road to victory

Chapter 244 The defending champion comes to challenge

"Fan Shang, as the head coach, I think this should be a matter for you to decide." Luo Er expressed his opinion, and several other coaches also nodded in agreement.

"I just want to hear your opinions," Fan Shang said with a smile, "I will definitely make a decision."

"Then let me talk about it. I think we still need to play to our strengths, which is defense. Now Walter's arrival has brought us a higher level of defense, which is our foundation." Rolle said.

"Very well said, Gernot." Vincent nodded, and then looked at Luo Er strangely, "Who are you, tell me where Gernot is?"

"Ohlala, Fan Shang, stop joking," Luo Er said, "I just read the scouting report a few more times."

"Okay, I believe it." Fan Shang said with a smile, but he was still a little skeptical, "Patrick, Walter, the focus of training these days is on the two of you, and Klaus, do a good job in penalty kicks." Preparations for the war."

The tense preparation time passed quickly. The coaches in the past few days have been training seriously, and they attach great importance to the match with the defending champion.

I don’t know whether it’s because they are too confident in their own strength or some things have delayed them. Dortmund only came to Bordeaux the day before the game. After getting off the plane, they checked into the hotel directly. The game was held at Recourt Park together.

Fan Shang would like to see this kind of thing come to fruition, and it will only be good for Bordeaux and not bad.However, Fan Shang firmly believes that a lean camel is bigger than a horse, and Dortmund doesn't pay much attention to it, but Fan Shang must be more careful.

The evening game came soon, and the lineups of the two teams were also determined before the game.

Dortmund today has a 442 formation, goalkeeper Klaus, four defenders, Friedrich, Cesar, Koller and Freire Chengga, four midfielders, Ricken, Bart, Freund, Müller, striker, Chapu Issart and De Chevey.

Dortmund's lineup is obviously incomparable with the lineup when they won the Champions League last year. Sammer was seriously injured, Riddell, Paul Sosa, and Lambert were all transferred.

Last year, Dortmund's defensive core was Sammer, and the offensive core was Muller. Now there is only one offensive core left. The defense can only rely on two old central defenders, one is 33 years old and the other is 35 years old.

Bordeaux's starting lineup today is nothing new, goalkeeper Chilavert, defender, Lizarazu, Song, Gamara and Sagnol, midfielder Dacourt, Makelele, Pires, Nedved, Forwards Shevchenko and Wiltord.

This is Bordeaux's regular lineup. They have been together for more than a year, and they cooperate with each other tacitly.

Now Dortmund's advantage is not so obvious from the lineup. Dortmund's offense is not bad, but due to the lack of Sammer in defense, their defensive ability has plummeted. They have conceded 33 goals in the league. There are only about 40 goals conceded this year.

The most powerful ones before the start are the Bordeaux fans. It’s okay for ordinary games, but they will never lose the chain in this kind of game. Before the game started, their cheers had already spread to the locker room, and their collective stomping also let There was a vibrating feeling in the whole stadium.

"What's going on?" After feeling the shock, the Dortmund players in the locker room asked in confusion.

In the end it was a staff member in the aisle who explained to them what had happened.

"Isn't this in Turkey?" This was the first reaction of Dortmund's current coach Skylar after hearing the explanation.

The staff said proudly, "This place may be even scarier than Turkey. This is what our head coach did after he came back from the Turkey game."

"Head coach?" Skylar was a little unbelievable that the head coach still cares about these things.

"I'm actually a member of 'No.12'. If I wasn't on duty today, I could have fought with them in the stands." The staff pointed to the stands above their heads with some regret.

"Fight?" Skylar didn't understand why the staff used this word. Isn't it just to watch a game, and the crazier fans just shouted a few more words and set off fireworks.

Without asking any more, Skylar returned to the locker room and began to mobilize before the battle. To be honest, his position in the team is a bit embarrassing. The former head coach sat in the manager's position. Although he never pointed fingers, the players It was all brought out by the former head coach. He has been an outsider for more than half a year and has always been an outsider.

After Skylar spoke passionately for four to five minutes, the players simply nodded, and then walked out of the locker room, ready to enter the game to start the game.

At the same time, Fan Shang didn't say a word in the locker room, but the expressions of the players were not as plain as Dortmund's.

"Our characteristic is defensive counterattack. Now go to the field and use these two words." Fan Shang paused and looked at the players, "Don't be afraid of Dortmund. Although they are the defending champions, their current strength is not as good as last year. Now, today’s game will be played as usual, we need to be confident, we don’t need to shrink back, the current Bundesliga leader Bayern Munich is not our opponent, and we are afraid of Dortmund, which is ranked tenth in the Bundesliga.”

"Not afraid!" The following team members responded one after another.

What Fan Shang wants is for the players to let go of the burden in their hearts and regard Dortmund as an ordinary opponent rather than the defending champion.

When the Bordeaux players went out of the locker room one by one with confidence, they happened to see Dortmund players also come out of the locker room.

Two completely different breaths, Bordeaux is fire, and now Dortmund is ice, all of them are expressionless, are all German teams like this?Vincent remembers that the players in Bayern Munich at that time were quite normal, unlike Dortmund now, they all made them look like terminators.

The collision of ice and fire thus kicked off at Recourt Park.

Today, the first to play their role is the Bordeaux fans, they should be regarded as the most veritable "No.12 people" in Europe.Although those fans in Turkey are famous, they are unorganized and undisciplined, and they just like to cause trouble on the court.And Bordeaux, the 'No.12', is organized and disciplined, and it is also unique in creating an atmosphere on the court.

The cheering, clapping, stomping, etc. on the field were uniform. After entering the field again, the Dortmund players kept looking around the stands. They were also shocked by this take-off.

However, after the opening, Dortmund is still very sophisticated, and now they are backcourt to stabilize their mentality.

(End of this chapter)