Legend of Fengshen

Chapter 356 The old man
"Now I firmly believe in what he said that we will win the championship. Guys, we will be the ones who change the history of Schalke 04. People here are too eager for a championship trophy. Please work hard together and don't let it down!"

It wasn't just Neuer who spoke, but also other people who stood up to speak. After this internal meeting, Schalke 04's morale was at least stabilized.

Zhang Yuan also had to stand up and say a few words, after all, he is still the team's third captain.

He told everyone an old Chinese saying "Meeting on a narrow road, the brave wins". No one except Gao Jun could understand Chinese, but this did not prevent Zhang Yuan from telling this story about Qin Zhao in popular German.

He believes that the team is now on a narrow road to win the championship. The end of this road is the league championship, but there are still many enemies.

He encouraged his teammates to be warriors, to enjoy cheering instead of waiting for the pie to drop.

Magath was delighted to find that after this internal meeting, the morale of Schalke 04 had been greatly improved, and they quickly walked out of the shadow of the German Cup defeat.

But the next opponent Leverkusen is not easy to deal with. Their personnel did not have any major changes, and their investment last summer was not too much, but their coach is a big name, that is Heynckes.

Labbadia led Leverkusen to only ninth last season and left Leverkusen after the end of the season. Leverkusen immediately recruited Bayern Munich's transition coach Heynckes.

If Heynckes is a big name, it is because he has the bottom of the Champions League. In fact, so far in his coaching career, he has mostly been in small clubs, and his results are not bad. Basically, he won the championship in Bayern Munich. and Real Madrid.

He has a wide footprint and a rich resume, but after Real Madrid won the Champions League, he has not had any outstanding performance. He even announced his retirement after coaching his parent team Borussia Mönchengladbach in the 06-07 season.

Klinsmann's reform at Bayern Munich ended in failure. Bayern Munich's general manager Hoeness had a good relationship with Heynckes, so he invited the retired Heynckes to come out.

Bayern Munich blacks gave the nickname Bundesliga Hollywood, which shows that the inside is star-studded but also has complicated internal relationships. Klinsmann’s failure to reform has a certain relationship with this. He dismissed get out of class in a dark way. The team's win can impress the coach in the locker room. Heynckes had coaching experience in Bayern Munich before and achieved good results, which is enough to accomplish this goal.

But Heynckes is not a replacement candidate, but a transitional coach, because after Real Madrid, Heynckes has coached several teams, but the highlights are indeed pitiful. Bayern Munich lacks confidence in him to manage the team.

Bayern Munich is more inclined to invite coaches who are more adapted to modern football.

The fire fighting in Bayern Munich was generally successful. Unexpectedly, after the end of the fire fighting, Heynckes also had plans to return to football, and he hit it off with Leverkusen.

Leverkusen actually decided to invite after watching Heynckes' firefighting performance. Otherwise, relying on previous experience, Leverkusen probably wouldn't hand over the coach to Heynckes.

Because of the financial policy in the Bundesliga, apart from Bayern Munich, there are actually no absolute strong players in it. It often happens that they were still fighting in Europe last season and will be relegated next season.

Leverkusen's own strength is not too bad, but there must still be a certain gap compared with Werder Bremen and Wolfsburg. With Leverkusen's team, not many people may believe that Hai Heynckes can bring the team to where it is now, but the reality is that Heynckes has coached the team well.

When Bayern Munich snoozed early in the season, it was their long-running top spot at the top of the table, not anyone else.

Their recent results are not very good, they have declined, but not a collapse, and in the last 04 matches against Schalke 6, they have not lost a single one, which is a psychological advantage.

In addition, Schalke 04 also played the German Cup match in the middle of the week, and they played him for 120 minutes. In terms of physical fitness, they undoubtedly took the lead.

Even so, Heynckes did not mean to underestimate Schalke 04. Just as the outside world is not optimistic about Leverkusen, Schalke 04, which was empty of the four majors last season, is also not optimistic about Schalke [-], but they are now ranked first. Heinckes Kex wasn't old enough.

It was widely rumored that Schalke 04's head star Zhang Yuan would leave after the season, and Heynckes still did not relax his tactical defensive arrangements against Zhang Yuan.

This young man is amazing. In the second half of the season, he completely became a scoring machine. He is in surprisingly good condition and is surprisingly stable. A shooter can score 30 goals in a season, but it only takes more than ten games. Such a shooter Not terrible.

But if a shooter scores 30 goals in a season but distributes them in 30 rounds of the league, it is quite scary. Of course, this also proves that his luck is not bad.

At the very least, Heynckes thinks so. Regardless of the outside rumors, he must work hard to defend Zhang Yuan. For this reason, he has done competitive exercises in team training. As for the actual combat effect, he must See it played on the spot.

Because Bayern Munich lost to Stuttgart unexpectedly at home earlier, Schalke 04 could have a chance to draw points with them. Magath warned everyone in the locker room before the game not to think about Bayern Munich losing. You can relax, Schalke 04 still have to do their best to win this game.

The game started in the afternoon of the 27th. Magath changed his team in this game. He didn't want his opponent to figure out his routine. 442 is what he has always used now, but today he played 433 again.

Defensive line goalkeeper Neuer is the same, the back line has changed, Degan and Westerman partner in the back, and Hewedes has become the starting left back, right back is Rafinha.

Höwedes has always partnered with Digan as a central defender. He can also play left back and right back. Today, Magath played Rafinha and Farfan on the right. The purpose is to attack through the right. , while the left will have to focus on defense.

Höwedes not only needs to supplement the defense on the wing, but also can shrink, forming a three-central defense combination with Digan and Westerman, and strictly controlling the penalty area, because Heynckes is in Leverkusen this season. The usual is the double striker tactics.

Magath did not make too many adjustments in the midfield, Matip, Rakitic, Kruger.

On the front line were Kuranyi, Edu, and Farfan, and Zhang Yuan was put on the bench.

Leverkusen suffered a lot of losses before the game. Vidal was suspended with a yellow card and Kisling was absent due to a torn muscle fiber. These two people are still very important to Leverkusen. Vidal has grown completely here Get up, the midfield sweeping ability is strong, and the running ability is very strong, it is Leverkusen's midfield barrier.

And Kisling is the most powerful killer on Leverkusen's front line this season. He has also scored more than ten league goals so far.

Magath changed the formation, and Heynckes also changed the formation. His 442 parallel position was changed to a diamond position. Everyone wanted to surprise the opponent, but the result was that they might all be a little disappointed.

Why don't you follow the routine? !This may be the inner mourning of the two great marshals.

After the game started, Schalke 04 and Leverkusen faced each other a few times. Schalke 04 failed to seize the opportunity to score the first goal, and then Leverkusen slowly attacked and began to suppress Schalke. 04's midfield.

But just as Leverkusen had the upper hand, Schalke 04 scored with a chance of a counterattack.

In the 11th minute, Farfan broke through Castro from the right side of the midfield and quickly took him to the right front side of the penalty area. After Kuranyi stopped the ball on the left side of the penalty area, his right foot curved the ball into the far corner 11 meters away, 1 to 0.

"Long live!" Zhang Yuan clenched his fists on the bench and was excited about this goal, because Schalke 04 is habitually passive when facing a strong enemy, but today's Schalke 04 is like this. , many times can take the lead in scoring goals.

The players of Schalke 04 were celebrating enthusiastically, and the defensive players of Leverkusen were also crying. They scored a goal not long after the game, which is not a good thing.

(End of this chapter)