Especially for a rebuilding team like Dortmund, time flies even faster.
It's already mid-October.
October 18, 2008.
The eighth round of the Bundesliga is about to begin.
Dortmund faces Hannover 96 at home.
Hannover 96 has average strength, although there have been dark horse tours in history. Especially in the German Cup, they have beaten all the powerful players to win the German Cup. At that time, Hannover 96 was just a team in the German second division.
It is the first German second division team in the history of German football to win the German Cup.
However, although there have been such glorious moments, to be honest, the history of Hannover 96, or Hannover 96, does not have a history that can be said.
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It has no status at all in German football.
Of course, one of Dortmund's players now has a deep relationship with Hannover 96.
Dortmund's captain Kyle is a youth player of Hannover 96.
It was in Hannover 96 that Kyle began to become famous.
But for such a little-known club in German football, their stadium is very large and luxurious.
awd athletics stadium.
It was one of the 2006 World Cup stadiums in Germany and was called the "Hannover World Cup Stadium" at the time.
The course is very beautiful.
And it is a large stadium that can accommodate 49,000 people.
There are very few stadiums in England with a capacity of 49,000. This stadium in Hannover ranks among the top five in England, which is better than Wembley Stadium, Old Trafford Stadium, Highbury Stadium, and St. James' Park Stadium.
A little smaller.
The capacity is about the same as Sunderland's Stadium of Light.
The capacity of German stadiums is generally this large. Just like last season's statistics, the Bundesliga attendance rate was 89.9%, but the average number of people on site was about 43,000.
In England, the attendance rate is 92%, but the average attendance is 34,000.
You can know the gap between the stadium capacity in Germany and the stadium capacity in England.
The average capacity of Bundesliga stadiums is 47,000.
Hannover 96 had good results last season.
Won eighth place in the Bundesliga.
After the start of this season, they had an amazing 1-0 victory over Bayern Munich at home. But overall, their results were far inferior to last season.
Because beating Bayern is an upset.
Apart from this upset, the performance in other games was too poor.
Especially the game where they were defeated 3-0 by Schalke, swept 4-0 by Leverkusen, and humiliated 5-2 by Hoffenheim.
Overall, it is a weak team. Its results are not as good as last season.
Hannover 96's offense is from the middle.
Especially their attacking midfielder Arnold Brookink.
Very outstanding player.
He has spent most of his time in the Eredivisie, playing more than 300 times and scoring more than 100 goals. It is already his third season in Hannover and he has scored almost 20 goals.
It is the source of Hannover 96's offense.
He is also the most dangerous player in Hannover 96.
Hannover's two main forwards are Hanke and Fussell.
Hank is a striker that Su Yun only got to know after coming to Dortmund. And Fussell has a close relationship with Su Yun.
Fussell is a Chelsea youth player.
It was Su Yun who personally brought him to the first team back then. However, Fussell didn't have many opportunities in Su Yun's hands. Su Yun had very good forward players from the beginning, so he didn't take a fancy to Fussell.
Even if he is a substitute, he is just a substitute for a substitute.
It was eventually sold to Birmingham.
Fussell's strength is not bad. He has the ability to be the main forward in some small and medium-sized teams.
There was a glorious moment in the Premier League when he scored seventeen goals in one season.
The current offense of Hannover 96 relies on Brookink, Hank and Fussell.
But now Su Yun is thinking more not about Hannover 96's offense, but how to break through their defense.
"The eighth round of the Bundesliga is about to begin. Dortmund plays Hannover 96 at home. Dortmund has made a lot of moves this season. Coach Su Yun unexpectedly became the head coach of Dortmund. And coach Su Yun brought his disciple Williams.
After arriving in Dortmund, a series of cleanings were carried out."
"Most of Dortmund's main players last season were given up by Su Yun. Among the current Dortmund, the only main players last season were Weidenfeller, Dede and Kyle."
"After the great purge, Dortmund's reconstruction work has not been so smooth. So far, Dortmund's results have not been good. In the first seven rounds, Dortmund had one win, four draws and two losses. The points are only seven points. They are currently ranked 3rd.
We are ranked 13th in the Bundesliga. I think this is the worst start for coach Su Yun after so many years of coaching."
Stephen Simon started his usual verbosity again.
"From the current point of view, the performance of Dortmund's young people is slowly getting better. Except for Cavani, who was introduced at a large price, he has not found any boots so far."
"Of course, coach Su Yun is not someone who gives up easily. Cavani has entered the starting lineup again."
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Cavani's performance was not good.
Eight games without a goal is really bad for a forward.
But Dortmund fans did not boo Cavani. On the contrary, they also gave Cavani applause when he came on the field. Although it was completely incomparable to other players.
But I also gave him applause.
This is Su Yun's favorite.
What Su Yun dislikes the most is the fans at the Bernabeu.
Their demands are too high.
It is very common for them to boo players and coaches. And it is their own players and their own coaches. But Su Yun only encountered this situation at the Bernabeu.
On the contrary, in Sunderland, Chelsea, Juventus and now Dortmund, Su Yun has never encountered a team that booed its players and coaches.
If it were at Real Madrid, a performance like Cavani's.
He immediately fell down under the boos at the Bernabeu.
Hannover 96 is a weak team, and Su Yun is starting to slowly create a style that belongs to Dortmund.
The teams in the first few rounds were too strong.
It's hard for Dortmund built by Su Yun. Especially for Dortmund, which is undergoing reconstruction, the opponent is too strong.
Su Yun could only take some pragmatic measures.
Why Dortmund had four draws? It was because of Su Yun's pragmatic style of play. Su Yun had no choice, the opponent was too strong.
If there really is a four-game losing streak, the morale of the young players will be gone.
Therefore, Su Yun could only take a pragmatic approach.
But that was not what Su Yun had in mind. It was not the Dortmund that Su Yun wanted to build.
Many of his own ideas have not been reflected, but as the players become more and more understanding, Su Yun will start to build Dortmund according to his own ideas.
oppression.
Su Yun chose a pressing style of play.
It's not like Barcelona's oppression.
Barcelona uses its own possession of the ball to pressure its opponents, and uses its constant possession of the ball to hypnotize its opponents. Barcelona's pressure is pressure under a high ball possession rate. It makes it impossible for the opponent to grab the ball.
It is such a kind of oppression.
But the method chosen by Su Yun is different. Because Su Yun does not think that he can build a Barcelona team. Barcelona's style of play is not easy to copy. After all, they have the La Masia youth training camp as their foundation.
The training of Dortmund's youth academy is completely different from that of La Masia.
Therefore, what Su Yun chose was to use the frontcourt press to pressure the opponent.
run.
This is what Su Yun has always been most particular about.
When I was at Chelsea and Real Madrid, I focused on running in order to reduce the defensive pressure on the back.
It's for defense.
But in Dortmund, Su Yun's idea is different. The running and counterattack in the frontcourt are to suppress the opponent.
Dortmund's defensive line moves forward. Su Yun has been coaching for more than ten years, and this is the first time he has adopted the practice of moving the defensive line forward. He uses his running in the frontcourt to force and suppress the opponent. After grabbing the ball, he immediately starts to invest.
attack.
This is the style of play Su Yun has chosen for Dortmund's future.
In the past, there was really no way to face strong teams.
There is no tacit understanding in the frontcourt. There is no tacit understanding in running. This makes it difficult to form the frontcourt pressure that Su Yun needs.
Hannover 96 is currently relatively weak.
Su Yun wants to start implementing this style of play.
After the game started, Su Yun's idea was very simple. From Cavani to Grosskreutz, Mata, Blaszczykovsky, Shaheen and Kyle, they all stepped up their running.
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Of course, the backline must also coordinate with the defense in the midfield and frontcourt.
Starting from Hannover 96's defense, they press the opponent.
And the one who puts the most pressure is Hannover 96’s defensive midfielder Hanno Balic.
Hannover 96 saw this style of play for the first time in Germany.
Speaking of which, Dortmund's style of play is not unusual. Su Yun is not the kind of master coach who can create any new tactics. But Su Yun's greatest strength is his ability to imitate.
Su Yun learned a lot from teams such as Barcelona, Spalletti's Roma, and the Netherlands.
Su Yun is very good at learning other people's strengths. What about England's traditional style of play, Italy's defense, Netherlands' total offense, Barcelona's ball-control style, those teams' styles of play? Su Yun played in Sunderland one by one.
Chelsea, Real Madrid, and Juventus have all used it.
It's all someone else's tactical ability.
That's what Su Yun is like.
And now Su Yun has poured what he learned in those days into Dortmund.
Su Yun's running in the frontcourt was specially developed during training.
Just practice how to cooperate with each other in the frontcourt to grab the ball.
Today Barkley got to know this style of play for the first time. During the game against Schalke, Bowman saw Dortmund's frontcourt ball grabbing. But at that time it was only a small one.
What Bowman saw was that Dortmund was not yet fully mature in grabbing the ball.
But this time facing Hannover 96, Dortmund's ability to grab the ball in the frontcourt and press the ball came to the fore. They were several times more proficient than they were then.
From the first minute of the game, Dortmund suffocated Hannover.
oppression.
Hannover 96, apart from being able to kick the ball off with a big kick, couldn't pass the ball forward at all.
The ball grabbing is so awesome.
Cavani, Grosskreutz, Mata, Blaszczykovski. They moved a lot. This kind of grabbing the ball is rare in the Bundesliga. But Dortmund started to play.
"Falun Horst gave the ball to Balic. Cavani came over. Balic... Mata, Mata got on Balic, Balic couldn't get rid of Mata... passed the ball.
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"Balic lost the ball due to interference from Cavani and Mata."
Balic has been in Germany for many years, but this is the first time he has received such great pressure. Dortmund's pressure is not the strong team's style of using offense to break down the opponent and suppress the opponent in the half court.
On the contrary, the space Dortmund gave Hannover seemed to be huge.
But because of the players' movement, and planned movement. In each small area, Dortmund's number of players can always exceed Hannover's 96 players.
From the game, it looked like there were a few more Dortmund players.
In fact, it's all because Dortmund players move a lot.
In the ten minutes of the game, Dortmund ran nearly 10,000 meters more than the Hannover 96 players. With such running, it makes people look more personal.
Balic lost the ball in a hurry when he was pinched by Cavani and Mata.
It was interrupted by Shaheen who came up.
"Shahin, Shaheen passed the ball, Blaszczykovsky, Blaszczykovsky got the ball!"
There are some problems with Blaszczykovsky's handling in a small area. But overall, Blaszczykovsky is fast and explosive, and even his passing moves are excellent.
Breakthrough ability is very strong.
Because it was a interception in the midfield, Shaheen passed the ball and Blaszczykovsky cut it in directly from the right.
This time he did not get close to the penalty area, but when he was about to enter, he made a direct pass.
"Blashchikovsky, cross!"
Blaszczykovsky's cross has some characteristics.
It's not high and floating, but a flat fastball.
Very fast.
Cavani is the first forward of Dortmund. This kind of physical combat in the penalty area is his task. Cavani is not a center player who is very good at heading the ball, but his header is not bad either.
This time he didn't exert force like before.
With Su Yun's main position guaranteed, Cavani is still confident.
No more worries about the main position.
As long as Cavani calms down, his shooting talent can be brought into full play.
Therefore, while watching the path of the ball, he still had time to pay attention to the goalkeeper's position.
"Cavani, Cavani headers the goal!"
Instead of using force, Cavani used the back of his head to gently shake his head to attack the goal. He looked at the goalkeeper's position and shot the goal. Because the force of the cross is inherently fast, all Cavani had to do was to follow the flight path of the ball.
There are some changes.
That's it.
"goooooooooooooooooooooooooooal!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"One to zero! One to zero! Only eleven minutes into the game, Dortmund led Hannover with Cavani's header. This is also Cavani's first goal in Dortmund this season."
"For this goal, Dortmund waited nine games and more than two months."
Seeing the goal, Cavani really breathed a sigh of relief.
Then he looked at Su Yun at the far end. He stretched out his arms and pointed at Su Yun with the index fingers of both hands.
Su Yun also raised his thumbs up in front of Cavani.
Although it was not in person, Su Yun said in his heart: You can definitely do it. (To be continued. Mobile phone users please read it here.)
