On November 30th, Berlin time, at the Volkswagen Arena in Wolfsburg, players from both sides were already warming up on the field, waiting for the start of the game.
The stands on all sides of the scene were also filled with fans, and they were using huge noise to put pressure on the Everton players on the field.
How Everton's home fans treated their players last time, now they have to do it back twice as hard, making the atmosphere extremely heated.
On the court, Chu Zheng and De Bruyne got together and bounced the ball back and forth face to face.
De Bruyne passed the ball to Chu Zheng and suddenly laughed: "Chu, I may have to move out after the winter break!"
"Waht!!" Chu Zheng was stunned for a moment. The ball was raised to the ground, but he didn't care. Instead, he stared at De Bruyne, who had a rippling smile.
Two seconds later, Chu Zheng had an epiphany. He stepped forward and hugged De Bruyne's shoulders, and asked with a teasing look on his face: "Michelle?"
De Bruyne nodded, smiling a bit shyly.
"Kevin, congratulations on coming out of that incident and embracing a new life!" Chu Zheng smiled extremely happily and shook De Bruyne hard.
Now Chu Zheng finally knew why this guy often stayed up at night during this period.
No wonder it is getting more and more intense during this period. It turns out that people are in high spirits during happy events.
At this moment, a ball rolled towards the two of them. Chu Zheng turned around and saw Naldo rushing over like a tank, looking at him with a provocative face.
Chu Zheng immediately rolled his eyes, his face full of helplessness, this big brother is looking for trouble again!
The next second, Chu Zheng sprinted to meet the ball and was the first to reach the ball and poke it away.
However, Chu Zheng, who was ducking sideways, had no time to completely avoid Naldo's collision, and was knocked to the point where his supporting feet slipped and fell to the ground.
"Beep beep beep!!!" Bendtner, a funny guy, immediately bit his two fingers and blew a long whistle, indicating that Nardo had committed a foul, which made Rodriguez and others laugh.
Naldo smiled and stretched out his hand to pull Chu Zheng up, and said very bachelorly: "Chu, you win again, I will listen to you on the court from now on!"
"No need, Nardo!" Chu Zheng patted the grass clippings on his body, "We are partners, there is no master-slave relationship, we are cooperating with each other."
After hearing these words, Naldo felt much better. He knew that Chu Zheng was trying to save face for him.
A few days ago, Dieter Heijing had a very direct conversation with him, asking him to hand over the power and cooperate with Chu Zheng in defensive movements in the future.
That day was one of the worst days he had ever had in years, but he couldn't object.
Because Chu Zheng is so outstanding!
He compared himself with Chu Zheng and found that except for his greater tonnage and height, none of his other defensive abilities were better than Chu Zheng's.
Even when competing for the top spot, he sometimes couldn't beat Chu Zheng.
Now, Naldo felt the despair that Knoch had told him.
Chu Zheng chatted with Naldo for a while, and then walked to the locker room with De Bruyne.
Naldo looked at Chu Zheng's retreating figure, frowning in thought.
Although he had saved some strength in the impact just now, he felt that Chu Zheng also didn't use all his strength.
Chu Zheng's physical resistance has obviously become stronger.
Compared with three months ago, it is already much better.
When he thought of this, Naldo felt helpless. He felt that his only advantage might disappear soon.
Now he understood Knoch somewhat.
But Nardo could vaguely feel that Chu Zheng might not stay in Wolfsburg for too long.
Because players like Chu Zheng and De Bruyne are destined not to belong to small clubs.
More than ten minutes later, the players from both sides came on the stage under the leadership of referee Waiters to exchange team flags and other ceremonies before the game.
"In Group H, Wolfsburg currently ranks first with 10 points, followed by Everton with 6 points, Krasnodar and Lille with 2 points, so no matter whether the result of this game is a win, a loss or a draw
, Wolfsburg will all occupy a promotion spot."
"And if Everton loses and there is another match between Krasnodar and Lille that is held at the same time, then they will be in danger and there is a certain probability that they will be eliminated."
As soon as He Wei finished speaking, the starting lineups of both sides were displayed on the live broadcast screen.
Wolfsburg:(4231)
Goalkeeper: Benaglio
Defenders: Fisher, Chu Zheng, Naldo, Sebastian Rong
Midfielder: Malanda, Gustavo
Attacking midfielder: Perisic, Honte, De Bruyne
Forward: Bendtner
"Wolfsburg's lineup has been adjusted for this game. Gilavogi is absent due to injury, and veteran Fischer Schaefer, who has not been seen for a long time, has returned to the starting lineup after recovering from injury. Olic was also replaced by the cosmic striker due to fatigue.
Bendtner replaced him in the starting lineup."
Everton:(4231)
Forward: Lukaku
Attacking midfielder: Miralas, Eto'o, McGeady
Midfielder: Besic, McCarthy
Defenders: Garbutt, Distin, Jagikar, Hibbert
Goalkeeper: Howard
"Everton, on the other hand, are also suffering from injuries. Barry, Baines, Naismith and many other main players are all out due to injuries in this game."
At 19:00, referee Waiters blew the whistle and the game officially started.
After the game started, the pace was neither fast nor slow, and both sides were tentative.
Especially Everton, due to the absence of many main players, their playing style was not as wild as the last time they faced Wolfsburg.
This also led to them being quickly suppressed by Wolfsburg, whose temptation was over.
At 1 minute and 36 seconds into the game, Chu Zheng received a transfer ball from the right side on the left side of the center circle.
He stopped the ball and looked forward, then lowered his head and raised his left leg to make a long pass.
Suddenly the ball went straight to the right outside the frontcourt penalty area.
Sebastian Yong saw the ball coming and immediately ran to the wing.
But there was something wrong with Chu Zheng's long pass, the strength was a little weak.
So much so that Everton's left back Garbutt, who rushed back along the ribs, got the first spot.
But this guy didn't hit the target in a hurry, and instead rubbed the back of the ball to the wing.
How could Sebastian Rong miss this opportunity? He quickly strode down to the ball and then passed it across the ribs of the penalty area.
De Bruyne received the ball outside the penalty area.
The moment he stopped the ball, he did a trick, stopping the ball forward, and at the same time quickly followed up, using this change of rhythm to quickly get rid of the Everton center back Distin who was marking him on the right.
The next second, there was a bang. De Bruyne swung his left foot and violently crossed the ball in front of the baseline and hit the goal post.
However, the cosmic striker Bendtner was at the penalty spot. This guy didn't seem to be in the game yet, and wasted De Bruyne's second pass.
In the stands on all sides, Wolfsburg fans were very excited to see the team's threatening attack so soon after the start.
In this hot atmosphere, Wolfsburg's offense became smoother and smoother, the rhythm became faster and faster, and the momentum became more and more fierce. It directly suppressed Everton, who was more optimistic about the media before the game, at halftime.
beat.
In the 4th minute of the game, Fisher threw a foul ball on the left side of the midfielder. Malanda took the ball in the middle and quickly moved to the right.
Sebastian Jung stepped in to get the ball, advanced along the rib area to a position 40 meters away from the goal, and suddenly sent a long pass from behind at an angle of 45 degrees.
The ball was passed extremely accurately, looking for Perisic on the left side of the penalty area.
Perisic also ran very beautifully.
He entered the penalty area from the left rib, then used his body to squeeze away the approaching Everton right back Hibbert, and took off with a header from the upper corner of the small penalty area.
As a result, he hit the ball into the stands.
In the 7th minute of the game, Bent was flanked by the Everton center back and midfielder in the left rib area at the top of the arc.
But he still used his body to lean on McCarthy behind him, and then used his left heel to distribute the ball to the left before completely losing his center of gravity.
Fisher Schaefer got the ball in the backcourt and quickly passed it across.
As a result, Perisic came in from the middle and shot the ball into the stands again in the double defense.
Seeing that the team missed consecutive opportunities, Wolfsburg fans were so angry that they stamped their feet in the stands.
Wolfsburg gave them a big surprise this season.
Because of Chu Zheng's defense, they felt as stable as Mount Tai.
On offense, De Bruyne, the Belgian prodigy, makes the team's offense extremely beautiful and fierce.
However, his performance in terms of finishing ability has always been unsatisfactory, and his goal conversion rate has been high and low. Sometimes it is terrifyingly high, and sometimes it is so low that it makes your liver hurt.
They have almost lost count of how many great scoring opportunities the team has missed since the start of this season.