Chapter 97: Overwhelming (3)

"It's a long shot again!! Sixth goal! This is the sixth goal of the Chinese defender after his return, six goals in eight games, this is the goal efficiency of the super striker, although Li Huan did not reach the peak state of ten goals in ten games when he was in Karlsruhe, but this is because Hoffenheim's strength is much worse than Karlsruhe, Li Huan is a defender, he needs to bear more defensive pressure.

The Red Devils are behind again, they have to step up their attack and improve their goalscoring efficiency, Hoffenheim are aggressive, they are very fit, Wolff's players can't wait for the opponent to stop, it looks like they are going to run until they cramp. “

The commentator was anxiously urging, and like the fans, he saw that Kaiserslautern was not in a good situation today, and that it would be difficult to win this game, and Hoffenheim were far more than they were worth.

Wolff didn't fail to push his players to work hard, and this game was even more important for Kaiserslautern than Hoffenheim, after all, they were the chasers, and the chasers had to work harder and win more games than the leaders. But the opponents are like hungry wolves, they chase desperately when they see the ball, if it is a player, it is just that, the opponent is all ten people on the court, including technical players like Sarihovic and big names in the German second division like Li Huan, it is too difficult for Kaiserslautern to play his own style. He knew that Hoffenheim was a hard-working man, but because of their diligence, no Bundesliga team could catch their clumsiness.

However, Kaiserslautern's home stadium can be called the devil's home, it is really not the general madness, in the crazy shouts of more than 40,000 fans, Kaiserslautern's players played exceptionally well in terms of skills and tactics, and their luck was also very good, Hoffenheim only led for ten minutes, Wenzel, who is also known for his heavy artillery, shook off Hoffenheim's back Zellar at about 30 meters, bent his bow and arrow, and hit the dead corner of the goal post and crossbar, and goalkeeper Haas had nothing to do with the incoming ball.

Four goals in forty minutes, an average of one goal in ten minutes, the two teams staged an offensive battle, conceding the goal made Li Huan a little depressed, he couldn't accept Rangnick's coaching ideas for the time being, he was too obsessed with attacking, and it was right to attack behind the stalemate, but the lead should always shrink, but Rangnick still let the players attack, and Li Huan, who has always disliked thinking about tactics, couldn't help but feel that Rangnick was too aggressive.

At halftime, Li Huan deliberately walked a little slower, and exchanged his thoughts with Rangnick, Rangnick looked at Li Huan and said with a smile: "The team's tactical style must be distinctive, if it is too flexible, there will be no style, and a team without style cannot always stand in the position of a strong team." Believe me. We're not in it for a game. ”

Li Huan will be suspicious, he is a smart person, but after all, he is a Chinese, he can not fully understand the thinking of this German coach, the way of thinking of Chinese and Germans is still very different, most of the Chinese have no faith, very practical, so few people to study some purely theoretical things, but the Germans are the country with the most philosophers in the world, they think about the problem much longer.

In the first five minutes of the second half, Hoffenheim took the lead again, Li Huan went down the side, attracted the attention of more defenders, he passed the ball to Sarihovic, Sarichovic faced a thick defense, he did not shoot and break through, directly to the left side, this is Kaiserslautern's right side has been empty, the inserted left back cut from the ribs to shoot. Rewrite the score to 3:2.

The left-back, who scored the first goal of the season, raced wildly across the pitch and hugged coach Rangnick for most of the pitch, and his excitement was understandable.

It wasn't as beautiful as the first two, but it was the kind of attack that Rangnick was looking for, which was a little bit of a break, a little bit of blossoming, and everyone had a chance to score, rather than putting the task of scoring and attacking on the striker. Now the point that can be broken through has been found, that is, fullback Li Huan, almost every time he comes to break the deadlock, which is why Rangnick did not go all out to prevent Hope from buying Li Huan at that time.

Fritz. Walter Stadium fell silent, and no one could have imagined that Hoffenheim would take the lead again so quickly. This goal cannot be blamed on the right-back losing his position, he went to make up for the middle, and the central defender was pulled to the left, and the midfielder did not have much responsibility, and he had to watch Saarihovic with the ball. If you want to complain, you can only complain that your players are not as active in defense as Hoffenheim, and once Hoffenheim's players lose possession, even the forwards run back to their own half to defend. Of course, when attacking, even the defender can press the opponent's penalty area.

After taking the lead again, Li Huan's offense was much less, and he paid more attention to the defense in the back. Being equalized twice in a row by the opponent made Li Huan lose confidence in his teammates, in fact, at the beginning of the franchise, he found that his teammates' skills were really rough, if it wasn't for running a third more distance than the opponent in every game, they would definitely not have a chance to win seven in a row.

The other players of Hoffenheim thought that Li Huan was tired, and after galloping on the side for more than 50 minutes in a row, Li Huan should rest and rest, but Rangnick frowned, he knew how good Li Huan's physical strength was, and none of his other team members had physical problems, how could Li Huan appear, it seemed that he still didn't understand what he said to him at halftime. Rangnick is going to take a time to have a good exchange with this young man about tactical issues, it should be said that this young man's tactical literacy far exceeds his expectations, it turned out that he thought that Li Huan used to be an amateur player, or in China, but his personal skills are good, and his tactical literacy is probably very average, he was worried that Li Huan could not understand and integrate into his team, but then Rangnick found that his ideas were superfluous, Li Huan's tactical literacy is not worse than the Bundesliga players he coached at Schalke 04 (Li Huan is nearly ten years ahead of his contemporaries, can his tactical thinking be worse?). The two have a similar understanding of the trends in football tactics, but the young man's tactical thinking is too casual and not as consistent as he is. If the other players had different tactical ideas from Rangnick, Rangnick would have been replaced directly, but for a player like Li Huan, who had the same winner or loser in the game, Rangnick had to communicate with him again.

Li Huan's reputation is mainly due to his offense, many people ignore Li Huan's defense because of this, and some people even say that Li Huan's offense is strong and weak, but in fact, Li Huan's defense is by no means worse than offense, whether it is one-on-one heads-up, or with teammates to assist in the defense of the position, his defensive awareness is at least the Bundesliga level.

Kaiserslautern's left midfielder Kossowski understood this truth from the 50th minute of the game, when Kaiserslautern fell behind 2:3, they attacked aggressively, Kossowski was the team's main attacker, but when facing Li Huan, he felt what it was called powerless. The opponent's starting speed was too fast, and he couldn't see the advantage of taking the initiative as an attacking party at all, he made a move in advance, and Li Huan followed in the blink of an eye, and even after he finished a fake move, he didn't adjust his center of gravity, Li Huan adjusted it first. After being robbed twice by Li Huan in a row, Kossovsky didn't dare to dribble the ball, and had to pass the ball when he saw Li Huan coming up. Seeing the surprised and dissatisfied eyes of his teammates, Kossovski really wanted to tell them that you should try it yourself.

However, Li Huan does not step forward is not a contribution to the attack, after he and Sarichovic gradually cooperated, Li Huan seemed to have found a passing point, when the ball was broken or passed in the backfield, he would always accurately deliver to Sarihovic's feet, in the last game against Freiburg, the results of the post-game statistics showed that 30% of Sarihovic's ball came from Li Huan, which is an amazing number for a midfield core supported by the whole team.

In the last game, the commentator saw that Li Huan's long pass was too much, and once joked, "It's obviously not what Li Huan should pursue as a playboy to run forward and serve the striker like the shopkeeper, Li Huan's favorite is the imaginative long pass, his ideal Hoffenheim team should completely revolve around him to attack and defend, like a good satellite, a planet revolving around the star, and the running strategy is not himself but the forward, midfielder and other defenders." ”

However, I was afraid that because of the misunderstanding between his teammates and the coach, Li Huan explained after the game, he said that he made too many long passes and broke through less, because he had just contracted the flu and his physical strength was a little lacking, so he didn't tell the coach in order to play. “

Sarihovic enjoyed the kind of ammunition that flew from the right side of the base without knowing when, and then he was responsible for delivering it to the feet of the strikers to form an attack, and he played with ease when the opponent pressed hard.

Although Hoffenheim led early, Kaiserslautern still had 40 minutes of equalizing time, but because Li Huan stayed in the backfield to defend most of the time, and Li Huan's super fast start speed and good sense of filling filled the loopholes of his teammates, Kaiserslautern did not get a good chance to shoot, and was attacked by Sarichovic after a long attack, and finally lost at home with a score of 2:4. Hoffenheim are on a blistering run of eight league wins in a row, and with the German Cup, they are now nine wins in a row.

After the race, Kaiserslautern's captain Wentzel lamented: "The Hoffenheim players are so good at running, we feel like we're playing against a group of track and field athletes, it's like there's always two more than us, and their defender is like a 100m flyer who has switched to football, and our left side is almost completely broken by him." ”

(To be continued)