Football’s First Defender

Chapter 32: Zenit in hot state

"Before the start of the new season, everyone is full of affirmation of Zenit's strength. After all, Gazprom is the big winner. Zenit is not bad for money! But whether Zenit can be surrounded by many strong teams in the Moscow region Next, to bring the championship trophy back to St. Petersburg, most people actually have doubts in their hearts and think it is unlikely!"

   "But now, if you ask who will be the champion of the 2007 Russian Premier League, I believe that the first choice for everyone is Zenit!"

   "The ups and downs of Zenit at the beginning of the season maintained a record of victory after the defending champion CSKA!"

   "Including this game, we defeated Rostov 3-0 at home!"

   "Zenit has already won 5 consecutive victories in the league! With 35 points, he has taken the top spot!"

   "Fortunately, Sparta Moscow continued to win the other games in this round, and also won 3 consecutive league victories. It is still only 6 points away from the top Zenit, maintaining the pressure on Zenit!"

   "The next round will be a direct meeting between Sparta Moscow and Zenit. I don't know if Sparta can stop Zenit's good momentum at home and reduce the point difference?"

"It was Zenit who was able to successfully attack the Kluzhniki Stadium in this match (the stadium is big enough, so the focus of the battle will become a shared stadium in the Moscow region), at the home of Sparta Moscow, the Russian Premier League champion The suspense is over!"

"In the eleventh round before, although the CSKA managed to draw Zenit at home after borrowing the Luzhniki Stadium, it failed to recover afterwards. The defending champion had won five rounds and was opened by Zenitra. With a gap of 15 points, I basically withdrew from the championship battle!"

   "Now let us stay tuned for the 17th round of the Russian Super League next week! At the Luzhniki Stadium, the championship battle between Sparta Moscow and Zenit..."

   How hot is Zenit now?

   Let's put it this way, he scored 17 goals during his 5 consecutive victories, but only conceded 2 goals!

   After the national team match day, they beat the visiting Lokomotiv Moscow 3-1 at home!

   Then go to the away game to challenge the mid-range team Kahimeji! Kahimaki, who lost only one goal in five unbeaten home games this season, even defeated Sparta Moscow 3-0 at home just two rounds ago. However, facing Zenit's crazy offense, he was beaten 0-to- 4. Complete defeat!

   In the fourteenth round of the league, Zenit faced the penultimate Nezx Bada on the home scene. It was another 5-0 massacre!

   After an away game against the Moscow Torpedo, he cut the league fourth in the league with a slight twist 1 to 2, showing an unstoppable competitive state.

   This is the final round of the league, with a 3-0 win over Rostov at home and a five-game winning streak!

   If it were not for Sparta Moscow, after tactically abandoning the Russian Cup, maintaining a competitive state in the league and achieving a wave of 3 consecutive victories, then the points difference may not only be the 6 points!

   By the way, Zenit beat the Russian League team Periansk Dynamo 1-6 in the fifth lap of the Russian Cup a week ago! Advance to the next round! (The Russian Cup should be the first four laps of the lower-level teams while performing the elimination rounds! This is also at the beginning of the season Zenit first participated in the quarter-finals of the Russian Cup in the 06-07 season, and then two months later, he will play The fifth lap of the Russian Cup in the 07-08 season!)

   In these 5 rounds of the league, the offensive tactics arrangements have become more and more radical. The entire offensive system is in full swing, and the full-backs are crazy to insert the pass data! But unlike the back defense that was full of loopholes at the beginning of the season and was counterattacked, the defense only conceded 2 goals after 5 games, and it was not even as good as the goal lost in a game at the beginning of the season. This Zenit is already close to completeness. Up!

   On the second day of the match day, during the time when the players were on holiday, Zenit’s coaching staff opened a tactical discussion meeting as usual!

"I didn't expect that in the middle of the league, we could achieve such a brilliant result of 5 consecutive victories, especially when we scored 17 goals in 5 games. This offensive firepower proves that our offensive tactics are really too successful. , And our offensive players, under the leadership of Arshavin, are playing better and better! Keep it up, the Russian Premier League champion must be ours!

   Ed Wo Carter first praised his colleagues in the coaching staff, and also praised his team's players, and reiterated his goal of winning the championship this season!

   "And it's our defense. In 5 games, only 2 goals were conceded. Boll, you have done a lot of training on the defensive end!"

   "Haha, don't say so, the defensive tactics are the general framework we formulated at the beginning of the season. The enhancement of the defensive quality of this period is not so much our defensive tactics success, as it is, we used the right players!"

   "You mean Yang Feng?"

   Ed Wo Carter knew that his old partner must have wanted to praise this proud disciple again!

   "Of course it is Yang Feng. This is obvious! It is because of his existence that our defense becomes more stable!" Boll always looked proud when he talked about Yang Feng!

   "And how hard he is in training, I believe everyone can see it!"

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   Regarding training, Yang Feng has been training as hard as an ascetic monk! Not only must complete the training tasks prescribed by the coaching staff, but also complete the personal training that Boll gave him individually. Even in daily life, Boll also noticed that Yang Feng is strictly implementing the best diet plan set by the nutritionist for him. I also look for a dietitian every week to reset the diet plan according to the changes in my body.

There were several gatherings between team members, Yang Feng joined in, but they did not drink any alcohol and only drank a moderate amount of juice. Even for food, they did not move a mouthful of food. Many players secretly restrained Yang Feng. Admire!

   In fact, for Yang Feng, as a Chinese, his genetic attributes determine his physical disadvantages and mental advantages.

  While giving full play to the advantages of the brain, try to make up for the disadvantages of the body, so as to win a place in this fierce and cruel professional football world!

   "In fact, I still have the advantage! After all, the body can be trained and strengthened. The mind is determined by nature, but it is not easy to develop!"

   Yang Feng always comforts himself like this when he is too tired to hold on!

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   "However, Eric Hagen is almost recovering from his injury! Should we choose to believe in this Norwegian international or continue to use Yang Feng, a 19-year-old young man?"

   "After all, the ups and downs of state are a common problem of young people. Compared with the mature Eric Hagen, will it be a bit risky to continue to employ Yang Feng?"

   "And most importantly, will Eric Hagen be willing to substitute Yang Feng? You know, now is the summer transfer window. If he is really allowed to substitute, what will happen to him applying for a transfer?"

   Ed Wo Carter and Boll support Yang Feng both inside and outside, everyone understands, but there are still people who raised concerns about the position of central defender!

   After all, the team has to play for the entire season, and there are many young people who will only surprise for a period of time. In professional football, players who flash across the sky like shooting stars and are short-term amazing, not too many!

   "Compared with Eric Hagen, who has proven his strength in the professional football world, Yang Feng is too young, and even has less than ten professional football games experience!"

   "Can we really trust Yang Feng and will maintain the state of these games?"