Ludwig

Chapter 321 Iron Bucket Formation

Frankfurt's opponent in the seventh round is Stuttgart, which was lucky to avoid relegation last season.

During the preparation period of this season, Stuttgart signed a lot of signings and took 6 strong players in a row. This repaired Stuttgart's incomplete lineup to a certain extent. Of course, Timo Werner's strong state also made last season deep. Stuttgart in the relegation zone has regained some vitality.

In the first six rounds, Stuttgart had 2 wins, 1 draw and 3 losses, and scored 7 points. You must know that until the 30th round last season, Stuttgart only had 27 points and ranked 17th.

If Stuttgart can ensure that the current situation continues, then their goal of striving for the top 10 this season can still be achieved.

In fact, Stuttgart's original team has many strong players, such as Bosnia and Herzegovina's powerful center Ibisevic, Japan's right back Sakai Kotoku, Spain's midfielder Romeu, and New Zealand's Messi Rojas. Very strong fighting power.

It may not be possible to reach the top of the Bundesliga, and waiting for relegation is definitely not a problem for this strong lineup.

It can only be said that the senior management of the Stuttgart club died when they were reduced to a thrilling relegation last season. The head coach Stevens can be said to be the "direct descendant" of the Stuttgart club. In the formation of Stuttgart, Stevens always Arrange some incomprehensible lists.

During the transfer period last season, Stevens first thought that there were a lot of talents in the midfield position in the lineup, and there was no place for Gebhardt, so he loaned Gebhardt to Nuremberg in the Bundesliga Bundesliga.

Last season, Gebhardt only played 6 times in Nuremberg in the Bundesliga Bundesliga, and all 6 of them came off the bench. You must know that in Stuttgart's lineup, Gentner's breakthrough ability in the midfield is not far behind. This is the talented teenager Gebhardt.

This death is not enough, Stevens' second method is to replace many players who played well in the main lineup, for example, replace the Romanian core Maxim with the Austrian midfielder Hanik. , Then, Rojas, known as New Zealand Messi, was "relegated" to the second team.

This point of death is not enough, Stevens thinks that Ibisevic is a bit old and is not suitable to continue to play the main force, so he replaced the famous Bosnian star Ibisevic with the young player Kinchek.

After Ibisevic lost his main position for no reason, he once made a transfer request to the club, but the club rejected his transfer request.

The answer is simple: the team has paid you a generous salary. If you want to leave, you have to play for the team until the end of the contract period. The team will not allow you to transfer and leave!
In this way, Ibisevic could only sit on the bench in depression, but fortunately, the Bosnians knew that they were over 30 years old and could not miss the training session without reason like young people. , When the team needs to conduct training sessions, Ibisevic still takes it very seriously.

In the end, Ibisevic was also the key to the team's relegation. In the last 5 rounds of last season, Ibisevic scored 4 goals in a row, helping the team achieve 5 wins, 3 draw and 1 loss in the last 1 rounds. , and finally was able to play a relegation play-off in the 16th place.

Moreover, Ibisevic scored 2 goals and sent 1 assist in the two rounds of play-offs, helping the team keep this precious Bundesliga seat.

If Stevens had not used Kinchek as the main center last season and kept Ibisevic's main position unchanged, would Stuttgart still need a thrilling relegation?
Before the start of the new season, Stuttgart announced the news of Stevens' dismissal and switched to Zonig, who was fired by Leipzig Red Bull in the middle of last season.

According to the "Bild" news: The Stuttgart club hopes for a coach who can bring the club to the future. After trying Keller and Thomas Schneider successively, the team chose Zonig.Zonig once led the Bundesliga giants Leipzig Red Bull to two consecutive promotions, and his experience has also won the trust of the Stuttgart club.

After Zonig took office, he immediately corrected Stevens' deadly behavior: he recalled New Zealand Messi Rojas from the second team, and guaranteed Maxim and Ibisevic the main position for next season , The talented midfielder Gebhardt was brought back from Nuremberg to ensure that the midfielder Gentner has a suitable substitute.

And in the transfer market, it has acquired six players in a row, among which there is no lack of young defender Marcos who "defected" from Hamburg, and the mainz midfielder Christoph Moritz.

After adjusting Stuttgart's skills and tactics and the atmosphere in the locker room in time, Stuttgart also changed from the previous decline and has a brand new look in the new season. For example, their 1-0 victory over Dortmund in the away game is a qualitative leap.

Of course, their record in the first four rounds against the four Bundesliga Champions League teams was only 1 win and 3 losses. Such a result is naturally not as good as their opponent Frankfurt's 2 wins and 2 draws in the next round.

It should be said that Stuttgart's opponent Frankfurt in the seventh round should be their strongest opponent in the next few rounds. As for whether Stuttgart can cross this barrier, this is unknown.

Before the game against Frankfurt, Stuttgart coach Zonig began to show weakness.

He said to the media reporters: "Frankfurt is the most difficult opponent to beat in the Bundesliga this season except Bayern Munich. Their frontcourt is young and fast, especially their Asian player Bruce Lee. He is too strong. In the first six rounds He scored seven goals, if we can't limit his breakthrough, then we are probably going to be unlucky."

When asked about the tactical arrangement for the next game, Zonig told the media more conservatively: "We will play a five-back formation in the next game. Don't ask me why, we are not sure that we will take 3 at the Commercial Bank Stadium." 1 point is our goal, of course, I won’t blame my players for the loss, after all, this opponent is too strong.”

Zonig's conservative tactics are not unsuccessful.

In the seventh round, in Frankfurt's home game against Stuttgart, Zonig was more than a five-back formation. Zonig was basically a 5-4-1 pure defensive formation, and he didn't even bother to fight back.

In the position of the midfielder, Zonig has hoarded three defensive midfielders, leaving Maxim and Ibisevic in the frontcourt.

This also made Solskjaer dumbfounded. He would never have thought that Zonig would be so conservative that he actually put up a defensive formation in front of the Stuttgart goal with a goalkeeper and a full 9 players.

In this game, Li Yuming has been entangled by a total of 90 defensive players of the opponent for 9 minutes, and he is not given a chance, and Odegaard on the right is not much better. There are also two defenders beside the Norwegian genius. Defensive players cling like psoriasis.

In this way, the two offensive players on Frankfurt's two wings were completely stuck to each other by the opponent's five defensive players, and no space was spared.

In the end, Frankfurt's offense was completely stagnant. Of course, Stuttgart also paid the price-they also relied on Maxim to hit their only shot in a counterattack in the whole game, and the center position The Bosnian star Ibisevic didn't even have a shot.

In the end, the game also ended with a score of 0 to 0. Stuttgart coach Zonig used an almost "scam" tactic to steal a point at Frankfurt's home court at the Commerzbank Stadium.

In such a game, Frankfurt coach Solskjaer was also very helpless, but he also highly praised Stuttgart's defense.

"Zonig's tactics are very good. They successfully restricted our two wide offensive players. As a result, our offense has also become stagnant. It can be said that Stuttgart took away 1 at the Commerzbank Stadium for granted. Of course, we also found our shortcomings, the Frankfurt players need to learn, once the two wide players are restricted, how to attack from the center and so on."

Indeed, Solskjaer saw Frankfurt's current shortcomings in this game.

Although the attack on the two wings was flourishing and impressive, Frankfurt did not even improve in the offensive system in the center.

Alexander? Meyer is 33 years old, and in the center position, Frankfurt has no one who can replace Meyer at the high point of the arrow.

This also caused Frankfurt's central road to be completely messed up once Meyer was physically weak in the second half, or was absent due to injuries.

Although Piazon is known as "Kaka II", due to the gradual growth of age and Chelsea's delay in recalling him, Piazon's progress is getting slower and slower.

This can't be blamed on Mourinho. In the current Chelsea lineup, there is absolutely no shortage of strongmen in the midfield or attacking midfielder positions. With Piazon's current situation, returning to Chelsea is also expected to sit on the bench. He is not as good as Continue to secure his main position in Frankfurt.

You know, top midfielders like De Bruyne have been abandoned by Chelsea, but De Bruyne has made a breakthrough in the Bundesliga. He led Wolfsburg to show the world his new style. one side.

Piazon's downturn has also caused Solskjaer to have no one to use in the midfield. In the midfielder position, Piazon can be regarded as a player with both fame and strength in the Frankfurt club. (Piazon's ownership still belongs to Chelsea, and he transferred on loan while playing for Frankfurt.)
Looking at Frankfurt's current bench, the two players who can play in the frontcourt are extremely young, namely 23-year-old Kittel and 20-year-old Stendra.

Although the players have experience in the Bundesliga in the past two years, their unstable state really made Solskjaer dare not let go of a starting midfield position to one of them.

(Griezmann scored again... 22 goals. Judging from their current state of two goals per game, it seems that 30 goals is not a dream!)
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