Chapter 50: Group Stage

This game is followed by the national team break, and now Gossau has not been selected for the national team except for Christen, who is an international of Liechtenstein, and Cabanas is a Swiss international, and Kumanre is also not selected for the Argentine national team because of his age, which is of course a pity for the players, but now it is a good thing for Xiao Yang, because his players have received nearly two weeks of valuable rest. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 Of course, if a player can be selected for the national team, it is also a good thing, which means that Gosau's influence has expanded again, but now the Swiss Super League has not received enough attention, and those national team managers have not paid attention to Gosau for the time being.

On 10 September, Gossau continued to take on defending champions Zurich away in the league, and as both teams were due to play European games in midweek, the match was brought forward to Saturday to give both teams an extra day to rest, and both teams certainly welcomed the Swiss Football Federation's humane move.

Xiao Yang sent a large number of substitutes for this game, and the Zurich team did not get a break this week due to the large number of Swiss internationals in the team, and they also sent a lot of substitutes because they had to play a Champions League group stage on the 14th. Gosau's young players, who had been recuperating for two weeks, burst out in this game, outperforming Zurich's substitutes.

In the 28th minute, after Meyer broke the ball at the back, he handed the ball to Ribeiro, who returned to the left-back position in this game, Ribeiro took the ball to the front court and handed the ball to the captain Avanzini, Avanzini deceived the opponent's right back with a feint and cut inward to the arc of the penalty area to shoot decisively, but unfortunately it was a little positive, and was saved by the goalkeeper of Zurich, but due to the great power of this shot, the goalkeeper of Zurich did not get the ball directly, and the ball fell in the small penalty area, Esposito appeared like a miracle at the spot where the ball landed and pushed the ball into the empty net to give Gossau a 1-0 lead away to Zurich.

Zurich still looked unexcited after conceding the goal, although they also launched some counter-attacks under the roar of Charlanders, but they were saved by Gosau one by one, and their own goal was penetrated again in the 42nd minute. Ivanovic cut off a somewhat careless pass in the opponent's midfield in the front court, and took advantage of the opponent's unstable footing, directly a scalpel-like accurate diagonal pass, passed the ball to the gap in the opponent's ribs, and Christen, who had been cruising on the right side, suddenly started, ran behind the entire back line of Zurich to receive the ball, and then went straight in, and shot the ball into the goal from the armpit of the opposing goalkeeper who fell to the ground to save. Christen looked excited after the goal, the 25-year-old Liechtenstein international was a regular for Gossau in his first season in Xiao Yang, and was slowly snatched up by the fast-growing young winger Horensten, but he was not discouraged and has been training hard to maintain his form, trying to show his ability in the limited game time and impress the manager. Xiao Yang also applauded Christen on the sidelines, but he also regretted in his heart that Christen was a little older, otherwise he would have been able to get the treatment of his own modification potential. But now, no matter how hard Christen tries, I'm afraid he can only accept the fate of being a substitute. If he is not willing to be a substitute, then he can only let him transfer.

In the 72nd minute of the second half, Branislav Ivanovic sent another scalpel-like through ball from the middle of the field, this time his pass found Kaudinho in the box, and Kaudinho easily pushed the far corner unguarded to extend the score to 3-0 for Gosho and seal the win for the team. After that, Xiao Yang replaced the three main players of Cabanas, Kufrey and Lima, played control of the ball, and also let them stay in shape. Although Charlanders made substitutions on the side, their attack did not improve under Gosau's control of the ball, and Gosau had no intention of expanding the results, and the final score was 3:0 at the end of the game, and Gosau successfully defeated the defending champions away.

In the post-match press conference, Charlanders once again praised Xiao Yang's coaching ability and the excellence of Gosau's young players, saying that Gossau is already a significant force in Swiss football and can participate in the title race. He also wished Gossau the best of luck in the UEFA Cup.

Xiao Yang also responded politely that Charlanders was his senior, and he still had a lot to learn from Charlanders. He also wished Zurich the best of luck in the Champions Cup. This is indeed what he said in his heart, Char Landers, an old man who is nearly 60 years old, has been coaching the Zurich team for 5 seasons, not only has excellent coaching ability, led the Zurich team to achieve a lot of good results, but also is kind, likes to promote juniors, and has a good reputation, Xiao Yang does respect this old man.

After this victory, Gossau has an unbeaten record of 6 wins and 4 draws in 10 league games, behind St. Gallen with 7 wins and 3 draws, and Sion in third place, they were eliminated early in the UEFA Cup qualification, but this made them focus all their attention on the league, so the results are also good, Basel, Juniors and Zurich are only in the middle of the table, but what is surprising is that the two teams in the relegation circle are actually the Grasshoppers and Lucerne, especially the Grasshoppers, After their new coach Geiger took office, he went against the grain and excluded dissidents, which made the team disheartened and winless, and now only has 9 points in ten rounds, ranking at the bottom, which makes people sigh for this former powerhouse.

Of course, Xiao Yang doesn't care about what happened to the Grasshoppers right now, and he has to prepare for the first round of the UEFA Cup group stage away to Parma.

Parma is a traditional powerhouse in Italy, once one of the seven sisters of Serie A, in the nineties and early twenties, there were a large number of fans in China, and there were countless big-name stars who went out from Parma. Although in recent years, due to financial problems, they have had to rely on selling stars to maintain the operation of the club, but their background is still not comparable to Gosau, so Xiao Yang attaches great importance to this opponent, and in the first away game he decided on a defense-oriented strategy.

In the match on September 15, Xiao Yang sent almost all of his main players, but he removed the striker Lima and the striker Coldinhoe, and sent Meyer and Cabanas to partner in the double midfield, so that the more defensive Ivanovic stood in front of the two midfielders as a barrier, playing 451. It was a tactic that worked, with Parma having few chances in the field of action under the disruption of Gosau's defensive three, but they seized a corner in the 70th minute when their 1.88m-tall, physical Kenyan midfielder Mariga nodded in the header.

After conceding the goal, Gosho counterattacked, Xiao Yang also replaced Caudijö and Lima to strengthen the offensive, Gosau pressed Parma for a while, Parma's goal was suddenly in front of the wind, but Parma's head coach Guidolin then replaced two defenders, Parma's back line went forward and followed, and kept the goal from losing, and in the first minute of stoppage time, Egyptian striker Zaki seized a counterattack opportunity to score a second goal for Parma and seal the win.

After the game, Xiao Yang reflected on his mistakes, he admitted that he overestimated the strength of these famous teams, from the actual game, Parma's players are not stronger than Gosau, Parma does not have big stars now, only some ordinary strength players, Gossau Some players are even more capable than them, such as Avanzini, Lima and Egerman, whose strength is more than 150, but he habitually puts himself in the position of a weak player in the game, but restricts his attacking power, relieving the pressure on the opposition backline. In reality, Parma didn't create many decent chances in the game, while Gosau had even more. It seems that I will have to look at my opponent with a normal heart in the UEFA Cup in the future. Xiao Yang laughed at himself that he was the tiger in the story of the poor skills of the donkey, and was frightened by a donkey.