Green Field Eunuch

Chapter 560: A team with Shan Yongzhuo on the team will definitely not be too weak.

The media's rhetoric had no impact on Granada's fans or their players.

Everyone in the team was very serious and happy during training.

This impressed Shan Yongzhuo greatly; they were truly a great group of teammates!
When he was at Manchester City, the media often claimed that the team relied entirely on Shan Yongzhuo. Although his teammates didn't say much about it, they were actually a little uncomfortable about it.

After all, many Manchester City teams have star players, and being portrayed as a team relying entirely on one person is a huge blow to them.

Therefore, their eagerness to show off will be very obvious during training and competitions.

But the current Granada team is not like that.

Everyone was happy and content.

Nainggolan even joked while holding up a newspaper, "The media finally got one thing right: we're relying on singles."

“That’s right, what’s there to criticize!” Gunnarsson also expressed his disdain: “I was recruited by them the year before last. Why would I leave England to come here if I didn’t rely on them?”

"Yeah, with such a great guy like Dan, wouldn't it be stupid not to rely on him?" Flores, who scored in the last game, also expressed his utter disdain for the media's comments.

Feng Xiaoting stepped forward and laughed, "You probably don't know about the Chinese team. In the eyes of the media, our national team is a team of individual players. Apart from Shan, the other ten players are all just tools to support Shan."

“Isn’t this normal?” Nainggolan laughed. “Isn’t it the same in Granada?”

"I think they're just jealous!" Harry Kane said indignantly. "Those media-backed teams can't have singles, so they say we're useless and rely on singles."

"But what they said isn't wrong either!"

"If we don't rely on anyone, who else can we rely on?"

"So, we should all just be tools!"

"..."

Faced with his teammates' shamelessness and lack of ambition, Shan Yongzhuo could only sigh helplessly.

There's nothing we can do about it.

Granada's players are mostly star players. Even Van Dijk and Harry Kane are just young, promising players who haven't even lived up to their potential yet.

Besides Dan Yongzhuo, Granada's biggest star is Nainggolan.

However, Nainggolan was only the midfield core of a mid-to-lower-tier Serie A club like Cagliari last season. Such a player, while not weak, is definitely not an irreplaceable star player.

Therefore, when these role players are on the same team as Shan Yongzhuo, they can no longer have the same mentality as the Manchester City players who want to prove that they can win the championship without relying on Shan Yongzhuo.

They were even fantasizing about relying on Shan Yongzhuo and using him as a crutch to win the championship.

Soon, the third round of the league arrived.

In this match, Granada traveled to Celta Vigo for an away game.

Celta Vigo is also one of the teams that has been competing in La Liga for a long time, but they have never won any great honors. Their only honor is the Intertoto Cup in 2000.

Last season, Celta Vigo narrowly avoided relegation, a performance that surprised many.

However, Celta Vigo's performance in the first two rounds of this season was quite good.

In the first round of the league, they drew 2-2 with Espanyol away from home, and in the second round, they defeated Real Betis away from home again.

With one win and one draw in two league matches, Celta Vigo is already quite satisfied with their performance.

Celta Vigo has made ample preparations for this home game against Granada.

Unfortunately, they couldn't stop Shan Yongzhuo.

In this match, Shan Yongzhuo played 70 minutes at Celta Vigo's home stadium, Balaídos Stadium, scoring a hat-trick with both his head and feet. Celta Vigo had virtually no answer for him. If it weren't for a mistake in his powerful corner kick, Shan Yongzhuo would have scored even more than a hat-trick.

1:3.

Granada defeated Celta Vigo away from home, securing their third consecutive league victory.

This performance also stunned the Spanish media.

Before the league started, they weren't very optimistic about Granada, but their three-game winning streak proved them wrong.

Although some still think it's unrealistic for Granada to win the La Liga title, no one doubts that Granada is now a powerhouse in La Liga.

"A team with Shan Yongzhuo on its roster is never going to be weak!"

Spanish media outlets have uniformly changed their tune.

However, Granada wasn't the only team to achieve three consecutive victories; Atletico Madrid and Barcelona also defeated their opponents this round, achieving three consecutive wins as well.

With the third round of matches over, the team can finally relax a bit.

Shan Yongzhuo finally had a rare period of rest.

Since joining Roma, every season has actually been anything but easy.

Back then, Roma had to compete in both the league and the Europa League, meaning they were fighting on two fronts.

After joining Manchester City, he often had to compete on two or three fronts, since English teams face the greatest pressure of match schedules among the top five European leagues.

Upon arriving in Granada, Shan Yongzhuo felt an instant sense of relaxation.

For most La Liga teams, the competitions they participate in are the La Liga league and the Copa del Rey.

The top teams will at most add one more Champions League or Europa League match.

It's much easier than the Premier League.

If it were in the Premier League, it wouldn't just be the Premier League itself, but also the League Cup and FA Cup.

Moreover, La Liga is a league with very obvious strengths and weaknesses, and it is a league that emphasizes attack as a whole. The level of competition is not as intense as that of the Premier League. In fact, it can be said that the overall competition in La Liga is relatively relaxed.

Premier League teams often unleash tremendous fighting spirit in their quest to remain in the Premier League, and upsets are common for strong teams.

Staying in the Premier League means receiving significantly more income at the end of the season compared to playing in the Championship.

But not in La Liga.

Although the relegation battle is fierce, most teams are relatively unremarkable.

This made Shan Yongzhuo feel an unprecedented sense of ease.

The team only needs to participate in La Liga, and there is no pressure from European competitions.

In the Spanish Copa del Rey, La Liga teams can directly participate in the Round of 16, with the first match not starting until December.

This schedule allowed Shan Yongzhuo a very relaxed schedule.

In fact, he was quite satisfied with this schedule.

In the past, Shan Yongzhuo only wanted to play more games so that he could quickly build up his stamina, score more goals, increase his fame, and make a lot of money.

Now, his durability has reached 81 points, which is very close to the goal of 100 points. Even if he doesn't play so many games, he can reach it in one or two seasons. Therefore, Shan Yongzhuo is not in such a hurry to play a lot of games.

He's now basically living the life of a couch potato.

(End of this chapter)