Chapter 68: Hamburg in Crisis
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After winning two cup matches in a row, the Hamburg team showed a powerful attack power that made everyone jaw-dropping after Ling Feng returned to the team, only Bremen secretly rejoiced, fortunately, Ling Feng was not there when he played against them......
The first half of the Bundesliga season is coming to an end, with four games to go until the winter break, and although Hamburg have firmly occupied the Bundesliga leader, they are only four points away from second-placed Bayern Munich, and they will not dare to be careless when they meet Borussia Dortmund, who are fifth in the league.
Having beaten Cologne and Bielefeld 1-0 and 2-1 respectively, Ling Feng played only 30 minutes in both games, and everyone could imagine that he was recovering the energy he had expended on two consecutive tough games and concentrating on winning the last game of the first half of the Bundesliga season with one victory.
It was only in the penultimate round of the away match against Duisburg that the Hamburg team had a fork, because Ling Feng was preparing for the match with Dortmund a week later, so he went off at the end of the first half, and at this time, the Hamburg team was leading 2:0.
However, the Hamburg team without Ling Feng played very passively in the next game, and in the thirtieth minute of the second half, Duisburg's striker Marin finally knocked on the door of the Hamburg team with a header from a corner kick.
The situation on the field was unfavorable, Ling Feng had no way except to be anxious on the sidelines, he used up three substitutions in succession, but did not change the passive situation of the Hamburg team on the field, and finally in the 40th minute of the second half, the Duisburg team once again broke through the door with a direct free kick of about 30 meters by midfielder Zeyer and equalized the score.
But the nightmare of the Hamburg team is not over, just when the game is about to end, the Hamburg team, which is eager to recover the score, has a huge hole in the backline, and the young Rob who was replaced by the Duisburg team for not long ago rushed into the penalty area with the ball, Colts had to trip Rob when he attacked, and the referee directly showed him a red card and gave the Duisburg team a penalty!
Hamburg, who had used up three substitutions, had to let the tallest Baron defend the penalty – in fact, everyone knew that even Koltz was there, and this goal could not be kept 99 per cent.
The veteran Walters easily pushed into the net, but Baron didn't react!
Finally, Hamburg's unbeaten streak since Ling Feng identified the core was finally broken, while second-place Bayern Munich narrowed the gap between the two teams to one point after consecutive victories.
In the final game of the first half of the season against Borussia Dortmund, Hamburg could not afford to lose again.
For this defeat with Duisburg, Ling Feng was very depressed, just to increase the chips in the game with Dortmund, but no matter what team he played with, he won three points and lost no points, not to say that the opponent was stronger and scored more points.
The game with Dortmund may not be able to be won, but this game was lost again, Ling Feng was very depressed, he knew that he shouldn't have saved that little bit of physical strength, and he took Duisburg happily, and he would not be so passive now.
But there will be no ifs on the football field, Ling Feng can change what he knows, but for all the unknown existence about himself, Ling Feng is just a human, not a god.
In fact, the Hamburg team is doing very well now, in the first half of the season so far in 16 rounds, the Hamburg team has an impressive record of 12 wins, 3 losses and 1 draw, while the second-placed Bayern Munich team has lost one less than the Hamburg team, two more draws, and is behind the Hamburg team by one point.
One of the two games they lost was caused by Hamburg.
Not only the Hamburg team, but even this year's Bayern team has performed very well, for this team with many big players such as Matthaus and Klinsmann, the Bundesliga can no longer arouse their fighting spirit, because if they want to play, there is really no Bundesliga team that cannot be defeated - except for Hamburg after Ling Feng.
3:4! Although it was Hamburg's home stadium, the Bayern players knew they had done their best, and they gave it their all from the very beginning of the game.
Being scored four goals by one person is a shame for the Bayern team, coupled with the ferocious momentum of Hamburg now, there is a momentum to win the championship in one fell swoop, and the Bayern team has also played with the spirit of 120,000 points, trying to play every game well, and is bound to compete with the Hamburg team.
"This year's Bundesliga is more exciting than usual!" This is a review by Germany's most authoritative sports media - Kicker magazine.
Hamburg has such an impressive record as a dark horse that is not a dark horse, and it also inspires other teams to motivate. Saying that Hamburg is a dark horse is because his results this season are indeed inconsistent with their previous strength, but saying that he is not a dark horse, because of Ling Feng, he can achieve such results, which is expected by everyone.
All teams aim to defeat Ling Feng, and now in the hearts of Bundesliga fans, Ling Feng is the embodiment of undefeated, as long as he is on the field, no team can beat him.
So now the teams in the Bundesliga have different goals, strong teams such as Bayern, Bayer Leverkusen and other teams that are qualified to compete with Hamburg are all aiming for Ling Feng, striving to remain in the first team in the league and retain their chances of competing for the Bundesliga championship; Some other teams are proud of beating Hamburg by "luck", and it can be seen from the match with Duisburg that Ling Feng always has to retain his strength to avoid injury, and at this time, beating Hamburg is not a dream.
Of course, the goal of the strong team is to defeat Ling Feng's Hamburg team, after all, different teams have different goals and requirements.
For example, the current Dortmund, they have the biggest goal of defeating the Hamburg team led by Ling Feng.
Dortmund has Somer, Heinrich, Paul. Sousa and Muller and other big-name players, but due to injuries in Euro 96, Samor missed nearly seven rounds of the Bundesliga, so that Dortmund's performance was not very ideal, only ranked fifth in the Bundesliga, even if not for the title, in order to qualify for next year's Champions League, Dortmund naturally has to work harder.
When it comes to Dortmund now, one person has to be highlighted – their coach, Heathfield – an old fox-like guy.
Compared to Real Madrid's deep-pocketed and lavish investment in superstar players, Heathfield is the epitome of a shrewd businessman on the pitch.
He is never enough to be a big-name player, but he likes to buy some young excellent players from the Americas for training. Cruise and Pizarro and others were single-handedly trained by Heathfield.
In terms of tactical arrangement, Heathfield's methods are also very clever, in the last game of the first half of the Bundesliga, if Heathfield did not arrange the tactics of restraining Ling Feng, no one would believe it.
The match was played at the stadium of the Borussia Dortmund team, the Stade **** Westermund, and the 50,000 Dortmund team anthem sang the Dortmund team anthem, and the Hamburg fans, who were only 5,000 people, could not make a sound at all.
That's the biggest difference between home and away.
As a result of Kolz's red card in the last game, substitute goalkeeper Heymann took on the role of goalkeeper, and Hamburg had a disadvantage in terms of goalkeeper - because Dortmund's goalkeeper was Germany's third-number national goalkeeper Klaus, who was only below Koepke and Kahn.
Another piece of bad news is that Baron suffered a calf ligament strain in the game against Duisburg, although the injury was not serious, but he could not participate in this game.
For Baron's injury, Ling Feng was very depressed, thinking that "back then", Dortmund relied on the two-meter-02 Czech high school striker Koller to rampage in the Bundesliga, taking advantage of the high altitude, and finally had a chance to teach them a small lesson, but his high school striker was injured, which had to be regarded as bad news for the Hamburg team.
Although Baron didn't score many goals in the Hamburg team and was still ranked below Hao Haidong, his height stood in the penalty area, and the opposing players had to weigh his air superiority.
Although Ling Feng had recovered his strength after nearly a month of rest, but now, the Hamburg team had come to the opponent's home stadium in the absence of major generals, and this game was really suspenseful.
Dortmund naturally did not miss such an opportunity, and as soon as the game began, they organized a series of attacks to bombard the Hamburg goal.
had little experience in the Bundesliga, and he was eager to take advantage of this rare opportunity to show himself, so he was a little too excited and not calm.
Just seven minutes into the first half, Summerer went to the front to assist, and a beautiful through ball near the midfield hit the Hamburg team in front of the penalty area, the Swiss Chapissat grabbed the ball before Hollebach, and after successfully attracting the attention of Hollerbach and Henkoz, he stuffed the ball into the penalty area, and the German veteran Riedel quickly followed up and hit the goal directly under the block of Habtchev!
Due to Habtchev's obstruction, Riddle's ball did not hit hard, but did not hold the ball steady, but slipped his hand during the save, and the ball came out of his hands!
It was a pie in the sky for Borussia Dortmund, as midfielder Muller, who had assisted in the box, stepped forward quickly when Riddle got to his feet, was the first to get in front of the ball, only to push it lightly and send it into the Hamburg goal.
Seven minutes, just seven minutes, the door of the Hamburg team was breached by the opponent!
Ling Feng looked at the ball in the door depressedly, under normal circumstances, he celebrated by himself after hearing the referee blow the long whistle at this time, and now the retribution is unhappy, and it is finally his turn - it's just that Heyman really can't do it, if this ball is Colts, he must have hugged it the first time.
But this is not the time to blame his teammates, if his teammates make mistakes during the game, they must not be blamed, otherwise his confidence will be lower and lower, and his state will be worse and worse.
As the captain, Ling Feng naturally knew what to do, he walked back to his own goal, took the ball out, and patted Heyman on the shoulder at the same time, telling him not to care, isn't it just a ball? Seven goals against Chelsea, can you care about that one?
It's just that these words are relatively easy, Heathfield specially put out a three-back formation, the purpose is to freeze Ling Feng's breakthrough in the midfield, and now the Bundesliga teams are taking Ling Feng as an imaginary enemy, and they have done a detailed study of his style and characteristics, so to speak, in the future Bundesliga games, Ling Feng will no longer be able to be as comfortable as when he first came.
Dealing with Ling Feng is to prevent him from breaking through, and can't give him a chance to take a free kick in front of the penalty area, under the three barriers in Dortmund's midfield and backfield, Ling Feng basically can't get a chance to break through.
And Hao Haidong was defended by Heinrich, and he didn't have a chance, and Baron, the big man, was not there, even if Ling Feng took the ball and ran to the side, in the absence of Baron's lighthouse, the bottom cross had no effect at all.
Ling Feng once again passed Paul near the center circle. Sosa, but Zorko's feet had already stretched out, and there was no way, Ling Feng could only choose to pass.
Ling Feng passed the ball directly to the penalty area, giving Ivanoskas that point, but the ball was headed out by Summer's header in the air, and the Hamburg team's attack failed again.
Ling Feng was a little crazy, now as soon as he got the ball, there must be two people pressing the robbery at the same time, and there was also a player who was ready to break the ball at any time, under this kind of defense, the possibility of forcibly breaking through was pitiful.
As a last resort, Ling Feng could only keep passing and running, trying to create opportunities for his side, but not only him, but other Hamburg players could not take advantage of Dortmund's zone defense, especially when there were two top German defenders in front of the penalty area, Summerer and Heinrich.
But Dortmund's offense has not slowed down, Sameer, Muller and Chap Isaert form Dortmund's evil central axis, often Sammer's long pass, Muller in front of the ball or pass or lead, Vieira is a little powerless when defending the experienced veteran, because Muller and Klinsmann are in different positions, Klinsmann is a point-grabbing striker, the position is relatively fixed, while Muller is running around in the front, in the midfield such a big open area, Vieira unless he fights his body, Otherwise, it would be difficult to break Muller's ball.
The two sides continued to grind like this, until the thirtieth minute of the first half, the door of the Hamburg team was once again lost, and this time the goal was made by Summer!