Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Race That Ensues
1718 season, 27th round of La Liga, Granada vs Sevilla. This game is neither a national derby nor an important competition such as a championship. But the impact of this game was far-reaching, and it changed a lot of things.
The first is the change to the Granada team. With his amazing performance, Lin Fan has completely won the recognition of the entire team and even the fans. As a result, Lin Fan also began to seriously appear on the stage of the world's top league. And the Granada team that accepted Lin Fan, the vacancy after Samper's departure was also well filled. The strength of the Granada team was fully exploited. Especially in terms of attack, the improvement is huge.
The second is to let Chinese players begin to be recognized around the world. In the past, whenever Chinese players were mentioned, the first thing that came to the minds of foreigners was the unusable parallel players.
Previously, although Yan Feng's outstanding performance was recognized by foreign countries, it was generally believed that China was the only one. No matter how bad the population of more than a billion people is, it can be a miracle. Now, people have found that China is not only Yan Feng, an excellent player. With one Yan Feng and one Lin Fan, can't we find more Yan Feng and Lin Fan? You must know that China has a population of more than one billion.
Suddenly, many people felt that they had discovered an immeasurable gold mine. There are a lot of smart people in this world, and there are also a lot of people who play football. As a result, many smart football people began to focus on young Chinese players. I hope to find talented players like Yan Feng and Lin Fan. If you can't get it right, you can get a Yao Ming in the football world.
Again, with Lin Fan's role model, more young Chinese players have been inspired. Everyone hopes that they can be like Lin Fan and excel in the top league. What followed was the confidence of the Chinese players, which subtly reached a higher level.
Of course, these effects will not be visible in a short period of time. And the changes that can be seen soon are in Lin Fan himself. Before, when he was walking on the streets of Granada after training, few people would care about him. After this game, on the way to training the next day, he met a lot of fans asking him for autographs and photos.
Such a change in circumstances made Lin Fan's mood high. In training, I am getting better and better. At the same time, his teammates, who did not recognize him before, began to be very willing to pass the ball to him.
Lin Fan is not the only one whose emotions are high. After the win against Sevilla, the main players of the Granada team were also in high spirits at the same time. The atmosphere in training starts to be relaxed and positive.
A few days later, Granada flew to Istanbul, Turkey, to kick off a new round of the Europa League group stage. The opponent was Fenerbahce, who took home the victory from Granada in the first leg.
On this expedition to Turkey, the Granada team did not have an opponent against Fenerbahce, but lacked confidence. The whole team is full of thirst for revenge.
For this game, most of the outside world is not optimistic.
Well, again dismissed. Yan Feng was a little powerless to vomit about this. It seems that the Granada team has not been favored, and Yan Feng has become accustomed to this kind of external remarks. Many times, the outside world is not optimistic, but it can motivate his fighting spirit even more.
However, it is not for nothing that the Granada team is bullish. At least the local media in Granada and the fans in China are very optimistic about them. It's normal for local media to support local teams. Instead, the domestic support for the Granada team is mainly because there are Yan Feng and Lin Fan in the team. In the eyes of many fans, the Granada team has our two Chinese midfield cores, how can they lose?
The Fenerbahce team not only received a lot of support, but also full of confidence.
"Granada is just a loser for us. None of them escaped defeat at home and now in our stadium they have no chance of losing but to lose. ”
"Double kill! Do you still need to ask?"
"There is no doubt that although Granada is a good and young team, defeat is what they should pay for their tuition. ”
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The words that Fenerbahce distributed to the media before the game showed their desire to win the game and their blinding confidence.
All right. It is actually quite normal for Fenerbahce to say this. In European football, pre-match mouth cannons are already part of the game. As for what the opponent would say at the beginning of the game, Yan Feng, who has been here for more than a year, has become accustomed to it.
Lin Fan, who heard these remarks, wanted to go back. However, Yan Feng persuaded him. In Yan Feng's opinion, it is still the most powerful counterattack to return to the opponent in the game.
The Granada team this time is not only Yan Feng and Lin Fan, the Chinese who are accustomed to talking less and doing more, did not make a counterattack. The entire Granada team was silent. After being questioned repeatedly, Pirlo, as the head coach, only said lightly. "The game speaks in terms of wins and losses. Our words are all about two days of competition. ”
For the Granada team did not fight back, the outside media who relied on topics to eat were very disappointed. However, they have the means to stir up topics and confrontations.
For example, interviewing fans on both sides, and then picking out some stirring words to send out. This time it aroused an online war of words among fans on both sides.
In the battle of words on the Internet, in the end, it was the Fenerbahce team that gained the upper hand. There is no way, Fenerbahce won the first leg, and at the same time, the team has more foundation, which makes Fenerbahce fans have more capital to speak.
The fans of the Granada team suffered in the mouth cannon and could only pin their hopes on the game. The fans started to hope very strongly that Granada could win against Fenerbahce. They want the team to help them slap each other hard in the face.
The mood of the fans will still affect the team. In order to give the fans a sigh of relief, the whole Granada team held their breath and wanted to do a good job at Fenerbahce's home stadium.
"Our fans are being bullied by the opposing fans, what can we do as players?"
"them, them hard. ”
"Our fans are looked down upon and bullied by opposing fans. This is even more unacceptable than looking down on and insulting us. We have to fight for the fans. Against Fenerbahçe, there is no way back. We have to fight for our fans. ”
"Reward our fans with wins. Slap the opposing fans in the face with the victory and let the fans see that we deserve their support. ”
The fact that the Granada fans could not scare their opponents began to be used to motivate the players. This puts pressure on the players and sets them a clear goal.
For the sake of the fans' face, they must win against their opponents.