Grass roots glory

Chapter 345 Sudden Increase in Pressure (Second Change, Ask for a Monthly Ticket!)
In the end, they beat Lyon 3:0 in the whole game, and Jurado scored after the second half. Schalke had no suspense to advance to the round of [-] as the first in the group.But it is worth mentioning Puel's speech at the post-match press conference.

"As it turned out, I don't have much to say about the game. The players didn't really play at their level... Congratulations to Schalke, I'm looking forward to another game with them."

It's not surprising that any head coach has thoughts of revenge after a loss, but few of them express it directly.Puel's statement actually has no meaning, but it is more like a declaration: despite the loss, the team's goals this season are absolutely ambitious.

You know, the two teams qualify in the same group. If they want to continue to meet this season, at least they have to wait until the semi-finals or finals.Lyon reached the semi-finals of the Champions League last season. It stands to reason that it is not surprising that the team has the goal of further reaching the final.However, they have focused too much this season, and they have just been double-killed by Schalke, so most of the media took this as a joke.The German media collectively threw stones at this time: Want to enter the final?It's not too late, let your father work hard!Don't be like this again.Schalke didn't even get a red card, what are you doing!

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Locked in the first place in the group, Magath successfully completed a small stage of the UEFA Champions League. Back in the league, they continued their momentum.

In the No.14 round of the Bundesliga, Schalke beat the newly promoted Kaiserslautern 5:0.As it turns out, miracles can only happen once.They returned to the Bundesliga last season as the Bundesliga champions. Many media are still looking forward to whether they can create another miracle 12 years ago, but now the league is nearly halfway through, and they are ranked tenth in the standings. Schalke, they even suffered a disastrous five-goal defeat. Although judging from their current state and strength, relegation is not too difficult, but it is better not to think about miracles.The reason why miracles are talked about is often because they are unique and difficult to be replicated.

In this five-goal victory, Zhou Tiancheng contributed two goals and also staged a hat-trick of assists. All five goals were related to him, and the number of league goals rose to twelve.The gap in the league scorer list is still widening.Zhou Tiancheng's crazy strength made the entire Bundesliga feel crazy: he scored [-] goals in [-] league rounds, and also had [-] assists, ranking first in both the scorer list and the assist list.Not only did he do his job as a midfielder very well, but he also dwarfed all forwards in the Bundesliga.

The German media even regretted that Zhou Tiancheng would have been a German citizen.Then the German team is likely to have two more World Cups and a European Cup title...

For Magath, there are more exciting factors behind this big victory: Huntelaar and Jiang Hao have scored goals in both starting and coming off the bench. With the next match against Bayern Munich, this game came at a perfect time.

Entering the first week of December, the Bundesliga halfway is entering its final stage. Bayern is the last strong enemy of Schalke in the halfway stage. At present, there is only a three-point gap between them and Schalke. The current round of weakness is still four points behind the number one Dortmund. Don't look at Zhou Tiancheng's performance is crazy now. Schalke's news is all over the media. Their attention seems to be higher than that of the leader Dortmund. But in fact Magath is under a lot of pressure.

The time for the decisive battle has arrived ahead of schedule!If they can't beat Bayern, Dortmund will further open the gap, and the league line may be cold.

The good news is that the state of the striker has picked up and is playing in a normal state. Now they are not afraid of Bayern. Magath has just gained two points of confidence in the prospect of the game. As a result, before the game, the club received a fax saying that Magath After Gart saw it, he exploded on the spot.

It is a player recruitment coordination fax issued by the Chinese Football Association.The Asian Cup in Qatar is about to open early next month. The coaching staff of the national team is eager to recruit three Chinese players from the Schalke team to participate in the final training of the national team.

For formal intercontinental competitions like the Asian Cup, the recruitment of players by the national team is supported by the rules and regulations of FIFA.The club has no right to refuse.And at the latest, they must be released half a month before the start of the competition.

Because of this, Magath made a rough statement: The fax clearly stated that the Asian Cup matches will run through the entire month of January, and Zhou Tiancheng will be absent for at least a month if the national team training time is included.It is conservatively estimated that Zhou Tiancheng will miss three to four league games, and the team's upcoming Club World Cup, Zhou Tiancheng will definitely not be able to participate.

This is still a conservative estimate. If Zhou Tiancheng returns after participating in the group stage, if he still participates in the knockout stage, the impact will be even more serious

That's why Magath is so annoyed. Without Jiang Hao, Huntelaar and Raul, without Hao Junmin, he can use Karimi who is waiting for an opportunity on the bench, but without Zhou Tiancheng, this problem It's big.Counting on Jurado and Baumjohann... I'm afraid that's the only way to go, although Magath doesn't have much confidence, after all, the role of the two has been just supporting.

And what he can do is try his best to negotiate with Zhou Tiancheng, hoping that Zhou Tiancheng can postpone the time to report to the national team as much as possible.

Zhou Tiancheng understands Magath's thoughts very well. He has learned a lot about the drama of the club and the national team stealing people since he started as a fan.Only this time he had a mind of his own.

"Boss, I understand your difficulties very well. I will try my best in the game against Bayern, but I hope to go to the national team as soon as possible. I don't have many opportunities to practice with the national team. After all, the Asian Cup is a formal competition. I still hope to do well.”

Magath frowned and considered for a few minutes before he said: "Zhou, although I understand your wish, as the head coach of the team, I have to be responsible for the team. My attitude is that you can go, But at least play the remaining two games in the first half of the season. This is our bottom line, you are really important to the team."

Magath also reported to the club to reply to the Chinese Football Association with this attitude.Of course not happy there.As a result, a large wave of attention-grabbing scenes quickly fermented in China.

On the team's side, what Magath can do is to do his best to ensure that he wins the match against Bayern.After such an episode, the pressure on the team increased sharply.

Magath now only hopes that Zhou Tiancheng can complete the task of the national team as soon as possible.It is best to return to the team after the group stage.

Magath has been thinking about this matter in his mind during the past two days.But he was still very optimistic.Although he doesn't know much about the Chinese team, but based on some scattered knowledge, he feels that his wish is very likely to come true...

(End of this chapter)