Chapter 115: The First Ball

In the end, Bayern defeated Arsenal 3-1 away from home and held a huge advantage in the two-legged knockout round.

This game was originally the focus of the battle, and at the same time, there was such a key figure as Ringer, so naturally Chinese reporters were indispensable, so at the post-match press conference, Heynckes was asked about Ringer many times.

"Coach Heynckes, what do you think of Ringer's performance in this game?"

'Lin did his job well, he was involved in the team's third goal and he had a perfect Champions League debut.

"Will this game allow him to get a better position at Bayern, can he be a starter?"

"Bayern have a lot of stars at the moment, and he still needs to wait for his chance."

In the face of a mild-tempered old man like Heynckes, if a Chinese reporter asks Mourinho like this, he will inevitably be scolded.

Soon, news about Ringer made a comeback in the Chinese media.

"Ringer becomes the fourth Chinese player to play in the Champions League"

"Coming off the bench to help the team extend the scoreline, Ringer's Champions League debut"

In the history of the Champions League, there have been a total of three Chinese players who have played before.

In the 06/07 Champions League, Chinese player Sun Xiang, who played for PSV Eindhoven in the Eredivisie, played in both legs against Arsenal in the round of 16, coming off the bench at home in the first leg and starting at Arsenal's home in the second.

Sun Xiang also became the first Chinese player to make his Champions League debut.

After PSV Eindhoven eliminated Arsenal that season, Sun Xiang also made two substitute appearances against Liverpool in the Champions League quarterfinals.

And the second is Dong Fangzhuo, who played for Manchester United in the group stage of the Champions League in the 07/08 season.

The third is Hao Junmin. He came off the bench in the 10/11 Champions League season for Schalke 04 in the group stage and later in injury time in the last-16 knockout round.

Ringer is now the fourth Chinese player to make a Champions League appearance, and the third Chinese player to make a Champions League knockout round.

Bayern Munich beat Arsenal 3-1 away and AC Milan beat Barcelona 2-0 at home in another midweek match, a surprising result given that Barcelona are currently the favourites to win the Champions League.

The reputation that Barcelona has established in the previous four seasons is still there, and the name of the Cosmos team is still famous, but I didn't expect to lose two goals away from home and have not scored any away goals.

However, some people said that AC Milan was a stealing victory, and Barcelona had the advantage throughout the game, but Milan first relied on a controversial goal to take the lead, and then another counterattack to extend the score, and the game did not match the score.

In other Champions League fixtures this midweek, Porto beat Malaga 1-0 at home and Schalke 04 drew 1-1 at Galatasaray.

Bayern relied on the away win over Arsenal, and in the Champions League odds offered by Spinach, Bayern rose to before Real Madrid, only lower than Barcelona. That is, the current first favorite to win the championship is still Barcelona, and Bayern's probability of winning the championship has surpassed the previous second favorite Real Madrid.

The name of the Cosmos team is also really TM, they all lost 0:2 away, and it is still generally believed that Barcelona is the first favorite to win the championship. Real Madrid, on the other hand, was only forced to draw 1-1 at home and was relegated to Bayern.

After returning to Germany, Bayern began to prepare for the upcoming league game.

On the afternoon of February 23, in the 23rd round of the Bundesliga, Bayern Munich hosted Werder Bremen.

With the upcoming midweek German Cup fixture, Heynckes rotated in this league game.

The reason why the league is rotated for the German Cup is that Werder Bremen is not strong and it should not be a problem to win the game, and the second is that the opponent of the German Cup game is very important, and it is Bayern's sworn enemy Dortmund.

To sum up, Bayern made some rotations in this game, Robben started for the first time since recovering from injury, Mandzukic, who has performed well recently, rested, Thomas Muller, Toni Kroos, Schweinsteiger, Alaba and others also rested, in short, the team rotated most of the time.

Ribery did not rotate because he was suspended for the German Cup, so he was not rotated.

In this situation, Ringer did not get a chance to start, and Shaqiri was given the starting midfield position. In Heynckes' view, Shaqiri has been playing for Bayern for more than a year, and he is more experienced and trustworthy.

The current Werder Bremen is only a relegation team and has not been able to cause any problems for Bayern at the Allianz Arena, and Bayern are already 3-0 up at the end of the first half.

Robben performed well in the first half, which was a big positive for Bayern, and Robben began to find his form, so Bayern will be more sure of the second half of the season.

However, it is not a good thing for Ringer, Robben has regained his form, coupled with his fame, I am afraid that he will soon occupy a starting position, and Ringer will face more competition.

But at least for the moment this game is not bad for Ringer, Shaqiri has managed to get a start, and it seems that he wants to show himself a little too much, and he is a little bit messed up.

Just before half-time, Franck Ribery's through ball penetrated the Bremen defence, and Shaqiri took the ball to form a one-on-one shot. He seemed to want to dribble past the opposing goalkeeper to hit the empty goal, but he went wide with the ball and was confiscated by the opposing goalkeeper.

Then in the 49th minute of the second half, Shaqiri received Gomez's return pass at the top of the penalty area, Robben was inserting it from the right rib, Shaqiri sent the ball to Roben himself, this was another good opportunity for Robben, but Shaqiri chose to hit the goal by himself and knocked the ball away.

"Pass~~ You TM can't pass the ball?" Ringer sat on the bench and seemed to hear Robben's roar.

After being injured for half a season, Robben was of course angry when he finally regained some form in this game, but the younger brother in the team watched him run out of a good position and not pass the ball to him.

In the current Bayern team, Ribery and Robben are the leaders of course, and people like Shaqiri and Ringer are only small roles.

"Lin, you go warm up." Grant called Ringer's name again.

In the 58th minute, Ringer came on to replace Shaqiri.

In the first half, he missed a good one-on-one chance, and in the second half, he didn't do his job to pass the ball to the boss, so he angered the boss, and it was reasonable for Shaqiri to be replaced.

"Help the team attack, cooperate with your teammates." It was a simple instruction that Ringer received before he came on the field.

In other words, it is to do more of the younger brother's business and pass and feed the ball to the bosses.

Although I am very unhappy with this way of kicking, people have to bow their heads under the eaves, and they will change places when they are mixed for half a year.

'Ringer came off the bench and it was his first appearance at the Allianz Arena. This game kicked off at 22:30 Beijing time in the evening, and many domestic fans were watching.

To tell the truth, this Bremen team is really poor, the whole team, Ringer knows only two, De Bruyne and Arnautovic.

De Bruyne is naturally the one who will be Manchester City in the Premier League in the future, and now he still belongs to Chelsea, but he can't play in Chelsea, and he was loaned to Bremen who was relegated from the Bundesliga just now.

Arnautovic also later played in the Premier League, remembering him because of the character of his name.

Ringer didn't expect that he would make a contribution as soon as he came on the field.

In the 64th minute, Bayern attacked the front line, Ringer received a pass from Ribery with his back in front of the penalty area, stopped with his right foot and turned around, and shook off the Austrian defender Pledel who was following him and went into the penalty area.

"Beautiful~~ Ringer's even stopped!"

Bremen's defender Pledder thought that Ringer was just a trumpet who came up to practice, and didn't care about him at all, and then he was easily passed by Ringer with a stoppage.

Prydel didn't react until he was over, and he didn't think much about raising his hand to grab it.

As soon as Ringer passed the opponent, he felt the jersey on his body tighten for a while, and he was pulled down in an instant.

Beep~

The referee blew the whistle just in time and came over and showed a yellow card to Pledel, followed by a red card.

In the first half, this guy received a yellow card for blocking Ribery, and this time two yellows turned into one red and he was sent off directly.

"Ringer, he just made a yellow card for the opposing defender on the field, making the opponent two yellows and one red sent off." China's commentary once again gave him credit.

After the red card was shown, perhaps to see that Bremen had lost badly, the referee insisted that Ringer had been pulled down on the line of the penalty area, and only a free-kick was awarded, and there was no penalty.

Werder Bremen itself has no chance of turning the tables around, and this red card adds an extra handful of dirt to their grave.

In the 68th minute, Ribery broke through on the left side and made an inverted triangle pass, and Gomez swept the goal in front of the goal, and the score became 4:0.

If the score becomes like this, then the two sides will play at will.

In the 73rd minute, Lahm picked up a pass at the edge of the penalty area, and Ribery scored from a small angle on the left side of the penalty area, and the score became 5:0, which was already a one-sided massacre.

In the 78th minute, Bremen finally scored their own face-saving goal, De Bruyne's long-range shot in front of the box hit Gustavo's thigh, and it was a lucky deflection goal.

Seeing that the game time was getting less and less, Ringer was a little anxious.

This game is a good opportunity, now that the game has been spent, Ribery and Robben have two big guys with a good performance of one pass and one shot, Bremen also has a face ball, why should they break their own maiden goal, right?

In the 82nd minute, Ringer received a cross pass from Lahm on the line of the penalty area, and saw that the team was not in a good position, so he took a step to adjust the ball at his feet and took a long shot.

"Ringer, it's his first shot in the Bundesliga." Chinese football is like this, and the first shot is commendable.

Bang~~!

Ringer felt okay, but the beam turned him away.

In the 87th minute, Ringer finally got a second chance.

Arjen Robben broke through on the right flank and beat defender Schmitz, but was also forced near the baseline, so he got up and hoisted the ball into the box.

Ringer saw that the ball was coming directly towards him, and leaned his waist against the Congolese defender Mulongotti next to him, this guy was black and hard, and he was still interfering with him, and most of the opportunities to hit the goal were wasted.

This method, which Ringer used a lot in the past, worked most of the time.

Relying on this one, it really pushed the opponent away, and there was room to handle the ball.

In the face of the incoming ball, Ringer stopped the ball on his chest and immediately received a powerful volley with his right foot.

But who knows, the Congolese defender who had just been pushed up came up again, and a strong force rushed towards him, this black and hard goods reacted so quickly?

So Ringer's powerful volley was completely destroyed, but fortunately, he also reacted quickly and turned the volley into a push, but in a hurry, he was also interfered with, and the strength was completely uncertain, so he could only be regarded as doing his best to obey the fate of God.

After the shot was completed, Ringer staggered to stabilize his body and looked up to see that the ball was headed towards the bottom left corner of the goal, and Bremen goalkeeper Militz flew to save and did not touch the ball.

Ringer thought to himself: Fortunately, I got my first ball.

“Toooor~~~6:1! It was a complete massacre, and Bremen was stabbed again. The knife was made by the Chinese teenager Lin, who came off the bench and had previously led to the red card for Pledel, and now he has made up for Bremen. The German commentator said.

"Ringer ~ Ringer has scored! His Bundesliga debut, it happened to Werder Bremen! "The Chinese commentary was even more exciting, as if it was a lore ball.