Tianjiao midfielder

Chapter 166 Back on track ([-])

Although very angry, Schmidt is used to it. Since this season, the team has always made such low-level mistakes in the backcourt. He has even gotten used to it. The perfect defense performance in that game may have made him feel particularly emotional. Fortunately, this was at home, and Hoffenheim’s goal was still early. Afterwards, they still had enough time to adjust, scored, and then overtook the score to get three points.

"To press, press from a high position, keep an eye on their midfielder, as long as you grab the ball in the frontcourt, it will be easy, grab, let us grab the ball!"

After Leverkusen was scored, the frontcourt players finally realized that they need to be more nervous, otherwise they will lose face in front of the home fans. Although Schmidt’s authority in Leverkusen’s locker room is already very low, they still have to implement Schmidt’s words on the court. This is because Schmidt is still the head coach. As professional players, they must implement the head coach’s tactics. Third, no matter how bad their performance on the court is, it is real and others can see it. No matter how bad the team and the head coach are, you can find opportunities to leave during the transfer period, and the performance on the court determines the height you can go to transfer and the level of salary. These factors are all determined by your performance.

Leverkusen began to increase the running in the frontcourt to limit Hoffenheim's backcourt. Although the degree of pressing was not very fierce, it still had a very serious impact on Hoffenheim's backcourt. Especially when Geiger faced the high-level pressing of the top league for the first time, he still panicked.

Seeing this, Chen Feng had to rush back to help defend. Folland also noticed the cross pass and wanted to use his speed to grab the frontcourt ball. Chen Feng gritted his teeth but was still not as fast as Flandre.

Schmidt immediately expressed his dissatisfaction when he saw Chen Feng using his body to push Flanders away. In his eyes, this kind of physical conflict should be a foul: "Is this not a penalty? This is a football field, not rugby!! Why is this not a foul? Can we also play like this?"

Schmidt completely lost his image on the sidelines and expressed his anger, which attracted the fourth official on the sidelines: "Sir, please calm down your emotions, otherwise I will warn you."

"I'm calm! I'm very calm! It's you who are not calm. Why didn't you get a penalty for the foul just now? This is an offensive opportunity, but you blow it up like this. Do you know what this means? This is a chance to score goals." Schmidt kept expressing his dissatisfaction with the fourth official, and his anger was about to rush directly to the fourth official.

The fourth official touched the saliva on his face helplessly and tried his best to appease Schmidt's emotions. This scene was discovered by the broadcaster and broadcast directly to all parts of the country.

In the commentary room, Kleinton and Effenberg smiled at each other. They had seen too many scenes where the coach was attacked by anger and caused his emotions to lose control.

"I don't think Schmidt should be so angry. It's hard to tell whether the ball is a foul or not, because it's a matter of the referee's scale, and we are currently refereeing the same scale. On the contrary, if Schmidt's emotions continue to be like this, he is likely to be warned by the referee or even sent to the stands. At this time, the loss outweighs the gain." Kleinton said.

"Yes, and Schmidt's emotions will easily affect the players on the field. You must know that it is only 10 minutes in the first half, and the first half has not passed yet. Then there will be more than three-quarters of the time, but Schmidt behaves like only 10 minutes or even 10 minutes. This is wrong. The mentality of the head coach on the sidelines will always affect the players on the field. The referee who was dissatisfied with Mitt was punished more severely. Although we all know that referees should be fair and just at all times, you also need to know that referees are human beings, and it is impossible to be absolutely fair and just. The same action may be punished differently in the eyes of the same referee. card, and then sternly warned Schmidt.

This made Schmidt even more dissatisfied, but the assistant coach quickly returned Schmidt to the bench and asked him to sit down and calm down for a while before the turmoil calmed down. However, it was already 5 minutes before the confrontation between Chen Feng and Flanders. Some Leverkusen players who were far away did not know what happened.

Schmidt, who was dragged away by the assistant coach, sat on the bench and looked at the field with a depressed face, but his eyes were slack, and his attention was obviously not focused on the game, and he didn't know what he was thinking. The assistant coach was also helpless when he saw Schmidt like this.

When Leverkusen's rhythm stabilizes, it will be cheaper for Hoffenheim. Chen Feng can get out of the backcourt again and continue to organize the attack in the frontcourt. In the midfield, Aranguis and Campbell have gradually developed a tacit understanding and will join forces to intercept Chen Feng. In the midfield, Aranguis and Campbell faced Chen Feng and Geiger. He hit the 45-meter penalty area on both sides several times, all of which were strangled with his body near the middle circle.

"I have to say that this game is really boring. Leverkusen's problems are too big. Their lineup is very strong, but their ranking is in the middle and lower reaches. This game proved to us that their results are reasonable and normal. Hoffenheim did not perform well today, but their luck was not bad. They met Leverkusen, who performed even worse. But the game lasted 10 minutes, and now it is only halfway through. Can Leverkusen change in front of the home fans in the second half, and Hoffenheim will continue to be in this state?" Ge roughly summed up the performance of Leverkusen and Hoffenheim in the first half. The words were relatively tactful, but Kleinton would not, tactful?It was never his style.

"With all due respect, I think Chen's problem in this game is too big. I used to admire him very much, and I also got to know him specially. He has played well in the position of organizing midfielder. Today, in this game, he gave me the impression that he was quite satisfactory. He didn’t complete his organizational task, because he is not an organizational midfielder at all, so whose problem is this? I think it is obvious, as the legendary star Effenberg beside me said, both Leverkusen and Hoffenheim have a lot of problems, and the difference of one goal is very, very small. The key to the victory is within 45 minutes of the second half. In the 15 minutes of the midfield, whoever can solve the problem will take the lead in the second half.”

In the midfield locker room, Nagelsman did not arrange tactics in the midfield to adjust to various problems in the first half as usual, but let the players rest well and discuss with each other the situation in the first half and how to solve the problems. Chen Feng was very confused in the locker room. He also knew that his performance in the first half was not good. He thought that Nagelsman would adjust him during the intermission, but Nagelsman didn't say anything, just let the players continue to work hard in the second half.

The second half restarted. Leverkusen replaced Charhanoglu and Flanders to strengthen the offensive in the frontcourt. They wanted to use the advantages of Charhanoglu's passing ability and set-piece ability to enhance the offense, but they still had no pressing ability in the midfield.

It didn’t take much effort. With Juber and Rupp’s multiple passes, Wagner’s air dominance ability completely dominated Leverkusen’s penalty area. Although Tower’s physical fitness and jumping ability are also very strong, he is completely inferior to Wagner in terms of experience. Wagner easily won most of the high-altitude power. Tower can only try to interfere with Wagner, so that he cannot complete the attack immediately.

However, Wagner was indeed unable to use the header to attack the goal at the first time, but he could use the advantage of the header to give the ball to the teammate at the second point. No. 70 In the second minute, Rupp took the ball from the wing and made a pass.

"GOAL!!! Beautiful cooperation and goals. Kramaric perfectly showed his goal sense today, but I think Wagner is more perfect today. Wagner is a star today. If his performance can last for a season, then I think Loew can pay attention to this high center forward. Only after Klose retired from the national team. Chao, I just returned to the Bundesliga this season and went to Wolfsburg, but the playing time is very little. The national team needs another strong center forward to play for it. I think Wagner is such a reasonable candidate, but I don’t know if Loew thinks so.” Kleinton is happy with Wagner’s performance and performance today. Gner's performance showed Claynton another option.

After Kramaric scored a goal, Nagelsmann replaced Chen Feng with Rudy. Chen Feng walked off the field slowly, which is a normal way of wasting time. Now that the team leads Leverkusen 2:0, there is no need to rush off the field to buy more time for Leverkusen. It was not until the referee on duty ran to Chen Feng to remind Chen Feng to leave the field quickly that Chen Feng trotted to the field to give Rudy a high-five to complete the substitution.

When Chen Feng walked up to the coach, he wanted to give Nagelsman a high-five, but Nagelsman directly took Chen Feng's shoulder: "Chen, I hope you can observe Rudy's performance on the field. I don't think your performance today is bad, because you have helped the team complete the defensive task very well, but you are not always defensive midfielder on the field. You are an organizer today. What you need to do first is to ensure the team's organizational tasks, rather than go back to the backcourt to help the team complete the defense, just like I did back then. It’s the same when I found you in Italy. I always thought that you have all the potential of a modern midfielder, but how to realize it requires you to play it personally, so I hope you can observe Rudy’s performance more to strengthen yourself. I always hope and think that you can become the key man of the team, come on!”

Chen Feng nodded and went back to the bench to high-five his teammates, then sat down on the seat and observed Rudy's running and passing. Rudy's performance was still the same as before. As his cooperation with Geiger became better and better, Hoffenheim's midfield gradually began to show dominance, which was different from when Chen Feng was on the field before.

In fact, Chen Feng has been observing Rudy's performance all the time. Since he was transferred to the first team, Rudy has been his best learning object. However, when observing Rudy from the sidelines, he always feels that Rudy's passing, receiving and doing everything is not difficult. If he is in this position, he can also do it.

(End of this chapter)