green showman

Chapter 387 The Trough and the Dawn

"Poor defense, Hewedes made a mistake!" Adam Simpson kept shaking his head, "Undisputed penalty."

On the sidelines, Magath crossed his hands and looked at the field with a blank expression. This is the sixth round of the Bundesliga match. The home game against Borussia Mönchengladbach. Only 10 minutes into the opening, Borussia made a counterattack. Des knocked Royce stupidly in the penalty area.

Sun Wu, who ran back, pulled Hewedes up, and felt quite helpless. The two consecutive draws and the loss in the last game made the atmosphere in the team quite depressing. Most of the players were very impatient. This mentality was reflected on the court. Out of position, out of shape, and stupid choices...

Magath has made a substantial rotation in this game. Holtby, Uchida Atsuto, and Draxler, who performed poorly in the last game, were all placed on the bench. Hao Junmin accidentally started as a left winger, Farr Fan started the right winger and Mandzukic returned from suspension.

And Hewedes appeared on the right to play right back.

Magath allowed Hewedes to play right back in order to strengthen the defense. Royce on the other side is a winger with excellent personal ability, but it was Hewedes' reckless assist and misplacement that led to this penalty.

Royce sent the ball into the goal without any suspense...

Worse things came... Neuer made a poor save and sprained the middle finger of his right hand.

Sun Wu was laughed out of anger, all kinds of bad luck happened!

This season is bewitched!Neuer has been in full attendance for three consecutive seasons!

Since landing in the Bundesliga as the main player, Sun Wu has not encountered an example of a main player recovering from an injury for a long time, except for the old injury of Grafite. Most of the games in the first two seasons were played with the strongest lineup.

Fortunately, he was not so unlucky. After being bandaged, Neuer insisted on staying on the court, and it seemed that there was no big problem.

"Joel!" Sun Wu called Matip, pointed to Royce and whispered: "In the 30-meter area, if this guy takes the ball, you can go up to it. You fill in."

Among all Schalke 04 defensive players, in terms of physical fitness, Cameroonian Joel Matip is well-deservedly ranked first. He is tall, strong, not slow, and he is quite flexible in turning, although he is not experienced. But the defense is very tough, and it is most suitable for marking players like Royce.

In the 35th minute, before Royce had time to turn around with the ball behind his back, Matip behind him rushed up and kicked Royce's ankle hard.

Royce let out a scream and fell down covering his feet... Not far away, Sun Wu twitched his mouth, Matip is so ruthless, isn't he afraid of taking cards?

Sure enough, the referee showed Royce a yellow card, and Magath on the sidelines was about to yell and curse... But then, the referee gestured for a stretcher to enter the field, and Royce couldn't hold on. up...

Well, everyone is pretty much out of luck.

"Actually... stick to him to prevent him from turning around, just force him to pass back." Sun Wu looked at Royce who was carried out of the field.

"Remember him hard, and he will walk around me." Matip spread his hands, "This kid is too fragile..."

Sun Wu didn't say a word, he didn't play the game anyway, besides, Royce was originally a glass man, he was selected for the German national team this year, but he won't participate in the World Cup for the first time until eight years later...

Royce is too important to this Borussia Mönchengladbach team. His injury and departure directly caused the quality of Borussia's counterattack to plummet. The shameless Schalke 04 completely controlled the situation and greatly suppressed the siege.

Just 5 minutes later, Schalke 04 equalized the score.

Sun Wu and Farfan on the right passed the ball continuously, looking behind his eyes, as if he was waiting for Hewedes to step forward for an assist, but when the Borussia defender posted it, Sun Wu suddenly accelerated the ball and directly 45 Send a cross.

Mandzukic overwhelmed the defender with a header, and Farfan, who inserted obliquely into the penalty area, shot from a small angle and sent the ball into the upper corner.

Adam Simpson felt that the goal came a bit abruptly, "Best's cross looks great, but I don't think it's a tactical victory, it's just luck...Best took the ball with his back and suddenly accelerated, He didn't even observe Mandzukic's movement, such a distance ... there is no such tactical routine."

But in fact, Sun Wu clearly saw through the "God's perspective" that Farfan's position was inward and he ran into the penalty area. Ready to post it.

At this moment, there was a brief vacuum around Mandzukic. Sun Wu chose to send the ball over the head of his teammate. The Croatian also made a great choice. Instead of directly heading the goal, he ferried to Farfan.

It looks ordinary, but it is actually a clever use of the time difference... However, only Sun Wu can design this kind of detail in the world.

1 to 1 ended the first half of the game, Magath severely criticized Höwedes in the locker room, replaced Höwedes with Draxler, and let Hao Junmin serve as the right back.

In the second half of the game, Schalke 04 continued to attack wildly, but luck was a little bit bad. Mandzukic received Sun Wu's oblique ball twice to get a semi-single-handed chance, but hit the ball on the goalkeeper twice.

Draxler's arc shot from outside the penalty area hit the post, and Sun Wu's next two consecutive supplementary shots were magically rejected by the goalkeeper.

The best chance came towards the end of the game, when Sun Wu took a corner kick and Matip leaped high to head it in. The ball was cleared by the defender at the post before it crossed the line. He was blocked by the goalkeeper again.

There was chaos in the penalty area, Metzelder protected the ball and passed back, Sun Wu volleyed vigorously from outside the penalty area, but the ball flew high over the crossbar.

In the end, Schalke 04 swallowed the result of the draw bitterly, winning three consecutive league games and four games in all competitions.

After the game, the German media began to bad-mouth Schalke 04. Bayern won two consecutive victories in these two rounds of the league, and Dortmund was even more amazing. First, they swept Kaiserslautern 6-0, and then beat St. Pauli 5-1. , beat Mainz to lead the standings.

It seems that Schalke 04 has begun to decline, but Sun Wu does not see it that way.

There are many reasons for the loss of four consecutive games, the suspension of players, the absence due to injury, the speed of new players integrating into the team is too slow, the main players including Sun Wu are not in good condition, and damn luck...

But the situation is starting to change, the suspension is over, besides the long-term injury Cavani, Rakitic and Raul still have a week to recover, but other players Farfan and Pekarik have returned On the training ground, Neuer's fingers have little effect.

The most important thing is that the cooperation between Mandzukic and his teammates has gradually become tacit. If it is not for bad luck, this game should be won.

Seeing the evaluation of Schalke 04 in the newspaper, Sun Wu curled his lips in disdain. The media is always like this, how to pursue you when you win, and how to belittle you when you lose.

Sun Wu himself is an example. After the Ruhr Derby, he lost two consecutive league games. The media put most of the blame on Sun Wu, thinking that the core player of Schalke 04 failed to show a convincing performance.

Although he knew that journalists were all of this kind of virtue, Sun Wu was still getting annoyed.

But Sun Wu also knows that status is consolidated by performance, and if he wants to maintain his status or even continue to climb, he must show something different on the court.

Sun Wu put down the newspaper, turned on the computer and began to study the opponent for the next game, AC Milan.

(End of this chapter)