Chapter 056: Stevens, Master Tactician

In the 13th minute, Liu Ting's goal in the counterattack helped Bordeaux lead Hamburg 1:0.

It was a goal that caused Blanco on the sidelines to throw his fist in celebration, and now Bordeaux's situation is immediately better.

"Maybe we should really put a little more effort into the UEFA Cup, Liu is in such good form and he values the UEFA Cup, and if we give up, it might be a blow to his motivation and maybe his form will plummet because of that," Gassett said to Blanco. ”

"Okay, as long as we pass the hamburg level, we will fight on two fronts and win the double championship in the future!!" Blanco clenched his fists and made up his mind that it would not be easy for the traditionally conservative Blanco to make such a decision.

On the other side, Hamburg's coach Stevens was not so beautiful, he didn't expect to be scored by the opponent's counterattack so quickly, he thought that Bordeaux's trident would not be so threatening, but now he has suffered the bitter fruit.

Stevens was a Bundesliga tactician on the same level as the current Bayern head coach Heathfield, but now Heathfield has become famous in Europe, leading Dortmund and Bayern Munich to win the Champions League respectively, and Stevens is still the original tactician. Some players will only do well in the first two or three years of their careers for various reasons, and then they will go from bad to worse, and sometimes coaches do the same, and Stevens may be such a person.

Stevens' best time was when he was in charge of Schalke 04, he led Schalke 04 to win the UEFA Cup in the 96/97 season, defeated La Liga powerhouse Valencia in the quarterfinals, and defeated Serie A giants Inter Milan in the final. In the 00/01 season he led Schalke 04 to the famous 4-minute champion.

Before the final round of the Bundesliga that year, Bayern was still three points ahead of Schalke 04, but Schalke 04 was ahead of Bayern on goal difference, which means that as long as Bayern lost to the opponent Hamburg in the final round and Schalke 04 won the small team Unterhaschen at home, which was also from Munich, the Bundesliga champion was Schalke 04. This scenario is entirely possible, as Hamburg was still considered a Bundesliga powerhouse at the time.

Unterhasing may have wanted to help his big brother Bayern, and once forced Schalke 04 to draw 3:3 at Schalke Stadium, but in the end, Schalke 04 continued to exert force and won the game 5:3. At the same time, the news came that the 0:0 deadlock between Hamburg and Bayern on the other side has not been broken, and the championship must be Bayern's to continue, but in the 90th minute, the veteran Barbarez received a pass from the left side and pressed Bayern defender Anderson to head the goal, and the lion king Kahn had nothing to do in the face of this angle's header, and Hamburg led Bayern 1:0.

When the news came, the entire Ao Go Schalke Stadium was completely boiling, this was the goal of the 90th minute, the killer goal, Bayern had almost lost the game, Schalke 04 was the champion. Bayern were also discouraged, but the game still had to be played, and the referee gave four minutes of stoppage time, in which Bayern desperately fought back to no avail, but Hamburg messed up at the last minute.

As we all know, the goalkeeper on the pitch cannot use his hands to receive the ball of the goalkeeper with his feet, and this big battle between Bayern and Hamburg, in the last moment of injury time, a defender passed back to the goalkeeper with his foot, but the Hamburg goalkeeper held the ball with his hand, and gave Bayern an indirect free kick in the penalty area on the spot. In the face of this last straw, Bayern discussed for a long time, and finally Effenberg kicked a free kick, and the sinner Anderson four minutes ago hit the goal, and the ball flew directly into the Hamburg gate, and Anderson completed his redemption.

Schalke 04 only won for 4 minutes, it may have been fateful, but this is football!

Anything can happen!!

Although Stevens did not lead Schalke 04 to the 00/01 Bundesliga title, he won the German Cup that year. And in the following 01/02 season, it was Stevens who successfully defended the title with Schalke 04 in the German Cup, opening the magic box of Leverkusen's Sanya King, first Schalke 04 defeated the opponent in the German Cup and gave Leverkusen the first runner-up, and then Leverkusen was overtaken by Bayern in the Bundesliga and had to be another runner-up, and finally Zidane took Real Madrid to Leverkusen's last finale runner-up.

In the past few years of Schalke 04's coaching, Stevens has indeed achieved good results, and has been able to be called the Bundesliga tactician with Heathfield, but now he is getting more and more mixed up, but Stevens's level is still there.

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Liu Ting's goal made Stevens have to make certain adjustments, although what Hamburg needs now is to attack, but just now Bordeaux's counterattack is too deadly, Stevens can only let Hamburg's main opponent counterattack, and the offense can't be too fierce as just now.

"During this time, both teams had concerns, Hamburg was concerned about Bordeaux's quick counterattack, and Bordeaux did not dare to attack aggressively away from home after a rotation."

Even if the scene was tepid, the Hamburg fans were constantly shouting, and the Hamburg flag kept waving.

With 35 minutes to go, Stevens stepped to the sidelines to take command, and it would certainly be disadvantageous to go into the second half with a trailing scoreline, and Stevens demanded that the team go back to the dressing room for an equaliser so that there could be more tactical changes in the second half.

"After more than ten minutes of attacking in the opening game, I was pressed down by Liu Ting's goal, and now Hamburg seems to have accumulated enough strength to start storming the Bordeaux goal again."

'Brechko got the assist, Yarolim's long-range shot!!' Playing high, Bordeaux's goal began to be threatened again during this time. ”

"Let's take a look at the ball, Atoba came up with the ball on the side, and Liu Ting went over to defend him. Strike!! Nice tackle!! Liu Ting directly shoveled the ball and passed it to Diarra in the middle, Diarra passed forward, Liu Ting quickly stepped forward to catch the ball, this is a collision with the wall!! Hamburg was unprepared for this break, and the defense was a bit chaotic! ”

Liu Ting's flexible change of direction shook past Aofu and entered the penalty area!! Demel and Reinhardt came over, Liu Ting changed direction to the right, and was reincarnated by Reinhardt, no!! Pass!! Liu Ting's heel passed, and Belleon received the ball, took a step forward, and hit the goal!! The ball is in!! Beautiful goal!! Liu Ting's continuous breakthrough after the break attracted the defense and knocked the ball to the middle to follow up with Baileon, who did not waste this good opportunity, Bordeaux led by two goals in the first half!! ”

"This goal is mainly the credit of Liu Ting, he quickly went to the front court to attract the defense after breaking the ball and assisted Bailian to score, and now Liu Ting has passed and shot, he simply dominated the game."

In the 41st minute, Liu Ting assisted Belleon to score, and Bordeaux led Hamburg 2:0.

This goal caused a brief silence at the Nordbank Stadium in Hamburg, and soon there was a shocking boo, and then Bordeaux would be booed as soon as he touched the ball, but the whole Hamburg team that scored two goals was very low, and the last few minutes were a tacit understanding between the two teams to smoothly transition this time.

At halftime, Blanco had only one sentence: continue to defend and counterattack.

"At the beginning of the second half, Hamburg made two substitutions, which actually looked like opposites, but they were actually a signal to strengthen the attack. Stevens replaced the defender Ofer who played a cameo role in the defensive back with an attacking midfielder Troshowski, and replaced the poor performance in the first half with the teenager Boateng in the right-back position, and Atoba, who was responsible for defending Liu Ting in the first half, can be said to have been completely blown up, and did not play a role in limiting Liu Ting at all, Hamburg's two goals conceded were related to him, the first was Liu Ting's goal after breaking through him, and the second was that he assisted Bellian to score after he took the ball and was tackled by Liu Ting. Now with a young player, I don't know if I can prevent Liu Ting? In fact, what Liu Jianhong wants to say is that this experienced Atobar was beaten by Liu Ting, and it would not be even worse to change to a young one? However, as a Chinese explanation, it cannot be so direct.

Liu Ting looked at this Boateng who was on the field, and knew that he was the little Boateng who would be elected as the German Footballer in the future, and he also had an older brother Boateng who would go to AC Milan to play in the future, and Boateng Jr. would go to Bayern Munich to play as a central defender and win the German Footballer in the future, and now Boateng is playing right-back in Hamburg, and he was already the main force in the Hamburg team, but this time Stevens was worried that he would make a mistake when he was young and changed to the more experienced Attoba, Now Atoba is not using it, and he has replaced Boateng to restrict Liu Ting.

"This young player Boateng is not bad for Liu Ting's defense, although he often needs to be supplemented by his teammates, at least he was not completely blown up like Atoba just now. His speed is good, he is also very flexible on the court, and his physical fitness is better than Liu Ting, which does play a certain limiting role for Liu Ting. Liu Jianhong was glad that he didn't say that Boateng couldn't do it, otherwise he would have been slapped in the face when he turned around.

Stevens on the sidelines regretted it, and if Boateng had started directly, maybe he wouldn't have conceded two goals in the first half, and the situation wouldn't have gotten so bad. Boateng's defense was good, but his assist ability was not good, and Liu Ting and Beryon's speed still gave Hamburg a headache, and the scene became deadlocked.

A stalemate is something they would love for Bordeaux, but not for Hamburg, who need goals.

In the 60th minute, Hamburg replaced defender Demer with striker Choupo-Moting, turning into a 343 formation, with the obvious intention of strengthening the attack.