Chapter 420: Unexpected Pounce
In the case of Atletico Madrid's choice of "strategic retreat", in order to turn back the situation, Zenit St. Petersburg can barely muster up the courage to launch a fierce attack on the home team by virtue of the statistical "advantage" in the first half of the game.
In the first ten minutes of the second half, Zenit St. Petersburg had three attempts into the 30-metre zone of Atletico Madrid, and Korzhakov's cold shot from near the top of the box almost equalised.
However, after "dominating" since the start of the second half, not only did they fail to score the equalizing goal, but they were also forced by Atletico Madrid to seize the opportunity to extend the lead, which caused a big blow to the morale of the Zenit St. Petersburg players.
In the face of each other's strengths, Feng Quan, who scored his second goal of the game, was not only one step closer to completing the task of completing the system, but also allowed Atletico Madrid, which was already in the lead, to basically stabilize the victory.
Although Feng scored his second goal, Zenit St. Petersburg still had nearly 40 minutes to salvage the defeat, including stoppage time. But with morale already badly damaged, even though they were still ahead of Atletico Madrid in terms of possession, the quality of their attack was significantly lower than it was before conceding the third goal.
Not only that, but just after Feng Quan scored the third goal for Atletico Madrid, the number of coordination mistakes in the attack of the Zenit St. Petersburg team gradually began to increase.
In a sense, Feng Quan's goal was the last straw that crushed the "Russian camel" of Zenit St. Petersburg.
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Just seven minutes after Feng Quan scored his second goal, Atletico Madrid took advantage of another counter-attack opportunity to extend their lead to three goals through Diego Costa.
At that time, Gabi of Atletico Madrid broke the ball at the edge of the penalty area and immediately distributed the ball to Juanfran on the right.
Although as early as Gabby broke the ball, Feng Quan, who had been cruising near the halfway line, had already begun to accelerate forward.
However, Juanfran did not pass the ball to Fengquan, who was running along the left touchline, but sent a through ball towards the gap in the middle of the field.
In fact, Juanfran wanted to pass the ball to Feng Quan, but when he saw that the opponent's central defender Lombard had already made up for Feng Quan's side, he chose to send a through ball to the middle of the front field.
Although there is a huge gap between Diego Costa's absolute speed and the "King of Speed", he still has a certain advantage in terms of speed when facing the defense of the tall but slightly clumsy Zenit St. Petersburg central defenders.
In addition, with Feng Quan already helping him out of a centre-back, Diego Costa was able to get a through ball from Juanfran before Neto, the centre-back responsible for dragging.
Facing Lodykin, who abandoned the goal, Diego Costa first made a shooting feint to deceive the opponent's center of gravity slightly off, and then shot the ball in the opposite direction. 4 to 1.
After another ten minutes, after receiving the ball from Koke on the left side of the front, Feng Quan used his speed advantage to break away from the defense of the opposing two players and burst into the penalty area along the bottom line.
Facing centre-back Lombarts, who lunged on him, the wind flickered a shot before giving the ball to Diego Costa, who was lying in ambush near the penalty spot.
The next moment, just when Feng Quan, who had just completed the pass, thought that Diego Costa, who was almost unguarded, would easily send the ball into the opponent's goal, so as to help him achieve the goal of "Football Professional Feeder Mission (1)", and at the same time, when he could also achieve the additional condition of "creating 3 goals", goalkeeper Lodykin was like a fairy, flying sideways in mid-air and shooting Diego Costa into the ball in the upper left corner of the goal.
Gabi's subsequent corner helped centre-back Miranda make it 5-1, and as long as Atletico Madrid can maintain that lead until full-time, Feng Quan can achieve the goal of "Football Professional Side Mission (1)". However, Feng Quan will miss out on the "5 Soccer Pro Stats" reward.
Although Feng Quan's current strength is enough to rank among the world's top stars, even Messi and Ronaldo, the two supergiants of world football, Feng Quan already has the capital to match. But in Feng Quan's heart, leading Chinese football to re-elevate to the top ranks in Asia, and even "rushing out of Asia" to appear in the World Cup again, is the ultimate goal of stepping into football.
The general environment of Chinese football cannot be completely changed, and the youth training force is very weak, Feng Quan can only accumulate 30 skill points as soon as possible in order to complete the upgrade of [Great God Light]. In addition, we must continue to work hard to improve our personal ability, so that it is possible to successfully complete the great goal of leading Chinese football to "break out of Asia".
Therefore, whether it is the "omnipotent" skill point or the "football professional attribute value" that can improve personal ability, it plays a pivotal role in Feng Quan's heart.
"No! In any case, I have to meet the additional condition of 'creating 3 goals', otherwise, if there is no similar additional condition in the next side mission, won't I 'suffer'? ”
Thinking of this, Feng Quan's eyes subconsciously moved to the big screen on the sidelines. When he saw that there were less than fifteen minutes left in the game, there was an imperceptible coldness in his eyes.
"Since my pass doesn't help my team-mates score, I'll shoot it myself."
In fact, long before Lodykin made a magical save, Diego Costa and David Villa wasted two scoring chances that the wind had created for them. It is precisely because of this that Feng Quan's heart will have the idea of relying on his own goals to achieve "additional conditions".
However, at the next moment when Feng Quan secretly made up his mind, he saw assistant coach Herman Boggs, who was originally standing near the bench, immediately walked to the bench after receiving instructions from Diego Simeone, and then called Adrian López and Alda Turan to the sidelines to warm up.
Although Diego Simeone has not yet made substitution adjustments, with the "lessons from the past" in the previous rounds of the league, Feng Quan knows very well that "there is not much time left for himself to achieve the 'additional conditions'".
As a result, Feng Quan, who had never taken the initiative to press in the front court in the previous game, suddenly pounced on Lombards, who had just received a pass from his teammates, like a cheetah that had been tormented by hunger for a long time.
Although Lombartz's foot skills are not far behind his teammates in the midfield, as a professional player with rich game experience, he is still able to avoid the opponent's saves or pass the ball directly to other teammates without being directly cut off by the opponent when he is relatively well prepared.
However, after the start of the second half, when the overall formation of Atletico Madrid showed a tendency to shrink defensively, the other strikers except Diego Costa hardly pressed in front of the other than Diego Costa.
Faced with the sudden ferocity of Feng Quan, Lombard was obviously a little unprepared. If he is a normal player other than Feng Quan, even if he can't continue to control the ball at his own feet, Lombart can still kick the ball out of bounds.
It's a pity that while Feng Quan decided to rush Lombarts, he also used the skill of [Instant Acceleration].
Originally, the distance between Fengquan and Lombard was only six or seven meters, and even with reservations, Fengquan could easily cover this distance in one second.
As a result, everyone present was surprised to see that Feng Quan, who used the [Instant Acceleration] skill, was just like a superpower with "teleportation" in a science fiction movie, and appeared in front of Lombarts in the blink of an eye.
At this time, Lombarts seemed to have been put on a "petrification curse", just watching the wind cut off the football under his feet, and then directly into the penalty area after shaking the goalkeeper Lodykin with a feint, and sent the football into the gate of the Zenit St. Petersburg team for the fifth time......