Chapter 370: Nine Wheels
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The media was full of praise for the national football team's crazy victory, but Guo Fan said: "In the case of Zhang Shujie, Li Mu and other players all on the court, if you can't play well, then you can't say it." ”
This sentence has an insinuation meaning, and Guo Fan has not changed his opinion of Camacho because of this big victory. The media also vaguely speculated that Guo Fan might have other plans.
Four days later, the eighth round of the Bundesliga began with Bayern Munich away to Fortuna Dusseldorf. The team only reached the First Division in 2011/2012 and narrowly escaped relegation last season, and this season they are still aiming for relegation.
However, in the face of Bayern, who have lost two years of league titles, Fortuna Dusseldorf is afraid that they will encounter a lot of trouble. Bayern Munich must have to steal points from such a weak opponent, which may sound cruel, but football is just that.
There was no suspense in this 90-minute score, Bayern Munich defeated Fortuna Dusseldorf 5:0 away, and Zhang Shujie, who had just returned from the national team, opened the door of Dusseldorf twice in the second half and helped Bayern return to Munich with three points.
In the last eight league games, Zhang Shujie has scored nine goals, three more than Lewandowski behind him, and continues to be at the top of the scorer list, while Bayern Munich has also been able to continue to be the league leader with a winning record. Because Dortmont, who ranked second, failed to win this round, the gap with Bayern Munich widened to six points.
In another four days, the Bayern squad travelled to France for the third round of the Champions League, where they will take on Ligue 1 giants Lille at the Lille City Stadium.
The Champions League game almost two weeks ago had a profound impact on all Bayern fans, and Bayern lost to Borisov, who was considered the weakest in the group, and could only sit in first place on goal difference, which was obviously intolerable for Bayern.
At the beginning of the game, Lille at home caused a lot of trouble for Bayern, but that all changed in the twentieth minute, when Zhang Shujie received a diagonal pass from Robben and was tripped by Lille defender Beria after bursting into the penalty area, winning a penalty for Bayern.
Thomas Muller personally took the penalty to rewrite the score to 1:0! Lille also had to advance the formation for this reason, forcing Bayern at the back, but did not get a particularly good chance.
In the 36th minute, Kroos passed the ball to Ribery, and Ribery smoothed the ball into the front of the penalty area, Zhang Shujie got the ball and shook the opponent's two defenders in a row and kicked the ball into the corner.
It was Zhang's second goal in the last three Champions League games, and if he hadn't been injured in the game against Borisov, he would have scored far more than two goals in the Champions League in his current form.
Originally, Bayern could continue to expand the score, but Heynckes replaced several main players in the team in advance for the next round of the league, and Zhang Shujie was one of them. Bayern's opponent in the next round of the league is Bayer Leverkusen, who are third in the table, and even if Bayern are significantly stronger, Heynckes still needs to be careful not to be careless.
Bayern eventually beat Lille 2-0, and Zhang Shujie, who scored a goal and created a penalty, was once again named Man of the Match. The Kicker wrote: "The Chinese striker's form is too hot, he has scored in many games in a row, I wonder if Bayer Leverkusen can stop his goalscoring momentum?"
Chen Hui also expressed his opinion on "Sports Weekly": "Zhang Shujie surprised each of us very much, he far exceeded our imagination. At the moment he has surpassed his goalscoring rate of one goal per game, and if he can maintain that form until the end of the season and play in all of Bayern's leagues, he will be able to score at least 34 league goals. ”
Chen Hui's speculation is a bit bold, but it is not impossible, miracles are created by people. It's just that Bayern will have to face the challenge of Bayer Leverkusen first.
Bayern is at home, and the strength is stronger than the opponent, and most media are still optimistic about Bayern's victory, believing that Bayern only needs to focus on Leverkusen's top scorer Kiessling, and they will win without worry. After the opening, Bayern also showed the "friendship of the landlord", which made Leverkusen breathless, Zhang Shujie scored in the eighteenth minute, but before he had time to celebrate, the referee ruled that the goal was invalid.
Looking at the linesman again, he has already raised the small flag in his hand, and Zhang Shujie is offside.
Although a ball was blown off by the referee, Bayern did not receive much impact, and finally in the 31st minute, Mandzukic, who replaced the injured Robben in this game, scored a goal for Bayern, and the person who assisted him was Zhang Shujie.
It was Zhang's fifth assist of the season and the second assist for Mandzukic's scoring. The balance seemed to have started to tip in Bayern's favour, but in the second half, the pitch was turned upside down.
First, Bayer Leverkusen blocked Bayern's attack in the 63rd minute and launched a counterattack, the team's striker Schurrle took the ball straight to the Bayern backfield, goalkeeper Neuer rushed out of the penalty area, fell to the ground to tackle Schurrle's ball, and also shoveled Schurrle to the ground.
This should have been a foul, but Leverkusen's Kiessling caught the ball shoveled by Neuer, at the moment Bayern's defense is relatively empty, there is no goalkeeper in front of the goal, Kiessling of course will not miss Bayern's gift, after stopping the ball, he directly shot with a kick, the ball passed the defending Boateng and hoisted into Bayern's goal.
Neuer was stunned for a moment, he originally shoveled the ball out of bounds, but he didn't control the crosshair and shoveled it to Kiessling, which caused Bayern to concede the goal. In fact, if he hadn't rushed out of the penalty area rashly, the goal might not have gone in. But in that case, it won't be Neuer.
Neuer walked back to the goal without saying a word and kicked the ball towards the centre circle. Heynckes could see the ball he had just conceded clearly from the sidelines, and he couldn't laugh or cry.
The draw didn't scare Bayern, there was still plenty of time to go, and everyone thought Bayern could take all three points at the Allianz Arena.
Zhang Shujie also does not doubt that his previous continuous goals also hope to continue in this round of games. With almost 70 minutes to play, he had four shots, one of which was ruled offside, and two of the other three were on the woodwork, but none of them penetrated Leverkusen.
In the 75th minute, Zhang Shujie won the ball in the penalty area, buckled the attacking goalkeeper Leno, and pushed the empty goal with his left foot, but the ball inexplicably hit Mandzukic's leg, bounced to the other side, and was cleared by Carvajal's big foot.
Zhang Shujie stood in place with his hands on his hips, he looked at Mandzukic, although he also knew in his heart that Mandzukic did not intend to touch the ball, but the duck in his hand flew away like this, and he was somewhat unwilling.
Mandzukic was waiting for his chance in the middle, but he stumbled upon a shot from Zhang Shujie towards the net, causing the Chinese team-mate to miss a good chance to score. And he didn't mean to apologize to Zhang Shujie at all, just walked out of the forbidden area with his head down.
This made Zhang Shujie even more uncomfortable, he waved his hand helplessly and walked back.
"Hi, Zhang. Cross walked towards Zhang Shujie: "What's wrong with you?"
"It's fine. Zhang Shujie shook his head.
"Are you blaming Mandzukic?"
Zhang Shujie smiled bitterly and said, "It's not to blame, it's a little helpless." ”
"Okay, it's okay, he didn't mean it. ”
"Well, I know. Zhang Shujie smiled.
As the game time decreased, Bayern invested more and more in attacking forces, Zhang Shujie worked very hard, but God seemed to be intent on opposing him, and his close header was miraculously saved by Leno.
The game has reached the 82nd minute, and the score is still 1:1! Heynckes is a little anxious, what is going on with Bayern today? The performance of the players is quite normal, except for Neuer, who likes to run outside the penalty area as always, nothing unusual happened. But why is it so difficult to score more goals?
Zhang Shujie, in particular, was very active on the field, and several shots were very threatening, but he kicked six times with his head and foot on goal, but did not score a single goal, I don't know whether to say that he was unlucky, or whether to say that Bayer Leverkusen's goalkeeper performed too well.
Chen Hui also frowned and sat quietly in the press box. Usually when a striker is in such a situation, it may be difficult to score a goal in a game, and no one can tell what the reason is, but in football, something often happens that seems to be a little "supernatural".
Two minutes later, Bayer Leverkusen substitute Sam received a cross from Carvajal and headed a header from three yards in front of goal, but Neuer struggled to save but couldn't prevent the ball from going into the net.
1:2, Bayern trailed Bayer Leverkusen at home.
There was a moment of silence at the Allianz Arena, and then a burst of celebration erupted, not from Bayern Munich fans, but from Bayer Leverkusen.
Heynckes snorted heavily, this score was something he hadn't thought of before the game.
Bayern had little chance of equalising the scores, and Bayer Leverkusen began to put on a bucket formation and go all out to defend. The moment the half-time whistle sounded, it also meant that Bayer Leverkusen had taken three points away from the Allianz Arena.
Zhang Shujie walked out of the stadium with some regret, and after a brief interview, he went straight back to the locker room, from the league, to the national team, to the Champions Cup, after scoring in five consecutive games, he paused the momentum of scoring goals in the ninth round of the league.
For this game, Heynckes made enough pre-match preparations, and it was easy to judge from the second-half retention of the Champions League against Lille. But I didn't expect the team to lose, which was also Bayern's first defeat in the league this season, and Heynckes didn't think it was the bad performance of his disciples at the press conference, but mainly because he felt unlucky. When a reporter asked him how he saw the first goal Neuer conceded, he did not answer directly, just said "that's Neuer's style".
The next day, Bayern's defeat made headlines in the media. From the perspective of various factors, Bayern Munich's loss to Bayer Leverkusen can be regarded as a small upset. "Deutsche Fame Zeitung" said: "Maybe most people didn't expect Bayern to lose, but in fact it was their opponent to get three points, maybe many people were still waiting for Zhang Shujie to score more goals, but he still paused his pace and gave an assist to his teammate." ”
Chen Hui said: "Zhang Shujie was unlucky, he can't be blamed for the loss, he worked hard in the game, he got a lot of chances, and the six shots in the game were of great quality, only one was out of the woodwork. It has to be said that Bayer Leverkusen's goalkeeper played very well after conceding the first goal of his team. ”
Chen Hui's words were not intended to excuse Zhang Shujie, Leno did play very well, he not only blocked Zhang Shujie's shot, Ribery, Kroos, and Muller also did not get any cheap in his hands, and even the on-site commentators thought that Bayern was going to score a goal several times, but they were all resolved by Leno one by one.
It is no exaggeration to say that without Leno, Bayern's attacking group would not have been a problem scoring two or three more goals against Bayer Leverkusen.
Zhang Shujie had just finished the international call with Wang Shihan, and he was now sitting on the sofa, flipping through the newspapers, which were all about yesterday's game, he took a few looks, then put the newspaper on the table, got up and walked to the second floor.