Chapter 7: The Debut
Although the team's main striker Barrios was injured and could not play, Lewandowski's performance was also eye-catching, creating several good offensive opportunities, and Guan Peng from 2016 certainly knew how much Lewandowski would be in the future.
In the 13th minute of the first half, Guan Peng rushed forward with the ball and was pulled down by Hamburg defender Katzal, Dortmund got a set-piece opportunity in front, at this time Guan Peng and Gundogan stood in front of the football, with the referee's whistle, Gundogan stepped in front of the football, Guan Peng twitched the football sideways, and the football flew straight in, at this time there was a panic in the Hamburg penalty area, and the football came to Lewandowski's head accurately, but unfortunately, due to the interference of Westerman behind him, Lewandowski did not correct the football and was saved by Hamburg goalkeeper Drobney.
But soon, in the 15th minute, Guan Peng received a return pass from Gotze in the front field, and a long-range shot from outside the penalty area was slightly higher than the crossbar, which scared the Hamburg fans into a cold sweat.
In the 23rd minute of the first half, Piszczek in the backfield passed directly to Guan Peng, Guan Peng passed Lewandowski from the backfield, Lewandowski passed the football header to Götze against Westerman, Götze dribbled the ball at high speed along the right side, shook the opponent's left-back Dickmeier, and pushed the football horizontally to the middle.
Klopp on the sidelines was also very excited, and hugged the assistant coaches one by one, after all, in the first game of the new season, Klopp put Guan Peng in the team's starting position, and he was also very pressured, but he didn't expect Guan Peng's performance to be so good, in his first game, he was able to score, I have to say that this is really a perfect debut.
"Guan, you're doing amazing!" Gotze ran over and hugged Guan Peng warmly.
"Thank you, brother!" Guan Peng patted Gotze on the back, hugged his teammates one by one, and then returned to his position to wait for the restart.
As the defending champions, Borussia Dortmund are under tremendous pressure from the media and fans.
As the head coach of the team, Jurgen Klopp is undoubtedly the most stressed, he needs to select and develop good players through the minimum transfer fee, and finally sell the players, which is why Dortmund is the most powerful, this team has talented players and managers with excellent command ability, and the spirit of the whole team has gradually matched the performance of the champion team after the players won the Bundesliga title last season.
In the 29th minute of the first half, the Hamburg team's attack was once again defused by Hummels, who has to say that in the past few years at Dortmund, Hummels has become more and more a general.
Moreover, in the future World Cup in Brazil, as the main central defender of Germany's seven-to-1 bloody sweep of Brazil, Hummels commanded the German team's backline in an orderly manner, completely froze Brazil's offensive line, and made an indelible contribution to Germany's victory in the Hercules Cup.
At this time, you can see that Hummels' performance is getting better and better, and after breaking the pass from Elia to Perisic again, seeing that there is no one in front of him to defend at this time, Hummels actually strides the ball, and took the football until half time, before receiving the defense of Hamburg's defender Rincón, at this time, Hummels actually broke through Hamburg's defense with a straight ball, at this time Grosskloitz was successfully offside, and at this time he has formed a one-on-one with Hamburg goalkeeper Drobney.
"Gross!"
"Gross!"
The fans on the sidelines were also very excited, after all, seeing that the team was about to expand the score again, the fans were undoubtedly happy to hear it.
Unfortunately, it seems that the cheers of the fans caused Grosskloitz to be nervous, and in the face of goalkeeper Drobney's attack, Grosskloitz actually pushed the shot to the right post in such a good situation.
At this time, Grosskloitz was very frustrated and knelt in front of the Hamburg goal, very frustrated that he had just missed the scoring opportunity, while Drobney on the Hamburg side roared loudly, as if to warn the Dortmund players that he was definitely not something to mess with.
"Hey, bro, don't be too depressed, cheer up, trust me, you'll have a chance to score." Guan Peng gently patted Grosskloitz on the back, pulled him up from the grass, and returned to his respective positions.
"Chris, did you notice anything special about Guan?" Klopp asked his assistant Chris very seriously at this time.
"What do you mean?" Chris was a little puzzled, although Guan Peng was very good, Chris didn't find anything special about Guan Peng.
"Chris, have you noticed that when Guan appeased Gross just now, Gross didn't resist, you must know that Gross is usually a very short-tempered guy, and Guan was able to easily appease Gross, which made me see that he was special, that is, the temperament of a leader!" Klopp's eyes shone brightly.
Any such player can often give a great role model to his teammates, and it is easy to save the team when the team is in crisis, this is the leader of the team, the hero of the team!
After Drobny drove the football out of it, the football flew straight to Dortmund in the half, Perisic tried to control the football against Hummels, but the huge difference in height and weight made Hummel easily put the football to captain Kyle, who calmly passed the ball to Gundogan in the face of Elia's pressing.
Gundogan quickly rushed to the Hamburg half after winning the ball, but at this time, the Hamburg team had a number of defensive players Chen Bing, and Gundogan was difficult to pass alone, so he made a smash feint and successfully passed the football to Guan Peng after a player followed him.
After receiving a pass from Gundogan, Guan Peng suddenly found that due to a number of defenders coming to scramble, there was a defensive loophole in the Hamburg team at this time, Guan Peng immediately kicked the ball straight, sharply tore through the Hamburg defense line and passed to Grosskloitz, who quickly stepped forward, and then Guan Peng also quickly accelerated to the Hamburg penalty area.
Grosskloitz flicked the ball to the left in the face of the defense of Hamburg defender Ogo, Ogo suddenly pounced and thought that Grossklöitz was going to cross the bottom, facing the attack of Ogo and Westerman, Grosskloitz passed the ball to Guan Peng with difficulty from the gap between the two defenses, Guan Peng got the ball and faced the goalkeeper Drobney's attack, gently knocked back with his heel, and Grosskloitz shot in the face of the empty goal, and the football hit the net and almost broke the net.
"Ahh Grosskloitz roared loudly and rushed to the fans and excitedly ripped off his jersey, after all, he had just missed a great opportunity.