()Chapter 131 Twenty-Three (2800 Monthly Pass Additions)

While Chen returned the favor with a hat-trick and officially declared war on Pavlyuchenko, Zenit also scored a breakthrough victory on the other front, beating Standard Sun 2-0 on their home turf to qualify for the UEFA Cup.

The only regret was that Chen Yingying did not score in this game, he came off the bench in the second half and only played fifteen minutes, with no decent chances.

This isn't the first time Zenit has reached the UEFA Cup, but Chen is looking forward to it because it's his first trip to Europe.

The group draw will take place as soon as all the teams that have entered the main draw have been announced.

In the end, Zenit St. Petersburg was placed in Group A, along with Alkamal from the Netherlands, Everton from the Premier League, Larissa from Greece and Nuremberg from Germany.

Unlike the Champions League, the UEFA Cup is a five-team group and there is no home-and-away competition, but each team plays against each other and is ranked to determine who advances to the knockout stage.

So even though the UEFA Cup group stage starts later than the Champions League and there are more teams competing in the Champions League, it will be possible to get all the group stage matches ready for the winter break.

It's just that the teams in the Russian league have three more league cup group games to play after the end of the season, and the final round of the group stage ends on December 20. The Russian Superleague season ended on November 11.

Those teams that do not have to participate in European competitions are naturally disbanded and given leave to the players. The teams that need to participate in European competitions are suffering, and they still have to train in the snow and ice. Of course, they are more bitter for other European teams who are unfortunate enough to come to Russia to play away at this time."

After the group stage opponents were announced, the schedule was also announced.

The Zenit tournament starts on 25 October and consists of four matches, starting on 25 October at home to AZ Alkmaar, 8 November at Larissa and 29 November at home to Nuremberg. Finally, on December 6, we will take on Everton away.

The strongest team in this group is likely to be Everton from the Premier League, while the weakest in the city is Greece's Larissa, with the other three teams all in the middle of the pack promising to advance or to be eliminated.

Advocaat has to carefully study the opponent and decide what strategy to use in the group stage, for example, the away game against Everton is the last group game, if he has played well before, and the promotion has been basically confirmed before this game, then the match with Everton will become a real friendly - Advocaat feels that Everton should also qualify early.

The toughest game to play is probably going to be the best.

Although it is a field, it should not be difficult to play against Larissa.

All you need to think about is the home game against AZ Alkmaar and the home game against Nuremberg."

If you play these two games well, you will be able to win the right to qualify, otherwise "it's over!"

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Chen Yingying is not the head coach, and he doesn't care how the team will play at that time, which game to use his best efforts, and which game should be retained. His mind is now full of wanting to make his name known to the world in the UEFA Cup.

I'm going to score! I'm going to score more and more goals!

But by now, it's the domestic league that's more important. The first UEFA Cup group game will not be until October 25, and he has two league games to play before that.

On the one hand, they are competing for the league title, and on the other hand, they are completely trampling Pavlyuchenko under their feet.

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On October 7, Zenit St. Petersburg played away against Lokomotiv Moscow. Although the team is currently eighth in the league, they should not be underestimated, and it was in the last round of the league that they beat Spartak Moscow 4-3 at home to knock the team off the top spot in the league. Gave Zenit a chance to reverse.

Zenit certainly does not want a repeat of the mistakes of Moscow Sparta.

So in this game, Advocaat sent the strongest lineup he could field.

Chen Yingying appeared on the stage, at the forefront, and his task was to attack the city.

Advocaat certainly knew that Chen was holding back his strength to take on Pavlyuchenko, and his goal could bring victory to the team. This is what Advocaat could not ask for. Of course he has to make good use of Chen Yingying's **.

As a result, in this game, Chen Yingying lived up to expectations and scored another goal!

"Twenty-second ball! It's incredible! He's scoring in a row! He's already scored twenty-two goals! Since the inception of the Russian Premier League, the league's top scorer has scored the most goals in a single season is twenty-five. In the 1995 season, Verethnikov (oleg_verikov) set the "Can Chen Yingying break this record?" ，

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Relying on Chen Yingying's goal, Zenit won 1:0 away from Moscow.

In this way, the pressure shifted to Spartak Moscow and Pavlyuchenko.

Especially for Pavlyuchenko: "It's a lot of pressure!"

He didn't score in the last round of the league, but Chen Yingying overtook him by one goal, and in this round of the league, Chen Yingying has scored a goal, and if he can't score again, the gap will get bigger and bigger. In the end, it cannot be remedied.

With this mentality, Pavlyuchenko frantically searched for scoring opportunities in the game.

But there is one truth that cannot be broken, and that is that your mentality is important in football. The more impatient you are, the less chance you have, and when you are calm, you will get a lot of opportunities that you never thought of before.

Pavlyuchenko's idea of wanting to compete with Chen Yingying on the scorer list is good, but his mentality is not well controlled, and he is a little too impatient."

In the end, Starba Moscow won 2-1 away at Narciksparta and continued to bite Zenit in the standings without giving Zenit the slightest chance to relax.

However, Pavlyuchenko, who was mentally unbalanced, failed to seize the opportunity to score in the game, and the gap between him and Chen Yingying was pulled to two goals.

It's amazing, just two rounds ago, he was still two goals ahead of Chen Yingxing in the scorer list, who would have thought that now it would be his turn to be led by two goals"

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On October 20, in the 27th round of the Russian Premier League, the local derby between Spartak Moscow and Moscow FC was very hot, and one player from each side was sent off with a red card. Pavlyuchenko, for his part, finally found his scoring touch in this game, scoring a goal from the penalty spot to take his league tally to 21st.

It's only one ball away from the hero.

Spartak Moscow beat FC Moscow 3-1 at their home stadium and returned to top of the league while Zenit was still in the game. But everyone didn't care about that, because they all knew that as long as Zenit won, Spartak Moscow would have to fall from the top spot in the league.

Sure enough, Zenit St. Petersburg did not disappoint those who watched the show.

A day later, they beat Shhimki 4-1 at home, unsurprisingly pulling Spartak Moscow down.

Now everyone thinks that this is the case for the league title, anyway, both sides are in good shape, if they can both win, the final league championship will definitely be Zenit, it depends on who makes a mistake in the end.

But the competition for the league's top scorer is different, in addition to the suspense of who will win the Golden Boot in the end, there is also a suspense - Oleg. Veretnikov's record of 25 goals has been held for eleven seasons, is there any hope of being broken this time?

Chen Yingying used a beautiful goal in the game to tell everyone that there is hope ()!

With this goal, he has now scored twenty-three goals, just two goals short of Veretnikov's twenty-five.

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After this game, he had to take a break from his crazy pace of scoring goals in the league.

It's time for the League Cup mini-game!

In Advocaat's plan, Zenit must win at home against AZ Alkmaar because this is a team of similar strength and the team that poses the most threat to Zenit.

But what is the result?

The result was that Zenit played a "

Alkamal took the lead on the road, scoring in the 19th minute.

AZ Alkmaar, who played away next, began to use frequent fouls to contain Zenit at home.

Especially Chen Yingying.

When he rushes to the front, he is always surrounded by at least two people, who are defending with their hands and feet.

The price Alkmaar paid for that was seven yellow cards and one red card for the whole game – with their goal-scorer Alli being sent off.

Chen Yingying was curbed by the opponent's foul tactics and was unable to score in this game.

Captain Timoshchuk equalised at the start of the second half.

Then AZ Alkmaar's foul tactics continued, and they withdrew all their forces due to the lack of one man, and the foul and defense made Zenit's attack like a quagmire.

Clearly, Advocaat did not anticipate such stubborn resistance at home for his team, lacking change and finding no effective way to move.

Chen Yingying also fell into the mistake of competing with the opponent's body, blindly showing his strength, but forgetting to shoot.

In the end, Zenit had to regret the result of the draw at home.

Although Chen Yingying was looking forward to it, his first goal in the League Cup had not yet arrived.

A 1-1 draw at home to AZ Alkmaar has cast a shadow over Zenit St Petersburg's prospects of qualifying for the group stage.

If you can't even get past the group stage, what kind of hat-trick in the knockout round are you talking about?

Chen Yingying was not too depressed when he left the game, he frowned, and there was a faint anger on his face.

He's not angry at his team-mate's performance, he's angry that he wasn't good enough to score a goal to help the team win.

Having to qualify for the knockout stages of the UEFA Cup is the goal he has set for himself.

For this goal, he is going berserk.

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ps,I'm going to sleep in a while.,I don't think there will be another plus change before I go to bed after this change, right? (To be continued.)

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