192 Home & Away
Luckily, Olympiacos had good luck as their post denied Egerman's header, otherwise they wouldn't have had a better game right now. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Eggman missed a must-score opportunity, but there was no frustration on his face, instead he was confident that he had found a way to deal with the opposition defence and that it was only a matter of time before he scored.
Ribeiro took the corner, which he also took higher than usual, and Egerman grabbed the spot again, but this time he headed it high under the tugging of several men.
Then the two wings of the Gosau team took turns to feed shells to Egerman's head, and most of the crosses were of good quality, meeting Egerman's requirements, and Egerman was basically able to grab points, but due to luck problems, and Urco's performance was very brave, so Egerman has not scored yet, but Egerman is not impatient at all, his face is indifferent.
However, the defenders of the Olympiacos team were not so relaxed, and every time Gosau crossed, they had to jump with all their strength to fight for the ball even if they knew that they could not get the ball off the ground, even if it interfered with Egerman's judgment. And every time you take off, you have to jump higher than usual, and you have to do your best, which is quite tiring.
Other players are better, Melberg and Torosidis who have direct physical confrontation with Egerman have greater physical exertion, Melberg is over 37 years old, the Swedish central defender is experienced, strong confrontation ability, good heading, but the only drawback is that he is too old and has average physical fitness, and although Torosidis is in his prime, he has to go all out to fight against Egerman physically every time he defends, and it is not a job that ordinary people can do. So with the first half going on for about 40 minutes, the two centre-backs were physically and mentally exhausted, and they had to bend over and gasp for air every time they defended.
Coach Valverde also saw that it was not good, but he did not have a good way to solve the current situation, in fact, the Olympiacos team's back line can support forty minutes, it has been a surprise to him, these players are already the strongest group of players in his hands, it is almost impossible to solve the defensive problem through substitutions, he is very depressed when he thinks of this, this is the sadness of a small team.
Valverde walked to the sidelines of the pitch and waved his arms to grit the teeth of his players and get through the final minutes of the first half before they could rest. At the same time, he also asked the team doctor and coaches to prepare for the first half of the game, and immediately seize the time to massage the players and restore the players' strength.
Just when Valverde was expecting his side to survive the first half, Egerman gave him a blow in the face.
In the second minute of stoppage time in the first half, Avandzini took the ball to the front court and knocked the ball back to Ribeiro, Ribeiro sent a cross, this cross was still higher than usual, Mitroglu in front of him couldn't get the ball after jumping, Egerman got rid of Torosidis entanglement and jumped high, knocked away Melberg in a head-on confrontation, and then hit the ball powerfully, the ball quickly drilled into the bottom left corner of the goal, Urco was helpless for this header.
After Egerman landed, when the referee confirmed that the goal was valid, he just waved his hand casually, as if he had done a trivial thing, and then ran towards his own half.
Lima excitedly ran to Eggman: "You just looked cool about pretending to be a force, is it your new celebration?" In the future, I will use this celebration when I score a goal, and it will be cool as well. ”
Eggman couldn't laugh or cry, so he had to say to Lima seriously: "Well, that's right, you can use this celebration in the future." ”
As soon as Olympiacos kicked the ball from the halfway point, referee Marenke blew the whistle at the end of the first half, and Gossau led Olympiacos 1-0 thanks to Egerman's goal in first-half stoppage time and went into the break.
Valverde's face was not good-looking, he did not expect that his defensive tactics that he had painstakingly laid out could not prevent Eggman from scoring. Now that Gossau is ahead, this goal is not easy to play. With the attacking ability of the Olympiacos team, he really did not have the confidence to break through the goal of the Gosho team to equalize or even overtake.
Valverde went into the dressing room and told the team doctor and coaches to hurry up and massage the players. He made up his mind to stick to the dense defensive tactics in the second half, and there was no shame in losing to the defending champions, even at home, but he must lose a few goals so that he could still have a better goal difference with the other two teams in the end.
Xiao Yang was already ready for the Olympiacos team to launch a counterattack in the second half of the game in the locker room, and also arranged corresponding countermeasures with the players, but he didn't expect that after the start of the second half of the game, the Olympiacos team was still a tiger and kept defending intensively in the penalty area.
Xiao Yang was stunned, and could only smile, and then signaled the players to continue to play according to the tactics of the first half. Olympiacos' dense defense is really pure defense, even if they want to counter-attack, there are not enough people in the front, and they only have Moroccan striker Zairi in the front.
In the second half, the Gosho team still pressed the Olympiacos team in the half of the half-court offensive and defensive drills, and the Olympiacos team also honestly stayed in their own half, not only did they basically have no shè goal, but also the possession rate of the Gosho team reached an astonishing 71%, which made more than 30,000 fans at home begin to defect.
The second half of the game quickly ran out in the half-court offensive and defensive drills between the two sides, and it turned out that even a team with strong attacking power like Gosho could not score too many goals under the opponent's unreserved dense defense, and until the end of the 90 minutes of the game, the Gosho team did not score again, and the 1:0 score had stayed on the big screen for a full 45 minutes.
The referee on duty, Marenk, looked at the clock and signalled for four minutes of stoppage time. In the 3rd minute of stoppage time of the game, Avandzini cut inside and then made a more casual far shè, which actually penetrated the dense thighs in the penalty area and drilled straight into the lower right corner of the goal.
In the end, neither side was able to score again, and Gosau won their first Champions League group stage win of the season with a 2-0 win away from home to Olympiacos, taking all three points.
In terms of technical statistics after the game, Gossau had 67% possession and 23 shots, but only scored 2 goals, while Olympiacos only had 3 shots, just a fraction of Gosau's shè goals.
In the other match in the same group, Napoli hosted Borussia Dortmund and ended in a 1-1 draw, leaving Gossau top of the group with three points.
After returning to Switzerland, on September 20rì, Gossau played a relatively easy match, in a match in the first round of the Swiss Cup, Gossau took on a challenge league team, Rocano, away from home.
In this game, Xiao Yang sent all the rotation players, and as a result, the Gosho team easily won 3-0, with Esposito scoring two goals and Zhou Guodong scoring another goal. Gossau qualified for the next round of the Swiss Cup.
After this match, the Gosau team continued to play away from home, and on September 27, the Gosau team went to Zurich to challenge the Zurich Grasshoppers, which was a match in the tenth round of the league.
The Grasshoppers have played on both sides in the league and Europa League this season after a sè season last season, showing their lack of bench depth. In fact, this hidden danger began in the season before their relegation, when Geiger, who replaced Sforza as the head coach of the Grasshoppers, purged Sforza's team and sold many players who were out of the game, including Cabanas and Meyer, whom the Gosau team poached from them at the time. And the players that Geiger spent a lot of money on could not adapt to the Grasshopper team, and most of them were useless.
Geiger's nonsense caused the Grasshoppers to lose their vitality, not only did their strength drop sharply, but the club's economy also fell into a crisis, and after the Grasshoppers were relegated, the club had to rely on selling players to keep the club running. When Sforza returned to the helm, he used his charisma to recall some of the veteran players, and the Grasshoppers also recovered some of their vitality, but it was a far cry from their peak, otherwise Sforza would not have valued Cabanas, who was over 35 years old, so he had to recall him back to the Grasshoppers.
The Grasshoppers have not lost many games in the league this season, and with the defeat to Gosho in the first round, they have only lost three games, but when they face teams in the middle and lower leagues, they have been hafnium enough to attack, they have always been unable to win games, and there are too many draws to make them only seventh in the table. Of course, they made it to the group stage in the Europa League qualifying round, which is still very important for their economic upturn.
With a Europa League group game to play in midweek, the Grasshoppers have a lot of rotation players in the league against Gosau, and of course, Gosho also fielded a mixed lineup of half main and half substitutes in this game.
Just five minutes into the game, Esposito retreated to the vicinity of midfield to receive a pass from Antunovic, who passed the ball to Sampedro on the right flank, and after Sampedro took two steps, he passed the ball diagonally to Kaudinho at the edge of the box, who burst into the box and scored in the far corner with a low shè to open the scoring for Gosau.
In the 16th minute of the game, the Grasshoppers got a free kick opportunity on the side, and after they took the free kick, the Gosho team was in chaos in the penalty area, and one of the Grasshoppers players fell to the ground, and the referee on duty did not hesitate to give Salihovic a foul and showed Salihovic a yellow card, and Lima, who argued with the referee, also received a yellow card.
Slovenian shè Gruncel of the Grasshoppers took the penalty and he smashed the ball into the bottom left corner of the net, making it 1-1.
In the 25th minute, Lima passed directly to Esposito in the midfield, Esposito took two steps and sent a through stopper, Coutinho burst into the penalty area with understanding, received this pass, and faced the goalkeeper of the Grasshopper team, he calmly pushed shè into the bottom right corner to score for Gosau.
In the 55th minute of the second half of the game, Esposito actively scrambled in the front, forcing the Grasshopper players to make a mistake in the backfield, the goalkeeper of the Grasshopper Geller hurriedly kicked the ball out and did not drive far, Lima was very imaginative and directly volleyed the goal, Jelle hurriedly retreated, jumped up in front of the goal and flicked the ball, and then he fell into the goal, due to the haste of the matter, he did not dial the ball far, and the inserted Ivanovic crossed the goal on the right side of the penalty area, and Caudijö easily pushed the ball into the empty goal.
The goal gave Kaudinjo a hat-trick and allowed Gossau to extend the score to 3-1.
But Coutinghoe's performance is not over, in the 77th minute of the second half, the Grasshoppers failed to attack, Coldingho took the ball near the midfield and passed it to Zhou Guodong, who replaced Esposito in the second half, and then ran forward, Zhou Guodong controlled the ball, attracted the opponent's defense, and then crossed Lima, Lima kept the ball and sent a straight shot after Coldingho received the ball to form a single knife, Grasshopper goalkeeper Jelle attacked, Coldinjo calmly shook Jelle, pushed shè in the empty goal.
Ralph, the commentator of the game, roared excitedly: "Senior Happiness, Kautingho also staged a Senior Happiness, this is his first Senior Joy in the Gosho team." With Egerman starting today, Cardinhoe was on fire and filled the attacking power of Gosau's team very well. ”
Caudijö ran to the side of the pitch excitedly, and on the side of the pitch, Xiao Yang had already stood up and led the players and staff on the bench to applaud Coldinho and celebrate Coldinhoe's first senior in the Gosho team, which was the best praise for the player who has been playing hard in the Gosho team. Gossau fans in the stands also chanted Kautinho's name.
Caudinhoe's goal was also the last goal of the game, as Xiao Yang substituted him immediately after his goal, and the Gosho team slowed down the pace of the game. Although the Grasshoppers still played hard, trying to score a comforting goal, they couldn't do it in the end, and the game ended with Gosho's 4-1 away win over the Grasshoppers.
In the post-match press conference for the game, Xiao Yang praised Cowdinghoe's performance and said that he is one of the best strikers in the world right now.
The head coach of the Grasshoppers, Sforza, also agreed with Xiao Yang's statement, saying that this game was completely Cowdinghoe alone defeated the Grasshoppers, and Cowdinghoe's performance was completely the performance of a top forward.
Eggman spoke to reporters after the game, in which he also praised his striker partner, saying that Kaudinhoe is very capable and no worse than himself, and that his goal tally is not as good as his own is entirely tactical, and that he sacrificed his stats in Gosau's tactics to fulfill himself. This time, he was able to perform a big four in the game against the Grasshoppers, which is a good proof of his ability.
Eggman said he was very happy to have a striker partner like Coldinghoe, and believed that Coldinghoe's performance would get better and better in future games.
The game against the Grasshoppers was already their fifth consecutive away game, and after this game, the team finally ended their long road trip and returned to their home stadium. On 1 October, they will host Serie A giants Napoli in their second Champions League group stage of the season.
On September 30, Napoli coach Mazzari led the team to Gosau, and in an interview with reporters, he said that this was his first time in Gosau, but he liked the town of Gossau, the scenery is very good. He also said that he likes the team very much, Xiao Yang's tactical style of play is very much to his liking, and the players of the Gosau team are also very strong, they are one of the strongest teams in world football today.
Mazzari said that Napoli is still far from Gosau's strength, so Napoli's goal against Gosau away is one point, and he will be satisfied if he can draw with Gosau.
When asked which player in the Gosho squad was the most fearful of Mazzarri, Mazzarri mentioned several names like Avanzini, Lima, Branislav Ivanovic and Kautinho, but he ended up mentioning Egerman, who he believes is the most dangerous one in the Gossau squad and that he is almost unstoppable.
Mazzal's words did not make Xiao Yang fluttering, of course his words will have some real ingredients, but I am afraid that it is still mostly smokescreens, Xiao Yang does not believe that there will be teams that do not want to win in such an important game as the Champions League, and Napoli is not a weak team, just kidding, last season Napoli was able to beat Milan to win the runner-up of the Italian League, how could it be a weak team?
Napoli's current owner, De Laurentiis, is an Italian movie mogul, in 2004, Napoli declared bankruptcy due to financial problems, and was relegated to the third division, at which time De Laurentiis came to the rescue, Napoli was promoted to the second division in 06, and the following year they were promoted to Serie A together with Juventus, who were relegated due to "phonegate".
After being promoted to Serie A, De Laurentiis increased his investment in the team, successively buying stars such as Hamsik, Lavezi, Cavani, etc., the strength of the team has increased significantly, and last season, it finally bore fruitful fruits, they won the runner-up of Serie A, and directly entered the group stage of the Champions League.
It is worth mentioning that last season's Serie A champions and runners-up, Juventus and Napoli, also happened to be the champions and runners-up of Serie B a few seasons ago.
Napoli have been successful in recent seasons, and the Italian media believe that De Laurentiis's Napoli is starting a great era after the Maradona era. And De Laurentiis himself is also ambitious, not only hoping to win the Serie A title again after the Maradona era, but also hoping to do something that the Maradona era has not done, that is, to win the Champions League.
Although De Laurentiis did not ask Mazzari to win the Champions League this season, this goal is more of a medium- to long-term goal, but it does not mean that Napoli have no idea about the Champions League this season, even if it is to gain more experience, they will not be willing to be eliminated in the group stage. Therefore, Xiao Yang has enough jǐng ti for Naples.
Xiao Yang said in an interview with reporters that Napoli is a strong team, although they do not have much experience in the Champions League, but this does not mean that they are easy to deal with, and they can beat Milan and other strong opponents in the fierce competition in Serie A to win the runner-up in Serie A has proved their strength, so the Gosau team will definitely go all out in this game.
When talking about Napoli's most dangerous figure, Xiao Yang mentioned Hamsik, who believes that the Slovak star is the brains of Napoli's midfield, who controls the rhythm of Napoli's attack and defence, and Napoli's threatening attacks are basically launched from him.
Of course, Xiao Yang will not forget Cavani, who believes that the Uruguayan centre-forward is a real goalkeeper, and it is not easy for him to contribute 26 goals and nine assists last season in Serie A, which is very defensive. He is the arrowhead of Napoli and Gosau will also be focusing on him in this game.
Xiao Yang also spoke highly of Napoli's coach Mazzalhi, saying that he likes Mazzalhi's coaching style very much, and that Napoli can play attacking football in Serie A, which is known for its defense, and can achieve good results, which he admires very much, and he also hopes that Napoli will get better and better under the leadership of Mazzalhi.
The performance of the two managers in an interview with reporters surprised reporters, the two managers had never met before and had never heard of any friendship between them, but they seemed to be so sympathetic to each other before an important game.
Although they sympathize with each other, the two managers will not have any reservations in the game. On October 1, Gosau's home match against Napoli started as scheduled at the Estadio Thunder, with both teams playing their main role.
CTV's commentator Duan Xuan was briefing the audience on the match: "Viewers, we are broadcasting live a match in Group D of this season's Champions League group stage, against the defending champions Gossau of Switzerland and Napoli, the runners-up of Serie A last season. It was the first time in history that the two teams had met and it was an authentic encounter. ”
"Now that the players from both sides have entered the pitch, let's first introduce you to the starting line-up of the home team Gosau, goalkeeper Cecarelli, left-back Ribeiro, right-back Gugelmann, central defenders Salihovic and Cevali, left winger Avanzini, right winger Horensten, midfielder Antunovic, while Ivanovic is in front of Antunovic and the two forwards are Egerman and Kautinho. This is also the usual line-up of the Gosau team. ”
"The visiting Napoli starting line-up is goalkeeper De Sanctis, the three defenders are Britos, Cannavaro Jr. and Campanaro, the midfield five are Almero, Inle, Zemaeli, Behrami and Hamsik, and the two forwards are Cavani and Pandev. This is also the usual starting line-up for Napoli. “