Chapter 151: Chinese Zhang Dependence
On November 14, 2012, the Chinese football team faced the visiting New Zealand team at the Hongkou Stadium in Shanghai as scheduled. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info
The final score of this match was 1:1. In the first half, both sides scored one goal each, and at the end of the handshake.
Zhang Xu watched the whole game online, and in his opinion, the performance of the Chinese team was very bad. First of all, there were too few effective offensive means and not very effective to tear apart the New Zealand team's defense; Secondly, the defense of the national team is still not good, and the problem of lack of concentration of players still exists, and the goal scored by New Zealand is caused by the poor marking of the defenders.
Although he was very disappointed with the performance of the national team, there was one thing that moved Zhang Xu a lot.
This was in the second half of the game, when the national team was playing in a mess, and in the stands of Hongkou Stadium, a group of players pulled out a banner that read: Zhang Xu, the national team needs you! Please come back!
When he saw this scene, the corners of Zhang Xu's eyes moistened unconsciously. He was deeply moved, touched by the selfless love of the fans! At this moment, he had an urge to return to the country immediately.
In the end, Zhang Xu could only sigh, and secretly made up his mind in his heart: as long as the national team still needs him, issue a call-up order, even if he is a little wronged, he must stick to the end and dedicate his strength to the national team!
It's for nothing else, just for these most lovable fans who are committed to it!
It has been 11 rounds since the league and because in the last round of the league the team lost to Zaragoza, the team still has 18 points and the league table has fallen to fifth place.
In front of Deportivo La Coruna, there are Barcelona, Atletico Madrid, Real Madrid and Real Betis.
At one p.m. on November 18, 2012, at the Riazor Stadium, the home of Deportivo La Coruna, the twelfth round of La Liga officially began. The match is Deportivo La Coruna hosting Levante.
Levante? Unión? Deportiva, abbreviation: Levante? UD, Levante) is a small football club based in Valencia, eastern Spain, currently playing in the Spanish Primera Division.
Founded in 1909, it is named after the coast of the city of Valencia, Spain. It appeared before Valencia, the city's powerhouse (the latter was not established until 1919).
However, since its inception, the club's results have been far inferior to Valencia, which is a contender, and it has been in the lower league for a long time, and there are almost no awards. In the 2005-06 season, they finished third in La Liga and were promoted to La Liga.
Levante had a good start to the season. In the first 11 rounds of the league, five wins, two draws and four losses accumulated 17 points, ranking seventh in the league.
This match is also about the exchange of seats between the two teams in the league, so from the pre-match to the start of the game, both teams showed great attention and nervousness.
this game. Zhang Xu, who had rested for a whole week, had already recovered his fitness and condition, and head coach Ortra did not hesitate to let him start.
At the start of the game, Levante was a little more active than Deportivo La Coruna. Especially in attack, Levante's two wing-backs were very active, frequently exploiting opportunities from low crosses to constantly cause problems for Deportivo Deportivo's aging defence.
This tactic of flying with both wings and making a cross from the bottom may really be able to cause some trouble for Deportivo La Coruna in Zhang Xu's absence. But now that Zhang Xu is back, his terrifying bounce and accurate header, as well as just the right sense of position, make Levante's crosses again and again useless.
After one failed attack after another, Levante began to be a little impatient, and some of the smarter players began to look for other ways to attack, but there were also some players who continued to follow the manager's pre-game arrangement.
As a result, there was a tactical inconsistency within the team, and the formation slowly became disordered. Attack is rapidly weakened.
As soon as Levante's attack power decreased, as the backbone of Deportivo LaCoruna's defense, Zhang Xu immediately felt it.
Well, now it's our turn to attack!
Seventeenth minute of the game. After a precise steal, Zhang Xu stabbed the football to Belleron, waved his right hand, and then suddenly rushed forward.
Catching, passing, receiving, passing, and passing the ball again, after several consecutive lightning-fast passes, Zhang Xu has come to the edge of Levante's big penalty area.
For Zhang Xu. Every team in La Liga is already very familiar with and takes it very seriously, so when he quickly appeared on the edge of the penalty area, although the defensive formation was not yet established, there were still two Levante defenders who pressed forward without hesitation.
Zhang Xu smiled slightly, this is to prevent me from shooting from a distance! However, my passing skills are much better than those from distance!
I saw him push lightly with the arch of his foot, and the football passed through the middle of the two Levante players who came up and appeared on the right side of the penalty area.
Ricky wisely stepped forward, successfully countered offside, faced the rolling football, picked up his right leg, and it was a kick, uh, not a shot, but a push pass!
The football rolled past the attacking goalkeeper and rolled towards the unmarked Pizzi, how could Pizzy waste such an opportunity, he just pushed it with the arch of his foot, and the ball rolled into the net obediently!
The ball is in! 1:0!
After a goal in hand, Deportivo played more unhurried under the dispatch of Zhang Xu and Belleron, and completely controlled the rhythm of the game in his own hands.
After these months of study and cooperation, Deportivo has now formed a very special and tacit tactic: Belleron is responsible for controlling the rhythm, while Zhang Xu is responsible for disrupting the opponent's rhythm.
Of course, when Zhang Xu was an independent core, he also applied the tactical ideas he learned from Belleron to the team's offensive organization little by little. However, compared to his unusually tenacious defensive organization, his offensive organization still has a long way to go.
This can be clearly seen from his offensive attributes.
After conceding a goal, the Levante team was even more impatient in order to equalize, and despite the manager's loud reminders and reprimands from the sidelines, the effect was still not obvious enough.
In the 33rd minute of the game, Zhang Xu swung his head with a beautiful lion, accurately stopped the opponent's bottom cross, and gave the football to Marchena, who responded.
When Marchena was holding the ball, he saw Zhang Xu's gesture, so he immediately ran forward with the football.
After being interrupted by an opposition midfielder, Marchena gave the football to captain Bellerón.
After receiving the ball, Belleron pushed forward with the football while looking up to observe the position and movement of his teammates.
Suddenly, with a shake of his right foot, he dodged past the opposing player and pushed the ball to Aguilar on the right. Aguilar didn't stop the ball and pushed it back to Belleron.
This time, Belleron did not stop the ball, but leaned on the side of the opponent's player's body, and with a beautiful leak, he leaked the football to Zhang Xu who ran up.
Zhang Xu pushed the pass, and the football tore through Levante's defense at once, accurately sending the football to Pizzi's feet.
Pizzi immediately made a beautiful overhead pass and passed the football to Ricky who stepped forward, and Ricky volleyed the ball into the net!
The ball is in! 2:0!
Beautiful goal! Nice fit!
Deportivo La Coruna, under the joint organization of Zhang Xu and Belleron, played a pleasing attack, once again breaking through the door of Levante.
If the first goal made Levante's morale drop a little, then the second goal made Levante feel a little collapsed.
In this case, Deportivo is playing more and more smoothly, and the control of the game is getting stronger and stronger, and Levante will still have an attack from time to time, but it is just a flash in the pan, and he was soon killed by Zhang Xu.
Belleron saw that the team had taken the absolute initiative, and he began to consciously hand over the command of the team to Zhang Xu, and guided Zhang Xu's organization and command from time to time.
One has no morale, one has carefully tuned the core of the future midfield, and during this time, the two sides have played tepidly.
And just like that, the first half of the game was quickly over.
In the second half, Levante wanted to play a surprise attack or something, and maybe he could get back one or two goals, but under Zhang Xu's tight defense, Levante didn't get any chance at all.
Finally, in this match, Deportivo La Coruna won 2-0 at home against Levante and scored a valuable three points.
Now, Deportivo La Coruna is in fourth place in the standings with twenty-one points.
After the match, many Spanish media commented:
"China Zhang returns, A Coruña is resurrected!" 》
"Warcraft Zhang returns for the first time, and "Super Laco" goes to the next city"
"A Coruña has developed a "Chinese zhang dependence"! 》
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In these comments, almost all of them are in the same tone, that is, if Zhang Xu is there, Deportivo La Coruna is unstoppable, if Zhang Xu is not there, or if he is not in good shape, uh, well, I haven't seen Zhang Xu in a bad state, so it can only be said that if Zhang Xu is not there, then Deportivo La Coruna is a fish belly team!
Therefore, all the media claim that A Coruña is already suffering from a serious Chinese zhang dependence!
However, head coach Altra scoffed at such comments, believing that it was nothing more than the envy and hatred of other teams.
Ortra also deliberately said when facing a reporter's question: "Yes, Zhang is indeed very important to us A Coruña!" What does it matter? Isn't Messi important to Barcelona? Isn't Ronaldo important to Real Madrid? How does this become dependency? ”
In the end, Ortra deliberately said: "I am proud to have China Zhang!" (To be continued.) )
PS: Sending my parents back to my hometown tomorrow, it may be interrupted, even if it is constantly updated, the update will be late, please forgive and understand, thank you!