Heroes of the Restricted Zone

Chapter 393 The sequelae of returning from St. Petersburg (the first update of the guarantee)
The reason why Zenit St. Petersburg fans cheered for Chen Yingxiong's goal so generously may be another reason besides their own emotional reasons.

That is...they knew that even if Chen Yingxiong equalized for Naples, it would not be able to prevent this team from losing away!
In the 709th minute, Denisov scored the second goal for Zenit St. Petersburg, turning the score into 2:1, and Naples fell behind again.

But this time, it was impossible for Naples to equalize and prevent a defeat.

Because Chen Yingxiong was replaced at No.706 minutes.

Before he left the field, Zenit St. Petersburg's offensive was wave after wave, and Naples' let-off was shaky and could lose the ball at any time.

Mazari, who has seen the crisis in Naples, directly replaced Chen Yingxiong and replaced him with a defender Santa Croce.

But despite this, he still couldn't change the fate of conceding the ball.

This goal made Mazari realize that it is impossible to change his fate here, so he simply conceded defeat, replaced Cassano and Maggio respectively, and gave up continuing to attack.

In the end, Naples lost 1:2 away to Zenit St. Petersburg, which has an invincible home court advantage, and experienced their first defeat in the Champions League.

At the post-match press conference, Mazari looked very helpless: "This weather, this venue, this... away trip, my players have done their best, and I am proud of their performance. But Everyone knows that it is impossible for a team to win all the time. In fact, I am already very ecstatic about our performance in the first three group matches, so... this defeat may come at the right time. "

After losing to Zenit St. Petersburg in an away game, the Naples team took a private plane arranged by De Laurentiis overnight and returned to Naples.

I really can't afford it...Mazari called Mr. Chairman directly, and his tone was very serious. On the phone, he asked De Laurentiis to come to Russia to rescue his troops.

In this way, with a failure and a group of patients, Naples escaped from the icy and snowy St. Petersburg in some embarrassment.

Chen Yingxiong does not know whether he will have the opportunity to play in St. Petersburg again in the future, but this trip back to St. Petersburg will be deeply memorable to him.

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Although they lost the game, as analyzed before, Naples did not lose their qualifications to qualify for the group because of this defeat.

Lyon also won the ball, so that Lyon climbed to the top of the group with nine points, while Naples fell to the second place in the group.However, for Naples, who participated in the UEFA Champions League group stage for the first time, their goal is obviously to qualify for the group stage. Before that, whether they were first or second in the group was not their concern at all.

On the contrary, Lyon held back his energy and wanted to be the first in that group, because this way he could avoid those terrifying predators in other groups.

For Lyon, who can participate in the Champions League every year, qualifying for the group is not their goal at all.It must be a bit of a longer-term goal. The group ranking is largely related to how far they can go in the Champions League knockout rounds.

What surprised people was not Napoli's dark horse, but... Liverpool's rapid fall.

The Naples were complacent about their ability to draw with the Red Army at Liverpool's home Anfield before.But now they are not happy at all, because it is not worth showing off at all!

In the game on October [-]th, Lyon had almost defeated Liverpool at Anfield.Now they returned to the home court and defeated Liverpool again, completing a double play.

As a result, Liverpool fell to fourth in the group and became the bottom of the group.And Zenit St. Petersburg, relying on the terrifying home court advantage, has now accumulated four points, surpassing Liverpool, which has only two points. They are very hopeful to participate in the UEFA Cup knockout stage...

After the grouping results came out, no one thought of this.

Before everyone thought that this group, if nothing else, should be two teams of Lyon and Liverpool qualifying together, while Naples and Zenit St. Petersburg compete for a UEFA Cup qualification.

Unexpectedly, after the four rounds of the group stage, the situation has undergone a completely different change...

The dark horse Naples turned out to be ranked second in the group and has great hopes of advancing to the knockout stage of the Champions League.

As for Liverpool, even their club board of directors did not expect the team's performance in the Champions League this season to be so bad.The fans thought they had drawn a good lottery at the beginning, hoping with joy that they might be able to reproduce the glory of reversing AC Milan's championship in Istanbul in 2005.

Where did you think...

But the reality is so cruel, especially in the football world, this cruelty will always be magnified a hundred times.

The rise of a new powerful family comes at the cost of the complete degeneration of an old wealthy family...

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Returning to Italy does not mean relief and rest for Naples.

On the contrary, everything they experienced in St. Petersburg still needs time to digest.

Hamshik's fever has subsided, but his physical and mental state is very bad, so he has to rest for a few days.Therefore, he cannot participate in the team's training normally, even if his physical fitness is fine, it is impossible to participate in the away game against Catania.

And poor Christian Maggio was not only affected mentally, but also physically.During the game, he suffered a slight injury due to the slippery field.At first he thought it was nothing serious, but when he returned to Naples for training, he realized that the situation was more serious... After examination, he had a thigh muscle strain and had to rest for at least two weeks.

As Christmas approached, the team's injury numbers began to increase.This makes Mazari a headache, because the subsequent schedule will only become more and more difficult to deal with... The only consolation is that the team's tridents are not injured yet and are performing well.

A weary Naples travels to Catania.This is not a strong team. Catania ranks No.19, second to last. After [-] rounds of the league, they have only accumulated seven points. They only won one game, drew four games, and lost six games.

It is such a team. If it was placed in the past, even in an away game, Naples would have absolute confidence to beat the opponent.

But this time, Naples, which is known for its super attacking power, failed to score a single goal and shook hands with Catania 0:0 in the away game.

Naples, who have not won two rounds, also dropped to sixth in the league ranking after this game.

Naples' lack of experience in dealing with two-line combat and its weaknesses in personnel reserves were finally exposed.

Fortunately, Mazari will soon have a time to adjust and rest - after playing Catania, it will be a week-and-a-half international A-level competition day, and the national team competition will be the actual football theme during this period.

Fortunately, there are not many international players in the Naples team, only Arshavin, Cassano, De Jong, Hamshik, Sanchez and others.

The most important thing is that Chen Yingxiong still does not need to participate in the national team competition, which makes Mazari the happiest.

He had known Chen Yingxiong before, and knew that the reason why Chen Yingxiong did not participate in the national team competition was because he was banned by the Chinese Football Association!
When Mazari heard about this incident, he thought it was incredible and legendary.If he were an official of the Chinese Football Association, no matter what Chen Yingxiong said was too much, he would definitely be called into the team, because he played a vital role in improving the level of the Chinese national team.

But that was his business after all, he couldn't control it.And... It is actually a good thing for Mazari that Chen Yingxiong does not participate in the national team competition.This means that Chen Yingxiong will get more opportunities to rest, he will not be infected with the so-called FIFA virus while running back and forth, and will not be injured in the national team's game.

At this time, Naples especially needs a healthy hero Chen.

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Every time the national team matches, the debate about whether Chen Yingxiong should return to the national team is raging in China.But no matter how noisy the media and fans are, the attitude of the Football Association is not loose-they don't talk about the name Chen Yingxiong at all, as if there is no Chinese player named Chen Yingxiong in Naples.

Some fans have already dubbed the Chinese Football Association "the largest traitor organization in China".

But none of this helps.

Whenever the national team is on a match day, Chinese fans don't want to see that arrogant big man in the national team.

Whether the Chinese team wins or loses, it always fails to make the fans really interested.

How long will this situation last?

Nobody knows.

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While Chinese fans were regretting that Chen Yingxiong still missed the national team, Chen Yingxiong didn't care about the national team's game at all.

Since he was expelled from the Football Association, he has not watched the national team's game, and he has not understood the current situation of the national team.

He is following Inzaghi and Maldini in the copy for intense training.

There is no skill in practicing off-ball running, just practice makes perfect, practice and practice, repeat and repeat, use thousands of repetitions to turn it into an experience, and then transform the experience into the instinct of the body, so that outsiders can see it Come on, it's like... talent.

"Stop, hero! You have to pay attention to your surroundings... Didn't you run into the opponent's encirclement if you continued to run like this?"

"Very good, the position is right, but you ran too early! You can't catch the ball at all!"

"Pay attention to your teammates, don't patronize the running position, you have to pay attention to your teammates at the same time, watch their running positions and passes, seize the opportunity!"

"Timing! Timing! Timing is the most important thing! Half a second early or half a second late, you can't catch the ball! You can't get a chance to shoot!"

"Time is too tight, what should you do if you don't have time to run to the empty space in a conventional way? You can use some unconventional methods..."

"When you shoot, don't go for beautiful moves, or looks that can be on the cover of magazines. You have to remember that you are a striker and your only task is to score goals. As long as you can shoot the football into the goal, you don't care. Any method, head, feet, legs, chest, buttocks... even hands, as long as you can keep the referee from seeing it, it's fine!"

Inzaghi's voice keeps ringing in the virtual replica of the training ground.

Chen Yingxiong believes that Inzaghi is definitely not like this in reality, so this is really an apprenticeship... Inzaghi in front of him is like a driving school coach, constantly yelling at him and correcting his mistakes.

But let alone, with such a teacher teaching him, Chen Yingxiong felt that his progress was indeed much faster...

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PS, let me know in advance that there will be an outbreak on Saturday, the 24th of the day after tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday, for two consecutive days, with four updates every day~
(End of this chapter)