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After entering May, the atmosphere in the European football world suddenly became tense. Sometimes I took a deep breath, and my nostrils were filled with the smell of gunpowder.

Because of the European Cup this summer, the schedules of major leagues have been tightened up. The last round of the league is generally held one week earlier than in years without major competitions. Therefore, the half month from the beginning of May to the middle of May is The time to determine the ownership of the league championship this season.

But for the Bundesliga, the championship suspense ends a little earlier than other countries.

On May 5, Stuttgart, Mercedes-Benz Arena, the No.3 round of the Bundesliga is underway.

The fans of Munich 1860 cheered one after another in the stands, while the players of Munich 1860 launched waves of attacks on the court.They're trying to make the Mercedes-Benz Arena their own.

Normally, when the home team encounters such provocations from their opponents on their own territory, the home fans will be furious, screaming at the opponent, and throwing things in their hands on the field or the opponent's fans stand, while the home team As for the players, they will also desperately launch counterattacks on the court, tenaciously maintaining their home team's dominance.

But at this moment, Stuttgart's overall reaction seemed a little numb. Whether it was fans or players, their faces were full of "resigned to fate, let you do whatever you want".

The reason for their expressions is the eye-catching number on the scoreboard: 0:4.

Only 30 minutes have passed since the game started.

Munich 1860 has returned to the Bundesliga for several seasons. Adding up the number of matches in the past few years, Stuttgart and them can also be called old rivals who are familiar with each other.

But for some reason, Stuttgart's record is getting worse and worse in the face of this team that has not undergone major changes in the main lineup and has never changed tactics frequently.

From being able to win with serious kicks, to barely drawing, to losing the game by a small score, and finally to being slaughtered by a big score...

Today's Stuttgart, as soon as they see this team in blue on the court, they can't help shivering.

There is also Oston who always stands outside the court, the man who dresses elegantly like a fashion supermodel, has a handsome face like an angel, but treats them like a devil... It is under his command that Stuttgart has worked hard It is also impossible to escape the tragic fate of the goal being pierced again and again. This makes the Stuttgart players occasionally glance outside the field, and complex emotions of not knowing whether it is resentment or hatred, looking up or panic will emerge in their hearts.

It’s as if they occasionally break into the European arena by relying on the league rankings, and they feel exactly the same when they meet those top giants—every cell in their bodies is clamoring that they can’t beat them, wanting to escape without a fight, and bravely go to the arena to expect a miracle to happen , but when the score fell behind, there was a sense of fate that "I knew I couldn't win no matter what".

上半场以0:4的比分结束，下半场开始后卡尔换下欧文换上莱万多夫斯基，莱万多夫斯基在第60分钟为球队攻入本场比赛的最后一个进球，慕尼黑1860最终5:0客场大胜斯图加特。

在比赛进入伤停补时阶段的时候，解说员已经开始亢奋激动了：“71分！本场比赛结束后，慕尼黑1860的联赛积分将攀升到71分！知道这个分数意味着什么么球迷朋友们？积分榜第二位拜仁慕尼黑和沃尔夫斯堡的比赛刚刚也已经结束了，0:0的平局使拜仁只得到了1分，他们目前的分数达到了……61！而No.3云达不莱梅的分手是57分！”

"With three games to go before the end of the season, the point gap between 1860 Munich and Bayern Munich has reached 10 points, which means that regardless of the results of the remaining three games, 1860 Munich will win the Bundesliga. Champion laurels!"

"Munich 1860 won the league three rounds ahead of schedule! Yes, they have once again become the champions of German football. Counting the previous two championships in the 0506 and 0607 seasons, 1860 Munich has become the league after Bayern Munich and Borussia Mönchengladbach. Yes, the third team in the history of the Bundesliga to achieve three consecutive league titles!"

“拜仁慕尼黑完成过两次联赛三连冠的荣誉，一次是在1971-1974年，另一次是在1984-1987年，而门兴格拉德巴赫是在1974-1977年。”

"What's even more incredible is that the top scorer of the Bundesliga in the three seasons of 0506, 0607, and 0708 is all Javier Portillo! While winning the team award, 1860 Munich did not forget to bring the individual award champion together. Go... This really gave me a very familiar and familiar feeling. This 1860 team is completely like a replica of the Bayern Munich team from 1971 to 1974, because in the 70s, Bayern was winning three league titles. At the same time, Bayern player Gerd Müller also took three Golden Boots..."

"No, no, history is still a little different. In 1974, Bayern Munich wanted to become the first German team to win the treble. In the end, in the DFB-Pokal, Bayern handed over the championship to Eintracht Frankfurt and missed the opportunity to become the treble winner."

"However, among the honors that 1860 Munich has won this season, the German Cup champion and the league championship are already locked in. They are only one European champion away from the Triple Crown... If 1860 in the Champions League final in more than half a month's time If they can beat Manchester United, they will once again set a new record in German football!"

"Just thinking about that scene makes people feel ecstatic. The Triple Crown will not only become the ultimate glory in the history of Munich 1860 Club, but also bring an opportunity to the Bundesliga, an opportunity for German football to take off completely."

"The game has long since ended, and the fans of 1860 Munich in the stands have gone crazy with joy. They lingered in this stadium belonging to the enemy and refused to leave for a long time, feeling the joy of winning the second championship of the season."

"It is said that the German Football Association had foreseen this scene three days ago, and contacted 1860 Munich and Stuttgart clubs to discuss whether to hold a salad at the Mercedes-Benz Arena if 1860 won the league championship in advance. However, this proposal from the DFB was rejected by both 1860 Munich and Stuttgart."

"The reason why Stuttgart refused is very simple. They don't want their league competitors to receive the championship trophy at their home court. The reason why 1860 Munich also refused is that it is inconvenient to receive the award away from home. The ceremony must be very shabby. They want to I have to go back to my home court to accept this honor."

"There are three rounds left in the league and it will be over. 1860 Munich has two home games, the 32nd and 34th rounds. I personally think that they will probably hold an award ceremony during the last home game..."

As the commentator guessed, 1860 Munich is indeed preparing to receive the Bundesliga salad plate at the last home game.

However, unlike what the outside world thinks, the Lions will definitely use these ten days to prepare for the awards ceremony. The club spends very little energy and money on the preparation ceremony. The current focus and goals of the entire team are all In one thing, that is the Champions League final.

……

Karl knew that the process of winning the St. Blair Cup from Manchester United would be full of difficulties and obstacles, so he did as much preparation as possible.One of the key preventions before the game is Ferguson's psychological warfare.

The so-called psychological warfare, to put it bluntly, is to use all kinds of verbal attacks to create pressure on the opponent, so that the pressure on the opponent will increase sharply, the mentality will be unbalanced, the spirit will be nervous, worry about gains and losses, and then make mistakes.

Psychological warfare is actually just an auxiliary means of the game. At the moment when information is disseminated extremely fast, even a head coach will play a few hands, some succeed and some fail, but if the psychological warfare skills are played to the peak, and they are defeated What media fans worship as a master is none other than Manchester United coach Ferguson, who has more than 30 years of experience in the world, dozens of championship titles, and more than double-digit victims.

From Dalglish to Keegan to Arsene Wenger and then to Mourinho, there are countless head coaches who have fought against Ferguson psychologically. If you lose, you leave, especially when Mourinho left Chelsea and Wenger stopped talking to the Red Devils coach publicly. The mental game of psychological warfare has become Ferguson's patent in the Premier League.

But in fact, Ferguson is not a prophet, and his words have no magic power. The psychological warfare methods used by the Red Devils coach are no different from those used by other coaches... Then why is Ferguson the only one who is worshiped?His tricks are tried and tested even if they are mediocre?

It's a gradual, lucky and difficult-to-replicate process:

In the 1995-96 season, Newcastle, led by Keegan, led Manchester United by 12 points during the Christmas period. After Christmas, Ferguson began to challenge the self-satisfied Keegan. The locked Premier League title eventually went to Manchester United.

In the 2002-03 season, it was also in the Christmas half-time standings. Arsenal held the first place and led Manchester United by 9 points. However, Arsenal suffered a Christmas crash. The gap was eliminated and even finally surpassed by 9 points to win the cup and became the Premier League champion of that season.

If we look back at that period of history now, rational media and fans will find that in the two seasons when Manchester United reversed Newcastle and Arsenal, although Ferguson's psychological tactics did play a certain role, Newcastle and Arsenal The self-destruction at the critical moment and Manchester United's excellent performance are the real reasons why the Red Devils can win the league championship.

But just after the two super reversals, because of the media's deliberate hype, "Ferguson's psychological warfare" was the word that left the deepest impression on people.

How powerful is public opinion?It is so big that even though in fact many fans don't know what Ferguson did, but when they think of the word psychological warfare, they will feel "amazing!" and "unclear!"

Since then, Ferguson has been named a master of psychological warfare and worshiped by fans.

This is the secret of Ferguson's psychological warfare becoming more and more miraculous-after every meaningful sentence he said, there are always countless media fans going forward to interpret it, and they are willing to be used as guns by the Manchester United coach.

In other words, if one day in the future, Karl's prestige is so high that others will believe it casually, then he can also provoke psychological warfare casually.

If the opponents in the Champions League were other teams, then Carl would not mind causing some trouble for the opponents first, but his current opponent is Manchester United. No matter from which point of view, Carl feels that he should not stop and wait for Ferguson to go first. It is better to recruit.

Ferguson did not disappoint Karl either. One week before the Champions League final, the Red Devils coach began to pick things up.

……

"Daily Mail" Ferguson interview.

"I know Carl very well, I know Beckham and Owen very well, especially Beckham, a lot of people at Manchester United have watched him grow up - we know all the habitual movements that Beckham uses in games, especially It is his weakness. If Beckham still plays the role of midfield brain in the final of Munich 1860, his ability will definitely be completely suppressed by Manchester United, and he will not be able to play a role at all-so I say that Munich 1860 is very important to us. Opponents who are happy to meet, Manchester United will definitely win."

When launching a psychological offensive against 1860 Munich, Ferguson chose Beckham as an entry point.

Manchester United's players jumped out to echo the head coach's rhetoric, saying that they would definitely suppress Beckham in the game, so that this Munich 1860's brain could not turn.

Starting from the "Daily Mail", "The Sun", "The Guardian", "The Times" and "Mirror" have reprinted and reported these news.

News such as "Beckham is the biggest weakness for 1860 Munich" and "Manchester United will definitely choose the old general in the game" spread. After reading the newspaper, many Lions fans with soft ears actually used it. The reason "Manchester United is too familiar with Beckham" left a message on the official website, suggesting that Karl should not let Beckham start in the Champions League final...

This is the so-called soft persimmon pinch.

If Beckham himself responded to Ferguson's interview, even if he didn't say anything disrespectful, it would be tantamount to choosing to put himself on the opposite side of Manchester United and Ferguson, and the media would definitely be ecstatic. "Flying Boots" and "I have two bullets, one for Wenger and the other for Victoria" are pulled out and hyped up again. Beckham attaches great importance to love and righteousness. The reporter pulled it out and said it over and over again. It is strange that the recent state has not been affected.

And if Beckham himself does not respond, and other Lions players stand up to speak for him, then the other players have taken the initiative to get involved in the whirlpool of public opinion. The other party led by the nose.

So when Carl finished studying Manchester United's recent actions, his first thought was: No one among the players can stand out in this matter, so he can only let me go.

……

Before responding to Manchester United, Karl first cared about the mental health of his players.

Beckham admitted that after reading the recent British media reports, he felt a little hurt in his heart: "I'm not sad because Ferguson deliberately criticized and belittled me, but I feel that he has no affection for me at all. , He should have completely regarded me as an opponent by now... Maybe he won't send me an invitation letter when he holds a charity farewell match after he retires."

At the same time, there should be a little bit of anxiety, worrying about losing the chance to start the Champions League final - this worry Beckham didn't say it, but Karl could see it from the opponent's eyes.

Carl decided to give the opponent a reassurance: "You are the best midfielder brain and team captain in my eyes, David, and you will definitely have a place in the starting list for the Champions League final."

Surprised, pleasantly surprised, touched, Beckham's eyes were changing with such emotions.

"Manchester United say they know you well, they don't fear you, they will even overwhelm you in the game, but I just want to laugh when I hear that. You left Manchester United in 03, David, in the past five years, In fact, you have always changed and grown-yes, I know that after the age of 25, many players basically have a fixed style and upper limit, but there are exceptions after all, right? In my eyes, you are In particular, David, although you were over 30 when you came to Munich, you have still improved in the past two years. Don’t you feel these changes yourself? If Manchester United still regards you as a The No. 7 who hasn't left Old Trafford, when he's on the pitch, they're going to be surprised."

A warm current flowed through Beckham's chest, as if the love and trust lost from Ferguson were replenished by Karl.