Zhang Tiehan got the ball and was only 30 meters away from the goal, what is the concept?

The Valencians may not understand this concept, in their minds, even if a player is good at long-range shooting, 30 meters away is still a bit far, not to mention, this player has their players defending next to him, it doesn't matter at all, that's what they think.

But to the surprise of the Valencians, when the football passed to the feet of the opponent's No. 9 Zhang Tiehan, the Chelsea fans who came to the Mestalla Stadium with the team suddenly burst into huge cheers, and many fans excitedly shouted Zhang Tiehan's name.

"Zhang!! Sheet!! ”

This sound surprised Valencia fans, who suddenly felt that something was wrong, but looking at the field, the opponent's number nine was still so far away from the goal, and they felt that it was unnecessary to worry.

What is there to worry about?

That position is simply not likely to pose a threat to their goal, not to mention that he has Elgra defending by his side.

That's Elgra!

The 31-year-old Elgra, the pillar of Spain's defense, entered Santander's regional junior team with Munitis and de la Pena as a teenager, and was recommended to Albacete by his uncle who was an agent in 1996, after which the young player caught the attention of Real Madrid, but Albacete's $5.3 million was unacceptable to Real Madrid's then club president Sanz, and Elgra was later paid by Roma for this price, but only made eight appearances for the team, which did not reflect its true value, was later banished back to La Liga to join Espanyol, and a season later was brought in by Real Madrid president Sanz for a transfer fee of $6.3 million, and has been unprofitable ever since.

Elgra's first season at the Bernabeu was a brilliant one, with Real Madrid beating Valencia, also from Spain, in the Champions League final that year. The 01/02 season was repeated in Glasgow against Bayer Leverkusen.

In the same year, he also played in 15 Champions League matches before Real Madrid's knockout match with Juventus, and Elguera spent seven years at Real Madrid, winning three La Liga titles, two Spanish Super Cups, two Champions Cups, one UEFA Super Cup and one Club World Cup.

He has been one of Europe's most famous midfielders.

In the summer, Elgra moved to Valencia for 3.5 million euros. Once in Valencia, he became a central player at the back, and his individual ability and wealth of game experience made him quickly liked by Valencia fans, who all believed in Elgra's ability.

Now Elgra is defending Zhang Tiehan, which also shows that Valencia attaches great importance to Zhang Tiehan, although they feel that the victory of the game is very promising, but they will also not ignore the defense of Zhang Tiehan, after all, this is known as the 'world's number one striker'.

Elgra was also unaware of the danger. However, his defense was very careful, he slowly looked for steal opportunities, while observing the surroundings, ready to block Zhang Tiehan's passing route at any time.

He's capable of doing that because he's very experienced in the game, he's pretty good at the individual and defensively, and he's confident in that.

But what Elgra didn't expect was that after Zhang Tiehan received the pass. Instead of passing the ball to a teammate at the first time, he put the ball towards the right side. "He wants to get past himself?" , Ergra thought in surprise, he had also seen Zhang Tiehan's report on the news, and his strong passing ability was also one of the opponent's signatures, but he didn't think it was a good choice to pass in the middle of the penalty area. Even if the opponent passes him, he will definitely kill some time, and then the other teammates will have a chance to rush over and surround him.

However, Elgra would not remind the other party that it was wrong to do so, and he wished that Zhang Tiehan would make a mistake.

But when Elgra thought so, Zhang Tiehan had already waved his right leg. At this moment, Elgra knew what Zhang Tiehan was going to do - he was going to shoot!

No doubt!

Elgra didn't expect Zhang Tiehan to shoot directly at all, this position is definitely not a good position, but the other party got up, he couldn't understand it, but at the same time there was no way to block it, he could only watch Zhang Tiehan shoot with his feet, but he actually didn't care in his heart - starting in this position, isn't that equivalent to passing the ball to Valencia?

As he thought so, the ball was already flying towards the goal

Valencia fans were far from imagining that the opponent's No. 9 chose to shoot directly in this situation, and they didn't react at all, so they all watched the goal, and at this moment, their minds went blank, just thinking, "How can you shoot like this?" ”

They don't understand.

But the next scene made them understand, Valencia goalkeeper Hildebran also did not expect Zhang Tiehan to shoot directly, so he failed to react immediately, and missed the opportunity to save, and could only watch the right side of the football fly into the goal.

It was only then that many people realized that the ball had been scored.

The goal did go in, but before the goal, the vast majority of Valencians didn't even realise the threat, and when they heard the cries of the Chelsea fans, they were very unaware of why, and thought that these English people in the British Peninsula were really making a big fuss, and when Chelsea players got the ball in front of the pitch, they cheered, and they could stand the cheers for the whole game?

Now they finally know why.

It turned out that the other party had long known that the number nine on the field, that is, Zhang Tiehan was in danger of taking the ball in that position, so they cheered, but the Valencia fans themselves didn't realize it, and the players on the field didn't realize it, so the goal went in inexplicably.

It's so easy to get into

Valencia fans suddenly felt that they were thinking a little too much about the game

But not only Valencia fans, but also Valencia coach Flores, he also felt that he thought the game too simple, he had always felt that the team could play at home, so it was not difficult to rely on the advantage to turn into a goal, but now he found that in fact, these advantages are just the appearance, and the opponent can complete the goal so easily. It also shows that the team's defense is not doing very well.

But the Chelsea people didn't care what Flores thought or what the Valencians thought of the goal, and they started cheering the goal the moment the ball flew into the goal.

“Gooooooooooal！！！ The ball went in!! ”

"Zhang! He opened the scoring for Chelsea and it was a long-range shot, a brilliant long-range shot! Well done! ”

"Zhang's goal! Chelsea are ahead! ”

With the cheers of the narrator. Chelsea started to celebrate, until this time Valencia was still a little dazed, they didn't know how the ball was lost, it seemed that suddenly the football went to the front, and there was not even any pass, and they scored directly, this feeling is very weird, but that was the goal just now, and they felt that the team had an advantage a moment ago. Moments later, Chelsea scored straight on.

That's fine, they think it's just luck.

It's normal to be lucky to score a goal directly, after all, the luck component on the football field is still quite important, and it is nothing to rely on luck to score a goal, and then they continue to maintain the offensive and want to rely on the offensive to score a goal to equalize.

But soon they found themselves thinking too much of their opponents.

Whether it was luck or not, Zhang Tiehan continued to express Xiàn to know. Valencia played well in attack and they had more chances. But they didn't quickly turn attacking chances into attacking or even threatening shots, and they struggled to do ......so against a Chelsea defence

It's not the case with Chelsea.

Chelsea don't attack as often as Valencia, and sometimes concede goals in midfield if they don't pay attention, which shows that the Chelsea team as a team has not yet found their form. But they took advantage of their limited attacking opportunities to threaten Valencia's goal again and again!

Once or twice doesn't matter, if you do too much, Valencia doesn't feel right.

The most important is Chelsea's number nine, that is, Zhang Tiehan. Whenever Zhang Tiehan gets the ball in the front court, it is a crisis in Valencia's goal, and this situation has been going on for a long time.

Flores also quickly noticed this, and he hurriedly told the players to do a good job of defending against Zhang Tiehan, but it was difficult to use the advice for a while, so Flores asked the team to retreat completely.

More than 25 minutes into the first half, Valencia fans suddenly realized that the game had completely changed

Before, they felt that their team had an advantage, Valencia is still a team that is good at defending, so they feel that the team has a good chance of winning, and Valencia people are also famous in Spain, and they are not willing to admit that the team is worse than any other team.

Now seeing Chelsea suddenly score, they admit in their hearts that some Chelsea have the quality, the opponent's number nine has the strength, but that's all, they also hope that the team can score an equalizer, or even overtake the score.

But that's not how the game is playing.

With Flores directing the defense on the sidelines, Valencia retreated in a big way, and soon they formed the tactics that the team is best at - defense, defense, this season they played against Barcelona, did not use less such defense, and it is because of this, they and Barcelona two rounds of meetings to achieve a draw and a win, two rounds of meetings, Barcelona did not score a goal, and they scored a goal, Valencians have always been proud of this, but now Valencia fans see the team suddenly shrink the defense, And Flores has been directing the defense from the sidelines, and they can't be proud of it anyway.

Valencia fans felt dazed and a little angry, they didn't think the team was worse than Chelsea, as for the goal just now, it was just bad luck, but the team chose to defend big like this?

Did Flores get kicked in the head by a donkey?

They were angry at Flores from the stands.

But Flores didn't pay attention to it at all, although he was also a little arrogant, especially this season they are the first in La Liga, and the Champions League has also reached the round of 16, which is a rare good result for Valencia in recent years, but he is the head coach of the team, and he is a manager with some ability, he knows that he is careless before the game from the goal just now and the table of the opponent's number nine, and the whole team is also careless, they can't prevent the opponent's number nine at all, and the game goes on as just now, The only result was for his side to be beaten by Chelsea by a big scoreline, and nothing more, so he had to adjust his tactics and let Valencia choose to defend.

It's not nice to drop back defensively, but it's acceptable to concede a goal, leaving the suspense of the scoreline and not allowing Chelsea to score is the most important thing, and crucially, it's nothing for Valencia, who they do a lot of the time.

Look at it, Valencia doesn't have much time on the pitch to set up the defensive line, so face is not a problem, as long as he wins the game, everyone will praise Valencia again, and he will also praise his wit in adjusting his tactics on the fly

I have to say that Flores's approach is very effective.

Chelsea played very smoothly just now, at least Zhang Tiehan is like this, the away team is not very adaptable, but Valencia's defense is not so tight, and there are still many opportunities.

But soon Valencia started to defend aggressively, and it was difficult to find good chances, and Valencia had chances to put 90 per cent of their energy on defense, and it became difficult for him to find a foot up front.

Valencia's tactics are now defending intensively.

And it is a very high-level intensive defense, they do intensive defense at the same time, there are still tactical, and their player strength is also very good, every time Zhang Tiehan to the front court has to face two or three people to rob, even if you complete the getaway, there is a chance to get up, you can see five or six figures in the penalty area, Ren Zhang Tiehan's footwork is very good, and it is difficult to say that direct shot football can pass through the penalty area.

This kind of defense is really a little skeptical of Zhang Tiehan, isn't Valencia a Spanish team? Aren't they a big club? How to play against Chelsea like a small team.

All he could think of was that those small teams would play like this, all on defense, and play counter-attacks on a giant team in Spain, which felt weird no matter how you looked at it.

Of course, Flores doesn't care what Zhang Tiehan thinks!

Defending the goal is the most important thing, and at the same time they can also play counter-attacks, such tactics are the safest, as for the face or something, isn't Valencia's tradition to defend and counterattack? He's just taking that tradition to the extreme.

Just when he was thinking so, Zhang Tiehan didn't give up on the field, he just told his teammates, "Pass the ball more into the penalty area, let's try to play more high-altitude balls"

Everyone understands this sentence.

Zhang Tiehan means to use the high-altitude ball passed to the penalty area to find opportunities, Zhang Tiehan has rarely done this aspect, his header is a real signature, but he prefers to shoot directly, so that the goal is easier and direct, but in the face of a team like Valencia, you can only try with a header, and it is really difficult to find opportunities on the periphery of the dense defense. (To be continued......)