Chapter 97: Stoppage Time Lore
After being equalized by Bochum, the head coach of Cologne hurriedly stabilized the morale of the army, and in his opinion, it was acceptable to take away a point away from home, so let the players on the field continue to hold on.
The stubborn defense worked well, and until the 85th minute, Bochum had no chance to open the scoring again.
"Steady! With the exception of BrΓΌck, everyone else is back in the back! β
"Bretzko! Keep an eye on the 21st! β
"Don't mess around! Stand your ground and watch out for their long-range shots! β
The Cologne manager kept shouting from the sidelines that there were only six or seven minutes left until the end of the game, including injury time, so he told his players not to drop the chain at such critical moments.
On the other side, Neulurell was also under tremendous pressure as the constant shouting of fans could be heard behind him.
"You idiot, what do you eat? It's not good to send Shen Peng to the game early? Well, now the game that could have been won can only be a draw! β
"That's the new tactic you said before the game?"
"If I'm the owner of the club, I'll just let you go!"
"If you can't get to the Bundesliga next season because of a draw in this game, I must ask the club to expel you!"
"The spike dogs are better than you there!"
Neururell pondered for a moment, and suddenly said to Reinholz and Gonduz next to him: "You two, go warm up immediately!" β
He did this is also a helpless move, Shaidhauer and Lashvili themselves are not very strong, so now after being targeted by the opponent for defense, the performance is a little dumb, and now these two newcomers have not played, combined with the performance of training a few days ago, let them play, maybe there can be some surprise performance, maybe they can bring surprises to themselves.
When the two of them heard it, they were all happy, although it was only a few minutes, but which new player didn't come over like this, Shen Peng didn't have only a few minutes per game at the beginning, as long as he performed well, there would always be more and more time on the field in the future.
In the 87th minute, on a throw-in, Neurureer used his remaining two substitutions to replace two strikers.
The head coach of Cologne was also stunned when he saw two newcomers on the field who had never seen before, and he didn't know what kind of medicine was being sold in Neururell's gourd.
However, he was relieved to see the performances of these two newcomers, because their skills are obviously still a little young, and this kind of player will not put much pressure on the Cologne defence.
The referee looked at his watch, and then the fourth official on the sidelines held up a sign for three minutes of stoppage time.
"Is this referee blind, why is it so long in stoppage time?" The referee in Cologne cursed that he naturally wanted the game to end quickly.
Soon after the fourth official raised the card, Shen Peng received a pass from his teammates, and Cologne did not arrange anyone to mark him in this game, and now Cologne is relatively shrinking as a whole, so he got the ball easily.
After he got the ball, he looked at the position of his teammates in the front court, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and he passed it directly with his feet!
It was Gunduz who received the ball, and he ran back to receive the ball, so it was with his back to the goal of Cologne.
He came to the ball and knocked it directly with his feet, and the ball flew to his left back, and he himself immediately turned to the right, and ran towards the opponent's goal like a loach.
The Cologne defender, who had been defending behind him, was visibly stunned when he saw that the man and the ball were gone, and the first thought in his mind at this time was that the man and the ball were divided, so the defender's instinct made him immediately turn around and defend Gonduz.
However, the ball did not fly to the other side at the feet of Gunduz, where Reinholz suddenly ran out, and then directly kicked back the pass, and the target of the return pass was the Gonduz who was running forward!
When the ball flew in front of Gunduz, he suddenly jumped straight away, threw his whole body forward, and leaped to the top!
The ball hit the top of his head and went straight into the goal!
2-1, Bochum relied on this wonderful combination to overtake the score in stoppage time!
Getting up from the ground, Gonduz immediately ran quickly to Reinholz and began to celebrate.
Neururell finally breathed a sigh of relief at this time, as long as he won, then there are no problems.
The coach in Cologne was already standing on the sidelines with a gloomy face at this time, not saying a word.
Once the match started again, the garbage time with one minute left passed quickly, and when the referee blew the whistle for the end of the match, Bochum won the match.
Bochum's two rivals also finished the game, with Kaiserslautern beating FSV Eintracht Frankfurt 4-1 at home, leaving Bochum and FSV Frankfurt on the same number of points, but fifth on goal difference, while Kaiserslautern are two points ahead of them in third.
After hearing this news, Neururell seemed very happy, because the next game is a direct dialogue between Bochum and FSV Frankfurt, as long as it wins, then FSV Frankfurt has nothing to fear, the only thing to note is Kaiserslautern, their next two opponents are Regensburg and Hamburg St. Pauli, which are not strong teams.
Thinking of the "thrilling" of this game, he suddenly stopped Shen Peng: "Shen Peng, now we are in the critical period of the game, I hope you can start in the next game." β
Originally, he thought of some words, but he didn't expect Shen Peng to agree directly: "Yes." β
Then Shen Peng thought for a while and said: "Mr. Head Coach, today I found that because of my reasons, I caused you trouble, so I want to clarify with the fans that it was my own idea to play in the second half, and it has nothing to do with you." β
Neururell smiled with some relief, "It's okay, that's what we do as managers, you as players just have to play seriously, as long as you can win the game, the fans will soon forget about it." β
"But ......"
"Don't think too much about it, when I brought the team to relegation, the reaction on the sidelines was no weaker than it was today, so you just need to make less of this strange demand in the future."
Shen Peng grinned, he estimated that this kind of strange request was indispensable, but since Neururell said so, he was not hypocritical, the head coach was right, as long as he played seriously and fought for every victory, it would be fine.
After this match, Bochum made a small splash in the Bundesliga.
The most noticeable thing is that Bochum's head coach let Shen Peng play in the second half for two consecutive games, and the pre-game interview also said that it was a "new tactic", but everyone did not see any shadow of the new tactics in the game.
Therefore, the media unanimously agreed that this was a sign that Bochum looked down on its competitors.
Even, the wonderful combined goal of Reinholz and Gunduz in this game has been forgotten......