Football’s First Defender

Before the start of the new season, everyone was full of affirmation of Zenit's strength. After all, with Gazprom as the big sponsor, Zenit is not short of money! But whether Zenit can be surrounded by many strong teams in the Moscow region Now, to bring the championship trophy back to St. Petersburg, most people actually have doubts in their hearts, thinking that the possibility is unlikely!

But now, if you ask who will be the champion of the Russian Super League in 2007, I believe everyone's first choice must be Zenit!

The Zenit team, which had ups and downs at the beginning of the season, maintained a record of unbeaten victories after a battle with the defending champion CSKA!

Including this game, we beat Rostov 3-0 at home!

Zenit has already won 5 consecutive victories in the league! With 35 points, it occupies the top spot!

Fortunately, Sparta Moscow continued to win in the other matches in this round, and also achieved 3 consecutive victories in the league. It is still only 6 points behind Zenit at the top of the list, maintaining the pressure on Zenit!

And the next round will be a direct meeting between Sparta Moscow and Zenit. I wonder if Sparta can stop Zenit's good momentum at home and narrow the point difference?

Or Zenit can successfully capture the Luzhniki Stadium in this game (the stadium is large enough, so the focus of the match will become a shared stadium in the Moscow region), and at the home court of Spartak Moscow, the Russian Super League champion The suspense is over!

In the eleventh round of the previous match, although CSKA successfully drew Zenit at home after borrowing the Luzhniki Stadium, they failed to recover after a setback. The dignified defending champion, unbeaten in five rounds, has been pulled away by Zenit With a gap of 15 points, we have basically withdrawn from the championship battle!

Now let us look forward to the seventeenth round of the Russian Super League next week! At the Luzhniki Stadium, the championship match between Sparta Moscow and Zenit...

How hot is Zenit's current state?

Let's put it this way, he scored 17 goals during his 5-game winning streak, but only conceded 2 goals!

After the national team match day, they defeated the visiting Lokomotiv Moscow 3-1 at home!

Then go to the away game to challenge the mid-range team Kasimaki! Kasimaki, who was unbeaten in five home games this season and only conceded one goal, even defeated Sparta Moscow 3-0 at home just two rounds ago, but faced Zenit's crazy attack, he was beaten 0-0 4. Complete defeat!

In the fourteenth round of the league, Zenit faced the second-to-last Nazkesparta at home, and it was another 5-0 massacre!

After facing Moscow Torpedo in the away game, they beat the fourth place in the league with a 1-2 twists and turns, showing an unstoppable competitive state.

The last is this round of the league. They beat Rostov 3-0 at home and won 5 consecutive victories!

If it weren't for Sparta Moscow, after giving up the Russian Cup tactically, maintaining their competitive state in the league and achieving a wave of 3 consecutive victories, then the point difference may not only be the 6 points!

By the way, in the fifth round of the Russian Cup in the new season a week ago, Zenit beat the Russian A team Dynamo Bryansk 1-6 in an away game! Advance to the next round! (Russian Cup should be a knockout round, while low-level teams play the first four rounds! This is also at the beginning of the season, Zenit first participated in the quarter-finals of the Russian Cup in the 2006-07 season, and then two months later, they had to play The fifth round of the Russian Cup in the 2007-08 season!)

In these 5 rounds of the league, Advocaat's offensive tactics have become more and more aggressive. The entire offensive system is in full swing, and the full-backs are frantically plugging in and brushing up the passing data! But unlike the defense that was full of loopholes at the beginning of the season and was counterattacked, the defense only conceded 2 goals after 5 games, which was not even as good as the goal conceded in one game at the beginning of the season. This Zenit team is close to complete. up!

On the second day of the match day, when the players were on vacation, Zenit's coaching staff started a tactical discussion as usual!

I didn't expect that in the middle of the league, we could achieve such a brilliant result of 5 consecutive victories, especially when we scored 17 goals in 5 games. This offensive firepower proves that our offensive tactics are really too successful. , and our offensive players, under the leadership of Arshavin, are getting better and better! Keep it up, the Russian Super League champion must be ours!

At the meeting, Advocaat first praised the colleagues of the coaching staff, as well as the players of his own team, and reiterated the goal of winning the championship this season!

And it's our defense. In 5 games, we only conceded 2 goals. Boll, you have done a good job in training the defense!

Haha, don't say that, the defensive tactics are the general framework we formulated at the beginning of the season. The improvement of the defensive quality during this period is not so much the success of our defensive tactics, as it is that we used the right players!

You mean Yang Feng?

Advocaat knew that it must be his old partner who wanted to praise this proud student again!

Of course it's Yang Feng, that's obvious! It's because of his existence that our defense has become more stable! Bohr always looked proud when talking about Yang Feng!

And how hard he is in training, I believe everyone can see it!

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Regarding training, Yang Feng has been training as hard as an ascetic! Not only must he complete the training tasks stipulated by the coaching staff, but he must also complete the individual training that Boer has specially formulated for him. Even in his daily life, Boer also noticed that Yang Feng was strictly implementing the best diet plan set by the nutritionist for him. And I also find a nutritionist every week to reset the diet plan according to the changes in my body.

There were several gatherings among the team members, Yang Feng joined them, but they didn’t drink alcohol, only drank a moderate amount of fruit juice, and they didn’t even take a sip of food. Many players’ restraint towards Yang Feng in private was abnormal Admire!

In fact, for Yang Feng, as a Chinese, his genetic attributes determine his physical disadvantages and mental advantages.

While giving full play to the superiority of mind, try to make up for your own physical disadvantages, so that you can win your own place in this fierce and cruel professional football world!

Actually, I still have the advantage! After all, the body can be strengthened by training the day after tomorrow. Things like the mind are inherently determined, so it's not easy to develop!

Yang Feng always comforts himself like this when he is too tired to hold on!

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However, Eric Hagen is about to return from injury! Should we choose to believe in this Norwegian international, or continue to appoint Yang Feng, a young man who is only 19 years old?

After all, it is a common problem for young people to have ups and downs. Compared with the mature Eric Hagen, will it be risky to continue to appoint Yang Feng?

And most importantly, will Eric Hagen be willing to serve as a substitute for Yang Feng? You know, this is the summer transfer window. If he is really allowed to serve as a substitute, what should he do if he applies for a transfer?

Everyone understands the meaning of Edvocaat and Ball supporting Yang Feng inside and out, but there are still some people who raised concerns about the position of central defender!

After all, the team has to play for the entire season, and there are many young people who will only be amazed for a while. In professional football, there should not be too many players who flash across the sky like meteors and are temporarily amazed!

Compared with Eric Hagen, who has experienced trials and tribulations and proved his strength in the professional football world, Yang Feng is really too young, and even has less than ten professional football game experience!

Can we really fully trust Yang Feng to maintain the state of these few games?