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Marin personally tricked Ferman and scored a penalty kick. Schalke U19 fell behind 0:1 in the away game.

Strictly speaking, there is no problem with the referee's penalty. Japa's deliberate stepping on the feet of the supporting legs is indeed quite harmful. If it is in the first-team arena, especially in some focus matches of the five major leagues and the UEFA Champions League, the referee may consider the viewing pleasure of the game and show a yellow card and give a verbal warning to calm things down, but the youth league has zero tolerance for such fouls . This is also the purpose of the German Football Association to protect young players and try to avoid injuries that may threaten their future careers at this stage.

Even though Jappa's original intention of this action was not malicious, but the price of his defying the law was so cruel.

Jappa walked off the field with an aggrieved face. Elgort was still trying to comfort him, but when he turned his face, he changed into an unattractive expression. Obviously, Jappa was sent off suddenly, which disrupted his plan. . The lack of a key defensive midfielder forced him to use substitutions early to fill this loophole.

In his 4-3-3 formation, the relatively backward defensive midfielder in the three midfielders is very critical. It is not only the barrier in front of the central defender, but also the hub that initiates the transition from defense to offense in the first place. In other words, this position has high requirements for the comprehensive strength of players' offensive and defensive balance.

And such a player, even a big youth player like Schalke, does not have many reserves. Last season, Jappa was the absolute main force in this position. His substitute was a U17 French echelon, but Elgert found that the player might have outstanding talent in Schalke's peers, so his personality Somewhat arrogant. Because of this, Elgort has been afraid to use him, and this season he has directly returned him to the U17 echelon.

Elgort can be safely arranged by the club in the U19 echelon of the first-team reserve army for 20 years. An important reason is that Elgort adheres to the training concept of be a man first, then play football, not only teaching players to play on the pitch In terms of skills and tactics, he pays more attention to inspiring young players to think about football. At the same time, Elgort attaches great importance to the development of young players' team awareness. Conversely, this is why Zhou Tiancheng's lack of self-confidence character may not be pleasing in the eyes of other radical youth training coaches, but Elgort admires Zhou Tiancheng very much.

In a word he once said, Schalke has never lacked talent, and the future of the club is the leadership star who is capable and willing to contribute to the team!

Closer to home. At this time, Elgort scanned the bench, and was embarrassed to find that a player with the same comprehensive offensive and defensive attributes as Jappa could not find a suitable one. After much deliberation, only Zhou Tiancheng was a more suitable choice.

It stands to reason that Elgort, as the head coach, hesitates to command on the spot is a taboo, but he is really worried that Zhou Tiancheng will be ordered in the face of danger, and he will play a new position in actual combat with only one week of contact time. I am afraid that he lacks psychological preparation. Elgort worried that his impatience might backfire.

Elgort first rushed to the court to make a gesture, and then Hewedes pretended to fall to the ground and was injured after a collision, forcing the game to be suspended and winning valuable time for the coaching staff to discuss countermeasures.

Norbert, what to do now? the assistant asked, and at the same time gave advice: I don't think it is the right time to let Zhou try to play as a midfielder. Borussia is one of our competitors.

I have to say that the assistant is still very responsible, and specially reminded Elgort not to use such critical games for experiments.

Elgort circled around the coach's bench twice, and finally chose to take a step back temporarily: Maybe let Zhou Shang try it, it's not suitable for him to play as a defensive midfielder, but he is a central defender. Change to three central defenders, stabilize the defense first.

When Zhou Tiancheng received the order to play, he was in a daze. It was his turn so soon?

For the first time, Zhou Tiancheng clapped hands with every teammate on the bench before preparing to play.

But when they met Jiang Hao's palms, the two hugged, and Zhou Tiancheng encouraged him: Sooner or later, you will have a chance.

Brother Cheng, come on!

Jiang Hao's simple words of encouragement made Zhou Tiancheng smile sincerely.

Four minutes later, Zhou Tiancheng replaced the starting striker and ushered in his debut in the German Youth League in his old position.

Borussia Mönchengladbach keenly saw this change in substitutions, and their head coach reacted quite quickly. Marin, who commanded the right wing, switched positions to the team's left wing, focusing on attacking the area where Zhou Tiancheng was located.

Borussia Borussia U19's head coach saw Zhou Tiancheng's Asian face very unfamiliar. He guessed that he had just transferred from a lower age group or from another team. Naturally, he wanted to bully the novice and open a gap from Zhou Tiancheng's side. . Now that they have just taken advantage of the number of people on the field, it is a good time to strike while the iron is hot and turn the advantage into a victory.

The tactics of this Borussia U19 team are mainly based on Marin's running position, and naturally the two will face each other directly soon.

Two minutes later, the opponent took advantage of the number of players in the midfield to pass consecutive passes, and then suddenly passed a diagonal pass directly between Zhou Tiancheng and Matip. Suddenly, the restricted area was extremely dangerous!

Zhou Tiancheng's reaction was excellent. When the ball rolled past his left foot, although he was surprised, his first reaction as a defender was very good, and he quickly completed the turn, but it was too late to take another step across. He saw Marin was already swinging his legs, so he stretched out his thighs directly to block the shooting line.

But he didn't expect that this was just a false move. What the opponent wanted was for him to throw the shovel and lose his defensive position. Marin took advantage of the situation and dunked the ball lightly, and instantly dodged the shooting angle.

Hewedes and Matip had no idea that Zhou Tiancheng would be passed so easily. Although they made up for it in time, they couldn't stop the opponent from kicking.

Fortunately, Fellman concentrated his attention and flew to save the ball with one palm.

Hewedes walked over to pull Zhou Tiancheng up, and said encouragingly: It's okay, don't pay too much attention, there is a process.

Zhou Tiancheng nodded, feeling quite aggrieved. Although Hewedes didn't care about his words, Zhou Tiancheng still read a trace of dissatisfaction in his eyes. It seems to be doubting whether he is only good at playing tricks, and will not be useful when it comes to official competitions.

In fact, Zhou Tiancheng himself knew that he was still too immature in this arena. Just now, Marin's fake shot and real dunk action was too concealed, and college players would never have such awareness and skills.

It was only after the actual combat that I realized that newcomers would have to pay tuition fees after all.

Fortunately, Fehrman made up for his big mistake by himself just now, so the tuition fee is not too expensive.

But Zhou Tiancheng faintly felt that although everything is difficult at the beginning, his first show should not go like this. Since the coach is willing to give this opportunity, he must show his value on the court...

PS: Thanks to the book friend Lonely all for the reward of 2000 starting coins. I forgot to send it in the morning. I have received the most rewards since I entered the work. Full of motivation.