Chapter 46: State Derby (2)
Antar is the captain of the Lebanese national team, known as the "Beckenbauer of Lebanon", he has also played against the Chinese team many times, and is also an old acquaintance with Yang Chen and Shao Jia. Antar used to play for Hamburg in the Bundesliga, but because of a toe injury, he couldn't play the main team, and Freiburg's head coach Fink bought him from Hamburg. Antar Freiburg scored a hat-trick in his first season, the first Asian player to score a hat-trick in the Bundesliga, and after Freiburg's relegation last season, he was grateful to Fink for choosing to stay in the Bundesliga.
Antar is also influential in Baden, and has been used by Freiburg fans to rival Li Huan. After he spoke in the newspaper, Karlsruhe's "City Daily" was naturally not to be outdone, and immediately hired Li Huan to do an interview. Li Huan has played in Chinese derby, although the Chinese team has been established for a short time and the fans do not have a strong sense of belonging to the team, but the derby is also hot, and he knows how to stir up the enthusiasm of the fans. In the interview, Li Huan said that Karlsruhe's unbeaten record in the derby will not be broken in their hands, and Karlsruhe will definitely win this game, making a happy end to the first half of the league and allowing his teammates to have a happy and successful Christmas. When talking about the style of play of the three teams in Baden, Li Huan said that Freiburg played like a soft egg, while Stuttgart was like a child, and only Karlsruhe was a real German team, playing like a man, even if Karlsruhe fell to the Bundesliga, they could not lose in the derby.
Li Huan's words reached Freiburg, which is known as the green city, this quiet town is almost boiling, and the fans are clamoring to let the bastard Chinese defender know who is the soft egg, Freiburg's style of play is indeed not so passionate, always impatient, but the players can't accept the title of soft egg, their midfielder Koulibaly said angrily: "Li Huan does not respect Freiburg, he will pay for his wild words, At the Dresast Stadium, he'll know which team is the softie. As the playmaker of Freiburg's attack, Koulibaly said he would break down the Li Huan-led defence and would not let Li Huan score again.
Freiburg striker Yashvili says Karlsruhe have been on a ferocious and smooth run of late, and that they are on an eight-game unbeaten run since losing to Offenbach and that it is time for them to lose and that Freiburg will end their unbeaten run.
Karlsruhe's players are not to be outdone, and have come out to launch a counterattack, and the recent midfielder Federico, who has been in the limelight no less than Li Huan, said in the football program of German pay TV channel 2, "Although Freiburg retains most of their main force in the Bundesliga, but we will not be afraid of them, in the past ten years, Karlsruhe has never lost to Freiburg, this time it will not be the same, as a midfielder I think the same as Koulibaly, we will break their goal, and we will not let them score." ”
Striker Capalani put it more bluntly: "It's been half a season in Karlsruhe and I haven't scored a hat-trick yet, but this time I feel like I'm going to score three goals against Freiburg. ”
In the war of words between the players of the two sides, the atmosphere of the Baden derby gradually became hot, and the streets and alleys of the two small cities were full of derby atmosphere, and the fans would no longer ask "did you drink coffee", but asked if they would go to see the derby. ”
Karlsruhe is now at the top of the table, almost unstoppable in the Bundesliga, Freiburg is in the league, the record was good at the beginning, has been ranked in the top five, but it is getting weaker and weaker during the winter break, and is now only in eighth place, promotion to the Bundesliga is becoming more and more slim, but Karlsruhe does not dare to despise Freiburg, everyone knows that the derby is not the same as an ordinary league, the two sides of the battle often play extraordinarily, which one does not do their best, and will eventually suffer a defeat. Before the match, Becker also did a detailed study of his opponents.
Li Huan said that Freiburg is a soft egg, because this team is a rare technical style of play in the German team, the players are delicate, like to do short pass coordination, and pay attention to the overall cooperation, which is also related to Freiburg head coach Fink. Fink is a legend in the German league because he has been in charge of Freiburg for 14 years since July 1, 1991, making German professional team history, and he is the coach who has managed a German team non-stop for the longest time. Although Freiburg is the most popular team in the middle and lower reaches of Germany to bring in foreign players, their style of play has always remained the same, and they have been following the path of technology, just like Arsenal in the Premier League. However, because the Bundesliga pays more attention to physical confrontation, and the referee's blowing penalty for physical confrontation is also very lenient, it is difficult for Freiburg's players to adapt for a while, so that the game is becoming more and more difficult, and now it has fallen to the middle of the league. However, if such a team fights with a bloody surname, the combat effectiveness that erupts must not be underestimated.
Freiburg's current arrow figure is No. 9 Yashvili, who said in the newspaper that he was ready to end Karlsruhe's unbeaten golden body, he is a Georgian international, a speed striker, and Kobiashvili and Tskishvili formed the "Georgian Three Musketeers" last season.
Freiburg's midfielders since the core Bosnian Bayramovic went to Schalke, the most attacking surnames are left Antar and Koulibaly, Antar has comprehensive skills, superb shooting skills, Koulibaly has a strong impact surname, likes to suddenly insert the attack, the two of them plus the original Bayramovic is Freiburg's midfield iron triangle, but the departure of Bayramovich, who has the best skills and the strongest breakthrough ability, has directly dropped Freiburg's midfield by a level. However, these two players are also not bad in the Bundesliga, and if they have a strong centre-forward, they may have been able to do even better.
At the back, Freiburg's Bundesliga defence last season was all retained, but it is embarrassing that they were the team that conceded the most goals in the Bundesliga last season, conceding a total of 68 goals, which is a shame, even in the Bundesliga this season, this back line is still not so reassuring, and now they have conceded close to 20 goals just over the halfway point of the league.
In the face of such an opponent, Becker and Hoss believe that Freiburg's weak back line is the most suitable for Karlsruhe to make good use of, because comparing the lineups of the two sides, Karlsruhe is stronger than Freiburg is the defense led by Li Huan and Stoll, more than half of the league, Karlsruhe scored 41 goals, but only conceded 12 goals, which is the team with the most goals and the fewest goals conceded in the Bundesliga. As long as they can hold on and keep their opponents from scoring, there is not much doubt that their forward line will break down the opposition's defence.
Now the key problem in Karlsruhe is the use of Li Huan, Li Huan scored ten goals in the first ten rounds of the league, an average of one goal per game, but in the next six rounds due to the opponent's strict marking, Li Huan's goals were sharply reduced to one in two games, and now ranks first in the league scorer list with 13 goals, for a defender, such data has made people feel very scary, but Becker is still not satisfied, he believes that Li Huan is fully capable of impacting the top scorer in the case of free kicks and penalties. Of course, this is something that Becker has only figured out recently, although Li Huan is just a defender, but it is not a fantasy for such a powerful defender to win the top scorer.
In view of the shortcomings of the opponent's weak backline, Becker decided to push Li Huan to the forward position again and use its long shots and passes to break through Freiburg's goal, and then Li Huan pulled back to play a counterattack after locking the win.
When Karlsruhe was studying Freiburg, Freiburg's head coach Fink was also studying Karlsruhe, and the league was about to pass the halfway point, Karlsruhe locked up the winter championship of the Bundesliga two rounds in advance, and the original favorite Bochum was actually six points behind Karlsruhe. Karlsruhe's blowout this season really surprised everyone, and the reason for the explosion in Karlsruhe was actually two amateur players brought in in the summer, which made all the reporters and managers break their glasses even more.
These two amateur players, Federico, who is the second scorer in the list, is the Cologne amateur team, and only spent 100,000 euros from the Karlsruhe club, which is similar to the one picked up, and the other player, Li Huan, is really picked up, he is a player from the Chinese amateur team, completely free, did not spend a euro of the Karlsruhe club, the original annual salary was only 100,000 euros, but he scored 13 goals, and is now the leader of the German second division scorer list, and what makes people vomit blood is that he is actually a defender.
Fink is already very confident in his discerning vision, but now he has to admire Becker for being more knowledgeable and lucky, because two amateur players occupy the top two of the Bundesliga scorer list, such a probability will definitely not be higher than one in a million, you must know that Li Huan is still Chinese, and Chinese football is still outside the 80th place in the world ranking.
How to defend such two amateur players is the key to whether Freiburg can win this game, don't doubt the grammatical problem of this sentence, although Li Huan is a fullback, but after ten rounds of the German Second Division, he has become a midfielder and defender who need to focus on the figure, which is really laughable, but what makes people laugh even more is that the marking can not be prevented, he is still creating a record of defenders scoring goals with the efficiency of one goal in two games.
(To be continued)