Legend of Fengshen

Chapter 113 A Beautiful Start
"Come on! Boys, for the fans!" Slomka finally shouted.

Led by captain Bolton, the Schalke 04 players gathered in a circle in the locker room and shouted together: "Come on!"

Walking out of the locker room to the player tunnel, listening to the Champions League theme song outside, Zhang Yuan felt nervous for no reason. This is the biggest stage, and there is no bigger stage in club competitions. He was really excited. nervous.

However, the tension in his heart did not show on his face. He silently thought about the past few years. He thought of Solskjaer's lore and achieved Manchester United's treble; Rinho is well-known in football; I think of Liverpool's three-goal catch-up, which created a miracle in Istanbul; I think of AC Milan's reunion with the Red Army, and finally avenged it.

"Come on!" Zhang Yuan was taken aback, without looking back, it was Neuer who clapped his shoulders with big hands.

Immediately after Neuer pushed Zhang Yuan, Zhang Yuan woke up, so it was time to play!
The two teams came to the court, listened to the song, flipped a coin to choose a side, Schalke 04 chose a side, Porto kicked off, and the commentator who proudly went to the Schalke Stadium began to broadcast the names of the starting players. The fans at the scene followed suit, and whoever was the loudest proved the player's status in the hearts of the fans.

Zhang Yuan's name is one of the most popular. Of course, Kuranyi and captain Bolton must be the most popular, but this also proves that Zhang Yuan has won the love of Schalke 04 fans in a relatively short period of time.

Zhang Yuan was watching the fans at the scene and finally found that many fans were holding up posters made by Zhang Yuan. On it was Zhang Yuan's heroic appearance on the court. In the blank space was written "Lightning Boy". This sign hadn't appeared in front of Zhang Yuan for a long time. .

He couldn't play in Inter Milan. Naturally, there were no fans who came to Schalke 04 with such signs. The fans didn't know his past, including his teammates, who didn't know his nickname in Italy.

After the last game, "Bild" knew Zhang Yuan's nickname from nowhere, and used the nickname "Lightning Boy" in the comments. Schalke 04 fans learned about it and used this nickname. Only the scene of today's scene.

Porto's coach Jesuardo? Ferreira's formation today is also 433, which is Porto's usual formation.The starting situation is:

Goalkeeper: Elton
Defenders: Paulo, Alves, Emmanuel, Fuchle
Midfielders: Luis Gonzalez, Assuncao, Meireles

Forwards: Lopez, Quaresma, Farias

Porto's lineup is very aggressive, no worse than Schalke 04's, and even better in terms of player talent and creativity. Schalke 04 has a lot of defensive pressure.

A talented player like Quaresma, although he experienced the failure of Barcelona, ​​returned to the Portuguese Super League. In Porto's formation and this tactical system, he proved himself again.

Lisandro Lopez has scored 14 goals in the Portuguese Super League and is the top scorer in the Porto team.

Generally speaking, the overall situation of Porto is full of creativity and fast attack speed, but they also have weaknesses, that is, they are not as good as Schalke 04 in physical confrontation. Facing the tall Schalke 04 back line, can they It's really hard to talk about doing something.

Slomka’s tactics arranged today are to rush to attack at the beginning of the game, and catch the opponent by surprise. It will be wonderful if he can score a goal. If not, it doesn’t matter.

After Porto kicked off, Kuranyi, Zhang Yuan, and Asamoah rushed forward to press the ball. Porto's players had to throw the ball to the backcourt. Their style is to play ground attack or long pass to find behind the opponent's defender. The main reason is That is, the stature of the attacking players in the frontcourt is generally not tall, and they do not have an advantage in heading the ball. It is not worthwhile to pass the ball forward blindly and easily lose possession of the ball.

In the end, it was passed back to the goalkeeper Elton, and Kuranyi then rushed forward to force him. Elton had no choice but to drive forward with his big feet. Needless to say, there is no doubt that the winner of this high ball competition is a player from Schalke 04 , Bolton overwhelmed Lopez and gave the ball to Ernst. Ernst passed it to Rakitic. Rakitic controlled the ball. Seeing that Kuranyi was still offside, he made a match with Jones. Hitting the wall, getting rid of Meireles, optimistic about Kuranyi's position is a long pass, Kuranyi and Porto's central defender Alves ran towards the landing point at the same time, but Kuranyi hit the ball. Lan Yi's ball was not headed towards the goal, but to Zhang Yuan, who was not far away from him. Paul was defending on Zhang Yuan's side. Zhang Yuan moved faster than Paul. , this volley kicked the outer arc with fallen leaves, it was very beautiful, but the ball was almost lucky, and hit the beam of Porto's gate with a bang. Although the volley was a bit far away, about 30 meters, Zhang Zhang Yuan present is also very powerful, and with an arc, Elton failed to touch the ball in a daze.

Fortunately, with the help of Mr. Menliang, the ball bounced back into the field and was cleared by Fuqilai and went out of the sideline. Schalke 04 got a throw-in.

"Zhang Yuan, shoot! Oops, hit the crossbar! What a pity! This kick is almost unlucky!" He Weijie said.

"The shot was very beautiful. Kuranyi's fulcrum in the frontcourt is very obvious. This should be Schalke 04's attack routine today. Kuranyi played back. Zhang Yuan and Asamoah on both sides waited for an opportunity to find The second chance to shoot!" Tao Wei analyzed.

"Only 2 minutes into the game, Schalke 04 gave Porto a bad start, haha, did you tell them this is our chassis?" He Wei joked.

The fans at the scene collectively exclaimed "wow", and many fans put their hands on their heads to express regret for the ball!

Zhang Yuan himself is very sorry, he feels good about this shot, but the distance is so far, whether he can make it depends on God's will, but the final result is to hit the crossbar, which is more annoying than being caught by the goalkeeper. He kicked hard to express his dissatisfaction.

Schalke 04 sent a sideline ball, and Porto's players had already returned to their own half, forming a positional battle. Rakitic continued to make adjustments, trying to involve Porto's defense gap, but with little success.

In the end, he passed the ball to Zhang Yuan's feet. Seeing that Rakitic's dispatch in the middle still failed to find an empty crotch, Zhang Yuan decided to break through by himself.

On the left, Zhang Yuan took the ball and met Paul. Gonzalez was nearby to help defend, and did not attack Zhang Yuan with Paul. Zhang Yuan just walked slowly to the bottom line, almost to the bottom line, the passing route It's very small, Paul is facing Zhang Yuan, Gonzalez will no longer assist defense at this time, because the farther he goes to the bottom line, the narrower the route for Zhang Yuan to pass the ball, he can only choose to pass back, but Gonzalez intends to Come over from the return route and double-team Zhang Yuan with Paul.

Paul also posted it slowly, instead of keeping a certain distance from Zhang Yuan as he did at the beginning, which happened to be what Zhang Yuan wanted to see. Zhang Yuan estimated the distance between himself and Paul and Gonzalez, and took Out of their prepared tricks.

The plan of Paul and Gonzalez was to force Zhang Yuan to the corner, but Zhang Yuan made a move. Facing the double-teaming of Paul and Gonzalez, Zhang Yuan used his heel to catch the ball. When Turkey played against Brazil in the World Cup in 2002, Turkish international Ilhan passed Carlos's trick, and he had a beautiful name called Rainbow Extraordinary.

Paul and Gonzalez were out of reach. The ball passed between them. Zhang Yuan overtook Paul from outside the baseline. Paul didn’t even have time to make a foul. He caught the ball and Zhang Yuan went into the penalty area. Emma Nuer and Asuncao were attracted, Zhang Yuan couldn't still break through like this!

This is Zhang Yuan's pass, the pass, looking for Kuranyi's header, Zhang Yuan's pass feels good at this moment, the ball is well passed, Kuranyi once again suppressed Alves' header to attack the goal.

Kuranyi chose to hit the ground with his header this time. The ball first hit the ground hard and then rebounded. This kind of ball is very difficult for the goalkeeper to defend, because the general habit of the goalkeeper is to maintain a spring posture when facing the opponent's high-altitude cross. , is always ready to jump or side-to-side, and rarely has the active awareness of squatting. Facing such a ball, the goalkeeper just subconsciously reacts to where to jump, so the success rate of this kind of top is much higher, but this kind of top is against the goal. The requirements for the players are relatively high, and they must use their heads to control the direction of strength. Under the interference of the opponent's defenders, it is difficult for the forward to not lose shape. In addition, the pass must be appropriate to use this trick. The power of the pass is strong, and the striker will It's hard to make that shot.

Under the interference of Alves this time, Kuranyi didn't hit the ball very well. The ball hit the goal line. Elton subconsciously stretched his legs to block the ball, but the story is not over yet. After being blocked, a blue figure rushed up to meet the ball and made a supplementary shot. This time Elton really had no choice but to score!
That blue figure was Asamoah, and in this tense state, Fuqilai failed to keep an eye on Asamoah.

At home, Schalke 04 led Porto 1-0. The stadium suddenly became a sea of ​​joy, and the cheers of the fans were deafening.

Asamoah rushed to the corner and danced the African dance. Asamoah is a Ghanaian, but he came to Germany to play football when he was very young, and finally became a German citizen.The genes of African people who are good at singing and dancing still exist deep in Asamoah's body. He was very, very happy to score this goal, so he actually danced. Other Schalke 04 players don't know this kind of dance, but They didn't mind learning it live, and they all followed Asamoah's ass wiggling.

Zhang Yuan looked very funny, so he also went up to learn it, which made He Wei and Tao Wei laugh out loud.

(End of this chapter)