Chapter 229： Episode [229]: Warming Up Duisburg

Founded in 1902, Duisburg is now a centennial club with a long history.

And in the beginning, they won the regional championships many times, and they were the strong teams and the strong teams. In one season, they scored 113 goals and conceded only 12 goals, which is a pervert.

However, mobilization took place in the 1930s and it was not until the 1950s that it resumed.

When the Bundesliga was established in 1963, Duisburg was one of the sixteen initial members. In the first season of joining the Bundesliga, Duisburg won the second place in the Bundesliga, but this is also their so far, Bundesliga Best result.

Duisburg has been in the Bundesliga for more than 20 years since then, and it was not until the 1982-1983 season that it was reduced to the Bundesliga for the first time. Since then, the Duisburg club has been rising and falling in the second and second divisions. elevator.

Last season, Duisburg was still in the Bundesliga. This season they are promoted.

Duisburg also introduced a lot of players in the past two seasons. It is said that Duisburg is now very interested in South Korean forward An Jung-hwan and hopes to bring the South Korean forward to Duisburg.

An Zhenhuan is a well-known forward!

Many people know that An Jung Hwan is not because he is a symbol of Korean football, nor because he is a Korean striker who has studied abroad, but because of the incident of "all Italian resistance".

An Zhenhuan is indeed a good striker, and a symbol of Korean football.

In the 2000 season, 24-year-old An Zhenhuan was valued by Italy's Perugia team, loaned it to the team, and transferred to the Serie A Perugia team for $ 2 million the following year. .

At that time, the Serie A was called the Little World Cup, and the team that could join the Serie A was enough to show that An Zhenhuan was very good.

However, in the 2002 World Cup, South Korea eliminated Italy with a black whistle. All Italians have a bad opinion of Koreans and are very angry. The Perugia team in Serie A has a Korean player. How can the Italians tolerate it?

So the World Cup was not over yet, Perugia announced that South Korean striker An Zhenhuan would be swept out.

In an interview with media reporters, the chairman of the Club Perugia said: "The players of the team have resisted him (Ahn Jung Hwan). He has no place in the team, we only clean him!"

In the two seasons in Perugia, An Zhenhuan played a total of 29 times and scored 5 goals.

It was because of the time of "Italian boycott" that An Zhenhuan was really angry. Countless Chinese people know this Korean, even if they are not fans.

After being swept away, An Zhenhuan joined the Shimizu agitation in Japan, where he played for two seasons and then played for Yokohama Mariners for two seasons.

This summer Duisburg valued Ahn Jung-hwan, a Korean, and is now preparing to bring him to Europe. However, Duisburg has not yet succeeded, and the South Korean forward has not appeared in Duisburg.

Now Duisburg coach Norbert Meyer is considering the introduction of forwards. This season their relegation task is very difficult. He is a forward player who needs to siege.

It is said that Leeds United's defensive strength is very strong, and Noble Meyer chose to play a warm-up match with Leeds United before the season. Leeds has learned something defensive here.

Now he's standing on the sidelines, with players from Duisburg and Leeds.

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Zhong Cheng knew that Duisburg was a promotion horse, but also knew that their forward strength was not strong.

Even last season, Duisburg won the second place in the Bundesliga, their attack power can not rank in the top three of the Bundesliga, their goals can only rank sixth in the Bundesliga. This already illustrates the problem. If they don't bring in some forwards, Duisburg must prepare for the Bundesliga in advance.

However, so far, Duisburg has not introduced any good forwards, because they have no money, so at this time Noble Meyer will look at South Korean striker An Zhenhuan because he has experience in the European War. And played in the small World Cup, the most important thing is An Zhenhuan cheap.

Even so, Zhong Cheng will not rush offensively in this game.

Although I really want to play gorgeous offensive football, Zhong Cheng is very clear that in the new season Leeds United is still defensive counterattack. Therefore, in this game, Zhong Cheng still has to test the team's defensive strength, of course, the most important thing is to test the fast counterattack.

In this game, Zhong Cheng changed some starters again. Today's start for Leeds United is as follows:

Goalkeeper: Zhong Zheng

Four defenders [from left to right]: Danny Pew, Gary Cahill, Ivanovic and Gary Kelly

Double backs: Alexander Song, Albertini

Three avant-garde [from left to right]: Ribery, Modric, Dembele

Single forward: Huntelaar

Yes, there are some new players in this game, such as Alexander Song and Dembele who have just turned back. It can be seen that Zhong Cheng wants to see what kind of strength these players have?

Zhong Cheng, wearing a white suit, stood on the sidelines very coquettishly, attracting the fans at the scene to pay attention to him frequently, because Zhong Cheng is really eye-catching, his body is too coquettish. Even the bench players in Duisburg couldn't help but look at Zhong Cheng, Zhong Cheng is really very manly.

Of course, most people's eyes are more on the suits of Zhong Cheng. They like them at a glance. They are very good, very personal and perfect. They all want the feeling of buying one, and they can't see it in their eyes.

At this time, Zhong Cheng hugged his chest with his hands, stood quietly on the side of the field, his eyes stared at the stadium.

The result of this game is not important, what Zhong Cheng cares about is the process. Only then would he stare intently on the court, watching the game.

Zhong Cheng focused on inspecting Alexander Song and Dembele to see how well they were adapting? What is the psychological quality?

At the beginning of the game, the Duisburg team was crazy offensive.

Seeing this, Zhong Cheng nodded and saw that Noble Mayer was determined to engage in the Duisburg offense.

The game has just begun and Duisburg has a better chance.

The young Alexander Song made a mistake and was seized by the Slovenian international Kaliven Lavrich at the Duisburg front, a speedy escape, and entered the restricted area of ​​Leeds United.

In the face of Gary Cahill who moved over, Calvin Lavridge suddenly shot falsely, swayed Gary Cahill, and then shot directly with a lame leg. With a bang, the football hit the Leeds goal like a cannonball.

On the sidelines, Norbert Mayr leaned forward involuntarily, very excited.

Unfortunately, the football was swung out by Zhong Zheng's side kick. The football was directly cleared by Ivanovic and none gave Duisburg a corner kick.

Some fans from Belgium at the scene kept applauding and cheered for the wonderful performance of Zhong Zheng.

Norbert Mayer sighed, this striker is really not good!

This opportunity is already very good. To be honest, Calvin Lavridge has done a few previous moves well, that is, the last shot was slightly worse, for a better striker, this ball should be I won it.

Norbert Meyer nodded, it seems that it is necessary to bring in a forward who can score goals as soon as possible, otherwise Duisburg will be suspended this season.

Duisburg's offense came again on the court. The sideline kicked out. The wing player crossed the ball directly forty-five degrees, and the football flew into the restricted area of ​​Leeds. Another Duisburg center Marcus Kurt jumped high and headed it.

Unfortunately, football was stared forward by Gary Cahill.

The football rolled to Albertini's feet, Albertini pulled the ball directly and turned, a lateral change, escaped the Duisburg midfield defensive player, then sent a scalpel-like direct pass, the football directly Penetrated the Duisburg sideline.

After receiving the ball, Ribery quickly ran and faced a continuous left and right smash by the former Danish U21 national team center defender Thomas Bloom, which directly passed the Bundesliga center defender and exploded. Shot, shot the football into the corner of the goal, Leeds led by a goal.

Still Ribery, Ribery's condition is really hot.

At the side of the court, Zhong Cheng frowned with his hands on his chest. Is Ribery ’s condition too early? Haven't the new season started yet? What if Ribery's dumbfounded at the beginning of the season?

At this time, Zhong Cheng wanted to squeeze Ribery, and wanted to replace Ribery.

Ribery did not perform very well, but last season Leeds United ’s top scorer, the Champions League ’s top scorer Huntelaar did perform a bit poorly, and was unable to enter the state in the warm-up.

The coaches of Zhong Cheng and Leeds United are both anxious. Huntelaar is the top priority of Leeds United. If his condition is not good, it will be troublesome.

After all, the new season is here, because Leeds United will participate in the UEFA Cup this season. The new season is really here. Huntelaar must find the status as soon as possible.

During this time, Duisburg launched a fierce attack and besieged the Leeds United, but they really did not cause too much trouble for the Leeds. The performance of Zhong Zheng is really good, making the Duisburg forward really feel desperate.

Towards the end of the first half, Leeds United scored again.

This time it was an assist from Alexander Song. He sent a very beautiful cross ball. The football was received directly by Ribery. Ribery was dangling, and then directly passed the Duisburg central defender. Alexander Mayr then shot again and broke Duisburg's goal.

This Alexander Meyer is not the forward Alexander Meyer of Frankfurt. He is a central defender and also capable of playing full-back.

Two to zero, the end of the half-time game, Leeds United is leading two to zero.

During the intermission, Zhong Cheng made a substitution. He replaced the bell card with the newly introduced Simon Mignolet, replaced Gary Kelly with Sarnia, and Dan with Evera Pony, replaced Gary Cahill with Wilmaren, Albertine with Darren Bent, and Ribery with Lennon.

Huntelaar is still on the field, continuing the game.

Zhong Cheng really hopes that Huntelaar can find the status through this game. At the same time, Zhongcheng also ordered the players of Leeds United to feed Huntelaar more goals so that he can score goals and break the goal as soon as possible. shortage.

In the second half of the game, Leeds players frantically passed to Huntelaar in accordance with Zhong Cheng's deployment, but Huntelaar's goal did not come late, and even once again the opportunity to hit the empty goal at the back point Huntelaar didn't grasp it, and directly missed the football.

Still, Darren Bent, who was just introduced in the new season, scored a beautiful goal with his speed in the counterattack, and Leeds maintained its lead to the end.

In this game, Leeds beat Duisburg three to zero.

Duisburg's offense is indeed problematic. If Norbert Meyer does not solve this problem, Duisburg will be relegated this season!