Chapter 126: Rayo Vallecano
Ortra looked at Zhang Xu in the distance and sighed. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
In fact, in his heart, he doesn't want Zhang Xu to report to the national team, the team is currently thriving, it is a good time to impact the results, Zhang Xu to report to the national team, not to mention the overall strength of the team, it may also affect Zhang Xu's state.
However, since Zhang Xu is willing to go, it is not easy for him to stop him, otherwise the tension with Zhang Xu will be caused by the blocking, which will inevitably affect Zhang Xu's mood and be even more unfavorable to the team.
You must know that now Zhang Xu is the real core of the team, and his state, in a sense, directly determines the state of the team and the team's league results.
Therefore, despite his unhappiness, Ortra still had to let Zhang Xu return to China.
However, even if you want to let Zhang Xu go back, you have to squeeze out Zhang Xu's value as much as possible before Zhang Xu leaves, such as the upcoming seventh round of the league.
The match was Deportivo La Coruna away against Rayo Vallecano.
Rayo Vallecano currently sit 13th in the standings with seven points, while Deportivo La Coruna are sixth in the table with 11 points.
Rayo Vallecano is also a team in the capital city of Madrid, although he is much weaker than Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid. He finished runners-up in La Liga in the 2010-2011 season.
After a season, Rayo Vallecano gradually adapted to La Liga, and last season the league had 43 points, sitting in 15th place in the table, and successfully relegated.
This season, Rayo Vallecano has signed several strong players, and their strength has been improved to a certain extent, and they are expected to challenge for European qualification.
However, Rayo Vallecano was beaten 6-1 by Valladolid in the last round of the league, and the morale has been seriously damaged, and this time against Deportivo La Coruna, who has scored two goals against Real Madrid, even if they have the advantage of playing at home, the outcome is really difficult to predict.
Zhang Xu is bound to win this game.
It is understandable to lose to Real Madrid in the last game, after all, Real Madrid's strength is indeed more than one step higher than itself, and now when you meet Rayo Vallecano, if you can't win the other party, then, what "dark horse", what "Super Laco" rises, what completes the main task, and qualifies for the European arena, it will become an empty word!
Therefore, in the days before the start of this game, Zhang Xu worked hard, not only increased the offensive organization training for Bacareno, but also, in order to be more familiar with Bacareno, he took Rayo Vallecano as the object of simulation training in the evening simulation training, and played again and again.
What made him feel relieved was that at the beginning, Rayo Vallecano could still defeat Deportivo La Coruna, but as Zhang Xu gradually became familiar with Rayo Vallecano's tactics and players, by the time he was a day or two, Rayo Vallecano could no longer compete with Deportivo La Coruna led by Zhang Xu.
At half past one o'clock in the afternoon of October 6, 2012, Zhang Xu appeared at Rayo Vallecano's home stadium - Rayo Vallecas Stadium with confidence.
Due to his outstanding performance in the last game, Zhang Xu became the focus of many media interviews as soon as he appeared.
However, Zhang Xu didn't have time to chat with reporters, so he dealt with it hastily and followed the captain Belleron into the players' tunnel.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, the game officially began.
Zhang Xu seemed very excited, and at the beginning of the game, he led the team and launched a tidal wave of attacks against Bacareno.
However, Rayo Vallecano obviously did not want to be suppressed by promoted Mala Coruna on their home turf, so they also played more aggressively, and the momentum of the attack was also up and down.
As a result, the two sides played back and forth in their respective midfield, and the game entered a wonderful stage at the beginning.
However, Rayo Vallecano miscalculated Zhang Xu's determination and strength.
In their opinion, Zhang Xu is a midfielder who should focus on defense first.
However, what they didn't expect was that after Zhang Xu's transformation in the last game, Deportivo LaCoruna's defensive strength has been greatly improved, and they can compete in the face of the strong Real Madrid, and they will naturally be much more relaxed in the face of Bacarreno.
In such a situation, Zhang Xu has been liberated to a certain extent, and he can devote more energy to organizing the team's offense.
In fact, Zhang Xu did exactly that.
Although Rayo Vallecano pressed heavily after the start of the game and launched a big attack on Deportivo La Coruna, under Zhang Xu's response, Deportivo LaCoruna's defense appeared very solid.
After the defense was solid, Zhang Xu began to strengthen the team's offensive organization.
After the last match with Real Madrid, Zhang Xu not only successfully rose to level 40, but also gained a large number of attribute points randomly rewarded by the system.
In this way, Zhang Xu's strength has been greatly improved. The current Zhang Xu, compared with Zhang Xu before the Real Madrid game, has almost completely changed.
If the current Zhang Xu is put into the match with Real Madrid, then the probability of Deportivo equalizing will be greatly increased.
Rayo Vallecano has paid enough attention to Zhang Xu, but underestimated Zhang Xu's strength, which is destined to be a tragedy.
In the eleventh minute of the game, Zhang Xu made an accurate prediction and cut off the pass from No. 8 Gonzalez to No. 9 Carlos in time, and then sent it to Aguilar on the right side.
As soon as Aguilar got the ball, he started quickly and moved at high speed along the touchline. After successfully crossing the halfway line, he was entangled by the opposition wing-backs.
So, he pushed the arch of his right foot and gave it to Belleron in time.
Belleron also didn't stop the ball, and pushed it directly to return the ball to Aguilar again.
At this point, Aguilar had already crossed the opposing wing-back, and after receiving the ball, he continued to go up and down the touchline.
The opposing defender Fogo naturally refused to let him go and followed closely.
Aguilar was close to the bottom line when he sent a direct cross.
The cross was of very good quality, fast and flat, and landed on the outside edge of the centre of the six-yard box.
Zhang Xu had already seen the opportunity, he rushed in from outside the big penalty area at high speed, and then jumped more than three meters away from the football flight path.
At this time, his strong explosiveness and bounce were fully revealed, and he overwhelmed all the players who grabbed the point, and a beautiful lion swung his head and smashed his forehead on the football!
With so much force that it put the ball into the net in one fell swoop, Rayo Vallecano's goalkeeper Ruben didn't even have time to react.
The ball is in! 1:0!
This goal blinded Rayo Vallecano at once, they were still immersed in the pleasure of bombing Deportivo La Coruna just now, but they didn't expect to be poured a ball by the opponent in a blink of an eye, such a gap is indeed too big!
As a result, their mentality is seriously unbalanced!
Rayo Vallecano's players were demoralized and at a loss, and the formation of the team became disorganized.
At this time, if Zhang Xu didn't know how to seize the opportunity, then he would not be the Chinese Zhang who could score two goals at the Bernabeu Stadium.
In the sixteenth minute of the game, after the game resumed, just three minutes later, Deportivo LaCoruna's attacking wave came to pass.
This time it's still Zhang Xu's broken ball!
When he was defending the opponent's No. 19 Russ, Russ actually wanted to pass him, Zhang Xu was naturally not polite to this, just when the opponent was about to break through himself, he poked the toe of his right foot, and stabbed the football off the opponent's feet, and then leaned on Russ and easily controlled the football.
Russ was still a little unconvinced, and tried his best to snatch the football over, but under Zhang Xu's strong power, Russ even shook Zhang Xu's body became delusional.
After winning the ball, Zhang Xu didn't take the ball, and directly stabbed the football to Belleron in front. Belleron didn't stop the ball and immediately passed it back to Zhang Xu, who followed up.
Zhang Xu pushed the arch of his foot again and sent the football to the feet of Pizzy in front.
Pizzi made a beautiful turn, shook the opposing defender over, and poked his toe to give the football to Ricky, who suddenly stepped forward.
Ricky was caught between two defenders and couldn't catch the ball smoothly.
However, he didn't want to catch the ball, and as soon as he missed, the ball passed under his crotch and came to the right side of the penalty area.
And at this time, Belleron just arrived, and he shot directly low!
The ball sticks to the turf and rolls quickly towards the bottom right corner of the goal.
Rayo Vallecano's goalkeeper Ruben made a hasty save and was powerless to stop it, only to watch as the ball rolled into the net.
The ball is in again! 2:0!
If the first goal hit Bacarreno's morale, then this second goal directly broke their backbone!
So in the later games, Rayo Vallecano surrendered directly, they completely gave up the attack, and everyone retreated to their own half.
In the face of such a turtle shell, Zhang Xu has no good way, he can only use frequent long-range shots and set-pieces to see if he can break their dense defense.
However, even so, the results are not very good.
Soon, the time of the first half was just running out.
After the start of the second half, Rayo Vallecano seemed to want to hit Deportivo La Coruna by surprise, but Zhang Xu, who had been highly focused, did not give them a chance.
In addition, Zhang Xu also took advantage of the opportunity of the opponent's attack, and immediately launched a quick attack after a successful steal.
This time, Rayo Vallecano was lucky, Ricky received a through ball from Belleron, and a volley from close range was saved by Ruben who suddenly broke out!
However, this attack also directly extinguished Rayo Vallecano's last bit of desire to attack, and in the following time, they began to defend with all their strength again, and they no longer came out.
Zhang Xu really didn't have a good way to do this, and in the end, the score of this game was still 2:0, and Deportivo successfully won three points!
Now, Deportivo La Coruna has 14 points and is fourth in the league standings!