Fox in the Penalty Area

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After seeing the "substitution" signal sent by team medical team leader Nick Kitt from the field, no matter how good-tempered the "good guy" Parotti was, he couldn't help but swear a series of swear words in his native language.

These swear words are so dirty that they cannot be displayed and are automatically replaced with "*".

Coupled with the rich gestures unique to the Italians, it fully proves how bad Parotti is in the mood now.

This is simply the best portrayal of "the leak in the house meets the rain all night"-while conceding the ball first, his main central defender was injured!

In the past eight seasons, Kepa Armantegui has always been the main central defender of the Madrid Pirates. He is one meter ** tall, has excellent air defense capabilities, is also very strong, and is good at frontal defense.

Although turning around was a little slower, but as a central defender, this is not a big problem.

Besides, Riva Moreno, his partner, is more flexible and can make up for this problem very well.

In the 2026 World Cup in the United States and Canada, Amantegui, as the main central defender of the Spanish national team, won the World Cup trophy for the second time for the team and made great contributions.

After winning the World Cup, Amanteji announced his withdrawal from the national team and dedicated all his energy to the club.

In fact, Amanteji was only 33 years old at that time. As a central defender, he was still at his peak.

It is not a problem to deal with the two-line battle between the national team and the club. .

But Amanteji still made such a decision.

After retiring from the national team, Amantegui won more time to rest, and his body did not turn on a red light. He has always played steadily and stably, and is an indispensable and absolute main force of the team.

This injury was his first in nearly two seasons after the World Cup.

As a result, the first time I was injured, a big one came, with a knee injury, unable to persist in the game, and had to be replaced.

Maybe after a detailed inspection, the injury will become more serious...

Not only can I not play this game, but I will not be able to play in the next league game against Valentia, and I don’t know if I can play in the next Champions League semi-final second leg against the King of Madrid.

If you can't play, the impact on the Madrid Pirates' defense will be huge and far-reaching.

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After Kepa Armantegui was carried off on a stretcher, Parotti took the initiative to ask about the situation.

"How's it going?" he asked Nick Jeter, the team medical chief.

The latter shook his head at him: "The initial judgment should be that the cruciate ligament is torn..."

"..." Parotti took a deep breath, and stopped swearing in front of the players.

Then he squatted down and patted Amanteji who was lying on the stretcher: "Thank you, Kepa. Let's have a good rest..."

Really need to rest well, because he may need to rest until next season...

Substitute central defender Antonio Betia has been put on the field hastily - really hastily, without even warming up, or simply pressing his legs and twisting his waist, it is considered a warm-up. There was really no time to warm him up. In order to avoid giving the King of Madrid the opportunity to overplay or underplay, the game must not be resumed without substitutions.

Fortunately, everyone warmed up before the game, and the effect should not disappear completely until now.

Let Betia run more on the court and pass the ball to each other a few more times, it should be enough.

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Kepa Armantegui is a very quiet and low-key player. On the court, he is neither fierce like Moreno nor controversial like Peralta. He is a well-regulated central defender with an unremarkable style of play. Even if he loses the ball, he will rarely become everyone center of discussion.

Although the turning is slow, the position selection is good, and most of the time the problem can be solved by the card position.

But it is definitely not the kind of central defender who plays very cleanly. He will foul when he should foul, and he will not be soft when he should use dirty tricks.

Although he is close to 1.9 meters tall and has an excellent header, but in the Madrid Pirates' frontcourt set-piece tactics, he is responsible for picking and rolling his partner Moreno most of the time to create header opportunities.

These characteristics make him seem to have no sense of existence, and most of the time he is silent so that people will not think of him immediately.

There are always such players on the football field, that is, when they are on the field, they are not conspicuous, and some people even think why they are the starters.

Only when these people are no longer on the court will everyone think of them and realize how good they are.

Amantegui is not the type of player who makes people question why he can start, but he is definitely a player who will be missed if he is not there-if Amantegui can be replaced by other players, he will not always be. Both served as the team's main central defender.

Compared with him, the twenty-six-year-old Antonio Bedia is much immature.

Logically speaking, the age of 26 is already the age of playing. As long as the strength is outstanding, he should be able to play the main force in the team.

But Betia has no way to take away the main position from the 35-year-old Aman Teji, which also shows his level.

After Betia came on the field, he quickly became the key target of the King of Madrid's attack.

After the 26-year-old substitute central defender came on the field, he had not had time to enter the game state, which was the breakthrough of the King of Madrid's attack.

In order to support Betia, the defensive midfielder Ramirez almost became a central defender and retreated into the penalty area to help defend.

And Joaquin Bella shouldered the task of midfield interception.

But it is really difficult for him to deal with the two Kings' offensive midfielders, Dudu Carlos and Albin Estrom, alone.

So the entire team of the Madrid Pirates followed suit and basically gave up their offense.

Carey retreated to the backcourt to participate in the defense. He tried to break the ball at Meli's feet, but the latter threw him away with flexible steps, then dribbled laterally and then shot.

If it hadn't been for Ramirez to grab in time, stretch out his feet to block, and block the shot with his legs, the ball would have gone straight to the goal.

"Hoo-!" Pirates fans collectively exhaled from the stands of Pirates Park Stadium.

Mellie put her head in her hands, looking very regretful.

Celados gave him a thumbs up from the side, indicating that Meli played well.

"Meli's condition is really good..." On the sidelines, assistant coach Valentine frowned and said with emotion. "If this continues, Bedia is in danger... Ramirez can't help him all the time, as long as he is a little negligent, it may be fatal..."

Parrotti also frowned: "There's no way. The king is very powerful now, and they can play whatever they want. We can only get through this period of time first."

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Carey on the field set his sights on Meli.

Although it was Cerrados who scored the goal, this small Argentine man became the best and most eye-catching player in the game.

Almost every time he takes the ball, he can cause the exclamation of the Pirates fans in the stands, and make the hearts of the Pirates players on the court beat faster.

Just like Bedia who was just replaced.

Look at his tense expression and some stiff movements.

It is estimated that if he can choose, he must not want to be sent to the semi-final of the Champions League against the King of Madrid.

Playing against Meli is always under tremendous pressure.

This may be a bit too cruel for Bedia...

But there is no way, at this time he has to go on top again. If he can't stand it, once there is a breach in the team's defense line, it may be directly crushed.

Kyrie is a forward and he can't help much defensively. Just like he tried to break Melly's ball just now, but was shaken away by the opponent.

But who said that if you can't defend, you can't do anything?

Carey decided to use his own way to help the team reverse the situation, at least to suppress the king's arrogance first.

Show off your skills in front of me?

Did I allow it!

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Maxi Carey dropped back to the wing to catch the ball.

Although he is a striker, his position on the field is very flexible. Sometimes he looks like a playmaker, sometimes he looks like a shadow striker, and now he looks like a full-back.

After receiving the ball, Carey immediately faced the defense of King Madrid midfielder Dudu Carlos.

The latter didn't rush up to steal the ball immediately, because he knew that Kyrie's skills were delicate, and if he made a rash move, he might be passed by the opponent.

So Dudu Carlos was just stuck about two meters in front of Kaili, and didn't stretch out his feet or stick them up.

Then wait for your teammates to return to the defense and reorganize the defense.

Facing Dudu Carlos' stern battle, Carey leaned slightly to the outside and turned his head at the same time, which made Dudu think that Carey was going to force a breakthrough along the sideline.

So he also turned around and prepared to paste it.

But at this moment, Carey's right foot gently pushed the football into the field, completely opposite to his twisting direction!

no look pass!

Dudu didn't expect that Kyrie would do this, he was stunned for a moment - because he remembered that he had confirmed just now that there were no Madrid Pirates players in that direction, so who did Kyrie pass the ball to? Or was this Kyrie's mistake?

Before Dudu could react, Carey, who was about to break through along the sidewalk, suddenly turned back, accelerated his start, and chased after the football—he just kicked the football lightly, so the ball is not far away from him now !

Not a dribble along the sidewalk, nor a "nolook pass", but a drive inside!

Dudu was caught off guard, and when he turned around again, Meli had already cut in front of him and blocked him behind. Unless there was a foul, it was impossible for him to stop Carey!

"Wow!!!"

Huge exclamations erupted from the stands at Pirates Park.

"Kyrie! Oh! What a fantastic fake move! What is this? It's two fake moves in a row! Dudu was so dizzy!"

The exclamations in the sky quickly turned into cheers.

Carey did not continue to entangle with Dudu Carlos after catching up with the football. He was worried that the opponent would use fouls to prevent the team from counterattacking.

So he quickly passed the football out, diagonally to Tonini who responded to him in the middle.

Then continue to run forward.

The cheers from the stands grew louder and continued.

Until Carey received the ball again in front of the penalty area of ​​the King of Madrid and swung his feet for a long shot, the cheers reached their peak!

The football flew to the near corner of the goal against the turf. King Madrid goalkeeper Rodriguez Bakker quickly fell to the ground, and then bravely pressed the shot directly to the ground.

Just when he held down the football, a figure suddenly appeared in front of him!

Barker's second reaction was very quick, and he quickly took the pinned football into his arms, and then pressed it under his body.

Hu Lai, who rushed up to Buckle, raised his feet, and when he saw this, he could only brake and retract his legs.

Cheers eventually turned into gigantic sighs.

But soon, the sigh disappeared and was replaced by applause.

Very warm applause.

Since conceding the ball, this is the most threatening offense for the Pirates of Madrid.

Although he didn't score a goal, at least it scared the King of Madrid into a cold sweat. The arrogance that the King of Madrid played against the Pirates just now weakened a lot.

For this wonderful attack, the Madrid Pirates fans should also give sincere and warm applause as encouragement.

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ps, sorry, forgot to set up automatic updates...