Chapter 380: "General" Xia Xiaoyu

Lin Zhiyuan and his agent Qiu Xinrong are sitting on the sofa in front of the TV, watching the game between Alvara and Ruhrlein.
The reason why they are so concerned about this game is, of course, to cheer on Xia Xiaoyu, the double teammate of the Olympic team and the national team.
On the other hand, because Ruhrlein is Westin Athletic's opponent in the German Cup.
After transferring from China to Westin Athletic during the winter break, Lin Zhiyuan quickly adapted to everything here.
After all, he really lived here for many years before, and still has his teammates from his youth team in the Westin Athletic first team.
Whether it is language or living habits, he does not have any incompatibility.
With good off-court adaptability, coupled with good talent, Lin Zhiyuan has only been in Westin Athletics for two months, and he has already started to play in the team.
At present, he has not directly replaced the main goalkeeper Pierre Groche in the league, but he has passed the other two substitute goalkeepers and made a successful appearance in the German Cup.
In late January, the third round of the German Cup was his first game for the Westin Athletic first team.
Although he conceded a goal in that game, he still made five effective saves in the game to help the team advance to the quarter-finals of the German Cup.
The opponent is Ruhrlein.
The two teams will face off in the German Cup at the end of February.
By then, Jerry Lin will face Janus Edman directly in the match.
By watching this Champions League game, Lin Zhiyuan can also understand Edman's recent state and performance, and make some preparations for him to deal with Edman in the German Cup.
Edman rammed the opposition centre-back Bruno Pinto with his body in the Alvara penalty area and got a shot.
But his shot was blocked by Alvara goalkeeper Ze Ferreira.
"Edman's body is really strong..." Agent Qiu Xinrong expressed such emotion beside Lin Zhiyuan, although Edman didn't score. "I feel stronger than Zhou Zijing."
Lin Zhiyuan smiled: "Isn't that for sure? If Zhou Zijing is better than Edman, he only scored five goals in the Premier League?"
"Not bad, he only scored four goals after all last season, and this season has already scored more goals than last season." Qiu Xinrong reminded Lin Zhiyuan not to be too ambitious. "In any case, Zhou Zijing is now completely standing in the Premier League, and you are just getting started!"
"I know I know..." Lin Zhiyuan quickly changed the subject, "But I didn't expect Alvara to be quite tenacious, and he didn't let Ruhrlein score now..."
"It's mainly that Seth is restricted," Qiu Xinrong said. "Alvara's tactics are quite right. Instead of fighting with Edman, he started to limit Ruhrlein's offensive organization from the midfield. I really didn't expect Xia Xiaoyu to be so tough in defense..."
"Hey, Uncle Qiu, don't look at Xiaoyu's soft and weak personality. In fact, he is very ruthless in his heart." Lin Zhiyuan said, "After Brother Lin came to teach at the South China Tigers, he once told us that he felt Xiaoyu He's a real general."
A close-up shot of Xia Xiaoyu happened to appear in the TV broadcast.
The German commentator said: "Xia was in charge of defense more in this game, and he didn't have a decent performance on offense. But because of this, Alvara has not yet allowed Ruhrlein to score..."
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German narrators are relatively objective, while CCTV narrators are much more emotional.
The same picture, the CCTV commentator said:
"Xia Xiaoyu's performance today is very good! The task assigned to him by the coach is to assist the defense, so he runs tirelessly in the middle and backcourt, limiting the performance of Johan Sett. Ruhrlein has not scored a goal so far, It is inseparable from Xia Xiaoyu's performance in midfield!"
It's a bit exaggerated.
But it's actually not bad.
Xia Xiaoyu worked very the defensive end in this game, especially his defense against Seth, focusing on pressing and stalking.
Sometimes, he even played "dirty"...
Seth's performance so far has not been satisfactory. It cannot be said that it is entirely due to Xia Xiaoyu, but to say that it has nothing to do with Xia Xiaoyu, it is impossible to say anything.
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Although Edman got a chance to kick in the penalty area, under the interference of Alvara centre-back Matthew Kefir, Edman did not even kick the kick within the range of the goal frame.
Edman, who had missed the opportunity, looked very annoyed. He slapped his hands on the turf hard, and then straightened up and roared to vent his anger.
Xia Xiaoyu looked at Edman's angry look, and knew that such a balance of power could not be maintained for long.
The game has entered the 70th minute, and the score is still 0:0. Alvara, who is playing at home, has not been able to score.
Of course the main reason is that they put almost all of their energy into preventing Ruhrlein from scoring.
Obviously it is a home game, but it seems to be on the road, playing a defensive counterattack.
And the home fans are also very cooperative, creating a very huge momentum to help Alvara.
There was no booing because the home team was ugly on their own home ground.
With the concerted efforts of the twelve players on and off the field, Alvara has kept the draw at home.
But if it is just a draw, it will not help Alvara eliminate Ruhrlein and advance to the quarter-finals of the Champions League.
After all, Alvara played away in the second leg.
The home game is just a draw, is it possible to win the away game?
Xia Xiaoyu turned his attention to the front court.
After 70 minutes of the game, he kept observing and found that Ruhrlein's back line was getting higher and higher.
There were some scruples in the first half.
The second half basically ignored Alvara's counterattack completely.
Xia Xiaoyu didn't think it was because Ruhrlein looked down on Alvara, but their mentality had changed, and they were more and more anxious to score goals as soon as possible.
Especially their two full-backs, after pressing up several times to participate in the attack, when Ruhrlein lost the ball, the first choice was not to quickly return to defense, but to participate in pressing on the spot.
Doing so may create an opportunity for a second offense.
But if Alvara counterattacks, Ruhrlein's back line will face enormous pressure.
Thinking of this, Xia Xiaoyu suddenly missed Brother Hu.
If Alvara had Hu Ge...it might be two goals ahead of Ruhrlein by now.
It's not that Alvara didn't create a counterattack opportunity, but unfortunately no one seized it.
When he was in middle school, Xia Xiaoyu knew the power of Brother Hu. And as he played longer and longer in Europe, he became more and more aware of Brother Hu's greatness.
Perhaps because of the development of European football tactics in the past ten years, strikers who can score stably and efficiently have become extremely scarce.
There is an endless stream of football geniuses like Merry, there was no shortage before Merry, and there was no shortage after Merry.
For example, the right winger Lesinho in the Alvara team is this type of player. He has speed and can break through, but his ability to score is slightly poor.
One of the two scoring chances that was squandered before was squandered by Lesinho.
However, Xia Xiaoyu also knew that he was in Alvara and was not qualified to pick and choose from his teammates.
All he can do is to help the team as much as possible within the existing lineup framework and tactical system.
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This game John Setter played very suffocating.
He was guarded by the Alvara players in midfield.
In addition to the restrictions placed on him by the Brazilian defensive midfielder Eli, the Chinese midfielder Xia Xiaoyu also made him very uncomfortable.
While he was dealing with Eli, he had to beware of Xia Xiaoyu's sneak attack.
Just like this time.
While he was catching the ball, Eli collided.
On impact, Seth stopped the ball slightly larger.
Xia Xiaoyu came in from those next to him and stretched his foot to steal the ball!
Seth tried to regain control of the football, but kicked Xia Xiaoyu's calf, knocking the latter to the ground.
The referee blew the whistle and called Seth for a foul.
Seth was also speechless.
He did foul, although he did not want to do it subjectively, but Xia Xiaoyu's movements were faster than him, and he could only kick the opponent's leg...
But he still wanted to have a few words with the referee. He thought that the previous hit by Eli was suspected of fouling.
So he turned around and complained to the referee running up to Eli.
Right next to him, Xia Xiaoyu, who fell to the ground, was getting up from the ground. He glanced at Seth and the referee, and then quickly lowered his head, as if afraid that the other party would notice him.
Seth did take a look at him, and he also said to the referee: "You see he's all right, my kick was really not intentional. But their No. 6 hit me on purpose..."
Number six is ​​Eli.
Seth was putting eye drops on Eli, hoping that the referee could somewhat notice Alvara's midfielder.
In this way, I may not have so much pressure in future games...
At this moment, out of the corner of his eyes, he suddenly caught a glimpse of Xia Xiaoyu who had just stepped back and kicked the football!
He wanted to stop it like a conditioned reflex, but it was too late!
The football was kicked directly into the field by Xia Xiaoyu!
"Xia! Free kick! Hurry up!"
With the cheers of Alvara fans~EbookFREE.me~, the football flew over a distance of tens of meters and landed in the frontcourt.
Brazilian winger Lesinho used the outer instep of his right foot to stop the football in front and accelerated towards Ruhrlein's goal!
"Beautiful!! Alvara's counterattack! Lesinho is not offside!"
The cheers in the Lisbon Arena suddenly increased like rolling thunder.
Lesinho, who had wasted an opportunity once, did not waste Xia Xiaoyu's ball this time. After he brought the ball into the penalty area, he calmly pushed the far corner in the face of the attacking Ruhrlein goalkeeper Simon Koenigs!
The football jumped over the fallen Koenigs and jumped into the goal!
In the 75th minute of the game, Alvara, who was playing at home, used a quick free kick from the backcourt to break the deadlock. They led Ruhrlein 1:0!
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