Despite two wins in a row, the team's ageing problem finally came to an end in the away game against Athletic Bilbao. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Pizzi has a groin injury and needs to recuperate for two months!

Beleron has a contusion of the knee ligament and needs to recuperate for about twenty days!

Evaldo had serious problems with his fitness reserves, and in the match against Athletic Bilbao, only forty-eight minutes into the game, there were violent cramps!

The main players are frequently injured, and the strength of the substitute players is not up to the top, so the overall strength of the team is more or less declining.

Perhaps, the only thing that makes head coach Ortra fortunate is that the team's midfield core Zhang Xu, whose body has always grown as strong as a cow, has no disease, no pain and no physical problems!

However, because of Belleron's injury, the team can only play single-core tactics now, which is indeed a big challenge and an opportunity to exercise his organizational skills with Zhang Xu.

In order to effectively improve his midfield organization ability, on the one hand, he worked hard to learn from the captain Belleron, watched videos, asked for advice, and even deliberately used the Bring in star mode when training;

On the other hand, in the simulation training every night, he uses single-core tactics, accumulating experience little by little, and improving himself little by little.

Thanks to his efforts, his organizational skills have steadily improved, although there is still a certain gap compared to Belleron, but he has been able to restore the team to a certain degree of combat effectiveness.

On 30 November 2012, Deportivo La Coruna played their second match of the Copa del Rey with a full of injuries.

In the last game, Deportivo La Coruna won 2-0 against Mallorca, and this time, Deportivo La Coruna is playing away, and to make matters worse, several of Deportivo La Coruna's main players are injured.

In this case, how to maintain the score advantage and smoothly enter the next round. This is indeed a headache for head coach Ortra.

For Zhang Xu, it is also a test.

As it turned out, the game was indeed full of twists and turns.

The game begins. Mallorca took advantage of their home advantage and launched a frantic attack on Deportivo La Coruna.

Although Zhang Xu is still lacking in offensive organization and control of the rhythm of the game, he is still very tough in defense and defensive organization.

So. Although Mallorca's offensive frenzy came one after another, it was not able to tear through the defense line under Zhang Xu's organization.

However, that's often the case in football, and when you seem to be sure of it, the unexpected will always happen.

In the 33rd minute of the game, Mallorca made a bottom cross, Zhang Xu jumped high in the penalty area, grabbed the first point, and gave the football to Marchena.

What Zhang Xu didn't expect was that Marchena stopped the ball this time. There was a mistake, the football hit his right ankle, flew out at once, and rolled more than a meter away from his body.

The Mallorca striker saw the opportunity and immediately snatched the football over, and after shaking off the counter-attacking Marchena, he suddenly shot hard!

The football flew in front of Zhang Xu's eyes, and then under his nose, it got headlong into the net!

0:1！

Mallorca looked to see hope of an aggregate equaliser after scoring that goal. Morale was suddenly high.

The high morale was immediately reflected in the intensity of the attack.

In the days that followed, Mallorca were in a wave of attacks almost every two minutes, wave after wave towards Deportivo La Coruna.

But. At this critical time, in order to keep the team's rare victory, Zhang Xu broke out again!

In the fifty-fifth minute of the game, that is, in the tenth minute of the second half, Zhang Xu made a vicious tackle near the halfway. Cut off the pass from the opposing midfielder and then poked Thomas in front of him with his toes.

As soon as Thomas received the ball, he started at high speed and cut into Mallorca's heartland.

Soon, he was strongly defended by Mallorca's defenders, and he didn't dribble the ball too much, and when he saw Zhang Xu cutting forward at high speed, he immediately returned the football.

Zhang Xu did not stop the ball, directly pushed the ball with the arch of his foot, pushed the football to Oliveira, and then bypassed the opponent to intercept his back and appeared on the outside edge of the big penalty area.

As soon as he was in place, Oliveira's pass arrived! In front of him, there is a passage that goes straight to the bottom right corner of the goal!

Shot! Zhang Xu didn't even think about it, he directly picked up his right thigh and slapped it the back of the football!

After a loud bang, the ball crossed a standard straight line, passed through the passage, and plunged into Mallorca's goal!

1:1！

Zhang Xu's earth-shattering long-range shot suddenly knocked down Mallorca's newly rising morale.

In the end, Deportivo drew with Mallorca with a score of 1:1 away with Zhang Xu's goal, and at the same time, entered the next round of the Copa del Rey with an aggregate score of 3:1!

On December 2, 2012, the fourteenth round of La Liga kicked off again.

In this round, Deportivo La Coruna is playing at home, facing Real Betis, who are sixth in the league!

Although Deportivo La Coruna is fourth in the league, they are only two points away from Real Betis, so this game is indeed a tough battle for Deportivo La Coruna, who is short of major generals.

Perhaps knowing that the current situation of the team is not very good, so, on the day of the game, as long as the Deportivo fans can come to the Riazor Stadium, basically came to the scene to cheer for their team.

However, even with the encouragement of the fans, in fact, as predicted before the game, after the start of the game, it was not Deportivo La Coruna who took the initiative on the field of play, but Real Betis who played away!

Zhang Xu has worked very hard, in order to make the overall operation of the team work properly, he has fully exerted his speed, fast running, fast passing, fast interception and defense, and so on.

Despite this, Zhang Xu still has a certain gap with Belleron in controlling the rhythm of the game, so the rhythm of this game was controlled by Real Betis from the beginning.

However, Real Betis is not having a good time, and the reason is also because of Zhang Xu.

Although Zhang Xu is still deficient in controlling the rhythm of the game, his defensive ability and defensive organization are still very good.

Thanks to his efforts, the team's defense is still relatively solid, and Real Betis's attacks again and again are like waves crashing on the reef, which looks scary, but the reef is still standing after that!

In the end, the game ended with a score of 0:0, and the two sides shook hands!

This game made Zhang Xu see the gap between himself and the top midfielder, and at the same time aroused his ambition!

In order to be able to quickly improve his midfield playmaking ability, he very decisively allocated all 30 free attribute points, of which 20 were added to the ball and 10 points were added to the off-ball running.

In this way, his stopping stat has increased from 52 to 72!

All of a sudden, his ability to stop the ball was promoted from the substitute level of the second division to the main level of the top league! It also makes Zhang Xu's ability to pass and receive the ball truly reach the level of the top league!

At the same time, his off-ball running stat has also reached 75 points! It has greatly improved his ability to cooperate with his teammates.

The improvement of these two attributes has improved Zhang Xu's ability by leaps and bounds, and also made a qualitative change in his midfield organization ability. It can be said that the current Zhang Xu, even if he does not reach the level of Belleron, is not much different, and in some aspects, he is even better than Belleron, such as the speed of passing and receiving the ball.

Although Zhang Xu's ability has improved, the aging problem of the team seems to be getting more and more serious, and the team's morale and state are slowly declining.

On December 9, 2012, Deportivo La Coruna challenged Atletico Madrid away!

Atlético de Madrid is a Spanish Primera Liga team and a traditional powerhouse in European football. Atletico Madrid is the third-best team in the history of any Spanish football club, behind rivals Real Madrid and Fútbol Club Barcelona in terms of titles, season ticket holders and total revenue.

He has won 10 Spanish Primera Liga titles, 2 Champions League runners-up, 2 Europa League titles, 2 UEFA Super Cups, and 1 Club World Cup.

In the Atletico Madrid team, there are well-known Suarez, Falcao, Turan, Costa and others, all of whom are a cut above the ability of Deportivo La Coruna.

In such a situation, it is an away game, coupled with the incomplete main lineup, even with Zhang Xu's tenacious defense, it is really difficult to predict whether Deportivo can retreat with all his body.

At 7 o'clock in the evening, the game officially began.

Atletico Madrid is a traditional powerhouse in European football, and they took control of the game in their own hands as soon as the game began.

In the eighth minute of the game, Falcao almost broke through the door of Deportivo La Coruna with a cold shot, if it wasn't for Zhang Xu at the last moment, rubbed the surface of the football with his toes, Alzubia would definitely not have been able to save this shot.

In the twelfth minute, it was Falcao again, and his through ball went straight past Marchena and into the feet of Costa.

Costa is a powerful shot against the football!

Fortunately, Aranzubia reacted quickly and stabbed the football out of the bottom line with his fingertips!

.........

The continuous powerful offensive made Zhang Xu tired of coping.

Although Zhang Xu has tried his best, the team still has a feeling of storm!

Sure enough, in the thirtieth minute of the game, Falcao received a pass from Suarez, volleyed, and finally broke through the door of Deportivo La Coruna!

1:0！

Atletico Madrid leads by one goal!

Seeing the football flying into the net, Zhang Xu's heart was lost.

Is he really that bad? Can't you control the pace of the game like Belleron? (To be continued.) )