Football: Invincible starting from krypton gold

Chapter 57 German Super Cup 2
"On the other hand, Mainz's starting lineup has changed a lot compared to last season. The formation is still the familiar 4213 formation. The goalkeeper Wiese has just transferred over this summer. The four defenders are Boncourt, Van der Meyden, Brosinski, Annick, Knight and Albertini as the double midfielders. The two wingers are Chen Xiao and Baonovic. It is said to be their strongest lineup, but the actual combat power remains to be tested in the game." After Yang Chen introduced Bayern's formation, Huang Jianxiang introduced Mainz's formation.

"As we said just now, since the game hasn't started yet, let's take a look at what to watch in this game, how about it?"

"Okay, what, why don't I come first? If you want to talk about the highlights, I think the first one should be revenge. Last season, Bayern was eliminated from the German Cup by Mainz, who was still in the second division at that time. It should be a game that made Bayern lose face, so I think revenge is the first thing to watch in this game."

"Well, I agree with this point. This is also a topic that the German Football Association has been hyping up a few days before the game. The second thing to watch is the promotional photo of the new season launched on Mainz's official website half a month ago. This photo shows Chinese player Chen Xiao firmly in the C position. This photo has also been wildly spread and analyzed by the media. Many people are saying that Chen Xiao does not yet have the core ability to become a Bundesliga team, so this game is also an opportunity for Chen Xiao to prove himself." Huang Jianxiang said.

While the two people in the studio were still analyzing the highlights of the game for the fans, the players from both sides also walked out of the locker room and walked into the stadium under the leadership of the referee.

The German Football Association still attaches great importance to this game. The referee for this game today is Pikel. He is a member of the German Football Association Referee Committee.

After both sides got the opponent's starting lineup, Klopp clearly saw Heathfield's intentions from Bayern Munich's starting lineup. Bayern wanted to take advantage of Mainz's personnel changes on the left side in the new season to focus on the line of Paulovic and Annick. It is still unclear how Bayern arranged for Chen Xiao's point, but Klopp believes that Bayern will definitely make some targeted arrangements.

When Hitzfeld saw Mainz's starting lineup, he also smiled. In fact, Mainz's starting lineup was in his expectation. After all, Mainz is a small club.

Before the game, there is a short ceremony, after the ceremony performance.

With Picker's whistle, the German Super Cup officially started.

Mainz kicked off first, and Chen Xiao and Dopoulos kicked off in the midfield. After hearing the referee's whistle, Chen Xiao passed the football pointed out by Dopoulos from the center circle to Albertini. Then Chen Xiao, Dopoulos, and Bonovic inserted directly into Bayern's frontcourt.

With the experience of defeating Bayern last season, the players of Mainz are no longer too nervous facing Bayern as they were last season, and the awe of facing giants in their hearts is very normal.

In the locker room of the team before the game, Klopp once said: "Bayern is not too strong to be defeated. Now you are only at home. This season we have to go out. We will face stronger opponents than Bayern in the future. You will even meet your idols on the court. So as long as we maintain the awe of every opponent in our hearts, maintain a normal heart in our actions, and the most important point, wouldn’t it be a wonderful thing to defeat our idols on the football field?"

After the opening, although Mainz pressed their formation a little bit forward, Mainz did not choose to attack at the beginning, so after the kick-off, Mainz’s midfielder and backcourt fell to each other under the guidance of Albertini. Seeing that Mainz was still falling, Bayern forward Santa Cruz chose to press forward, but Santa Cruz’s defense did not put any pressure on players like Albertini who was taking the ball. After observing Santa Cruz’s action, Albertini suddenly made a long pass , in the eyes of everyone at the scene, the football flew towards Chen Xiao's right side like a missile.

Facing the flying football, when Chen Xiao judged the landing point, Bayern's defense also came. Lizarazu directly stuck to Chen Xiao, and there were a lot of small movements in his hands.

Although Chen Xiao, who was tightly pressed by Lizarazu, was a little uncomfortable by the opponent's small movements, Chen Xiao did not panic. Facing the incoming ball, Chen Xiao showed his world-class stopping technique to the fans. Chen Xiao stretched out his right foot pad to the flying football, and the ball stuck to Chen Xiao's foot like glue. While turning around, he used his elbow to push Lizarazu with his left hand as if unintentionally. It was this that made Lizarazu very uncomfortable, and thus lost the opportunity. However, the experienced Lizarazu directly pulled Chen Xiao to the ground when he saw that Chen Xiao was about to complete the breakthrough.

At the signal of the linesman, Piquel blew Lizarazu's foul and awarded a free kick.

Chen Xiao, who was pulled up by his teammates, shook his head and smiled. He didn't expect Lizarazu to foul so decisively.

On the other side, Lizarazu was also staring at Chen Xiao. He was still hurting from being hit by Chen Xiao. He didn't expect Chen Xiao, who was only 17 years old, to play football so dirty.In fact, these moves were learned by Chen Xiao and Albertini's new players during the training camp this season. Although they are dirty, they are very effective.

The fans at the scene also burst into loud voices. Fans on both sides of the referee's penalty turned towards their teams. Today's Volkswagen Stadium is almost full. Looking around, Bayern fans accounted for about 5% of the seats, while Mainz nearly 3% of the seats, and the rest were local Wolfsburg fans.However, although Mainz has fewer fans than Bayern, the momentum that erupted is not much smaller than that of Bayern.

(End of this chapter)