Chapter 100: The Truth Hurts
PS: Thanks to the book friend "Brother Coke", "Cangfeng", "Soul Broken Point", "Linfeng 0622", "Fang Yunxuan" voted for the monthly ticket and the book friend "jrAoy" for the reward, the manuscript is used up, the Spring Festival is approaching, and I can't afford to continue to rush to full attendance, this month began to restore fΓΉ to the previous one shift every day, two shifts on Sunday, please forgive T-T
At this time, the Dynamo Dresden team was shrouded in the joy of beating the former Bundesliga giants, and the coaches and players were somewhat proud and complacent, with the illusion that "the Bundesliga is nothing more than that", and Magath's words were soon fulfilled
In the second round of the Bundesliga a week later, Dresden, which continued the strategy of the previous game, although the offensive was full of enthusiastic cheers from the home fans, but it was never able to break through the goal of the Bundesliga powerhouse Schalke 04, and was counterattacked by the opponent in the second half, and finally lost 0:1
Within days of the loan of Neuer to Dresden, the acting head coach at the time was dismissed, and the head coach of the powerful team, Mirko Neuer, was dismissed. Slomka took over. This guy is not very good at interpersonal communication, and in almost every team he will offend the club, coaches, players and fans, because he has not been able to develop too well, so his reputation has not been too big, but he is very capable in business, although the offensive aspect is poor, but the defensive tactical level is extremely high.
In the second round of the Bundesliga, Schalke 04 also relied on a watertight defense to polish the spirit of the Dresden Dynamo team, and then used their impatience to suddenly sneak attack and finally win this crucial game. Thanks to Neuer's excellent appearance, Dresden might have lost by three goals otherwise, but if a team always relies on the goalkeeper to deal with the opposition's quick counter-attack. This in itself is very worrying
If Dynamo Dresden are to be in contention for the title, then losing on their home turf to Schalke 04, a strong contender for this season's Bundesliga title, would be tantamount to losing a crucial game worth six points. Dynamo Dresden's head coach Stano was under a lot of pressure after the game, and what made him even more headache was that it would not be long before all five Chinese players in the team (Yang Hao also joined the national team) would return to China to play for the national team. Although the game is played on the FIFA match day and will not directly clash with the Bundesliga, when thinking of the "FIFA virus", Stano is still a little worried.
What are the games of the Chinese national team at this time? It turned out to be a qualifier for the Asian Cup, and there was no need to recruit overseas internationals to help in this game, because there were two strong Asian teams in the group, China and Saudi Arabia, and the top two could qualify. But what Gao Jun and others didn't expect was that the new coach of the national football team, Yin Tiedan, who was in a transitional role, led the Chinese national team, which is mainly composed of domestic players, to overturn in the gutter and was forced to draw by the Yemen team, a weak team that is not ranked in the top 20 in Asia, in this way, the national football team must win both games against Saudi Arabia on September 3 and Yemen on September 6 to ensure qualification. Because West Asian teams have a tacit ball tradition, if the points are not high or low, it is easy to be eliminated by Saudi Arabia and Yemen.
And in order to ensure that these two games are won, the Football Association can't think of a better way in addition to urgently recruiting overseas internationals, after all, the Saudi team is the top six in Asia (after the World Cup in Germany, the Australian team joined the AFC in order to make it easier to get a place in the World Cup in the future, which is also one of the reasons for Huang Jianxiang's "commentary door". And the Yemeni team is a little weaker. However, considering the difficult away game in West Asia, they may not have the possibility of another upset if they can draw the national football team at home in China
"Alas. If the national football team plays Saudi Arabia first, maybe we don't have to make this trip. Gao Jun thought a little depressed after receiving the call. Gao Jun still knows a lot about Yin Tiedan, who is now over half a hundred years old, because in history, Gao Jun took over the position of the national team from him. This guy Tie Dan is a very typical old-school handsome, and his business level is relatively low. When it comes to tactics, in fact, it will defend and counterattack, and it is also the lowest level of "swinging the bus to defend intensively + finding a speed-type striker behind a long pass or flying down the bottom cross with both wings", but the Saudi players who are used to the slow pace are still very stunned. Even if you only rely on domestic players, the national football team has the possibility of stealing a victory if it plays well. However, playing the weak team of the Yemen team, the weakness of Yin Tiedan's tactics was exposed, because the Yemeni team was very satisfied with the draw, so it became the national football team that had to be attacked, with Yin Tiedan's simple tactics, it was naturally difficult to break through the opponent's dense defense, and the pressure of the home game was great, and the mentality was anxious and it was easy to be attacked by the opponent and lose the goal.
Thinking of this, Gao Jun's heart suddenly moved, wasn't the same situation in the first two games of Dresden? In the first game, Bayer Leverkusen attacked aggressively for the sake of the face of the strong team and the dignity of the home team, but could not break through the solid defense of the Dresden Dynamo team, but was beaten into a sieve by their sharp counterattack, although there was a certain luck factor in the final score, but the victory of the Dynamo Dresden team in that game was indeed a certainty. And in the second game against Schalke 04, the situation was completely reversed, Dresden attacked crazy with a crazy victory, and Schalke pretended to be a grandson to defend it, and then sneaked up from time to time, if it weren't for their lack of efficient shooters, Neuer's watch was too brave, Dresden might have lost a few goals!
"After all, Dresden is still not strong enough! If it is in the Bundesliga, in this case, you can rely on the personal ability of Conca and Xiaohao to solve the problem, but when it comes to the Bundesliga, especially a strong team like Schalke 04, it is not so easy to do", Gao Jun thought of this, and suddenly laughed, "Cut, we are just a promoted horse, and it is not an old team like Kaiserslautern back then, it is unrealistic to win the championship in the first year, it seems that I was really carried away by the big victory in the first game." Now we have a certain chance of winning as long as we can play any team, and we have the ability to stir up trouble and create some trouble for the Bundesliga championship team this season. ββ
In fact, even among the Bundesliga teams, few teams have defended as tightly as Schalke 04, at least not Dresden's third Bundesliga opponent, Hannover 96. In the third round of the Bundesliga on August 26, Dynamo Dresden swept away from home with a score of 4:0 and quickly stabilized the morale of the army. In the game, Gao Jun, who was still mainly a containment task, seized the only two chances in the game to score his first brace in the Bundesliga, while also contributing an assist, and he was voted Man of the Match for the first time in the Bundesliga. This is undoubtedly a good birthday gift for Gao Jun, who just celebrated his eighteenth birthday the day before
Although this game was won very beautifully, Magat, who had never been dead set on the introduction of Gao Jun and had been paying attention to him, criticized Dresden coach Stano again after the game, thinking that he did not use Gao Jun well at all, "In this game, the advantage of the Dresden Dynamo team is very obvious, with a total of 23 shots on goal, of which Gao Jun shot 2 times and scored two goals, while other players completed a total of 21 shots on goal, but also only scored two goals, the efficiency gap is so big, Why do you need an efficient shooter that any team dreams of, doing the auxiliary work of containing the defense? β
At this time, the reporter of "Kicker" magazine reminded Magath that "now all teams have a tight guard on Gao Jun, in this case, instead of hoping that Gao Jun will get rid of the tight marking, it is better to use this and let his teammates who have more room to move be responsible for the main attack." β
"Keep a close eye on it, this is indeed true, but are Gao Jun's teammates dead people? Won't they come to support Gao's army? Let Gao Jun be surrounded by two or three, or even more opposing players? I guess Stano doesn't know what to do, right? Also, such a young head coach is still from Eastern Europe, where tactics are backward, but it's a pity that he has so many excellent players under him! Magath shook his head, expressing his sympathy for the Dynamo Dresden players.
Stano had not been in Germany for a long time, and he was still reluctant to read German newspapers and magazines, so he did not know about Magath's remarks at first, until a reporter interviewed him and mentioned him, and Deng was furious. Strictly speaking, although Magath is a little more vindictive, those words are basically the truth, but the problem is that the truth is often the most hurtful.
Stimulated to lose his mind, Stano knew that Magath's words were likely to be psychological warfare for the first game between Bayern and Dresden in the near future, and he was still determined to use the tactics of attacking around Gao Jun in that game to prove that he was capable of using Gao Jun well
During this time, Gao Jun and they returned to China to participate in two national team games, due to Gao Jun's efforts, in fact, Yang Hao, who was not optimistic about Yin Tiedan, was also selected for the national football team and started in the game against the Saudi team. However, as Gao Jun expected, Yang Hao's fast ball characteristics were fully played in the game against the Saudi team, and the Chinese team's already sharp and rapid counterattack was therefore more powerful, and finally Gao Jun still scored two goals under the strict marking, and Xue Lin and Xie Wenjun, who started for the first time on behalf of the national football team, also scored a goal each, helping the national football team defeat the Saudi Arabian team that has always been afraid of the speed advantage of the Chinese team 4:2 away, defending the honor of the national football team's "West Asian nemesis".
PS: The "West Asia" here only refers to traditional West Asian teams such as Saudi Arabia and Kuwait with slow pace but delicate skills, and does not include power teams such as Iran, Syria, and Qatar, which have a tough style of play and are not lacking in speed. (To be continued......)