Soccer: The Road to Extraordinary

Chapter 551
In football, in the first year and the first season, there will be many teams that are extremely strong at the beginning, and then they often gradually become high and low.

And driving high and walking low does not exist for the current Granada team.

First of all, it is natural that the strength of the Granada team has improved more than last season.

Secondly, Mourinho's entry made the experience of the head coach no longer a problem.Mourinho's personal ability and prestige have brought great bonuses to the team's performance.In this regard, I have to admit that Mourinho is indeed stronger than Pirlo, who has just entered the early stage of his coaching career.This is a fact that Yan Feng has to admit as the contact deepens.

In the end, the main players of the Granada team are in good condition.More pressure forces players to be more committed.

Taking all aspects together, the Granada team will only drive high and go high within the foreseeable time.

And as time went by, this momentum became more and more obvious.

After defeating APOEL in the first game of the Champions League, Granada returned to La Liga for three consecutive games.And all came out victorious.

In these three victories, not all were weak teams, and there was still a relatively strong opponent among them.This opponent is Atletico Madrid.

Against Atletico Madrid, Granada played at home.Although the victory has the advantage of home court, but more is the strength of the Granada team.

Since Griezmann left Atletico Madrid, although the framework of the main lineup is still there, it seems that a soul is missing.Meeting in the new season, Yan Feng felt that this once strong opponent was not as good as last season.

The skeleton of Atletico Madrid is still there, so it can bring some troubles to Granada, but Yan Feng thinks they still have a long way to go if they want to win against Granada.

In any case, regardless of the opponent, Granada won a wave of three consecutive victories, which is the most practical.Of course, as for the course of these few games, if you think about their head coach being Mourinho, whom Lin Fan calls an 'old driver', you can probably know what's going on.

Although this wave of three consecutive victories all defeated their opponents 1:0, this made them win all the first five games of the new season.Such outstanding results are beyond the reach of both Barcelona and Real Madrid.Therefore, the Granada team temporarily topped the list.

"Although the style of the old driver is a bit unsightly, at least we have secured the top spot, which is quite reassuring." Yan Feng commented.

Yan Feng really felt pretty good.Because there was an international match day during this period, both he and Lin Fan returned to the national team to participate in the competition, so they missed one of the La Liga matches.

And the one game they missed was that of Atletico Madrid.During the national team period, Yan Feng also found time to watch the replay of the game.After seeing it, Yan Feng felt at ease.

Yan Feng found that the Granada team has indeed been strengthened in terms of bench depth, and under the command of Mourinho, the stability has also been greatly improved compared to before.

In the case that some of the main players were absent due to the national team's game, they were still able to perform smoothly in the face of strong opponents, and they also won the victory.This is what a truly strong team should have.

"Our bench finally has enough depth this year. It should be able to cope with multi-line operations." Yan Feng is very happy with the team's growth.To be honest, after tasting the La Liga title, he is now eager for higher honors.

Last season, he gave up the Copa del Rey and was eliminated in the quarter-finals of the Champions League. Although Yan Feng supported Pirlo's approach, he was still very unwilling in his heart.The current Granada team finally let him see the hope of going deeper in various important events.

The hopes that Yan Feng saw soon came to the test.

After playing three games in a row, another Champions League group match came.

This time, Yan Feng will fly to London, England with his teammates.The opponent is Tottenham in the Premier League.

Tottenham are not a small league team like APOEL, they are a strong and championship-chasing team in the Premier League.This is also a world famous team.

For the Granada team with many Chinese fans, Tottenham is a team that has attracted great attention.Because there is a hot Asian star in the Tottenham team-Sun Xingmin.

The "Asian Champions Contest" game has been dubbed this name by many media from the very beginning.

Who is the king of Asia?

This quickly caused a war of words between Chinese and Korean fans on the Internet.You don't need to think about it to know that Chinese fans must unanimously support Yan Feng, and the sticks are naturally standing up for Sun Xingmin.

To be honest, although Yan Feng achieved better results than Sun Xingmin last season.But one is a defensive midfielder and the other is a forward, but Yan Feng is still much lower than Sun Xingmin in terms of worth.

In view of these topics that the media hyped before the game, when the game started, Sun Xingmin really had a desire to perform.And the kind of enthusiasm that is far beyond the usual.

Sun Xingmin is active, and the Tottenham team is also strong.But what they encountered was the team run by the old driver Mourinho.Mourinho, who has been coaching in the Premier League for several years, naturally knows the characteristics of Tottenham very well.

Mourinho carried forward the tradition of the old driver and drove out directly with a bus. Tottenham soon fell into a predicament of nowhere to attack in their own stadium.

I don't know if it was intentional to echo the topic of the outside world, but Mourinho even directly assigned Yan Feng the task of marking Sun Xingmin.

Affected by external topics, Yan Feng naturally devoted himself to dealing with Sun Xingmin.With Yan Feng's physical fitness completely crushing the opponent, even if Sun Xingmin tried his best, he still couldn't break through Yan Feng's defense in a one-on-one direct confrontation.

As a result afterwards, Sun Xingmin's performance data for the entire game plummeted.

Tottenham conceded a goal in the first half under the defensive counterattack of Granada.

In the second half, Mourinho put away the bus and changed Granada's formation from 541 to 4231. After returning to the formation commonly used last season, Tottenham thought there was a chance at first. Taking advantage of it, the Granada team, which was finally released with offensive firepower, made another victory.

In the end, Granada took three points from Tottenham.In this regard, they laughed at the second victory in the Champions League group stage.

With an away victory over Tottenham, Granada ranked No.1 in the group with six points.In this way, he has mastered the dominant position of qualifying.

(End of this chapter)