The Weser Stadium, which can accommodate more than 40,000 fans, was already packed.
The referee raised his hand to look at the watch on his wrist and decisively blew the whistle to start today's game.
"Dear viewers, this is Hamburg Sports Channel. Welcome to the second round of the 2012-2013 Bundesliga season, Werder Bremen vs. Hamburg at home."
Since CCTV5 chose to broadcast today’s home match between Bayern Munich and Stuttgart, it did not broadcast this match between mid- and lower-tier teams live.
Although due to the existence of Pan Yi and Wu Lei, domestic TV stations now give priority to Hamburg when choosing to broadcast teams, but they will still make concessions when encountering a matchup between strong teams.
After all, even when Yang Chen was in Frankfurt, it wasn't broadcast every week.
"In the first few games this afternoon, the newly promoted Eintracht Frankfurt showed their strength and defeated Hoffenheim 3:0 in the away game."
"Schalke 04 defeated Augsburg 3:1 at home, and Leverkusen defeated Freiburg 2:0."
"Nuremberg drew with the previous champion Dortmund 1:1 at home. It is worth noting that Nuremberg lost to Hamburg with three goals in the first round, while Dortmund defeated Werder Bremen."
"In the second round, the two teams exchanged opponents and restarted the duel. Judging from the score, it seems to indicate that Hamburg will go smoothly in today's game?"
"Although football is not a simple matter of adding or subtracting scores, we have now seen that Hamburg has really turned against the visitors. They have been very active and proactive in pressing forward since the start of the game."
"This is the tactical characteristic that Hamburg under Pan Yi showed in the first round, that is, strong pressure and fast pace."
"It depends on coach Schaff, who advocates offense, whether his Werder Bremen can develop its own offensive routine at such a fast pace!..."
Hamburg's starting lineup today is exactly the same as in the first round.
This is the benefit of giving up the German Cup.
The Bundesliga, which originally had only 18 teams in total, had a relatively loose schedule. In the case of single-line operations, there was almost one game a week, and Pan Yi hardly had to consider the issue of rotation.
Nowadays, most of these young players have good physical fitness, high motivation, and need playing time to improve. Of course, let them play if they can.
On the other side, the home team Bremen's formation is indeed 433.
It is obvious that head coach Schaff has already studied Hamburg's playing style after the opening and has made sufficient preparations.
At the beginning, he did not bite the bullet and attack Hamburg. Instead, he asked the players to shrink the defense line, pay attention to maintaining the distance between the three lines, and then wait for an opportunity to counterattack Hamburg.
This style of play was somewhat unexpected by Pan Yi, and it quickly yielded results.
The game only lasted less than 10 minutes, and Bremen formed an offensive cooperation on the right.
After grabbing the ball, they took advantage of Hamburg left back Ogo's inability to defend and quickly handed the ball to forward Anautovic on the right.
Arnautovic dribbled the ball straight into the penalty area. He was intercepted by Hamburg center back Rudiger, who came to defend. He quickly stopped to protect the ball, and then knocked the ball back to Hundt who came up from the back row. He himself
He rushed into the penalty area as quickly as possible.
Hongte made a slight adjustment and immediately took the ball and passed it diagonally to the middle of the small penalty area to find Peterson.
The German high center forward leaped high, grabbed the ball and shook his head to attack the goal.
Although the distance was very close, Hamburg goalkeeper Navas reacted extremely quickly and blocked the ball with a side dive.
The ball fell to the other side of the goal, just in front of Arnautovic who was catching up!
The 23-year-old Austrian international forward caught up and fired straight away!
At this time, there was no one around Arnautovic to interfere, and Navas was unable to get up and react after making the save.
The ball was scored easily!
1:0!
Less than ten minutes into the game, Bremen took the lead at home!
Navas was lying on the grass, looking helplessly at the ball in the net, feeling very frustrated.
Arnautovic excitedly ran to the stands and celebrated with the Bremen fans!
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"It doesn't matter, don't take it to heart!"
Pan Yi saw the opponent's goal on the sidelines and quickly stood up and applauded vigorously to boost the team's morale.
The goal was conceded so quickly, and it was the first goal conceded by Hamburg since the start of the league. It seemed that the players were quite hit.
"Hold on! Cheer up, the game has just begun!"
While encouraging his team, Pan Yi also began to call the captain Ogo to the sidelines for face-to-face discussions.
On the surface, the goal conceded just now was because the opponent took advantage of the gap left by Ogo's assist. In fact, it was because the boys were too excited to play and only focused on fighting, so the position was a bit messed up.
Under normal circumstances, even if the full-back cannot come back when the front is intercepted, a midfielder still needs to fill his position.
But Casemiro was a little far away from this side at that time, which ultimately resulted in the opponent's forward facing our center back directly, which ultimately resulted in a goal conceded.
As a young team, it's understandable to make mistakes like this sometimes.
As long as you can adjust quickly and use the tactics you prepared before the game, you can still win.
In addition, Pan Yi also found that he seemed to have underestimated his opponent.
After all, Werder Bremen's head coach Schaff is a meritorious coach who once led his team to win the Bundesliga championship, so he still has something in his hands.
In my 4231 formation, the weakest link currently is the left back.
Ogo's overall offense and defense can only be considered average, including speed, technique, passing and other technical indicators. They all look passable, but they don't have that amazing brilliance.
Schaff must have carefully studied Hamburg's first game, and then decided to focus on this side during the counterattack, and finally succeeded.
So Pan Yi now asked Ogo to explain the matter. In addition to asking him to convey his meaning to the players, he also asked him to slightly reduce the frequency of assists and focus more on defense.
After the explanation, Pan Yi turned his head and looked at the home team's bench.
There, Schaaf had also finished celebrating with the players, turned his head this way, and smiled at Pan Yi.
Pan Yi also smiled politely back, even brighter than Schaff's smile.
This surprised Schaff.
Now that Bremen is leading, it is normal for Schaff to have a smile on his face as the head coach.