Chapter 248: A Seemingly Ordinary Competition

However, Niels's teammates didn't say anything, after all, the big guys are used to it, and it is not once or twice that Niels has annoyed fans by playing away.

And even if you don't annoy you, will someone else let you go?

Of course not, Cologne coach Starler Solbakken looked at the team in front of him who had caused criticism everywhere along the way, and he already had a death sentence on them.

It's impossible for a team to go far with just a goalkeeper and an international-level striker, and while that goalkeeper is certainly interesting, Starler Solbakken doesn't think Cologne's attack can be stopped by him, and Bayern Munich's Manuel Neuer has suffered at his own hands.

Neuer did not keep a clean sheet against various youth teams when he was in the youth team, but when he arrived in the senior team, he was immediately shattered by the sharp attack of the Bundesliga, and although his performance is still considered the top of the goalkeeper, it is not without chance to kick football into the door of his handle.

Ye Xin?

The myth of a clean sheet in the German C?

That's not a real attack.

Although Cologne is not a strong attacking team in the Bundesliga, it is not a notch for the second division.

With a big wave of his hand, Cologne's tactics revolved directly around the attack.

4-4-2, the unpretentious formation was used by Cologne, and suddenly there was a hidden killing intention.

Although the players of the Jena team were mentally prepared before the game, they found that the strength of a first-division team was far beyond their expectations after colliding with Cologne.

Although they are similar in speed and strength to Munich 1860 and St. Pauli in the Bundesliga, and the physical confrontation of the players is not much higher, they have the calmness and confidence that the Bundesliga players cannot match.

So Cologne's attack is unusually flashy, and it's also very effective.

In just five minutes of the opening game, Jena was in danger frequently, but fortunately, Jena's defenders had made meritorious contributions in these few times, and Ye Xin had not yet made a move, and the attack was invisible.

A piece of rotten iron can become a piece of fine iron if beaten thousands of times, and the same is true for people, Jena's defenders have been ravaged since the beginning of German C, and Alex's defense is getting stronger and stronger, and the number of times he does background boards is getting less and less.

In the last game with Duisburg, if it wasn't for Duisburg digging a tactical trap, they would not have been able to play so many great opportunities to attack, and this game Cologne doesn't know if it's because they didn't take Jena seriously, they don't have any tricks at all tactically, and all the attacks in the current position are the players.

They made it clear that they wanted to crush Jena by strength.

Control flow play.

Everywhere there is a small area of progressive attacks.

Heiko took a deep look at the Cologne players rushing on the field, full of envy and jealousy, although several of their attacks were destroyed, but Cologne really controlled the rhythm and situation on the field.

In almost 10 minutes, they were estimated to have 70% possession.

And Jena didn't even kick out a decent counter-attack.

However, Haike was not in a hurry at all, the suppressed situation had long been expected by him, and he had already done his homework before the game, Cologne's last 20 games of 32 goals, 24 of which were scored in the first half, compared to only eight in the second half.

On average, this means that Cologne did not score in the second half of most of their games.

Judging from these signs, Cologne is a typical tiger cat type team, with a tiger in front and a cat in the back, as long as it withstands the pressure in the early stage, Cologne's strength in the later stage will definitely drop by more than half.

Therefore, before the game, Heiko had already formulated a tactical policy, and the first half was dominated by defense, except for Niels, who was also placed in front to interfere with Cologne's defenders, other forwards such as Bjorn and Martin also moved slightly back at the moment.

The defence looks pretty good now, with Cologne's attacking style, but not creating a lethal threat.

Of course, even if it is created, are you sure it will be effective in front of Ye Xin?

Before Heiko could finish thinking about it, Cologne couldn't wait to test his idea.

Just 13 minutes into the first half, Cologne finally tore apart Jena's defense after a series of efforts.

Cologne played an unusually nice combination in the middle and on the right.

Cologne's Riezel received a pass from his team-mate and quickly ran in rhythm with his striker team-mate Podolski and right-flank team-mate Peshko.

And during the running, the three of them deliberately shortened the distance, and a very small triangular lineup with a side length of no more than 3 meters appeared in front of the Jena players.

Simak and Steffen were immediately unhappy, so the two quickly rushed over with the intention of interfering with the cooperation of the three.

Only this time the two did not succeed in blocking the three's pass as at the beginning, and the dazzling one-kick pass appeared back and forth between the three, relying on this perfect cooperation, Peshko finally advanced to the vicinity of the big penalty area, and the cross route was not blocked.

It's his favourite position, and the first few pushes have been a bit of a trio thanks to the Jena players, and this time he won't waste that opportunity.

Without hesitation, he picked up a pass, and the ball drew a beautiful arc in the air and went straight to the goal.

Podolski had already started running towards the goal when Peshko received the ball for the last time, which was an offensive cooperation that the three of them had trained countless times, and he could probably know where the ball would land when he saw Peshko's starting foot.

Sure enough, in the crowd in front of the penalty area, he accurately found the flying football, jumped high with a kick, and then vigorously pushed the football towards the goal with a header.

The right direction!

Podolski watched intently in the direction the ball was flying, and on the way to the landing, he had already thought of a celebratory move.

Front or back roll? Do you want to slip and kneel? Isn't it too exaggerated, the other side is just a Bundesliga team, it's not good that I'm so excited.

And then...... Then he couldn't get excited.

Because at this time, Ye Xinzheng indifferently grabbed the football he pushed out in his hand.

"Oh, no......" There was a wail from the stands, and the fans in Cologne shouted regret, Cologne had played a very beautiful game just now.

From the back pass to Podolski's header, every link was very crisp and not muddy, and the final header was also very quality, Podolski pressed several defenders of Jena to grab the first spot, and the direction was also very good.

It's just that I didn't expect the goal to be ruined by Jena's goalkeeper.

It's so boring.