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Early the next morning, Zhang Xu got up at a fixed time, he slept soundly last night, and got up in the morning full of energy and refreshment.

After pulling Oliveira to finish running, when she came back, Morales had just gotten up, she opened her sleepy eyes, first glanced at Zhang Xu dissatisfiedly, and then walked into the bathroom leisurely.

"Haha!" Oliveira saw Morales' expression and finally burst out laughing when she walked into the bathroom.

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After sending Morales to the Eurostar Hotel, Zhang Xu hurried to the club under Morales's resentful eyes.

Tomorrow is the first game of the Copa del Rey and the team is preparing in full swing, so as the second captain, he will naturally have to lead by example. In addition, he has become the absolute core of the current team, and he is inseparable from any formation.

The Spanish Copa del Rey (Spanish: CopadelRey) is an annual knockout football tournament in Spain, with its first competition held in 1902.

Spanish football has a very close connection with the country's royal family, and at present, Spain is the only country in Europe that continues to reward the football elite in the name of the royal family, and it is the Copa del Rey after La Liga. In 1975, the "Spanish Champions Cup" was renamed the "Copa del Rey".

The format of the Copa del Rey is completely different from that of the league, because the three levels of clubs are mixed and grouped together, in a sense, it should be a cup competition to assist small clubs, and the second and third division clubs have the opportunity to compete with the first division clubs, which stimulates and promotes the development of local football and the small club economy.

Spain's rewards for Copa del Rey winners are also tempting, with the overall prize money being raised to $7.5 million, and the royal family's symbolic $500,000 cheque and routine summons are equally appealing. The most attractive thing is the direct access to the UEFA Cup competition, and the club's advertising and TV revenues will skyrocket.

Coach Altra attaches great importance to the Copa del Rey, and he believes that with the current strength of the team, it may be difficult to make a difference this season, and he can only achieve a good position, but in the Copa del Rey. You can still try for it, and if you're lucky, you might even win the Copa del Rey.

Based on this idea, in these days of training. Ortra has been rehearsing various formations in a targeted manner, but of course the main one is the attacking formation, after all, Mallorca is not a team with strong attacking power.

In terms of defense, with Zhang Xu's interspersed organization, Deportivo Deportivo's defense has reached its strongest state. If you still want to improve, you can only improve the player's own ability, but for a group of veterans, it would be good if the state did not decline, if you really want to say that you can improve, you can only look at Zhang Xu himself.

At 2 p.m. on November 2, 2012, Deportivo La Coruna's Copa del Rey match against Mallorca officially began.

Because it was a home game, at the beginning of the game, Deportivo launched a tidal wave of attacks against Mallorca under the leadership of Zhang Xu and Belleron.

Mallorca, naturally, are not to be outdone. also launched a number of counterattacks, but under Zhang Xu's tight defense, Mallorca's counterattacks failed to achieve good results.

However, Mallorca's counterattack attracted the attention of Zhang Xu and Belleron, and in order to ensure the victory of the game, Zhang Xu slowed down the pace of attack, paid attention to strengthening the team's defense, and pursued goals on the basis of solid defense.

In this case, the situation of the game seems to be a bit tepid and relatively peaceful. It looks so, but in reality?

Twenty-first minute of the game. Zhang Xu cooperated with Marchena and easily broke the ball from the feet of the opposing striker, and then passed it to Belleron.

Belleron was not in a hurry to attack, he moved slowly forward with the ball. From time to time, he poured the ball back with Aguilar, and finally, he saw that Zhang Xu had already run up, so he returned the football to Zhang Xu.

After Zhang Xu took the ball, he made an obvious gesture with his right hand and suddenly increased his speed. Quickly crossed the halfway line and sprinted towards Mallorca's hinterland.

Zhang Xu's sudden acceleration suddenly made Mallorca a little uncomfortable, so when Zhang Xu rushed forward, no Mallorca player came up to rush at the first time.

Finally, around fifteen metres from the edge of the penalty area, it was the first Mallorca player to press up.

Zhang Xu did not continue to dribble the ball, but passed the football out at the first time, and the direction of the pass was Ricky in front of him.

Ricky didn't stop the ball, he just pushed with his right foot and gave the football to Oliveira. That's right, it's Oliveira. Oliveira earned Otra's trust with a brace in the previous outing, and he continued to start this game.

After Oliveira received the ball, he found that he could not turn around, so he began to dribble horizontally and sent it to the left midfielder Gama.

Gama immediately started at high speed, quickly went down the touchline, and after being intercepted by the opposing defender, he decisively kicked up and crossed.

Ricky leapt high in the middle to grab the first point, but instead of attacking the goal, he brought the ball back to Oliveira's feet.

Oliveira pushes the shot! The soccer ball rolled into the net!

1:0！

Although this goal was not Zhang Xu's assist, nor was it Zhang Xu's goal, his sudden forward insertion disrupted Mallorca's formation and laid a solid foundation for the team to finally win the goal.

After a ball in hand, Deportivo played more handy, and under Zhang Xu's scheduling, the rhythm of the transition was more mellow.

On the contrary, Mallorca also wanted to get back into the score and try their best to attack, but in front of Zhang Xu's strong defense, everything became unrealistic.

The first half of the game ended quickly, and when the second half changed sides and fought again, the veteran Belleron was replaced by Thomas, and Zhang Xu once again served as the captain on the field.

Zhang Xu has been studying with captain Belleron for more than three months, and has learned a lot of knowledge about midfield organization from Belleron. Coupled with the continuous improvement of his own ability, at present, Zhang Xu's midfield organization ability has gradually been recognized by head coaches Ortra and Belleron.

Although there are still deficiencies in some aspects, such as dribbling, technique, imagination, etc., in terms of passing, basically getting Belleron's true pass, which can already become the team's metronome.

Now, whether Belleron is on the field or not, as long as Zhang Xu is there, the team's formation will not be chaotic.

Sometimes, Ortra is also a little worried about this, what if Zhang Xu is favored by a wealthy club and transfers to the team? Moreover, this is also a very real problem, at least Real Madrid has made a clear offer of 30 million euros for Zhang Xu.

You can refuse once, twice, but can you refuse three or four times? Deportivo is a small club after all, and there is also a stingy club president, who will definitely not be able to keep Zhang Xu, a real dragon.

Alas, Ortra looked at Zhang Xu who was rampage on the court and couldn't help but sigh deeply.

At the start of the second half, Mallorca seemed eager to equalise, so they launched a fierce attack that kept Deportivo busy for a while.

In the 47th minute of the game, Joaquin burst into the penalty area with the ball, and at the last moment, Zhang Xu stabbed the football out with a precise tackle.

In the forty-ninth minute of the game, it was Zhang Xu again, who used his body to block the opponent's striker's shot.

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Under Zhang Xu's strong defense, the team withstood waves of Mallorca's attacks, gradually stabilized, and slowly the offense gradually recovered.

In the sixty-third minute of the game, the football was finally fished from Joaquin's feet again and passed to Thomas in front.

Once Thomas had dribbled over the halfway line, he passed the ball to Aguilar on the right.

Aguilar took a few steps before being tangled up in the opposition defenders, so he handed the football back to Thomas.

However, Thomas did not catch the ball, but leaned on the opponent's back, and with a sideways turn, he leaked the football to Zhang Xu, who was inserted.

Zhang Xu sent the football to Oliveira's feet with a beautiful through ball, and then quickly stepped forward himself.

Seeing Zhang Xu quickly step forward, Oliveira didn't know Zhang Xu's intentions, so he didn't catch the ball, and pushed the arch of his right foot to return the football.

Zhang Xu faced the rolling football, and it was a powerful long-range shot!

With a loud bang, the football flew past Mallorca's backline like a gust of wind and flew towards the top right corner of the goal.

The shot was so fast that the Mallorca goalkeeper had just stretched out his arm when he saw the ball go over his fingers and into the goal behind him!

The ball is in! 2:0！

Zhang Xu used a shocking long-range shot to help the team open the door to victory!

This long-range shot also completely extinguished Mallorca's desire to equalize.

As a result, Mallorca seemed to lose their desire to be aggressive in the latter games and focus more on defence.

The opponent has already surrendered, and Zhang Xu naturally has no need to chase after him, after all, the next game is with Mallorca, but the Copa del Rey has become a league.

So, he slowed down the pace of the attack.

The rest of the game was garbage time, and soon the game was over at full-time, with Deportivo La Coruna beating a visiting Mallorca 2-0 at home to advance to the next round of the Copa del Rey.

Two days later, on 4 November, the ninth round of the league began, again against Mallorca.

This time, Mallorca is still playing away, and its state is still not improving, so the rhythm of the whole game is in the hands of Zhang Xu.

The result of the game was much the same as the previous game, with Deportivo still winning the game, only with one less goal and a narrow 1-0 victory.

It was Ricky who scored the goal, who received a through ball from Belleron, successfully countered offside and volleyed into the net.

After this game, Zhang Xu asked head coach Ortra for leave and prepared to return to China and go to Shanghai to participate in the assembly of the national team. (To be continued.) )

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