Football’s First Defender

What is home field advantage in professional football?

It's not just the fans shouting passionately on the sidelines; it's not just all kinds of so-called off-the-market tricks; the venue is also the most important part!

In the top competition, although the strengths and weaknesses of the teams are distinct, the players all have a certain level.

Therefore, use the home field and do more trimming on the turf to achieve the purpose of showing your own tactical strength and limiting the opponent's tactical play, so as to narrow the gap in strength!

Just like facing a technical team like Barcelona, ​​at the Nou Camp, the turf is naturally cut very short and neat to achieve the most suitable level for passing the ball on the ground!

But in the away games of the so-called royal teams, even if the turf is usually well maintained, there will be potholes on purpose, just to make you uncomfortable when passing the ball...

In the European arena, an artificial turf may make many teams in the five major leagues change their faces!

For many top professional players, if they are asked to choose between vegetable fields and artificial turf to play away games, I am afraid they would prefer to choose vegetable fields!

Although the vegetable field is bumpy, it is a familiar grass field, although there may be less grass and more holes! But just pay attention!

But the artificial turf looks good, but it is actually a big pit!

Many players in developed countries in Western Europe may have been exposed to that kind of pure natural turf since they were young. For professional football players who have to make all movements delicate, they suddenly switch to artificial turf. big difference!

The impact of strength is still secondary. In case the main players sprained their ankles or even their knees and delayed the subsequent games, the head coach would cry to death!

So we often see that in the Europa League or even the UEFA Champions League, teams whose value may differ by hundreds of times, even if a strong team has all the main players, they may not necessarily be able to win the game!

The players are timid to play, and the pressure to qualify is not a big reason. Those who think that "even if the youth team goes up to play, they can win by strength" are surprised!

Moras's home court is indeed artificial turf, and he may have the advantage of not adapting to other teams on the field!

But Zenit is the kind of team that repairs both artificial turf and natural turf!

There is no way, the cold weather in winter can only be trained indoors on artificial turf, Zenit players are used to it!

And Russian players use that sentence to say that they are hard-working and solid!

Don't look at their technical ability may be rough, but their adaptability and physical fitness are still good enough!

Moras' signing luck can only be said to be home!

Although it is only a qualifying match, it is a European competition after all. For all Zenit players, this is a rare opportunity to collect data from the European competition!

And if you perform well, appearing in UEFA's official lineup or in the highlight shots can be regarded as a lot of exposure!

Except for the goalkeeper Malafeyev, who had a premonition that he had no chance to perform, everyone else was eager to try!

"In the 2007-08 season, the second qualifying round of the Europa League, Moraes' home game against Zenit has officially begun!"

"Although there is a huge gap in strength between the two sides, Moras has the home court advantage after all. I believe that in the first round, he can still perform well!"

"GOAL!!!"

"Arshavin!"

"Arshavin opened the scoring for Zenit in just 3 minutes!"

"After a light change of direction and swinging out of the angle, followed by a beautiful long shot!"

"Molas sent a 22-year-old midfielder to mark the Russian superstar Arshavin, which is really..."

"Zenit, who scored the opening goal, also firmly controlled the rhythm of the game. If the home team can't even defend their own home court, it is estimated that this round of qualifying will be bad luck!"

"A rare opportunity for Moraes to attack! An imaginative pass from the midfielder!"

"It's a pity that the striker who plugged in met Yang Feng!"

"Yang Feng, who has experienced half a season of tempering, is still lacking in pure physical confrontation ability in the Russian Super League, but he is facing the opponent, who is also tender-faced forward! Yang Feng still has a huge advantage in physical confrontation, and his mobility Still not lost to the opponent!"

"Yang Feng, who firmly occupied his position, successfully blocked the pass! Anyukov, who received Yang Feng's header, started to counterattack again..."

In the first round, try to solve the opponent as quickly as possible, and reserve physical strength for the subsequent league games. This is the tactic that Advocaat formulated before the game!

Although the league lead is big enough, you never know what will happen until the last moment. Besides, who knows if the teams in the Moscow region will help each other in the end. As the only seedling in St. Petersburg, Zenit has to rely on itself for everything!

If you really lose the championship in the final stage of the league, it will definitely be torn apart by angry St. Petersburg fans...

"Pogrebnyak!"

"Relying on two headers within ten minutes, he scored twice!"

"The game lasted to 32 minutes!"

"Zenit are already leading 3-0!"

"Not only this game, but this round of the series is also over! It only took less than half time, this is Zenit's strength..."

This is the concrete manifestation of strength!

Pogrebnyak faced the home team's two fledgling central defenders, but he was not at all polite!

His strong body opens the way, and the central defender who defends him hits all over the place.

The first header, even carrying the defense of two people, directly headed in. It can be said that Boshen is all kinds of killings in the penalty area!

Of course, this immature defense naturally gave Yang Feng a chance to perform!

According to the analysis of the scouting data before the game, Moras was compared with the Russian League One team. In Yang Feng’s view, Moras’s defense may be similar to that of the Russian Youth League team, and even the physical confrontation may not be as good as that of the Russian Youth League team. A young "polar bear".

Yang Feng was an old backing driver of the Russian Youth Federation back then, and his backing skills were better than forward driving skills!

"GOAL!"

"Yang Feng! Scored the fourth goal for the team!"

"At the corner!"

"Yang Feng, who came in from the back, hit a lion in front and shook his head, and headed the ball into the goal from the near corner!"

"The defensive player at the front point made a mistake in judging the position of the landing point. When he made up the defense, he didn't give Yang Feng enough body to resist the interference!"

"Zenit had a 4-0 lead at the end of halftime!"

"These young people in Moras have been thoroughly educated by Zenit players, what is real professional football!"

"I hope these young people will not lose confidence and show their strength at home!"

Because there is only one day between the Russian Super League and this game!

Seeing that the 4-0 score was settled, Advocaat removed Arshavin, Tymoshchuk, Domingos, and the three generals of the offensive team in one go, allowing them to retain their strength!

"Zenit has lost the core of its offensive organization, and its strength has indeed dropped by more than one level, but...compared with this Slovak team, it still has an advantage!"

"The ball went in!"

"Yang Feng again!"

"This time it was a clever supplementary shot in the penalty area!"

"Facing the opponent's goalkeeper throwing the ball away, Yang Feng didn't waste a rare opportunity, stretched his long legs, and hit the ball into the goal!"

"5 to 0, Zenit's goal feast continues!"

"As a central defender, Yang Feng, in his first show in the European War, was not only a Dinghaishenzhen in defense as always, but also scored 2 goals! You know, Yang Feng is also a young talent under 20, but in the In terms of strength, there is already a huge gap with these peers on the opposite side!"

In the end, Zenit won a 6-0 away game, which completely killed the suspense of the second round!

"Arshavin took the lead in making a contribution! Yang Feng scored twice! Pogrebnyak scored a hat-trick at the last moment!"

"The terrifying Zenit, in the European arena, has shown its powerful offensive firepower as always!"

"You know, there are still three main players, but they were replaced early at halftime to rest!"

"Even in more than 70 minutes, because Fernando Riksen sprained his ankle, the coaching staff let him off the field to rest for the sake of safety. Zenit played 10 to 11 on the field, but still guaranteed zero opponents!"

"It has to be said that Edvocaat's mindless behavior of substituting three players for a rest when he is leading by a large score is still debatable..."

"Thanks to the defensive line formed by Yang Feng and Skrtel in the final stage, it perfectly blocked most of the opponent's crosses!"

"Show the defenders on the opposite side what a defense like an iron wall is!"

"Now! Zenit is going back to the Russian Super League to fight for the Russian Super League championship!"