Let's be honest, how much of a friendly match in the winter can play a role in the run-in of your team's back line? Gao Shunyao has always been deeply skeptical of this. Gao Shunyao has been debuting for a long time, and he has also mixed in different levels of competition, and he knows that only enough opponents of sufficient levels can make the team have the meaning of running-in. But can the intensity of the friendly match play this role? Gao Shunyao didn't believe it.

In the world, Wolfsburg itself is not a strong team, and their reputation is too far from that of the world's top heroes. In the friendly match in winter, top teams such as Bayern, as long as they open their mouths, there is naturally no shortage of fat sheep sent to the door, willing to have a life-and-death battle with them. However, it is a little difficult for the team of Wolfsburg to find opponents of sufficient quality.

If you can't find a good opponent, you naturally can't run in well. In the two games in Dubai, watching the performance of his teammates, Gao Shunyao still had some doubts about this Magath's designated backline in his heart.

Maybe it's really his fault: to be fair, it's pretty good at the back. Kjaer and Naardo are all talented players, although they have competed for positions in the past, and they are not particularly harmonious, but when Magath said that they should cooperate, they also abandoned their previous suspicions and worked together. The more experienced Naldo took the initiative to change his style of play to match Kjaer, which made their combination play quite well, and it looked like a big improvement.

Although the cooperation between the two of them is a little less detailed, they can fight and control the ball. Being able to complement each other and also help the front court. Theoretically, there should be no problem. Actually in a friendly match in Dubai. They played very well as well. Facing the Asian team that was looking for a friendly match, the two of them cooperated extremely well, constantly taking the ball to participate in the attack, and also won a round of applause.

But watching their performance, Gao Shunyao still muttered in his heart. He himself knows that Wolfsburg's several games against strong opponents in the first half of the season were all won by defensive counter-attacks. For them, defending and counter-attacking is fundamental. The Wolves backline is very reliant and this is something they can't tell. The slightest flaw could make a season of Wolfsburg's hard work go to waste, and the backline cannot afford to make mistakes, and the team demands a lot from them.

Now I see them playing well, but if they dare to make such waves against a strong team, then Wolfsburg will die a miserable death.

"I think they should know these things. There's no need to worry too much about them, they can play well. They are our teammates and they should be trusted. ”

Gao Shunyao once told Mandzukic about his concerns. And listening to his words, Mandzukic just advised him not to think too much. His attitude is right, Wolfsburg has already confirmed that there will be no substitutions, so naturally there must be more trust in his teammates. Otherwise, how would this ball be kicked?

It's just that Gao Shunyao is still a little uneasy in his heart: Wolf Castle did not introduce a side substitute this winter. There are already few players on winter transfers. There are even fewer people who are willing to come to Wolfsburg as a substitute, and this deal did not go through after all. There was no one on the side. The back line is also not stable, is it the second half of the season. Can only be counted on Bayern to play worse than themselves?

But the league has fallen to the point of being worse than bad, so what's the point? Besides, even if Wolfsburg wants to be worse, Bayern is afraid that Wolfsburg will not give Wolfsburg this chance.

Wolfsburg's wide reinforcements were not completed, but Bayern's forward reinforcements were completed. In order to make up for their problems this winter, Bayern still chose to buy strikers. It's just surprising that Bayern's choice of striker is not a particularly strong main center forward, they did not chase top strikers such as Cavani and Falcao as people think, but only bought their striker Di Santo from Wigan Athletic.

The Argentine centre-forward is the same age as Gao Shunyao, but his experience is very different from Gao's. At that time, he was hailed as a talented player at a young age, and his starting point was more than one step higher than Gao Shunyao. But it was precisely because of his genius that he was favored by Chelsea and bought for a high price. As a result, he was at the age of the rising season, but he couldn't play for two consecutive years, and after a few years of loan and no play, he transferred to Wigan Athletic, where although he became the main center forward, but the number of goals is still very few.

For players, if they are in their prime, their ceiling will be lowered a lot. used to be a world-renowned genius, but now compared to Gao Shunyao, he is inferior. However, although his strength is not good, it is clear that his luck is still very good, and this winter he was taken to Germany by Bayern.

Bayern's choice is actually not surprising: Bayern has already determined that it will change the head coach next season, and the arrival of Guardiola will definitely restructure the team. And it's no secret that Pep Guardiola likes players with good technique, and Lewandowski is a player he will definitely buy. When summer comes, Lewandowski has only one year left on his contract, and Dortmund is said to have agreed that he will leave at that time, so Bayern's real reinforcement is also ready to be made at that time.

Pep Guardiola is the future of the team, Heynckes is not - although it is somewhat unkind to say so, but this is indeed the situation that Bayern are facing now. Heynckes is still half a season away, and Bayern don't want to spend a lot of money at this time.

And the strikers who are being introduced now are actually just to survive this half of the season. After half a season, the strikers they brought in will inevitably be reduced to substitutes and play for Lewandowski. In this case, then of course there is no need for them to chase Cavani, Falcao - Bayern is not without that money, but there is no need to do so, tens of millions of dollars to buy a substitute player, that is not Bayern's style.

Although Di Santo is a little second-class, he is still a high striker. As long as he can activate Ribery and Robben up front on the pitch, that's enough. Bayern didn't particularly need strikers to score goals, their tactics were very diverse, and it wasn't difficult to adjust.

Although Bayern's idea was good, things did not go as smoothly as they thought. Di Santo may theoretically fit Bayern's requirements, but in reality, there are always some reasons why a player doesn't play well. The tactical centre-forwards don't ask for goals, but they don't play that well, and Di Santo didn't immediately show his ability to adapt when he arrived in the Bundesliga, and they didn't win their first game against Borussia Monchengladbach after the second half of the season.

The process of the game was similar to what Gao Shunyao expected, and Bayern was hastily replaced by Di Santo as the main force, although the whole game was dominant, but it was difficult to have a good goalmouth cooperation. Di Santo and his team-mates don't have any chemistry to speak of, and they don't play in the same rhythm as anyone else.

Although he is the fulcrum in front of goal, every time the football reaches his feet, the overall attack will either suddenly slow down or suddenly lose the running position. Di Santo has completely failed to figure out how to help Ribery and Robben play, and when he plays on the pitch, he still relies mainly on his own experience in the Premier League.

Throughout the game, his three-shot shot went wide of both corners, one too square, and there was no threat. And his several goal-front collaborations were not very good. Two threatening balls, one pass too early, teammates did not have a tacit understanding of running at all, and once the threat ball was passed into a half, Robben was almost injured, and he played badly this game.

It is precisely because of his bad that Bayern basically did not score in this game. Of the more than 20 shots on goal in the game, only Muller scored one. Not only that, because of the crazy attack, Bayern also exposed the loopholes in their own backline, which made the Borussia Mönchenchen counterattack successful, and the result was a 1-1 draw.

In the first half of the season, Bayern played against the sky with a record of one loss and one draw in half a season, but in the second half of the season, it can be seen that they really seem to have declined. Di Santo couldn't adapt to the tactics, Bayern couldn't find a good centre-forward, this loophole Wolfsburg had expected for a long time, and they were right.

It's just that for this game, Heynckes didn't particularly care about it after the game, although he didn't win, but when it came to the game, he still affirmed Di Santo.

'He's not used to playing in the Bundesliga yet, but he's done a really good job. I believe he has a bright future ahead of him in the Bundesliga and he has the ability to do better. I'm sure he'll get over that soon, and he'll continue to play his game. ”

Heynckes' words did not satisfy the media, who seemed to be merely justifying his own recruitment mistakes. Although the veteran coach is also a top coach, the Sanya King last season made the media criticize him a lot, and Bayern put a lot of pressure on him after they negotiated and decided to take charge of Guardiola. The media is also looking at him left and right, and there are many doubts about his approach.

But these words made Gao Shunyao care very much, because these words seemed to be just clever excuses, but if you think about it carefully, what he said seems to be right.

It is true that Di Santo is not playing well, but on the pitch, he has been trying to cooperate with his team-mates. Although the passing is not good, at least he has the awareness. His problem was just not adapting, not uncooperative.

This kind of problem is very easy to solve, especially when the opponent is surrounded by top players, and it is definitely not difficult to make some changes and further cooperate. Although Bayern played a draw this time, Heynckes was right, they will quickly overcome this problem and continue to be the invincible Bayern.

Heynckes has reason to be confident, because he knows that the negative impact of Di Santo will not last long. What's more, there is a very important reason for his self-confidence: although Bayern did not win this round, their points with Wolfsburg were not chased by Wolfsburg.

In the eighteenth round of the league, when Bayern played a draw, Wolfsburg also received its second draw in the league at this time. They were held to a draw by Stuttgart and missed a great chance to chase the points. (To be continued.) )