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Chapter 256 The Brand New Borussia Mönchengladbach
After returning to Germany, Nick is ready to participate in the 29th round of the Bundesliga at home and Unterhaching on the 19th.

After a day of training, Nick gradually became familiar with his new teammates.

After the winter break, Borussia Mönchengladbach lost Trezeguet, Ortega, Malouda and Larsson at once, but also introduced players such as Ronaldinho and Huntelaar.

Ronaldinho's skills are really good, but he is also very sticky to the ball. In the training game, the rhythm of his substitute side was slow, and the ball was basically at Ronaldinho's feet.

And Ronaldinho also knows that Nick is the most powerful person on the team, so he intends to compete with Nick.

As a result, at the end of the day, Ronaldinho was brutally abused by Nick. Nick was completely superior to Ronaldinho in terms of physical fitness. Although Ronaldinho's foot skills were excellent, Nick was not a vegetarian, and as a time traveler, Nick had watched many of Ronaldinho's videos in another time and space, so Nick was very familiar with many of Ronaldinho's movements.

"Haha, Ronaldinho, what do you think of the captain now?" After the training, Dex ran over with a smirk on his face, ready to watch Ronaldinho's jokes.

"Well, the captain is indeed worthy of being the captain. I thought my skills were the best, but I didn't expect the captain's skills to be so good." Ronaldinho was not unhappy, but said very sincerely.

"Of course, I suggest you take a look at the captain's game video when you have time. When we played Hertha Berlin last year, the captain scored a goal, which is worth learning from." Dex said again.

Roma smiled: "I have seen this goal, it is really exciting, I will work hard, the captain is the goal I want to fight for."

Seeing Ronaldinho's statement, Nick knew that this is a player full of fighting will, and also a rebellious player. This kind of player has a very high possibility of success.

Maybe the cooperation with Ronaldinho is only half a season. Nick hopes that he can give Ronaldinho some help. In another time and space, although Ronaldinho is very talented, his career peak period did not last long, especially the emergence of the coal ball king, which made Ronaldinho gradually step aside.

Of course, if Ronaldinho develops according to his own ideas, Nick does not want to interfere. Life always yearns for freedom. There is no shortage of geniuses in this world, but how many people can truly become gods?
After a few days of training, coach Carl already has a main lineup in his mind: goalkeeper Ilgner, three defenders Friedrich, Metzelder and Hausweiler, freeman Nick, two wingers are Madavikia and Dex, midfielder Miku, three forwards Li Yihuan, Iliye and Cui Yongzhu.

Karl chose Choi Yong-soo to start, probably largely because of the Korean center forward's awareness of playing the ball, and his header ferry is very good, and he is also good at fighting, especially the counter-attacking in the frontcourt.

Carl has now formulated a tactic with Illie as the core of the striker, and role players like Cui Yongzhu are obviously very suitable for Carl's tactical system.

Although Ronaldinho performed well in training, Karl feels that he has not yet integrated into Borussia Mönchengladbach's tactical system. When American players first come to Europe, they often encounter this problem. Karl hopes that Ronaldinho will take his time. With such excellent skills, as long as he can integrate into the team, it is only a matter of time before he becomes the main force.

On the evening of the 29th, the Baucabage Stadium was packed, and the battle between the top and the end of the standings officially kicked off. Knowing that Choi Yong-soo would start this game, many Korean fans came to the Baucabage Stadium, preparing to watch the performance of their heroes.

Unterhaching is at the bottom of the points list, with only 18 points in the first 12 rounds of the league, and has basically booked a qualification for the Bundesliga next season.Moreover, Li Yi, the number one striker in their team, also joined Munich 750 for 1860 million euros during the winter break, which made Unterhaching's formation even more stretched.

So at the beginning of the game, they were completely suppressed by Borussia Mönchengladbach. Nick played a series role in the middle, and he made the entire midfield run very smoothly.

In the 5th minute, Nick sent the ball to the right, Madavikia made a direct pass from the bottom, Cui Yongzhu jumped up and headed the ball, and the ball landed accurately at the feet of Iliyeh, who was ambushing at the back point, and the latter made it overnight, rewriting the score to 1:0.
"Hoohoho!"

Illie rushed to the sidelines and roared excitedly. Both Trezeguet and Larsson had left. Now he has finally taken the position of Borussia Mönchengladbach's first striker, and only by scoring can he prove that he is worthy of the name.

Cui Yongzhu also ran to the sidelines and waved to the South Korean fans to thank them, causing them to scream. Now the number of Chinese players studying abroad exceeds that of South Korea and Japan, so they are very unconvinced, because their national team has better results than the Chinese team.

So Choi Yong-soo assisted Ilya to score, and these South Korean fans immediately became YY in their hearts: It seems that the Republic of Korea is going to produce a big star!
Nick glanced at Choi Yong-soo and thought to himself that this guy is really a practical player, but he doesn’t know how long he can last. European football is very confrontational, and not many Asian players can last for a long time. Maybe they will perform well in one season, but not many can last for several seasons.

This can be seen from the performance of the Chinese overseas players. Except for Li Yihuan, Yang Chen and Hao Dong, the other players have performed quite well, and their lack of confrontation ability still limits their performance.

After opening the goal account, Borussia Mönchengladbach played more easily, Micoud began to take over the game, and his ball and distribution in the frontcourt began to become full of artistic flavor.

In the 14th minute, Miku took the ball and made a diagonal pass. Li Yihuan stepped in and swept towards the goal. Cui Yongzhu missed the front point, and Yiliye, who outflanked the back point, scored again and scored 2:0.
Elijah was very excited and ran to Cui Yongzhu to hug him, and then ran to Miku to give him high fives to congratulate.

Micoud perfectly demonstrated his passing skills. This kick is very good and the strength is just right.

And Cui Yongzhu once again showed his observation skills, able to make this kind of ball leakage, Cui Yongzhu's first show is perfect.

After leading by 2 goals, Borussia Mönchengladbach's offense continued. This was mainly because Unterhaching's ability to hold the ball in the frontcourt was too weak, which made them only choose long passes or backcourt kicks more often.

In the 23rd minute, Cui Yongzhu succeeded in counter-robbing in the frontcourt, and immediately passed a kick to Miku.

"Haha, it's so cool, a hat-trick!" Elijah happily rushed to the sidelines to celebrate the goal.

Illie has now scored 10 goals in the league. Although he is still 7 points away from Elton, who is the top scorer, Illie is confident to catch up.

Karl on the sidelines saw that the team took a 3:0 lead so easily, and immediately signaled Ronaldinho to warm up.

After 3 minutes, Ronaldinho came on the field and replaced the brave Illie.

It was too extravagant for Karl to make a substitution before halftime.

After Ronaldinho came on the field, he started to take the ball frequently, and other players followed him.

Nick and Miku stood in the middle circle, smiling at each other.

"This kid is really a good dribbler. Damn, he's a one-stop player. Unfortunately, the shot missed."

Nick saw Ronaldinho dribbling the ball alone against Unterhaching's entire line of defense. Although he finally hit the goal, it was still a bit wide.

Micoud said: "It's okay for this guy not to like to play together, so he won't win the European Champions Cup."

"Well, the coach knows what to do, so we don't have to worry about it." Nick patted Miku on the shoulder and said.

After Ronaldinho came on the field, Unterhaching's defense became even tighter, not for anything else, but because Ronaldinho was very serious about breaking through. Whether it was one-on-one or flanking, Ronaldinho was not afraid at all, and the success rate of breakthroughs was very high.

However, due to the lack of cooperation between Ronaldinho and his teammates, even if there were a few times of cooperation, it was not successful because of the inappropriate timing of passing and running. Therefore, Borussia Mönchengladbach did not expand the score throughout the rest of the first half.

Entering the lounge, Karl immediately called Ronaldinho out.

"Luo Luo (I don't know if Ronaldinho's nickname is this), are you playing football or performing?"

"Ah?" Ronaldinho was overwhelmed with surprise, he obviously didn't know how to respond to Carl's question.

Seeing this, Carl said again: "I know your skills are very good, but football cannot be solved by one person. If you want to get more honors, you have to try to change your habits."

"Oh, coach, I see." Ronaldinho replied in a low voice.

Nick came over and put his arms around Ronaldinho's shoulders and said, "Actually, you don't have to worry too much. This is your first European league game. It's not the same as your way of playing in the Brazilian league. Our purpose of playing is to send the ball into the opponent's goal and prevent the opponent from scoring our goal. It's as simple as that."

"Captain, I know what to do, watch me for the second half!" Ronaldinho seemed to have realized something.

After 15 minutes, players from both sides returned to the court and the second half began.

At the beginning Unterhaching also played a counterattack. Their Latvian striker Verpakovskis took a long shot from 28 meters from the goal, and the ball flew out of the baseline against the crossbar.

Nick couldn't help taking a closer look at this player. In fact, Nick didn't know that Verpakovskis would become the number one star in Latvia. He had joined Dynamo Kiev in another time and space, and his strength was still good.

It's just that he is now playing in the Bundesliga, and I don't know if the player's development trajectory will change.And his worth is only a mere 50 euros, which is really a stall.

Afterwards, the game was still completely controlled by Borussia Mönchengladbach, and Ronaldinho's changes were gradually reflected. He began to no longer make breakthroughs all at once, but sought cooperation with his teammates. Coupled with partial breakthroughs, Borussia Mönchengladbach soon had a good chance to score.

In the 54th minute, after Ronaldinho and Miku cooperated with each other, they decisively broke through Unterhaching's left back Sketa, and then quickly knocked across. Cui Yongzhu was unguarded, and he pushed with one foot, and the ball hit the post.

Seeing this scene, Nick was also happy. Ronaldinho's performance is commendable, but Cui Yongzhu seems to have forgotten his job as a shooter, and such a good opportunity actually hit the goal post.

In the 61st minute, Ronaldinho cooperated with Cui Yongzhu again. Facing Cui Yongzhu's horizontal knock, Ronaldinho suddenly used a oxtail skill to surpass others, broke into the penalty area at once, and then made a light volley, and the ball went into the goal. 4:0, Ronaldinho scored his first goal in the top five European leagues.

After scoring the goal, Ronaldinho pointed to the sky and dedicated the goal to his father who had passed away for many years. Nick also knew this story, so he ran to Ronaldinho and patted him on the shoulder to express his congratulations.

And Borussia Mönchengladbach fans also began to cheer after seeing the magic-performing Brazilian player finally score.

"Wow, what a beautiful goal!"

"Brazilians are bulls, look at how good this technique is!"

"This player is also named Ronaldo. It seems that players named Ronaldo are very good. I will give birth to a son named Ronaldo later."

"Haha, fuck you, you kid is almost as good as giving birth to an egg, and you want to give birth to Ronaldo, just dream."

This goal also completely cleared Ronaldinho's thinking. He found that it is actually easy to score goals. All he has to do is to change his playing habits. The coach is right.

So the ensuing game almost became Ronaldinho's special performance.

In the 73rd minute, Ronaldinho made a cooperation with Li Yihuan from the left and broke into the penalty area. He pretended to pass the ball, but suddenly lifted the ball, and the ball sneaked into the back corner of the goal, 5:0.
This goal fully embodies Ronaldinho's technique, his fake moves are too realistic, Unterhaching's goalkeeper and defenders see the angle is so small, they also think that Ronaldinho will definitely pass the ball, but they didn't expect him to hang the goal.

Nick was also a little dumbfounded when he saw it in the middle circle. This Ronaldinho is really tricky. He played so many tricks in the restricted area, which is so pleasing to the eye.

But then Karl replaced Ronaldinho with Nossa. This guy was too strong, and the more he kicked, the more excited he was. Karl was afraid that he would be kicked, so he replaced him altogether.

Although Ronaldinho was a little surprised, he came to his senses afterward, waved happily to the stands, and walked off the court.

In the final stage of the game, Unterhaching finally made a few counter-attacks. Verpakovskis’ footwork was good, but it was a pity that Unterhaching failed to score. In the 87th minute, Noza headed the ball and Li Yihuan volleyed from the left side of the penalty area to lock the score at 6:0.

The new Borussia Mönchengladbach delivered a satisfactory answer. Although the opponent is weak, the possession rate of 76% of the game is terrifying.

This round of the Bundesliga, the strong teams have passed the test. The reinforced teams performed very steadily. Dortmund also played a terrifying ball possession rate of 69%. Rosicky became the star of the audience. He assisted his teammates Jan Koller and Odonko to score three times. His strong field reading ability is commendable.

Bayern's 5:1 home defeat of Karlsruhe was also amazing. Larsson scored a hat-trick as soon as he arrived at the Olympic Stadium in Munich. After the game, Rijkaard even said that Larsson's 2000 million euros was really worth it.

Hertha Berlin beat Hamburg 2-0 in an away game. In addition to their successful signings during the winter break, Mehlberg performed very steadily, which made Luebel a big sigh of relief.

Werder Bremen and Schalke 04 also won easily. The Bundesliga seems to be entering the era of feudal hegemony, but unfortunately, they dug too many holes in the first half of the season. It may be really difficult to catch up with Borussia Mönchengladbach.

(End of this chapter)