Chapter 109 Superstar treatment!

In the hospital, Arnautovich had woken up.

After examination, the doctor determined that he was in a temporary coma caused by concussion and needed to stay in the hospital for observation for a period of time.

This disease requires rest, and until the doctor is sure that he has completely recovered, he cannot engage in strenuous exercise, otherwise it will aggravate the condition.

This will cause him to miss at least a month of games. Fortunately, the winter break is coming and they only have one German Cup game to play in this month.

This is a blessing in misfortune for Werder Bremen.

However, their opponent in this German Cup match is Bayern Munich.

In the absence of the main center, Werder Bremen's chances of winning may be even lower.

"Werder Bremen are so unlucky. Not only did they draw the most powerful opponent in the Bundesliga, they also received the bad news before the game that their main center forward was injured and retired. This will probably cause a lot of damage to this game. unfavorable."

Before the game, various commentators were not very optimistic that Werder Bremen could win away from home.

Originally, their strength was not as good as their opponents, and now their main center is injured.

What's even more unfavorable is that the third round of the German Cup starts just four days after the league.

In the seventeenth round, Bayern Munich played two days earlier than Werder Bremen, which means that the opponent has more rest time to adjust their condition and restore their physical fitness.

This is completely the opposite of Werder Bremen's previous situation of waiting for work to deal with Bayern. Now they are about to suffer a physical crisis.

In the sixth round of the league, Werder Bremen was able to draw with Bayern Munich at home. A large part of the reason was because Bayern had to conserve energy for three days of Champions League competition.

In that game, they exhausted Bayern so much that Bayern Munich, which was fighting on the third front, almost collapsed.

After Bayern was tied with Werder Bremen in the away game, they had to drag their exhausted bodies to Belarus. As a result, they were beaten 3:1 by BATE Borisov, the weakest player in the group, and lost the season. The only game in the Champions League.

Since then, Bayern has paid more attention to the team's rotation. In every game, it will try its best to take care of the players' physical fitness and reasonably arrange the order of rotation.

So far, in the third-line battle, the physical problems of Bayern players have not exploded. On the contrary, because a large number of substitute players have gained playing time, the power of their bench has begun to show.

The saying that you are not afraid of the Bayern Tigers, just afraid of Bayern being on the bench, has begun to become a terrifying reality.

How to deal with the current Bayern team, which is getting stronger and stronger, has become a headache for Werder Bremen's coaching staff.

At the same time, on Bayern's side, their coaching staff is also discussing how to limit Werder Bremen's offensive system in the frontcourt.

"Werder Bremen's overall strength is not strong. What is strong is these two points of their team. As long as De Bruyne and Lin Quan are locked up, they can lock up more than half of their offensive firepower, or even completely abolish it. Their offensive capabilities!”

Assistant coach Grande drew Werder Bremen's usual offensive tactics on the tactical board, and gave methods that he thought could destroy or limit the opponent's offensive tactics:

"De Bruyne's physical fitness is weak and his confrontation ability is not strong. We only need a defensive midfielder with strong sweeping ability and sufficient physical fitness to lock him down!"

"We just have two and a half of such people - Martinez and Gustavo. If necessary, we can also let Tymošchuk come on and mark De Bruyne full-time!"

Another assistant coach Herman said:

"I agree with your suggestion of marking De Bruyne, but Werder Bremen also has Lin in the frontcourt!"

"Even if we restrict De Bruyne, we may not be able to completely restrict the opponent's organization and offense. Don't forget, when De Bruyne is absent, Lin Quan is responsible for Werder Bremen's frontcourt organization. It’s all taken care of, he also has excellent offensive organizing skills!”

“I certainly haven’t forgotten that, and that’s what I’m going to cover next!”

Heynckes rubbed his stubble with his hand and watched the argument between the two assistant coaches with interest.

Grande glanced at Heynckes and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the encouraging look in his eyes.

He erased the content on the tactical board, redrawn the drawing, and marked the areas where Lin Quan habitually moved in the frontcourt, as well as his most commonly used offensive methods.

"If you want to limit Lin Quan's offense, a single defender will definitely not work. His footwork is too fast and his dribbling ability is too strong. Big defenders cannot keep up with his rhythm and will easily be passed by him."

Everyone nodded in unison. In the two games between the Telecom Cup and the league, their back line was tortured by this guy.

Central defender Dante was almost out for the season. His knee injury took more than three months to recover.

The young defender Boateng was also humiliated by Lin Quan several times, which caused his self-confidence to be severely damaged, and his performance this season was not as good as before.

This guy is simply a nightmare for Bayern defenders!

If you want to talk about the entire league, who do Bayern's defenders least want to encounter.

Then they will definitely choose Lin Quan!

"To limit Lin Quan's offense, we need to use targeted tactics to limit him, just like limiting superstars like Messi and Ronaldo!"

Grande picked up the remote control, turned on the TV, and pulled out a game between Real Madrid and Barcelona in La Liga.

"Look at the methods Mourinho's team uses to limit Messi:

Limit Messi's activity space! "

Everyone became serious. As the player who has the most similar style to Lin Quan, the methods used to deal with Messi can naturally be used to deal with Lin Quan.

And Mourinho is a master in this regard, there is no shame in learning from him.

"Lin Quan is used to moving on the right, but in the frontcourt, his range of movement is not fixed, which will cause the players defending him to easily lose their position and lead to loopholes in the defense.

To solve this problem, we need to build a dam between the midfielder and the defense to lock his range of activities.

The specific method is to let our left back closely mark Lin Quan and follow him wherever he goes.

As for the problem of the left back losing his defensive position during marking, this allows our left midfielder to retreat and temporarily fill the left back position.

Our purpose is simple, we must not let Lin Quan easily penetrate into the dangerous zone between our midfielder and the back line.

This place is only one line of defense away from the goal. As long as he completes the breakthrough, our goal will be under a huge threat! "

Herman frowned: "According to your method, wouldn't our defensive players still be in one-on-one?"

Grande smiled and circled the left lower back:

"Here is our left midfielder, here is our center back, here is our left back, and here is the left midfielder who retreats to cover. If Lin Quan is active on the wing, then the only one guarding him is the left back.

But once he leaves his position and dribbles towards the center, he will immediately be surrounded by four of our players.

As long as our left midfielder can control the area around him, we can build an unbreakable prison for Lin Quan who rushes in with the ball and trap him here! "

Heynckes' eyes lit up, this old guy Grande has two brushes!

"In this way, the most important things in our defense are the midfielders and midfielders."

Heynckes is already thinking about which players are suitable for this tactic.

Javi Martinez will definitely play. He is the player with the strongest defensive ability in Bayern's defensive midfielder.

But having one Martinez is not enough, they also need to limit the opponent's De Bruyne.

This means that they also need a defensive midfielder with excellent defensive capabilities, and that can only be Gustavo.

But with these two players, the defensive midfielder's organizational ability will drop significantly.

As the organizer of the backcourt, should Kroos be put in and change the formation to 4321?

…

Bayern's bench is too thick, causing Heynckes to still worry about not being able to play a certain player.

Werder Bremen doesn't have this problem at all. Instead, they are worried about the lack of a suitable main center.

“Put Phil Krueger in, or move Hunter up?”

Phil Kruger, like Arnautovic, is also a center, but his ability is weaker than Arnautovic, and he is not as threatening as Arnautovic in the penalty area.

Hunter's advantage is that he is fast, but he is not tall enough. If he is placed at the center position, it will be too easy for Bayern's defenders.

If he is allowed to play, Werder Bremen may not have the fulcrum in the frontcourt.

Very worried!

I don’t have much available materials at hand, so I have to make do with what I have!

In the end, Schaff chose Phil Kruger, who came from his own youth training.

His ability to act as a fulcrum in the frontcourt to help his teammates with the ball is pretty good. If the threat in the penalty area is small, the threat should be small. We have Lin Quan and De Bruyne as two scoring points, so there should be no need to worry about his scoring ability.

…

Time soon came to December 18, the third round match day of the German Cup.

This is the last game before the Bundesliga winter break. Many teams that have been eliminated before have already taken an early vacation after the league.

Because the winter break is approaching, the wealthy clubs who want to come to the Bundesliga to recruit people have sent many scouts to the scene to watch the game.

Among them, the most watched one is the strong showdown between Werder Bremen and Bayern Munich.

Due to his outstanding performance after loaning to Werder Bremen this season, De Bruyne has attracted the attention of Chelsea Club.

In addition to George Evans, who had been following and observing him before this game, Chelsea Club's senior scout Peter de Visser also came to the Allianz Arena.

"Kevin's performance in recent games has been very good since he returned from injury."

"He currently ranks first in the Bundesliga's assists list and has scored 8 goals in half a season. After a whole season, it should be a certainty that he will have more than 20 assists and more than 10 goals!"

George reported his work to the seniors on the team with excitement. When the club sent such a senior senior, he must have already planned to recall De Bruyne, right?

As a scout who has watched De Bruyne grow and become stronger, he feels very honored!

However, after his report, De Visser's reaction was very cold, and he seemed not to care about De Bruyne's data.

On the contrary, when he saw the No. 10 player wearing a green jersey on the field, his eyes lit up, he pointed at his back and asked:

"Is that the Messi of the Bundesliga?"