Faced with the discussion in the entire German football world, Schalke 04 did not devote too much energy. After a day of rest, everyone consciously devoted themselves to the preparation for the next game under the leadership of assistant coach Mariska.

Schalke's game situation after the winter break is very bad. Not to mention the domestic league, even in the first round of the Champions League knockout round, facing the Olympiacos, who is not very strong, Schalke 04 did not unexpectedly lose 2 goals at Enzopoli Stadium. In the next home game, the opponent has a huge psychological advantage. As long as you ensure that you do not lose more than 3 goals, you will have a chance to eliminate Schalke 04.

The full name of Olympiacos Football Club is Piraeus Olympiacos Fan Club, and it is the largest and most popular club in Greece. In addition to the most important team, football team, there are also 16 sports events including basketball and volleyball.

The club logo is a young man with an olive branch and a flower crown on his head, which is red and white. Therefore, the team's home jersey is red and white, and the visiting team uniform is white, so it is called "Red and White Legion". In the early days of the founding of the team, there was a legendary move of brothers playing for the team, so it also has the nickname of "Legend".

Just like Barcelona and Real Madrid in La Liga, Arsenal and Manchester United in Premier League, and Milan in Serie A, the two Milan players in Serie A are the ones who compete with Olympiacos in the Greek league. Both sides regard the other side as "permanent enemies". These two strongest teams in Greek football staged their first derby in 30 years. Olympiacos lost 2:8 away. This is the biggest gap in scores between the two sides. Overall, Olympiacos has the upper hand.

In the history of the Champions League, Olympiacos was the most brilliant in the 1998-99 season, reaching the top 8 of the Champions League. However, since the reorganization of the Champions League, Olympiacos has set an embarrassing record of 31 consecutive away games until he reversed Werder Bremen 3-1 away games in 2007. Judging from this history, Schalke 04 cannot be careless at his home court, otherwise he may repeat the mistakes of Bremen.

Since the 21st round of the match against Leverkusen, Schalke 04 has been a strong team in three consecutive games, which is a severe test for Schalke 04's physical fitness. Although since 2007, Mr. Reiberg has updated the club's sports equipment for the development of the team to help players formulate more scientific physical fitness plans. But this does not mean that the players' physical fitness is not at all problem.

What worried coach Sloka the most was the psychological fatigue of the players. In addition to physiological confrontation, psychological confrontation has become increasingly effective in the field of modern football. The human body is like a machine. The health of components is useless and requires the high-intensity work. The current game is too intensive, which inevitably makes some players feel overwhelmed psychologically. In severe cases, this kind of resistance will be brought to the game. This result is not what Sloka expects to see.

So since the winter break, Slomberg has been suggesting to Chairman Reiberg whether to add several psychologists to the team's medical team, especially experts who are good at dealing with sports psychology. Reiberg, who has a relatively long-term vision, obviously accepted Slomberg's advice. In recent days, Schalke 04's training base has added several psychologists from Berlin.

With the strong support of the chairman, Scalon has a clear mind about the team's next stage of development. While arranging exercises focused on restoring physical training, he asked the psychologist to conduct psychological evaluations of the players every day. According to the evaluation results, the players are classified and drugged.

After careful investigation, the results were satisfactory. Except for a few players who were war-weary, the other players showed extremely high battles. This made Sloane feel very relieved and began to study the next opponent with the coaching team.

The main research content is Schalke 04's new formation. After all, no team relies on one formation to fight all over the world. Sometimes it can reserve several formations. One is to prescribe the right medicine for different opponents, and the other is to avoid their lineup being penetrated by opponents in advance.

From the current point of view, the disadvantages and advantages of the new formation are obvious. The advantage is that the team is relatively young, has a strong ability to accept new things, has a high understanding, and is often thorough. The disadvantage is that it requires continuous training in coordination, but this is not a problem. After all, Rome was not built in one day, and time can slowly cure all these adverse reactions.

At the same time, Coach Slovak also specially formulated corresponding training plans for potential players such as Qin Tian. In addition to the normal training with the team, each selected player will complete his "weak-making" homework under the supervision of Marisca. For example, Marin is spiritual in playing football, poor in single-body ability, Jeremy's shooting and running need to be strengthened, Ozil's too sticky ball, lack of organization, etc. As for Qin Tian, ​​in order to be cautious, Slovakia specially called Michelle Lauderup and asked about what Qin Tian needs to strengthen. Michelle was very surprised about Slovakia's responsible attitude, and did not hide his own personal opinions. Next, Qin Tian had 100 additional headers every day, and took 10 video highlights from the head coach every day to watch, and also asked to make good writing experience.

Pain and happiness, this is the unified view of all young players in Schalke 04.

The training days are undoubtedly painful, but fulfilling. It is impossible for every Schalke 04 player to say that there is no objection to these arrangements. Everyone understands it very well. After all, football players make a living by relying on the ball. They want to be superior and live more comfortable than others. How can they gain without giving? Besides, everyone knows how much they have made.

This reminded Qin Tian of a lyrics: No one can succeed casually!

Time flies, and soon the second game of the first round of the Champions League knockout stage was reached. Schalke 04 ushered in the challenge of Olympiacos at home.

In the starting lineup of both sides, Olympiacos used the usual formation 4-5-1, and the intention of defensive counterattack was very obvious. Goalkeepers: Nicopolidis, defenders Pantos, Cesar, Ansas, Zuraco, midfielder Ledesma, Djojevic, Stortidis, Pasazegro, Torosidis, and forward Kovacevic.

Schalke 04's lineup chose to abandon the previous 4-4-2 formation and chose a 3-4-3 attack lineup. Goalkeepers: Neuer, defenders: Rafinia, Pique and Boden, midfielders Ernst, Rakitic, Qin Tian and Ozil, and Kuranyi was in the center on the forward line, one left and one right were Levin and Jones respectively.

The game started on time at Aoyu Stadium.

In the 6th minute, Rakitic intercepted the middle and passed Qin Tian. Qin Tian made a straight pass from the middle, and Jones pushed the ball with his right foot from the right side of the penalty area, which was poked out by Nicopolidis with his fingertips. Ozil, who followed the ball from the side, inserted it and grabbed the ball, and prepared to make another cross, but was blocked by defender Pantos with his body. Ozil shot the ball with his left foot and shot over the crossbar.

In the 14th minute, Zuraco pulled Levin on the left side of the penalty area. Levin fell down. The referee refused to award a penalty. The impatient Olympiacos player Cesar pushed Levin, thinking that he deliberately made a fall, and the players of the two teams almost had a conflict. Fortunately, the referee controlled the emotions of the players on both sides in time.

In the 16th minute, Schalke 04 ushered in the first goal. Ozil took a corner kick from the right, Olympiacos Ansas made a mistake in stopping the ball in his chest, and the ball bounced on Kuranyi's leg. Jones's powerful low shot with his right foot in the middle of the penalty area broke the 0:0 situation, Schalke 04 took the lead at home. What is slightly controversial is that when Jones shot, Levin jumped on the ball running line to avoid the ball, and the assistant referee did not punish him to deliberately interfere with the opponent's goalkeeper's sight.

In the 20th minute, Olympiacos player Ledesma broke through on the left. In desperation, Boden tripped over the opponent. While he was late for a yellow card, Olympiacos player got a free kick in the frontcourt. Ledesma's right foot was strong and his free kick was over the crossbar and he was a palm.

7 minutes later, Schalke 04 returned with color, Ernst passed from the left, Levin turned around and shot low, and Nicopolidis actually escaped. Fortunately, defender Cesar reacted in time and destroyed the ball in front of Kulanyi, and Olympiacos escaped.

In the 28th minute, Qin Tian passed the ball, Lewen cut inside from the left side of the penalty area and then shot with his right foot. The ball flew away. Kulanyi, who was in an empty position, expressed dissatisfaction and signaled that his teammates had done something wrong just now.

Two minutes later, Olympiacos launched a threatening attack, and it was Ledesma's breakthrough, causing Schalke's defensive player to foul. Djojevic, who took the free kick, shot hard on the back of the calf of the man wall with his left foot. Neuer, who lost his center of gravity, was in a hurry and directly supported the ground with both hands, swung his legs back, blocked the ball with an unconventional scorpion tail swing, and Pique stepped forward to kick the ball out of the sideline. Neuer's wonderful save attracted thunderous applause from the scene.

In the 36th minute, Qin Tian made a cross from the right angle, Kulanyi headed the ball from the front point, Nicopolidis hit the ball in a single chapter, and the defender stepped on Ozil when defending, and was warned by the referee's yellow card. Qin Tian's free kick hit the goal, hitting the post and bounced out of the baseline, missing a chance to tie the total score.

In the 41st minute, Jones passed the ball, and Kuranyi turned around with his left foot in the penalty area and directly hit Ansas' body. The rebounding ball was pushed to Ozil on the side in the defender's rush to clear the ball, and Ozil passed it to the penalty area. Kuranyi dunked Ansas and shot it, and the ball was blocked by the post again.

At the end of the first half, Torosidis tackled Qin Tian from 30 yards and received a yellow card. Qin Tian's free kick was directly shot, but the tall Greek defenders jumped up to block the ball.
Chapter completed!