Green Journey

Chapter 109
On April 2015, 4, the 4th round of the Bundesliga kicked off.

The first six games of this round of the league started at the same time, including the strong dialogue between Dortmund and Bayern.

But because of a breaking news a few days ago, many people in this round of the league did not pay attention to the dialogue between the two clubs.

Instead, put it on Dortmund coach Jurgen Klopp.

On April 4, some media suddenly claimed that Klopp had reached an agreement with Dortmund's top management. After the end of the Bundesliga this season, he will leave Dortmund, where he has coached for seven seasons, and find another way out.

As soon as the news came out, it immediately attracted the attention of all the media and fans.

At first everyone thought it was an April Fool's Day joke made by Klopp and the fans.

However, when he cleverly avoided this question in the interview, the authenticity of this news began to arouse people's imagination.

After the winter break, Dortmund's overall status began to rise. At present, their ranking has risen steadily, and it is unlikely to be relegated.

In the end, I didn't expect that there was another problem with the team's meritorious coach.

This season has been a season of endless problems and suffering for Dortmund fans.

Wolfsburg's opponent in this round of the league is the bottom one, and there is a high probability that Stuttgart will be relegated to the Bundesliga this season.

In the battle between the top and the bottom of the list, the outside world, both fans and the media, unanimously look down on Stuttgart, without exception.

But after the game started, Stuttgart's flashback gave everyone a big scare.

In the 3rd minute of the game, Stuttgart sent a sideline kick from the right side of the penalty area.

The ball was thrown vigorously into the right sideline of the Wolfsburg penalty area.

Stuttgart striker Ginchek, a high center forward, stands on the sideline of the penalty area as a strong fulcrum.

He took off under a three-man double-team and used his chest to stop the ball in front of him, allowing the right winger Haneke who ran from his left to take the ball directly into the penalty area.

After Harnik took the ball across the sideline of the penalty area, he suddenly made a cross pass, allowing Stuttgart's left back Hlossek, who followed up from the top of the arc, to get a single-handed goal facing Benaglio.

Benaglio reacted very quickly, and he pushed it straight out, compressing Hlossek's shot angle.

In the end, he successfully blocked the ball out of the bottom line of the penalty area.

In the next ten minutes, Stuttgart's offense played quite well, even threatening Wolfsburg's goal continuously.

In the 12th minute of the game, Stuttgart suddenly intercepted the ball on the left side of the center circle.

Then quickly hit the left side of Wolfsburg's penalty area through consecutive twos and ones.

Stuttgart left forward Krstic made a pass from the bottom to the back point.

Before the back-point post, because Naldo went up to mark Kostic, Chu Zheng came to the front-point post to defend.

It was Rodriguez who hit the post at the back, and he got stuck in front of Harnik.

Then he didn't pay attention to Hanick's sudden retreat at the moment Kostic passed the ball behind him.

As a result, after the ball flew across the next second, Hanick took off without interference and pushed the ball in from the upper right corner of the goal.

Stuttgart's goal made the Wolfsburg fans wail.

Some fans even began to boo Rodriguez, who was leaking defensively, completely forgetting their bragging faces when Rodriguez assisted in the past.

Chu Zheng was also very dissatisfied with this conceded goal, but there was nothing he could do about it. Rodriguez was strong in offense and weak in defense, and his strength was offense.

Football defense is actually stacking blocks, and what is important is the whole.

Every player is a building block. Once a building block goes wrong, the defense line will all collapse.

But soon Wolfsburg told everyone with great strength that this is the Volkswagen Arena, a den of wolves.

Stuttgart's goal was like a fuse, directly detonating all the players on the Wolfsburg field, and the wolves began to attack.

In the 15th minute of the game, De Bruyne sent a left corner kick.

Chu Zheng soared into the air and grabbed the first spot, but because there was no shooting angle, Chu Zheng ferried the ball to the back post.

Chu Zheng passed the ball very delicately, but Gustavo, who succeeded in grabbing a shot at the back point, was lax, and he pushed the ball directly to the baseline.

Three minutes later, Calijuri made a strong breakthrough outside the Stuttgart penalty area, and Stuttgart right back Klein tripped and tripped Caligiuri.

Rodriguez committed a crime and made a penalty kick, rewriting the score to 1-1 and completing the redemption.

After that, Wolfsburg played Stuttgart for a long time without passing halftime.

De Bruyne, Vierinha and others took turns to deliver shells, but Dost and others took turns to stage happy football.

The second goal didn't come until the second half.

It was still Rodriguez, who took a precisely guided free kick 40 meters away from the right, and accurately found Chu Zheng in the crowd.

Chu Zheng successfully took off under the marking of Stuttgart's two central defenders Niedermeier and Baumgarter, and directly shook the ball and hammered the ball into the goal.

In the 88th minute of the second half, the third goal came, and it was still related to Chu Zheng.

Stuttgart took a corner kick and caused chaos in the middle of Wolfsburg's penalty area. Chu Zheng took the opportunity to volley and make a clearance.

He drove the ball directly into the left rib of the top of the Stuttgart penalty area.

After the ball landed, De Bruyne, Maxim and Romeu competed for the ball.

In the end, De Bruyne, who was more accurate in judging the placement and route, put the ball into the top area of ​​the arc. Schurrle, who came off the bench in the second half, sent a long shot with a tricky angle, rewriting the score to 3- 1.

After the game, on the evening of April 4th, Wolfsburg continued to welcome the German Cup quarter-final opponent Freiburg at the Volkswagen Arena.

In this game, Dieter Heiking made a large-scale rotation, racing against time to give the players time to rest.

Including De Bruyne and Chu Zheng, Dieter Blackkin once again played a defensive counterattack tactic.

In addition, many main players are not on the field, so the game scene is a bit ugly.

Although Wolfsburg's defense was very good, their offense was poor, and Freiburg had the upper hand.

The game was deadlocked until the 60th minute of the second half when Dieter Heiking replaced Chu Zheng, De Bruyne and Dost in one go.

In the 85th minute of the game, De Bruyne made a direct free kick on the left side of the Freiburg arc, helping Wolfsburg narrowly beat Freiburg 1-0 and advancing to the semi-finals of the German Cup in the 2014-15 season.

The double match in a week is over, and the next game is the Europa League quarter-finals a week later, from Naples, a powerhouse in Serie A.

Due to the easy defeat of Inter Milan, the players in the Wolfsburg team are very optimistic about the upcoming Naples.

But Dieter Heiking doesn't think so.

Very simple, Naples has fallen to the bottom and started to rebound. It is in a period of rapid rise, and the team has also completed the transformation.

And Inter Milan is still struggling in the quagmire at the bottom of the valley.

So these two Serie A teams cannot be compared at all.

Dieter Heiking will not do the stupid thing of using the experience of playing Inter Milan to deal with Naples.

But both Wolfsburg and Dieter Heiking lack experience in European competitions, and they have never played against Serie A teams at all.

So Dieter Heiking is very worried, but he is not good at pouring cold water on the players who are optimistic.

So the only thing he can do is to analyze Naples carefully and comprehensively, and it is best to find the Achilles heel in Naples' tactical system.

(End of this chapter)