Grass roots glory

Chapter 16 Head-on with the defending champion
The cheers of the home cheerleaders instantly filled the entire stadium. All the players of the home team swarmed up and surrounded Zhou Tiancheng, congratulating him excitedly. Coach Feibitz raised his arms and opened his mouth wide and shouted. Man, looks like an old urchin at this moment.

He wasn't happy about the fact that the team basically won the quarter-finals. There was nothing to be excited about.The set piece itself is what really excites him.

Compared with the quality of Zhou Tiancheng's set-pieces in training, the quality of Zhou Tiancheng's set-pieces is not at all discounted. Although Coach Fabitz already knows Zhou Tiancheng very well, he still can't help being a little surprised and delighted.

The plug and play property is really strong!
Coach Feibitz has been in the youth training system of professional clubs for many years. He knows very well that Zhou Tiancheng can seamlessly connect a newly developed technique from training to actual combat, and the effect is not compromised at all.Among his peers, even compared with those players in the professional system, he can be regarded as the best.

Not only is he talented in ability, but more importantly, he is absolutely excellent in psychological quality.He basically has no fear of the game.No coach would dislike this kind of practical player.

Coach Feibitz unconsciously evoked a smile on his face, such a Zhou Tiancheng lived up to his expectations.

Zhou Tiancheng never knew that Coach Feibitz's ultimate positioning for his career was the Bundesliga!
Moreover, Coach Feibitz's attitude towards this judgment is firm.This expectation is definitely the highest in the team. Even for Jiang Hao who scored ten goals, Coach Feibitz only thinks that he will have no problem gaining a foothold in the professional arena in the future, but he dare not say that he can play in the Bundesliga, one of the five major leagues. on the ball.

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As soon as Zhou Tiancheng scored a set kick, the opponent's morale was hit instantly, and the faces of the visiting team's players were basically depressed.

Before the game, they would hold the mentality that everything is possible, expecting to make an upset with their own efforts, but now after half an hour, they have become two goals behind in the blink of an eye. The reality is really skinny and cruel.

The opponent's head coach is also at a loss, the key is that they can't find a breakthrough point at all. The tactics of Gelsenkirchen University of Applied Sciences seem to be incompatible with them. They want to fight, but the two teams are not good at coaches and players. a notch.

After the start of the second half, the opponent quickly made adjustments on the front line and replaced it with a speed forward of the same type as Jiang Hao. Ability to localize individual players.

The Free University of Berlin also began to imitate the tactics of the Gelsenkirchen University of Applied Sciences. The defenders continued to play long passes to simplify the offensive mode, but they could not achieve the effect of the home team at all.Their defenders don't have Zhou Tiancheng's outstanding long-passing ability.

Zhou Tiancheng may not have an advantage in speed, but he has the experience of defending Jiang Hao one-on-one, and he visually judged that the opponent's striker is not as big as Jiang Hao, so he didn't hesitate immediately. As long as the opponent's long pass hits this area, Zhou Tiancheng Regardless of whether he can get the ball or not, he first appears on the opponent's striker's running route, using his physical advantage to forcibly separate the connection between the opponent's man and the ball.

The opponent's small speed forward tried to attack several times, but the result was miserable. Zhou Tian stood in front of him like a high wall, and there was nothing he could do.Really anxious to be tough, Zhou Tiancheng blocked his buttocks with his hands and pushed him down to the ground.

Although Zhou Tiancheng was very friendly and took the initiative to help him up, the opponent's striker was definitely in a depressed mood. He stared at Zhou Tiancheng with apprehension on his face, but didn't say a word. It was obvious that Zhou Tiancheng had protected him from his psychological shadow.

Although the dominant situation in the second half was that Gelsenkirchen University of Applied Sciences was based on counterattacks and focused on defense, but this kind of active defense with a controlled rhythm is different from completely passive defense. The more the home team defends, the more confident it is. Instead, it's smaller.What really felt powerless was the Free University of Berlin, which was completely relying on long balls. After 10 and [-] minutes of the game, their offensive gradually began to weaken.Whether it is physical fitness or morale, it is a period of rapid decline after reaching its peak.

Gelsenkirchen University of Applied Sciences took advantage of the situation and began to strengthen the control of the ball. In the current situation, the home team does not even need to take the initiative to attack. As long as they are stable in the midfield, the opponent does not have the physical ability to press high. Yes, as long as the game time is exhausted every minute and every second, you can securely pocket the ticket to the national quarterfinals.

This process is easy and enjoyable for both the home team players and fans.

In the final game, Gelsenkirchen University of Applied Sciences defeated Free University of Berlin 2:0 and reached the quarter-finals of the 2007 German University League.

This victory was completely under the expectation of the whole team, so everyone was not too excited.Coach Feibitz gave everyone a vaccination in time to prevent everyone from getting flustered.

Two days later, all the top eight teams were released.Coincidentally, the situation of Gelsenkirchen University of Applied Sciences in the two knockout rounds was completely mixed.Just finished playing against a lowly team, and the excitement of promotion has not yet passed, the quarterfinals are about to bump into the defending champion University of Munich!

The training atmosphere instantly became a little depressing.The University of Munich is the dominant team in the German university league class. Even the strongest opponent Dortmund University of Applied Sciences Gelsenkirchen has encountered before is completely unable to compare with it.For these players, the title of the defending champion of the University of Munich will change their mentality, including Zhou Tiancheng's mentality is not easy.

Although he has system support, he is not arrogant enough to tell everyone that he has 100% overturned the defending champion.Although it can boost morale for a while, the facts cannot tell a lie. If any extremely unfavorable situation occurs on the scene and shatters this fragile lie, it may accelerate the collapse of the mentality.

Coach Feibitz naturally found that the training atmosphere was not quite right, and Zhou Tiancheng's state was also different from before, but he didn't raise it in front of everyone, but found an opportunity to communicate with Zhou Tiancheng alone.

Without extra pretense, Coach Feibitz went straight to the point: "Zhou, you have been in a bad mood for the past two days, what's going on?"

Zhou Tiancheng didn't speak, and scratched the back of his head. He also felt that as the captain of the team, he admitted in front of the coach that he was nervous because of his opponent, and he was a bit speechless.

But he didn't say anything, and Coach Feibitz could guess the same, but instead of comforting him with soft words, he pointed out the problem seriously: "Zhou, as the captain and the core of the defense, you let me down a little bit. , I told Jiang that if you want to play professional football, everything is empty talk without confidence. This is especially true for you. Forwards have fluctuating mentality. The team is about to face disastrous consequences. Of course, some small sense of urgency is normal, but it cannot affect your normal performance, otherwise I have to consider whether you are suitable to play in the next game..."

(End of this chapter)