Chapter 24 - Surprise opportunity
Press one hand on the shoulder.
Zhen Shaolong turned to see a smiling face, it was teammate Biltz, the others were called Elza.
Old Elza is the oldest player in the team. He was born in 70 and he is over thirty-five years old. It is still very rare for a player of this age to play in the German Bundesliga.
Old Elza is kind, friendly to everyone, and likes to help others.
He was watching Zhen Shaolong smiling, “Don’t be nervous, this is just a normal game.”
“Thank you.” Zhen Shaolong pointed to the stadium. “I’m not nervous, I just can’t sit still. I really want to go up and try!”
Old Elza nodded, his tone very calm, “I can understand. The feeling of wanting to play, but only sitting here. But you have to wait. Everyone is here.”
“me too……”
“I wanted to start my youth training in Stuttgart twenty years ago …”
Elza tells the history of ‘brilliance’.
Zhen Shaolong listened patiently.
Kruze’s mouth twitched next to him, and the other teammates almost made an ear covering motion.
Zhen Shaolong listened to it for more than ten minutes, and Elza continued to say that he could not bear it, and turned his attention to the game, but only occasionally nodded his reaction and completely coped with the errand.
Kruzer chuckled, “Last time he spoke for half an hour. I think he can write an autobiography. He has this talent. Unfortunately, he is not very famous.”
Zhen Shaolong pouted.
Many people say that the elderly like to remember the past, Elza is only thirty-five years old, at most can only talk about middle-aged, even if the career comes to an end, you do n’t have to always remember the past!
In the memory of the elder Elza, the game on the field was very fierce. Karlsruhe played out and continued to attack St. Pauli at halftime.
Most of the time, St. Pauli can only passively defend.
The strength gap between the two sides is not small.
It can also be seen from the results that Karlsruhe can not be said to be the top of the German Second Division, and the ranking is definitely in the upper middle. At present, they are ranked seventh in the league, there is hope to compete for upgrade places, St. Pauli is ranked last, the only goal Relegation.
Such a big gap, coupled with home advantage, Karlsruhe naturally easily suppressed St. Pauli.
The game reached the 27th minute. Karlsruhe used a positioning ball to coordinate, and the forward player used a head shot to put the ball into the gate guarded by Henarev.
1 to 0.
Karlsruhe leads!
The scene was suddenly surrounded by the cheers of fans, and Elza’s ‘recollection’ was also interrupted. He seemed to have some unsatisfactory intentions. Zhen Shaolong exhaled a long time. Anyone always had a fly in his ear, and he kept flying. I feel very irritable.
The essential……
This fly can’t shoot dead!
Zhen Shaolong was somewhat fortunate at the same time, the atmosphere on the bench was a little low, because the team scored behind the opponent.
At the beginning of the season, St. Pauli was a newly promoted horse, and no one cares about losing the game. They feel that the newly promoted team loses for granted.
When the loss continues, the situation is different.
There are a lot of players on the team who are playing from the third team with the team. They don’t want to return to the third team next season.
This is a professional league, not a youth team’s game.
The outcome is crucial.
The coach Bergman is the most headache. Before thinking of playing against Karlsruhe before the game, he knew that it was not easy to play, but he could try to fight for the points. He still encouraged everyone, the team could not Say with a win-win mentality, at least hope to get points.
Is now behind!
Will the next time be tied?
Bergman holds a pessimistic view, because several players on the strike line are in a very weak state. The main striker Felix Luz’s goal shortage has lasted more than 700 minutes, and the last goal has to be traced back to the league first The field against Fürth.
Other players are not much better.
In the past eleven rounds of the league, St. Pauli has scored only six goals, and his ability to break the goal ranks the bottom of the German second team. Even the last Silgen scored more goals than St. Pauli.
It is too difficult to tie the game away now.
In the next game time, St. Pauli was indeed very passive, let alone wanting to score, because the situation was poorly passive and even had fewer shots. For the rest of the first half, St. Pauli had only one shot, or was still far away from the plane. Shooting, no threats were created.
Intermission, the atmosphere is a bit dull.
Each player is doing his own thing, and almost no one takes the initiative to talk about the game.
After Bergman returned, he encouraged everyone.
Unfortunately, it’s useless.
In the second half, Karlsruhe slowed the offensive, but it was still enough to suppress St. Pauli, and the slower pace and solid defense also meant that St. Pauli wanted to score more difficult.
“This is estimated to be no more!”
Kruse sighed softly, “I really hope the team can perform better so that I can play.”
If the team performs well and can win early, Bergman must not be stingy with young players in the remaining garbage time.
This thought made Zhen Shaolong a little stunned. He sighed, “Dickert, I suddenly found that we have completely different ideas about appearances.”
“How?”
Zhen Shaolong closed his mouth.
He wanted the team to fall behind, he was pinned on hope, and then came on stage to help the team equalize, or even help the team overtake.
Turn the tide and become a hero!
Time for garbage? Zhen Shaolong’s mind never thought in that direction.
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The game went to the 67th minute, and the score on the field was still 1-0.
St. Pauli was one goal behind.
Head coach Bergman stood up. Everyone who knew him knew that Bergman was planning to replace him. The players on the bench immediately stood up and looked up. UU read www.uukanshu.com. Looks like.
Bergman turned to look at the bench, his eyes swept from player to player.
Finally, it was fixed on Zhen Shaolong–
“Zhen, warm up!” Bergman’s tone was unquestionable.
“I?” Zhen Shaolong froze for a moment, he was ready not to play, a little dazed for a while.
“How?”
“Okay, let me go!” Zhen Shaolong was full of surprises, and a jerky stood up and took off his coat to warm up.
Cruzer couldn’t help but envy.
But he played two games off the bench. He didn’t even get one minute. Zhen Shaolong just entered the roster and got the chance to play.
Bergman looked at Zhen Shaolong, still a little hesitated.
When considering a substitution, he didn’t even think of Zhen Shaolong, but he turned his head and glanced at the bench, and suddenly changed his mind.
In the past few rounds of the league, the team will also make substitution adjustments in the second half, some of which will replace the players who can’t move, and some will be tactical personnel adjustments, but no matter which substitution method is used, the purpose is to win the game.
The results of it?
St. Pauli did not win the next game!
When his eyes swept over Zhen Shaolong, Bergman suddenly had the idea, “Anyway, there is no use in substitutions, so let this Chinese boy with super luck try? Anyway … I probably lost.”
Zhen Shaolong got the chance.
At the 70th minute, St. Pauli announced the substitution. Felix Luz was replaced on the 22nd and Zhen Shaolong appeared on the 13th.
Watching the Chinese kid walking step by step, excited to the point that his legs were a little trembling, Bergman’s mouth showed a smile, silently shaking his head and thinking, “Just let him play, not to be selected for the team. But tomorrow … … just give him back to Flor … “