The green devil

The Spaniard is scheduled to play two warm-up games in England.

The first game was against Saints Southampton and the second was against Toffees Everton.

Everton ranked 11th in the Premier League last season, and their strength is slightly inferior to Southampton, but they are also old fritters in the Premier League. Warming up with such a team is of great value to the Espanyol team.

In this game, the Espanyol team still focused on running in the lineup and rehearsing their style of play.

The creation of the trident in the front court is still the focus of the warm-up match.

In this game, Sergio put Zhao Yang on the bench and tried to use the trio of Reyes, Baptistan and Caicedo in the frontcourt.

The season is long, injuries are inevitable, and the Espanyol team must also prepare for a lineup without Zhao Yang.

Although Everton is a mid-lower team in the Premier League and their overall strength is not as good as the Espanyol, they are not conservative at all.

After the game started, I tried my best to increase my speed and strength.

Obviously, Everton studied the game between the Spaniard and Southampton three days ago, and wanted to use the rhythm of the Premier League to drag down the Spaniard.

The Espanyol team is not afraid of Everton's physical confrontation.

In La Liga, where the European Latin style is the main style of play, the Espanyol team is an outlier. They are the team that likes to be physical and commits the most fouls in La Liga.

The reason why the Espanyol team formed this style may be because the rival in the same city is the team with the best technology in the world. Compared with technology, the Espanyol team will never be better than Barcelona.

So the Espanyol team simply went the other way and learned the Premier League's body flow style of play.

Not afraid is not afraid, but it is also difficult for the Spaniard to gain the upper hand in the confrontation with Everton.

After the two sides started the game, you came and went, and the fight was very lively in the midfield. No one had much advantage, and the number of shots was not many.

Fortunately, the fans also understood that the match between the two teams would not be very good, and they did not have too much expectation for the content of the match. Many fans came to the scene to see Zhao Yang.

Zhao Yang didn't start the game, and many fans became even more absent-minded, eating snacks, drinking drinks and gossiping.

In the first half, the game between the two sides was more than intense, but not exciting enough, and the only few shooting opportunities were not grasped.

During the halftime break, both Everton and the Espanyol team changed players, continued to test players and run the lineup.

Zhao Yang replaced Reyes and played as the second striker.

This is also a new attempt by the recent Spaniard coach Sergio.

During training, Sergio also tried to let Reyes play as a winger, but found that Reyes couldn't keep up with his speed and physical strength. He had attack power, but he didn't have the ability to return to defense.

For a team like the Spaniard, defensive counterattacks are still basic, and they still have no ability to focus on offense.

As for Baptistan, his ability is not as good as Reyes, but he is hardworking, has strong running ability, and is willing to return to defense. Sergio entrusts Zhao Yang with the responsibility of scoring goals, and naturally hopes that Baptistan will do more. Share some defensive duties.

Now that the Espanyol striker is fiercely competitive, Baptistan does not have super strength and cannot be guaranteed to play. He can only make up for it with his own diligence, which happens to match with Zhao Yang.

The effect of Zhao Yang's appearance is still obvious.

Reyes and Zhao Yang's ability to control the ball is not much different, but Zhao Yang's shooting ability is much better than Reyes', so Zhao Yang's ability to attract fire is completely different.

With Zhao Yang's restraint, Caicedo and Baptistan have more space, and their shooting opportunities have also greatly increased.

However, Caicedo didn't play much time in the recent warm-up match, and his state is average, while Baptistan's ability is limited, and he put a lot of energy on defense. Neither of them grasped the chance to shoot.

This is Everton's home court. Although it is only a warm-up match, the fans are still cheering, hoping that the team can beat the Espanyol and start a good start for the new season.

The Espanyol team has no performance pressure. In the previous four warm-up matches, they achieved a record of 4 wins and 1 draw. The media and fans are very satisfied with this. Winning or losing this warm-up match is not important to them.

After entering 70 minutes, Everton attacked with all its strength, while the Spaniard took his time to shrink the formation to fight Everton's counterattack.

Everton is a typical Premier League style of play. Their offense is simple and rough. After halftime, there is a storm of crosses from the side.

As the saying goes, beat the master to death with random punches.

The Espanyol's defense is also considered good, but Everton's onslaught played very embarrassingly. If it wasn't for the blessing of the goal post in the 80th minute, they might have conceded the ball.

As a La Liga team that has entered the Champions League, the Espanyol will certainly not be powerless to fight back.

In the 75th minute of the game, Caicedo got a single-handed chance, but he dribbled too much and was intercepted by the attacking goalkeeper.

Just after Everton hit the goal post, he felt that he was closer to scoring and was eager to attack. He was immediately counterattacked by the Spaniard.

This time it was the new aid Jurado who passed the ball, and Zhao Yang who went forward.

The timing of this pass is very ingenious. If it is earlier, Zhao Yang may not be able to run past the opponent's defender and goalkeeper. If it is later, he may be offside directly.

Sergio stood up involuntarily on the sidelines. This pass-run cooperation made him very happy.

A month of training and warm-up was not in vain, and the new aid finally began to integrate into the team.

Sergio sighed.

On the field

Zhao Yang dribbled the ball to the line of the penalty area, and the goalkeeper also rushed to the penalty area.

Zhao Yang is a simple and practical striker who doesn't like fancy shots. He doesn't wait for the goalkeeper to pounce, he pushes the arch of his foot, and the ball flies past the goalkeeper's feet and goes straight to the lower right corner of the goal.

The goalkeeper couldn't react in time and could only watch the ball fly from his feet into the net.

1:0

In the final stage of the game, the Espanyol team took the lead and it was Zhao Yang who scored the goal.

In the five warm-up matches, Zhao Yang scored goals in each game, and has already scored 8 goals for the Espanyol team.

Last season, the Espanyol team won the third place in the league. Zhao Yang won the La Liga Golden Boot and was elected as the best rookie in La Liga. He received overwhelming praise.

But there are also many people who are skeptical of Zhao Yang's ability.

These people think that Zhao Yang's success last season is because everyone is not familiar with him, and this season Zhao Yang will definitely encounter the rookie wall,

However, judging from the warm-up match, Zhao Yang not only did not encounter the rookie wall, but became even more difficult to deal with.

After the game, the English media said that Zhao Yang was unstoppable, and Zhao Yang will still be the most troublesome striker in La Liga in the new season.

England's "Guardian" also reminded the Champions League teams to be careful, and the Espanyol team with Zhao Yang may become a dark horse in the Champions League.

Naturally, there are also bad-mouthing media, such as Spain's "Mundo Deportivo".

"World Sports Daily" believes that Zhao Yang's goals are not very convincing, because the Espanyol team's warm-up match opponent is too weak. If the next game is against the traditional giants Juventus, Zhao Yang and the Espanyol team will still have an outstanding performance. Only then did Zhao Yang truly be unstoppable.