Chapter 153: Unexpected

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Although the two-goal win away gave Dynamo Dresden the lead in this round of the UEFA Cup, Magath still did not dare to play against Fiorentina at home with the substitute line-up, so he had to strategically abandon the Bundesliga game on March 9. However, what many people did not expect was that goalkeeper Manuel Neuer had the help of God in this game, and he unbelievably defused seven fatal dangers, leading the Dynamo Dresden, which was mostly substitutes, to a narrow 1-0 home victory over the visiting Hannover 96 team, and the goal was scored by Polish center Lewandowski.

After this game, even the old coach of the Bayern Munich team, Heathfield, was a little desperate to catch up, but he still did not give up, continued to command the team to catch up, and at the same time asked the club management to buy people again, Gao Jun hated Bayern and refused to come, but it was okay to come to Neuer, anyway, the old goalkeeper Kahn was about to retire. Such poaching can not only strengthen the Bayern Munich team itself, but also weaken the competition, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone, and Bayern Munich FC is the best at this time

Magath was delighted with the surprise win against Hannover 96 and his approach to hiding his main force quickly paid off. In the UEFA Cup match against Fiorentina on March 12, in the face of opponents who were forced to play attacking football, the Dresden Dynamo team played a beautiful "class axe", with tight defense and sharp counterattacks to take a two-goal lead in the first half and completely kill the suspense of this game. In the end, Dynamo Dresden beat Serie A giants 3-0 at home, Gao Jun increased his total number of goals in this season's UEFA Cup to 10, and Neuer has unwittingly failed to concede a goal in eight consecutive competitive matches

Although the 2007/2008 season is far from over. However, the German Footballer of the Year winner is almost certain to be won by the Dynamo Dresden team, and it is generally believed that Gao Jun has more hope, given the fact that the frontcourt players have always been advantageous when it comes to awards, and his goal tally this season has been terrifying, with a total of 52 goals in all three club competitions combined. In a sense, he is even fully qualified to compete for the World Footballer of the Year. But Gao Jun also has a hard injury, he comes from China, where football is underdeveloped, and Neuer is German, and the captaincy of the team also has a plus, so some people also think that Neuer will become the next German footballer. But whatever the outcome, it won't hurt their friendship, and they'll never forget the days when they fought side by side with Dynamo Dresden

Although he has relied on his steady and excellent performance, the young Neuer has already begun to sprint towards the throne of the world's No. 1 goalkeeper. But the magic goalkeeper is not omnipotent. In order to ensure that the team can go all out in the German Cup semi-finals against Dortmund on March 18, Magath once again chose to rotate a large area in the Bundesliga match against Bayer Leverkusen on March 16, and the result was that under the full onslaught of the Leverkusen team, even if Neuer was still very good, the Dresden Dynamo team still lost by one goal, and the unbeaten gold body that has lasted since the beginning of the season finally came to an end. Bayern Munich, who has been trying to catch up but only see the widening gap, finally saw a glimmer of hope again

But Magath didn't care about it, and he put his mind on the semi-finals of the German Cup, yearning for the "Treble" honor. And the lads didn't disappoint him either, suffering from the home whistle disrupting away from home. Still defeated the strong Dortmund team 2-0 and advanced to the final of the German Cup, but if they want to win the Gold Cup again, they will have to defeat this season's biggest rival Bayern Munich, because the Bundesliga giants are the opponents that Dynamo Dresden will face in the German Cup final, which really fulfills the saying "not enemies don't meet"

The final of the German Cup will not be played until April 19. But just four days after the German Cup semi-finals, Dynamo Dresden will play Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga. The away game against Bayern Munich at the top of the Bundesliga table is widely regarded by the German media as the most important game of the Bundesliga this season, and its result will likely directly determine the Bundesliga title this season. However, in such a crucial match, Dynamo Dresden was without a full eight main players or rotational players. Among them, in addition to Mark. Wagerfeld was injured in the semi-final of the German Cup against Borussia Dortmund, while the other seven were all Asian internationals who had a World Wave qualifier to play in a few days' time, so even though the club had a crucial battle for the top of the table, all seven were called up by the national team

Magath also communicated with the national team coaches of China and Japan for this reason, but because the first round of the game did not recruit 5 international players of the Dresden Dynamo team and was forced to draw by the Syrian team at home, the coach of the Chinese team, Krauchen, did not dare to continue to take risks, insisted on calling Gao Jun and others into the national football team, Magath had no choice but to release him. As soon as the five Chinese internationals left, it was almost impossible for the Dynamo Dresden team to compete with the mighty Bayern Munich team away from home, so Magath simply did a good job to the end, and put back Yuto Nagatomo and Makoto Hasebe, two guys who had not been selected for the Japanese national team for a long time. This episode made Magath realise the inconvenience of Asian players playing for European clubs, and became an important incentive for him to purge some Asian players in the squad in the next transfer period, but of course this is a story for another time

Due to the absence of a large number of main players, the strength of the Dresden Dynamo team was greatly affected, in the face of Bayern Munich's overwhelming attack, the Dresden Dynamo team was unable to resist the solidity of the back line alone, although relying on the excellent performance of Neuer and the two central defenders, the Dresden Dynamo team stubbornly held the deuce until the end of the first half. But in the second half, the team still failed to withstand Bayern's almost crazy attack, and finally returned with a score of 0:3.

Bayern Munich managed to close the gap on the points to Dynamo Dresden to 13 points after the game, and more importantly, they regained their confidence with a big win, albeit on the basis of the opposition's poor personnel

Gao Jun and others were naturally very angry after learning about it, with such a mood, they were in a big killing game against the Kuwait team, although the referee at home in West Asia was as black as ever, but the Chinese team with more than one grade of strength beyond the opponent still defeated the Kuwait team with a score of 3:1 away from home, and relied on the advantage of goal difference to beat the United Arab Emirates team that also achieved a win and a draw to rise to the first place in the group, and the hope of the Chinese team to qualify for the top 20 group has returned to their own hands

Although the Dresden Dynamo team unfortunately lost the battle for the top spot, after all, the points advantage is very large, so after Gao Jun and other 7 Asian internationals returned to the team, he took into account the fatigue of everyone's travel between Europe and Asia, and only let Gao Jun and the other three come on as substitutes in the last 30 minutes of the second half. But even so, Dynamo Dresden beat Eintracht Frankfurt 2-1 at home, much to the disappointment of Bayern Munich fans who hoped that Dynamo Dresden would collapse under the pressure of third-tier operations. Gao Jun also scored a goal in this game, increasing his tally of goals in the Bundesliga this season to 33, leaving all the chasing players in the scorer list out of reach

It is worth mentioning that with the two assists in this game, Ozil's number of assists in the Bundesliga this season has increased to an astonishing 21, if it is in other seasons, such a number is enough for him to be elected as the Bundesliga Player of the Season, but there is a Gao Jun in the team who is more able to brush up on jรน, which makes Ozil love and hate him, if it were not for Gao Jun, he would not have such a beautiful number in any case, but it is precisely because of Gao Jun that Ozil's table is good, can only be willing to play a supporting role

To the surprise of Dresden, Bayern Munich's luck may have been used up in the battle for the top spot, and although they had the upper hand in this round of away games against Nuremberg, they wasted scoring opportunities again and again, and were eventually held to a 1-1 draw by Nuremberg, and the gap on the points with the Dresden Dynamo team widened to 15 points. With only eight rounds left in the Bundesliga this season, there is a five-goal gap between them and the top place, which is almost equivalent to the early announcement of Bayern Munich's title hopes. While the surprise early announcement of this season's Bundesliga title race was unpleasant for many, it was certainly a good thing for the Dresden Dynamo side, and Magath could confidently devote more of their forces to the other two competitions

On the evening of April 3, the quarterfinals of the League Cup kicked off, this time the Dynamo Dresden team was the home and away, and the opponent was the Eredivisie giants PSV Eindhoven, which was no less powerful than the opponent Fiorentina in the previous round, so Magath sent the strongest squad he could send. Magath's determination to win was contagious to his players, and the lads played at their best of the time in this game, giving the Eredivisie giants a definitive 5-1 victory as to why the fourth biggest league in Europe is the Bundesliga and not the Eredivisie

Gao Jun completed a hat-trick in this game, and he couldn't see the fatigue of running around at all, and the coach of the opposing team sighed helplessly, "The opponent has a superstar that you can't prevent, this kind of game can't be played at all, his stage should be the Champions League, not the League Cup" (to be continued......