Chapter 160 Promotion (Second Update)

The 2-0 win at home to Villarreal left the St. Petersburg media ecstatic, and they even started to think about Zenit's opponent in the quarter-finals ().

According to the results of the previous CHOU draw, Zenit St. Petersburg will advance to the round of 16 after winning the 1/16 finals, and the opponent who will play the quarterfinals will be the winner between the Marseille and Spartak Moscow matches ().

If you play Spartak Moscow, St. Petersburg will not have any pressure every day, because it is too familiar, what is the strength of this team, and what is the recent form, everyone knows the roots.

Who are they, which players are the most threatening, and which ones are we can ignore. We all know that!

Besides, we only "doubled" them in the race for the league title and the league's top scorer last season, so what is there to fear from our first defeat?

What worries the St. Petersburg media is the Ligue 1 side Marseille.

Although the current Ligue 1 hegemon is Lyon, as a former hegemon, Marseille's strength should not be underestimated.

One thing may prove that Marseille comfortably beat the top giants of the Russian Premier League 3-0 in the later Marseille home game against Spartak Moscow, finishing runners-up in the league last season.

Sparta Moscow, which can be called the king and hegemon in Russia, has no temper at all in the face of Marseille, and there is no suspense about losing.

Now the Marseille team has former famous French international Wiltord (sylvain__ben_arfa), Dutch veteran Zenden (Bo udeir_nasri), and striker Cisse (djibril_cisse), who once broke his leg by Zheng Zhi......

Some of these players have been famous for a long time, and some of them are considered dominant players in Ligue 1.

The Marseille made up by these people has a great sense of revival.

Playing with this team, you really have to be careful and careful, if you don't pay attention, you may be finished. The St. Petersburg media certainly don't want their team to be a stepping stone to the resurgence of the Ligue 1 giants – whoever loves to do it, Zenit doesn't do it anyway.

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Chen Yingying scored a beautiful and representative header against Villarreal, which made everyone happy, but it was not the euphoric () of the previous (). Journalists in China, in particular, are now used to Chen scoring one goal after another.

At the beginning, after Chen Yingying scored in the domestic league, everyone was very excited, thinking that "it is too morale-boosting!" "Fight for face for the Chinese!" "Raise the prestige of our country!" "There is hope for Chinese football!"

Such enthusiastic words often appear in the reports of reporters, and readers naturally watch it very high, and then feel that Chinese football is really hopeful! Chen Yingying is good!

But when Chen Yingying scored one goal after another, and scored in several rounds in a row, they went from initial ecstasy to a very calm happiness - ah, he scored again, what a bāng!

That's all, there will be no boring thoughts like "God has finally sent an arrogant guy to save Chinese football".

As the St. Petersburg media said: Chen Yingying's goal is not news, he is not news.

The Chinese media also thinks so, and everyone's blind worship of Chen Yingying in China is gradually cooling down. In the past, everyone had a good impression of this striker who could score goals, but with the deepening of media reports, as many aspects of Chen Yingying became well-known, many people also changed their views. In China, there are many people who cannot accept Chen Yingxing's rules of conduct and maverick style, and they gradually change from liking Chen Yingying to hating him.

For example, I hate Chen Yingying's frequent nightclubs, I hate Chen Yingying's arrogant words and deeds, and even some people feel disgusted by Chen Yingying's smug front and back tattoos, because it reminds them of street souls...... Although tattoos have been popular in China since ancient times, they became a popular fashion in the Song Dynasty......

Someone even put such a big hat on Chen Yingying's head - "...... He is a collection of almost all the bad habits of Chinese football players that we know and hate: clubbing, showing off wealth, scandals, tattoos, arrogance, low quality, lack of education, poor education, alcoholism, prostitution...... Now I don't know if he smokes, takes drugs, gambles or not...... I think it's about the same, and there is no difference between these three points (). Can such a person be praised by some media as the hope of Chinese football? If the hope of Chinese football rests on such social scum, I think we should seriously consider the proposal to cancel the development of football in China...... Let such a person become the hope of the national football team? I could only despair more. ”

Of course, this article is from Xie Liang...... His clear dislike of Chen Yingying made many people who also dislike Chen Yingying strengthen their confidence - such a famous person is disgusted with Chen Yingying, which shows that we are not that kind of minority, and our ideas are still quite marketable!

The extremes of Chen's personality are also reflected in his supporters and loath.

People who like him like him very much, he likes everything he likes and can tolerate it, and he thinks it's good. And those who hate him can't hate it, no matter what he does, he can find something worth blacking. Everyone can find a topic from Chen Yingying, whether they scold him or praise him, there will definitely be no one who has nothing to say.

However, Chen Yingying himself doesn't care about these things, others are in Russia, not in the domestic soul, to be honest, he really doesn't care what attitude the country has towards him. He also rarely goes online to see what fans think of him now, not like when he was first famous, and hopes to satisfy his vanity from the fans' reactions to him. Now he doesn't even buy newspapers—at first he had to buy every issue of the newspaper, just to see how the media praised him, and he could read the meaty touted articles with relish and complacency.

Now look at wα*p on the phone]. 2}58o He doesn't do it anymore because he doesn't care what the media thinks of him anymore, and his status and glory don't need to be touted by the media, as long as he continues to score goals, he can get everything.

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The second leg against Villarreal is a week later on 21 February, and Zenit will travel to challenge their opponents.

For Pellegrini, this is the last chance and they will have to come back at home and beat their opponents by more than two goals to have any chance of progressing to the round of 16 ().

After the last defeat, Pellegrini had a lot of excuses – bad weather, too low temperatures, too slippery pitches, no one was out of shape, there was a lot of pressure away from home, etc......

And this time? He had no excuses, but the pressure was even greater. Because the conditions are so good that you can't lose. If you're stronger than Zenit, you deserve to win! You have to win too!

At the Love Song Stadium, the venue to familiarize yourself with, the weather conditions were also very good, although it was a little cold, but for the yellow submarine that experienced the cold of St. Petersburg, it was already "warm" above five or six degrees. At their home stadium, the fans will definitely support him, and there is no such thing as a bad atmosphere in the away stadium.

If you can't win like that...... Go and die!

The murderous Villarreal welcomed Zenit St. Petersburg, who had brought them humiliation on their home turf.

They prepared well before the game, and Manuel Pellegrini went to great lengths to boost their morale, showing a video of their 2-0 defeat at Zenit St. Petersburg to motivate the players to be ashamed and competitive in order to get their revenge on what seemed to be a difficult one at home.

However, it was the visitors Zenit St. Petersburg who scored first......

"Andrey. Arshavin!! His beautiful long-range shot broke the hearts of Villarreal fans! ”

"Zenit St. Petersburg is already 3:0 ahead on aggregate! The suspense was largely lost in the game, and only thirty minutes had passed......"

"Look at Pellegrini's expression, it's like a dead father! Can you still pull it after two goals, but what about three goals behind? Arshavin's goal was a reassuring relief for Zenit fans. If Villarreal wants to qualify, unless they win a 4:1 in this game, there will be no play! ”

The hope of winning 4:1 is slim, and even if there are more favorable factors at home, the difference in strength between the two sides is not so large......

After conceding the goal, Villarreal let out and attacked all the way (). Zenit, on the other hand, simply shrunk up and played defensive counter-attacks.

It wasn't until the 74th minute that Villarreal equalized by Mexican striker Franco (guillermo_franco). The Mexicans did not celebrate after the goal, nor did the Villarreal players, and the cheers from the stands at the Stadium of Love Anthems rang out briefly before falling back quickly.

It took 74 minutes to score, and many people's hearts were half cold - there were more than ten minutes left, even if there were four minutes of injury time, it was only 20 minutes, and three goals had to be scored in one go in 20 minutes, and the opponent had to not score...... It's not a big job.

So after Franco's goal, Hilgaevski said happily: "I don't think Zenit has any problem getting to the round of 16!" ”

The announcement after the opponent's goal shows how excited Hilgeevsky, the St. Petersburg commentator, is.

Villarreal scored the second goal in the 89th minute through Thomas (joan_tomas), but it didn't help, and it was absolutely impossible for them to score twice in the last five or six minutes.

Although there was little hope, the game ended up playing with a lot of fire.

Chen Yingying did not score in this game because the opponent's defensive action was too big, and Advocaat was worried about Chen Yingxing's injury, so he simply replaced him when the overall situation was decided.

After the 80th minute, the two sides moved more and more, and red and yellow cards flew all over the sky.

But to Advocaat's displeasure, these cards are all aimed at Zenit St. Petersburg!

Ultimately Roman. Shirokov was sent off for two yellow cards, while Hill was also sent off for two yellow cards (). This left Advocaat furious off the pitch – his team made the cut but lost two players, and no one knows what impact it would have on the next knockout round.

In this game, Zenit received eight yellow cards and two red cards, and it was much more exciting to look at the statistics than to watch the game.

But in any case, Zenit finally managed to cross the hurdle of the Spanish powerhouse Villarreal and enter the door of the last 16 of the UEFA Cup.

Chen scored a goal in the quarter-finals and now has three goals in the League Cup. Ranked sixth in the League Cup scorer list, which is not high. His hat-trick vow has yet to be fulfilled and now he has a chance to pursue it.

Advocaat was unhappy with the referee's decision after the game, but he didn't dare to say too much because he was afraid that he would be given an additional penalty – he was not someone like Jose Mourinho.

He only expressed his anger euphemistically: "What more can I say? All I can say is – thankfully we made the cut! That's the only good outcome! ”

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PS, this should be the style of the game in the future of this book - there is more ink on important games, focusing on goals. The secondary matches are written in a shorter form, and only the goals are written. And those games that basically play soy sauce, or the games that brush the data, are just brushed aside, even if the hero scores a hat trick, there will be no more description.

This is to avoid writing too much about the competition, becoming a running account, and the same. After all, Chen Yingying is a striker, and it can be expected that his career will inevitably be full of goals, and if every goal is written in detail, this book is ready to run for 10 million words...... Another professional player plays at least 50 games a season, and it is normal to have 70 or 80 more games, of course, you can't write every game.

If it's important, I'll write it in detail, let's look at Gao Cháo, and if it's not important, I'll write it slightly, and everyone can just look at Chen Yingxing's data.

Don't worry, I know what should be written in detail and what should be skimmed, and I will definitely not make everyone feel that it is all water......