Chapter 168: The Beginning of the New Season - League Cup
"St. Pauli is aiming for the UEFA Cup! Zhen Shaolong's goal is to be the top scorer in the Bundesliga! β
"Zhen Shaolong: I want to keep improving, the Bundesliga scorer king is just a small goal!"
"St. Pauli's League Cup and top scorer!"
"St. Pauli has illusions about the new season"
'We shouldn't criticize a 19-year-old for dreaming big, but maybe the first thing he needs to do is adapt to the fierce competition in the Bundesliga.
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On the evening of the open training match, the media couldn't wait to issue various reports, aiming at two points, one is that St. Pauli hung out the banner of 'Target League Cup Champion', and the other is Zhen Shaolong's 'Goals' set by the 'Goalscorer King Small Target', of course, there are also a few players, wearing training uniforms with championship publicity, sweating on the court.
There are two tones in the media --
One is the positive ridicule, they are all accustomed to St. Pauli's style, but they are encouraged by St. Pauli's 'ambition', and then they report in a ridiculous tone, obviously not taking the content seriously.
The other is criticism and sarcasm.
This part of the media is, so to speak, the hostile media of St. Pauli.
They are very resistant to St. Pauli's style and criticize St. Pauli for corrupting the atmosphere of German football, and the promotion horse should steadily aim for relegation, and talking about the League Cup championship is completely grandstanding and deliberately creating gimmicks to achieve the purpose of publicity.
To some extent, St. Pauli's goal has been achieved when the media continues to make critical reports.
Zhen Shaolong has also become the target of criticism.
But at the same time, many media believe that the reason why Zhen Shaolong talks about 'the Bundesliga scorer king is a small target' is completely to match the club to set the League Cup championship as a big goal.
Those fans who supported Zhen Shaolong also quickly evolved into a rehabilitated water army-
"It's definitely because of St. Pauli! Zhen is usually very low-key and generally refuses to be interviewed! β
"St. Pauli wanted to do publicity, and Zhen Shaolong was sacrificed."
"As a St. Pauli player, Zhen Shaolong has no choice, he can't go against the team's ethos!"
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While the media continues to make reports, a series of new season previews are also being carried out, and the analysis of the strength of each team is a normal new season preview, and the prediction of the new season's scorer list, even Zhen Shaolong was attracted to a few glances.
The most influential kicker in German football has made a prediction for the list of goalscorers for the new season.
The most anticipated striker in the Bundesliga is undoubtedly Klose of Werder Bremen, Kreuzer was the top scorer in the Bundesliga last season, and he also won the World Cup Golden Boot with five goals.
"With Kreuzer's consistent performance, he may become the top scorer in the new season!"
The second most anticipated striker is Kuranyi, who plays for Schalke 04, Kuranyi became famous in Stuttgart and has always had a very good goal efficiency, and after moving to Schalke 04, he has become one of the most consistent local goalscorers with an average efficiency of one goal in two games.
'It may be difficult for Kuranyi to break out, but his consistency is good enough to score a good number of goals.
Next is Bayern Munich's Roy Mackay and Pizarro, as the main striker of the giant Bayern Munich, there is no need to doubt the strength at all, Mackay has always been the most efficient goalscorer, Pizarro is quite good at the same time, and it is also highly anticipated by fans.
Then there's the Pentlic of Hertha Berlin.
Kakau in Stuttgart.
Hunter of Werder Bremen.
Zidan in Mainz.
Continued to pull down and down the list, and finally in the twenty-sixth position, I finally saw the name of 'Zhen Shaolong', and the one-sentence comment was, "As an efficient German B shooter king, it is still unknown whether the Chinese teenager can adapt to the Bundesliga, if he can adapt quickly, maybe he will have a good performance"
The kicker's comments didn't say anything bad, but Zhen Shaolong still felt quite unhappy when he saw that he was ranked twenty-sixth.
Other teammates also saw the report.
Luz Felix had a very different opinion, and he said with a little envy, "You're actually on the list." β
That's comforting!
The kicker commented on thirty strikers, but with eighteen teams in the Bundesliga, each team averaging two strikers and six more players, it is clear that Luz, the other striker in the promoted polo team, is regrettably overlooked.
Kreuzer wasn't interested, but he said something else, "Zhen, do you remember?" That football game was updated, St. Pauli was upgraded to the Bundesliga, and you and I both had character models. β
Zhen Shaolong immediately cared about the game.
In his free time from training, Kreuzer opened the game to check out the characters in the St. Pauli team, and Zhen Shaolong was a new addition, wearing the number 13 jersey just like in reality.
After opening the character attributes, it is a little unpleasant.
Among Zhen Shaolong's character attributes, shooting is the only bright spot, reaching a red 94 points, surpassing the vast majority of players and reaching the world's top level, but other statistics are a bit bleak.
Dribbling speed, dribbling, and set-pieces are all green values, and everything else is white, and in the defense-related data, there is an attribute with a low value of 31.
With such bleak comprehensive data, the characters are definitely not very popular, and it is difficult to have any outstanding performance in the game, and when Kreuzer plays a single-player game, he doesn't want to arrange Zhen Shaolong to start.
"You can't score a goal when you play!"
Zhen Shaolong looked at it with black lines on his face, and he found that not only the media despised him, but also despised him for every game, "What a broken game!" What's the matter, how can Lao Tzu's attribute data be so bad! β
He was a little depressed.
In fact, not only the game, but also some newcomers in the team are not very optimistic about Zhen Shaolong, because his performance in training on weekdays can only be regarded as very average, and it would be good to catch up with the average.
The only thing that stands out is the shot.
Zhen Shaolong's accuracy in shooting is recognized as the best in the team, but other aspects, such as confrontation, tactical ability, running, etc., are not very good, the whole team recognizes him as the main striker, but some new players in the team do not think that he can perform in the Bundesliga.
In many unfavorable environments, Zhen Shaolong just continued his training life in a low-key manner.
Training.
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Before the official start of the first round of the new season, Zhen Shaolong only did these two things, for training, he paid the most attention to running, if he wanted to perform well on the field, it was not enough to rely on skills alone, his own strength should also be excellent, and the calibration ability is to improve the shooting in all directions.
As long as you can run in a good position, it is easy to find opportunities.
Calibration can continue to exert power, in order to continue to score, and when it is difficult to improve in other aspects, running position has undoubtedly become the most important.
Zhen Shaolong is also constantly training for set-pieces, and looking for opportunities to score directly from free kicks is also a means.
He knew that his talent was average.
It is almost impossible to train a variety of set-pieces, even for very talented players, the improvement of technique must be gradual, so Zhen Shaolong only practiced one-
Deciduous balls!
After a few months of practice, his progress in playing the ball is obvious.
In the past, only three or four of the 10 defoliant kicks were successful, but now the success rate has increased to six or seven times, and with the help of calibration, the number of times the ball can land in the exact position is as high as three or four times.
This efficiency is no less.
Zhen Shaolong is still not satisfied, and feels that he must insist on practicing and strive to further improve his efficiency, so that he can truly become an important means of breaking the door that belongs to his own.
In addition, it is time to write a reply.
Since formulating the plan to write replies to fans, Zhen Shaolong has always insisted on writing ten replies a day, and when he is in better spirits, he will write a few more, and now the progress of the skill acquisition task has also increased to a certain extent-
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Although it is still a little short of completion, the gap is not too big, as long as you insist on writing a reply, according to the normal speed, before September, it will be enough to complete the task.
When the time comes, you will be able to obtain a new skill, the Golden Body.
"It's really worth looking forward to!"
As the training continued, St. Pauli also experienced a warm-up match against last season's rivals Aachen.
Aachen was unlucky enough.
Last season, Aachen continued to sit in the top two of the league, and for a while overtook Bochum to top the Bundesliga, but was overtaken by St. Pauli in the final round, and then in the final round of the league, Aachen still lost the game against a tenacious SaarbrΓΌcken.
Cottage Ivbus came from behind to finish third in the Aachen Liga and also won the promotion match to qualify for the Bundesliga.
Aachen, as fourth in the league, can only continue to work hard.
Aachen failed to qualify for promotion, but the strength is still very strong, they continue to strengthen their strength, hoping to be successfully promoted this season, and the warm-up match with St. Pauli, played also very hard, the whole half, even led St. Pauli 0.
But Zhen Shaolong was powerful in the second half.
In the penalty area, Zhen Shaolong scored two goals in a row five minutes apart, helping St. Pauli tie the score, and then Hinkel assisted to help Bol find an opportunity to help the team overtake the score with a strong shot.
In the end, the two sides fought to a 3-3 draw.
St. Pauli won the warm-up match, but failed to bring a positive impact, the media in the game, found St. Pauli's strength, it is difficult to say that there is really any progress, Aachen is only a Bundesliga club, even if it is the top in the Bundesliga, it is still not out of the Bundesliga.
St. Pauli and Aachen have played so hard, and it's really hard to look forward to what they can do in the Bundesliga.
It's the end of July.
St. Pauli, the winner of the German Cup, ushered in the new season of the German League Cup and announced the official start of the new season.
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