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According to Zenit's original plan, after this game, the team will disband on the spot and have a holiday. The holiday of Zenit players has finally arrived! The players of other Russian Super League teams have been on vacation for almost a month...

As for the team assembly time, it will be determined by whether they can reach the knockout round of the Europa League!

Entering the knockout round, it is necessary to assemble in advance. The players not only need to recover quickly to cope with the knockout round, but also to build up their physical fitness for the new season. After all, the Russian Super League, the new season minutes in March will reignite the fighting!

Many players chose to transfer directly from the UK after the game, or take the time to go on vacation, or fly back to their hometown!

Advocaat originally planned to fly back to the Netherlands for vacation, but after the game, he was full of worries and canceled the originally scheduled air ticket, and flew back to St. Petersburg with a group of Russian internationals!

He is going to the team management, asking for money and people!

After this round of the UEFA Europa League group stage, it turns out that his main lineup is indeed at the top level in Europe, but there are not enough changes on the bench. Facing opponents of the same level, it is easy to use a lineup. Being targeted, when the game is facing a stalemate, there is simply not enough backup to break the game!

Of course, although Gazprom has money, it will not be filled in like an invincible hole for the team! After all, the salaries of existing players are definitely at the first echelon level in the entire Russian Super League!

If you can enter the Europa League knockout round, then in order to achieve better results in the European competition, you will buy strong players in the winter window! Strengthen the team!

If you can't make it to the knockout rounds, then delay signings until the summer to reserve talent for next season's Champions League!

After all, most of the teams that sell people in winter are trying to kill people, and the price is fair in summer, and there is no deception!

Zenit, who won the Russian Super League Championship, will aim for the European arena as their next goal. They will achieve good results in the UEFA Europa League this season, or make a breakthrough for the Russian team in the UEFA Champions League next season!

After some conversations, Advocaat could only wait for the result two weeks later in disappointment. It feels really bad to leave his fate in the hands of other teams!

While the entire Zenit team is enjoying their annual leave, Yang Feng can finally do some restorative training!

Injuries are the biggest enemy of professional players. Previously, Yang Feng only learned about injuries from TV and the Internet, but this time it actually happened to him!

To be honest, the experience of wearing protective gear and crutches is really uncomfortable! Although it was only two months, Yang Feng felt that his life had been greatly affected. During the recovery period, Yang Feng also got the permission of the coaching staff to go back to China to rest for a period of time, just like taking the annual leave in advance! Logically speaking, this kind of ankle injury should also go to the club for special training in other parts. However, Yang Feng's self-discipline made the coaches not worry, he will become a ball in two months! After formulating part of Yang Feng's upper body strength training plan, Yang Feng was on vacation early!

However, the early holiday means that after the body recovers, I have to practice alone!

Fortunately, in St. Petersburg, there are some youth team players, as well as some local coaches, who will also conduct extra training and individual counseling during the holidays, so that Yang Feng will not be alone on the football field training alone!

Because of the club's regulations, Yang Feng had to go to Zenit's team psychiatrist every few days after resuming training to let him enlighten him and alleviate the psychological problems caused by the injury!

Although Yang Feng thought he had no psychological problems, wasn't he just injured? For Yang Feng, although he has never been injured before, he is familiar with things like time travel, so why worry about an injury!

However, limited to Zenit's internal regulations, it is still necessary to have enough conversations to convince the psychiatrist that he has overcome the impact of the injury!

After all, with the development of modern football, the gap between top professional athletes may be so small. For more and more refined competitive movements, the impact of injuries is not only the lack of physical function, but also psychological. Questions of fear!

Sometimes, although a medical condition will physically, objectively completely heal the player! However, when a player is doing an action, he will unconsciously think of the position where he was injured, which will affect the degree of completion of the action, making it impossible to return to the state before the injury!

On the football field, there are many such talented players, because of injuries, they can never return to their original state! Some of them were caused by serious injuries that caused irreversible damage to the body, and some of them were not due to psychological problems that affected their performance!

Fortunately, after several conversations, Yang Feng got the approval of the psychiatrist. After all, it was just an ankle ligament injury, not the kind of serious injury that would break the heart. For a psychiatrist, it was just a routine!

In this way, Yang Feng, during the holiday of the first team, adjusted his state according to the recovery training plan formulated by the coaching staff before the holiday, and continued to train his upper body strength during the injury stage, and then began to exercise to strengthen his lower body strength!

While Yang Feng was doing boring training alone, other members of Zenit were on vacation happily, but there was still a string in their hearts, and they couldn't completely let go of themselves!

As time goes by, everyone in Zenit, who can only be spectators, finally ushered in the day when their own future is completely in the hands of others! The last round of the Europa League group stage!

Advocaat, who is far away in the Netherlands, turned on the TV early, ready to watch the game between Alkmaar and Everton!

Moyes really played like this!

Damn Scotch!

Fortunately, Van Gaal has been battered in the league this season, and his performance has dropped so much that he has no energy to cope with the Europa League schedule!

In the away game, Everton has already locked in the top spot in the group in advance. Not only the main players stayed in their hometown, but even the substitutes were not brought!

A group of players from the reserve team and the youth team came over to fill the gap!

But Van Gaal did not take advantage of others! In other words, Van Gaal doesn't want his team to be dragged down by the quagmire of the Europa League again!

After all, Van Gaal's capital is not as good as Advocaat's. Alkmaar's league performance has plummeted this season, and the two-line battle is definitely the biggest reason for the impact!

In this game, Van Gaal also did not intend to go all out to win!

It's also a mixed lineup of youth teams and substitute players, and the two coaches are just going through the motions in the last game of the Europa League!

It may even be that Moyes has a higher winning percentage. After all, Everton just wants to take a break before the Christmas schedule, while Alkmaar really doesn't want to play in the Europa League anymore!

However, this kind of game is mostly for young players, and it is the most difficult to control. If you are angry or in a state, the head coach's pre-match arrangements may be forgotten!

If Alkmaar goes crazy at home, it is unknown whether he can understand Van Gaal's deep meaning, or simply treat Van Gaal's words as air!

Advocaat was still worried at the beginning when the young people on both sides were fighting each other!

However, it is obvious that Everton's players are more dominant. After all, in this young confrontation, the side with the physical advantage naturally has the capital to win!

Although the talents produced by the Eredivisie League are supplied and sold all over Europe, there are very few local talents in England who come out of the British Isles!

But geniuses are not mass-produced, and football is not a one-man game!

Although mass-produced players such as England's youth training rarely have extraordinary talents, their overall level is definitely not bad! In addition, he is tall and big, so he can really do whatever he wants with his body!

Alkmaar was at home and fell behind by two goals early on. Although a young player's long-range shot brought the score back to 1-2 before halftime, Advocaat was relieved. Van Gaal gave up strategically. The intention is very obvious!

In the second half when the score fell behind, Van Gaal even replaced the striker with a midfielder, and then conceded the third goal early!

The final score was 2 to 3. Alkmaar successfully lost the game at his home court. In the simultaneous game on another venue, Larissa completed a 4-game losing streak, and Nuremberg advanced to the knockout round as the second place in the group!

However, Zenit still advanced in a thrilling way with Van Gaal's assist! The dignified Russian Super League champion still retains the qualification to continue to show his strength in the European arena!

After the Everton game, Advocaat immediately called the players to inform the training time. After all, in February of the new year, before the opening of the Russian Super League, they will play the knockout round of the Europa League, so the physical reserve training for the new season , of course also in advance!

Although Zenit's players are all happy that they can still perform in the European competition in the new season, but looking at the vacation that has been shortened for a full three weeks, they still feel like crying without tears!

Of course, the coaching staff and management are actually even worse!

Let's spend Christmas at home, and come back to St. Petersburg for New Year's or something!

The winter window of the European League will open in January. Advocaat not only needs to buy a few players he likes in a short period of time, but the team's tactics also need to be changed to a certain extent. This requires the coaching staff and management Layer, work overtime at the beginning of the new year to complete...

With Zenit's confirmation of qualifying for the knockout round and Yang Feng also started recovery training in St. Petersburg, Advocaat's confidence is even stronger!

Buy, buy! I want to buy in the winter window! Not only for the defense of the Russian Super League next season, but also for the European championship!

How do you say that Chinese saying. 'If you survive a catastrophe, there will be a future blessing'. Since we can advance, maybe we can't go to the end and win the championship!

Zenit's goal is not to go to the European arena to get some bonuses...