Tang Zheng's speed is fast and his physical fitness is good, when he ran to the first-team training ground, the time was still one minute before the training officially began, which means that Tang Zheng arrived at the training ground at 8:59. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, head coach Diego Simeone and assistant coach Jorge Gortillo were already standing there.

Diego Simeone is very optimistic about Tang Zheng's career, and the relationship between the two is like that of master and apprentice in private, but this is on the training ground, and the iron-blooded character he has cultivated in his career has carried over well into his coaching career.

He looked at Tang Zheng with a straight face: "I once said that all the first-team players, no matter who they are, are not allowed to come later than me, ten laps, ten laps back to report." ”

Although Tang Zheng is a little unhappy, it is not easy to refute the face of the head coach, otherwise he will create a disgraceful history.

About a little more than ten minutes later, Tang Zheng returned to the team with normal breathing.

At this time, the first team players were still warming up.

Everyone looked at Tang Zheng in surprise, the first-team training ground was built according to the standards of a football field, and it was about more than 400 meters around the training ground, and Tang Zheng was not running around the edge, ten laps were more than 4,000 meters, nearly 5,000 meters.

After ten laps, Tang Zheng looked quite good, breathing normally, and didn't seem to have done his best......

How long has it been?

This newcomer's physical fitness is a bit perverted!

I don't know who said: "This guy's physical fitness is really good!"

Immediately, it resonated with all the first-team members of River Plate.

Diego Simeone had long known about Tang Zheng's outstanding physical fitness, so he was not surprised at all, he just said lightly to Tang Zheng: "Return to the team." ”

Since he had just run more than 4,000 meters, Tang Zheng didn't need to warm up anymore, he stepped aside and did stretching exercises familiarly.

What Tang Zheng didn't know was that from the first day he reported on the first team, he had a nickname - he couldn't run to death.

After everyone had warmed up and stretched, Diego Simeone reintroduced Tang Zheng in front of all the first-team players.

However, because the opponent River Plate faced next was quite strong, everyone quickly threw themselves into intense preparations.

River Plate will have several tough battles ahead.

The draw for the 1/8 finals of the 2008 Copa Libertadores has been released, and River Plate's opponent is not strong, but not weak, they drew their own team San Lorenzo.

San Lorenzo is now fifth in the Fall League of La Liga, just one point away from fourth-placed Sarsfield Town and three points away from third-placed Boca Juniors.

Compared to clubs drawn from other countries, River Plate's draw of San Lorenzo is a good signing, after all, they are in the same city, they don't have to travel hard, and they are relatively familiar with each other.

In the third round of this season, River Plate once beat San Lorenzo 2-0 at home, and they have a certain advantage in their hearts.

Compared to the Cruzeiro drawn by Boca Juniors, I really don't know how many times better luck is......

Therefore, the Argentine national derby, sandwiched between the two quarter-finals of the 2008 Copa Libertadores, was slightly in River Plate's favor.

However, the venue of the national derby is the home stadium of Boca Juniors, and for River Plate, that advantage can be equalized.

Prior to that, River Plate had two more league games against Rosario Central and Argentine Juniors, and are now tenth and eighth respectively in the fall league.

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Tang Zheng, who has just been promoted from the youth team to the first team, will naturally not have a good chance to play, and aside from the game experience, Diego Simeone still has to take into account the feelings of those veteran players.

Again...... Diego Simeone's original intention of moving Tang Zheng to the first team was simply to give Tang Zheng some game experience.

Of course, it's best to be able to play.

In the training match, Tang Zheng was assigned to the substitute side, the position is the left midfield position that he is already very familiar with, and he is partnered with Matthias Aveleras, who participated in the 2005 World Youth Championships in the Netherlands, but is a substitute.

Assistant coach Jorge Gortillo gave Tang Zheng a simple task - to defend in the middle.

At first, Tang Zheng thought he had heard it wrong, and subconsciously asked: "Only defend in the middle?"

Jorge Gortillo nodded, then added: "Your job is to keep the area in front of the centre-backs safe, and if you can, you can expand the range of your defence. ”

Tang Zheng said that he understood, and then looked at Falcao and Ortega, who were going to face each other next.

Thinking that he was about to play against the Argentine First Division, Tang Zheng was sincerely excited, his fists were naturally clenched, and his fighting spirit was high.

No matter how good you are in the league or in the Copa Libertadores, as long as you are here, don't try to break through my defence.

Jorge Gortillo was influenced by Diego Simeone, he was also very concerned and optimistic about Tang Zheng's future, when he saw Tang Zheng looking at Falcao and Ortega respectively, he thought Tang Zheng was a little nervous, so he patted Tang Zheng on the shoulder and said: "Tang, this is just a very normal training session, relax!"

Tang Zheng retracted his gaze, was slightly stunned, and smiled politely: "I'm not nervous, I'm just afraid that I'll forget what they look like later, so I'll look at them twice, haha......"

"Okay, then you take a few more looks, prepare well, and wait for the confrontation to begin. Jorge Gortillo rolled his eyes, then turned and went back to his life.

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Tang Zheng didn't quite understand what assistant coach Jorge Gortillo meant at first, but as the confrontation deepened, he finally understood.

Captain Ortega's dribbling ability is very strong, and he has a key pass at a critical time, which belongs to the kind of player who gets older and more demonic, and he can't prevent it at all.

Tang Zheng is very confident in his defensive ability, but in front of Ortega, he is not enough at all.

Although their substitutes have not conceded a goal for the time being, the goal is already looking a little shaky and it seems that they could concede at any time.

Therefore, Tang Zheng's defensive pressure is getting bigger and bigger, Ortega is short in stature, and the frequency of his feet is super fast, especially the game experience is particularly rich, and he is at ease in the face of a tall and large back like Tang Zheng.

A minute later, it was Ortega who received a pass from his teammates in the front court, and with his super dribbling ability at his feet, he connected two people in the midfield, and soon entered Tang Zheng's defensive area.

Tang Zheng knew that he couldn't continue to retreat, so he could only go forward, otherwise the two lines would be pressed into one line, and the back line would be even more dangerous!

Ortega suddenly dunked the ball to the left when he was still two meters away from Tang Zheng, and Tang Zheng, who was fighting and retreating, instinctively moved his center of gravity to the right.

Sensing that Tang Zheng's center of gravity shifted to the right, Ortega flicked the ball to the right in the process of playing the ball, which was the opposite direction of Tang Zheng's movement.

Tang Zheng is tall, but the lower plate is very stable, even if the center of gravity of his body has shifted to the right, he still forcibly twisted his waist and broke his body back in the process of retreating.

At the same time, Ortega slammed the ball to the left.

Tang Zheng had to make corresponding changes with the direction of Ortega's dribbling, and just shifted his center of gravity to the left, which hurriedly came to a sudden brake, and his waist was almost twisted into a twisted rope.

What kind of old fritter is Ortega?

He is 1.70 meters tall and has a super fast foot frequency, almost when Tang Zheng gritted his teeth and made the center of gravity to the right side of his body again, the outside of his right foot suddenly flicked the ball to the right.

The four consecutive changes in the center of gravity finally made Tang Zheng's steps messy and his body shaky.

At this time, Ortega did not make any adjustments, and suddenly shot from a distance of about 27 meters from the goal.

By the time Tang Zheng realized that Ortega was about to shoot, it was too late......

The football whizzed past Tang Zheng and flew towards the goal.

Ortega's long-range shot was of high quality, fast and angled, and goalkeeper Juan Carrizo managed to keep it from touching the ball, which grazed the inside of the left-hand post and flew into the goal.

Ortega, who scored the goal, did not have any emotional fluctuations, as if it was a matter of course for newcomer Tang Zheng to score with a long-range shot.

Tang Zheng felt that he was insulted, but he didn't show it, but clenched his fists and held back his strength, wanting to let Ortega know how powerful he was in the next game!

Diego Bonanotte thought that Tang Zheng had been hit, so he stepped forward and asked with concern: "Don, are you okay?"

Tang Zheng shook his head: "It's okay, I'm just thinking about what the defense didn't do right just now." ”

"Okay, then come on!" Diego Bonanotte stretched out his right fist and looked at Tang Zheng.

Tang Zheng understood in an instant, and also stretched out his right fist and greeted him: "Come on!"

They are all promoted from the youth team, and due to seniority, strength or experience, they don't play much, so they have to put in more effort when training to impress the manager and get the opportunity to play.

"Ah, wait. Tang Zheng stopped Diego Bonanotte and asked, "Are you fast?"

"Pretty fast. Diego Bonannot thought for a moment and gave a pertinent answer.

"Then when you get off the tee, you run straight to the right, as fast as you can, and then go straight to the right side. ”