Grass roots glory

Chapter 334 Why?

In this season's Ruhr Derby, in addition to the derby gimmicks that everyone sees and hears every season, returning to the game itself, there are actually many things to watch on individual players.

For example, the old general's rebellion, Schalke's starting right back Metzelder played for Dortmund for six seasons, before this game, the Dortmund media and fans were still denouncing him.Although they don't need Metzelder, who has passed his prime, they feel unhappy when they think of the meritorious veteran of the team, who went out for a circle, and joined the biggest enemy when he returned home.

In the player channel, when Metzelder and Dortmund's former teammates Weidenfeller and Kyle looked at each other, both sides showed a strong desire to win.

In fact, they are not in the same state of incompatibility between the media and fans of the two places, and even have a good personal relationship, but as professional players, they all understand that this is not a place for chatting, and the next game will have to go their own way. for its master.

In addition, another point that the media is very concerned about is the performance of the newly joined players in the first Ruhr Derby.For example, Raul and Huntelaar of the home team Schalke, Magath today is a 4-4-2 formation, Raul and Huntelaar appear together on the front line.Magath is obviously based on the pursuit of strong attack at home.

As for Dortmund, the focus of the media is on Lewandowski. Before the game, Klopp also took him to the press conference. The media are even more convinced that he will be entrusted with important tasks in this game.

But in fact, this is just Klopp's blindfold. The person he is most looking forward to breaking out is not the Polish striker. Just look at the treatment in the locker room.After Klopp explained the tactics to everyone, it was the Japanese midfielder Shinji Kagawa, not him, who received the opportunity to receive an individual face-to-face instruction.

"Xagawa, do you know what you should do? Our offense must be efficient, don't confront Zhou Tiancheng head-on, try to bypass his defense."

"I understand, sir." Although Shinji Kagawa wondered if Klopp had made a fuss over a molehill, he would not compromise on execution.The reason is simple. He was able to come to the Bundesliga from the Japanese J-League entirely because of Klopp's hand-picking. Although he went to South Africa with the Japanese team this summer, he was only one of the three "support players" and did not The 23-man shortlist for the Japanese team, although the World Cup is an excellent springboard to join the five major leagues, but for him, he has no chance to play for one minute, and he is indeed lucky to be favored by Dortmund.

[Note: The so-called World Cup "support list" of the Japanese team means that in addition to the 23-man match list, several young players with potential are selected to accompany the team to the World Cup to experience the atmosphere of the competition.As a way to support the growth of young players, it got its name, and the World Cup in South Africa Shinji Kagawa is one of them. 】

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When Shinji Kagawa faced Zhou Tiancheng on the court, he felt him up close and realized that this opponent was really not something he could benefit from directly.The height difference is nearly [-] centimeters, he has to look up to see Zhou Tiancheng's appearance clearly, in terms of physique, seeing Zhou Tiancheng and the team's strongest confrontation ability, Svenbender, can win with toughness, Shinji Kagawa feels that he must fight his body Definitely only being abused.

So he stepped on the ball, first feinted a shot to the left, saw Zhou Tiancheng followed by a small step to the left, and immediately changed direction and sent a through ball to the right.

"Kagawa, he successfully deceived his opponent! It's great, the European Golden Boy is nothing more than that..."

The Japanese commentator was just about to give a big blow to Kagawa, but he shut up in the middle of his speech, because Zhou Tiancheng was not deceived at all, and moved one step to the left just in case, after all, in the team's pre-match tactical analysis Rimagat did not focus on Shinji Kagawa.In fact, he had been wary of his opposite direction, and the result was as he expected, Zhou Tiancheng quickly stretched out his left leg and firmly stopped the ball under his feet.

When Shinji Kagawa saw the ball being stolen, he was stunned for a moment, but the cheers from the proud Schalke fans made him quickly regain his senses, and he chased back diligently.The position area Klopp gave him was in the front midfielder, but on the defensive end he retreated faster than the midfielder.

"Zhou Tiancheng - the pass tore through the defense, beautiful! Shinji Kagawa is very diligent! But he can't stop Schalke's offensive... Huntelaar! Header!"

Huntelaar showed amazing jumping, and even the 1.9-meter-two Hummels had to bow down.However, when the orange bomber took off, it was only thinking about bombing the opponent's goal, and didn't pay attention to correcting the trajectory. The ball flew out against the right post.

Shinji Kagawa looked at the ball that missed the post, heaved a sigh of relief, subconsciously looked to the sidelines, Klopp grinned, and kept making forward gestures.Shinji Kagawa gritted his teeth secretly, looked at Zhou Tiancheng, and made up his mind.

He still can't believe it!
Before the game, he had a phone call with his teammate Uchida Atsuto. Although Uchida Atsuto didn't say it explicitly, in their call, Uchida Atsuto implicitly mentioned that he is not very good here, and Chinese players are the protagonists here.So Shinji Kagawa was curious at first, but he was even more unconvinced when he was blocked by Zhou Tiancheng just now.

If he said that he wanted to learn from these European stars, he would be very modest, but he said that he is not as good as a Chinese player. As Shinji Kagawa who just arrived from the J-League, he really does not believe this evil in his heart.

Dortmund survived the catastrophe, Weidenfeller quickly launched a counterattack by throwing the ball, Kagawa Shinji followed the counterattack formation all the way to the front of the penalty area, Zhou Tiancheng also quickly recovered towards his own penalty area.

Not surprisingly, the two met again.

Kagawa Shinji, who came to the front of the penalty area, was obviously more confident than before. He even tried a volley without stopping the ball. Zhou Tiancheng quickly blocked it with his body. His height played a key role. The first block covered a large area. Steadily blocked Shinji Kagawa's shot.

However, Shinji Kagawa's second reaction was still very quick. The ball bounced down and was not far from his position. After controlling the ball, he quickly took a step into the penalty area, then stopped suddenly and changed direction, and buckled the ball from his left foot to his right foot. The whole movement is done in one go, and it can be seen that the technique under the feet is really good.

"Kagawa! Shoot!!!" The Japanese commentator shouted.

This time, Shinji Kagawa is very confident, Zhou Tiancheng has already been moved to the opposite side by him, he must be unable to guard against it, right?
He gathered enough strength to draw the ball out. He expected that the ball would fly into the blind spot he had set, but at this moment, a figure flew out from the side and passed across his eyes. Immediately after, Xiangchuan heard "bang!" ", he still had an expectant expression on his face, but there was no shadow of the ball in front of him, but he slowly rolled out of the sideline.

"WOW! Zhou Ke is so brave! Flying out to defuse a kill ball!" Marcel Leff praised.

Duan Xuan even shouted in the studio: "Zhou Tiancheng headed the ball to clear the siege!! A phenomenal performance, haha! Shinji Kagawa has no grudge against Zhou Tiancheng. Does he have to score in front of Zhou Tiancheng? Isn't that right? Why bother, hahaha!"

(End of this chapter)