Grass roots glory

Chapter 171 The Test Comes
All the shots were aimed at the Schalke players in the center of the pitch. It was the subconscious professional reaction of these sports reporters to capture the players' facial expressions and behaviors immediately after winning the championship.

At this moment, Marcel Leff instantly became full of emotions: "Congratulations to Schalke, they have waited so hard for this moment. The last time they won the championship was in the 1957-58 season, which was already 51 years ago! 51 years Ah, for the Schalke fans, it is the persistence and following for most of their lives before finally waiting for the moment when the team regains its peak! This result is the best gift for these watchers!"

But thousands of miles away, in the CCTV studio, Duan Xuan and Tao Wei were no less excited than Marcel Leif.At the moment when the game ended, the two cheered in unison, but the next words had a strong stance, and the two began to sort out the credits for Zhou Tiancheng: "The reason why Schalke 04 can realize their dream of peaking this season is the biggest reason. The reason is that Slomka promoted and boldly used Zhou Tiancheng before the start of the season! This is no exaggeration, look at the statistics of Zhou Tiancheng in the Bundesliga rankings—"

"31 league rounds, 4 goals, 4 assists, sixth in the scorer list, third in the assist list, he is a defensive midfielder, it should not be difficult for everyone to understand the efficiency behind this, as a 2-5000-9.4 Zhou Tiancheng’s performance on the defensive end is even more astonishing for the defensive midfielder who lags behind in the formation: the average running distance is 87 meters per game, second in the Bundesliga, the number of steals is [-] times per game, the first in the Bundesliga, and the success rate of steals is [-]% , No. [-] in the Bundesliga, note, No. [-] for all players, including all central defenders..."

Duan Xuan finished speaking in one breath, because he was too excited, so his voice became higher and higher. Not long after, he began to cough slightly, and he needed to catch his breath. Tao Wei took this opportunity to speak: "These data prove that Zhou Tiancheng is Shar He is the absolute hero of the championship. If you consider Schalke’s performance in the Champions League, it is no problem to call him the best new star in European football this season! Because no player of the same age has to undertake such a heavy task like him. So well done!"

At the same time, on the Internet Baidu Post Bar, the owner of Zhou Tiancheng's personal fan post bar posted a few videos: Listening to CCTV's data is not enough, come and watch it while it's hot!

It's all Zhou Tiancheng's goals this season, and what's put up is all the essence, all kinds of world waves!
Immediately below, a large group of fans who were sleepless late at night gathered excitedly to post.

"Your Majesty, you have worked so hard. Even though I've seen it twice, it still makes my scalp tingle. It's too six."

"It's not a goal at this level in Asia at all. Zhou Tiancheng can be regarded as setting a benchmark. His physical fitness and skills must reach his level in order to be the main player in the top five league teams."

At the same time, Zhou Tiancheng was still lying on the turf of Gladbach’s home stadium, Prussian Park, recalling his debut season in the Bundesliga. A voice interrupted his thoughts: "Zhou, can you change your jersey?"

Zhou Tiancheng got up immediately, and standing in front of him was a baby face who looked similar to his age, holding his jersey: "I played against you in U19, but you may not remember... Borussia Borussia U19s, Marco Marin."

"Oh, I remembered. Wait a minute"

Zhou Tiancheng still had an impression of him.After all, Borussia Borussia U19 was the first opponent he encountered after embarking on the road of professional football.

Zhou Tiancheng walked to his bench, took a spare jersey, and when exchanging it, Marco Marin looked at him enviously: "I really envy you, you are about the same age as me, and you both have champions."

Zhou Tiancheng smiled modestly, and said: "You are also excellent, and you will be there sooner or later."

Marko Marin is quite simple, and Zhou Tiancheng's polite words made him smile from the bottom of his heart. He is probably looking forward to one day standing on the championship podium, holding a salad plate trophy...

On the night when Schalke won the championship, fans spontaneously celebrated in many places in Gelsenkirchen, but because the team was not there, and the championship trophy would not be officially awarded until the last home game, the scale was not large. But this is just an appetizer. One can imagine what kind of momentum it will be on the day when the awards are officially presented.

But now, the team has no time to return to Gelsenkirchen to enjoy the triumphant glory.There are only four days left before the second round of the Champions League with Manchester United, and they must rush to Manchester without stopping. If they arrive earlier, they will have one more chance to adjust.

The coaching staff is very clear that at Old Trafford, the team will lose the right time, place, people and all advantages. Facing the Premier League's number one home court, the two-goal advantage cannot rest easy.

As for the English media, they put their greatest hope on Manchester United, because the possibility of Manchester United reversing Schalke at home exists, and Arsenal, which lost 1:3 away in the first leg, wants to reverse even if they are at home. In Barcelona, ​​the odds are slim.

……

Ferguson came up with the strongest lineup directly in the midfield from the start of the game, that is, the lineup in which Giggs, Scholes, Ronaldo and Rooney were on the field after the second half of the first round.

Of course, except that Ferdinand is definitely absent.After being sent to the hospital in the previous game, although he regained consciousness after being rescued, according to the "Sun" disclosure, Ferdinand still has occasional mild concussions.

Today Ferguson replaced his vacancy with Brown in defense, partnering with Vidic.

With the momentum of the audience at Old Trafford, Manchester United showed the strength of breaking the boat from the beginning.Only 3 minutes into the game, Scholes took advantage of Zhou Tiancheng's transfer by Carrick, and sent a long pass over the top to penetrate the Schalke 04 defense. Rooney turned offside and jumped in at high speed. Neuer immediately abandoned the goal with all his strength. Although he didn't touch the ball, his full save interfered with Rooney's leg swing and direction. The ball narrowly brushed the post and flew to the feet of the cameraman behind the goal.

"It's so good! Schalke must get into the game as soon as possible, so don't take it lightly. The disarming at the beginning of the game is enough to illustrate Manchester United's attitude. After all, this is a top European club, and the fighting power that erupts in adversity is often beyond imagination." CCTV commentary He Wei could not help admonishing.

In fact, as He Wei said, Manchester United obviously put a lot of pressure on the start today. Before the game, Ferguson instructed everyone as long as they can play a game worthy of the home fans. Tolerate other results besides winning and reversing the promotion?
impossible!
Only champions can satisfy their discerning appetites.

Being the coach of a wealthy team is neither easy nor easy. The reason for the ease is that now, Ferguson doesn't need to say too much, just a little touch, these mature stars know what they should do.

After this attack, Zhou Tiancheng shifted the focus of defense to Scholes, but after this time, Scholes immediately adjusted his strategy to attract Zhou Tiancheng's activity area to the left half, and he achieved his goal up.

This is a trick to divert the tiger away from the mountain.Manchester United's real offensive center of gravity is on Ronaldo's side on the right.Facing left-back Bordon, Ronaldo has the ability to kill the entire side. As long as Zhou Tiancheng stays away from this side, even if Hewedes comes out to defend, it will be very difficult to defend him.He had a lot of one-on-two performances in the first round.

Today, Ronaldo is obviously very desperate. An obvious performance is that he completely ignores everyone, whether it is his teammates or the Schalke defenders who surrounded him. It's all solo!
Even Rooney complained to him in obvious displeasure, but he ignored it.

But because his flexibility and breakthrough speed are obviously a beat faster than Schalke's defense, so it is really effective. He knocked the mountain from the outside several times. If it wasn't for Neuer, I'm afraid it would have been staged by Ronaldo. Riding through the barrier alone.

Sky Sports commentator Bob Clem is full of desire for goals: "Cristiano! He is omnipotent today. Although it is often emphasized that football is a team sport of eleven people, his lethality to Schalke is enough. Top the entire attacking line! Now, only one goal away!"

Schalke's defense on the left was completely overwhelmed, Zhou Tiancheng hesitated, left Scholes behind, and moved towards Ronaldo to defend.

Ferguson stood next to the coach's bench, his mouth chewing gum suddenly stopped, sweating for Ronaldo in his heart.

Cristiano Ronaldo didn't just focus on dribbling the ball. He saw Zhou Tiancheng rushing towards him, and instantly realized that continuing to dribble the ball laterally would be a dead end, but he didn't follow the routine and chose to hit his teammates horizontally. confidence.Deliberately step on the ball backwards, gently lift the heel to the front side of the penalty area, then turn around at [-] degrees on the spot, use the central defender's thinking, turn around and squeeze into the penalty area if the door is not closed in time for defense!
"Ahaha——" Bob Clem immediately exclaimed, "The rainbow is amazing!"

"Wow!" the Red Devils fans cheered loudly.

"It's really shocking. But Bob, can you not be so surprised, you scared me." Partner Wayne House protested half-jokingly.

Bob Clem didn't answer, and looked at the field intently.For fear of missing any wonderful moment.

Höwedes and Westerman did fall into the inertia of thinking at the same time. When they saw Ronaldo suddenly appearing behind them with the ball, they were shocked and subconsciously wanted to pull it.This is the remedial instinct of a defender. As for the consequences, it is impossible to consider at this moment.

However, they were a bit too slow to make the final remedy. After Ronaldo squeezed into the penalty area, he picked out an arc with his toes, and went around his head before Neuer, and the ball slowly fell into the goal.

Seeing that the goal had been scored, the Swiss referee Busaka did not call for a foul on Hövédesla. However, he gave him a verbal warning, which was regarded as a sign-up for himself, and he will definitely focus on it next. focus on.

To get back a goal for the team, Ronaldo made a gesture of kissing the stands, and the Red Devils fans immediately responded with huge cheers.

Bob Clem raised his voice again and praised loudly: "The ability of an absolute superstar! Cristiano scored a valuable goal. Now, the total score is 1:2, this is just the first step!"

"Damn it!" Slomka turned and walked towards the coach's bench, gradually feeling a bad premonition in his heart.

Now the game has just passed 10 minutes, which is a very delicate time.Even if the goal time is delayed by another 10 minutes, the mentality of both sides will be very different.This goal will bring the morale of the opponent to a higher level.

But at this time, Slomka not only did not signal to take back, but instead encouraged the players to press up.If it is at home, it may be relatively conservative. However, this is an away game. Slomka understands that there is no way to retreat.

The idea is correct, but in the face of Manchester United, which is gaining a foothold, Schalke 04's midfield configuration in front of the giants is still too flawed.

Zhou Tiancheng can lead suddenly, but today Ferguson put the defense line as a whole.In other words, Zhou Tiancheng had to face Carrick and Nemanja Vidic's pincer attack during the advancement process, and the two did not directly shovel, but compressed Zhou Tiancheng's space a little bit, forcing him to the sideline area, forcing him Choose pass.

Needless to say, Rakitic, his experience is like a rookie in front of an old fritter like Scholes.

In fact, Slomka's strategy in the last game was correct. With a midfielder who is responsible for doing dirty work next to the two and sharing the pressure of Zhou Tiancheng, he can use enthusiasm to make up for the lack of experience.But today Slomka chose to focus on me in the away game, and chose a seemingly more pragmatic anti-counterfeiting tactic.

Facts have proved that this is tantamount to cutting off an arm.

The midfield mistake left Manchester United with a chance to counterattack, not to mention Schalke, the defense of any giant would have to tremble.

Zhou Tiancheng and Rakitic have just started, Scholes has already sent a straight pass behind him quickly, Rooney started up strongly against Westerman's interference, fighting for speed, the 26-year-old Westerman and the 24-year-old Rooney are completely Not a level.

Rooney strode into Schalke's penalty area, and Neuer could only choose to make a remedy, but this time he didn't even have a chance to touch the ball-he was directly passed by Rooney with an accelerated change of direction, and easily shot an empty goal to tie the score. 2:2.

The moment the ball was lost, Zhou Tiancheng suppressed his anger and walked over to ask the lowered Westermann: "Heike, why don't you stand on the same line with Benedict, if you press up like that, you can't catch up?" Go back, you're going to die!"

"Hey, Zhou, can't you say that? Didn't I just pass the ball just now? The root cause of the loss this time should be the midfielder. I didn't expect you to pass the ball to Ivan, and he lost it. ..."

Westerman was also aggrieved in his heart, and at this time he also defended very dissatisfied.

Zhou Tiancheng thought it was funny: "The central defender and the midfielder surround me. If you don't pass the ball, you let me do it hard?"

"Stop arguing, you two. I'm also responsible for not guarding the door." Seeing that the two were not in harmony, Neuer hurried up to make peace.

"We're not arguing, we're just discussing. It's not time to take responsibility. Think about how to score goals. We still have a great chance to score an away goal."

Zhou Tiancheng put the two of them back on track. After all, the total score from the lead to the tie is too fast, and everyone will feel anxious, which is human nature.

Now is a hurdle to test whether Schalke 04 will be swayed by emotions.

PS: A chapter of [-] words, updated today.

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