Chapter 150 Moyes's Eyebrow

Logically speaking, the English team should not be afraid of air balls, after all, they invented the long pass and rushing.

However, most of the English teams are now transforming into technical flow. There are fewer and fewer teams that adhere to the traditional British style of play, and most of them have poor performance. They can only rank in the middle and lower levels, or even some low-level league teams.

Everton's style is quite tough. With two centre-backs with excellent headers, Lescott and Yabo, their air defense capabilities have always been strong.

But today, the two of them encountered a severe challenge!

This time, even the experienced Yabo was defeated. When he and Chen Yingxiong competed for a ball in the air, it was clearly Chen Yingxiong who jumped first and then jumped, but he didn't expect that the one who jumped first was him who jumped later, not Chen Yingxiong who jumped first!

Chen Yingxiong now has this feeling - I am in the air, I can first look to the left, then observe the right, and consider who would be better to pass the football to.

After he considered playing these things, he made a move to hit the ball, and his opponents had already fallen...

This is the bonus of the "Airman"'s stagnation effect.

While Everton's defenders were fighting in the air, Everton's forwards were also competing with Zenit's defenders.

This is an atypical game.

The focus of both sides' efforts is on both front and back ends, not in the midfield...

Everyone's general perception is "win the midfield and win the world", but this game has subverted many people's perceptions. The midfield is irrelevant to Zenit, and it is irrelevant to Everton. Anyway, Arteta's leading midfielder will no longer be too entangled with Zenit here. As long as they have the chance, they will pass the ball forward.

However, the effect is not as good as the first half, because Zenit, who is one less, shrinks the defense line and compresses the space in the backcourt, and does not give Arteta the chance to pass the ball behind him.

Andy Johnson and Yakub's speed came in handy.

So the game showed a situation like this - Everton tried hard to pass, but the success rate was very low. Zenit's backcourt player who broke the ball did not get too entangled with Everton's players, and directly drove the football forward with his big feet. Wherever Chen Yingxiong was, the football flew to the place. Then Chen Yingxiong jumped up and competed for the top with Yabo, Lescott, and Casley. He would probably grab the first place...

Moyes off the court almost frowned.

He found that neither Lescott, Yabo, nor Casley could shake the advantage of the No. 99 player in the air... He considered it for a while and decided to give up fighting for the first place with Chen Yingxiong, which was futile. And wasting three people on him, which gave Domingos, Arshavin and others more opportunities, which was not worth the loss.

So he walked to the sidelines and made adjustments.

He pulled Casley out of the team and prevented him from competing for heading with Chen Yingxiong. He really couldn't take advantage of him at 1.81 meters. Although his heading skills were very good, the huge gap in height and bounce could not be made up for by simple heading skills. You should know that Chen Yingxiong's heading skills were also very good.

Yabo also retreated and continued to tangle Lescott and Chen Yingxiong.

What are the people who have been removed to do? Control the second landing point.

Since the first landing point cannot be robbed, then don’t just rob it, grab the second landing point. As long as you can control the second landing point, it will be useless no matter how good the opponent’s center forward heads the ball - he can’t just head the ball thirty or forty meters away from the goal, right?

Moyes' move played a role. Controlling the second landing point did make Chen Yingxiong's characteristic is that he went to the place of use. After all, if Zenit passed the ball directly in the backcourt, he would not be able to control the ball by himself and then drive the ball to the opponent's penalty area - he is not good at dribbling.

In this way, Zenit's offense lost threat. Because after Chen Yingxiong pushed the ball down, he would be intercepted by Everton's players in the middle.

The success rate of the offensive was suddenly greatly reduced.

When he planned to push the football to Arshavin, the opponent guessed the intention and intercepted the ball in the middle and made a high-quality counterattack, almost scoring the goal.

Chen Yingxiong felt the crisis.

He used to think that his header is so awesome and his long shot should be able to make him rampant for a while.

Unexpectedly, he encountered trouble before he finished the League Cup group stage. Although he had a header, his technical characteristics were still too single... When the opponent limited his advantage in the air, he lacked other weapons.

I have to continue to become stronger, have more weapons, more comprehensive and more powerful!

However, this sense of crisis did not make him feel depressed, but... full of fighting spirit!

It’s just that the League Cup group stage, but Everton is so powerful. What will happen when it comes to the knockout stage? What about playing in the UEFA Champions League in the future? Wouldn’t it be even more exciting to play in the strong players?!

Chen Yingxiong doesn't want to stay in St. Petersburg even more...

His journey was the sea of ​​stars, how could he be trapped in a remote and bitter and cold place like Russia?

But now, he is wearing the jersey of St. Petersburg Zenit, and he is going to contribute all his strength to this team.

Chen Yingxiong decided not to make an offensive transit station anymore. He put the football on his teammates, but eventually fell to the opponent's feet, which would make Zenit very passive.

He decided to use his feet.

Although his header is very strong, his feet are not useless.

When his teammate passed the football over again, he jumped up, but instead of heading the ball, he removed the football with his chest!

After using his body to protect the football, he passed the football to his teammates.

This is much more stable than using the head directly, and the opponent is not easy to guess his intentions - everyone knows who he heads back to - the passing of the header is very difficult, so he will definitely push the football to those teammates who are more likely to pass through. Teammates with better positions will naturally become the target of the opponent's focus.

The passing ball under your feet is different, and there are more possibilities for using your feet.

When he pretended to pass the ball to Domingos but passed it to Hill, Everton's defense was disrupted...

Moyes frowned again off the court. He hadn't stretched his eyebrows for a long time, so he frowned again. It was estimated that the muscles on his eyes and forehead were about to cramp after the game today.

This Chen Yingxiong is harder than he thought...

When Chen Yingxiong's skill was able to pass the football to his teammates with his header, Everton's defense began to shake, and they didn't know how to defend. Zenit's offensive number of people in the frontcourt was very small, but because of Chen Yingxiong, just a few people could make waves in Everton's half!

Chen Yingxiong turned around and passed the football to Arshavin, and then ran forward. Arshavin was passing the football to him. The two made a two-pass one, and then he passed the football to Domingos who was inserted.

The Argentine midfielder suddenly made a long shot, and the football brushed the post and rolled out of the baseline, which shocked the sky above the Goodison Park stadium.

Everton put in a big push, while Zenit was determined to fight back against the defensively. It seems that Zenit has more opportunities...

"Domingos' long shot almost flew into the goal! It's really dangerous! You can see now that Zenit is one less person than Everton? At least I have completely ignored this fact. From the scene, both sides are even more powerful, and even... Zenit is a little more threatening!"

"The role of Chen Yingxiong on Zenit is reflected here. With him, the frontcourt offense has a fulcrum. Even if you drive up with a big foot, someone can get the ball, so that other people can come up and attack with confidence and boldness, and the quality of the offense will naturally improve. Now it seems that Moyes ignored Chen Yingxiong before the game, which is indeed a big problem, and may even be... fatal!"

Chen Yingxiong, who can cooperate with his teammates at the top and bottom, makes it difficult for Everton to defend.

So he quickly broke through Lescott's defense - he passed the football to his teammates, and then ran into the air. At this time, his teammates seized the opportunity to pass the football over, so he didn't have to take the ball to dribble and break through. That was not something he was good at.

But this is not the most terrifying thing. The most terrifying thing is that when Chen Yingxiong presses to the front of the opponent's penalty area... Zenit's offense has a bridgehead that can directly threaten Everton's goal.

He controls the ball with his back to the offensive direction. Although he can't turn around or break through, he can protect the football and pass it to his teammates - just like making a turret...

At the 70th minute, such tactics were coordinated.

Arshavin suddenly cut in from the side, and Chen Yingxiong pulled out of the penalty area to seek cooperation with him - in the past, Kerzakov did this job, and he himself was waiting for the header in the penalty area. Now that Kerzakov has come out, he is the only one who comes, otherwise he will continue to stay in the penalty area. Arshavin will lead him to a dead end...

When Arshavin saw him come out to pick him up, he passed the football over, and he continued to run horizontally.

Chen Yingxiong clamped his arms and stopped Lescott behind him with his body, then passed the ball horizontally to Arshavin who had already circled to the other side of him.

After passing the ball, Chen Yingxiong did not stay where he was, but turned around and rushed into the penalty area!

As if he wanted to play two and one match with Arshavin, Lescott followed him back and left the room!

Arshavin did not hesitate and directly discussed the foot volley!

The football was stuck to the turf and rushed forward quickly, rushing towards the far corner of the goal!

Tim Howard made a save, but the ball was very sudden, and Chen Yingxiong's running attracted Howard's attention - he always thought that Arshavin would pass the football back to Chen Yingxiong, and then he would shoot again after two and one.

So when he rushed over, it was obviously too late...

The football rolled into the goal against the turf, was rolled up by the net, and rolled out again... But this can no longer change the fact that the football scored!

"The ball has entered! Beautiful! Alshavin's long shot!!" Yuri Petrov cheered again.

"They led Everton away! In this life-and-death game, they finally saw the dawn of victory!!"

Arshavin, who scored the goal, ran directly to Chen Yingxiong and hugged him with the hero who made the ball for him. But no matter how he looked, it seemed that Chen Yingxiong directly hugged Arshavin, who was thin...

The fans of St. Petersburg Zenit in the stands gave huge cheers.
Chapter completed!