Hero of the Penalty Area

Chapter One Hundred and Thirty One

While Chen Yingxiong used a hat-trick to return the color and officially declared war on Pavlyuchenko, Zenit also achieved a breakthrough victory on another front-they defeated 2:0 after returning to the home court. After the standard scorching sun, they successfully advanced to the UEFA Cup Main Event.

The only regret is that Chen Yingxiong did not score a goal in this game. He came off the bench in the second half and only played for fifteen minutes. There was no decent chance.

This is not the first time Zenit has entered the UEFA Cup, but Chen Yingxiong is looking forward to it, because this is his trip to Europe.

The group drawing will be conducted immediately after all the teams entering the main game are released.

In the end, Zenit St. Petersburg was assigned to Group A, with Alkamar from the Netherlands, Everton from the Premier League, Larissa from Greece, and Nuremberg from Germany.

The UEFA Cup is not the same as the Champions League. Each group consists of five teams, and there is no home and away system. It is just that each team will play against each other and the ranking will determine who advances to the knockout stage.

So even though the UEFA Cup group stage starts later than the Champions League and there are more teams than the Champions League, it is still possible to get all the group matches before the winter break.

It’s just that the teams in the Russian League will have to play three UEFA Cup group matches after the end of the season. The final round of the group stage will end on December 20th. And this season of the Russian Premier League ended on November 11.

Those teams that don't have to participate in the European game are naturally disbanded directly and put the players on leave. The teams that need to participate in the European game are suffering, and they are still training in the ice and snow. Of course, for other European teams that unfortunately come to Russia to play away at this time, they are even more bitter...

After the group match opponents were released, the schedule was also announced.

Zenit’s game started on October 25th, and a total of four games were played. On October 25th, they played Alkmaar at home. On November 8, they played away to Larissa. November On the 29th, they played Nuremberg at home. Finally, on December 6, the away game to Everton.

In this group, the strongest may be Everton from the Premier League, while the weakest in the city is Larissa of Greece. The other three teams are centrists who are expected to advance or be eliminated.

Ed Wocart needs to study his opponent carefully and decide what strategy to use in the group stage. For example, playing Everton away is the last group stage. If he played well before, it would have been basically before this game. Confirmed to advance, then the game against Everton became a real friendly match-Ed Wocart thinks Everton should also advance early.

The hardest game to play may become the best to play.

Although it is fair, it shouldn't be difficult to play Larissa.

What needs to be considered is the home game against Alkmaar, and the home game against Nuremberg...

If you play these two games well, you will be able to win the right to qualify, otherwise... it will be over!

Chen Yingxiong is not the head coach, and he doesn't care how the team will play at that time, which game should use all their strength, which game should stay. He is now full of thoughts about letting the world know his name in the UEFA Cup match.

I want to score! I want to score more goals!

But so far, the domestic league is more important. The first UEFA Cup group match will not take place until October 25. Before that, he still has two league games to play.

On the one hand, they competed for the league championship, and on the other hand, Pavlyuchenko was completely underfoot.

On October 7, Zenit St. Petersburg challenged Lokomotiv Moscow on an away game. Although this team is currently ranked eighth in the league, its strength should not be underestimated. You must know that in the last round of the league, they defeated Sparta Moscow 4:3 at home and took this team from the league first. The horse was pulled down from the throne. Zenit was given a chance to reverse.

Zenit certainly does not want to repeat the mistakes of Sparta Moscow.

So in this game, Ed Wocart put in the strongest lineup he could.

Chen Yingxiong's starting lineup, top of the front, his task is to siege the city.

Ed Volkart certainly knows that Chen Yingxiong is holding back his energy to compete with Pavlyuchenko, and his goal can bring the team victory. This is what Ed Wocart could not ask for. Of course he has to make good use of Chen Yingxiong's desire.

In this game, Chen Yingxiong lived up to expectations and scored another goal!

"The 22nd goal! It's incredible! He is scoring consecutive goals! He has scored 22 goals! Since the establishment of the Russian Premier League, the league’s top scorer has scored the most goals in a single season. Twenty-five balls, created by Oleg Veretennikov in the 1995 season...Can Hero Chen break this record?"

Relying on Chen Yingxiong's goal, Zenit won the CSKA Moscow 1-0 away.

In this way, the pressure was transferred to Sparta Moscow and Pavlyuchenko.

Especially for Pavlyuchenko...the pressure is quite high!

He didn't score in the last round of the league, and Chen Yingxiong had a goal. In this round, Chen Yingxiong has already scored a goal. If he can't score any more, the gap will get bigger and bigger. Ultimately it cannot be compensated.

With this mentality, Pavlyuchenko was frantically looking for scoring opportunities in the game.

But there is one truth that is unbreakable, that is, your mentality is very important in a football game. The more impatient you are, the less chance you will have. When you calm down, you will get many opportunities that you would never have thought of before.

Pavlyuchenko's idea of ​​wanting to compete with Chen Yingxiong on the scorer list is good, but he hasn't controlled his mentality well, a bit too impatient...

In the end, Starba Moscow defeated Nalchik Sparta 2:1 in the away game, and continued to bite Zenit in the standings, not letting Zenit have the slightest chance to relax.

However, Pavlyuchenko, who was out of balance, failed to seize the opportunity to score in the game. The gap between him and Chen Yingxiong was pulled to two goals.

It's amazing. Just two rounds before the league, he was still two goals ahead of Chen Yingxiong on the scorer list. How can I think that now it is his turn to be led by two goals...

On October 20th, in the 27th round of the Russian Super League, the same city derby between Sparta Moscow and FC Moscow was very popular. One player from each side was sent off with a red card. Pavlyuchenko finally found the feeling of scoring in this game. He scored a goal by relying on a penalty kick and raised his total number of goals in the league to the twenty-first.

Only one ball away from the hero.

Sparta Moscow defeated FC Moscow 3:1 at home, and returned to the top of the league before Zenit's game. But everyone doesn't care about this, because they all know that as soon as Zenit wins, Sparta Moscow will have to fall from the top position in the league.

Sure enough, Zenit St. Petersburg did not disappoint those who watched the show.

In the league a day later, they defeated Chimki 4-1 at home and unsurprisingly pulled Sparta Moscow down.

Now everyone feels that the fight for the league title is the same. Anyway, both sides are in good condition. If they can win, the final league champion will definitely be Zenit. It depends on who made the last mistake.

But the competition for the best scorer in the league is different. In addition to the suspense of who can win the Golden Boot in the end, there is also a suspense-Oleg Villezhnikov’s 25 goals record has maintained eleven. The season is over, is there any hope of being broken this time?

Chen Yingxiong used a beautiful goal in the game to tell everyone-there is hope!

After scoring this goal, he has now scored 23 goals, only two goals away from Villezhnikov's 25 goals.

After this game is over, his crazy pace of scoring in the league should be temporarily stopped and rested.

The UEFA Cup is here!

In Ed Wocart's plan, Zenit must win the home game against Alkmaar, because this is a team of similar strength and the team that poses the greatest threat to Zenit.

But what is the result?

As a result, Zenit played 1:1 with the opponent at home...

Alkamar made the first move away, scoring the goal in the 19th minute.

Then Alkmaar in the away game began to use frequent fouls to contain Zenit at home.

Especially Chen Yingxiong.

When he rushes to the front, there will always be at least two people around him, who use both hands and feet to defend.

The price Alkmaar paid for this was seven yellow cards and one red card throughout the game-their scoring hero Ali was penalized.

Chen Yingxiong was restrained by the opponent's foul tactics and failed to score a goal in this game.

Captain Timoschuk helped the team equalize the score at the beginning of the second half.

Afterwards, Alkmaar's foul tactics remained the same. They withdrew all their troops due to one person missing, fouling and defensive, making Zenit's offense like a quagmire.

Obviously, Edvard Carter did not expect his team to encounter such a tenacious resistance at home. He lacks change and cannot come up with an effective method.

Chen Yingxiong also fell into the misunderstanding of physically competing with the opponent, blindly showing his strength, but forgot to shoot.

In the end, Zenit could only regret the result of a 1:1 draw at home.

Although Chen Yingxiong is looking forward to it, his first goal in the UEFA Cup has yet to come.

The home game was tied 1:1 by Alkmaar, which cast a shadow over the prospect of Zenit St Petersburg qualifying in the group stage.

If you can't even make it through the group stage, what kind of hat-trick in the knockout stage is there to talk about?

When Chen Yingxiong came off the court, he was not too depressed. He frowned, with anger faintly visible on his face.

He wasn't angry at his teammate's performance, he was angry that his performance was not good enough for not being able to score a goal to help the team win.

Must advance to the UEFA Cup knockout stage, this is his dead goal set for himself.

For this goal, he is going crazy.