Chapter 109 Superstar treatment!
In the hospital, Arnautovic has woken up.
After examination, the doctor determined that he was in a transient coma caused by a concussion and needed to stay in the hospital for observation for a period of time.
This disease requires rest. Until the doctor is sure that he has fully recovered, he cannot engage in strenuous exercise, otherwise it will aggravate his condition.
This will cause him to miss at least one month of games, but fortunately the winter break is coming soon and they only have one German Cup game to play in this month.
This is a blessing in disguise for Werder Bremen.
However, their opponent in this German Cup match is Bayern Munich.
In the absence of its main center forward, Werder Bremen's chances of winning are probably even lower.
"Werder Bremen's luck is too bad. Not only did they draw the strongest opponent in the Bundesliga, but they also received the bad news that their main center forward was injured before the game. This may cause great disadvantages for this game."
Before the game, critics were not optimistic about Werder Bremen's ability to win away from home.
Their strength was originally inferior to that of their opponents, and now their main center is injured.
To make matters worse, the third round of the German Cup will start four days after the league game.
In the 17th round, Bayern Munich played two days earlier than Werder Bremen, which means that the opponent had more sufficient rest time to adjust their condition and recover their physical strength.
This is completely the opposite of the previous situation where Werder Bremen was well-rested against Bayern. Now they are facing a physical crisis.
A big part of the reason why Werder Bremen was able to draw with Bayern Munich at home in the sixth round of the league was because Bayern wanted to conserve their energy for the three-day Champions League match.
In that game, they consumed a lot of energy inflicting damage on Bayern, which almost caused the collapse of Bayern Munich, which was fighting on three fronts.
After being tied by Werder Bremen in an away game, Bayern had to fly to Belarus with exhausted bodies. As a result, they were beaten 3:1 by BATE Borisov, the weakest team in the group, away from home and lost the only game of the Champions League this season.
Since then, Bayern has paid more attention to the team's rotation. In every game, they will try their best to take care of the players' physical fitness and arrange the order of rotation reasonably.
So far, fighting on three fronts, Bayern players' physical problems have not only not erupted, but because a large number of substitute players have been given playing time, their bench power has begun to be reflected.
The saying that we are not afraid of Bayern's tigers, but we are afraid of Bayern's substitutes, has begun to become a terrible reality.
How to deal with the increasingly powerful Bayern has become a headache for the Werder Bremen coaching staff.
At the same time, at Bayern, their coaching staff was also discussing how to limit Werder Bremen's offensive system in the frontcourt.
"Werder Bremen's overall strength is not strong, but their strength lies in these two points. As long as De Bruyne and Lin Quan are locked down, most of their offensive firepower can be locked down, and even their offensive ability can be completely abolished!"
Assistant coach Grand drew Werder Bremen's usual offensive tactics on the tactical board and gave his own way to disrupt or limit the opponent's offensive tactics: "De Bruyne has weak physical fitness and poor confrontation ability. We only need a defensive midfielder with strong sweeping ability and sufficient physical strength to lock him down!"
"We have exactly two and a half such players - Martinez and Gustavo. If necessary, we can also let Tymoshchuk play and specialize in marking De Bruyne alone!"
Another assistant coach, Herman, said:
“I agree with your suggestion to mark De Bruyne, but Werder Bremen still 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 that when De Bruyne was absent, Werder Bremen's frontcourt organization work was all done by Lin Quan, who also has excellent organization and offense capabilities!"
“Of course I haven’t forgotten this, and that’s what I’m going to introduce next!”
Heynckes stroked 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 contents on the tactical board and re-drew the drawing, marking the areas where Lin Quan usually moved in the frontcourt and his most commonly used offensive methods.
"If you want to limit Lin Quan's attack, a single defender is definitely not enough. He moves too fast and has too strong a dribbling ability. Big defenders can't keep up with his pace and will be easily passed by him."
Everyone nodded in agreement. In both matches in the Telecom Cup and the league, their back line had been ravaged by this guy and suffered terribly.
Central defender Dante almost missed the season as his knee injury took more than three months to recover.
The young defender Boateng's self-confidence was severely damaged due to repeated humiliation by Lin Quan, and his performance this season is not as good as before.
This guy is simply the nightmare of Bayern defenders!
If you were to say who Bayern's defenders least want to face in the entire league.
Then they will definitely choose Lin Quan! "To limit Lin Quan's offense, we need to adopt targeted tactics to limit him, just like limiting superstars like Messi and Ronaldo!"
Grande picked up the remote control, turned on the TV, and watched a match between Real Madrid and Barcelona in the La Liga.
"Look at the method Mourinho's team used to restrict Messi: restrict Messi's space for movement!"
Everyone became serious. As the player whose style is most similar to Lin Quan, the method used to deal with Messi can naturally be used against Lin Quan.
Mourinho is a master in this area, and there is no shame in learning from him.
"Lin Quan is used to playing on the right side, but in the front court, his range of movement is not fixed, which can cause the players defending him to lose their positions easily, resulting in loopholes in the defense.
To solve this problem, we need to build a dam between the midfield and the back line to block his range of activities.
The specific approach is to let our left back closely mark Lin Quan and follow him no matter where he goes.
As for the problem of the left back losing his defensive position during the marking, this allows our left midfielder to retreat and temporarily fill in the position of the left back.
Our goal is simple. We must not let Lin Quan easily penetrate into the dangerous area between our defensive midfielder and back line.
There is only one line of defense from this place to the goal. As long as he completes the breakthrough, our goal will be under great threat! ”
Herman frowned: "According to your method, our defensive players are still in a one-on-one situation, right?"
Grande smiled and circled the left lower back:
"Here is our left defensive midfielder, here is our central defender, here is our left back, and here is the left midfielder who retreats to cover the position. If Lin Quan is moving on the wing, then the only one defending him is the left back.
But once he leaves his position and dribbles the ball towards the middle, he will immediately be surrounded by four of our players.
As long as our left back can control the area around him, we can build an unbreakable prison for Lin Quan who is rushing in with the ball and trap him here!"
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Heynckes' eyes lit up. This old guy Grande is really capable!
"In this case, the most important players in our defense are the defensive midfielder and the forward."
Heynckes has already started thinking about which players are suitable for this tactic.
Javi Martinez will definitely play, as he is Bayern's strongest defensive player in the midfield.
But just 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 ability, and that can only be Gustavo.
But with these two players on the field, the defensive midfielder's organizational ability will be greatly reduced.
As a backcourt organizer, should Kroos also be put up there and change the formation to 4321? …
Bayern's bench is too strong, causing Heynckes to be worried about whether to play a certain player.
Werder Bremen does not have this problem at all. Instead, they are worried about the lack of a suitable main center forward.
"Should we put Phil Kruger in, or move Hunter up in position?"
Like Arnautovic, Felkrug is also a center forward, but his ability is weaker than Arnautovic and he is not as threatening as Arnautovic in the penalty area.
Hunter's advantage is his speed, but his lack of height. Putting him in the center position would be too easy for Bayern's defenders.
If he were to play, Werder Bremen would probably lose its fulcrum in the frontcourt.
Very worried!
There aren't many usable materials on hand, so I'll just have to make do with what I have!
In the end, Schaaf chose Phil Kruger, who was a product of his own youth training.
His ability to act as a fulcrum in the frontcourt and pass the ball to his teammates is pretty good. The threat in the penalty area is small, but we have two scoring points in Lin Quan and De Bruyne, so we don't have to worry about his scoring ability.
…
Time quickly came to December 18, the match day of the third round of the German Cup.
This is the last game before the Bundesliga winter break, and many teams that had been eliminated before have already gone on holiday early after the end of the league.
Because it is approaching the winter break, the wealthy clubs that want to recruit players from the Bundesliga have sent a number of scouts to watch the game.
Among them, the most watched is the strong confrontation between Werder Bremen and Bayern Munich.
De Bruyne has attracted the attention of Chelsea club because of his outstanding performance after being loaned to Werder Bremen this season.
In addition to George Evans, who had been following him before, Chelsea club's senior scout Pete De Visser also came to the Allianz Arena for this game.
“Kevin has performed very well in recent games since returning from injury.”
"He is now number one in the Bundesliga assists list and has scored eight goals in half a season. Over the entire season, it should be a foregone conclusion that he will have more than 20 assists and more than 10 goals!"
George excitedly reported his work to the senior team members. The club sent such a senior team member here, so they must be planning to recall De Bruyne, right? As a scout who witnessed De Bruyne's growth and strength, he felt proud of it!
However, after he finished 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 and he pointed at the other player's back and asked: "Is that the Messi of the Bundesliga?"
(End of this chapter)