On October 3, in the second round of the Champions League group stage, Schalke 04 faced the challenge of French champion Montpellier at home.
Schalke played very actively. Montpellier was suppressed from the beginning, but several consecutive shots failed to hit the goal frame.
In the 13th minute, Kabea broke through the middle and scored the ball. Fana stopped the ball on the left side of the penalty area and then moved inside to get into space. He curled the ball with his right foot into the far corner from 17 meters away.
Montpellier's first shot was successful, 0-1.
In the 26th minute, Huntelaar received a pass from Yang Feng in the midfield and went straight into the middle. Draxler quickly moved forward, passed goalkeeper Jourdeland and shot into the empty goal, 1-1.
In the second half, the game changed sides and Schalke suffered a heavy blow shortly after the start.
Draxler broke through the middle and broke into the penalty area. He passed two people and was about to take off when facing the goalkeeper, but Bocaly tripped him from behind.
What was even worse was that Druid collided with Jourdeland when he landed and was quickly carried off the field on a stretcher.
The referee awarded a penalty kick and sent off Bocaly with a direct red card. Huntelaar steadily shot the football into the right side of the goal, 2-1.
Schalke, who had the numerical advantage, controlled the overall situation, but unfortunately they could not score. Before the end of the game, Tanang, who came on as a substitute, made a counterattack in the center of the penalty area, and Kamara scored with a curved ball. The two sides shook hands with each other at 2-2.
In another match in the same group, Arsenal defeated Olympiacos 3-1 at home and ranked first in the group with 6 points.
Draxler was diagnosed with a fracture of his left forearm after examination at the hospital that night and will be sidelined for a month.
Three days later, in the seventh round of the Bundesliga, Schalke 04 faced Wolfsburg coached by former coach Magath at home.
Draxler's hand fracture has not healed, Papadopoulos was unable to play due to chickenpox, and Farfan sprained his foot in training and had to be exempted from the game. Schalke 04 attacked with the remaining lineup, and finally relied on Labor Er opened the scoring and Yang Feng's pass and shot tied the opponent 3-3.
The moment Yang Feng scored, the system that had been silent for three games suddenly rang.
"You score the 50th goal of your career and you will be awarded one point. Current points: 11"
"Yang Feng scored 18 goals in the league last season and 16 goals in the Europa League. This season, he scored hat tricks in the German Super Cup and European Super Cup, with a total of 6 goals. He scored 1 goal in the Champions League and the league has already played. Scored 9 goals, exactly 50 goals. He is also the fastest player to reach 50 goals in the history of Schalke 04..."
Many Schalke 04 fans at the scene excitedly waved the cardboard in their hands with 50 clearly written on it.
Among the other two teams ranked in the top three, Frankfurt failed to take the opportunity to open up the score and was defeated by Borussia Monchengladbach 0-2, moving from first place to third place. Bayern lost to Borisov 1-3 in the Champions League. However, they defeated Hoffenheim 2-0 in the league and returned to first place in the rankings.
October 20th, Ruhr Derby.
"This is the first time the two sides have met in the league this season, but it is the second Ruhr derby. The first time was the German Super Cup at the beginning of the season, when Schalke 04 went 4-4 with Yang Feng's hat trick. 2 beat Dortmund to win the title.”
"Both sides have been in bad shape recently. After a crazy cross-season winning streak, Schalke 04 first lost 1-2 to Dusseldorf, and then suffered two consecutive draws in the Champions League and the league. It was even more unlucky. Draxler on the left wing continued to be absent due to injury, but fortunately Farfan returned in time and started."
"Defending champion Dortmund let go of midfielder Shinji Kagawa and brought back Reus, the pride of youth training, but they lost the style of last season. They first lost the German Super Cup, and then only scored 10 points in the past seven league games. After three victories, the results of 3 wins, 3 draws and 1 loss were slightly behind Schalke, which had 5 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss..."
"In terms of players, Yang Feng finally stopped scoring goals in the Champions League, but his scoring in the league continues, having scored in 11 consecutive games, while Dortmund's leading striker Lewandowski has only scored in two league games so far. goals, Royce has scored 2 goals, but the combined number of goals between the two is not as many as Yang Feng, because he has scored 9 goals in 7 league games..."
Schalke 04 just had two draws with Montpellier and Wolfsburg, and the opposite side was similar. They tied with Manchester City 1-1 in the Champions League, and they just drew 1-1 with Hannover 96 in the league. Big brother is not smiling. Brother, everyone has each other.
"We can't go on like this!" Stevens said, "We are now second in the league. Doesn't that sound great? But we haven't won in three games..."
Hewedes said: "Boss, you don't need to mobilize to beat Dortmund!"
"Okay! I believe in you, and I hope you won't let me down!"
"We must win! We must win! We must win!"
When they came to the players' tunnel, Yang Feng hugged Royce and said, "I heard that you are doing well recently?"
"It depends on who you are competing with," Royce shook his head and lamented, "Scoring in eleven consecutive games, how did you do it?"
Yang Feng emphasized with regret: "It's the league."
"It's pretty much the same."
The two shook hands again and said, "Come on."
"Dortmund coach Klopp unexpectedly changed his formation to 3-3-2-2, with Sven Bender dropping back as a sweeper, Piszczek and Grosskreutz on the wings, Reus moving forward and Leicester Wandowski formed a double forward, with Gotze, Schmelzer and Błaszczykovski all missing due to injuries.
Goalkeeper: 1 Weidenfeller;
Defenders: 4 Subotic, 6 Sven Bender, 15 Hummels;
Midfielder: 26 Piszczek, 5 Kyle (c), 19 Grosskreutz;
Forward: 7 Laettner, 14 Perisic;
Forwards: 9 Lewandowski, 11 Reus.
Schalke has not changed much. Hildebrand, who has recovered from injury, replaced Feuermann on the bench. Onnerstaal continued to start. The most surprising thing is Yang Feng. Because Draxler has not recovered from his injury, Yang Maple will appear on the left wing in this game instead of his more familiar center position.
Goalkeeper: 36 Onner Starr;
Defenders: 22 Uchida Atsuto, 4 Hwedes (c), 32 Matip, 23 Fuchs;
Midfielder: 12 Heger, 17 Farfan, 9 Yang Feng;
Forwards: 10 Holtby, 25 Huntelaar, 7 Raul. "
There are main players on both sides injured, but relatively speaking, Dortmund, who lost Gotze and Schmelzer, was worse than Schalke, who only lacked Draxler.
It can be seen from Klopp's emergency change of formation in the derby that Dortmund is obviously not having an easy time now. It was originally when his illness was killing him. Unfortunately, Schalke seems to have encountered some problems recently. The results of one loss and two draws were indeed much worse than at the beginning of the season, giving everyone the feeling that they and Dortmund were inseparable brothers. However, only Schalke's players understood that they actually had no problems at all.
In the loss to Dusseldorf, I didn’t expect this newly promoted team to be so cunning. They were able to score two goals against them at the Veltins Stadium in 50 minutes. As for Montpellier and Wolfsburg, although they were both It was a draw, but Schalke scored a total of five goals in the two games. With such firepower, I can only blame the defense for being too stretched, but Schalke's defense is just like that. Not used to it.
Dortmund's recent form has been sluggish, but the enthusiasm of the fans remains the same, and the loud roars have been filling people's ears before the game even started.
I don’t know when it started, but Yang Feng has become the final player of Schalke 04, and naturally he also withstood the biggest boos from the opposing fans.
A bunch of voices were mixed together noisily, and it was impossible to make out what they were shouting. Anyway, it was probably not a good thing.
But I didn’t do anything good by coming here, so it’s even.
The two teams started a fierce battle after the opening, but Dortmund did not seem to adapt to the new formation and had no threat in attack. However, Schalke was playing well and quickly entered the state.
Klopp reduced one defender and stacked five midfielders. The purpose was naturally to improve midfield control. However, he failed to gain any obvious advantage against Schalke's three midfielders. Instead, he was defeated. Leading the way, I was exhausted for the first twenty minutes of the game.
Those who win the midfield win the world, that's all. Which of the three front, middle and back lines is unimportant? Even if there is a focus, it is just based on the characteristics of the players and the opponent's situation. What's more, Klopp's 3-3-2-2 failed to gain control of the midfield at all, but was suppressed.
To be more precise, he was suppressed by Yang Feng.
Farfan, who has returned from injury, is almost a decoration, while Heger focuses on interception in the midfield. Yang Feng is almost the only one driving the offensive in the midfield.
Compared to being at the front, playing on the wing is undoubtedly a better way to take advantage of Yang Feng's dribbling advantage. He made the entire left wing uneasy.
"Yang is here again, still with the outer instep. Poor Grosskreutz, he is like a puppet in front of Yang..."
Of course, it was an exaggeration, but Grosskreutz was indeed shaken badly by Yang Feng's fast and fancy continuous cycling.
He used Quaresma's agility, Isco's dribbling, and Recoba's ball sense. However, because he specially put Quaresma's star card on the system dribbling column for training, he himself When using cycling skills, some of Quaresma's characteristics have been brought into play, and when combined with Isco's dribbling skills, after being integrated, it means that 1+1 is greater than 2.
As soon as Grosskreutz was stunned by Kyle, he came over to cover the defense, and it was an extremely unkind and fierce sliding tackle.
Yang Feng suddenly stopped and changed direction, dodging narrowly again.
After passing two people, Yang Feng didn't show off anymore, but passed the ball to Raul in the middle.
Raul quickly took the ball and transferred it to the feet of Uchida Atsushi on the other side.
Faced with Piszczek's defense, Uchida Atsuhito actually imitated Yang Feng and pedaled a bicycle, and he did so in a decent manner. Unfortunately, he looked very similar but not in spirit. In the end, Piszczek saw through it and kicked the ball out. border.
Atsuto Uchida went out to serve, but found that the closest teammates had been closely guarded. He was about to throw it as far as possible into the front court, but found Yang Feng suddenly running over from the right side of the court.
When he moved, Grosskreutz could only follow suit.
The two ran to the middle one after another, and Uchida Atsuhito quickly threw the ball in front of Yang Feng.
Yang Feng slowed down, and Grosskreutz was about to press closely, but Yang Feng suddenly ducked and let the football fly over his head.
When Grosskreutz reacted, the football had already flown past him on the left side of his body. Yang Feng went around the other side of his body and got the football behind him.
Kyle seemed to have expected that Grosskreutz would not be able to deal with Yang Feng, so he pressed forward the moment Yang Feng caught the ball. However, Yang Feng predicted his prediction. When he touched the ball, he pulled the ball and turned around, using a shot The silky Marseille slalom escaped him.
"Schalke 04's sideline ball, Uchida Atsuto threw the ball to Yang Feng...beautiful! The imaginative back-up pass passed...be careful with Kyle...Marseille's spin, passed..."
Once again passing Grosskreutz and Kyle, Yang Feng continued to pass the ball to Raul, while he walked leisurely towards Dortmund's penalty area.
Raul's condition this season is actually not very good, but he has begun to pick up recently. He flexibly dodged Laettner's press and then cooperated with Farfan in a small area to advance the ball.
Holtby, who finally got the chance to start, moved very aggressively and immediately retreated to respond. The football was slowly penetrated into Dortmund's penalty area like a dull knife cutting flesh.
Dortmund's three defenders blocked the goal like a wall. Huntelaar, who had the ball, had no choice but to kick the ball hard as if out of anger and shoot the ball to the left side of the goal.
The football hit Sven Bender's calf and bounced out.
Klopp on the sidelines just breathed a sigh of relief, but the next second the hair on his body stood up.
"Why is he there?!"
The Dortmund players on the bench hugged their heads at the same time, and many Hornet fans in the stands did the same thing.
Yang Feng actually didn't know how the football came to his feet inexplicably.
Although he plays as a left midfielder, he has been wandering around in all areas of the frontcourt. Just now, a Buddha-like movement somehow ended up in the small penalty area, and the football came to his feet without knowing why.
Hummels reacted the fastest. As soon as the football came to Yang Feng, he already stretched out his foot to poke it.
Yang Feng stepped sideways and pulled the ball, letting him pass easily.
Sven Bender, who "passed" the ball to Yang Feng, quickly came to the rescue and performed a rather rough sweeping kick.
Yang Feng stepped and pulled again like a conditioned reflex, and did the Marseille pirouette again.
The audience in the stands were collectively speechless.
You know how to do this, right?
If you don't faint, we will all faint.
Similar complaints flashed through his heart, but what came out of his mouth were various exclamations of unknown meaning.
Because after continuously pulling the ball and turning around, only goalkeeper Weidenfeller was left in front of Yang Feng.
"Yang Feng...the slalom of Marseille! It's passed! Sven Bender...it's the slalom of Marseille again?! Oops, it's passed again, single-handedly?!"
Weidenfeller kept following Yang Feng with his eyes, and immediately fell to the ground and pounced after he passed Bender.
This move is called the evil dog pounces on food in martial arts.
As soon as Yang Feng stood firm, he saw a dark figure rushing towards him. He immediately pulled the ball back with his right foot, and while turning around, he knocked the ball back with his left heel...
The football rolled into the goal in disgrace.
The Signal Iduna Park stadium, which was as lively as thunder a second ago, immediately fell into a brief pause, and then all kinds of exclamations, shouts and whispers started.
After Yang Feng scored the ball, he did not immediately run to celebrate. Instead, he stood there and shook his head, looking confused.
Duan Xuan was almost crazy with excitement.
"The ball went in! Yang Feng passed Hummels, Sven Bender and Weidenfeller, and kicked the ball into Dortmund's goal with his back heel... Well, should this shot be called a Marseille spin hat trick?"
"Yang, passed! Passed! Passed again? gooooooooollll!!!! An artistic goal! Elegance never goes out of style! This is a goal that makes even Zidane jump when he sees it! Three consecutive goals Marseille spin! I have only seen this scene with Zidane, but there were three consecutive Marseille spins in the penalty area, and the last one went directly past the goalkeeper. Sorry, I have never heard of it... Well, maybe someone Have you ever done that in a football game?"
"You score the first goal for the team in the derby and are awarded one point. Current points: 12"
"You have completed a difficult and effective breakthrough with the ball, and you will be awarded one point. Current points: 13"
－－－－－－Digression－－－－－
As I said before, this book doesn’t have an outline. I haven’t decided where the second stop will be, but it’s nothing more than La Liga and the Premier League. In fact, I would prefer La Liga. It would be more fun to go head-to-head with Melo when he was at his peak. A little, but after Real Madrid and Barcelona, I really can’t think of any more popular teams in La Liga. Forget it, Atletico Madrid...
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