Chapter 153: The Test of Difficulties
Although the team won two consecutive games, the team's aging problem has finally exploded in the away game against Athletic Bilbao.?
Pizzi suffered a groin injury and needed two months of rest!
Belleron's knee ligament contusion requires about twenty days of rest!
Eibardo's physical reserves were seriously problematic. In the game against Athletic Bilbao, there were severe cramps after only 48 minutes of the game!
The main players frequently suffer from injuries and the substitute players' strength is not as strong as possible, so the overall strength of the team is more or less a downward trend.
Perhaps, the only thing that makes head coach Ortra lucky is that the team's midfielder Zhang Xu, who has always looked as strong as a cow, has no illness, pain, no physical problems!
However, because of Bellellon's injury, the team can only play single-core tactics now, which is indeed a big challenge and an opportunity to exercise their organizational skills for Zhang Xu.
In order to effectively improve his midfield organization ability, on the one hand, he worked hard to learn from the captain Belleron, watch videos, and ask for advice from the door. He even deliberately used the lead-in star mode during training;
On the other hand, in the simulation training every night, he uses single-core tactics to accumulate experience bit by bit and improve himself bit by bit.
With his efforts, his organizational ability is steadily improving. Although there is still a certain gap compared to Belleron, it has been able to restore the team to a certain level of combat effectiveness.
On November 3, 2o12, the wounded La Coruna ushered in the second game of the Copa del Rey.
In the last game, La Coruna defeated Mallorca with a score of 2:0. This time, La Coruna played away. What's worse is that several of La Coruna's main players were injured.
In this case, how to maintain the advantage of the score and successfully enter the next round. This is indeed a headache for head coach Ortra.
It was also a test for Zhang Xu.
As it turns out, this game was indeed full of twists and turns.
At the beginning of the game, Mallorca used his home court advantage to launch a crazy attack on La Coruna.
Although Zhang Xu still lacks in offensive organization and mastery of the rhythm of the game, he is still very tough in defense and defensive organization.
Therefore, although Mallorca's offensive frenzy was one after another, it was unable to tear open the defense line under Zhang Xu's organization.
However, football is often like this. When you think you are very confident, unexpected things will always happen.
In the 33rd minute of the game, Mallorca made a cross from the bottom, Zhang Xu jumped high in the penalty area, grabbed the first point, and gave the football point to Marchena.
What Zhang Xu didn't expect was that Marchena made a mistake in stopping the ball this time. The football hit his right ankle and flew out all at once, rolling more than one meter away from his body.
Mallorca's forward saw the opportunity and immediately snatched the football. After shaking away the counter-attack of Marchena, he suddenly shot with a strong shot!
The football flew past Zhang Xu's eyes, and then drilled into the net under his nose!
o:1!
After Mallorca scored this goal, they seemed to see hope of tied the score. Morale suddenly rose.
The morale rises immediately reflects the intensity of the attack.
In the later time, Mallorca had an offensive wave almost every two minutes, pouring towards La Coruna one after another.
However, at this critical moment, in order to preserve the team's rare victory fruit, Zhang Xu exploded again!
In the 55th minute of the game, that is, the tenth minute of the second half, Zhang Xu made a fierce tackle near the center line. He cut off the opponent's midfield pass and poked Thomas in front with his toes.
After Thomas received the ball, he immediately started high and inserted into Mallorca's hinterland.
Soon, he was defended by the strong defense of Mallorca's defender, and he did not dribble too much. Seeing Zhang Xu running forward, he immediately returned the football.
Zhang Xu did not stop the ball, but directly pushed the ball with his arch, pushing the ball to Oliveira, and then bypassed the opponent and intercepted his midfielder and appeared on the outside of the penalty area.
As soon as he arrived, Oliveira's pass arrived! In front of him, there was a channel directly to the lower right corner of the goal!
Shooting! Zhang Xu didn't even think about it, and directly swung his right thigh and slapped hard on the back of the football!
After a loud bang, the football drew a standard straight line, passed through the passage, and plunged into Mallorca's goal!
1:1!
Zhang Xu's shocking long shot suddenly knocked down Mallorca's just rising morale.
Finally, with Zhang Xu's goal, La Coruna drew with Mallorca 1:1 away, and at the same time, he entered the next round of the Copa del Rey with a total score of 3:1!
On December 2, 2o12, the 14th round of La Liga kicked off again.
In this round, La Coruna plays at home, facing Real Betis, the sixth-ranked league team!
Although La Coruna is ranked fourth in the league, it is only two points away from Real Betis. Therefore, this game is indeed a tough battle for La Coruna, who is short of soldiers.
Maybe I know that the team is not in good condition at the moment, so on this day of the game, as long as the La Coruna fans who can come to Riaso Stadium will basically come to the scene to cheer for their team.
However, even with the encouragement of fans, in fact, as predicted before the game, after the game began, it was not La Coruna who took the initiative on the field to play at home, but Real Betis who played away!
Zhang Xu has worked very hard. In order to make the overall operation of the team more normal, he completely swung his own degree, ran quickly, passed quickly, intercepted and defended quickly, etc.
Despite this, Zhang Xu was still in a certain way with Bellellon in controlling the rhythm of the game, so the rhythm of this game was controlled by Real Betis from the beginning.
However, Real Betis is not having a good time, because of Zhang Xu.
Although Zhang Xu still has some shortcomings in controlling the rhythm of the game, his defensive ability and defensive organization are still excellent.
With his efforts, the team's defense is still relatively stable. Real Betis' repeated attacks are like waves slapping on the reef. It looks scary, but the reef still stands up afterwards!
Finally, in this game, the two sides shook hands and made peace with each other!
This game allowed Zhang Xu to see the gap between himself and the top midfielder, and also aroused his ambitions!
In order to quickly improve his midfield organization ability, he decisively allocated all thirty free attribute points, including twenty points on the stop ball and ten points on the off-ball run.
In this way, his stopping attribute reached 72 points from 52 points!
His ability to stop the ball was instantly promoted from the substitute level in the second division to the main level of the top division! It also enabled Zhang Xu's ability to pass and receive the ball truly reached the level of the top division!
At the same time, his unball running attribute also reached 75 points! It greatly improved his ability to cooperate with his teammates.
The improvement of these two attributes has made Zhang Xu's ability a leap forward and also qualitatively changed his midfield organizational ability. It can be said that even though Zhang Xu has not reached the level of Belleron, it is almost the same. In some aspects, he is even better than Belleron, such as the degree of passing and receiving.
Although Zhang Xu's ability has been improved, the team's aging problem seems to be getting worse and worse, and the team's morale and condition are also slowly declining.
2o12 On December 9, 2o12, La Coruña challenged Atletico Madrid away!
Atletico Madrid is a Spanish Football League team and a traditional European football team. Atletico Madrid is the third best team in Spanish Football Club in history. The number of championships, the number of season ticket holders and the total revenue are only behind the city's arch rivals Real Madrid (Rea1madridc1ubde Fútbo1) and Barcelona (a).
He has won 10 Spanish Football League A Championship, 2 Champions League runner-up, 2 Europa League championships, 2 European Cup championships, and 1 Club World Cup championship.
Among Atletico Madrid, the well-known Suarez, Falcao, Turan, Costa and others are all more capable than the generals of La Coruna.
Under such circumstances, it is a away game, and the main lineup is incomplete, even with Zhang Xu's tenacious defense, it is really hard to predict whether La Coruña can escape unscathed.
At 7 p.m., the game officially began.
Atletico Madrid is worthy of being a traditional European football team. As soon as the game started, it controlled the situation of the game.
In the eighth minute of the game, Falcao's cold shot almost broke through the goal of La Coruna. If Zhang Xu hadn't rubbed the surface of the football with his toes at the last moment, Al Zubia would have not been able to save the shot.
In the twelfth minute of the game, it was Falcao again. He passed through Marchena's side and came to Costa's feet.
Costa shot with a strong shot against the football!
Fortunately, Alan Zubia reacted quickly and barely poked the football out of the bottom line with her fingertips!
.........
The continuous powerful offensive made Zhang Xu exhausted.
Although Zhang Xu has tried his best, the team still feels like a storm!
Sure enough, in the 30th minute of the game, Falcao received a pass from Suarez, shot and finally broke through the goal of La Coruna!
1:o!
Atletico Madrid leads with one goal!
Seeing the football flying to the goal net, Zhang Xu felt a little disappointed.
Chapter completed!