Chapter 246: King's Cup, I'm Coming!
When Zhang Xu scored this incredible goal, the Spaniard's fighting spirit collapsed suddenly, and in the rest of the time, he completely cowered in his own half, allowing Deportivo to bombard indiscriminately. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
After seeing that the victory was basically sealed, Oliveira directly replaced Zhang Xu in order to prepare for the Copa del Rey.
So the rest of the game was uneventful, and in the end, Deportivo La Coruna won 3-1 against Espanyol, taking all three points.
Now Deportivo has 74 league points and is still ranked third, but Atletico Madrid, which was originally only three points short of Deportivo La Coruna, failed to withstand Barcelona's crazy attack in the game against Barcelona and lost 2-2 in the end!
In this way, the gap between Atletico Madrid and Deportivo La Coruna has widened to six points! This couldn't be better news for A Coruña!
Because of the win-loss relationship and goal difference, in the next three rounds of the league, as long as they win one of the games, Deportivo La Coruna can ensure third place in the league and directly qualify for the European Champions Cup!
And now, there's a chance to win, and that's away to Valladolid in four days' time!
Real Valladolid Club de Fútbol is a football club based in Valladolid, the capital of Castilla y León, Spain, founded on June 20, 1928. The team's home stadium, Estadio José Zorrilla, is named after the Spanish poet José Zorrillay Moral and has a capacity of 26,500 people. Valladolid FC was able to return to La Liga after winning La Liga in 2006/07.
Valladolid's recent record is not very good, 1-1 by Sevilla away to draw, 3-4 away defeat to Real Madrid, although the record is not good, but the opponents he faces are relatively strong, especially against Real Madrid, actually scored three goals away. So Valladolid's attack power cannot be ignored.
On May 11, 2013, Zhang Xu followed the team bus to the Soryglia Stadium, the home stadium of Valladolid.
For this game, Valladolid, who have no desire, did not take it very seriously, when they arranged the starting line-up. It's basically a half-main and half-substitute lineup, which is obviously an intention to train the team and train young players.
In the face of such a situation, Deportivo La Coruna and Zhang Xu, who are determined to win this game, will naturally not be polite.
At the beginning of the game, Deportivo La Coruna, under the leadership of Zhang Xu, launched a tidal wave of attacking frenzy against Valladolid.
The third minute of the game. Zhang Xu made a beautiful through ball in the middle, directly sent the football to the feet of Ricky, Ricky quickly broke through after taking the ball, facing the attacking Valladolid goalkeeper, leaning on the opponent's defender, and fell to the ground to shoot!
The ball hit the goalkeeper's feet, bounced off and flew up, then smashed on the goalpost and flew off the bottom line!
In the sixth minute of the game, it was Zhang Xu again. He played a delicate combination with Belleron up front, quickly penetrating the outside of the box.
In the end, when Belleron and Zhang Xu formed a cross change, they received Zhang Xu's heel pass, and immediately made an oblique pass over the top, hanging the football to Oliveira's chest.
The ball was saved by Valladolid's goalkeeper and lifted the bottom line.
In the ninth minute of the game, it was still Zhang Xu.
It was a corner for Deportivo La Coruna. When Belleron kicked off, he first glanced at his teammates in the penalty area, deliberately looked at Zhang Xu's position, and then directly passed the football towards Zhang Xu's position.
The trajectory of the soccer flight is very beautiful. Flat and fast, it's perfect for grabbing points in the middle.
Zhang Xu immediately took off into the air and greeted the football in the air.
With a "bang", his forehead slammed into the football, which immediately changed direction and flew quickly towards the upper right corner of the goal.
Zhang Xu is too much of a angle-seeker. So the ball hit the corner between the post and the crossbar, bounced back into the box, and was cleared off by a Valladolid defender.
In the first ten minutes, Deportivo La Coruna's offensive was very fierce, threatening Valladolid's goal again and again, if it weren't for Valladolid's goalkeeper being brave enough, if it wasn't for Valladolid's luck was too good, the score would have been 0-0 long ago.
However, luck will not always be on Valladolid's side, and their goalkeepers will not always be so brave.
In the 27th minute of the game, after Zhang Xu received a return pass from Belleron in the backfield, he began to dribble the ball slowly, cooperating with his teammates from time to time, reversing the ball with each other, and patiently looking for opportunities.
When Zhang Xu was pouring the ball, he also sent the football forward from time to time, and then watched Valladolid's reaction.
Again and again, again and again, just when the Valladolid players were bored, Zhang Xu keenly discovered a loophole in the Valladolid formation on the left side, so he passed the football again, this time he chose to pass to Belleron.
After the football was passed, Zhang Xu immediately started quickly, directly raised his speed, and quickly diagonally inserted into the right side of Valladolid, that is, the left side of Deportivo La Coruna.
Belleron understood, and after taking the ball and turning around, he directly pushed the football with his right foot and pushed the football in front of Zhang Xu.
Zhang Xu gently leaned on the instep of his right foot, pushed the momentum, and the football was controlled by him, and continued to rush forward quickly.
Two Valladolid players quickly pounced on Zhang Xu.
Zhang Xu didn't bother to entangle with them, and after taking two steps diagonally to the right, he suddenly kicked the back of the football with the instep of his right foot.
The ball immediately slipped between the two Valladolid players and rolled straight to the left edge of the penalty area.
Oliveira slapped his horse and arrived, faced the goalkeeper with teeth and claws, and directly pushed and shot! Push the soccer ball into the far corner of the goal!
The Valladolid goalkeeper clearly didn't expect Oliveira to push the far corner, so by the time he reacted and quickly fell to the ground to intercept, the ball had already rolled under his armpit.
When he turned back towards the ball, it had crossed the goal line and had a goal into the net!
The ball is in! 1:0!
Seeing the football roll into the net, Zhang Xu couldn't help but clench his fists excitedly and waved it twice in the air.
Zhang Xu couldn't help but be excited, worked hard for nearly thirty minutes, and only scored at this time, which is really rare, and more importantly, this goal is equivalent to opening the door to Deportivo La Coruna's victory.
With a goal in hand, Deportivo can face Valladolid with a very relaxed mentality in the following games.
Whether Valladolid counterattacks or continues to defend, Zhang Xu, who has already controlled the rhythm of the game, can deal with it calmly.
Sure enough, Valladolid was clearly not willing to lose at home to Deportivo La Coruna, and immediately launched a strong counterattack after conceding the goal.
It's just that their counterattack is not much of a threat in Zhang Xu's eyes, and it can be easily solved by dividing five by two. On the contrary, what made Zhang Xu excited was that because of the counterattack, Valladolid's formation gradually appeared some loopholes, some holes that were enough to make Valladolid fatal.
However, Zhang Xu did not rashly attack the loophole, but continued to observe calmly, he wanted to wait until the loophole expanded to a certain extent, and then give the other party a hard blow.
That was the end of the first half.
In the second half, Valladolid's attack momentum was even more ferocious, and waves of attacks rushed towards Deportivo La Coruna like a tide.
However, every time their attack came in front of Zhang Xu, it was like hitting a solid wall, and it ended in vain.
Zhang Xu waited for another ten minutes, and when he saw that Valladolid's loopholes had expanded to the point that almost everyone could find them, he knew that he couldn't wait any longer, and if he waited any longer, Valladolid's head coach would notice it and adjust the formation in time to make up for the loopholes.
Now is the time!
In the 66th minute of the game, Zhang Xu made a beautiful header and directly destroyed Valladolid's free kick in front.
Zhang Xu gave the ball to Aguilar on the right and made a quick counter-attack gesture to Aguilar.
After Aguilar got the ball, he quickly turned around and picked up his speed to smash into the heart of Valladolid like lightning.
Zhang Xu began to accelerate after the header was fed to Aguilar, and he made the most of his fastest speed, crossing the halfway line and past one Valladolid player after another.
When Aguilar was intercepted by the opposing player and had to pass the ball to Zhang Xu, Zhang Xu had already come to a distance of less than ten meters from the outside edge of the penalty area.
And at the moment, in Valladolid's backfield, there are only two defenders! And there was a distance of ten meters between the two defenders!
However, this ten meters distance is the loophole that the Valladolid players inadvertently exposed! Moreover, this loophole turned out to be in the middle of the big forbidden area!
Seeing Zhang Xu receive Aguilar's pass, the two Valladolid defenders were shocked and pounced on Zhang Xu in unison.
However, after Zhang Xu got the ball, his speed did not slow down much, so when the Valladolid defenders forced Zhang Xu's side, Zhang Xu had already passed through the middle of the two!
Single Knife! Zhang Xu got a good chance to go single!
Valladolid's goalkeeper Jammeh had no choice but to attack.
As soon as Zhang Xu entered the penalty area, he shot directly!
The ball passed straight through the right side of Jammeh's body and went headlong into the goal!
The ball is in! 2:0!
Zhang Xu took advantage of a quick counterattack to target Valladolid's loophole and hit it fatally! Seal the win.
In the end, Deportivo La Coruna won 2-0 away at Valladolid and won all three points.
Now, the top three in the league are fully assured.
Next, Deportivo La Coruna and Zhang Xu are aiming for the Copa del Rey final in six days!
Copa del Rey, here I come! (To be continued.) )