green mercenary

Chapter 208 Against Barcelona
After Eindhoven won Heerenveen with a high profile in the semi-final of the Dutch Cup, they rushed to Arnhem non-stop to face the next Eredivisie game away.

Bai Xiaotian's senior year shocked the Eredivisie football world, and some media even claimed that Bai Xiaotian is the next Ronaldo.And Ronaldo himself said after watching Bai Xiaotian's goal collection, Bai Xiaotian, like him, can be called a "phenomenal player".

Although some media still claimed that Bai Xiaotian was just on the rise, luck accounted for the vast majority.But more media subtly changed their original position and began to support Bai Xiaotian.The superficial reason is that the European competition is coming soon, and PSV is the last Eredivisie team to stand firm in the European competition, and has even rushed to such an important position as the semi-finals; but behind the scenes, the high-level executives know that it is PSV's board of directors who came forward and bribed those newspapers who belittled Bai Xiaotian.Philips also made a big determination to pack Bai Xiaotian thoroughly.

The rise of Bai Xiaotian also affected the folks.Starting from the Netherlands, a large number of scouts poured out, setting off an "East Asian Gold Rush".For a while, many young East Asian players were brought to Europe for youth training, and some even signed contracts directly.The Netherlands has become the first stop for many East Asian players.

Of course, these are all things to follow.

On April [-]th, Eindhoven visited Arnhem as a guest.Gretz, who didn't pay much attention to this game, didn't even send Van Bommel to start. Most of the players in the game were bench players, and there was even an old player who played for the first time this season.

In the second half, unable to resist Bai Xiaotian's persistence, he looked at the 0-2 trailing score again. In the 78th minute, Gretz still sent Bai Xiaotian on the field.

When Bai Xiaotian stepped into the Gerredome Stadium for the first time, the audience erupted in cheers.Fans want to know whether Bai Xiaotian has exploded with all his qualities, or is it just because of his stupidity.The players in Arnhem are also ready to fight, and even after receiving the coach's message, they still stick to the score and give up attacking.

In the 87th minute of the game, facing Romedal's corner kick, Bai Xiaotian jumped high from the back point, flicked his forehead, and smashed the ball into Arnhem's goal.

In an instant, the audience burst into cheers. "Genius of the Far East" is not "exhausted".

But there is not much time left in the game. After suffering a painless away defeat, Eindhoven still leads the second-ranked Feyenoord by 8 points, while the third-ranked Ajax is as high as 12 points.

On April 3th, after three rounds of away games, the PSV players finally returned to PSV.Gretz waved his hand and gave all the staff a day off.But as an additional requirement, players can relax on this day, but they cannot do distance sports.All in all, everyone has only 1 day to recover.Because three days later, the second round of the UEFA Europa League semi-finals will be ushered in. Eindhoven must raise their spirits in order to properly entertain this distinguished guest.

Eindhoven is ready to fight, but Barcelona's side is strong.

This season, although Barcelona has many world-class stars, the overall cooperation cannot be achieved.Relying on Guardiola alone, it is impossible to link up the midfield.

On April [-]th, Barcelona sits at Camp Nou to face Real Zaragoza.

Although Zaragoza has been ranked in the middle and lower reaches of La Liga, Lorenzo made up his mind after thinking about it for a long time. He did not underestimate this team at home and sent a main lineup.

It was Lorenzo's decision that saved Barcelona again.

During this period of time, the Barcelona players seemed to have not woken up, no matter the home and away games frequently conceded goals.Coupled with injuries and internal disagreements among the stars, at the end of the first half, Barcelona fell behind 0-2 at the Nou Camp.

Such a result obviously dissatisfied the club's executives and fans. In the denunciation of the fans, Lorenzo bit the bullet and forcibly arranged his own tactical philosophy and style of play in the locker room, hoping that the "uncles" on the field would be obedient and do what he said.

The players also felt that such a score at home was really unjustifiable. At the beginning of the second half, the left winger Owisma received a through ball from the center back Cocu and played the score 1-2 without stopping the ball.

However, Barcelona did not maintain this momentum. In the 73rd minute of the game, Zaragoza scored another goal and once again widened the point difference to 2 goals.

Barcelona rushed to catch up, and 4 minutes later, with the assist of Rivaldo, Kluivert scored, and Barcelona chased the score to 2-3.

But 2 minutes later, Juan Esnard of Zaragoza 30 meters away from the front of the penalty area, hit a world wave and rewritten the score to 2-4.And Juan Esnard's goal was also named the best goal of the 11th season by the Spanish Football Association.

The Barcelona players had to go back to the center circle to kick off again. Danny Garcia, who had just replaced him, suddenly sent an assist after his teammate dropped a few kicks. It took only 1 minute for the Barcelona players to score twice from Kluivert, narrowing the point difference again.

It wasn't until this moment that Barcelona remembered that the audience was suppressed.In the remaining 10 minutes, the Barcelona players bombarded Zaragoza's goal like chicken blood.

In the 92nd minute of stoppage time, Barcelona got a good frontcourt set-piece.The referee looked at his watch and knew that this was Barcelona's last chance.

It has to be said that winning depends on the team, and lore depends on the star.Although this sentence came out of the basketball world, it also applies to football.

Standing in front of the ball, Rivaldo withstood the huge pressure from the 5 fans in the audience, and flew directly.

A beautiful deciduous ball, directly over the wall, drilled into Zaragoza's gate.

La Liga giants Barcelona finally maintained the dignity of the team in front of their own stadium.From this point of view, Barcelona would rather not have Van Gaal but also Rivaldo, which is really an extremely correct choice.

After this campaign, Barcelona has scored 4 goals in three consecutive games in the three La Liga games entering April.It's just that except for the 4-1 victory in the first game against Las Palmas, the other two games were all behind and tied 4-4.Although there are many stars, it is still difficult to win.

The result after two bloody games is that frontcourt players Zenden, Enrique, and Owisma; midfielders Cocu, Gabriel, backcourt players De Boer, Reziger, these main players are all with moderate injuries.Wanting to raise it within 5 days is almost a dream.

But no matter what, people can't stop the passage of time.On April [-]th, Lorenzo took the La Liga giants as a guest at Philips.

More than two hours before the start of the game, some fans avoided the sight of the old guard Paul under the influence of human relations and "illegal tailgating", and "sneaked" into the Philips Stadium in advance to watch the home team's training.

Donald hugged his shoulders, looked at Bai Xiaotian who kept passing and catching the ball on the field, and kept shaking his head.And his assistant was holding an extremely healthy medical examination report, flipping through it and explaining in front of Gretz.No one expected that on the day when all the team members were on vacation, Bai Xiaotian entered the closed Philips through the guard Old Paul.

If Donald's documents hadn't been left behind in the stadium's office, he still wouldn't have discovered that Bai Xiaotian came to the stadium to practice alone during the holiday.

In the three games that Bai Xiaotian returned to the Netherlands from Spain, he issued a skill and two experience cards for the super training ground.If possible, Bai Xiaotian would like to use a more skilled posture to show it to the La Liga giants.So even on vacation, Bai Xiaotian was alone, constantly practicing against obstacles.

At nine o'clock in the evening, after Xiao Zhao coaxed his wife and children to go to bed, he turned on the computer with Uncle Zhao.As soon as the big white head displayed "WINDOWS 2000", Xiao Zhao couldn't wait to double-click the "Internet" label, and after finding "Bai Xiaotian Live Studio" in the favorites, he directly clicked in.

Huang Jianxiang also made a cup of coffee at this time, and while adding his partner to it with a spoon, he looked at the starting lineup, "Barcelona seems to have suffered a lot of "casualties". To send such a young player to such an important position seems to be the end of their battle. If Bai Xiaotian seizes the opportunity, it will not be a problem to lead the team to qualify. Xiaotian, you have to work hard!"

(End of this chapter)