Football: Invincible starting from krypton gold

Chapter 64 The League Opens

After the UEFA Cup, Mainz put all their energy into the first round of the new Bundesliga season. Everything is difficult at the beginning, and it is even more difficult for Mainz. They will go to Daimler Arena to challenge Stuttgart in the first round.

Stuttgart ranked third last season. The Daimler Arena, which accommodates more than 6 people, is the most terrifying home stadium in the Bundesliga. No team can easily retreat in this stadium. Such a start is a hellish start for Mainz.

Although the media praised Mainz for a period of time after Mainz won the German Super Cup, many professional footballers are still not optimistic about Mainz's first round of the league. Therefore, within the club, the club did not give any goals for this opening show.

Klopp clearly knows the strength of the current Mainz team. In Klopp's view, Mainz can achieve good results this season, because all opponents can't see themselves clearly, and the current strength of this team can even rank in the top five in the Bundesliga. This is why Klopp is very low-key before the start of the season. The strength of the backup lineup is very weak, and it even ranks at the bottom of the current Bundesliga. For the long league, the backup lineup is equally important as the main team.

In fact, Klopp's goal this season is to be able to participate in the Champions League next season.

If they want to realize this dream, they must strive to score more points before others clearly know their own strength at the beginning. When these opponents really realize their own strength and start to study themselves seriously, it may be much more difficult to win the game than it is now.

For Klopp, Stuttgart is definitely not a team that is easy to deal with. Being able to win the third place last season shows how powerful this team is. If there is anything that can be used, it is nothing more than that the current Stuttgart team is aging.

As the game approached, various media also began to analyze the game before the start of the game. Almost all the media were not optimistic about Mainz. Many media said that Mainz was strong in offense and weak in defense.

Even Bild, which is usually very close to Mainz, thinks that Mainz can score a point at the Mercedes-Benz Arena as a success. Bild also counted the results of the 48 newly promoted Bundesliga debuts before this statement. None of the teams won.

When everyone is not optimistic about themselves, Mainz is also very low-key, and is also silent about the evaluation of the outside world.But everyone was holding a sigh of relief in their hearts, thinking that when the time came, they must show some color to those who underestimated themselves.

The opening game of the Bundesliga this season started on the evening of August 8. Bayern Munich played against Werder Bremen at home. Last season, the first and second two tigers competed, which also attracted a lot of attention. After the opening game, the first round of the Bundesliga 16-8 season will start on the evening of August 17. Other games will also start at the same time.

As time passed, on the night of the opening game of the Bundesliga, the low-key Mainz arrived in Stuttgart and stayed in a five-star hotel in Stuttgart. However, after arriving at the hotel, all the staff of Mainz stayed behind closed doors.

In the evening, all the people watched the opening game of this fierce battle on TV. In the end, Bayern beat Werder Bremen away 3-2 at home.

The full name of the Daimler Stadium is Gottlieb Daimler Stadium, because it is located on the beautiful Neckar River in Stuttgart, it has been called the Neckar River Stadium before 93.

On the morning of August 8th, the whole Mainz team conducted a simple familiarization training at the Daimler Stadium.

At 8:17 p.m. on August 5th, the Daimler Arena was full of seats, and almost all of them were fans of Stuttgart. The home fans were making horrible noises at the moment to put strong pressure on the players of the visiting team who were about to play. The game officially started in half an hour. Whether it was Stuttgart or Mainz, this game was the first game of the new season, and they were all very important.

And at the moment in the locker room of the visiting team at the stadium, Klopp is making the final mobilization for the players: "Guys, from the day Mainz was founded until now, today will be the first Bundesliga game in our history. We have been in the low-level leagues in Germany for the past few decades. It is because of your existence that I am able to stand here now. What I want to tell you is that we have now made history because of your existence. Now almost everyone outside looks down on us. Yes, we are Newly promoted, but whoever said that a newly promoted must lose, now let us use our strength to make our Mainz voice, tell them we are coming, use our strength to tell those who look down on us that you were so blind."

Klopp's first pre-Bundesliga mobilization immediately mobilized everyone's emotions. At this moment, the morale of the Mainz players is high, and they are waiting to tear their opponents apart on the field after the game starts.

At this time, the locker room of the home team was very calm. Most of the players were resting with their eyes closed. Stuttgart’s head coach Sammer was arranging some tactical arrangements.In the face of such self-confidence, how could a newly promoted horse attract their attention?

(End of this chapter)