Chapter 573: Countdown

The German Cup game is unfolding in this situation, as everyone has analyzed before, Borussia Mönchen's current situation is very bad, they still have to focus on the league relegation, every step forward in the German Cup means to scatter their energy, which is very unfavorable for them. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The only reason why they still have the heart to fight again is that this game is at their home stadium, and they don't want to lose too much in front of their fans, and the effect brought by Schalke's early announcement of the lineup also makes them a little unsure of what to do, and the final lineup turned out to be a substitute-based, which means that both sides are not willing to fight to the death in this game.

However, to everyone's surprise, the game was quite exciting, with players from both sides showing good competitive form, and Mata was the most excited. He's been waiting a little too long for this opportunity, he's always wanted to be a single player, but he hasn't done it well enough, and in this game Magath put all the offensive organization in his hands, and Fuchs is still a supporting role.

In the eighth minute, Juan Mata crossed from the right side of the opponent's defender in the middle of the penalty area, and Raul met the ball with his left foot in the arc of the penalty area and sent it into the bottom left corner of the goal, and the score became 1-0.

Two minutes later, Fuchs scored with a low right-footed shot from the edge of the penalty area, but the referee ruled that Demba Ba had been offside, and Demba Ba had blocked the view of the opposing goalkeeper, so the goal was disallowed.

Borussia Mönchengladbach also counter-attacked immediately after conceding the goal, their mentality was more relaxed, so they played a wonderful game in the fifteenth minute, and finally Reuss shook Schalke's defenders with a series of feints in the box, but unfortunately the last shot was too powerful and the ball went over the crossbar.

After that, the offensive and defensive switching speed of the two sides was still relatively fast, and Borussia Mönchen and Schalke started to attack, which also gave Schalke players a lot of space, and their attack was obviously still a head above the opponent.

In the 26th minute, Fuchs's midfielder crossed the top ball accurately to tear apart the defense of Borussia Mönchenchen, and Mata successfully faced the opponent's goalkeeper in an offside position and calmly pushed the ball into the bottom left corner of the net, Schalke led 2-0.

The time after that became Mata's personal performance time, his skills were already a head above the opponent, and now it was even more aggressive because the opponent did not have a special person to mark, his breakthrough and passing were extremely powerful, as long as he took the ball, the opponent would immediately cause chaos.

In the 30th minute, Juan Mata played a low ball into the box from the right flank, and Demba Ba shot wide of the left post. Two minutes later, Mata successfully broke the ball in front of the field through active scrambling, but unfortunately his teammates did not cooperate well enough to form a shooting opportunity, but many people can see from this move that Mata is in hot form today.

In the 37th minute, Schalke rushed into the opponent's penalty area again, and it was Mata who crossed low into the small box from the left side of the field, and Raul grabbed the ball and was kicked out of the box by the opposing defenders, but Mata had already followed, he broke into the box immediately after winning the ball, but the shot near the penalty was wide of the post.

In the first half of injury time, Borussia Mönchen also scored a goal, Reus and Hank hit the wall in the penalty area, Hanke decisively kicked the goal in the small penalty area with a small angle, the ball hit Schalke's defender and rolled into the empty goal, and then the first half ended.

Less than a minute into the second half, Demba Ba crossed after the ball went out of the bottom line, the assistant referee determined that the ball was out of bounds first, and the hot-tempered Demba Ba first protested against the assistant referee to eat a yellow card, and then applauded and sarcastically mocked the referee to eat another yellow card, and was sent off with a direct red card, which also surprised many people, Schalke had one less person to fight.

However, Schalke did not seem to be affected, less than five minutes after Demba Ba was sent off, Draxler's diagonal cross from the left side of the field accurately found Mata, and Mata relied on his super individual ability to get rid of the entanglement of two defenders at Borussia Mönchen, and scored with ease in the face of the attacking goalkeeper, and the score became 3-1.

In the 56th minute, Draxler made a throw-in mistake at the back, Neustadt headed a little, Reuss cut inside with the ball on the left rib, and fired a low right-footed shot from the penalty line, the ball flew past Matip's feet and rolled into the bottom left corner of the goal, and the unprepared Hildbrand did not react, and the score became 3-2.

In the 62nd minute, Juan Mata was successfully offside and hit the crossbar with a heavy shot from the goalkeeper and bounced back into the middle of the pitch, before Fuchs fired again from distance, but the ball flew off the crossbar.

In the 65th minute, Fuchs threw a powerful throw-in into the penalty area, the Borussia Mönchen defender's header was not far away, Draxler's header pushed the ball into the box again, Mata nodded the ball in front of him, Joaquin rushed to shoot the football into the goal, and the score was rewritten to four to two again, and this was the first time Joaquín who was sleepwalking throughout the game touched the ball, who knew that he actually scored the football.

Seventy points Matado shot hard low on the right side, Ter Stegen pounced on the ball, and Joaquin followed up in time and calmly pulled the ball with his right foot past Ter Stegen and shot into the empty goal, his goal efficiency surprised everyone, and Joaquin also looked very happy after the goal, this goal is still very exciting, a bit of the style of the Spanish knife.

In the 88th minute, Borussia Mönchen launched a counterattack, Arango did not cross the halfway line, Hildebrand rushed out of the penalty area to clear the ball and kick into the air, Reus easily brought the ball into the empty goal, making the score five to three, but it no longer meant anything for the whole game.

The goal shootout was over, and although Schalke won the big game, Magath was still unhappy with the three goals he conceded, and he criticized the defenders in the game in his post-match press conference, saying that they were not focused, but he changed words after saying this. Of course, we're going into the winter break and it's only natural for the players to be on holiday and hopefully they won't be in this state when they come back after the winter break, otherwise I'm going to put them all on the bench and never get a chance again. ”

Schalke easily reached the quarter-finals after beating Borussia Mönchengladbach, and the entire Bundesliga also entered the winter break, facing the upcoming Christmas, the countdown began to begin for all of Germany and Europe.