In the seventh round against Fürth, Pan Yi made adjustments to the lineup.

He rested some of the main players who were already very tired, and replaced them with some substitutes.

Calhanoglu, Berry, Janssen, Lin Zhijian, including Westerman and others are all on the battlefield.

There are only a few people who can use it, but if you keep working on the main force, something will definitely happen, so you can only do it.

At the very least, it is necessary to fish as much as possible in a sustainable manner, otherwise it will be difficult to survive the devil's schedule of consecutive games in such a short period of time.

And although this game is away, the opponent is Fürth.

In the first six rounds, they are in the penultimate place in the standings with 1 win, 1 draw and 4 losses, accumulating 4 points.

That said, the promoted team has been in the media's prediction position since the start of the season and is a suitable target for a semi-rotation lineup.

So Pan Yi decided to fight hard, and if he could win it, he would make a lot of money.

But the end result was a bit awkward.

Fürth was cheered on by the home fans like an aphrodisiac and shot at the Hamburg goal.

In the end, Fürth blasted a world-class shot from veteran striker Asamoah in the final moments of the game to break through the goal guarded by Navas.

0:1, Hamburg loses away!

This gave Fürth his first win in four rounds and a two-game winless streak.

This loss also made Hamburg, which has 4 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses and 13 points, continue to decline in the standings, and has reached 5th place.

That's when the media and fans started to find fault with the burgers.

Many people began to spray Pan Yi's platoon with the problem:

"Why don't you go to De Bruyne? Hamburg's offense wasn't fluid at all. ”

"Jamie Vardy played so well, what did you do with him?"

'You put Calhanoglu at the heart of the midfield, did he play? You don't have the ability to do that, you know. ”

"I advise Coach Pan Yi to still make the basic tactical concepts clear......"

It can't be helped.

Whether it is the media or fans, most of them are classic theories.

They will only see if the team they are backing is winning or not, where will they try to understand what is going on behind the loss?

That's the case with Hamburg's staffing, and Pan Yi is now trying to find the best rotation plan, but as long as he loses, it's nothing.

Not to mention that Hamburg is still in the top six, which is still far beyond the psychological expectations of fans before the season.

But now that the appetite of Hamburg fans has been fed, they have forgotten that they used to be seen as a team on the same level as Fürth.

Even Chairman Yakhoff found Pan Yi to talk.

"Pan Yi, you have to hurry up and find a way. Although our current record is not bad, but if this continues, the team may not be able to enter the European competition, right? ”

Yahoff is talking about "European competition" instead of "Champions League", which shows that his confidence is not very strong now.

Although in the chairman's original expectation, this season can be regarded as a success.

But Hamburg got off to such a good start, and Yahoff's appetite was boosted.

If you can really enter the European competition, whether it is tickets, broadcasts, or bonuses, there will be a lot more.

In terms of business cooperation, when it comes to sponsorship, jerseys and stadium advertising, European teams are obviously much more upscale than relegation teams.

So now that the grades are declining, the chairman is also anxious.

"We're definitely going to go in the Champions League." Pan Yi sighed, but still said in a very firm tone, "Now that many main players have physical problems, I need to rotate players to top up." And this takes a run-in, and it takes time. Don't worry, it won't be long. ”

Yahoff said: "Can you make it to the winter window?" Personnel difficulties, we can solve them through transfers or loans. ”

Pan Yi smiled: "Have you forgotten that I mentioned to you about the additional funds for the winter window before?" I already have a candidate in mind, but it's not the time yet. Don't worry, even with these people now, I'm confident that I can keep the team at a relatively high level. ”

Yahoff can only choose to believe Pan Yi.

What else could he do?

In an interview with reporters, Pan Yi praised the players and took the responsibility on himself.

'They played well, just a little bit of luck. I'm sure our players will be able to get in shape and mood and go into the next game. It's that I didn't pay attention to the tight schedule, I didn't do enough to prepare for the team, and I was fully responsible for the loss. ”

The reporter asked: "Rumor has it that the Hamburg president has put a lot of pressure on you?" ”

"No, he has always been very supportive of my work, please stop chasing after the wind."

Reporter: "How are you going to adjust next?" Hamburg started off with a lot of momentum and a lot of teams have looked at your style of play, is that the reason for your poor performance in the last two games? ”

"I have no comment on that. But what I know for sure is that we won't lose all the time! ”

……

After another international break, Hamburg hosts Stuttgart on 21 October.

Stuttgart, the team favourites to finish in the top six before the season, have not been as good as they could have since the start of the season.

After seven rounds, they are only 15th in the table with one win, three draws and three defeats, just one point above the relegation zone.

But even so, the media is still not optimistic about Hamburg, believing that Hamburg is in worse shape now and cannot take Stuttgart at all.

However, Hamburg won 1-0 with an economic score and won all three points.

Wu Lei burst into the box in the 18th minute and was brought down by Kotoku Sakai, and Vardy converted the penalty.

However, Hamburg's state has been a bit up and down.

Just six days later, on October 27, in the ninth round of the Bundesliga, Hamburg played Augsburg away and were held to a 0-0 draw.

An away draw seems acceptable on the surface.

But the problem is that Augsburg is also a regular in the relegation zone!

With this draw, they are only in 17th place in the standings with 1 win, 3 draws, 5 losses, 6 points, 5 goals scored and 13 goals conceded, which is the penultimate place!

- Fürth, who was previously in penultimate position, has managed to get ashore with three points from the win over Hamburg and is out of the relegation zone.

In other words, Hamburg has played three consecutive rounds against the teams at the bottom of the standings, but only achieved one win, one draw and one loss, and only scored one goal!

The only goal was a penalty.

This made the media and fans start a new round of verbal criticism of Pan Yi.

What makes everyone even more pessimistic is that Pan Yi and his hamburger are about to face a strong opponent in the tenth round.

It was an opponent who was a little stronger than Fürth and Augsburg in terms of strength and form.

That is the Bundesliga hegemon who is now ranked first in the standings and has won nine games in the previous nine rounds -

Bayern Munich!

(End of chapter)