Legend of Fengshen

Chapter 255 Looking at Zhang Yuan at a Critical Moment

Pellegrini looked on the court, and it turned out to be Ibagaza.

After Zhang Yuan's goal, just 2 minutes later, Ibagaza caught Jones's interception error. After getting the ball at the front of the penalty area, he suddenly kicked a long shot. Bolton blocked it, and the ball went straight to Schalke. 04 Dead corner of goal, Neuer beyond reach.

In just 5 minutes, the situation on the field changed suddenly. Schalke 04 had just established an away goal advantage and a 1:0 home advantage. Now the two teams have returned to the same starting line.

"Damn it!" Mulder thumped the ceiling of the coach bench hard.

He wasn't scolding the players on the field, he was just scolding the sky and it was too weak. The joy of Schalke 04 only lasted for 5 minutes, what's wrong with him!

Zhang Yuan also became in a bad mood in an instant on the court. What's the matter with him? !

He is also scolding God, but he forgets that luck is sometimes on the side of Schalke 04, and sometimes on the side of Villarreal.

His shot in the last game was a bit lucky, and Ibagaza's long-range shot is also a bit lucky this time!
This short-term equalizer dealt a great blow to the morale of Schalke 04. After the game restarted, Schalke 04 players frequently began to make mistakes.

Pellegrini made a decisive decision and immediately asked his players to attack. For a while, there was panic in front of Schalke 04's goal.

Fortunately, Schalke 04 finally resisted. The two sides fought 1:1 in the first half, with 45 minutes left in the game.

The players of Schalke 04 walked off the field dejectedly, and Zhang Yuan was also a little affected.

Back in the locker room, Mulder asked helplessly, "What happened to you?! Did we lose?!"

His tone of voice was not angry but really helpless. Since the last meeting, the conversation between Buskens and Mulder in every game is nothing more than refueling. They have never said anything serious, and they also understand that they are in the locker room now. There is no authority anymore.

So what he said today was simply out of emotion. Has Schalke 04 been eliminated?No!But the way the players came off the field felt like they were eliminated.

Seeing that the players did not respond, Mulder could only continue, "Anyway, there are still 45 minutes left, I hope you can cheer up! We still defended solidly in the second half, and Zhang Yuan was responsible for organizing the game in the frontcourt. Attack! There is a chance to defend and counterattack, I hope you can seize it!"

With the current state of mind of the Schalke 04 players, the second half will be impossible without a counterattack.

The tactical arrangement was over and there was still a lot of time left. The players silently replenished their water. When it was time to play, Bolton called everyone into a circle and said, "Guys, I don't know what you think, but the game is still going on." At 45 minutes, we were on the same starting line as them, we still have a chance to win this game, please work hard together! Come on! Schalke!"

A group of teammates shouted impassionedly or weakly, "Come on! Schalke!"

Mulder frowned next to him, full of worries about the second half. If you want to compare the mental state of Schalke 04 players, you can describe it as frightened!
Mentally fragile, Villarreal's equalizing goal instantly hit the morale of the Schalke 04 players so much. I am afraid no one will believe it, but it is the truth.

At the end of the 15-minute intermission, the two sides restarted the game.

A goal must be scored as soon as possible, otherwise, the current morale of Schalke 04 will not last long at all!Zhang Yuan secretly thought in his heart.

After playing for a while, he found that it was not possible. Senna learned the lesson from the previous game. In this game, he did one thing. He cooperated with the two central defenders Godin and Fuentes to firmly block Zhang Yuan and La The connection between Kittic.

Godin played back to his standard --- central defender, he teamed up with Fuentes, so that Zhang Yuan had no advantage in the header.

And Godin's main task today is to keep an eye on Zhang Yuan. He is responsible for pressing close, and Fuentes will fill in for him.

The two cooperated very well today. Schalke 04 had fewer ground passes and more high-altitude balls today. It is not surprising that Zhang Yuan felt uncomfortable.

Zhang Yuan misses someone at this time, this is Kuranyi, it would be great if Kuranyi and himself form a double striker, Kuranyi will largely share the pressure on him, but Mulder will not do that .

Schalke 04's midfield was passive in the second half and could only defend. Rakitic went back. The only good thing is that Jones and Englar seem to be recharged in the midfield. They haven't lost their fighting spirit yet, intercepting steals The success rate is very high, and it is still difficult for Villarreal to break into Schalke 04's penalty area for a while.

What would happen without Kuranyi?What if there is no one to share the pressure on yourself?
Farfan does not have the position to play a center forward, but his defense is not good, and he is not very effective in the midfield. Asamoah has the attributes of a center forward, but he has physical fitness and a good sense of active defense. When Villarreal plays offensively, he can help the veteran Kristajic behind him.

"Jefferson, you will be in the middle with me later! Look, I think there is no hope for us to play like this. I need you to share the pressure on me in the middle!" Zhang Yuan finally chose to be much shorter than himself. Farfan leaned towards the middle.

In the two rounds, Schalke 04 played very hard in the frontcourt position. Basically, Zhang Yuan was active in the middle. They didn't play well in the middle, so they performed their own duties and stood in their own positions. Only when Zhang Yuan held the ball to organize, the two would run into space, or approach Zhang Yuan, or restrain the wing defenders, and give Zhang Yuan Space to break through.

Zhang Yuan is not the head coach, but he is the first brother on the striker line. Farfan has always had a good relationship with him. This time he listened to Zhang Yuan's words and deliberately leaned in the middle. It seemed that he had adjusted to a double striker tactic.

Capdevila will not follow Farfan to the middle. On the contrary, he is a little happy that Farfan rolled to the middle. After all, he has less pressure to insert assists.

The center is not his defense zone, the center is just the area for him to defend. The task of defending Farfan has naturally shifted from the left to the center.

Farfan continued to squeeze into the middle, and Villarreal's defensive pressure increased again. After all, defending one person in three defensive areas is a different concept from defending two people.

In the 60th minute, Villarreal failed to attack in the front court. Urgulen's lateral transfer ball was intercepted by Jones in front of Ibagaza. Jones took a big step, saw Zhang Yuan's hand, and immediately made a long pass Find Zhang Yuan's point.

Zhang Yuan and Godin took off at the same time to compete for the top. Zhang Yuan won this time. He pushed back, and Farfan quickly grabbed the second spot on the left side of the penalty area and controlled the ball.

After finally getting a chance to counterattack, Farfan would certainly not be willing to pass the ball back to his teammates. Before Zhang Yuan got up to run, Farfan's only choice was to dribble.

In Farfan's mind, failure to pass is better than passing back. Facing Fuentes who was standing still, Farfan did a few bicycle moves and went down to the left.

Fuentes is not so easy to get rid of, keep up!
In the penalty area, Farfan had the option to shoot, but he didn't do it. A false shot was actually dunked. Fuentes slid in the direction Farfan expected to shoot, and Farfan successfully got rid of it.

Now he could choose to shoot again, but he didn't choose to. He saw Zhang Yuan rushing towards the small penalty area like the wind, and Farfan chose to cross.

The route is on Zhang Yuan's running route.

After Zhang Yuan competed for the top just now, he immediately went to the penalty area. He knew that there were only him and Farfan in the frontcourt, so he had to go to the penalty area to grab points. Go up to the position.

The ball entered the small penalty area, Diego Lopez attacked, Zhang Yuan followed up and rubbed the back of his foot, the ball flew over Diego Lopez, Zhang Yuan took off, Diego Lopez tried to hold Zhang Yuan with his hand Zhang Yuan was indeed tripped, but he worked really hard. He kicked his left foot on the grass, and he hit the ball that had just landed and bounced again like a billiard cue stick, and he swooped into the field. The gates of Liarreal!

Just now, Godin, who was half-shot behind Zhang Yuan, flew to hook the ball. The final result was that he flew into the net, but the ball was still not hooked by him.

Look at Zhang Yuan at the critical moment, Zhang Yuan took the lead for Schalke 04 again, and scored another goal for Schalke 04.

(End of this chapter)