326. The story of the locker room
It's already past 12 o'clock after I finished writing, and at this time, I sent out a lot of bonus coins......
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February 22, 2012.
Basel, Switzerland.
St. Jacob's Park.
"Drip, drip...... Drip! ”
Nicola Rizzoli, a gold medal whistle from Italy, blew two short and one long whistles.
1-0。
In international practice, the home team is in front and the away team is in the back.
Looking at the score on the big screen in the sky, Heynckes waved his arm helplessly, turned around and shook hands with Basel's head coach Fogel.
Swiss fans in the stands sang their own anthems.
"It's over!"
He Wei, who was thousands of miles away, let out a long sigh:
"Before the game, no one would have thought that Bayern Munich, with big players such as Robery, Gomez, Lahm, Neuer, Muller, Kroos, and Tymoschchuk, would lose to Basel in an upset, which must be a double blow for Bayern, who had just lost the top position in the league......"
“……”
Tao Wei, the guest who was co-commenting with him, was already speechless, although he looked at the screen, his eyes obviously lost focus, and he felt a little empty.
Where did Bayern Munich, who had been so smuggling at the start of the season that the whole of Europe trembled, go?
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"Beep."
Ronshit turned off the simulated game in his head, shrugged his shoulders, and sat up from the couch.
The statistics of the game are clearly presented in front of his eyes.
Basel and Bayern had 43 per cent to 57 per cent possession, with Bayern still firmly in control.
Basel were able to threaten Neuer with only a handful of counter-attacks throughout the game, but it was the last chance of four counter-attacks that sent the ball into Neuer's wicked goal.
Why did Bayern lose?
Those main players started the same game as history, and it looked like everyone was in good shape, but ...... Why did you lose the game as in history?
He didn't know, and the system didn't tell him the answer.
If it weren't for the fact that he himself was part of Bayern, he would even suspect that the players were collectively involved in a match-fixing incident.
But he also knows that it will never be possible, Ribery, Robben, Gomez, Lahm, Muller, Neuer...... How could these players allow their dignity to be trampled on in this way?
Maybe that's football.
There are too many factors that can affect the results.
You are ten or a hundred times stronger than your opponent, but you may not be able to defeat him 100 percent.
If you let Bayern play with China a hundred times, Bayern will probably not be able to win a hundred times in a row......
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Falling behind Borussia Dortmund in the league and losing to an obscure underdog in the Champions League put Bayern, already in a bad situation, even more on the cusp, with all the comments overwhelmingly on their side:
"The giant killer has reappeared, and the last giant to be eliminated by Basel is called Manchester United!"
"Bayern in such a state still want to qualify for the Champions League final at the Allianz Arena?"
"Gomez didn't score in four games, Robery only knew how to play alone, Kroos was invisible all over the field, Muller couldn't recover, Alaba was misaligned in attack and defense, Tymoshchuk was ineffective, Lahm could only pass back, Raphinha was out of control, Bud and Boateng had no tacit understanding, and Neuer was blind...... What exactly is Heynckes' tactics? ”
"What is lost is the best, and Van Gaal is a tactical genius in comparison!"
"Bayern's choice of Heynckes, who has outdated tactical ideas, is definitely a mistake!"
"From a two-point lead over Borussia Dortmund in the first half to a two-point deficit now, who's to blame for the current passive situation?"
"Heynckes, although I thank you for saving Bayern many times, please leave now!"
"Feelings can't be eaten, modern football doesn't need feelings!"
"Why has a garbage team like Bayern been touted as a superteam second only to Barcelona and Real Madrid in recent years?"
"No offense, no defense...... Why am I disappointed in Heynckes' Bayern? ”
"Schweinsteiger OR Ronshcht? Of the two who are out due to injury, who is the key man for Bayern? ”
"Great news! The core battle between Lonshette and Robben is the biggest reason for Bayern's decline! ”
"There is an undercurrent in the dressing room, Robben, Heynckes, or Dragon? Who will be the first person to leave Bayern? ”
"From the championship Grand Slam to the double-line rout, choosing Bayern may become the biggest failure of Lonshette's career?!"
"Ram, Ribery, Piggy can't afford to wait! Heynckes owes them a championship! ”
"Crisis! Bayern's locker room meeting after the game exposed a quarrel, and if you don't win, you may change the coach immediately! ”
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While gossip is often made out of thin air, at times like these, even the most optimistic Bayern fans would think the club is in a stormy time.
Last season's big four were empty and Louis van Gaal was disgraced, and if this season repeats the same mistakes, Heynckes will never leave the game with dignity.
Of course, for Bayern, such an insignificant title as the German Cup is not on their radar at all, and if they want to keep their position, they must win at least one of the league and the Champions League, at least not lose hope of competing for the trophy in February.
As described in the media, the day after the Champions League defeat to Basel, the Bayern team held a closed-door meeting on the return to Munich.
Sporting Director Nelinger personally chaired the meeting, repeatedly emphasizing the importance of unity and discipline to the team, and then wanted to thank the initiators with honour for their desire to win.
But this group of players is by no means unmotivated, and their problem may lie ...... Most people's desire to win is too strong, so it leads to a situation where everyone is dominated by me and the whole team is scattered.
It is also inevitable that a quarrel will break out in such a situation.
Ribery fired first, accusing Robben of encroaching on his own space too much and being rude enough to snatch the ball from a free-kick on the left.
Arjen Robben took aim directly at the manager, accusing Heynckes of moving Lahm from behind him this season and vacillating in the use of right wing-backs, which led to Boateng and Raphinha, and even Alaba, not forming the best understanding with him.
Gomez and Muller felt that the two wings had too little support for the strikers and too much firing power, resulting in Muller scoring less than one hand this season......
The back line complained that his midfield teammates did not work well when defending, especially Kroos, a young man who likes to play senior wellness, as long as he is on the field, Bayern is almost equivalent to one less player when defending.
Goalkeeper Manuel Neuer is also full of complaints: several of Bayern's defenders are tall, slow to turn the type, if it is against a dexterous attacking player such as Reuss and Gotze, they often can't even support a round and are easily broken, Neuer has often become one-on-one with the opposing striker this season......
The more the team-mates argued, the more angry they became, and if it weren't for the fact that the respected club's number one man, Hoeness, was also sitting next to him, it would not be surprising that they would have fought at all.
Since they had been recovering from injuries for the past two weeks and had not competed, both Ronshcht and Schweinsteiger had been spectators at the start of the meeting.
"Won't you say a word, Bastian?" Long Shute turned his head to look at the piglet, but the latter shook his head.
Although the Bayern and Germany vice-president has a typical Germanic face, he is a good person who is not willing to speak ill of others, and it may be difficult for him to criticize his teammates in person.
So Long Shute coughed.
But...... None of the teammates who were arguing so much paid attention to him......
So he stood up directly and jumped onto the conference round table with his still sore right leg!
"Boom!"
A dull sound echoed in the conference room, but the quarrels were temporarily silenced by the muffled sound.
Hoeness frowned, but did not speak.
"What are you going to do?"
Nelinger asked inwardly.
The sports director regretted it at the beginning of the meeting, as he found that he had no control over the players!
"Be quiet."
Ronshette managed to attract everyone's attention, and then he sat down on the table.
"I don't know what you're arguing about, are you summing up this season's results?"
He grinned, and sarcastically said without smiling:
"Is there no hope of winning the league anymore? Or have they already been eliminated from the Champions League? None of them, right? Then why do you all look like you're all looking like you're dirty? ”
"I suddenly wanted to tell you a story, Alger, and Frank."
His gaze swept over the iron-faced Robben and the hideous-looking Ribery:
'There's a player who's turned professional at the age of 20 and who signed for a club in a second-rate league that has gone down, which was a hopeless place. But perhaps God forbid, when he was 21 years old, by 'luck'...... Won the Champions League. ”
He deliberately said the word "luck" very heavily and slowly, and then continued:
"But he knew that it would be impossible to defend the Champions League again in such a small club without financial support, so he moved to a top club in Europe where there were many top players, and he thought that with these teammates they could form an invincible force and bring back the title and glory."
Long Shute's words changed:
But he didn't know that those teammates were more famous than one another, and their abilities were stronger than one another, but their temper was also bigger than one another, and everyone thought that they were the best in the world, and they felt that as long as they handed the ball to themselves, they would definitely be able to solve the battle, so they didn't need to cooperate with others at all, teammates were for them...... Maybe it's just to make up the number of attendees? ”
Robben and Ribery's faces did not immediately show a look of shame, because they had known this simple truth for a long time.
Merely...... When they step on the field, the pride in their bones will always make them forget these truths.
Who is Frank Ribery?
The 2006 World Cup became famous, and in 2007 he had a transfer fee of more than 25 million euros, and it was he who led Bayern, who finished fourth in the league, to regain the Bundesliga title, and in the summer of 2009, when the Galaxy went crazy to buy the MVP of the four major leagues, it was Bayern who cried and shouted to keep him here, and he certainly has the capital to consider himself the most indispensable player of the team.
And who is Alger Robben?
Alone in the Premier League and La Liga, and as an absolute main player, he won the league titles in Chelsea and Real Madrid respectively, and is a well-deserved top player. It is precisely because of his joining that Bayern has regained the confidence of a strong team, and it is he who carried Bayern to the Champions League final in the first season, and he certainly feels that he is stronger than Ribery, who can only abuse vegetables.
But who is Longshut?
A Chinese player who led Ajax to Champions League glory as a nobody, lifted a trophy that Franck Ribery and Arjen Robben never touched, and beat two of the most powerful players of the era to achieve the highest feat that any footballer could only dream of. Although he is much younger than Robery, this criticism came out of his mouth, and Bayern's two senior and powerful bigwigs had no way to refute it out loud.
In the world of football, seniority is often nothing to mention in the face of ironclad achievements.
With Long Shute's current status in football, he certainly has the confidence to criticize the other two so-called "big guys".
But...... As for whether Robben and Ribery can listen to it, only they can know.
The problems hidden in Bayern's dressing room are much more complicated than you think.
Storytelling alone won't solve all these problems. [.]