Glory Greenery

Chapter 119
After Nkufo was carried off the field, Yang Mo had to let go of his concern for Nkufo under the urging of the referee, and walked into the penalty area to prepare for a penalty kick.

Under the nervous gaze of all the Twente fans and all the domestic audience watching the game, Yang Mo started the run-up before the free throw.

Facing the dignified Feyenoord goalkeeper, Yang Mo calmly pushed with his left foot to the dead corner on the right side of the goal. The goalkeeper didn't judge the direction, and the football flew into the goal against the goal post.

1-1, relying on Yang Mo's penalty kick, Yang Mo helped Twente equalize the score in 10 minutes of the second half.

However, after scoring the goal, Yang Mo did not choose to celebrate at the first breath. Instead, he looked towards the sidelines, but found that Nkufu still failed to stand up and was receiving treatment with a painful expression.

Seeing this, not only Yang Mo, but all the Twente players, as well as those Twente fans, couldn't help feeling nervous.

Although after the start of the second half of the league, with the joining of Yang Mo, Yang Mo, who performed better and better, gradually became more important in the team.

But everyone actually understands that Twente has always had only one offensive core, and that is captain Nkufo.

When Yang Mo was away, the center forward was the team's top scorer, helping Twente win one victory after another.

After Yang Mo came, although his performance became better and better, Nkufo's role was equally important.

Without Nkufo in the midfield and without Nkufo's involvement in the defensive players, the pressure on Yang Mo would definitely be greater than now, and he would not play as easily as he is now.

And without Nkufo, Yang Mo's low-quality crosses would not have been well utilized.

After Yang Mo joined Twente, the veteran was very friendly and took the lead in expressing his welcome to Yang Mo.

On the training ground, Nkufu would not be self-absorbed, and told Yang Mo a lot of experience and skills on the court.

On the field, facing the increasingly important Yang Mo, Nkufu did not exclude Yang Mo because his position as the core of the offense was challenged.

On the contrary, he readily accepted Yang Mo's rise, and took the initiative to develop tactics around Yang Mo on the field, and was willing to make sacrifices for Yang Mo.

After Yang Mo rose to prominence, everyone gradually forgot the existence of this veteran, but now when Nkufu was injured, everyone realized the importance of this 33-year-old veteran.

Sometimes the captain may not be the best at the game, but he is reliable to many.

Yang Mo may have begun to show leadership qualities, but he is too immature and young to convince his teammates as much as Nkufo.

Under everyone's anxious gaze, Nkufo was not able to play, but was carried into the player tunnel. Obviously, his injury was serious enough to be sent to the hospital.

Seeing that the game was about to end with only 10 minutes left, McLaren, who didn't want to get a comment, replaced Nkufu who was injured and left the field with No. 7 high center Donnie Bom.

Donniebom is 189cm tall and weighs 89kg. In terms of physical fitness alone, he is actually far superior to Nkufu.

However, the high center forward is not as good as captain Nkufo in terms of smell and shooting ability in front of the goal, so he has always been a substitute player for Nkufo.

"attack!"

Accompanied by McLaren's roar, the Twente players, unwilling to fail, began to attack at the last moment.

No. In the 804th minute, Yang Mo dribbled the ball on the left, and Feyenoord's defensive players were unstoppable.

But in the face of his cross, the tall Donnebaum couldn't keep up at all because of his slow speed, and Arnautovic also failed to grab the offensive opportunity. rescue.

At this moment, the referee announced that the stoppage time is 3 minutes, which means that the game will end after a maximum of 8 minutes.

Facing the score of 1-1, everyone in Twente is extremely anxious. Once this game is tied, it is very likely that the efforts of the entire second half of the season will be in vain.

Under such circumstances, Yang Mo began to run regardless of physical exertion, he would never be reconciled to failure!

In the 808th minute of the second half, Yang Mo finally got a chance to catch the ball in the frontcourt by running, and dribbled the ball inside and rushed into the penalty area.

After relying on his personal skills to get rid of the siege and interception of three Feyenoord players, he suddenly kicked and chose to hit the goal when facing the attacking goalkeeper.

The Feyenoord goalkeeper suddenly shot a cold arrow at Yang Mo's foot. In desperation, he turned sideways to block, and blocked the ball with his hand at the critical moment.

Seeing that the shot was blocked, many Twente fans watching the game couldn't help lamenting loudly, but at this moment, a white figure suddenly rushed out from the defensive players and shot angrily at the blocked football.

"Arnotovic! Arnotovic appeared in the key position in time! He hit the goal with a supplementary shot! The goal is scored......!!"

"What a thrilling goal. In the 89th minute of the game, Arnautovic helped Twente reverse the game!"

Amidst the excited shouts of the commentator, Arnautovic made a supplementary shot and scored successfully. At the last moment of the game, he helped Twente reverse the score.

After Arnautovic scored a goal, he rushed to Yang Mo excitedly, hugged Yang Mo and yelled desperately.

On the sidelines, McLaren rushed out of the bench together with the substitute players, feeling overwhelmed with joy.

After the celebration, although Feyenoord did not want to reap a defeat, Twente even ran back to his own half to defend in order to defend the victory.

In the end, although Feyenoord launched several attacks, they failed to threaten Dortwinter's goal, and the game could only end with a score of 1-2.

After the game, the team staff told everyone that their efforts just now were not in vain, that is, Alkmaar lost this game.

In this round of Alkmaar's home game against Vidis, facing the 11th-ranked Vidis in the league, Alkmaar unexpectedly lost 1-2.

And because of Alkmaar's loss, Twente relied on an astonishing 14-game winning streak after the start of the second half of the league, and tied Alkmaar for the first time in the standings, reaching 76 points at the same time.

However, due to the relationship between victory and defeat, Twente is temporarily ranked behind Alkmaar,
But as long as Twente does not make a mistake against Heerenveen, when he directly faces Alkmaar in the penultimate round, it will be the Eredivisie championship battle this season.

After receiving the good news, Yang Mo and a group of teammates rushed to the hospital to visit Captain Nkufo immediately with joy.

But after arriving at the hospital, after everyone learned about the captain's injury from the doctor, the joy was instantly extinguished.

Although Nkufo's injury is not serious, it is just a simple muscle sprain, but because of his age, he will recover slowly, so he will definitely not be able to play for the rest of this season.

Facing all his teammates, Nkufu, who was lying on the hospital bed, smiled, and then looked at Yang Mo.

"Yang, the next game is up to you."

Hearing Nkufo's words, although Yang Mo didn't say anything, he nodded heavily.

After a bitter battle with Feyenoord, everyone in Twente ushered in a rare six-day truce, so that everyone can finally relieve their nervous and exhausted mood.

But everyone understood that this break was just the calm before the storm.

In the two consecutive weeks after the truce, they have to face the fourth, third and first matches in the Eredivisie standings in the league, and they will also have two rounds of semi-finals with Dynamo Kiev in the UEFA Cup.

Two to five games, looking at such a terrifying and dense schedule, you will know why the double and triple crowns are so rare in many leagues.

Twente is still fighting on two fronts, and those teams trying to win the triple crown can imagine the intensive schedule.

Without background, without the thickness of the bench, without players to rotate, physical fitness alone is enough to destroy a team.

In fact, at this time, it is not so much that physical fitness is supporting the players, it is better to say that everyone is holding their breath and relying on a willpower to persist.

In order to ensure the physical fitness of the players, McLaren began to consciously reduce the training intensity in preparation for the next round of league training against Heerenveen, hoping that the players can better maintain their physical fitness.

At the same time, as the game approached, Yang Mo became more and more looking forward to this game.

He was looking forward to it so much, not because he wanted to fight Heerenveen too much, but because his system level, which had not been moved for a long time, was just a little bit close to being upgraded.

His current level LV21 was raised before the first League Cup. Not to mention so many league games, he has played five games in the League Cup alone, and he has tried his best in each game and gained a lot of experience.

The current experience in the system shows that it is only one last point away from upgrading to LV22. After this match with Heerenveen, it is definitely possible to upgrade.

Even if his improved talent cannot be fully developed in a short period of time, there is still almost a month before the UEFA Cup final. If Twente can reach the UEFA Cup final, everyone will definitely see a stronger him by then.

On the afternoon of April 2009, 4, Dutch time, in the penultimate round of the Eredivisie, Twente went away to challenge Heerenveen, who is fourth in the standings.

In the sprint stage of winning the league championship, the importance of this game to Twente is self-evident, so even if facing a strong enemy, Twente must win the opponent.

And the most important thing is that after [-] hours, Twente's championship opponent, Alkmaar will also challenge the Eredivisie giant Ajax in an away game.

Once Alkmaar makes any mistakes in the game against Ajax, and if Twente can seize the opportunity, then Twente is very likely to win the Eredivisie in advance.

After Yang Mo joined Twente, relying on Yang Mo's terrifying performance, Twente's crazy [-]-game winning streak in the second half of the league has pushed Alkmaar to a dead end.

And Twente impressed Alkmaar the most, undoubtedly Yang Mo.

Recently, the name that Alkmaar players have heard the most from their iron-blooded coach Van Gaal is Yang Mo.

The focus of defense is Yang Mo, the biggest threat is Yang Mo, the one who is annoying is Yang Mo, and the one who is angry is Yang Mo.

Whenever he heard the news that Yang Mo helped Twente score a goal, Van Gaal couldn't help but twitch. After less than half of the league, Yang Mo still became the nightmare of the famous coach Van Gaal.

Before the start of the game, Twente won the support of the fans because of its outstanding record. In this away game against Heerenveen, more than [-] Twente fans flocked to the La Bestella Stadium in Heerenveen.

Interestingly, among the more than 2000 Twente fans, there are hundreds of yellow-skinned Asian faces. All of them speak the same oriental language and wear the same No. 14 jersey.

Seeing this, needless to say, these people are naturally Chinese fans who came to support Yang Mo.

In the past, in the Netherlands, Chinese introduced themselves and did not get any special answers.

But now, anyone in the Netherlands who is interested in football will say that your super boy Yang is really good.

And if you come to the Enschede region where Twente is located, the Chinese can feel unprecedented enthusiasm.

Because with Yang Mo's excellent performances, he has become a representative figure of the Chinese here, and the Dutch here also indirectly have a lot of affection for the Chinese.

At the same time, the chairman of Twente, Jop Montesman, also felt the same feeling of happiness as the FC Eindhoven manager Louis, that is, for the first time, he saw that only one person can pull the club's surroundings. Sales and stadium attendance.

It’s just that Louis always wanted to rely on Yang Mo to make a trip to China to make money, but in the end because Yang Mo’s transfer failed, I don’t know if Jop Montesman has such an idea.

Amid the cheers of the fans, the players of the two teams walked into the field holding the hands of the ball boys, and the battle was about to start.

In the absence of Nkufo in this game, although McLaren still put on a 433 formation, the center position was played by No. 7 Doniebom who came off the bench.

After seeing this starting lineup, Lou Yichen, the commentator of the domestic Shanghai Five-Star Sports Channel, was a little worried.

"In the last game, we could see that Donnie Bohm and Yang Mo, who came off the bench, did not cooperate very well. This time McLaren still arranged Donnie Bohm to play. I am afraid it is not a very good idea."

"Although Donniebom's physical fitness is better than that of Nkufu, he is not as good as the veteran Nkufo in terms of speed and technique. It is difficult for this kind of clumsy center to keep up with Yang Mo's rhythm."

When the game started, the situation on the field was exactly as Lou Yichen expected. The Twente frontcourt lineup, which had a tacit understanding, immediately became a little awkward after Nkufo was injured and replaced by Donnebom.

Yang Mo is still sharp on the wing, but it is difficult for Doniebom to grasp his cross. It's not that Donieboom doesn't work hard, but because of his technique and speed.

Although he has a good body, because of his speed, he often can't match Yang Mo's rhythm, or because of technical reasons, he can't protect the ball after receiving it.

So after most of the first half of the game, it seemed that Twente was playing against Heerenveen on the surface, but in fact there was no real result at all, and the score was still 0-0.
Donniebom's attack from Yang Mo's side couldn't cooperate, so it seemed a bit out of touch during the attack. On the contrary, Donniebom and Arnautovic, who had almost the same speed, seemed to cooperate smoothly.

But the problem is that Donnie Bohm and Arnautovic are far inferior to Yang Mo. They seem to be smooth but are easily defended by Heerenveen.

Seeing this, Twente coach McLaren on the sidelines also understood that it is useless to just look good. If you want to win, you must play Yang Mo.

Ignoring Heerenveen's heavy defense on the left side, Yang Mo was still able to beat the opponent's back, but the attack from the right side seemed smooth, but there was no threat at all.

And just when McLaren realized this, the game changed suddenly and Heerenveen scored a goal!

Heerenveen striker Enrique shot a long shot in front of the Twente penalty area, directly piercing the Twente goal, rewriting the score to 36-1 in the 0th minute of the first half.

PS: I've been busy with work these two days, so the second update is a bit late, um... I'm asking for a recommendation every day.

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