green mercenary

Chapter 204 Dutch Cup Semi-Finals
"Bai, catch it!" Fan Ni pushed a fast ground ball towards Bai Xiaotian, Bai Xiaotian lightly lifted his right foot, and went all the way down towards the incoming ball, directly stopping the ball under his feet.

Seeing Van Nistelrooy beckoning, Bai Xiaotian changed his foot and pushed the ball back again.

As a striker, the ability to reverse foot is very important.Now in daily training, Bai Xiaotian uses his left foot to complete dribbling, passing, shooting and other actions as much as possible.From the data point of view, Bai Xiaotian's foot ability is only 5.As for the following experience bar, I don't know when it will rise to 8 (full).

"Bai, do you know? I played football in Heerenveen before." Fanny and Bai Xiaotian also started chatting as they passed the ball.

Of course Bai Xiaotian knew that although Van Nistelrooy made his debut in the Dutch second team's Den Bosch, he made his debut in the Dutch second team in Heerenveen.It was not until July 1998 that Ruud van Nistelrooy returned to Eindhoven from Heerenveen for a price of 7 million euros.Speaking of which, this was just over two years ago.

"You would never have imagined that before I came to Heerenveen, I was still a scavenger." Fanny grinned, but narrowed the distance with Bai Xiaotian, and accelerated the power of passing the ball.

"It wasn't until Heerenveen that the coach transferred me to the center forward. And I still clearly remember that it was August 1997. I started against Breda and scored my first goal in my Eredivisie debut!"

The distance between Van Nistelrooy and Bai Xiaotian is getting closer, and the strength of passing the ball is getting stronger and stronger.

Bai Xiaotian didn't stop at the same spot, but moved back and forth from side to side, constantly passing the ball back with his left foot.Occasionally, if I really can't catch it, I will use my right foot to help.Fanny talked more and more, but he didn't give in at all.And he kicked back and forth with his left and right feet, without being disturbed by his own words at all.Bai Xiaotian swallowed his saliva at this time, and put all his thoughts on catching and returning the ball, a lot of beads of sweat gradually emerged on his forehead.

"Hey! Rude! How are you doing?" Tim Kepe came to the two of them and greeted them.

"Not bad!" Fanny said lightly. "Also, I won't keep my hands!" Treating one's old teammates is only respectful if they don't let go.

"Haha, of course I know." Tim smiled, pointed at Bai Xiaotian and said, "Still working hard on training newcomers at this time?"

"Rookie?" Fanny couldn't hold back when he heard this word, "Tim, Bai Xiaotian is not a rookie. In terms of offense, he can't lose to me. If you treat him as a rookie, you will definitely lose this game very badly!"

"Really?" After hearing Fanny's words, Tim's smile was a bit bitter.It's almost petty to come to Fanny to chat about old times, but it's true to find out about the enemy's situation.If what Ruud Ruud said was true, it would be even more difficult for Heerenveen to go on in the Dutch Cup.

After chatting with Ruud van Nistelrooy for a while, and observing the pass between Ruud van Nistelrooy and Bai Xiaotian, Tim seemed to have a thought and returned to his own half.

Speaking of Heerenveen, although the team was established very early, in the 90-91 season, Heerenveen made a historic entry into the Eredivisie.Since 1993, Heerenveen has transformed into a "cup fighter".

In the 92-93 season and 96-97 season, Heerenveen reached the Dutch Cup finals twice, but lost to the powerful Ajax for the first time, and lost to the little-known Roda for the second time.

In the Eredivisie League, it ranked No.93 in the 94-13 season, ranked seventh in the 96-97 season, ranked sixth in the 97-98 season, and ranked fifth in the 98-99 season. Finally, in the 99-00 season, the well-accumulated Heeren Finn beat Feyenoord and Ajax and won the second place in the league.

In the second half of last year, Heerenveen, who was steadily progressing in the Eredivisie, participated in the Champions League for the first time, but because of poor strength, he only achieved 1 win, 1 draw and 4 losses, and was eliminated miserably.

This year, Heerenveen once again reached the semi-finals of the Dutch Cup, but what they met was PSV Eindhoven, which was extremely strong for a while.

The Abilen Stella Stadium has already been filled with many people. As Heerenveen's performance is getting better and better, the club's top management is also considering the expansion of the stadium.Because after more than 1 people were seated at the scene, fans entered the field one after another, standing in the aisle to watch the game.

Heerenveen is not in very good form this season, ranking in the middle of the league.Fans also know that the Dutch Cup is the only championship trophy that Heerenveen can fight for.Even in the face of the powerful Eindhoven, the fans of the home team want to do their best to give the players of the home team a strength.

If they can reach the final again, neither Twente nor Arnhem will be able to stop Heerenveen from winning the championship.For this reason, many fans bought scalper tickets at high prices and entered the field to cheer for the home team.

However, this game is completely unequal in terms of strength.

In the 5th minute, Bai Xiaotian received a wonderful pass from Ruud van Nistelrooy in the penalty area and almost scored.

But Heerenveen's defender, Hans Ma, knocked down to the ground with the ball the moment Bai Xiaotian made a kick.Ignoring the appeal of Van Bommel and others, before Bai Xiaotian got up, he awarded PSV a corner kick.

The defender of Heerenveen took the opportunity to test the referee's standards, and the PSV players only habitually put pressure on the referee, striving for a penalty that is beneficial to their own side.

The corner kick was taken, and Hans Funk, who had been prepared for a long time, leaped high and took the ball off directly in the air.

Fanny patted the big South African man lying on the ground, and the latter grinned at the corner of Fanny's mouth, signaling him to "take a step first."

From the opening few minutes, Heerenveen seemed to have withstood PSV's opening onslaught.

But the trend of the next game made Heerenveen really understand why Eindhoven is still the leader of the Eredivisie, but they have fallen behind in the rankings.

No. In the 17th minute, Bai Xiaotian received the ball from Romedal after he broke through from the wing outside the penalty area.

At this time, Bai Xiaotian was still three or four meters away from the penalty area, and Helen Fei's defenders focused on preventing Bai Xiaotian from breaking through with the ball.But no one expected that Bai Xiaotian would choose to shoot at this time.

However, Bai Xiaotian really did this.

Bai Xiaotian stepped on the bicycle with both feet empty. Of course, such a slow fake movement cannot easily confuse Heerenveen's defenders, but what Bai Xiaotian wanted was to take this opportunity to move forward a few meters.

Just when the backing toes of the opponent's defender stepped on the penalty area line, Bai Xiaotian's right foot suddenly did not falter, but directly pushed the ball to the right.Tim rushed to grab it, but Bai Xiaotian made a gap.

Just a run-up step, Bai Xiaotian's right foot slammed right behind the ball, right in front of the opponent's penalty area, and slammed the ball towards the goal.

The 1.9-meter-six Hans Funk took a step back before thinking of flying into the air, but his outstretched arms still couldn't reach the fast-moving ball.

Funk didn't have to guess the direction, and had time to react, run up, and save.But he still couldn't save the ball that went straight to the upper right corner of the goal.

In the 15th minute, PSV relied on Bai Xiaotian's long-range shot to directly rewrite the score.

(End of this chapter)