This is Zhang Yuan's first visit to Karlsruhe's home stadium--- Wilder Stadium, which is used for both football and athletics, but now seems to be basically used as a football field, because it no longer meets international standards and cannot host track and field competitions. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The capacity of the whole stadium is not large, about 30,000 spectators, there are still more fans here today, and high attendance is a feature of Bundesliga teams, whether they are weak or strong.

Schalke 04's starting XI today were:

Goalkeeper: Manuel Neuer

Defenders: Raphinha, Bolton, Westerman, Pandel

Midfielders: Engal, Jones, Rakitic

Forwards: Farfan, Zhang Yuan, Altentop Jr

Karlsruhe's side is lined up in a 4231 formation.

Goalkeeper: Miller

Defenders: Glitz, Sebastian, Franz, Eichner

Defenders: Muzel, Bolcello

Attacking midfielders: Fleiss, Dasilva, Yashvili

Forward: Kennedy

After the opening, Schalke 04 was dominated by anti-visitors, firmly grasping the situation on the field, Zhang Yuan retreated and did a very positive job, Karlsruhe actually had a certain advantage in the number of people in the midfield, but the key is that with Zhang Yuan's retreat, they couldn't adapt to this kind of pass-and-control play at all.

In the fifteenth minute, Karlsruhe's city was broken, Zhang Yuan received a pass from Farfan and was pulled down by Karlsruhe captain Franz when he shot in the penalty area, and the referee awarded a penalty and showed Franz a yellow card.

Zhang Yuan personally took the penalty and volleyed vigorously into the middle of the goal, Miller misjudged the direction and pounced to the right side, Schalke 04 away 1:0 lead, which was Zhang Yuan's first lead after a game again.

After this goal, both sides played more openly, in the twentieth minute, Schalke 04 again found a good opportunity, Zhang Yuan retreated straight plug, Farfan inserted on the side, and shot from a small angle in the small penalty area, Schalke 04 took a two-goal lead.

Since then, the movements of the two sides have been a little bigger, Karlsruhe has fallen behind by two goals, the players must be unhappy, and the movements are getting bigger and bigger, Zhang Yuan was frequently put to the ground, and Farfan is also one of their key care objects.

Such a reckless foul play clearly worked well, and Schalke 04's attack was blocked.

However, Zhang Yuan soon told them not to foul so easily, and in the 41st minute, Zhang Yuan was pulled down by Mutzel on the right side of the penalty area with the ball, and the referee gave a free kick.

This season's free-kick is still Raphinha's number one, Zhang Yuan has been promoted to the second penalty taker, this time Zhang Yuan asked for this free-kick from Raphinha, and he wants Karlsruhe to taste his free-kick.

Set the ball, Zhang Yuan retreated 5 or 6 meters away, this position is about 20 meters away from the goal, for the right-footed Zhang Yuan actually chose to shoot directly is not good, but he put on this posture to confuse the players of Karlsruhe, everyone's most intuitive feeling is that Zhang Yuan will definitely take a strong volley to shoot.

Starting to run, Zhang Yuan was aggressive, but when he was about to reach the ball, he slowed down and kicked a falling leaf ball, and the ball hung straight into the near corner.

Miller flew to touch the ball with his fingertips, but still didn't get the ball out of the net, and the ball went in!

Zhang Yuan scored twice, Schalke 04 extended the lead to three goals, and many fans certainly did not expect Schalke 04 to occupy such a big lead in the first half.

Buskens and Mulder applauded in unison, Zhang Yuan's role in the center forward position is obvious, his style of play enriches Schalke 04's style of play, all three goals are related to him, it can be said that he single-handedly directed the first half of Schalke 04.

Karlsruhe coach Edmund Becker was helpless on the sidelines, and the huge gap in strength made Karlsruhe not have an advantage on the field, but on his home turf, he did not choose to defend when he was in desperate need of a victory.

Now it seems that holding on to it may not be a way out, and it is not bad to be able to get a point, who let himself misjudge, thinking that Schalke 04 has not been in good form recently, and fantasizes about getting three points.

Today's Schalke 04 lineup is not in his expectation, Zhang Yuan as a center forward and Kuranyi are completely two concepts, two ways of playing, he now only regrets that his pre-game work was not meticulous enough.

Karlsruhe has no choice but to attack, and no matter how slim the hope is, he has to fight.

Schalke 04 played the break at half-time with a score of 3-0, and Buskens praised the players in the dressing room, but also pointed out some problems on the field, that is, the two wingers Altentop Jr. and Farfan were not very frequent when inserting into the box.

In addition, in Karlsruhe's ruthless pressing and unscrupulous foul tactics, the players of Schalke 04 were not calm, Farfan got a yellow card for revenge on Franz, and Zhang Yuan also received a yellow card for revenge on Bolcello.

"You have to calm down and not let the other side get angry! I don't want us to play with ten men in the second half!" Buskens sternly admonished Farfan and Zhang Yuan.

Farfan and Zhang Yuan are young, they are easy to be provoked by each other on the field, Zhang Yuan is not a good young man, last year against Bayern Munich, Lucio stepped on him in that game, if it wasn't for his teammates to stop, he is likely to have to stage a full martial arts with Lucio.

Becker also warned his players to reduce fouls, the referee in the first half was merciful to the home team, Franz carried a yellow card and dared to give a black foot to Farfan, if it wasn't for the referee to see that he had a yellow card and the home team, he should have been off the field in the first half.

Karlsruhe's situation has not changed much in the first half, and they are still lagging behind in terms of control, with six shots on goal in the first half, but now they are struggling to reach Schalke 04's penalty area.

In the second half, Schalke 04 naturally controlled the ball more firmly when they had an absolute lead, avoiding Karlsruhe from getting the ball and launching a counterattack.

It didn't take long for the Karlsruhe players to be calm again, especially as captain Franz watched Schalke 04 control the ball and was in a hurry.

In the 56th minute, he fouled Farfan again, the referee did not say, the linesman first raised to signal Franz to foul, this was just a free kick, it is estimated that he felt that the free kick in this position was very dangerous, so he ran to the linesman's side and looked at the linesman's eyes, his mouth did not swear, but he was very emotional, and his saliva sprayed the linesman's face.

The referee couldn't take it any longer and gave Franz a yellow card, followed by a red card to send him off the field.

The funny thing is that after the referee showed the red card, Franz didn't say a word, took off the captain's armband and handed it to his teammates and left the field, which made people wonder if the captain took the initiative to apply for a red card after playing an aggrieved game!

Becker shook his head and replaced Mutzel with Stor, this game is a loss, think about how to lose less.

Steller was a central defender, and Becker replaced a central midfielder with a central defender, and the first thing was to ensure the integrity of the back line.

After Stell's arrival was defended by Zhang Yuan, the free kick had not yet been taken, and Raphinha gestured to his teammate in the box.

The players of Schalke 04 know the meaning of his gestures, the front point.

Naturally, Steller kept pulling Zhang Yuan's jersey in his hand, and Zhang Yuan kept slapping Stell's hand away with his hand.

Zhang Yuan was still maliciously speculating at this time, and he must have stolen Steer's hand!

Raphinha teed off, Zhang Yuan had not run before, the purpose was to give Steer a surprise attack, Steer never let go, but Zhang Yuan suddenly started, the impact rose, and Steer suddenly couldn't pull the sweat-soaked jersey.

At the front point, Zhang Yuan ran a little too much, but he shot with an unconventional action, and padd the goal with his heel, of course, he couldn't see it, and completely relied on his own feeling to change the direction of Raphinha's free kick.

Raphinha's front point was very close to the goal, and Miller sealed it in the near corner, but Zhang Yuan ran over and padded, and he couldn't do anything at all.

Once again, the ball hit the Karlsruhe goal, and Franz's fears became a reality, with a free-kick in this position being a big threat.

After the goal, Zhang Yuan completed a hat-trick, and he was extremely excited to run to the corner kick area and kneel to celebrate, and his teammates gathered around him to hug him.

After the celebration, Zhang Yuan pointed his hands at teammate Raphinha, "Thank you, Raphael!

"Oh my God, how did you do it, ran over, followed with your feet!" Raphinha praised.

Zhang Yuan shrugged his shoulders proudly and deliberately gave Raphinha a big hug alone.

Buskens and Mulder on the sidelines were determined that Karlsruhe, who had a four-goal advantage and one less player, was basically certain that they would not be able to recover the defeat. (To be continued.) )