Chapter 124 Are you the third person in the world?

"Götze is indeed back!"

Seeing the opponent's starting lineup, Coach Schaaf sighed, and the last trace of luck in his heart was completely shattered.

"It's good that Gotze is back, lest we win against Dortmund and the outside world thinks we can't win!"

Seeing the lively Gotze in the opponent's formation, Lin Quan turned his head and said to De Bruyne:

"When you face Dortmund players later, use the trick I taught you!"

"Well, don't worry, I'll surprise them!"

De Bruyne nodded heavily, already a little eager to try.

At 19:30, the referee blew his whistle.

The last game of this round of German Cup is also the focus of the game. Werder Bremen VS Dortmund officially begins!

After the opening, Dortmund used fierce pressing and fast running to attack Werder Bremen's defense as usual.

A month ago, they had just used this tactic to complete their revenge against Werder Bremen in the league, which made the entire Dortmund team full of confidence.

They feel that they have found a way to limit Werder Bremen's offense. As long as they freeze the opponent's twin stars and then continuously attack the opponent's defense, the opponent will surrender before halftime.

They used this method last time to win the game in this arena, and they beat their opponents with a score of 5:2.

With Royce absent this time, the team's offensive firepower may be slightly lacking, but scoring two or three goals should be no problem.

Can Werder Bremen's tofu-like defense be able to stop their attack?

impossible things!

In the first ten minutes of the game, the situation on the field has always been that Dortmund launched a siege on Werder Bremen's goal.

Their tactics of frantic pressing and high-speed running are really unexplainable. Even if they were prepared before, on the field, after the opponent accelerated, Werder Bremen's players still couldn't keep up with the opponent's rhythm.

However, after learning from the previous failure, Werder Bremen made targeted adjustments in this game.

When defending, they arranged a player to specifically restrict the opponent's midfield organizer and prevent the opponent from easily passing the threatening ball.

Dortmund has two organizers, Gundogan in the backcourt and Gotze in the frontcourt.

Gundogan's position is on the midfielder. The position is too deep and difficult to restrict.

Werder Bremen simply ignored him and identified Gotze as the person to focus on today.

When Gotze was near the center circle, it was De Bruyne who restricted him.

If he continues to dribble forward, Werder Bremen captain Fritz will also join the double team, forcing him to pass the ball.

This position is still far away from Werder Bremen's goal. Gotze's ability to pass and threaten the ball is not as strong as De Bruyne.

He is strong in dribbling, holding the ball and getting rid of the ability, which allows him to become an assaulter and will give full play to his advantages in sports battles.

And this happens to be what Dortmund is good at.

However, Gotze's physical confrontation ability is not strong, and his ability to threaten the ball through positional battles is not strong.

Werder Bremen can't slow down the entire Dortmund, but it can still be done by only Gotze.

In the first ten minutes of the game, although judging from the scene, Werder Bremen was very passive and was constantly being besieged by the opponent.

The fans at the scene were also very worried. Every time the opponent took a shot, they were sweating for their own team.

But on the sidelines, on the Dortmund coaching bench side.

The expression on Klopp's face was not relaxed at all, but looked very solemn.

"Götze's performance today was a bit abnormal. Could it be because the flu has not fully recovered?"

The assistant coach on the side said worriedly.

In the past ten minutes, Gotze's performance was average and nothing outstanding.

If it were an ordinary player, he would never verbally blame him, thinking that the opponent was not performing properly.

But this is not qualified for Gotze!

He is now Dortmund's number one star, how can he give such a mediocre performance on the court?

If he is not in form, then Dortmund can only rely on Lewandowski to win.

But if there is only one point, it is too defensive.

"He has recovered from the flu. The reason why he performed abnormally is because his opponent restricted him greatly, which greatly reduced his space for movement!"

The more Klopp looked, the more something was wrong, and his brows furrowed involuntarily.

Why do you feel that the playing style of Werder Bremen on the opposite side is a bit familiar, very similar to Bayern Munich?

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"Haha, I wonder if that kid Klopp has noticed our defensive tactics!"

At the home team's coaching bench, Schaff and several assistant coaches couldn't help laughing when they saw Klopp standing on the sidelines with a frown on his face.

Klopp's feeling is correct. Werder Bremen's defensive tactics were indeed learned from Bayern Munich.

In the last round of the German Cup, Bayern Munich designed a mobile cage tactic with Martinez as the core in order to limit Lin Quan's performance.

This tactic worked very well and inspired Werder Bremen a lot.

Therefore, in this game, they followed Bayern's example and adopted this tactic to target the opponent's core offense.

Didn’t the media in Dortmund call Gotze the third person in the world under Melo?

Then use the tactics used to deal with the third person in the world to deal with you!

Gotze felt that he did not play well today, and it seemed that there were not many people defending him.

But no matter where he goes, he feels like he is in an invisible cage, and almost all breakthroughs and passing directions are locked by the opponent.

And if he hesitates even a little, he will be forced by the opponent immediately.

The most annoying thing is that when pressing, the opponent also likes to engage in physical confrontation.

His physical confrontation ability is weak, not even as good as De Bruyne.

But Gotze feels that he is a technical midfielder who relies on the skills at his feet rather than his own body.

If he gains weight in order to increase his physical confrontation ability, his speed and agility attributes will decrease, which will affect his performance in offense.

But now, faced with Fritz's pressing and pushing, Gotze regretted it a little.

If your physical confrontation ability is slightly stronger, you won't be unable to hold the ball under the opponent's pressure.

Fritz once again successfully stole the ball from his feet and quickly passed it to De Bruyne who dropped back to receive the ball.

Before De Bruyne turned around after taking the ball, the Dortmund player guarding him had already rushed over.

Feeling the movement coming from behind, De Bruyne did not catch the ball, but waited for the defensive player to approach. At the moment when the opponent grabbed the ball, he used his dominant foot to cut the ball from behind the supporting foot and completed a 180-degree turn.

Due to the inertia of sprinting forward, the defensive player was unable to adjust his state in time and was easily passed by De Bruyne.

After passing the player closest to him, De Bruyne's vision was wide and no one within five meters could threaten him.

For a top passing master like De Bruyne, he can often send incredible passes when no one is interfering.

Just like now, he saw Dortmund's defensive loopholes in the second half and directly took off and sent a precise long pass of more than 40 meters.

Send the ball to the open space!

Well done!

Seeing the opponent's pass, Lin Quan praised De Bruyne in his heart, then ran wildly towards the football.

Dortmund's players were obviously aware of the danger. They quickly retreated while trying to intercept Lin Quan and compete with him for the ball.

Lin Quan's absolute speed is not very fast, but he is very explosive when he starts.

While his speed has been fully increased, Dortmund's players have just started.

The competition between the two sides was decided in the first second. Lin Quan received De Bruyne's pass before his opponent.

Seeing Lin Quan receive the ball, Werder Bremen forward Anautovic desperately squeezed into the opponent's penalty area.

Although he is not sure whether Lin Quan will pass the ball to himself, if he passes it and is not prepared, he will blame himself to death.

Dortmund's defender originally didn't think this silly big man was a threat, but now he saw him running around in the penalty area so actively, and he felt a little excited:

Could it be that the opponent's No. 10 would pass the ball to this stupid big guy?

No way?

Just when he thought this, Lin Quan, who was dribbling the ball, glanced at Dortmund's penalty area and seemed to be looking for his forward position.

Arnautovic was excited when he saw Lin Quan looking for his position, and became more active in the physical confrontation with the defenders.

Dortmund's defenders originally didn't think Lin Quanhui would pass the ball to Arnautovic, but the opponent's glance made them feel a little less confident.

As a result, the two central defenders stared at Arnautovic, not daring to give this guy a chance to header.

In the previous encounters, Anautovic created a huge threat with headers.

If you don't brace yourself to deal with him, you might even get a header from him.

If a goal is scored by a super shooter like Lin Quan, the Dortmund defenders will not be too frustrated.

Instead, they will comfort themselves: The opponent is too strong and it is normal to be unable to guard against them. Didn't Bayern's defenders also guard against them?

However, if a big stupid guy like Arnautovic scores a goal, they will be so angry that they won't be able to sleep for several days.

Seeing Arnautovic holding down the opponent's two central defenders, Lin Quan also gave him a thumbs up in his heart:

Anautovich, well done, I will introduce you to the Chinese Super League to find gold in the future!

Without the help of the central defender, facing the defense of Dortmund's full-back, Lin Quan easily passed the opponent with only two fake moves.

Dortmund's captain Hulmez realized the danger and rushed over to intercept Lin Quan immediately.

But it's too late to make up for it at this time.

Moreover, with him gone, Arnautovich will only have one person next to him.

Lin Quan faced Hulmez's defense, used a fake move to trick the opponent into giving up his center of gravity, and then quickly passed the ball into the penalty area, and really passed the ball to Arnautovic.

Arnautovic saw that Lin Quan did not pass the ball to him immediately, and he already knew in his heart that the other party would not pass the ball to him.

However, he still did not give up his movement and demands in the penalty area, and wanted to use his efforts to provide cover for his teammates.

Unexpectedly, when he thought his teammates would not pass the ball, Lin Quan actually passed the ball.

Arnautovic, who was ill-prepared, could not directly header the ball towards the goal, so he chose to rub the football with his head and ferry the ball to the back point.

Over there, winger Elia from the other side rushed over, fell to the ground and tackled the ball before the defender could destroy it, and kicked the ball into the goal.

"Lin, I'm sorry, I wasted your wonderful pass!"

After his teammate scored the goal that should have been his own, Arnautovic seemed a little guilty and actually ran to Lin Quan to apologize to him.

"Haha, it doesn't matter. Your header assist is very beautiful. Be more prepared later and I will pass a good ball to you again!"

Lin Quan also felt that it was a pity that he was missing an assist because of Arnautovic's intrusion.

However, he was also very happy that he could seize this opportunity and let the team take the lead.

If Anautovic really chose to header the goal just now, he might not be able to break the goalkeeper's fingers.

So he didn't continue to dwell on this kind of thing. After hugging Arnautovic, he went to his teammates to hug and celebrate.

"pretty!"

Schaaf was extremely happy when he saw that the team seized this opportunity to counterattack and scored a crucial goal.

He had a hunch that neither side would score many goals in this game.

At this time, any goal is crucial. Maybe until the end of the game, the two sides will rely on this goal to decide the outcome.

The fans at the Weser Stadium were very excited after seeing this goal.

They have been besieged by Dortmund before, and they suffered a heavy defeat at home not long ago.

This made many fans feel that today's game was unlucky, but they never expected that they would be the first to score.

This made the fans breathe a sigh of relief, but they also couldn't help but start thinking about the future:

If they can win this game, then the two strongest teams in the German Cup, Bayern Munich and Dortmund, will be eliminated by them.

Among the remaining teams, none seem to be as strong as them. They seem to really have hope of winning the German Cup championship trophy!

It has been four years since Werder Bremen last won the German Cup. With the team unable to win the league title, the cup championship trophy is of great significance to them.

If they can win this trophy, not only can they end their years of embarrassment without a championship, but they can also use this trophy to directly get tickets to the Europa League.

However, the latter is not as important as the former to Werder Bremen at this time. As long as they continue to maintain their ranking in the league, Werder Bremen will be able to represent the Bundesliga in the Champions League next season and compete with many giants in the Champions League. The team competed.

When thinking about the German Cup championship trophy, the fans became nervous.

You must hold on and don't let the opponent equalize!

After falling behind, Dortmund launched a more fierce counterattack.

Bayern Munich's unexpected exit gave Dortmund hope of defending the German Cup.

The gap between them and Bayern in league points this season is too big, and they have basically failed to defend their title.

In this context, winning the German Cup is crucial to them.

Klopp's team needs enough honor to maintain the entire team and motivate the players to fight and attack more actively on the court.

If they work hard all season and end up with nothing, then the players will have doubts about their efforts over the past season.

Since you can't get anything, why do you fight so hard?

Dortmund relies on fighting spirit to defeat strong enemies. If they lose this spirit, then they will completely lose their ability to challenge Bayern.

A small Werder Bremen must not be an obstacle to prevent them from winning this trophy!

Dortmund's chariot will crush the opponent mercilessly!