Soccer: The Road to Extraordinary

Chapter 270
"Utilitarianism is on the rise. Is Granada losing the tradition of Spanish football? Although they scored three points at home, such a dull and ugly scene is definitely not what the fans want to see." - "Marca" .

The Granada team won this game, but the more famous sports media in Spain criticized Granada instead.After studying the last few rounds of matches, many media people also have not many impressions of the Granada team's strategy of keeping the tie and winning.

"The entry of Chinese capital is changing La Liga. The charm of technology is being replaced by rough and rigid tactics. Maybe it won't be long before La Liga becomes the Chinese Super League!"

"Tucked away halfway, everything is just to keep the ball away from the goal. What's the point of all these games? Fans come to appreciate the art of football, not to see a wrestling match."

The Granada team finally won a victory, but what they got was criticism from the outside media.This is somewhat disconcerting.

Unlike the criticism from the outside media, the local media and fans in Granada are much more tolerant.

"It's a crossroads of life and death for Granada. It's not a sin to play ugly in order to survive."

"I just want Granada to stay in La Liga. If the consequence of beautiful football is to go to La Liga, then I would rather watch a boring La Liga at home."

"Support Granada! As long as the relegation is successful, even if it is a draw every time, I am willing to go to the scene to cheer!"

The sudden criticism of Granada's tactical style made Granada's joy from the victory diluted a lot.Although there is support from local fans, it still affects the morale of the players to some extent.

In the subsequent training, everyone's dedication seemed to be much worse than before, which made Alcaraz frown.

It took Alcaraz a lot of work to get the team thinking together again.And the most convincing evidence he produced was Granada's current ranking.

Unknowingly, after Alcaraz coached, the Granada team has quietly surpassed the Hongzhe Athletic, and is currently ranked third from the bottom in La Liga.Moreover, the league points have reached 18 points, which is only two goals away from the bottom No.4 Leganes team.

One step away!Granada are now only one step away from escaping the relegation zone.

At this time, everyone in the Granada team realized that their team was already moving forward.And all this was achieved through their hard work, which made them see a bright future.Now, instead, they began to support Alcaraz's utilitarian style.

Can stay in La Liga, they are unwilling to hang out in La Liga.As a result, they began to maintain sufficient investment in training.

Granada's next opponent is Eibar.Another top-ranked team.The current Eibar team is ranked 10th, one place ahead of the previous Las Palmas team.Just looking at the data, you can find that the Eibar team is also a team with a relatively balanced offense and defense.

The difference is that the Eibar team is a team with more tenacious mental strength than technical ability.

You must know that the Eibar team only won the La Liga championship in the 14/15 season and entered La Liga for the first time in history.Currently only a sophomore in La Liga.

But this second-year student should not be underestimated. This can be seen from the fact that they can be ranked 10th.

Facing such a team, relegation old fritter Alcaraz once again put forward the goal of keeping a tie and winning.Of course the main goal is to keep the balance.

It seems that they also had a premonition of Granada's purpose. When the Granada team arrived in the town of Ebar in the Basque Country, some media directly asked Alcaraz.

"This time against Eibar, will you still hide in the second half and dare not come out? Some fans are very dissatisfied with your style of play. Will you make changes this time?"

"I just want to say, we need relegation. Need points!"

"Eibar's ranking is higher than that of Raspals, and the team is more motivated. This is not Granada, can you still hold it? Will you lose even worse instead?"

"Heh, everyone will know when they see the end of the game?"

Facing Alcaraz, everyone saved some face.But it was different when someone asked Yan Feng.

"Yan, hello. The outside world says that your playing style is cowardly. What do you think about this? Also, some people say that your skills are as rough as your Chinese league. Some people say that you can only He will run around on the field, and he can't reach the level of playing in La Liga. What do you think?"

"Coward? Do cowards dare to see blood? As for my level, you should ask my opponent!" Faced with such a question, Yan Feng was very upset.And he was very upset, so he decided to make the person who said this even more upset.

Don't you think we are cowards and can't keep it?Then we have to keep it.Don't you think it's a bad way to play and lose badly?Then we must not lose, and we must make you hate us and have nothing to do with us.

And to the day of the game.The Ipurua Stadium, which can only accommodate 5000 people, was filled with fans of the home team early on.But their catchphrases are less cheery.Mainly not to make the Granada players happy.

"Cowards are not welcome in Eibar!"

"We Evar are warriors and we'll beat you up, bitch!"

Listening to such slogans, and seeing the banners of 'You are cowards' put up in the stands.Granada players are still quite depressed.But depression belongs to depression, their goal does not change.

And because Yan Feng couldn't understand, and because his foreign language skills were relatively average, he only knew that the home player had bad things to say, but he was relatively not that depressed.

However, soon, he was upset.Because in the handshake when entering the arena, I faced an Asian, to be precise, a Japanese little Japanese.He even said disdainfully: "The Chinese people!"

"Huh? Winter melon, what are you talking about?" Facing the face, he actually spoke very soft-spoken Chinese.Yan Feng listened carefully and understood the meaning.Now it's on fire.

"People from China, you can't play football. You're not brave!" the very thin Japanese continued.

"Heh! Japanese pirates!" Yan Feng snorted coldly and went to shake hands with the next person.

"I'll copy, you little Japanese pirate. I'll see you later. Don't say that I'm an imposing Chinese bullying a little Japanese." Yan Feng thought very unhappy.Thinking of the opponent's body and that small body, Yan Feng suddenly wanted to ask those guys who have been saying on the Internet that the Chinese are not as tall as the Japanese to take a look.

This Japanese who despises Yan Feng is called Gan Guishi.With a height of only 169cm and a weight of only about 63kg, he was very upset when he saw the tall Yan Feng.

"Sure enough, Zhina only produces this kind of trash who has height but no courage and incompetence!" Gan Guishi thought with incomparable contempt in his heart.

In fact, seriously, in terms of football, China is indeed quite contemptuous.The Japanese team has always been a frequent visitor to the World Cup, but the national football team with better physical fitness and height has difficulty even entering the top 12.Therefore, many Japanese players do not think highly of Chinese players.However, the recent media criticism and the fans' displeasure made the Japanese, who have always only put their true thoughts at ease, couldn't help but speak out.

The game starts soon.

Since today's Eibar team is using their usual 4231 formation, the Granada team does not have such an extreme formation like 541, but the same 4231.
As a result, Yan Feng returned to the position of the midfielder that he was most familiar with.Today, he was also entrusted with the important task of defense by Alcaraz.It's just that today I mainly sit in the middle to provide enough protection for the defense.

But soon, Alcaraz discovered that the protection provided by Yan Feng today was a little too much.

Yan Feng was originally asked to protect the middle, but he often appeared on the side to protect his teammates.Although that man named Gan Gui is very active over there, but~
Uh~ After seeing Gan Guishi nimbly breaking through the defense, and Yan Feng, who quickly made up for it, shoveled the ball out of the sideline, Alcaraz felt that it was better to forget it, and would not express his opinion for the time being.

Gan Guishi is very active today, and he is very active.But the more active he was, the more energetic Yan Feng became.

The characteristic of Ganguishi is that he is good at running and breaking through.But when facing Yan Feng, he seemed helpless.Leaving aside the body, he never had a body.And the running ability he is proud of is like a child in Yan Feng, which is not enough at all.

Then, Eibar fans at home can see their players being overthrown by the fierce Yan Feng from time to time.You must know that Gan Guishi is still very popular with Eibar fans.Now seeing that such a small man as Qiangui often has to endure the ravages of Yan Feng, a fierce man, they began to express their dissatisfaction one after another.

"That big man, don't bully our gentleman!"

"Damn, that No. 44 is too rough. He is obviously in the middle, why does he keep running to the side to bully our little man?"

But no matter what others think, as soon as he sees a ball under Gan Guishi's feet, Yan Feng will secretly approach there.Then, as long as the nobles don't score the ball in time, he will definitely enjoy the service of Yan Feng's tendons.

Poor Ganguishi, he just wants to perform, and he just wants to show everyone that Japanese players are better than Chinese players.You know, there is a saying of Asian derby in Japan and China.Of course, the nobles who know about it must actively behave.

However, his body is really at a disadvantage, especially in the face of an unreasonable guy like Yan Feng who bullies you with his body.

In this case, Gan Guishi, who used to be very active on the wing, could only keep distributing the ball to his teammates, and gradually lost his due role.

After seeing the nobles gradually getting depressed, Yan Feng felt quite regretful.In his heart, he was still thinking that if there was a chance, there would be a scene that knocked people into the air.After all, this kind of thing has happened in the past.With the physical condition of a nobleman, Yan Feng is confident that if he has the opportunity, he will definitely be able to knock the opponent into the air and drift far away.As long as there is such an opportunity, even if it is a yellow card, Yan Feng is still willing.

You know, this point of doing nothing is very important to the Eibar team.The Eibar team is not a team known for its ground skills. Their number of long passes is the largest in La Liga.This is very much in need of the winger's bottom pass.

Without one side, the Eibar team's offense is much inferior.Especially without the side with the strongest running ability, their offense can only be transferred to Pedro Leon in the center and right.

In this way, the Granada team will have much less pressure on defense.

For a while, the Granada team played more proactively than the previous game.At least Kravitz, who was at the top, still had a few chances to attack.

The scene was a little stalemate, but in general Ebar had the upper hand.But they are not top-level offensive capabilities, and they are so sharp when facing Granada's defense, which is now more and more confident in defense.

Under the strategy of the Granada team's defensive counterattack, they just failed to score a goal in the entire first half.Of course, Granada's weak striker is even more impossible to score.

The first half was tied, which gave Granada a lot of confidence.But after the start of the second half, they found that the Eibar team was more tenacious than expected.

After the adjustment of the intermission, the two sides of the Eibar team became active again.This time, the defensive pressure on the Granada team far exceeded that of the first half.

The current mental outlook and confidence of the Granada team is very different from that of the team halfway ago.Their equally tenacious defense made it difficult for the Eibar team to break through the defense.

The tenacious Granada lasted 60 minutes and then another 70 minutes.At this time, it was originally the time for Alcaraz to counterattack.But the tenacity of the Ebar team exceeded their expectations.

Despite the ferocious firepower of the Ebar team, their persistence and fighting spirit have not faded much.

In this way, Alcaraz's strategy of imitating the previous attack failed.

At 80 minutes, the Granada team became more passive.Many players on the team began to run out of energy.

Of course, the Eibar team also suffered a severe decline in physical fitness, but they just stubbornly attacked Granada's defense from time to time.This constant offensive firepower.Let the Granada team even more uncomfortable.

In the end, some players in the Granada team couldn't hold the cramp first.And because the number of substitutions has been used up, this has caused the Granada team's manpower to become tense.

If it is another team, or the previous Granada team, it is estimated that this will be the case.But they are lucky to have Yan Feng.A lunatic who can't run to death and is very fast.

His teammates were exhausted, so Yan Feng ran desperately.Constantly fighting fires here and there.Several times when there were crises, it was Yan Feng who arrived in time to destroy them.

Under the hard support of Yan Feng.Granada survived the game.

0:0. The Granada team took another point from the away game.This was beyond the expectations of the outside media.And because of Yan Feng's desperate defense in the final stage of the game, everyone can see him everywhere.Therefore, they all gave Yan Feng the credit for Granada's ability to keep a point this time.

Of course Yan Feng was very happy about this.But the price he paid for this was that after the game, he sat on the ground and couldn't get up for a long time.This is not the Chinese Super League, this is La Liga with stronger rhythm and intensity.

(End of this chapter)