Green Dragon

Chapter 318 The Emperor Who Created Myths and Miracles

Amid all the good news, Heynckes maintained an extremely clear head.

He even has some headaches.

In the sweep of Basel, Schweinsteiger suffered a recurrence of his ankle injury at the last moment. Although it was not serious enough to be reimbursed for the season, he had to take a good rest this time because of consecutive injuries to the same part, otherwise he might be affected. to his future career.

In addition to the vice captain Xiaozhu, there are two wounded in Bayern's injury camp.

Since being injured in the first game of the second half, Van Buyten's injury has not healed. The worst case is that he may be reimbursed for the season.

And Rafinha has just recovered from a severe cold, and is still in the stage of rest and observation, and cannot play for the time being.

It is impossible for the two to re-enter the regular lineup in the short term, and the absence of Rafinha has caused obvious loopholes in Bayern's defense.

Bayern's regular defenders... There are only three people, Lahm, Boateng and Badstuber!

Yes, that's right, with only three men, Heynckes couldn't even put together a complete four-man defense.

Although there are still two 21-year-old young men, Breno and Contento, on the first-team roster, but...they are really used to make up the numbers.

Contento, who was once known as a rising star in defense, has won 10 appearances this season. It seems that this number is not bad, but most of the time is a garbage time substitute, and the few starting games are also in Germany. Cup... As for Breno, he didn't even get 1 minute of playing time in the league.

Heynckes obviously doesn't trust these two young men very much. When the defense is in a hurry, the old man would rather let Tymoshchuk or Gustavo retreat than easily push them onto the field.

But it is not a long-term solution to let the midfielder play as a guest defender for a long time. Not everyone is Mascherano...

The back line is the position that needs the most stability. During this period of time, Boateng and Bard finally cultivated a little tacit understanding, and another substitution would only fail. So Heynckes looked back at his side and could only Go find guys who can but play linebacker.

Adhering to the principle of not letting fat and water flow to outsiders, Eunuch Hai found his "godson", "Austrian Liu Xing" Alaba, and transformed this substitute midfielder full of offensive impulses into a full-back.

Alaba had to accept such an arrangement, because if he continued to stick to his previous position, it would be difficult for him to get a chance to play.

In Bayern's midfield, there is the unshakable Roberon trio, and Gomez's position is by no means unshakable. For the remaining two defensive midfielders, a healthy Schweinsteiger will definitely Occupying one, as for the other... He still needs to compete with Gustavo, Tymoshchuk, and Heynckes' other godson Cross. Obviously, Cross, who has a German household registration book, has an advantage , Alaba can only be ranked fourth.

And if he accepts the head coach's suggestion, he can continue to start in the next game... How do you say he refuses?

Fortunately, in these two games, Bayern beat their opponents with most of them. Alaba's wing did not undergo too many tests. It also gave him time to familiarize himself with the new position and accumulated experience in dealing with various situations.

But... Will Alaba feel confident, thinking that the reason why the team can win is because of his consecutive starts?
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Although the problem of the extreme lack of bench depth in the defense was concealed by the two wild victories, this shortcoming is obviously invisible to professionals, such as the head coaches of other Bundesliga teams. No one will fail to see the weakness of Bayern's defense .

So when Bayern came to the capital Berlin on March 3 to challenge Hertha Berlin, their opponents took Alaba's left flank as the focus of their attack.

The head coach of this newly promoted + relegation team in the capital area is the famous "Otto the Great" Otto Rehhagel.

Speaking of this German coach, it can be said that he is well-known and famous. He is also a German coach who is as famous as Hitzfeld, Heynckes, Ratke and others.

Rehhagel, who was unknown in the player era, failed to become popular and famous immediately after retiring. He led weak teams to relegation, relegation, and promotion. He had ups and downs in the process of leading weak teams to relegation, relegation, and promotion until the second time after a few years. LeMay, he's made a career out of it.

In the 14 years of coaching Bremen, he led the team to upgrade successfully, and then the results continued to rise. After ranking second in the league for three consecutive years, he finally won the Bundesliga championship in 1987, and then won two German cups successively. , a European Cup Winners' Cup, and another Bundesliga trophy.

After ending the glory of Bremen, he joined Bayern for a short time, but that kind of one-sided, self-important character is obviously not suitable for the management style of the Bundesliga hegemony-in Bayern, the head coach not only has the club chairman, the chairman of the supervisory board, The sports director and other high-level executives, as well as a large group of celebrities pointing and making irresponsible remarks to him, even the locker room is full of big-name players that he can't afford to mess with. In this environment, he can't even do a full season. go down...

After being kicked out by Bayern, he didn't even want the Bundesliga team. The desolate Rehhagel could only condescend to coach in the Bundesliga second.

He chose...Kaiserslautern, who was in the lower reaches of the Bundesliga Bundesliga at the time, and might even continue to be relegated.

Then, a great miracle was born in world football.

"The Kaiserslautern Miracle"!
In August 1996, Rehhagel joined Kaiser.

Only one season later, in May 1997, Kaiser successfully promoted to the Bundesliga.

In just one more season, in May 1998, Kaiser won the Bundesliga championship one round ahead of schedule as a super dark horse!

Under their pressure, it was Bayern Munich who swept Emperor Otto out!

Winning the league championship directly as a newly promoted horse, especially without huge investment and superstar joining, such a case is absolutely a miracle!
Miracles don't just happen once.

Otto the Great could make the miracle happen again.

When Rehhagel left Kaiser in the Bundesliga, he chose to leave again.

After a period of rest, he came back out of the arena.

It's just that this time he didn't become the head coach of any club, but took over the coach of the Greek national team.

Rehagel from Germany advocated iron-fisted military rule, which was incompatible with the romantic and free atmosphere of Greece. Everyone thought he would leave early.

But with the Kaiser miracle, Rehhagel gained a foothold in Greece. He carried out a cleansing of those free and loose internationals and built Greece into a disciplined army.

After coaching, his biggest task is to lead the team to qualify for the European Cup qualifiers. For Greece, a third-rate football country, this task is already very difficult, not to mention they encountered Raul, Morientes, Bei Leron, Iker Casillas, Puyol, Joaquin, Vicente, Raul Bravo, Gabriel, El Guerra...and the new and old Spanish players such as Harvey, Alonso, Torres and others!
However, Oja the Great led the Greek team to triumphantly, and even achieved an undefeated record of 15 rounds in the qualifiers. In the end, he defeated the gorgeous lineup of Matador Legion in the battle against Spain's Tianwangshan, and entered the group directly. European Cup finals.

In Portugal in 2004, everyone thought that Greece would only be a spectator.

In the group stage, Greece was in the same group as the host Portugal, Matador Spain, and Russia. For the other three teams, Greece was definitely their craving for points.

But Rehhagel refused to serve as a backdrop.

揭幕战2-1爆冷击败东道主，第二轮1-1逼平西班牙，最后一轮1-2输给俄罗斯，凭借进球数更多的优势力压西班牙小组出线。

If there is still some luck in the group stage, then the next knockout stage will bring Rehhagel's tactical thinking into full play.

In the quarter-finals, the Greek team defeated the defending champion France 1-0, with Zidane, Henry, Trezeguet, Vieira, Pires, Makelele, Thuram, Lizarazu and other top superstars The Gallic Rooster couldn't even believe he lost the game at the end of the game...

In the semi-finals, the Greek team and the Czech Republic met on a narrow road, and the two teams played until overtime to decide the winner.

The Czech lineup at that time was at its peak, and it can be called the golden generation: with Mr. Golden Ball and Iron Man Nedved as the core, surrounded by Petr Cech, Rosicky, Baros, Jankulovski, Popos Key, Smicer and other well-known stars, whether in terms of personal strength or team reputation, have completely exploded Greece's two levels.

But the winner is still the Greek team. This weak team with the face of the public killed the game in overtime with the first, last and only "silver ball" in the history of the European Cup.

When the Greek team went through extra time to the stage of the final, waiting for their well-tied hosts.

Portugal in 2004 was almost the strongest in history:
The older generation of Mr. Figo, Rui Costa, Pauletta, Costinha and others are still relatively young and can still fight. The Mesozoic generation of Deco, Carvalho, Ferreira, Nuno - Gomez, Miguel, Maniche, Thiago, and Simao have also shown their top strength in Benfica, Porto, Lisbon and other Portuguese super giants. As for the new generation of Ronaldo and Postiga, even more He is a hot new star all over Europe.

Coupled with the home game, the head coach is still the 2002 World Cup champion coach Scolari, and the voice of Portugal winning the championship at home has overshadowed everything.

Then they were slapped hard in the face!
The scene of Ronaldo bursting into tears after the game has become a memory that will never be erased at the beginning of his career. Figo and others have gradually withdrawn from football since then, but Rehhagel created another myth:
"Greek mythology"!
Otto the Great has always liked to challenge the powerful. He has proved with actual results that he is the legend who is best at making miracles and myths in the football world. Now he has come to Heynckes and Bayern.

He wants to overthrow this giant who dominates German football!

He's done it so many times before and he wouldn't mind doing it again!
He, Emperor Oha, just wanted Ritian!

(End of this chapter)