Chapter 218: Winter Break
In December, the leagues in various European countries have entered the winter break.
Bayern defeated Nuremberg 6-2 in their final game before the winter break, and Wu Jie staged his first quadruple of the season in this game, successfully fixing the number of goals in the first half of the season to 26.
Such a terrifying performance made the Bundesliga scorers feel a wave of despair, and Worrall, who is in second place at the moment, has only scored 13 goals, which is exactly half of Wu Jie's number.
Now everyone's guess is not whether he can score 40+ league goals, but whether he can create an unprecedented 50+ league goals in a single season.
Bayern also topped the standings with a five-point advantage by virtue of Wu Jie's performance, and easily entered the round of 32 in the German Cup.
This season's Champions League matches don't start until January, and Bayern only need to go to Tokyo to play a "Toyota Cup" after the winter break.
All in all, Bayern's performance so far this season has been perfect!
On the La Liga side, Chen Haonan, who is a simple man, scored 6 goals and provided 8 assists before the winter break, and also led Real Madrid to the top of the table.
Real Madrid's record in the first half of the season is 12 wins, 2 losses and 3 draws, temporarily 2 points ahead of second-placed Athletic Bilbar and 4 points ahead of Gu Guangming's Atletico Madrid.
At this point, you thought it was Barcelona in fourth place?
That's wrong!
It would be Zaragoza in fourth, Sevilla in fifth and Barcelona in sixth.
This is similar to the original plane, Wu Jie thinks that Barcelona in this plane should pull his hips a little more, but Real Sociedad, which is in seventh place, is really not strong, and it is difficult for Barcelona to continue to fall down if he pulls his hips.
There is no need to mention Maradona for the time being, with Wu Jie's outrageous goal performance in the Bundesliga, his Argentine parallel commodity who has only scored four goals and has been out of action for a long time will not even be able to enter the top 10 list of the best post-60s.
Now it is time to mention the Chinese players who play in La Liga -
Gu Guangming still failed to sit in the starting position in the new season, but both the number of appearances and performance have been greatly improved compared with last season.
In the first half of the season, he made a total of 13 league appearances, including 8 starts, and was a regular main rotation player.
In terms of statistics, Koo has scored two goals and provided two assists in 13 league games.
Such data may not seem very good, but you can't compare him to a brute like Wu Jie, otherwise 99.9% of world football will be waste.
As a wide player, Gu Guangming's goals and assists are not the only indicators to measure, but also to look at other data, such as the average "crosses" and "successful crosses" per game, "successful passes" and "pass success rate".
Gu Guangming, as a winger who mainly cuts inside, has averaged 4.5 successful dribbles per game this season, with a dribble success rate of 51%, which is already a very good statistic.
In addition to Chen Haonan and Gu Guangming in La Liga this season, there is also a Zhen Aiguo who plays for Espanyol.
Espanyol are currently in eighth place and are considered a mid-to-upper tier team, but Zhen Aiguo is in a good position here, making 12 appearances in the first half of the season and starting five of them, especially in the last three games before the winter break.
That was because he was in fine form in the city-town derby against Barcelona, when he came off the bench to score the crucial equaliser, which ultimately helped the Spaniards secure a valuable away draw in their first city-to-town derby of the season.
The same city derby between Espanyol and Barcelona is not light, but the main thing is that the Spaniards are unilaterally angry, who makes them not only lose more and win less in the battle with Barcelona, they are simply pressed to the ground and hanged, an average of ten meetings can win once is good, even the draw against Barcelona is very difficult.
So with this only goal of the season, Zhen Aiguo made himself accepted by all Espanyol fans.
Of course, his performance is indeed remarkable, not only running aggressively, defending fiercely, but also having no complaints about dirty work.
He can always use a wide range of defense and response on the field to make the connection between the midfield and the back court smoother, and at the same time, he can also make his midfield teammates more comfortable attacking.
No one doesn't love such a player, so once Zhen Aiguo is allowed to sit in the starting position, it will be basically difficult to be removed from the starting line until he remains healthy and his level has not dropped.
At this time, we turned our attention to the Bundesliga, in addition to Wu Jie this season, there are four Chinese players in the Bundesliga who play for different teams, and it is obvious that this is still the base camp for Chinese players in Europe.
Shen Xiangfu is similar to Gu Guangming in Atletico Madrid in Frankfurt, and both are the main rotation players.
Shen Xiangfu is characterized by the accuracy of his crosses after the breakthrough, which can be seen from his average of 5.2 crosses per game and 1.9 successful crosses.
Shen Xiangfu played 12 games this season, starting 5 games, scoring 1 goal and providing 4 assists, which is not bad.
However, due to the lack of internal cutting ability, defense and confrontation are average, which makes his potential almost exerted, and the room for improvement is much worse than Gu Guangming.
Chen Jingang is also a problem, although he works hard and diligently, he still only has a commendable header, which is somewhat unable to support him as a starter in the Bundesliga.
Fortunately, Hertha Berlin did not buy any outstanding players after being promoted to the Bundesliga, but was poached a lot of people, which allowed Chen Jingang to still take the starting position, because Hertha Berlin has no better candidates.
Chen Jingang played 16 games this season, starting 14 games, scoring three goals and contributing three assists.
Such data naturally cannot help Hertha Berlin improve their record, they are currently in the bottom of the table with 2 wins, 5 draws and 10 losses, and it is estimated that they will not run back to the Bundesliga.
Munich 1860 and Hertha Berlin are a difficult pair and they are currently third from bottom, also in the relegation zone.
But Liu Haiguang's situation is much better than Chen Jingang, which is naturally due to the advantage of talent.
Liu Haiguang is a core player relied on by the team at Munich 1860, and he has started 17 games this season, scoring six goals and providing three assists, which is indeed a notch better than Chen Jingang, although the team has three points more than Hertha Berlin.
There is also a newcomer to the Bundesliga this year, and Li Junwei's Kaiserslautern are currently ranked sixth, which is four places higher than Eintracht Frankfurt's ranking, and is fully capable of competing for European qualification.
But playing in such a team, Li Junwei is a full-back who needs stability and experience, so he can only be used as a substitute for the time being, and has only played 8 games this season, without a start.
Kaiserslautern intends to develop this rookie who is fast, mentally excellent, full of physical energy, and has good one-on-one defensive talent, so he has been giving him the opportunity to play and practice.
In Ligue 1, Lyon's record has improved from last season, and Zhao Dayu has naturally faced more competition, with fewer starts than last season, but he still scored five goals in 11 games, a performance that makes him still the team's top choice in the attack.
There are also two Chinese players in Serie A, Jia Xiuquan has returned to Udinese this season with his outstanding performance in the World Cup, and has entered the rotation of central defenders, and his performance is becoming more and more consistent, and he is expected to win a main central defender position in the second half of the season.
Lin Yaodong's Juventus is the undisputed No. 1 club in Serie A, and although they have been catching up behind Roma in the early part of the season, they have not been thrown away and can regain the top spot at any time.
But in the last two games of the winter break, Juventus unexpectedly pulled their hips and ended the first half of the season with a wave of two consecutive defeats.
This leaves them five points behind Roma, which is already a huge margin in the highly competitive Serie A.
After a month-long winter break in Europe, Wu Jie and his tools had plenty of time to do things other than sports.
But Ruda in China is busy with basketball, at least what he does on the surface is great.
He and Reebok will host the first Asian Basketball Winter Camp from December 1 to December 21, a total of three weeks, in Hong Kong.
After months of preparation, the camp was finally decided to give 2-6 participants from more than a dozen countries and regions in East and Southeast Asia.
Eventually, 40 male athletes under the age of 18 and 20 female athletes under the age of 18 will participate in the camp.
The most attractive part of this training camp is that Rueda will coach for the last two weeks, or coach for one week each for the men's and women's teams.
"Damn, if the formation of a girl is so big, there is no one!"
Wu Jie was very disdainful of this, of course he knew that Luda made such a big formation, in fact, it was to soak Xiao Wang.
When you get Xiao Wang in your hands, this training camp will come to an end.
So he didn't bother to pay attention to this kind of, and after the winter break, he first returned to China for a few days.
In the past few days, his family has finally been tidy, Ye Yuqi has returned from the United States after completing his advanced studies, and was directly transferred to the "Preparatory Office of the Olympic Organizing Committee".
Their current work is to prepare for the Olympic Games in a year and a half, and at the same time, they are also studying Marxist theory and ideology and politics on the job at the Hammer and Sickle Party School.
Lao Wu has actually been studying for half a year, not to mention how excited he was when he received the notice.
Wu Jie also knew that without this learning process, it would be basically impossible for the co-driver to go up.
Now that we have the Olympics as a political achievement, and we have advanced education and study at home and abroad as qualifications, it is only natural that we will be promoted after the Olympics.
On December 21, just when Luda didn't know what method he used to hook up with Xiao Wang in a week, he actually began to discuss how to elope back to the mainland.
Wu Jie also came to Japan to lead the team to the "Toyota Cup" match against Uruguay's Penarol FC, which is part of their "five crowns" this year.