Chapter 528 Tradition
Zhang Tiehan got the ball, only thirty meters away from the goal. What does that mean?
The Valencians may not understand this concept. In their opinion, even if a player is good at shooting from a long time, the distance of 30 meters is still a bit far away. What's more, it doesn't matter that the player has their players defending around him. This is what they think.
But what surprised Valencians was that when the football was passed to the opponent's No. 9 Zhang Tiehan's feet, the Chelsea fans who came to Mestalia Stadium with the team suddenly burst into huge cheers, and many fans excitedly shouted Zhang Tiehan's name-
"Zhang!!Zhang!!"
This voice surprised Valencia fans. They suddenly felt something was wrong, but looking at the field, the opponent's No. 9 was still so far from the goal, and they felt that it was unnecessary to worry.
What to worry about?
That position could not pose a threat to their goal, not to mention that Elgra is next to him defending.
That's Elgra!
Elgra, 31 years old this year, is the pillar of the Spanish defense. When he was a teenager, he joined Santander's regional youth team with Munitis and de la Pena. In 1996, he was recommended to Albacete by his uncle who was an agent. Since then, the young player attracted the attention of Real Madrid. However, Albacete's $5.3 million offer made Real Madrid's club chairman Sans unacceptable. Later, Elgra was entrusted by Roma at this price, but only played 8 times on behalf of the team, which did not reflect its true value. Later, he was exiled to join the Spanish team. One season later, he was introduced by Real Madrid's chairman Sans for a transfer fee of $6.3 million, and he has been out of control since then.
Elgra's first season at the Bernabeu was a brilliant season, with Real Madrid defeating Valencia, who also came from Spain in the Champions League final that year. The scene of the 01/02 season was repeated in Glasgow against Leverkusen.
In a year, 6 exciting goals helped Real Madrid win the league championship for the second time after he joined. He also participated in 15 Champions League games before the knockout match between Real Madrid and Juventus. Elgra played for Real Madrid for 7 years and won several heavyweight trophys with the team, including 3 La Liga titles, 2 Spanish Super Cup championships, 2 Champions League championships, 1 European Super Cup and 1 Club World Cup championship.
He has always been one of the most famous midfielders in Europe.
In the summer, Elgra transferred to Valencia for 3.5 million euros. After arriving in Valencia, he became a core player in the defense. His personal ability and rich game experience made him soon fall in love with Valencia fans, who all believe in Elgra's ability very much.
Now Elgra is defending Zhang Tiehan, which also shows Valencia's importance to Zhang Tiehan. Although they think that victory in the game is promising, they will not ignore their defense against Zhang Tiehan. After all, this is a player known as the "world's No. 1 striker."
Elgra didn't realize the danger either. However, his defense was very careful. He slowly looked for the opportunity to steal, while observing the surroundings, ready to block Zhang Tiehan's passing route at any time.
He has the ability to do this because he has extremely rich game experience and strong personal confrontation and defense skills, and he is very confident in this regard.
But what Elgra didn't expect was that after Zhang Tiehan received the pass, he did not pass the ball to his teammates as soon as possible, but instead turned the ball to the right. "He wants to pass himself?" Elgra thought in surprise. He had also seen Zhang Tiehan's report on the news. His strong ability to surpass him is also one of the opponent's signatures, but he didn't think that in the middle of the penalty area, it was a good choice to pass him. Even if the opponent passed him, he would definitely kill some time, and the other teammates would have the opportunity to rush over and snatch him.
But Elgra would not remind the other party that it was wrong to do this. He wished Zhang Tiehan would make a mistake.
But when Elgra thought so, Zhang Tiehan had already waved his right leg. At this moment, Elgra knew what Zhang Tiehan was going to do - he was going to shoot!
There is no doubt about it!
Elgra never expected Zhang Tiehan to shoot directly. This position was definitely not a good position, but the opponent kicked the ball. He felt that he couldn't understand, but at the same time he couldn't block it. He could only watch Zhang Tiehan kicked the ball, but he actually didn't care. - kicked at this position, isn't that equivalent to passing the ball to Valencia?
When he thought so, the football had already shot towards the goal...
Valencia fans were far from expecting that the opponent's No. 9 chose to shoot directly under this situation. They all didn't react, so they all watched the goal. At this moment, their minds went blank and they just thought, "How could they shoot like this?"
They don't understand.
But the next scene made them understand. Valencia goalkeeper Hildebran also did not expect Zhang Tiehan to shoot directly, so he failed to react immediately and missed the opportunity to save. As a result, he could only watch the football flew into the goal from the right side.
It was not until this time that many people realized that the ball had entered.
The ball did score, but before the goal, most Valencians didn't even realize the threat. When they heard the calls from Chelsea fans, they were still very unclear, and they thought that these Englishmen on the British Peninsula were really a bit of a big deal. When Chelsea players got the ball in the frontcourt, they cheered. Can they bear this cheering for the whole game?
Now they finally know why.
It turned out that the opponent had known that No. 9 on the court, that is, Zhang Tiehan, was very dangerous to get the ball at that position, so they cheered. On the contrary, Valencia fans themselves did not realize it, and the players on the court did not realize it, so the ball was inexplicably entered.
It's so easy to get in...
Valencia fans suddenly felt that they were a little too simple to think about the game.
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But not only Valencia fans, but Valencia coach Flores is the same. He also feels that he thinks the game too simple. Before, he always thought that the team could play an advantage at home, so it is not difficult to rely on advantages to score goals. But now he finds that these advantages are actually just appearances, and the opponent can complete the goal so simply. This also shows that the team's defense has not done a good job.
But Chelsea didn't care what Flores thought or what Valencia thought about the goal. The moment the football flew into the goal, they began to cheer for the goal.
"gooooooooooooal!!! The ball is in!!!"
"Zhang! He scored the first record for Chelsea. This was a long shot, an extremely exciting long shot! Beautiful!"
"Zhang's goal! Chelsea leads!"
With the commentator cheering, Chelsea began to celebrate, and Valencia was still a little confused until this time. They didn't know how the ball was lost. It seemed that the football suddenly arrived at the frontcourt and even had no passes, so they scored directly. This feeling was very strange, but the goal just now was like this. The moment they felt that the team had an advantage. The next moment, Chelsea scored directly.
It's good that they think it's just luck.
It is normal for them to score a goal suddenly if they are lucky. After all, luck is still very important on the football field, and scoring a goal by relying on luck is nothing. Next, they continue to maintain their offensive and want to score a goal by relying on the offensive to equalize the score.
But soon they found that they were thinking too simple about their opponents.
Is that luck? Zhang Tiehan will know if he continues to perform. Valencia's offense is good, and they have more opportunities. But they did not quickly convert offensive opportunities into offense, or even threatening shots. It is difficult for them to achieve the defense of Chelsea.
Chelsea is different on the other hand.
Chelsea's offenses are not as many as Valencia's. Sometimes if you don't pay attention, you will concede the ball in the midfield, which means that the whole Chelsea team has not found its state yet. However, they use their limited offensive opportunities to threaten Valencia's goal again and again!
Once, twice doesn't matter, but Valencia feels wrong after too many times.
The most important thing is Chelsea’s No. 9, which is Zhang Tiehan. Whenever Zhang Tiehan gets the ball in the frontcourt, it is a crisis for Valencia’s goal. This situation has been going on for a long time.
Flores also noticed this very quickly. He hurriedly reminded the players to defend Zhang Tiehan, but it was difficult to use the effect for a while, so Flores asked the team to retreat completely.
After about twenty-five minutes of the first half of the game, Valencia fans suddenly realized that the game had completely changed.
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Before, they felt that their team had an advantage, and Valencia was a team that was good at defense, so they felt that the team had a good chance of winning. The Valencia's pride in their bones was also famous in Spain, and they were unwilling to admit that the team was worse than any other team.
Now seeing Chelsea suddenly scored a goal, they admitted in their hearts that some Chelsea are capable and the opponent's No. 9 is capable, but that's all. They also hope that the team can score goals and equalize the score, or even overtake the score.
But the competition is not going on like this.
As Flores commanded the defense on the sidelines, Valencia retreated in a big way, and soon they formed the team's best tactics - defense and defense. This season they used such defenses with Barcelona. In this way, they had to win the record of one draw and one victory when they met Barcelona in two rounds. In the two rounds, Barcelona did not score a goal, and they scored a goal. The Valencians have always been proud of this, but now Valencia fans see the team suddenly shrinking their defense line, and Flores has been commanding the defense on the sidelines, so they can't be proud of it no matter what.
Valencia fans felt confused and a little angry. They didn't think the team was worse than Chelsea. As for the goal just now, it was just because of bad luck, but the team chose to defend heavily?
Did Flores get kicked in the head by a donkey?
They scolded Flores in the stands.
But Flores ignored it at all. Although he was a bit arrogant, especially this season they were the number one in La Liga and reached the semi-finals of 16 in the Champions League. This is a rare good result for Valencia in recent years. However, he is the team's head coach and a head coach with some ability. From his goal just now and his performance against Fang No. 9, he knew that he was careless before the game and the entire team was also careless. They could not defend against the opponent's No. 9 at all. The game continued as before. The only result was that his team was defeated by Chelsea with a big score without any suspense. That's all, there would be no other result, so he had to adjust his tactics and let Valencia choose to defend.
Although the retreat defense is not very good, it is acceptable to concede a goal. Leaving the suspense of the score and not allowing Chelsea to score a goal is the most important thing. The key is that this is nothing to Valencia, and they often do this.
Look, Valencia has not had much time to set up his defense line on the court... So face is not a problem. As long as he wins the game, everyone will praise Valencia again and praise his wit for temporarily adjusting his tactics.
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I have to say that Flores' approach is very effective.
Chelsea played very smoothly just now, at least Zhang Tiehan is like this. He is not very adaptable to the away team, but Valencia's defense is not that tight, so there are still many opportunities.
But soon Valencia began to defend heavily, and it would be difficult to find a good opportunity. Valencia's chance is to focus 90% of his energy on defense. He was thinking that it would be difficult to find a chance in the frontcourt.
Valencia's current tactics are intensive defense.
And it is a very high-level intensive defense. While they are doing intensive defense, they are still tactical. Moreover, their players are very strong. Every time Zhang Tiehan goes to the frontcourt, he has to face two or three people siege. Even if he finishes getting rid of it and has the chance to kick, he can see five or six figures in the penalty area. Ren Zhang Tiehan's footwork is very good, and it is hard to say that he can pass through the penalty area by shooting directly.
Such a defense is really... Zhang Tiehan is a little doubtful. Is Valencia not a Spanish team? Are they not a giant team? How can they play with Chelsea like a small team?
All he could think of was that those small teams would play like this, defend and fight back... Such tactics appeared on a Spanish giant team, and they would look weird no matter how they looked at it.
Of course, Flores doesn’t care what Zhang Tiehan thinks!
Holding the goal is the most important thing, and at the same time they can also fight back. Such tactics are the safest. As for face and other things... Isn't Valencia's tradition just defensive counterattack? He just puts this tradition to the extreme.
Just when he was thinking this way, Zhang Tiehan did not give up on the field. He just reminded his teammates, "Passing more into the penalty area, let's try to play more high-altitude balls..."
Everyone understands this sentence.
Zhang Tiehan means using the high altitude ball passed to the penalty area to find opportunities. Zhang Tiehan has rarely done this. His header is a real sign, but he prefers to shoot directly, which makes it easier to score goals and direct. However, when facing a team like Valencia, he can only try heading the ball. It is really difficult to look for opportunities in the perimeter. (To be continued, please search Piaotian Si, the novel is better, updated and faster!
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