Young Football Player

Chapter 147 Ruhr Derby (Part 1)

October 20th, this is the 8th round of the Bundesliga, the match day of the Ruhr Derby.

Lee Jackie drove into Gelsenkirchen and was instantly recognized by the fans.

Although it was only morning, many fans wearing dark blue jerseys were already seen on the street.

"Bruce, we're going to win today, aren't we?"

"Will you score in Dortmund?"

"Bruce, as long as you score a goal in Dortmund, if you don't score in the next year, we will continue to support you."

"Be sure to get rid of Dortmund."

All kinds of shouts came towards Li Chenglong.

Before the derby in the Ruhr area started, Jackie Lee felt the atmosphere of the derby on the streets of Gelsenkirchen.

Entering the club, Lee Chenglong once again felt the difference.

Everyone in the team is seriously preparing for the game, and the atmosphere has become more serious invisibly. Even Matip, who usually likes to play the most, is quiet.

"Bruce, get ready, today is your first Ruhr Derby." Assistant coach Sven Hubuscher also came over and patted Li Chenglong on the shoulder and said.

Xu Buscher is the old man of the team. He has worked for the team for many years and assisted many coaches.

When Stevens first coached Schalke 04 in the 1990s, Hubscher was here as an assistant coach.

Now more than ten years have passed, and Stevens coached Schalke 04 for the second time, and Schalke 04 is still here as an assistant.

It is also this kind of old people who have the most affection for the club, and they also value the Derby the most.

At around 11:00 noon, the Schalke 04 bus departed from Gelsenkirchen, and the streets were full of fans seeing off along the way.

"Must win~~~~ must win!!"

"Must win~~~~ must win!!"

The fans saw off along the way, pulled up the blue banner team logo, and shouted the slogan of winning at the same time.

The Ruhr area is a dense urban agglomeration, not far from each other. Although Gelsenkirchen is not the largest city in the Ruhr area, it is the most central city, so the transportation is convenient. To the Ruhr area Every city is very close.

The Schalke 04 bus departed from Gelsenkirchen and arrived in Dortmund in just 20 minutes.

As soon as Schalke's blue bus arrived, crazy Dortmund fans surrounded it.

"Schalke bastards, you don't want to leave Dortmund alive!"

"Today is your day of death!"

Everyone on the bus was calm and relaxed, as if they were no strangers to this kind of scene.

Sure enough, the well-prepared police cleared the way for Schalke's bus, and it passed quickly.

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Arriving in Dortmund, the next step is to prepare for the game as usual, participate in the press conference and so on.

At 3:30 p.m. local time in Germany, the first Ruhr Derby of the season officially started in Dortmund.

"Another confrontation between Dortmund and Schalke 04, another football feast in the Ruhr area, here is the Westfalenstadion, the 141st Ruhr area derby in German football history."

This Ruhr Derby is the biggest highlight of this round of the Bundesliga, and German TV naturally arranged for important commentators to come to the scene.

"In the current Bundesliga standings, Bayern occupies the top spot with 19 points, and this season's dark polo team, Frankfurt, has been opened up by Bayern after an unexpected upset loss in the last round of the game. Looking down, there are Schalke 04 and Dortmund."

"Yes, Schalke 04 currently has 4 wins, 3 draws and 15 points, while Dortmund has 3 wins, 3 draws and 1 loss with 12 points. The difference between the two teams is exactly three points, the gap between one game." Two German commentators Start to cooperate with each other.

"So this game is actually a battle for third place between the two sides."

"But for Dortmund, this game is more important. Not only is it their home stadium, but if they want to complete the Bundesliga three consecutive championships, they must catch up with Bayern in the standings.

So every game is very important to them. "

"Judging from the player lineups of both sides, Schalke 04's main goalkeeper Hildebrand continues to be injured, and during the national team match day, Draxler and Papadopoulos were also injured. absent from this game."

"Dortmund have Götze and Błaszczykowski absent, both sides have lost some important players."

"However, both Royce and Lee, the key players who have invested heavily in signings from both sides this summer, have both appeared in the starting list. This is also a competition between the best signings in the Bundesliga this season..."

In the discussion of the commentator, both sides of the game are ready on the court.

Schalke 04 arranged a 4231 formation,

Goalkeeper: Unnerstahl

Defenders: Fox, Matip, Hewedes, Uchida Atsuto;

Back midfielder: Neustadter, Hogel;

Avant-garde: Afeilai, Holtby, Lee Chenglong;

Forward: Huntelaar.

Draxler was injured and the Dutchman Afele replaced him. During the national team match day, Jermaine Jones flew back to North America to participate in the game. He came back very tired and is now placed on the bench. at the table.

Dortmund arranged a 352 formation at home, or a 3142 formation;

Goalkeeper: Weidenfeller;

Defenders: Hummels, Sven Bender, Subotic;

Back midfielder: Kyle;

Avant-garde: Gross Kreutz, Perisic, Laettner, Piszczek;

Forwards: Lewandowski, Royce.

Gotze's injury is definitely a major loss for Dortmund.

With the whistle of the famous German sentry Blüch, this high-profile Ruhr Derby has officially begun.

At the start of the game, Dortmund kicked off first and quickly hit the frontcourt. Royce just got the ball and was about to break through, but was knocked to the ground by Hogel.

This caused huge boos from the Westphalon Stadium with more than 80,000 people, but Blüsch was unmoved and just gave an ordinary foul.

Immediately after Schalke 04 attacked, Li Chenglong took the ball and passed Perisic, and the opponent's big cross immediately slid over. It was the kind of shovel with the ball. Hang upside down.

This time the referee also just gave an ordinary foul.

Gross Kreutz means big cross in German, just like Schweinsteiger means pig in German, so Schweinsteiger is called piglet.

"The game has just started, and there was a fierce confrontation between the two sides. The new aids of the two teams participating in the Ruhr Derby for the first time have received special care. I believe this will give them a deeper understanding of the Ruhr Derby."

Under this fierce confrontation, many skills and tactics of the two teams were restricted, and the game became more about the personal ability of the players, or some luck.

In the 15th minute, Schalke 04's luck came first.

Fox on the left dribbled the ball forward and assisted, and passed the ball to Holtby in the middle after passing Piszczek. How far away.

At this time, Li Chenglong just ran to this position, took the ball, and made a gesture to shoot from a long distance, causing Hummels and Subotic to jump up and block sideways, but Li Chenglong stepped on the ball and pulled it back. Pick, pick and pass the ball to the point behind the goal.

The Dutchman Afeilai, who inserted from the back point, rushed two steps, ran to the front of the small penalty area with a diving header, and directly headed the ball into Dortmund's gate.

"Goooooooooooal~~~~~"

"A Feilai scored with a header~~~~ A pick pass assist from Lee!!"

"Li just handled the ball so beautifully. He got the ball in an unexpected situation, but he pretended to shoot to deceive the defensive player in front of him, and then made a light pass to assist his teammates to score a goal!! "

"Schalke spent 14 million to introduce Li, which is definitely worth the money. He not only performed well, but also has a big heart, and he can always stand up at critical moments."

The German commentator boasted about Jackie Lee.

Since the start of the new season, Jackie Lee is indeed the best player in the Schalke 04 team. Huntelaar, who had a crazy performance last season, seems to have passed the drug effect and has become quiet. Jackie Chan has gradually become Schalke. 04 The most important player in the team.

After more than ten minutes into the game, they broke through the goal of their arch-enemy, and the entire Schalke team immediately celebrated wildly at the Westfalenstadion.

"Shalke~~~~Shalke!!"

"Shalke~~~~Shalke!!"

The entire Schalke 04 team gathered together and shouted the team name together on the sidelines, completely ignoring the crazy curses in the stands.

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