Chapter 405 A Very Square Stadium

Just like that, the 2005 semi-finals were lost in an inexplicable way. At this time, if we continue to win the FA Cup to train young players and play casually without trying to win the championship, we are deceiving ourselves and others.

In comparison, the German Football Association Cup may be the easiest cup championship to win among all mainstream football leagues. In a single-elimination competition format, a Class A team can win the championship as long as they win six games in a row. Of course, if there is a slight mistake in these six games, everything will be fine. There is no chance to make amends like in the two-round game.

At the beginning of last year's season, Madibao did use the FA Cup as a training ground, allowing Zhuo Yang to score goals, and there were no performance requirements. But a group of young players really strived for success, winning consecutive games all the way. Oberhausen, Schalke 04, Nuremberg and Hannover only conceded 1 goal. They were arrogant and domineering.

Now they are in the semi-finals, which means they only need to win two more games to win the championship. This has to make the club change their minds again.

Madibau Club is fond of the FA Cup championship. It was the Six Musketeers in the Third Division who fought bravely and defeated the powerful Kaiserslautern and Werder Bremen in the final. The defeat of the giant Bayern Munich made the Six Musketeers famous and became a symbol of the rise of Madiburg.

The Football Association Cup championship is the first real championship trophy in the history of Madibao Club. It is of great commemorative and historical significance. If we can relive our old dreams this season, we can hold the trophy again and reminisce about the young people who once rode horses and whipped their whips. Time, why not?

And the other three teams that have entered the semi-finals of the FA Cup are Bielefield, second division St. Pauli, and Bayern Munich. The matchup situation has come out, Madiburg will face Bielefeld and Bayern VS St. Pauli in the semi-finals in April. As long as there are no major accidents, Bielefeld will be in control of Madiburg. In other words, if you want to win the FA Cup championship this season, it is actually the game against Bayern Munich at the end of the season. Of course, everyone at Bayern must think so too.

The idea came up and the strategy was changed, but the semi-final against Bielefield was almost three months later, so it was too early now. The Champions League round of 16 will have to wait until a month later, and there is no rush. At present, the only competition task that Madibao needs to face is the Bundesliga.

Now, except for the minor injury of Helmers, everyone else in the team is in good physical condition. If you want to make a difference in the league, it's time to exert your strength. Last year Madiburg started to soar in the second half of the season, with 17 wins and one draw in 18 league games, almost leading to a super comeback. Naturally, this year they hope to do better than last year.

With beautiful visions, Zhuo Yang and his Madiburg came to Cologne Rhine Energy Stadium.

Cologne is larger than Hannover and is the fourth largest city in Germany. Of course, this fourth is far from the top three. With its towering spiers and pavilions, Cologne looks quaint and the city has a long history, but in fact it is very new. As the most important coal producing area and power center in Germany at that time, Allied aerial bombs during World War II almost wiped Cologne off the map. If Cologne is to be called the second worst city, other cities are basically embarrassed to be called the first.

Many buildings were restored and re-erected on their original sites after the war, representing history, commemorating disasters, and remembering lessons.

The Rhine Energy Stadium in Cologne is also one of the venues for this summer's World Cup in Germany. The first impression it gives people is that it is too square. Compared with it, San Siro is actually round, and its appearance is the favorite of people with obsessive-compulsive syndrome.

In the dialects of many provinces in China, there is no distinction between 'fang' and 'pan', so there is 'our side'. I don’t know if the designer of Cologne’s RheinEnergy Stadium has anything to do with the Chinese, or if the designer’s intention was for the home team to play there without any fuss. I don’t know.

Anyway, Cologne was beaten by Fort Madi today.

When entering the stadium, 50,000 fans in the Rhine Energy Stadium stood up and applauded to welcome Zhuo Yang and congratulate him as the European Footballer of the Year! This made Zhuoyang feel very comfortable. He was scolded by his neighbors at home, but he was so loved when he was away from home. He couldn't help but sigh.

Speaking of which, Zhuoyang is really not a particular person. Cologne fans love him so much, but he didn't show any mercy at all. He beat them 3:0 in the first half.

No wonder Zhuoyang, Cologne is too weak. In the first half of the season, they lost 11 of 17 games and were third from the bottom with 3 wins and 3 draws. With this kind of record, it is not superfluous to be beaten to death by Madibao. In fact, Cologne's biggest problem is not that they are weak, but that their tactics are too monotonous.

Cologne head coach Rappold led the newly promoted Bielefeld to successfully avoid relegation and reach the FA Cup semi-finals. His excellent results were favored by Cologne Club. The famous Dutch coach Stevens, who led the team to promotion last summer, insisted on returning to his hometown in the Netherlands, and Rappold was invited to take charge of Cologne. Perhaps the difference between a great coach and an ordinary coach is that he does not stick to his own successful routine. In Cologne, Rappold stuck to his defensive counterattack style at Bielefeld without any regrets.

But he ignored a very important key issue, or it may be that he was aware of it but was unable to change it: the two most critical tactical fulcrums of defensive counterattack tactics, an excellent defense line and a speedy forward. Cologne does not have these two elements, so it is surprising that the tactics can be successful.

In the first half of the schedule, Cologne recorded the worst half-time record in the Bundesliga in the club's history. Originally, the club's board of directors intended to fire Rupold when the winter break came, but firstly there was no suitable replacement, and secondly, club manager Lettik Paul Rappold, Rappold himself also vowed to issue a military order, and the second half of the season will be like this.

It's better to use the raw than the familiar, so Cologne's board of directors stopped and watched to see the effects.

Rappold's words were thrown out, but there was no change in tactics. Madiborg's high-position press kept the fire spreading in Cologne's half. The Madiborg midfielder, who was small in number but tough enough, would not give Cologne a chance. Leave no chance for counterattack. Without counterattack, only defense is left. This is Zhuo Yang's favorite posture. The undistracted king of shooting is just a turtle shell. Quantitative changes lead to qualitative changes.

The crowd swayed left and right, like butterflies in the flowers. In the 14th minute, Zhuoyang used his skills to move around in a small area and score a goal in the 14th minute;

The battering ram was angry. Gomez hit and kicked him, overturned two defenders, and scored his most unreasonable goal on the third. Zhuoyang stood with his hands on his hips and shook his head: Tsk, tut, tsk, bastard. They are just rough people, they work hard and have no technical content at all.

Just two minutes later, Zhuoyang personally retreated and intercepted the ball from Cologne Prince Podolski, and then launched a customized counterattack. The defender fell down along the way until he tipped the ball into the goal from a small angle. .

Podolski sat dejectedly where he had lost the ball, as if he had lost his wallet.