The Bundesliga is coming.

Among Europe's top five leagues, the Bundesliga and the Premier League are the first to start, and the first round is usually scheduled before mid-August, and the first matchday of the new season is also scheduled on August 12.

At this point in time, there is still nearly a month left in the summer transfer window, and many teams are still uncertain, and the preparation for the game often seems hasty, but because of the early start of the game, the media reports are also early, and the day before the first round of matches, "Bild" has already issued an analysis of the eighteen teams in the Bundesliga.

In the German football media, the most authoritative and influential is "Kicker", followed by "Bild", every year "Bild" will comment on the Bundesliga, their review and analysis, often can have a predictive effect, but also help ordinary fans to better understand each team, to see the new season of the league situation.

In the review of "Bild", St. Pauli is favored to be ranked 14th among all teams, as a promoted horse, and is the second in the German Second Division, the promotion horse is already quite good.

This is ahead of Wolfsburg, Ivbus Ivory, Borussia Mönchengladbach and Eintracht Frankfurt.

The reason why St. Pauli is favored to be ranked high is also the performance in the Hamburg derby, and "Bild" believes that St. Pauli's results in the new season will largely depend on the performance of the team's core scorer Zhen Shaolong.

St. Pauli's promotion is directly related to Zhen Shaolong, and it is Zhen Shaolong's continuous goals that allowed St. Pauli to quickly improve his performance, and finally qualified for the Bundesliga with the second place in the Bundesliga.

Now it's the same in the Bundesliga.

In the summer transfer, St. Pauli focused on supplementing the back line, the midfield adjustment is not big, Zhen Shaolong can perform well, the goal is guaranteed, and the results will definitely not be too bad, otherwise the efficiency of the front court will become the biggest problem.

In addition, Bild ranked the performance expectations of the teams.

On this list, St. Pauli's ranking is higher - fifth, with the support of a huge fan base, St. Pauli's return to the Bundesliga, is also highly anticipated by fans, higher than St. Pauli's ranking, only Bayern Munich, Werder Bremen, Stuttgart and Schalke 04, together with the city's sworn rival Hamburg, are only ranked eighth.

St. Pauli is so expected by the fans, and it is only natural that the performance in the first round will also be expected.

The opponent in the first round was Bayer Leverkusen.

St. Pauli was playing away, and on the day of the game, the whole team took a bus to Bayer Leverkusen early and entered the Bayer Arena.

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Bayer Leverkusen take the game very seriously, and their head coach Skibe, who is known for developing young players in German football, has been coaching since retiring from football due to injury.

Despite his expertise as a football coach, Skibe has never stopped doubting him.

In 2002, Skibe was an assistant coach of the German national team, with which he won the World Cup runner-up, but it was this runner-up that reminded people of Bayer Leverkusen's "second of the millennium", and thought that he did not yet have the ability to bring the team back to the top.

Under so many doubts, Skibe's coaching was difficult, but in the second half of last season, fans saw Skibe's offensive coaching philosophy, Leverkusen scored 33 points in 17 games, and at the same time, Leverkusen's attacking football also made fans very excited.

When facing the new season, Skibe knows that the first job is to start the league well, otherwise it will be like last season, if you don't start well, no matter how good you play, it will be difficult to get a good position.

So the first one is important.

Many in the team think that St. Pauli is an easy opponent to deal with, but Skibe does not think so, because St. Pauli has won against Werder Bremen, Bayern Munich and Hamburg, and in addition to the team's core scorer Zhen Shaolong, the other players have also performed remarkably.

Especially their defense!

That's the point!

Skibe watched the video of several games in a row, especially the recent St. Pauli vs. Hamburg game, the opponent's No. 13 Zhen Shaolong's goal is certainly one of the highlights, but St. Pauli's defense is undoubtedly very successful, otherwise no matter how many goals the front line scores, it will not catch up with the goals conceded at the back.

Bayer Leverkusen maintain an attacking style, and it is not easy to break through the goal of St. Pauli, but in terms of attack, it depends on the performance of the players, and the defense needs to pay more attention.

"Paul, you have to pay special attention to the other party's number thirteen." Skibe specifically told Paul Frier and reminded everyone in passing, "Be sure to pay attention to this number three, you should all have seen his report, a very good young striker." He's too efficient. ”

'There have been some reports that he won't necessarily fit in the Bundesliga, but whatever he does, we have to take it seriously. One thing to remember: try not to let him shoot from close range! ”

"In addition, when defending, he will fight more often, his body is a weakness, and he should pay attention to his running position......"

Skibe carefully explained how to defend, he studied Zhen Shaolong for a long time, and the above are all conclusions, let the players know this, and the defense will be better.

Freill was reminded of the emphasis, and nodded energetically and smiled, "Don't worry, sir!" I'll take care of him! ”

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The race is on.

The Bayer Arena was packed early, and any fan would have been looking forward to the first game of the new season, with many Bayer Leverkusen fans rushing to buy tickets.

When the game officially started, the fans in the surrounding stands also began to cheer for the team excitedly, most of them were the shouts of the mainstream Bayer Leverkusen fans, and St. Pauli was a little depressed, and in the first game of the season, they experienced that the feeling of away from home was not very good.

Zhen Shaolong also got a lot of cheers.

Bayer Leverkusen fans are cheering for the team, and many of the more than 3,000 visiting St. Pauli fans are shouting slogans of 'Zhen, come on'.

This made the other teammates envious.

Zhen Shaolong is a little excited, one is the support of the fans, and the other is the first Bundesliga game, how to say that it is also the first game, the first time to land in the Bundesliga, he hopes to perform well.

At the same time, I am confident that I will perform well.

However, the defenders of Leverkusen next to him are desperately trying to stop his performance, and every time Zhen Shaolong wants to touch the ball, he needs to fight hard with the opponent.

This is not Zhen Shaolong's style.

In fact, even with the "Golden Body" skill, Zhen Shaolong is not willing to be a 'desperate Saburo', he has his own specific style, is used to running constantly, and uses the normal rhythm to compete, rather than endlessly fighting against opponents.

That's stupid and maybe you're going to miss a goal.

"Smart people play with their heads." Zhen Shaolong knows that his confrontation ability is poor, he has always thought so, he despises the stupidity of the opponent using his body, but the opponent doesn't care about the continuous hard collision of fouls, which also makes Zhen Shaolong full of anger.

Like this time.

When Bol kicked the ball over, Zhen Shaolong slowed down to stop the ball, but the opponent next to him suddenly crashed over, and secretly used small movements to pull his jersey.

Zhen Shaolong immediately lost his center of gravity and fell towards the grass, and after several times in a row, he realized the limitations of "The Golden Body": the pain of the body falling on the grass has no way to feedback it to the opponent!

That's a loss!

"Who's afraid of whom!" When he was attacked by the opponent's small action again, and the referee had not yet awarded a foul, Zhen Shaolong was really angry.

When he played again, when he found that the other party was posting, he didn't even dodge.

Bump it! Who's afraid of whom!

Once.

Twice.

Zhen Shaolong and Freier fell into hand-to-hand mode, and every time St. Pauli attacked, the two were almost close together.

In the head-on confrontation, Zhen Shaolong will be at an absolute disadvantage, in the eyes of the outside world, the situation is also like this, he was knocked down by Freier twice, the muscles of the two are not at the same level, but being at a disadvantage does not affect Zhen Shaolong to continue to work hard, he still collides with Freier again and again.

Freier is more experienced and constantly makes defensive moves, such as making contact with his elbow and waist or, seemingly inadvertently, pushing his knee against the base of his thigh.

These small movements don't hurt, but pain is inevitable.

Zhen Shaolong turned a blind eye to the small actions performed by Fryer, and just had a head-to-head confrontation, he never performed small actions, because he was not experienced enough to grasp the scale of the referee's law enforcement.

In the seventeenth minute of the game, the TV commentators couldn't help but sigh, "Zhen Shaolong is really hard in the game, he doesn't know how many times he fell." Freier was also warned twice that he would probably restrain his movements a little bit, otherwise the referee would have played his cards......"

Zhen Shaolong received sympathy from the fans.

When you approach the St. Pauli fan stands, you can hear the angry scolding of a large group of female fans.

"Fryer, die!"

"Dare to knock down Zhen, don't let me run into you on the street!"

"Bastard! Damn Fryer! ”

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Not only St. Pauli fans, but even Leverkusen fans have a little sympathy for Zhen Shaolong, and their own players 'bullying' the opposing players seem to feel refreshing, and the opponent's unyielding fighting spirit is also worth touching.

Fryer was called the 'advantage' party, but in fact, he didn't feel the 'advantage' at all, but was in pain all over his body.

He was looking at Zhen Shaolong with bared teeth, "Why are this guy's bones so hard!" ”

"It hurts when you hit his muscles......"

"My elbows hurt and my knees hurt......

Freire was a little scared, he bared his teeth in pain, the other party seemed to be a nobody, still alive, as if he was looking forward to the next time......

No way!

Freier read the information expressed in the other party's eyes, and suddenly felt more pain all over his body, when he saw the opposing player, when he passed the ball over again, he endured the pain and ran over to fight, but found that the other party took the initiative to collide, and he subconsciously carried out ...... Avoid!

This dodge immediately weakened the momentum.

At the edge of the penalty area, Zhen Shaolong successfully received the ball, and found that Fryer didn't hit it, and felt a little regretful in his heart, but found that he could easily take the ball to the left side, and even had time to make adjustments.

He glanced at the goal.

Then he didn't hesitate to shoot, and the ball rushed to the left corner of the goal against the turf.

Goalkeeper Bout reacted immediately, but he felt a deep sense of powerlessness at the shot that slammed into the back of the net......