Football: Invincible starting from krypton gold

Chapter 56 German Super Cup

In the one-week closed training in Mainz, the daily training intensity made the new players exhausted. It is only now that I understand why Mainz performed very strongly on the court last season.

After a week of closed training, the next step is to go to Marseille to start a 15-day training camp. One day before going to Marseille, the official website of Mainz released a promotional photo of the new season. In the photo, there are 6 people in total. Chen Xiao is in the C position in the center. On both sides of him are Albertini and Trochowski, and behind him are Knight, Paulnovic and goalkeeper Wiese.The media have deciphered a lot of information from the promotional photos of Mainz. They did not expect that after Mainz got Albertini, the core of the team turned out to be Chen Xiao, and Albertini and the others could be regarded as Chen Xiao's helpers.As soon as such information came out, it aroused discussions among many fans.

When the media began to analyze the promotional photos of Mainz’s new season, the whole Mainz team started to go to Marseille in France. Mainz will spend nearly 15 days in Marseille. During this period, Mainz will play two warm-up matches.

The league of the new season will officially start on August 8, but before the start of the league, Mainz will usher in an important game, that is, the German Super Cup. The German Super Cup is a competition between the Bundesliga champions and the German Cup champions last season.

The new season of the Bundesliga will officially start. According to the new season's Bundesliga schedule announced by the German Football Association, Mainz's opponent in the first game of the Bundesliga will be Stuttgart.

Time flies, Mainz’s training camp in France is coming to an end. During this period, Mainz won all the two warm-up matches. In the first game against French second team Brest, Mainz won the game 2-1. In this game, Chen Xiao did not score a goal, but contributed two assists. There were many problems exposed in this game. In terms of defense, there are many problems in the connection and cooperation between the midfielder and the backcourt. The tacit cooperation between the double midfielder Knight and Albertini is almost non-existent, and the defender is also the same. Therefore, in the training after the game, Klopp spent more time on actual combat.

One week after the end of the first warm-up match, Mainz started their last warm-up match in France. Their opponent was the local Ligue 90 team Marseille in Marseille. In the 3 minutes of the game, Mainz won 0-2. Chen Xiao contributed [-] goals and planned an attack. Albertini scored the last goal.After a week of solving the problems in the warm-up match, the problem has obviously improved a lot, especially the two midfielders who are the center of the team. The cooperation between Knight and Albertini is obviously a lot tacit.

After the warm-up match with Marseille, the whole Mainz team will also return to Germany after the training camp in France.

After Mainz returned to Germany, Klopp announced a day off for everyone.

As time goes by, the German Super Cup will also start. This time, the German Super Cup will be held at the Volksstadion in Wolfsburg. Three days before the start of the game, the German Football Association began to promote wildly.

The reason why the German Football Association praises this game so much is because the German Super Cup game has been criticized by various clubs in Germany. Basically, the teams participating in the Super Cup will treat this game as a warm-up match before the start of the season.Just like the previous German Football Association’s imitation of the Premier League League Cup, it was canceled after only a few seasons. Before the start of the season, there was news that this German Super Cup is likely to be the last one.

However, most people who pay attention to this game are still optimistic about Bayern, because Bayern has a great advantage in terms of the team's background and paper strength.

Another point to watch in this game is whether Troshovsky can prove himself against his old club for the first time, which is also the focus of media attention. Another focus is whether Chen Xiao can take on the core position of Mainz, and whether the 33-year-old Albertini’s career in Germany will be unacceptable, etc. These have become the most concerned by the media and fans before the start of the game.

On August 8th, this day finally came. The German Super Cup will officially start at 15 pm. In the morning, Mainz took the bus to the Volkswagen Stadium to adapt to the stadium.

At 4:[-] in the afternoon, there is still half an hour before the game will start. In the locker room of Mainz, Klopp is doing the final mobilization and instructions.

This game will also be broadcast live on Xia Guo's CCTV, and Huang Jianxiang and Yang Chen, who are very familiar with the game, will be the commentators.

"Hello, audience friends. Today I am bringing you the live broadcast of the German Super Cup. I am today's commentator Huang Jianxiang. Sitting next to me is a very familiar friend, Yang Chen. Today's match is also two teams that everyone is very familiar with. They are Bayern Munich and Mainz. Friends who may be familiar with the Bundesliga know that the so-called German Super Cup is played by last season's Bundesliga champion against the German Cup champion. Today's game is very interesting. I will analyze it for you during the game. Let's first ask Yang Chen to introduce the lineups of both sides."

"Hi everyone, I'm Yang Chen. First of all, let's take a look at Bayern's starting 11 players for this game. They are goalkeeper Kahn, defenders Lizarazu, Lucio, Kovac, and Sagnol, midfielders Schweinsteiger, Ballack, Ze Roberto, Ridesler, and Frings. The forward striker is Santa Cruz. Bayern is still using the familiar 4231 formation. The only recruit in this lineup is Brazilian international Lucio. This is Bayern. Ren’s achievements in the transfer battle this summer. From this formation, it can be seen that Bayern should attach great importance to this game, and they basically sent their absolute main force.”

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