"On March 29, the first leg of the 2011-2012 Europa League quarter-finals will start at the Veltins Stadium. Schalke 04 will face La Liga powerhouse Athletic Bilbao at home. If nothing else goes wrong, Chinese player Yang Feng will play for Schalke 04 and may even be one of the starting eleven.
If he can score in this game, Yang Feng will break the single-season European scoring record for Asian players. This record currently belongs to the ceiling of Asian players in Europe: Cha Bum-gen.
This legendary star of Korean football has scored 98 goals in 308 Bundesliga games, and has the feat of 17 Bundesliga goals in a single season. Whether it is the total number of goals or the number of goals scored in a single season, he is an Asian player. Ranked first among the major European leagues, and Yang Feng currently has 12 Bundesliga goals, which is not far away from this record.
It is worth mentioning that Chinese player Yang Chen scored a total of 16 Bundesliga goals while playing for Eintracht Frankfurt. It is foreseeable that this record will soon pass away.
Of course, what we are talking about today is not the league, but the European war, which is the two major competitions of the UEFA Champions League and the Europa League (including its predecessor, the UEFA Cup).
Cha Bum-gen has the brilliant achievement of scoring 9 goals in 31 UEFA Cup games and winning two championships. He is the only Asian player to score 5 European goals in a single season. It is this record we are talking about today.
Yang Feng scored three goals in the two games against Plzen Victory and two more goals against Twente, which has already tied Cha Bumgen's record. As long as he scores again in this game, he will be the winner. Will be the only Asian player to score six European goals in a single season.
In fact, for Chinese football, Yang Feng is making history every step he takes, because currently only Sun Jihai, Sun Xiang, Hao Junmin and Jia Xiuquan have played in the Champions League or Europa League, but only Sun Jihai is eligible for the Europa League. Yang Feng's five goals in a single season in the Europa League are not only a new height for Chinese football, but also tied for the highest record in Asian football.
When the sea reaches the horizon, clouds form the shore, and when the mountains reach their peak, I am the peak.
Today, we can finally legitimately say that Yang Feng is the true pride of China. Just like Yao Ming is to basketball and Liu Xiang is to track and field, Chinese football has finally produced a figure who can bring glory to the country.
Shevchenko once said that he may not be able to win the World Cup in his lifetime, so the Champions League is his World Cup, and Yang Feng is very likely to face the same tragedy.
If the Champions League is his World Cup, then let everything start with the Europa League, which is a lower level.
Start with one record and launch more fierce challenges to more and higher records.
The challenge of Chinese players..."
Zhang Zhang's article, which was simultaneously published in "Sports Weekly" and "Football Weekly", completely ignited domestic fans' enthusiasm for the Europa League.
Tencent doesn’t know what path it has taken, but it must be inseparable from its ability to come and go. Anyway, it has actually obtained the broadcast rights for the subsequent games of the Europa League and will broadcast the game in real time.
"Hello, audience friends, I am your old friend Su Dong. Welcome to the Tencent Sports Channel to watch today's quarter-finals of the Europa League. We are fortunate to have a famous international player and a former Bundesliga player. Director Yang Chen, who has experienced this, came to our live broadcast room to explain this game with me. Director Yang, hello."
"Hello Su Dong, fans and friends, hello everyone."
"Director Yang, when you..."
"Yang Feng will be next season at most..."
"Cha Bum-geun is indeed..."
"Okay, the players from both sides have entered the field and the game is about to begin. Let's take a look at the starting lineups of both sides."
"Schalke 04 fielded a rare 4-5-1 formation.
Goalkeeper: 34 Hildebrand;
Defenders: 22 Uchida Atsuto, 14 Papadopoulos, 32 Matip, 23 Fuchs;
Midfielder: 12 Hoegel, 13 Jones-17 Farfan, 7 Raul (C), 31 Draxler;
Forward: 9 Yang Feng.
Huntelaar, who played the full 90 minutes in the last game, sat on the bench. It seems that Schalke 04 has decided to fight on two fronts, and Huntelaar and Yang Feng will be the first forwards in the league and cup respectively.
As a result, the responsibility of scoring goals in this game mainly falls on Yang Feng alone, which shows that he has gained the absolute trust of the head coach. "
"Yes, the combination of Raul + Yang Feng has been tested in actual combat. I believe they will not disappoint the fans, but the opponent will definitely deploy targeted defenses. I hope Yang Feng can face it calmly."
"Let's look at the squad of their rivals Athletic Bilbao.
Goalkeeper: 1 Irasos;
Defenders: 15 Iola (C), 24 Javi Martinez, 5 Amorebieta, 3 Ault cut inside;
Midfielder: 10 De Marcos, 8 Iturraspe, 21 Ander Herrera;
Forwards: 14 Souseta, 9 Llorente, 11 Muniain.
Schalke 04, who played at home, played a relatively conservative 4-5-1, while Athletic Bilbao, who challenged away from home, used a more aggressive three-forward formation? Director Yang Chen, what do you think of this phenomenon? "
"Coach Stevens probably wants to make full use of Farfan and Yang Feng's speed advantage to counterattack."
"It makes sense. After all, we all know that speed and movement are Yang Feng's most outstanding characteristics..."
"The game has started, Schalke 04 kicks off first."
As Yang Feng passed the ball to Raul, the game officially began.
The home fans have some objections to Stevens' conservative formation, but the team has been going smoothly recently, and his status in the hearts of the fans has also increased, so no one will express their dissatisfaction.
Both sides were not conservative after the opening. Even Schalke 04, which deployed a double midfielder, was actively looking for scoring opportunities.
In the 5th minute, Raul and Draxler played one after another and went straight to the middle. Yang Feng failed to seize the opportunity and the ball was cleared by Harvey Martinez to the goalkeeper.
In the 12th minute, Suseta made a pass from the right, and Llorente hit the goal in the center of the penalty area for the first time, but failed to hit the target.
One minute later, Yang Feng received Draxler's short pass and shot with his left foot from 9 meters away on the left side of the penalty area, but the ball missed the right post.
Schalke began to have a certain advantage, especially the two defenders who frequently came forward with assists, which put a lot of pressure on Athletic Bilbao's defense. However, after playing for a long time, it was Bilbao who scored first... …
In the 20th minute of the game, Illaura made a direct pass from the right side of the midfielder. Fuchs failed to intercept with a shovel. De Marcos crossed into the penalty area and Suseta shot directly with his right foot from 10 meters away.
Hildebrand missed the ball and Llorente missed the ball in the penalty area and scored, 1-0.
The Sand Mine fans were quiet for a moment, leaving only the away team fans cheering wildly, and then all kinds of complaints slowly started to sound.
In the live broadcast room of Penguin Sports, with the "click" one after another, all kinds of idiots instantly flooded the comment area.
"What the hell...you can't play football if you don't fall behind, right?"
"You're just addicted to reversal?"
"It's a big mistake. Shaq's defense is too bad."
"Yang Feng came out to fill the hole."
"No matter how many Yang Feng come in, it won't be enough to fill this sinkhole!"
""Kitten Breeding Fish" tells us that if you bury one little Fengfeng in the pit in spring, you can harvest eleven little Fengfeng in summer."
"Upstairs, your age is showing."
