Chapter 17: Ozil's Wonderful Assist

Mesut Ozil didn't start the day spectacularly, but he was probably a little nervous, with a mistake on one pass, but Pizarro was lively up front, not just dropping back to meet the midfield, but also using himself up front to open up space for Ozil.

Since Werder Bremen's midfield is not only defensive, but also very organised, and neither Rakitic nor Kobiashvili on Schalke 04's side are very defensively strong, so in the midfield battle, Schalke 04 is now below it.

It may be that Werder Bremen is gradually gaining the initiative, and Ozil's performance is gradually becoming more and more active, and he has begun to play his good organising and passing skills in the forward midfield position.

In the 10th minute, Frings made a long pass to Pasanen, who inserted an assist on the wing, and Pasanen faced Pandel's defense, faced the defensive high point of Schalke 04 penalty area, and did not rush to cross, but reversed the ball to Ozil in the middle.

Ozil plugged in, did not observe, rushed before Ernst intercepted, straight to the left side of the Seschalke 04 penalty area, Pizarro got rid of Hevedez anti-offside position successfully, shot, fortunately in this ball Schuber sealed the near corner, and Pizarro's shot was too urgent, just hit Schuber's arms.

Pizarro regretted the rare opportunity and gave Mesut a thumbs up to Ozil for a great pass.

Ozil smiled coyly and ran back, he needed to prove himself that Schalke 04 had made the wrong decision to abandon him.

Ozil's departure is really a simple and complex issue, originally he subjectively wanted to stay in Schalke 04, but Schalke 04 introduced Rakitic last season, Rakitic has been playing in the forward position, the club's high-level move made Ozil feel that Schalke 04 does not value himself, so when the contract is renewed, his father inevitably mentions the main position and salary issues. Schalke 04 is really ruthless to himself to be honest, they obviously don't pay much attention to their own youth training, Ozil is a genius, but at the time they felt that it was still not as good as Rakitic, and as a result, the two sides fell out because of this, and the contract renewal failed, and the two sides broke up.

In fact, Schalke 04 can give Ozil some minimum respect, and Ozil should not leave.

Schaaf did not arrange a special person to mark Zhang Yuan, on the contrary, the defender Pasanen on Zhang Yuan's side often assists forward, Schaaf does not know Zhang Yuan's power, but Werder Bremen's main tone is to attack, use the attack to crush the opponent, even in the face of the fierce rival Schalke 04, Schaff will not change his team's tactical thinking.

Moreover, in the midfield, Schalke 04 was comprehensively suppressed, the front three forwards did not get too many opportunities, and Schaff also believed that with his excellent running ability in the midfield, he could limit the opponent's attack.

It's not that Schalke 04 didn't make long passes, but it was difficult for their long passes to reach the feet of the strikers smoothly, and Werder Bremen's Bowman side would not be very high, on the contrary, he tried to stay as quiet as possible in the backfield, which may also be arranged by Schaff.

Bowman, Naldo, and Prodel are all very strong in heading, and Kuranyi and Altentop Jr. are not dominant compared to them, and Zhang Yuan is needless to say.

Zhang Yuan has been playing more depressed so far, mainly because Werder Bremen's defensive high-altitude ball today is very strong, Kuranyi is stared at in front of him, and he has few chances to grab the second point.

Today, Schalke 04's midfield was forced to open his feet in a hurry, and his ground passes were intercepted by Bowman, Frijns and Jensen several times, and Zhang Yuan received very limited support.

"Schalke 04 can't play like this anymore, the forward line and the midfield are completely disconnected! The forward line has no support from behind, it has no effect! If it continues like this, Werder Bremen will score sooner or later!"

"Zhang Yuan's performance in this game so far is not ideal!" Duan Xuan sighed.

'It's not his fault, he's got too little support and Werder Bremen defended quite well today and didn't give him a chance at all. Tao Wei defended Zhang Yuan.

Lu Teng on the field continued to direct the team's defense on the sidelines, and the three-striker formation did not work, and he also saw it, but he didn't think of a way to deal with it in a hurry, and he seemed to lack a little calm.

Schaff is not satisfied with the team's situation, the advantage of the field did not translate into goals, Schalke 04's defense was still relatively tight for a while, Werder Bremen could only control the ball in the midfield, but the chance to really threaten Schalke 04's door was still relatively small.

Rakitic and Kobiashvili have now been completely reduced to sapper midfielders, tired of defending and unable to control the ball, they can only defend passively.

Before the game, the players of Schalke 04 showed extremely high morale and courage, but when it comes to the field, it is not just morale and courage that can win the battle, strength is really important, and the midfielder who lacks defensive strength is almost impossible if he does not have very strong organizational skills, and wants to dominate.

In the 32nd minute, the deadlock on the field was finally broken, Ozil cooperated with his teammates in the middle, passed the ball to the inserted left wing-back Bernisch, Bernisch dribbled the ball to the bottom, faked the facsimile to shake Westerman, still did not cross, and then passed the ball back to Ozil who received him at the edge of the penalty area.

After Ozil received the ball, he immediately faced the defense of his old teammate Ernst, and Ozil also had excellent dribbling ability, but not very fast.

Ernst did not rush up and took a position, which was difficult for Ozil to shoot, far from goal and the angle was blocked.

Rosenborg led Bolton out to meet it, and Pizarro also leaned into the middle of the box, one to answer, and the other ready to go inside to receive Mesut Ozil's cross.

Mesut Ozil did pass the ball, but not to Rosenborg or Pizarro in the box, but to the high-flying arc past Hwedes who jumped high.

To whom?

Frings cut in at high speed to tell everyone who Ozil was passing the ball to, and also used his head to prove that Ozil didn't pass it wide.

Schuber struggled to jump up and stretch out his hands, but Ozil's pass was too accurate, the route was quite accurate, Schuber did not choose to attack but chose to believe that the ball was passed wide, and as a result, Frings, who was extremely fast inside, pushed the pass into the near corner of Schalke 04 from the back post.

Werder Bremen, playing at home, leads Schalke 04 1:0.

"Ozil passes, Frings cuts in at high speed, header, it goes in! Oops, it went in beautifully, Ozil's pass is very good! Half the credit goes to this youngster, wonderful assist. Duan Xuan sighed.

"Well, that's a good shot!" Schalke 04's defense leaked!But Ozil's pass was so sudden and precise that Schauber probably thought the ball was going to go off the line!" Tauvey also praised the performance of the young Ozil.

"In the 32nd minute of the first half, Werder Bremen finally broke the deadlock on the field, they were scoreless in the early stages, and now it finally paid off, just now Tao said that Werder Bremen will have a goal sooner or later, and sure enough, they scored. Duan Xuan commented.

"Werder Bremen's attack is very flexible, the side of the middle is very active, Schaf's team is one of the best in the entire Bundesliga, Schalke 04 let the opponent press and play, it is difficult to keep! ”

After the goal, Frings ran to Mesut Ozil and hugged him to cheer for the home fans, as if he were officially introducing the new members to the Werder Bremen fans.

Mesut Ozil, Schalke 04 turned to our young talent, and he deserves your cheers.

Mesut Ozil was also very happy, he waved his fist at the fans, the ball was not scored by him, but he gave Schalke 04 a knife with his own assist, and temporarily fulfilled the pre-match declaration.

Schaff applauded his disciples, and he knew that Werder Bremen's strength was actually much lower than when the "KK" pair was there, but he still dreamed of winning the title, and successfully winning Schalke 04 was the first and most crucial step.

Ruten was stunned by this goal, the team's previous defense can be said to be excellent, did not give Werder Bremen many chances, but he was lucky, and had the intention to drag through the first half but this wish did not come true.

In the box in the stands, Muller was not happy either, he was unhappy that Ozil played well on the pitch, and he can now expect that after the game, it is estimated that the fans of Schalke 04 scolded him for letting go of the team's talent. (To be continued.) )