Updated: 2012-09-02

On the evening of September 15, Bayer Arena.

Nearly 20,000 Leverkusen fans and more than 2,000 Mallorca fans from afar squeezed the entire stadium out of the way. Mallorca fans did not have the habit of following the team to the European arena. At that time, Cooper led the team to the final of the Winners Cup. When they participated in the away game in this process, no fans went to support them away...

The same was true when Jose took over. When he fought against Leeds in the League Cup semi-finals that year, hundreds of Mallorca fans spontaneously organized themselves to support Mallorca away. It was also after that that local Mallorca fans began to support the team's games away. Until now, they can bring thousands of people to watch an ordinary Champions League group stage away. Mallorca's fanaticism for football has begun to heat up to a point.

Leverkusen's head coach Claudio Ogenthal sat in his position with a serious expression. Today Mallorca was wearing a away jersey, which is the counterfeit Real Madrid jersey. This jersey is more hated. At least Leverkusen's fans were quite unhappy Mallorca's jersey, because when they were so close to the Champions League championship, they lost to Real Madrid in the final, making the "reputation" of Sanya King. Leverkusen's fans saw that Mallorca's counterfeit Real Madrid jersey was like a ghost...

In addition to boos, there is also ridicule. However, with the experience of the first round of the league, Mallorca's players became much more indifferent. They no longer had the feeling of shame that they were ashamed to death. They were just a little annoyed after being ridiculed...

"Did you hear those bastards laugh at us?" Matthias said viciously in the group of Mallorca players who formed a circle: "Then let's kill them together!"

Compared with Nadal, Mathias looks younger and more impulsive, but his two-pole temper seems to make Mallorca, who is mainly young players, crazy - this is also why he became the captain of Mallorca in the vote. Compared with him, Torres Alonso Kaka thought it was too boring.

Players on both sides began to scatter on the court and prepared to start the game.

For Leverkusen, who has returned to the Champions League, he encountered a team like Mallorca in the first official group stage, and their pressure was quite high. If he could play a little better, it would undoubtedly bring quite positive significance to the next Champions League group stage.

If Mallorca has obvious advantages in this group, then Leverkusen, Rome, Dynamo Kiev are basically at the same level. It is not a good thing to meet Mallorca in the first game, because Mallorca will also try to win a victory in the first game to lay a good foundation for the next game.

However, in terms of attack, Leverkusen didn't think he would be afraid of Mallorca...

So at the beginning of the game, with the help of home court and the shouts of Leverkusen fans on the sidelines, Leverkusen launched a fierce attack from the beginning!

Goalkeeper Butt, defenders Schneider, Juan, Juanol, Placente, midfielders Ramilao, Bierovka, Balic, Krzinovik, forwards Franza and Berbatov, and Leverkusen sent all the main players.

Jose made fine adjustments to the starting lineup, and Macon rotated, and Campano replaced him. Other positions were the main lineup of this season. Klose returned to Germany for the first time after coming to Mallorca.

After the game started, Leverkusen, who was the first to kick off, launched an attack. Krzinovik was the attacking midfielder of Leverkusen in this game, but he was a player with a large range of activities. Although he had just transferred from Nuremberg, he had quickly dissolved into Leverkusen's offensive system.

Leverkusen's offense has always been quite outstanding. They were able to go from a team without foundation to one of the most successful Bundesliga teams in the 1990s and even now, relying on their offense. They have always been able to have excellent offensive players. Whether it was the Dom era at that time, the Topmuller era or the Ogenthal era now, they have never lacked offensive players.

After Krinovik switched to the side, he received a pass from Balic and began to break through from the left. Macon forced him up. However, Krinovik did not choose to break through, but directly passed the ball into the penalty area!

His cross is different from ordinary crosses. He is neither a high-altitude cross nor a ground pass, but a half-high ball was directly passed. The ball passed through the penalty area. Both Mallorca's two central defenders and Leverkusen's two forwards in the middle failed to get the point. Bierovka and Ram rushed towards the ball together, and Bierovka used his body to block Ram behind him, and then directly volleyed at the back point!

Cameni, who moved quickly under his feet, blocked the angle of the shot, and the ball hit his chest and bounced out directly. Then Cameni followed up and cleared the ball directly.

A few minutes later, Leverkusen launched another attack, and Bierovka directly passed the ball to Franza who was in front. Matthias stuck his position very steadily. He knew that Franza was not slow and his feet were also very skilled. Facing such a Brazilian striker, it was not a good choice to rush up rashly.

Franza chose to pass the ball, and he passed the ball horizontally to his partner Berbatov. The young Bulgarian striker stopped the ball at his feet. Seeing that Mex had already pressed him up, he pushed the ball horizontally with his right foot, and suddenly dunked the ball back, killing him from Mex in a very casual manner!

Mex was now swept by Berbatov's fake moves, but he immediately reacted and turned around and leaned against Berbatov. Just as Berbatov was about to take a kick - after being disturbed by him, Berbatov's shot failed to gain strength and was easily confiscated by Kameni.

"So this guy is not very good at fighting." Kameni thought to himself that Berbatov's breakthrough just now was very beautiful, but Mex once he touched it, he lost his balance. This is really an alternative center.

"Damn, Brother Xiaosha is Brother Xiaosha. He is so cool that he doesn't like to run or fight." Jose shook his head off the court. Brother Xiaosha is a characteristic of running on the court for 90 minutes and still not touching the dust. Jose doesn't want to introduce him anyway, and he doesn't know which nerve was wrong at the time. He gave up the outstanding people's forward Tevez and wanted to introduce Brother Xiaosha...

Leverkusen's offense is still ongoing. They use running to fight Mallorca's organizational offense in the midfield, and then launch an attack. Although they don't shoot, they suppress Mallorca to a large extent. Leverkusen has always been a team with excellent offensive capabilities, and they also have the tradition of introducing Brazilian players. From Sergio, Ze Roberto, Lucio to Juan, Junior, Franza, they can often find some players in Brazil who are not very famous but have excellent strength. In this case, the other players they introduce are mainly technical players, so when comparing with technology, they may not be much worse than Mallorca. At the same time, their running and confrontation also have a strong shadow of a Bundesliga team.

Mallorca's previous outstanding performance has a lot to do with their excellent skills and running skills. Jose can find ways to suppress them somewhere when facing various teams, but when facing Leverkusen now, it cannot form effective suppression.

This situation also aroused Jose's vigilance - when the new century comes, the development trend of European football is similar to the slogan of the Olympics, that is, faster, higher and stronger - players generally have a lot of running ability, and their feet are not bad. Overall football is popular. Coaches prefer to use a player who can play a role in the whole rather than a genius who fights alone. The real superstar is only Messi and Ronaldo. Other stars sometimes do not have any advantages when facing ordinary players...

So many people think this is a performance of the overall decline of football, but Jose does not see it this way. This situation does not mean that the overall player's level is falling. On the contrary, the overall player's level is rising. The strength gap between ordinary players and stars is quite small. Suitable tactics and overall are more important than individual stars. When a player runs more than 10,000 meters per game, it is normal today. How can the level decline come? You should know that in the 1990s, players who run tens of thousands of meters per game were called Iron Man...

Now that Mallorca's suppression is just a microcosm. Mallorca will encounter more opponents whom he cannot find a place to suppress in the future. Jose's future path is still a long way to go...

After Ramilao's long shot was blocked by Mattias with his body, Jose shook his head and stood up. Instead of yelling, he stood directly on the sidelines - just this action, he had proved his current mood - he was very unhappy now...

"Bump back, guys!" Matthias shouted on the court - because he was the first person to see Jose standing up from his chair and standing on the sidelines...

The shot blocked by Matthias was obtained by Alonso. Alonso stopped the ball at his feet, then forced a turn and broke through from Krzinovik. However, as soon as he turned around, Krzinovik had already reached out invisibly and pulled him to the ground.

The referee's whistle sounded, and Mallorca won a free kick in his half, but the chance of fast break was blocked - Leverkusen's midfielder had been using foul tactics to interrupt Mallorca's offensive rhythm just now. Their foul action was not big. At most, it only attracted a warning from the referee, but it effectively prevented Mallorca's counterattack.

"Andres!"

Jose shouted off the court, and as Iniesta looked at him, Jose's thumbs and index fingers of both hands were put together, and then leaned into the middle.

Jose has set a lot of gestures, and this gesture has only one meaning - protection. When you see this gesture, Iniesta knows that the leader is to let himself pick up Alonso more, and don’t let him take the ball alone.

Iniesta nodded at the bottom of the field, indicating that he understood.


Chapter completed!