After the eighth round, the media did not lose confidence in Karlsruhe, and most of the media in Baden thought that it was just Karlsruhe's carelessness, and that if they got serious, they could find their lost form in the next match. Only a few media believe that as other teams in the Bundesliga become more familiar with Li Huan, Federico and others, the following games in Karlsruhe will become more and more difficult to play. Offenbach's head coach also said after the game that Karlsruhe's loss to Offenbach was a lion who took a nap and woke up with the same ferocious lion.

During Monday's training session, the atmosphere in the Karlsruhe team was very depressing, and the usual scenes of players joking with each other were gone, and most of the players completed the training according to Hoss's instructions with their heads down. Becker was surprised that there was no lecture before today's training, which made the veteran players in Karlsruhe very unaccustomed, because the consequence of every loss last season was the cancellation of the holiday and the training was trained, but since then, many main players have been more worried in their hearts, and Becker's every abnormal move is regarded as a precursor to a storm.

After a set of passing and receiving drills, Becker stopped Ferres, who was a little absent-minded, and said, "Mike, what's wrong with you, is your head still on your shoulder?" ”

Ferres cried and said, "Coach, if you want to be angry, don't let us be so scared." ”

When Becker heard this, he couldn't help but laugh dumbly, "You guys don't get criticized and don't enjoy it, do you?" ”

Captain Stoll said honestly: "Coach, in fact, we played really badly yesterday, and we deserve to be criticized." ”

Becker stopped training and said, "It seems that if I don't talk about it, everyone can't train with peace of mind, so okay, I'll talk about it in advance." Originally, I was going to talk about it after the training was over. ”

The new and old players said in unison: "Coach, you just scold it hard, we can bear it." ”

Becker snorted and said: "Actually, you can't be blamed for the failure, it should be me who should be criticized first, our coaching staff was careless first, although Offenbach played a mess in the league, but in the first round of the German Cup, they eliminated Cologne, who entered the Bundesliga last season, how good Cologne is, I think the old players know it." This means that they have the strength to beat us. But we didn't notice this fact, the lion should be fought with all his strength, and the rabbit should be fought with all his strength. We were careless before the game and laid the trigger for defeat. And the opponent played very well in this game, obviously repeatedly studied our offensive routines, stationed heavily on the left side, did not hesitate to use fouls to stop Li Huan and Federico, and then frantically attacked our left side. Start scrambling from the midfield. And they don't give us well-placed free-kicks. ”

Hoss interjected: "The whole Bundesliga is studying us, Offenbach is definitely well-intentioned, and we are still insensitive, lack of hard work in the game, defeat is almost inevitable." If we repeat the form of the last game, then we will definitely have to lose in the second round of the German Cup. ”

"We're not going to lose!"

Hoss's words spurred the players' sense of honor and self-esteem, and they shouted almost in unison.

"I don't want to lose, but we have to take action and train hard instead of thinking about going to Munich every day to party." Hoss shouted.

A lot of players were lowered by what Hoss said, and indeed when they played Offenbach in the league, many people wanted to win the game and go to Munich, and then have a good beer in the beer tent and brag. Even now, there are a lot of players who are thinking of going to Munich after winning the game, or at least catching the tail end of the Oktoberfest.

Becker then issued an order prohibiting casual interviews, Becker said: "If you want to play well, don't read the comments of the reporters, they are written for the fans, not for us, will they know more than us, what is the game on the field, each of you knows very well in your hearts, why do you have to go to the media and TV reviews, you either want to hear the flattery of others or you want to hear the reporters defend you, and then anesthetize yourself with those unconvincing comments, and say to yourself, "Look, I played so well that all the fans adored me. Or "Actually, I didn't play badly, the fans and reporters said that I didn't play badly, but my teammates didn't work well together." "Tell you that these fantasies are useless, only you are the judge of how good or bad you play, don't waste time and energy looking at those useless things."

Becker's words had a deep impact on Li Huan, in his memory, this coach has never become a world-class coach like Mourinho, he has always been in some lower leagues and small clubs, and has never tasted the championship, but his understanding of football and journalists is undoubtedly profound, and Chinese players and coaches cannot compare. Li Huan clearly remembers that some coaches in China will read newspapers and comments on the Internet after every game, and they will be happy when they praise themselves, get angry when they criticize themselves, and even spend money to ask reporters to say good things about themselves. Hire the five Maoists on the network to insult opponents and journalists. And how amateurish these Super League coaches look, even inferior to the coaches of the Bundesliga.

After the lecture, the mood and training attitude of the players were much better, and everyone was ready to report the league revenge in the German Cup in midweek.

Defeat and victory will be a thing of the past, and the focus will always be on the next one.

Just after Monday, reporters and the media began to talk about the second season of the struggle between Karlsruhe and Offenbach, this German Cup match is different from the league, the league loses and loses, and everyone can make mistakes in the long season. Because you still have a chance to make amends, but the German Cup is different, it's a one-round knockout round, if you win, you advance, if you lose, you go home and wait for next year. And the stadium of the game is also decided by lot, depending on whose luck is good.

Karlsruhe's Stadtstadt did not interview any Karlsruhe players before the game, but only listened to the players speak a few words of programmatic diplomatic colloquialism under the club's arrangement, so the reporter did not break any news in the preview.

The reporter commented: "In the last few days of training, Coach Becker has not made any changes, it seems that he also thinks that the defeat to Offenbach was just an accident, he is still satisfied with the current style of play and personnel, so we predict that the home of Offenbach will be the starting line-up from the last league game." However, there may be some tweaks in the style of play, such as changing the 442 to 433 as in the game against Aachen, but then the three midfielders will be even more outnumbered, and we are only guessing what the Karlsruhe team that appears in the second round of the German Cup will be like, and maybe the final result will surprise us. ”

Not only Offenbach's reporters but also Frankfurt's reporters began to build momentum for the game, because Offenbach was originally a suburb of Frankfurt and was almost connected to Frankfurt. The Offenbach journalist said: "This German Cup knockout game is interesting, the opponents from the previous round of the league are playing together again, and after learning the lessons of the last game, does Offenbach still have a chance? Or will Coach Hoysen's tactics against Karlsruhe still work? Following the principle that the winner does not make trouble, Offenbach will not adjust the lineup and style of play in the knockout game of the German Cup, and the team has not had any injuries in training recently. If such a lineup plays again, we can fully understand whether the loss of Karlsruhe in the last game was accidental or inevitable. ”

According to the practice of the domestic media, if the team of the foreign player loses, then there must be a problem with his teammates, and the loss has nothing to do with the Chinese player. If the Chinese player's team wins, even if the Chinese player plays for a minute, the Chinese player will make a decisive contribution to the victory of the game. If you stay on the bench and don't play, nonsense, of course it's not reported, as a fan you don't even know you played this game.

The same is true in the eighth round of the German Second League, and domestic reporters' reports on this game are all critical of Li Huan's teammates, like "not afraid of god-like opponents, only afraid of pig-like teammates". "Federico is on the field? Then you must be looking at the wrong person." "That mistake from Borden? Mistakes are commonplace. If it weren't for Li Huan to fill in for him, maybe Karlsruhe would have conceded more than double digits." "Without Li Huan, Karlsruhe would be lying on his stomach in 16th place like last season!" Etcetera. For Karlsruhe and the next German Cup that will be played with Offenbach, the domestic media also have hot comments. However, Karlsruhe has been represented by Li Huan, or Li Huan has replaced the entire Karlsruhe. (Journalists are much better now, and around 2005, Chinese journalists did that.) It's embarrassing. The newspaper's preview of the match is as follows: "Karlsruhe carelessly lost Jingzhou in the last round, Wilder Park fell, and Karlsruhe, who lost his home, is now going to Biberley. The Borg Stadium went to grab the territory of the German Cup, but as the former German Cup champion, Offenbach, who eliminated the German team Cologne, will definitely not be restrained, the focus of this game is whether Li Huan can exert his power, although as a defender, but Li Huan is now the top scorer in the German Second Division, the reason why Karlsruhe can have such a strong attack this season is because of Li Huan's nuclear weapon on the right side. But whether Li Huan can exert his power mainly depends on Li Huan himself, but how much help his teammates can provide him. Becker must understand that he must put Li Huan at the core, both defensively and offensively. Otherwise, Karlsruhe will achieve nothing. ”

(To be continued)