Chapter 053: The Pace of Battle
"We scored, we scored, the score was equalised!" shouted the Wolfsburg broadcaster, whose voice was thrilled to reach all the Wolfsburg people who were watching the game when they heard the news. No matter what they were doing at the moment, they all jumped.
As for the stadium scene, it was even more into a carnival, and when the football entered the net, everyone jumped up, their arms raised high, their mouths open, and they were shouting:
Schalke 04 coach Slomka stood up in surprise, clearly unprepared for Wolfsburg's equaliser. Because, before this goal, Wolfsburg can be said to have few chances, and the home team does not pose any threat to Schalke 04's goal at all.
Slomka frowned and cursed because he couldn't figure out how the team had conceded the goal.
"This goal!" Hanks shouted as he stared at the replay, his mouth wide open in surprise, "This goal was spelled out by Young! It was a very bad goal, but, I have to say, it was the best goal I've ever seen!
The fans in front of the TV, through the replay of the goal, finally saw the goal clearly. When Sarpe instigated two consecutive attacks, Yang Fan was entangled with Boden in the penalty area, and the tall Brazilian central defender had a physical advantage, and Yang Fan could only run through Guò constantly and drive Boden to run with him, so as to look for opportunities. However, it was unrealistic for him to want an easy run, and after Boden caught up with him, he carried him to the death. Both men are tugging at each other's jerseys and grabbing positions. Coupled with the fact that the venue was slippery, Yang Fan slipped and fell to the ground twice. When he fell, Borden immediately raised his arms and signaled to the referee that he had done nothing, fearing that Yang Fan was cheating on the penalty. The referee ignored it and neither blew Yang Fan for faking a fall, nor did he blow for Boden for a foul. And Yang Fan obviously didn't mean to cheat the penalty, he quickly got up from the ground twice and continued to fight, seeing this, Borden quickly stopped pleading to the referee and entangled with Yang Fan again. The two of them attacked and defended, and they were completely in a state of anxiety.
Finally, when Sarpe passed the ball to Santana, Yang Fan suddenly crossed to the left, and Borden hurriedly followed. Just as Borden came up, Yang Fan braked suddenly, the field was so slippery, he almost fell into the mud, almost rolled and crawled, turned around, and rushed in the opposite direction, and at this moment, Santana's pass also came out. There was a small hidden space where Santana didn't know if anyone was there when he passed the ball. For a midfielder, passing the football to the open space is equivalent to completing the task!
After the ball was played, Santana leaned forward to see if any of his teammates could show up in time!
Then, he saw a man rushing towards him, and although the man's jersey was covered with grass and mud, he knew it was his teammate by looking at the color of the jersey. He also saw that behind his teammates, there was another person who was also crawling and crawling, and he knew by looking at the shirt that this was Schalke 04's players desperately defending.
Behind Yang Fan was Boden, he was thrown away by Yang Fan's sudden turn of direction, the big man turned around slowly, and the Brazilian almost turned around and pounced on Yang Fan!
But what does it mean for a centre-back to be left behind by his defender and have the defender face the goal?
Santana began to raise his arms, and when Yang Fan suddenly threw himself out, slid on the ground, and smashed the ball into the net with his head, Santana's arms were raised right above his head, cheering for the goal!
'It's surprising that Wolfsburg have been on the back foot, but they equalised. "They were sharp on the counter-attack, Sarpe was brilliant in his sharing, Santana was brilliant in his passing, and of course, it was Young who scored his seventh goal in his last four games!
Indeed, in a short period of time, he repeatedly sprinted and ran in the front court to drive the defenders, and finally found a gap and seized the opportunity to shoot this goal, Yang Fan consumed a lot of physical energy in a very short period of time.
Compared with Netzer, his partner Hanks was even more excited, and he excitedly continued into the headset, "Yang Fan's goal, after the game started, he disappeared with the whole team, but when he appeared in the camera again, the goal came!
Schalke 04 head coach Slomka couldn't hide his surprise, just just when he was still satisfied that the team could correctly implement his tactical intentions and successfully freeze Yang Fan, Yang Fan's goal appeared! This made the smile on the face of Schalke 04 head coach freeze, and his expression became embarrassed.
However, the expression on Slomka's face quickly recovered. Being able to beat Bayern Munich, Bremen, and Stuttgart to bring Schalke 04 to the leading position, Slomca is naturally not an idle person, just scored a goal by the opponent, no big deal.
He is now just worried about whether the team's players will be affected by the goal conceded. As long as the players aren't affected in any way, it's nothing. Slomca believes that as long as his players play normally, Schalke 04 will win this game.
Schalke 04's players did not disappoint their manager and were not affected by the goal conceded, and after the restart, they did not panic, but immediately organized an offensive and put pressure on Wolfsburg's goal, Schalke 04 was smart and they planned to take advantage of Wolfsburg's lack of concentration after the equaliser, to put pressure on Wolfsburg's goal and try to score quickly and exceed the score again.
The Bundesliga leaders have instead exploded with more energy after conceding a goal, and Wolfsburg seem to be ill-prepared for it.
Therefore, it is not surprising that Schalke 04 scored again.
In the 36th minute, Altentop scored again with a beautiful volley against Wolfsburg.
"The goal is in!Schalke 04!They put the score over again, Altentop has a brilliant shot!"
"Schalke 04 told everyone with a goal that they want to win the league title!
The Schalke 04 fans, who came with the team to the away stadium, erupted in a huge cheer, shouting, "Hooray!
The same cheers were repeated near the end of the first half.
Brazilian full-back Raphinha, who has been eye-catching this season, scored with a heavy shot after cutting inside, giving Schalke 04 fans a reason to cheer again.
Schalke 04 leads Wolfsburg by two goals away from home!
It's so *** depressing!
Yang Fan looked at the Schalke man who was cheering and celebrating the goal, and he spat on the ground in displeasure.
In addition, the young man's heart was also a little confused. He sensed that when he was down 2-1, the team seemed to have lost their fighting spirit, and they had given up on the game.
They surrendered in advance!
That's right, it's disarming and surrendering!
Although it is a little incredible, however, Yang Fan feels like this. This is not to say that their team-mates are playing match-fixing, of course, but that in the face of Schalke 04's powerful attack and goals, the vast majority of Wolfsburg's players seem to have accepted the fate of losing. They feel that with such a long season, there is no need to play every game as a final, and losing to the current league leaders is not a big deal. It's perfectly acceptable to fail.
Once people have conceded defeat in their hearts, what fighting spirit do they have? Can you expect a flock of sheep to withstand a hungry wolf?
The answer, of course, is no!
So it's no surprise that Raphinha's goal widened the gap to two.
Yang Fan is one of the few players in the Wolfsburg team who is still fighting. However, even Yang Fan was so depressed and confused at this time, because he didn't know if his efforts could be effective.
Wolfsburg fans in the stands began to chant the team anthem loudly while shouting the names of the players.
Maybe only the fans in the stands didn't give up, they still kept singing and clapping and cheering for the team. Perhaps they all believe in their team and think that the score of 1:3 is not an insurmountable barrier. I believe my team can get through this bump.
"Yang, Yang, Yang!"
Although it has only been a month since he arrived at Wolfsburg and he has only played four games for Wolfsburg, fans have begun to get used to calling Yang Fan's name when the team needs heroes the most.
The Wolfsburg fans in the stands shouted loudly, and there was no panic and frustrated look on their faces that the team was going to lose.
Especially when they shouted Yang Fan's name, they had a smile on their faces and a kind of self-confidence, which was an inexplicable self-confidence: they didn't seem to worry about their team at all, they thought that their team would eventually score a goal and be able to pull it back!
It's a strange phenomenon, where does the inexplicable self-confidence of these fans come from?
When the half-time whistle blew, the score was still 3-1, and the away team Schalke 04 took the lead.
When Yang Fan walked towards the players' tunnel with some frustration, a huge shout broke out in the stands again, and they were shouting in unison: Yang!
Yang Fan stopped, he glanced at the stage, and there seemed to be an inexplicable feeling surging in the young man's chest
He was ashamed that he would be frustrated by the 1-3 scoreline.
He was ashamed that he had only scored one goal in the first half. This is a bit funny to say, at least the fans of Schalke 04 will feel laughed to death, but at this moment, Yang Fan thinks like this.
Don't stop fighting, no matter what.