Werder Bremen's current manager is Thomas Schaff, who took over Magath from the 98-99 season and has been in charge for a full nine seasons now, and it is rare for anyone in the Bundesliga to stay in this position for so long.

Of course, there are several reasons why he has been able to work for so long, the first is that he is an old courtier of Werder Bremen, who has spent his entire career in Werder Bremen, and is deeply trusted by the club and loved by the fans; After Bayer Leverkusen fell one after another, it was he who raised the banner of challenging Bayern Munich, played attacking football in the Bundesliga, and finally won the double in the 2003-2004 season, dominating the German domestic arena; the third reason is that Werder Bremen is not in a good financial situation after the arrival of the new century, Schaff is obviously easier than other coaches to communicate with the management and will not make some excessive purchase demands, and the club is willing to give him enough time and trust.

Since the beginning of the 02-02 season, under the advocacy of the Mesozoic European coaches led by Milan coach Carlo Ancelotti, the formation based on the balance of 442 attack and defense has gradually become popular in major European leagues, especially Ancelotti's 4321 "Christmas tree" tactics are more popular and promoted, and the Premier League has also evolved 433, 451, 4123 and so on on the traditional 442 style of play, La Liga, French Ligue 1 has also begun to embark on the trend of tactical innovation.

The Bundesliga also has a positive attitude to accept the tactical update in European football, Magath, Schaff, Rangnick and other Mesozoic coaches took the lead in implanting the advanced ideas and concepts of continental football into the tradition of German football, so after the 02-03 season, in Dortmund, Bayer Leverkusen, which was a strong team that went from prosperity to decline due to the bankruptcy of Kilsch Media Group, declined. Stuttgart, Bremen, Schalke and other mid-tier teams were quick to continue to attack Bayern's dominance through tactical innovations and the extensive use of new talents. Tactically, Schaff's Bremen played technical attacking football, eventually upending Bayern's dominance in the 03-04 season.

Schaff's attacking football not only caused a wave in the Bundesliga, but also brought a lot of popularity to Werder Bremen, and many young players were willing to join Werder Bremen because of the charm of Schaff's training of young people and attacking football.

For example, Klose chose Werder Bremen after Kaiserslautern, in fact, there were many teams that wanted Klose at that time, after all, Klose has always maintained a fairly good goal efficiency in Kaiserslautern, but he still chose Werder Bremen, the reason is Schaff.

For example, Diego and Ozil in the current Werder Bremen team, it can be said that they are all running for the name of Schaff.

These two are the most promising talents in the Werder Bremen team at the moment, Diego needless to say that he became famous at a young age, and Robinho is known as the twin stars of Brazilian football giants Santos, who came to Werder Bremen after the disappointment of the Porto team, where he proved himself worthy of his name in just one season, and last season he contributed 13 goals for Werder Bremen as a striker, and his performance was quite impressive.

Another genius, Mesut Ozil, is the pain in the heart of Schalke 04, he is a genius, but in the salary and the club did not negotiate and finally the two sides broke down, in fact, Ozil's current salary is not as good as Zhang Yuan, but Zhang Yuan's situation is different, Zhang Yuan's salary is set by the wealthy Inter Milan, Schalke 04 wants Zhang Yuan can only silently bear this salary, and Ozil as Schalke 04 club is not willing to give 19-year-old him a high salary even if he is optimistic. The final ending of this story is that everyone breaks up, Ozil came to Werder Bremen, the fans are still very unhappy emotionally, it is estimated that Ozil will be "warmly welcomed" when he returns to the Schalke Stadium next season!

Ozil came to Werder Bremen after he was reused by Schaff, in fact, Schalke 04 Slomka has begun to reuse Ozil, after he left, he introduced Zhang Yuan as a replacement for Ozil, so although Ozil is young but the strength is there, Schaff's reuse is not surprising, he has contributed 5 assists to the team so far in the second half of the season, and his performance is very good.

Werder Bremen is not only these two rookie talents, Schaff has many young players who are very talented, so the average age of Werder Bremen is not large, this is of course a common phenomenon in the current Bundesliga team, full of combat effectiveness, but it is precisely because of the youth, coupled with the departure of super shooter Klose, and the influence of Schaaf's offensive football concept, Werder Bremen actually plays a little nervous, when it is good, people block killing, Buddha blocks and kills Buddha, and when it is bad, a weak team can also beat them to lose their armor, and their results have been up and down this season。

After lunch at the hotel at noon and an hour's rest, the whole Schalke 04 team took a bus to the Weser Stadium, which is located on the right bank of the Weser River in Bremen City, and the surrounding scenery is not bad.

After warming up, Slomka seized the time to arrange the tactics again, this game is very important, although Schalke 04 is really not very well prepared, but Slomka still wants to win, at least not to lose, which is quite consistent with the idea of the club's top management.

Schalke's starting lineup today is 433,

Goalkeeper: Manuel Neuer

Defenders: Right-back Christadzic, centre-backs Bolton Wanderers and Westerman, left-back Pandel

Midfielders: Jones, Ernst, Stenet

Forwards: Altentop Jr., Asamoah, Kuranyi

Werder Bremen is in a 442 formation on this side, and the midfielder is in a diamond position, this formation is Schaff's usual formation, which has been like this since the Miku era, and Miku is gone and Diego comes to take over.

Goalkeeper: Wiese

Defenders: Fritz at right-back, Naldo and Mertesacker at centre-back, Pasanen at left-back

Midfielders: Bowman at the back, Frings at the left, Borowski at the right, Diego at the front

Forwards: Sanogo and Rosenborg

With the referee's whistle, the game started, Zhang Yuan sat on the bench and watched the game intently, the two sides played a stalemate at the beginning of the game, Werder Bremen was very aggressive, but Schalke 04's defense was not weak, and the two sides played a little inseparable.

However, Slomka is not very satisfied with the current situation, Jones was specifically used to mark Diego today, but Jones did not do this well at the beginning, failed to keep Diego in the eye, Werder Bremen's offensive is now all on the back line clearance, so it is obviously not possible to continue.

Slomka stood on the sidelines and thought quietly, should he take back the two wingers to assist the midfielder in defence?

Before he could figure it out, Werder Bremen scored, and in the 18th minute, Diego's shot from a tight angle was blocked by Manuel Neuer. Frings took another corner and after a couple of clearances fell to Pasanen, who curled a cross that Bowman suddenly headed in and into the empty net.

This goal was scored in complete chaos, there was no one around to defend when Bowman plugged in, the last eight games Werder Bremen against Schalke 04 was 3 draws and 5 losses, and they did not win once, Schalke 04 can be said to be their bitter master in recent years, but today Werder Bremen obviously got off to a good start, and it is impossible to rewrite the history of winning.

Slomka spread his hands and expressed helplessness, this kind of ball is indeed a little helpless, in the chaos, Schalke 04's defensive system has been scattered, and the opponent just seized this opportunity.

The fans at the scene enthusiastically called the name of captain Bowman, and the on-site commentator passionately explained the moment of the goal.

This is not a good sign, Zhang Yuan sat on the bench and felt that he could see the problem, and the reason why Werder Bremen was able to attack the penalty area repeatedly was because Schalke 04 did not do a good job in controlling the midfield today.

The impact of Rakitic's absence is still huge, and Stenet, who replaced him, simply does not have the quality of a good commander like him, and Ernst does not have such ability, let alone Jones, so today Schalke 04 did not do well in the midfield's passing and control, plus Jones is obviously out of shape today, and the midfield interception ability has declined, and Werder Bremen can easily pass Schalke 04's midfield.

After conceding a goal, Slomca finally made a change, pulling back the two wingers Altentop Jr. and Asamoah a little, and now the formation is like the 451 formation, trying to make up for Rakitic's accuracy with numbers, enhancing the midfield's passing ability and interception, and preventing Werder Bremen from quickly passing through the Schalke 04 midfield.

However, his change still did not have much effect, on the contrary, Werder Bremen did a good job in midfield interception, Frijns and Borowski are called full-backs, but both of them are actually quite good in defense, not only can limit Schalke 04's wings, but also have the spare strength to assist Baumann in the midfield, Schalke 04's midfielders made frequent mistakes in passing today, giving Werder Bremen some opportunities.

As a result, in the 33rd minute, Diego took the ball in the middle and split the side, and stuffed it directly to Borowski on the right, who crossed, Sanogo, who was ambushed in front of the goal, shook his head and scored the goal, Neuer couldn't save, and the score became 2-0, and Schalke 04 was already two goals behind.

The fans in the stands sang hard, and with a two-goal advantage, Schalke 04 was hard to bargain for.

Slomka spread his hands again, the Schalke 04 players were not in good form today, Werder Bremen got too many chances, and it was strange not to score.

Zhang Yuan's heart was already churning, it looked like he was going to lose today, he saw the downturn of the whole team, and of course he knew that if he continued in this state, losing was inevitable. (To be continued.) )