Section 405 Finding the state
As last season's Bundesliga champions, the first important game Wolfsburg will have to face after the start of the new season is the Super Cup. This game is a match between the cup champion and the league champion, and this season, it is a competition between Bayern and Wolfsburg. Last season, Wolfsburg snatched a league title from Bayern Munich, and their battle is not over, and they still have to continue to draw a sentence from last season's battle at the beginning of this season.
In fact, strictly speaking, the Super Cup is not a big honor, although it is a trophy, but in fact it is just a warm-up game. Because the Super Cup matches generally take place at the beginning of the season, sometimes the team's state is not there, sometimes the team's schedule is not good, it is difficult to see how strong the team is in this game, and some teams will even choose to sacrifice this game for other games, so although it is also a trophy, but the importance is not very high.
But this game in the Bundesliga has attracted a lot of attention. After all, this game is the first game in which Guardiola decided the first championship after reaching the Bundesliga.
The name Pep Guardiola is definitely one of the most famous names among coaches around the world. He, like Mourinho and Carlo Ancelotti, has always been synonymous with top coaches. In his years at Barcelona, Pep Guardiola has won all the accolades, and even among championship coaches, he is one of the few people who has led the team to almost a dynasty. He also became famous for it.
He led Barça's success, his football philosophy, his coaching style. It has always been regarded as a research by many people. Many people attribute Barcelona's success to him, believing that without him there would be no Barcelona glory in recent years. But because he was born in Barcelona, when he coached there, Barcelona players were full of talent, and many people thought that whoever went to Barcelona to coach could win the treble, and he just happened to be at the right time. Some admire, others question. People have always wondered what level he is doing with the team without Barcelona.
And now. He came to the Bundesliga with his full honor, and coaching Bayern, who just won the Champions League last season, naturally attracted a lot of attention. Last season, Bayern won the Champions League. They are a true champion. The strength is one of the best in Europe. Taking over such a team, Guardiola is naturally faced with the only task: to build this champion team into a new dynasty team. And whether he can do this is also something that people are watching.
Dynasty teams are not so easy to build, especially since the Bundesliga and La Liga are two completely different football environments, and whether Pep Guardiola's experience can still be used well here is also attracting attention. Since Pep Guardiola arrived in the Bundesliga in the summer, his every move has been watched. He brought in Thiago from Barcelona. There is a suspicion that he wants to play Barcelona's control football. He tried the 4141 formation in the team, and there were concerns that Muller, who was so technically rough, would not be able to match Xavi. Will Andres Iniestapi's players be left idle because of their lack of skill. He teaches the players a new style of play on the pitch, helps them adapt to new tactics, and even when he comes off the pitch to demonstrate, he shouts from the sidelines, which will attract a lot of attention.
"Maybe if this continues, whatever Guardiola does, the media will need to report on it."
The top coaches, the influence and attention are completely incomparable to half of them. Pep Guardiola was watched by everyone after arriving in the Bundesliga, and it can be said that he attracted everyone's attention. And he can attract attention, of course, not because he is handsome, but because he has the potential to lead the team to good results - and compared to the league, cup championship, and Super Cup at the beginning of the season, it is natural that people want to see his real level of competition.
Last season, Bayern were arguably Wolfsburg's underdogs: although they won in the cup and lost in the league because Dortmund deliberately embarrassed them, in any case, it was an indelible shame for them to be beaten by Wolfsburg. And this season, they are about to meet Wolfsburg, whether Bayern can win, and what score will win, is also what the media has been discussing recently.
From the more conservative belief that you can win just after a change of manager, to the more radical belief that the time for revenge has come, and it is better to win by more than seven goals, these ideas have been mentioned in the recent Bundesliga. In this game, it seems that people are looking forward to Pep Guardiola's victory and want to see Bayern wash away the shame on Wolfsburg.
No one wants to be a stepping stone on someone else's path to success, and Wolfsburg is no exception, and they are training hard to win this game. No matter how strong Bayern is, last season was also their defeat, Wolfsburg naturally can't admit defeat, they also want to win, let others see, even if Bayern changes coaches, Wolfsburg is still their nemesis.
Such an idea is an important factor to stimulate Wolfsburg to move forward, the arrival of July, Wolfsburg also started their own warm-up matches, before the start of the official competition on the 28th, they also want to go through the first few games, quickly find their form, in order to be able to win the game.
It's just that the process of the warm-up match at Wolfsburg doesn't seem to be particularly satisfactory. At the beginning of the new season, the performance of Wolfsburg's players in the warm-up matches did not seem to be as good as expected, and among these people, Gao Shunyao was especially high.
The warm-up match with Bayern is approaching day by day, but Gao Shunyao found that his state is much worse than last season.
Since July, Wolfsburg has scheduled four warm-up matches, the first two against Germany's lower divisions and the last two against teams from abroad and Turkey. The game itself was not particularly intense, but the players still needed to play to see how they were doing, and in the first two games, Gao Shunyao's performance was really unsatisfactory.
In these two games, Gao Shunyao's touch action or running coverage in the game seems to be much worse than last season. He was always a little unsteady with the ball at his feet, and even made a direct mistake when he stopped the ball far away. And he pulls the side in the frontcourt, and the number of times he retreats seems to be significantly reduced compared to before, and on the court, the state is not as positive as usual. It seems that a summer has passed, Gao Shunyao's form has not been able to return in time, and on the court, his performance is not as good as that of the substitute veteran.
"The players at Wolfsburg don't seem to have regained their form, and they didn't play very well in their warm-up games."
When Wolfsburg played, the Bundesliga media also kept a close eye on them. And Gao Shunyao's performance, they also saw it all. It is obviously impossible for such Gao Shunyao to fight against last season's Champions League champion, and Wolfsburg's state has also been questioned by the media.
"You're in a bad state right now...... It's better to find your form quickly, if you go on like this, we're going to have a bit of a problem for the new season. ”
Regarding Gao Shunyao's poor state, Magath also frowned and expressed his opinion. He didn't be polite to Gao Shunyao, and directly told him that he needed to further regain his form. As for the coach's words, Gao Shunyao only nodded in agreement, but in his heart, he himself had some emotion.
He is not in good shape, and the biggest reason is that he is still a little tired. The lack of rest before the season and the lack of physical reserves naturally made his physical condition not as good as others. The national team competition has just been played on June 18, and the club will start again in July, and he has almost two consecutive seasons, and his form is naturally a little worse.
At the end of the day, he was just too tired. Magath actually knew this, so he also stayed in Germany to continue to recover in the following warm-up matches that needed to go abroad. For him, taking a break and finding his form is the first priority for him.
In this regard, Gao Shunyao could only smile bitterly.
The last time he faced this situation was when he had just transferred to the Bundesliga, which was also a season when he was about to play in the Bundesliga just after the J-League, and his physical strength was also a little lacking. But at that time, fortunately, he was still a substitute, and it didn't matter if he didn't have enough physical strength. And now, he is already the main force of the team, and if this kind of thing happens, it will affect the state of the team to some extent.
"I'll find a way to get back in shape."
Regarding the coach's accusations, Gao Shunyao also knew what he had to do. He can only hope for more rigorous training and rely on training to recover his form.
"You've got to hurry." That's all Magath can say.
Adding a lot of training does help the players to recover. And when players want to find their form, if they can work harder, the possibility of success will be greatly increased. However, with the Super Cup game just around the corner, he won't give Gao Shunyao time to continue to find his form, and when the game arrives on July 28, Wolfsburg still needs to play.
That's what Magath is worried about, and he fears that in the Super Cup, the team will lose because of Ko Soon-yao's loss of form. In the new season, Wolfsburg's strength can be said to have not declined much compared to last season, and if it loses in Gao Shunyao's absence, it will be too wronged.
Magat's concerns, however, seem to be in the wrong direction. When the July 28 race began, Magath quickly discovered that he might have something else to worry about.
In this game, Wolfsburg did lose, but the main reason for their loss was not Gao Shunyao. (To be continued.) )