Chapter 159: The Battle of the Ravages
However, for Allegri, at least he doesn't have to worry about himself coming on to a three-game losing streak anytime soon, and then really getting out of class.
Because after the second round of matches, the international break is ushered in, and the five major leagues will also be temporarily suspended.
It was a rare respite for Allegri.
He can use these two weeks to adjust his mood and take stock of his previous two defeats before making improvements.
But this national team match week is not good news for Pan Yi and Hamburg.
Their morale is high after winning two consecutive games, and if they can take advantage of this momentum to continue playing, the next Eintracht Frankfurt and Dortmund may also be able to take advantage of the trend.
It's just that now it's going to be two weeks apart, and this breath is over.
Pan Yi's heart was also a little cold.
East Asian Alliance, going back to play football is all kinds of rushes!
This is also the biggest drawback of the current Hamburg team.
Son Heung-min and Makoto Hasebe are going back to their respective Japan-South Korea national teams to compete in the 2014 World Cup Qualifiers in the Asian Top 10.
Although the Dragon Country team has been eliminated, they also have to play two friendly matches, away against Sweden and Brazil!
Wu Lei, who has performed well in the Bundesliga recently, has of course been selected for the national team, and now he looks even more ruthless than the players of Japan and South Korea.
However, what is interesting is that Casemiro was also selected for the Brazilian national team this time, so he will play against Wu Lei's Dragon team.
As the host of the 2014 World Cup, the Brazilian team did not have the task of qualifying, so they just played friendly matches to run in the team, and this time they found the Dragon Country team to have fun.
Halfway around the world is Costa Rica's main goalkeeper Keylor Navas, who is also playing in World Cup qualifying.
In contrast, De Bruyne's selection for the national team is considered to have a relatively small impact, after all, he only needs to run in European countries.
Among Hamburg's main players, Vardy, Rudiger and Carvajal have not been called up to the national team for the time being, so they can take a good rest and prepare for the league.
Of course, this is also because of the strength of their respective national teams, and it is still difficult to knock on the door of the national team based on their performances in the two league games - after all, De Bruyne and Casemiro were members of the national team before they came to Hamburg, although they are relatively marginal.
Then, in such a situation, it is difficult for Pan Yi not to worry that his players will be attacked by the "FIFA virus".
And once these main players have injuries, or even just fatigue, the impact on Hamburg is relatively large.
After all, the depth of Hamburg's lineup is too shallow right now!
But there's no way around it, as long as you have an international in your club, it's something you can't avoid.
It is the honor of every player to fight for the country, and no one will refuse a call from the motherland, so Pan Yi will not prevent the player from reporting to the national team.
He can only be glad that he does not have African players under his command yet.
If he comes to the Africa Cup of Nations every other day, how can he withstand it?
That is, when he was in Milan, at that time at the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations, Egypt was eliminated in the preliminary stage, and the fledgling Mane was not selected for the national team, and Kevin Boateng also announced his withdrawal from the Ghana national team, which allowed AC Milan to play with a relatively complete squad in the January and February schedule.
Otherwise, without these two strikers and a midfielder, the game would be really difficult to play.
After all, it's all the main core!
Then again......
Since 2012, the Africa Cup of Nations will be held in odd-numbered years!
In other words, in 2013, that is, this year, there will be the Africa Cup of Nations!
Pan Yi can only wish AC Milan and Allegri good luck.
Of course, now Pan Yi can only take care of himself first.
He asked the coaching staff to communicate closely with the coaches of the national team, so that they could report on the physical condition of their players in a timely manner, and strengthen communication and cooperation with each other.
This is also the most important task of the coaching staff in the next two weeks, in addition to the daily training.
After all, the level of each national team is different, not only reflected in the level of players on the field, but also reflected in all aspects of logistics support, including team medical care.
The team doctor of many teams is simply a veterinarian, and the good players go in and come out with missing arms and legs.
So how can Pan Yi be completely relieved to put his players in the hands of those people?
But now that the players are thousands of miles away, he can't control everything, he can only watch the game and keep an eye on their form and physical condition.
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South Korea drew 1-1 with Uzbekistan in the Asian qualifiers' round of 10, while Japan beat Iraq 1-0 to lead both groups.
This Pan Yi didn't pay too much attention.
Anyway, he knows that in every World Cup preliminaries, the Japanese and South Korean national teams will qualify......
He watched the two friendly matches of the Dragon Nation team with great interest.
Because there is Wu Lei in the current national team, and it is Wu Lei who has been "strengthened", I don't know if it will have an impact on the results of these two games?
Then Pan Yi was disappointed.
The first one started on September 7.
The Dragons went to Helsingborg to challenge the Nordic powerhouse Sweden led by Ibrahimovic, and the Dragons were passive.
Just seven minutes into the game, Ibrahimovic almost knocked on the door of the Dragons, but his shot was denied by the post.
After half-time, Long Guo replaced Wu Lei on the field, but he played one of the two strikers, which was not the same position as Hamburg.
The difference in tactics also made Wu Lei a little unaccustomed, and his performance on the field was also average.
In the 47th minute, after Toivonen took the ball and hit behind the Dragon Team, Elman inserted in time to face the attacking Wang Dalei and calmly pushed the ball into the lower right corner of the goal.
In the end, the Dragons lost 0:1 to Sweden.
And on September 11, when the Dragon Nation team went to Brazil to challenge the Samba Army, Pan Yi finally dreamed back to the year and relived this ravaged battle.
In the 22nd minute, Oscar provided an assist and Ramirez scored with a pick-and-roll.
Four minutes later, the Dragons suffered another blow at the back, Hulk forced a cross, Oscar cleverly split the ball, and the unguarded Neymar easily scored.
In the 49th minute, Oscar scored a hat trick of assists, and Lucas received a pass from Oscar and scored hard.
In the 52nd minute, Neymar's shot bounced off the crossbar, and Hulk scored the ball and fired a low shot to add to it.
Then, in less than eight minutes, Brazilian genius Neymar scored twice to give Brazil a 6-0 lead, and Neymar also scored a hat-trick.
Of course, the Brazilian's humiliation of Dragon Football did not end there, Liu Jianye's own goal and Oscar's penalty goal locked the final score at 8:0.
What made Pan Yi feel more uncomfortable than this score was when the game was about to end.
In a scramble in the middle, Wu Lei and Casemiro both fell to the ground, and then they were both substituted.
After the game, the team doctors of Brazil and Dragon Kingdom informed Hamburg that both players were injured!
(End of chapter)