Chapter 211: The Red Flag Flutters
Nuremberg's head coach Mihans Meyer still deployed their best and favourite 4-3-3 attacking formation.
Goalkeeper: Laphar Schaefer
Defenders: Michael Beecham, Leandro Grauber, Andreas Wolff, Marek Nickel
Midfielders: Ivica Banovic, Marek Mintal, Jan Christiansen
Forwards: Marcus Schroeter, Robert Vitek, Ivan Sayenko
Becker, on the other hand, continued to play in a 4-4-2 formation, leaving only Kapalani and Freise up front, although Freis's speed was not as fast as Capalani, leaving them as counter-attacking arrows.
But Becker used him only as a stopover to cover Capalani, who was mainly counter-attacking, and even to draw the attention of the rest of the opponents, and in terms of his ability to handle the ball, Freis was much better than Capalani.
Karlsruhe's midfield had four men, Bolcello, Marke, Cohen and Booker, and Becker wanted to press Nuremberg through the midfield scramble, and then delay the game to a penalty shootout. There is a super goalkeeper like Wu Feng on his side, so he doesn't have to use it in vain.
Becker believes that only by cutting off the passes provided by the Nulen midfielder to Schroeter and Vitek can the game be controlled and the game go according to his plan.
Karlsruhe have Eichner, Stoll, Pisot and Jonas at the back, and that's pretty much the best they can put out.
The match brought together almost all the media in Germany: "Kicker", "Bild", "Stuttgart Sport", "Sports Weekly", "Football Newspaper" and ......
And many media have predicted the lineups of the two teams before the start and predicted the final result of this game.
In the eyes of the media, Nuremberg's strength is obviously more optimistic, and Mintal and Vitek are the key to Nuremberg's victory, depending on whether they can break Wu Feng's goal. However, Mintal has played super well in recent seasons, and it was the Bundesliga Golden Boot in 2004/2005.
He is still Nuremberg's top scorer this season, and although he is in the midfield, he has scored 22 goals, the most in the team. After the winter break, Victor also woke up all of a sudden, and from the winter break to the end of the schedule, he was in great shape, scoring 16 goals in the second half of the season.
In the eyes of the media, Nuremberg, where these players have stronger individual ability, will undoubtedly have a greater chance of winning.
However, Karlsruhe, who has Wu Feng and Capalani, also has the strength to cause upsets, and the two of them just represent Karlsruhe's offense and defense. Wu Feng has only conceded one goal in the German Cup, but has scored four goals, and is currently tied with Nuremberg's Mental for the top scorer.
It's really unbelievable, the two players in the top scorer list are not strikers, a midfielder, and Wu Feng is a goalkeeper, which really surprised the German media, such a situation happened for the first time in so many years in the German Cup. Because of this, there are a lot of media from other leagues in today's game.
Before the official start of the game, the Olympic Stadium in Berlin took turns playing the team anthems of Karlsruhe and Nuremberg, and the fans of both sides also sang along with the broadcast.
In one corner of the stadium, there were thousands of Chinese with Eastern faces, holding drums and some other Chinese folk instruments, shouting Wu Feng's name. Most of them are overseas Chinese, and Wu Feng's reputation can't help but have a high reputation among German fans, even in Germany, and even among all Chinese in other European countries.
Among the Chinese who arrived today, in addition to the hundreds who followed from Karlsruhe, most of the others were from the Berlin area, and many came from other parts of Germany, and they quickly gathered together, under the command of Li Ziming and others, and occupied a corner among the fans who came to Karlsruhe together to cheer for Wu Feng.
"Nuremberg! Our great Nuremberg! We only want to support you......"
"Come on, Karlsruhe! Come on, we are the indomitable Karlsruhe, we are fearless......"
Many of the fans were able to sing their anthem to the melody of the music.
The atmosphere, very warm!
Chinese fans also proved with their own actions that although there is no first-class football in China, although they are abroad, they have an unchanged patriotic heart!
Under the background of the atmosphere created by the fans, today's Olympus Stadium in Berlin was full of cheers, and the game was already boiling before it started!
Night is getting dark, and the time for the game is getting closer. As time went on, the players from both teams walked out of the tunnel and began the final warm-up preparations for acclimatization.
Although the sound of the fans at the scene, coupled with the music on the radio, made the whole stadium very noisy, Wu Feng still heard the sound of pure Chinese cheering in front of the goal. Following the source of the sound, Wu Feng saw the touch of red in the blue and white, which turned out to be his own compatriots.
At this moment, they are wearing Wu Feng's red No. 1 jersey in the national team, as well as a huge five-star red flag that occupies two floors, which is very conspicuous. In the center of the crowd is a big drum the size of three people embracing, and with the drums, these overseas Chinese sang loudly "Singing the motherland".
Although the singing voices of more than 2,000 people were drowned out by the cheers and singing of tens of thousands of people, Wu Feng's strong hearing could still find the direction from such a noisy sound. He smiled and waved his right hand as he greeted his compatriots who had come to cheer him on.
"Look! Ah Feng saw us! Li Ziming had sharp eyes, and soon found that their efforts were not in vain, and Wu Feng saw them as soon as he appeared.
"It seems that our surprise was beyond Ah Feng's expectations, he was very moved!" Zhang Chaoran saw the tears in the corners of Wu Feng's eyes from the big screen in the stadium, and the camera at the scene captured it very accurately.
Li Ziming and the others said in Wu Feng's apartment before the start of the game that they would give him a big surprise in the German Cup final, but they didn't expect this, but it did make him very moved, and seeing such a five-star red flag and the song of the motherland in a foreign country made him feel surging.
After the warm-up on the field, the game is about to begin, and after the captains of both sides guess the coin, Nuremberg kicks off first.
At 7 p.m. in Germany, the 2006/2007 German Cup final officially began with the referee's whistle!