Chapter 136: The Eighth Round

It's not news that Gosau have won two straight league games in a row, but Gosau has attracted attention for their easy-to-use style of play against a hugely growing rival Basel, who have developed some of the best in the game. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Just when Gosau looked a little unstoppable, they overturned in the gutter in the away game against Neuchâtel on the 24th, and were held to a 3-3 draw by the home team.

Neuchâtel has also benefited from the new royalty sharing scheme this year, bringing in some quality players due to a significant increase in revenue, although they are undoubtedly not as good as the Gosau team, but they showed amazing courage in this game and played against the Gosau team who rotated several key players.

In the 16th minute, Neuchâtel's Argentine striker Mensegg shook off all the defenders and pushed his teammate's cross into the net of the Gosau team, which made the more than 10,000 spectators present boiling, you must know that the Gosau team is the new treble, but Neuchâtel is a relegation team every year, how can they not let their fans not lead the Gosau team?

In the 26th minute, Neuchâtel continued to attack in front, and Gosau's left-back Ribeiro cut off Neuchâtel's right midfielder Sercan. Shahin's foot of the ball, he immediately passed the ball to Tobinski in front, Tobinski passed the ball to Eggman in front, Eggman and Kautinhoe made a one-two combination and then dribbled into the penalty area, in the face of two defenders, Eggman did not choose to shoot himself, but passed the ball to Lima who had been inserted into the penalty area, Lima was about to kick the goal, Neuchâtel's Czech central defender Svijdik fell to the ground in a hurry, shoveled Lima to the ground, the referee did not hesitate to point to the penalty spot, A penalty was awarded, which Ribeiro converted and calmly slotted the ball into the bottom right corner of the net to equalise.

After that, the two sides entered a stalemate, until the 48th minute, Neuchâtel team got a corner kick opportunity, in the face of several big players in the Gosau team's penalty area, the player of the Neuchâtel team who took the corner kick did not send the ball to the Gosau team's penalty area, but passed directly to the front of the penalty area, Mensegg received the ball after a slight adjustment, and then blasted out a world wave, the ball hung straight into the upper left corner of the goal, Checarelli has stretched his arm to the limit, but still could not prevent the ball from going into the net.

Menseguez was thrilled to score a brace, and at almost 30 years old, he is not a first-class striker, and scoring two goals against the new Champions League winner was already the best moment of his career. He rushed to the fans stands, and the Neuchâtel fans gave the striker their warmest cheers.

After falling behind 1:2, the Gosho team launched a fierce counterattack against the goal of the Neuchâtel team, and Xiao Yang also replaced Sampedro with Ivanovic, who started for the first time for the Gosau team, because the second goal scored by Mensegues was the responsibility of Sampedro, who was supposed to defend at the edge of the penalty area, was out of position. Sampedro also knew this, and after being substituted, he admitted his mistake to Xiao Yang, and then honestly sat on the sidelines and watched the game.

After all, there is a big gap between the strength of Neuchâtel and Gosau, and after Gosau has made a strong effort, they are pressed back into their own half. Seeing that the situation was dangerous, Neuchâtel's coach Schulman took the initiative to let all his players retreat to the half to defend, and their iron bucket formation also had a certain effect, and until more than 70 minutes, Gossau could not score again.

In the 76th minute, Horensten threw a throw-in in front, Ivanovic stepped forward to respond, after he stopped the throw-in, got rid of a defender of the Neuchâtel team on the spot, and passed the ball to Kautinjo at the front of the penalty area, Kautinjo looked up at the situation in the penalty area, and then directly shot the upper right corner of the goal with his right foot, Neuchâtel's goalkeeper Fabricio stood slightly forward, and when he realized that Kautinjo was shooting directly, it was too late to save, and the ball passed above his fingertips, Rubbing the crossbar and falling into the goal.

This imaginative lob shot silenced the Neuchâtel fans in the stadium, such a goal should have made the fans cheer and cheer, but it happened to his own team and the fans were a little unacceptable.

After the equalizer, the Gossau team continued to attack, in the 87th minute, the right-back of the Gosau team Checaroni stepped forward with the ball, just past the midfield he passed the ball to the front of Horensten, Horensten dribbled the ball down at high speed and crossed, passed the ball to the front of the penalty area Kautinho, Kautinho pushed the ball, Eggman understood, inserted into the penalty area and received the ball, facing the attacking Fabricio, he used a strong volley for the Gosho team to overtake the score.

After a brief silence, more than 10,000 Neuchâtel fans began to cheer loudly for their team, hoping that their favourite team would seize the opportunity to equalise, and they were not willing to let such a wonderful start to the game be wasted.

Cornered, Neuchâtel launched a decisive attack, Schulman used up his last two substitutions in succession, and replaced two attacking players, and the gambling substitution paid off.

Just when everyone thought that Gosau would win the game, in the third minute of stoppage time, the Neuchâtel defender made a long pass, and the newly substituted attacking midfielder Geiger stopped the ball at the edge of the box and sent a through ball, and striker Gavnoric received the pass and fired a low shot near the arc of the box to equalize for the Neuchâtel team.

Gavnowich celebrated wildly from the sidelines after the goal, and his team-mates rushed forward to knock him to the ground, with the Neuchâtel fans shouting Gavnorich's name in the loudest voices.

Standing on the pitch and looking at the Neuchâtel players, Lima pouted and said: "Look at them, they have to look like they have won the European championship, as for that?" ”

Eggman listened to Lima's words and smiled and said, "How can I listen to you a little sour?" Aren't we the European champions? Wouldn't it be like they could draw with us and have the level of a European champion? Of course they do. ”

Lima glared at Eggman: "Can that be the same?" Then the European championship is too worthless, right? ”

"It's good to know, we're the European champions, what do you care about them?" ”

Lima said: "The truth is this, but I have always felt a little bad in my heart when I have been forced to level it so much." ”

Eggman said: "Then just play well and never play such a bad ball again?" ”

Lima nodded.

With the referee's intervention, the Neuchâtel players finally ended their celebrations and returned to the pitch with Gossau opening the halfway goal. But as soon as Egerman kicked the ball out, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, and Lima vented a lob shot from the middle circle, which went into the net as the Neuchâtel goalkeeper had already rushed out to celebrate, but it didn't make much sense.

The Gosho players who are used to winning are very unhappy with this draw, but Xiao Yang did not take this draw to heart, the league has just begun, and a draw will not affect the Gosho team's plan to win the league, not to mention that the Gosho team has also rotated several main players in this game.

However, the draw has cheered most of the Swiss media, who of course hope that Gossau will bring glory to Switzerland on the European stage, but when it comes to the domestic stage, they still hope that the competition in the league will be as fierce as possible. Last season, the Gosho team started with eight consecutive wins, and this season the Gosho team is even stronger, the media thought that the Gosho team would continue to win, and some people bet on how many games the Gosho team could win in a row, but they didn't expect the Gosho team to stop the winning streak in the third game, which made many people celebrate.

On July 27, the Gosho team returned to the home stadium to face the Aarau team, the game was no suspense, the Gosau team won the game with a clean 4:1, Eggman scored two goals, Avanzini and Caudienjo scored one goal each, after leading 4:0, Xiao Yang replaced the three main players, and the result allowed the Arau team to score a face-saving goal, but this was harmless in Xiao Yang's view.

On August 4th, the Gossau team challenged the St. Gallen team away, facing the derby opponent and the defending champion, the head coach of the St. Gallen team, Molinini, shouted the slogan "To snipe the Gosau team for the healthy development of the Swiss Super League", this slogan made Xiao Yang smile, this Molinini is quite good at shouting this kind of slogan, could he have been a political commissar in China?

It has to be said that Moulinini's slogan has also aroused the hatred of many teams, and some media have commented that Gosau's dominance and monopoly of the championship have hindered the normal development of the Swiss Super League.

Xiao Yang could only smile bitterly when he saw these brainless remarks, the monopoly championship of the Gosho team can only show that he has the ability, you have the ability to win the championship, don't you want me to let the championship go if you can't get it? Is there such a thing in the world?

Christine of the newspaper "Gosau" immediately published an article to refute this fallacy, in which he said that the Gosau team is indeed a standout in the Swiss Super League now, but does the existence of the Gosau team hinder the development of the Swiss Super League or promote the development of the Swiss Super League? We can look at a set of data, before Gossau entered the Swiss Super League, the Swiss Super League ranked only 15th in Europe, only 0.2 points away from the 16th-placed Scottish Premiership, and because the Swiss team has not achieved any results in the European arena for several consecutive years, the decline is obvious, if it really falls to 16th, then the Swiss team that can play in the Champions League will change from two to one, needless to say, this is a very big blow to the development of the Swiss League. With one less Swiss team to pick up points in Europe, the Swiss league will only get lower and lower in the European rankings, which is an almost irreversible process.

After the rise of the Gosho team, due to their brilliant achievements in the European arena, the Swiss Super League has also risen in the European rankings, and now ranks ninth in Europe, and the Swiss teams that can participate in the Europa League next year will become four, which means that Switzerland will have as many as 6 teams that can play in European competitions every year, that is to say, more than half of the teams in the Swiss Super League have European competitions to play, and their income will also increase, which is of great significance to the overall strength of the league, and all this is brought by the Gosho team. With the good momentum of the Gossau team and the efforts of Zurich and other teams that are now performing better and better in Europe, I believe that it is only a matter of time before the Swiss league ranks in the top five in Europe and becomes one of the top five leagues in Europe.

There is also a set of statistics, before the rise of Gosau, the average attendance of the Swiss Super League was only a little over 10,000, and the attendance rate of some games was even less than 1,000. After the rise of the Gosho team, this number has now become nearly 20,000, and this is because the Gosau team's home stadium can only accommodate 3,000 people, and after the completion of the new home stadium of the Gosau team, this number will increase significantly. More people come to the stadium to watch the game, which means that the teams in the Swiss Super League will receive more ticket revenue, which means that they will have more money to spend on players and improve the team.

Finally, the TV ratings of the Swiss Super League are also rising sharply after the rise of the Gossau team, originally only Swiss fans watched the Swiss Super League, and the ratings were not high, but now, the Swiss Super League games, especially the games in which the Gossau team participated, not only have more and more Swiss fans watching, but also many fans in the surrounding Germany, Austria, France, Italy and other countries have watched it, and even some TV stations in China have purchased all the games of the Gossau team and broadcast them live to Chinese fans. This has not only expanded the international reach of the Swiss League, but also given the teams of the Swiss League practical benefits, and now the annual broadcast fee share of the Swiss Super League teams has increased from about 1 million euros to about 5 million euros, which also gives them more money to buy players and improve their strength. As far as I know, this almost equal distribution of broadcast fee sharing plan was proposed by Mr. Xiao Yang, the chairman of the Gosho team, in fact, he could have taken the lion's share, but he hoped that the overall level of the league would improve.

The teams in the Swiss league have increased their investment this season, and the Swiss league, which has always been outgoing excellent players in the past, has introduced a large number of excellent players for the first time this season, and the consequence of this is that the Swiss Super League is becoming more and more competitive, and the spectacle is getting stronger and stronger, and the strong viewing means that there are more and more fans watching the game, which is a virtuous circle. And all this is brought about by the rise of the Gossau team, can we say that the presence of the Gossau team hinders the development of the Swiss league?

It turns out that the presence of the Gossau team is precisely the development of the Swiss league. I don't know what the teams that say Gossau is hindering the development of the Swiss league think, do you want to dominate in a league that is 16th or maybe lower in Europe, and you don't want to fight for the title in a league that is 9th or maybe higher in Europe? If you really think so, then I can only regret that you are as timid as a mouse, and you are short-sighted.

After Christine's article was published, it suddenly stirred up a thousand waves, and many neutral media expressed support for Christine's remarks, only some pro-Zurich, Basel and other strong teams of the media are still strongly advocating the threat theory of Gosau, but this voice is already very weak, because Christine's article is well-founded, and now the development of the Swiss Super League is indeed advancing rapidly, and these are indeed brought by the Gosau team.

On August 4th, the Gosau team went to the away team to challenge the Saint-Gallen team, although Morinini wanted to beat the Gosau team very much, but the shouting slogan could not change the strength of the two sides, and the Saint-Gallen team still lost 1:3 at the feet of the Gossau team.

Of course, the game was as intense as the previous matches between the two sides, with St. Gallen scoring a goal for Gossau just two minutes into the game, a goal that cheered up tens of thousands of St. Gallen fans as if they saw hope of a victory over Gosau. It wasn't until the 25th minute that Coutingho received Gugelman's assist to equalize for the Gosho team, in the 34th minute, Egerman received Lima's through ball for the Gosho team to overtake the score, and in the 49th minute of the second half, Lima's personal breakthrough sealed the win for the Gosho team, and then, the gunpowder smell of the game became stronger and stronger, the central defender of the St. Gallen team, Schenkel, received two yellow cards in a row in three minutes due to excessive defensive movements, and was sent off in the 71st minute, and the St. Gallen team no longer had the ability to counterattack, In order to avoid injuries to the players, Xiao Yang also slowed down the offensive rhythm of the players, and in the end, the score of 1:3 was maintained until the end of the game.

On 11 August, Gossau hosted promoted Malucane at home. The match was a huge disparity in quality, but Gosau were unlucky in the first half, hitting the woodwork twice. Not only did they not score a goal themselves, but in the 16th minute, right-back Gugelmann also headed the ball into his own goal in a corner kick, and until the end of the first half, Gossau still trailed Lucerne 0-1. In the 44th minute, Gugelmann made up for it, he actively stepped forward to assist, and after a one-two with Lima, he dribbled down the ball at high speed and crossed to help Coldinhoe equalize for the team.

In the 66th minute, Gugelmann knocked the ball to Lima near the midfield, Lima passed the ball to Kautinjo at the edge of the penalty area, Kautinjo protected the ball with his back to the goal, and saw that Lima had inserted the ball near the penalty area after passing, he knocked the ball back to Lima, Lima kept the ball and sent a diagonal pass, which penetrated the entire defense of the Lucerne team, and Avandzini got the ball after cutting into the box at high speed from the left. A low shot made it 2:1.

Six minutes later, in a counter-attack, Horensten won the ball at the back and sent a long-distance through ball, Kautinhoe successfully countered offside, he broke through to the right side of the penalty area and swept the ball to the middle of the box, Egerman followed up in time, a furious shot, the ball went into the net, Gosho team extended the score.

Subsequently, Xiao Yang replaced three main players in a row, and the final score of this game was 3:1, and the Gosau team won the opponent at home.

On August 18, the Gosho team challenged the youth team away, and this game attracted a lot of attention, because the only defeat of the Gosau team in the league last season was the away loss to the youth team, and this season the young team has invested a lot and the strength has been greatly improved, so many people have high hopes for the young team, hoping that they can snipe the momentum of the Gosho team's winning streak at home.

However, the game disappointed many, as Gosau did not give the youngsters a chance as they thumped 4-1 against the youngsters, with Eggman scoring a hat-trick and Avandzini netting the other.

On August 25, the eighth round of the league, Gosau hosted Sion team, and this game was followed by the UEFA Super Cup match, by last season's UEFA Champions League champion Gosau team against last season's Europa League champion Netherlands' PSV Eindhoven team, so Xiao Yang sent most of the rotation players in this game, but Gosau team still defeated Sion team 4:0, Eggman scored two goals, Esposito scored a goal, and young striker Hoddle also scored the first goal of the official match for Gosau.

After this game, Gossau is at the top of the league with 22 points from seven wins and one draw in eight games, and is already four points ahead of second-placed Zurich.

The day after the match, Xiao Yang flew to Monaco with the team to prepare for the UEFA Super Cup on August 30 at the Louis II Stadium in Monaco.

This year's UEFA Super Cup matches are the second time in the history of the two sides of the competition, Gossau and PSV Eindhoven, the last time the team played in the Super Cup was last season as the Europa League champions against Champions League champions Bayern Munich, but due to refereeing problems, the opponent was defeated; PSV Eindhoven last competed in the competition back in 1988, when they won the only European Cup in the club's history, but they were beaten 3-1 home and away over two legs against then-Cup Winners' Cup winners Mechelen Belgium in the UEFA Super Cup.

PSV Eindhoven also flew to Monaco on the same day as Gosau, and reporters from major European media flocked to interview the coaches of both teams, Xiao Yang and Stevens.