legendary midfielder

Chapter 147 Chinese Zhang Dependency

On November 2012, 11, the Chinese football team played against the visiting New Zealand team at Shanghai Hongkou Stadium as scheduled.

The final score of this game was 1:1.Both sides scored a goal in the first half, and finally shook hands and made a draw.

Zhang Xu watched the entire game online. In his opinion, the performance of the Chinese team was very bad.First of all, there are too few effective means of attack, and the effect is not very good, which cannot effectively tear apart the defense of the New Zealand team; secondly, the defense of the national team is still not good, and the problem of lack of concentration of the players still exists. The goal scored by New Zealand was caused by the lax marking of the defenders.

Although he was disappointed with the performance of the national team, Zhang Xu was quite moved by one thing.

This was in the second half of the game, when the national team was playing in a muddle. In the stands of Hongkou Stadium, a group of players pulled out a banner that read: Zhang Xu, the national team needs you!Please come back!

When seeing this scene, the corners of Zhang Xu's eyes became wet unknowingly.He was deeply moved, moved by the selfless love of the fans!At this moment, he had an urge to return to the country immediately.

In the end, Zhang Xu could only let out a long sigh, and secretly made up his mind: As long as the national team still needs him and issues a call-up order, even if he is wronged a little, he must persist to the end and dedicate his strength to the national team!

It's not for anything else, just for these unswerving loveliest fans!
The league has passed 11 rounds, because in the last round of the league, the team lost to Zaragoza, so the team's points are still 18 points, and the league ranking has dropped to fifth place.

In front of Deportivo, followed by Barcelona, ​​Atletico Madrid, Real Madrid and Real Betis.

At one o'clock in the afternoon on November 2012, 11, at La Coruña's home stadium, the No. 18 round of La Liga officially started.This game is Deportivo vs. Levante at home.

Levante Football Club (Levante? Unión? Deportiva, abbreviated: Levante? UD, Levante) is a small football club located in Valencia, eastern Spain, currently playing in the Spanish Football League.

Founded in 1909, it is named after a coast of Valencia, Spain, and appeared earlier than Valencia, a strong team in the same city (the latter was not established until 1919).

However, since its establishment, the club's performance has been far inferior to that of Valencia, which is a bidder. It has been in the low-level league for a long time, and almost no awards have been won. In the 2005-06 season, he was ranked third in the second division and was promoted to La Liga.

Levante's performance at the beginning of this season is still good. In the first 11 rounds of the league, five wins, two draws and four losses accumulated 17 points, ranking seventh in the league.

This game is also related to the exchange of seats between the two teams in the league, so from before the game to the start of the game, both teams showed great importance and tension.

In this game, Zhang Xu, who had been resting for a whole week, had already recovered his physical fitness and state. The head coach Alterra did not hesitate to let him start.

At the beginning of the game, Levante was more active than Deportivo.Especially in terms of offense, Levante's two full-backs were very active, frequently using the opportunity to pass from the bottom, and kept causing trouble for Deportivo's aging defense.

This tactic of flying with both wings and crossing from the bottom may really cause some troubles for Deportivo when Zhang Xu is away, but now that Zhang Xu is back, his terrifying bounce and precise header, as well as his sense of position, make Levante pass the ball again and again without success.

And after the fruitless attacks again and again, Levante began to get a little impatient. Players with smarter heads began to look for other offensive methods, but some players continued to implement the coach's pre-match arrangements.

As a result, tactics were not unified within the team, the formation gradually became disordered, and the attack power was rapidly weakened.

As soon as Levante's attack power decreased, Zhang Xu, the backbone of Deportivo's defense, immediately felt it.

Well, now it's our turn to attack!
In the 17th minute of the game, after a precise steal, Zhang Xu stabbed the football to Belleron, waved his right hand, and then suddenly rushed forward.

After catching the ball, passing the ball, catching the ball again, and passing the ball again, Zhang Xu has reached the edge of Levante's penalty area after several lightning-fast passes and receptions in a row.

For Zhang Xu, every team in La Liga is already very familiar with it and attaches great importance to it. So when he quickly appeared on the edge of the penalty area, although the defensive formation has not yet been established, there are still two Levante defensive players.

Zhang Xu smiled slightly, this is to prevent me from shooting from a long distance!However, compared to long-range shots, my passing skills are much better!
I saw him push lightly with the arch of his foot, and the football passed through the middle of the two Levante players who were pressing up, and appeared on the right side of the penalty area.

Ricky made a forward move knowingly, and succeeded in turning offside. Facing the rolling football, he swung his right leg and kicked, uh, not a shot, but a push pass!
The football rolled past the attacking goalkeeper and rolled towards the unmarked Pizzi. How could Pizzi waste such an opportunity? He just pushed lightly with the arch of his foot, and the football obediently rolled into the net!
The ball went in! 1:0!

With the ball in hand, Deportivo played even more calmly under the control of Zhang Xu and Belleron, completely controlling the rhythm of the game in his own hands.

After several months of study and cooperation, Deportivo has now formed a very special and tacit tactic: Belleron is responsible for controlling the rhythm, while Zhang Xu is responsible for disrupting the opponent's rhythm.

Of course, when Zhang Xu was an independent core, he also applied the tactical ideas learned from Belleron to the team's offensive organization bit by bit.However, compared to his extremely tenacious defensive organization, his offensive organization still has a long way to go.

This can be clearly seen from his offensive attributes.

After the Levante team lost a goal, in order to equalize the score, their already a little impatient mentality became more impatient. Although the head coach loudly reminded and scolded from the sidelines, the effect was still not obvious enough.

In the 303rd minute of the game, Zhang Xu made a beautiful lion swinging his head, accurately blocked the opponent's low cross, and gave the ball to Marchena who responded.

When Marchena was holding the ball, he saw Zhang Xu's gesture, so he immediately ran forward with the football.

After being intercepted by the opposing midfielder, Marchena gave the ball to captain Valeron.

After Valeron took the ball, he pushed forward with the football while looking up at the positions and movements of his teammates.

Suddenly, he flicked the arch of his right foot, and after dodging the opponent's pressing player, he pushed the football to Aguilar on the right.Aguilar did not stop the ball, and directly pushed it back to Belleron.

This time, Belleron did not stop the ball, but leaned against the side of the opponent's player, and with a beautiful leak, the football was leaked to Zhang Xu who was running up.

Zhang Xu pushed a pass, and the football tore through Levante's defense line at once, and sent the football to Pizzi's feet accurately.

Pizzi immediately made a beautiful over-the-top pass and passed the football to Ricky, who went forward. Ricky took advantage of the opportunity and volleyed, and the football hit the net!

The ball went in! 2:0!

Nice goal!Nice fit!
Under the joint organization of Zhang Xu and Belleron, Deportivo played a pleasing attack and once again broke through the gate of Levante.

If it was the first goal that made Levante's morale drop, then the second goal made Levante feel a little bit collapsed.

Under such circumstances, Deportivo played more and more smoothly, and their control over the game became stronger and stronger. Although Levante still had an attack from time to time, it was just a flash in the pan and was quickly culled by Zhang Xu.

Beleron saw that the team had taken the absolute initiative, so he began to consciously hand over the command of the team to Zhang Xu, and from time to time guide Zhang Xu's organization and command.

A moraleless, a well-tuned midfield core of the future, during this period of time, the two sides played tepidly.

In this way, the first half of the game ended quickly.

In the second half, they changed sides and fought again. Levante wanted to make a surprise attack. Maybe they could get back one or two goals. However, under Zhang Xu's tight defense, Levante didn't get any chance at all.

In the end, in this game, Deportivo defeated Levante 2:0 at home and scored a valuable three points.

Now, Deportivo has 21 points in the league, ranking fourth in the standings.

After the game, many Spanish media commented:
"The Return of the Chinese Zhang, La Coruña is Resurrected!" "

"Warcraft zhang returns first, "Super Laco" makes another victory"

"La Coruña has developed "Chinese zhang dependence"! "

In these comments, almost all have the same tone, that is, if Zhang Xu is there, Deportivo will be unstoppable, if Zhang Xu is not there, or the state is not good, uh, well, I have not seen a time when Zhang Xu is not in good form, so I can only say that if Zhang Xu is not there, then Deportivo is a big team!
Therefore, all the media claim that Deportivo has suffered from severe dependence on Chinese zhang!
However, coach Oltra scoffed at this comment, thinking that it was just the envy and hatred of other teams.

Oltra also deliberately said when facing a reporter's question: "Yes, zhang is indeed very important to us in Deportivo! What does it matter? Isn't Messi important to Barcelona? Isn't Ronaldo important to Real Madrid? How did this become a dependency?"

In the end, Oltra made a special statement: "I am proud to own the Chinese zhang!"

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