Green Journey

Chapter 90 You chase after me!Werder Bremen is coming!

On February 2, Wolfsburg moved to the Bundesliga after easily winning Sporting Lisbon 22-3.

In the 22nd round of the Bundesliga, Wolfsburg's opponent is Hertha Berlin.

Hertha Berlin ushered in a three-game losing streak after the winter break. Because Dortmund defeated Mainz 4-2 in the last round, they have already fallen into the relegation zone. If they continue to lose, they may fall into the quagmire of relegation Difficult to get out of.

Dieter Heiking did not rotate in this game because Bayern was chasing too tightly.

Since losing to Wolfsburg and drawing with Schalke, Bayern has won three consecutive victories so far.

Stuttgart 20-3 away in the 0th round
The 21st round at home 8-0 Bloody Burger

In the 22nd round of the Bundesliga the day before yesterday, Bayern beat Paderborn again 7-0 away.

This consecutive big score win made the Bundesliga media shouted that the Bundesliga giants have stood up again.

Wolfsburg can also feel the huge pressure from Bayern.

Therefore, after Dieter Heiking had a meeting with the medical director and understood the physical condition of the players, he decided to continue to let Chu Zheng, De Bruyne and others start.

Dieter Hecking's caution was vindicated after the game by both the score and the facts, and Wolfsburg's form was up and down again.

Soon after the start of the first half of the game, Chu Zheng, who played Naldo's right back position, received a cross pass from Knoch in the backcourt to transfer the ball.

Chu Zheng took the ball and quickly divided sides, launching an attack from Hertha Berlin's weak defensive side.

After getting the pass from Chu Zheng, Vierinha successfully broke through the opponent's full-back one-on-one in front of the center line, and then passed a diagonal pass to Hertha Berlin's penalty area.

Schurrle's header flew to the left side of the penalty area.

Dorst stopped and shot, and easily succeeded in pushing the shot, rewriting the score to 1-0.
But it didn't take long for Wolfsburg to play with fire in the defense.

Hertha Berlin made a direct pass from the center of the attack. Sebastian Rong Mingming had already blocked the opponent's player on the outside of the penalty area. As a result, he raised his foot to take the ball but made a misjudgment, which made Hertha Berlin's midfielder Si Toque made a successful bottom pass.

Chu Zheng was caught off guard by this mistake, and could only watch helplessly as the ball was headed into the goal by Siebel, who dived to the top from behind.

Since then, Wolfsburg has played against Hertha Berlin, crossing from the wing, penetrating short passes from the ribs, and using long-range shots in turn.

However, the offense was so fierce that Hertha Berlin couldn't pass the halftime, but they still couldn't score a goal, and they didn't score when they gained momentum.

This made Wolfsburg fans very helpless and worried.

This is an old problem, a stubborn disease that is difficult to get rid of!

It wasn't until the 78th minute of the second half that Gustavo blatantly fired a high-quality shot that hit the goal post from a position more than 30 meters from the right rib, which allowed Dost, who was in hot form in front of the goal, to make a supplementary shot and helped The team narrowly beat Hertha Berlin 2-1.

After winning this game, the Wolfsburg team went to Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, to play the second round of the [-]th final against Sporting Lisbon at the Jose Alvalade Stadium.

Although Wolfsburg played with the strongest lineup in this game, Dieter Heiking's tactical strategy is to defend and counterattack.

Dieter Heiking's guess was correct.

After the start of the game, Sporting Lisbon launched a fierce attack with the advantage of the home field.

Sporting Lisbon blasted 24 shots in the whole game, and the shooting rate was 47.8%, but the goals were zero.

On the other hand, Wolfsburg is focused on defense.

There were seven counterattacks in the audience, but the goals were duck eggs, and the shooting rate was only a poor 14.7%, which almost broke the record of this season.

Chu Zheng's statistics in this game are still very dazzling.

He not only destroyed most of Portugal's offensive, but also planned two very threatening counterattacks.

It's a pity that De Bruyne, Dost and others are in bad enough away game conditions, and they staged happy football in turn.

In the end, Wolfsburg eliminated Sporting Lisbon with a total score of 3-0 and advanced to the last sixteen of the Europa League.

After returning from Lisbon, in less than three days, Wolfsburg hastily embarked on a journey to the Weser Stadium in Bremen, Germany to challenge their opponents in the 23rd round of the Bundesliga, Werder Bremen.

Bremen once fell into the relegation zone in the first half of the season, but since Dutt was fired and Skripnik took over the team, they changed their decline and began to sing forward.

After the winter break, Werder Bremen is very strong. The recent 5 rounds of the league have achieved excellent results of 4 wins, 10 draw and [-] goals.

They are currently ranked seventh in the Bundesliga standings.

It is only 04 points behind Schalke 3 in sixth and Bayer Leverkusen in fifth. This season is very promising to hit the Bundesliga European theater.

At 3:1 on March 17st, the Weser Stadium in Bremen was packed with 25 seats, and there were even fans standing in the aisle to watch.

"Domestic fans may be very familiar with Bremen. Wolfsburg now has many former Bremen players in the team, such as Naldo, Hundt, and even Wolfsburg's sports director Alof Stuart served at Werder Bremen."

"Wolfsburg, they just eliminated Sporting Lisbon in the middle of the week."

"I believe that fans and friends who watched that game can find that the Wolfsburg players are a little tired, and Dieter Heiking's tactics are uncharacteristically, playing extremely conservatively."

"But whether Wolfsburg has encountered a physical problem or is accumulating energy for the league, maybe we will find the answer in this game!"

After He Wei finished speaking, Zhang Lu said with a smile: "Both teams are the teams with the best results after the winter break, so today will definitely be a fierce battle. After Bremen's coaching change, it will be like two different teams!"

After Zhang Lu finished speaking, the starting lineups of both sides were shown in the camera.

Werder Bremen: (4132)

Goalkeeper: Wolff
Defenders: Selassie, Pleedel, Westergau, Sternberg
Back midfielder: Kroos
Forwards: Fritz, Oztunali, Junuzovic
Forwards: Selke, Di Santo
Wolfsburg: (4231)

Forward: Dorst
Front midfielder:Arnold, De Bruyne, Caligiuri
Defenders: Gustavo, Gila Voji
Defenders: Schafer, Chu Zheng, Naldo, Vierinha
Goalkeeper: Benaglio

Seeing my server's starting lineup, He Wei said with a smile: "It seems that Wolfsburg is indeed troubled by physical problems."

"Compared to the lineup of the last game, four players have been rotated in this game!"

"In this game, Wolfsburg's two main full-backs have been rested in rotation. Dieter Heiking let Schaefer start, and Vierrinia cameo right back. Maybe there is no way out!"

Not long after, the referee blew the whistle to start the game.

On the field, Wolfsburg wore a blue jersey and attacked from left to right.

But at the beginning of the game, it was Werder Bremen who blew the offensive horn first.

Taking advantage of the home game, Bremen launched a surprise attack right after the kick-off. The offense was extremely simple and terribly offensive, playing offensive football.

The intention of their tactics is very obvious, which is to play the two full-backs Vierinia and Schaefer.

At 1 minute and 28 seconds of the game, Wolfsburg was under high pressure from Bremen.

Chu Zheng quickly moved to the left corner to get the ball, and waited for Bremen striker Selk to rush over to press him before crossing Benaglio.

After receiving the ball, Benaglio was also pressed by another Bremen striker, Di Santo.

He didn't dare to stick the ball, and immediately drove to the right side of the front field after stepping on the ball.

On the center line of the wing, Vierinia and Bremen left back Sternberg competed for the top.

But his height of 173 is 10cm shorter than Sternberg, and the ball was finally given to Werder Bremen midfielder Kroos by Sternberg.

Bremen's wing attack suddenly launched at this time.

After taking the ball, Cross saw that the left road ahead was empty, so he took advantage of the opportunity to plug the ball.

Suddenly Vierinha and Sternberg chased the ball side by side.

Along the way, the two engaged in an inspiring physical confrontation.

On the outside of the penalty area, the two decided the winner.

In the continuous confrontation, the delicate and frail Vierrinia was knocked away.

Sternberg made a strong pass to the middle before the ball went out of the baseline.

Although his pass was hasty, his accuracy was very high.

The ball crossed over the penalty area and went straight to the back point.

On the left side of the small restricted area, Chu Zheng arrived in time.

He and Werder Bremen striker Selke took off almost at the same time.

However, Chu Zheng's jumping is second to none in the Bundesliga. Even though Selke was 10 centimeters taller than Chu Zheng, Chu Zheng jumped a head higher than him, and then directly cleared the ball to the left.

Schaffer got Chu Zheng's clearance ball and was about to launch a counterattack from the side, but the next second he was tackled by Bremen winger Fritz and rolled out of the sideline with the ball.

Just 2 minutes later, Bremen once again threatened Wolfsburg's goal.

In the 4th minute of the game, Vierrinia was broken by Bremen's right forward Junuzovic.

Naldo quickly robbed Junuzovic who dribbled the ball in the rib area on the right side of the top of the arc.

Junuzovic is just over 1.7 meters tall, a typical small and fast player, and is the natural enemy of a tank-type central defender like Naldo.

Unsurprisingly, Naldo was half a beat slower and stepped directly on the instep of Junuzovic's right instep, giving Bremen a free kick in the ribs within 25 meters of the goal.

This time the Bremen players have learned the tricks. They chose to start the front line and look for striker Di Santo, who is about the same height as Naldo.

But they still did not form an attack, and Naldo's two-meter height is not a display.

Moreover, Naldo also used a concealed pulling trick, taking advantage of the moment when Di Santo's center of gravity fell back, he quickly jumped up and cleared the ball out of the penalty area.

This continuous threat made Dieter Heikin frown on the sidelines. His years of intuition told him that they were in danger in this game.

Bremen is now obviously focusing on Schaefer and Vierinha, two weak points of defense.

But Dieter Blacking really can't do anything, the other players are not as good as Schafer and Vierinha.

Although Sebastian Rong and Rodriguez were not injured, their bodies needed rest because of consecutive starts.

Dieter Heiking dared not take any chances.

These two players can almost be said to be the other two lifebloods of Wolfsburg. Once injured and absent from the game for a long time, Wolfsburg's offensive strength will immediately drop sharply.

Whether it is Rodriguez or Sebastian Rong, both of them have a strong assist ability.

Before the game, he had thought about letting Chu Zheng play as a full back and let Knoch play as a central defender.

In this way, at any rate, it can strengthen the defense of a wing.

But he finally gave up!

Because Chu Zheng is on the field now, he is not only a central defender, he also has the task of instigating counterattacks with the ball in the backcourt.

Dieter Heijin needed Chu Zheng to send the ball to the gap in the frontcourt to tear the opponent's defense.

Once Chu Zheng and De Bruyne, the two cores of the front and back courts, are connected online, they can immediately create a very threatening offensive.

This point has been staged countless times in the team's training games, and Dieter Heijin is very happy to see it every time.

So Dieter Heijin was really reluctant to give up Chu Zheng's ability to move the ball forward to find a gap.

So, after much deliberation, he finally decided to take a gamble.

But now it seems that he has lost the bet, and it seems that he has not lost. Every time he sees Bremen launching a targeted attack from the wing, he is terrified.

(End of this chapter)