Chapter 244: Platini Can't Decide the Game

At the lottery scene, Magath had a happy face. This kind of grouping is a rare one in his coaching career. The only opponent in the group stage that needs serious preparation is Lyon. This is a good thing for Schalke. The end of the group stage is about the same as the first half of the league, that is to say, Schalke can focus on the domestic arena throughout the first half of the season.

Although the team's Champions League prospects are the most frequently discussed topic, Magath is well aware that the challenges they face in the Bundesliga are not small at all. The round loss to Hamburg is a loud wake-up call. Schalke has not lost in rounds for five consecutive seasons. Since the start was not good, they must work harder from now on. Therefore, Magath's strategy is clear. In the first half of the season, taking advantage of the lack of challenges in the Champions League, he concentrated on focusing on the league. If he can establish a more obvious advantage, the pressure of multi-line sprints in the second half will be much less.

However, in the third round of the league, Schalke played 1:1 away with Hoffenheim. Hoffenheim's new home stadium, the Rhein-Neckar Arena, can accommodate 30,000 people. The Mannheim Stadium with more than 10,000 people is even more difficult to conquer.

As the only Bundesliga team from a small village, although Hoffenheim has only more than 3,000 villagers, their madness for football is not inferior to the enthusiasm of Shakhtar fans for Schalke. All this is thanks to the boss Hope who has silently invested in the team for 16 years. Since the completion of this big stadium that really belongs to the fans of the small village, every match day, the small village of Hoffenheim almost came out in full force, and Ula Ula shouted for the home team in the stands until the last moment.

Zhou Tiancheng is used to it. On the contrary, stars like Raul and Jurado play from time to time. In fact, Schalke's overall performance is not bad. After Zhou Tiancheng's long-range shot equalized the score for the team, Raul He failed to grasp several close-range shots.

In the first three rounds of the league, Schalke had one win, one draw and one loss, and what is interesting is that Bayern also had the same record. Last season's champion and runner-up tied for seventh in the standings, while Leverkusen and Dortmund ranked among the top three .

Although the league has just started, it is too early to say that the league will change this season, but at least it has shown that the Bundesliga will be more intense this season, which means that there are more things to watch, at least from the media point of view, they are happy to see .

Magath is naturally dissatisfied with this result, which is far from the winning streak at the beginning of last season, but he is not too harsh on the players. He knows that the draw by Hoffenheim is not the execution of the players on the field. Not enough strength, but really a little bit of luck.

This thing sounds dangling,

However, it is often a factor that cannot be ignored in the game, and sometimes it can indeed change the result of the game. For example, Raul hit the outer edge of the column on the same side twice with a header from the front. This probability sounds really small, but it happened, blocking a victory that Schalke should have had. This is God's will that no matter how clever a tactician or a player is, no matter how capable they are, it will be difficult to stop. There is a classic proposition in probability that "events with small probability cannot happen", but on the football field, countless facts have proved that this is a false proposition.

Of course, there is a more important factor, which also prompted Magath not to blame everyone after the game too much-in the next round of the UEFA Champions League group stage in the new season, Schalke will go away to challenge Lyon, the strongest opponent in the group.

Although there is no problem in qualifying for the group stage, Schalke's short-term goal is definitely more than this, but to strive for the first place in the group, and to strive for another group victory. So this away game is particularly critical. As long as we win, the goal can basically be achieved.

Before the team left, Zhou Tiancheng took the time to take a look at his club. Because he went there in the afternoon, the club seemed relatively deserted, Yang Cheng and Chu Yunling were not there, only Fatty Xie sat in front of the computer, watching Zhou Tiancheng walk in, the fatty was stunned for half a second, then laughed, The fat on his face became a ball, and he said, "Brother Cheng, isn't the team training so early today?"

"I'm going to play an away game soon. I haven't had time to care about this place for a long time. Come and have a look."

"Brother Yang and Sister Ling are not here."

Zhou Tiancheng chuckled: "I don't look for them, isn't it the same with you? You are the big housekeeper here now, no one knows better than you."

Fatty Xie was stunned for a moment: "All right, brother Cheng, I'll go get some drinks, and by the way, I'll take a look at the accounts for the past few months."

Zhou Tiancheng was just joking, he didn't expect the fat man to take it seriously, thinking that he really came to check the accounts. But he was very happy in his heart, such a person had a real heart.

Zhou Tiancheng just glanced at it briefly, he is not an expert in this area, and he does not rely on this club to make money, so he just took a rough look at the flow of every money.

"Fatty, what are you looking at? His expression is so interesting." Zhou Tiancheng looked up and saw that Fatty Xie had a very cheerful expression, full of smiles, so he was also very interested and walked to the computer.

"Brother Cheng, do you know about the grouping in the Champions League a few days ago? It means that Platini is Lyon's father."

"I've heard... Fatty, it's okay, I suggest you stop reading those rumors on the Internet and keep your IQ." Of course Zhou Tiancheng has heard of it. The match with Lyon is coming soon, so naturally some reporters are very interested in his statement.

Fatty Xie smiled and turned his head: "Brother Cheng, I'm afraid you can't ignore it if you want to. This is the hottest post in the discussion area of ​​our official website. Many fans are looking forward to your reply."

"Really? The website is getting a lot of attention now?"

"Of course, it was Brother Yang's idea. Since you won the Champions League, he has placed a wave of advertisements in the newspapers, and the number of visits to our website has gradually increased. Now about your personal Sections are the most visited."

As the fat man spoke, he clicked on the discussion area. Zhou Tiancheng saw that under the "Schalke vs. Lyon" game preview post, there were many posts with similarly curious questions, and they were very popular.

"Will Zhou come and go here?"

"I'm going to beat Platini's own son soon. I really want to know his attitude, but why is he so low-key."

"Upstairs, withdrew, Zhou didn't say anything in front of the media, it's impossible to appear here..."

From the title of him, Zhou Tiancheng can see that the current website visitors are still mostly local fans, which made him realize a problem. If the club is established abroad, it is a problem if you want to effectively interact with Chinese fans. Although there is a social tool like Weibo, he is not a Weibo expert, and he can't update his blog every now and then.

However, Zhou Tiancheng will not treat them differently. In view of the high voice, Zhou Tiancheng asked Fatty Xie to help him immediately verify an account with his real name. Since the public opinion is so, he can satisfy everyone's curiosity.

"Fatty, just one sentence, Platini can't decide the game."

Fatty Xie was stunned for a moment, nodded and typed this sentence, and used his background administrator authority to pin this post to the top.

Zhou Tiancheng thought for a while, and posted a Weibo with the same content. He knew that there was a lot of commotion in Europe, and the country must also be paying attention.

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