Volume 1: Males Come and Go, People Pay Attention Chapter 217 Excellent Form... Goalkeeper (4900 Monthly Ticket Plus Update)
Chapter 217 Excellent state... Goalkeeper (4900 monthly ticket plus update)
From the very beginning of the game, the Zenit team launched a fierce attack on the Glasgow Rangers goal, and they kept in mind what Advocaat asked of them.
From the perspective of the players themselves, even if there is no arrangement by the head coach, they will do the same - who doesn't want to end the game 30 minutes before the start of the game, kill all the suspense, and reduce the remaining 60 minutes to rubbish time?
Of course, whether it can be done is another matter, but just like what Chen Yingxiong thinks - first you have to dare to think!
In the fourth minute, Zenit created a threatening offensive opportunity.
Dominguez passed the football to Chen Yingxiong during the counterattack. Chen Yingxiong did not take credit for it, but directly stuffed the football into the air. Teammate Arshavin knew it and got into the space. He received the football and brought it into the penalty area.
The football ended up on the side netting, surprising the Rangers fans in the stands and delighting the Zenit fans for a while.
"Ah-ah! What a pity...the side netting! Arshavin's shot missed the target and just went wide! He shocked the Rangers fans into a cold sweat! From the very beginning of the game, Zenit launched a fierce offensive! They seem to want to establish an early lead in this final and put the next game into their track! For this reason, they did not try at all and just stormed the Glasgow Rangers like this. Looking at it this way... Maybe we can expect this game to not be dull?"
Arshavin, who didn't score a goal, also looked very annoyed. He covered his face with his hands and ran back, obviously ashamed that he would miss the ball.
The Zenit fans were ignited by Arshavin's shot. They sang and shouted in the stands, cheering for the team.
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The offensive of Zenit St. Petersburg is really fierce.
Just one minute after Arshavin just missed the shot, Chen Yingxiong took another cold shot from the penalty area line, but the football was saved by goalkeeper Alexander.
"Ah——Chen Yingxiong! Alexander's save is very critical!"
In the twelfth minute, Zenit won a direct free kick, and Hill's free kick was directly taken by Alexander.
Glasgow Rangers fans cheered from the stands.
Advocaat frowned off the court.
Rangers' tactics were no different than what he had in mind, indeed locking up from the start, using defense to thwart Zenit goals.
This is nothing, but he found a bad sign from these few attacks, that is, Glasgow Rangers goalkeeper Neil Alexander seemed to be out of form...
It can be seen from his two saves that he looks very excited and active.
This is a typical feature of a goalkeeper who is in good form. Of course the position of the goalkeeper needs to be stable, but that is the foundation. On the basis of stability, you have to get excited and be able to quickly enter the game state. A striker can take a slow turn, but a goalkeeper will be a dead end if he takes a slow turn. It is possible to concede a goal in the first few minutes of the game and put your team in an extremely difficult situation.
In fact, the goalkeeper is a bit smack-like-he always needs to be bombarded indiscriminately to maintain his form. If he has nothing to do and is very leisurely for the first 89 minutes of the game, maybe the opponent scored a goal with a counterattack in the 90th minute.
Now Advocaat looks at Alexander like this, showing signs of being in a state... He is worried about this situation-Zenit will be stopped by a goalkeeper.
It's not impossible. A goalkeeper can perform well enough to top the previous team.
Listen to the cheers of those Glasgow people in the stands. When the game just started, they basically died down and there was no sound. But now, like a fish thrown into the water, it became active.
Their momentum is gradually increasing, which will increase the confidence of the Rangers defense. Once the confidence and morale of their whole team are boosted, Zenit will find it difficult to play this game. Advocaat intends to play a blitz in this game. He doesn't want to be dragged into the quagmire by the Glasgow Rangers. In that case, it will definitely not benefit his team.
In order to avoid side effects, it is better to score early.
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Advocaat should calculate his fortune today. Because things backfired. Almost 30 minutes into the game, Zenit has not been able to break through Alexander's ten fingers. In the 30 minutes of the first half, everyone saw the whole Zenit team slamming around Alexander's goal, but either the shot was missed or missed by the goalkeeper Alexander.
During this period of time, the names mentioned the most by the commentators, and the names shouted the loudest were neither Chen Yingxiong, who was expected to be high before the game, nor Arshavin. but...
"Neil Alexander——!! Beautiful, beautiful! He blocked Chen Yingxiong's long shot!!"
In the 30th minute, Chen Yingxiong got a long-range shot. At that time, he was 28 meters away from the goal, slightly to the right, and he took a long-range shot with his right foot and hit the goal directly.
The football flew towards the far end of the goal like a shell. Many Zenit fans were about to stand up and shout "Ulla", but saw Alexander flying forward and blocking the football with his arms.
Due to the great power of Chen Yingxiong's shot, even though Alexander only blocked it with his arms, the football still bounced off the sideline under the strong reaction force and did not fall in front of the goal. Unexpectedly, Chen Yingxiong's heavy artillery helped Alexander instead.
When he got up from the ground, he rubbed his two arms, and he could see how "heavy" Chen Yingxiong's foot was just now!
But no matter how heavy it was, Chen Yingxiong was not happy if he didn't score a goal.
It has been thirty minutes, and he has not been able to break the deadlock and score.
He has been very active in the past 30 minutes, looking for opportunities to score goals very hard. Helpless, either his chance was not good, or his chance was good, but he ran into a goalkeeper who was obviously out of form.
hell!
He kicked the air angrily, as if it was a football, trying to kick it into the goal.
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How to explain that Zenit had the advantage in the first half?
In the 37th minute, the Glasgow Rangers only got their first shot... Perhaps this can explain to some extent how embarrassing the Glasgow Rangers were in the first half.
But even in such embarrassment, they completed the task given to them by the head coach throughout the first half-no goals were conceded!
They deserve enough to walk off the field and back into the locker room with a proud application. Rangers fans in the stands were also cheering loudly, cheering on the players.
"Great job! Wanderers! That's it! Let's take-off-them in the second half!"
Compared with the satisfied Glasgow players and fans, the Zenit St. Petersburg players frowned when they left the field. The momentum of the fans is also much smaller. At the beginning of the first half, they were all full of confidence in the victory of the game. Absolutely in terms of the strength and state of the team, it is not a problem to win the Rangers.
How could I have thought of...
They squandered forty-five minutes of their time and gained nothing.
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The TV broadcast gave a close-up shot of Chen Yingxiong walking off the field with his head bowed, for a full ten seconds, following him until he walked off the field.
England's commentator was talking about his performance in the first half: "Although Chen Yingxiong got a lot of chances to score goals in the first half, he also worked hard, but he was always close to scoring."
I don't know if it was an illusion, but Sun Jihai always felt that there was a feeling of "heaving a sigh of relief" in the tone of the commentator from England.
Are they afraid that Alan Shearer's record will be broken?
Before the game, the media hyped up this matter one after another, and the English media's position was very clear - they did not want Chen Yingxiong to score in the final. Serious newspapers will find some reasons to explain why Chen Yingxiong is unlikely to score in the final, and those tabloids simply ask Rangers not to let Chen Yingxiong score.
Because this record was originally created by the legend of English football, Alan Shearer, and now Chen Yingxiong has shared it with Alan Shearer. If he surpasses the legend again, he will monopolize the new record. How can you embarrass the English people who have always been proud and arrogant?
The record set by the legendary shooter was broken by a player from an unpopular football country. It is really... Seriously, it is a disgrace to English football!
Sun Jihai didn't like the way the English played. He hoped that Chen Yingxiong would score a goal and write the Chinese name permanently in the history of the UEFA Cup.
But he can't be the master of this matter. In the first half, Chen Yingxiong was unlucky, many shots failed to score, and the opponent's goalkeeper was too stupid. He was worried that this would affect Chen Yingxiong's mentality. If he became impatient in the second half, the goal would only get further and further away from him.
This person has a hot temper and is more likely to lose his mental balance. But don't worry...
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Sun Jihai was worried about Chen Yingxiong, and Advocaat was also worried about Chen Yingxiong. Both of them were worried about one thing-that Chen Yingxiong would lose his mentality.
In fact, Chen Yingxiong was really angry when he returned to the locker room.
I was in such a good state in this game, but I ran into a goalkeeper who was in better state than him!
This goalkeeper himself has never heard of it before. If it is a goalkeeper of Kahn's level, he can accept it somewhat. Now I was blocked from scoring by an unknown pawn, it's really... so fucking hell!
When he returned to the locker room, he punched the locker. His teammates looked at him with worried eyes.
Arshavin stepped up to enlighten him, "Relax, hero!"
Chen Yingxiong nodded, took a deep breath, and then said: "I'm fine, Shawa!"
"Are you all right?"
"It's all right. Why don't you watch my performance in the second half of the game?"
Seeing what he said, Arshavin couldn't say anything. He couldn't insist on Chen Yingxiong saying that he still had something to do, could he?
After Advocaat came in, he saw that Chen Yingxiong was chatting with Arshavin, and he was slightly relieved. If you can chat, that means it's normal.
In the second half, Chen Yingxiong was the main force to score goals, so nothing can go wrong...
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