Has anyone ever heard of playing away from home in their home league and still need to beat the jet lag?

In this magical land of Russia, this is how it all happened.

Although Chen Yingying and his teammates did not feel sleepy, under the supervision of head coach Advocaat and assistant coach Graham Porter, all the players honestly stayed in their rooms and slept as required.

Denisov couldn't fall asleep after tossing and turning in bed, and the quilt on the hotel bed was a little hard and rough, and as long as he turned over, he would make a clear rustling sound.

He slept on the plane for so long that he was not sleepy at all.

The team arrived in Vladivostok just after 4 p.m., and after arriving, the whole team went to the hotel to drop off their luggage and rushed to the Dinamo stadium for a training session to acclimatize to the venue. At the same time, it is also to adjust the time difference and form of the players.

After all, Vladivostok is seven hours away from St. Petersburg......

St. Petersburg is almost the westernmost point of Russia, bordering the Baltic Sea. Vladivostok, on the other hand, is in the Russian Far East, at the eastern tip of the Asian continent. The two cities are so far apart that it's almost like being in two different countries.

When he came to this place, Chen Yingying realized that this place should be called Vladivostok, which was once China's territory and was later seized by Russia. Speaking of which, there is still a lot of hatred between Russia and China, but that is a historical matter and has nothing to do with him.

Chen Yingying is just a football player, he has been playing football since he was a child, and he doesn't know anything about politics or history.

But he also strongly hopes that China did not lose Vladivostok at the beginning, because then he would not have to follow the whole team to fly here to play away games today, and he will be laughed at by the whole team.

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All the Zenit players survived their first night in Vladivostok in a half-asleep state. The next day, when we had breakfast in the hotel's restaurant, everyone yawned when they met and greeted each other.

"Hello-heh-"

"Morning-heh-yes-ah!"

"I want to go back to sleep...... Denisov rubbed his cheek on his hand, his head little by little. His breakfast was on the table below, and the tip of his nose was constantly moving back and forth a few centimeters above it.

But there was no way he could go back to bed. Because it's Friday, it's their last chance to train before the game day.

In the afternoon they were allowed to use the Dynamo pitch for two hours of training.

The reason for the overnight flight to Vladivostok on Wednesday evening is that there are only regular flights from St. Petersburg to Vladivostok on Wednesdays and Saturdays during daylight saving time. So after playing on Saturday afternoon, they had to rush straight to the airport and take the evening flight back to St. Petersburg, where they flew again for another thirteen hours, spanning seven time zones, and then continued jet lag......

Tossing back and forth like this really makes many people feel uncomfortable.

Vladivostok Light (fc_luch-energiya_vladivostok) can be ranked in the middle of the Russian Premier League, and Chen Yingying feels that the home field of this geographical location must be a great help......

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The home stadium of Vladivostok Light is called Dynamo Stadium. In Russia, the name is very common, and in Europe alone, there is the Dynamo Moscow team, Dynamo Kiev. In the former Soviet Union, the police team was basically called Dynamo. So dynamo is very common in sports.

With a capacity of more than 10,000 people, the Dynamo Stadium of the Light Energy Team is a very small stadium. Much smaller than the Kirov Stadium, which can accommodate 80,000 people.

However, Chen Yingying has played on smaller courts than this, so he doesn't think there is anything about it.

Yesterday the whole team came to the Dynamo Stadium for acclimatization training and continued to train on this pitch today. The quality of the turf of the site is not very good.

The team is sponsored by Luch, Russia's largest independent oil production company, but the stadium is not quite a match for the company's strengths.

For example, Zenit St. Petersburg, when it received the sponsorship of Russia's largest industrial conglomerate, Gazprom, was ready to start construction of a new stadium.

Of course, a small team like this in a remote area can't compare to the big teams in the "northern capital", and Zenit's number one fan is Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev, the first deputy prime minister of the Russian government. In addition to this, a fan club of senior Zenit officials was allegedly formed in Moscow, consisting of the head of the Federal Security Service Patrushev, the speaker of the lower house of parliament Gryzlov, the minister of defense Serdyukov and others.

Russia's top officials have a habit of supporting football. Although the current president, Vladimir Putin, is also from St. Petersburg, he does not support a team from his homeland. According to rumors within the Kremlin, President Putin is not interested in Dynamo Moscow, which has been under the shadow of the government, but has a good impression of CSKA. As a result, CSKA Moscow won the UEFA Cup in the summer of 2005 during his administration, becoming the first team in the history of Russian football to win a European club tournament.

It's a spectacle of rhetoric – there's momentum everywhere right now, and Putin is openly backing his partner and friend Dmitry Medvedev for president. If this is true, then Medvedev will have no opponent. Once he becomes the leader of Russia's polar bear, will his beloved Zenit St. Petersburg take off like CSKA Moscow?

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When Zenit was training at the Dynamo Stadium, in the shadow of the stands, there were also three people sitting. They are Sergei Pavlov (sergey_pavlov), the head coach of the Light Energy team, and Yuri Shishlov (yury_shishlov) and Yuri Schochoch (yury_saukh), two assistant coaches.

"That big guy is the number 99 who scored in the game against Nalchiksparta?" Fifty-year-old veteran Sergei Pavlov turned to his two assistants.

Yuri Shishlov, assistant coach who specializes in collecting and analyzing opponents' data, nodded.

"In terms of size...... It should be him. ”

"But......," Pavlov said, frowning. Judging from the training during this time, his level is very average? ”

In fact, as long as he does not practice with his headers, Chen Yingying's performance makes people feel that he is completely unworthy of the first team of Zenit St. Petersburg. Fortunately, his teammates are used to it, and everyone knows that Advocaat recruited this person in, maybe it was for his header.

But outsiders don't know. Therefore, anyone who has not seen Chen Yingying's heading ability in training will be puzzled - is it really because Gazprom has too much money to spend after Gazprom became the owner, and found some such rookies to waste their salaries?

"Is there a video of Zenit St. Petersburg playing?"

Shishlov shook his head: "That game was not broadcast nationally, so I'm sorry...... No. ”

Pavlov looked at it for another ten minutes, then stood up: "I don't think it's necessary to keep watching. The most threatening Zenit is Arshavin and Radimov, oh, and that Krzhakov also needs to be paid special attention to. As for the ...... No. 99," Pavlov shook his head, he felt that it was too banal.

The technical statistics of that game say that the number 99 player scored a goal, and the technical statistics should not be wrong. But judging from this performance, the number 99 should just be lucky...... A guy who made his first appearance for the first team scored a goal due to good luck...... From this point of view, although this No. 99 is tall, it is not to be feared.

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Advocaat didn't have to look to know that the home side would be watching his team from the stands, so he didn't do much set-piece drills. Unexpectedly, because of this, the opposing coach Pavlov misunderstood Chen Yingying's ability and thought that he was not afraid.

In fact, after knowing that the next round of the league would be against Vladivostok, Advocaat adjusted his training plan and moved his set-piece training to Tuesday and Wednesday in St. Petersburg. After arriving in Vladivostok, the team mainly practiced simple passing and shooting. There is no secret to such exercises, and there is no fear of being spied on by others.

Although Chen Yingying has practiced hard and has improved, there is still a certain gap between him and the requirements of an excellent striker. Naturally, Pavlov was blinded.

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After the afternoon training, the team took the bus back to the hotel. After dinner, Advocaat convened a tactical meeting.

According to the rules, the starting list is of course announced at the meeting. That's the main thing.

When announcing the starting list, Chen Yingying was a little nervous and expectant.

When the roster was announced, he was as excited as if he had been selected for the first time. But this time, he didn't get up from his seat and shouted "yes".

He was once again named in the starting line-up, partnering Krzhakov, a member of the Eat, Drink and Fun Orchestra, as a striker.

After hearing his name in the starting list, Chen Yingying thought to himself - he has completed another task, and he is one step closer to upgrading!

Now Chen Yingying is full of energy, just waiting to get a talent point after leveling up, and then continue to focus on the talent of "knocking down". The 5% chance wasn't high enough, and he had to fill all fives. This requires an additional four levels...... Before, Chen Yingying thought that the upgrade was fast, but now he is too slow......

Yesenin did not follow Chen Yingying to the away game, his current Russian level has improved rapidly, and he can already communicate with his teammates and coaches basically, and he even accepted an interview with reporters, so Yesenin feels that he does not need to go to the away stadium.

Otherwise, Chen Yingying will definitely use his laptop to open the website after returning to the room now to see how he has upgraded.

He found himself addicted to it—addicted to the system, and he never got tired of it.

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ps, I wish you all a happy Mid-Autumn Festival in advance~~

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