Chapter 048: Rookie Wall

"Tsk!" Zhuo Cunzhi looked at the Fürth players cheering with an unhappy face.

Just now, the opponent managed to break through from his side, providing the front line with a chance.

What is very angry is that it was the opportunity brought by this breakthrough that was successfully seized by the Fürth players.

Fürth scored at Aachen's home stadium and the opponents were naturally celebrating, but Ralph, who scored, fished the ball out of the net and shouted something to his team-mates.

When the others saw him like this, they immediately ran back to their positions, as if they realized something.

"It's useless, you don't have time." Zhuo Cunzhi muttered in a low voice.

That's right, this goal can't bring Fürth a win, or even a draw for them.

The game has reached 85 minutes and Aachen has scored twice.

After Joao scored an own goal in the first half, less than two minutes later, Aachen once again created a good chance to score through the organization of Zhuo Cunzhi and the scrambling of Bernd.

Bernd didn't waste the chance and slotted a long-range shot from just outside the box.

The ball arced into the corner, and the Fürth goalkeeper could do nothing about it.

This kind of shooting skill also makes Zhuo Cunzhi's eyes hot, if he has such long-range shooting ability, it may be able to alleviate Aachen's current predicament to a certain extent.

Now almost all opponents know that he is not good at shooting, unless it is an empty goal, he can basically only rely on Meng.

Every opponent in Aachen is now guarding him from passing, guarding him from breaking, just not from shooting.

In this way, invisibly, Zhuo Cunzhi's threat is much less.

In fact, every professional player has to go through this step.

When you do well, all your opponents will get to know you, analyze you, and "dissect" you.

Therefore, under the target of the opponent, the performance of the player may drop significantly.

Some people have given this phenomenon a name, and it is called the "rookie wall".

Because this phenomenon often occurs in the player's second year of professional league, it is also called the "second year phenomenon".

After scoring two goals, Fürth immediately began to target Zhuo Cunzhi.

Zhuo Cunzhi's personal ability is not strong after all, and it is difficult to maintain a strong position in this kind of targeting.

After that, though, Aachen went on the defensive.

With a two-goal lead at home, Hag had plenty of reasons to play defensive counter-attacks.

He's right to play offense, but that doesn't mean he doesn't like to defend.

To be precise, with the exception of a few successful bigwigs, all managers are looking for victory, and attacking football and counter-attacking defence are just a means.

In fact, Hach's arrangement did make Fürth's players very uncomfortable.

After the defeat in the previous game, the Aachen players paid much more attention to defence.

After Bernd grew up, Aachen captain F. Schmidt was reappointed as a centre-back.

Goalkeeper C. Schmidt, left-back Thierry Henry, centre-back Spanier, centre-back F. Schmidt, right-back Landgraff, this is the strongest defensive line-up that Aachen can put out.

Add to that the defensive left-midfielder Kayas, central midfielder Bernd, and right-sided midfielder Zhuo Cunzhi, who can help a little bit, and Aachen's defensive strength is so much.

The biggest weakness of this defensive lineup is undoubtedly Zhuo Cunzhi's side.

It's not that Zhuo Cunzhi can't defend, but his defense is really not strong, at least weaker than Lazarovsky of the same team.

However, because right-back Landgraf is a defensive full-back, Hag replaced him and kept Zhuo Cunzhi in the start.

Landgraf is responsible for wiping Zhuo Cunzhi's ass, but even if he is a full-time defender, his own ability is limited.

Even with teammates to help fill in the position, the Fürth players managed to destroy Landgraf's defense after breaking through Zhuo Cunzhi.

However, with a strict defense, Aachen did not concede another goal in the end, keeping the score 2:1 to the end.

It was almost like a curse, Aachen conceded the ball again, and won only one goal.

However, the fans were not so demanding and were still cheering for the players in Aachen.

For them, Aachen was able to win at home and take all three points, no matter what the process was, they did a good job.

Even if it's away, as long as you don't think about losing so badly in the last game, or if you keep losing, they can accept it.

Although the Aachen club's hierarchy has claimed to be returning to the Bundesliga, most of the fans are still sensible and know that slogans and reality are two different things.

"Aachen Media" commented: Aachen has won again, Hach can breathe a sigh of relief for the time being, but from the perspective of the situation, Aachen's problems still exist, and if it is not dealt with in time, it may suffer a fiasco.

"Aachen Sports News" thinks so: after Zhuo became Aachen's starter, Aachen's performance is getting better and better, he can be a sharp knife, tearing through the enemy's defense, he can be a commander, combing Aachen's midfield.

The Aachen Football Newspaper has the opposite view: Zhuo is still young, his physical fitness and defensive ability still need to be improved, and when he is on the field, the right side has always been the focus of the opponent's attack.

It can be said that after the initial amazing performance, some of the media have also begun to evaluate Zhuo Cunzhi's performance more objectively.

Even with the experience brought by the player card, Zhuo Cunzhi is still limited by his own physical and technical ability.

There's nothing wrong with counting him as a player with a stat of 70, but that's about it.

This kind of ability value is not the strongest in Aachen, and he is not a big man in the German Second Division.

At best, opponents can guess about his future, but they don't pay too much attention to him now.

This is also the reason why Zhuo Cunzhi can still have outstanding performance.

When these players in the German Second Division correct their mentality and look at Zhuo Cunzhi equally, it will not be easy for Zhuo Cunzhi to play well.

Of course, the current Zhuo Cunzhi can't take care of these.

On the one hand, he has to clean up his mood.

He was the hero of the team's scoring and the sinner of the gate.

He's going to be determined again, and his goal is to improve his goalscoring ability, which is what Aachen needs most right now.

On the other hand, after this match, he finally got a player card again.

It's been more than two months since I last got my player card.

Zhuo Cunzhi really has a feeling that he hasn't been seen for a long time.

Excited, Zhuo Cunzhi didn't wait to return to the locker room, and started the drawing of player cards in the player tunnel.

"Tim, why are you stopping?" João asked in the back.

"Huh? Forehead...... It's nothing. Zhuo Cunzhi waved his hand and said.

"I think you're in a daze." Joao was still a little puzzled, "What's the matter, I'm so happy to win?" Let me tell you, there are even happier things to do today! ”

"Oh......" Zhuo Cunzhi replied lightly.

"Go to the bar today, I'm in for a treat!" João didn't see that he was not in high spirits, and he was quite energetic by himself.

"You're in for a treat?" Zhuo Cunzhi finally reacted to his words, but he was surprised.

"Change your mood, I always feel that I've been too depressed lately, and I'm going to invite everyone over!" Joao said proudly, "Of course, I feel ...... AA system at the checkout"

"Cut~~" Zhuo Cunzhi snorted disdainfully.

He turned away, not leaving the angry João behind him.

As for that player card......

Think again!