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Chapter 172 Bayer Leverkusen!
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[Nubia smelled the business opportunity! Keep up with the trend of football! They invited Xia Han, who has the largest traffic and the strongest strength in China, and can be called the best player and best striker in China! ]
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[Xia Han is very enthusiastic towards Chinese people. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen familiar Chinese faces and heard familiar languages! ]
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[I am a little dissatisfied. Why is Xia Han's partner always a football player and a man? There are no beautiful women shooting commercials together. I am not very satisfied! ]
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[You need to have a healthy image! It may be hard for you to imagine that Xia Han is still a minor! He just celebrated his 17th birthday on the last day of last year! ]
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[Haha! Xia Han's outrageous strength makes it easy for people to ignore his age! ]

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The peaceful and monotonous days passed quickly.

Time disappeared in the blink of an eye before everyone's eyes.

Bundesliga match day is here.

Bundesliga round 22.

After a few good home games, Dortmund faced an away game after a long absence.

In this Bundesliga match, Dortmund will go to the BayArena in Leverkusen to fight.

Xia Han and his teammates arrived in Leverkusen.

Others saw Xia Han's familiar figure. Even though he had just missed one game, his teammates missed this Chinese forward very much.

"Leverkusen is not an easy opponent." Assistant coach Michels sighed while standing in the middle of the bus.

"That's right. They drew with Bayern in a game not long ago. Now they are ranked third in the Bundesliga, right behind us. Their strength is unquestionable." Tuchel also nodded.

"Not long ago, I was still thanking them for their great contribution to our championship." Weigl recalled the situation at that time.

"We can win this game steadily, get all three points and aim for the Bundesliga salad bowl!" Hummels said in a loud voice.

Xia Han's thoughts were flying, and the image of Bayer Leverkusen's team logo appeared in his mind.

Leverkusen is a football club located in Leverkusen, Germany. It was founded on July 1904, 7. Because the team was founded by employees of the global pharmaceutical giant "Bayer", it also got a friendly nickname: the pharmaceutical factory!
Leverkusen achieved a great success in 2002, that is, winning the Champions League, Bundesliga and German Cup!
The template of "tragic heavy artillery" Ballack that Xia Han got was exactly the main player of Leverkusen in 2002. Since the second half of 2001, Ballack has taken a big step towards the ranks of superstars, but it is accompanied by an inexplicable tragedy!

In the first 01 rounds of the 02/18 Bundesliga season, Ballack played in games, contributing an astonishing nine goals and six assists. Under his leadership, Leverkusen also entered the Bundesliga winter break ahead of Dortmund with a goal difference advantage.

Although the three-time runner-up was frustrating, Ballack would face more sadness at the 2002 World Cup in Korea and Japan. The East German prince wearing the No. 13 jersey became the "four-time runner-up" in 02 and won 13 runner-up awards in his career.

Dortmund's bus slowly drove towards the BayArena.

Dortmund players were also discussing the arrangements for the next game and looking at the scenery around Leverkusen.

“The view in Leverkusen is nice.”

"so so."

Time passed quickly and soon it was time for the pre-match press conference. Schmidt and Tuchel exchanged polite greetings. The two had met before the winter break.

At that time, Dortmund won the victory easily with a score of 3-0.

Among them, Shinji Kagawa and Aubameyang received "one point" from the Bundesliga media after the match, which does not mean the worst, but the best.

When they meet again this time, Leverkusen’s goal is naturally to change from before and fight for victory with all their strength!

I believe many fans are familiar with the name Roger Schmidt. He was the head coach who coached Beijing Guoan to win the FA Cup.

His coaching career can be described as tortuous and successful.

He never made it to any professional team during his playing career and became a real engineer after studying mechanical engineering at the University of Paderborn.

In 05, Schmidt, an "amateur football enthusiast" who loved playing FM games, completely "retired" and began his coaching career as the head coach of a team in the sixth-level German league.

Afterwards, Roger Schmidt started a new life. At the age of 43, his life was split in half like a watermelon!
From leading Paderborn 07 to secure fifth place in the Bundesliga, creating the team's best ranking in a decade, to Salzburg Red Bull paying a one million euro buyout clause to bring him to the Austrian league!

After a year of running-in, Schmidt's record at Red Bull Salzburg was brilliant. The team remained unbeaten for 110 rounds, won eight consecutive games in the Europa League, and scored goals throughout the season!
What is more important than the blowout score data is the wanton display of Schmidt's football philosophy! He advocates high-pressure pressing and likes to use extremely aggressive methods to press for the ball! The pressing tactics are very fierce!
In the 13/14 season, in the pre-season match, Salzburg Red Bull beat Bayern 3-0, which made Guardiola exclaim: "His oppression tactics are very fierce! The brutality is something I have never seen in my life!"

Leverkusen immediately paid the penalty fee to bring Schmidt back to the German stage. In his debut, Schmidt taught a lesson to Klopp, who also advocated high-pressure defense. He broke Dortmund's goal just nine seconds after the start of the game and finally won a clean and sharp victory of 2-0!
Bellarabi's record of scoring in nine seconds is still the fastest goal record in the Bundesliga!
This season, Leverkusen's offense is sharp, and its defense is also sharp. The forwards can score 50 goals, and the back line can concede 40 goals! However, Schmidt will never regret it. This is the football philosophy he implements:

"In a football match, the winner is determined by who scores more goals. I would rather lose spectacularly 4-5 than lose miserably 0-1!"

Facing the cameras of the media, Schmidt said solemnly: "We lost three goals to Dortmund during the winter break, we will get them all back in this game!"

"We are implementing the concept of attack! We will not give up attacking. This game will let the Bundesliga audience see whose spear is sharper!"

"Leverkusen's forward line is as good as anyone. I believe in my players!"

Tuchel's response was brief and sharp.

"If we can beat Leverkusen once, we can beat them again!"

"We are already firing on all cylinders on offense! The recent big scores are the best proof of this!"

"After Xia transferred in, our attacking sharpness and layering have been taken to a new level!"

(End of this chapter)