Football’s First Defender

In any case, Zenit advanced! Although the process was very tortuous, they still passed the first hurdle of the knockout round without any risk!

The next opponent will be the Ligue 1 giants Marseille!

However, Marseille's experience in the league is very embarrassing, only ranked fifth, and there is still a gap of 5 points from the Champions League!

And the team has a lot of ups and downs, especially the home and away performances, the gap is very obvious! But the fighting power at home is very strong!

Its opponent in the first knockout round is Zenit's old rival Moscow Sparta!

In the cold wind of Moscow, Marseille lost 0 to 2 to Spartak Moscow. After returning to the warm France, they broke the bus of Spartak Moscow 3 times cleanly and abruptly, and reversed 3 to 2. big score!

This time, Zenit faced this convulsive Ligue 1 giants, although Zenit was fully prepared, but still suffered a blow in the away game!

3-foot long-range shot decides the world!

In the away game, Zenit played against the home team Marseille!

I was fooled by the home team's three-footed long-range shots in the first half and the second half!

Zenit, who obviously has the advantage on the field, has almost twice the number of shots and shots on target as Marseille, but they just have no luck in scoring!

On the contrary, it was Marseille. The three long-range shots were more exciting than the other, and they were fairy balls! Especially the third ball!

During the counterattack, Yang Feng, who was in charge of the defense, had no choice but to kick the world wave 35 meters away!

The shot is too accurate, the toe is too hard!

However, although the game was lost, Zenit did not suffer much in terms of away goals!

Pogrebnyak scored with a low shot in the penalty area before halftime, and Yang Feng's header in the second half earned Zenit two away goals. The big score was only One goal behind. The initiative is still in the hands of their own team, Zenit players are so confident!

a week later! Returning to the Zenit team in St. Petersburg, under the blessing of the cold wind buff, they will show their strength to the fullest!

Arshavin became the shining point of this game!

In the 23rd minute, after a breakthrough and change of direction, he made an emergency stop to throw off his opponent, and kicked a curved ball into the far corner, which caught the Marseille goalkeeper by surprise and made Zenit directly equalize the big score!

Then in the 36th minute, during the counterattack, he directly kicked a tricky through ball and assisted "Hot Dog" Domingos to score the second goal!

In the second half, it was Pogrebnyak who continued his good form in the Euro Cup. He received a high-quality cross from Arshavin from the wing, directly overwhelmed the opponent's central defender, scored with a header, and rewritten the score. 3 to 0!

Originally, at the last moment, Arshavin had a chance to perform a hat-trick of assists, but Fazu Yilin, who came off the bench, ruthlessly spit out a big cake that was fed to his mouth, wasting an excellent single-handed goal!

But 3 to 0, the total score, 5 to 3, Zenit advanced to the top 8!

In this game, Yang Feng and his partner Skrtel also performed outstandingly!

When Zenit was aggressively attacking, Yang Feng expanded his range of activities in this game, killing Marseille's counterattack in the bud. More than half of Marseille's counterattack opportunities were directly intercepted or destroyed by Yang Feng before entering the long-range shooting area. In the whole game, except for the goal when setting the ball, Yang Feng and Skrtel did not even give Marseille a penalty area. Opportunity for an inside kick!

Yang Feng, who played particularly well in this game, was directly selected by UEFA as the best team in this round of the knockout round, which made the fans in China who supported Yang Feng extremely happy!

There is no way, some people don't watch the football, but only know to watch the score, they are willing to point out the country wantonly!

Three goals were conceded in the first round, and the blame was inexplicably pinned on Yang Feng by some domestic fake fans, as if Yang Feng made all kinds of mistakes all over the sky! There are endless remarks about why Chinese players are not suitable for European football, and how they can be the core of the defense!

But in the second round, Yang Feng used his performance visible to the naked eye to fight back some domestic noises. As long as he is not blind, he can see Yang Feng running in defense and his role in the team!

However, after playing Marseille, the new season of the Russian Super League will begin!

Zenit will no longer have an advantage in the schedule, and will also face the situation of double matches in a week!

However, they have entered the quarter-finals. Facing the newly started league and the European championship within reach, the choice of the team is of course obvious!

In the first round of the Russian Super League, due to only three days of rest, the Zenit players who have not yet recovered from the match against Marseille, their offensive performance is obviously a bit substandard!

Even though Advocaat adjusted Fazu Erin, Tyke, Miguel Dani, and the offensive strength of the three in turn, he still achieved a 0-0 ending!

The iron wall of Moscow Sparta finally made Zenit hit his head this time! The defending journey in the new season is not that simple!

Looking back at the second round of the league, Zenit, who had been recuperating for a week, finally showed his strength this time. He won the Moscow Torpedo 2-0 in the away game. Contribute to the team in the game!

In the third round of the league, even if the home team invested heavily in the off-season and introduced a large number of powerful players, Advocaat, who had won two consecutive victories before the Kazan Rubin, still chose to rest a large number of main players in order to prepare for the midweek European Cup and The first round of the Bundesliga powerhouse Leverkusen!

As a result, Zenit simply lost 1 to 3 at home! In the first three rounds of the new season, Rubin Kazan has opened up a gap of 5 points!

However, the frustration in the league does not mean that Zenit's strength has declined!

At home to Leverkusen! Zenit once again showed its terrifying attack power to Europe!

The away game was 4 to 1. Zenit used his best offense to solve the opponent in almost one round!

But in this game, Yang Feng made a rare mistake in the game!

Yang Feng, who has always been known for his ability to judge, was deceived by a fake move by the Leverkusen striker during the game, stealing his foot and judging the wrong direction!

Caused the first conceded goal of his team! The score was equalized by the opponent at halftime!

But in the second half, Yang Feng, who was full of fighting spirit, made atonement! In the free kick tactic, first it was a header relay, which assisted Pogrebnyak to score again and scored twice! Immediately afterwards, he was in another corner kick, and the lion shook his head and scored the team's third goal!

And Arshavin, at the last moment, during the counterattack, assisted Denisov, fixed the score to 4 to 1, and completely defeated Leverkusen in the Bayer Arena!

As for the second round in a week's time! Due to the three goals behind, Leverkusen seemed to disarm and surrender after trying to attack in the opening game to no avail. Many of the Chinese fans fell asleep boringly at the end of halftime!

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