Chapter 246: The Defending Champion Comes to Challenge
"Fan Shang, as the head coach, I think this should be something you decide. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info Rohr expressed his opinion, and several other coaches also nodded in agreement.
"I just want to hear your opinions," Fan Shang smiled, "and I'm sure I'll do it." ”
'Then I'll just talk about it, I think we still have to play to our strengths, which is defence, and now Walter has brought us a higher level of defence, which is our foundation.' Rohr said.
"Well said, Gernot," Vincent nodded, then looked at Rohr a little strangely, "Who are you, tell me where Gernot is?" ”
"Ohlala, Vincent, don't be kidding," said Rohr, "I've just read a few more scouting reports. ”
"Okay, I'm convinced," Vincent said with a smile, but he was still a little skeptical, "Patrick, Walter, the focus of the training these days is on the two of you, and Klaus, get ready for the penalty shootout." ”
The intense preparation time passed quickly, and the coaches who had been training for the past few days were serious and took the match against the defending champions very seriously.
I don't know if it was because I was too confident in my own strength or if something delayed, Dortmund only arrived in Bordeaux the day before the game, and after getting off the plane, they checked into the hotel directly, and it was not until the next day that the recovery training and pre-match stepping on the pitch were held at the Recourt Park stadium.
This kind of thing is something that Fan Shang is happy to see, and it is only good for Bordeaux, and there is no harm in it. However, Vincent firmly believes that emaciated camels are bigger than horses, and Dortmund does not pay attention to them, but Vincent must be cautious and careful.
The evening's game was fast approaching, and the line-ups for both teams were also confirmed before the game.
Borussia Dortmund fielded a 442 formation today, goalkeeper Klaus, four defenders, Friedrich, Cesar, Koller and Freer Chenga, four midfielders, Ricken, Bart, Flender, Muller, forwards, Chapuisat and De Chevi.
Dortmund's squad is obviously not comparable to the squad when they won the Champions Cup last year, with Summer's serious injury, Riddle, Paulo Sousa, and Lambert all transferred.
Last year, Dortmund's defensive core was Summer, and the attacking core was Muller, and now there is only one attacking core left, and the defense can only rely on two aging central defenders, one 33 years old and the other 35 years old.
There was nothing new in Bordeaux's starting line-up today, with goalkeeper Chilavert, defenders, Lizarazu, Song, Gamara and Sagnol, midfielders Dacourt, Makelele, Pire, Nedved, and forwards Shevchenko and Wiltord.
This is the regular squad of Bordeaux, which has been together for more than a year and works together tacitly.
Now from the lineup Dortmund advantage is not so obvious, Dortmund's attack is good, but defensively due to the lack of Summer, their defensive ability plummeted, in the league they have conceded 33 goals, and last year they conceded about 40 goals a year.
Before the kick-off, the most powerful thing was the Bordeaux fans, just the ordinary game, but they would never drop the chain in this kind of game, and before the start of the game, their cheers had already reached the locker room, and their collective stomping also made the whole stadium feel a sense of vibration.
"What's going on?" After feeling the shock, the Dortmund players in the dressing room asked puzzled.
In the end, it was a staff member in the aisle who explained to them what had happened.
"It's not in Turkey, is it?" This was the first reaction of Dortmund's current head coach Skylar after hearing the explanation.
The staff proudly said, "It's probably even more terrifying here than Turkey, and that's what our head coach did after he came back from playing in Turkey." ”
"Head coach?" Skylar was a little incredulous that the manager was still caring about these things.
"I'm actually also a member of the 'Twelfth Twelve', and if I wasn't on duty today, I could have fought together in the stands." The staff pointed to the stands above their heads with some regret.
"Fighting?" Skylar didn't understand why the staff used the word, wasn't it just to watch a ball, and the crazy fans just shouted a few more words and set off a firework.
Didn't ask again, Skylar returned to the locker room to start the pre-war mobilization, to be honest, his current position in the team is a little awkward, the former head coach sits in the manager's position, although he never points fingers, but the players are all brought out by the former head coach, he has been an outsider for more than half a year, and has been an outsider.
After four or five minutes of Skylar's passionate speech, the players simply nodded their heads and walked out of the dressing room, ready to enter the game to start the game.
At the same time, Vincent didn't say a word in the dressing room, but the players' expressions were not as plain as Dortmund's.
'Our characterisation is to defend and counter-attack, and now go on the pitch and play those two words. Vincent paused and looked at the players, "Don't be afraid of Dortmund, although they are the defending champions, but the current strength is not as good as last year, today's game is played as usual, you have to be confident, you don't need to shrink back, now the leader of the Bundesliga, Bayern Munich, is not our opponent, afraid of Dortmund, who is ranked tenth in the Bundesliga." ”
"Don't be afraid!" The following team members responded.
What Vincent wants is for the players to let go of their baggage and see Dortmund as an ordinary opponent rather than the defending champions.
When the Bordeaux players went out of the locker room one by one with confidence, they happened to bump into the Dortmund players also coming out of the locker room.
Two completely different breaths, Bordeaux is fire, and now Dortmund is ice, one by one, expressionless, are German teams like this? Fan Shang remembered that Bayern Munich's players at that time were quite normal, not like Dortmund now, and they all looked like finishers.
The collision of ice and fire kicked off at Rekul Park.
Today, the first to play their part are the Bordeaux fans, who should be considered the most worthy of the "twelfth man" in Europe. Although the fans in Turkey are famous, they are unorganized and undisciplined, and they just like to cause trouble on the pitch. Bordeaux, the 'twelfth man', is organised and disciplined, and is unique in creating atmosphere on the pitch.
The cheers and clapping, stomping and so on on the pitch were uniform, and after entering the stadium, the Dortmund players also kept looking at the surrounding stands, and they were also shocked by this take-off.
However, after the opening, Dortmund is still very sophisticated and now has his feet in the backfield to stabilize his mentality.