The Midfield Master

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In the 62nd minute of the game, Everton requested a substitution and replaced two players at once. Cleverley and Lennon replaced Xia Ze and Deulofeu respectively.

When Xia Ze saw the substitution number plate holding the number 20 on the sidelines, his heart sank, his mind roared, and he ran to the sidelines involuntarily with both feet.

The Everton fans in the surrounding stands burst into applause. Hearing the applause, Xia Ze felt even more bitter.

He knew that the applause was not to praise his outstanding performance in this hour, but to comfort himself, and even meant some routine.

In the previous 60 minutes of the game, his performance was so bad, it is no wonder that the head coach replaced himself.

"Go back and have a rest." Martinez only said in a low voice when shaking hands with Xia Ze.

Xia Ze took the towel and coat from the assistant coach and returned to the bench listlessly. The teammates sitting on the bench took turns to high-five him, and he just walked around routinely.

Deulofeu, who was substituted with him, also looked dissatisfied with himself, and both of them were caught by the TV camera.

"It seems that Xia Ze is also very dissatisfied with his own performance." Little Redknapp said looking at the TV screen.

"It's natural, but this kid is only 20 years old, and he still has a lot of time to grow up. We don't have to be too harsh when the opponent stares at him and does nothing in this game." Gary Neville said on the side.

"Gary is good, but if he wants to gain a foothold in the Premier League and develop further, this season is crucial." Carragher added: "Everyone knows that in the Premier League, the first season is very good. It doesn’t mean anything, you need to have continuous outstanding performance to become a top star. There is no doubt that Xia Ze has the potential to become a top star, provided that he can maintain a stable performance.”

After Carragher finished speaking, the camera turned back to the game screen, and his comments also returned to the game.

After Martinez made substitutions and adjustments, the scene changed immediately. Capoue, who had been closely guarding Xia Ze, also closely guarded Cleverly after Cleverley came on the field.

However, Cleverly's offensive role in Everton's formation is far inferior to that of Xia Ze. He was originally an engineer-type midfielder, and he was not afraid of facing Capoue. Get out of the defensive area.

And Lennon, who replaced Deulofeu, is a veteran of the Premier League. He has only a lot more experience in playing in the Premier League than Behrami.

Taking advantage of Behrami's defense in the middle, he frequently launched attacks on the side.

Because of Xia Ze's end, the team's offensive organization power is no longer concentrated on one person. In the midfield composed of Barry, Gibson and Cleverley, anyone can launch an attack. Instead, Everton's offense Much more concise.

Before Watford had time to respond, Everton launched an attack on the wing, Lennon assisted Lukaku to score, and finally broke the deadlock in the 68th minute of the second half.

Immediately after the goal, the pace of the game on the field became faster. Flores saw that the team was behind and immediately adjusted. Capoue and Behrami no longer defended the opponent's players closely, but Expand your scope of activities.

Watford's midfielder is no weaker than Everton. After adjustments, the power of forwards Shuangshadini and Ighalo was immediately demonstrated.

In the fifteen minutes after the goal was conceded, the two forwards each scored a goal and even overtook Everton in the away game.

This caused the entire Goodison Park stadium to fall into silence. They thought that their team would be able to return with a big victory in the opening game of the new season. After all, the opponent is just a newly promoted team, and their team won another big victory in the Europa League qualifying match a few days ago.

It should be easy to win this game.

But I didn't expect that the team fell behind in the 83rd minute of the game.

Martinez frowned, and immediately called a third player to come on as a substitute. Kone replaced Gibson, removed a midfielder, and replaced him with a striker.

After Kone came on the field, he lived up to expectations and helped the team equalize the score before the end of the game.

In the end, Everton had a difficult 2-2 draw with the newly promoted Watford at home, which broke out a moderate upset.

After this game, the focus of media attention, in addition to Watford's two powerful strikers, Xia Ze's downturn has also become a hot topic of discussion for them.

Many media believe that it was because Xia Ze was defended to death by the opponent's Capoue in the midfielder position that Everton failed to win this game.

In other words, Xia Ze is the sinner for Everton's failure to score all three points in this game.

In the next game, Everton will challenge Southampton in an away game. Facing their opponents who competed for the European qualification last season, this time the away game will definitely be a difficult battle.

Everton's formation will naturally become the focus of attention. Since the beginning of the new season, Xia Ze has been in a sluggish state, and winger Deulofeu is also in an unstable state. Sometimes he can dominate the game and become the team's hero, and sometimes he will completely Stealth, being helplessly stared at by the opponent's defender.

And after the away game against Southampton, they will return to home to meet Ajax in the Europa League play-offs.

After playing Ajax, they will face Manchester City again, and then challenge Ajax away to the second round of the Europa League play-offs.

After finishing the second round of the Europa League play-offs, they will once again face Tottenham away.

In other words, in the next five games, Everton will face Southampton, Ajax, Manchester City, Ajax and Tottenham respectively.

This is five games played in just half a month. One match in three days is an out-and-out devil's schedule.

In the game against Watford, they failed to take all three points, which also cast a shadow on their next schedule.

The British media even pessimistically believe that Everton will lose five consecutive games in the next five games, and will fight for relegation at the beginning of the season.

Everton is under tremendous pressure again, and everyone knows what the next half month will mean to the team this season.

After all, Ken Knight is ambitious this season, asking the team to go further than last season, and even compete for the Champions League qualification.

If the season starts and suffers five defeats in just one month, it will undoubtedly be a huge blow to the team.

So they cannot fail.

Xia Ze can't back down either. If he wants to become a top star, he must break through this so-called Premier League sophomore curse. c