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Chapter 51 There are always records to break

"On March 3, the first leg of the 29-2011 UEFA Europa League quarter-finals will start at the Veltins Stadium. Schalke 2012 will host La Liga powerhouse Athletic Bilbao at home. If nothing else, Chinese player Yang Feng will represent the Schalke 04 team, and may even be one of the starting 04 players.

If he can score in this game, Yang Feng will break the single-season European scoring record of an Asian player. This record currently belongs to the ceiling of Asian players in Europe: Cha Fangen.

This legendary star of Korean football has scored 308 goals in 98 Bundesliga games, and has the feat of scoring 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 He ranks first in the major European leagues, and Yang Feng has already scored 12 Bundesliga goals, which is not far from this record.

It is worth mentioning that Chinese player Yang Chen scored 16 Bundesliga goals during his time playing for Eintracht Frankfurt. It is foreseeable that this record will soon pass away.

Of course, what we are going to talk about today is not the league, but the European war, which is the two major events of the UEFA Champions League and the Europa League (including its predecessor, the UEFA Cup).

Cha Bum-geun has 31 goals in 9 games and won two championships in the UEFA Cup. He is the only Asian player who has scored 5 European goals in a single season. It is this record that we are going to talk about today.

Yang Feng scored three goals in the two victorious games against Pilsen, and scored two more goals against Twente, which has already tied Cha Bum-geun's record. As long as he scores again in this game, he will Will be the only Asian player to score six European goals in a single season.

In fact, for Chinese football, every step Yang Feng takes is creating history, because currently only Sun Jihai, Sun Xiang, Hao Junmin and Jia Xiuquan have played in the Champions League or the Europa League, but only Sun Jihai is qualified for the Europa League Having scored goals in the game, Yang Feng's five goals in a single season in the Europa League is not only a new height in Chinese football, but also tied the highest record in Asian football.

From the sea to the horizon, the cloud is the shore, and the mountain is near the top, and I am the peak.

Today, we can finally say that Yang Feng is a veritable 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 win glory for the country.

Shevchenko once said that he may never win the World Cup in his life, 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.

Starting from one record, we will launch more intense challenges to more and higher records.

The challenge of Chinese players..."

This article published by Zhang Li in "Sports Weekly" and "Football Weekly" completely ignited the enthusiasm of domestic fans for the Europa League.

Tencent doesn't know what path it took, but it must be inseparable from the ability to come and go. Anyway, it actually got the rights to broadcast the Europa League follow-up matches, and will broadcast the matches live.

"Friends of the audience, hello everyone, I am your old friend Su Dong, welcome to Tencent Sports Channel to watch today's UEFA Europa League quarter-finals, we are fortunate to have invited a famous international footballer, who once played in the Bundesliga Experienced Director Yang Chen came to our live broadcast room to explain the game with me. Director Yang, hello."

"Hi Su Dong, fans and friends, hello everyone."

"Director Yang, you..."

"Yang Feng will be next season at most..."

"Che Bum-geun is really..."

"Okay, players from both sides have entered the field and the game is about to start. Let's take a look at the starting lineups of both sides."

"Schalke 04 played a rare 4-5-1 formation.

Goalkeeper: 34 Hildebrand;
Defenders: 22 Atsuto Uchida, 14 Papadopoulos, 32 Matip, 23 Fuchs;
Midfielders: 12 Hegel, 13 Jones-17 Farfan, 7 Raul (C), 31 Draxler;
Forward: 9 Yang Feng.

Huntelaar, who played 90 minutes in the last game, sat on the bench. It seems that Schalke 04 has decided to fight on two lines, and Huntelaar and Yang Feng will be the first strikers in the league and cup respectively.

In this way, the heavy responsibility of scoring goals in this game fell mainly on Yang Feng alone, which shows that he has won 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."

"Look at the lineup of their opponents, Athletic Bilbao.

Goalkeeper: 1 Ireisos;

Defenders: 15 Elora (C), 24 Harvey Martinez, 5 Amorebeta, 3 Ortner;
Midfielders: 10 De Marcos, 8 Iturraspe, 21 Ander Herrera;

Forwards: 14 Suceta, 9 Llorente, 11 Muniain.

Schalke 04 at home played a relatively conservative 4-5-1, while Athletic Bilbao played away with a more aggressive three-forward formation?Guidance Yang Chen, what do you think of this phenomenon? "

"Coach Stevens probably wants to make full use of the speed advantages of Farfan and Yang Feng to fight back."

"It makes sense. After all, we all know that speed and running position are the most prominent characteristics of Yang Feng..."

"The game has started, Schalke 04 kicks off first."

With Yang Feng passing the ball to Raul, the game officially started.

Home fans have a lot of complaints about Stevens' conservative lineup, but the team has been doing well recently, and his status in the hearts of fans has also risen, so no one will express this dissatisfaction.

The two sides were not conservative after the opening, even Schalke 04, who put on a double midfielder, was actively looking for opportunities to score goals.

In the 5th minute, Raul and Draxler went straight to the middle after a two-and-one. Yang Feng failed to take the lead, and the ball was cleared to the goalkeeper by Harvey Martinez.

In the 12th minute, Suceta made a pass from the right, and Llorente hit the goal immediately in the center of the penalty area, but failed to hit the target.

One minute later, Yang Feng received a short pass from Draxler and shot with his left foot 1 meters away from the left side of the penalty area, but the football missed the right post.

Schalke began to occupy a certain advantage, especially the two defenders frequently assisted and stepped forward, which put a lot of pressure on Athletic Bilbao's defense line, but after playing for a long time, it was Bilbao who scored the goal first... …

In the 20th minute of the game, Elora made a direct pass from the right side of the midfielder, Fuchs failed to intercept with a shovel, De Marcos crossed the penalty area, and Suceta directly pushed with his right foot from 10 meters away.

Hildebrand dropped the ball and Llorente scored in the small penalty area, 1-0.

The Sand Mine fans fell silent for a moment, leaving only the fans of the visiting team cheering wildly, and then all kinds of complaints slowly sounded.

In the live broadcast room of Penguin Sports, with the sound of "click", all kinds of grass mud horses instantly flooded the comment area.

"What the hell...you can't play football if you don't fall behind, right?"

"Will you reverse your addiction?"

"It's a big trough, Shaq's defense line is too f*cking."

"Yang Feng came out to fill in the hole."

"No matter how many Yang Fengs come to this kind of sinkhole, it's not enough to fill it!"

""Little Cat Breeding Fish" tells us that if we bury one little Fengfeng in the pit in spring, we can harvest eleven little Fengfeng in summer."

"Upstairs, you're showing your age."

　I compiled this record. I only found that Cha Bum-geun scored 31 goals (some say 9 goals) in 10 European games. The specific data cannot be found. Then, in 2020, Japanese midfielder Daichi Kamada scored in a Europa League match. With a hat, he is the only Asian player who scored 6 goals in a single season in the European war, so I estimate that the previous record should be about 4 or 5 goals in a single season

　　
　
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