391 German Cup debut

RB Leipzig starting line-up: No. 1 Captain (c), No. 16 Lucas Kolostermann, No. 5 Dayot Upamecano, No. 4 Willy Orban, No. 23 Marcel Halstenburg, No. 8 Naby Keita, No. 27 Conrad Laimer, No. 7 Marcel Sabitzer, No. 17 Brumma, No. 9 Joseph Poulsen, No. 11 Timo Werner.

Substitutes: No. 32 Peter Gulacic, No. 6 Ibrahima Konat, No. 20 Benno Schmitz, No. 13 Stefan Irsak, No. 24 Dominic Kaiser, No. 19 Oliver Burke, No. 38 Federico Palacios.

If you just look at the average age of 21.63 in the starting line-up, you would think it's an Under-23 team.

Among the starters, the 25-year-old Halstenburg and the 24-year-old Orban are the oldest, while the youngest are French central defenders Upamecano and Zhang Zhetian, both of whom are under 20 years old, especially the latter, not only wearing the captain's armband, but also the second highest in the transfer market this summer, the highest goalkeeper, the first person in the team, and the team history standard.

Leipzig coach Ralph Hasenhuttl sent 442 pairs of back formations to send most of the main forces, on the one hand, to learn the lessons of last season's first round out, on the other hand, to speed up the integration of Zhang Zhetian into the team through the official game, just the first round of opponents are regional league teams, the strength is not strong, just to use it to practice, run-in the team.

It is said that the chicken is killed with a knife, for RB Leipzig, to kill this weak chicken must also use a knife, last season's first round of the German Cup out of the current memory, the Austrians still have a faint pain in their hearts, this season to introduce Zhang Zhetian, the team's summer budget is seriously overrun, if the first round of the German Cup is eliminated again, they simply leave.

"If we say that before the introduction of Zhangzhetian, our goal was still based on the country, after Zhangzhetian came, our goal was changed to overthrow Bayern, dominate the country, and gain a foothold in Europe." Remembering Ralph Rangnick's words, Ralph Rangnick was convinced.

Last season's upset to win the Bundesliga runner-up, has been out of the club's original strategy, sometimes the plan is not as good as change, the addition of Zhang Zhetian is to disrupt the club's original strategy this summer, overthrow Bayern, dominate the country, based on Europe, the introduction of the new strategy is deeply inspired and supported by the club.

Although Leipzig's youth team only has one year of Bundesliga experience and zero experience in the Champions League, Monaco, who were also in the youth team last season, made it all the way to the Champions League semi-finals, which can be said to be a role model for the same young Leipzig.

What's more, they have the confidence to call Bayern Munich, because Leipzig, who has the best goalkeeper in the world, is like Bayern with one of the best goalkeepers in the world, Manuel Neuer, when you are not worried about the instability in the rear and can go all out to attack, they believe that the whole of Europe will tremble under the hooves of the red bull devil.

Rangnick and Ralph Hasenhuttl regarded Zhang Zhetian as "Maradona" and the soul of the team, so they strongly appointed Zhang Zhetian as the captain of the team.

Zhang Zhetian, who has served as the captain of the Premier League giants Arsenal, does not feel that this is a pressure at all, he is born with a big heart, and he is only moved when he is used to seeing the big scenes of the Champions League.

"If you treat me as a countryman, I will repay you as a countryman!"

Zhang Zhetian, who does not take the usual path, is so confident, where I am, where is a wealthy family; It doesn't matter if you are a wealthy family or not, with me, you must be a wealthy family!

At that time, Argentine legend Diego Maradona created many miracles for a relegation team like Napoli, which was almost relegated, under the eyes of the giants.

Now there is Zhang Zhetian, who will take a new Bundesliga army with only one year of top league experience, although there are local tyrants backing, but the youth army dominated by youth players has embarked on the road of a giant new army.

He doesn't know if he can replicate the feat of the polo king, but what he does know is that as long as he does his best, he won't regret it.

Many years later, when RB Leipzig dominated Europe and the world for many years, countless people were saying that when the 22nd century came, the selection of the 21st best club in the world could only and had to be, RB Leipzig.

When Poulsen set up Sabitzer to open the scoring in the fourth minute, the crowd in attendance thought the first half would be a massacre and that Lotdo Meghan was too weak.

But after the end of the first half, people realized that football was really round, Leipzig created a lot of chances in the first half, even including penalties, but failed to make a difference, and even allowed the opponent to create a few threatening opportunities, allowing the audience to appreciate the demeanor of the first U20 goalkeeper.

Fastenhuttl was very dissatisfied, Upamecano in the 16th minute and Laimer in the 19th minute were both yellow, which was caused by the lack of concentration in defense, and even the latter went off the field due to injury in the 41st minute.

This also reflects a shortcoming of the youth army: too young and easily affected by mentality.

However, after more than ten minutes of fierce counterattack by the opponent, Zhang Zhetian controlled the ball at his feet after a successful save, and when he slowly brought it out of the penalty area, he made a gesture of pressing down to ease the excitement and panic of his teammates.

This is the role of the captain, Zhang Zhetian shows this perfectly, don't look at his youth, the main goalkeeper of the Premier League double, and the Champions League will kick Bayern out, these famous and record, the young teammates only serve the strong, so they still listen to the command of Zhang Zhetian.

When Zhang Zhetian took the ball to dodge two opponents in a row, and then a scalpel-like through ball landed steadily in front of Werner, creating a threatening opportunity to create a ball, the audience burst into warm applause, and his teammates cast adoring eyes, and the previous panicked emotions disappeared in Zhang Zhetian's wonderful performance.

Leipzig assistant coach, 38-year-old Hungarian Salter Love, exclaimed: "This is still a goalkeeper? This footwork is absolutely amazing, Neuer can't pass such a straight pass! ”

Halsenhuttl's eyes flickered, he was not surprised by Zhang Zhetian's performance, such an all-round offensive and defensive goalkeeper is only one in the world, what he values more is Zhang Zhetian's leadership temperament, as well as his ability to adjust tactics on the court.

He knows that Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger has created new formations and tactics specifically to control the sky, and although the technical and tactical styles of the two teams are different, and he is not so bold as to risk using a two-back back, he feels that there is one thing that the two sides have in common, which is a penchant for attacking football and risky tactical play.

Seeing Timo Werner's penalty miss and his failure to eat the cake of the palm, Hasenhuttl didn't care, he is a supporter of team football and likes to see more blossoms, rather than one person bursting and others spitting cakes.

'What is needed now is further grinding and in the second half, let's try a new formation.'