Golden Greenery

Marek Mintal, his real identity is a midfielder, but he often does the job of a striker to destroy the city. Last season, he scored 24 goals, showing his heroic spirit. In fact, Mintal's tactical system in Nuremberg is also similar to Zhuoyang's Nuremberg. In this regard, Nuremberg is not as refined as Madiburg.

Mintal's technical characteristics and even team role are very similar to Zhuoyang's, a standard poor man's version, but the biggest difference between him and Zhuoyang is in physical fitness. The 28-year-old Mintal has an injured physique, and he will have to rest for several days if there is any trouble. Last season's miraculous disaster-free performance ensured his high attendance rate, which was the key to him winning the Bundesliga Silver Boot.

But Mintal is not so lucky in the new season. In the summer, he flirted with Stuttgart, Werder Bremen and other teams, but never gave Nuremberg an accurate answer. Perhaps it was because of his character that he was playing for the Slovak national team. He injured the third phalanx of his right foot, and it took him until the new season had started to recover. But then he suffered from the flu. The unlucky Mintal only made two substitute appearances in the new season, and did not score a goal. Enter. Minthal's absence and sluggishness are also important reasons for Nuremberg's dismal start so far.

This is Mintal's first start of the new season, and the medicine Madiburg prepared for him is Sasha Ritter.

Coach Wolfe was actually very hesitant. It was not appropriate for Mintal to face such a strong opponent like Madiburg just after recovering from his injury. However, the team's huge performance pressure finally made Wolfe make a choice that was more beneficial to his own coaching position in the dilemma. After all, looking at the entire team, only Mintal could work with the Madiburg players. Moreover, Mintal himself has a strong desire to fight.

As the second-ranked scorer behind Zhuo Yang last season, although this 'second' represents a gap of more than ten goals, it is inevitable for Mintal to continue to pursue Zhuo Yang. However, Zhuoyang's momentum has not diminished or even increased since the new season. He has already scored 13 goals in the league, but he has still scored no goals so far. Mintal is very eager to break the ice in this face-to-face confrontation.

As soon as the whistle blew, Mintal couldn't wait to attack the Madiburg goal. However, although Uncle Zha's men are not many now, they are very good. When the young masters are brought up, everyone can be of great use. In this campaign, Ritter partnered with Mad Dog Rand. The defensive midfielder is there to deal with Mintal.

Ritter's defensive steps were very good. He held Mintal back so that he couldn't get close to the penalty area. Although he was about ten centimeters shorter than his opponent, any information above Mintal's head outside the penalty area was just a mirror image, let alone behind Ritter. Puffy Louis is not a hard worker either.

Mintar is so anxious! Seeing that Zhuo Yang strolled around and scored two more goals, but he couldn't even hit a few long-range shots. He could even see the smile at the corner of Handanovic's mouth. Ridicule. As the old saying goes, you can't eat hot tofu if you're anxious. Mintal was so anxious that he inevitably acted a little too aggressively.

At the 40th minute of the first half, Mintal and Ritter faced each other, and his right instep hit the sole of Ritter's shoe hard. Ritter fell down with a thud. You can imagine how much Mintal used it. strength.

The Slovak screamed and fell down, hurting like a bastard.

Coach Wolfgang Wolf looked at the stretcher carrying Mintal down with a sad face. What does it mean to steal the chicken but lose the rice?

The diagnosis after the game revealed that Mintal had fractured the fourth heel and phalanx of his right foot. When the core of the Slovak midfielder was lying on the hospital bed lamenting his fate, he never dreamed that this matter was not over, and that the three, four and five toes would take turns to suffer this season. It's all fate...

Nuremberg, which was already tired of resisting and whose top star was injured and hit again, was in chaos. In the 44th minute, after several moves, Ibisevic faced the goalkeeper and passed the ball to Zhuo Yang in front of the empty goal. The ball was not passed very well. It was not the small high ball that Zhuo Yang wanted, but the crotch height below the waist and above the knees. In order to complete a hat trick of left foot and header, Zhuoyang had no choice but to bow his head and kneel down, awkwardly knocking the football in.

Of course Zhuo Yang will not play again in the second half, because Uncle Zha has a bad temper. Helmers went up to play as the second center, and Banettala came back to play as an attacking midfielder. Madibao still did not fall behind at all. However, it was time for the whole team to show up for Ritter today.

Nuremberg replaced Mintal with Russian winger Sayenko, who transferred from Karlsruhe in the second division at the beginning of the season. He is no outsider. He was a fool who knocked out three front teeth of Grandpa Mo on the court two years ago. It's this man. [For details, please see Part 1 Chapter 121 (Part 2) The Jianghu brothers make a big move]

It was a game in which the Six Musketeers avenged his brother Hasler, but at that time Sayenko, who was only interested in competing with Scar Ribery for the No. 1 left winger in the Bundesliga Second Division, rushed left and right at an inappropriate time and was brave and tenacious. I just pissed off some of the younger brothers, and I was obviously shameless. First, my grandfather knocked out three front teeth with his shoulder, and then I was deliberately touched by Zhuo Yang, Butcher, and Xiaozhu, causing my mouth to bleed. The scene at that time was too horrific to look back on.

Of course, Sayenko no longer wants to compete with Scar. He is now the world-famous Premier League winger, and the Six Musketeers have all become existences in the cloud that are beyond his reach. None of the eleven players involved in the Madiburg game at that time were on the court now. No one knew what kind of god he was anymore. Even Zhuo Yang had forgotten all about him. The reason why a genius is a genius is because the brain never stores those insignificant people and things.

Sayenko is just a mediocre forward who has no chance of playing in the first division if he is not worth zero. Coach Wolfe is a bit angry with the club when he replaces him: you can see for yourselves what they have invited.

As expected, after Sayenko came on the field, regardless of the offensive aspect, he was not even a scratch in front of the Madibao defense. However, this guy's consistent diligence and effort are worthy of praise. Sayenko actively counterattacked in the frontcourt. He jumped at whoever got the ball and was very happy. His enthusiasm did not come to an abrupt end until the 70th minute of the second half. Ritter's big-foot clearance ball directly wedged into the courageous counterattack. Sayenko's mouth.

As a result, three expensive titanium dental implants two years ago were spat out again.

Seeing Sayenko, who was still bleeding with a large lump of cotton gauze in his mouth, being forcibly ordered to leave the field by the referee, Zhuo Yang, who was wrapped in a down coat and chatting with Edmund, always felt that this scene seemed similar.

However, it was not over yet. At the end of the game, Wagfeld, who replaced Sayenko, was kicked by Ritter during the fight and broke his right tibia. This man ranked among the top three in salary in Nuremberg but had the lowest ability. The last three midfielders were also carried off.

So far, Sasha Ritter, an all-around midfielder and backfield player from Madiburg, former captain of the German U21 national team, and former captain of Madiburg B team, has supported three opposing players in one game, completing an unusual hat-trick. Zhuo Yang was bright for a moment. In the end, Madiburg beat Nuremberg 4:1 away from home. In the second half, two 20-year-olds, Debich and Killings, scored a goal for their respective teams.

At noon the next day, Nuremberg Club Chairman Michael Roth announced that head coach Wolfgang Wolf, who had been coaching for more than two seasons, would be dismissed and the team would initiate emergency procedures to find a new coach.

This is the second time this season in the Bundesliga that a coach has been fired midway.