, the atmosphere in the Liverpool dressing room was very relaxed. Everyone agreed to provide more assists to Velarde in the second half, so that he could score at least one more goal, and strive to win this game at home in front of more than 50,000 Red Army fans. Completed the milestone achievement of 100 goals in his career.
Willard expressed his gratitude to his teammates for their kindness, but did not reject it. Because this is the home court, it is undoubtedly very happy to be able to accomplish this achievement at home, with more than 50,000 home fans blessing him and witnessing this milestone moment.
In contrast, in the visiting team's locker room on the other side, the atmosphere in Leicester City seemed much heavier. Faced with a three-goal deficit, Ranieri, the tinkerer who led the team to a magical championship last season, could not come up with any effective solution.
Because the opponent Liverpool is too strong, no matter how hard they struggle, it is useless.
