The international break finally came to an end with Schalke hosting bottom-placed Stuttgart at home in a match that took place as scheduled. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Stuttgart has had a very difficult time this year, losing consecutive games as deputy squad leader, the coach has been dismissed, and the former assistant coach Keller has been pushed to the position of acting coach, but their fans and the outside world believe that they have no better future, especially against Schalke, who is now in the limelight, there is almost no possibility of winning.

The line-ups sent by both sides were not unexpected, and each used their strongest formation. Magath made some changes to the team's backline, with Papadopoulos not on the pitch and Hovides and Metzard, who had been a regular until then, forming a centre-back combination, with nothing else changed.

The fans have been holding back for more than ten days and are very uncomfortable, so they burst out with their greatest enthusiasm at the beginning, filling up the proud Schalke with various slogans and songs. However, when they were in the lounge, almost all of the team members felt that Ai Fan seemed to be a little absent-minded.

Ai Huan returned a day later than others, this was granted by Magat, so there was nothing special, but since he came back, his state has not been very right, he always looks preoccupied, and his words are scary, but no one knows what happened to him and no one dares to ask, in fact, he will not answer.

The good thing was that the rest of Schalke's players were in good form and they started attacking as soon as the game started. In the sixth minute, Schalke 04's Jurado received a pass from Holterby, raised his right foot from outside the penalty area, and the ball was blocked by the opposing defender. A minute later, Metzelder attempted a right-footed shot from outside the box that went over the crossbar. None of these balls were there, and as soon as he got on the field, it was as if he had disappeared, and he couldn't be found anywhere at all.

Then Stuttgart's attack gradually picked up, and in the eighth minute, Kakau's clever pass was blocked by Moritz on the right side. A minute later, they took a tactical corner and Gebart's curling cross was met by Kuzmanovic with a header in the centre of the box, but it went just wide of the left-hand post. The first 10 minutes were evenly matched, and it really wasn't clear how bad Stuttgart was.

Actually, Stuttgart doesn't suck at all. After all, they are the old powerhouses of the Bundesliga, and it is not bad to have a strong squad, but this year is evil, they often take the lead and then are inexplicably equalized or even overtaken, it is a rare win, and a game is often dominated but just can't be won, which also makes everyone scratch their heads.

It was Stuttgart who scored first in the fifteenth minute. Boca made a wonderful pass, Gebat shot with his right foot from the center of the penalty area, the ball flew straight to the bottom right corner of the goal, and Neuer could only look at the ball and sigh. Schalke are 1-0 down at home.

After conceding the goal, Schalke's players looked at each other, all with a helpless expression, the responsibility for the goal just now was still on the back waist, and the two back midfielders lost their positions at the same time to concede the goal, but this kind of thing was almost impossible to happen before, because every time at this time, Ai Phantom would appear in this position, but today Ai Phantom didn't know where it was, which also made Schalke feel as if he had lost half of the country.

However, Schalke still had some good players, and they started a frantic counter-attack after conceding the first goal. In the 27th minute, Raul received a pass from Jurado in the middle of the box and fired a shot that went just wide of the right post. Holterby then tried a long-range shot from outside the box, but goalkeeper Ulrich struggled to save the ball.

Jurado took a tactical corner and combined beautifully with Escudero, who found Maputi in ambush in the box with a pass from the left, who fired a powerful left-footed shot into the top right corner of the box to make it even 1-1. It was also Maputy's first league goal for Schalke, and he was shown a yellow card as he excitedly took off his shirt and ran to the sidelines to celebrate.

Uncle Deepp didn't finally speak until this time, "After half an hour of playing today's game, we finally saw what Schalke should have, but why do I just think Schalke is a little dead today? Obviously there are eleven people playing, but it seems that there is one less person, is our God already asleep?"

Ai Huan is still on the field, he is not asleep but there is no way to devote himself to the game, although it is not unexpected that the Spanish evil demon came to the door, but it is still quite shocking for a young man who is only twenty years old, to be honest, Ai Huan is really tempted. He was not because of the conditions set by the Spanish evil, but because of the sentence "The Spaniards have always treated you as their own child, and because of this you should join us." "It's a sense of need, like what Magath said to him at the World Cup.

He really needs to be affirmed, even if he never says it, but his heart is desperate for this sense of need, since he was expelled from Seville, he has been holding his breath in his heart, and that breath has indeed come out over the years, but now he is facing the problem that one country spurns itself, and another country needs its own, so how to choose? This question makes him go crazy.

That's why he thinks like sleepwalking on the field, how he can't fit into the team, how he can't concentrate, he even wants to get off the field, but he hesitates and still doesn't show it.

In the ensuing game, both sides attacked and defended each other, and both had shooting opportunities but failed to take advantage of them. Towards the end of the first half, Stuttgart came close to finding the back of the net again when Cacau flicked the ball to Marika, whose shot from the left wing of the box was saved by Neuer and Schalke 04 escaped. However, they also immediately returned the colour, and a minute later Holterby played a through ball to Raul, but the linesman raised the flag for offside.

The first half ended with a temporary draw.

After entering the lounge, Magath was not as elated or angry as usual, he seemed very calm today, he didn't even say a word to Ai Huan, he just laid out the tactics for the second half, telling others what to pay attention to, and he seemed to have forgotten about Ai Huan.

Ai Huan didn't show anything special, he was still full of worries, which also made the other team members not dare to approach him, and for a while, many people's hearts seemed to be overshadowed. (To be continued.) )