At 1:30 in the morning on the second day of the Lunar New Year, the Chu family hall was still brightly lit and filled with laughter and laughter.
On the left side of the hall, four people and a woman were performing a show. Chu Zheng's mother, Su Ping, was leading her two younger siblings and mother-in-law Jiang Lan to fight on the mahjong table in darkness.
The three Chu Dong brothers were fighting the landlord on a small table in front of the TV, and the fight was also brutal and inhumane.
"A 4!" Chu Bei hit a 4 of spades as hard as he could throw a cannon.
"I'm going to explode!!" Chu Nan immediately threw out four 9s, laughing so hard.
Chu Bei was stunned by the explosion. The corners of his mouth twitched, and he turned to glare at Chu Nan, as if looking at a fool and said: "Erguo, we are both the same! What are you doing by blowing me up?"
"I want to play my cards!" Chu Nan looked at the angry Chu Bei with an innocent face.
After saying this, Chu Nan directly threw a 5.
Suddenly Chu Bei was so angry that he almost vomited blood. He raised his voice and shouted: "Brother-in-law disaster, you just throw a bomb just to get a 5!!!"
"Haha..." Chu Dong, the landowner next to him, was so happy that his shoulders trembled and never stopped.
The three brothers had been playing Landlords all night, and Chu Zheng finally figured it out. The second and third brothers were playing cards today with some personal grudges. It would be difficult to lose against these two idiots.
Seeing himself, Chu Dong held back a smile and threw an Ace of Hearts.
"A pair of 2!" Chu Bei, who only had three cards in his hand, saw that Chu Dong had only one card in his hand. He suddenly smiled and said, "Big deal! Do you want it? Do you want it!!"
Chu Dong glanced sideways at Chu Nan, the second-in-command next to him, and said with a smile, "I can't afford it!"
"Haha!" Chu Bei heard this and immediately threw out the last card in his hand.
"Slower!"
Sure enough, Chu Nan, who had a sinister smile on his lips, raised his hand to stop him, and then threw four Qs under the gaze of Chu Bei, who was vomiting blood.
"Four Q! I'll blow it up!"
Suddenly Chu Bei became furious, pointed at Chu Dong with his eyes wide open and shouted: "Brother-in-law, we are a family and he is a landlord, why are you always bombarding me!!"
"This is a precious dragon, it will explode twice as much!" Chu Nan raised his voice and spoke plausibly.
"Okay, okay! Come out!" Chu Bei lost his temper, his face looked like he would rather die, and he had an ominous premonition.
Sure enough, the next second, Chu Nan, who was smiling, threw out a card, winked and said: "A 3, let you go!"
The corner of Chu Nan's mouth twitched crazily, and he suddenly raised his voice and said: "I can't afford it!!! Brother-in-law, thank you!!!"
(￣俣///) Chubei was suddenly petrified!
Chu Dong, on the other hand, was so happy that he threw out the 4 in his hand, then patted the table and said with a smile: "I know what Xiao Zheng meant when he said that you two are the wretched twins of Wolong and Phoenix when they come together.
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But Chu Nan and Chu Bei were still glaring at each other with their eyes wide open.
"It's so cool. If you don't want to play with me, the game is about to begin!"
Chu Dong looked up at the clock on the wall and found that it was almost two o'clock, so he picked up the remote control and tuned to Sports Channel 5.
"Happy New Year to viewers, and welcome everyone to watch the 2014-15 Europa League quarter-finals brought to you by Sports Channel 5..."
"Mom! Pingping, Xiaozheng's game has started, do you want to watch?" Chu Dong stretched his neck and shouted to the four Su Pings on the mahjong table.
After hearing Duan Xuan's opening remarks and Chu Dong's shouting on TV, Jiang Lan's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law stopped fighting immediately and walked to the living room to sit down and wait for the game to start.
Seeing Chu Zheng appear in the camera, the smile on Jiang Lan's face suddenly became stronger.
After the captains of the two teams exchanged team flags on the TV, the starting lineups of both teams appeared on the camera with a red background.
Wolfsburg:(4231)
Goalkeeper: Benaglio
Defenders: Sebastian Yung, Naldo, Chu Zheng, Rodriguez
Midfielder: Gilavoji, Malanda
Attacking midfielder: Vierinha, De Bruyne, Schurrle
Forward: Dost
Sporting CP:(4141)
Forward: Montero
Midfielder: Nani, Mario, Silva, Carrillo
Midfielder: Rosell
Defenders: Jefferson, Oliveira, Figueredo, Cedric
Goalkeeper: Patricio
At two o'clock BJ time, the first round decisive battle between Wolfsburg and Sporting CP officially started.
At the same time, although it was the early morning of the second day of the Lunar New Year, many Chinese fans stayed up late to watch the game.
Chinese fans of Sporting CP are very familiar with it, because this team is also called Sporting Lisbon, and it is where Ronaldo, Figo and others came from.
The draw against Sporting CP in the quarter-finals is considered a good draw for Wolfsburg.
Because although Portugal is one of the top three teams in the Portuguese Super League with Benfica and Porto, it is actually only a second-rate team in Europe.
With Wolfsburg's current lineup, they are fully capable of winning the game.
Even so, Dieter Heijing did not underestimate the enemy.
In addition, this game was at home, so he would not be tired from running around, so he sent most of his main players and only rotated in the defensive midfielder position.
After the game started, it was obvious that Sporting CP, playing away from home, was playing a bit conservatively.
Their pressing intensity in the midfield was very high, but the frontcourt hardly created any pressure on Chu Zheng, Naldo and others.
Wolfsburg wanted to control the ball, so they allowed Chu Zheng and others to make moves in the backcourt, and most of the time they didn't come forward to press at all.
But once the ball entered the midfield area, Sporting CP's pressing intensity increased, frequently and proactively seeking physical confrontation to seize the ball.
Under this tactical strategy, the two sides started a fierce fight in the midfield.
So much so that in the first ten minutes of the first half, both sides failed to organize an effective offensive, and there was not even a chance to score a goal. Countless fans in the country who stayed up late were drowsy.
But starting from the tenth minute of the game, Sporting CP players suddenly increased the number of high pressures in the frontcourt.
This tactical change raised the excitement of the game to a new level and made the pace of the game significantly faster.
In the 12th minute of the game, Chu Zheng scored the ball for Rodriguez who came in from the left wing for the second time.
But Rodriguez was quickly blocked by Sporting CP's tight wing defense.
Chu Zheng saw that Rodriguez and Guilavoji could not penetrate the opponent's midfield defense, so he took the ball again and made a lateral transfer.
In the right half, as soon as Naldo received the ball, Portuguese forward Montreux immediately pressed high.
Naldo didn't find a chance to separate the sides, so he had to transfer the ball back to Chu Zheng on the left through Benaglio.
After Chu Zheng got the ball, he saw Rodriguez coming back along the wing, so he passed the ball out again.
But Sporting CP right midfielder Carrillo suddenly put pressure on him at this moment.
Rodriguez was a little embarrassed by the sudden attack, but he still resisted Carrillo and quickly knocked the ball back to Chu Zheng.
Chu Zheng had just stopped the ball, but Sporting CP's frontcourt press disappeared again, and the players all retreated.
This made Chu Zheng a little bit dumbfounded.
Chu Zheng understood that Sporting CP was trying to prevent them from hitting behind, but this was really the first time he encountered such erratic pressing tactics.
The biggest danger of this tactic is actually the suddenness.
Just like boiling a frog in warm water, it is easy to be paralyzed by the opponent. If you are not careful, it is easy for the opponent to kill you with a sudden pressing blow.
It didn't take long for Sporting CP to press Nardo and Benario on the right rib again.
Malanda promptly retreated from the center to the top of the key and quickly broke through Montero, Carrillo and Nani's high-position press.
In the left half, Chu Zheng received the ball from Benaglio in the penalty area for the third time. He suddenly took off and sprinted along the ribs.
Seeing Chu Zheng's actions, the listless Wolfsburg fans in the stands suddenly became excited.
Countless Chinese fans in front of the TV were originally drowsy, but they instantly became energetic after seeing Chu Zheng's actions.
However, they soon became disappointed because Chu Zheng did not stage another one-stop breakthrough.
On the court, after Chu Zheng entered the midfield area eight or nine meters away, he suddenly came forward and made a long pass from the wing.
The moment Chu Zheng passed the ball, Xuerle in the frontcourt and he formed an excellent passing and running understanding.
Schürrle quickly moved forward from the right side of Sporting CP's right centre-back.
In the end, he received Chu Zheng's relatively accurate overhead long pass from the outside of the penalty area.
Schürrle observed the ball in advance before taking it off. Without any hesitation, he raised his foot and passed the ball to the back post.
It's a pity that Dost, who scored four goals in the last game, didn't feel so hot today. He hit the ball directly out of the baseline in front of the post.
"Chu Zheng now has more and more authority in Wolfsburg!" Duan Xuan laughed happily during the live broadcast of the sports channel.
"Chu Zheng didn't have the authority to dribble the ball before. His responsibility was more to defend!"
"Some time ago, the Bundesliga media reported that Dieter Heijing had a secret intra-squad match in the team, but what was unusual was that Chu Zheng played in the midfielder position. It is said that Dieter Heijing transformed Chu Zheng into a
Midfielder idea!”
In the South Stand, a group of scouts from the five major leagues gathered today.
In the eyes of these scouts, it was not that simple for Chu Zheng to suddenly dribble the ball in this time.
Because Chu Zheng seized the gap between Sporting CP's frontcourt and midfield.
Sporting CP was afraid of Wolfsburg's attack from behind, so when their forwards pressed forward, the midfielder didn't press too high.
This will result in a small, uninhabited depth between the front and center lines.
It is actually not difficult for players to find such gaps on the court.
But for someone like Chu Zheng who grasps the timing of the ball so accurately, it is very difficult to directly plan an attack to hit the goal.
Therefore, they all felt that their previous judgments were completely correct.
Wolfsburg's No. 66 is not only an excellent central defender, but also has the potential to be a top midfielder.
But they have been tracking Chu Zheng for a short period of time, and they know very well that Chu Zheng's body and physical fitness are not up to standard, his passing is only just passing, and he still has many weaknesses.
Therefore, whether Chu Zheng can play as a defensive midfielder or not, they still need to collect more game data for analysis before they can make a conclusion.
