Chapter 42: The Wolf Castle Boss
At 15:30 p.m. local time on November 5, Germany (22:30 p.m. Beijing time on November 5), the defending champion of the Bundesliga, Borussia Dortmund, sat at home Signer? It's a high-profile game for Ivuna Park against Wolfsburg Wolfsburg, and if Dortmund win this game, Dortmund will surpass Schalke 04, who have a game in hand, to move into second place.
I have to say that Gundogan's playing time has been suppressed a lot this season, so Klopp also decided to sit on the bench first after returning from injury in this game, and Gundogan replaced Götze, but Gundogan played the position of central midfielder, while Guan Peng played the position before Gotze, left winger.
"Hello to the audience, we can see that Dortmund's starting lineup for this game is goalkeeper Weidenfeller, defenders Piszczek, Hummels, Subotic, Schmelzer, midfielders are Bender, Leitner, Gundogan, forwards are Guan Peng, Lewandowski, Grosskloitz, and it is still the 4231 formation that fans are familiar with." The on-site broadcast introduced the starters to the fans, and every player on the scene would cheer the fans as soon as they came out of the players' tunnel, among which Guan Peng's voice was relatively large.
"We can see that Gotze and Barrios, who have returned from injury, are on the bench, and there are captains such as Kele, Perisic, and Blaszczykowski sitting on the bench and ready to help the team.
"Okay, the game has started, Lewandowski rubbed the football to Guan Peng, Guan Peng passed the football back to Gundogan, and then ran to the left, I don't know if Guan Peng, who played left winger in this game, can surprise us?"
"On the other side, Wolfsburg's starting line-up is goalkeeper Benaglio, defenders Ohers, Chris, Kirgiakos, Schaefer, midfielders Theresch, Josue, Polak, forwards Salihamidzic, Dejaga, Mandzukic"
Not long after the start of the game, Wolfsburg gave the home team Dortmund a knock, Ohers and Salihamidzic on the right side to cooperate, Bosnian veteran cross, Schaefer after the ball slightly adjusted back to knock Pollack, Pollack did it again, Schaefer's cross was cleared by Subotic's header out of the bottom line.
This attack is very beautiful, but unfortunately the final cross was pushed out of the bottom line by the Dortmund defenders, but the Wolves' tactics are still very good, the tactical thinking is very unified, that is, a resolute attack, Wolfsburg and Dortmund's strength gap is there, so the Wolves coach is simply not ready to defend strictly, and directly pull it out to play against the attack.
This season's Wolfsburg ranking is very unsatisfactory, due to the mess of the previous team, Wolfsburg coach Magath is also very distressed, you must know that Magath is not an ordinary person.
Not a superstar as a player, Magath was an accomplished player, having played for Saarbrücken in the Bundesliga and had two seasons of good performances to help the team get promotion to the Bundesliga, where he was recruited by Hamburg in 1976.
Hamburg were a formidable northern powerhouse at the time, and after the introduction of the famous star Kevin Keegan in 1977, they won the league three times, the runner-up team three times, reached the Champions Cup final twice and won the trophy in 1983, in addition to the Cup Winners' Cup in 1977 and the League Cup final in 1982, the team set a record of 36 consecutive league games unbeaten in 1982-83. Magath has been doing quite well throughout Hamburg's glory days and has been the main force in the team's midfield.
After Keegan's departure in 1980, Magath became even more important as one of the team's most skilled midfielders, and it was with a long-range strike that Hamburg beat Juventus in the 1983 Champions League final. With this credit, Magath was ranked 5th in the Golden Globe Awards that year.
It's hard to imagine how Magath will be able to direct central midfielders such as Bayern Munich's core striker Rummenigge, Cologne's leading scorer Alofs and full-back Litbarski to run and receive the ball when playing for the national team, so he has not been able to play a central role in the club.
In the 1986 World Cup, Magath wore the No. 10 West German shirt, but he was not the core of the team's midfield.
After participating in the World Cup, the 33-year-old Magath officially retired. In his 10 seasons with Hamburg, he scored 46 goals in 306 appearances and scored three goals in 43 appearances for his country, making him one of the best players in Hamburg's history.
After familiarizing himself with the rules and regulations of the lower leagues, the father, who was already a father of six, came out of the country in 1995 and started coaching.
Since then, he has started his Bundesliga career, teaching at Hamburg, Werder Bremen, Eintracht Frankfurt and Stuttgart, where he gained an enviable reputation and fame.
When the Stuttgart club was on the verge of bankruptcy, Magath took over its team. Later, in the Champions League in April 2003, the coach led Stuttgart to the last 16 of that year's Champions League. In July 2004, he became the head coach of Bayern Munich, and won the domestic "double" for two consecutive seasons, but unfortunately failed to make a breakthrough in Europe.
He stepped down in February 2007 due to poor results and took charge of Wolfsburg in May of the same year, where he qualified for the UEFA Cup in 2008-2009. In the 08-09 season, he led Wolfsburg to 10 consecutive wins in the second half of the Bundesliga, especially a 5-1 home win over Bayern Munich, and finally won the Bundesliga title that season. After moving to Schalke 04 in 2009, Magath led the team to a runners-up finish in the league, proving his level and coaching ability.
On the afternoon of March 16, Beijing time, the Bundesliga Schalke 04 Club announced on its official website that after the decision of the Board of Supervisors, head coach Magath officially stepped down. Magath took over as Schalke manager from the 09-10 season and led the team to a runners-up finish in the league in his first season in charge, so he was trusted by Schalke FC and fans. However, in the new season, Magath's team has lost the glory of last season, and after 26 rounds of the Bundesliga, they are only 10th in the league. Although Schalke advanced to the last eight of the Champions League and reached the final of the German Cup, Schalke FC made the decision to let Magath go.
On Friday, local time in Germany, several major German sports media "Kicker", "German Sports One" and "Bild" successively disclosed that the head coach Magath, who had just stepped down at Schalke 04 yesterday, had a lightning-fast class at the former club Wolfsburg Club just one day apart, and he will replace interim coach Littbarski to help the team complete the relegation task this season.