Football’s First Defender

This is the Zenit team that dominated the Russian Super League this season by attacking

The attack like mercury pouring down the ground smashed all the opponent's defenses to pieces, and there was a lot of panic!

It's just that such a suppressive attack frenzy must require enough offensive personnel to support it. The defense is still the biggest hidden danger that limits Zenit's attack!

Especially without the defense line guarded by Yang Feng, who has performed extremely well this season, it can be said to be Zenit's biggest weakness when it uses its offensive firepower!

Now Advocaat can't care about defense at all, he still understands the reason why there is no turning back when he shoots the bow!

The first home group match can be won, and Zenit will have more confidence in facing the two strong teams of the Bundesliga and the Premier League next!

Zenit continue to besiege Alkmaar in the half!

This time, Anyukov stepped in to assist!

After Ziryanov broke through to attract the defense, he took the ball out from a short distance and passed it to Anyukov nearby!

Anyukov passed directly to Arshavin in front of him!

Arshavin receives the football in front of the penalty area line!

The defenders who marked Anyukov before were about to double-team Arshavin, but Arshavin didn't wait for more defenders to double-team!

Kick the ball with one back heel!

Pass the ball with the heel without looking at the person! The ball was knocked into the empty space outside the penalty area at a 45-degree angle!

Anyukov, who passed the ball before, had already quickly advanced along the outside line when he completed the pass!

The double-teamer had to face Anyukov again on the wing!

Such a good chance to cross, but Anyukov didn't choose to kick the ball directly from the side into the penalty area!

A light through ball directly into the box!

After passing the ball with his heel, Arshavin has already inserted into the left side of the penalty area with a tacit understanding!

This beautiful through ball went directly to Arshavin!

With such a good opportunity in the restricted area, Arshavin has a lot of choices after that!

Arshavin directly chose an inverted triangle back pass near the penalty spot during the acceleration process!

The first follow-up is Pogrebnyak!

Boshen's forward penetration has attracted the attention of most defensive players!

But this inverted triangle is too far behind, and Boshen can't grab it at all!

Behind Boshen is another striker Tike with a keen sense of smell!

There is only one defender around Tyke, and he is still on the other side! There is no way to stop Tyke!

A good chance to hit the ball directly!

Shoveled, shoveled, Tek is down!

Penalty kick? This ball looks very much like a penalty kick!

No blow, the referee from the Premier League signaled the game to continue, and did not award a penalty kick!

Zenit once again missed a good opportunity. Judging from the replay of this ball, Tyke was indeed tripped because of a tackle from the player behind him!

I don't know why the referee refused to award a penalty kick with such certainty!

Alkmaar survived!

There is a saying on the football field that if you don't score for a long time, you will be killed!

It can also be said that it is for the defensive side, the reward for hard defense, if you survive a catastrophe, there will be future blessings!

Zenit, who has been unable to attack for a long time, finally tasted the bitter fruit of his lack of defense personnel!

In an attack, Arshavin's through pass was directly stepped forward by the opponent's central defender and intercepted! The next step is naturally an extremely simple counterattack stage!

Alkmaar is waiting for such an opportunity!

A kick is passed to the midfielder of one's own side, and then the midfielder throws it directly to the space in the forward field!

Visiting striker Johansen got another chance to show his speed!

Of course, although the combination of Skrtel and Eric Hagen has various problems, it is not true that every counterattack will reveal such a big gap!

After all, he is also a professional player of a certain level!

Although Skrtel did not directly clear the ball, Johansen got the ball, but Skrtel was firmly blocked when he broke through the line, and Zenit's midfielders also returned to defense. Come here, the visiting team's chance to counterattack seems to be gone!

However, the game has reached the decisive stage in the last ten minutes. Of course, Van Gaal will not rely on the counterattack of one or two people to score goals like in previous games!

The visiting team also took advantage of this counterattack opportunity, and all members attacked! Finally in the final stage of the game, Alkmaar showed his fangs!

Alkmaar's offensive opportunity!

After the counterattack was blocked, Johansen with a single arrow directly passed the ball back to the midfielder Midshaw!

Alkmaar suddenly started an orderly battle, which made Zenit, who has been on the offensive, a little uncomfortable!

Zenit's defensive players are still a bit loose!

No hesitation!

After two passes from the midfielder, Midshaw made a beautiful through ball directly in the midfield!

The trajectory of the ball went perfectly between Skrtel and Anyukov who just ran back!

Johnson!

A wonderful counter-offside!

Skrtel wants to step forward to block it!

But after Johansen took the ball, he took a step to adjust, and shot from left to right around the penalty area line!

The ball went in!

This goal, just like that!

Compared with the helpless commentary of the Russian commentator, the commentator in the Netherlands next door, but GOAL, GOAL, GOAL kept shouting!

Johansen, Alkmaar, take advantage of a beautiful counter-offside!

Successfully completed a shot of excellent quality before Skrtel effectively interfered!

Alkmaar, who was a guest, successfully took the lead in the 76th minute of the game, and the score was 1 to 0!

Zenit encountered a severe test in the first group match of the European War!

Zenit's whole team is a little confused at this moment!

After all, even if the ball is lost, the probability of losing the ball is greater when counterattacking. This kind of situation where the counterattack turns into a positional battle, but the ball is lost is still very rare for Zenit!

Don't panic! Don't panic! Just attack and come back!

Let's cheer up and attack! Isn't it just a ball gap!

For such a huge stadium, even if Advocaat on the sidelines yelled loudly, he might not be able to wake up all the players who were in a state of confusion!

But the shouting of the players on the field has another effect!

Fortunately, at such a critical moment, both the captain Tymoshchuk and the team's core leader Arshavin remained calm enough!

After all, there are still more than ten minutes left. At home, it may be difficult for Zenit to guarantee a clean sheet against the opponent, but it is still very easy for him to score a goal!

Don't worry! Now we can use our full attack power!

Come on! Everyone!

Skrtel, who was responsible for conceding the ball due to lax defense just now, understands that he can only rely on his teammates in the midfield at this time, otherwise after the loss, he will have the lowest score in the game, and he must be the one who is responsible for the blame!

The time left for Zenit is still enough!

They just need a goal!

The game restarts!

Zenit, who has no retreat, continues to maintain the previous attack, and even because it is behind, you can see that Zenit's attack is even more ferocious!

At this point in the game, with the 'help' of the opponent, Zenit can finally abandon all concerns and attack with all its strength!

The connection between Arshavin and Tymoshchuk!

It's a pity that although the pass was in place this time, Arshavin still lost the ball under the opponent's confrontation! Arshavin, who fell on the ground, protested to the referee, but the referee ignored him!

Tymoshchuk used a sliding shovel, dribbling the ball and shoveling together, destroying the opponent's counterattack this time. Of course, a yellow card cannot be avoided!

Tymoshchuk was also yelling at the referee, pointing at Arshavin's position, probably asking why the referee didn't blow Arshavin's ball!

Zenit players, are you a little anxious as the game falls behind?

For Tymoshchuk, having played so many professional games, he may have been able to effectively prevent the opponent's counter-pass without a foul that applied for a yellow card just now!

But at this time, the team needs a morale bonus! It takes an aura to believe that you can equalize or even overtake!

Secondly, the referee's whistle is a bit loose, and the penalty scale is even more favorable to the visiting team. Tymoshchuk wants to use this yellow card foul to show the anger of the Zenit players, to put pressure on the referee, and to exert influence on the penalty scale for subsequent games !

Tymoshchuk's long shot!

After the visiting team's defense was constantly crushed!

Zenit's chances of long-range shots are getting better and better!

Tymoshchuk's shot is powerful and heavy, and it is a severe test for the goalkeeper!

It's just that the visiting goalkeeper Bizot has performed very well in this game so far!

Although I didn't win the football directly!

But it's also a single palm holding the bottom line!

Zenit's corner!

Zenit had a lot of corner kicks in this game!

In a game, the dominant side naturally has the advantage of brushing corners before taking the lead!

But the more corner kicks are taken, it actually proves that the strong team, the process of this game is very difficult!

Zenit has 13 corners! Just no chances to score!

Pogrebnyak!

Under the interference of the opponent's central defender, the ball went wide!

Zenit still can't score!

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The game time is getting less and less!

Seeing Zenit's first European game, they will suffer the consequences of losing at home! Arshavin stood up again!

Arshavin, at the last moment, chose to do it alone!

The opponent's defensive midfielder, and a winger who came to supplement the defense, 2 defenses 1!

But Arshavin! By speed and a sudden change of direction!

Successfully blazed a path!

This ball! From the bottom line to the penalty area!

beep--

Flying shovel behind!

I see that Arshavin is about to break into the restricted area!

A tackle directly behind!

We could see the excitement of the Zenit players!

Referee, surrounded by Zenit players, think about it!

He took out the red card directly!

This goal! There is also a reason for giving a red card!

It is indeed a hurtful action!

The visiting team played at 89 minutes, and there was one less player to fight!

A superbly placed free-kick!

Although it is too wide, there is no angle to hit the goal!

But this distance, passing to the middle, is very suitable for a set piece with a header!

Arshavin drives it himself!

This ball!

GOAL! GOAL!

Goal! Skrtel!

Skrtel will make amends!

At the end of the game! Headed to complete the tie!

This one, Arshavin's pass gave a strong spin!

Such a small angle, but chose to spin the ball towards the goal!

Goalkeeper Bizot's attack made a mistake!

After all, he is a young goalkeeper, so he lacks experience!

Strong spin for such a short distance!

Misjudging the height of the ball when catching it!

Not directly controlling the football!

Skrtel, who is next to the goalkeeper, doesn't care so much, he jumps vertically! He even dribbles the ball and hits the goal!

We can see that the players of the visiting team are all surrounding the referee, protesting that the ball is suspected of colliding with the goalkeeper!

But we can see from the slow-motion lens that it should be a good ball. Skrtel jumped vertically on the spot. It was the goalkeeper who jumped back and hit him. Skrtel didn't make any extra moves. The ball Should be a good shot!

The Zenit players who found that something was wrong also surrounded them, and the players from the two teams even made some shoving movements!

The referee still pointed his finger at the middle circle! The goal is effective! Zenit is at home, at the last moment! Tenaciously equalized the score!

This is Zenit! Zenit will use all kinds of ways to break through the opponent! Zenit, the new champion of the Russian Super League!

In the end, maybe both sides were angry. In order to control the development of the situation, the referee took a lot of time to score and celebrate Zenit, but when the 3-minute stoppage time came, the referee directly blew the whistle for the end of the game. Voice!

The first round of the UEFA Cup group stage this season! Zenit drew 1-1 at home with the Eredivisie third place Alkmaar!

The visiting team Johansen opened the scoring in the 76th minute! Zenit iron defender Skrtel made up for it and tied the score with a header at the last moment!

I hope that Zenit will continue to work hard and play better and better in the next three group matches...