legendary midfielder

Chapter 242 King's Cup, here I come!
When Zhang Xu scored this unimaginable goal, the Spaniard's fighting spirit suddenly collapsed. In the following time, he completely retreated into his own half, allowing Deportivo to bombard indiscriminately.

After seeing that the victory was basically sealed, Oliveira directly replaced Zhang Xu in order to prepare for the Copa del Rey.

So the rest of the game was uneventful. In the end, Deportivo defeated the Spaniard [-]-[-] and took all three points.

Now Deportivo's league points have reached 74 points, still ranked third, but Atletico Madrid, which was only three points short of Deportivo, failed to withstand Barcelona's crazy attack in the game against Barcelona, ​​and lost one to two in the end!
In this way, the point gap between Atletico Madrid and Deportivo has widened to six points!This is really good news for Deportivo!

Because of the relationship between victory and defeat and goal difference, in the next three rounds of the league, as long as they win one of the games, Deportivo can secure the third place in the league and directly qualify for the European Champions Cup!

And now, there is a chance to win, and that is the away game against Valladolid four days later!

Real Valladolid Club de Fútbol (Real Valladolid Club de Fútbol) is a football club located in Valladolid, the capital of Castile and Leon, Spain. It was established on June 1928, 6.The team's home stadium, Estadio José Zorrilla, is named after the Spanish poet José Zorrilla Moral and can accommodate 20 people.Valladolid Football Club won the second division in 26/500, so it was able to return to La Liga.

Valladolid's recent record is not very good. It was tied [-]-[-] by Sevilla away and lost [-]-[-] to Real Madrid.

On May 2013, 5, Zhang Xu followed the team bus to the Zorilla Stadium, the home stadium of Valladolid.

For this game, Valladolid, who has no desires and no desires, doesn't pay much attention to it. When they arrange the starting lineup, they basically use a half-main and half-substitute lineup. This is obviously a plan to train the team to train young players.

Faced with such a situation, Deportivo and Zhang Xu, who are determined to win this game, will naturally not be polite.

At the beginning of the game, under the leadership of Zhang Xu, Deportivo launched a tidal offensive against Valladolid.

In the 3rd minute of the game, Zhang Xu kicked a beautiful through ball in the middle and sent the football directly to Ricky's feet.

The football hit the goalkeeper's foot, rebounded and flew up, then hit the goal beam and flew out of the baseline!
In the 6th minute of the game, it was Zhang Xu again. He played an exquisite cooperation with Belleron in the frontcourt and quickly penetrated to the outside of the penalty area.

In the end, when Belleron and Zhang Xu formed a cross exchange, they received Zhang Xu's heel pass and immediately passed the ball over the top, hoisting the football to Oliveira's chest. After Oliveira stopped the ball, he volleyed directly.

The football was thrown by Valladolid's goalkeeper, and it was lifted out of the baseline.

In the 9th minute of the game, it was still Zhang Xu.

This is a corner kick from Deportivo. Belleron took the kick. He first glanced at his teammates in the penalty area, specifically at Zhang Xu's position, and then directly passed the football to Zhang Xu's direction.

The trajectory of the football flight is very beautiful, flat and fast, which is most suitable for grabbing points in the middle.

Zhang Xu immediately jumped into the air and greeted the football in the air.

With a "bang", his forehead hit the football hard, and the football immediately changed direction and flew towards the upper right corner of the goal quickly.

Zhang Xu pursued the angle too much, so the football hit the angle between the goal post and the crossbar, rebounded and flew back to the penalty area, and was cleared by Valladolid's defender.

In the first ten minutes, Deportivo's offensive was very fierce, threatening Valladolid's goal time and time again. If it weren't for Valladolid's goalkeeper being brave enough, if it wasn't for Valladolid's luck, the score would not have been zero to zero.

However, luck will not always be on Valladolid's side, and their goalkeeper will not always be so brave.

In the 207th minute of the game No. [-], after Zhang Xu received a pass from Belleron in the backcourt, he began to dribble the ball slowly, cooperating with his teammates from time to time, pouring the ball back to each other, and patiently looking for opportunities.

When Zhang Xu was pouring the ball, he also sent the football forward from time to time, and then looked at Valladolid's reaction.

Probing again and again, pouring the ball again and again, just when the Valladolid players were bored, Zhang Xu keenly discovered a loophole in Valladolid's formation on the left side, so he passed the football again, this time he chose to pass it to Valeron.

After the football was passed, Zhang Xu immediately started quickly, directly increased his speed, and quickly inserted Valladolid's right side, which is also Deportivo's left side.

Beleron understood, and after turning around with the ball, he pushed the football with his right foot and pushed the football in front of Zhang Xu.

Zhang Xu leaned on the instep of his right foot lightly, and pushed the football with the momentum, and he controlled the football, and continued to rush forward quickly.

Two Valladolid players rushed towards Zhang Xu quickly.

Zhang Xu didn't bother to bother with them. After taking two steps diagonally to the right, he suddenly kicked the back of the football with the instep of his right foot.

The football immediately passed between the two Valladolid players and rolled directly to the left edge of the penalty area.

Oliveira rushed to the goalkeeper, facing the flailing goalkeeper, and directly pushed and shot!Push the football to the far corner of the goal!

Valladolid's goalkeeper obviously didn't expect Oliveira to push the far corner, so when he reacted and quickly fell to the ground to intercept, the football had already rolled past his armpit.

When he turned back towards the football, the football had crossed the goal line and a ball went into the net!

The ball went in! 1:0!

Seeing the football rolling into the net, Zhang Xu couldn't help clenching his fists excitedly, and swung it violently in the air twice.

Zhang Xu couldn't help being excited. He worked hard for nearly 10 minutes and finally scored a goal. It was really rare. More importantly, this goal opened the door to Deportivo's victory.

With the ball in hand, Deportivo can face Valladolid with a relaxed mind in the following games.

Whether Valladolid counterattacks or continues to defend, Zhang Xu, who has already controlled the rhythm of the game, can deal with it calmly.

Sure enough, Valladolid was obviously unwilling to lose to Deportivo at home, and immediately launched a strong counterattack after losing the ball.

However, in Zhang Xu's eyes, their counterattack did not pose much of a threat, and they could be easily dealt with.On the contrary, what excites Zhang Xu is that because of the counterattack, some loopholes gradually appeared in Valladolid's formation, some loopholes that are enough to make Valladolid fatal.

However, Zhang Xu did not rashly attack the loophole, but continued to observe calmly. He wanted to wait until the loophole had expanded to a certain extent before giving the opponent a hard blow.

That's the end of the first half of the game.

In the second half, Valladolid's offensive momentum became more fierce as they changed sides and fought again. Waves of attacks rushed towards Deportivo like a tide.

However, every time their attack reached Zhang Xu, it was as if they had hit a solid wall and ended in vain.

Zhang Xu waited for another ten minutes. When he saw Valladolid's loopholes expanded to the point where almost everyone could discover them, he knew he couldn't wait any longer. If he waited any longer, Valladolid's head coach would notice and adjust the formation in time to make up for the loopholes.

It is now!
In the 606th minute of the game, Zhang Xu made a beautiful header and directly destroyed Valladolid's free kick in the front court.

Zhang Xu pointed the football to Aguilar on the right, and made a quick counterattack gesture to Aguilar.

After Aguilar took the ball, he quickly turned around, increased his speed, and killed towards the hinterland of Valladolid as fast as lightning.

After Zhang Xu ferried the header to Aguilar, he started to accelerate. He gave full play to his fastest speed, crossed the center line, and passed one Valladolid player after another.

When Aguilar was intercepted by the opponent's player and had to pass the ball to Zhang Xu, Zhang Xu was already less than ten meters away from the outer edge of the penalty area.

And at this moment, in Valladolid's backcourt, there are only two defenders!And there is a distance of ten meters between the two guards!

However, this distance of ten meters is the loophole that the Valladolid players inadvertently exposed!Moreover, this loophole turned out to be in the middle of the restricted area!
Seeing Zhang Xu receive Aguilar's pass, the two defenders of Valladolid paled in shock, and rushed towards Zhang Xu in unison.

However, after Zhang Xu took the ball, his speed did not slow down much, so when the Valladolid defender approached Zhang Xu, Zhang Xu had already passed between them!

One-handed!Zhang Xu got a single-handed opportunity!
Valladolid's goalkeeper Jammeh had no choice but to choose to attack.

As soon as Zhang Xu entered the penalty area, he shot directly!
The football passed directly from the right side of Jammeh's body and went straight into the goal!

The ball went in! 2:0!

Zhang Xu took advantage of a quick counterattack to target Valladolid's loopholes, and the blow was fatal!Lock the win.

In the end, Deportivo defeated Valladolid [-]-[-] away in this game, taking all three points.

Now, the top three in the league can be guaranteed.

Next, Deportivo and Zhang Xu are targeting the Copa del Rey final six days later!
Copa del Rey, here I come!
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