Volume 1: Males Haunt, People Pay Attention to Chapter 165 Egg Pain

Chapter 165 Egg Pain

When the Marseille team arrived in St. Petersburg, the media reported their coming to St. Petersburg at the airport. There was a sense of superiority in the reports of the French media. When they talked about this matter, they basically put Zenit St. Petersburg as a bunch of dead people.

But it can't be said that they are arrogant or anything... because the situation is indeed infinitely close to the situation that is beneficial to Marseille.

Marseille is now leading by two goals, and the total score is 3:1. This score is very good. Anyone who has such a score in the first round will feel that the victory is within their grasp.

But the players of Zenit St. Petersburg just felt uncomfortable and unwilling.

Unlike the pessimistic views of the outside world, they are still confident internally because of Chen Yingxiong's away goal.

Better to be two goals short than three.

This week, Advocaat has been practicing another tactic, which is to use Chen Yingxiong as a tactical center instead of a scoring center. Let him attract Marseille's defensive attention and create opportunities for Kerzakov, Arshavin, Dominguez and others to score goals.

This is at the expense of Chen Yingxiong's scoring ability. But who made his scoring ability drop sharply after losing the support of the two wings?

Advocaat needs the team to win now, and he can't care less about Chen Yingxiong's feelings. So even though he knew that Chen Yingxiong would definitely have an idea, he could only insist on doing so.

Of course Chen Yingxiong had ideas...but he didn't show it. He knew that the team's performance was more important at this time, and if he couldn't make it to the quarter-finals, it wouldn't help if he performed well.

So Advocaat asked him to play tactical center, and he surprisingly didn't object.

It's just that no one knows the little calculation in his heart...

The starting lineups of the two sides in this game are not much different from those in the previous round.

They all sent the strongest lineup they could send. From this point of view, Marseille coach Eric Gerets (eric·gerets) still attaches great importance to this game, and he is not as arrogant as the French media.

But he values ​​it, but his players don't necessarily value it.

Before the start of the game, in the locker room of the home team, Advocaat was encouraging the players to improve their fighting spirit and morale.

"Our goal is definitely not to reach the last 16 of the UEFA Cup and go home. We have to go further. As for how far we go, it depends on you! In fact, I think we lost to Marseille in the last game 1: 3 is a good thing please let you know that the UEFA Cup is not as simple as you think, starting from the knockout stage, every game is a tough battle. I don't know if we can reach the finals, but we can make every game Treat it like a final, now, enjoy the final!"

The reporters from both sides were standing or sitting in the media seats, and they were discussing the game before the game started.

"I think Marseille can at least enter the semi-finals..."

"This team is in good shape and reaching the final is not out of the question!"

"Who will be the opponent in the next round?"

"Ghost knows, let's see the result of the lottery."

French journalists are already discussing their opponents after Marseille.

St. Petersburg media and Chinese media are worried.

"The situation is serious... Is there any chance for Zenit to come back from two goals down?"

"Zenit fans say they will fight to the last moment with the team, but I sincerely hope that the last moment will not come too soon!"

"Pray for a miracle!"

"Could it be that the best result of a Chinese player in the UEFA Cup is the top 16?"

"Although this result is already the best in history, I'm really not reconciled!"

The emotions and momentum shown by the reporters of the two sides are completely different, which is in line with everyone's attitude towards the game before the game.

The home team is not favored, while the away team is popular.

It's not that St. Petersburg will lose at home, but that as long as Marseille can score a goal, it will offset Zenit's away goal advantage. There is no choice. But they have to beat Marseille 4:1 at home, which is too difficult.

Therefore, the media in St. Petersburg have already analyzed before the game. The most difficult point of Zenit's game is not the goal difference of two goals, but how to prevent the opponent from scoring. Marseille's offensive strength is not weak, and since Skrtel left, Zenit's defense has dropped a notch. Skrtel is young, strong, has outstanding air defense capabilities, and is relatively comprehensive. He has always been the core force of Zenit's defense line. Once he leaves, the remaining defenders are either too old or too young and lack the backbone.

It is evidenced by the fact that Marseille easily poured three goals in the last game.

If the defense is recovered across the board, it can be defended, but how can we score goals in this way?

So the difficulty of this game is that you have to make a choice. Do you choose to attack or defend? In order to advance, you must attack, but you must not concede the ball in order to advance.

Anyway, the journalists in St. Petersburg and China wanted to break their heads and didn't know what to do.

This dilemma is the difficulty of this game.

After the start of the game, Marseille did not attack aggressively. Their tactics were slightly conservative. Gretz asked the whole team to focus on defense instead of offense. It's only a few goals, but without conceding a goal, they can guarantee that they will advance smoothly with this score. Which cost is lower? Which is less risky?

A head coach like Gretz would not be ignorant.

Marseille shrunk their defense and looked like they were going to play a defensive counterattack, which made it more difficult for Zenit to attack.

In the past, Zenit was not afraid of this kind of positional warfare, because they have a strong center like Chen Yingxiong in their team. A poke into the opponent's penalty area and a few headers are enough.

Not today, he lost the support of the cross from the wing, and his role is more to set the ball for his teammates than to head the goal himself.

Moreover, Marseille deployed heavy troops in the penalty area, trying to squeeze him out of the penalty area. Everyone knows that the farther away from the goal such a pure center is, the less threat it will be, because they are not good at dribbling, and their passing level is also very average. So this kind of center is farther away from the goal, and the threat is smaller.

Chen Yingxiong's long-range shot is very good, but Marseille also has a way to defend him, that is, to prevent him from turning around—to keep his back facing the attacking direction. No matter how good your long-range shot is, do you have a chance to use it?

Apart from being a wall for teammates, what is the use of a center who can't turn around?

Judging from the first round of the game, Gretz already knew that Chen Yingxiong was a center forward with poor turning ability and poor ball-handling skills.

This center forward has nothing but a good header...

He really understands why Advocaat uses such a person as an offensive arrow, maybe it is still useful in the Russian domestic league? But this is the UEFA Cup, which is more than ten times stronger than the Russian Super League.

Mixing well in the domestic league does not mean that you can take it all in the UEFA Cup.

Gretz is very careful in tactics, and he feels that these arrangements should be enough to freeze Chen Yingxiong. As long as Chen Yingxiong cannot shoot, then he can pay attention to defending the shots of other Zenit players. This is much simpler.

Advocaat's task for Chen Yingxiong is to serve his teammates, and Chen Yingxiong did the same at the beginning. He made a few passes to his teammates - most of the time with his head, as he is more skilled with his head than his feet.

But the effect is not very good.

His teammates were also very tightly defended.

Marseille's defensive strategy is very simple-it is to stick to the penalty area. I don't care if you are Arshavin, Dominguez, or Krzakov. Anyway, when you enter the penalty area, you will be surrounded by our Marseille people. Want to score? It's as difficult as climbing the sky! You won't even be allowed to finish the shooting action!

Outside the penalty area, it is enough to maintain proper pressure and prevent the opponent from taking a long shot in a too dangerous place. Thirty meters away, the defense is very lax. Zenit is allowed to back and forth, but it cannot pass directly.

Advocaat also saw it. He turned his head and looked next door. Marseille's head coach Gretz was really well prepared. The confidence of the French media is also well-founded...

Just how to score in this way?

In order to score goals and take advantage, Zenit fought hard on the scene.

In the ninth minute, Denisov, the "head" who started the game, received a yellow card for a foul.

He didn't mean sorry at all, but glared at the Marseille players viciously.

Of course, Sana in Marseille also stared at Denisov with the same fierce eyes-you fucking dare to touch my players, don't you want to mess around?

In the 14th minute, Sana shoveled Denisov to the ground, and a small conflict occurred between the two sides. In the end, the referee showed Sana a yellow card.

In this conflict, Chen Yingxiong, who likes to join in the fun, didn't rush in to fight for his regiment leader, he was thinking about the problem.

Whether it's a header ferry or a pass with his feet, he can only make a wall. Judging from the current situation, the role of this wall is very limited. The team still can't score.

The small calculation in his heart became active, and he decided to try what he did in the dungeon the night before.

In this game, Marseille's captain, known as the "Marseille Killing Machine", Lorik Sana did not play his best midfielder position, but played as a central defender. His task is to contain Chen Yingxiong and prevent him from turning around easily.

Lorik Sana, who is 1.86 meters tall, has the height of a central defender. He could have played multiple positions, including central midfielder, midfielder and central defender. Therefore, a temporary cameo as a central defender is not considered to rush the ducks to the shelves.

Under his marking, it was difficult for Chen Yingxiong to turn around.

This is a very difficult opponent, and Chen Yingxiong knew it before. His moves were ferocious, fast, and clean -- and the fouls were clean. And the most important thing is that his defense is very aggressive and full of momentum, which can scare many people. Just look at the foul he made to retaliate against Denisov just now, and you can tell. He seems to be aiming at your ankles and knees with every kick, and he won't stop until your legs are broken.

But now he's going to fight back.

When Chen Yingxiong took the ball with his back again, Sana posted it.

This time, Chen Yingxiong did not pass the football to his teammate who was nearby to meet him, because he knew that this was nothing more than pouring the ball back and forth outside the opponent's 30-meter area. Very difficult.

After receiving the ball, he stepped on the football and leaned back sharply.

A player like Sana would not run away in the face of physical confrontation. When he saw Chen Yingxiong approaching him, he went forward instead.

The 1.86 meter Sana collided with the 1.92 meter Chen Yingxiong!

bang.

Sana gritted her teeth.

Before he could recover, he suddenly felt Chen Yingxiong's body bowing forward again...followed by his buttocks.

It just hit his lower abdomen...

Caught off guard, Sana's lower abdomen was tightened by the quilt, and he felt a pain in his crotch - his balls hurt.

Being hit by Chen Yingxiong's buttocks in the lower abdomen, Sana's painful cold sweat oozes out, and he falls directly on his back.

The contest between the killing machine and the giant bear, the first round, the giant bear wins!

Just when Chen Yingxiong was about to turn around and shoot, he heard the referee's whistle!

foul!

Chen Yingxiong opened his hands and clenched them into fists.

Just a little bit!

But he also saw hope, so he just fought! Let others go to hell!