I started with Torres, to revive German football

Chapter 38 Reaching the Europa League Final
On May 5th, a large number of German media followed in the footsteps of Wolfsburg and came to the home court of Paderborn.

Wolfsburg, which was tepid before, is now a favorite in the eyes of the major media.

The situation of the Bundesliga championship is almost clear, and Wolfsburg leads Bayern Munich by one point in one less game.

As long as Wolfsburg does not make mistakes and wins two of the next three league rounds, the champion must belong to Wolfsburg.

In the past two days, the mental state of the Wolfsburg players has been very high, and even the fatigue at the end of the season seems to have eliminated a lot.

People are refreshed on happy occasions, and they are talking about the current state of Wolfsburg.

With Paderborn as a guest, Wolfsburg has nothing to say, and all three points are their inevitable goal.

Paderborn is at the bottom of the league, and only with nine points in the last three rounds can there be hope of relegation.

The irresolute Paderborn had no choice but to bite the bullet and put up an offensive formation at home.

Seeing that Paderborn is going to play against each other, Wolfsburg will naturally not let go of such a good opportunity.

At first, I thought that we would have to face intensive defense again, but when I saw the opponent on the spot, they were going to fight against each other. What a good thing!
Wolfsburg's offensive players were gearing up, waiting for the referee's whistle to give Paderborn a slap in the face.

The game was fast-paced from the very beginning, and Wolfsburg's main players did not slack in the slightest. They countered and pressed, organized the ball, broke through the side, and penetrated the center, showing an excellent competitive state.

In the 14th minute of the game, Arnold successfully intercepted the ball in the middle of the backcourt, and Wolfsburg quickly launched a counterattack.

Arnold dribbled the ball across the center circle and handed the ball to De Bruyne.

De Bruyne slowed down and observed the situation in the entire frontcourt.

At this time, Zhao Jinge asked for the ball on the right side in front of Paderborn's penalty area.

On the right corner of the penalty area not far in front of Zhao Jinge, Paderborn's full-back Heinnott and defensive midfielder Bakalotz are defending.

The positions of the two were not tight, and Zhao Jinge got De Bruyne's pass from the wing.

At a not too fast speed, approach the gap between the two.

Before Heinnott stretched out his feet to block him, and before Bakalotz leaned close to him, he accelerated sharply, and rushed between the two of them lightly.

"Zhao Jinge took the ball and passed between the two, Zhao Jinge!"

The commentator who broadcast the Bundesliga live began to get excited.

Paderborn's central defender Rafa moved decisively in front of Zhao Jinge, and slowly backed away, trying to limit Zhao Jinge's breakthrough.

Zhao Jinge caught up with the advancing football against the wind, adjusted in small steps in front of Rafa, and then made a change of direction, looking like he was going to pass Rafa directly.

"Zhao Jinge prepared for the third person, no! Turn around and hit the door!"

Zhao Jinge turned around suddenly while disguised. Although his body lost his center of gravity and fell to the ground, a strafing shot from the ground before he fell to the ground made the football fly directly towards the upper left corner of Paderborn's goal.

Paderborn's goalkeeper Kruse flew to save, but after all, his palm and the ball were a little short, and the football rubbed his fingertips and crashed into the net!

"GOAL!!!! Zhao Jinge's solo performance! The shot from the ground went in! This is called a very difficult shot! After Zhao Jinge lost his center of gravity, he still sent the football into Paderborn's goal!"

This is an excellent performance of personal heroism. Zhao Jinge's Lingboweibu made the situation of this game suddenly clear.

Wolfsburg [-]-[-] Paderborn!

After scoring the goal, Zhao Jinge did not celebrate.The teammates who gathered around excitedly reminded each other that they must concentrate and not relax.

The game restarted, and the emotions of the Paderborn players became obviously agitated.

How can you not be in a hurry? !If you lose this game, you will completely lose hope of relegation!

Under the gap of hard power, the players of Paderborn began to use fouls to stop Wolfsburg's attack.

Today's referee, however, is obviously a little loose in the penalty scale.

One or two yellow cards were not drawn. Seeing this situation, Paderborn's actions are getting bigger and bigger.

The fierce actions of the Paderborn players made Dieter Heiking off the field angry and cursed.

If one or two main players were injured during the sprint for the championship, Dieter Heijin would probably cry without tears.

After Zhao Jinge broke through again and was pulled down, the furious Dieter Heijin found the fourth official on the sidelines and asked the referee why he didn't draw the card? !
The fourth official just signaled Dieter Heiking to return to the coach's bench and not to interfere with the progress of the game.

If it weren't for the few substitute players who followed, they hurried forward and grabbed their head coach, Dieter Heijin, who was already in a rage, might be sent off the field and invited to the stands.

Although the negotiations on the sidelines were fruitless, even Paderborn's constant fouls on the field could not stop Wolfsburg from tearing up their chaotic defense.

There is no way, because of the situation of Paderborn's confrontation on the field, Wolfsburg's offensive group directly pressed on Paderborn's defense.

At this time, Paderborn's defense, like Paris, France in World War II, was undefended to Wolfsburg's offensive group.

Paderborn concentrated its manpower to block the most threatening Zhao Jinge, ignoring Dost and Wolfsburg's other offensive points in the penalty area.

It was De Bruyne who penetrated through the ball again, passing the ball full of agility and piercing through Paderborn's defense.

Zhao Jinge and Perisic ran into it, disturbing the opponent's defensive attention.

Dorst received a pass from De Bruyne behind the penalty area, and without marking, he pushed from a small angle and scored.Another victory for Wolfsburg!
At the end of the first half, De Bruyne took advantage of a free kick and hit an elevator ball.

The football flew directly into the corner, Wolfsburg [-]-[-] Paderborn!

This requirement also completely shattered Paderborn's hopes of relegation.

During the intermission, Dieter Heijin was afraid that the opponent would jump the wall and foul his core players.

Directly replace De Bruyne, Zhao Jinge, and Dost.

In the second half of the game, Paderborn still didn't get a chance to score.

At the end of the game, Wolfsburg beat Paderborn and took all three points!
With two rounds remaining in the Bundesliga, Wolfsburg leads Bayern Munich by a full four points.

In the next game against Dortmund at home, if they win, Wolfsburg will directly win the Bundesliga title this season one round ahead of schedule.

Back to Wolfsburg, there are two more fierce battles waiting for them.

Wolfsburg will host Dnipro in the second round of the UEFA Europa League semi-final on May 5 and Dortmund on May 14.

One of the two games is related to the tickets for the Europa League final, and the other is related to the Bundesliga championship.

In the past few days, Wolfsburg has become the focus of German football, and a large number of reporters pour into Wolfsburg every day.

Especially on May 5, after the second leg of Bayern's 13-[-] victory over Barcelona in the Champions League semi-final at home.

Although Bayern Munich saved face at home, they could not escape the fate of being eliminated.

For a while, Wolfsburg became the only team in the European Bundesliga this season.

With a high possibility of entering the Europa League final, many media began to praise Wolfsburg brainlessly.

What's more, if they fail to win the Europa League, they will be sorry for the expectations of the German fans.

Under the pressure of such public opinion, Wolfsburg tasted the feeling of being observed under the spotlight.

It's not a good feeling to be on the cusp.

This pressure from the outside has brought a lot of bad influence on the Wolfsburg players.

Dieter Heiking decisively issued an order to close the team, before the end of the game with Dortmund.

In the past three days, all Wolfsburg players have assembled and lived in the hotel prepared by the team without contact with the outside world.

Electronic devices such as mobile phones are silently processed, and all social apps are uninstalled except for talking with family members.

Players are asked not to pay attention to the exaggerated reports of those media.

Don't be influenced by those rumors on the Internet, the season has entered the most critical time, if you lose the championship due to these off-court factors, I am afraid no one will forgive yourself.

The timely closed management allowed many players who were harassed by the media to settle down and devote themselves wholeheartedly to the next game.

On May 5, Dnipro, who came all the way from Ukraine, came to the Volkswagen Stadium.

Wolfsburg fans did not let the team down.

Not only did they fill the home stadium, which can accommodate 3 people, but countless fans took to the streets to demonstrate for Wolfsburg when they were unable to enter the home stadium to watch the game.

The road from Dnipro's hotel to the Volkswagen Stadium was packed with Wolfsburg fans.

They sang the team anthem at the Dnipro bus and shouted that victory belongs to Wolfsburg.

There is only one requirement for Dieter Heijin in this game: go all out after the opening and fight to the bottom!

They also have to conserve their strength to face Dortmund the day after tomorrow.

In the spotlight of the media constantly flickering on the sidelines, the game officially started.

The lineups of the two sides of the game have not changed much from last week, and they are all playing with the main force.

When the referee blew the whistle to start the game, Wolfsburg took the lead in launching a fast break.

De Bruyne quickly organized in midfield, Vierinha immediately assisted up the right flank, and Wolfsburg pushed the full-backs up the pitch at the beginning of the game.

The pace of the game was fast, and amidst the cheers and cheers of the fans, the generals of Wolfsburg showed the posture of swallowing thousands of miles like a tiger!

Zhao Jinge received a pass from De Bruyne on the right side of the frontcourt, turned the ball and used a turn to avoid the frontcourt press from Dnipro striker Luchkovic.

Dnipro's midfielder Kankawa continued to block Zhao Jinge's direction, but Zhao Jinge directly handed the ball to De Bruyne in the middle of the frontcourt.

Zhao Jinge attracted Kankawa to move to the middle, and De Bruyne immediately ran to the opposite direction of Zhao Jinge, and passed the ball to Vierinha who inserted behind.

Vierinha and De Bruyne passed the football forward continuously on the right.

In the end, De Bruyne made a comfortable cross from an unmarked position.

Dost grabbed a point in front of the goal, but was first cleared by Dnipro's central defender Chebe Yashiko.

However, Dnipro's clearance ball did not fly too far, and Zhao Jinge, who was moved to the penalty area line, pushed back into the penalty area again.

Dost made a header relay from the small penalty area and headed the ball into the goal.

In the 3rd minute of the opening game, Wolfsburg got a fantastic start, leading Dnipro by [-] goals in total!
"GOAL!!!! Three consecutive headers, Wolfsburg headed the ball into Dnipro's goal!"

After Wolfsburg took the lead, they did not slow down their offensive at all. They wanted to take away their opponents in one go.

After dribbling the ball from the side, Zhao Jinge handed the ball to De Bruyne, pointed his right hand to the penalty area, turned around and ran towards the middle of the penalty area.

De Bruyne took a few more steps forward, keeping his head up and paying attention to the situation in the penalty area, and then lightly kicked a long pass with a touch of immortality, and passed the ball to Dorst.

Because of just scoring a header, Dnipro's defenders guarded Dost very closely.

After catching the ball, Dost hesitated for a moment, and was immediately surrounded without even room to turn around, let alone hit the goal with his kick.

In desperation, Dost turned his head and glanced at Zhao Jinge, chose to throw the ball back to Zhao Jinge who was going forward.

It was this turn of the head that made Dnipro central defender Douglas subconsciously want to go there and block Dost's pass to Zhao Jinge.

But as long as there are no mistakes, the ball will always run faster than people!Instead of catching up with the football, Douglas lost his position!Zhao Jinge passed him from his left and entered the restricted area!

"Zhao Jinge entered the penalty area! Two defenders' defense!"

Chebesiako and Dnipro's left back Matos are closely blocking Zhao Jinge's side, preventing him from shooting on the one hand, and on the other hand preventing him from passing the ball to Perisic on the left.

Even Dnipro's goalkeeper Boyko was attracted by his steps and moved closer to Zhao Jinge to prevent Zhao Jinge from hitting a close corner.

At this time, Zhao Jinge suddenly raised his right leg high, as if he was about to shoot.

Under the provocation, the nervous Boyko immediately fell to the ground and threw himself out.

Zhao Jinge retracted his leg, kicked a backheel pass, and gave the ball to De Bruyne behind him.

When De Bruyne got the ball, he faced most of the empty goal, and there was no goalkeeper blocking it.

Without the slightest hesitation, he raised his leg and shot!

"GOAL!!!! Another connection between the twin stars of Wolfsburg, De Bruyne lived up to Zhao Jinge's wonderful pass with his heels! He scored the ball firmly into the goal!"

The following games have also been under the control of Wolfsburg. After leading the total score by three goals, Wolfsburg began to recover the formation and dragged the game to the end in the safest way.

It was not until the end of the game that Dnipro scored a goal to save face.

In the case of not too much consumption, Wolfsburg finally eliminated Dnipro with a total score of [-] to [-] and entered the final of this Europa League.

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