Chapter 151: The Loneliness of the Midfield of the Pharmaceutical Factory
Seeing the side assault of their former waste firewood returning to glory, the 30,000 fans in the Bayer Athletic Stadium instantly fell silent, as if they were collectively pinched by the neck.
Michel Zepek passed his old friend Bierrov and rode along the sideline, at this moment he felt that all the vines that had entangled him for six years had dispersed, but the cold wind was full of sweetness.
Tsar Andre Arshavin cut inside to open up for Zepeqla, and Brazilian defender Juan blocked Zepek's attempt to break into the box, but Zepek was not worried at all because Djoyang was coming from behind him.
The two men passed diagonally all the way through a standard two, and Zepek broke through to the baseline and began to cut horizontally to the infield, facing Novotny and Juan who turned over to catch up. Zepek was still not worried, because Zhuo Yang had quietly slipped into the penalty area.
Just when Zepek was about to stab the football to Zhuo Yang, he suddenly saw Zhuo Yang gesturing at him, indicating that he had another choice. Without hesitation, Zepek immediately obeyed the order with a twist of his ankle and passed the football to the front of the goal to the big penalty line.
Arshavin received the ball, took a step sideways to dodge the gap, and pulled out his foot to volley a low flat ball. In the 29th minute of the first half, Madiburg led 2-0 away.
In the eyes of fans on the scene and in front of the TV, the biggest contributor to this goal is none other than Madiborg right-back Zepek, from the counter-break to the pass, to the breakthrough bottom, to the final pass, it is Zepek who has done the trick, and even most Bayer Leverkusen players think so.
However, the people of Madiburg themselves know very well that although the ball was at the feet of Zepek most of the time, and the whole process only passed through Zepek, Zhuo Yang and Arshavin, all of this was run under the command of Zhuo Yang, and the entire stadium was running.
From the moment Zepek broke off Bierrov, Zhuo Yang commanded the whole team to run the position, using his own movement or gesture to command. Everyone is in the right position all the time, the best to contain the opponent and the most convenient to pick up teammates.
The Bayer Leverkusen players knew what the Madiburg people wanted to do, but they were pinned down or couldn't catch up with the foot, and watched as they simply knocked down the triangle. This kind of tactic can even be played by elementary school students, but Leverkusen just can't prevent it.
This is Zhuo Yang's ability to strategize on the field, so it is very simple to play, and it is also very trouble-free, and it is settled leisurely.
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Until the end of the first half, Zepek had a total of five successful underlays and five crosses. On the other side, Grosso was even more embarrassed by Placente and Balic, who made seven attacks and four shots on goal. In the 45th minute, Madiburg had 11 shots on goal, seven shots on target and two goals.
Bayer Leverkusen had zero shots on goal in the first half.
Schneider was helpless at this time, he seemed to understand a little, and Bayer Leverkusen seemed to be no longer at the same level as Madiburg.
If it is said that Madiburg is full of momentum as a promoted horse in the first round, other teams do not understand them, and let them take the lead for a while, but halfway through the league schedule, it is self-deception to talk about what they don't understand. In the first round, it was taken off guard, and today it was crushed.
In particular, the midfield performance of both teams is more obvious.
Schneider originally thought that as the core of the midfield like him, it would definitely be Zhuo Yang who would keep an eye on him, but who knew that the captain of Madiburg didn't look at him at all, and no one marked him to defend him. But even so, the Bayer Leverkusen midfield was suppressed as a lonely ghost.
If you can't even get the ball, how can you not feel lonely?
Zhuo Yang commanded Khedira, Bacchus and Tsar to use large runs to respond, and used clever card positions to contain and completely scrap Leverkusen's midfield. Coupled with Grosso and Zepek, one dashing and one sharp, the Leverkusen midfield quartet still has a chance to take the ball and possess the ball to organize the attack, which is really hell.
At the start of the second half, Coach Ogenthaler made changes to his line-up, with the two wing-backs who had been abused in the first half, Bierrov and Balic replaced, Ponte and striker Ukrainian Volonin coming on, and Bayer Leverkusen switching to a 4-3-3 desperate gamble.
The addition of strikers is also a last resort, in the first half the midfielder is a lonely ghost, and the striker is a straggler. Bulgarian dashing Gobertitar and Brazilian França are two kites with broken strings, losing touch with each other, and after a few few encounters, they have to go it alone.
But both Derras and Westerman were able to dispel all their attempts. There wasn't a shot on goal, which looks like the Bundesliga striker did something.
The idea is good, but the actual operation is not like that at all, Madiburg from the beginning of the second half of the whole pressure on Leverkusen half of the siege, in fact, Madiburg does not want to play like this, it is really because the opponent's three midfielders are not Zhuo Yang at all in the face, and he can't help but retreat into the back line.
What about the three strikers? Franza and Volonin couldn't get the ball at all, so they could only help defend the two sides of Madiburg's flying today, allowing Zepek and Grosso to walk the two out of their tongues like dogs. There was only one Berbatov left, and the cold wind of the first month made him chill.
So, Zhuo Yang commanded the whole team to sometimes collect the illusion that the opponent could stick out his head, and sometimes pounce on it with a full punch.
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Zhuo Yang took the ball, knocked it to Khedira, and then came back, and gave Grosso his left heel again. And again, obliquely gave Zhirkov. In this way, Zhuo Yang took himself as the axis, constantly passing and receiving the ball, and everything was under control.
Pushed to Bannetta, the ball went to Arshavin again, all with short balls from five yards.
After passing Zepek and returning to Zhuo Yang, there was a short triangle between Banetta and Zhirkov plus Gomez, and when the ball finally slipped to Zhuo Yang's feet, there was only a lone goalkeeper Bout in front of him.
The two famous god-level central defenders, Novotny and Júnior, don't know how Zhuo Yang ran into the penalty area and behind him, and as for football, they don't know where they are.
Bout felt that Zhuo Yang didn't have him in his eyes at all, just like when he was training, he pulled the ball with his right foot and carried it with his left foot, and after the croquettes, he faced the empty goal.
In the 59th minute of the game, Madiburg led 3:0, and the calm Klopp began to call for substitutes to warm up.
Zhuo Yang smiled, because he played very easily today. Originally, Bayer Leverkusen was not a very good opponent to deal with, a little down-and-out but still strong, so it was easy to tear them apart because he had grown in football.
To put it in the past, such as in the first round of the Bundesliga, if you want to beat an opponent like Bayer Leverkusen, Zhuo Yang must be desperate all over the field, rushing left and right in all directions. And now that the ball has entered a new realm, his excellent insight into the pitch has saved him a lot of trouble. With the power of anticipating the enemy's first opportunity, Zhuo Yang was able to fully mobilize the whole team, and his teammates also felt that the various lines were clearer and clearer, and everyone did more with less.
Zhuo Yang's promotion means that the whole team of Madibao has improved.