Football’s First Defender

Two hours before the match, the starting rosters of the two teams were announced. Advocaat held the opponent's starting lineup in his hand, laughing and laughing!

Sure enough, as we expected, the Espanyol's team failed in this game. They came to our home court with the lowest attitude, and let us use a fierce attack to solve them!

If it was Villarreal in a normal state, Advocaat would never dare to say such big words. After all, the yellow submarine had two away games in the previous week, facing the top European giants Real Madrid and Barcelona, ​​and they only lost. It's just a ball!

However, in the league three days ago, even though Pellegrini consciously carried out rotations, most of the main players still had to play for the league results and overdraw their physical fitness!

Murcia also performed well in that game, almost at home, the block was successful! However, in the 83rd minute, Godin took advantage of the opportunity of a corner kick to kill the game with a header. With a score of 0 to 1, he took away a precious three points from the away game!

But the Villarreal players who ran the whole field were obviously exhausted. At the end of the crossbow, you can't wear Lu Jin. This will be Villarreal's 11th game in 37 days. The players who have won the world with a team may not be able to support it!

Before the game, Zenit's coaches guessed that Pellegrini would definitely lower his body as much as possible in the away game, keep a tie, and try his best to retain enough energy for the game at the Estadio d'Elegance a week later. prepare for!

but! While you are sick, I will kill you! Advocaat doesn't intend to show kindness, the football world is cruel, and being friendly to the enemy is cruel to yourself! Zenit's tactics today are very simple. It boils down to one word, run!

You can not score goals, you can make mistakes in the offense, but you have to run, use enough running to force the opponent to play track and field games with Zenit!

The Zenit players who have been recharging their energy for so long, even if they can't kill their opponents in one game, after two games, 180 minutes, or even 210 minutes, are enough to beat their opponents!

And on the weekend, Santander, Villarreal's league opponent, will help Zenit. Advocaat will see if Villarreal's players are all iron men and whether they can persist come down!

Welcome everyone to watch the live broadcast of Zenit's UEFA Europa League knockout match. This time, the home team Zenit will be playing at the Petrovski Stadium against the visiting La Liga team Villarreal!

The new season of the Russian Super League is still one month away, but in order to prepare for this round of knockout rounds, Zenit's players have shortened their vacation and actively devoted themselves to training preparations. According to the news revealed by the team's press officer, this year's Zenit Nite's goal is not only to defend the Russian Super League title, but also to make a name for himself in the Europa League knockout round!

Zenit's lineup has not changed much. Goalkeeper Malafeyev, left back Anyukov, center back combination is Yang Feng who returned from injury and Skrtel, right back is Radek Hill

Tymoshchuk, Ziryanov, Denisov, and Miguel Dani form the midfield! Among them, Denisov plays the left midfielder, and the new aid Miguel Dani plays the right midfielder!

The striker is Pogrebnyak, and the partner is the shadow striker Arshavin!

On the bench, there are Domingos, new aid Shirokov, Eric Hagen and other powerful players!

The visiting team Villarreal is also playing with all the main players!

Goalkeeper Diego Lopez!

The defense line is Spanish international Capdevila, Uruguayan international Godin, Argentine Gonzalo, and this season's new aid Angel!

Pellegrini, who played a 451 formation in this game, sent a double midfielder, Max Senna, and Bruno!

Due to Pires' injury, the position of Mavuba who replaced him is displayed on the left, but it is also possible that Mavuba will play as a defensive midfielder. It depends on the game to determine the situation. Cazorla occupies the right, and the central midfielder is in the middle. It's Chilean international Mathias Fernandez!

The striker is the Italian Giuseppe Rossi!

Affected by Pires' injury, he missed this game. For Villarreal, it is definitely a big loss on the offensive end!

However, the appearance of Mawuba has enabled the visiting team to have three midfielders with strong defensive attributes in the lineup, who can make greater contributions to the defense!

The match begins! In the 1/16 match of the 2007-08 UEFA Europa League, in the first round, the home team Zenit took the lead in the match against Villarreal!

As soon as Zenit came up, Tymoshchuk made a long pass to catch the visiting team by surprise!

Pogrebnyak managed to grab the football over Gonzalo's head and point the ball towards Arshavin next to him!

Arshavin, don't adjust, just volley and hit the goal!

This ball is within the range of the goal frame!

However, Lopez's attention was very concentrated, and he caught the ball firmly!

Only 32 seconds into the game, Zenit took the lead in completing the first goal of the game!

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The game has progressed so far, we can see that due to the lack of Pires, Villarreal's left attack can basically rely on the left back, and Capdevila's attack!

But Capdevila's personal ability is really too strong. It was Capdevila's crossing before that caused chaos in Zenit's penalty area. Fortunately, central defender Yang Feng grabbed the first place in Mawuba. On the second point, when he was about to hit the goal, he successfully blocked the angle and let Villarreal return without success!

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Perhaps Pellegrini really just wants to take away a draw away and is satisfied!

Also due to personnel reasons, he used three defensive midfielders, but this does not mean that he intends to let the team be in passive defense throughout the game.

After all, the strength of the team, in today's European football, is not enough to be a top giant, but it is definitely a first-class team!

Of course, in Pei Gong's eyes, the strength of this Zenit team is definitely in the same level as Villarreal.

In this kind of master fight, it is definitely a dangerous behavior to completely hand over the initiative to the opponent, or in the away game!

Pei Gong is still willing to show his offensive strength when his team has sufficient physical strength at the beginning of the game. It is best to score away goals. , Let Zenit have greater defensive concerns and dare not attack with all its strength!

Miguel Dani, it's a bit sticky this time!

He wanted too much to break through on the right side and create a chance! Capdevila directly collided with the body and intercepted the ball!

Villarreal's chance to fight back!

Capdevila didn't waste time and passed the ball directly to Fernandez who ran out of position near the center circle!

Fernandez is directly near the middle circle, so he directly kicks a long pass to find Giuseppe Rossi in front!

Yang Feng!

Just hold Rossi with one hand, and at the same time, take a big stride forward!

Although Rossi also reacted and wanted to fight for the ball forward, but he has lost the best position!

Yang Feng got stuck in the position with one thigh, and then he also moved forward. With his left foot to clear the siege, he kicked the ball back to the middle circle!

Villarreal's attack has failed again!

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In turn, this time Tymoshchuk dominated the attack from the left!

Left-back Anyukov has quickly inserted and echoed with Denisov!

After Denisov tried to break through Angel and failed, he chose to pass back to Anyukov behind him!

But in the face of Cazorla's harassment, Anyukov has no room to continue to make moves!

Anyukov chose to pass the ball to Ziryanov in the middle!

but!

Marcos Senna!

At the moment Anyukov passed the ball, he took two steps forward and successfully intercepted the football!

And directly dribbled the ball forward to break through, which is another chance for Villarreal to counterattack!

Senna made a direct long pass, looking for the huge space behind Anyukov after he inserted it!

Cazorla, he is sprinting with all his strength! He is the most likely to get the ball this time!

Yang Feng, who was delayed, really couldn't take care of such a big gap, so he could only choose to keep retreating, hoping to cooperate with his teammates to complete this defense!

However, the recovery speed of the Zenit players is simply too late!

3v3 in the frontcourt, Cazorla takes the ball from the right, and continues to dribble forward at full speed!

Yang Feng directed Skrtel to keep an eye on Rossi!

There's Hill to pay attention to Fernandez's position!

I will face the most difficult Cazorla!

Cazorla took the ball to the position near the penalty area, facing the Zenit central defender, Yang Feng's defense!

For this ball, Yang Feng has taken the initiative to step forward, trying to keep the danger out of the penalty area!

Facing Yang Feng's defense, Cazorla has been taking small steps, ready to look for opportunities!

Suddenly bottom!

Yang Feng followed?

Fake move, Cazorla pulled the ball back again! Are you going to get rid of the defense in the opposite direction?

Yang Feng also pulled his body back, and he doesn't intend to give up his defensive position easily!

Cazorla hit the bottom again!

Cazorla's low center of gravity is fully utilized!

This ball, Yang Feng's body can no longer keep up!

but!

It's broken!

Yang Feng didn't give up, he just fell to the ground and stretched out his legs!

Successfully touched football!

Kicked the ball back a bit and bought myself time to get back up!

And the other Zenit players have rushed back to their defensive positions!

Cazorla can only choose, a cross, and find Giuseppe Rossi in the penalty area!

But Skrtel firmly occupied the position and headed the ball. This attack was once again resolved by Zenit!

Zenit's attack was fierce at the beginning, but the counterattack of the visiting team was more threatening...