Wen Zhihao was busy with the filming of the promotional video, and rushed back to Arnhem on the same day, and fully relieved his physical fatigue in one night. The next day, I got back into training.

Through these two Europa League games, Fraser realised that Wen Zhihao's defensive weakness would bring some hidden dangers to the team. It's not obvious in the league, but when it comes to the European arena with stronger confrontation and faster conversion speed, the usually inconspicuous shortcomings will have a fatal impact. Those two goals conceded at home to Manchester United already tell a lot.

In fact, Fraser is still very confident in Wen Zhihao's strengthening on the defensive end. Players who are creative on the offensive end tend to be more likely to guess the offensive intentions of opposing players when defending.

With the two international breaks at the end of the international break and the national team players returning to the club, it stands to reason that Fraser should be relieved, but at this point he was frowning and on pins and needles.

Yesterday the club approached him and showed him three faxes from the Netherlands, Georgia and the United States.

The theme is also strikingly the same: injury briefings.

When Fraser got the three faxes, his heart fluttered at once. The three injured men were the absolute mainstays of the team, Van Beek, Kashya and Miazga. Van Beek will miss the least severe condition for about a month, while Miazga suffered an unexpected injury despite a severe drop in fitness and no confrontation, and the exact length of the injury will need to be further evaluated.

Ahead of the two international breaks, Fraser was aware of the possibility of a "FIFA virus" and he was already planning to go to the development and youth teams to promote a few players to deal with the upcoming league and rotate the squad appropriately.

But when he held these injury reports in his hand, he was a little hesitant, or at a loss. Several main players were injured at the same time, almost making the team's entire main defensive system face collapse, even if he has the courage, he will not dare to let a group of reserve team children sit in the team's defense in the next real league.

Not everyone is called Wen Zhihao.

The defence was in a hurry, and Fraser thought of a lot of adjustments to try to minimise the impact.

Two centre-backs, Miazga and Donny van Beek, are injured, with last season's main Cruzwijk and first substitute Donny van der Werf available for the time being; Captain Kashya is injured, and Japanese defender Kosuke Ota can be substituted at left-back. Although he has not played much this season and his contract expires next summer, he has also thought of leaving the Netherlands, but now the team is facing personnel difficulties and Fraser has been forced to reactivate him.

The problem seems to have been solved for the time being, but Fraser is still not at ease, this set of backline has very few opportunities to play this year, and what level of performance can only be seen on the field.

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After the international break, all the players returned. The first thing Wen Zhihao saw was Zhang Yuning, but he found that Zhang Yuning's mood was not quite right, so he walked over and deliberately put on a smiling look, raised his voice and said hello: "Brother Yuning!" ”

Zhang Yuning heard a familiar voice, and two joyful colors flashed in his eyes. nodded lightly at Wen Zhihao.

The past two international days were nightmares for him. In the third round of the top 12, the Chinese team actually capsized at home, 0:1 by Syria, the original ambition to win the three points handed over, away to the Central Asian wolf Uzbekistan, there is no suspense two goals are defeated, one foot has stepped on the edge of the cliff.

Zhang Yuning felt powerless in these two games, either he could not get the support of his teammates on the offensive end, or he was almost besieged by the opponent, but as a striker, he had to do the work of a defender, and he played quite awkwardly.

When the national team plays like this, the fans naturally want to vent. After losing to Syria at home, Chinese fans spontaneously shouted in unison: "Football Association get out!" We need Wen Zhihao! ”

Of course, Zhang Yuning didn't mention this matter to Wen Zhihao. He knew it was useless. Now Wen Zhihao has completely broken with the Football Association, and there is no possibility of returning in a short period of time, so it is useless to say more.

Vitesse will travel to AZ Alkmaar in the next round. Fraser made it to find time to find out about the three wounded. Kashya and Donny van Baker have been fine, with only minor muscle strains and will only miss the last three weeks at most. Miazga, on the other hand, has suffered a recurrence of an old injury and is expected to be out of action for at least two and a half months.

Frase could only accept the current situation of the team's temporary lack of major generals, and rushed to the away team with a set of remnants.

Although AZ Alkmaar can't compete with the traditional top three, they are definitely not to be underestimated. In the 2008-09 season, AZ Alkmaar beat the top three of the Eredivisie, which shows their quality. Prior to Vitesse's rise this season, AZ Alkmaar were seen as the biggest spoilers in the Eredivisie.

Facing a strong opponent away from home, and the lineup was not the strongest, Fraser never thought of using a shrinking tactic, but chose a 4-4-2 formation, showing that he did not give up attacking.

In fact, there is no way to do it. This defensive build-up in the face of danger really can't reassure Frasse, and he can only hope that the attacking players in front of him will be fully released. To put it bluntly, it is to try to score one more goal than the opponent.

Wen Zhihao was entrusted with the task today, and although he appeared in the right midfield from a position, Frasse gave him the order to be a free man up front and was given unlimited fire. In Frasser's words: "You can attack anywhere, in any way." ”

Perhaps with the belief that the mourning soldiers will win, Vitesse came up to oppose the guest, and the intention of grabbing the start was very obvious. And Wen Zhihao did shine in the opponent's half, either forcing the opposing defender on the side, or coming to the forward position to deliver cannonballs to the front double strikers Fan Xiaowolf and Casteño. Or just raise your leg to test the opposing goalkeeper with a long-range shot.

A series of attacks in the opening period made AZ Alkmaar a storm in front of goal, and Vitesse struck again and again, finally seizing a chance. Wen Zhihao's cross from the side, Fan Xiaowolf grasped the timing of the grab, and smashed the ball into the empty goal with a lion shake before the opponent's goalkeeper hit the ball, and Vitesse took the lead in 16 minutes.

Fraser breathed a sigh of relief that the opening game had the upper hand and the players should be able to relax slowly.

But what he didn't expect was that it was everyone's relaxation that caused the team a big problem.

Kosuke Ota, who has been absent for a long time, couldn't find the feeling of last season's game on the left side, and was directly passed by Alkmaar's Swedish striker Tankovic twice, and even worse, due to these two defensive mistakes, Ota's mentality changed, and he was directly asked out of the game by the referee after eating two yellow cards in ten minutes.

This sudden change caught Fraser off guard, and he subconsciously looked back at the bench, and he smiled bitterly at a glance.

Except for a player who was promoted from the youth team on the spot, no one else was up to the position. Either Flace will have to send this raw melon egg with no first-team experience at all, or there will really be no one to replace at the moment.