Chapter 127: The Koreans who humiliated themselves
After defeating Dortmund, Werder Bremen had no time to rest before they immediately faced the challenge of Augsburg.
The 24th round of the Bundesliga was only two days away from the German Cup they had just finished, and Werder Bremen experienced its first three games in a week this season.
After a series of hard battles, the players' physical fitness is the biggest challenge they are facing now.
During the team's daily training, the coaching staff were very worried when they saw that the players looked tired.
"The schedule is too tight, and we have played against two strong teams, Bayern Munich and Dortmund, in a row. The players' physical energy consumption is far more than in ordinary games. I'm afraid this game will be difficult!"
Schaff nodded, looked at the players training on the field, frowned and thought about how to arrange the starting lineup for tomorrow.
Hunt was suspended due to a red card, and Dortmund has also appealed for additional punishment. The tournament committee is investigating the game, and he is likely to face a multi-game suspension.
In addition, the team's left winger Elia strained his thigh in the last game and needs to rest for two to three weeks.
This means that they need two substitutes in the frontcourt.
Moreover, after a series of fierce battles between Lin Quan and De Bruyne, he was also worried about the condition of the two.
The two of them cannot get injured easily. If they are injured, Werder Bremen's record will be greatly affected.
Huh? Strange, why is that boy different from others, and doesn't look tired?
Schaff was originally very worried about the physical condition of Lin Quan and De Bruyne. After all, the team's experienced veterans were a little exhausted after a series of fierce battles.
These two young players lack experience in dealing with intensive schedules and do not know how to properly allocate their physical energy. Their physical condition should be worse.
But what did he see in the end? A lively and energetic Lin Quan who did not look tired at all.
On the contrary, the listless De Bruyne on the side was consistent with his judgment.
Scharf also couldn't understand why Lin Quan was fine. In the previous games, he had run a long distance, and they were all accelerated sprints that required a lot of physical energy.
Logically speaking, his physical condition should be worse than De Bruyne, but the result is just the opposite.
In the end, he could only attribute it to Lin Quan's diligent daily exercise. He heard from Lin Quan's host family that Lin Quan would take time out every day to train his physical fitness.
As the saying goes, hard work pays off. With such a training attitude, it is understandable that he can make such progress.
The players were not in good condition, so Schaff simply clapped his hands and stopped everyone's training:
“This afternoon’s training volume will be reduced by half. After completing this set of training, you can go back and rest.
The time to report to the team tomorrow morning has been postponed to 10:30. Have a good rest tonight and don't waste your energy on things that shouldn't be wasted, especially the young players. Don't let me hear any of you appear in nightclubs, otherwise, you know the consequences! "
Schaaf's words caused the players to cheer, especially the news that tomorrow's training time would be postponed, which made them very excited.
I can finally sleep in tonight!
However, everyone has not forgotten Schaff's final warning. Those players who like to go to nightclubs and have fun have to restrain themselves at this time and dare not commit crimes against the wind.
Lin Quan has a second-level physical talent. His physical recovery speed is much faster than that of ordinary players, so he doesn’t feel tired at all.
So, when the team was on holiday, Lin Quan did not leave the training base early, but chose to stay and practice alone.
In the past, De Bruyne would stay and train with him, but today De Bruyne was so tired that he didn't even want to move a finger. He really couldn't kick anymore, so he had to go back and rest.
Also staying in the club is Schaff, who is thinking hard about tomorrow's starting lineup. He sits in his office, looking through the window at the young man who is training hard on the training ground.
The golden sunset shone over the Weser River, illuminating the training base on the left bank of the Weser River, and dragged the shadow of the young man on the court very long...
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On March 2nd, at 16:30 in the afternoon, the Weser Stadium was packed.
Although this is just an ordinary league game and the opponent is not a strong team ranked at the top of the standings.
However, the enthusiasm of Werder Bremen fans for watching the game remained unabated, and there was not a single empty seat in the stadium that could accommodate 50,000 spectators.
The tickets for the game were sold out a day in advance, and some fans who did not buy tickets in advance even had to buy tickets at high prices from scalpers outside the stadium.
This season, as Werder Bremen's performance gets better and better, fans' enthusiasm for watching the game is also increasing.
In their last game, they eliminated Dortmund at home and advanced to the semi-finals of the German Cup, giving fans hope that the team could win the championship trophy.
The fans of the Parrot Army understand that the team's twin stars are likely to leave the team after the end of this season.
If you don't come to watch their games in person, you will never have the chance again.
Such a historical level combination of striker and midfielder has never existed in the history of Werder Bremen.
Therefore, it is an opportunity to come and watch their games in person. If you miss it, it will be one less game!
Before the game started, Lin Quan felt the enthusiasm of the fans.
When he came on the field, he was cheered by the fans.
The players of Augsburg looked at this 17-year-old boy in amazement. They couldn't understand why this guy, who was so young, had such high popularity in Werder Bremen. The two Korean players of Augsburg, Ji Dong-won and Gu Ja-cheol, looked at each other and saw the unwillingness and fighting spirit in each other's eyes.
We are both yellow people, but we are older than him and debuted earlier than him. Why can he be the core of Werder Bremen while we are still worried about the starting position? Although both of them play for Augsburg, neither of them is a player of Augsburg.
The team that Koo Ja-cheol signed with was Wolfsburg, but Wolfsburg felt that he was not strong enough to be a starter, so they loaned him to Augsburg at a low price and allowed him to level up in Augsburg.
As for Ji Dong-won, he is a player of the Premier League team Sunderland. The latter also felt that he could not adapt to the rhythm of the Premier League, so he was loaned to Augsburg for training.
Two South Korean national team internationals met in the same team in a foreign country and originally planned to let go and have a great time.
As a result, after 23 rounds of games, Augsburg was third from the bottom, 9 points behind Wolfsburg, which was fourth from the bottom.
With 10 rounds left in the league, it would be extremely difficult for them to catch up with these nine points.
If they really had this ability, they wouldn't have been stuck in the relegation zone before.
In this game, Augsburg had some ideas while Werder Bremen was in poor form after a series of tough battles.
They tied Werder Bremen 3:3 at home in the 7th round of the league. If they hadn't been unlucky and allowed the opponent to score three goals in a row, they should have won the game.
It was precisely because of that match that Augsburg felt that Werder Bremen was nothing special.
How strong can we be if we can score three goals against a bottom-ranked team like us? So, in this game, they took the initiative and launched a fierce attack on Werder Bremen's penalty area.
When Schaff saw that the other party had arranged this tactic, he was immediately happy.
The team was not in good physical condition and could not play a pressing attacking tactic, so he arranged a defensive counterattack for the team.
Although it is a bit embarrassing to say that we played a defensive counterattack against a relegation team at home, there is no other way. The result is more important now.
Dortmund, which is in third place, has been in strong momentum recently and is doing its best to grab points.
Werder Bremen's second place position is not secure. If they are overtaken by Dortmund, it will be difficult for them to overtake them given Dortmund's state in the second half of the season.
Moreover, the gap between Schalke 04, which is in fourth place, and them is not that big. Taking advantage of their consecutive losses to Dortmund and Bayern, the other side caught up a lot.
If Werder Bremen continues to lose, it may not even be able to maintain its third place.
Although the Bundesliga has four Champions League places, the fourth place team has to play in the play-offs with other leagues, and only by winning the play-offs can they advance to the Champions League.
There is a risk of losing, after all, none of the teams that have stood out in other leagues and reached this stage are easy to deal with.
At this time, Schaff felt relieved when he saw Augsburg choose to play a pressing and offensive style.
This game is secured!
On the other side, in the Augsburg coaching booth, seeing that Werder Bremen's players were completely suppressed by their own players, the visiting team's coach also felt safe.
As expected, as speculated before the game, Werder Bremen's players were in poor physical condition and were clearly not in good shape during the game.
If Augsburg can't beat the Parrots at full strength, can't we bully the Parrots when they are out of form? We will definitely win this game! In the first fifteen minutes of the game, Augsburg seemed to have the upper hand.
The players of Werder Bremen seemed to be still asleep, and they were half a beat slower than others in running.
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They are like an old, rusty machine, just barely functioning and still running.
Losing the game seemed inevitable! "This guy, he doesn't look that great, how can he be as good as the outside world hypes him up to be?"
Koo Ja-cheol and Ji Dong-won saw that Werder Bremen was suppressed by their own team, and Lin Quan was unable to cause any waves on the field.
They began to look down on the other party, thinking that they were just so-so.
The reason why the other party is so famous is entirely due to the hype of those unscrupulous reporters!
However, just when the two thought they had victory, the situation on the field suddenly changed.
Werder Bremen successfully intercepted the ball in the backcourt and the ball was quickly passed to De Bruyne's feet.
After De Bruyne got rid of the defender, he passed the ball to Lin Quan in the most energy-saving way.
Lin Quan got the ball!
Gu Zizhe played as a central midfielder, closest to Lin Quan. When he saw Lin Quan getting the ball, he chose to move forward immediately.
He felt that with his physical fitness, wouldn't it be easy to stop the opponent as long as he put up a little physical confrontation?
When he was on the South Korean national team, this is how he played when he met Chinese players.
Few of the Chinese national team players could withstand the collision between him and his teammates.
Not to mention them, even the Japanese team next door with a better record could not withstand their impact.
In terms of physical fitness, the Republic of Korea is the best in East Asia, right? Gu Ja-cheol rushed forward with full confidence!
In his mind he had already begun imagining himself knocking Lin Quan over with ease, shocking the entire audience.
Humph, Chinese boy, let me expose your true face and let the whole world see your huge weakness! Seeing Gu Zizhe rushing towards him, Lin Quan slightly adjusted his body and faced the other party with his shoulder.
With a bang, the two men collided head-on.
The sound was so loud that it spread throughout the venue through the close-up sound equipment on site.
The fans at the scene were in an uproar, their hearts filled with worry.
Lin Quan was ten centimeters shorter than the Korean man opposite him, and the other man took the initiative to rush up and bump into him.
In such a collision, he would suffer a great loss, right? On the sidelines, Augsburg's head coach saw Gu Zizhe's choice and nodded with satisfaction.
This Korean boy plays very smartly!
It was obvious that the number 10 of Werder Bremen had no ability in physical confrontation and he had been avoiding physical collisions with Augsburg players.
This should be his Achilles heel!
This time, the Koreans caught the opponent's weakness with this collision, which not only destroyed Werder Bremen's counterattack, but also completely exposed the opponent's weakness.
In the future, when other Bundesliga teams meet Werder Bremen, they will choose to learn this tactic!
The head coach of Augsburg looked at the collision between the two with great anticipation, expecting to see the scene he wanted to see.
Then they saw one of the two people hit a wall and bounced back! However, to his and everyone else's surprise, the person who was knocked away in the collision was not Lin Quan, but Gu Zizhe.
The latter was knocked by Lin Quan and staggered several steps. Before he could stand steadily, he sat down on the ground, looking at Lin Quan who was killing him in disbelief.
Why!?
Why was I the one who got knocked away?
A thousand question marks appeared in Gu Zizhe's mind, and he couldn't figure out why this was happening.
The audience was also in an uproar! The fans of Werder Bremen breathed a sigh of relief when they saw this scene.
Augsburg fans, especially the Korean ones, were filled with disappointment.
Why did our Gu Zizhe lose in the physical confrontation? In fact, if they only watched a few more games of Lin Quan, they would not think that the opponent was weak in physical confrontation.
Although Lin Quan is not very tall, he is not light in weight at all.
A weight of 74 kilograms is rare for a player of his height.
In addition, during the winter break, he learned some defensive skills from Guardiola, including how to make full use of his body to confront the opponent.
After learning these skills, he will be like a small tank, with strong physical confrontation capabilities.
Although Gu Ja-cheol is ten centimeters taller than him, he weighs only 75 kilograms, which is only one kilogram heavier than Lin Quan.
With their weights being similar, Lin Quan, who was faster and had a lower center of gravity, naturally took the initiative in the physical confrontation.
Gu Zizhe underestimated Lin Quan's physical confrontation ability and also overestimated his own physical confrontation ability. Therefore, he wanted to use his body to knock Lin Quan down and humiliate the Korean opponent, but he only brought shame upon himself.
"idiot!"
Seeing that Gu Ja-cheol failed in the physical confrontation, the Augsburg coach cursed angrily.
But he soon lost the mood to blame the Koreans, because Lin Quan had already dribbled the ball into their penalty area!
(End of this chapter)