Soccer: The Road to Extraordinary

Chapter 157 Summary
Because Yan Feng performed very well in the game against BJ Guoan, he began to become a popular main force in the hands of Stojkovic.

Next, in the No.14 round of the Chinese Super League, they will challenge Liaoning Hongyun in an away game.Yan Feng still performed very well.

In this game, Guangzhou R&F was successfully attacked from the side by the opponent at the beginning of the game.In this unfavorable situation, Yan Feng began to defend hard and repeatedly destroyed the opponent's attack.After Yan Feng's defense frustrated Liaoning Hongyun's offensive, R&F, who had gained a foothold, finally reversed the opponent with two goals.

In this game against Liaoning Hongyun, although Yan Feng did not score a goal, his statistics are still impressive.With a running distance of nearly 14000 meters, 4 successful steals and as many as 8 fouls, these are all the best in the team.Of course, Yan Feng still has the worst data in the team, that is, the pass success rate is only 60%.This stat is not only the worst in the team, but also the worst among all players in the game.

In this regard, Yan Feng also expressed his helplessness and dissatisfaction with his performance.Because in the game, in addition to struggling to defend, he mainly focused on passing the threatening ball.Unfortunately, he only made one threatening pass and it was wasted.

However, as the head coach Stojkovic praised Yan Feng after the game, saying that he was the key to the team's ability to win the game.Because of this game, in his opinion, Yan Feng performed best in the whole team.Others seemed a little complacent and out of shape after the team's big victory over Guoan.

Even Liaoning Hongyun's head coach Marin said helplessly at the press conference after the game that his team was defended by Yan Feng.He believes that if it weren't for the tireless running of Yan Feng in the R&F team, his team could have killed the game in the first half.

Yan Feng, who performed well and was in excellent form, participated in the match against SJZ Yongchang as a starter again after returning to the home court.This is Yan Feng's fifth consecutive start this season, and he has played the whole game.You know, against SJZ Yongchang, even Svensson didn't start.It can be seen how outstanding Yan Feng's recent performance is, and how satisfied Stojkovic is.

In the final game, Guangzhou R&F defeated SJZ Yongchang who came from afar 3:0 at home.

In this game, Yan Feng once again handed over amazing statistics.In this game, Yan Feng only ran a running distance of more than 12000 meters.It's not that he's getting lazy, or that there's something wrong with his physical strength.It's because R&F has an absolute advantage against SJZ Yongchang, a weak team in the relegation zone, and Yan Feng doesn't need to defend desperately.So this time, Yan Feng's running distance was the least in all his starting games.

However, his statistics in other areas are very good.In this game, he scored a heavy artillery long shot and another assist.Moreover, Yan Feng once again became the steal king in this game with 6 steals.Of course, he still has one of the worst statistics in the game, that is, 65% success rate of passing.

Generally speaking, Yan Feng's performance is still very good.Although his passing success rate is still very low, he was named the best player in the game after the game.

So far, the 2016 Chinese Super League has passed halfway.

Guangzhou Evergrande once again became the half-time champion as expected.This is very, very good news for them.Especially in the case of their early exit from the AFC Champions League, even more so.

But for other teams, it is not good news.According to statistics, since the establishment of the Chinese Super League, anyone who can win the half-time championship, the probability of not lifting the championship trophy in the season is as high as [-]%.

"I also hope that I can't lift the championship trophy this season! It would be great if I can win the championship with the team in my first Chinese Super League career. Maybe I can become a member of the national team because of this." Yan Seeing that Guangzhou Evergrande became the half-time champion, Feng told Lin Fan with great envy.

This kid Lin Fan has gradually started to make up for Guangzhou Evergrande, and he has made up for the last few games.Although they all played after 70 minutes, Lin Fan's performance was very good.Therefore, at the age of 19, he is considered by Evergrande fans to be Zheng Zhi's real successor.The fans of Evergrande had higher expectations for Lin Fan than his teammate Liao Lisheng, former Olympic captain.

It can be said that Lin Fan has a very high possibility to follow Guangzhou Evergrande to win this season's championship, thus winning his first Chinese top league championship in his life.This made Yan Feng envious.It's a pity that this is not enviable.

With the strength of Guangzhou R&F, Yan Feng doesn't think he can compete with the Evergrande team in the same city.After all, after the Guangzhou Evergrande team focused on the Chinese Super League, the dominance shown by it made others dare not expect it.

In fact, it's just that Yan Feng was fooled by Evergrande's five-time champion.Because, after halfway through the Super League, Guangzhou R&F quietly squeezed into the top three in the Super League standings.

"Top three?" Yan Feng couldn't believe it at first.

But Guangzhou R & F did rank No. 3 in the halfway of the Super League.They have the same 30 points as Hebei China Fortune.But they have a goal difference of 5 times more than China Fortune.

The reason why Yan Feng feels that the team cannot compete with Guangzhou Evergrande is mainly because the team has always given him a feeling that the offense is not good.Since Guangzhou R&F's foreign forwards are not ranked in the entire Chinese Super League, the team has always lacked people who can make a final decision.Therefore, Yan Feng has not had much confidence in the overall strength of Guangzhou R&F.

What Yan Feng didn't know was that Guangzhou R&F's defense is now the best in the entire Chinese Super League.After the half-time, Guangzhou R&F ranked No.8 in the defensive list with only 1 goals conceded.

At this time, everyone discovered that Guangzhou R&F's defense is so good.You must know that at the beginning of the season, R&F's defense always gave people a very unreliable feeling.It is also because of this that Stojkovic often played 5 defenders in the previous games.

I don't know since when, Guangzhou R&F's defense has become reassuring?

As for the reason for this, Stojkovic found after research that since using Yan Feng, he has become more and more at ease with the team's defense.Yan Feng averaged over 13000 meters of running distance per game in the first game, as if there were half more people in the team than the opponent.This is the main reason why his playing style in Yan Feng did not match the players and made him start consecutively.

Because of this, Stojkovic said: "I can't accept that after Yan Feng was absent from the two midfielder positions in the semi-best formation, one only started five games and handed over four goals." The player who scored 4 assists was not rated as the best defensive midfielder."

One of the best holding midfielders is Paulinho, no one can argue with that.But for another best defensive midfielder to be taken away by Mbia, people in R&F are very dissatisfied.

Mbia also scored 4 goals, but he only had 2 assists.The reason for this is mainly due to Yan Feng's pass success rate of less than 70%.

It is also his passing success rate that makes him considered by many coaches and fans as a player who is at most like Cai Huikang even though he has 4 assists.

Fans of R&F complained for Yan Feng because of this.They said that Yan Feng still has two goals and one assist in the AFC Champions League.Too bad this didn't work.In the end, Yan Feng still missed what might be the first honor in his life.

Although Yan Feng failed to become one of the best players in the 2016 Chinese Super League, many Chinese football players suddenly discovered that Yan Feng had quietly become a well-known Chinese player.

And after learning about Yan Feng's past and entering football in less than two years, many people will exclaim. "It's a player full of legends."

At the same time, they will all say with great regret: "If he had received professional training since he was a child, what would he be like today? What a pity!"

Unfortunately, there is no if in reality.If there is, Messi and Ronaldo in China will not move bricks on the construction site or be a small employee in the company.

(End of this chapter)