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Chapter 608 Defeat Bremen

.After the match against Barcelona, ​​Mallorca soon ushered in the first leg of the Champions League, another away game. In this game, they will challenge Werder Bremen away. The strength of this group is relatively average, Mallorca stands out, and Panasinacos is the weakest in the second-level team. Although Werder Bremen and Udinese are the third- and fourth-level teams, these two teams are one of the teams with very beautiful offensives in the Bundesliga and Serie A. Although it is a compensation for UEFA's unfair treatment last season, this group is not easy to play. If Mallorca is in a bad state, this group is likely to have a stalemate. If too much energy is consumed in the Champions League group stage, it is obviously quite unfavorable for Mallorca.

So the first Champions League game is also a touchstone. For Mallorca, this game allows them to measure what the real strength of this group looks like. In Jose's view, Bremen is the team that poses the most threat to Mallorca in this group. This away game, the first official game after Mex was injured, will naturally bring more meaning to it.

Bremen entered the Champions League this season as the third place in the Bundesliga. In the qualifiers, they eliminated the Swiss team Basel and entered the Champions League with a total score of 4-2 in two rounds. The Bundesliga is the earliest league to start in the five major leagues this season. Now they have played four rounds of league games. Bremen's performance is quite good. In four league games, Bayern, who is only behind four league games, ranks second in the league. This team is also one of the few teams that can cause trouble for Bayern in recent years. Although Klose has not joined this team as history has, the combination of Krasnic, Honter and Miku is still outstanding. Without Klose's standard center, Bremen's frontcourt plays more flexible.

However, for a team, if there is no standard center, the stability of the performance will be greatly affected. However, for this game, this characteristic of Bremen may cause more trouble to Mallorca, because both of their central defenders are stable rather than flexible.

Krasnic, who once played for Mallorca, is more eager for this game. He didn't play for a long time, and his performance was only considered good. He performed quite well in few appearance opportunities, but was sent to Atletico Madrid as a transfer partner by Torres. During his one year at Atletico Madrid, he performed quite well and helped Atletico Madrid succeed in upgrading. However, Krasnic began to hate life in Spain and then returned to Germany and quickly became the main force in Bremen - this seems to verify Jose's accuracy in looking at people. The young forward who introduced as a substitute and sent away as a top-notch striker for Torres is now a top striker in the Bundesliga, which makes Jose's level even more valuable.

If Klashnic was not convinced before, he left Mallorca as the top player of Torres - after all, Jose did not quickly reuse him after getting Torres. In the first two seasons of Mallorca, he only played less than thirty times and scored more than ten goals. He scored twenty-three Spanish Second Division goals in one season at Atletico Madrid and scored thirteen goals in his first season in Bremen. This result is much better than Torres - but now, he has to admit that the players introduced by Jose may be very outstanding, but the players he values ​​and the players he spares no effort to train must be top players...

Because after Torres became the main player of Mallorca last season, he almost became the La Liga top scorer and the European Golden Boot Awards - the La Liga top scorer and the European Golden Boot Awards last season were both Villarreal's Diego Fran, who scored only twenty-five goals in a single season, and Torres also scored twenty-four goals in a missed four rounds of the league. For most commentators and fans, Fran, who started to score explosively in the second half, obviously cannot compare with Etoo and Torres, who can continue to score goals throughout the season.

Krasnic's performance in Bremen last season was only pretty good. He scored ten goals in 28 games. He is a very excellent striker, but Torres is a top striker. This is the difference between them.

However, although Krashnich had to admit that Jose's judgment was not wrong, it did not mean that he would willingly finish the game quietly. He needed to prove with his own performance that even if Jose introduced Torres at that time, it would be wrong to give up on him!

After the arrival of the 21st century, Bremen began their revival, gradually turning from a team that had almost been relegated to a team that was capable of rushing to the championship. In the 0304 season, they finally won the league championship and continued to become a force in the Bundesliga that cannot be ignored. However, in the Champions League, they still need to prove their status with their performance. Last season, they reached the top 16 in the Champions League, but were eliminated by the French Ligue 1 overlord Lyon in the knockout round with a score of 10 to 2 in two rounds. While they were extremely embarrassed, they also humiliated the entire Bundesliga, because they became the participating teams in the Champions League as the Bundesliga champions...

This season is also a season for Bremen to restore his image, and they also attach great importance to this game.

Stable defense, base yourself in the midfield, and use the fast attack in the frontcourt to play behind Mallorca's two tall central defenders. This is Bremen's most basic style of play. However, for Jose, if an offensive team gives up its own characteristics and uses defense to entangle Mallorca, then winning them will not be too difficult. Bremen is a very "crazy" team in the Bundesliga. If they can get crazy, it will cause a lot of trouble for Mallorca. However, if they lose this crazy spirit, Jose does not think that this team will cause them too much trouble.

At the same time, both of Mallorca's central defenders were relatively slow, but Bremen's central defenders were not very fast. Brazilian central defenders Naldo were 1.98 meters tall, so people of this height were naturally not very flexible. Another central defender, Passaen, was a standard German central defender. He was determined, brave and tenacious, had excellent head-on ability, but he turned slowly and did not respond well.

In dealing with such a defender, Mallorca's flexible and maneuverable attack is enough to create enough goalscoring opportunities. As long as Bremen defends and counterattacks, their offense will not be able to threaten Mallorca's goal, and Mallorca's offense has a great opportunity to tear open Bremen's defense...

Although Bremen's head coach Schaff is an important contributor to Bremen's rise again, his ability is not a top head coach. German football has made considerable contributions to world football. However, after the 1998 World Cup, both players and coaches entered a period of exhaustion. This situation did not ease until after the 2006 World Cup. At least in Jose's view, Schaff is not yet considered an excellent coach, which proves this.

In the opening stage, Bremen still played some beautiful attacks. After all, they are one of the most pleasing teams in the Bundesliga. Hongt roamed on the wing, Klashnich ran on a large scale, Miku controlled the midfield, and Borowski, Flins and Bowman in the midfield, who were able to run, rush and shoot from a long time, beat Mallorca in the opening stage, but Mallorca, who temporarily retreated, was still quite strong on the defense line, and Van der Sar was not afraid of long shots, so even though he was pressed by Bremen for a while, he was still in danger.

After launching a counterattack, Mallorca's flexible and changeable attack in the frontcourt quickly made Bremen's defense suffer. Ram assisted forward and passed the ball to Iniesta's feet. Iniesta passed it to Torres in the corner of the penalty area. Torres faced the defense of three Bremen defenders. The ball passed to Klose at the front of the penalty area. Klose did not stop the ball, but gently passed the ball backwards. Alonso, who followed, kicked the ball towards the ball. The ball hit Pasan, who rushed to fill the position, deflected and then flew into the goal and fell left. Goalkeeper Reinke had no response. One to zero, Mallorca quickly took the lead away.

"Watching the Bundesliga team, flexible and changeable attack is indeed the king..." Jose thought thoughtfully in his heart. Generally speaking, in the European arena, other Bundesliga teams, except Bayern, did not perform well when they met Latin football countries such as Spain, France and Portugal, which has a lot to do with their defenders mainly tall and strong central defenders. This was the case in the Champions League knockout match last season. Lyon used his fast and changeable attack to tear open Bremen's defense line. In the last two games, he scored ten goals in Bremen, breaking Bremen's defense line.

With the first goal, the next thing was easy to deal with. The situation of falling behind at home forced Bremen to change his established tactics and began to try to equalize the score through offense. Mallorca began to stabilize the midfield and continuously blocked the opponent's attack and then launched an attack. They got several opportunities in the first half, but their condition was not at the best. They were wasted all opportunities. It was not until the 80th minute of the game that they established the victory. Silva, who came on as a substitute, received a direct pass from Alonso, broke into the penalty area. The opponent's defender Schultz had no choice but to drop Silva. Mallorca got a penalty kick, Kaka took the penalty, 2-0, and Mallorca laid the victory.

Krashnich worked hard to create some opportunities, but he could only walk from the wings but could not score goals under the entanglement of Ram and Macon. It seems that he could not prove anything in this game.

"It's a headache. It seems that this summer training camp has a great impact on the team's condition. Otherwise, there would be no big problem to win four or five goals in this game. The league schedule of this season is not very good, and the new central defender combination is needed. The players' condition is not very good. But in the first few rounds, they will touch several threatening teams. If the results of Real Madrid and Villarreal are not good in the next round, it will have a great impact on this season's league..."

Although he won the ball, the state the players showed could not make Jose feel at ease. Everything that happened before the start of the season was developing in a direction that was unfavorable to Mallorca. Jose had to be vigilant about this.
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