Golden Greenery

Saturday, December 7, 2002. In the eighteenth round of the German Bundesliga, Madeburg played against the league leader Osnabruck at home.

Osnabruck has been in the limelight this year, with 11 wins and 6 draws in the first 17 rounds and remains unbeaten. He currently ranks first in the league with 39 points. In the first round of the league, Madyburg lost 0:6 to Osnabruck in the away game, thus starting the first half of this tragic season.

In this game, Klopp still used the starting lineup of the first three games, and veterans such as Bantam, Greek coach, and East German cool all played.

In the end, this game played a jaw-dropping 4:4 high score, both sides scored one point evenly, and the team's winning streak was terminated. The goals from the two sides are as beautiful as plum blossoms and bamboos. You come and I go to make the audience hooked.

In this game, Zhuoyang still played the whole game and played well, leading the way with one shot and two passes. That goal was his signature single-handed pass. After passing everyone, he directly brought the ball into the goal, leaving a crowd of people behind him.

Osnabrook is very strong and is the strongest opponent Zhuoyang and the others have encountered so far. He is much stronger than Elgerberg, who had a difficult away game last week. Their players are experienced, their personal abilities are balanced, and there are no obvious loopholes in the three lines.

However, the main reason why Fort Maddie did not win was not that there was a major problem with the defense, but that the formation was out of line. With Klopp's oppressive style of play, the team's overall formation is very high, and they strive to suppress the opponent within the half-court and stay away from their own goal.

In order to firmly suppress the opponent, the midfielder led by Zhuoyang will not stop counterattacking on the spot, and the formation is always close to the opponent within the 40-meter area. In this way, the distance from the own defense line will be widened, and experienced opponents will often seize this loophole and fight back desperately. In the first few games, Zhuoyang, Xiaozhu, and De Jong used their tireless running to cover them, and the strength of a few opponents was average, so the problem was not very serious. But in this game, the leader Osnabrook seized this point vigilantly. All four goals were counterattacks, hitting the back of the midfielder and even the back of the defender, hitting the junction of the two lines. If Zhuoyang hadn't led the midfielder to play vigorously in offense and spared no effort in defense, the result would be hard to say.

If Zhuoyang and the others retreat their formation and shorten the gap with the defense, they will be far away from the opponent's goal, and Klopp's high-position pressure will be impossible to talk about. In this situation, we can't blame the team deputy and the Greek coach on the back line, because they dare not raise it too high. If they shorten the distance with the midfielder, it will inevitably increase the space between the goalkeeper and the goalkeeper. However, the goalkeeper Nelson Bellock of Maddie Castle does not have much ability to attack, and the control range is too narrow, so he can only move within the small penalty area. .

Therefore, the root of all this is actually that Fort Maddie does not have a starting goalkeeper who conforms to Klopp's tactical play.

A good tactical concept does not mean that it is suitable for all teams, and it needs corresponding players to reflect its power. Therefore, a coach who can adapt to local conditions is always very popular, because he is not picky about food, and he cooks whatever dish he cooks. Italian cutting-edge coach Carlo Ancelotti is such a good cook.

Klopp's set of ideas is indeed very advanced, even five to ten years ahead. But his tactical style of play is indeed very challenging, requiring eleven players on the field to conform to the concept of pass and cut control. However, the old players of Maddieburg are too deeply influenced by traditional German football thinking, and their sense of position is deeply ingrained. It is almost impossible to get over it in a while. Fortunately, Zhuoyang and the other six, plus the old fox Hassler, will be able to support this new set of tactics.

However, even if the formation and style of play are not perfect, it is more than enough to cope with relegation this year. Klopp is not in a hurry, take his time, tap the potential of the team itself, and wait for the Six Musketeers to mature. Therefore, the prospect of the Maddie team is very exciting.

December 21, 2002

Saturday. In the nineteenth round of the German Bundesliga, the Madeburg team went to Munich to challenge the Bayern Munich youth team.

Since Bayern Munich's youth team and the first team also share the same home court, Zhuoyang, a few bumpkins who have never seen the world, finally saw the legendary Munich Olympic Park Stadium. The Munich Olympic Park Stadium, which can accommodate 63,000 people, was built in 1968. It was built for the 1972 Munich Olympics, which was also famous for its terrorist attacks.

The Bayern Munich youth team is very strange. Its defensive strength is very strong, but its offensive power in the frontcourt can only be hehe. This may also have something to do with Bayern's team building ideas.

As the greatest football club in Germany, Bayern Munich is known as the green Hollywood. The team has always been star-studded, and the star-studded people are dazzled. Bayern prefers to poach from other teams. The stars in the midfield are almost all dug by the club bosses with hoes. As for the team's defense, there are often Bayern people trained by their own youth training.

In this group of Bayern youth teams, there are several young defense stars. 19-year-old Philip Lahm, 17-year-old Andres Autor, the two of them are superior in the back line. There is also 18-year-old goalkeeper Michael Rensing, and the defense of the Bayern Munich youth team can be described as solid. Coupled with the 17-year-old midfielder Trohovski, these four are also the stars of hope that Bayern will focus on training. Everyone understands that the four of them will be members of the first team sooner or later.

The Bayern youth team conceded only ten goals in the first 18 rounds, an average of just over half a game. However, their offense was very sad, and they only scored 13 goals. With 18 matches, 3 wins, 11 draws and 3 losses, they ranked thirteenth in the C League with 20 points, and they are somewhat under pressure to relegation.

In the first half of the schedule, Maddie lost 0:1 to the Bayern youth team at home. In this game, the brand-new Fort Maddie won 3-0 without any suspense.

The three defenders of the Bayern youth team are indeed outstanding, and they have caused a lot of trouble for Zhuoyang and the others. But outstanding is outstanding, it depends on who you compare with. Except for Lahm and Lensing who were still eye-catching, the others were completely beaten by the Six Musketeers. Thanks to Lahm and Lensing, otherwise, the Bayern youth team would have to let these boys play badly today.

In this game, Zhuoyang, Bantam, and Er Ge each scored a goal, and Xiaozhu, Scar, and De Jong each had an assist.

In this way, after the last game before Christmas, the Fort Maddie team had 19 matches, 4 wins, 5 draws and 10 losses with 17 points, and their ranking rose to the third from the bottom.

The pleasant winter break has arrived.

As if making an appointment, on the first day of the winter break, the first snow in Hanover this winter also quietly fell.