Chapter 105 Official Opening of the Season
Schalke 04 won the thrilling Super Cup, judging from the state of the game, they don't seem to be ready for the new season.
Within the team, Magath changed the training time from two training sessions a day to three training sessions in the past few days before the start of the league, adding 45 minutes of training after training at 4 p.m. Two-on-two with the back line, training the concentration of the back line.
After the last game, he found that the concentration of the defense was not at its best. The league is about to start, and there is not much time to make adjustments. We can only stimulate the state of the defense through extra training.
Although many wealthy clubs already have special training methods for attention, such as a "nakanaka" attention training, the coach throws the ball to the players and issues different commands such as "catch" and "header" to instruct the players Send the next response to train concentration.
However, Magath still believes in the most traditional way, the offensive and defensive sides are two-on-two, with Zhou Tiancheng and Jiang Hao as the offensive partner.
Magath did not use the main striker Kuranyi for this training, because Jiang Hao's starting speed is the fastest in the team. In the last game, even against a forward who is not fast like Pizarro, he was attacked by someone. Once behind, this is unacceptable to Magath.
In order to serve as a warning, Magath's training is not just for the two main central defenders, but for every player on the back line. Zhou Tiancheng and Jiang Hao served as sparring partners for the two main central defenders, while Rakitic and Jones were on the other side.
A midfielder and a striker, Magath's intention is very simple, the midfielder passes the ball behind the defense, and the central defender's task is to follow the striker to prevent the striker from shooting successfully.
If the central defender fails to defend and is scored by the striker, the penalty is to concede a goal and do ten push-ups—Maggath believes that the biggest reason for lack of concentration and inability to concentrate is the subjective slackness of the players. As a professional player, there is no concentration at all. Can't focus on this.
As a result, in less than an hour of extra training, the two of them did a hundred push-ups...
At the end of the training, both of them couldn't stand up. They sat on the ground and stared at Zhou Tiancheng and Jiang Hao resentfully. Zhou Tiancheng quickly took a step back.
"Hey, can you stop using this look? It's like I owe you millions and don't pay it back or rob you of your girlfriend."
Westerman said, "Zhou, I don't need a few million, and it doesn't matter if I have a girlfriend. Your brother Haike's charm is there. There is no shortage of women in this life. But I can't accept being cheated by my friends."
Zhou Tiancheng was taken aback for a moment: "Why did I cheat? I absolutely didn't use dirty tricks in the training just now. Did you guys know if I did any tricks? I guarantee it with my conscience."
Westerman waved his hand: "I'm not talking about this. You two know that the devil is staring at us, won't you let some water? Jiang, we understand that you want to fight for a spot as soon as possible, but is it really good to see us make a fool of yourself? ?”
Westerman said, gently rubbing his sore thigh.
Jiang Hao waved his hand quickly: "It's no wonder I'm not doing my best."
Zhou Tiancheng shrugged: "Look, it has nothing to do with us."
The two of them were like deflated balls, and they also admitted in their hearts that Jiang Hao's speed was abnormally strong, and they could only admit that they were unlucky if they couldn't catch up.
And for three consecutive days, Magath used the same high-intensity extra training to stimulate the defenders, and Höwedes and Westermann's self-adjustment speed was also very fast-they did significantly fewer push-ups in the next two days up.
"Felix, you still have a way, these boys really need stimulation." Hollerbach couldn't help but sigh.
"It can only be solved for a while. No matter how intense the training is, it will never replace the role of the game. However, at least in the German Cup before the league, this state problem is not big."
The start time of the new Bundesliga season is August 9, and the official appearance of each Bundesliga team in the new season starts from the German Cup. Schalke 04's first opponent in the German Cup is the German Regional League, which is the fifth-level team Yundik.
For the Bundesliga champions, it is an out-and-out belly.
But Magath still brought all the main players to the away game. Compared with other Bundesliga teams, the first round of the DFB Cup is usually played with a mix of substitutes, reserve team and even youth team players. Schalke is so serious. In the eyes of the Kichen media, this is of course respect for the opponent's demeanor, but as Schalke's championship opponent, it is completely waiting to see the joke with the deepest malice.
Yun Dijk's home court is also located in North Rhine-Westphalia, next to Dortmund, so Schalke's away trip is not too hard. Erke was one day late in 2004, and the opponent was also from the German regional league team Vuitton. For the Dortmund media, this round of the German Cup is far less interesting than paying attention to the deadly enemy!
In case, there is still a good show of capsizing the boat! Didn't it just happen to add insult to injury?
This was an irrelevant game, and the Dortmund media did not forget to ask some difficult questions at the press conference, such as "carrying all the main players to face a semi-professional team, is it derived from the lessons of the German Cup last season?"
Magath laughed at this: "Last season? I don't know what happened last season. Since I took over the team, everything in the past has been turned over. Bringing all the main players at the beginning of the season is just a preparation for the new season. It's just preparation." Magath glanced at the badge in front of the reporter and asked, "Is Klopp so confident about the new season?"
Schalke, who played with all the main players, killed the suspense of the game in only half time. Zhou Tiancheng scored two world waves, coupled with a wonderful pass to assist Kuranyi's goal, the halftime score was locked at 3:0.
In the second half, Magath began to rotate the lineup to train young players. Several main substitutes came on the stage one after another, and of course Jiang Hao received nearly half of the performance time. This is his real debut.
It's just a little regrettable for Chinese fans that Zhou Tiancheng was replaced in the second half, and he missed seeing the two swords in the midfield.
There are fans on the domestic Internet who are very open: "It's good like this. It's too difficult to see two people on the court at the same time. Jiang Hao has a single characteristic, and Kuranyi's current main position is as stable as a dog, and Jiang Hao is not easy to activate when he is on the court. As a midfielder, he is the type who needs to be fed, not a standing center. He needs Zhou Tiancheng to pass the ball to him, and Zhou Tiancheng's performance will also be affected..."
The last sentence revealed the fan's position, Zhou Tiancheng's fan through and through.
It's time to reveal your identity.
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Although it was a pity that Jiang Hao hit the crossbar with a shot in the second half, generally speaking, there was not much room to take advantage of his speed. Although the opponent's central defender is not strong enough, his fighting spirit is not weak at all. Jiang Hao made his opponent suffer twice in the first few minutes, but then the opponent's central defender paid special attention to him. As long as there is a sign of acceleration, he will use both hands and feet to try to bring him down as soon as possible.
In the second half, the main players in key positions were rotated, coupled with a big lead, the players on the field were relatively relaxed psychologically, and their grasp of opportunities was obviously not as good as in the first half. Just relying on a penalty kick, Holtby took the penalty and scored his first goal to join the team, fixing the score at 4:0.
Although it was a big victory in terms of score, Magath was not pleased. After replacing several key players in the second half, the team's offensive efficiency declined significantly. Let him feel uneasy about the thickness of the team's bench. Especially Jiang Hao's performance, he was not very satisfied. How can the person I personally selected not even break the goal of a semi-professional team.
"Jiang, from now on, after training every day, you go to Bernd alone."
"Coach, do you want to give me a small lesson alone?" Jiang Hao's face suddenly became bitter. If another coach wanted to give him a small lesson, he would not resist, and he was still very happy in his heart. He was very eager to improve.
However, the small focus of Magath's coaching staff means the torture of one-on-one VIP treatment.
"Huh? You don't want to? Then you have no place in my team. I don't need a striker who just waits for his opportunity."
This statement made it clear that there are two paths before Jiang Hao: either suffer a little bit now, and have a chance in the future. Otherwise, he has been watching the drinking fountains on the bench, and the coaching staff does not intend to use him.
Jiang Hao managed to stand out from the U19, so naturally it wasn't for playing in the first team. Through this period of understanding, Magath probably also knows what kind of person Jiang Hao is. So I said this on purpose to stimulate his self-motivation.
There was no surprise in the first round of the German Cup, and strong teams like Bayern and Dortmund easily advanced even if they were on the bench. For the Bundesliga team, it is completely the final training before the start of the league.
On the eve of the start of the league, gaming companies have also successively released the odds of winning the new season of the five major leagues. As the first opening of the new season, without the influence of the objective situation, it can be seen to a large extent who is the darling of the gaming company.
In terms of Bundesliga, it is estimated that they have already guessed-Bayern's winning odds are exactly the same as Schalke 04. In the eyes of bookmakers, the chances of Schalke defending the title and Bayern regaining the title are 50-50.
Of course, bookmakers are optimistic about Bayern. Needless to say, the new lineup with a total value of 420 million euros is equivalent to twice the total value of the bottom six relegation teams in the Bundesliga. Based on paper strength, no team in the Bundesliga can compete. The biggest hole card of the defending champion Schalke 04 is stability.
But with the ending of last season in place, now even the Munich media dare not speak out and say that Bayern will definitely be able to push.
Everything depends on the performance on the court.
The reason is very simple, before the start of last season, who believed that Schalke could win the championship?
Although wealthy families can be arrogant, they haven't reached the point of bragging. They will definitely not do this kind of thing that has a lesson from the past and may be sent up to be slapped in the face.
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On August 9th, the 2009-10 Bundesliga season officially kicked off. The opening game of the new season was not a strong team, with Freiburg playing against Hamburg.
In the end, the two sides scored 1:1 in the opening game, and one of the most exciting shots of the game was that Chen Pengfei, who started the game, staged a score in the second half. The equalizer penalty.
"I'll go! Pengfei is so fierce now?" In Zhou Tiancheng's group, Jiang Hao couldn't help but marvel.
"Hey, Haozi, what do you think? Is it higher than your U19 level?" Ming Tao teased. Because Jiang Hao has not played a stable position in the first team, so he jokes privately, and often teases Jiang Hao with U19 jokes.
Zhou Tiancheng didn't speak, he was afraid of embarrassing Jiang Hao. The facts are here. The first team and the youth team are completely two intensities. Even in the Bundesliga Bundesliga, Chen Pengfei's current level is obviously better than Jiang Hao's.
As the first Chinese player to appear in the new season, Chen Pengfei made his debut in the Bundesliga so that all the media and fans scored high.
But this is just an appetizer. It was just a warm-up, and Schalke 04's season debut on the second day attracted everyone's attention.
Although the number of Chinese players currently playing in the Bundesliga has skyrocketed, only Zhou Tiancheng is truly capable of shouldering the honor of Chinese players. After all, he has already proved himself in the Champions League, and it will take time for the other new stars who have entered everyone's field of vision.
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According to the Bundesliga's official serpentine schedule, Schalke's opponent in the first round of the 04 league is another Bundesliga newly promoted team, last season's Bundesliga runner-up Nuremberg.
In the first round, Schalke will be a guest at Gendig Stadium to challenge their opponents.
Nuremberg performed very low-key, playing a 5-4-1 bus at home, and even the striker's single-arrow arrow Shupomoting returned to the midfield to participate in the defense on the defensive end. The opponent's coach Erning carried out the defense to the end with an attitude of fighting for one point.
This extreme defensiveness did not trap Schalke. Perhaps in terms of the ability to break the iron barrel in positional battles, it is true that there are not as many powerful ways as Bayern, but having a set kick is an opportunity.
Zhou Tiancheng broke the deadlock with a direct free kick from 30 meters in front of the penalty area in the 24th minute, and at the same time caused the Nuremberg midfielder Ilkay Gundogan, who tackled him, to be warned by a yellow card.
With the first goal, Schalke's second goal came very quickly. Less than ten minutes later, Rakitic received a header from Kuranyi and made it back. Cannon, the ball flew into the goal from between the center back's legs.
Through this half of the game, Magath let everyone see the characteristics he was trying to imprint on this team: Schalke's midfield pressure made it impossible for Nuremberg to attack in the hinterland of Schalke's penalty area. The average running data of the whole team in the half is close to 7,000 meters. Only Zhou Tiancheng could reach this level last season.
In Magath's eyes, defense has always been the job of the whole team.
However, when resuming the game after the game, Bundesliga experts expressed concern: Can such a high-intensity running last for the entire season? If the physical fitness is exhausted in the middle and late stages of the season, Schalke's defensive system is very likely to collapse!
This is a very real potential risk. Magath's tactical requirements will bring greater physical consumption, and Schalke will face a third-line battle in the new season. To achieve a breakthrough at the same time, at least two lineups of comparable strength are needed.
However, Schalke can't come up with such a lineup thickness.
Many authoritative predictions are that there are two endings for Schalke's new season; either the team is dragged down by Magath's tactics, or the painful choice of abandoning the car to protect the coach is enough to make Magath feel moved. What does it feel like to drop a stone on your own foot...
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