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Chapter 76 90
In the first round of the German Cup, the Bundesliga teams Duisburg and Rostock were eliminated by low-level teams, while Bayern and Leverkusen also fought hard, which was surprising. In contrast, the media sang praises for Borussia Mönchengladbach.

Nick was not overwhelmed by the media's hype, and now the focus has shifted to the first round of the Bundesliga in the 99-00 season. Borussia Mönchengladbach's first opponent is the newly promoted Ulm team.

However, Borussia Mönchengladbach's game time is the latest in this round, and it will not be held until August 8th, so the whole team can only watch other teams' games first.

On August 8, Leverkusen took the lead in two games. Leverkusen, which spent nearly 13 million euros this summer, was tied 3000:0 by Duisburg in the away game.

There is nothing to say about Fryer's pass, but the combined 13 shots of Kirsten and Berbatov were useless.

It has to be said that Leverkusen may fall behind from the very beginning.

On August 8, five more games were played, and Bayern Munich, which cost more, also made an appearance, but the score of 14:5 made Beckenbauer turn blue with anger.

The newly-introduced Edmondo and Barbarets of the visiting team Hamburg scored a goal each. Bayern relied on the goals of Ballack and Elber to tie the game successively. Bayern scored only 1 point, which made Leverkusen secretly happy.

The two teams with the highest hopes of winning the championship only scored 1 point in the first round. Nick was overjoyed. Borussia Mönchengladbach hoped to reach the top after the first round of the league.

On August 8th, Borussia Mönchengladbach came to the Danube Stadium to challenge the newly promoted Ulm team, the team with the longest history in German football, but rarely appeared in the Bundesliga, so Nick basically didn't know much about this team.

However, Borussia Mönchengladbach is now so strong that they don't need to be afraid of any opponents at all.

So from the beginning of the game, Borussia Mönchengladbach controlled the rhythm of the game.

In the 11th minute, Nick made a direct pass from the middle, and Deisler took the lead after receiving the ball, and then broke through the goal of Ulm with a long shot.

Ulm's strength was poor, and after falling behind by one goal, the formation pressed forward. Soon in the 1th minute, Eto'o received Li Yihuan's long pass from the left and succeeded in a surprise attack, 18:2.
With two goals in hand, Borussia Mönchengladbach played more easily, and Nick began to press frequently.

In the 29th minute, Nick scored his first goal of the season with a powerful shot 24 meters from the goal after passing two people in the middle, and the score became 3:0.
Before half-time, Janker scored with a header from a corner kick from Deisler, 4:0.
Defeated like a mountain, Ulm, a newly promoted team with no experience in the Bundesliga, played more restlessly in the second half. In the 49th minute, the home team's No. 9 forward Danielsen shoveled Deisler and was sent off with a red card. The injured Deisler was also replaced by Nakamura Shunsuke.

This made Nick very annoyed. In history, Deisler's career was disturbed by injuries, so that he bid farewell to the green field at the age of 27, so Nick is very worried about Deisler now. His technical style is easily violated by his opponents.

Now that Deisler was injured, Nick took all his anger out on the Ulm team.

The Ulm team, which had one less player, was beaten by Borussia Mönchengladbach in the half.

In the 54th minute, Nick drove straight in and went straight to Eto'o in front of the penalty area. Eto'o scored twice, 5:0.
In the 59th minute, Nick succeeded in counterattacking on the spot in the frontcourt, and handed it over to Shunsuke Nakamura who stepped in. The Japanese rebounded the ball trickily and rewritten the score to 6:0.
With such a big score behind, the Ulm team was still under pressure by Borussia Mönchengladbach as always, which made their mentality more and more manic.

In the 66th minute, the goalkeeper of Ulm rushed out of the penalty area for a handball foul and was also sent off by the referee with a red card. Shunsuke Nakamura took a free kick and scored again. The score has become a terrifying 7:0.
In the stands of the Danube Stadium, the fans of the home team had almost dispersed. There were only more than 1000 Borussia Mönchengladbach fans dancing and singing crazily, including the 'Mud' team of course.

But this is not over yet. In the 75th minute, Li Yihuan rushed up to provide an assist. After a two-pass with Janker on the left, he broke into the bottom line of the penalty area and volleyed from a small angle. The score became 8:0.
In the 84th minute, the Iranian star Madavikia once again demonstrated his long-range shooting skills. A long-range shot from 35 meters away from the goal broke through the goal of the Ulm team and finally locked the score at 9:0.
Crazy!

This is really a crazy score. The Ulm team lost with their underpants in the sky, and Borussia Mönchengladbach, who was fully fired, successfully reached the top of the Bundesliga after the first round with the advantage of goal difference!

But at the press conference after the game, Karl was not excited at all. Deisler's injury has been initially diagnosed as an anterior cruciate ligament injury and needs at least a month's truce. Karl slammed Danielson's violent foul, saying that he wanted to ruin Deisler's career and ruin Borussia Mönchengladbach's league prospects.

Nick was also very annoyed by Deisler's injury. If Borussia Mönchengladbach want to achieve good results, Deisler's performance also plays a very critical role, but the league has just started, and Deisler has to rest for a month. This is simply too tragic.

So behind 9:0, the whole team did not have much joy.

On the contrary, the media blew up Borussia Mönchengladbach.

"Kicker" scored more than 2 points for the whole team of Borussia Mönchengladbach, and wrote that Borussia Mönchengladbach continued its excellent performance in the second half of last season. If they can continue to play, both Bayern and Leverkusen will be under tremendous pressure.

"Bild" more directly listed Mönchengladbach as one of the candidates for this season's championship. Compared with the difficulties of Bayern and Leverkusen in the first round, Mönchengladbach gave fans a huge surprise from the beginning.However, the newspaper also believes that Deisler's injury is a huge loss for Mönchengladbach. The newspaper hopes that Deisler can recover quickly and contribute to the recovery of Mönchengladbach.

For the first time, "Munich Sports Zeitung" faced up to the strong pressure brought by Borussia Mönchengladbach. The newspaper said that maybe Borussia Mönchengladbach is the biggest enemy of Bayern's defending title this season.

Some foreign media also reported on the game. The big score of 9:0 made all major media surprised. After all, the difference in strength between the two teams in the same level league is really amazing.

The performance of the two Asian players in the team, Li Yihuan and Shunsuke Nakamura, won unanimous praise from the domestic media, especially the Japanese media, who regarded Shunsuke Nakamura as the second Hidetoshi Nakata.

The Chinese media also praised Li Yihuan’s performance. In this round of the league, besides Li Yihuan, Wei Jun and Hao Dong also played on behalf of Bielefeld and Hertha Berlin. Wei Jun started for 90 minutes and helped Bielefeld draw with Schalke 1 in an away game 1:04. Hao Dong came off the bench and scored a goal in the 65th minute of the game, helping Hertha Berlin beat Rostock 5:2. Now, Chinese football has become the focus of Asian football. Thanks to Sen, Mr. Hansen has now become a friendly envoy of Chinese and German football.

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