Chapter 129: Magat's Bloody Gamble

Magath still wanted to grab the start of the second half, and the stealing start in the first half gave him a taste of sweetness, and it seems that the second half can also come like this. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

The champion coach is a good character, in the 47th minute, Schalke 04 instigated an attack on the right side, Farfan transferred to the left side in time after winning the ball, and the unguarded Kobyashvili was inserted into the penalty area at high speed 7 meters outside the outside of Mondragon's left foot and shot into the far corner, 2-1.

Schalke 04 magically grabbed the opening game again, and Magath was quite smug on the sidelines, with a smile on his face.

Soldo, on the other hand, was furious at the performance of his players, who scored an opening goal in the first half and another in the second half, and the thing he regrets most now is why he didn't give the team a timely warning at half-time, and now he has tasted the consequences.

scored a goal, Magath changed the formation again, in short, it is grinding to grind to a victory, in fact, there is no need to grind, the Cologne team's big pressure also brought an opportunity to Schalke 04.

In the 67th minute, Knya made a steal in the midfield, straight to Zhang Yuan, forming a single knife, Zhang Yuan faced Mondragan's light pick, rewriting the score to 3:1, Schalke 04 basically locked the win.

Schalke 04 assistant coach Eschkorn said to Magath: "Zhang Yuan's condition is really good!"

"This kid is very relaxed during the holidays! I feel like he's in good shape during training and I guess he'll be able to score again today, and that's right!" Magath laughed.

Schalke 04's defense is not in vain, and the Cologne team has not been able to do anything about Schalke 04 even if they try harder.

Podolski has a lot of aura, but he is not very tall, Cologne can only use crosses constantly in the back, headers are not their strong point, and Schalke 04 of the three central defenders does not give them much space.

At the end of the game, Cologne had to swallow a defeat at home.

Neuer kissed Zhang Yuan's head affectionately and quipped: "Did you go to the United States on vacation?!"

"Bullshit, you heard me say, I'm going to Melsburg!" Zhang Yuan thumped him.

Di Gan stretched out his hand and struck Zhang Yuan, "You have to invite me to dinner today!"

Zhang Yuan's first goal came with an assist from Degan.

"No problem! If you can give me an assist every game, I'll treat you to dinner every day!" Zhang Yuan laughed.

"Zhang Yuan, how does it feel to find the goal again?" the reporter asked Zhang Yuan after the game.

"It's wonderful to score again! I was unlucky in the first two games, but I was lucky in this game, and the important thing is that we regained the feeling of victory!" Zhang Yuan replied with a smile.

"This is your third brace this season! You're number one in the season's scorer charts, do you think you're going to win the tiny gun?"

"Of course I want to win the top scorer, but I want us to have a good result at the end of the season!"

"You said Schalke 04 had the quality to fight for the title, do you still think so, and what do you think about the upcoming face of defending champions Wolfsburg and Ruhr rivals Borussia Dortmund?"

"We still have the quality to win the title now!As for the next match, we will try to win, it will be tough for sure, but we will be ready!"

After answering this question, Zhang Yuan left the scene, he is currently ranked first in the scorer list, although he has experienced two goal droughts, he still ranks first with 6 goals, the efficiency of one goal per game is ranked first, and the second Dzeko has scored four goals.

There are many pseudo-strong teams in the Bundesliga, such as Wolfsburg, Bayer Leverkusen, Schalke 04, Hertha Berlin, Werder Bremen, and Stuttgart.

Wolfsburg, Stuttgart, and Werder Breeze have all won league titles in recent years, while Schalke 04, Hertha Berlin, and Bayer Leverkusen have all come close to winning the title.

So in most people's eyes they are a strong team, but they are not, Stuttgart won the championship and quickly lost the third line in the second year, and the same is true of Werder Bremen, and Schalke 04 is not much better.

This status quo is the norm for these pseudo-strong teams, the bench thickness is too shallow, Wolfsburg won the league title last season, but what about the new season?

After five games in the first five games, they have lost three of them, and now they are six points from a pitiful place, and they are currently only in tenth place in the table, seven points away from the top.

They still have a Champions League game in midweek, and Schalke 04 can be said to be at home with a good chance of winning.

Magath attaches great importance to this game, not because Wolfsburg is his old owner, and he did not have a good time with the Wolfsburg hierarchy when he left, but because to hone Schalke 04's quality needs to fight against strong teams, the season has gone through 5 rounds, but Schalke 04 has not faced an opponent who can be called a strong team.

VfL Wolfsburg are the defending champions and Schalke 04 will undoubtedly give the players a lot of confidence if they can win at home.

Perhaps it was the use of a strange formation to defeat Cologne, and Magath actually practiced this tactic seriously in training.

With Rakitic and Raphinha both returning, Magath is still sticking to this tactic.

How to arrange the formation is the coach's business, Zhang Yuan's task is to do a good job in training, as far as he is concerned, now he doesn't like to play a single striker in front so much, there is no forward can be, he feels that he can retreat, play the second striker, and do the work of the front waist by the way.

But as a lone striker, Magath hasn't given him that kind of freedom this season, telling him clearly that you have to be up front because you're the starting centre-forward.

Tactically, Zhang Yuan is not allowed to retreat too much, Zhang Yuan is the least good at this kind of post-center-forward play, and he himself is not willing to have excessive close contact with the opponent's defenders.

played well against Cologne in the last game, not to mention Zhang Yuan's cleverness in the first goal, and Degan's credit accounted for a lot.

The second goal came from the success of the anti-offside position, the Cologne team gave Schalke 04 too many opportunities to counterattack, there will always be a success, and Zhang Yuan seized it.

But when it comes to facing Wolfsburg, will they still let the underdog Cologne give you too many chances?

Zhang Yuan didn't think so far, but after all, he felt that he was not very comfortable playing with him as a post-center.

Sure enough, when he played against Wolfsburg on September 18, Zhang Yuan played an awkward game, and Wolfsburg's two central defenders, Barzagli and Madelen, were strictly defensive against him.

Barzagli follows Zhang Yuan wherever he goes, and the disadvantage of a single striker is in this place, one of the two central defenders is responsible for marking people closely, and the other is generally responsible for filling in the position and grabbing at the right time.

Barzagli, who was born in Italy, has a strong defensive ability, and Zhang Yuan's ability to get rid of it is very strong, but he can't hold the ball when he is targeted by Barzagli.

In the first half, he passed Barzagli twice, but Barzagli twice stopped Zhang Yuan from advancing with the ball by pulling people and stumbling.

For this reason, Zhang Yuan complained to the referee: "Look at my feet, they have been kicked and bruised by him, isn't this enough to give a card!"

The referee shook his fingers, sorry no!

Even in such a tight defense, Zhang Yuan still completed two shots, but they were too wide of the post to pose any real threat to Wolfsburg goalkeeper Lenz.

At halftime, Magath still did not mean to change his tactics, nor did he ask Zhang Yuan to retreat deeper, in the face of the defending management bureau, he had his considerations, Wolfsburg's attack was fast-paced, Schalke 04 naturally had to recycle the formation a little.

The tactical play of Wolfsburg's side is to continue Magath's coaching tactics, with wings flying together, and Grafitte and Dzeko forming a twin tower.

The score was 0-0 in the first half, with neither side scoring, but in the second half, the situation on the field began to change.

VfL Wolfsburg stepped up their offensive and in the 54th minute, the deadlock was finally broken. Wolfsburg quickly drove a tactical corner on the right side, Schalke 04 players were obviously unprepared, Ritter crossed from the right, Hevedes defended and leaked, and Dzeko, who was unguarded at the back point, scored with a header, 1-0!

Schalke 04 had to choose to press up after falling behind, and the clock was already in the second half, and they didn't want to lose this game under the watchful eyes of the fans.

In the 64th minute, Magath changed two people in a row, replacing Asamoah and Kobiashvili, who started today, with Kulanyi and Altentop Jr., he was also driven crazy, plus Zhang Yuan and Farfan on the field, the front court has hoarded four forwards, who said that Magath is not bloody?!

This is bloody gambling!(To be continued.) )