Chapter 125: Tough Karlsruhe
Although the next three games were only draws, Karlsruhe is still the halfway champion of the Bundesliga, but the last three league games before the winter break really made Wu Feng and them unhappy, they encountered the biggest trouble, the attack was not good and could not win the game.
And in three days, they will play the German Cup 1/8 final against the Bundesliga Lions Stuttgart, but now look at several main players, Federico and they are now seriously overdrawn due to the hard work in the last game.
Due to the previous two draws, many media hyped that Karlsruhe was about to fall off the "altar", and they were under a lot of pressure during this time, so they ran hard to win this game, and the result was that all their teammates were overdrawn, even Capalani, an African black panther, became a dead African dog at this time, but the strong recovery ability of the Africans is not a problem to continue running after three days.
But it is estimated that after three days, few of them will recover, and to make matters worse, Stoll and other defenders have also begun to fatigue, and it can be seen that they will not be able to contribute much in the game after three days.
At this time, Becker was almost a headache by such a situation, and such a half-crippled squad to face the boss of Baden, Stuttgart, was simply a send-off.
However, this is the last game of the winter break, after which they will have more than a month of vacation, so as to reassure Becker. It's really not good, Karlsruhe also put up a big bus formation, this is the lesson learned from these games, as long as it can top the penalty shootout, Karlsruhe still has hope of winning.
At this time, it was already the quarter-final of the German Cup, and it was impossible to get Becker and the club's chairman Thaler to give up, they had never won the German Cup. For the championship, they are so hungry.
After playing the last league game before the winter break, the teams without the German Cup are on vacation to prepare for Christmas, while the teams with the German Cup are starting to actively prepare for the last game before Christmas.
Stuttgart has been very good this season, Wu Feng remembers in his memory that Stuttgart won the Bundesliga title this season, and their main striker Mario Gomez is the top striker in the Bundesliga, winning the German Footballer of the Year in 2007.
This time they play against Karlsruhe and Stuttgart, and he will definitely face this future world's top striker, this is the first super striker he will face, and his heart is full of confrontation. You must know that Gomez is only two years older than Wu Feng at this time, but the Bundesliga will become his world in the next few years, so Wu Feng wants to play against such an opponent.
And Stuttgart also had world-class goalkeeper Hildebrand at this time, and if it weren't for the fact that the German team now has the world's top goalkeepers such as Oliver Kahn and Lehmann, he would definitely become the first choice of German goalkeepers.
Even so, he still set the record for the longest clean sheet in the Bundesliga in 2003-2004 with 884 minutes, which is remarkable and he has conceded the fewest goals in the Bundesliga.
Thinking about encountering such a super strong team, Karlsruhe all had a depressed face except for Wu Feng, and they simply did not have any confidence to defeat such a strong team.
During these three days, Becker focused on the team's defensive training, in addition to keeping the players back in strength. Seeing the way the team trains, Wu Feng and his teammates all know Becker's tactics, but this is also a helpless choice, who makes them face Stuttgart, who is currently in the Bundesliga, they have even beaten the Bundesliga giants Bayern Munich and Dortmund, and a small team like Karlsruhe will hardly put in Stuttgart's heart.
The media in Karlsruhe were also full of wails, and they all saw that Karlsruhe was exhausted by the final match against Fürth, and that morale had dropped a lot due to three consecutive draws, so facing Stuttgart in such a situation was no different from sending them straight into the last eight.
'We should concentrate on the Bundesliga and not waste our players' energy in the hopeless German Cup, our goal is to reach the first division.' The Karlsruhe City Zeitung also did not have confidence in its own team and instead advised the club to focus all its efforts on the Bundesliga.
'I think we can fight and we can use the Tietong formation, as long as we can drag the game to penalties, we still have a chance. Our Patron Saint has saved six penalties in the league. In the face of penalty kicks, he has not yet failed in official matches, I heard that Wu had saved 7 out of 10 penalties during the trial, and in the internal training, the probability of Wu saving a penalty is also about 7%. So we had the advantage in the penalty shoot-out and that's the only way we can beat Stuttgart! Karlsruhe Sport is full of hope for Wu Feng, and they feel that as long as they can get into the penalty shoot-out, then Karlsruhe still has hope of victory.
Karlsruhe's best record in the German Cup is the semi-finals, and they will be hoping that the club will be one step closer to not only reaching the semi-finals, but also reaching the final, which is also a trophy that Karlsruhe fans covet.
"Karlsruhe are just a team that has been promoted from the Bundesliga Amateur to the second division, and they have only been in the Bundesliga for two seasons, and they have not even entered the Bundesliga, so what quality can they do against Stuttgart, who are the Lions of the Bundesliga. In terms of strength, Karlsruhe is far from being a match for Stuttgart, of which we will always be proud. It is foreseeable that in the 1/8 finals of the German Cup, Stuttgart will defeat Karlsruhe and enter the top 8, and then the Bundesliga and the German Cup are in the bag of our Stuttgart. - The Stuttgart Zeitung analyzes its own club.
Next, the Stuttgart Zeitung analyzes the competition between Stuttgart and Karlsruhe on various lines.
"Stuttgart currently have the longest clean sheets in the Bundesliga, and no one doubts his quality, which has been proven in the Bundesliga. And Karlsruhe's biggest player at the moment is Federico, but unfortunately he is only a midfielder, and shooting skills are not his forte, several other strikers are not very strong, and Capalani only has speed and simple shooting skills. And they were all tired in their last game against Fürth. Lack of physical reserves is their biggest weakness. You are lonely, the young lady warms you with a movie
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