The Midfield Master

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In the final round of the league, Everton played at Goodison Park at home against Hull City.

Hull City currently has 35 points and ranks 18th in the league, just in the relegation zone. Ahead of them are Newcastle with 36 points, Aston Villa with 37 points and Sunderland with 38 points.

And ranked nineteenth is Burnley with 33 points. In theory, these five teams have the possibility of relegation or relegation.

If Hull City wants to avoid relegation, they must score points at Goodison Park, preferably three points, and then pray that their relegation opponents can lose points, so that they can avoid relegation.

Everton sits at home, and the last game is purely training.

From the goalkeeper to the striker, most of them are non-main players or rotation players, such as Howard, Baines, Coleman, Jagielka, Xia Ze and other main players in the league, all get a rotation rest to prepare for the next game FA Cup final.

Starting from Monday of this week, Martinez has already started to prepare for the training of the FA Cup final, organizing players to watch the video of Arsenal's game, and studying the targeted play against Arsenal.

The last time Everton won the championship was in the FA Cup in 1994-95. At that time, they defeated the thriving Manchester United and won the FA Cup.

In the two decades since then, Everton has never been able to get involved in any championship trophy.

The last time they reached the FA Cup final was in 2009, when they lost to Chelsea and missed the championship again.

This time they made a comeback after a lapse of six years. Facing Arsenal, they are bound to end the embarrassment of the team without a championship for 20 years.

As for how to play the last league game, neither the Everton team nor their fans care. They only care about whether the team is fully prepared to challenge Arsenal's status as the defending FA Cup champion.

The last round of the league started on time at 3:00 pm on Sunday. All ten games started at the same time, and no delay was allowed for even a minute.

Xia Ze followed the team to Goodison Park, and he appeared on the bench as a substitute in this game. He appeared on the bench with Lukaku and Gibson.

These are relatively young players, and their physical strength recovers faster.

If the team's scene is too ugly, you can also let them go up and press the field.

Anyway, it can be seen from the demeanor of the whole team that they are very relaxed in this game.

The same is true of the Everton fans in the stands. Their focus is not even on this game, but on the FA Cup final a week later.

Some fans who grabbed tickets to the Wembley final were complacent, showing off that they would go to London to cheer for the team a week later and witness the scene of the team winning the championship at Wembley Stadium.

The fans who didn't grab the tickets were envious and jealous, and tried to find ways to ask other fans if there were more tickets, and if there were, they would buy them at a high price.

Newsstand vendors outside the stadium before the game are also selling game viewing guides, but not for this game, but for the FA Cup final a week later.

Some souvenirs and scarves about the FA Cup final have been sold in advance of this game.

It can be seen how much motivation Everton has for their fans to enter the FA Cup final.

On the contrary, the few thousand or two thousand Hull City fans seemed a little worried, and they were not in a good mood before the game. Most of them were discussing the team's starting lineup and their chances of winning in this game.

There are more Hull City fans who are swiping their mobile phones, paying attention to the dynamics of several other relegation opponents at any time, to see if there will be any emergencies in them, or some good news for the team.

Once such news appeared, they would pass it on to each other, and then the expressions on their faces became a little bit brighter, thinking that the prospect of the team's relegation was also clearer.

Everton fans gave their players the loudest chants from the start as the team warmed up.

Although Hull City fans also want to support their team, they are not as good as Everton fans in terms of momentum and morale, and they can only be suppressed to pieces in the end.

The demeanor of the players on the field is the most representative of the current situation of the two teams.

When the Everton players were warming up, they were laughing and laughing, and even the assistant coach looked relaxed. It seems that for them, this is just a warm-up match.

But the players of Hull City, this is a dignified look, whether it is the coach or the players, they are all frowning, with their mouths tightly shut, and put their best efforts into the warm-up, in order to improve their physical condition before the start of the game. Adjust to the best condition.

But the more this is the case, because of their tension, their body muscles cannot be fully relaxed, and the effect is not as good as Everton's players.

Looking at the seriousness on the faces of the players from Hull City, Xia Ze couldn't help being puzzled and curious.

"This is the pressure of relegation in the Premier League." Gibson on the side seemed to see the doubts in Xia Ze's eyes, "The lowest-ranked Premier League teams can get at least 30 to 40 million pounds in broadcasting revenue in a season, and the English Championship teams can at most get 30 million pounds in broadcast revenue. There are only a few million broadcast revenues. So once the team is relegated, it means that the team will lose a large amount of income. At the same time, most of the contracts signed by players and the team also have the clauses of relegation and salary reduction, so everyone They can really feel the pressure of relegation."

After Gibson's explanation, Xia Ze finally understood why each of these Hull City players was frowning, because if they were relegated, it would not only mean that they would not be able to play in the top league, but also that their income would be reduced. reduce.

Such a thing is unacceptable, whether it is from a competitive point of view or an economic point of view.

Before the age of eighteen, Xia Ze had been playing in the R\u0026F youth team. And starting his career in the Portuguese Super League two years ago, although Maritimo is not outstanding, he has no worries about relegation, and even broke into the European arena.

After coming to Everton, in this Premier League team, Xia Ze has never felt the pressure of relegation, so I don't understand the mentality of these Hull City players at this time.

But for professional players, there is pressure in every game, not just relegation to give enough pressure.

In fact, from the moment he steps on the court, he will be under pressure from all aspects, teammates, opponents, media and public opinion, all aspects of pressure will be there.

When you perform poorly or suffer from off-court factors, the pressure you bear will not be less than the team's relegation.

So although Xia Ze was puzzled, he was not ignorant. c