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"According to the latest news we have received, Stuttgart has made a decision. The team's main striker Elber will join Bayern Munich for $5.4 million and is currently on his way to Munich for a medical examination by Bayern!"
Kaiserslautern rented the pitch of a secondary school in Leverkusen as a training ground, stayed at a hotel near the Haberland stadium and used the hotel's conference room as a temporary team dressing room.
From the semi-finals to the final, there was an interval of 4 days. However, Yang Chen has never been a temporary Buddha's foot person, so after he arrived in Leverkusen from Augsburg, he convened a tactical seminar for the team on the second day.
"So he won't make it to the final?" Bremer asked excitedly.
Paul Breitner nodded, under the current situation of Bayern, Elber's trip to Munich for a medical check-up is unlikely to rush back to Leverkusen for this final match, most likely he will be allowed to play in the first round of the league.
"Don't be too happy, everyone. Regardless of whether Elber plays or not, we still need to win this game against Bayern. So, we can't think that Bayern will be affected just because Elber doesn't play!" Yang Cheng warned with a serious face.
Braemar's expression suddenly turned serious, somewhat embarrassed, but he supported the head coach's idea, thoroughly casting aside the lucky mentality of just now, because he understood that always carrying this mentality to participate in competitions would bring no benefits to a player and a team, only leading them to suffer more failures.
"Elber is not there, Bayern's main striker should still be the double striker formation used in that Dortmund match!" Yang Cheng pointed to the big screen in the conference room, which was playing Bayern's two goals.
"Yanjkele, this name is familiar to you all, he is an excellent power forward, with a height of 1.93 meters and a weight of 91 kilograms, the impact on the defense line can be imagined."
In the match between Bayern and Dortmund, Jankel was the terminator of Dortmund's defense line, Sommer was absent due to injury, Kohler alone couldn't hold on, Dortmund's defense line was thoroughly breached by Jankel, once with a header from behind the defense line, once with a headed pass to assist his teammate in scoring.
"Yancker's strengths are obvious, but his weaknesses lie in his speed and agility, so our backline must be deployed with this in mind. Also, don't forget that Rizzoli may not be as fast anymore, but he is still a reliable partner, and Trapattoni also has a very fast Zickler under his command, who knows if he won't use some unexpected tactics."
Zickler was the super-sub that countless Bayern fans would later rave about, scoring many of his goals after coming on as a substitute, including several crucial ones, somewhat similar to Ole Gunnar Solskjaer at Manchester United.
However, in the match against Dortmund, Rizzoli's performance was average, and Trapatonni couldn't help but think of trying out this golden substitute, after all, there are only three reliable players on Bayern's front line, and it's unclear when Elber will be able to integrate into the team.
"In the midfield, we still need to take the initiative, the overall formation is suitable for pressing at the moment, maintain pressure on Bayern in the midfield, pay attention to the coordination of defense on both sides, and try to push Bayern back to their own half, so that we can bring the game into our rhythm!"
Kaiserslautern's tactics are not difficult to analyze, controlling the midfield is key, through midfield pressure, and then increasing the frontcourt's pressing, forcing the opponent to make mistakes in their own half of the court, and then launching a counterattack on the spot.
This tactic would have been well-known to many professional coaches in 2011, but in 1997 it was considered very innovative, as this was an era dominated by classic registas like Zidane and Rui Costa, who had a lot of space in front of the penalty area to control the ball and organize their team.
But Yang Cheng's tactics of pressing, midfield pressure and frontcourt harassment are equivalent to compressing the space of Stuttgart's Barakovic, who had no performance against Kaiserslautern. Previously, Dortmund's Andi Muller and Barcelona's Luis Enrique were also like this.
The tactics currently used by Yang Chen in Kaiserslautern have attracted the attention of many professional football players, just like kicker, who had analyzed Kaiserslautern's tactics in a long article after the end of last season's 2. Bundesliga.
However, since Kaiserseeschlacht was not well-known, although it won the Champion Stakes, it was not enough to cause a big stir.
Only Yang Cheng himself is most clear that his tactics, whether from a holistic or targeted perspective, must overcome the mainstream tactics of the time, which is why in a few years, after the organization's core retreated, Kaka and other modern attacking midfielders rose to prominence.
"What about those two side roads?" Bremer asked with concern.
The captain of this team is currently doing the most, which is asking questions, and his questions obviously also represent the problems of all the first-line players behind him. Because Shaqiri and Gnabry are still a big threat on the wing, and Bayern Munich has introduced national winger Leroy Sane from La Liga powerhouse Valencia Athletic this season, who can play any position on the left wing.
"I'm not worried about the flank at all!" Yang Cheng said with a confident smile, "As long as our midfield defense is in place, especially against Jankel, and our coordination and interception are in place, Bayern's offense will be difficult to play. If Trapattoni plays on the flank, he must find Jankel!"
Yang Chen's words made all the players present understand that he had other plans for this.
However, as usual, Yang Chen only made a key analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of Bayern's players in each position before this game, while arranging the team's overall tactics, but did not announce the starting lineup.
In other words, more specific tactics will be known until before the game!
July 27th afternoon, Leverkusen, Haberland stadium home team locker room
Yang Chen stood in front of all the players. Behind him was a tactical diagram, which depicted Bayern's starting lineup for this match. The goalkeeper was Kahn, the defenders were Tarnat, Hargreaves, Matth?us and Babbel, the midfielders from left to right were Nerlinger, Hamann, Strunz and Sauer, and the two forwards were Janker and Zickler.
It was the Italian head coach, Trapattoni insisted on 4-4-2, and Yang Chen's prediction for Bayern was also largely correct, except that Rizzoli replaced Zeiler and Elber did not make the big list.
However, Bayern's bench has many famous generals. The defense line has Kufuol, who can play the entire left route of Lizarazu, midfielder Basler, and Fink, who is praised by Effenberg as the best partner of Little Mei, and striker Rizzoli, as well as Alexander Bugla, who was promoted from the youth training camp.
Almost all of these will be the famous players in the world football circle in the next few years, and they are gathered in this Bayern team. It can be imagined how strong this Bayern team is now.
When Efenberg from Borussia M?nchengladbach joins Bayern next season, Bayern's strength will be further enhanced.
However, what caught people's attention in the locker room was not Yang Cheng and the tactical board behind him, but a TV set elsewhere.
The romantic scene on TV was 95.96 season, Kaiserslautern's relegation battle against Leverkusen, Heiko Herrlich scored in the 82nd minute, and then heard the live commentator shouting "llllll"
"Leverkusen equalized strongly! 1:1! Kaiserslautern relegated!"
Although Pável gave Kuka a goal for Kaiserslautern in the 5th minute, which once made the Red Devils fans see the hope of relegation, M?nchengladbach's crucial goal thoroughly sentenced Kaiserslautern to death!
"This is an extremely cruel relegation battle! This is a life-and-death key game! However, without a doubt, Leverkusen's tenacity and fighting spirit allowed them to hold on until the end!"
"Look at the players of Kaiserslautern, look at their faces, one by one, they can't believe it, they are collapsing under the impact, they have already lost. Only Bremer, only Andreas Bremer has not accepted this fact yet, he is still trying, still running with all his might, he cannot bear to see his beloved team relegated in the last moment of his shameful career. This is an unbearable blow for him!"
At the moment when the main referee blew the whistle to end the game, Bremer, who was still desperately sprinting forward in the previous second, suddenly felt as if his soul had been pulled out of his body. He went limp and knelt down on the ground, with tears streaming uncontrollably down his cheeks!
Kaiserslautern has been relegated!
The Leverkusen fans at the BayArena were jubilant, but under their enthusiastic cheering, the Kaiserslautern players seemed to be walking corpses. Before Mendieta scored, they had already been beaten by Leverkusen, and after he did, they completely lost their will to fight.
"Bitter Bremer, unable to hold back, knelt down on the field and burst into tears. He had done his best, but ultimately lost this crucial match!"
The live TV pictures showed Voller, Schuster and other Leverkusen players rushing to comfort a distraught Bremer, who was crying uncontrollably with his head in his hands on the ground. The scene is frozen as one of the most poignant moments in football history.
Then the lights in the room lit up, and everyone was still immersed in the previous segment of the fierce match highlights, especially at the last moment, Yang Cheng had almost no editing, but let the players watch for nearly 20 minutes.
Braemer couldn't help but cry every time he watched it, as the copycat dog's shame was the most heartbreaking moment in his career!
Yang Cheng's eyes were also red, he has always been a person with rich emotions, it's just that many times, he would choose to hide his own emotions, this way it is easier for him to lead the team.
"Do you know why I want you all to see this video?" Yang Cheng's voice boomed in the locker room.
The players all nodded one by one as they guessed correctly.
"A year ago, right here in the Hamburger Stadion, in this very locker room, Kaiserslautern was waiting for their most important match of the entire season, a do-or-die match against Leverkusen. Kaiserslautern had to win, while Leverkusen only needed a draw to stay up!"
"And then, what appeared on TV was this!" Yang Cheng pointed at the TV next to him.
Slowly walking to the middle of the locker room, Yang Cheng swept his eyes over each player. "One year later today, we have returned to this stadium, returned to this locker room, and we are back in the Bundesliga! Although many players from that time are no longer with the team, I believe that the essence of football has not changed!"
"They are just like us, professional players, representing Kaiserslautern, but they lost, losing perhaps the most important game of their lives, and the team was relegated to the 2nd division, Kaiserslautern, who had never been relegated before, was relegated! That's simply the end of the world! That must be a warning for us!"
Yang Cheng's voice grew louder and more agitated, until he was almost shouting.
"I don't know if this game will be the most important one in your life and mine, but I absolutely believe that up to now, it's been our toughest game. If we lose, we'll lose a crucial trophy. If you lose, you'll become losers just like those Kaizer Chiefs players on TV!"
"You can ask Andres what it's like to accept the victor's condescending comfort as a loser. You can also ask Harry what kind of regret is enough to devour oneself after they threw away that crucial game!"
When Yang Cheng said this, Bremmer and Klose were both furious. Both of them had personally experienced that match, so when they watched the video, they recalled the cruelty of that match, especially in the final moments, the team's loss of morale was even more infuriating for them, but they were powerless.
"Our opponent is Bayern, one of the strongest teams in football today, but I never thought we would lose because I believed that a year ago, we left Highbury Stadium with our tails between our legs and fell to the 2nd division. A year later, we returned to the Bundesliga with the glory of four crowns and came back to Highbury Stadium!"
Yang Cheng pointed at the ceiling of the locker room, his face full of certainty as he shouted: "This is absolutely heaven's arrangement, this is an opportunity for us to prove ourselves once again in the latest chapter of Wu Dong Qian Kun!"
"Although our opponent is not Leverkusen, we can still achieve revenge. We can defeat Bayern, who they couldn't defeat, in front of more than 20,000 fans under their noses in Leverkusen, and use this way to tell all Kaiserslautern fans, all German fans, and the world's fans!"
Yang Chen made a strong gesture with his fingers, poking at his own chest. "We are no longer the Kaiserslautern of last year! Where we fell, we will rise again! We want to replicate the shameless victory in this match, on the Hamburger Stadion, which was once our place of sorrow, and use a victory that belongs to us to tell all Bundesliga opponents that the strong and never-giving-up Kaiserslautern, the team that represents Fritz Walter and the Berni miracle spirit, is back in the Bundesliga!"
"Then in the next season, and all seasons to come, we will bring the football that belongs to us Kaiserslautern, a nightmare for every competitor, to each opponent!"
After a pause, Yang Cheng took a deep breath and calmed down before continuing.
"I never want to be a loser, I never need others to sympathize with me in this way. I believe you are the same, so we must fight, we must use our ability to seize every opportunity to touch the ball in the game, and seize every inch of space on the field!"
"As long as we achieve this, I have reason to believe that after 90 minutes, victory will be ours! Then as the winners, we can bring a kind of comfort called mercy to Bayern, just like Woller and Schuster in the live TV broadcast!"
"Tell me, comrades, look into my eyes and tell me!" Yang Cheng almost shouted with all his might: "Do you want to be the pitied victors or the pitied losers?"
Braemer suddenly stood up, clenched his fists and gritted his teeth, shouting: "We will be the winners!"
"Right, we will be the winners!"
"We will be the winners!" The players shouted in unison at last.
Yang Cheng nodded and praised: "I also want to be a winner, so we have no other way to go, we only have one choice, that is to defeat Bayern and then return here gloriously!"
"Beat Bayern!" Bremer shouted again.
"Beat Bayern!"
This time, the players followed one by one with a look of indignation and anger, and the entire locker room suddenly became a group of men shouting slogans that made people's blood boil!
Yang Chen hugged each of the starting players as they walked out of the locker room, and then they went down to the player tunnel to wait for kickoff.
This match Yang Cheng arranged the starting lineup, the goalkeeper is Reinke, the back line are Bremer, Keer and Koush, midfield no big changes, Nedved, Bellon, Gattuso and Barak, double wing forwards are Derniersen and Schiede, striker is Van Nistelrooy.
The main reason why Yang Cheng chose Brahamer and Koshi as the last line of defense is that he values their spiritual influence. Brahamer has been training very hard recently, although he also serves as a coach, but he hasn't fallen behind in his training, and one game can be handled. As for Koshi, Yang Cheng mainly uses him to contain Yanker.
Right winger position, Schürrle performed well in the match against Stuttgart, so Yang Chen made him start this game because neither Disler nor Fritz is young, and Schürrle has more experience and can handle such situations with ease. Moreover, his recent form has been excellent.
Ludan Nelson is the undisputed main force, and Salihamidzic's performance against Stuttgart was not satisfactory. He needs to be tempered a bit, let him change his style of play, and better integrate into the team.
As Yang Chen walked out of the player tunnel and felt a sense of openness, the entire Highbury Stadium's stands erupted in a deafening roar.
Looking at the sea of fans on the stands, looking at Trapattoni in front of the home team's bench, Yang Cheng made a silent vow to himself that he absolutely could not lose this match!