219 defeats
The match against Freiburg at the Prussian Park Stadium was crowded with 51,000 spectators and more than 15,000 stands.
The thunder was the shout of the fans on both sides, the rain was a real rainstorm, and it was just a light rain during the warm-up before the game, and it turned into a torrential rain in the blink of an eye.
The faces of the whole Freiburg team were a little gloomy, and Fassler was still admonishing when he entered the field:
"Fewer stops and turns, fewer passes, cleaner and more decisive handling of the ball..."
Although he was explaining to the whole team, Qingqing was staring at Sunset more, and his teammates were constantly looking at him until he entered the field.
Even though the warm-up conditions were good, the Freiburg players knew how Sunset behaved in the heavy rain during training. His characteristics require him to constantly catch and get rid of the ball through frequent changes of direction and speed, and the general light rain is fine, and he is the most affected by such heavy rain.
For the first time, the Freiburg team is at a loss for what Sunset can do.
The fact is that the increasingly soft grass makes it impossible for Sunset to do vigorous maneuvers, and even if the turf in Prussian Park is good enough to kick off a large chunk, it is still slippery, and one accidentally can pull it and twist it. Sunset gave up after trying once, and it wasn't a win-or-lose game, and the coach didn't have to risk injury.
In this way, he can only jog and run at an average speed to play games, and Sunset's performance is a little mediocre at the beginning, or even poor, after all, fighting for his body and physical strength is his disadvantage.
Borussia Mönchengladbach is a strong player both on the right side of Hahn and the back Kramer, at the beginning of the black and gold also arranged for the two of them to assist in the defense of the afterglow, but after two or three battles, Kramer found that it was completely unnecessary, without the advantage of speed, he could boldly paste it, and then squeezed away the afterglow, very easy, and directly pushed away Hahn to let him go to attack.
Of course, Sunset wasn't entirely ineffective, as his receiving and one-foot passes were still instrumental in central midfield, starting with frequent passes to the wing-backs on either side, who sent wide crosses to Petersen and Leon Bailey. Then he found that Grifo was obviously more comfortable with the rain than him, and began to take the initiative to give Grifo the ball and respond.
Both sides are moving quickly through the midfield, then crossing the ball from the flanks or lobbing the ball in the middle of the field, and the strikers are heading or grabbing the ball to shoot.
Defence is strangled in midfield, disrupting or interfering with the opponent's attacking passes.
Sunset always felt that there was too little she could do for the team, so she simply rolled up her sleeves and played the role of the least favorite midfield breaker, keeping an eye on Dahoud who was attacking in the backcourt.
Mohamed Dahoud is a German player of Syrian origin, just 21 years old, played for Borussia Mönchengladbach at the age of 19, has more than 50 Bundesliga and Champions League experience, and is a regular player for Germany Under-21. As a playmaker, he's responsible for Borussia Mönchengladbach's transition and possession, which is why Sunset has his eye on him.
When Sunset pulls to the right, the other midfielder, Kramer, can't catch up, which creates overlapping defensive positions and gives up the left side to Griffo, who has to play better, and has to let Dahoud and Sunset destroy each other.
After Sunset pulled right, he and Griffo pulled out the space for passing the ball in the backcourt one by one, replacing the right line caused by Halilovic's vacancy, and also used the poor physical confrontation and tackle to interfere with Borussia Mönchengladbach's offensive and defensive transition hub Dahoud, without Abrash and Franz pressing forward to defend.
Seeing the afterglow of mud and grass clippings in the confrontation and entanglement, former head coach Schubert of Mönchengladbach was silent in the live broadcast room and said:
"We were going to see Yu who was full of art, but the bad weather made us see Yu as a blue-collar worker. Coach Krauchen said that Yu is very good at learning and absorbing, so there is no doubt that Yu has learned the persistence and hard work of German football. It's not the same Yu, but it's just as good. ”
Crawford laughed:
"It's not surprising at all, Yu likes to be the heart of the team, he likes to lead the team's attack, but it comes because he likes to win for the team, and for the team he plays as a blue-collar player and doesn't struggle at all to give up the dominance, as we saw this time."
Hannah rolled her eyes in her heart, and said that her crazy worshippers who had just taken a vacation for more than a year, why did there be two more? A game that is played poorly and embarrassingly can also find a good point?
Hannah doesn't see anything to praise for Sunset's embarrassing and ineffective entanglements, except for a little bit of hard work...
However, it wasn't Sunset's forte, and the slippery pitch accelerated the physical drain, with Streich replacing Sunset with Hoefler in the 67th minute, and Habler for Leon Bailey.
However, the fresh force could not play the role of interception in midfield, and before the game could be well adapted, in the 70th and 72nd minutes, Fabian Johnson and Dahoud crossed from the left and right, and striker Stindl scored the Freiburg goal with two headers.
Freiburg cut in the 87th minute from Forlenbach and Habler outflanked the point, but could not salvage the defeat.
This game sounded the alarm bell for Freiburg, and after the game, head coach Streich said in an interview that Freiburg is not a giant team, every goal, every point, every victory needs to be fought by the whole team, including the main force and substitutes, and every player must fight to have a good result.
But what is surprising is that after the defeat, Streich instead suggested that after this game, he saw the hard work of the boys, so all the players in Freiburg should be ready to at least qualify for Europe.
This goal has actually been thought about by everyone, but I didn't expect the manager to publicly bring it up after a defeat, knowing that after the last game against Hertha Berlin, he was talking about relegation.
This was the way the Freiburg players quickly got rid of their frustration and regained their fighting spirit.
And the news from other venues that came afterwards was not so bad, Bayern were held to a 041-1 draw at home by Schalke in the same game, and RB Leipzig lost 0-1 away to Borussia Dortmund in the evening game, and Freiburg did not fall too far behind. Bayern Munich and RB Leipzig are in the top two with 42 points, followed by Freiburg with 41 points, seven points ahead of fourth-placed Borussia Dortmund.
Round 20 will be a tough game against seventh-placed Cologne on 12 February, but Halilovic will be back and at home.