legendary midfielder

Chapter 152 Consolidation and Improvement

Deportivo de La Coruña overtook the score in the away game, which immediately aroused the feeling of hatred among the Atletico Madrid fans. Therefore, at the Calderon Stadium, the team song of the Atletico Madrid team sounded!
Encouraged by the fans, the morale of the Atletico Madrid team slowly recovered, the team also slowly entered a normal state, and the strength of the traditional European giants was gradually brought into play.

Under such circumstances, Zhang Xu's pressure gradually increased.After all, football is not a one-person sport. No matter how powerful Zhang Xu is, it is still limited.

Under the ebb and flow, Zhang Xu had already controlled the rhythm of the game, but now he felt a little out of control.Atletico Madrid, which had been at a disadvantage, gradually regained its momentum and played evenly with Deportivo.

In the 606th minute of the game, after receiving a pass from his teammate, Suyatus dribbled the ball a few steps forward. Seeing that Zhang Xu was approaching at high speed, he observed the position of his teammates in the frontcourt a little bit, and it was a long pass that sent the football to the front.

There was a fight ahead, and in the end, Costa grabbed the first point. He pointed the football to teammate No. 10 Turan with his forehead.

Turan didn't stop the ball either, and with a push with the arch of his right foot, he passed the football diagonally to Falcao who was running forward.

At this time, Falcao finally showed the strength of a top striker. His body first leaned to the left, attracting Atami's attention, and successfully shifted Atami's center of gravity to his left foot.

Then, Falcao made a quick right turn, grabbed the football with his right foot, pressed against Aitami's body, turned 360 degrees, and threw Aitami directly behind his body.

At this time, Falcao made a slight adjustment and shot immediately!

The football flashed a bright light and appeared in the net all at once, and Alzubia only had time to raise his hands.

2:2!With the support of the fans, Atlético de Madrid finally tied the score tenaciously!
Seeing the football fly into the net, Zhang Xu could only sigh helplessly. The conceded goal had nothing to do with his own strength. If he really wanted to blame it, he could only blame the opponent for being too strong. The overall strength was indeed more than a step higher than that of Deportivo.

After equalizing the score, Atletico Madrid's morale was boosted, and they performed even better amidst the cheers of the fans.

However, Zhang Xu has already sensed the danger of the team, so he strengthened the team's defensive organization, and used his entry-level ability to control the rhythm to frequently interrupt the opponent's offensive rhythm.

In this way, although Atletico Madrid was slightly better on the scene, they were frequently blocked in offense and failed to give Deportivo a fatal blow.

Time was consumed little by little in this tug-of-war.

Finally, the referee finally blew the whistle for the end of the game.

Under the leadership of Zhang Xu, Deportivo drew away against the mighty Atletico Madrid!A rare point for the team!
The current team's league points are 26 points, ranking fourth in the standings!
This ranking looks very good, but No.3's Real Madrid points are 6 points higher than Deportivo!This gap is still very large.

If Deportivo wants to directly qualify for the European Champions Cup, they have to compete with the previous Big Three Barcelona, ​​Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid for the top three positions.

Of course, Deportivo can also secure No.4, and can also qualify for the European Champions Cup qualifying round.

The third day after this round of the league is the fifth round of the Copa del Rey.

This round, Deportivo's opponent is Serbia, which has fought twice in a row!

First of all, it is the home court of Deportivo.

At 2012:12 pm on December 12, 7, the game officially started.

After the last game, Zhang Xu has initially mastered the rhythm of entry-level control, but after all, he is just an entry-level player. Zhang Xu feels that there are still many shortcomings that need to be strengthened. Therefore, in the next two days of training, he humbly asked Captain Belleron for advice.

Although Belleron is not yet able to teach Zhang Xu personally, he can stand beside the training ground and patiently point out Zhang Xu's shortcomings in the midfield organization and the direction of improvement.

Two days passed like this. After Belleron's guidance, coupled with his dedicated training, Zhang Xu felt that he had made some progress in controlling the rhythm, but the system did not prompt him to enter the preliminary stage, so he must have not improved enough.

However, Zhang Xu is already very content. It would be unbelievable if he could be promoted to the first level in two days.

After the game started, Zhang Xu took advantage of the home game to fully display his ability and entry-level rhythm control skills, hoping to control the game in his own hands.

Serbia is also a traditional strong team in La Liga. Although it cannot be compared with the top three teams of Barcelona, ​​Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid, its overall strength is still a little bit stronger than the current Deportivo.

But now, Zhang Xu's ability has improved by leaps and bounds, and he has the unique skill of controlling the rhythm with one hand. It is still very difficult for Serbia to beat the current Deportivo at the Riazor Stadium.

The direction of the game is also as expected.

Under Zhang Xu's careful organization, Deportivo gradually took the initiative in the game and played a beautiful offensive rhythm time after time, which made Serbia feel a little exhausted in the away game.

However, Serbia did play relatively strong. No matter how beautiful and exciting Deportivo's offense was, they were always able to tenaciously resolve it at the last minute.

However, as the saying goes, there are only those who can be thieves for a thousand days but not those who can defend against thieves for a thousand days. Serbia's passive defense time and time again, there will always be a loophole once.

For example now: this is the No. 308 minute of the game, not far from the end of the first half.

However, it was at this time that Serbia's solid defense finally showed a loophole.

After Zhang Xu made repeated inversions in the midfield, he suddenly made a forward move, which attracted two players from the other side to press, and then pushed the ball to Thomas.

As soon as Thomas got the football, he was tightly entangled by the opponent's midfielder. When he was about to pass it back to Zhang Xu, he saw Zhang Xu gesturing to him.

Thomas immediately understood a nice heel!
The football rolled past the opponent's midfielder and came straight to Oliveira's feet!Oliveira was overjoyed and immediately turned around and broke through with the ball.

However, the Serbian defender was still very resolute in defense. He stared at Oliveira's feet and moved cautiously.

Oliveira saw that there was no chance of a breakthrough, so he planned to dribble the ball laterally.

"Right! Pass!"

Zhang Xu's thunder-like cry came from his ear, and Oliveira shuddered, turned around quickly, hooked his left foot, and passed the football to his right.

Only then did he realize that Zhang Xu had arrived at the same level as him at some point and was advancing at high speed.

There are two Serbian defenders in front of Zhang Xu. It is definitely impossible to shoot directly, but he can still pass the ball!

With a flick of his toes, he picked up the football, passed the two defenders in front of him, and fell directly towards the right edge of the penalty area.

Ricky rushes to the ground and shoots hard at the falling football!
Since the landing point of the football is the right edge of the penalty area, which is a bit far from the goal, Ricky chose to shoot from the lower right corner of the goal.

The football flew very low and fast. When the Serbian goalkeeper stretched out his hands, the football had already plunged into the net!

The ball went in! 1:0!

Deportivo lead by one goal!
The Riazor Stadium suddenly boiled, and all the Deportivo fans cheered, and the high-pitched voice resounded through the entire stadium, straight into the sky.

After winning first, Deportivo played more smoothly under Zhang Xu's organization.

However, the time of the first half was coming soon, so Zhang Xu could only return to the locker room with his teammates with a trace of regret for not being able to expand the score.

Now, during the intermission, Ortera doesn't need to do any mobilization. As long as Zhang Xu is there, the team will never worry about morale problems, because Zhang Xu's strong desire to fight affects the whole team anytime and anywhere.

Of course, necessary tactical arrangements still need to be made.

Oltra did not make personnel adjustments, but only praised a few outstanding players. Of course, Zhang Xu must be indispensable.Then, I explained a few things to pay attention to, and left the time to the players themselves.

In the second half, they changed sides and fought again. Serbia was obviously not reconciled to failure. They stepped up their offensive efforts, but under Zhang Xu's interception, their offense could only hit the wall again and again.

On the contrary, because the offense was strengthened, the defensive strength was weakened, which gave Zhang Xu a chance.

In the 603rd minute of the game, Zhang Xu made an accurate prediction and made a tackle. After blocking the opponent's pass, he tiptoed Marchena who responded.

After Marchena took the ball, he saw that Zhang Xu had quickly got up, and quickly returned the football to Zhang Xu.

Zhang Xu leaned on the instep of his right foot, stopped the football, then raised his head, looked forward, and found that the formation on the right side of Sevilla was a bit loose.

So, he made a long pass directly and accurately passed the football to Ricky who was hovering on the right side of the front field.

Ricky unloaded the football with a pistol, and then took the football diagonally into the penalty area!
Serbia's two defenders hurried forward, one blocked the angle of his shot, and the other pushed up against Ricky.

Ricky didn't want to get entangled with them, so he pushed with his right foot and passed the football between the two of them.

Oliveira hit the ball with an angry shot!

The football turned into a bolt of lightning and hit the net!

2: 0!

Zhang Xu took advantage of a counterattack to help the team make another victory!
　Finally came back from home!The normal update will resume tomorrow, thank you for your understanding!

　　
　
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