legendary midfielder

Chapter 136 Restrict one midfielder?
In the early morning of the next day, Zhang Xu left the matter of Morales out of the blue. As usual, he woke up early, ran in the morning, had breakfast, and went to the club for training. Everything remained the same without the slightest change.

After the eighth round of the league with Barcelona, ​​Deportivo has accumulated 15 points, ranking fourth in the standings.The top three are Atletico Madrid, Barcelona and Malaga.

In the past eight rounds of the league, Deportivo was able to rank fourth, which greatly exceeded the expectations of many people, especially some senior football commentators.

In order to be able to find out the reason why Deportivo can perform so well, these commentators tuned out the videos of Deportivo's eight games and studied them carefully.

After research, they found that in Deportivo's eight games, the Chinese Zhang played the role of a game breaker.

Whenever Deportivo encounters difficulties and fails to open the situation, the Chinese Zhang will stand up and use his super defensive ability and strong offensive organization ability to help the team establish a solid defense and create goals.

In the eight games, Zhang Xu scored not many goals, only 4, but each of them is more precious than gold; his assists have reached an astonishing 7, and there will be one assist in almost every game. Such an assist efficiency makes countless attacking midfielders feel ashamed.

From this data, we can see the importance of the Chinese government to Deportivo!It can be said that without China Zhang, Deportivo would not have ranked fourth in the eight rounds of the league!
Then, restricting the Chinese zhang's performance in the game is tantamount to jamming Deportivo's neck!

After reaching this conclusion, many senior football commentators began to advocate the tactics and style of play to suppress the Chinese zhang in major sports media.

The articles of these so-called "senior" commentators were quickly noticed by many interested people in the team and began to try to implement them.

For example, the ninth round of the league that Deportivo is about to face today: Celta vs. Deportivo.

Celta coach Herrera is very unhappy recently, because the team, like Deportivo, are newly promoted in La Liga, but the encounters of the two teams are different.

With the help of Zhang Xu, except for the away loss to the powerful Real Madrid, Deportivo's other games were either tied or won, and the league points reached as many as 15 points, ranking fourth.

And his own team Celta only won three games, and lost to opponents in the other five games, with 9 points and ranking 13th.

After reading the articles of those "senior" football commentators, he also deeply agreed. For this reason, in order to limit the performance of the Chinese Zhang in the next game, he specially formulated a set of tactics, hoping to play a role in the game.

Today is October 2012, 10. The weather is sunny, the temperature is suitable, and the breeze is blowing. It is a good day.

It was already five o'clock in the afternoon when Zhang Xu and his teammates arrived at Balladus Stadium by bus.

As usual, Oltra was the first to get out of the car to clear the way for the players.Then captain Belleron, second captain Zhang Xu and others got off the bus one after another.

That's right, the second captain!After the Barcelona game, Zhang Xu was directly appointed as the second captain of the team by Oltra!

When Alterra announced this decision, although the team members were a little surprised, they were not surprised at all.After all, Zhang Xu has served as the field captain several times, and every time his performance is not bad, oh no, not bad, but very brilliant!

Now, everyone in the team has a sincere feeling for Zhang Xu, so Zhang Xu naturally became the second captain.

"Hello, Zhang, I'm a reporter from Aspen. Now many commentators think that as long as you are restrained, you can defeat Deportivo. Do you have anything to say about this?" Although the security personnel of the stadium separated the reporters from the players, the all-pervasive reporter still found the opportunity to pass the microphone in front of Zhang Xu.

"Restrict me?" Zhang Xu was a little puzzled, he rarely watched TV and newspapers, and he didn't know anything about the articles of these commentators.

Seeing that Zhang Xu was not very clear about the commentator's article, the reporter gave a brief explanation.

"Oh, that's right!" Zhang Xu understood after listening, and he couldn't help laughing. In his opinion, the most important role he plays for the team is his role in defense. To limit him?Are you going to limit a defensive player?Isn't it a little too funny?
Therefore, Zhang Xu smiled mysteriously at the reporter: "Okay, is what they said right? Let's verify it in this competition!"

At 6 o'clock in the evening, the ninth round of the league officially began.

As soon as the game started, Celta's players started looking for Zhang Xu, because this was the tactic formulated by head coach Herrera.

But what they didn't expect was that Zhang Xu actually stood in the position of the midfielder honestly and helped the team build a solid line of defense.

To restrict him?Is there any mistake, to restrict a midfielder, this is really ridiculous!

As a result, Celta's players became a little confused, and the formation became chaotic.

Celta is in a mess, and Deportivo will naturally not be polite.

In the 8th minute of the game, Zhang Xu took advantage of the opportunity when the opponent dribbled the ball too far, broke the opponent's football with one kick, and then pushed it to Marchena.

Marchena didn't stop the ball, he sent it directly to Thomas in front.

That's right, in this game, Thomas replaced Belleron in the start.After the last game, captain Belleron was a bit old after all and felt a little tired physically, so Ortera specially asked him to take a rest.

Also starting is striker Oltra, who replaced Pizzi.

After Thomas took the ball, he found that there were no players around him, so he began to drive the ball forward.

He quickly crossed the center line, and after being entangled by his opponent, he directly pushed the football to Zhang Xu, the captain on the left who responded.

Zhang Xu's catch immediately attracted the attention of three Celta players, and they rushed over like hungry wolves.

Zhang Xu smiled slightly, and without taking the ball, he pushed the arch of his foot and returned the ball to Thomas.

Because Zhang Xu attracted three Celta players, Thomas was unmarked again, and he easily took the ball and quickly inserted into Celta's hinterland.

Celta's defender stepped forward, and after Thomas changed direction and dribbled the ball, he suddenly passed the ball with a through ball.

Oliveira succeeded in anti-offside, facing the attacking goalkeeper, easily swept into the net! 1:0!

With the goal in hand, Deportivo deportivo fought more and more bravely, and Celta's coach Herrera found that after the tactics of restricting Zhang Xu failed, he had to temporarily adjust his tactics and return to the team's normal style of play.

However, this kind of temporary tactical adjustment is often accompanied by temporary confusion in the formation, which is also painful.

For example, at the No. 17 minute of the game, which is the critical time for Celta's formation adjustment, Celta experienced another pain.

It was Zhang Xu's steal. When the opponent crossed from the side, he used his unparalleled header to stop the football and gave it to defender Castro.

Castro kicked the football directly to Aguilar on the wing.After Aguilar took the ball, he started running all the way, crossed the center line, passed the opponent's full-back, and stopped under the interception of the opponent's full-back.

Aguilar pushed the football to Ricky who was responding. After receiving the ball, Ricky quickly dribbled the ball to the middle. During the process of advancing, he saw that Thomas had reached an empty position, and immediately pushed the ball with his arch and passed the football.

Thomas made another beautiful through ball against the football, which once again tore through Celta's defense line. Ricky just ran to the position and hit the ball with a strong shot!
This shot was powerful and very close to the goal. Celta's goalkeeper Alvarez had no time to react and saw the football fly into the net!
2:0!In less than 2010 minutes of the first half, Deportivo had already led by two goals!
However, Celta's tactical adjustments also came to an end, and the problem of formation confusion was also resolved. In addition, the Celta fans at the Ballados Stadium also used extremely high singing to arouse the fighting spirit of the Celta players in order to save the team from the situation.

Under such circumstances, the two sides have entered into a relatively balanced state.

Soon, the first half of the game ended in this stalemate.

In the second half, they changed sides and fought again. Celta Vigo launched a flood of offense at the beginning of the game. However, under Zhang Xu's calm scheduling, Deportivo's defense was as solid as rocks and did not give Celta the slightest chance.

On the contrary, under Zhang Xu's organization, Deportivo's offensive rhythm fluctuates from fast to slow, which makes Celta very uncomfortable. Zhang Xu's teammates have long been familiar with Zhang Xu's organizational style, so there is no discomfort. As long as they see Zhang Xu making offensive gestures, they will fully cooperate with Zhang Xu, speed up the passing and receiving of the ball, and play a fierce offensive.

For example, at the 607th minute of the game, Zhang Xu saw that Celta Vigo's formation was a little loose, so he suddenly accelerated the pace of passing and receiving the ball, using his unparalleled speed, quickly interspersed, and hit Celta's goal with three strikes, five divisions and two.

This time, Celta was caught off guard. Before the backline players had time to form a solid defense line, Zhang Xu had already sent a deadly through ball!
Oliveira achieved it overnight and scored twice to help the team achieve a score of 3:0!
After the three goals in hand, in order to preserve his strength, Oltra began to adjust personnel, replacing several old players and replacing them with young players to train new players.

At the last moment of the game, Celta finally took advantage of a set kick to score a face-saving goal, and the game finally came to an end.

Deportivo scored three points in the away game, and the points reached 18 points!Ranked third in the league standings!
(End of this chapter)