Chapter Ninety-Nine: Makes You Look Good
Back in the locker room, Slomka simply arranged the tactics, the players relaxed, waiting for the time to play, the game was held at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, when the players on both sides stood in the passage and waited to play, Zhang Yuan found that the players on both sides did not talk to each other, it seems that the feud of the previous year was really big.
Zhang Yuan deliberately observed the entire stadium, and it was indeed worthy of its name, the stadium of more than 80,000 people was crowded with spectators, as many as ants, a pair of hands neatly coordinated and shouted, it was too spectacular, this is Zhang Yuan's intuitive feeling.
Of course, there were people in the away team's fan zone, but not much, and the Schalke 04 fans were completely drowned in a sea of yellow, but they still organized their cheers and shouts to cheer for the Schalke 04 players.
Borussia Dortmund today lined up in a 442 formation, starting from:
Goalkeeper: Ziegler
Centre-backs: Amedik, Dede
Right-back: Rukavina, left-back: Robert. Kovacs
Midfielder: Kyle at the back, two wing-backs: Klinger on the left, Frederick on the right, Tinga up front
Forwards: Petrits, Klimowitz
The referee called the captains of both sides, Bolton and Keel, to choose a side, Dortmund's captain is Warnes, but he did not play today, so the captain on the field is the second captain Kyle, the second captain has been injured and unable to play in the past two seasons, and has only played 8 times so far this season.
The two sides guessed the coin, and as a result, Schalke 04 picked the side, Dortmund kicked off first, as soon as Dortmund kicked off, the players of Schalke 04 stepped forward to rush frantically, Slomka's tactics when deploying the no-ball state was to press high, in fact, there was no need for Slomka to deliberately arrange, Schalke 04's players would definitely try their best to grab, and fouls were not hesitated, but although Tinga passed the ball back to Dede, he was still put to the ground by Schalke 04's midfielder Jones, Jones did not pull Tinga at all, I wanted to slip away directly, but I was stopped by the referee.
"Man, I want you to calm down and don't do it next time, or I'll give you cards, understand?"
Jones signaled to the referee that he knew, turned back to his defensive position, the defensive action was not the patent of Schalke 04, Dortmund's defensive action was also very large, and in the first 20 minutes, both teams failed to play the effect that the manager intended.
Lacking Kuranyi as the fulcrum of the frontcourt, Slomka intends to reduce crosses and long passes, and play short pass penetration, but one is that under today's game conditions, Schalke 04's players are not strong enough to complete continuous short pass coordination, and second, Dortmund's frequent fouls will not allow Schalke 04 to complete textbook short pass coordination.
And what about Dortmund, Thomas. Dole, the young coach, replaced Rob as Dortmund manager in March 2007 and led the team to relegation. This season's record with Dortmund is average, this thing is not to blame him in the end, the team's blood loss after the economic crisis is too heavy, not a moment and a half can make up, today's formation is his usual formation in the league, but also based on short passes, but today's battle in the midfield is particularly fierce, especially the forward Tinga was marked by Jones's special defense and struggled, and Petritsch and Klimowitz did not get any ball at all on the forward line.
The domestic sports station naturally also focused on broadcasting this game, Zhang Yuan's consecutive starts are naturally a hot topic of discussion among the commentators, and the hot scene of the derby is also a hot topic for the commentators.
In order to stop the increasing defensive action of both sides, the referee finally began to exert his power, and in the 21st minute, Jones shoveled Tinga again and received the first yellow card, just 2 minutes later, and in the 23rd minute, Dortmund defender Amedick also received a yellow card for a foul on Asamoah.
After these two yellow cards, the players on both sides have relented, but the midfield is still fighting for every inch of land, and the game is very close.
The first to make tactical adjustments was Dole, today he deliberately sent a high school striker Klimowitz of course has a second set of long pass rushing play, now the midfield is not running well, he conveyed the second set of tactics to the players on the field, but today this tactic still did not succeed, Schalke 04 two central defenders Bolton and Westman are very high, the derby two people are more focused, header Klimowitz did not take advantage.
Slomka was also thinking on the sidelines that the midfield was now deadlocked, and it would be difficult to get any good chances without breaking it.
However, he has not thought of anything for the time being, the lack of high points in the front court, the long pass and hanging style of play is not advisable, he can only call his players to increase their running, actively create receiving points, and at the same time drive Dortmund's defensive system.
Zhang Yuan was taken care of by the other party on the field, Dole studied Zhang Yuan very well before the game, this player has a strong breakthrough ability, and the man-to-man tactics are easy to fail in front of Zhang Yuan, so he chose to mark Zhang Yuan in the area today, Kyle and Dede, Rukavina form a triangle joint defense area, and Federik can also form a quadrilateral defensive area when he returns to the defense, trying to limit Zhang Yuan's breakthrough space.
But in fact, Zhang Yuan's threat has not really been played so far, one is that the midfield has not given much support to the three strikers in this game, and the other is that Zhang Yuan himself has not retreated too deeply.
After Slomka instructed his players to run more, the three strikers all recycled to varying degrees, so that Dortmund's defensive space was compressed, but Schalke 04 had more receiving points, and the midfield gave the striker more opportunities.
In the 28th minute, Schalke 04 ushered in a good opportunity, Kelstadzic successfully steals the ball from Fderick and passes to Jones, Jones passes to the striker Asamoah who retreats to the middle, Asamoah did not stop the ball, under the marking of Kyle, the ball fell directly to Zhang Yuan who was close to him on the left side, Asamoah's ball passed a little lightly, Lukavina followed Zhang Yuan to grab the ball, Zhang Yuan just restrained his speed at the beginning, giving Lukavina the illusion that he wanted to stop the ball or pass the ball, As a result, when he touched the ball, he slammed the ball to Dortmund's half, this ball he deliberately went very big, clearly to use speed to eat the opponent's defender, Rukavina is only the first, this ball he was careless, indeed as Zhang Yuan's estimate, he judged Zhang Yuan's next action according to the speed of Zhang Yuan's running and catching the ball, as a result, Zhang Yuan directly changed the direction of the ball passed by Asamoah and ran forward, just in the blink of an eye, Lukavina was too late to chase, and staged a lightning rush again on the West**** field, Dortmund's other defenders panicked for a moment, and hurried to their own penalty area, while Dede ran to intercept Zhang Yuan, whether he could intercept him or not was bottomless, and could only use a dead horse as a live horse doctor.
Zhang Yuan's ball is very big, but also to create trouble for himself, when he catches up with the ball, the ball is almost out of the bottom line, he once again yearns to go in the penalty area, this time is delayed, the opponent's defender has followed, Dede caught up and wanted to use his body to card Zhang Yuan down, but Zhang Yuan will not give him a chance, directly pull the ball back, a beautiful rotation of the body to avoid Dede's collision, continue to advance to the penalty area, but at this time he did not choose to continue to break through or shoot, the goal is still a little far away from the goal and close to the bottom line, The success rate is really not high, but he saw Asamoah in the middle, Dortmund defenders quickly recovered the process, there were inevitably defensive holes, and Asamoah chose the right position, Zhang Yuan did not hesitate to pass the ball to the middle of the gap, Asamoah met the ball and shot angrily, about this guy seems to want to vent his anger on the ball, the power is very great, in the face of the goalkeeper, this brother shot the ball directly to the stands.
Zhang Yuan stared at Asamoah's shot after passing, when he saw Asamoah shoot the ball directly into the stands, Zhang Yuan was really petrified, brother, you don't have to vent like that, lighter, as long as the goal is the goal, the opposing goalkeeper Ziegler is not a god, he will definitely score. Because the central defender Ameddick had completely lost his position at that time, his attention was on Zhang Yuan's side, sealing Zhang Yuan's passing route, and the goalkeeper Ziegler's position also moved to Zhang Yuan's side, even if Ziegler did not move in the middle, it was difficult for him to save the shot near the penalty spot, which was a sudden shot much more difficult than saving a penalty.
There was also Asamoah, who held his head in his hands, his eyes were as wide as cowbells, and he obviously couldn't believe that his ball actually hit an anti-aircraft gun, as if to say: "Didn't he score this ball?!" ”
This dude is still a German international, and it is hard to believe that he actually jerked off this goal, but it was Kobiashvili who followed on the right side and ran over to comfort Asamoah, which made Asamoah wake up from his stupor.
Slomka on the sidelines and the players on the bench had already rushed out of their seats, but when Asamoah aired the ball, everyone collectively held their heads, and couldn't believe that the ball had not been scored, and Slomka angrily kicked at the coach's bench, and it was he who was injured.
After Asamoa woke up, he felt that the person he was most sorry for was Zhang Yuan, the ball Zhang Yuan passed so comfortably, but he lost it, so he ran to Zhang Yuan, who had already run back, patted Zhang Yuan's shoulder and gave a thumbs up, and said, "I'm sorry, Zhang!" Asamoah can also speak English, this sentence is said in English, Zhang Yuan naturally understands, Zhang Yuan said with a smile: "It's okay, Glard, next time we will make a comeback!" In his heart, he had already scolded Asamoa to death, and finally had a chance, will it be so easy next time?
"Okay, knock them out!" Asamoah responded with a waving fist.
Zhang Yuan passed by Dede's side, Dede chattered at Zhang Yuan and Asamoa, Zhang Yuan couldn't understand a word, Asamoah and Dede looked at each other, the two looked at each other angrily, scolded a few words, under the persuasion of the referee, the two separated, Zhang Yuan asked Asamoah: "What is that guy talking about?" ”
"He said he wanted you to look good!" Asamoah said angrily.
"Hmph, then let's wait and see, see who looks good to whom!" Zhang Yuan said coldly.