Chapter 32: Quietly Forward
"Utilitarianism is on the rise, are Granada losing the tradition of Spanish football? Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info" - Marca newspaper.
Granada won the game, but Spain's more famous sports media criticized Granada instead. After studying the last few rounds of matches, many media people have also had a bad impression of Granada's strategy of keeping the draw and winning.
"The entry of Chinese capital is changing La Liga. The charm of technology is being replaced by rough and rigid tactics, and it may not be long before La Liga becomes the Chinese Super League!"
"Half-pitched, it's all about getting the ball away from goal. What is there to see in this game? Fans come to enjoy the art of football, not to see a wrestling match. ”
The Granada team managed to achieve a victory, but in exchange for criticism from the outside media. This is somewhat unpleasant to watch.
Unlike the criticism of the outside media, Granada's local media and fans are much more tolerant.
"This is the crossroads of the survival and death of the Granada team. In order to survive, it is not a sin to kick ugly. ”
"I just want Granada to stay in La Liga. If the consequence of good football is to go to La Liga, then I'd rather watch a dull La Liga at home. ”
As long as the relegation is successful, even if it is a draw every time, I am willing to go to the scene to cheer!"
The sudden criticism of Granada's tactical style diluted the joy they got from the victory. Although there is the support of local fans, it still affects the morale of the players to some extent.
In the training session that followed, everyone seemed to be in a much worse state than before, which made Alcaraz frown.
It took Alcaraz a lot of effort to get the team's thinking unified again. And the most convincing evidence he came up with is Granada's current ranking.
Unconsciously, after Alcaraz took charge, the Granada team has quietly surpassed Athletic Hung and is currently in the bottom three positions of La Liga. And the league points also reached 18 points, just two goal difference behind the bottom four Leganes.
Granada are now just one step away from escaping the relegation zone.
It was only then that the Granada team realized that their team was already moving forward. And all this is achieved by their efforts, which gives them a bright future. At this point, they began to support Alcaraz's utilitarian style.
can stay in La Liga, they are reluctant to go to La Liga. As a result, they began to keep enough input into their training again.
Granada's next opponent is Eibar. It's another team in the middle of the table. The current Eibar team is in 10th place, one place ahead of the previous Las Palmas team. Just looking at the stats, you can see that Eibar is also a team with a relatively balanced attack and defense.
The difference is that Eibar is a team with more mental strength than technical ability.
You must know that Eibar only won the La Liga championship in the 14/15 season, thus entering La Liga for the first time in history. At present, he is only a second-year student in La Liga.
But this second-grader can't be underestimated, as evidenced by the fact that they can rank 10th.
In the face of such a team, the relegation old fritter Alcaraz once again put forward the goal of maintaining a draw and winning. Of course, the main goal is to keep the peace.
It seems to be the same premonition of Granada's purpose, and when the Granada team arrived in the town of Eibar in the Basque Country, Alcaraz was asked directly by the media.
"Will you still hide in the second half against Eibar this time?
'I just want to say that we need relegation. Points needed!"
"Eibar is higher in the rankings than Raspales and the team is more combative. This is not Granada, can you hold it, will you lose even more?"
"Heh, won't you know when you see the outcome of the game?"
In the face of Alcaraz, everyone saved some face. But when someone asked Yan Feng, it was different.
"Hello, Yan. What do you think about the fact that your style of play is a coward's behavior? Also, some people say that your technique is as rough as your Chinese league. Some people even say that you can only run around on the field, and you can't play La Liga at all. What do you think of it?"
"Coward, do cowards dare to see blood? As for my level, you should ask my opponent!" Yan Feng was very unhappy in the face of such a question. And he was very upset, so he decided to make the person who said this even more unhappy.
Don't you think we're cowards and can't hold on? Don't you think it's a bad way to play and to lose badly? Then we must not lose, and we must make you both annoying and helpless against us.
And it's the day of the game. The 5,000-seat Ipurua Stadium was filled with the home team's fans early. But their slogans are not so cheerful. The main thing is not to make the players of the Granada team happy.
"Cowards are not welcome in Eibar!"
"We Eibar are warriors, and we'll beat you up,!"
Listen to such slogans, and then see the banners that say 'You are cowards' in the stands. The players of the Granada team are still quite depressed. But depressed is depressed, and their goals do not change.
And because Yan Feng can't understand it, and his foreign language level is relatively average, he only knows that the home players have nothing to say, but he is relatively not so depressed.
Soon, though, he was upset. Because when shaking hands at the entrance, I faced an Asian, to be precise, a Japanese little widow. He actually said disdainfully: "Zhina people!"
"What? Girl winter melon, what do you say?" faced the face of the mouth of a turtle in Chinese. Yan Feng listened carefully, and he could understand the meaning. It's on fire.
"Zhina people, kicking ~ kicking football is not good. Not brave!" continued the very handsome Japanese.
"Heh!" Yan Feng snorted coldly and went to shake hands with the next person.
"I'll copy it, the little widow of the dog day. Wait a minute, there's something nice for you. Don't say that I'm a Chinese bullying a little Japan. Yan Feng thought very unhappily in his heart. Thinking of the other party's body and that small body, Yan Feng suddenly wanted to call those guys who had been saying on the Internet that the Chinese were not as tall as the Japanese now.
This Japanese who despises Yan Feng very much is called Qianguishi. With a height of only 169CM and a weight of only about 63KG, he was very unhappy when he saw the tall Yan Feng anyway.
"Zhina really only produces this kind of garbage with empty height but no courage and incompetence!" Qian Guishi thought with great disdain in his heart.
In fact, seriously speaking, in terms of football, China is indeed quite contemptible. The Japanese team has always been a regular in the World Cup, but the national football team with better physical fitness and height has struggled to even enter the top 12. Therefore, many Japanese players do not think very highly of Chinese players. And the recent media criticism and the unhappiness of the fans have made the Japanese, who have always only been reassured of their true thoughts, can't help but say it.
The race was soon underway.
Since today's Eibar team is in their usual 4231 formation, the Granada team did not put on an extreme formation like 541, but put on the same 4231.
As a result, Yan Feng returned to the position he was most familiar with. Today, he was also entrusted with the defensive duties by Alcaraz. It's just that today it was mainly to sit in the middle and provide enough blessings to the backline.
But soon, Alcaraz found that the protection provided by Yan Feng today was a bit excessive.
Originally, Yan Feng was asked to protect the middle, but he often appeared on the side to protect his teammates. Although over there, the one called Qianguishi is quite active, but~
Eh~ After seeing that Qian Guishi flexibly broke through the defense, Yan Feng, who was quickly made up for it behind, directly shoveled out of the sideline with the ball, Alcaraz felt that it was better to forget it, and he would not express his opinion for the time being.
Qianguishi was quite active today, and he was very active. But the more positive he became, the more energetic Yan Feng became.
The characteristic of Qianguishi is that he is good at running and breaking through. But when facing Yan Feng, he looked very helpless. Not to mention the body, he never had a body. And the running ability that he was proud of was like a child in Yan Feng, and it was not enough to see at all.
Then, every now and then, Eibar's home fans can see their players being overturned by the ferocious Yan Feng. You must know that Qianguishi is still very popular with Eibar fans. Now seeing that such a small person as a noble man often had to endure the ravages of Yan Feng, a fierce man, they began to express their dissatisfaction one after another.
"That big man, don't bully our nobleman!"
"Damn, that No. 44 is too coarse. He's in the middle, so why do you keep running to the side to bully our little guy?"
But no matter what others think, as soon as he sees the ball at the feet of Qian Guishi, Yan Feng will secretly approach there. Then, as long as Qianguishi doesn't divide the ball in time, then he will definitely enjoy Yan Feng's tendons and flesh next.
Poor Qianguishi, bent on performing, bent on letting everyone see that Japanese players are better than Chinese players. You know, there is a saying about Asian derbies in Japan and China. Of course, the Qianguishi who knew it should actively behave.
However, his body is really at a loss, especially in the face of a guy like Yan Feng who is unreasonable and bullies you with his body, Qianguishi has a bitterness and can only swallow it in his stomach.
In this case, Qianguishi, who was very active on the wing in the past, could only continue to distribute the ball to his teammates, and gradually lost his due role.
After seeing that Qianguishi was gradually depressed, Yan Feng felt quite regretful. In his heart, he was still thinking that if he had the opportunity, he would have a drama that would knock people away. After all, this kind of thing has happened in the past in overtime. With the physical condition of the Qianguishi, Yan Feng was confident that if he had the opportunity, he would definitely be able to knock the other party into the air and drift away. As long as there is such an opportunity, even if it is to get a yellow card, Yan Feng is still willing.
You know, this point is very important for the Eibar team. Eibar are not a team to be known for their ground skills, with the most long balls in all of La Liga. This is a great need for wingers to cross the bottom.
With one side missing, Eibar's offense is much inferior. In particular, the lack of the most dynamic side has left their attack to the side of Pedro León in the middle and on the right.
In this way, the Granada team will defend and the pressure will be much less.
For a while, the Granada team played more actively than in the previous game. At least Kravitz, who was at the top, still had a few chances to attack.
There was a bit of a stalemate, but overall Eibar had the upper hand. However, they are not a top-level attacking prowess, and they are so sharp against a Granada backguard who is now becoming more and more confident in defence.
Under the counter-attacking strategy of the Granada team, they failed to score in the entire first half. Of course, Granada's weak forward line is even less likely to score.
The first half was a draw, which gave Granada a lot of confidence. But at the start of the second half, they found that the Eibar team was more tenacious than expected.
After half-time adjustments, both sides of the Eibar team were active again. This brought defensive pressure to the Granada team far beyond the first half.
The spirit and confidence of the Granada team now is very different from the team halfway through the game. Their equally tenacious defence made it difficult for the Eibar team to break down their defences.
The tenacious Granada team survived 60 minutes and another 70 minutes. At this point, it was supposed to be Alcaraz's supposed time to strike back. But the Eibar team was more tenacious than they expected.
Despite the ferocious firepower of the Eibar team, their persistence and fighting spirit have not faded much.
In this way, Alcaraz's sneak attack strategy to imitate the previous game failed.
By the 80th minute, Granada had become more passive. A lot of the players in the team are starting to run out of energy.
Of course, the Eibar side also suffered a great drop in fitness, but they stubbornly attacked the Granada defence from time to time. This constant maintenance of offensive firepower. It made the Granada team even more uncomfortable.
In the end, there were players in the Granada team who couldn't hold up the cramps first. And with the substitutions fully filled, Granada's squad became tight.
If it were any other team, or the previous Granada team, it would probably be a dish. But they were lucky to have Yan Feng. A madman who can't run to death, and is still very fast.
His teammates were physically exhausted, so Yan Feng ran desperately. Firefighting is constantly carried out everywhere. There were several crises, but Yan Feng arrived in time to sabotage them.
Under Yan Feng's hard support. The Granada team survived the whole game.
0:0. Granada actually took another point away from home. This was unexpected by the outside media. And Yan Feng because of his desperate defense in the final stage of the game, everyone can see him everywhere. So, they gave Yan Feng the credit that the Granada team was able to keep a point this time.
Of course, Yan Feng was very happy about this. But the price he paid for this was that after the game, he sat on the ground and couldn't get up for a long time. This is not the Chinese Super League, this is La Liga with stronger rhythm and intensity.