Chapter 194: Good Things Are Grinding

Muller started playing for Bayern Munich at the age of 19, making 26 appearances in his first season, but scoring 33 goals, and then he has been writing his own myth ever since, setting a series of records that no one has broken to this day. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

There are always Pele and Maradona in the world, but many people have not fought for Gerd Müller, in Zhang Yuan's opinion, Müller will definitely not be worse than these two, and can even be said to be better than them.

Bayern Munich is absolutely deserved to have Gerd Müller today, otherwise Beckenbauer would not have said, "Without him, we might not be sitting at nothing!".

Zhang Yuan was really excited to be appreciated by Gerd Muller, and he quickly responded.

"I'm very proud to be complimented by Mr. Muller! He is one of the greatest players in the history of football, and he has set a series of records that no one else has broken! As for whether I can catch up with Mr. Muller's record, I don't know, but I will try!"

After this incident, the media said that Zhang Yuan is the successor of Gerd Muller, this is not nonsense, Zhang Yuan is Chinese, how can he be the next Messi or Muller's successor.

But people love to write like that, and Zhang Yuan can only go with them, anyway, it's good to get used to it!

Except for the praise of the outside world, except for Muller, who can affect Zhang Yuan's mentality, the other Zhang Yuan is not moved at all.

In the standings, Bayern Munich is still neck and neck with Schalke 04, the two teams have 56, there are 8 rounds left in the league, the competition for the championship is fierce, and there is also a chance for Bayer Leverkusen, they are only three points behind Schalke 04 and Bayern Munich, as for the Werder Bremen behind him, the difference between the top of the table is already 11 points, if there is no miracle, it will definitely not be able to catch up.

On the afternoon of March 21, Schalke 04 challenged Hamburg away. Hamburg have been in the last eight of the Europa League this season, and just before this game, on 18 March, they had just travelled to Belgium for a 16-8 second leg in which they lost 4-3 to Anderlecht, but advanced to the last eight by aggregate.

Physically, there is no doubt that Schalke 04 has the advantage, Magath continued the formation of the previous game in this game, 442 diamond position, Digan and Farfan returned from injury and returned to the starting lineup, Rakitic returned to the midfield, and Farfan still played in the forward position.

At the start of the first half, Hamburg were unaffected by the midweek Europa League clash and continued to play vigorously.

The two sides rarely play very openly, the defense brings the championship, the attack brings victory, Schalke 04 is now in urgent need of victory, plus Magath believes that there is a gap between the Hamburg team and Schalke 04 in terms of physical strength after playing in the Europa League, he is going to use a strong attack to directly crush Hamburg.

But the Hamburg team was not to be outdone, so the two sides became like this, playing offensive football.

The strikers on both sides got a lot of chances, and then Zhang Yuan was depressed, I don't know if the praise of the media during this time praised his character, he hit the post twice in the first half, and he was unlucky to get home.

The first time was just 4 minutes into the opening game, when Zhang Yuan received a pass from Farfan, shook Yarolim and shot low at the goal, but the ball was saved by Rost and hit the far post and slid out of the bottom line.

The second time was in the 30th minute, when Kuranyi's header was saved by Rost, Zhang Yuan followed up with a follow-up shot, and under the block of Mathieson, he lost his center of gravity and hit the post again.

Zhang Yuan is about to go crazy, and Magath on the sidelines is also crazy, he understands that Zhang Yuan's luck is a little unlucky today, otherwise Schalke 04 is already two goals ahead, and he is fully confident that he can hold such an advantage.

As early as the Spring and Autumn Period, Fan Li once said to Goujian, the king of Yue, that "Tianyu does not take it, but suffers its blame"!

It means that if you don't grasp the opportunity that comes to your door, then you will suffer from it.

Schalke 04 in the first half vividly interpreted the meaning of this sentence, they repeatedly missed the opportunity to lose the ball in the 40th minute, Trokhovski left 22 meters away from the right foot direct free kick on the goal, the ball over the wall and fell rapidly, although the angle is very positive, but Neuer can only barely punch the ball out of the distance, Van Nistelrooy followed up 8 meters away to meet the ball with a right-footed volley, the ball was saved by Neuer and still flew into the left side of the goal, 1-0.

With this goal, the Hamburg team led Schalke 04 at home in the first half, Zhang Yuan was sullen when he went off the field in the first half, Rakitic comforted him that he would not be so unlucky in the second half, Zhang Yuan smiled reluctantly, who he knows, he has a hunch that he may not be able to score today.

At halftime, Magath asked everyone to attack more fiercely in the second half, and after only half of the time, he couldn't wait to ask the players to work hard, and he couldn't calm down at this stage.

Originally, according to Magath's idea, the Hamburg team was physically disadvantaged, and had already advanced by one goal, and the second half may be relatively conservative, who knows that Labadia did not do this, and the Hamburg team is still working against Schalke 04.

In the first half, the strikers got more opportunities because everyone played openly, Zhang Yuan wasted and Kuranyi wasted, but in the second half, Magath didn't believe that his soldiers were still so unlucky.

Sure enough, in the 62nd minute, Zhang Yuan pulled the ball to the left side, and the header in the center of the Rozenar penalty area cleared the ball and rubbed it to the back post, and Kuranyi grabbed the header in situ 3 meters away before Rost, who flew to save, and headed it into the goal, 1-1.

Schalke 04 equalized the score, although it was not Zhang Yuan who scored, but this pass was still his credit, and even Kuranyi ran to Zhang Yuan after scoring and gave him a big hug.

This is not the end, just after 5 minutes, Schalke 04 a free kick in front of the Hamburg team, Zhang Yuan retreated to the periphery to get the ball and burst into the right side of the penalty area, the active defense of Van Nistelrooy stretched out his foot behind him to trip Zhang Yuan, and the referee gave Schalke 04 a penalty.

Zhang Yuan's chance to score is coming, according to the normal order Zhang Yuan is also the first penalty taker, this penalty is very important, on the one hand, this is a great opportunity to overtake the score, on the other hand, Zhang Yuan also hopes to continue to score.

The referee's whistle blew, Zhang Yuan ran away, shot, hit the middle, the momentum sank, Rost judged the wrong direction, and the ball went in!

But the referee whistled the goal away and motioned for the Schalke 04 players to run to the penalty area first.

There are many good things, Zhang Yuan had to stand on the penalty spot again and continue to take charge, at this time Zhang Yuan's mentality was a little unstable, and he suffered from gains and losses.

However, there is no problem with his technical movements, shooting, sticking to the ground, or in the middle, but this time although Rost still guessed the wrong direction, but his foot blocked the ball, Zhang Yuan reacted very quickly, and immediately followed up with a header and put the ball into the empty goal.

This time it finally worked, Zhang Yuan had palpitations, what was going on, the penalty was missed, if it wasn't for Rost's misjudgment, he wouldn't even have a chance to make up for it.

In any case, he finally got a goal, and Schalke 04 also achieved a reversal, 9 games in a row, and his personal record continues.

Schalke 04 achieved a comeback and successfully completed Magath's task, Magath began to be conservative at this time, removed the forward midfield, played a parallel position, and replaced Rakitic with Baumjohn.

In the 77th minute, Petrits' long-range shot hit Hwedes and fell into the left side of the penalty area, Trokhovski quickly inserted in the face of Westermann to break through the bottom cross, Neuer and Digan failed to clear, and in the second half, Pietroipa, who had just been replaced, pushed into the empty goal from 3 meters away, 2-2.

Magath is really dumbfounded, sometimes being too conservative is not necessarily a good thing, but the so-called champion coaches are especially conservative, standing in their position and already knowing that stability is the first, but unfortunately today Magath paid the price for his conservatism.

He immediately made another substitution, replacing Westerman with Edu and removing a defender for a striker, which is basically the equivalent of playing a front four.

But to no avail, after the equalizer, Labadia saw that Schalke 04 was clearly going to attack, and he also played defensive counterattacks with a good sense of current affairs, but everyone didn't give each other much chance, and 2:2 could only be maintained until the end.

Schalke 04 were not very lucky in this game, but they also reached the top of the standings because Bayern Munich lost away to Eintracht Frankfurt, so Schalke 04 surpassed Bayern Munich by one point and took the lead. (To be continued.) )