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Howdy ho brothers! This is the beginning of a new series of mine. Here, you will se PvZ games
of both me, and professionals (me). I will try to get to the bottom of the PvZ matchup. The most balanced and fun, in my opinion. I will include somewhat gosu tactics, and thoughts on the matchup. I'm not sure about the length of this series, but it will be atleast 3. Each game will feature some important feature relating to the PvZ matchup. If you dont give a shit about my tactical lectures, feel free to e-mail this: 
Lost Temple's the name, Protoss on Zerg, is the game. ZerG~LinG started at the bottom 6 position with his randomly chosen orange protoss. Weibel spawned a slimey, red hatch at 12. He chose his race, giving ZerG~LinG a slight advantage. ZerG~LinG goes for the 8 pylon, the gate at 12 and 13, going for a somewhat rushy build. This is probably one of the only sensible builds versus a zerg. If you dont want lings running wild in your base. Which you dont.
Weibel scouts early with a drone, eliminating the random factor. As he finds the toss base, he choses a 11 pool as his opening move. This build opens up for alot of possibilities. A muta rush, or a realative fast ling rush. Weibel dont build gas and saves his larva at 14 control. As the pool finishes he has 450 minerals, and starts a hatch and 6 lings. ZerG~LinG had scouted this build with a probe, and decided not to rush. Had Weibel made a fast expand, the zealot/probe combo would probably own it. Weibels first 8 lings head out incase ZerG~LinG had made a tech. But as the lings arrive, 4 zealots greet them. Weibel wisely retreats, but leaves a ling for attack warning.
ZerG~LinG has to take initiative, to prevent Weibel to expand all over the place. He takes his ~10 Zealots and move them towards the zerg base, in the meantime the zeal speed is researching and a templar archives is being warped in. Weibels sees this attack with a scouting ling, and is about as ready as you can get for 10 zeals. He recently build 3 sunkens around his expansion hatch, and has about 30 lings. ZerG~LinG charges in, lining the zealots up and preventing surronding. The lings engage, and ZerG~LinG moves his units up the ramp. He holds ground there, forcing 1on1 ling-zealot encounters, with the obvious result: The lings, coming from both the zerg natural and main, gets owned. After a pretty bloody battle, the zealots still stands on the ramp. But as he moves further into the main of Weibel, lings had been waiting and they quickly surround the warriors from aiur.
ZerG~LinG has the initiative now, Weibel lost a whole lot of lings, crippling his offensive capabilities. ZerG~LinG feels save enough to expand at his natural, with 2 cannons for detection. This equals the income. The first rule for zerg players in mid-game is to always have a superior economy, this applies to the ZvT matchup too. This has something to do with cost-effectiveness. For example, units like templars and tanks can take out several units, without taking any damage at all. A couple of storms can tear a hydra army apart, which is where you need the extra income to build it up fast. 
ZerG~LinG had one massive army at this time, 12 zealots, a few templars, an all mighty archon and the odd DT. Can you see the big red dot in Weibel's mineral only? its not a exp, but a small force of hydra/lings. He plans to use one of the best zerg strats ever. The encirclement. As the toss forces move forward, zerglings and hydra engage them. Zealots go in front, chopping up the charging lings, while the templar suddenly release a storm above the hydra. Weibel dances like a whore on drugs, but loses his last standing hydra to another storm. The toss froce moves on, now taking on the expansion. Suddenly Weibel uses his hidden surprise, he moves in from the back and kills two templars, one manages to let go of a deciding storm before dying, killing several units. While the zealots slice away on the "defenceless" sunkens, 5 newly spawned hydralisk moves down from the zerg main, a storm is released right on top of them, Weibel tries to dance them away, but his hydras get cluthed up on the ramp and dies a miserable death. Only a few feet away, the sunkens have taken their toll, leaving only a few heavily damaged soldiers, along with a morphing archon. ZerG~LinG targets the expansion hatchery, ignoring the attacking drones. As the hatch is down to 200hp, a few lings and hydra come down from the main, they kill the morphing archon, then quickly dispose off the reamining zealots, saving the hatchery.
. ZerG~LinG makes the next move, moving his newly built army of 12 zealots, 4 templars, and two archons, to the middle. Weibel is not your average sucker though, and have overlords placed above the temple walls, making them cleverly "invisible" to mere ground troops. The zerg forces are put in position, quite a few hydra and lings at the mineral only, and the new surprise: around 5 lurkers and 12 hydra in the entrace to the zerg base. The toss charge, but without any observers, they retreat back a few steps to the middle, hydra follows and duke it out with the zealots until the lurkers catches up with them. They burrow a little in front of the hydras, once again forcing the toss forces to retreat. The small force at the mineral only charge, and for a minute the lurkers are able to catch up and kill several units. The toss force is on a hot fighting retreat, but are retreating into the mineral only, with no way out. Once again Weibel charge with the hydras, forcing ZerG~LinG to engage, allowing the lurkers to move forward and push ZerG~LinG further back. At this point, ZerG~LinG's forces are standing next to the minerals of the mineral only, and is running out of places to go. Is that sweat i see on that zealot? Acid and psines attack again, the toss forces has no way to run... Suddenly, a small robotic observer comes to the rescue. The protoss, now fighting with renewed hope attacks the lurkers, killing 4 of them. But at that point all that remains of the once glorious army. is two templars and a zealots. The templars is without any mana, but with several zerg scalps in their pockets. (does templars have pockets?) ZerG~LinG retreats these brave warriors, but is intecepted by a few equallybrave lings, and lose them.
As the blue smoke from the dead zealots cleared, the new situation became clear. Weibel expanded at the mineral only(3'clock) just a few moment after the battle, and with his "special" mining style, he begins to use it. The game is suddenly open again, with ZerG~LinG forgetting his macro during the attack, and Weibel using his few hatches to the fullest. This doesn't change the fact that the players are equal in income, never good for a zerg player. Back at the toss base, ZerG~LinG is now switching to mass goons. A resonable counter to lurkers. If a player can space out his goons, the lurkers become useless. Zealots on the other hand run mindless into the spines, several of them being damaged by just one lurker attack.
