The green devil

Sergio did not directly announce his starting lineup.

Back at the hotel, Sergio and his coaching staff carefully studied Sampaoli's starting lineup and intentions.

According to Sampaoli's coaching of the Chilean national team, this starting is true.

Sampaoli's advocacy of offense has reached the point of obsession.

He didn't care about the strength of his opponent at all, no matter who he was facing, he would attack.

It doesn't matter if there are defenders or not, as long as I score one more goal than the opponent.

Sergio believed that the Espanyol had a chance to win, so he decided to use the starting lineup first to see the effect.

Later, the Spaniard also announced the starting lineup for the evening game.

Goalkeeper: Diego.Lopez;

Defender: Ruben.Duarte, Alvarez, Gonzalez 4-Victor Sanchez;

Midfielders: Diop, Reyes, Piatti, Perez;

Forwards: Moreno; Zhao Yang

This is also close to the Spaniard's main lineup.

After the Espanyol's starting lineup was announced, Sevilla did not respond, and the Espanyol fans were a little anxious.

"Sergio really wants to win in Pizjuan?"

"It's because I don't want to qualify for the Champions League, and I still feel that Monaco can't turn the game over."

"Is it necessary to fight Sevilla? We haven't won here for five years."

"Even if we win Sevilla, there are 38 rounds in the league. Are these three points more important than the club's first Champions League match?"

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Fans don't know what the coach thinks, and they can't influence the team's decision.

At 6:30 in the evening, the game officially started.

This is the first league game of the new season and also the first La Liga game for Sevilla coach Sampaoli.

Peace Juan Stadium was packed.

Because this game has Zhao Yang, a player from Huaguo, and Hiroshi Kiyotake, a Japanese player.

Therefore, the reporters on the sidelines far exceeded the usual match day, with as many as one or two hundred reporters.

With the whistle of the referee Gonzalez, the focus of the first round of the 16-17 La Liga season between the Spaniard and Sevilla kicked off.

The first kick-off is the visiting team Espanyol.

Although it was an away game, the Espanyol team played very actively after the game started.Several core players who started the game before the game have been instructed by the head coach to play for 45 minutes with all their strength.

If the Espanyol team played proactively, then Sevilla played crazy.

In the first minute of the game, the Spaniard's pass from the side was blocked, and then Sevilla, except for the goalkeeper, came out in full force, as if falling behind in stoppage time.

Although the Spaniard was mentally prepared, he was still taken aback by Sevilla's desperate attack.

In less than three seconds, Sevilla had passed the ball to the frontcourt, and formed a situation of playing more and playing less in the frontcourt.

But this is more than seven offensive players playing six defensive players.

After advancing to the frontcourt, Sevilla was not in a hurry. They kept pouring the ball quickly in the middle and frontcourt, looking for loopholes in the Spaniard's defense.

This is a bit like Barcelona's style of play, the difference is that Barcelona's passing and receiving are more precise and smoother, while Sevilla is fast, but not precise enough.

After pouring seven or eight balls in a row, as the Spaniards returned to defense, Sevilla had less room to pass and receive the ball.

In the 2nd minute of the game, Sevilla midfielder Vazquez failed, and the ball was intercepted from behind by Moreno, who returned to the defense.

Moreno passed back to central defender Gonzalez, and ran back by himself.

Moreno thought that Gonzalez could pass the ball to himself and form a quick counterattack.

Obviously Moreno overestimated Gonzalez's passing ability. After he passed the ball to Gonzalez, a player in the frontcourt of Sevilla rushed to press him. Gonzalez did not dare to pass the ball. Instead, it was passed back to goalkeeper Diego.Lopez.

Goalkeeper Diego.Lopez has won everyone's trust in the Champions League play-offs. It is also a good choice to hand over the first pass of the counterattack, although it is a bit conservative.

Diego.Lopez is a traditional goalkeeper. There are many goalkeepers like Neuer. His best way to counterattack is to open his feet to find strikers.

After the defender passed the ball back, he stopped, glanced ahead, swung his thighs, and drove the ball forward.

Switched to a slightly more normal team, Diego.Lopez's big pass will be grabbed by the defender.

But Sampaoli's Sevilla is not a normal team.

This team's offense was too crazy. In the second minute of the game, there was only one person left in the defense-central defender Mercado.

Another central defender, Pareja, went up.

This is just crazy.

The only Spaniard who is on the front line and does not return is Zhao Yang.

Zhao Yang unexpectedly discovered that he had the opportunity to compete for the ball with the defender.

Zhao Yang was a little far from where the ball landed, but the defender needed to turn around.

In just one or two seconds of running, Zhao Yang started quickly and was one body ahead of Mercado.

Mercado did not give up. When Zhao Yangkan touched the ball, he fell to the ground and shoveled the ball to the goalkeeper Rico.

Although Rico struck out, it was still some distance away from the ball.

If Mercado can't tackle the ball, or the tackle is not strong enough, Zhao Yang can immediately get a single-handed ball against the goalkeeper without interference.

Fortunately, Mercado was lucky, the ball was tackled solidly, and the ball quickly flew to the goalkeeper Rico.

Facing Zhao Yang who was rushing over, Rico didn't dare to be careless, and kicked the ball out of the sideline, destroying the Spaniard's long pass counterattack.

After being hit by such a threatening counterattack by the opponent, the average team will probably seek stability and will not play so aggressively again.

But Seville is different.

Sampaoli stood on the sidelines, like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, waving his hands excitedly, asking the players to step up their fight and move forward with all their strength.

After the Spaniard sent the ball from the sideline, he did not have a chance to shoot and was blocked by Sevilla.

Sevilla continued to press hard and besieged the Spaniard's penalty area.

Espanyol coach Sergio frowned on the sidelines.

He is a relatively mediocre coach and doesn't like Sampaoli's lunatic style of play.

Such a crazy attack, no matter how good the defense is, it can't hold it back.

Sergio had no choice but to pray that his team would break through Sevilla's goal first and take the initiative.

Sevilla's chance to score came first.

After Sevilla made many deliveries in the frontcourt, striker Vietto shot a dead corner 20 meters from the front of the penalty area.

The ball was angled but slow, and goalkeeper Diego Lopez lifted the ball out of the baseline with both hands.

Sevilla took a corner kick and failed to compete for the goal. The ball was cleared by the Spaniard. The ball fell to the feet of the Spaniard midfielder Piatti. The former Sevilla player Piatti quickly launched a counterattack.