Chapter 184: Depressed Batista
"Wu (Jigui), you tell Feng to let him switch positions with Anelka, and when the team is defending, he must quickly return to defense, try to cut off the connection between the middle players of the Hongyuan team and the wind, and help Wu (Xi) to defend against the wind together. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info that guy is so dangerous, Wu (Xi) alone can't prevent him at all. So, when defending that guy, you must not let him get the ball easily. Batista gestured and said to Wu Jigui beside him.
After a slight pause, Battista continued: "Also, let Feng go and tell Jiang (Kun) to let him put his position closer to that wind, and at the same time strengthen the pressing of Brendan, the central midfielder of the Hongyuan team, so that he can't have a chance to pass the ball comfortably to the wind......"
After understanding Batista's intentions, Feng Renlong ran back into the court.
After first making a gesture of "wait for a while before kicking off the goal" in the direction of Wang Dalei, Feng Renlong came to the side of the team leader Jiang Kun and relayed the coach's latest instructions. Then, he ran in the direction of Anelka, who was standing on the right side of the team.
In fact, the reason why Batista made such an adjustment, in addition to "not very convinced" that Wu Xi could prevent Feng Quan, included dissatisfaction with Anelka, the biggest star in the team.
For Shenhua Club, which aims to win the championship before the start of this season's Chinese Super League, the team has invested a lot of transfer funds, and the world-class striker Anelka has not shown the strength to match his value.
In the 23 rounds of the Chinese Super League that have ended, Anelka, who has started 18 times, has only contributed a pitiful 2 goals. Compared to the efficient Drogba (six appearances, five goals), Anelka's performance has been a bit miserable.
Not only that, Anelka, who was originally introduced by the Shenhua team as a striker, after playing a few games in the Chinese Super League, found that domestic defenders often adopt some more "barbaric" and even "violent" means to stifle the opponent's attack when defending foreign strikers.
As a result, Anelka took the initiative to find the head coach Batista, and said "righteously": "For the overall benefit of the team, I am personally very willing to sacrifice my own statistics, give up the position of the team's main center to other players, and prepare to pull to the side to create scoring opportunities for teammates......"
In fact, for Anelka, who has a more selfish style of play, the reason why he chose to come to the wing is not to create opportunities for other strikers, but just to worry that he will be injured under the "violent" scramble of domestic defenders.
If you choose to go to the wing just because you are worried about your injury, you can still get other people's understanding. However, Anelka, who volunteered to play as a winger on either side of the team, basically never returned to his own half of the pitch in order to help the team's wide defence, as he had done in the team's previous starting strikers.
Therefore, when the team's results were not bad, the other players of the Shenhua team were just complaining privately with their teammates. However, when the team entered the second half of the league and had been winless for many games, the dissatisfaction of domestic players with Anelka finally reached the ears of head coach Batista.
So, when Didier Drogba made his Super League debut in the 18th round of the league, Batista put Anelka on the bench and replaced his starting right midfielder with wide player Cao Yunding.
And Cao Yunding did not live up to Batista's trust in him, starting from the 19th round of the game against Suicheng Evergrande, until the 23rd round of the five games against Lucheng Taishan, Cao Yunding relied on his sharp side breakthrough, while sending 4 assists to his teammates, he also scored 2 goals.
Unfortunately, just before the start of the game against Liaoning Hongyuan, Anelka personally found the boss of Shenhua Club and said cruelly: "If the Argentine continues to let me sit on the bench, then I will leave Shenhua Club immediately and return to play in Europe......"
For Zhu Jun, the team boss who hopes to build Shenhua Club into a "world-famous" brand, the first step is to quickly increase the popularity of Shenhua Club in world football by introducing world-class stars like Anelka.
Therefore, after Anelka found his "grievances", Zhu Jun found the team's head coach Batista, and also released the cruel words "Anelka joined the Shenhua team, not to sit on the bench, if you continue not to let him start, then you will leave me ......".
As a result, under the huge pressure of Zhu Jun, Batista had no choice but to remove Cao Yunding, who had performed well in recent rounds of the league, from the team's starting lineup, and put Anelka back into the starting "right midfielder" position.
However, in the process of Feng Quan breaking through from the right side of the Shenhua team twice, Anelka, who swore to Batista before the game: "Don't worry, Sergio, I will definitely pay attention to the defense ...... this game", but he still stood in the opponent's half like in the previous game, watching Feng Quan tear apart the right side of the Shenhua team like lightning.
It is precisely because of this that Batista will switch the positions of Feng Renlong and Anelka in order to support right-back Wu Xi when the team is defending.
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Although the Shenhua team's defense on the right flank has improved somewhat after the manager Batista made some changes. However, such an adjustment did not have the effect of completely curbing the full play of the wind.
Although as long as Feng Quan comes to the half of the Shenhua team, right-back Wu Xi will quickly defend him, and right midfielder Feng Renlong will also help his teammates to help defend.
However, Wu Xi and Feng Renlong, two players who are not known for their strength, can only try their best not to let Feng Quan comfortably receive passes from teammates when facing the attack of Feng Quan, who has excellent speed, strength, and dribbling skills.
Once Feng Quan received a pass from the Hongyuan player, Wu Xi and Feng Renlong could barely break the ball from his feet. Moreover, if Jiang Kun gave up his position in the middle and surrounded him with Wu and Feng, Feng Quan could often find a way to transfer the ball to other Hongyuan players.
The players of the Hongyuan team, who got the pass from Fengquan, could take advantage of the opportunity when the overall formation of the Shenhua team moved closer to the side of Fengquan to form an opportunity to play more with less, so as to constantly threaten the goal of the Shenhua team.
After taking the lead in the score, Ma Lin ordered the players of the Hongyuan team to retreat across the board, leaving only Feng Quan and Yang Xu in the front court to contain the defense of the Shenhua team in the front court.
In the case of Liaoning Hongyuan's full retreat, the Shenhua team, which could not tear apart the opponent's defense, could only threaten the goal of the Hongyuan team with a long shot in front of the penalty area. However, with the Hongyuan team hoarding a large number of defensive forces around the penalty area, the Shenhua team's long-range shot is difficult to really threaten.
Not only that, if it weren't for the goalkeeper Wang Dalei of the Shenhua team, and the two central defenders, who were in excellent form in this game, I am afraid that the Hongyuan team could have scored at least two or three goals with a quick counterattack in the first half of the game.
Therefore, when the referee blew the whistle at the end of the first half, Batista, who was full of depression, walked briskly in the direction of the players' tunnel without greeting anyone...... (To be continued.) )