Legend of Fengshen

Chapter 178 Influence

After the opening, Schalke 04 felt that something was wrong. Bochum's midfield is too strong. Their advantage is that they have a lot of people and can always form a partial advantage. Otherwise, they use foul tactics. Anyway, the three players in the frontcourt Don't try to get the ball too much.

Koller seems to have done enough homework. His style of play is similar to that of Werder Bremen. Werder Bremen can control the midfield because of their strong interception ability. Bochum does not have such outstanding players, but he can Arrange more manpower and use running to make up for the lack of numbers.

Rakitic is fixed on the wing, his organizational role is much smaller, and breakthroughs are not his strong point, let alone Asamoah.

All of a sudden, it made Schalke 04 very embarrassed. At the same time, the team in the Ruhr area, as the younger brother, Bochum is not willing to surrender. It is good to get a point.

Zhang Yuan is no longer joking with Neuer. Both of them watched the game with stern expressions. It was very sad, especially Zhang Yuan. It seemed that Schalke 04 performed well in the first two games, but he knew the ball The team doesn't really have control, whether it's against Hannover or Werder Bremen Schalke 04 is playing poorly and is not as strong as it looks on the surface.

Schalke 04 was like this again. They couldn't control the situation at the beginning. The reason was because of the ineffective control of the midfield. Gross Müller's organizational ability is far inferior to Rakitic, and Rakitic is a winger. Do nothing.

Rutten is always distressed when he sees such scenes. The Bundesliga is obviously not the Eredivisie. The Bundesliga is not as strong as the Eredivisie. It is impossible for Schalke 04 to occupy an absolute advantage.

Fortunately, this formation is not without flaws. Long balls are one of the countermeasures. Whether it can be effective depends on the abilities of the players. At this time, Zhang Yuan is the object of his nostalgia. Into the team's roster, anyway, his injury is basically no problem.

Schalke 04 adjusted their tactics and began to play high and high. The Bochum team suffered a lot. Kuranyi's role as a forward center began to show. At the beginning, there was a threat gradually. Rakitic, Asamoah, and Kuranyi all got shooting opportunities, but they were still a little short of scoring.

Under Koller's signal, the Bochum team began to withdraw their formation and wanted to stabilize the defense, but Schalke 36 still took the lead in the 04th minute.

Rakitic took a corner kick and Hewedes scored a header to give Schalke 04 the lead.

This goal is very important to him. Now the competition for central defenders is quite fierce, without Kristajic, but Digan is still sitting on the bench. After Rafinha returns, Westerman also Will be one of the contenders for centre-back.

This goal demonstrated his ability to grab points in set kicks, which is of great benefit to consolidating his position.

Zhang Yuan, Neuer, and Joseph all stood up and applauded the goal. Anyway, the following days are finally getting better.

This goal was also the only goal in the first half.

In the second half, he changed sides and fought again. Koller adjusted his tactics. He was not in a hurry to attack now, but devoted his energy to defense. The two defensive midfielders retreated deeply, mainly to prevent Schalke 04 from playing high and high.

After the start, Rutten also made adjustments, and the team began to focus on passing and controlling again, in order to lure the Bochum team out.

But the Bochum team was not fooled, and still focused their energy on defense, so they played drowsily for a long time in the second half. Zhang Yuan didn't like this situation either. The individual started chatting and spanking again there.

After the 75th minute, the Bochum team began to exert force again. If they did not exert force, they would really lose the game. This is the arrangement of Koller in this game. They still have to defend in the front, and then use force for a period of time to strive for a point. .

Schalke 04 did not react for a while, but the adjustment period was very short. After all, the Bochum team was limited in strength. attack.

As a result, at the end of the game, the Bochum team failed to equalize the score, and Schalke 04 did not score more goals in front of this tactic, only winning the opponent 1:0.

全场比赛波鸿队的犯规高达29次，沙尔克04有15次射门但是只有4次射正，可见沙尔克04其实赢得还是很艰难的。

In any case, winning the game made everyone very happy. Rutten said at the press conference after the game that he was very satisfied with the result of the game, while Koller was obviously not very convinced about the loss, saying that Schalke 04 was not enough. It's luck, Rutten retorted that Bochum was lucky, otherwise it would have been nine players.

The coaches at the press conference challenged each other and couldn't attract everyone's interest. This game was not the highlight.

After the game against Bochum, it will be the national team match day, and the team will have a few days off. Zhang Yuan still hasn't received any call-up, and Degan is naturally the same as him.

The two originally planned to make good use of the vacation time to practice together, watch the video, and discuss their experiences with each other, but Zhang Yuan was notified by Raiola that Puma planned to let Zhang Yuan shoot a commercial.

This cannot be refused. It was clearly written in everyone's contract at the beginning. Since we have time, we have to go, but fortunately, it can be done in only one day. The shooting location is at Puma's headquarters.

In the evening, Mai Xuewen booked tickets for intercity trains. Germany’s railway transportation is very developed. For intercity trains from Dortmund to Nuremberg, that’s what Mai Xuewen booked. Zhang Yuan and the others don’t usually take buses for games. Sometimes I will also do this train, which is convenient and fast for long distances.

The next day, Zhang Yuan and Mai Xuewen left the lonely Degan and took the train to Nuremberg. When they arrived in Nuremberg, Puma Company naturally took Zhang Yuan to Herzogen-Orch, where Puma's headquarters is located. The famous brands are Adidas and Puma. When the Dassler brothers split up, they are still based in the same city, and both of them can develop into a big international brand. Of course, Adidas is definitely more famous than Puma, but Puma is not bad.

Times have changed, and now the main shareholders of the two brands are not the Dassler family, and the competition between the two has always existed since the separation.

The staff in charge of receiving Zhang Yuan are very polite. Puma has signed many famous sports stars in history. Zhang Yuan is the first Chinese in the football world. His influence in China is extraordinary. Puma attaches great importance to China. In the market, at the beginning, he paid a lot of money to sign this young player because he took a fancy to Zhang Yuan's Chinese identity.

Of course, Zhang Yuan's influence in Germany is not small now. At the end of the 07-08 season, in the "Kicker" vote, he won the best rookie award in the Bundesliga season with his performance in only half a season.

Before the start of this season, he participated in the shooting of the official promotional video of the German Football Association, and also participated in the Bundesliga preview filming of several TV stations. His popularity in the Bundesliga and Germany is also constantly increasing.

The German media has been building up momentum recently, wanting to push Zhang Yuan out for the European Golden Boy Award.

Many people wonder why they don't build momentum for local players in Germany. Of course, there are German media. Who doesn't want players from their own country to win the European Golden Boy Award.

The European Golden Boy Award is an award with high gold content. The reason is that all the previous winners have achieved great achievements without exception, so its influence is growing.

Naturally, the German media, like the German fans, hope that the Golden Boy Award will also go to the Bundesliga. Given that the performance of other seed players such as Rakitic, Ozil, and Kroos is far from Zhang Yuan, Zhang Yuan has naturally become everyone's focus. , It can be foreseen that Zhang Yuan will definitely not be missing from the 40-man shortlist announced by "Turin Sports Daily".

After Puma signed the contract with Zhang Yuan, there has been no advertising action, not without meaning to reserve for the future, but now that Zhang Yuan has become popular very quickly, Puma has no choice but to shoot an advertisement quickly, just to take advantage of Zhang Yuan’s current popularity, and broadcast the advertisement at least in Germany and China come out.

After arriving here, the staff will inevitably take him to visit the headquarters, and the manager of the public relations department also received him personally. He has no interest in visiting Zhang Yuan like this, and it is difficult to refuse, so he walked aside in a daze, and put a few posses for them to take pictures It's over.

The morning was spent like this, and after lunch, Zhang Yuan was taken to the temporary studio by the staff.

As soon as Zhang Yuan arrived on the set, he was recognized by a fan at the scene, clamoring for Zhang Yuan to sign!
(End of this chapter)