Chapter 105 Free man in the frontcourt, the first goal of the national team!

Schürrle briefly introduced Wolfsburg's current predicament. After the large-scale loss of personnel, especially the painful period after the core players left the team, it was still quite difficult.

During the conversation with Xuerle, Zhao Jinge also expressed his apology to him for the jersey matter.

In fact, Zhao Jinge expressed his apology to Schürrle over the phone after Loew officially announced that he would hand over the No. 9 jersey to him.

In fact, Zhao Jinge doesn't care too much about the number on his jersey. After all, the German team's No. 9 knows it all.

In the past 20 years, it has been a cursed number.

Hearing Zhao Jinge apologize again, Xu Erle waved his hand and said he didn't care.

As a new-generation German player, he has simply grown up listening to the curse of No. 9. He is actually very happy to be able to change his jersey this time.

Seeing the sincere Xu Erle, Zhao Jinge felt relieved. He didn't want to offend an old teammate because of the jersey issue.

To be honest, in the European football circle, various beliefs and superstitions are emerging one after another, and everyone is still very concerned about things like curses.

But for Zhao Jinge, he doesn't believe in magic spells. After all, he is a systematic man!

In the end, Zhao Jinge became familiar with most of the German team players through the after-dinner party.

Perhaps because they have all been beaten, these German players who know his strength are also quite kind to Zhao Jinge.

In the following days, Loew also seized the final break-in time and practiced his newly formulated tactics through a forty-five-minute training match every day:

After a period of time without a forward, the German national team switched back to a forward formation with the center as the tactical fulcrum.

All the players of the German team also learned through the changes in tactics that Loew trusted and valued Zhao Jinge, coupled with Zhao Jinge's outstanding personal strength.

No matter what the other main players of the German national team think in their hearts, at least they put Zhao Jinge at the core of the striker in their execution of tactics on the court.

Zhao Jinge also used his impeccable performance in the training matches to gradually make them understand:

Why does Loew prefer himself so much!

Of course, some people are happy and some are worried. There are only so many positions for the main players. When Zhao Jinge firmly occupies one of them,

Mario Gotze, the former German genius, was beaten to death on the beach by the back waves.

Watching Gotze's heartbroken expression when he found out that he got the yellow vest representing the substitute in the first training match.

Zhao Jinge also warned himself from the bottom of his heart and took this as a warning.

After a genius falls, he is no longer a genius.

In football, a sport where strength is paramount, if you don’t take a warning, then the Gotze you are today will not be you tomorrow.

In Loew's new tactics, although he placed Zhao Jinge at the center position,

But in fact, Loew not only wants Zhao Jinge to become a goal-scoring machine who can eat cakes or rely on his personal strength to break down the opponent's defense.

I also want him to become the team's frontcourt support, organization, and connection hub.

Eventually he became a role similar to a free agent in the frontcourt.

Compared with Zhao Jinge when he was at Manchester City, due to the presence of Aguero, Zhao Jinge was limited to the wing position in many of the team's offenses and did not fully develop his offensive ability.

Zhao Jinge, who serves as a free agent in the frontcourt of the German national team, no longer adheres to the restrictions of his position, and fully utilizes his characteristics of playing all-round in the center and shooting with both feet.

Develop his offensive ability to an extreme state and give him the highest firing power and autonomy.

Moreover, because Zhao Jinge obtained the template of Matthaus, his own support and organizational skills in the midfield and frontcourt have also been greatly improved.

Not only has he repeatedly sent wonderful passes in Manchester City's recent games, he has also often played exquisite teamwork in the national team's training matches.

The current two wingers of the German national team, the left is the "Little Rocket" Reus who is at his peak, and the right is a winger. Both attacking midfielders can play "Second Child" Muller.

The core of the midfield is the attacking midfielder Ego, and the two organizational midfielders are played by Toni Kroos and Gundogan respectively.

These five people are definitely a world-class configuration. Not only can they do their jobs well, but they can also play an all-round role:

With Royce and Muller on both sides tucked in, they can complete the work of frontcourt organization and connection. Cross's putter from behind and Gundogan's long shot.

This makes the six frontcourt members of the German team have the ability to score and organize.

This allows Zhao Jinge to give full play to his offensive imagination during training matches.

Zhao Jinge not only made up for the lack of the German team in front of him in terms of finishing ability,

It also allows them to supplement their already top offensive organizational skills and integrate them into a tighter offensive network!

Loew also learned from the tactics currently used by Guardiola at Manchester City, which combines high-pressure and pressure play with passing and controlling. It is necessary to not only control the situation, but also play a fast-paced offense.

This places high demands on players' passing and receiving, ball control, movement, physical fitness, and tactical execution.

Fortunately, this is a team that is in its golden age, and there are a lot of players in the team who have a lot of skills and have adapted to pass-and-control tactics for many years.

Otherwise, Loew's new tactics really won't work.

After several days of intense running-in, the German team, which had restarted, took a bus to the home ground of the Irish national team at noon on October 8:

Dublin Stadium.

As the only UEFA five-star stadium in Ireland, it can accommodate 50,000 fans to watch the game.

Because this game is particularly important to both sides.

So at noon, long before the game started, a large number of fans gathered in the square outside the Dublin Stadium.

Most of them were Irish fans who had the home advantage, and they dyed the entire square into a sea of ​​green.

A small number of German fans were mixed in, like rocks in the green ocean. Although there were not many, they revealed an indestructible temperament.

In addition, Irish fans also gave a "passionate" gift to the arrival of the German national team:

They greeted the German team from the moment they left their hotel, and followed them all the way to the Dublin Stadium.

Green smoke cans sealed the streets along the way in a miserable green, and various protest songs continued to be heard from the streets and alleys, in an attempt to disturb the mentality of the German players and bring them more pressure and irritability.
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"These guys are too crazy. A city that is so culturally rich is now like a poison gas leak. It is a disgrace to the scenery."

Mueller, who was sitting not far from Zhao Jinge, looked at the chaotic scene outside the car window and couldn't help but complain:

"Do they think this can disturb our mentality? They think that we are a little too fragile!"

"The current momentum is far worse than the atmosphere in Westphalia."

Several international players from Dortmund echoed Muller's words.

People in the bus either took out their headphones to play some of their favorite music, or took out the earplugs necessary for away games, put them on and closed their eyes to relax.

No one paid attention to the scene outside the car window. No matter how much fun there was, there would always be a showdown on the court!

At the pre-match press conference in the afternoon, Loew announced the German team's roster for this game.

After seeing Zhao Jinge become a forward player in Germany, the reporters present were not too surprised.

If other 17-year-old players had replaced Gotze as the center forward of the German national team, they would definitely laugh at Loew for making a crazy decision.

But when the candidate was Zhao Jinge, who had played seven times in the Premier League and scored fourteen goals and twice in the Champions League and scored five goals, the reporters at the scene took it for granted.

Although there are still many media that stir up trouble, asking why Loew is so bold in personnel selection?

Are you too anxious to put the responsibility of scoring goals for the German tank on a young boy who has just entered the national team?

But they are all pretending to be confused, hoping to get more news from Loew's mouth.

Of course, if Zhao Jinge's performance in the national team is unsatisfactory, reporters will immediately trample him and Loew into the dust and criticize them wantonly!

After on-court training, the match between the two sides officially kicked off at nine o'clock that evening.

"Welcome to watch the European Cup qualifiers, a focus battle in the penultimate round of Group D:

Ireland vs. Germany at home!

Ireland, currently ranked third in the group, and Germany, ranked first in the group, both have the possibility of competing for the top two in the group and directly qualifying.

For the German team, as long as this game is a draw, even if they lose the last game, they will directly qualify as at least second in the group!

For Ireland, there is no room for failure in this game against Germany and the next round against Poland. They must score as many points as possible in order to have the possibility of directly qualifying!

In the first match between the two sides last year, Ireland drew with the German team away from home.

Although far less well-known, Ireland's performance in this European Cup qualifier is definitely remarkable.

Even compared with the powerful German team, Ireland has the possibility of drawing or even winning!

Of course, the new world champion German national team has world-class players in every position, and their strength goes without saying.

If they fail to win this game, it will only prove that their performance is completely inadequate to their own strength!

Now that the players from both sides have appeared, let's enjoy this focus showdown that determines the qualifying spots for Group D!"

German national television broadcast the game live together with Sky Sports Germany.

The guest commentators are the familiar Ballack and captain Lahm who recently retired from the German national team.

After Ballack introduced the pre-match situation of this game, Lahm immediately introduced the lineups of both sides.

"The Irish national team adopted a conservative formation.
To be continued...