Golden Greenery

November 16, 2002, Saturday, light rain. Madyborg played away against Rodingen.

The German Football League C is a national league. Unlike the leagues of the fourth level and below, which are semi-professional or amateur, the C league is already a fully professional league. The C League implements three promotions and three demotions. After the end of each season, the top three will be promoted to the second division, and the bottom three will be relegated to the fourth division league.

The Rodingen team can also be regarded as an old-fashioned club. Most of the past decades have been hovering around the second division. When it is good, it can rush to the Bundesliga. If you are not careful, you may also spend a while in the German third division. The strength of the Rodingen team is quite satisfactory, with 18 teams, he is currently ranked eighth, with 14 matches, 5 wins, 6 draws and 3 losses with 21 points. Up and down, upgrading is a bit difficult, but downgrading is basically worry-free.

Rodingen is not too far from Hannover, also in northern Germany, more than two hours' drive. The Maddie team arrived at the away game on the club bus.

The game started in the afternoon. After the players warmed up, Klopp made the final pre-match mobilization in the visiting team's locker room.

To be honest, Klopp doesn't have much idea of ​​the new tactics. Although he is very confident that the technical control flow will be the future trend, everything still needs to be verified on the field. The opponents in this game are not weak. They are veteran clubs who have been in the professional league for more than half a century. Can Zhuoyang and the young guys who just came up from the youth team adapt? There is a qualitative difference between professional teams and semi-professional teams, and there is a world of difference between professional players and semi-professional players. The little guys will encounter confrontation and intensity that they have never faced before. Can they adapt?

Klopp couldn't help but feel a little nervous, what should he do if he encounters an unfavorable situation? Klopp looked at Zhuoyang, and suddenly felt a lot more at ease.

This Chinese boy can always create miracles, and can always break the deadlock in incredible ways in anxious situations. He is the kind of genius who can decide the trend of the game with a flash of inspiration. Perhaps Zhuoyang is a gift from God to Maddie and me Klopp.

Moreover, this little guy has a big heart that doesn't match his age, and his nerves are vast. He doesn't seem to know what fear and tension are, and he is born for big scenes. Looking at Zhuoyang who was winking with the little pig, Klopp was determined.

After repeating the details that should be paid attention to in the game, Klopp said again: "There are still 20 rounds in the remaining league, and we now have 4 points. I calculated that we can get 40 points at the end of the season, which is about the same. We can avoid relegation. In other words, in the remaining 20 games, we will try to get 36 points."

In fact, in a normal year, getting around 33 points is enough to avoid relegation. Klopp obviously played some reserves.

When Chairman Mullen was negotiating with Klopp, the minimum requirement for the new coach was relegation. At this point, Klopp has no objection, and he is also confident to complete the goal.

"36 points, which means that if we want to win 12 games, we must win at least nine games." Klopp calculated the accounts carefully for everyone. "Excluding us in the third division, there are still 17 teams. We must try to beat all the teams below the fifth place. Today's opponent Rodingen is now ranked eighth. We..."

As Klopp was talking, he saw Zhuoyang raised his hand high and kept shaking it.

"Zhuo, do you have anything to say?" Klopp was very strange: what does this kid want to do?

Zhuoyang said to Klopp: "Well, sir, I have a question. There are still 20 games and a total of 60 points. I want to ask where the last 64 points can be ranked?"

"I think I should be able to enter the top three." Klopp was even more puzzled, what is the right thing to do now.

Zhuoyang clapped his fists excitedly: "Then it's over, as long as we win all these twenty games, won't we go to the second division?"

"That's right, that's right!" Little Pig is Zhuoyang's follower,

Whatever Zhuoyang said made sense to him.

Klopp: "..."

Hassler: "..."

Klopp thought to himself: You think the game is arithmetic, why should I bother with this old nose if it is so simple.

Hasler thought to himself: Is this kid a mallet? To be able to keep the relegation is to burn high incense for Jesus, and to return to the second class. Do you know which way the door of the second class opens?

With Zhuoyang interrupting him like this, Klopp couldn't continue his earnest teaching. He scratched his messy hair vigorously with his hands, and simply waved his hand: "Let's go!"

Rodingen's stadium can accommodate 30,000 people. At the moment, the stands are almost full, probably 26,700 people, all of them are Rodingen fans. In the C-League, there are very few fans of the away team going away with the team, not to mention the small club Maddie Castle does not have many diehard fans.

After Zhuoyang came to the first team, he still chose the No. 18 jersey that just happened to be vacant. Piggy is No. 28, Mertesacker is 30, Montolivo is 27, Ribery is 29, and De Jong simply changed to No. 40.

The entire Rodingen team is full of confidence in this game. Originally, Madyburg is a popular point-giving machine, and the food is not ordinary. The Rodingen club also heard that Madyburg had just replaced a young and shamelessly unknown coach, and also brought up five or six young players from the youth team. From Rodingen's point of view, Maddie is going to give up the rhythm of this season and train new players for the next season's divisional league in advance. Therefore, the top and bottom of the Rodingen team did not take Madyburg seriously at all. This is the money-giving boy who came to give us winning prizes and goal bonuses. The whole team thinks more about where to go to have fun at night.

Intelligence work is very important, neglecting information collection, and failing to know oneself and the enemy, Roedingen did not even know how he died.

The game started, Maddie kicked off. The referee blew the whistle, the bantam Hassler nudged the ball to Ribery, and Scar passed it back to the pig Schweinsteiger. Zhuoyang wore spiked sneakers, kicked on the soft turf, and ran to the front court.

Xiaozhu took the ball forward, suddenly kicked the ball and passed it to the bantam at the front of the penalty area. Hassler was short in stature and was squeezed by the opponent's defender and couldn't get the ball. The defender stepped forward and pushed the football back. The football just flew towards the little pig again, so Schweinsteiger made a pass in the air, and directly used the arch of his foot to push the football in the air to Zhuoyang, who was four or five meters in front of the top of the arc.

With his back to the goal, Zhuoyang saw the height of the incoming ball, lightly weighed his toes on the ground, and stopped the football to the right side of his body with his chest. Then, using his right foot as the axis, he quickly turned halfway to the right and moved forward an hour. Take a step, then raise your left leg, and before the football hits the ground, directly volley with your left foot, the whole set of movements is done in one go, and the posture is stretched and graceful.

The football drew a beautiful arc in the air, flew over a distance of 22 meters, passed the goalkeeper's flying and outstretched palm, and got into the upper left corner of the gate. The score was 1:0. In less than 30 seconds, Maddie took the lead.

Looking at the Madyburg players who ran to the bench to celebrate, the Rodingen players stood in a mess in the light rain: this must be an illusion, definitely an illusion.