Glory Greenery

Chapter 116 The Hard Battle Begins

Relying on Douglas's powerful volley, Twente finally overtook the score at the last minute, defeated Roda 4-3, and continued to chase Alkmaar in the standings.

And Yang Mo, who shot two passes in this game, failed to win the best player of the week even though he won the best player of the game.

The reason is simple, because in this round of the league, Ajax slaughtered Willem II 7-0.

In this bloody massacre, Ajax's head striker Suarez scored a hat-trick and deservedly won the best of the week.

Seeing that the media is full of reports about Suarez's hat-trick, Yang Mo is honestly a little envious.

Since joining Twente, although he has won a hat-trick in the UEFA Cup, he has never won it in the league, which makes him a little regretful.

After defeating Roda, the Twente players still had no chance to rest, because only three days later was the second round match against Shakhtar Donetsk.

Although Twente scored three away goals in the first round, Shakhtar Donetsk also scored two goals, and their advantage was not as great as imagined.

Once the home game is careless, it is not impossible for Twente to be eliminated, so Twente must prepare seriously.

On April 4, Dutch time, the second round of the UEFA Cup quarter-finals, Twente's home game against Shakhtar Donetsk officially started at 16:45 pm.

In this game, in order to advance, Shakhtar Donetsk no longer cared about targeting Yang Mo, and launched an all-out attack on Twente at the beginning of the game.

However, Twente, who sits at home, played extremely calmly in the game. This game chose a 442 formation, but made minor adjustments in the specific execution.

For McLaren, who was once the head coach of England, he is naturally familiar with the use of this formation and has his own unique insights.

In terms of tactical arrangements, he let the midfielder focus on defense. On the front line, Yang Mo is still in the left position of the center, while Nkufo mainly operates near the penalty area.

Once an attack is launched, Rajkovic, who is in the right midfielder position, will pass it to Yang Mo on the left, and then rely on Yang Mo's personal ability to attack the opponent's defense, and finally choose whether to hit the goal by himself or pass the ball to Nkufo.

However, in McLaren's plan, the team's first task is to defend. With the advantage of three away goals, everything will work hard to advance to the semi-finals.

So after the start of the game, even though Shakhtar Donetsk attacked with all their strength, under Twente's tenacious defense, they have not been able to score a goal.

The 0-0 score lasted until the end of halftime. Seeing Shakhtar Donetsk head coach Ruseguna roaring, even the audience before the TV series could feel the head coach's anxiety.

So after the start of the second half, Shakhtar Donetsk replaced two offensive players in one go, hoping to open up the situation as soon as possible.

But once Shakhtar Donetsk reduces their defensive players, although they still attach great importance to Yang Mo, it will inevitably give Yang Mo a chance to attack.

In the 704th minute of the second half, Yang Mo received a pass from Rajkovic. An ice prince turned around near the midfield and threw away Shakhtar Donetsk captain Dario.

After getting rid of the defensive player, he started the sprint mode with the ball, widening the distance from the Shakhtar Donetsk defender all the way, before coming to the free throw arc in the penalty area.

Seeing Shakhtar Donetsk's goalkeeper choose to attack, Yang Molai waited for Nkufu to come to cooperate. He flicked the football with his right foot and volleyed vigorously with his left heel on the outside of his instep.

Under the nervous attention of the home fans, the football draws an obvious arc, sparing the goalkeeper and flying into the goal.

Yang Mo's goal may not be astonishingly powerful, but the precise control of football shown has won the praise of domestic and foreign commentators.

Yang Mo scored a goal. In this game, while Twente led Shakhtar Donetsk 1-0, it also raised the total score to 2-4.

At this time, if Shakhtar Donetsk wants to advance to the semi-finals, they must score three goals in the next ten minutes, which is really too difficult.

So when Yang Mo scored a goal, both the fans and the Twente players could clearly feel that the players of Shakhtar Donetsk had become less active in the game.

Obviously, even the players of Shakhtar Donetsk do not seem to have hope for promotion and are ready to give up this game.

Although the head coach of Shakhtar Donetsk Rusegu yelled again and again from the sidelines, hoping to boost the morale of the players, but judging from the results, it was obvious that it had no effect.

In the end, when the whole game was over, the score of 1-0 was kept to the end of the group, and Twente successfully advanced to the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup, continuing to create the team's best European results in the past 30 years.

Because the match between Dynamo Kiev and Paris Saint-Germain was earlier than this one, at the end of the Twente game, it was also known who the opponent in the semi-finals was, Dynamo Kiev.

Paris Saint-Germain, who originally had a draw with Dynamo Kiev in the last round, unexpectedly lost 0-3 in the away game in the second round, which surprised everyone.

Therefore, Twente's opponent in the semi-finals will be another Ukrainian team.

After the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup, Twente's first consideration is not the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup. After all, the semi-finals will not start until May.

What they have to worry about now is the horror schedule starting from the No.30 round of the Eredivisie League.

After the start of the second half of the league, Twente basically did not encounter any strong opponents except PSV Eindhoven, so it was pretty easy along the way.

But starting from the next round of the league, in the most critical games of the Twente League championship, they encountered several of the most powerful teams in the Eredivisie in succession, and fell into a real bitter battle.

Two days later, on April [-]th, they will face the veteran giants Feyenoord in the Eredivisie, and this is the beginning of a bitter battle.

Although the team performed poorly at the beginning of the season, after the start of the second half of the league, Welbeck was fired due to a poor record, and the new coach Villeminguez took office.

Under the leadership of the new coach Willemingues, Feyenoord's performance has improved rapidly. The recent rounds of the league have been very strong. A draw with Alkmaar and a 5-1 victory over Hercules are the best. prove.

Therefore, in the face of this traditional Eredivisie giant who is beginning to recover, Twente, who is exhausted from successive battles, cannot tolerate a little carelessness and must not fail.

After all, in the final stage of the league, both Twente and Alkmaar are gritting their teeth and insisting. Whoever relaxes first will basically say goodbye to the championship.

Twente, who is behind, is waiting for Alkmaar to make a mistake, and Alkmaar is waiting for Twente to lose the chain.

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