Chapter 62: Winger? Offensive midfielder?

On September 22, the fourth round of the Bundesliga kicked off.

In this round of the game, Werder Bremen will face the challenge of Stuttgart at home.

Thanks to the team's outstanding record, the number of fans who came to watch the game reached 48,000, and the huge Weser Stadium was almost full.

The fans of the Parrot Army sang the team song loudly, waved green flags, and couldn't wait to watch the performance of the team's twin stars on the field.

Since Werder Bremen's decline, there hasn't been such a hot football market for a long time.

This surprised everyone in the club, and the team chairman Fisher even had the idea of ​​keeping the two young men in the team.

But this is just a thought. The current market value of these two people is not cheap, and it will only be more expensive in the future. It is difficult for Werder Bremen to buy them with its financial resources.

Besides, the more capable the players are, the more they pursue a bigger and better stage, and Werder Bremen is obviously not such a big stage.

So even if they raise enough money, the player himself may not be willing to stay.

In this game, in addition to ordinary fans, there were also several scouts in the audience.

"This guy seems to be a scout from Atletico Madrid. Although he is wearing sunglasses, I recognize him. He is a scout from Everton!"

George had already spotted several of his colleagues in the audience.

These were only the ones he knew. He had no idea how many of those he didn't know had come.

Some of these scouts came to observe De Bruyne, while others came to observe Lin Quan.

The young winger who had met him once before seemed to be increasingly valued by major clubs.

George felt a little unhappy because he was actually the first to discover the other party.

However, the information he submitted to Chelsea was shelved and not taken seriously.

Come to think of it, Chelsea's owner Abramovich doesn't like to buy underage kids. He prefers already famous superstars, like the nuclear warhead Shevchenko and the holy baby Torres.

Neither Werder Bremen nor Stuttgart are traditional strong teams, but both sides play a non-conservative style of play.

In this game, both teams presented a goal-scoring battle to the fans on the scene.

Just 13 minutes into the game, De Bruyne opened the scoring with a free kick.

In the 24th minute, Stuttgart's Hanik equalized the score and both sides returned to the same starting line.

In the 34th minute, Lin Quan suddenly broke through with the ball on the right, and after breaking into the front court, he completed a series of wall passes with his teammates, and finally received a pass from De Bruyne in the penalty area, and rewritten the score with one kick! Werder Bremen took the lead again.

This goal made many scouts' eyes light up, and they all took up their pens to record it in their observation notebooks: the player's dribbling and breakthroughs were very sharp, and he possessed extremely strong individual combat capabilities.

But he is also good at cooperating with his teammates and will not act rashly alone.

He has a broad passing vision and delicate footwork, which is in line with his identity as a player who debuted in the La Masia youth training camp.

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Although he had watched Lin Quan play several games, George Evans still couldn't help but sigh when he saw Lin Quan's goal:

This guy plays so smartly, his brain seems to be more flexible than those old players who have been playing for more than ten years.

He clearly remembered that starting from the first round against Dortmund, the Bundesliga teams liked to use close defense and even foul tactics to restrict Lin Quan when facing him.

This posed a great challenge to Lin Quan on the court. It was thought that this kid would get into trouble and his performance would decline.

Unexpectedly, he found a solution so quickly! If the opponent strengthened his defense against him, he would create opportunities for his teammates and seek cooperation with them.

There are the same number of players on both sides of the court. If you send two people to double-team one player on the other side, then there must be someone in the open space on the other team.

Just pass the ball to a teammate in an open position and the problem will be solved.

The fact that he could think of this shows that he has a flexible mind, and the fact that he can actually do it on the court proves that he not only has a flexible mind, but also has extraordinary footwork skills.

This guy, those few passes just now were very skillful, he felt more like a midfielder than a striker.

Not only George felt this way, the Stuttgart coach also widened his eyes after seeing this goal:

Isn't this guy a winger? Why does he seem to be playing as an attacking midfielder? He observed carefully and found that Lin Quan's position on the field was not fixed.

Although he is a right winger, his activity covers the entire midfield and frontcourt and is not limited to the right. He often crosses positions with Werder Bremen's central midfielder and runs to the middle.

This caused the Stuttgart left-back defending him to be a little overwhelmed, and if he followed him, he would lose his position.

If you don't follow, the opponent will run to the middle lane, which will create a local numerical advantage.

If the teammates do not have good coordination in defense, it is easy for an offensive player who suddenly appears to completely disrupt the defensive formation, causing loopholes in the defense and subsequently losing the ball.

Was this tactic his own idea or was it arranged by the Werder Bremen coaching staff? Stuttgart's head coach Keller looked at the Werder Bremen coaching bench in confusion, but coach Schaff was calm and composed, and nothing could be seen from his face.

He is indeed an old fox! Keller cursed inwardly and planned to make some adjustments to the team's defensive tactics.

At the beginning of the second half, after adjustments during the halftime break, Stuttgart's defense improved, strengthening the defense between the penalty area and the flanks.

But Lin Quan changed his playing style and began to try to cross the ball from the bottom.

This was somewhat unexpected for Stuttgart. The full-backs alone were unable to stop the opponent from going down the flank and could only allow the opponent to continuously pass the ball into the penalty area.

Fortunately, they did a good job in defending headers and did not allow Werder Bremen to find too many good opportunities.

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Both sides continued to attack and the goals continued to be scored.

In the 66th minute of the game, Stuttgart striker Kaka found an opportunity in the penalty area and scored a goal to tie the score.

In the 78th minute, Werder Bremen's attack created chaos in Stuttgart's penalty area.

After Lin Quan passed the ball to his teammate, he immediately approached the penalty area, preparing to find an opportunity to cut into the penalty area.

As a result, when he ran into the penalty area, he saw his teammate's shot was blocked by the goalkeeper who fell to the ground, and the ball rolled to his feet.

Is there such good luck?

Lin Quan didn't think twice and kicked the ball directly. The goalkeeper was still lying on the ground and Stuttgart's goal was completely unguarded.

When Lin Quan made the follow-up shot, he thought the ball was in, but he didn't expect the ball to hit the arm of Stuttgart winger Hanik and bounce out! When the Werder Bremen players saw the opponent's handball, they immediately reached out to signal the referee that the opponent had handballed.

Because the opponent stretched his arms outward, the referee gave him a yellow card without hesitation. Together with the yellow card he had received before, the two yellow cards turned into one red card, and he was sent off the field.

Hanik was about to cry. He quickly explained that he did not do it on purpose. He just happened to run there and saw Lin Quan shooting and subconsciously protected himself. He did not think about handball at all.

But the referee didn't think so. He believed that the opponent had deliberately handballed. If he hadn't blocked the ball, Lin Quan's shot would have been very likely to go in.

According to the standards of football penalty, he thought that the yellow card was a mercy, and he couldn't just pretend not to see it, right? Hanik was very depressed, and Lin Quan was also very depressed.

Although the referee awarded a penalty, it would definitely be better to score a goal directly than to take another penalty.

After all, a penalty kick may be saved, and the value of a penalty kick goal is not as good as a direct goal.

Fortunately, he was very stable in free throws and scored the penalty kick steadily.

Stuttgart had one man sent off and was forced to play with 10 men.

Because the player who was sent off was the team's offensive core, their attack could no longer be launched.

In the end, Werder Bremen defeated Stuttgart 3:2 at home and achieved their first three consecutive victories of the new season.

Because of this defeat, Stuttgart only got one point in four games and fell directly into the relegation zone.

This round of games saw another upset, as last season's defending champion Dortmund lost again, and lost to Hamburg, the second-to-last team in the standings.

This surprised everyone and made everyone doubt Dortmund's condition.

Will they be able to do it?

In four rounds of matches, Dortmund had one win, two draws and one loss, earning only 5 points, 7 points behind the top Bayern Munich.

Given Bayern's dominance in the Bundesliga, it can almost be said that Dortmund has failed to defend its title.

It is worth mentioning that the newly promoted Frankfurt continued its dark horse character. They beat Nuremberg 2:1 away and achieved four consecutive victories like Bayern.

(End of this chapter)