Legend of Fengshen

Chapter 208 One by one

After defeating Cottbus, Schalke 04 won two consecutive victories and reached 20 points. They came to fifth place in the standings, 1 points away from No.5 Hoffenheim.

Hoffenheim’s miraculous performance shocked everyone. Before the season, many media predicted that Hoffenheim would be a dark horse, but who would have expected that after 11 rounds, it would not be the defending champion Bayern Munich but Hoffenheim who would occupy the top spot Tom!
And the top three last season, the defending champion Bayern Munich ranked fourth in the standings with only 20 points, the runner-up Schalke 04 ranked fifth, and the third runner-up Werder Bremen was even worse, they ranked with 17 points in tenth place.

The season is only a third of the way, and the points gap in the Bundesliga has not yet been completely widened. Schalke 04's two-game winning streak is a positive sign. The players who were relatively short-lived a while ago finally breathed a sigh of relief. At least we go on the road to victory.

After a long away trip, the Schalke 04 team returned to Gelsenkirchen.

"Boys, I'm glad we're back on the right track to winning. We've won two straight, the points have gone up, the rankings have gone up, well done everyone!" Buskens started on the training ground early in the morning. After his own lecture, after saying this, he deliberately scanned the players' reactions.

Everyone was very happy, with smiles on their faces, and Zhang Yuan was no exception!

"To be honest, I really want to give everyone a holiday, but the next two games are very critical for us, I have to cancel the holiday, I hope everyone can understand!" Buskens said of the Champions League Home games against Panathinaikos and home games against Bayern Munich.

It is rare for Buskens to be so polite to the players. Zhang Yuan and others who have played under Buskens know that Buskens is not a strict coach, but politeness is definitely not called it.

"Well, I'm too polite to you! Actually, I really want to win these two games, but I don't want you to carry a heavy burden!" Buskens was a little surprised when he saw the reaction of the players below, and had to Said directly.

These words touched everyone's heart. Everyone was smiling when they came back, but everyone knew that the next big test was the Champions League. Needless to say, the points were at the bottom, and if they didn't win, they would really say goodbye.

Bayern Munich is the shadow of all Bundesliga teams. If they can beat them at home, it will undoubtedly bring great confidence to the team. See if we can even defeat the defending champion and the Bundesliga boss. What else can we not do? !
So don't look at the smiling faces, in fact, when the game is approaching, everyone's mentality will inevitably be affected.

"Well, in fact, you really don't have to worry so much about the future games! Let me tell you the story of last season, when the club asked me to be the acting coach. To be honest, I felt like I was not ready, but I love This team, I will always be a part of it, the responsibility has to let me take this plate."

"You must know better than me, the expressions on the faces of everyone who lost to Werder Bremen! At that time, I asked Yuri what to do? Yuri said what else to do, play game by game, no matter what the game will always be It was played game by game!"

"What happened next, you all know very well! What I want to say is that I was also very apprehensive at the time, and I was also very afraid of taking the team further into the abyss, but the game is always kicked off one by one, why should we think about it? In the future, just do what you are doing now!"

In fact, Buskens was very lucky last season. His coaching ability is definitely not very good, but he continued Slomka's style without any changes.

And it just happened to be sent to the underdog Cottbus. The morale of the team is not good, but with absolute strength, Cottbus did not achieve the goal of scoring points. Instead, it gave Schalke 04 a big victory. , which played a huge role in boosting the morale of the team. Following the winning streak, Schalke 04 was really imposing, rushing to the second place in the standings.

At that time, the outside media said that it was not unreasonable for Slomka to dismiss get out of class.

"You don't need to think about the game now. What you need to think about now is to train well. Let's save the game on the field! The outside media gave us countless reasons. We must win against Panathinaikos, but I don't think so. , Anorthosis, who is now second in the standings, only has four points, and they have to face Inter Milan this time. I don’t believe that Inter Milan will lose! Our game is not about to fall, the sky will fall, So I hope you can play our own football at home, why worry so much about winning or losing, just do your best!" Buskens sincerely expressed his opinion to everyone.

Although everyone knows that Buskens just didn't want everyone to bear heavy revenge for saying this, but everyone is still relieved. After all, the head coach gave everyone reassurance, and I won't blame you.

Buskens' coaching ability cannot be fully judged at all, but as the veteran of the team, he can still get everyone's approval if he says some words of encouragement to relax.

In the next two days of training, the team has always been in a relaxed atmosphere, and there is no high-intensity training. Buskens and Mulder believe that what the Schalke 04 players need most now is to rest and relax, but It cannot be completely relaxed, the string in the head still has to be stretched, as long as it is not too tight.

For Panathinaikos, Buskens did not have any special tactical arrangements. After he took office, he almost always played with me-based tactical ideas. He concluded that Rutten's tactics were too conservative. On-the-spot adjustments are mostly passive.

In Ruteng's consecutive draws, the opponents encountered also have weak teams, but they can often draw him. The reason is that they have basically figured out Ruteng's routine and tried their best to limit the two sides. Ruteng is fine. It's a good way to deal with it. In fact, Schalke 04 didn't lose many games, but there were too many draws.

Now the new tactics discussed by Buskens and Mulder, Zhang Yuan is the center forward, and the striker's ability to respond and break through in the center is enhanced, realizing a mixed style of play that focuses on the center and supplements the side. Opponents are hard to guard against.

To put it bluntly, Schalke 04 now wants to take the initiative on the field instead of giving it up to others.

On the evening of October 10th, the 4-08 season Champions League ushered in the fourth matchday. Although the final round of the Champions League is very important, the fourth day is a big challenge for many teams. The most critical round, one thinks about heaven and one thinks about hell. Some teams are basically doomed to qualify after this round, while others may fight a turnaround.

Like Schalke 04, this is the key battle. Their most important goal is not to be outnumbered by No.2. On paper, it seems that Inter Milan is N times stronger than Anorthosis, but who knows Will Inter Milan be killed by the home team Anorthosis in the away game? You must know that Panathinaikos is also N times stronger than Anorthosis, but lost a 0:3 away game, Schalke 04 It is recognized that the second result of the group was tied by Anorthosis on the first match day.

The final knockout stage of the Champions League is not a place where miracles are likely to happen, but the group stage is definitely a place where miracles happen.

For such a crucial match, the Schalke 04 fans naturally wanted to come to support it. The Schalke Stadium was full of spectators, and the audience was full.

In Zhang Yuan's box, Raiola was discussing things with Mai Xuewen. One of them was Zhang Yuan's official agent, and the other was Zhang Yuan's personal assistant. There were still quite a lot of intersections.

In addition, to put it bluntly, Mai Xuewen is still a member of the economic team formed by Raiola for Zhang Yuan, but this Mai Xuewen will not listen to Raiola, on the contrary, they have a competitive relationship in business.

Mai Xuewen is naturally dissatisfied with Zhang Yuan's current distribution of commercial endorsements. He thinks that Zhang Yuan's distribution is too biased towards Raiola.

Raiola also felt dissatisfied. He felt that he now has the ability to represent Zhang Yuan's business with full authority.

At the beginning of the distribution plan, both of them agreed very much. Mai Xuewen had a little bit of the idea that a small fortune would be easy, while Raiola felt that he was not familiar with the situation in China at the beginning, and the commercial contract there was handed over to Mai Xuewen and him. acceptable.

Unexpectedly, in the past six months, the two people's desires have been dissatisfied at the same time, and the gap is hard to fill. As everyone earns more and more money, their hearts have begun to grow.

Mai Xuewen believes that even some international brand endorsements should have his share, such as the signing of Puma.

Because Zhang Yuan signed a contract with Puma not with Puma China, but directly with Puma headquarters. Many advertisements are to be placed around the world, and China is naturally among them, and China has a large consumer group.

Mai Xuewen thinks this is unreasonable, this should be my share, and Zhang Yuan’s share is indispensable, so what to do, we can only let Raiola share it, these shares are actually not too much , but what he asked for was a gesture, which meant that he wanted to get involved in this area in the future.

(End of this chapter)