Young Football Player

Li Chenglong just shouted the slogan of competing for the European Golden Boot, but the team lost immediately.

A week later, on August 17, in the second round of the Bundesliga, Schalke went away to challenge Wolfsburg.

Wolfsburg originally had strong midfielders such as Perisic and Diego in the team. During the summer transfer, the Brazilian midfielder Gustavo was introduced from Bayern, which strengthened the hardness of the midfield and was regarded as an effective reinforcement. , the strength has increased.

But even so, Schalke is still the stronger side, but luck is too bad.

More than ten minutes into the game, Draxler was injured in the confrontation with Gustavo. Stevens chose to replace Kevin Boateng and let him play in midfield.

Although Kevin Boateng was originally a center forward, he also has a beautiful violent long-range shot, plus he is a muscular stick, and can often return to the midfield to participate in defense, so he can also play in the midfield, and even Playing as a midfielder, he can be regarded as an all-rounder in the midfield and frontcourt.

Even though someone was injured in the opening game, Jackie Chan sent a beautiful through ball in the 35th minute to help Huntelaar score and let Schalke take the lead in the first half.

But the second half had just begun and Huntelaar was also injured in a corner kick.

Stevens had to make another passive substitution, bringing in Hungarian striker Adam Szalay.

Successive players were injured, and they were all relatively key main players, which dealt a considerable blow to Schalke's morale.

Wolfsburg took advantage of this opportunity to score four goals in a row without even giving it a chance.

Although at the last moment of the game, Kanter found an opportunity to complete a long-range goal, but it was difficult to change the situation.

In the end, Schalke lost 2:4 away to Wolfsburg and suffered their first defeat of the season.

The team's first defeat this season came quite early. Last season, Schalke was unbeaten in more than ten consecutive games in all competitions.

In the other games of this round, Bayern beat Frankfurt 1:0 away, Dortmund won the newly promoted Brunswick 2:1 at home, and Leverkusen also won Stuttgart 1:0 away.

These three teams have completed two consecutive victories, and only Schalke has temporarily fallen behind with one win and one loss.

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Although the game was lost, life had to go on.

On August 21, Jackie Lee drove to Leverkusen, a small town between Dusseldorf and Cologne, to visit his old teammates.

Although Leverkusen is only a small town in Germany, there is the world-renowned pharmaceutical giant Bayer AG, as well as the Leverkusen Football Club founded by Bayer AG.

"Bruce, long time no see." Toby Harrison, the assistant coach who was in charge of picking up Jackie Lee, stepped forward and hugged him.

"Toby, how are you doing?"

"Thanks to you, it's not bad." Harrison pulled Li Chenglong while walking and said, "The more you play in Germany, the better. Even if I'm in Scotland, I can see news about you in the newspaper almost every day."

"You know, whenever you have a good performance, those reporters will go to the club to find someone to interview some topics about your past, and I took the opportunity to earn a lot of money for drinks."

"And Peter, he always said in front of reporters that you were completely trained by him, and now many Scottish media praised him as your Bole."

Harrison was talking endlessly, and Peter naturally referred to the head coach of Dundee United, Peter Houston.

"Look, everyone, our Super Bruce is back." When he came to the hotel, Harrison shouted, attracting everyone.

At this time, the Dundee United team was doing simple training in the hotel gym, and everyone put down their equipment and rushed over.

"Bruce, you seem to be getting stronger again."

"No, it should be more imposing."

"This is the aura of a big star, everyone should learn from it."

Although the current Dundee United team has undergone metabolism and replaced many players, the core is still Vardy, and Robertson is also a key player in the team.

Everyone was making jokes, and Peter Houston also came over and said, "Bruce, how about I find you a No. 7 jersey, so you can start tonight?"

"Of course I have no problem, but you have to call Gelsenkirchen first and ask if they agree to loan me out for one night?"

"Ha ha……"

At 8:45 in the evening, the first round of this season's Champions League play-offs, Dundee United's away game against Bayer Leverkusen started at the Bayer Arena.

When the live broadcast camera captured the scene of Jackie Chan appearing in the stadium, the Leverkusen fans immediately responded with huge boos.

Of course they all knew that Li Chenglong must have come here to support his old club, which was their opponent in this match.

Moreover, Leverkusen and Schalke can also be regarded as having a competitive relationship with each other.

From a personal point of view, of course Jackie Lee supports Dundee United.

However, intellectually speaking, Lee Chenglong also knew that it might be difficult for Dundee United to beat Leverkusen, and the gap in strength is still quite large.

But at the end of the game, the score on the scoreboard was not bad.

Dundee United drew with Bayer Leverkusen 1:1 away in Germany, did not lose, and scored an away goal.

Although this score is not enough to guarantee promotion, it is at least a small advantage.

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After returning from Leverkusen, Li Chenglong continued to prepare for the game.

At present, the team has injured Huntelaar and Draxler one after another, which is the time for Lee Chenglong to stand up.

In fact, after returning to Gelsenkirchen for inspection, Draxler's injury is not serious, and he should not be absent for too long, but Huntelaar is not optimistic. Maybe he will have to wait until the winter break to return up.

At this time, there was news from Schalke's mortal enemy Dortmund that they had completed a salary increase contract with their striker Lewandowski.

This didn't have much to do with Schalke, but according to the media, Lewandowski's salary increase contract was given according to Jackie Lee's standards in Schalke.

Lewandowski wants to transfer and leave Dortmund, this news has been around for a long time.

It is said that in the middle of last season, Lewandowski had only one and a half years left on his contract, so he reached a verbal agreement with the Hornets management. At the end of the season, as long as there is a suitable offer, Dortmund will let Lewandowski go.

But at the end of last season, Gotze was forcibly poached by Bayern first, and then Lewandowski completed his big four in the Champions League semi-finals against Real Madrid.

Now Dortmund's management repented and was unwilling to let Lewand go again.

So throughout the summer, the transfer news in the Ruhr area, apart from whether Li Chenglong will be forcibly poached by the giants, is whether Lewandowski will leave Dortmund.

Now Lewandowski and Dotra have been arguing for more than two months, and they reached an agreement at the end of the transfer period. Lewandowski will continue to stay in the team and raise his salary, but will not renew his contract.

Lewandowski's salary increase has reached Jackie Chan's standard. This is the highest salary in the Bundesliga except for Bayern players, and at the same time there is no renewal. just go there.

In any case, Dortmund has retained Lewandowski, which can be regarded as temporarily maintaining its competitiveness.

If both Gotze and Lewandowski leave one after another, Dortmund's competitiveness this season should be greatly reduced, and it is basically impossible to compete with Schalke again.