Chapter 62: Winger? Attacking midfielders?

On September 22, the fourth round of the Bundesliga began.

In this round of matches, Werder Bremen is at home to Stuttgart.

Thanks to the team's excellent record, the number of fans who came to watch the game reached 48,000, and the huge Weser Stadium was almost full.

The Parrot Legion fans sang the anthem and waved the green flag, eager to see the team's twin stars in action.

Since the fall of Werder Bremen, it has been a long time since there has been such a hot ball market.

This was a big surprise to the whole club, and the chairman of the team, Fisher, even came up with the idea of keeping the two youngsters in the team.

But this is just thinking about it, the current value of these two people is not cheap, and it will only be more expensive in the future, and it is difficult to buy it with the financial resources of Werder Bremen.

Besides, the more powerful the player, the more he pursues a bigger and better stage, and Werder Bremen is obviously not such a big stage.

So even if they scrape together enough money, the players themselves may not want to stay.

In this game, in addition to ordinary fans, several scouts appeared in the audience.

"This seems to be a scout from Atletico Madrid, that guy is wearing sunglasses, but I know him, he's a scout from Everton!"

In the audience, George had already spotted several of his peers.

This is only the ones he knows, and those he doesn't know, he doesn't know how many comes.

Some of these scouts came to observe De Bruyne, while others came to observe Lin Quan.

The young winger who had a relationship with him before seems to be more and more valued by major clubs.

George was a little unhappy in his heart, but in fact, he was the first to discover the other party.

But his submission to Chelsea was shelved and not taken seriously.

Come to think of it, Chelsea owner Abou doesn't like to buy underage young goblins, he prefers already famous superstars like the nuclear warhead Shevchenko and the Holy Child Torres.

Neither Werder Bremen nor Stuttgart are traditional powerhouses, but neither side has a conservative style of play.

In this game, the two teams contributed a goal battle to the fans in the stadium.

Just 13 minutes into the game, Kevin De Bruyne opened the scoring with a free-kick.

In the 24th minute, Stuttgart's Hannick equalised and the two sides returned to the same running line.

In the 34th minute, Lin Quan suddenly broke through with the ball on the right side, burst into the front field and completed the collision with his teammates in a row, and finally received De Bruyne's pass in the penalty area and rewrote the score with one kick!

Werder Bremen took the lead again.

This goal made many scouts shine, and they all put pen to paper and recorded it in their observation notebooks:

The player's dribbling and break-through are sharp, and he has a strong individual combat ability.

But he is also good at cooperating with his teammates and will not be reckless and blindly go it alone.

He has a wide passing vision and delicate footwork, which is in line with the identity of La Masia's academy debut.

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Although he watched Lin Quan several games on the spot, seeing Lin Quan's goal, George Evans still had to sigh:

This guy is so smart that his head feels more nimble than those veteran players who have been playing for more than a decade.

He clearly remembers that since the first round of playing Dortmund, when the Bundesliga team faced Lin Quan, they liked to use close marking and even foul tactics to limit him.

This made Lin Quan face a big challenge on the court, and he thought that this kid would be in trouble and his performance would decline.

As a result, I didn't expect him to find a solution so quickly!

If the opponent strengthens his defense, then create opportunities for his teammates and seek to cooperate with them.

There are the same number of people on the pitch, and if you send two people to cover one of the opposing team, there must be someone on the opposing team's side.

Just pass the ball to a teammate who is in an open position and the problem is solved.

To think about this shows that he has a very flexible mind, and to be able to actually do it on the pitch proves that he is not only agile in his mind, but also in his skill at his feet.

This guy, who had a few passes just now, felt more like a midfielder than a striker.

It's not just George who feels this way, but the Stuttgart coach also widens his eyes after seeing this goal:

This guy, isn't he a winger?

How do you feel that you play as an attacking midfielder?

He carefully observed, and sure enough, he found that Lin Quan's position on the field was not fixed.

Although he is a right winger, his position encompasses the entire central midfield and is not confined to the right side, and he often crosses positions with Werder Bremen's central midfielders and runs to the middle.

As a result, Stuttgart's left wing-back was a bit overwhelmed by what to do, and he would lose his position.

If you don't follow, the opponent will run to the middle lane, which will form a local numerical advantage.

If the teammates are not tacit enough to cooperate with each other, it is easy for an attacking player to suddenly burst out completely disrupt the defensive formation, resulting in a hole in the defense and then conceding the ball.

Did he come up with this tactic himself, or was it arranged by the Werder Bremen coaching staff?

Stuttgart coach Keller looked at Werder Bremen's dugout suspiciously, but Coach Schaff was there, and nothing could be seen from his face.

Sure enough, it's an old fox!

Keller cursed and planned to make some adjustments to the team's defensive tactics.

At the start of the second half, Stuttgart defended a bit more after half-time adjustments, strengthening the defense between the ribs and the wings of the penalty area.

But Lin Quan changed his style of play, and he began to try to cross the bottom.

This made Stuttgart's side a little unexpected, and the full-backs alone could not prevent the opponent from going down, so they could only let the opponent keep passing the ball to the penalty area.

Fortunately, they did a good job of defending for headers and didn't allow Werder Bremen to find too good opportunities.

The offensive of both sides continued unabated, and the goals continued.

In the 66th minute of the game, Stuttgart striker Kakau found an opportunity in the box and scored a goal to level the score.

In the 78th minute, Werder Bremen's attack caused chaos in the Stuttgart penalty area.

After Lin Quan passed the ball to his teammates, he immediately approached the penalty area, ready to find an opportunity to cut into the penalty area.

As a result, he ran into the penalty area and saw his teammate's shot saved by the goalkeeper and the ball rolled to his feet.

And such good luck?

Lin Quan didn't think about it, picked up his foot and hit the goal directly, the goalkeeper was still lying on the ground, and Stuttgart's goal was undefended at all.

Lin Quan thought the ball was there when he made up the shot, but he didn't expect the ball to hit the arm of Stuttgart's winger Hanik and bounce out!

Werder Bremen's players saw the handball and immediately reached out to the referee to signal the handball.

Because the opponent had a movement of opening his arms outward, the referee did not hesitate and immediately gave the opponent a yellow card, plus the yellow card he was carrying before, two yellows turned into one red, and he was expelled from the game.

Hanik was about to cry, he hurriedly explained that he didn't mean it, but just ran there, and saw Lin Quan hitting the door to subconsciously protect himself, and he didn't think about handball at all.

But the referee didn't think so, he thought that the opponent was deliberately handballing, and if he didn't block the ball, Lin Quan's shot was very likely to score.

According to the football penalty standard, he thinks that the yellow card is already considered merciful, and he can't pretend not to see it, right?

Hannick was depressed, and Lin Quan was also depressed.

Although the referee awarded a penalty, it was better to score a direct goal than to take another penalty.

After all, it is possible to save a penalty, and a penalty goal is not as valuable as a direct goal.

Fortunately, he was still very stable in his penalty kick and scored the penalty steadily.

Stuttgart was sent off by one man and forced to play with 10 men.

Because it was the team's attacking core that was sent off, it made their attacks no longer playable.

In the end, Werder Bremen won 3:2 at home to Stuttgart for the first time in a row of three wins of the new season.

Stuttgart, on the other hand, also scored only one point in four rounds because of this defeat and fell directly into the relegation zone.

There was another upset in this round as defending champions Borussia Dortmund lost again, again to second-to-last Hamburg.

This took everyone by surprise, not only in terms of Dortmund's form.

Will they be able to do it at all?

In four rounds, Dortmund won one win, drew two and lost one, scoring only 5 points, 7 points behind Bayern Munich at the top of the table.

With Bayern's dominance in the Bundesliga, it is almost impossible to declare Dort's title defense a failure.

It is worth mentioning that promoted Eintracht Frankfurt continued their dark horse nature, they beat Nuremberg 2-1 away, and like Bayern, they also won four in a row.