When Dai Zhiwei arrived at Villarreal, the 2015-16 La Liga season was halfway through the 38-round schedule.

In the 19th round of La Liga, which ended two days ago, with Atletico Madrid's 2-0 away victory over Celta Vigo, they continued to lead by two points and thus became the champions of La Liga, with Barcelona in second place in the league with one round less, Real Madrid remaining third in the league with two points difference, and Villarreal in fourth place with one point disadvantage.

Villarreal have also won six consecutive league games and remain in fourth place with 39 points after half-time, just one point away from Real Madrid in front of them and eight points ahead of Celta de Vigo behind them.

At present, Villarreal's leading scorer is Bakambu, who scored twice in the previous round - the Congolese striker who later joined Beijing Guoan also joined the team this season.

"Bruno, is the Europa League roster up?" Dai Zhiwei asked the captain next to him during physical training.

Villarreal have managed to make it out of the Europa League group stage this season, and in addition to submitting their squad for the Europa League by 24:00 at the start of the season, each team has one chance to change their roster before 24:00 on 1 February.

Dai Zhiwei is worried that he joined the team too late, and the team has already set the list of players to participate in the Europa League knockout round, so he will ask this question.

"Don't worry, the club won't report the list until the last minute, it will be adjusted later, and it shouldn't be a big problem for you to enter the list!" Bruno Soriano saw that it was Dai Zhiwei and explained to Dai Zhiwei in a low voice.

As a veteran of the team and captain of the team, Bruno Soriano is very fond of Dai Zhiwei, who is not only excellent in his skills, but also very modest, and not at all as unruly as other European and South American football talents.

Of course, the premise of Bruno Soriano's feeling is that one is a striker and the other is a defender, and there is no competition.

It's hard to have a good impression between enemies.

"That's right...... Hehe. Dai Zhiwei nodded happily.

Isn't one of the reasons why I chose Villarreal because the opponent can play in the knockout round of European competition?

"No matter, it's important to take care of your own business!" After the physical training, Dai Zhiwei picked up a football from the side and started his mission, practicing long-range shots from outside the penalty area.

Now that his "Tiger Shooting" skill is close to completion, although he still can't get the praise of Dakong Tsubasa in the system, he can already amaze Teppei, who is also in the system for his teacher in the next life.

The ability to dribble and shoot from a distance, coupled with top-level speed and a keen sense of smell in front of goal, gives Dai Zhiwei the confidence that he will quickly stand out in La Liga.

"Isn't this kid a dribbling maniac like Neymar? When did it become a violent long-range shot like Batistuta? Watching Dai Zhiwei's powerful volley from outside the penalty area, Villarreal coach Marcelino was quite surprised, after all, he knew more about Dai Zhiwei before from the Club World Cup match between Evergrande and Barcelona.

In that game, Dai Zhiwei's two goals were scored after several people in a row, so it is no wonder that Marcelino has such an impression.

The assistant coach of the Villarreal team next to him also temporarily put down his work and looked at this figure who was practicing long-range shooting.

"The action of a strong long-range shot is good, look at the movement of the leg swing, it is quite standard, it should be practiced for a long time." An assistant coach sat on the sidelines and looked at Dai Zhiwei on the field.

"The power of the long-range shot is very high, and the accuracy is also extremely high, at least in our team, I am afraid that no one can be better than Dai!" Anyway, he was surrounded by members of the coaching staff, so Marcelino commented directly.

Seeing Dai Zhiwei's long-range shot from outside the penalty area once again penetrate the goal guarded by Villarreal's main goalkeeper Areola, everyone nodded again and again, agreeing with Marcelino's opinion.

At the same time, they all realized one thing, that is, at least from the current training, Villarreal's transfer of Dai Zhiwei is definitely earned!

Not to mention anything else, in terms of physical fitness, dribbling ability and long-range shooting ability, which young player like Dai Zhiwei in the current transfer market does not have a transfer fee of more than 50 million euros?

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The Spanish Copa del Rey is known as the "Spanish Champion - His Majesty's Copa King", referred to as the "Copa del Rey" or "Spanish Cup". The tournament is an annual knock-out football tournament held annually in Spain. The tournament was first held in 1902 when Carlos Pedros, who later became president of Real Madrid, proposed a football tournament to celebrate the accession of King Alfonso XIII of Spain to the throne.

On the evening of Dai Zhiwei's training trip to Villarreal, they ushered in the first leg of the Copa del Rey 1/8 final with Athletic Bilbao - Dai Zhiwei, who had only been training with the team for a day, naturally did not enter the team's squad.

Dai Zhiwei watched the whole game in the apartment, and Villarreal, who was playing away from home in this game, was mainly anti-away from the beginning of the game, and the offensive was like a rainbow.

In the 15th minute, Sam Garcia assisted, and Baptistao broke the deadlock for the visitors, 0-1.

In the 37th minute, Castillejo assisted, Sam Garcia scored, 0:2.

In the 54th minute, Beniat assisted, and Williams pulled a goal back for Athletic Bilbao, 1:2.

After 13 minutes, Raul Garcia's header was saved, and Aduriz scored from the point to make it 2-2.

In the 80th minute, Beniat crossed from a free kick, and Laporte grabbed the point and scored with his left foot, 3:2.

After the scoreline, Villarreal's players on the field obviously became much more impatient, which led to the team's defender Mario being sent off in the 86th minute, and the team lost the final equalizer.

In the end, Villarreal lost the first leg of the 1/8 finals of the Copa del Rey with a score of 2:3 away.

Dai Zhiwei leaned on the sofa with his head in his hands, "Although the team lost, it seems that the strikers are in good shape, Alexander!" ”

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Marcelino, whose full name is Marcelino García Torral, is a very responsible coach, although he did not win the Muñoz Award twice (La Liga Best Coach Award) as he did in Villarreal when he came to Villarreal and Racing Santander, but his coaching style and results are still very good, leading Villarreal to sixth place in La Liga last season and qualifying for this season's Europa League, which is worthy of Villarreal's salary for him.

Although he had just finished a Copa del Rey 1/8 final against Athletic Bilbao yesterday, he still arrived at the team's training ground early in the morning.

Every good coach, unless their body allows, they will definitely spend more time in the office than at home, whether it is Arsene Wenger of Arsenal, Jose Mourinho of Chelsea, Pep Guardiola of Bayern, Zidane of Real Madrid, etc., they all belong to such coaches.

So, be more considerate of the football coaches, they really give a lot.

Although Marcelino, who has won the Muñoz Award twice, is not like the world's top coaches, he is also one of the most famous coaches in world football, whether it was when Mavelva was at the beginning, or now Villarreal, his position as a head coach is very stable, all because of his superb tactical development ability.

As soon as he entered the training ground, Marcelino found that there was something wrong with the staff at the training ground today, who were usually lazy and lazy, but today they were very energetic, and they were all concentrating on discussing something.

"Did you hear that? Old Leo, who was less than 7 o'clock in the porter today, was called up to open the training ground, that kid is really weird......" Eric the head of the stadium turf looked at his colleagues next to him and whispered.

"Yes, I've heard that this kid has been practicing for more than 1 hour since he started practicing at less than 7 o'clock, and he's still training." Van Ritch looked at Eric's novel and said, they hadn't seen anyone who had just come over to practice at dawn for a long time.

"Although Diego was also a genius in the past, he was definitely not so diligent, let alone those lazy guys!" Passerby A looked at Eric and Van Ric and whispered, but their conversation was clearly overheard by Marcelino, who came from behind.

"Coming to train before 7 a.m.? It's unlikely......" Marcelino listened to the conversation of these gossip men, it was very strange, is there still such a hard-working player in professional football?

"Just check it out." Although he didn't believe it in his heart, Marcelino was still very curious, glanced at the direction of the training ground, walked slowly towards the training ground, and when he was very close to the training ground, he heard the "bang" sound of the football being volleyed vigorously.

Hearing this, Marcelino was even more strange, he really wanted to see, who was this young man who had come to train so early?