Football: Invincible starting from krypton gold

Chapter 114 Hard fight
On February 2, the last day of this month, Mainz ushered in Stuttgart at their home court.

At 5:[-] p.m., the game between the two teams began with the whistle of the referee.

After the game started, Stuttgart learned the experience and lessons from the last match against Mainz. After the start of the game, they had a fierce duel with Mainz in the midfield. Both sides invested heavily in their own midfield. Moreover, Stuttgart’s marking of Chen Xiao was particularly strict today.

Although Stuttgart caused a lot of trouble for Mainz's offense, it also sacrificed its own offense, so the game between the two teams was very dull. The balls of both sides almost kept switching possessions in the midfield. The two teams did not have a shot in the opening nearly 20 minutes.

Seeing how tightly he was being entangled by the opponent, Chen Xiao knew that if he didn't think of any countermeasures, this match would be very difficult for him. Through the system, Chen Xiao was responding in the midfield while observing the opponent's loopholes. Chen Xiao, who thought of a way, was very excited and looked at the opponent marking him in front of him. Chen Xiao gritted his teeth and thought, I don't believe that you will follow me when I switch to the other side.

But what Chen Xiao didn't expect was that when he was excited to find the opponent's loophole, he accidentally lost the ball. In the 28th minute of the game, Stuttgart's long pass from the backcourt was originally just a clearance. Some, but no one thought at this time that Van der Meyden was obviously insufficiently prepared to face the intensified pass from his teammates.

1-0, Mainz fell behind at home.

This conceded goal also made Klopp very angry on the sidelines. Of course, he was also very helpless. The ball had already exposed the problem since Petit started to pass back, and then Van der Meyden's stop error was the most fatal.

The head coach of Stuttgart was very happy after seeing his team score a goal. He even knelt on the sidelines, because Klopp also gave him one when he played against Mainz last time.

Looking at the Stuttgart players who were celebrating wildly on the field, Chen Xiao was also very helpless and somewhat regretful. He regretted that he hadn’t discovered the opponent’s loopholes earlier. Now that the opponent is ahead, the opponent will definitely work harder on defense, so for the sake of the team, Chen Xiao decided to implement the idea just now. A few words.

The game was set to restart following the intervention of the referee.

Both sides stood in their positions, and with the whistle of the referee, the game began.

After kick-off, Chen Xiao switched positions with Troshovsky immediately. The left back of the opponent didn't know what to do when he saw Chen Xiao coming to the middle. He looked up at Sammer who was on the sideline. After a little hesitation, Sammer nodded and asked him to follow, because Sammer didn't dare to change. Judging from the time after the opening, he defended Chen Xiao very well.

Seeing that the opponent was also following up, Chen Xiao did not stick to the ball, but immediately passed the ball to Quaresma on the left, and then Quaresma dribbled the ball horizontally and switched positions with Chen Xiao again. Now there are two defenders on the right side of Stuttgart. The moment Chen Xiao got the ball, both of them hesitated. This was the result Chen Xiao wanted.

Chen Xiao, who was rushing along the left, was about to reach the bottom line. With a horizontal dribble followed by a spike, he easily passed the defending central defender, and then entered the penalty area. At this time, Stuttgart's defense was already full of loopholes. Chen Xiao, who entered the penalty area, had many choices. In the end, Chen Xiao chose a very safe way.

He communicated with Di Natale before the game restarted to hope that Di Natale would not be too far ahead and lag behind.This arrangement made it difficult for Di Natale, who was one step in the penalty area at the moment, to have no defensive player in front of him. Facing Chen Xiao's pass, Di Natale directly shot a curved ball, and the football flew into the goal under the desperate eyes of all the Stuttgart defensive players.

In the 34th minute of the game, Mainz relied on the frontcourt to attack the four-man crossover, and Chen Xiao assisted Di Natale to equalize the score.

1 to 1, the two sides came to the same starting line again.

Seeing his disciple quickly equalize the score, Klopp was slightly relieved, and turned his head slightly to look at the remorseful Summer on the sidelines. Klopp sneered at the corner of his mouth.

In the next first half, the game returned to the opening stage. The two sides continued to fight hand-to-hand in the middle of the field, and no one could take advantage of it.

Until the referee blew the whistle for the end of the first half, the score of the two teams remained at 1 to 1. For Mainz, this game was the most difficult battle since the end of the winter break.

(End of this chapter)