The Midfield Master

On September 25th, Xia Ze, Zhang Wei, and Di Keao followed the team and embarked on an away game against the Portuguese side Athletic Farence.

After a period of journey, coach Maritimo and the players arrived outside the Farence Arena in the bus.

After entering the locker room of the stadium, Xia Ze found that this stadium was completely different from the stadium where he was a guest a few days ago.

The stadium of the Farence Athletic team is very simple and can only accommodate 6,000 people, and even more than half of them are standing seats. And the locker room is far from the Alvalade Stadium, even compared with Maritimo's home stadium, the Jose Barreiros Stadium.

Although the stadium is very simple, even though the team is only a Portuguese team and is unknown in Portugal, it has not hindered the enthusiasm of the local fans in the slightest.

They came to the perimeter of the stadium early, blue and white striped jerseys can be seen everywhere, optimistic and cheerful Portuguese holding beer, chatting and laughing happily.

For the next game, although the opponent is Maritimo of the Portuguese Super League, who just drew away with the powerful Sporting Lisbon team, they are still optimistic that the team they support will not be at home. Will give Maritimo an advantage.

"Okay, today many of you are playing for the first time this season. Show your performance and impress me deeply in this game. The main position of the future team is waiting for you!"

Martins cheers the players sitting in front of him in the visitors' locker room. In this game, he sent quite a few young players.

Those young players heard the coach's encouragement, and everyone was eager to try. Xia Ze, Zhang Wei and Di Keao were even more excited by the huge temptation of being the main force.

Martins watched the young players walk from the locker room to the field full of fighting spirit, with a hint of relief and trust in their eyes.

This game is very different from the last one. In the away game against Sporting Lisbon, they were completely on the weak side before the game. Even he himself did not have any confidence in scoring points against Sporting Lisbon.

But this game is completely different. The strength of Athletic Farence is far inferior to their own team, so they must win this game, and they still need a beautiful victory.

The Maritimo team still has a 433 formation in this game. The goalkeeper is the team's second goalkeeper Lima, the team's vice-captain in the defense, and the field captain of this game Luis Olim As the left back, Zhang Wei and Boros partnered as the center back, Joao Diogo served as the right back, the midfield line was Xia Ze, Di Keo and Pereira, and the three forwards were Sami, Fidelis and Dani lo.

In this game, it is obvious that the head coach of the Farence Athletic team has done enough homework. He attaches great importance to Xia Ze, who had a brilliant performance in the previous game, and uses a midfielder to guard him closely. The lower back will follow.

And when Xia Ze got the ball, even if it cost him a foul, he had to prevent Xia Ze from turning around and taking the ball.

This kind of candy-style defense made Xia Ze and Maritimo very uncomfortable at the beginning.

The tactics arranged by the head coach Martins before the game were all based on Xia Ze as the core point of delivery. Now that Xia Ze is closely watched by the opponent, the players on the field have no better way to deal with it.

On the contrary, Athletic Farence did a good job in the targeted arrangement before the game. After restricting Xia Ze's performance, he frequently used the two sides to make a fuss, sending the ball into the penalty area to grab points for the striker.

For a while the offensive seemed to overwhelm Maritimo.

However, to the annoyance of the opposing coach, Athletic Farence's shots on both sides were basically blocked by a young Asian defender of the opposing team. Their center forward failed to take advantage of this defender.

"Who's that defender?" Luciano, the young head coach of Valence Athletic, asked the assistant coach beside him.

"It should be a Chinese central defender who transferred with Xia Ze."

"Let them cooperate on the ground and knock down this big defender!" Luciano changed his strategy without hesitation.

Originally, he was making a fuss about Maritimo's poor defensive crossing ability. Who knew that today Martins would send Zhang Wei, who is 190 tall, to make his arrangements come to naught.

But when they changed their strategy, they found that they still couldn't break through Zhang Wei's defense. Although Zhang Wei's turn was relatively slow, he was tall and had extremely accurate kicks.

After grabbing the ball again, Zhang Wei looked up at the midfielder, only to see that Xia Ze was still tightly entangled by the opponent's midfielder, while Di Keao was unguarded.

"Pass the ball to Dicko!" Martins yelled from the sidelines.

In the opening 20 minutes of the game, he had already discovered this problem, but the players were oppressed by the opponent's momentum for a while, so he had no chance to implement his new tactical arrangement.

Before Martins finished speaking, Zhang Wei had already passed the ball to Di Ke'ao.

As one of the three midfielders, Di Keo is responsible for the connection between offense and defense, but he himself also has a certain dribbling ability. After he got the ball, he immediately turned and pressed the midfielder.

Because the defensive center of Athletic Farence was placed on Xia Ze, Di Keao suddenly dribbled the ball to the outside of the penalty area as if he was in no one's land.

He glanced at the opponent's gate, and found that there were no defenders coming up, so he pulled his leg and shot angrily, as if he wanted to vent all the resentment that had been suppressed just now.

The ball flew straight to the opponent's goal like a fired shell, and the opponent's goalkeeper flew to make a save. The ball slipped past his fingertips, but just touched the post and went out of the baseline.

Maritimo almost opened the scoring.

After Dike started Maridimo's counterattack, the opponent's midfielder realized that Maridimo still had such an outstanding young player in the formation, and part of the strength of marking Xia Ze was allocated to defend Dike.

Without the opponent's lifeless press, Xia Ze finally found a chance and regained control of the rhythm of the game.

After 20 minutes, this game finally returned to what everyone predicted before the game: Maritimo dominated the offense.

In the 35th minute of the first half, Xia Ze took the ball from Pereira, turned around and accelerated, easily getting rid of the opponent's Nougat midfielder.

Without sticking the ball, Xia Ze directly passed the ball to the left winger Sami. At this time, the left back and the field captain Olim has already stepped up.

Sammy made a fake move and passed the ball to Olim, who pressed the bottom line with his left foot and landed on the high position of the near post.

Xia Ze happened to appear in this position, but the opponent also had players flying to block the eye. If he shot directly, it was likely to hit the opponent's defender.

Xia Ze did not shoot directly, but lightly dunked with his right foot, past the defender, near the bottom line of the penalty area on the left.

He quickly looked up while going down, and found Fidelis in front of the goal and the opponent's defender fighting for the front point, but there was an open space near the penalty point, and a red and green figure was running in from the top of the penalty area.

Without hesitation, Xia Ze sent a low ball to the penalty spot with his left foot, and Di Keao appeared in front of the ball. He swung his right foot and hit the goal with a heavy bombardment!

boom! ! !

Before the opposing goalkeeper even had time to react, the ball was already in the net.

Xia Ze assisted Dicko to score and Maritimo led 1-0!

Di Keao, who scored the first goal of his career, ran towards Xia Ze with a smile on his face. The two celebrated by high-fiving, while other teammates also gathered around and patted Xia Ze and Di Keao on the head to express their encouragement. The cooperation between the two just now was too tacit.

In the stands, among the silent fans of the home team, a middle-aged man in black looked at the field and nodded slightly, then lowered his head and wrote something in his notebook.

After breaking the deadlock, Maritimo played more and more smoothly, especially the cooperation between Xia Ze and Di Keao in the midfield, as if they had played together for ten years, with a tacit understanding, and they often easily passed the opponent's defense.

In the second half, Xia Ze assisted the left winger Sami to score, and the game was easily won by Maritimo 2-0 away. With two assists, Xia Ze won the title of best player after the game.

In this game, Maritimo and Sanming young players who started together all performed well. Zhang Wei became the anchor in the rear, making the goalkeeper almost do nothing throughout the game. On the other hand, Xia Ze and Di Keao organized the midfield in an orderly manner, making the game completely under their control.

In the whole game, Maritimo's ball possession rate reached 60%, 14 shots, 8 shots on the goal frame.

Xia Ze played the full 90 minutes as the core of the midfielder. He passed the ball more than 100 times in the game, and there were a total of 8 threatening passes, which made the opponent's midfielder and defender miserable.

After the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, the man in black, who was sitting among the fans of the home team and took notes from time to time, stood up, glanced in the direction of the Maritimo players on the field, and followed the crowd left the pitch.

On the other side of the field, around the hundreds of Maritimo fans who were still celebrating, a middle-aged man in a floral shirt was covering his left ear with his left hand, holding a phone in his right hand, and talking loudly to the phone The people inside speak:

"Hey, boss, it's me, it's noisy here... I saw some interesting things today."

"Oh? What else did you find?" An old but energetic voice came from the phone.

"I see more than one talented player in Maritimo's team. They also have a young Chinese defender and a midfielder. They are all very good!"

"How about that Xia Ze?" Although the floral shirt was very excited, the other side of the phone seemed very calm.

"Although they may not be as eye-catching as Xia Ze, they all have the potential to become 20 million-level players, so you can't miss it!" Hua Shirt still said excitedly.

"Oh? Well, come back first, I will deal with this matter as soon as possible." After Hua Shirt said this, there seemed to be interest.

Just, who are they?

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