Chapter Ninety-Eight: Look at Zhang Yuan at the Critical Moment

Manuel Pellegrini looked up at the pitch and it turned out to be Ibagasa. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

After Zhang Yuan's goal, just two minutes later, Ibargasa seized a Jones interception error, and after winning the ball at the front of the penalty area, he suddenly shot from a distance, Bolton blocked and did not block, and the ball hung in the dead corner of Schalke's 04 goal, and Neuer couldn't reach it.

In just 5 minutes, the situation on the field changed dramatically, Schalke 04's newly established away goal advantage, the home 1:0 advantage was all gone, and now the two teams are back on the same running line.

"Damn!" Mulder slammed the roof of the dugout.

He wasn't scolding the players on the field, he was just scolding the heavens and he was too weak, so that the happiness of Schalke 04 only lasted for 5 minutes, what about him!

Zhang Yuan was also in a bad mood on the field in an instant, what the hell is going on?!

He's also scolding the thief, but he's forgotten that luck is sometimes on Schalke 04's side, and sometimes it's on Villarreal's side.

He had a bit of luck with his shot last time out, and Ibargasa's long-range shot this time was just as lucky!

This short equaliser was a big blow to the morale of Schalke 04, and the Schalke 04 players began to make mistakes after the game resumed.

Pellegrini made a quick decision and immediately asked his players to attack, and for a while Schalke 04 was in front of the goal.

Fortunately, Schalke 04 finally resisted, and the two sides fought 1:1 in the first half, with 45 minutes left in the game.

The players of Schalke 04 walked off the field dejectedly, and Zhang Yuan was also a little affected.

Back in the locker room, Mulder helplessly asked, "What the hell is wrong with you?!Did we lose?!"

His tone was not frustrating but genuinely helpless, and the conversation between Buskens and Mulder every game since the last meeting has been nothing more than cheering, never talking against, and they understand that they don't have any authority in the dressing room now.

So today's words were really simple and emotional, Schalke 04 was eliminated? No, but the players felt like they were eliminated when they came off the field.

Seeing that there was no response from the players, Mulder could only continue, "Anyway, there are still 45 minutes left, I hope you can cheer up! We are still solid in defense in the second half, Zhang Yuan is responsible for organizing the attack in the front court! There is an opportunity to defend and counterattack, I hope you can seize it!"

With the current mental state of the Schalke 04 players, it will not be possible to fight back in the second half.

When it was time to play, Bolton gathered everyone in a circle and said: "Guys, I don't know what you guys think, but there are still 45 minutes left in the game, we are on the same starting line as them, we still have a chance to win this game, please work together!

A group of teammates shouted "Come on, Schalke!"

Mulder frowned next to him, full of worry about the second half, if you want to compare the mental state of the Schalke 04 players, it can be described as a frightened bird!

Mentally fragile, Villarreal's equaliser instantly hit the morale of the Schalke 04 players, I'm afraid no one will believe it, but that's the way it is.

At the end of the fifteen-minute break, the two sides resumed the game.

We must score a goal as soon as possible, otherwise, Schalke 04's current morale will not last long! Zhang Yuan thought secretly in his heart.

After playing for a while, he found that it was not good, Senna learned the lesson of the previous game, and he did one thing in this game, cooperating with the two central defenders Godin and Fuentes to firmly block the connection between Zhang Yuan and Rakitic.

Godin returned to his original --- centre-back, and he teamed up with Fuentes to give Zhang Yuan little advantage in headers.

And Godin's main task today is to keep an eye on Zhang Yuan, who is responsible for pressing closely, and Fuentes fills in for him.

The two of them cooperated very well today, Schalke 04 originally had fewer ground passes today, and most of the high-altitude balls, so it is not surprising that Zhang Yuan was uncomfortable.

Zhang Yuan misses someone at this time, this is Kuranyi, it would be great if Kuranyi and himself formed a double striker, Kuranyi would share the pressure on him to a large extent, but Mulder would not do that.

Schalke 04's midfielder fell into passivity in the second half and could only defend, Rakitic went back, the only good thing is that Jones and Engral seem to be recharged in the midfield, and they have not lost their fighting spirit, and the success rate of interceptions and tackles is very high, and Villarreal is still difficult to attack Schalke 04's penalty area for a while.

What if there is no Kuranyi? What if there is no one to share the pressure on yourself?

Farfan does not have the position of playing center, but his defense is not good, and he has little role in the midfield, Asamoah has the attributes of playing center, but his physical fitness, active defensive awareness is good, and he can help the veteran Kristadzic behind him when Villarreal is attacking.

"Jefferson, you will be with me in the middle later!You see I don't think we have any hope of playing like this, I need you to go to the middle to share the pressure on me!" Zhang Yuan finally reluctantly chose Farfan, who was much shorter than himself, to lean in the middle.

The frontcourt position of Schalke 04 in the two rounds is actually very dead, basically Zhang Yuan is active in the middle, this is no way to do it, Asamoah and Farfan do not have the ability of him, and they can't play well in the middle, so they perform their duties and stand in their own positions, only when Zhang Yuan holds the ball and organizes, the two will run the gap, or get close to Zhang Yuan, or contain the wingback, and give Zhang Yuan space to break through.

Zhang Yuan is not the head coach, but he is the first brother on the front line, Farfan has always had a good relationship with him, this time he listened to Zhang Yuan's words, deliberately leaned towards the middle, and it looked like he had adjusted to a double-forward tactic.

Capdevilla will not follow Farfan into the middle, on the contrary, he is a little happy that Farfan rolls to the middle, after all, he has less pressure to insert the assist.

The middle is not his defensive area, the middle is just the area where he defends, and the task of defending Farfan has naturally shifted from the left wing to the middle.

Farfan continued to squeeze into the middle, and Villarreal's defensive pressure increased again, after all, defending one person in the three joint defense zones and defending two people are different concepts.

In the 60th minute, Villarreal's front attack failed, and Ergulen's lateral transfer ball was intercepted by Jones in front of Ibargasa.

Zhang Yuan and Godin jumped at the same time to fight for the top, this time Zhang Yuan won, he rubbed back, Farfan was very clever to grab the second drop on the left side of the penalty area, and controlled the ball.

Finally got a chance to counterattack, of course Farfan would not be willing to pass the ball back to his teammates, Zhang Yuan has not yet gotten up to run, Farfan's only choice is to pass.

In Farfan's heart, failure is better than a return pass, facing Fuentes who is in a standing position, Farfan makes a few bicycle movements and goes down to the left.

Fuentes is not so easy to get rid of, keep up!

In the penalty area, Farfan could already choose to shoot, but he didn't, a fake shot was a real buckle, Fuentes rushed to the direction of Farfan's shot and slid the tackle, Farfan successfully got rid of it.

Now he had the option to shoot again, but he didn't, he saw Zhang Yuan rushing towards the small penalty area like the wind, and Farfan chose to cross.

The route is on Zhang Yuan's running route.

After Zhang Yuan fought for the top just now, he immediately went to the penalty area, he knew that there were only him and Farfan in the frontcourt, he had to go to the penalty area to grab points, no matter whether Farfan could pass the ball or not, he had to go to the position where the center should be.

The ball went to the small penalty area, Diego López attacked, Zhang Yuan followed up with the instep of his foot, the ball flew past Diego López's body, Zhang Yuan jumped, Diego López tried to pull Zhang Yuan's foot with his hand, Zhang Yuan was indeed tripped, but he really fought hard, and the left foot that fell on the grass kicked it, and the person hit the ball that had just landed and bounced up again like a billiard cue, and the ball was swooped into the gate of Villarreal by him!

Godin, who had just been half a beat away, flew into the net, but the ball was still not hooked by him.

At the critical moment, Zhang Yuan took the lead for Schalke 04 and scored a one-goal advantage for Schalke 04. (To be continued.) )