My name is Colani

The Ruhr area is the most important industrial area in Germany and the world. It is located in the western part of Germany, between the Ruhr River and the Lippe River, tributaries of the lower reaches of the Rhine River, in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia; there are 24 cities with a population of more than 50,000 in the area, of which Essen, Dortmund and Duisburg have a population of more than 500,000. In the area between the Ruhr River and the Emscher River in the south of the Ruhr area, factories, residential areas and dense transportation networks are intertwined to form a continuous urban belt. And it was formed in the mid-19th century. It is a typical traditional industrial area and is known as the "heart of German industry."

This area is also a very prosperous area for German football. Teams such as Dortmund, Schalke 04, Bochum, Duisburg, etc. are rooted in this area.

This area produces coal, but now the Ruhr area is also declining. It is impossible to mine for so many years. It is almost empty and the economy is weakening. This does not affect the activities of football in this place. Dortmund, Schalke 04, etc. have a large number of fans.

For example, the population of Dortmund is only about 500,000, and the Westfalenstadion has more than 80,000 seats. Their seats are almost never empty in every game, and the attendance rate is terrifying. The audience is almost all from the local area, which is not quite the same as the situation in Trapani.

Trapani's global influence is much greater than that of Dortmund, and Trapani's tourism industry is developed, so many of their audiences are foreign fans, and some are not even fans, but just tourists. They just want to get a membership to experience the unique viewing experience of the sea stadium.

Dortmund is amazing, almost all of them come from the local area. In addition, not only Dortmund, but also Schalke 04, Bochum, Duisburg, etc. Their attendance rate is very high. Whether in the Bundesliga or the Bundesliga, they are not short of spectators, which shows the love of people in this area for football.

Because of this, the Ruhr derby between Dortmund and Schalke 04 is one of the most popular derbies in the world, and the battle between them is definitely indispensable in the world's top ten derbies.

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Trapani felt the enthusiasm of Schalke fans the day before the game. When the team went to the Schalke Stadium, they were "received" by Schalke 04 fans. Fortunately, there was a police escort, otherwise Trapani's bus might not be able to move at all.

On February 16, when Trapani set off from the hotel to the stadium, the local police station in Gelsenkirchen had to clear the road in advance to ensure the safety of Trapani's bus.

Schalke's current head coach is the devil coach Magath. Magath is famous for his crazy physical training. He couldn't get along in Bayern Munich because some big-name players in the team couldn't stand his training methods, but Magath's coaching ability is actually quite good.

After leaving Bayern Munich, he immediately trained Wolfsburg into a champion. Last season, he came to Schalke 04 to save the miners in distress. He succeeded. Schalke 04 won the second place in the league under such difficult circumstances last season.

Magath deserves credit, but Schalke 04 is not doing well this year. First of all, they have encountered financial crises in recent years. They have no money. In the summer, they sent away a group of veterans and did not make better reinforcements. Raul alone cannot solve all problems.

Secondly, they are facing three-line battles, which is very tiring, so Schalke 04 presents two states. They performed very badly in the league and are now ranked only 14th. However, they performed well in the Champions League and successfully advanced to the knockout stage.

However, they unfortunately met the defending champion Trapani in the knockout stage, and the German media were full of pessimism.

The Schalke 04 team was very silent before the game. Magath did not forget to use words to motivate his young players in the pre-match press conference. These young players actually have a lot of energy in their hearts and are eager to play against Trapani. They don’t need too much provocation from Magath.

The game started soon. Hugo and Trapani's senior executives sat in the box arranged by Schalke. They looked calm. Hugo didn't know Schalke 04. Before the game started today, the fans of Aofu Schalke Stadium impressed him the most. They made a huge info. The booing when Trapani players came out was really loud. The design of Aofu Schalke Stadium can't be compared with Google Stadium, but the decibels here are not bad.

Schalke 04 fans once created 129 decibels of noise. Google Stadium is considered a devil's home, but it's still a little short of the fire in front of the decibel recorder.

Hugo was not worried about this game. He had great confidence like all Trapani fans.

Magath arranged a 442 formation with two strikers, Raul and Huntelaar as partners. Wenger's side still arranged a 433. Schalke 04 is actually a muscular team. Their midfield is young and powerful. The reason why Schalke 04 performed well last season was mainly due to Magath's physical football.

However, the problem of young people being too immature and lacking experience was exposed this season. Schalke 04's surprising performance in the Champions League can only be said to be hanging on by a thread. Now they are being tested at the Schalke Stadium.

At the beginning, Schalke 04's fast-rushing style of play still caused some trouble for Trapani, especially the use of body in the midfield, which still troubled Trapani a little, but this difficulty was actually expected, and Wenger had a clear understanding of this.

So Schalke 04's tactical failure did not take long. In less than 10 minutes, Trapani's midfield triangle Cazorla, Modric, and Schweinsteiger relied on their technical advantages to make it difficult for their fast close-up to work, and at this time Trapani's attack line also showed its fangs.

In the 16th minute, Schalke 04's midfield was too fierce, and Modric got rid of it and passed the ball to Messi. Messi dribbled the ball from the side and cut inside horizontally. It was another single challenge to the defense line. After a circle, with the containment of Suarez and others, Messi successfully broke into the penalty area and shot low.

Schalke 04's young goalkeeper reacted quickly enough, but still couldn't keep Messi's shot out.

An unexpected goal, very sudden, Schalke 04 players themselves didn't figure out what happened and lost the ball.

Magath's reaction was a bit slow. When his tactics failed, he should have made tactical adjustments earlier, but he didn't do that. As a result, the lesson came soon. Although this goal was related to Messi's super personal ability, it was also related to Magath's arrangement of the midfield, which led to the gap between the team's defense and midfield.

Magath didn't dare to take the initiative anymore, and began to ask his players to recover, defend intensively, and use more long passes directly to Huntelaar.

The most fundamental reason why strong teams are strong is the difference in players' abilities. Good coaches must have good players to achieve the goal of victory.

Schalke 04's players are obviously much worse than Trapani's. They are not as good as Trapani in vision, technology, and position awareness. The only thing they can rely on is their physical strength, but this is useless after Trapani adjusted his tactics, so Schalke 04 fans unfortunately saw the scene of their team being beaten at their home court.

Trapani completed 14 shots in the first half, and Magath's offensive ideas were almost never realized. Schalke 04 had very few shots, all of which were created by set pieces.

Wenger was well prepared for this game, especially in terms of personnel, so the players found their form quickly in this game. The reason why there was only one goal in the first half was that Schalke 04's young goalkeeper Neuer played very bravely and made 5 saves.

Magath did not make much adjustments in the second half. He needed the team to persist and use set pieces or counterattacks to equalize the score. Neuer, who was in a brave state, stood in front of the goal, which made him feel lucky.