Five days later, on March 28, in the 14th round of the South American World Cup preliminaries, Argentina challenged Bolivia away.
Bolivia's home stadium is located on a plateau of more than 2,000 meters, and the air is thin. Any team arriving here is like going to hell. Both Brazil and Argentina have suffered disastrous defeats here.
In this game, Messi felt unwell before the game even started, and was directly removed from the starting position by the head coach.
The same goes for other players. If they feel unwell or have poor physical fitness, as long as they bring it up, the head coach will agree to take a rest. Anyway, Argentina is equivalent to qualifying early. Winning or losing this game does not matter at all. The main thing is not to get injured.
As a result, there were only five main players left in the starting lineup, including Velard, Di Maria, Aguero, Rojo, and Romero, and the other six main players were rotated out.
Even though Di Maria and others barely played, they faced huge breathing and physical pressure and did not dare to fight too fiercely.
Only Willard, who has a full physique, can perfectly resist altitude sickness with the help of system plug-ins.
However, his teammates failed to do their best, and Velarde had to devote most of his time to defense. In the end, he only scored a goal through a long-distance run during a counterattack and a one-stop shot.
However, Bolivia's offense was also strongly intercepted by the Argentine defense headed by Velarde. In the end, Bolivia only scored one goal despite having the advantage of being at home on the plateau.
After 90 minutes, the two sides shook hands and settled for a draw 1-1, and Argentina achieved its third draw since the start of the World Cup preliminaries.
But one point in this tie was enough.
After this game, although the fourth-ranked Colombia and fifth-ranked Chile teams both won, Argentina still leads the fifth-ranked Chile team by 13 points with 36 points, with only 4 rounds left in the world preliminaries. , officially qualified from the South American World Cup preliminaries four rounds in advance, becoming the first team other than the host Russia to qualify for the Russian World Cup.
Although the South American World Cup preliminaries are not difficult for Argentina, qualifying four rounds in advance means that the head coach can spend more time training in the following four rounds of World Cup preliminaries, and can also promote more young rookies to enter the national team to participate in the World Cup preliminaries. , discover talents, train talents, and prepare for replacement.
Therefore, qualifying early is worth celebrating. Fans reveled in the country, and the team also held a celebration banquet at the hotel where they stayed in Bolivia. Then they took a flight to leave South America and return to the club to participate in the club's competition.
Returning to the club, Velarde received congratulations from his teammates and coaches. Naturally, Velarde also wished his teammates who participated in the World Cup preliminaries a smooth appearance in the remaining games and that everyone will go to Russia to participate in the World Cup.
April 1st was originally another day at the beginning of the month when you could add skill points. However, Willard no longer had any skill points, so he could only watch, looking forward to upgrading as soon as possible and getting another chance to add skill points.
Skills cannot be improved, but the game must continue. Today is the 30th round of the Premier League when Liverpool faces Everton at home.
Although Liverpool is playing at home, in order to avoid accidents during the game, the players need to go to the training base in the morning to gather, conduct light pre-match warm-up training, have a collective meal in the base restaurant at noon, then take a lunch break, and then prepare for the afternoon game.
So Willard still needs to report to the base after having breakfast at home.
Pushing off Desia's beautiful legs that were pressing on him, Velarde turned over and picked up the mobile phone on the bedside table. As a result, he saw a text message from his teammate Mane during the do-not-disturb period on his phone: "Villad, it's raining today. My head is wet." I said the game has been cancelled, so I don’t need to come to the base.”
Willard was shocked. He quickly stood up and opened the curtains to look outside. It wasn't raining heavily, just a light rain.
Football matches are not only about players, but also about fans, security, live broadcasts, etc. Therefore, even if the weather is bad, the game will never be canceled easily. Let alone light rain, even if it is heavy rain or snow, unless it is completely impossible to compete, it will generally not be canceled easily.
"Alan, what are you looking at?" Daicia woke up and asked.
Willard wondered: "Mane said it was raining today and the game was cancelled, so I looked at the weather outside. Although it was raining, it was just light rain. It is impossible to cancel the game in this kind of weather? Is the Premier League crazy? "
Desia suddenly laughed: "Have you forgotten what day it is today? April 1st, April Fool's Day, Mane must be joking on you."
As a Chinese, Willard usually doesn't have April Fool's Day in his mind, and he doesn't think about it at all.
When I heard my girlfriend say this, I suddenly cursed secretly: "Fuck me!"
Then, Willard picked up the phone and dialed Mane. After Mane got through, he said: "Mane, my car broke down and I can't go to the base. Come pick me up."
Unexpectedly, Mane laughed loudly and said: "These are all old tricks I have used. Don't try to lie to me. Even if your car breaks down, you still have a spare car, and your girlfriend also has a car. There is no need for me to pick it up." .Are you shocked by my text message and want to take revenge on me? No way."
Willard laughed and scolded: "Damn, you are smart, everyone has sent your text message? What if someone really believes it and doesn't report to the base?"
Mane laughed and said: "How can there be such a stupid person? Even if he didn't react, he would definitely call the coach and ask. If there are really people who don't come by the time, it's still enough to call and shout."
After the two joked for a while, they hung up the phone. Willard was even laughed at by Desia, but Willard didn't explain. You can't let others know about taking your body and being reborn.
After breakfast, we rushed to the base. Sure enough, no one fell for Mane's trick. However, the coaching staff expressed dissatisfaction with his behavior of fooling everyone in this way. If someone really believed it, wouldn't this delay the team's game?
Therefore, Mane was punished by the coaching staff for doing leapfrog, and was laughed at by Velarde and others.
Then everyone began to relax and train to maintain their condition and prepare for the afternoon game.
At 16:00 on April 1, the 30th round of the Premier League match between Liverpool and Everton officially started at Anfield Stadium. Except for the injured players, the Red Army's main force came out and took advantage of the home court advantage to launch a fierce attack on Everton from the beginning.
In just the 8th minute, Velarde found Firmino with a penetrating long pass in the backcourt. Firmino passed between midfielder Tom Davis and defender Jagielka. After receiving a pass from Willard in the gap, he passed the ball diagonally without waiting for Everton's defender to press him, and then passed the ball into the gap near the right corner of the penalty area.
Mane, who came in at high speed, caught the ball before defender Baynes and passed the ball into the penalty area. Then he rushed over from the other side of Baynes, who couldn't stop the car, and then chased the ball and kicked it. shoot.
Mane completed the final breakthrough with a man-ball pass, and then hit a high-quality volley into the far corner of the goal.
Although goalkeeper Joel Robles made a save, Mane's ball was too powerful and too fast. Robles's save was still a step too slow. When the ball flew past, his The palm of my hand was in place, but it was already too late.
The ball flew smoothly into Everton's door, and Liverpool led 1-0 at home.
After the score balance was broken, the game became easier for Liverpool. Everyone could relax and shrink the defense slightly, allowing Everton to attack, and then attack the opponent's counterattack.
Even if Everton knew Liverpool's plan, there was nothing they could do. Football matches are like this. When the opponent's defense shrinks, as the team behind, can you still fall behind until the end of the game? ?
That way the opponent would win easily.
Therefore, Everton can only attack, but even if they immediately return to defense as soon as the ball is lost during the attack, it is still useless because Liverpool's attack points are too scattered, especially Velard's shooting skills are too superb.
Although the whole world knows that Velarde's shooting accuracy is terrifying, and all goalkeepers are more vigilant when playing against Velarde's team, sometimes the movement of the body is unconscious.
Who would move their position while constantly looking back at the goal behind them?
It was under such circumstances that when the time came to the 27th minute, when Willard broke through with the ball in the midfield, he saw Everton goalkeeper Robles standing a little to the right and leaving the goal line a little far. , about thirty-six or seven meters away from the goal, he suddenly took a long shot after swaying away the opponent's No. 17 Idrissa Gay.
Even though Willard's preparations before shooting were insufficient, the shooting power brought by his 100-meter-long physique was strong enough. Even if he did not hit a shot with a speed of more than 100 per hour, his speed should not be underestimated.
Coupled with his "shooting" accuracy, the ball took off and flew towards the upper left corner of the goal.
Before Velarde shot, goalkeeper Joel Robles took his eyes away for a moment to observe the movements of Firmino, Mane and others, thinking that Velarde would pass the ball to the goalkeeper. them.
It was this moment of confusion and positional error that prevented Joel Robles from reacting immediately and making a corresponding save.
By the time he came to his senses and moved to the left side of the goal to return to defense, it was already too late.
The ball flew over the head of Robles, who jumped hastily, and fell into the goal against the lower edge of the crossbar.
Willard scored a long-range lob and penetrated Everton's goal again, giving Liverpool a 2-0 lead.
After leading by two goals, this game is not difficult for Liverpool. It is difficult for any team to complete a comeback when Liverpool leads by two goals.
Everton obviously does not have such strength and luck.
After the whole game, Everton failed to score even a single goal. Instead, Liverpool took advantage of their home court advantage to continue to bombard the visiting team, and finally scored a total of 5 goals.
Among them, Willard scored three, completing a hat trick.
After the referee blew the final whistle, Liverpool beat Everton 5-0 and won the 30th round of the league.
