In the away league with RKC Waalwijk, many people have no hope for Zhang Jun, although Adriansey still let him start. They lamented that "another meteor crossed the sky and left nothing", while preparing to watch jokes in this game and criticize them after the game.

Luirink and Heuvel were both worried about Zhang Jun. After all, the continuous sluggish state made the pressure on him heavier. They even wanted to persuade Zhang Jun to take a two-week break, go back to China for vacation and then come back.

But Zhang Jun looked like he didn't take it seriously. Once he figured out some things, he would find that there was a completely new world in front of him. Now he figured out and saw a world full of hope.

He also had another chance to hit the ball in the game. Under the close defense of the opponent's defender, he hit the plane again. There was a sigh and boo in the stands, but Zhang Jun was not depressed or impatient, but shook his head helplessly and smiled!

It seems that I still have no chance to score a goal today. I have to admit it. I will honestly create opportunities for my companions!

RKC Huayuke ranked lower in the middle of the league, and facing Warren Dam, who is five below them, naturally has to score points. Therefore, in terms of defense, he will still send a man-marking center back to follow Zhang Jun. Since the Hague game, many teams have discovered a way to deal with Zhang Jun now, that is, find a fierce defenseman-marking center back to follow Zhang Jun, and he will not be able to do anything else.

Zhang Jun took the ball, and the opponent posted it up, and could not turn around and had to pass the football back to Salden. He encountered this situation many times during the game, and he chose to pass it back every time.

But it should be changed occasionally, right?

He made a gesture to Herwell, and Herwell nodded to show his understanding. Then Zhang Jun reached out to ask for the ball. As soon as he stretched out his hand, he could feel the opponent sticking up again. Salden passed the ball to him, but Zhang Jun did not stop this time. He leaned on the opponent and rubbed the ball to his right side with his right foot. The football obediently flew to the left side of the court, but he turned around suddenly and circled in the opposite direction! The man-ball passed?

No, it's passing and distracting the defense.

Herville happened to plug in at high speed and he received Zhang Jun's ball.

Want to break through along the left side? The opponent's right back came up and was ready to go. He knew that Herville was a very fast player. At the same time, the center back who should have been targeting Zhang Jun was closest to Herville, so he chose to defend Herville instead of chasing Zhang Jun. But Herville braked suddenly and passed the ball to Zhang Jun, who had already gotten rid of the defense!

"Oh no!" Now that Zhang Jun faces the goal, he will... RKC Huayuke's players dare not think about it anymore, and rushed out and blocked Zhang Jun's shot.

But Zhang Jun swung his right leg just a fake move. He quickly swung the ball to the right, avoiding the blocking, and then stroking it horizontally. Salden inserted it from behind and then swung it and shot it vigorously!

The football got in through the crack of the man and headed straight to the left of the goal, but the opponent's goalkeeper focused his energy, flew into the fish and jumped, and hit the football with one hand!

Just when the RKC Huayuke players and fans were relieved, Hener appeared in front of the goal. He didn't have time to adjust and jumped to the top, and the football flew into the empty goal!

1:0! In the 30th minute of the first half, Warren Dam, who played away, actually took the lead!

But this goal was caused by Zhang Jun's sudden force disrupting the opponent's defense!

Zhang Jun was very excited to hug Hena tightly. It was not the goal he scored, but he just found what Qiu Suhui said, and the rhythm of the game returned to him again. This feeling was even more enjoyable than he scored a goal!

Sophie, look, I'm back! While waiting for the opponent to start the ball in the middle circle, Zhang Jun touched the bracelet on his left wrist and said in his heart.

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Zhang Jun occasionally performed well in the subsequent games. He rarely shot, but his passes were obviously more frequent, which made the defender who defended him particularly troubled. If Zhang Jun didn't hold the ball too much, what's the use of him staring at people to defend? Instead, he frequently lost positions in the overall defense.

This time, Zhang Jun's existence did not interfere with Warrendam's offense, but instead disrupted the opponent's defense. RKC Huayuke's head coach had no choice but to give up this short-lived defensive tactic during the halftime break.

On the other hand, Adrianse praised Zhang Jun, believing that his performance in the first half was significantly better than the first three games.

In the second half, Zhang Jun shot two times, but unfortunately he was too straight and confiscated by the opponent's goalkeeper. He was then replaced, and the one who replaced him was Beuklin who had fought with Zhang Jun.

"Beautiful job!" Adriansé patted Zhang Jun on the shoulder and asked him to go back and rest.

Zhang Jun was wearing a heavy coat and was gasping on the bench. Now he was finally relieved. No matter what the outside world would say after this game, he would not be affected by it anymore, because he knew very well in his heart that he was back.

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In the end, Warren Dam tied RKC Huayuke away, which did not help their rankings and was still the second last. However, it had a deeper impact: Zhang Jun's recovery. Unfortunately, not everyone saw this.

Wang Hua called Li Yan for help, and the club asked him to write a manuscript about Zhang Jun - but he found that after reading some reports from other media, he had no idea how to write it.

"Reporters must not follow the crowd when writing articles. They must have your unique insights, so in fact, I don't agree with reading other people's articles before writing." Li Yan, who is a professional journalist, is much better than Wang Hua.

"Maybe you're right, but after writing three games, I'm a little lost." Wang Hua made a big fuss. Zhang Jun's three games were worse than each other, and the worse ones were very similar. It was too difficult to write something unique. He was not a professional journalist, and he didn't know how many brain cells died during that period.

Li Yan thought for a while and asked Wang Hua: "What is the outside world's evaluation?"

"There are praises and criticisms. However, the criticism still prevails. Most of them still think that Zhang Jun's performance is not as good as before, because he has not scored in four consecutive games, which was unimaginable before."

"Idiot!" Li Yan cursed in a low voice, "Is it going to be ruined if you don't score a goal? Is it only possible for football to score goals? Even if those people understand football, even Pele can't score goals every game. If you don't score a goal, you'll get rid of something? I think their brains are ruined!" Li Yan cursed happily on the phone, but Wang Hua, who called him, was miserable and was a scapegoat for those people for nothing.

"Uh, Li Yan, my manuscript..." Don't just patronize yourself. I'm still waiting for the business here. Wang Hua was anxious and had to remind him.

"Article? Don't write about the first three games and performances of this game, and don't analyze whether Zhang Jun is considered a successful comeback. Just write about Zhang Jun's smile!"

"Smile?"

"Didn't you say that he actually laughed after shooting in the game? That's it. You've been interviewing Zhang Jun alone for more than a year. You must know better than me what this kind of change in expression means. Don't use large sections of data and historical records to make up words in the article, just grasp Zhang Jun's mentality and make a fuss."

Li Yan said something that Wang Hua suddenly realized. He really deserves to be the one who discovered Zhang Jun. His vision is indeed unique. Now all kinds of reports and comments are working on the football game itself, and they all look very professional. But they all ignore that football is not just a technical project, but also many emotions are included in it. Zhang Jun's smile is also an emotion. Imagine that it was around this time last season. After scoring crazy goals at the beginning of the season, Zhang Jun fell into a low point, and several games were not won. At that time, the media could not wait to announce that what was predicted by the Milan laboratory happened. But then Zhang Jun closed everyone's mouth with a beautiful direct free kick. Looking at Zhang Jun's calm face, someone sighed "Never doubt Zhang Jun". Coincidentally, the free kick was officially named "Smile" by the media and was recognized.

Wang Hua thought about it and got inspiration. He thanked Li Yan, hung up the phone and started writing this manuscript quickly on the manuscript paper, one of the few manuscripts he was most satisfied with.

The name is "Never doubt him", which is naturally a supporter of Zhang Jun. The article believes that everyone focuses on cold statistics, which cannot mean that Zhang Jun has lost his future. "We should see a change in Zhang Jun's mentality, and mentality is the crux of the problem. I don't know how long it will take for him to score. Maybe he can't score a goal for a long time, but maybe he will score in the next game? I think too much speculation and doubt are irresponsible manifestations and will not help Zhang Jun."

Wang Hua's articles did not help Zhang Jun. As an ordinary reporter, he was not very important in his words. People always like to pursue a certain trend. Since they are criticizing Zhang Jun now, how can they be worthy of their heart that is good at gloating without getting involved?

On the Internet, domestic fans are also divided into two factions, and they are quarreling all day long. Their words are so intense that if they were discussing face to face, they would have been fighting together long ago.

Sophie occasionally checked the Internet, but later she went less. Because watching the quarrel made her even more upset, Zhang Jun's fourth game ended, but due to the jet lag, domestic media had not had time to report the details of the game, and they were not very clear about the results of the game, nor did they know how Zhang Jun performed in the game.

At this time, she received a call from Li Yan. Li Yan had just finished the call with Wang Hua and reported the message to Sophie. He knew that the one who was most worried about Zhang Jun in China was Sophie.

"Congratulations, Sophie." Li Yan's words were very simple, but Sophie almost burst into tears. "I saw Zhang Jun's smile."

Hearing this, Sophie understood that Zhang Jun was back. He might have scored a goal, but he still didn't score, but what's the importance of these? She only cared about Zhang Jun's mentality and finally calmed down. This is Zhang Jun!

Don't let people outside influence your heart, Zhang Jun. Just kick it like this, I really want to see your smile on the spot...

Sophie prayed silently for Zhang Jun in her heart.

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Zhang Jun is in a much better mood now. He no longer reads newspapers or browses reports about him online. He just trains every day, goes home to continue receiving treatment, and then drives out for a ride in the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren sports car worth 300,000 euros. However, the car has now dropped to 200,000 euros and is still falling. Feng Qing joked that he was a sucker, but Zhang Jun thought it would be good if he liked it. It was too boring to spend money and feel sorry for him.

Zhang Jun called Sophie several times, and both of them were in a good mood. No one said anything about injuries or a comeback. Sophie was happy to tell him some trivial matters in life, and Zhang Jun was not annoyed. His life is now a star, which makes him miss those ordinary lives, such as college life.

Sophie told Zhang Jun that she would not come to the Netherlands during this winter vacation because she wanted to go to Sichuan and Yunnan to take photos and field trips with her uncle.

Although Sophie couldn't come, Zhang Jun was somewhat depressed, thinking that Sophie also had her own life and pursuits, she felt relieved. Zhang Jun would not want the girl she liked to be a person who stayed at home all day without pursuits and goals.

Sophie told him that she had opened a photography exhibition at the school's Modern Art Center, and many of them were taken in the Netherlands, but the photos were carefully selected and there was no Zhang Jun in it. Zhang Jun understood Sophie, and she didn't want others to say that she was relying on Zhang Jun to make her own person.

Life is trivial and life is ordinary, but Sophie is very content.

This is life, isn't it?

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Adriansey once again sought Feng Qing's opinion. Feng Qing told him that there was no problem with Zhang Jun playing the whole game, but the old man, who was cautious, decided to only let Zhang Jun play for 75 minutes - no matter what the result of the game was.

Warren Dam's 13th round opponent is NEC Nijmegen, currently ranked 14th.

As a team, Nijmegen shouldn't have been like this. They had a very beautiful start at the beginning of the season, with two consecutive victories and their rankings rose to fourth place at one time, but then there was a three-game losing streak, falling from fourth to twelfth after five rounds, as if taking a roller coaster. The ranking rebounded slightly and once reached ninth place. Unfortunately, they lost another three-game losing streak, two consecutive draws, and they did not win for six consecutive rounds since October 17, thus falling to this point.

It can be seen that the biggest problem of this team is that it is not stable enough. Therefore, Nijmegen can't wait to find some confidence in Warrendam, who is in poor condition.

On the other hand, the media and many fans are still worried about the bad condition of Warrendam and Zhang Jun. The song "Zhang Jun blesses Warrendan" has not sounded for a long time. Nijmegen's fans viciously cursed this person who "has received the highest salary of Warrendam but will only cause trouble": "Zhang Jun blesses Warrendan? I think he should pray that God will bless him first!"

The pressure has accumulated from the fifteen minutes of the first game, and it can be said that it is getting bigger and bigger. Those who really care about Zhang Jun are worried about his fifth game. Because there were rumors before the game that Horns had lost patience. If Zhang Jun performs poorly, Adriansey must let Zhang Jun sit on the bench and use the star of hope Van Beuklin, who was introduced from the Dutch League this summer, as the starter.

But Zhang Jun did not take these off-court factors seriously at all. He just wanted to go up and enjoy the game. After all, he hadn't played the game for a long time. In the previous few games, he didn't have time to enjoy anything in the atmosphere of fear created by the media and himself. Now he missed that feeling very much.

Beuklin stared at Zhang Jun in the locker room. Although Adrianse warned him seriously, he let him give up the idea. However, the head coach did not blame Zhang Jun at all, which made Beuklin very unhappy. Why can he enjoy some privileges? I not only work hard on the offense but also actively defended, but why can he not need to return to defense and just stay in the frontcourt leisurely? He just doesn't understand what the Chinese in front of him is. He looks a little stupid and just smiles foolishly. There is no sense of direction in the game. More importantly, he is not as handsome as he is!

"Zhang, how long will you play in this game?" Hervel asked Zhang Jun, who was tying his shoelaces while holding the cabinet door.

Zhang Jun looked up at Herville, then shook his head: "I don't know, maybe it's ninety minutes, maybe it's only halftime, it depends on the coach's arrangement."

Herville glanced at Beuklin who was looking here. This guy was so heartless... He sat next to Zhang Jun, then approached him and whispered: "I heard a rumor outside..."

But Zhang Jun interrupted him: "You said it was Johnny Beuklin's business?"

Herwell was a little surprised: "How did you know? Yes, it was that little brat. The fat man would actually say that if you perform poorly, let him replace you!"

"Do you think I have my ears back?" Zhang Jun continued to tie his shoelaces - just now he had his left foot, and this time he changed his right foot - he said without raising his head: "Actually it's nothing. I performed so badly in the previous few games. It's normal to say this." His tone was light, as if it had nothing to do with him.

Herwell said in surprise: "Aren't you worried? Regardless of whether this is true or not, that bastard cares about your starting position!"

Zhang Jun finally tied his shoelaces. He stood up and stomped his feet gently to see how tight it was. "If the challenge comes, I won't escape. If he wants to start, he will use his strength to compete with me." Zhang Jun said to Herville with a smile, extremely confident.

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When the main players ran out of the player's channel one by one, Beuklin was already sitting on the bench. Zhang Jun's appearance caused a cheer from Veronica. Although he was not in shape before, he still had a very high popularity.

The cheers of the fans made Beuklin a little unhappy. The Chinese performed so poorly, why would anyone cheer for him? They all said that he was very powerful, but where was he really amazing? I really don’t know what he is good about a striker who only scores goals in training!

Oh, God, forgive this ignorant person!

Zhang Jun did not pay attention to the person with fierce eyes off the court. In fact, he didn't take the man seriously at all. His all focus was on the moment he stepped on the turf of the court and was already on the game that was about to begin.

Nijmegen, who was visiting, kicked off, and the referee whistled and the opponent passed the ball back to the rear.

Sophie, watch me play football!

Zhang Jun rushed out as if he had seen the lion of his prey.

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On November 21, 2004, the weather forecast said that there might be snow in the next two days, but now it seems that the sky is clear and there is no wind or clouds.

This day is also the match day of the Dutch Premier League, with eight matches set to take place today.

Veronica Stadium in the Sun is the largest building in Warrendam Town, and there is also a game here today. The 18th-ranked home team Warrendam faces 13th-place NEC Nijmegen.

"GOOOAL!" Veronica played a huge "GOAL" on the big screen, indicating that she scored a goal, but it was not the home team's goal, but the away team.
To be continued...