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Chapter 218 The Miracle of Huo Village Comes to the Derby Again (1)

Karlsruhe made a good start in the first game of the second half. Neither the winter break nor the opponent's familiarity with their style of play slowed down their progress. The clean and beautiful three-pointer allowed all opponents in the Bundesliga Everyone looked sideways at it, making Karlsruhe fans ecstatic. After 18 rounds, Karlsruhe had 13 wins, 1 loss and 4 draws, with 43 points, leading No.2 Bochum by 8 points and No.3 Aachen by 9 Points, No.4 Cottbus 11, that is to say, even if Karlsruhe loses three games in a row and wins four games, he can still occupy a spot for the play-offs. Ten points, there is eighty-nine points for promotion. Although it cannot be said that a promotion spot has been locked, as long as Karlsruhe does not make mistakes, promotion is only a matter of time, and their fate is in their own hands. .

Karlsruhe's strength naturally will not fail to arouse the envy and vigilance of other teams in the same state. In Baden-Württemberg, there are four teams working hard in the professional league. Rue, Freiburg and Hoffenheim in the third division.

Stuttgart is the well-deserved boss of Baden-Württemberg. They have the largest territory, the most fans, and the richest clubs. The level of the team is about the same, the land is about the same size, the urban population is more than 20, and the economic level is neither starving nor full. Occasionally, you can get acquainted with the Bundesliga, but most of the time you work hard in the Bundesliga. The worst thing is Hoffenheim, established for a long time, the name of the team is also 1899 Hoffenheim, but they have never even been to the Bundesliga Bundesliga. It is a village with a population of more than 3000. Before they were promoted to the German third, neither Stuttgart nor Karlsruhe and Freiburg regarded them as a unit. Now, newspapers in Baden state occasionally Mention them because they have a very rich boss.

It stands to reason that Karlsruhe and Freiburg should be the most jealous of each other among the four teams, because they have little difference in all aspects, but Freiburg, like their city, is indifferent to fame and fortune , the most competitive in Baden State, and the most hated fans are Karlsruhe and Stuttgart. Karlsruhe wants to climb up to the Bundesliga and become the leader of Baden State. Selling players to keep the team alive.Although Karlsruhe is still very down and out, the fans of Stuttgart are full of vigilance and fear of this tough and ambitious neighbor from the bottom of their hearts, because Freiburg has a soft personality and cannot become the overlord even with money. They can only entertain themselves, Hoffenheim is too small, there is a rich man as the boss but they can only hang out in the German third, but Karlsruhe is different, their youth training is as good as Stuttgart, give them a Rich bosses, they can fly right away and directly threaten Stuttgart's position in Baden-Württemberg.

During the winter break, Stuttgart wanted to buy Li Huan. On the one hand, Li Huan's ability really attracted the scouts from Trapattoni and Stuttgart. On the other hand, it inevitably meant weakening Karlsruhe's strength. For the Germans, it is easy to think that Bayern does this kind of thing all day long.Now Karlsruhe has not found a rich boss, but a Li Huan and a Federico let them take off like a phoenix from the nirvana. It seems inevitable to advance to the Bundesliga. At this time, the two teams have to For the quarter-finals of the German Cup, Stuttgart and Karlsruhe must be full of gunpowder from club officials to ordinary fans.

In fact, when the FA officials drew them together before the winter break, mutual attacks and defenses had already begun, just because everyone was busy with Christmas, this kind of attack was only sporadic, and after the winter break , the first round of the second half of the competition ended, the German Cup competition was officially put on the agenda, and the all-round war of words inevitably started first.

Karlsruhe is indeed a passionate and aggressive team, even the media where their city is located. Karlsruhe has just returned after beating Higan 4:1, and the reporter of "City News" can't wait to report The spearhead is directed at Stuttgart, the opponent of the German Cup. "City Daily" published a "Derby again" battle article, directly claiming to beat Stuttgart to advance to the semi-finals of the German Cup.

The article said: "This season is a strange season. Karlsruhe not only had a derby match with its opponent Freiburg in the Bundesliga, but also met Hoffenheim and Hoffenheim in the German Cup. Stuttgart has played three consecutive derby games in one season. This is the first time in the history of Karlsruhe. The previous two derby games were extremely hot. Karlsruhe swept Hoffenheim 6-0. It directly led to the resignation of Hoffenheim's head coach Flick during the winter break and narrowly beat Freiburg 3:2. Karlsruhe's midfielder Federico was shoveled and scrapped for three months. Now The third derby has begun, and Karlsruhe has returned to their home court. Can they win this game?
Although Karlsruhe also eliminated the Bundesliga team Bielefeld by a big score before, Stuttgart is not comparable to the relegation teams like Bielefeld. Stuttgart has always been a championship team. Now the Italian gold medal coach Trappa Tony led the team to rank No.5 in the Bundesliga. This result is already good, but his coaching position is not very secure. There are rumors that the club is not very satisfied with this result. They hope that the team can participate in the Champions League. The precondition for the big-name players in the team to stay is that if Trapattoni's reputation is not too great, the impatient chairman of Stuttgart, Mr. Staudt, would have fired him just like Sammer.It is a great challenge for Karlsruhe to play against such a strong team. "

But the reporter of "City Daily" believes that Karlsruhe will win the derby, because Karlsruhe's head coach Becker has been coaching in Karlsruhe for many years. , while Stuttgart's "victorious, experienced and beloved" head coach Trapattoni is still in a state of entanglement. Half a season has passed, and Stuttgart's running-in is still half-baked like his German .

The original players did not understand Trapattoni's ideas, and the new players could not integrate into the team.Thomasson and Glenshire, who were bought in the summer transfer, are both very capable players, but Trapattoni used them wrongly. Thomason, who replaced Kuranyi, has been serving as a substitute in AC Milan all year round. As a player, it is difficult for a strong man to suddenly ask him to be alone, and Thomason, who has a somewhat dull personality, cannot play the role of a frontcourt leader.What the Stuttgarts who lost Hleb needed was a frontcourt brain, but what Trapattoni sent was a classic wing assaulter, who replaced the role of Bilrovka instead of Hleb Cloth.Throughout the first half of the game, Glenshire made tireless breakthroughs on the left side again and again, and then looked up when the cross was made, shit!Not a single teammate was able to respond.However, Glenshire's speed is really too fast, on par with Li Huan, both in more than ten seconds, and it's normal for his teammates to be unable to keep up.

However, the three signings from Karlsruhe were completely integrated with the team. Li Huan, Federico and Capalani formed the most lethal trio in the Bundesliga. Although Federico is injured now, But Martins has gradually come off the bench. It is not impossible for such a running-in Karlsruhe to defeat Stuttgart, which is not well coordinated and inflexible. Although there are so many stars in Stuttgart now, any player can buy Karlsruhe. The whole team, but the confrontation between the two teams is not just based on fame.

In addition, "City Daily" also mentioned that Trapattoni's use of German international Hitzlsperger was also unreasonable, and Hitzlsperger was completely misplaced by Trapattoni. Hitzlsperger usually acts as a defender or midfielder on the left, but because of the lack of physical fitness of the 38-year-old captain Sordo, Hitzlsperger often forms a double midfielder with Meissner, and His position is close to the right side, which makes Hitzlsperger completely unable to exert strength in the game.

The above-mentioned players are Stuttgart's most capable individual players and the most famous players, but Trapattoni has not arranged for them to give full play to their role, so that Stuttgart, which has the ability to win the championship, can only play for the league. For Trapattoni's use of players indiscriminately, the reporter of "City Daily" laughed and said, "There is only one thing wrong with this henpecked Italian coach. Still in the position he excels at, if one day a reporter reports that the German international is sent up front to fight for headers, the fans will definitely think it is not entirely impossible."

The media in Karlsruhe took the lead in launching the challenge, and the media in Stuttgart will certainly not swallow their anger and die down. Although their hatred for Stuttgart coach Trapattoni is far greater than that of Karlsruhe reporters. The attack is also far sharper than Karlsruhe, but today they are on the same front, and they must fight back more violently against their Derby opponents.

(End of this chapter)