Chapter 34: The Chinese Derby
Fast forward three days, and the Hamburg players have not fully recovered from the intense match against Bayern Munich when they face the first match of the second round of the German Cup - away to Hertha Berlin, the leader of the German Second Division.
This is a contest between the leaders of the German football league and the second division, but the leaders of the German second division are much weaker than the Bundesliga in terms of strength and momentum - they are not at the same level.
However, to the excitement of fans, especially Chinese fans, this game can be regarded as a derby between Chinese overseas players, Ling Feng and Hao Haidong of Hamburg vs Yang Chen of Hertha Berlin.
The three of them are the team's main scorers, Ling Feng and Yang Chen are the team's top scorers, and Hao Haidong ranks second in the Hamburg team's scorer list because of Ling Feng's relationship.
Before the game, Ling Feng happily talked to Yang Chen on the phone, and told reporters that this was the first time that Chinese players competed abroad, and they would go all out.
After hearing the news, Hertha Berlin head coach Lu Bell privately complained to Yang Chen, can't you just kick it and it's over, why do you have to go all out!
Thinking of Ling Feng's all-out attack, Lu Bei's heart was furious, if this guy who couldn't even stop Mateus really started a surge, losing was a trivial matter, and being slaughtered was an ugly matter - in case he kicked a few people down again, Amen, God bless me!
Compared with Lu Bei's trembling performance, Hertha's players are full of fighting spirit, because Yang Chen has just revealed the news to them, because he just fought with Bayern three days ago, Ling Feng's physical strength is very poor, in order to avoid injury, the doctor's opinion is that he can only play half the game.
This has to be said to be a good news, although the opponent's Bundesliga leader, but the absence of Ling Feng is equivalent to the tiger's lack of teeth - and it is also a front tooth.
Of course, for the Hamburg team, it is not a leader of the German Second Division that can be despised, but since it is the home stadium in Berlin, it is natural that Hamburg led by Ling Feng, who only played in the first half, can taste the sweetness so easily.
Hertha is an 'old-fashioned' team that has been around since they won the national league in 1930 and 1931......
During World War II, because of Hitler's dictatorship, Berlin's special status determined that the team could not have a good record - of course, the players were scared away, if Hitler ordered that only Berlin should win the league championship, I am afraid that no other team would dare to oppose Berlin.
The dictatorship of the old Xi has kept the Berlin team back home, and in the more than 50 years since the end of World War II to today, they have made a pitiful number of times in the first division, let alone achieved good results.
I'm afraid Berlin is the capital of one of the most embarrassing football powers, think of London, Paris, Madrid and Rome, all have strong teams at their disposal, while Berlin and even the surrounding cities have only one Hertha club – not very good.
This season, the Hertha team invited Luber as the head coach, and bought some potential players, and the free addition of Chinese striker Yang Chen also made the club save a lot of money on the striker issue, and Yang Chen's performance was very eye-catching, except for the first round of substitute appearances without scoring, the remaining games played very well, scored a total of four goals, and became the scoring champion of the Hertha team - naturally, he also became the target of the European midstream team.
Ling Feng sat leisurely on the bench on the side of the Berlin Olympia Stadium, crossing Erlang's legs and watching the performance of his two teammates on the field.
The first half is almost over, the score is 2:2 draw, Yang Chen played bravely in this game, one pass and one shot in the first half of the game, similarly, Hao Haidong also had a goal, but compared with Yang Chen, there was one less assist.
Ling Feng couldn't help but purse his lips and snickered, this time it was the opposite, when he was in the national team, Hao Haidong was the kind of all-round player who could pass and shoot, he could not only grasp the opportunities created by his teammates, but also create good opportunities for his teammates, and in contrast, Yang Chen belonged to the kind of point-grabbing striker.
Of course, Yang Chen has improved a lot since he came to Frankfurt - if he didn't go to Frankfurt, few people really knew that China had such a number one person as him, let alone be selected for the national team.
However, Hao Haidong's goal was more beautiful, he got rid of Hertha defender Ferrar with a quick start in front of the penalty area, and fired a powerful volley from the outside of the box to open the Hertha goal.
Although the score in the first half was 2:2, Ling Feng and Lille were more satisfied, in general, there was no big mistake in the back line in the first half, the two goals conceded were not entirely the mistakes of the defenders, and the excellent performance of the opponent also accounted for a large aspect.
However, these two away goals are very crucial, even if this game is drawn, it is the Hamburg team that has the advantage when they return to Hamburg's home stadium - as for how the reporter said that they are the leaders of the Bundesliga but play like this with the Bundesliga team - it doesn't matter about Ling Feng at all......
At halftime, Hertha's players sat on the stools depressed one by one, and swore before the game that they wanted to break the undefeated golden body of the Hamburg team, but before Ling Feng played, they could only fight to a draw with the other party - and relied on Yang Chen's extraordinary performance, and waited for Ling Feng to play in the second half - just wait to be slaughtered......
They were right, just five minutes into the second half, Ling Feng made a left-footed volley thirty meters in front of the big penalty area to rewrite the score to 3:2.
This is a very beautiful shot, Hao Haidong crossed the bottom, Baron in the middle did not reach the ball, the ball was headed out by Hertha defender Saul, Kovacevic grabbed the ball and crossed to the front of the penalty area, Ling Feng in the back caught up with a direct and powerful volley to hit the ball into the door of the Hertha team, goalkeeper Gray did not react at all......
Looking at Ling Feng, who was lifted high by his teammates after scoring a goal, Yang Chen felt a sigh of emotion in his heart, he never thought that the Hertha team could win Hamburg before the game started, and now Ling Feng scored a goal not long after he came on the field, which suddenly made him feel a deep sense of powerlessness.
But at the same time, he is also very grateful to Ling Feng, he was originally only a second-tier player in Beijing Guoan, and he didn't even have many opportunities to play, but I don't know how Ling Feng knew about him, he just brought him to Brazil as a nobody, and then arranged for him to come to Hertha - now the most famous Chinese in Berlin is him, and he can receive love letters from Chinese girls every day - it's hard not to thank Ling Feng!
However, at this time, the hero of Hamburg did not enjoy the treatment of a hero—or rather, he did not expect the full treatment of a hero—his teammates cheered and threw Ling Feng up, but they didn't know whether it was intentional or unintentional—when Ling Feng fell, a group of people shouted and didn't catch it......
"Ling, I'm sorry, we didn't mean to......" Looking at the extremely "sincere" expressions of several people, Ling Feng could only break his teeth and swallow blood—a way to take revenge while swallowing......
"Maybe we're playing with fire...... "Kovacevic and Baron exchanged ideas with each other's eyes.
"You have to play with fire once, otherwise you will be bullied by him all day long and depressed!"
"Oh no, why do I feel chills all over my body, this feeling is so familiar, I have a sense of foreboding......"
"I still have a premonition! Ling is looking at us, it's over, it's over, something has happened to the game! ”
The two of them made a cross on their chests at the same time, and whispered "Amen" together.
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The game went on, although they fell behind in the score, but they can't be embarrassed in front of their own folks, Hertha still played well - no one will blame them if they lose, but the scene must be beautiful.
Ling Feng did not participate in the defense, but kept pressing in front, so when there was only Vieira as a barrier in the midfield, the Hertha team was not without a chance - not to mention, before the game, Ling Feng also specially told Vieira to release water to Yang Chen......
Vieira is now making progress very fast, his favorite thing in the usual training is to pull Ling Feng to practice defense together, although Ling Feng still thinks about him until now, but his defensive ability has been enhanced a lot, as can be seen from the single defense of Klinsmann in the last game.
Ling Feng is not without reason to train Vieira, he is usually very lazy, and when he trains with Vieira, he runs away for half an hour at most, leaving Hao Haidong and Vieira to experience the method of passing and the method of defense, under this kind of personal teaching, Hao Haidong's personal ball control ability has also greatly increased - this is Ling Feng's real purpose.
Therefore, when everyone learns that Hao Haidong will be on the same team as Ling Feng, they will be so envious, in addition to being able to score more goals during the game, learning from Ling Feng is also a very important thing - to be able to get in touch with such a master, and get his guidance on the shortcomings in his skills, imperceptibly, the skills will grow greatly......
Can't blame Ling Feng for not having the professional ethics to let Vieira play "match-fixing", with the current strength of the Hamburg team, Hertha Berlin team can't take advantage of it at all, especially when Ling Feng comes on the field, there is no suspense in the game, since Yang Chen wants to be famous in the Bundesliga, it is inevitable to use some small means - of course, it depends on Yang Chen's own strength.
Chinese just like to pay attention to human feelings, Ling Feng is naturally not exempt from vulgarity, not to mention, this is not a match-fixing, just to be a smooth water favor, in Berlin's home stadium does not give people face to win, Ling Feng is also worried that he will be blocked by the mafia and not let him go back.
The next game was even more exciting, at least from the scene, the two teams launched a wonderful offensive battle, Ling Feng staged a dazzling pass from time to time, and the Hertha team played with Yang Chen as the offensive core, threatening the door guarded by Koltz several times.
In the seventeenth minute of the second half of the game, Hao Haidong finally scored again - Ling Feng quickly broke through to the sideline and hit a beautiful pass into the penalty area, and Hao Haidong, who was inserted from behind, rushed to the top and pushed the ball into the gate without being marked.
This was a very beautiful goal, telling Hao Haidong that there was no interference from Hertha's defenders, so he easily crashed the ball into it and expanded the score to 4:2.
Hertha, who were two goals behind, did not give up, or rather, in front of their fathers and fellow villagers, even if they gave up, they couldn't show it......
However, Vieira's brain was really not bright enough, Ling Feng instructed him to try to give Yang Chen the ball as much as possible, so he didn't pay attention when defending Yang Chen, just symbolically stretched out his foot - however, the ferocity when he defended Hertha other players - was called by Maradona back then: "This guy should go to kill pigs, not to play football!" Gentilly is a three-point underdog......
It wasn't until the end of the game that Yang Chen took advantage of a corner kick to head through the door of the Hamburg team, barely making the score 3:4
The away victory, plus four away goals, although the goals conceded were a little more, but the situation was still in Hamburg's favor, even the fans of Berlin had to admit that they had the advantage of having just finished a high-intensity game with the opponent at home and not enough physical reserves - it can be seen from the fact that Ling Feng didn't run much at all during the game.
Overall, the fans were happy with the result, with both the home and away teams scoring seven goals, the same as in the last game against Bayern......
"We are moving towards Bayern Munich's goal." These were the words of an agitated Berlin fan to reporters after the game.
Well, it's clear that the Hertha fans are overexcited, but as long as Luber doesn't say something like that, nothing should happen......
The happiest are the Chinese fans, whether it is Ling Feng, Hao Haidong, Yang Chen, they are now the pride of China, the three of them scored a total of five goals in the game, which is also a very proud achievement.
Ling Feng originally planned to have a drink with Yang Chen and Hao Haidong after the game and have a good chat, but a phone call from Siyue made this plan come to naught.
Siyue's words made Ling Feng very strange: "Brother, come back quickly, there is a mysterious guest in our house......"