Chapter 110: The Situation Is Pressing

Rexos' big win didn't bring them back to the top of the table, nor did it change their position, as Rexos' three rivals, Rio Ave, Guimaraes and Santa Clara, all won , but Gao Xiaodong's wonderful performance in the midfielder position has slapped his "Izvestia", "North Porto Sports News" and some fans in the face.

However, the media, like the fans, will always be fools on the wall, scolding when they lose, and boasting when they win.

After Rexos won a big victory, the online and offline criticisms against the team, Oliveira, and Gao Xiaodong disappeared, the voices of criticism and doubts were reduced by more than half, and the voices of praise became the mainstream.

"North Porto Sports Daily" commented after the game titled "The Victory of Change", praising the head coach Oliveira for his kindness, making changes to the lineup and recalling Brandy who had just recovered from injury in time. Praise Brandi for his sharp shooting skills, he deserves to be the master shooter of Rexos. Regardless of the criticism of Gao Xiaodong just now, he immediately turned around and praised Gao Xiaodong for his ability to fight tough battles, with both offensive and defensive skills, played in danger, stabilized the team's defense, and secured the victory with one pass and one shot.

"Record" reported the game with the following words: Rexos finally broke the vicious circle of the draw, with the comeback striker Brandy's brace and the Huaguo teenager Gao Xiaodong's shocking goal Rexos beat Estoril 3-0 at home.

Other major media such as "Morning Post" and "Football Tribe" simply mentioned Rexos' victory when reporting on the Portuguese League match. Neither Gao Xiaodong nor Brandy was mentioned. Anna, a beautiful reporter from "Izvestia", continued to question Gao Xiaodong's performance, thinking that the occasional high-light performance is nothing, but because the opponent is not familiar with him. For the midfielder, the important thing is stable performance. She also sneered and said , World football has never heard of a precedent where a striker changed to a defensive midfielder and achieved great success.

During the training on the second day, Gao Xiaodong was the first to come to the training base. After arriving, he started to juggle the ball, familiarized himself with the ball, and he did hundreds of juggles in one breath. Gao Xiaodong heard someone calling him from behind.

"Fatty, reporter Anna criticized you again."

Angulo is the only one in the entire Rexos team called Gao Xiaodong Fatty, but Gao Xiaodong can't read Portuguese newspapers, and he doesn't know who Anna is. Calling every day, don't you stop working?"

The team deputy Zener next to Angulo said: "Xiao Donggao, you have a good mentality. As a professional player, don't care what the media says."

Captain Elvis said: "Gao, "North Porto Sports Daily" praised you again, haha, just finished hacking you in the middle of the week, is this eating the shit out of yourself?"

Gao Xiaodong smiled and said, "This is eating the shit I pulled out like an egg tart."

Elvis gave a thumbs up and said, "It's beautiful and level."

Hearing that Elvis took nausea as fun, not to mention the elegant Brandy was speechless, even Zener and Angulo couldn't stand it.

Team deputy Zener said: "Okay, don't talk about reporters, if you talk about it, I will spit out my breakfast."

Gao Xiaodong talked and laughed happily with the bosses in the team, obviously they regarded him as one of his own, Robert saw it, and hated him so much, he hadn't integrated into the team, yet this kid was like the captain and vice-president. Intimacy, Robert is envious and jealous.

At this time, Elvis saw the coach Oliveira approaching from the corner of his eyes, and he immediately put on a straight face, saying: "What time is it, what's the point, get the equipment, and prepare for training."

"Haha, now the captain is probably going to lose his temper when he sees the coach."

"One thing down one thing."

"Don't be afraid, just keep talking nonsense."

At this time, everyone also saw the coach, and hurried to the equipment room to move equipment.

In the morning, other players resumed training, but Gao Xiaodong conducted intensive training with other players who did not play.

The assistant coach personally corrected his problems in the midfielder position.

This is obviously a small matter, but Gao Xiaodong has this strength. It is normal for the coach to favor him for a goal and an assist for him to play for more than ten minutes.

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The days after winning the game always pass quickly, and in the blink of an eye, the 21st round of the Portuguese League is just around the corner.

In this round, the leader Rio Avi and the fourth-placed Santa Clara met each other, the opponent of the second-placed Guimarães was the sixth-ranked Givicente, and the opponent of Rexos was the weakest opponent, the league-ranked 12 Tyrophons,

This is a good opportunity for Rexos to overtake. Rio Ave and Guimaraes are both very strong opponents. Even if they are playing at home, there is a risk of being upset.

Now Rexos is 3 points less than Rio Ave, 2 points less than Guimaraes, 1 point more than Santa Clara, once Rio Ave and Guimaraes can't win and Rexos beat Tyrofin If they don't, they're on track to move up a notch or two.

In addition, after this round of competition, Rexos will face the leader Rio Ave at home in the next 22nd round, so even if Rexos cannot catch up with Rio Avi in ​​this round, it must not If the gap is widened again, otherwise the next game will be too passive, that is to say, they still have to win this game before they can take their fate into their own hands

After agreeing to his daughter-in-law Molly to take care of Gao Xiaodong, Oliveira designed a training plan for Gao Xiaodong. According to Gao Xiaodong's performance, he gradually increased or decreased Gao Xiaodong's playing time until he started or completely abandoned. Because Gao Xiaodong suddenly changed his position and hit the midfielder, and this position brought great changes to Rexos' formation, Oliveira had to reposition Gao Xiaodong.

It turns out that Rexos' formation is generally 433 or 4321, and Zener is the only defensive midfielder. There is no way, only Zener has this ability, and Landino is a substitute and cannot take on the big responsibility.

However, Gao Xiaodong's performance against Estoril is too wonderful. If he and Zener partner with double midfielders, it will greatly strengthen Rexos' midfield defense. In a strong dialogue, it is not because of your strong attack power You can win the game. If you want to win the game, you rely on defense. In the game against Rio Avi, if you can use the double midfielders of Zener and Gao Xiaodong, the defense will definitely be much better.

But the problem now is that Gao Xiaodong has only played as a defensive midfielder once in an official game. In addition, he has always been a substitute and has never started. It is too risky for him to play the main force in the game against Rio Avi.

But the situation has come to this point, and Oliveira is not allowed to use Gao Xiaodong step by step, so Oliveira decided to let Gao Xiaodong start in the game against Tyrophance. If the effect is good, then Let Gao Xiaodong be the main force in the match against Rio Avi, and play at least half of the match. If the effect is not good, then continue to play sporadically.