Chapter 196: The First Champions League
The final result of the match between Dortmund and Bayer Leverkusen was 2-2, and the two sides drew with each other.
Among them, Dortmund's second goal was scored by Shen Peng at the end of the game, finding an opportunity to use the thunder beast to shoot, although the game was not won, but Klopp was very satisfied, and at the end of the game, the whole audience applauded him.
The second round of the league starts on 29 August, with Borussia Dortmund away to Augsburg.
In this game, because the opponent was not very strong, Klopp boldly changed the formation and used a formation that he had been thinking about before, that is, Shen Peng and Aubameyang, both of whom are extremely fast players, one left and one right, and both wings fly together.
This tactic works well against opponents, and there is no advantage in the face of shrinking defense, so he did not use it in the first two official games.
However, at the end of the first half, this change of formation did not achieve much effect, although the wings were flying, but the middle was missing a fulcrum.
This made Klopp sigh that it would be nice if there were two Shen Peng, one in the middle and one on the left.
So in the second half, he had to change back to the previous formation and let Shen Peng return to the middle.
In the end, Dortmund won the opponent 3-0 with a strong attack, and Shen Peng contributed a goal. In fact, if you have watched the process, you know that if Dortmund did not use a new formation in the first half, the result could be 4-0 or 5-0.
After the end of this round of the league, there is an interesting thing, that is, after the end of the two rounds of the league, there is not a team in the entire Bundesliga that has won two consecutive games.
At the top of the table are Bochum and Borussia Dortmund, both with one win and one draw, four points and a goal difference of three, while the teams in the third to eighth places also have one win and one draw, but the goal difference is less than these two teams.
After Shen Peng's departure, Bochum performed unexpectedly well at the beginning of the season, and before that, in the German Super Cup, he also fought with Bayern Munich for 300 rounds, although he lost 1-2 in the end, but no one will see him as a promotion team anymore.
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On September 12, in the third round of the Bundesliga, Dortmund hosted Freiburg.
Freiburg was on the verge of relegation last season and was not a strong team, so Dortmund also played a relatively easy game this time, and finally won 3-1, with Shen Peng contributing two assists.
In the first half of this game, Klopp still tried to fly with both wings again, and it was still the same as the previous game, with a fulcrum in the middle.
This fulcrum does not mean that one player is enough, but that there must be a player with enough ability, which requires this player to not only seize opportunities at critical moments, receive passes from teammates and score goals, but also be able to involve the opponent's strength in the middle.
In this game, he asked Ramos to play this position in the middle, but Ramos's ability was limited after all, and his ability to grasp the opportunity was not as good as Shen Peng, so Klopp had to change it back in the second half.
Jurgen Klopp has also given up on the idea for the time being after this game, and now the team will start preparing for the Champions League group stage in a few days.
Borussia Dortmund are in Group D, with the other three teams in this group being Arsenal from the Premier League, Anderlecht from the Belgian League and Galatasaray from the Turkish Super League.
After this group is separated, the general prediction is that Arsenal and Borussia Dortmund will reach the round of 16, after all, only these two teams are the strongest in this group.
Dortmund's first opponent was at home to Arsenal.
Arsenal is a veteran Premier League powerhouse, having won the Premier League title unbeaten in the 03-04 season and leaving a record of 49 Premier League games unbeaten.
Sadly, however, Arsenal have never won the Champions League, with the closest they came to the top of Europe coming in the 05-06 season, when they lost 2-1 to Barcelona in the Champions League final.
In July 2006, Arsenal moved into a new stadium, but this also left the team with huge debts, and although they won the Champions League every year, they were never able to win another trophy until last season, when they won the FA Cup.
This season, Arsenal spent 70 million euros to buy striker Alexis? Alexis Sanchez, defender Callum? Chambers, full-back Mathieu? Debich and goalkeeper David? Ospina, the strength has increased greatly, which makes Dortmund dare not underestimate.
And Klopp is also ambitious this season, so he takes this game very seriously.
This is also the first time Shen Peng has faced opponents from other leagues.
He has played against teams from other leagues before, but most of them are in friendly matches, and they are all running in the lineup at that time, so it can't be used as a reference.
'According to the pre-match analysis, the most likely line-up for this game is a 4-1-4-1 line-up, with Welbeck in the centre, and Alexis Sanchez and Mesut Ozil also playing, so you have to pay special attention to the passing ...... of Mesut Ozil'
On the training ground, Bouas was holding a piece of paper and talking to the players about the next game.
There are many things mentioned in this, such as all possible formations of the opponent and how to deal with them; The characteristics of the main players that the opponent may play, and how to deal with the corresponding position, etc., it can be said that Shen Peng can think of it, and basically said it, which has not happened in Bochum before.
From here, you can see the gap between the two coaching teams, for the Bundesliga team, because they have been in the same league for a long time, many things are familiar, so this is not so important, but in the European battlefield, especially when it comes to the knockout stage, the more you prepare, the more chance you will win.
Although the group stage has a higher margin for error, it can not be sloppy, the opponent of the first group is the second of the other groups, and the overall strength is worse than the first place in other groups, so if you can fight for the first place in the group, it will be more beneficial to the knockout round behind the team, otherwise if you qualify for the second place in the group, you will face the top of the other groups.
After listening to Bouácchi's explanation, although Shen Peng did not remember all the content of the lecture, he remembered it related to him, that is, some points that need to be paid attention to in the opponent's defensive line, such as some kicking and standing habits of the opponent's defenders and goalkeepers, etc., which are summarized by the coaching staff through the videos of previous games, which can be said to be very precious.
After talking about the opponent, Klopp made tactical arrangements for the players on his side, such as how to defend when the opponent is attacking; How to deal with the opponent when they use a certain style of play, etc.