After a comfortable 3-0 win over Wycombe, Sheffield United ushered in a period of intense competition, basically three or four days is a game. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Such a dense competition puts forward strict requirements for the physical fitness of the players, and at the same time, it is also a test of the team's bench strength.

Of course, none of this has anything to do with Zhang Xu, and his physical fitness is enough to cope with these events. According to Zhang Xu's own statement, as long as a game is not an important competition, there is still a big gap between the physical consumption of a game and a half-day of training compared with the physical consumption caused by his training for a day and a half.

At the same time, the physical fitness coach and the team doctor checked his body carefully and carefully the first few times during each routine physical state inspection, for fear that Zhang Xu's body would be fatigued or something, and later found out that this guy was a humanoid monster, and fatigue or something had nothing to do with him at all, so later the physical examination of Zhang Xu also simplified the procedure, as long as Zhang Xu himself thought that there was no problem, he picked up a few important contents and checked things.

In this case, Zhang Xu has almost become a trump card in the hands of head coach Wilson, a super ace with strong strength and no need to worry about physical fitness and injury problems.

On February 15th and February 18th, Zhang Xu started two consecutive games, and played the whole game without exception.

At the same time, in these two games, Zhang Xu's performance was also very dazzling, not only his personal defense was very stable, and he really played the role of a defensive iron gate, but also showed strong strength for the first time in defensive organization.

Under Zhang Xu's organization, the defender and the back waist formed a solid plate, and Zhang Xu as the core of the defense, played a mainstay role in this plate, so that every attack of the opponent was basically futile.

Under Zhang Xu's strong defensive ability, Sheffield United won the opponent with zero goals in these two games.

As a result, Sheffield United, who have played two games less, climbed to 63 points and are in second place in the standings!

Such a good situation not only makes the team full of enthusiasm up and down, but also makes the fans full of confidence to return to the Championship this season.

For Zhang Xu, these two consecutive games are two games to accumulate experience points and take system reward attribute points. Because the opponent is not very strong, and the system rewards are getting more and more picky, after these two games, there are a lot of experience points, which directly makes Zhang Xu meet the conditions for upgrading again, but he regrets that the attribute value of the system reward is less than ten points.

On 26 February 2012, Sheffield United played Sheffield Wednesday away, the 33rd round of the league, and more importantly, it was a Sheffield derby!

Sheffield Wednesday's full name is Sheffield Wednesday Football Club and is nicknamed "The Owl". It was built in 1867 by a cricket club, so named because it was only on Wednesdays when cricketers had time to play football. Sheffield Wednesday Football Club refused to become one of the founding clubs of the All-England Professional League for political reasons, and one of its founders, Charles Stokes, founded Sheffield United Football Club in 1889.

Prior to this game, Sheffield Wednesday had played two more games than Sheffield United, but they were third in the table with just 57 points.

If they can win at Sheffield United at home, Sheffield Wednesday can close the gap on Charlton Athletic and Sheffield United, laying a solid foundation for promotion to the Championship.

However, if this derby is lost, Sheffield Wednesday will once again widen the gap between the top two and the situation of promotion will become even more dire.

This game is so important for Sheffield Wednesday, and naturally very important for Sheffield United, so both sides have started intense preparations ahead of the game.

In fact, this war, before the game began, already began.

The news outlets supporting their respective teams started a boring war of words a few days in advance, with one moment predicting Sheffield United to upset their opponents away from home, and the other time declaring that Sheffield Wednesday would defend the honour and dignity of the team at home again.

The media on both sides quarreled.

This has also affected their respective teams, such as Sheffield Wednesday's star in the Irish national team, Bill Clinton. When Morrison was interviewed by reporters, he clamored that he must beat Sheffield United at home.

And Sheffield Wednesday's other player, No. 9 Chris, even declared that he would definitely score a hat-trick in this game!

Sheffield United players have also received a number of interviews from reporters, and captain Beatty is naturally the first person to be interviewed.

Beatty will not back down on Sheffield Wednesday's challenge, making it clear that Sheffield United are ready up and down to take the owl at the time of the game!

The other team members also said that they would do their best in the game and teach the owls an unforgettable lesson.

When the reporter interviewed Zhang Xu, Zhang Xu just came back from intensive training, sweating profusely, and sweat fell on the grass drop by drop along his jersey.

In order to save time, Zhang Xu only said one sentence: I don't believe that two knives can't cut off the head of an owl!

On this day, the cold winter was still there, and the icy weather made everyone have to wear thick cold clothing.

At Hillsborough, however, it was a fiery sight.

Originally known as Owlerton Stadium and later renamed Hillsborough Stadium, Hillsborough Stadium now has a full seating capacity of 39,859 spectators.

On 19 August 2009 Sheffield Wednesday Football Club announced that Hillsborough would undergo a major refurbishment, increasing its capacity to 45,000 and expected to be completed in 2013.

A derby is a derby, and the atmosphere is completely different, and the stadium, which can only accommodate 39,859 spectators, has a full 45,000 fans today.

In order to ensure the safety of the fans, and to ensure that the fans do not act aggressively because of their emotions, the Sheffield City has arranged for a large police presence at Hillsborough Stadium.

In the stands, a team of heavily armed police officers stood in line in each area, dividing each area. And around the stadium, a circle of riot police with loaded guns standing!

Seeing such a scene, even if you are not nervous, you will be nervous!

This is the first time Zhang Xu has experienced the derby battle, he didn't feel nervous, but he felt very interesting, when he was conducting adaptive training, he looked east and west, completely curious about the baby's appearance.

Seeing Zhang Xu's appearance, captain Beatty naturally understood that this was the first time Zhang Xu had experienced this, so while training, he said to Zhang Xu: "Zhang, it's the first time to experience a derby, right?" Nervous not? ”

"Don't be nervous, isn't it a derby? What does it matter? Zhang Xu replied heartlessly.

"Isn't it a derby?! You kid! Beattie laughed and scolded: "Don't say I didn't remind you, Derby is a hot synonym!" Be careful, don't get hurt! ”

"Hurt? Who is it? Me? How can it be? Zhang Xu didn't believe that he would get hurt at all, he had enough confidence in his extremely strong body.

"Indeed, in front of Warcraft Zhang, only Sheffield Wednesday's players are injured, captain, you are too worried!" At this point, striker Evans interjected.

"Hahaha, zhang, you just let it go today, I believe that with your body, you can completely kill their dogs-mother-raised-!" Michael, who was next to him, exclaimed with laughter.

Beatty spread her hands helplessly and said to Michael and Evans: "You two don't fan the flames, although Zhang's body is really strong, but we still try to protect ourselves, especially you, Michael, your body is relatively thin, try not to have physical contact with each other!" ”

"Don't worry, captain, I let them have no chance to foul if they want to!" Michael cried out as he patted his chest in obsession.

Michael's shouts naturally attracted the attention of the Sheffield Wednesday players opposite, and they all turned their heads and glared angrily at Zhang Xu's side.

It happened that Zhang Xu looked back, so the two sides looked at each other.

Sheffield Wednesday's players relied on the advantage of playing at home, and naturally stared at Zhang Xu viciously with bull's eyes, and also made middle finger movements from time to time.

Zhang Xu naturally would not back down, he glared back at the other party, stretched out the index finger of his right hand, and made a provocative gesture of "you come".

Under Zhang Xu's leadership, the Sheffield United players simply stopped training, and began to provoke the Sheffield Wednesday players one by one, while provoking, they viciously shouted the words of cutting off the owl's head.

Not to be outdone, Sheffield Wednesday's players struck a chord with Sheffield United's players.

Seeing that a clash was about to break out, the staff arranged for the police to separate the two teams at the right time, and then arranged for both sides to end their acclimatization training and return to the locker room.

However, when Zhang Xu entered the player's tunnel, he encountered something that made him very annoyed.

Before he entered the player's tunnel, he noticed something flying in the air and quickly smashed it towards his head, he quickly dodged it, and looked down to see that it was a steel lighter!

If it weren't for his quick reaction, this would definitely make him red.

Zhang Xu raised his head, and just saw that the Sheffield Wednesday fan who threw the lighter was staring at him, doing all kinds of vulgar movements, and screaming strangely while making movements: "Damn yellow-skinned monkey, go back to your monkey den!" ”

Suddenly, Zhang Xu was furious! It's okay to insult him, but you can't insult your motherland and nation!

The distance between the two is not far, but across the player's tunnel, Zhang Xu can't pass at all, even if he wants to beat the other party, he is helpless.

Finally, Zhang Xu made a move to the Sheffield Wednesday fan:

With the thumb of his right hand upturned, he pointed at himself, then stretched out two fingers and shook it at the fan!

His meaning is obvious, that is, to score twice in this derby!