Chapter 103: Five goals in a single game, sweeping away the gloom!

After the team lost, the atmosphere in the team seemed rather solemn.

The players who used to play and fight on the training ground have become much quieter in the past few days.

The entire Werder Bremen team seemed to be shrouded in a layer of dark clouds that could not be blown away by the wind or driven away by the rain.

Lin Quan himself was in a bad mood and was practicing shooting alone on the training ground.

Losing is not unacceptable, but losing to Leverkusen at home is a bit hard for him to accept.

Is Leverkusen stronger than Bayern Munich? They were able to tie with Bayern, but Leverkusen scored four goals! Head coach Schaff came to the sidelines and saw the emotional state of the players. He couldn't help but sigh: It's true!

The team had been doing too well before, which gave the players the illusion that we were very strong.

But in fact, Werder Bremen is not that strong!

Compared with last season, their lineup only has two stronger points in the frontcourt: Lin Quan and De Bruyne.

In the midfield and backcourt, their strength not only did not increase, but was weakened a bit.

Milic is a good goalkeeper, cheap and easy to use, but he is far inferior to the team's main goalkeeper Wiese last season.

His timing of attack is not as good as Wiese's, and his cooperation with teammates is not as tacit as Wiese's.

More importantly, he doesn't have the domineering aura of Wiese! Wiese's strong mental attributes can greatly inspire the team and instill confidence in the players on the court.

The four defenders are of average strength. Except for Papastathopoulos who is slightly stronger, the others are nothing special.

From the beginning of the season to now, Werder Bremen's choice of central defender has almost never been fixed.

He tried Lukimya, Pledel, Schmitz, Selassie and others one by one, but was still not satisfied.

As for the defensive midfielder position, this is actually the biggest shortcoming of the team.

Although captain Fritz can attack and defend, he is not outstanding in any aspect and cannot do the best. He can only be used as an all-rounder in the backcourt. He has played in both full-back and defensive midfielder positions.

As for Junuzovic and Ekissi, both of them are better at attacking than defending. They have certain organizational and offensive abilities, but they are not strong in defense, which leads to Werder Bremen's midfielder not being strong enough and often being penetrated by opponents.

If Werder Bremen did not have an excellent organizer like De Bruyne in the midfield and frontcourt, then Schaff could still tolerate the performance of these two people.

After all, the team needs their organizational skills.

However, with De Bruyne already in the frontcourt, the organizational abilities of Junuzovic and Ekissi are dispensable and no longer important.

On the contrary, the team needs them to provide defensive strength and hardness in the defensive midfielder position to ensure that the team's back line will not be easily threatened by the opponent.

The two of them obviously couldn't do this, which resulted in the opponent's attack often easily penetrating their midfield, easily reaching the 30-meter area and even threatening the goal.

These positions all need to be strengthened, but these are not the most important things at the moment.

The most important thing at the moment is to appease the emotions of the team's core player Lin Quan. Since the loss, Shaf has seen that he is depressed and not as optimistic as before.

So, after the training, he called Lin Quan to his office and planned to talk to him alone.

"Coach, do you want to talk to me about something?"

Lin Quan had just come down from the training ground and had not had time to go to the locker room to take a shower and change clothes. He was sweating all over. He didn't want to dirty the chair in the coach's office, so he simply stood and talked to the other party.

"Well, sit down. Don't worry about dirtying my leather sofa. If you do, I'll deduct it from your salary."

Schaff made a joke to Lin Quan, and Lin Quan smiled politely: "Coach, you can't deduct my salary. My salary and bonus are all paid by Barcelona."

Shafu was stunned for a moment. He had never paid attention to these things, but after hearing what Lin Quan said, his face instantly became a little embarrassed:

Could it be that from the time Lin Quan joined the team until now, Werder Bremen has been getting the player for free, without paying a penny of their own money?

This seems a bit too much. No wonder this guy has no interest in the club's retention!

The Emotional Club is so stingy! No, I have to talk to that old friend of Alofs and ask him to give Lin some bonus.

Apart from anything else, Lin Quan scored so many goals for the team, it would be too much not to give him some bonus.

"Ahem, I'll talk to Alofs about this later. It's okay for Barcelona to pay the salary, but we have to pay for the bonus!"

Lin Quan showed a sincere smile on his face: "Is it exactly the same as the bonus at Barcelona?"

Schaaf didn't know how much bonus Lin Quan received from Barcelona, ​​but he heard that he signed a youth team contract with Barcelona.

For a young player like him, who is still on a youth team contract, his annual bonus would probably be very little, right?

Although Werder Bremen is not a wealthy and powerful club, it can still afford bonuses of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of euros.

"Yes, I will inform Alofs about this matter, and then you just need to wait to collect the bonus!"

"Then I would like to thank the coach first!"

Someone gave him money, and it was a lot, so Lin Quan naturally wouldn't refuse.

However, the coach probably doesn’t know how much bonus he will get at Barcelona. When he finds out the amount... haha, it’s very interesting just thinking about it!

"Okay, let's talk about the last game!"

After all the small talk, Shaf finally got to the point.

When Lin Quan heard Shaf talking about the game, he became quiet and looked like he was listening attentively.

"We lost the last game, I know you are all very sad!"

"But professional football is like this, there is no team that never loses. Even a strong team like Barcelona often fails in the La Liga, and Bayern has also been defeated by Leverkusen!"

"It's normal for us to lose. Don't treat it as the end of the world or think it's your fault!"

Schaff recalled how he played football back then, and said earnestly:

"A weak team can also defeat a strong opponent, relying on tenacious fighting spirit and excellent teamwork to defeat a strong opponent and reap the joy of victory. This is the charm of football.

At the beginning of the season we were still a weak team and no team took us seriously.

Thanks to you and De Bruyne's outstanding performance, we played smoothly.

But now we are ranked second in the standings, and there will be a lot of teams in the league studying how to deal with us and how to limit your performance.

Therefore, it is impossible for us to win as easily as we did at the beginning of the season. At this time, the team's record will fluctuate, and even fall to a trough. These are what you need to experience.

The road of life is not a smooth one. There will inevitably be setbacks and bumps. What you need to do is not to fall into self-blame.

It’s about finding solutions to problems and helping yourself and the team get out of the trough.”

Lin Quan nodded. Although he knew that the coach was just giving him chicken soup, the chicken soup was indeed very effective after he drank it.

At least now, he felt much better.

Seeing that Lin Quan's mood had improved, Shafu felt relieved.

Young players still lack experience. Once they experience more of these things, they will not be affected so much.

"Okay, let's talk about the team's tactical play next!"

…

De Bruyne felt very sad when he saw the team lose the game through live TV at home.

The next day he came to the team, found Lin Quan on the training ground, and started chatting with him.

"I plan to return in the next away game against Hoffenheim. What do you think?"

Lin Quan glanced at him and made sure that he was not joking, so he raised his foot and pretended to kick him in the ankle.

"Hey, hey, what are you doing? This is dangerous, you know?"

De Bruyne was startled and quickly dodged his attack.

"Not bad, the reaction speed is good, the agility is OK, it seems that he has really recovered."

Lin Quan didn't really want to kick De Bruyne, he was just testing his reaction.

"That's right. These past few days I have been recuperating according to the doctor's instructions. I have basically stayed at home and never left. Of course I have recovered well!"

De Bruyne seemed to be a little bored being locked up at home, and he talked a lot today.

It has been more than two weeks since he was suspended, and De Bruyne feels good and thinks he is ready to play.

However, for the sake of his health, Lin Quan still rejected him.

"Let's wait for the next game. We are going to play away for this game. Running around is troublesome and tiring. It may cause your injury to relapse!"

De Bruyne wanted to say something else, but Lin Quan directly brought up the warning from the medical expert.

De Bruyne was completely discouraged and finally gave up the decision to return to the game.

If you think about it carefully, what Lin Quan said actually makes sense.

Hoffenheim is ranked second from the bottom in the league and is a weak team that is easily given points.

Even when playing away games, Werder Bremen has enough ability to defeat its opponents.

If De Bruyne wants to make a comeback, he might as well wait until the 16th round when Werder Bremen plays against Frankfurt.

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At that time, it had been nearly a month since De Bruyne was injured, and he could return without any hidden dangers.

Moreover, he has not practiced with the team for more than two weeks. Before officially returning, he needs to slowly resume training and adapt to the rhythm of the game.

How can you play in a competition right after you recover from an injury? It's easy to get injured again!

…

On December 2, the fifteenth round of the Bundesliga kicked off.

Werder Bremen will visit the Rhein-Neckar Arena to face Hoffenheim.

Hoffenheim's record this year is very bad. In the 15th round of the league, they have only won three games, lost eight games, and tied three games, ranking third from the bottom in the standings.

Corresponding to the poor record, they conceded 36 goals in 14 games, an average of 2.57 goals per game, ranking last in the Bundesliga.

This number of goals conceded is 10 more than the second place. I don’t know how they play. It gives people a feeling that there will be a tragedy in every game.

And from this goal conceded data, we can also see how bad Hoffenheim's defense is this season.

Hoffenheim obviously studied the video of Werder Bremen's previous loss, and they imitated Leverkusen's tactics to deal with Werder Bremen.

It seems that they hope to win the game in this way!

But the gap between their hard power and Leverkusen is still too big, especially their poor defense. After a few rounds, they were beaten by Werder Bremen.

The game quickly turned into Lin Quan's personal show!

He had already scored a hat trick before the first half was over! Schaff's new tactics completely liberated Lin Quan's offensive ability, giving him more firing rights, and Lin Quan rewarded his coach with three goals! Seeing these three goals, Coach Schaff breathed a sigh of relief.

It seems that this game should be a sure win. After beating Hoffenheim, they will still be able to maintain their second place in the standings and will not fall.

The players of Hoffenheim almost lost their fighting spirit due to the consecutive goals scored by their opponents. They were dejected, unable to attack or defend.

This made the coach of Hoffenheim very angry. Before the first half was over, he replaced two players in succession in the 37th minute.

No. 22 Firmino came on, replacing No. 40 Stephen.

No. 32 Griffo came on, replacing No. 9 Skip Locke.

Unfortunately, this substitution did not achieve much good effect. Until the end of the first half, Hoffenheim's condition still had not adjusted.

When the second half of the game started, I didn't know how many levels the head coach of Hoffenheim turned on the hair dryer in the locker room, but their players seemed to be woken up by being scolded.

After the opening, they played much more actively than in the first half, and the game became exciting.

With a huge lead, Werder Bremen was not conservative at all. They continued to launch attacks and threatened Hoffenheim's goal again and again.

With Hoffenheim trailing by three goals, there was no point being conservative, so they let go and attacked.

Both teams played offensive football, so the game was naturally very exciting.

Just five minutes into the second half, Hoffenheim finally broke the deadlock through continuous cooperation, with Salihovic changing the score to 1:3. But this score was not enough, they were still two goals behind. If they wanted to win the game, they had to score at least three more goals.

The ball is round, the second half has just begun, they have just scored a goal, their morale is high, and there is plenty of time to make a comeback.

After all, in Istanbul that year, Liverpool scored three goals in just seven minutes to equalize the score.

They had more than 40 minutes, which was enough! Hoffenheim seemed to think of themselves as Liverpool, which created miracles, but Werder Bremen on the opposite side was not AC Milan, which opened champagne at halftime.

Not only did they not celebrate in the locker room, but they also maintained a very strong fighting spirit.

The players wanted to use a big win to get rid of the gloom hanging over the team after the home loss.

So, just three minutes after Hoffenheim scored, Lin Quan scored directly from a free kick, changing the score to 1:4!

This was not the end. In the 71st minute of the game, Peterson's shot bounced off the post and the ball fell over Lin Quan, who headed the ball into the goal with a not-so-standard posture.

The score became 1:5. Lin Quan completed an incredible five-goal stunner in the Bundesliga, scoring five goals alone! After he scored this goal, the players ran to him one by one and bowed down in worship.

People who don't play professional football have no idea how difficult it is to score five goals in a game. After you score the first goal, the defenders will start targeting you.

Every time you score an extra goal, the opponent's defensive intensity will increase by one point. In the end, as long as you have the ball, there may be several players around you who double-team you or even foul you.

In this situation, if you want to keep scoring goals, in addition to the players' own strong personal abilities, they also need some luck.

For example, in the last goal scored by Lin Quan, if the football had not bounced over his head, he would not have had the chance to head the ball.

After scoring this goal, Hoffenheim's fighting spirit completely collapsed.

The opponent's lineup contained non-human monsters, and they were just mortals, how could they play against them? Their morale plummeted and they were unable to make any waves in the final moments of the game, and could only accept the fate of being slaughtered by the opponent at their home stadium.

After this round of games, Lin Quan's lead in the Bundesliga scorer list increased significantly to 9 goals. It seems that the Bundesliga Golden Boot is already in his pocket and no one can snatch it away.

The victory of this game brought smiles back to the faces of Werder Bremen players.

The previous gloomy situation after losing a game no longer exists.

What makes them even happier is that De Bruyne has fully recovered from his injury and has officially started training with the team.

If nothing unexpected happens, he will return in Werder Bremen's next home game against Frankfurt.

Frankfurt is the biggest dark horse in the Bundesliga this season. At the beginning of the season, they won consecutive games and were closely following the top Bayern Munich.

At that time, many people even believed that they would create a new Kaiserslautern miracle!

Although they started to fall behind later, no one dared to underestimate them.

Frankfurt is currently ranked fifth in the Bundesliga. After half a season of competition, the outside world has recognized their strength.

This is a team with strong fighting spirit and tough style of play. No matter who faces them, the game will be difficult.

In such a crucial match, De Bruyne's return undoubtedly increases Werder Bremen's chances of winning.

The first half of the Bundesliga season is coming to an end. After the game with Frankfurt, Werder Bremen only has one league game and one German Cup game left.

Of these three games, except for the home game against Frankfurt, the remaining two are away games.

Especially in the last German Cup match, they will go to Bayern Munich's home stadium to challenge the Bundesliga champions.

This game is very important for Werder Bremen. Whether they can get a ticket to the European war through the cup competition depends on whether they can take away a victory at the Allianz Arena.

"Don't think too much about it, just play the game well first!"

In his pre-match locker room speech, Coach Schaaf reminded the team to be vigilant, not to be complacent just because their opponents are lagging behind in the rankings, and not to think victory will be easy just because of De Bruyne's comeback!

"Frankfurt should not be underestimated. Don't make the same mistake as before against Leverkusen!"

"We can't accept losing to our opponents at home in a row, and neither can the fans at the Weser Stadium. So, in this game, I want you to give your all, don't hold back, go all out and defeat them!"

(End of this chapter)