Chapter 62 No Way Out

When Boas saw his team lose the ball in the first nine minutes, he was stunned for a moment, and then sat in his chair without moving.  m

He felt the strength draining from his body, which was not a good sign.

He soon realized that this was not going to work, and he had to make a change!

No matter what, as the head coach of the team, he had to fight to the end!

Now that the team was in trouble and lost a goal, how could he have the idea of ​​giving up on himself?

So he mustered up his strength and stood up from his seat, then walked to the sidelines, slapped his hands, and shouted to his players: "Don't panic! We still have more than 80 minutes! There is enough time! Stay calm, calm down!"

However, in such a noisy environment, it is unknown whether his roar was heard by his players...

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At the same time, in another stadium, Nottingham Forest's home stadium, City Stadium, everyone also heard that Lazio was leading Real Madrid by one goal.

This was a huge stimulus for the two teams that were playing against each other.

So whether it was the fans of Nottingham Forest or Dortmund, they shouted desperately to the stadium at this time: "There's a goal over there! Lazio leads Real Madrid 1:0!!"

Inspired by this news, the two teams that were playing against each other began to exert their strength.

Dortmund, playing away, attacked more fiercely, while Nottingham Forest, playing at home, defended more actively...

If it was a draw, it would not be a good thing for both teams.

In a draw, all three teams had five points, so they had to compare the win-loss relationship between the two sides, and they had the same win-loss relationship. All of them were draws.

Then we had to compare the goal difference between the two sides, and the goal difference was the same, both zero.

Next, we compared the number of away goals between each other, which was still zero.

Finally, the total goal difference was crucial.

Unless Real Madrid lost to Lazio by a large margin, Nottingham Forest and Dortmund would not be able to beat Real Madrid for the time being.

In order to ensure that they could qualify, on the premise that Lazio defeated Real Madrid, they would naturally defeat the other side.

As long as they can win, they will definitely qualify!

One goal stirred up the situation in both stadiums.

This is the group of death!

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Boas tried hard to calm the players. Then reorganized the offensive and dealt with Lazio.

He kept searching for experience in defeating Lazio in his mind, mainly from the game in which he led Manchester City to defeat Lazio.

But today is destined to be the day of suffering for him and Real Madrid.

Just when he was racking his brains to find a way to defeat Lazio, Lazio scored again...

The decibel level of the Wanda Stadium has always been very noisy. Boas regarded this as background sound and could turn a deaf ear to it.

But his thinking was still interrupted by a louder noise.

He woke up from his thoughts. Although he hadn't seen what happened, he already had a very bad idea in his mind.

So he quickly cast his eyes on the big screen in the stands.

As expected, a very cool animation was playing.

After a burning football exploded, golden light spurted out, and after the golden light, a huge Italian word "L" appeared.

The ball went in again!!

"Edison——" The live broadcast was leading Lazio fans to shout.

"Cavani!!!!"

More than 70,000 people shouted the name of one person at the same time, and the scene was like a tsunami caused by a magnitude 10 earthquake in Haiti!

The momentum that came over was almost suffocating!

"Lazio is two goals ahead of Real Madrid! The game has only started for fifteen minutes... It's incredible! It's incredible!"

"Cavani! His fifth Champions League goal this season! After Icardi was injured, the veteran seemed to have found another spring in his career. He is currently the player with the most goals in the Champions League for Lazio! He even has a chance to challenge the Champions League top scorer!"

"Real Madrid wants to beat Lazio away? Villas-Boas also said that he would definitely lead Real Madrid to qualify from this death group? It's a foolish dream! In front of Lazio, their dream is fragile!"

"I think Real Madrid will become the first Real Madrid in history that failed to qualify from the Champions League group stage under Villas-Boas..."

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When the cheers of Lazio fans resounded through the sky and swept the entire stadium. The old face of Florentino, the chairman of Real Madrid Club, sitting on the rostrum, looked very ugly.

But it was not the kind of ugly with a gloomy face, but a kind of ugly with a dead face.

Like a person who has been dead for a while.

All his hopes and glory were taken away by Lazio's second goal.

Real Madrid will never be able to reverse Lazio when it is two goals behind.

In other words. If Real Madrid wants to qualify now, it can only hope that the team in the other stadium will draw and Lazio will not continue to score in the next game.

In that case, Real Madrid can still become the second in the group with the advantage of total goal difference.

But... Florentino knows Changsheng well, is this possible?

This is not the first time he has dealt with Changsheng.

He knows how deep this man's hatred for Real Madrid is, and he will not let go of any opportunity to humiliate Real Madrid.

He should have known long ago that with Real Madrid's current situation, it would be a serious mistake to meet Changsheng in the last round of the group stage.

But the results after Boas led the team, especially the 8:1 sweep of Osasuna at home in the last round, gave him hope again.

People always have some fluke in their hearts...

Now, the cruel reality has made him know that it is wrong to have fluke.

Real Madrid is really going to suffer unprecedented humiliation in his hands!

For this reason, this old man who truly loves Real Madrid is heartbroken from the bottom of his heart.

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The news that Lazio led Real Madrid by two goals in 15 minutes was also transmitted to the city stadium as soon as possible.

Everyone is sure. Real Madrid will definitely lose, it's just a matter of how many goals they lose.

Then there is nothing to pay attention to, just concentrate on playing your own game.

Want to qualify from the group?

Just win the game!

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What happened next was like a nightmare for every fan who loves Real Madrid. They hoped countless times that they could wake up from this dream, but every time they closed their eyes and opened them again, they could still see their team being slaughtered by Lazio on the court...

The score on the big screen kept changing.

In the 35th minute, Lazio led Real Madrid 3:0. The goal scorer was Messi.

In the 44th minute, Lazio led Real Madrid 4:0, and the goal scorer was Verratti.

When the referee blew the whistle to end the first half, the commentators thought that although there were still 45 minutes left in the game, there was no suspense at all.

"Forty-five minutes of garbage time. Real Madrid's players are already zombies... They came to Rome with a very difficult mission. Now that the mission has failed, their efforts are naturally meaningless. The only suspense next is whether Lazio will show mercy... However, based on my understanding of Chang, this is difficult..."

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In the locker room during the halftime break, the locker room of Real Madrid was so quiet that it was almost empty, or... like a morgue. Sitting inside were not a dozen living Real Madrid players, but a group of cold corpses!

Boas couldn't come up with any solution at all, but he didn't give up. He was still looking for it. It's a pity that he was sweating profusely. He didn't find a suitable solution.

The current situation is not much different from a dead end for him and Real Madrid.

Boas was unwilling to lose the game like this.

He believed that since he could lead Manchester City to defeat Lazio, he could lead the stronger Real Madrid to defeat Lazio.

But how did it become like this?

He was so entangled in his own world for fifteen minutes until the halftime break. He didn't come up with any effective solution.

In the end, he could only yell a few times to ask everyone not to give up and keep fighting.

But everyone is a professional player. They are not ignorant children anymore. They certainly want to win, but as the head coach, you don't come up with an effective solution, just shouting slogans, what's the point?

Isn't this fooling people?

Can fighting without a method bring victory?

It is absolutely impossible when you are four goals behind.

So when the Real Madrid players reappeared on the court and waited for the game to start, they all looked very frustrated.

The head coach looked helpless, which made them feel very uncertain.

In the minds of many people, this game has already been lost.

And they lost with a clear conscience - anyway, it was the head coach who was incompetent and did not make a comprehensive arrangement, and it had nothing to do with our performance. We tried very hard, but we had to deal with such an incompetent head coach, so... it's not our problem, we just lose...

As for the historical glory of Real Madrid, the record of never being eliminated in the Champions League group stage, those have nothing to do with them.

It's so tiring to always live with the record...

Maybe if this record is broken, it will be more beneficial to the future of Real Madrid?

Because you can get rid of the burden and start again.

Just think of it as a new era for Real Madrid...

These players kept comforting themselves in their hearts and gave themselves such a psychological hint that it didn't matter.

Then, they really felt that it didn't matter if they lost, they lost.

In this case, the second half of the game began.

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