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In the 18th round of the Bundesliga, Schalke won Hamburg with three goals in the away game. At the same time, in other games of this round, Bayern won Borussia 2:0 away, Dortmund drew Augsburg 2:2 at home, Leverkusen Lost away to Freiburg 2:3, Wolfsburg lost 1:3 to Hannover 96 at home.

The first round of the second half of the Bundesliga season was full of upsets. Except for Bayern and Schalke, the top six teams in the standings failed to win the game.

So in the latest standings, Bayern 44 points, Schalke 42 points, Leverkusen 37 points, Gladbach 33 points, Dortmund 31 points, Wolfsburg 30 points.

During the winter break, Wolfsburg introduced De Bruyne at a record high price of 22 million euros in team history, but they did not expect to lose the first game in the second half of the season.

It is worth mentioning that Nuremberg, who had not won a game in the 17 rounds of the first half of the season, finally won the first round of the second half of the season, and it was Hofn who beat Hoffen 4-0 at home. Haim, this is a big upset.

In the middle of the week after the 18th round of the Bundesliga, Bayern played their 17th round of the league.

Although there were some twists and turns in the game, Bayern still defeated Stuttgart in an away game 2:1.

In this case, Bayern has completed 10 consecutive victories in the Bundesliga, and at the same time opened the point gap with Schalke to 5 points in the standings.

Although Li Chenglong said before that the gap of 5 points is not impossible to catch up, but in fact, with Bayern's current hot state and continuous winning streak all the way, it is really extremely difficult for Schalke to chase points.

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Sure enough, on February 1, the 19th round of the Bundesliga, Bayern started the game first, and they easily slaughtered Frankfurt 5-0 at the Allianz slaughterhouse.

The current Bayern is really in excellent form. In the Bundesliga, it is almost flat all the way, and no one can stop it.

And this round of Schalke's game is scheduled for the second day, and the opponent is not simple. It is Wolfsburg who just made up for it during the winter break.

The current Wolfsburg lineup is really good, with De Bruyne and Perisic in the midfield, the former Bayern Gustavo in the midfielder position, and the Swiss genius Ricardo who has not been scrapped due to injury at the left back position · Rodriguez, there is also Brazilian defender Naldo with a knife in the central defender position, and the Croatian veteran Olic is also good on the front line. He also completed a hat-trick in the Champions League semi-final two years ago.

In short, the current lineup of Wolfsburg can definitely achieve a lot after a little adjustment.

So at home, Schalke did not play well.

In just 9 minutes of the opening, Hewedes collided with the opponent's Italian midfielder Caligiuri in the scramble. This directly triggered Hewedes' hidden injury attribute, and he was injured.

In fact, Hewedes is in a relatively good situation this season. It took him half a season to get injured for the first time.

However, the game had just started, and the core of the defense was injured. Stevens on the sidelines was still very angry, cursed a few words, and finally had to make a substitution, allowing Brazilian defender Santana to play.

Santana was actually a Dortmund player last season, but he has been unable to play with the Hornets, and he terminated his contract to join Schalke 04 in the summer.

But his luck is also relatively bad. I thought that Schalke has a long-term illness of Hewedes, and he can get a lot of performance opportunities. Unexpectedly, Hewedes has no injuries this season.

The performance is still very stable, so that Santana has not been able to get the chance to play, and it is no different from before in Dortmund.

This time, he was able to play the game in just 9 minutes. This is the league game that Santana has gained the most time since joining Schalke.

Hewedes was injured at the beginning of the game, which made Wolfsburg seem to be proudly going to Schalke to turn away, launching continuous attacks and attacking Schalke's defense.

In the 21st minute, De Bruyne crossed the penalty area with a half-high kick from the right. The ball hit the front of Matip's calf and almost bounced into the goal. This was created by Wolfsburg under the offensive. greatest threat.

"Everyone calm down, concentrate, and don't be frightened by their offensive."

De Bruyne is very good at timing. Seeing that an important player on Schalke's side was injured, he immediately led the team to launch an offensive. It really made Schalke a little busy, so Li Chenglong had to call the whole team together. Let everyone be careful.

After Schalke reacted and stabilized the situation, the threat of Wolfsburg immediately became much smaller, so the two teams began to see-saw offense and defense back and forth.

In the 37th minute, Kanter intercepted De Bruyne's ball in the midfield, and then Lee Chenglong took the ball to form a breakthrough, passed Ricardo Rodriguez and then made a cross pass.

Kevin Boateng appeared in front of the goal, but his shooting skills were really not flattering. With a little interference from the opponent's young defender Knoch, he hit the ball into the stands.

In this way, the two sides ended the first half with a score of 0:0. It was considered to be a match for each other, but neither found a chance.

After the intermission, the two sides changed sides and fought again.

The first few minutes of the second half were relatively quiet, but in the 53rd minute, Schalke took the lead in picking up the pace.

Goretzka and Kanter made a wall kick in the midfield, and then gave the ball to Li Chenglong. Li Chenglong received the ball and accelerated, and directly got rid of the opponent's midfielder Caligiuri. He was about to pass the ball into the penalty area, and the opponent stretched out his hand in desperation. With a pull, Li Chenglong was pulled down.

"Penalty~~Penalty!!" Stevens immediately jumped up and shouted from the sidelines.

The referee Stark hesitated for a moment, and instead of giving a penalty kick, he gave a free kick from the penalty area line, which made the fans extremely upset.

But then the referee's move immediately made the fans cheer again, because he took out a yellow card to Caligiuri.

Caligiuri had already received a yellow card when he injured Hewedes in the first half, and now he has received a second yellow card, which means he will be sent off.

In this way, relying on Li Chenglong's breakthrough with the ball, Schalke finally gained a numerical advantage.

For the next free kick, since it was on the penalty area line, Li Chenglong tried his best to let the ball circle around the wall and fly over the wall, but because the distance was too short, the ball couldn't fly back after going around the wall, and finally flew out. beyond the bottom line.

But this has little effect, with the numerical advantage, Schalke quickly broke the deadlock.

In the 62nd minute, Gretzka completed a breakthrough with the ball in the midfield, and then passed a high ball to Huntelaar on the left side of the penalty area.

Huntelaar hit the ball and returned the ball to the right side of the penalty area. Li Chenglong rushed to lift his right foot and put the ball into the opponent's goal.

Jackie Lee broke the deadlock, Wolfsburg still wanted to struggle, but in the 76th minute, Kevin Boateng scored with a strong long shot and broke the opponent's goal again.

Boateng's shooting skills are not good, but every game has three or four shots, almost all of which are long shots.

His long-range shots are not accurate, but they have a characteristic, they are powerful enough, as long as they are within the range of the goal, they are extremely threatening.

Schalke led Wolfsburg 2:0, but the opponent still made a final resistance.

In the 84th minute, De Bruyne created a corner kick by passing the ball, and then he took a corner kick himself, successfully found his teammate Arnold, and assisted the opponent to score with a header.

But then Stevens replaced defensive players consecutively and didn't give the opponent another chance.

In this way, Schalke defeated Wolfsburg 2:1 at home, and the game process was not easy at all.

With De Bruyne as the backbone of Wolfsburg, the combat effectiveness has indeed increased a lot.

After the game, Jackie Lee also specifically expressed comfort to De Bruyne, who performed well: "It was a fluke for us to win this game. I believe you have a great chance to reach the top four."

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