Football: start copying peak Messi attributes

Chapter 30 Spoon penalties and the DFB invitation

On July 7, Werder Bremen rushed to an away game to face their last warm-up match opponent of this month, Paderborn from the German second league.

In this game, coach Schaff did not adjust the playing list of the midfielder and frontcourt, but instead focused on adjusting the arrangement of the defense line.

Paderborn ranked fifth in the Bundesliga last season, not far from the promotion zone.

So the chairman of their club is ambitious and wants to realize his dream of going to the top.

For this reason, they have vigorously signed in this season and bought many powerful players.

Therefore, from the perspective of overall strength, they are stronger than their previous warm-up opponent Cottbus.

Both Werder Bremen and Paderborn are teams with a strong offense and a weak defense. In this game, the two sides played like a spark hit the earth.

In the 13th minute of the first half, Paderborn, who played at home, scored the first goal.

Only 5 minutes later, Werder Bremen used a counterattack to score a goal to get back the score.

In the 28th minute, Werder Bremen scored directly with a free kick in the front court, and the score became 2:1.

In stoppage time in the first half, Werder Bremen got an excellent opportunity, but De Bruyne's shot bounced off the post.

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

In the 53rd minute, Lin Quan, who came off the bench, broke into the opponent's penalty area and was tripped by a defender. The referee awarded a penalty kick.

Because captain Fritz, the team's first penalty shooter, took turns, Schaff asked Lin Quan to take the penalty by himself.

Penalty kicks are a test of the player's psychological quality. He wants to take this opportunity to observe Lin Quan's ability to resist pressure and psychological quality.

Lin Quan brings Messi's eight years of career experience, and he has long been accustomed to penalty kicks.

He stood on the penalty spot, observed the goalkeeper's position and started to run.

When approaching the football, he suddenly used the rhythm change to shake the goalkeeper, and when the opponent subconsciously made a save, he kicked the football.

Seeing that Lin Quan touched the ball with his toes, Coach Schaff stood up abruptly.

This kid must be too courageous to take a penalty kick in this way!
The ball jumps high, the speed is not fast, and the arc is high.

After crossing over to make a save, the head of the goalkeeper who had just reached the bottom flew steadily into the goal.

Lin Quan scored a goal with a penalty kick with a spoon, and the score was rewritten to 3:1.

"This kid, the psychological quality is too good, right? Ordinary players should play as safe as they want, but he is not so good, he actually used a spoon to take a penalty..."

Seeing that the ball was scored, Coach Schaff breathed a sigh of relief.

After sitting down, I couldn't help complaining to several colleagues around me.

"Well, I said, is it possible that the spoon penalty is the safest solution in this kid's mind?"

Hernebach's words silenced everyone. . .

In the next few 10 minutes, neither side could rewrite the score.

In the end, the score of 3:1 was maintained until the end, and Werder Bremen won three consecutive victories in the warm-up match.

And Lin Quan, who played in all three games, also got three economical points.

Unfortunately, the team did not have a warm-up match before the end of the second stage of training.

In other words, in the next half month, he will have no games to play, which makes him feel a little sad.

The day of buying top talents is still far away!
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Just when Lin Quan was worrying about the absence of games, at the headquarters of the German Football Association, officials of the German Football Association were discussing the team invitation quota for this season's Deutsche Telekom Cup with the salary of the sponsor telecommunications company T-Home.

The Deutsche Telekom Cup was founded in 2009, formerly known as the German League Cup.

Sponsored by the well-known telecommunications company T-Home, the event is held annually.

There are four teams participating in each competition, except for the fixed invitation of the Bundesliga champions and runners-up last season.

One will be invited from each of the mid-range teams and the relegation teams.

Because there are relatively few teams participating, the rules of the game are also very simple.

The Deutsche Telekom Cup uses random draws to conduct two semi-finals. The winning team enters the finals, and the two losing teams enter the third and fourth finals. There are a total of 4 games.

Therefore, the prize money is not high, and the prize money for the champion is only 30 euros.

However, it is still attractive for the invited teams to conduct such a high-level contest before the start of the season, so as to test whether the signings of their respective teams are successful.

In order not to affect the team's preparations, the game time of the Telecom Cup is relatively short, and the four games are scheduled to be completed within two days.

Moreover, the time of a single game is also limited, with only 30 minutes in both halves.

If there is still a tie after six 10 minutes, it will go directly to the penalty shootout.

Because of this special competition system, the Telecom Cup has always been a frequent surprise.

Even a giant like Bayern Munich often overturns. Since the establishment of the Deutsche Telekom Cup, the Bundesliga giants have not won a single championship.

This season, the top three invited teams for the Telecom Cup have been confirmed, namely last season's Bundesliga champions Borussia Dortmund and runner-up Bayern Munich.

The team in the relegation zone chose Hamburg, which was able to relegation by 1 point last season.

These three teams are all good choices, but who is the best choice for the mid-range team?

The opinions of the German Football Association and the sponsors are not in agreement on this issue.

According to the meaning of the German Football Association, the Bundesliga has a total of 18 teams, and the mid-range team must be No.9 or No.10.

And these two teams are Werder Bremen No.9 and Nuremberg No.10.

But the sponsors dislike the small size of the cities where the two teams are located, which is not conducive to publicity and promotion, so they want to choose Stuttgart from a big city.

Stuttgart is the sixth largest city in Germany, with a larger population and greater commercial value.

The Telecom Cup competition here will have a stronger advertising effect on sponsors.

The two sides were in dispute, and the German Football Association insisted that the rules should not be broken.

Football is a national sport in Germany, and its commercial value is huge, so there is no need to worry about sponsors.

The reason why I cooperate with T-Home is entirely because the other party is a local company, and the past cooperation experience is very pleasant, so I choose them.

If they get carried away because of this and dictate the work of the Football Association, then the German Football Association does not mind changing sponsors. For example, Volkswagen is very good.

Upon hearing this, T-Home was immediately discouraged, expressing respect for the Football Association's choice.

Seeing that the other party had compromised, the German Football Association also sold face to the other party. Among Werder Bremen and Nuremberg, they chose Bremen, which is a slightly larger city.

Soon, the invitation of the German Football Association was sent to the club's coach Schaff.

Seeing this invitation, Schaff was a little hesitant:

In the end is to accept or not to accept it?
Accept the invitation for the chance to take home that €30 prize, plus a cut of ticket sales.

However, this disrupts the team's training schedule.

And two consecutive games within two days is also a test for the players.

The old players may be fine, but for the young players, especially those who have not played in the Bundesliga, it is a huge challenge.

In particular, they are very likely to play against strong teams such as Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund.

If they were accidentally beaten by the opponent, the confidence they had accumulated in the previous three consecutive victories would be completely wiped out.

So, instead of making a decision by himself, he summoned the coaching staff, and by the way, called Lin Quan and De Bruyne, two young players who played the best, to ask their opinions.

Lin Quan's eyes widened when he heard that there were still games to play, and he was still the champion and runner-up of the Bundesliga.

This is a game worth two points!
Go, must go!

(End of this chapter)