Chapter 116: The German Cup

Bayern Munich's 6-1 home win over Werder Bremen was another tragedy for Bayern this season.

'Lin has a keen sense of smell in front of goal, and he has a lot of physical fitness, running aggressively on the pitch and being creative with the ball, which is impressive. This is Heynckes' answer to Chinese reporters after the game.

And Ringer, who completed his maiden ball, naturally had to be interviewed many times.

"The feeling of scoring a goal? Of course it was a good feeling to score and I didn't expect to score in this game, I just tried to help the team and I didn't expect the goal to come by accident. ”

"The position of the team? I'm happy with where I'm and as long as I can help the team, I'm okay with starting off the bench. ”

There is no way, it is another polite remark, and his performance still needs the help of these reporters to transmit it back to China.

"Allianz Arena debut, Ringer gets his first goal"

"Substitute scored, Ringer became the third man to score in the Bundesliga"

These were the next day's reports of Ringer's goal.

Three Chinese had previously played in the Bundesliga, but Hao Junmin had not scored, and Ringer became the third Chinese to score in the Bundesliga after Yang Chen and Shao Jiayi.

After Bayern beat Bremen in this round, the Bundesliga points have reached 60 points, and Dortmund behind them was forced to draw by Borussia Mönchen away from home, with only 43 points at present, Bayern's points advantage over the second place has expanded to 17 points, and now it is just waiting to see Bayern win the championship in a few rounds in advance.

However, the whole team is now preparing for the quarter-finals of the German Cup, with Bayern Munich hosting Borussia Dortmund.

In the Bundesliga, Dort is the only team that has a chance to challenge Bayern's hegemony in recent years, and it is also Bayern's sworn enemy.

There are too many grievances between the two teams, Bayern had created an 11:1 massacre of Dort in the early years, but in the last two seasons, the Hornets have become more and more courageous under the leadership of Uncle Scum, and have beaten Bayern to win the Bundesliga championship for two consecutive seasons, and Bayern's record against Dort in recent years is also at a disadvantage.

In the past two seasons, Bayern has been double-killed by Dort in the league, especially last season, and was killed three times by the Hornets, giving Bayern a Sanya king in one fell swoop.

In the 2010/2011 season, which was the season when Shinji Kagawa amazed the Bundesliga, Dort beat Bayern 2:0 at home and 3:1 away in the league.

In the 2011/2012 season, that is, last season, Dort not only defeated Bayern 1-0 home and away in the league, but also slaughtered Bayern 5-2 in the German Cup final, completing the great feat of killing Bayern three times in one season.

It was Dort who sent Bayern a runner-up in the Bundesliga, Bayern a runner-up in the German Cup, plus Bayern's own loss of the Champions League, and made up three runners-up at a time, and Bayern became another Sanya king after Leverkusen that year.

This Sanya King refers to the orthodox Sanya King, Chelsea also won the Sanya King in the 07/08 season, but they are the three runners-up of the Premier League, Champions League and English League Cup, not the orthodox Sanya King.

Although this game is only the quarterfinals of the German Cup, it is very important for Bayern, so Bayern will carry out large-scale rotation in the league, just for this cup competition.

Before the game started, the atmosphere of the German national derby broke out first, Bayern's official website played a revenge slogan, to avenge the 2:5 defeat in the German Cup final last season, and Dort's side is to compete for the title, this season's Bundesliga Dort is hopeless, they can only hope for the German Cup and the Champions League.

When Klopp led Dortmund to win the first Bundesliga title, he shouted the slogan "replace Bayern" and wanted to replace Bayern as the boss of the Bundesliga.

And the recent rumors that Dort's striker Lewandowski is going to transfer to Bayern have also been boiling, which makes Klopp, who is unwilling to be poached, come out again: "Now Bayern is like a Chinese business, see what others do, then they copy, and then use more money and players to copy the same path, and then they succeed." ”

This is the so-called "Klopp insult to China" incident, and Ringer did not think that he was catching up.

Heynckes is a moderate person, and the two guys Hoeness and Rummenigge are responsible for the verbal battle, but this matter was hyped up by Chinese reporters as an insulting incident against China, and Ringer happened to play at Bayern, so it was indispensable to be pulled out for an interview.

In fact, Ringer thinks that although Klopp's statement is not well considered, it is not too bad. China's copycat is indeed famous all over the world, but others despise it in their hearts and don't say it, and now it happens to be used as a metaphor by Klopp, a well-known European coach, and it has become an insulting incident.

Ringer is the only Chinese who plays in the five major leagues, and has been invisibly promoted as a representative figure of Chinese football. No way, many times, we are inexplicably "represented" in this way.

As a result, Chinese reporters had to come to interview Ringer, probably because they wanted him to say two words in response, and Ringer himself didn't want to pay attention to these guys, but he still had to say two words.

'I think football should be left on the pitch and I don't want to talk too much about off-pitch issues.

Ringer didn't say much, but Bayern's two bigwigs, Hoeness and Rummenigge, would not be idle, they came out and criticized Klopp, which was considered to have relieved Ringer.

It has to be said that Bayern Munich is the club in Europe that is most concerned about the Chinese market, the first to make a Chinese official website, often make some blessing videos on Chinese festivals, often use official Twitter to send Chinese, and also attach great importance to activities such as China trips. (Other European giants' trips to China have more or less had the occurrence of playing big names, or the individual behavior of a certain player, or the overall play of big names, only Bayern has never had this kind of black history)

Bayern bigwigs are so active in these things, that is, they want to attract more Chinese fans and open up the Chinese market.

It is said that because Bayern's official website uses Chinese Simplified, and the official Twitter is also published in Chinese Simplified, it once caused dissatisfaction among fans in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and lost many fans.

As everyone knows, the people over there don't think the same way as we do, and think that Chinese Simplified is insulting them.

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As far as Europe as a whole is concerned, the national derby in the German Cup is not so important, because it is also in the middle of the week, in the semi-finals of the Spanish Copa del Rey, Real Madrid will go to Barcelona and the Spanish national derby, which is the game that the whole world is watching.

On February 27, the Spanish Copa del Rey game was played the first day, Real Madrid defeated Barcelona 3:1 away, Ronaldo scored twice, Messi did not perform, and Barcelona was eliminated by Real Madrid with an aggregate score of 4:2.

Barcelona has also been in a constant situation recently, first in December, coach Vilanova's cancer recurred, at first said that it would take two weeks of treatment, then it became a month, and then it became two months, it seems that it is getting worse and worse, and people may not be able to count on it.

The head coach is not there, and Messi's form has also declined after winning the Ballon d'Or four times in a row, so Barcelona has recently lost in the Champions League one after another, and the Copa del Rey was also eliminated by Real Madrid.

If it weren't for the accumulation of a lot of advantages in La Liga in the first half of the season, Barcelona might have been empty this season.

On February 28, the last day of February, the German Cup, Bayern's home game against Dortmund arrived in Germany.

On Bayern's side, in addition to the suspended Ribery, it is the elite to the fullest.

Goalkeepers: Manuel Neuer;

Defenders: Lahm, Van Bitten, Dante, Alaba;

Defenders: Xavi Martinez, Schweinsteiger;

Avant-garde: Thomas Muller, Tony Cross, Arjen Robben;

Forward: Mandzukic.

The Hornets are also in the 4231 formation, except for Hummers in the back line who was absent due to a cold, it can also be regarded as a dump.

Goalkeepers: Weidenfeller;

Defenders: Piszczek, Subotic, Santana, Schmelzer;

Defenders: Gundogan, Svend;

Avant-garde: Grosskreutz, Gotze, Reuss;

Forward: Robert Lewandowski.

Although Bayern was suppressed by the Hornets in the previous two seasons, this season Dort was in trouble, and Bayern regained the feeling of dominating the rivers and lakes.

In the first 20 minutes, Bayern were basically leading the attack, and Kroos had two good chances, but he couldn't threaten.

But after all, this is a German national derby, and Dort will not let it be slaughtered.

Uncle Scum's crazy pressing is by no means vegetarian, Bayern seems to have some advantages, but they have not been able to convert into goals, and there are not many opportunities to even play threatening balls. At the same time, there are a lot of grievances between the two teams, and there is naturally fire on the field, and there are many fouls, so the scene is a bit deadlocked.

Bayern has a little advantage but can't realize it, and under the crazy pressure of the bumblebees, the whole team does not dare to relax a little.

The first half ended 0-0, a result that could not please fans on both sides.

At the beginning of the second half, Dort's pressing tactics became more ferocious, and the atmosphere on the pitch became more and more hot.

In the 49th minute, Xavi Martinez tackled Lewandowski and hit the latter's ankle, causing Klopp to scold on the sidelines, but fortunately, Lewandowski was fine, and Martinez received a yellow card.

Five minutes later, Schmelzer slapped Martinez in the face in the scramble, knocking out the Spaniard's contact lenses.

In the 57th minute, Toni Kroos elbowed Sven Bender and received a yellow card.

At this time, Ringer was already warming up on the sidelines, watching all kinds of vicious fouls on the court, he thought to himself: You have to be a little careful when you go on the court, but you can't get hurt.

A few minutes later, Ringer listened to Grandpa Hai's arrangement on the side of the coach's bench: "Lin, you go on the field to replace Tony." Keep in mind that the opponent's pressing tactics are very physically demanding, and many of their players have begun to run out of energy, so if you go on the pitch and make good use of your physical strength and continue to impact the opponent's defense, they will not be able to hold on. ”

In the 64th minute, Bayern used up their first substitution, and Ringer came on to replace Toni Kroos, who already had a yellow card. Ringer knew he had to seize his chances, but fortunately Ribery was suspended for this game, otherwise this substitution would have been used on Ribery.

Ringer took the ball for the first time on the court, and was hit by the opponent's defender Sven Bender and lost the ball, but fortunately, the referee blew the opponent's foul.

"Hey, boy, this is a greeting gift for you."

Ringer shook his head, these guys were already hot-headed, and he gave him a dismount as soon as he came up.

"Don't worry, this is the Allianz Arena, this is our place, don't be afraid of them." Rahm came over just in time to comfort Ringer, who was experiencing this kind of hot game for the first time.

In such a fierce game, in fact, many tactics did not work, and Ringer felt that Heynckes arranged for him to attack the opponent's defense not necessarily so well.

In the 67th minute, Gundogan caught a shot from Dante on the right side of the penalty area and hit the right post to pop off the bottom line, which was the closest Dort hit in this game.

In the 71st minute, Lahm was fouled by Schmelzer on the right and Bayern were given a free kick on the wing.

Rahm put the ball on the ball and immediately pushed it to Ringer in front of the box.

"Bayern's free kick opportunity ~~ Lahm ~~~ Free kick fast!"

Ringer received the ball on the right side of the penalty area, and Rahm's quick serve still had a certain effect, and Ringer received the ball and went into the box.

Dort defender Santana immediately came towards Ringer, who raised his right foot to make a shot to attract the opponent to block, but he dunked the ball back.

"Beautiful~~ Chinese kid's fake cumshot is really buckled!!"

After deducting Santana, Ringer did not choose to hit the goal, it was just a free kick opportunity, at this time the opponent's penalty area was full of people, and all the shooting routes were blocked.

But Ringer's eyes were keenly aware that there was a route to the back of the net, and that someone was running there.

So he no longer hesitated, raised his foot and pushed, pushing the ball towards the back of the goal.

"Ringer~~ beautiful pass!"

"Robben~~ He's arrived!"

On the way to the back of the goal, Dortmund defender Subotic was the quickest to react, raising his foot to try to intercept, but unfortunately it was still a little short.

When the ball reached the back post, Robben arrived just in time to raise his foot and poke it, and the ball rolled into the opponent's goal.

"Toooooor~~~Robben~Robben's goal! Bayern finally took the lead, with a goal from Arjen Robben and an assist from the Chinese kid, who had just come on to help the team. ”