Football: Invincible starting from krypton gold

Chapter 37 Against Aachen
At 6:04 p.m., Mainz's home game against Aachen was about to start in half an hour. In the locker room of the visiting team, the Aachen players who had just returned from pre-match training on the field were all sitting on their seats and looking up at the team's head coach Dieter Heiking. It was under the leadership of this coach that Aachen reached the sixth place in the league in the [-] season, and there is still a chance to participate in the play-offs.

Hei Jin looked at his disciples in front of him with a smile on his face, and said with a relaxed face.

"Hey, don't be so nervous, guys, okay?"

The head coach's ease soon spread to the players in Aachen, and many of them defended a little.

Heijin is indeed loved and respected by all players in Aachen. This season, Aachen has the best away record in the entire Bundesliga. This is also an important bargaining chip for Aachen to rank sixth in the Bundesliga so far this season.

在过去的31轮联赛中，亚琛14个客场取得了8胜4平2负的成绩。

"Guys, take it easy, Mainz is stronger, but definitely not to the point where we feel intimidated."

After hearing this, many players nodded in unison.

"The league has passed 31 rounds, and we are currently ranked sixth. We are only 2 points away from fourth. We all understand that only by getting fourth can we have a chance to enter the Bundesliga. Don't forget our away game results this season. In addition, Mainz's home performance in the past 31 league rounds has only ranked fifth in the league, so the opponent is not so terrible."

Heijin used various data to carry out the final pre-match mobilization.

"This season we have beaten Nuremberg, who is currently ranked number one, 3-0 away. I believe that just tonight, we will step on the corpse of Mainz and reach the fifth or fourth position in the league."

More and more players in Aachen began to be encouraged by Hei Jin and nodded their heads one after another.

This is due to Heijin's prestige in the team, leading the team's excellent away record this season, and his outstanding performance against strong teams.

Falk Boi has a mediocre career experience, wandering around, drifting in the Eredivisie and the Bundesliga. After retiring, he served as a youth team coach in Utrecht.

"Mainz's most threatening player at present is their right winger Chen Xiao. Don't ignore him because of his age. This player is very comprehensive. He can score on his own and assist his teammates. He also has a very, very powerful free kick. He only played 4 games in Mainz but contributed 8 goals and 6 assists, so everyone must pay attention to him."

Having said that, Hei Jin looked at the team's left back George Atedi.

"George, I need you to keep an eye on Chen Xiao for me. This is your only task in this game."

Atedi from Côte d'Ivoire nodded solemnly to Hei Jin.

"Relax, George, Chen Xiao is only 16 years old, and his skills are very good, but I think his physical confrontation should be weak, so you should focus on this and stick to him closely, understand?"

"Boss, don't worry, I will stare at him to death."

"The midfielder should also cooperate with George's defense on the left. In any case, from the very beginning of this game, I must freeze Chen Xiao's point, and don't let him have the slightest chance on our left."

"Trust me, guys, if you do this, this game will be ours."

Half an hour passed quickly, and the players on the court had settled their positions and were waiting for the referee to blow the whistle to start the game.

Mainz kicked off first.

Beep, the referee blew the whistle to start the game.

As Hei Jin expected, Mainz put the focus of attack on their right from the beginning of the game, still in a 433 formation.

After the game started, Chen Xiao was very active on the right.

And Aachen's left back Atedi also implemented the head coach's pre-match deployment very seriously and focused on marking Chen Xiao, not daring to be careless, and he was always very close to Yang Yang, wanting to give play to his advantages in physical confrontation.

He also believes that even if a 16-year-old player has good skills, his body will not be comparable to that of a veteran who has played in the league for many years.

But in the 7th minute of the game, Atedi and Chen Xiao had the first physical confrontation in the game for the ball. At this time, Atedi realized something was wrong. He tried to squeeze Chen Xiao away beside Chen Xiao, but found that things were not as expected by the coach and himself.

Although Chen Xiao, who was holding the ball, was squeezed a little staggering, and his pace of dribbling was indeed a little messed up, but Chen Xiao quickly adjusted, and he didn't lose his position under Atedi's physical confrontation, and he didn't lose the ball naturally.

On the contrary, Atedi, who took the initiative to squeeze people, lost his position. After being thrown away by Chen Xiao, he found a chance to cross.

It's a pity that Dopoulos, who followed up in the middle, failed to grab it.

Atedi looked at Chen Xiao who was walking back in surprise. He didn't know whether he made a mistake in his judgment or had an illusion. He actually lost to Chen Xiao physically in the confrontation just now.

No matter what Atedi is thinking, the situation on the court will not give Atedi any time to slack off.

In the 14th minute of the game, Chen Xiao quickly received a pass from his teammate on the right.

This time it was Mainz's counterattack. Chen Xiao received the pass when he was going forward, so Chen Xiao, who took the ball on the right, went all the way to the penalty area of ​​Utrecht.

But because the speed is too fast, there are no teammates to keep up, directly facing Atedi who retreated into the penalty area, and the two defensive central defenders behind him.

Just when Atedi and his teammates thought that Chen Xiao would slow down and wait for the teammates behind him to catch up, they didn't expect that Chen Xiao, who had reached the penalty area, did not slow down, and went straight ahead with a pendulum!
Atedi, who was defending from the front, only felt a blur in front of his eyes. Just as he was about to react, Chen Xiao easily rushed past him. Then, under Atedi's sight, before Aachen's central defender assisted in the defense, he suddenly shot with his right foot.

Chen Xiao's shot was fast and urgent, very powerful.

It's a pity that the ball didn't completely press down on the crossbar and flew out of the baseline.

Klopp on the sidelines and all the home fans let out a sigh.

Atedi, the two defensive central defenders, the goalkeeper, and Hei Jin standing on the sidelines were frightened into a cold sweat.

(End of this chapter)