The two-day holiday was fleeting, and Hamburg's players quickly returned to the training center.
They will start preparing for the 11th round of the Bundesliga four days later, which is an away game against Freiburg.
Compared with Bayern, a team like Freiburg is small. Their form this season is average. After 10 rounds, they ranked 12th with 3 wins, 3 draws and 4 losses.
But the more this happens now, the more Pan Yi is worried.
He could clearly feel that after playing Bayern, the emotional excitement of the players had dropped again, and their condition in training was not as good as it was a few days ago.
In fact, this cannot be attributed to Hamburg being a young team. In fact, this phenomenon is still very common.
It's a bit like you just spent a good night with Monica Bellucci or Sophie Marceau, and when you turn around and look at those vulgar Internet celebrities, you won't be interested at all.
Or simply put, it is the sage’s time after passion.
At the sports level, some teams or players lack hunger after winning the highest honor, leading to a decline in performance. This is also the case.
In the world of football, how to maintain form throughout a long league instead of fading now and then is also a problem that most teams have been studying and overcoming.
But even a wealthy team composed of many experienced players may not be able to completely solve this worldwide problem.
Maybe they will defeat Real Madrid and Bayern in the midweek Champions League match, but then lose to a team at the bottom of the league in the weekend league. Many times it is due to this reason.
Pan Yi and the coaching staff can only try their best to adjust the team's training plan and talk to the players, hoping to better help the players return to training status.
After all, training is very important.
Basically it can be said that every game is a test of the training results of the past period.
If the training level is low, it will be difficult to guarantee the quality of the game.
In a team that is running normally, the players who can play in the game are often the players who perform well in training.
Sometimes when the team loses, many fans will curse and say, "Why not use so-and-so?"
Or if a player transfers to a certain team and has never been able to play, someone will ask, "Why not give him a chance?"
However, precisely because "experts will know if they are good as soon as they make a move", these players' performance in training cannot meet the team's requirements, so they cannot get the attention of the head coach, and of course they cannot play.
Now Pan Yi is well aware of these principles, so he will put more effort into adjusting the players' training status.
However, the coach can only do his best for this kind of thing, and more depends on the players' own understanding and self-adjustment.
After this, what kind of results can be achieved in the end can only depend on their own luck.
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On November 10, Hamburg ushered in the 11th round of the Bundesliga and challenged Freiburg away.
Although they were facing a Hamburg team that had just overturned the Bundesliga giant Bayern, Freiburg was not timid at all and took advantage of the home situation to launch a fierce attack on Hamburg.
Naturally, Hamburg did not show any weakness, so the two teams launched a wonderful offensive battle.
In the 3rd minute, Wu Lei passed the ball across the penalty area from the right. Son Heung-min stopped the ball and made a slight adjustment to directly volley. The ball hit the defensive player's foot and refracted into the net!
Hamburg took a one-goal lead shortly after the game started.
But this lead did not last long.
In the 12th minute, Freiburg left midfielder Caligiuri distributed the ball into the penalty area. The 24-year-old German forward Kruse hit the goal from a small angle and equalized the score! 1:1.
Two goals in a short period of time stimulated the nerves of both sides, so the two sides went back and forth, and the game was very lively.
In the 16th minute, Hamburg got a free kick at the top of the penalty area. De Bruyne took the penalty and shot directly, and the ball was slightly higher than the crossbar.
In the 17th minute, Rudiger made a long pass from the backcourt. De Bruyne scored the ball from the top of the arc. Vardy broke into the penalty area and hit the goal from a small angle! The score was exceeded again! Freiburg 1-2 Hamburg.
In the 27th minute, Carvajal made a cross pass from the right. De Bruyne's heel at the top of the arc was passed to Casemiro. Casemiro passed the ball in and was cleared by the defensive player.
In the 33rd minute, Freiburg took a corner kick from the left to the center of the penalty area. Kruse met the ball and volleyed the ball and missed.
In the 35th minute, Freiburg made a 45-degree cross from the right, and forward Fries' header was too high and was directly confiscated by Navas.
In the 38th minute, Son Heung-min got the ball from the left and took two steps to shoot from a long distance. The ball was slightly higher than the crossbar.
In the 39th minute, Freiburg made a cross pass to the top of the penalty area. Kruse stopped the ball to adjust his kick and volleyed, and the ball went straight into the blind corner!
Kruse scored twice in the first half and once again helped Freiburg equalize the score.
At the end of the first half, Freiburg 2-2 Hamburg.
In the second half, the two sides changed sides and fought again. Both sides played more vigilantly, and the offensive and defensive scenes also decreased.
It wasn't until the 84th minute of the game that the situation on the field suddenly changed.
Hamburg passed the ball back to the goalkeeper. Navas stopped the ball and slipped and fell. Caligiuri seized the opportunity to steal and push the ball into the empty goal!
Freiburg overtook the score and it is now 3:2!
In the 93rd minute, Son Heung-min stole the ball in the middle circle, ran long distance into the penalty area, and hit the target with force from a small angle!
This is a perfect goal! Son Heung-min also scored twice in this game!
The two goals in the last ten minutes also fixed the final score of this exciting battle at 3:3.
Although he did not win the game, Pan Yi was quite satisfied with the spirit of the players on the field.
Especially in the real-time injury period, they were able to equalize the score, which fully reflects everyone's valuable spirit of not giving up even though they fell behind in the game.
As for Navas's mistake...
Alas, which goalkeeper hasn't had such an embarrassing moment?
A player of his level naturally knows how to adjust his mental state, so there is no need for Pan Yi to worry too much.
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However, the day after the game, Pan Yi encountered something that made him a little uncomfortable.
Not long after he got up, while still sleepy, he received a phone call.
It was a baritone: "Hey, is this Mr. Pan Yi?"
"I am. Are you...?"
"My name is Thies. I am Son Heung-min's agent."
"Oh, hello. What can I do?"
The other side was not polite and went straight to the point: "That's it. Because my client has shown excellent competitive standards in recent games, I think his salary level is a bit unmatched..."
Pan Yi suddenly woke up: "What? Do you want a salary increase?"