After a two-week suspension, the Bundesliga is back on fire.
In the fifth round of the league, the Bundesliga ushered in two focus games, Dortmund vs Werder Bremen at home and Bayern Munich vs Schalke 04 at home. They were all strong talks.
Dortmund's game will be held one day earlier.
Hornets this season's start is not ideal, two consecutive losses do not say, but also a 4-1 loss to Schalke 04, but after learning from the bitter experience, Dortmund ushered in two consecutive wins, respectively, 3-0 win cortebus, 1-0 away win Rostock.
However, in the fifth round of the league, the Hornets faced Werder Bremen with superior attack firepower. In the first half, from the 22nd minute to the 32nd minute, in just 10 minutes, they scored three goals with head kick.
In the end, Dortmund beat Werder Bremen 3-0.
Three wins in a row, seven goals, zero goals, Dortmund showed a striking strength.
The opening match also made a good start to the fifth round of the Bundesliga, especially for the next day.
Compared with Bayern Munich's four wins in a row, Schalke's 2004 season starts with four unbeaten rounds, one win and three draws.
Among them, in addition to the 4-1 home defeat of Dortmund, the first round was a 2-2 win over Stuttgart, the third round was a 1-1 draw at Wolfsburg, and the fourth round was a 1-1 draw at home against Leverkusen.
It should be said that Schalke's 2004 start was not ideal.
Even so, the Allianz stadium was still full on the afternoon of September 15.
The enthusiasm of the fans who had been doused out for two weeks finally got the chance to vent again.
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Shalke 04's head coach slomka received Bayern Munich's starting line-up list from the assistant coach when he returned to the visiting team's dressing room after the team's pre match training.
Goalkeeper Noel, the defensive line from left to right are Marcello, humales, van Biden and ram, the midfield is Schweinsteiger, van Bommel and Modric partner, the front Trident is the combination of Ribery, Klose and Robben.
It's obvious that Gao Han put the international players who went to South America to participate in the national team games, such as Aguero, bidal and Lucio, on the bench, which also reflects his strong confidence in the game.
As for Marcelo, the Brazilian has not yet qualified for the national team.
"As we planned before the game, we still have to rely on our right side Said slomka, frowning.
Bayern Munich's overall pass and control ability is really good. Although the players do not have a tacit understanding with each other, their strength and tactics are higher than other teams in the Bundesliga.
But they are not without weaknesses, the first is the left.
"Marcelo is the biggest hidden danger of Bayern Munich's back line. I don't understand why Alpine people trust him so much? Let bidal be better than him. " The assistant coach was puzzled.
Bidal has played as a left back in Chile's domestic and national teams, which has led many people to mistakenly believe that Gao Han introduced bidal to strengthen the left side defense, but unexpectedly, Gao Han directly pushed bidal into the midfield.
Instead, on the left, Gao Han uses young players such as Marcello, Jerome Boateng and bardstubel.
"It's hard to guess what he thinks, but one thing is for sure." Slomka very seriously reminded, "we must not wait to die, with rafina and asamoa to form a right side, attack maselo side, forcing Bayern Munich to defend."
Shalke 04's strategy has been worked out earlier. In the past, they only trained around this point. Now it's time to test the team's training results.
Marcello is reckless and unreliable in defense. He often can't get back to defense in time after jumping forward. These are old problems. Rafinha has a strong ability to assist and asamoa is very fast. The two men's right wing can guarantee the attack and counterattack strength of Schalke 04 to the maximum extent. It's better to hurt Bayern Munich at the beginning.
In slomka's view, in the face of a team like Bayern Munich, blindly defending is tantamount to chronic suicide. Only by counterattacking, which forces Bayern Munich not to concentrate on attacking, can the team have the chance to defend.
The cold is very severe, the first four rounds of the game is really wonderful, but that has passed.
At least, Bayern Munich can't be compared with Atletico Madrid and Inter Milan.
While he's not strong enough, it's a great chance to beat him.
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"There is no doubt that the key to this game is our left side
In the dressing room of the home team, alpine is also making the final mobilization for the players.
He has just got Schalke's starting lineup in 2004, and the right attack composed of Brazilian right back rafinha and German international asamoa is enough to make him understand slomka's intention.
"The specific arrangement, as I talked to you at the meeting yesterday, is that the defense of the left side is not a matter for the left back alone. The front court, the midfield and the back court all need the protection of the co defense."
Everyone in the dressing room nodded solemnly.
There are many Bayern Munich internationals, all of them go to the national team, leading to the players' return time is not uniform. Many South American internationals only returned yesterday afternoon, and now they can't participate in the game at all.
Not only that, in the past two days, Bayern Munich even failed to organize a team training, so there is no way to practice the protection of the left side. We can only rely on the cold and the coaching team to cooperate with the PPT to explain.
"Marcello." Gao Han looks at the Brazilian left back.
"I'm listening, boss." Marcello hastened back.
"Remember what the coaches and I have told you over and over these days."
Marcelo licked his lips and nodded, "I remember."
"I don't need you to take part in the attack in this game. To tell you the truth, shalke's 04 point defense, as long as we play normally in the front court, it's not difficult to score. What I need you to pay attention to is defense. First, do a good job in defense."
Marcelo, aware of the burden of his game, stood up and nodded solemnly.
"Remember, first, don't drop your foot easily. Second, follow the inside and don't let them cut into the penalty area."
Marcello took a deep breath. "I see."
Gao Han takes another deep look at Marcello and turns to the two centre backs.
Lucio, Aguero and bidal all went back to play for the national team. Although they were ready to return at the first time after the game, the long journey and the time difference made them return to the team only yesterday evening.
Therefore, alpine naturally did not dare to use them, instead arranged Hu Meier Si and fan biteng partner center back.
"The task of the two centre backs is also very clear. Pay attention to the cross from the right side. Humales, you should pay attention to the protection of the area behind Marcello."
"I see."
"I understand."
Both centre backs agreed in unison.
"If the other side's full back rafinha is in front, van Bommel, I need you to come back to defense at the first time."
"Good." The Dutchman agreed in a concise way.
Gao Han said here and patted his hands hard.
"Well, everybody, we started the season well. We won four games in a row and didn't lose a goal. It's not easy, and it depends on the concerted efforts of all of us
The cold words made everyone present feel proud.
"I hope this game will be the same
"Good!" The players responded in unison.
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The game starts at 15:30 on time.
Among the cheers of the fans at Allianz stadium, the referee blew the whistle to start the match.
The visiting team Schalke took the lead to kick off in 2004.
As expected before the cold, Schalke launched an offensive from the very beginning and concentrated on his right side.
In the first two minutes, asamoa took the ball on the right side, relying on a fake action to cheat Marcello and form a cross, but Noel in the restricted area reacted very quickly, rushed out of the small restricted area first, grabbed the ball from the air before everyone else, which could resolve a crisis.
But a minute later, rajitic took the ball close to the right side, crossed it to the right side, and sent the ball to Marcello's back. Asamoa used his speed to get the ball before Marcello.
The Brazilian also kept up the defense for the first time, but asamoa just made a quick stop, which made Marcello stop, watched the other side speed up again, and was thrown away.
This time, the ball was pushed out of the bottom line by humales and Schalke won a corner.
Less than four minutes into the opening, he was fooled twice.
"What's the matter with this boy? As long as he's stuck inside, the others don't have to pay attention, and he's still like this. "
Cantarello seems to be a little angry, which is what he has been told in training, but in the game, Marcello is still in a mess.
The other side a simple fake action can deceive him, this also reliable?
"This asamoa is really fast. He is the first naturalized player in Germany, African American." Tueher explains.
Gao Han nods. It's really a headache, but
"Pay attention to that lakitic. He is not simple at all. He is young and has just joined this season. As a result, he has become the core of the team's midfield. He has a lot of skills in passing
The most impressive midfield in the first few rounds of this season's Bundesliga League is Schweinsteiger, who has achieved half of the transformation, followed by Bayern Munich's main midfield player Modric, who became the core of Bayern Munich's midfield as soon as he joined.
On the contrary, shalke 04's lakitic, who also joined in the summer and came from Croatia, is even younger than Modric, but his performance is not bad. In time, he has a bright future.
"Luca." Gao Han went to the edge of the field and yelled at the players.
Modric immediately looked over and raised his hand to signal that he heard.
"Pay attention to your compatriots. Don't make them too comfortable." Alpine refers to rajitic.
Modric immediately understood the manager's request.
Schalke's attacks at the beginning of 2004 were all planned by rajitic, especially on the left.
Marcelo is unreliable. Everyone knows that it is difficult to improve in a short time, so the best way is to suppress Schalke 04 and make it difficult for them to attack effectively.
"Marcello." After Gao Han explained Modric, he turned to Marcello.
The Brazilian left back's left side is just near the coaching area. Obviously, he knew that he didn't start well enough. After hearing the shouts of the head coach, he came over uneasily.
"Hey, man, you're better than before in defense these two times. You've done a good job. Just keep doing that, OK?"
Not only Marcelo was a bit surprised, but also tuhel and cantarello were surprised.
He did a good job with that performance?
Can we say that if we don't get a goal, we are qualified?
"Don't think about anything else. I have confidence in you. Remember, don't get off your feet easily and get stuck inside him. You can do it. Go on With that, Gao Han clapped hard and sent Marcello back to the court.
He knows that what the Brazilian needs most now is not reprimand, but confidence.
Among all the players, the only one who can give Marcello confidence is himself as the head coach.