Before the UEFA Cup knockout round, St. Pauli still have a league game to play, which is the match against Borussia Mönchengladbach.

St. Pauli lost at home to Borussia Mönchengladbach in the second round of the league in August, but that is by no means a sign of how strong Borussia Mönchengladbach is.

On the contrary, it is very weak!

It's not that they are weak, it's that the results are too poor, and so far, Borussia Mönchengladbach is at the bottom of the league, and in the last round, Hamburg's points have surpassed them.

When a team has a very poor score, it's easy to have problems within the team.

The manager will definitely take the blame.

The coach of Borussia Mönchengladbach is the famous Josef Heynckes in German football.

When Heynckes decided to take over Borussia Mönchenbach, he was unanimously recognized by all Borussia Mönchenchen fans, because Heynckes was born in Borussia Mönchengladbach and is the team's legendary goalscorer, who has led the team to win the Bundesliga championship four times.

Fans believe that Borussia Mönchengladbach should be led by Heynckes, but Heynckes failed to lead the team to a revival, but instead ranked at the bottom of the league for a long time.

In October last year, Borussia Mönchenbach announced that Heynckes had left his post and the former assistant coach had taken over to lead the team to relegation.

After Heynckes left, Borussia Mönchen's results did not improve.

By now, many people believe that Borussia Mönchen have become a team that is 'certain' for relegation.

Against such an opponent, even if it is an away game, even if it is a home loss in the first leg, St. Pauli is very confident, but St. Pauli is also very problematic, because the team must save its strength and prepare for the League Cup and Feyenoord games, and it is impossible to spend all their energy on the league.

So St. Pauli only sent a semi-main lineup.

The reason why it is said to be a 'semi-main force' is only because Zhen Shaolong did not play, and Bergman decided to let Zhen Shaolong rest for a round and patiently prepare for the League Cup competition.

Zhen Shaolong did not play, which had a great impact on the team.

Seeing that St. Pauli's starting lineup, there is no opponent's leading scorer, and the confidence of the Mönchenchen players is sufficient, but it is obvious that they overestimate their own form and strength, St. Pauli is worse than many teams, but it does not necessarily include Mönchenchen.

After 90 minutes of play, it also proved that St. Pauli was not weaker than Borussia Mönchenchen.

The score on the scoreboard is "0:1".

Home and away.

St. Pauli won by a narrow goal to win Borussia Mönchengladbach.

This three points are still very wonderful, one is the away factor, and then Zhen Shaolong did not play.

Bergman was beaming after the game, praising the team's defensive performance and praising Bor, who scored a goal, saying, "Fabian is a very good player and he is undoubtedly important to us......

Then the reporter asked about gossip.

For example, during the winter break, there were media reports that Fabian Boer appeared in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and lived for a long time, during which time it seemed to frequently enter Amsterdam's red light district.

And also.

Before Christmas, Bauer's 'breakup' was considered a tragic figure for professional footballers and also aroused a lot of interest in the media. ’

Bergman's face sank suddenly, not wanting to say anything more.

He decided to continue to strengthen the education of Bor.

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The day after the match against Borussia Mönchengladbach, the St. Pauli squad flew to Rotterdam, the Netherlands, to prepare for the first round of the UEFA Cup round of 32 and Feyenoord.

Check in to the hotel.

Rest.

A brief warm-up will take place the next morning.

St. Pauli was well prepared for the game and took it seriously.

The players are looking forward to the game as well.

The UEFA Cup is a European-level competition, but in terms of influence, it is still too far behind the European Champions Cup.

Now it's different.

When the tournament enters the knockout stage, it receives more attention, and the number of reporters who come to cover the event can say a lot of things, and the German journalists who followed St. Pauli to the Netherlands can form a team of 30 or 40 people, and there are countless local journalists in the Netherlands.

On the day of the game, at the Feyenoord Stadium, you can see reporters everywhere, and there are also many journalists from other countries, and they are all here to cover the game.

This is already an international stage.

Four o'clock in the afternoon.

St. Pauli's buses drove into the Feyenoord Stadium and the players went to the dressing room to change their clothes before entering the pitch to warm up under the guidance of the assistant coach.

When the players of the two teams entered the stadium, the surrounding stands were still empty, because the fans were just getting ready to enter, but there were still dozens of heads on the west side.

If you zoom in, you can see that it is a special group of viewers.

Chinese national team!

In February, while the domestic league did not start, the Chinese national team conducted a wave of overseas training in order to prepare for this year's Asian Cup.

Rotterdam in the Netherlands is one of the destinations.

The Chinese national team will have a five-day training session in Rotterdam, and on the last day will play a warm-up match against Feyenoord.

It's only the next day.

On this day, the Chinese national team completed its training task normally, and received news from Feyenoord that their officials invited the Chinese national team to watch Feyenoord's League Cup match.

Zhu Guanghu, the coach of the Chinese national team, thought that the team was in a tense training atmosphere and should relax a little, so he decided to let the whole team watch the game, feel the atmosphere of Dutch football, and learn by the way.

In European competitions, the League Cup also has a certain influence, and the level of the participating teams should be better than the national team.

And then.

Zhu Guanghu found an interesting problem.

Feyenoord's opponent is St. Pauli from Germany, and St. Pauli has a Chinese player to play.

Zhen Shaolong.

Of course, Zhu Guanghu knew that Zhen Shaolong, the domestic media and fans, had almost lifted Zhen Shaolong to the sky.

As Zhen Shaolong's performance gets better and better, fans have put him and Dong Fangbiao together, and called 'the two golden boys of Chinese football', the excellence of Dong Fangbiao is that he plays for the famous Manchester United club, after the winter break, he has obtained a British labor certificate, and was recalled by Manchester United Club, and also played once for Manchester United League.

Zhen Shaolong......

That's great!

The first scorer in the Bundesliga, the goals can be described as 'countless', and in the past half of the league, he has 'locked' the scorer king in advance, and has a good chance to win the 'European Golden Boot Award', and he is definitely a world-class star.

Some fans said, "Zhen Shaolong is much better than Dong Fang's table!" ”

Dong Fangping also has a large group of supporters, who believe that Dong Fangbiao's performance can be expected, he plays for Manchester United Club, not to mention how many goals he scores, as long as he can become the main player, he is no worse than the so-called 'Bundesliga goalscorer king'.

There is a lot of debate on the web about this.

As the coach of the Chinese national team, Zhu Guanghu just smiled indifferently at this, whether it was Dong Fangbei or Zhen Shaolong, he was not very optimistic, not that he was not optimistic about their strength, but that he did not think that they could perform well when they entered the national team.

Dong Fangtable has entered the national team, but his performance is still very average.

It's not that Dong Fang's table is not capable, but it's ...... The ability is too strong!

When a player is too capable of outperforming his teammates, it can have a direct impact on performance, and the reason is naturally the word 'cooperation'.

Zhu Guanghu doesn't like to recruit 'turtle' players, the reason is that in terms of cooperation, 'turtle' players have less time to enter the national team, and the cooperation with other teammates naturally has no tacit understanding at all, but their consciousness gap is also very large.

A simple example --

Most of the players in the national team are from the domestic league, and their sense of play is average, and they are used to the cooperation of 'waiting for the ball'.

It's a different story when you're a more conscious turtle player.

Turtle players will make pre-anticipated passes, they will pass the ball to the front of their teammates running, and the same is true for receiving the ball, they will continue to intersperse runs instead of waiting for the ball in place, but teammates do not have the same awareness, which makes it difficult for them to receive passes from teammates in the front court.

That's the problem.

To solve this problem, it is necessary to improve the overall level of competence of the national team players.

But is it possible?

Unless all the Turtle players are called up, what's the point of developing the domestic league?

Other than that......

Zhu Guanghu does not have the so-called 'head coach power', and the national team call-up list is not something he can decide alone, and there is no point in thinking too much.

Zhu Guanghu just thought it was very interesting to watch a Chinese player play during the training in the Netherlands, and he said seriously to the players, "Zhen Shaolong, do you know? See more how he plays! ”

"Maybe there is something in him that is worth learning and learning from!"

The internationals listened with mixed thoughts.

The players in other positions are better, and the strikers are a little unconvinced.

The so-called 'peers are enemies'.

Klose can live peacefully with Zhen Shaolong because there is no competition between the two, and when the same team and players in the same position have not yet separated the level gap, the competition is more serious.

Li Mingwei is the main striker of the Chinese national team, and he is very unconvinced.

He knew Zhen Shaolong.

Zhen Shaolong is so famous that 'becoming famous at a young age' is not enough to describe, and domestic fans regard him as the 'hope of Chinese football'.

Li Mingwei usually just looks and smiles, but now he is in a different mood.

'What's so big about it, isn't it just scoring a little bit more in Germany.' Li Mingwei thought, "That is, if you are lucky, you may not have a performance when you come to the national team." ”

"Just like the Shao family......"

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on the field.

Zhen Shaolong didn't expect that there would be all the players of the Chinese national team in the stands.

That's kind of hard to imagine.

Zhen Shaolong glanced over there, but he couldn't see it clearly from too far away, and he normally warmed up with his teammates before the game.

Warming up before the game is important.

The meaning of warm-up is to allow the players to move and adapt quickly when it comes to the game.

St. Pauli's warm-up is similar to that of other teams, with players pairing up in pairs for normal passing exercises.

Waiting for the fans in the stands around him to enter, Zhen Shaolong immediately gave the warm-up other meanings-

Show your footwork!

It's an away game, it's important to attract away fans, to make the away fans feel like they're good, and maybe when they send a kiss, they can get more responses.

Zhen Shaolong did the same, and his partner was Kreuzer.

"Did you want me to pass the ball to you?"

Kreuzer asked.

In the previous game warm-up, Zhen Shaolong liked to 'warm up his feet', and the feeling of continuously kicking the goalpost to shoot skillfully was very interesting, and it could also deter the opponent to a certain extent.

Zhen Shaolong thought for a moment and said, "Change the way." You stand at that point. He pointed to a spot on the right side of the penalty area, while he was standing on the left, "I kick the ball to the crossbar and let it bounce to you." ”

“……”

Kreuzer was stunned.

Is that okay?

Zhen Shaolong is also not sure, compared with kicking the goalpost, to let the ball bounce to a fixed position, you need to grasp the point of kicking, and you have to experiment many times in a row.

Once.

Twice.

Many times......

Zhen Shaolong tried about seven or eight times before the football successfully bounced to Kreuzer's feet.

"This kick is awesome!"

Kreuzer shouted and gave a big thumbs up.

Zhen Shaolong just smiled and nodded.

In the process of 'experiment', it was enough to amaze the fans who noticed, because Zhen Shaolong kicked the crossbar with seven or eight consecutive kicks.

"I'll just say, why does he keep kicking the crossbar, it turns out that it is on purpose!"

"What's this player's name?"

"You don't know? You certainly don't care about St. Pauli. That player's name is Zhen Shaolong, and he is the top scorer in the Bundesliga, and he has scored almost 30 goals! ”

"So powerful?"

"Look at his footwork......"

West side stands.

A group of people from the Chinese national team also watched it all in a daze, including head coach Zhu Guanghu and striker Li Mingwei, everyone watched quietly, or defender Gao Song exclaimed, "Did he kick the post on purpose?" How many shots are all hit? That's more than 10 meters away, right? ”

No one answered.

Zhu Guanghu couldn't help sighing, looked at the players who 'kicked the goalpost' on the field, and then turned his head to glance at the international players, feeling that leading the team had become boring, "If the national team is such a player, I dare to challenge Brazil with the Football Association!" ”

"It's a pity ......"

Then they realized that the shock had just begun.

After Zhen Shaolong found the point of the crossbar, he kept kicking towards that point, kicking more than a dozen times in a row, and most of the football could bounce to Kreuzer's feet.

He immediately became the protagonist of the audience.

The cameras in the stadium were almost all pointed over, and the Dutch fans in the stands around them were not paying attention to Feyenoord, and the media reporters in the stadium, especially those near the baseline, kept raising various equipment to take pictures.

The other side.

The Feyenoord players have all looked at it.

Andrea Bahia said to Romeo Castren with a complicated face, "The coach is right, we should keep an eye on him. ”

Casterron pursed his lips and shrugged, "That's your job." ”

Nikki Hoves patted Bahia on the shoulder and said with a smile, "It's up to you." ”

Bahia suddenly felt a lot of pressure.

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