Chapter 128: The first place is out

While Harry Kane is the darling of the media and commentators in England, scoring goals at Tottenham and being one of the top goalscorers in Europe, he is still a long way from becoming a top striker in the world.

Looking at the numbers alone, Harry Kane's goal stats are on par with or even better than the top scorers of the European giants, but other than that, it seems like there is not much more.

In the eyes of most people, Harry Kane is a very good player, but not at the top level, not at the level of Suarez, Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo.

He doesn't have any signature moments of his own, the kind of moments that can be talked about and recognised around the world, and he needs a highlight reel to take himself to the next level, not just as a great player.

The main thing is that Harry Kane has always been weak in European competition.

Of course, this is also related to Tottenham's lack of performance in Europe.

However, as the team's top name, Harry Kane can't support the team's European results, not to mention that with Bale, a pearl who is also Tottenham, Harry Kane is really not enough.

Relatively speaking, Dai Zhiwei's evaluation in football is much better than Harry Kane, mainly because he led Evergrande and Villarreal to win the AFC Champions League and Europa League respectively last season, and his performance in the Champions League this season is also extremely good, especially in this season's UEFA Super Cup, which led the team to defeat the invincible Real Madrid, which suddenly made him a top striker in the world.

Villarreal and Tottenham ended in a draw in the first half and the second half remained deadlocked.

In the 66th minute, Escriva replaced Soldado, who had returned from injury, and replaced Pato, the hero of the goal.

Looking at Pato and Bakambu, who were hugging on the sidelines, Dai Zhiwei remembered a depressed thing.

He has heard from Kim Chang and Mendes that several Chinese Super League clubs have already approached Villarreal to discuss the transfers of Soldado, Pato and Bakambu, and it is likely that the three strikers will be brought to the Super League after the winter transfer window opens in early 2017.

Compared to the annual salary of the three of them in Villarreal, once they join the Chinese Super League team, their annual salary will increase at least two or three times.

Dai Zhiwei can't remember when Bakambu and Pato joined the Chinese Super League in the previous life, but it is certain that these two have indeed played for the Chinese Super League team in the previous life, and both have performed well.

And Soldado seems to have been rumored to have joined Tianjin TEDA.

In this life, I don't know if there will be any butterfly effect after I join Villarreal?

Soldado, Bakambu and Pato will definitely have a big impact on Villarreal if they move to a Chinese Super League side in the winter transfer window in early 2017.

"Alas, this is the sorrow of the small club, the waist of the person who has no money is not straight!" Dai Zhiwei shook his head, but he didn't blame anyone, after all, he also wanted to leave here next season to join the giants.

The vast majority of football players are either for fame or profit, and one team for one person and one team has gradually become unattainable idealism like before.

In this game, if Villarreal does not win, although they still have the possibility of qualifying or even topping the group, there are too many variables, so Escriva hopes that this game will seize the opportunity to qualify from the group.

At this time, the news came that Bayer Leverkusen had equalized CSKA Moscow away.

At the current scoreline, if both games in this group are drawn, Villarreal will remain at the top of the group, and as long as they don't lose their next game, they will be confirmed to finish top of the group.

After receiving the news of Bayer Leverkusen's equalizer, the Villarreal fans in the stands also began to sing the team anthem at the Love Song Stadium to boost morale!

Soldado, who had just come on as a substitute, got the ball near the center circle, his physical fitness is a cut better than Pato, and he has played in the Premier League, he is more accustomed to Tottenham's defense, propping up his strong right arm to cushion Wanyama's charge, stepping on the ball with his left foot and turning, and breaking through from the left side in a half-turn, and kicking the ground with his right foot "whoosh" and rushed out.

Wan Yama was still preparing to play a gladiatorial game with Soldado, but he was left alone in place.

Once Soldado shakes off Wan Yama's close defense, as long as he runs with the ball, Wan Yama can only look at the ball and sigh.

Dai Zhiwei ran with the ball like a gust of wind, and walked an elegant path.

And Soldado rushed with the ball with a fierce momentum and took a strong path.

Wanyama was broken through by Soldado, which Tottenham did not expect, and suddenly Soldado broke through his defence with ease, and immediately put Tottenham's backline in first-tier readiness.

Vinks silently counted Soldado's pace in his heart, trying to adjust the step gap between himself and him, always ready for a thunderous blow, even if he couldn't break his ball, at least delay his dribbling speed to give his teammates time to chase and intercept.

Wanyama behind Soldado is already trying to chase back, and as long as Vinx holds on for a while, it will be victory.

Tottenham are not slow to defend and Villarreal are faster in the sprint.

The two wings are rushing forward at high speed to prepare for support, Dai Zhiwei alone on the right side of the penalty area has already disturbed Tottenham's two central defenders, plus Dos Santos pulled towards the left side, Tottenham defender Kieran Trippier just assisted forward and now has no time to return to defense, such a big gap can be used.

At this time, Tottenham Hotspur suddenly formed a 3vs5 situation at half-time.

Soldado, Dos Santos, Dai Zhiwei vs Vinks, Dier, Weimer, Rose and goalkeeper Lloris.

Soldado still had the ball, but he began to move towards Dai Zhiwei's right and formed a faint confrontation with Vinks.

With Dos Santos on the flank, Weimmel had to keep an eye on Dos Santos' outflanking at all times, and Dai Zhiwei on the right side of the box immediately gained the upper hand.

At this time, it was Eric Dyer who was in charge of guarding Dai Zhiwei, although among tall players, he had obvious advantages in speed and flexibility, and he was also very advantageous in physical confrontation, but at this time, it was extremely tricky to defend Dai Zhiwei, who was 15cm shorter than himself in running without the ball, like a bulky bear around a leopard.

With Dai Zhiwei tearing, there was a huge gap in the Tottenham backline.

As soon as Soldado saw that he was available, he hurriedly quickened his pace, changed direction sharply, and made a breakthrough to the right.

Vinks instantly kicked out to break the ball, and the speed of the explosion of his whole body strength was really extraordinary, and the constantly adjusted step point also came in handy at this time, and the distance between the two was instantly reduced.

Soldado, who had just come on as a substitute, didn't expect Vinks to be able to react so quickly, and hurriedly stopped castration at his feet, but he made a mistake and made a mistake, and his passive and fierce brakes caught Vinks, who had been preparing for a long time, off guard.

Soldado stopped the ball with his right foot, and stopped the ball violently in the high-speed run, so that his body couldn't help but slide out of the way, so as not to be embarrassed.

However, Vinks was no better, and he even fell in front of Soldado with his momentum.

After Soldado stopped the ball with his right foot, he actually used his left foot to pass the ball through the crotch with his left foot when he slipped and passed it to Dai Zhiwei, who sprinted to the middle after throwing off Dale.

"Good shot!"

Dai Zhiwei threw off the dogskin plaster like Dale with a quick stop, and he was about to receive the football, but at this time, Tottenham fullback Rose had already leaned over, his arms outstretched, completely covering Dai Zhiwei.

"Want to see me? No way! Dai Zhiwei shouted very carefully, and in English that Rose could understand, and at the same time, the whole person broke through to Rose's left-hand side.

After all, Ross didn't dare to really stop Dai Zhiwei with his arm, and immediately turned around and squeezed towards Dai Zhiwei, who was sprinting, and then prepared to steal Dai Zhiwei's foot with his feet......

"! What about balls? Ross was completely stunned, because he didn't see the shadow of football at all at Dai Zhiwei's feet.

In surprise, Rose's eyes swept to the position where Dai Zhiwei had received the ball, and saw a lonely football parked quietly.

At the same time, there was an extremely strange scene in the live broadcast of the game just now: after Dai Zhiwei received a pass from Soldado, the whole person broke through to the left side of Rose, but at the last moment, he shook his ankle and left the ball in place, and then watched him and Rose run together for several meters, while the football was getting farther and farther away from the two......

Even, the live TV camera followed Dai Zhiwei, who was without the ball at his feet, for several seconds.

Dai Zhiwei: This is even a camera that has been deceived!

"Hehe, brother's off-ball breakthrough is fierce, right?" Dai Zhiwei's heart was full of pride, he also suddenly thought of a little trick this time, betting on his previous repeated breakthrough success, which left a deep enough shadow on Ross to make the other party bow and snake.

Of course, if Ross hadn't been fooled, Dai Zhiwei would have been embarrassed.

"What am I doing here?" Rose's face changed instantly, he already had a hunch that this scene would be repeated after the game, and he would become a big laughing stock in football in the near future.

Rose, who figured it out, stopped running stupidly with Dai Zhiwei and rushed towards the football.

However, Dai Zhiwei ignored him and went straight into the penalty area.

Because, he had already seen that Soldado had rushed to the vicinity of the football.

In fact, from Soldado dribbling the ball to passing to Dai Zhiwei, to Dai Zhiwei leaving the ball in place, Soldado got the football again, all of this was done in a flash of light, and even Dos Santos has not fully inserted into the threat area.

After slipping, Soldado jumped up quickly, rushed to the unattended football, saw Dai Zhiwei throw off Rose into the penalty area, pushed the arch of his foot, and easily stuffed the ball into Dai Zhiwei's forward line.

"Beautiful!"

Dai Zhiwei was happy in his heart, and at this time he was left alone with Tottenham goalkeeper Lloris in front of him.

Is there any other option?

Dai Zhiwei, who has the highest number of shots from Villarreal this season, shoots directly into the far corner with the outside instep.

"Bang!" The ball smashed on the inside of the goalpost, bounced into the net, and the score on the field immediately became 2:1!

After doing the daily blowgun celebration, Dai Zhiwei bent the middle finger of his right hand back.

This is the meaning of the northern Chinese number gesture "8"!

So far, Dai Zhiwei has scored as many as 8 goals in the Champions League this season, not counting the 3 goals he scored against Monaco in the Champions League play-offs!

Dai Zhiwei hugged Soldado, who rushed over, and shouted loudly at the other party: "Roberto, pass beautifully!" Now they will definitely regret it! ”

Soldado joined Tottenham Hotspur for 30 million in the summer of 2013, but in the Premier League, he was a little uncomfortable, scoring only 16 goals in 76 appearances for the White Hart Lane team, many of which were penalties, and in the league Soldado scored only seven goals in 52 appearances, and in the 2014-15 season with the outbreak of Harry Kane, Soldado was completely reduced to a substitute, and then had to be sold to Villarreal.

"Robert, get ready for revenge, I'll give you my full support!" Dai Zhiwei assured Soldado.

"Thanks!" Soldado naturally would not refuse Dai Zhiwei's kindness, "After winning, I will invite everyone to dinner!" ”

Tottenham fell into the abyss when Dai Zhiwei scored, and if they lost this game, they would not only bid farewell to this season's Champions League early, but even the chances of playing in the Europa League would become very unoptimistic.

Pochettino was naturally not resting on his laurels, bringing on Eriksen, Moussa Sissoko and Janssen in succession within five minutes, using up all three substitutions in one go in order to equalise.

However, Villarreal has really entered a state of optimum recently, and they are even afraid of themselves when they are crazy.

In the 82nd minute, Tottenham suffered another heavy blow, Dier was shown a yellow card by the referee for a foul on his old teammate Soldado in the backfield, plus a yellow card he received for a foul on Dai Zhiwei before, two yellows turned into one red, and Tottenham could only accept the situation of one less player in the last 10 minutes.

Seven minutes later, Villarreal continued to expand the score, Trigueros launched a counterattack at the back, Dai Zhiwei dribbled the ball into the penalty area on the side, and the inverted triangle pass sent the football to the penalty spot, Soldado easily volleyed the ball through Lloris's ten fingers, Villarreal extended the score to 3:1, which basically sealed the victory.

"Robert, Tickett's Bar tonight!" Dai Zhiwei said to Soldado, who chose not to celebrate after scoring a goal.

Zikter's Bar is the most expensive bar in Villarreal, with country singers often singing here and spending more than $100 per person, but these are not worth mentioning for a well-known star like Soldado.

"No problem!" Soldado, who scored the goal of his old club, was also very happy and agreed to Dai Zhiwei's request.

In the end, Villarreal defeated Tottenham Hotspur 3-1, and because Bayer Leverkusen and CSKA Moscow drew in the other game in Group E, they locked up the top spot in the group one round early and advanced to the round of 16!

I wish you all the best for 2019!

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