In terms of ability and situation, there is no problem with Di Maria replacing Pereira. One has experience and the other has motivation. With Rexos taking intensive defense, the previous new force is also good.

But Sanchez was angry and he didn't think about it. Benfica's two full-backs Rodriguez and Di Maria are both very unique. They like to dribble over people when they get the ball. When they can't assist, they only obey Costa in the team and are willing to pass the ball to Costa. After Costa was stared by Gao Xiaodong, neither of them was willing to pass the ball, so they were left with Tut. Benfica's best in penetration and cooperation were all lost.

Sanchez switched to Di Maria and wanted to attack Rexos's wing, but he didn't expect that without the overall cooperation, Di Maria could not break through Rexos' intensive defense at all. The ball was repeatedly intercepted and hit to counterattack, and the quality of the offense was worse than when Pereira was on the court.

After the 75th minute of the game, Rexos' defensive pressure became smaller. Sanchez was very annoyed and he made a substitution again. This time he replaced the forward Gomez and replaced the winger Assis. Rodriguez returned to the midfield. Assis and Di Maria both reached the winger's position.

The commentator at the scene was speechless about this substitution, "I want to use a cross from the wing, and Cardoso bombed at high altitude! Since this is the substitution, why not replace Rodriguez and replace Perez, who is both offensive and defensive, who likes to cooperate. It seems that Sanchez is really disorganized."

In addition to being unique, Di Maria's dribbling breakthrough is definitely very powerful. After being blocked by the opponent on the wing, he wisely turned the bottom into an inward cut and went to the front of the penalty area to find a shot opportunity.

This change of Di Maria caught Rexos off guard. For the first time, Di Maria shot a shot from the front of the penalty area, and the ball flew out of the baseline against the post.

When Di Maria cut across again, Di Maria rushed over and was swept by Di Maria. Ziner was not familiar with Di Maria and was penetrated by an angel.

Gao Xiaodong dared not let Di Maria break through again, otherwise Rexos's defense line would be in chaos.

Relying on his speed, Gao Xiaodong gave up Rui Costa and rushed towards Di Maria from behind.

Gao Xiaodong was always inseparable from Rui Costa, but Di Maria was not prepared for Gao Xiaodong. Gao Xiaodong suddenly stole from behind. Di Maria nicknamed Noodles was directly knocked away by Gao Xiaodong, and the ball was also taken steadily by Gao Xiaodong.

Before obtaining the super-energy growth shoe, Gao Xiaodong grabbed the ball and passed it out. But now, Gao Xiaodong's idea of ​​taking a handful of one move is very strong. He dribbled the ball like Maradona, and passed five levels and six players like lightning. This is also Gao Xiaodong's dream.

He felt that even if the ball was intercepted, he could run back to make up for defense. Gao Xiaodong made a fuss and rushed to Benfica's half with the ball.

The first thing Gao Xiaodong encountered was Rui Costa’s defense. This was also the first time Rui Costa defended Gao Xiaodong in this game. The game between cats and mouse finally entered the second season.

Gao Xiaodong is incomparable to Costa, whose skills have reached the level of transformation. He is a semi-professional player, but what Gao Xiaodong is best at is using his own advantages to deal with his opponent's disadvantages. He did not hesitate to score the ball and ate Rui Costa with his speed.

35-year-old Rui Costa did not have the ability to race against the fast-moving fat man, so he could only reach out to pull Gao Xiaodong's jersey.

But Gao Xiaodong, who was slow, rushed up like a tank, and after speeding up, it was even more unstoppable. Rui Costara couldn't even hold on, so she could only watch Gao Xiaodong kill Benfica's half.

"Bastard! Why did you run up again!" Oliveira was very angry. Gao Xiaodong was against his tactical record.

Petit came to intercept the midfielder, Gao Xiaodong re-used the same trick and continued to score the ball. Petit had rich defensive experience, so he quickly turned around and ran towards Gao Xiaodong's running line.

Portugal international Pettit is tall, skilled and conscious, but when he met Gao Xiaodong, he was unreasonable, just as Pettit ran to Gao Xiaodong's route, Gao Xiaodong had already caught up. He bumped his shoulder and hit Pettit aside.

Gao Xiaodong cleared the obstacle, but the ball was gone. He had just made a little big move, and Benfica's defender rushed over and snatched the ball.

Having just passed the opportunity to lightning, Gao Xiaodong saw that the ball was lost. In order to be able to keep a defender in time, he first pounced to scare Benfica's central defender Louis San. Seeing Luis passing the ball, Gao Xiaodong immediately turned around and ran back desperately to find Rui Costa who was marking himself.

It's better to have a fast speed. When Gao Xiaodong returned to defense, the ball had not yet been passed to Rui Costa's feet.

Although the ball was snatched by the defender, it was rare to see Gao Xiaodong playing a long-distance raid. The fans in the stands were surprised to applaud Gao Xiaodong.

Head coach Oliveira also secretly exclaimed that Gao Xiaodong had actually returned to the defense, and his speed was rapid! However, if this fat man could not stand the loneliness, Oliveira would be ready to remove him. The game is not over yet, and it is not the time to play.

Gao Xiaodong did not forget his mission. He was too excited after getting the speed increase shoes and couldn't help but run. After enjoying the stimulation of speed, Gao Xiaodong stopped moving forward and continued to stare at Rui Costa.

Gao Xiaodong stared Rui Costa in vain, and the other players did not have Costa's threading thread. In addition, Rodriguez and Di Maria did not cooperate with their teammates, so they could not play exciting cooperation. Faced with the intensive defense, the requirements for passing and cutting cooperation were very high. If they could not play, they could only play around the periphery of Rexos.

Seeing that the game time was getting less and less, Benfica's players were anxious, and the defense line pressed heavily, constantly passing long passes, hitting the ball into Rexos's penalty area, trying to open the situation with Cardoso's header.

Camacho in the stands saw Benfica who was skilled and played a long pass and rushed, and used his shortcomings to break the opponent's intensive defense. If he could break through, that would be a joke, unless he had the luck that day.

Seeing that it was 80 minutes later, Rexos was still ahead of Benfica 1:0. At this time, Benfica Chairman Philip Vieira in the VIP box was a little embarrassed. Rexos Chairman Carus, who was sitting opposite, kept applauding the players' wonderful defense, but he could only sit in embarrassment. It doesn't matter. If he really loses the game in the end, it will be too embarrassing. Philip Vieira becomes more and more angry the more he thinks, and then transfers this anger to head coach Sanchez. It turns out that he has not made up his mind to switch Sanchez. Now he has made up his mind that as long as he can't win the game, he will take Sanchez down and never let him scramble to his position.

Entering the last ten minutes of the game, the victory was in sight. Rexos's players were obviously nervous and their movements were a bit large. At this time, the situation changed. Rexos took the lead, and the referee Proca's call became severe.

In the 83rd minute of the game, Dior assisted in defense at the front of the penalty area and tackled Di Maria. The referee showed a yellow card and awarded a free kick.

This is a free kick with a good position, just a little left on the middle of the goal, only 25 or 6 meters away from the goal.

Rui Costa stood in front of the ball. Under Gao Xiaodong's close control, Rui Costa's chances of shooting were very limited, and this free kick was also his best chance to break Rexos' goal.

Rui Costa is not good at direct free kicks, but as the core of the midfield, an excellent free kick is standard. After so many years of training, Costa believes that his free kick accomplishments have made considerable progress and he is fully capable of breaking the opponent's goal.

Gao Xiaodong was powerless at this time. He could only watch Rui Costa attack the goal, and could do nothing but pray and blessing.

The Rexos fans in the stands held their breath nervously and stared at Costa.

Costa was elegantly running, like a walk, but the step was very accurate. When he ran to the ball, Costa took his right foot and shot the upper right corner of the goal. It seemed that he didn't exert much force, but after the ball left his foot, it was extremely fast and it rotated very much.

Goalkeeper Beto was fully focused. After Rui Costa kicked the ball out, he jumped up and slapped the ball with one hand. However, Rui Costa's penalty was really tricky. Beto used all his strength to hit the ball, and then his body fell.

As his body fell, Beto's heart was also falling. Then he heard a bang. As the goalkeeper, he understood what it was and hit the post!

Beto turned his head and saw that the ball hit the post and bounced out.

Gao Xiaodong was also scared and sweated in a cold sweat. He successfully kept his guard for almost 90 minutes. If Rui Costa scored a goal at this time, all his defensive contributions today would be wiped out. This is how it is to be a defensive player. No one felt it was hard to work hard for 90 minutes. One mistake became the target of criticism from fans and the media.

Seeing the ball hit the goal post, Gao Xiaodong was not idle either, so he rushed over to grab the point.

The ball fell in front of Rodriguez. Rodriguez was about to shoot, but Gao Xiaodong quickly inserted it from behind and poked the ball out of the bottom line.

Benfica's chance to get a corner kick again, and Rui Costa was the one who took the penalty.

This is what Costa is best at. Although Cardoso and Rui Costa have no tacit understanding, Rui Costa still gave Cardoso a quick and well landed. As long as Cardoso is heading straight, the goalkeeper has a 90% chance of not touching the ball.

However, Cardoso's grasp of Costa's ball path was not that accurate. This was a good pass, but Cardoso took off early and the ball did not arrive when his body fell.

Cardoso barely headed the ball, but the ball was confiscated by goalkeeper Beto.

Beto was still young and wanted to launch a counterattack when he held the ball. Gao Xiaodong and Zener stopped him almost at the same time, so that he could waste some time and give Rexos a chance to breathe.

Then Beto suddenly realized that he ran left with the ball in his arms and two steps on the right, pretending that he had no point to pass the ball.

However, referee Proca had already learned about Beto's ideas and showed Beto a yellow card.

In a blink of an eye, 90 minutes were about to pass, and Rexos was getting closer and closer to a great victory. The fans in the stands stood up and silently prayed for Rexos' players, hoping that they could resist the opponent's tide of attack.

Time passed by minute by minute, Rexos' defense was like their names, like the rocks by the sea, hard and tenacious, without retreating or wavering at all.

The Benfica people were given 3 minutes of stoppage time, which made them a little dissatisfied, but they had no time to complain and could only attack quickly.

At this time, Benfica didn't care about defense anymore. Everyone overcame halftime and bombarded the penalty area in Rexos. The ball flew around Rexos's penalty area. Many Rexos fans were almost unable to bear it and wished that the game would end soon.

Just in the last minute of stoppage time, Di Maria practiced two people in the dense space on the wing and passed the ball across the ball from the penalty area line in front of the goal. Di Maria passed the ball too fast, and Rexos' defender Bruno was unable to dodge. The ball happened to hit the arm and was awarded a penalty by the referee.

In an instant, more than 20,000 Rexos fans in the stands stopped and jumped up together to express strong opposition to the referee.

The commentator at the scene said: "At the last moment of stoppage time, the referee awarded a penalty kick, which was simply a robbery. They wanted to help Benfica steal two points from the March Stadium."

Rexos's players also surrounded the referee Proca and asked him to take back his life. Proca not only did not take back his life, but also took out a yellow card to warn Evis who came to talk to him.

Rui Costa stood at the penalty spot, and many Rexos fans were afraid to look at it anymore. They closed their eyes and asked their companions to tell them the result.

Xiao Le didn't dare to look at it either. She closed her eyes, but raised her ears to listen.

Referee Oliveira covered her face with her hands, sat in the coach's seat, waiting for the final verdict.

The same is true for Sanchez in another coaching seat, and this game is even more important to him.

Following Gao Xiaodong, Beto became another Rexos player against Rui Costa. In this game, Rexos played the best in Beto and Gao Xiaodong. His previous good performance also greatly increased Beto's confidence. He stood on the goal line and jumped back and forth, just like Liverpool goalkeeper Dudek.

Although this is a penalty kick that determines the outcome, Rui Costa was not nervous at all. He has seen such a scene more often. A Portuguese Super League game will not be any stimulation for him.

After a small run-up, Rui Costa nudged the goal with his right foot.

They made a save while Rui Costa kicked. He bet on the left. He judged correctly and touched the ball with his finger, which bounced out on the post.

Then the referee Proca blew the whistle to the end of the game. Giving a penalty was enough. He could not give Benfica any chance, otherwise there would be a big uproar after the game.

Rui Costa stood at the penalty spot without any sadness or pain, only a look of loneliness. In one game, three goal posts, even if one of them bounced into the goal net, the result and process of the game were not like this, but none of them were there.

Maybe this is what God means, it’s time for me to retire.

Rui Costa made a silent decision as he listened to the home team fans' tsunami. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!