Go back to the past and be the king

Chapter 168 Remain undefeated
To really test whether his tactical arrangement can really make Lu Chen's strength perfectly displayed, he still has to see the truth on the field.

On August 8, Munich 16 challenged Frankfurt away. According to the strength on paper, this game should be a close game.

However, in this game, Lu Chen's one pass and one shot helped the team beat Frankfurt 2:1 and scored three points in the away game.

Without more organization and defense, Lu Chen's role on the offensive end was completely beyond Kurtz's imagination.

Lu Chen can play different breakthrough effects in the middle or two sideways alone, and can also help his teammates make the ball.

The only thing that worries Kurtz is that after Lu Chen is liberated, the defensive tasks of the remaining three midfielders will be even heavier, and the requirements for Lars Bender's organizational skills will also be higher.

Because Lu Chen was closer to the frontcourt, the three in the midfield had to run more to keep the midfield from getting out of touch.

This requires even higher physical fitness for them. Fortunately, before the start of the season, Kurtz also led the team for physical training.

However, there are many chances in the performance of a game, and it is not yet certain how much such adjustments will help the team.

Therefore, more matches are needed to observe, especially Lu Chen's performance.

However, there is no more time for Kurtz to make more adjustments to the team. For a long time to come, the team will have double matches a week.

The only good thing is that there are not many members of the national team in the 1860 team, at least their players don't have to travel around to compete.

On August 8st, 21 will go away to Kazakhstan to participate in the first round of the Europa League. Their opponent is Aktobe Football Club, the champion of the Kazakh Football Super League last season.

In fact, Kurtz didn't take this game very seriously. After all, there is a big gap between the level of the Kazakh League and Germany.

Although 1860 has just been upgraded from the Bundesliga, they are now a Bundesliga team. To deal with a team like Aktobe, they only need to send substitutes on the field.

Therefore, Kurtz didn't even bring Lu Chen with him in this game.

After all, in the home and away games, even in case of an away loss, Kurtz still has a chance to make the team comeback when he returns to the home court.

However, in fact, even if Kurtz only brought a substitute to Aktobe, Kazakhstan, the team failed to find any moths in the hands of 1860 from Germany.

1:2, this is the final score of the game.

Failed to win 1860 at home, and Aktobe's Europa League road is over. At 1860's home court, Kurz will definitely not let them come back.

What's more, there are nuclear weapons like Lu Chen sitting on the bench in 1860.

The focus of this season's 1860 is still in the league, and the third-line battle is a test for the thickness of the team's bench.

Just two days after the Europa League match, 1860 will play their second home game of the season and their third league game of the season.

In the previous games, 1860 won both games. Coupled with the advantage of goal difference, 1860 has become the top of the league standings.

Although this is not the final score, it is enough for 1860 to occupy the top spot in the standings.

One thing worth mentioning is that Bayern Munich, they lost the first two rounds and were drawn by Huo Cun and Werder Bremen successively.

Compared with the perfect start of the rivals in the same city derby, Bayern fans began to be dissatisfied with the club.

Last season, 1860 was still struggling in the Bundesliga. This season they had a perfect start in the Bundesliga, which made many Bayern fans feel unbalanced.

Especially when compared to their own results.

The next game made Bayern fans even more uncomfortable. Facing the newly promoted Mainz, Bayern lost to them in the away game, and even the rhythm of the game was completely controlled by Mainz.

According to statistics, since the establishment of the Mainz team in 1905, Bayern Munich has played against it 8 times in official matches and achieved an absolute advantage of 7 wins and 1 draw. Among them, the two sides played against each other 6 times in the Bundesliga. Remaining unbeaten, the ratio of goals scored is 5:1; the two sides played against each other twice in the German Football Association Cup, and Bayern Munich maintained a complete victory. This game is the first time Mainz has defeated Bayern Munich in an official game since its establishment 21 years ago.

This is Bayern Munich's worst start in 43 years.

This also makes Van Gaal's future in Munich have to be worrying. For a strong team like Bayern, such a start is unacceptable.

Most of the media said that Van Gaal would be the first head coach to dismiss get out of class among the giants in the five major leagues.

In this round of the league, 1860 also ended their winning streak, but they still maintained an unbeaten record of three rounds with a 2:2 draw at home with Hannover 96.

In this game, Lu Chen continued to maintain his excellent performance. Only one goal and a free kick created by him allowed 1860 to beat Hannover at home.

Having scored in three consecutive games, the total number of goals has reached four, and Lu Chen has already started to lead the scorer list.

Strange to say, the final score of the three rounds of 1860 was 2:1. It has to be doubted that 1860's offense this season is entirely due to Lu Chen's performance.

And because Wolfsburg, which is also at the top of the standings, lost to Hamburg, Wolfsburg began to fall behind.

1860 is temporarily ranked No.2 in the standings due to the disadvantage of goal difference.

Hamburg, Luck Watson, and 1860, the three teams temporarily occupy the top three in the standings with a record of two wins and one draw.

The original veteran team can only become a chaser this season.

Especially Bayern Munich, with only 2 points in three league rounds, is the last among all Bundesliga teams.

However, everyone knows that the reason why the giants are giants is not because they can win one or two games.

Regardless of the results at the beginning of the season, they will slowly catch up in the long run of the league.

Kurtz knows that his team must not have the thickness of a giant, so he also knows when and how to use players.

For example, in the next game against Aktobe at home, Kurtz even rotated most of the main players, and Lu Chen didn't even make the roster.

So, in this game, Lu Chen and Li Xiaoxue appeared in the stands to cheer for the team.

Without Lu Chen, 1860's offensive ability is like a bird with its wings broken, even if Kruse replaces Lu Chen as the team's midfielder.

After the fans had seen enough of Lu Chen's outstanding performance, when they watched this kind of game again, they would have a sense of seeing two rookies pecking at each other.

(End of this chapter)