Grass roots glory

Chapter 195 A Brick
On the way back to Gelsenkirchen after narrowly defeating Hoffenheim, Magath kept his expression serious. Two things made him very upset.

One is Kuranyi's injury. After Kuranyi was finished, he was sent back to Sinsheim, where Hoffenheim is located, to check the injury.

After all, Hoffenheim is just a small village. Even if Germany is at the top level in the field of sports medicine, this kind of injury is not something such a small place can handle.

The specific injury assessment report will not come out in a few days. Magath only hopes that Kuranyi will not be injured for too long. This is related to the second thing that gives him a headache. The loss of firepower at the end is really serious.

Although the team's midfield is strong, the goals are not concentrated on Kuranyi. He only scored [-] goals last season-as the main forward, he only scored two goals more than Zhou Tiancheng, who played as a midfielder. ball.But his restraint on the central defender on the front line is hard to ignore.It is also for this reason that Zhou Tiancheng was able to play so many good plays with Asamoah and Farfan.

And Kuranyi was injured, and the team immediately lost the pinning point.Prior, who joined the team in the winter window last season, did not meet the physical requirements, and he was transferred and could not be transferred to the U19, so he was loaned to the Landers Frega Club of the Danish Super League to exercise.

In fact, it is no different from giving up.If you really want to be recalled in the future, you can go on loan to the German low-level league.

And then Magath had to face the conundrum himself.Now the only high center forward is injured, how should the next tactics be set up.

……

In about three or four days, Kuranyi received emergency treatment in Sinsheim. After the injury was temporarily stabilized, he was sent back to Gelsenkirchen. The Schalke team medical team also became injured the next day. Report.

"Felix, things are not going well with Kevin."

Magath's heart tightened: "How long can I play?"

"Broken ankle, avulsive, not shattered, so not the worst, but..."

"Speaking of the point, how long will he be absent?"

La Jota pondered for a moment, and said truthfully, "About one and a half months."

"How about being more optimistic?"

"That will take a month. After all, you want him to go up against Gao Gao. It's not enough for ordinary people to walk down the ground."

Magath's expression suddenly became serious. It is not a big deal to miss four rounds of the league for a month, but he could not play the first round of the Champions League group stage against Chelsea, which made Magath feel difficult.

The only hope now is that Kuranyi can catch up with the away game against Atletico Madrid, otherwise, the group of death is not just on paper!
After returning from Lajota, Magath first disclosed Kuranyi's injury to everyone before the start of training the next day to appease everyone's emotions, and then began to think about the team's formation during this period.

Magath tried to put the 1.8-meter-five Altintop on the front line, but Altintop is about the same height as Kuranyi, but as a winger, he fights physically with the central defender. It turns out that the effect is not good. not good.

You can't even control the ball, so how can you talk about offensive support?

Magath also tried to let the black and tough forward Jones face the tough central defender. His physical fitness is not a problem. In training, the tough Westerman and Hewedes will not suffer, but the biggest problem is Jones. The work with the feet is not fine enough, it is no problem to hold the ball at the first time, but after holding the ball, it is not good enough, the work with the feet is not fine enough, and it is always difficult to get in touch with the surrounding teammates.

Similarly, Magath has not thought about it, such as sending two fast horses, and there is a tactical training session where he specially partners Jiang Hao and Jones, who are currently the fastest two in the team.Magath knows that in order to use speed, he must use it to the maximum.

But it didn't achieve the effect he wanted. The two always ran at full speed on the field, which led to an open scene and an extremely fast offensive rhythm.

In Magath's view, this is not a good thing.This means that the team has to constantly switch back and forth between offense and defense, not to mention whether the defense can withstand this fast-paced impact. This is first of all to slow down the rhythm of the midfield. Even Zhou Tiancheng can't handle it Made like this.

Mature teams all emphasize control, and this style of play is obviously unacceptable.

There must be a high point of the stance.

……

"Felix, I have an idea." Hollerbach watched the players doing shooting practice on the field and walked to Magath.

"Ok?"

"I can't find a suitable replacement now. Do you think it's okay to raise Zhou to be the fulcrum of the striker? After all, he has height."

This suggestion made Magath stunned for a moment, but after thinking about it, a light of surprise burst out in his eyes.

Hollerbach's suggestion really reminded him, but what he thought of was not only Zhou Tiancheng's height condition.

With Zhou Tiancheng's footwork skills, it is not difficult to support the ball, and his physical condition is enough to resist the central defender, and he has a good header ability to dominate the air.

Although the frontal dribbling rhythm may be slow, facing the central defender may be more disadvantaged, but the flaws are not hidden, and there is no better choice.

Hollerbach, the dog-headed military strategist, really came up with a good idea!

……

In the next training session, Zhou Tiancheng appeared in the striker position, and most people were surprised.

"Hey, why did Zhou go to play forward?" Hewedes was very surprised.

"I don't understand this! Isn't Kevin injured? The devil must have seen the height of... last week." Matip answered.

"Hahaha, Joel, can you finish a sentence next time? I really think the devil has such a special taste."

"I am absolutely convinced of Zhou's ability to play midfield, but he can also play well as a striker?" Priatskas expressed doubts.

Jiang Hao was the first to know about Zhou Tiancheng's temporary position. He pretended to be dissatisfied in his heart: "Brother Cheng, if I can choose again, I definitely don't want to be on the same team as you."

"why?"

Jiang Hao pursed his mouth: "You are a monster. No matter which coach you are in, you can get away with it, and the main striker is injured, but the coach actually let you go on top! And I have to continue to sit on the bench..."

"You think I want to? I play well in midfield. Isn't that the coach's arrangement? The standing center is completely fighting with the defenders. You think I am willing to take on this drudgery. There is no way, the team is like this, The greater the ability, the greater the responsibility, of course! We are a brick of the team, and we can move wherever we need."

"Brother Cheng, I'll give [-] points to you for pretending so hard. Really, you're really not proud."

As someone who came here with Zhou Tiancheng, Jiang Hao was telling the truth.Starting from U19, Zhou Tiancheng has been moving forward from the central defender position, which is the team's demand, and the head coach will always think of him.

It's just that Jiang Hao was still a little unbalanced when he thought that Zhou Tiancheng would occupy his potential playing space.

(End of this chapter)