legendary midfielder

Chapter 57 Cut off the owl's head
After easily winning Wycombe [-]-[-], Sheffield United ushered in a game-intensive period, basically a game in three or four days.

Such an intensive competition puts forward strict requirements on the physical fitness of the players, and it is also a test of the strength of the team's bench.

Of course, none of this has anything to do with Zhang Xu. His physical fitness is sufficient for these events.According to Zhang Xu's own statement, as long as a game is not an important competition, its physical energy consumption is still not small compared with his physical energy consumption caused by one and a half days of training.

At the same time, the physical coach and team doctor carefully checked Zhang Xu's body for the first few times during each routine physical examination, for fear of fatigue or something in Zhang Xu's body. Later, he found that this guy was a humanoid monster, and fatigue had nothing to do with him. Therefore, the procedures for Zhang Xu's physical examination were also simplified later.

In this case, Zhang Xu has almost become a trump card in the hands of head coach Wilson, a super trump card with strong strength and no need to worry about physical fitness and injuries.

On February 2th and February 15th, for two consecutive games, Zhang Xu started and played the whole game without exception.

At the same time, in these two games, Zhang Xu's performance was also very dazzling. Not only his personal defense was very stable, which really played the role of a rear defense iron gate, but also in terms of defensive organization, he showed strong strength for the first time.

Under Zhang Xu's organization, the defenders and midfielders formed a solid plate, and Zhang Xu, as the defensive core, played the role of the mainstay in this plate, making every attack of the opponent basically return in vain.

With Zhang Xu's strong defensive ability, Sheffield United won the opponents with zero goals in these two games.

As a result, Sheffield United, which has two games less, climbed to 63 points, ranking No.2 in the standings!
Such a great situation not only makes the team full of energy up and down, but also makes the fans full of confidence in returning to the British Championship this season.

For Zhang Xu, these two consecutive games are two games to accumulate experience points and get system reward attribute values.Since the opponent is not very strong, and the system rewards are getting more and more stingy, after these two games, the experience points are quite a lot, directly allowing Zhang Xu to meet the conditions for upgrading again, but he regrets that the attribute value of the system rewards is less than ten points.

On February 2012, 2, it was Sheffield United's away game against Sheffield Wednesday, which was also the 26rd round of the league, and more importantly, it was a city derby in Sheffield!

Sheffield Wednesday's full name is Sheffield Wednesday Football Club, nicknamed "The Owl". Founded by a cricket club in 1867, it got its name because cricketers only had time to play football on Wednesdays.Due to political reasons, Sheffield Wednesday refused to become one of the founding clubs of the All-England Professional League, and one of its founders, Charles Stokes, founded Sheffield United Football Club in 1889.

Before this game, Sheffield Wednesday played two more games than Sheffield United, but only scored 57 points, ranking third in the standings.

If this game can win Sheffield United at home, Sheffield Wednesday can use this to narrow the points gap with Charlton and Sheffield United, laying a solid foundation for later promotion to the British Championship.

However, if this derby is lost, Sheffield will widen the gap with the top two again on Wednesday, and the situation of promotion will become particularly severe.

This game is so important to Sheffield Wednesday, and naturally it is also very important to Sheffield United, so both sides started intense preparations before the game.

In fact, this war had already begun before the game started.

The news media supporting their respective teams started a boring war of words a few days in advance. One moment you predicted that Sheffield United will overthrow their opponents in the away game, and the next moment I declared that Sheffield United will defend the honor and dignity of the team at home on Wednesday.

The media on both sides quarreled wildly.

This has also affected their respective teams. For example, when Sheffield Wednesday's star and powerful striker Clinton Morrison of the Irish national team was interviewed by reporters, he clamored that he must beat Sheffield United at home.

Another Sheffield player on Wednesday, No. 9 Chris, even declared that he will definitely score a hat-trick in this game!

The players of the Sheffield United team also received interviews from many reporters. Captain Beatty was naturally the first to be interviewed.

Beatty will naturally not give in to Sheffield Wednesday's challenge. He made it clear that the Sheffield United team is ready to take the owl during the game!

The other team members also more or less expressed that they will definitely do their best in the game and teach the owls an unforgettable lesson.

When the reporter interviewed Zhang Xu, Zhang Xu just came back from intensive training, sweating profusely, and the sweat dripped down on the grass along his jersey.

In order to save time, Zhang Xu only said one sentence: I don't believe that two knives can't cut off the head of an owl!
On this day, the winter is still cold, and the icy weather makes everyone have to wear thick cold-proof clothing.

However, at Hillsborough Stadium, it was a fiery scene.

Hillsborough Stadium was originally named "Owlerton Stadium" (Owlerton Stadium), and was later renamed as Hillsborough Stadium (Hillsborough Stadium). It is currently full-seat and can accommodate 39,859 spectators.

2009年8月19日谢菲尔德星期三足球俱乐部宣布希尔斯堡将进行重大重修，将容量增加到45,000人，预计于2013年完成。

A derby is a derby, and the atmosphere is completely different. This stadium can only accommodate 39859 spectators, but 4 fans flooded in today.

In order to ensure the safety of the fans and to ensure that the fans will not act aggressively because of their emotions, the Sheffield City Government has arranged a large number of police forces to station at the Hillsborough Stadium.

In the stands, each area has a team of heavily armed police standing in line, dividing each area.And around the stadium, there were riot police with armed guns and live ammunition standing in a circle!

Seeing such a scene, even if you are not nervous, you will be nervous!
This was Zhang Xu's first experience in the Derby. He didn't feel nervous, but it was very interesting. During the adaptive training, he looked around, looking like a curious baby.

Seeing Zhang Xu's appearance, captain Beatty naturally understood that this was Zhang Xu's first time experiencing this, so he said to Zhang Xu while training, "Zhang, is this your first time experiencing a derby? Are you nervous?"

"Don't be nervous, isn't it the Derby? What's the matter?" Zhang Xu replied heartlessly.

"Isn't it Derby?! You kid!" Beatty scolded with a smile: "Don't say I didn't warn you, Derby is a popular endorsement! Be careful, don't get hurt!"

"Injured? Who? Me? How is it possible?" Zhang Xu didn't believe that he would be injured at all. He had enough confidence in his tyrannical body.

"Indeed, in front of Warcraft Zhang, only Xie Wednesday's players are injured. Captain, you are too worried!" At this time, striker Evans interjected.

"Hahaha, Zhang, just let go and do it today, I believe that with your body, you can completely kill their gang of bitches!" Michael shouted with a loud laugh.

Beatty spread his hands helplessly, and said to Michael and Evans: "You two, don't fan the flames. Although Zhang's body is indeed strong, we still try our best to protect ourselves, especially you, Michael, you are relatively thin. Try not to have physical contact with each other!"

"Don't worry, Captain, I won't give them a chance to foul!" Michael shouted, patting his chest.

Michael's cry naturally attracted the attention of the Sheffield players on the opposite side. They all turned their heads and glared at Zhang Xu.

It happened that Zhang Xu looked back, so the two sides met eyes.

Xie Wednesday's players took advantage of the home game, so they naturally stared at Zhang Xu with bull's-eye viciously, and made gestures of pointing the middle finger from time to time.

Naturally, Zhang Xu would not give in. He stared back at the other party, while stretching out his right index finger, making a provocative gesture of "Come here".

Under the leadership of Zhang Xu, the Sheffield United players stopped training at all. They all started to provoke the Sheffield Wednesday players. While provoking, they yelled viciously about cutting off the owl's head.

The players of Sheffield Wednesday were not to be outdone, and they scolded the players of Sheffield United one after another.

A conflict was about to break out. At this time, the staff arranged the police force to separate the two teams in a timely manner, and then arranged for both sides to end the adaptive training and return to the locker room.

However, when Zhang Xu entered the player tunnel, he encountered something that annoyed him very much.

Before he entered the player tunnel, he noticed something flying in the air, and it hit his head quickly. He quickly avoided it, and looked down, it turned out to be a steel lighter!
If it wasn't for his quick response, this move would definitely make him popular.

Zhang Xu raised his head, just in time to see the Xie Wednesday fans who were throwing lighters staring at him, doing all kinds of vulgar movements, and screaming strangely while doing the movements: "Damn yellow-skinned monkey, go back to your monkey den!"

Suddenly, Zhang Xu became angry!You can insult him, but you can't insult your motherland and nation!
The distance between the two was not far, but across the player tunnel, Zhang Xu couldn't get through at all, even if he wanted to beat each other violently, there was nothing he could do.

In the end, Zhang Xu made a gesture to the Wednesday fan:
The thumb of his right hand turned up, pointed to himself, then stretched out two fingers, and shook at the fan!
His meaning is obvious, that is, to score twice in this derby!

(End of this chapter)