Chapter 056: Should the five elders of the third grade go?
The newly replaced Bosnian striker Helgovic is naturally different from Da Alessandro in terms of ability, but he is always much stronger than the big head who commits a troubled shaft, and the generals of Wolfsburg themselves are not good at stubble, and the position of the leader of the Bundesliga is not blowing in the wind.
Wolfsburg, who returned to normal, continued to put pressure on their opponents, and Madiburg's immature backline was finally unable to withstand the pressure. Bulgarian international Martin Petrov, who had barely received the ball in midfield, forced his way away from Westermann and beat Edmund hard with a clever pass from compatriot Hristov.
In the 68th minute, Wolfsburg pulled a point back.
Seeing that the opponent's attack was getting stronger, Uncle Scum waved his hand to let Brazilian teenager Pompon David Luiz replace Cobra Iliye and restore the back four formation. After the game, when the media statistics were announced, in the last ten minutes, the oldest man on the field in Madiburg was 21 years and 8 months old and 8 months of vice captain Carl Land. The Five Musketeers left, but Madiburg still played the aria of youth loudly.
Of course, Wolfsburg's old coach Gretz was unwilling to lose so badly, so he also saw the move and replaced the Argentine Menssex to strengthen the attack, saying that there are really many Argentines in Wolfsburg. Although Dalessandro went down and lost his imaginative organization, Wolfsburg's step-by-step offensive routine still made the young Madiburg quite unbearable, after all, the leader.
Even though Zhuo Yang concentrated on the backfield, Madiburg was still in stoppage time, and the opponent's central defender Schnoor received a corner kick to score a hard point, and finally Madiburg won 4-2 at home to Wolfsburg.
After the game, Madiborg's vice-captain Zhuo Yang and Rand were both rated '1' by "Kicker", and they both won the best of the match. Everyone is no stranger to Zhuo Yang's performance, giving a point is purely a habitual action, and Rand's performance is an eye-opener for everyone.
In the eyes of others, Rand single-handedly blocked Dalessandro, who was second only to Zhuo Yang in the first seven rounds of the Bundesliga, and let the Argentines who were helpless in the Bundesliga be torn apart by the mad dogs of Madiburg. Rand had a big face today, and he was still smiling from ear to ear when he drank in the evening.
The young players who came on the pitch today were all doing well this time, with Khedira, Reham Hamsik, Pompong, Westerman, Schaefer, including musketeer Gomez, all of whom did not make any big mistakes, and they all had their own outstanding points. Of course, Uncle Scum and Zhuo Yang are very satisfied, and the veteran players who have been temporarily replaced by these young players are also happy. The four of them, Rock, Fangpian, Lao Song, and Tsar, all knew in their hearts that their strength was still irreplaceable in the current Madibao, and the young people were still a little behind themselves, so they were not worried about the position.
But not everyone in the team is happy, some people are happy and some people are worried.
Kenny Dunbar, Jerry Braun, Dennis Lauren, Anthony Tommy, Max Dodd, these five are the only remaining players in the Fox coaching era in the team, and they are also veterans who came out of the third division with Uncle Scum and Zhuo Yang, and they are old people in the team but have no status.
Originally, they were very happy that the team rushed to the first division, but after the happiness, the cruel reality was placed in front of them. None of the five has played more than ten minutes in the eight league rounds that have been played, all of them playing soy sauce in garbage time. There were starters in the UEFA Cup, including the UEFA Super Cup and the FA Cup, but none of them played the full game.
They are staunch supporters of Uncle Scum's new deal after Jurgen Klopp took over Fort Madi two years ago, and they have worked hard since then, training very hard. But the truth is, with the exception of Dennis Lauren, who was in the regular starting line-up for a while early in the third division, the rest were substitutes from the start.
Before entering the first rank, there were extremely powerful six musketeers in front of them, and no one dared to compete for positions with the young masters. But after the five swordsmen left, they were still on the very edge of the team, which was not a good thing.
The youngest Dunbar is twenty-eight years old, the oldest Lauren is over thirty, and the veteran of the Madiburg team is two months older than Cobra Iliye.
It is definitely unrealistic to improve in training to compete for the main force or even the main substitute position, not to mention that the team will go to the reinforcements, that is, the children in the current team have grown up, and the five of them will not even have the opportunity to play soy sauce, and the growth of young people is rapid.
There's no player who doesn't want to play, and training alone isn't football. Even if you win the championship every year, what does that have to do with yourself? In fact, several of them knew very well that their road in Madibao was getting narrower and narrower, and they couldn't squeeze through it sideways.
Uncle Scum is also very helpless, he is very grateful to these people for the strong support they gave at the beginning of his administration, otherwise it would be difficult for him to control the team so smoothly with the Six Musketeers and Bantam Tigers and East German Cool, and a series of drastic reforms are because they can calmly arrange the troops in their own hands, and the strong backing of these people on the bench is indispensable.
Not only is their support Uncle Scumbag in mind, but their efforts Klopp also sees it in his eyes, but the cruel reality is in front of him, the ability of these five can still play in the second division, but now it does not meet the minimum requirements of the Bundesliga.
The Madiburg first team now has a total of 24 players, which is a very standard small team set-up. In addition to the three goalkeepers, there are twenty-one people in other positions, which seems to be enough, but because of the existence of the 'five elders of the third class', there are only sixteen people available in the actual team, which is inevitably a little stretched, especially in the case of general fatigue in the team and the existence of individual injuries, so that Uncle Scum is very tight to adjust. A team with a reasonable staffing of at least 20 players for more than 45 minutes in a single season will play between 17 and 34 games, and Madiburg obviously can't do that, according to this standard, the 'five elders in the third division' can only be zero.
If it weren't for the nostalgia of the old relationship, they would not have followed them into the first division at all from a professional point of view, and they would have either been sent to the B team to play in the third division, or they would have been sold to free up the team. If it weren't for Uncle Scum's old feelings, several players in Team B who have performed well this season would have been promoted to the first team long ago.
Instead of wasting time in the Bundesliga, it is better to play in the lower divisions for a few years. As the five veterans watched their youngsters beat Wolfsburg and celebrate their team's comebacks, they couldn't help but start thinking seriously about their football prospects, and when there were no more games to play, it was time for them to retire in disgrace, just like the old antiques who retired at the end of last season.
Persistence does not necessarily bring you success, only the right choice is the best way out.
Of course, Zhuo Yang knows the situation of the five veterans in the team, but what does it have to do with him? That's what Uncle Scum should worry about. He only knows in his heart that whether it is a veteran or a young player, he has a good relationship with himself, whether it is a C-level old buddy or a new teammate, he can talk to him quite well.
Well......, perhaps, except for the Russian Tsar Arshavin.