Chapter 197: Train hard to win praise
"Mr. Fink, I would like to ask you to teach me some ways to correct my bad habits and adapt to the team's tactics as soon as possible. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info" Feng Quan said sincerely.
Fink smiled and patted Feng Quan's shoulder and said, "I can understand your feelings, but after all, you have only been receiving professional football training for more than two months so far. Therefore, as long as you participate in the team's training seriously, some of your problems will be solved gradually over time. β
"But, Mr. Fink, I'm desperate to be a big part of the team. So, in addition to participating in the team's normal training, I also hope to use my spare time to continuously improve myself. Is there anything you can do to help me? β
Although German players are known for their discipline and seriousness, it is the first time that Fink has encountered a player like Feng Quan who took the initiative to seek advice from him and hoped to use his spare time to improve himself. After listening to Feng Quan's words, Fink's heart couldn't help but be a little moved.
After a moment's thought, Fink spoke, "That's it, Wind. I asked Lars [Bietneycourt, assistant coach of Hamburg] to get some footage of Ribery's game, which you can watch when you have time and learn from his off-ball runs during the game. β
After a pause, Fink looked at his watch and said, "However, it's a little late today, and the team has a game task tomorrow." So, wait until next Monday, and then you go to Lars and ask for the footage of Ribery's game......"
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Because Feng Quan was not included in the 18-man squad for the team to play in Mainz by head coach Fink. So, for two days over the weekend, Feng Quan was in the gym of the Hamburg club, under the guidance of Jonas Kessler, practicing physical and physical confrontation.
In the 12th round of the Bundesliga on November 17, due to the previous two rounds of the league lost to Bayern Munich and Freiburg. Therefore, in order to avoid an embarrassing three-game losing streak, before the start of the Hamburg team's home game against Mainz, the president of the Hamburg club, Manfred Otto, came to the players' dressing room and made a promise to the players that "if they win this game, the winning bonus will be doubled".
So, under the huge temptation of "doubling the winning bonus", the Hamburg team launched a tidal wave of attacks against the visiting Mainz team from the beginning of the first half.
Despite playing at home, the Hamburg team took the absolute initiative on the field. However, with Mainz putting all their energy on defense, until the end of the first half, Hamburg, who had 13 shots on goal, could not knock on the visitors' goal.
In fact, such a scoreless situation has become a normal performance of the Hamburg team in home games this season. Because the team that visited the People's Park Stadium (Hamburg's home stadium) knows very well that although the attacking core of the Hamburg team is the Dutch star Van der Vaart, due to his weak physical confrontation ability and lack of sufficient breakthrough speed, Van der Vaart mainly plays a role in organizing the team and inserting in the back row in the Hamburg team's attack.
Therefore, the real threat in Hamburg's attack is mainly the direct attack of South Korea's Son Heung-min after cutting inside on the left flank, or delivering cannonballs to his teammates in the box. However, due to the general lack of height among the team's strikers, Hamburg's wide attackers rarely choose to cross in.
Therefore, as long as Van der Vaart, the attacking core of the Hamburg team, is strangled, and Son Xingmin's side breakthrough is heavily guarded, even if the Hamburg team can occupy the advantage of the situation on the field, it is just a "false prosperity" that cannot be scored.
In fact, the reason why Feng Quan was able to win the favor of the Hamburg team was entirely because the team's head coach Fink took a fancy to his terrifying speed and excellent ability to break through the wings.
Unfortunately, due to Feng Quan's training in track and field events for a long time before, he has not yet met the requirements for being able to play in the Bundesliga in terms of physical fitness and coordination awareness.
Therefore, in the absence of the wind to become the team's immediate strength, Fink can only rely on tapping the potential of the "existing players" if he wants to win at home against the relentless Mainz team.
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Because after the start of the second half of the game, the Mainz team still adopted the previous strategy of retrenching the backfield defense.
So, 11 minutes into the second half, Hamburg's head coach Fink replaced the inactive starting striker Artjomsrudnevs with Gojkokacar, a Serbian defender with a strong and strong header.
In fact, Cachar, who was originally in the youth team, was a striker on the field. It was only because of his possession skills and ability to grasp opportunities in front of goal that he was gradually transformed by the team's coach into a versatile player who can play both the back and central defender positions.
Now, when Hamburg faced a dense Mainz defense and struggled to tear apart the opposition backline in attack, head coach Fink had a "whim" to use Cachar's strong body and excellent header ability to play a pivotal role in the penalty area.
Although it has been a long time since Cachar played a striker role in a game, he still fulfilled his mission well with Fink's demand that "you just need to stand firmly in the box and use your header advantage to play a fulcrum for your teammates".
On the 77th minute of the second half, Mainz's Eugenpolanski was about to break down the right when Hamburg's left-back Janssen cut off the ball.
After the successful break, Janssen handed the ball directly to the team's defender Milan Badelj. Without any pause after receiving the ball, Badelli passed the ball to Van der Vaart, the central midfielder standing in the front.
Van der Vaart, who received a pass from his teammates, wanted to hand the ball to Son Xingmin on the left side, but when he saw that two defenders had appeared next to Son Xingmin, he had no choice but to break through with the ball forward.
Unfortunately, Van der Vaart, who lacked speed, had just taken a few steps forward before being blocked by the opposition midfielder JΓ€ngirchhoff. Although Van der Vaart was confident in his one-on-one ability, when he saw that the two centre-backs behind him were ready to step forward, he gave up the idea of breaking through with the ball and instead distributed the ball to the feet of his team-mate Maximilianbeister on the right.
Although Best has a certain dribbling ability at his feet, due to the same lack of speed, he did not choose to break through with the ball after receiving the ball, but sent a cross directly to the Mainz team in front of the goal at a 45-degree angle on the right side of the penalty area.
Because Mainz's two central defenders had previously focused their attention on Van der Vaart, who was "ready to break through", when Best crossed into the box, they did not stick to Hamburg's "striker" Cachar in the first place.
So, without much interference, Cachar easily grabbed the first drop of the cross, and then headed the ball into the far corner of the goal.
Mainz goalkeeper Christianwetklo, despite his quick reflexes, made a sideways pounce to catch the ball that flew towards the far corner of the goal. However, due to the interference of his teammates when he landed, he had a situation where the football was out of his hands.
And just as Mainz's Danish central defender Bosvensson was about to clear the ball, South Korea's Son Heung-min appeared like a ghost near the football landing point, and then sent the ball into the unguarded goal with a light volley.
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Although the Mainz team was behind in the score, after the restart of the game, the team's overall formation was pressed forward. However, the Hamburg team continued to occupy the initiative on the field under the strong control of Van der Vaart, the core of the midfield. Moreover, the Mainz team, which was pressed out to fight, was almost succeeded by Sun Xingmin's quick counterattack.
In the end, with the leak in front of the goal of South Korean player Son Heung-min, the Hamburg team playing at home finally ended their two-game losing streak.
Although the "stroke of genius" of pushing Cachar up front helped Hamburg achieve a victory, Fink did not want to use Cachar as a striker for the team.
In fact, if it weren't for Van der Vaart's attention to the two Mainz centre-backs as he prepared to break through Kirchhoff with the ball, it would have been really difficult for Cachar to calmly scramble for the first place in the box. Even though Cachar's header ability is not weak, his height of 1.86 meters is still a certain gap compared with the opponent's two central defenders. You must know that the two central defenders of the Mainz team, the "shortest" one, also reached a height of 1.93 meters.
The height of the central defenders of the Bundesliga team is generally around 1.90 meters, and they all have a strong ability to fight for the head. If the team's goal is to make a splash into Europe, then the style of play that puts Cachar up front is nothing more than a helpless, gambling strategy.
Therefore, with the limited strength of Hamburg's existing attacking players, head coach Fink can only "pray" that Feng Quan, who has just joined the team, can continue to improve his fitness in order to meet the requirements of the Bundesliga. At the same time, get rid of your own style of play, complete the run-in with the team as soon as possible, so as to qualify for the Bundesliga as soon as possible......
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Since the match against Mainz had just ended two days earlier, head coach Fink had only scheduled the team's training session in the afternoon.
Although the team did not have a training session scheduled for the morning, Fink still arrived at his office before 9 o'clock in the morning.
A few minutes later, when the hour hand of the wall clock in Fink's office was accurately on the number 9, there was a knock on the office door.
With Fink's voice, "Please come in." The office door opened.
Then, an Asian with yellow skin and black eyes walked into Fink's office.
"Hey, Wind, you're really on time." Fink spoke.
"Hehe, sorry Mr. Fink, because I slept a little late last night, so I ...... this morning"
Before Feng Quan could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Fink.
"Feng, you don't need to apologize to me at all." Fink said in a calm tone. "Sebastian [Glar, Hamburg's strength and conditioning coach] has already told me that after every day you go to the club's gym for a physical workout. Especially yesterday, if it weren't for the old Marco (Mayer, a staff member at the gym of the Hamburg Club) who 'complained' to you that he had delayed his end of work, you wouldn't have left the gym until about 10 o'clock in the evening, right? β
"Uh...... You, you know everything......" Feng Quan scratched his head embarrassedly.
It was rare to see Fink, who was all exposed to his "shy" side, and after unconsciously showing a smile on his face, he pointed to the wall clock on the office wall and said, "Moreover, the time we agreed on before was 9 o'clock, so you weren't late at all." β
Immediately after, Fink took out a hard drive from the desk in front of him after asking about Feng Quan's physical training in the past few days.
"Wind, do you have a computer in the apartment you live in?" Fink asked.
"There are no computers in the apartment, but when I came from China, I brought a laptop with me."
"Well, a laptop will work too." Fink nodded. "That's right, wind. When you have time, you have to thank Lars. Last Friday night, when I told Lars about the fact that you had reached me out to improve your running skills, he not only helped you get footage of Ribery's game, but also some of the other world-class wide attacking players on this portable hard drive. β
With that, Fink handed over the portable hard drive to Feng Quan's hands.
"Thank you, Mr. Fink. I won't let you and Lars down. Feng Quan said with some excitement.
"Hehe, wind, a player who trains hard like you is very much liked by any coach. So, I hope you don't call me 'Mr. Fink' anymore, but call me Tosten or 'boss' like your teammates do. Fink said with a smile on his face.
"Hey, no problem, boss." Feng Quan said with a smile.
"Well, that's right." Fink nodded in satisfaction.
Then, just as Feng Quan was about to turn around to leave, Fink suddenly stopped him. At the same time, he said with a slightly serious expression: "Feng, when you go back to watch the video data in that hard drive, don't only pay attention to their running without the ball during the game." At the same time, it is important to watch when they receive a pass from a team-mate, when they choose to break through, when they choose to link up with their team-mates, and when they choose to cross into the box......
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After a training session and an hour and a half of physical practice in the gym of the Hamburg club under the guidance of Jonas Kessler, Feng Quan finally returned to his apartment in the Jonas Kessler Audi A7.
As soon as he returned to the apartment, Feng Quan "couldn't wait" to open it, brought the laptop from China, and connected the hard drive that Fink had given him.
When Feng Quanquan opened the folder on the hard drive, he found that Lars Bittencourt had prepared nearly 200 grams of images of more than a dozen world-class wide attacking players from the late nineties of the 20th century to the present. I also specially prepared a copy in English for Feng Quan, which I have been teaching for many years, some understanding of the responsibilities of modern wide players on the field, and some personal suggestions for Feng Quan's future development.
It's a pity that Feng Quan, whose English skills are limited, is difficult to fully understand Lars Bittencourt's advice to himself, even with the help of online translation software.
So, after a lot of effort to read the personal advice that Lars Bittencourt wrote to himself, Feng Quan finally let out a sigh of "language barrier is sad to die...... (To be continued.) )