Lin Zhiyuan and his manager Qiu Xinrong were sitting on the sofa in front of the TV, watching Alvara's home game against Ruhr Rhine.

The reason why they paid so much attention to this game was, of course, to cheer for Xia Xiaoyu, a teammate of both the Olympic team and the national team.

On the other hand, it is because Ruhr Rhein is Westin Athletic's opponent in the German Cup.

After transferring from China to Westin Athletic during the winter break, Lin Zhiyuan quickly adapted to everything here.

After all, he really lived here for many years before, and he still has teammates from his youth team in the Westin Athletic first team.

Whether it is language or living habits, he does not have any incompatibility.

With good off-court adaptability and good talent, Lin Zhiyuan has only been in Westin Athletic for two months, and he has already started to play in the team.

At present, he has not directly replaced the main goalkeeper Pierre Groche in the league, but he has surpassed the other two substitute goalkeepers and successfully played in the German Cup.

In late January, the third round of the German Cup was his first game representing the first team of Westin Athletic.

Although he conceded a goal in that game, he still made five effective saves in the game to help the team advance to the quarter-finals of the German Cup.

The opponent is Ruhr Rhine.

The two teams will face off in the German Cup at the end of February.

At that time, Zhiyuan Lin will face Janus Edman directly in the match.

By watching this Champions League game, Lin Zhiyuan can also understand Edman's recent state and performance, and prepare for him to deal with Edman in the German Cup.

Edman used his body to push away the opposing center back Bruno Pinto in the Albara penalty area and got the chance to shoot.

But his shot was blocked by Albara goalkeeper Ze Ferreira.

"Edelman's body is really strong..." Agent Qiu Xinrong expressed such emotion beside Lin Zhiyuan, although Edman did not score. "I feel stronger than Zhou Zijing."

Lin Zhiyuan smiled: "Isn't that for sure? If Zhou Zijing is better than Edman, why did he only score five goals in the Premier League?"

"It's not bad. He only scored four goals after finishing the entire season last season. This season has already scored more than last season's league goals." Qiu Xinrong reminded Lin Zhiyuan not to aim too high. "Anyway, Zhou Zijing is now completely established in the Premier League, and you are just getting started!"

"I know, I know..." Lin Zhiyuan quickly changed the subject, "But I didn't expect Alvara to be quite tenacious, and he didn't let Ruhr Rhine score now..."

"The main reason is that Seth is restricted." Qiu Xinrong said. "Alvara's tactics are quite right. He didn't go to fight Edman, but restricted Ruhrlein's offensive organization from the midfield. I really didn't expect Xia Xiaoyu to be so tough in defense..."

"Hey, Uncle Qiu, don't look at Xiaoyu's soft and weak personality. In fact, he has a very strong heart." Lin Zhiyuan said, "After Brother Lin came to coach South China Tigers, he once told us that he thought Xiaoyu He is a man of true general demeanor."

A close-up shot of Xia Xiaoyu happened to appear in the TV broadcast.

The German commentator said: "Xia was more in charge of defense in this game, and he didn't have a decent performance on offense. But that's why Alvara hasn't allowed Ruhr Rhine to score yet..."

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German narrators are relatively objective, while CCTV narrators are more emotional.

The same picture, the CCTV commentator said:

"Xia Xiaoyu's performance today is very good! The task assigned to him by the head coach is to assist the defense, so he runs tirelessly in the midfield, limiting the performance of John Seth. Ruhr Rhine has not scored a goal so far, It is inseparable from Xia Xiaoyu's performance in midfield!"

It's a bit exaggerated.

But it's not that bad.

Xia Xiaoyu worked very **** the defensive end in this game, especially his defense against Seth, who focused on sticking to the press and stalking.

Sometimes, he even played "dirty"...

Seth's unsatisfactory performance up to now cannot be said to be entirely due to Xia Xiaoyu, but if it has nothing to do with Xia Xiaoyu, it cannot be justified.

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Although Edman got a chance to kick in the penalty area, under the interference of Alvara's central defender Matthew Kefir, Edman's kick did not even reach the goal frame.

Edman, who missed the opportunity, looked very annoyed. He slapped his hands on the turf vigorously, then straightened up and roared to the sky to vent his anger.

Seeing Edman's angry look, Xia Xiaoyu knew that such a balance of power could not be maintained for too long.

In the 70th minute of the game, the score was still 0:0. Alvara, who was playing at home, failed to score.

Of course, the main reason is that they put almost all their energy on preventing Ruhr Rhine from scoring.

It was obviously a home game, but it seemed like an away game, playing a defensive counterattack.

The fans at home also cooperated very well, creating a very huge momentum to help Alvara.

There was no booing because the home team was ugly on their home court.

With the joint efforts of 12 people on and off the field, Alvara has now kept the tie at home.

But if it is just a draw with the opponent, it will not help Alvara eliminate the Ruhr Rhine and advance to the quarter-finals of the Champions League.

After all, Alvara played away in the second round.

The home game is just flat, can the away game still win?

Xia Xiaoyu turned his attention to the frontcourt.

After 70 minutes of the game, he continued to observe and found that Ruhr Rhine's defense was getting higher and higher.

There were some scruples in the first half.

The second half basically ignored Alvara's counterattack completely.

Xia Xiaoyu didn't think it was because Ruhrlein looked down on Alvara, but that their mentality had changed, and they were more and more anxious to score goals as soon as possible.

Especially their two full-backs, after pressing up several times to participate in the attack, when Ruhrlein lost the ball, the first choice was not to return to the defense quickly, but to participate in the press on the spot.

Doing so may create a second attack opportunity.

But if Alvara hits a counterattack, Ruhr Rhine's defense will face tremendous pressure.

Thinking of this, Xia Xiaoyu suddenly missed Brother Hu.

If Alvara has Hu Ge... now he may be two goals ahead of Ruhr Rhine.

It's not that Alvara didn't create counterattack opportunities, but unfortunately no one seized them.

Xia Xiaoyu knew how powerful Brother Hu was when he was in middle school. And as he played football in Europe longer and longer, he realized the greatness of Brother Hu more and more.

Perhaps because of the development of European football tactical thinking in the past ten years, strikers who can truly score stably and efficiently have become extremely scarce.

Football geniuses like Meli emerge in endlessly, there is no shortage before Meli, and there is no shortage after Meli.

For example, Lecinho, the right winger in the Alvara team, is this type of player. He has speed and can break through, but his shooting ability is slightly poor.

Of the two scoring opportunities that were wasted before, one of them was squandered by Lecinho.

However, Xia Xiaoyu also knew that he was in Alvala, so he was not qualified to pick and choose his teammates.

All he can do is to help the team as much as possible within the existing lineup framework and tactical system.

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In this game, John Setter played very aggrieved.

He was heavily guarded by Alvara's players in midfield.

In addition to the restrictions placed on him by Brazilian defensive midfielder Eli, the Chinese midfielder Xia Xiaoyu also made him very unhappy.

Now while he was dealing with Eli, he also had to guard against Xia Xiaoyu's sneak attack.

Just like this time.

As he catches the ball, Eli bumps up.

Under impact, Seth stopped the ball slightly bigger.

Xia Xiaoyu came in from those next to him, stretching out his foot to steal the ball!

Seth tried to regain control of the football, but kicked Xia Xiaoyu's calf, knocking him to the ground.

The referee blew his whistle and called Setter for a foul.

Seth was also speechless.

He did make a foul, although he didn't want to do it subjectively, but Xia Xiaoyu's movements were faster than him, and he could only kick the opponent's leg...

But he still wanted to have a few words with the referee. He thought that there was a suspicion of a foul when Eli bumped into him before that.

So he turned and complained to the referee running up to Eli.

Beside him, Xia Xiaoyu, who had fallen to the ground, was getting up from the ground. He glanced at Seth and the referee, then quickly lowered his head, as if he was afraid that the other party would notice him.

Seth did take a look at him, and he said to the referee: "Look, he's fine, my kick was really not intentional. But their No. 6 bumped into me on purpose..."

The number six is ​​Eli.

Seth was putting eye drops on Eli, hoping that the referee could pay more or less attention to Alvara's midfielder.

In this way, I may not have so much pressure in future games...

At this moment, out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly caught a glimpse of Xia Xiaoyu who had just taken a step back and kicked the football!

He wanted to stop it reflexively, but it was too late!

The football was directly kicked forward by Xia Xiaoyu!

"Xia! Take the free kick!"

Amidst the cheers of Alvara fans~lightnovelpub.net~, the football flew over a distance of tens of meters and landed in the front field.

Brazilian winger Lecinho stopped the football forward with the outside instep of his right foot and accelerated towards the goal of Ruhr Rhein!

"Beautiful! Alvara's counterattack! Lesignho is onside!"

The cheers in the Lisbon Arena suddenly increased, like rolling thunder.

Lecinho, who had wasted an opportunity, did not waste Xia Xiaoyu's ball this time. After he brought the football into the penalty area, he faced the attacking Ruhr Rhein goalkeeper Simon Koenigs and calmly pushed the far corner!

The football jumped over the fallen Koenigs and bounced into the goal!

In the 75th minute of the game, Alvara, who was playing at home, used a fast free kick in the backcourt to break the deadlock. They led the Ruhr-Rhine 1-0!

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