Saturday, December 6, 1997, afternoon.

The falling goose-feathered snowflakes in the morning stopped silently, but the white city of Kaiserslautern was empty. From Otbach Street to Vibe Street, then to Rosen Street, and finally to Parrisers Street, it was difficult to see a person when walking down the entire city of Kaiserslautern.

Every household locked the doors and windows, and the snow covered them up.

If someone stood in the air and listened at this time, he would have heard the whole city, shouts from the commentators on the TV, cheers from the stadium on the 40-meter-high hill, and excited cheers from every household.

On Saturday afternoon, the entire city was kidnapped by football!

Come from Logan Street and follow the curved hilly road to the front of Fritz Walter Stadium. There are no empty spaces in the parking lot. Except for a few security guards wearing thick down jackets listening to the radio in the corner, they can't see anyone, but they can hear everyone!

Entering the Fritz Walter Stadium, it completely becomes a red sea of ​​anger!

In the stands, you can see those Kaiserslautern fans with oil paint on their faces and terrifying expressions everywhere. They transform themselves into demons, willing to sacrifice everything they have and pull Bayern to sink into hell!

The fans who followed Bayern to the away game were undoubtedly miserable because they became a driftwood in this vast ocean. Apart from being able to go with the flow, they had no ability to change the direction of the sea water.

They were very depressed to find that in this stadium, the fans of Kaiserslautern were dominating!

It is the same as the fans' depression. On the court, Bayern players were also depressed to find that the players who dominate the game were the players of Kaiserslautern. They could only resist passively, resisting one wave after another, like an offensive that was slammed into the shore.

From the first minute of the game, Kaiserslautern used his own kicking method to pull the game into the familiar rhythm. They can quickly, once the ball enters Bayern's hinterland, they will speed it up immediately; but they can also slow down, and once the offense fails, the ball will be immediately passed back and reorganized.

Bayern was very depressed to find that they could only passively resist, following Kaiserslautern's fast and fast, following Kaiserslautern's slow and slow, they could not control their own rhythm at all, and they could not control the football under Kaiserslautern's feet.

Fanny, Larson, Denilson, Peron, Schneider, and Barack, these six players worked tirelessly in the midfield and frontcourt to mobilize Bayern's defense line, find out the flaws in Bayern's defense line, and use it to create opportunities again and again.

The defense line composed of Lizarazu, Kuffor, Helmer and Babel can only deal with Kaiserslautern's tide attack again and again, and they are under tremendous pressure because as long as they make a wrong judgment, Kaiserslautern can create opportunities and then turn them into shots and threaten Bayern's goal.

This is a group of players who have an almost crazy attack. Trapatoni Rey's surviving defense seems precarious in Kaiserslautern's offense, and even players such as Elber on the forward line have to retreat to defend.

"What does offense mean the best defense? Look at Kaiserslautern's performance. They interpreted this sentence almost perfectly with their own practical actions!" Even the live commentator had to be amazed at Kaiserslautern's performance after the opening.

There are no fancy tricks, no unnecessary process, from the first minute of the game, Kaiserslautern has only one goal with the starting 11 players, offense! Goals!!

Every attack and every successful pass of Kaiserslautern always brings cheers from the fans on the stage, and outside the court, countless fans in Kaiserslautern who closed their doors and watched the game in front of the TV in the living room of his home cheered!

Yang Cheng and Trapatoni were both standing on the sidelines. One of them was 26 years old, and the other was 58 years old. They were the golden age of professional coaches. They seemed mature and persistent, but they were both serious and focused on the game.

In this game, Trapatoni knew the difficulty of Fritz Walter Stadium, so he arranged two players with excellent defense in the midfield, Fink and Stranz. Nellinger on the left and Sauer on the right both retreated to protect the wing, and Elber on the forward line also retreated to participate in the defense, leaving a Yankel in front.

Kosch's injury allowed Trapatoni to use Yankel more with confidence, but what he didn't expect was that in this game, Yang Cheng started with another central defender, and the Brazilian central defender quickly allowed Yankel, a tall, strong, muscular and powerful German center forward, to appreciate what it means to fight head-on.

Lucio cannot be compared with Kosch for the time being, both in terms of defensive skills and consciousness. The Germans have a lot of experience in fighting against German centers, so Yankel has no choice when he meets him, but Lucio does not, but he has something that Kosch does not have.

That's his body!

The strong collision between Lucio and Yanker, two strong Bundesliga men, is definitely enough to detonate the entire game. What's even more rare is that both players are the kind of fierce and vicious muscular men, which makes the contest between them look like a hard-core action movie from Hollywood, which is very popular and intense.

Without exception, in this kind of strong dialogue, Lucio's body has a more advantage, his speed is faster, his body is more flexible, and his skills are better. Yanker completely fell into a disadvantage in the battle with Lucio.

The freeze of Yankel, coupled with Kaiserslautern's front-line pressure, putting huge pressure on the offensive end. Gattuso and Kyle even joined forces to cut off the connection between Bayern's forward line and the midfield. Elber had to retreat to respond, and Bayern's offense could not be hit at all.

On the other hand, Kaiserslautern's defense seems to be light and very steady, and the team can devote all their strength to the offense.

"He must not believe that you not only did not choose a more balanced tactic, but also acted more crazier than three days ago, with almost no consideration for defense and a lifeless offense!" Paul Bayer was satisfied with Kaiserslautern's advantageous performance and praised him with conscientious conscience.

If we look at the offense, Kaiserslautern's offensive power this season is not only the best in the Bundesliga, but also in Europe, it is definitely the top ranks. Van Nie and Larson are both very efficient scorers. De Nielsen, Peron, Schneider, Nedved, Barack, Salihamidic, Deco, Desler and other players can provide endless opportunities to the forward line.

In this way, Kaiserslautern's offense can definitely make any team scared.

The offensive routines in this game are slightly different from the previous game. Yang Cheng emphasized patience and changes in offensive methods, requiring the players to run more. Whether it is the striker's retreat or the forward insertion of Barack, Perron, Schneider, Denilson and others, they are required to cooperate more.

With more cooperation, offense is no longer a direct contest between the forward line and Bayern's defense line. Always avoid the important and doubling the Bayern defense line, forcing them to reveal their flaws and use them, which increases the difficulty of Bayern's defense.

It's like this time, when Schneider was taking the ball on the right, he led the ball across the middle, but Larson ran out from the middle to the right, while Kufour and Lizarazu were in trouble. Faced with this kind of back and forth, should they stick to their positions? Or should they keep their eyes on that player?

Schneider made a move to pass the ball, and Kufour and Babel both rushed to block Larson, but Schneider suddenly sent the ball forward gently, and Barack rushed out of the diagonal piercing and directly inserted into the gap left by Kufour after he came out. In the narrow gap, he shot with a strong shot.

The ball was shot out from Barack's feet like a shell, and it reached the goal almost in the blink of an eye. Kahn reacted, but he had no choice. Fortunately, he heard a touch, and the ball hit the crossbar and bounced out.

Everyone was shocked and sweated in a cold sweat, but Schneider, outside the penalty area, determined the ball in advance, and knocked it to the left without stopping, and moved to Perron, who had already come up from the left, who volleyed the ball forward.

Due to Bayern's overall left-leaning defense, Denilsen on the left got a chance after inserting into the penalty area and rubbed a curved ball.

The arc ball route was very strange and the angle was very tricky. Kahn stood up from the ground and stretched his right hand hard. He almost gently tapped the ball with his middle finger, and then saw the ball hit the intersection of the post and the beam in the upper right corner of the goal.

When they fell into the penalty area, two forwards of Kaiserslautern rushed in, and four or five defenders from Bayern squeezed in. The entire penalty area was in chaos. First, Van Nie took advantage of the chaos and hit Helmer, and finally, Peron's shot angle was too straight and was confiscated by Kahn.

The whole process is very long, but in fact it happened in an instant. Kaiserslautern completed 4 shots, each time it forced Bayern to be poor, and every time it was just a short distance from scoring the goal.

After failing to hit four consecutive shots, players such as Peron walked back with annoyance, waiting for Kahn to serve the ball.

"It's okay, keep keeping the status quo and press!" Yang Cheng shouted on the sidelines, but he kept doing two-handed moves in his hands, telling the players on the field not to just hit the same place and try to suddenly change the attack points.

It was like the moment just now that the ball suddenly passed from Schneider to the right, and passed by Bellon to Denilson's feet on the left, and the latter completed the shot, which was very sudden. If Kahn hadn't performed too well, if Denilson's shot was too pursuing the angle, maybe the ball would have been there!

Compared with Yang Cheng's confidence, Trapatoni yelled frequently on the sidelines, especially when the Bayern player was caught by Kaiserslautern in one breath and shot four times in the penalty area, which was definitely not allowed in his opinion!

You know, the key to Trapatoni's defensiveness is to limit Kaiserslautern's offensive space and not give them the opportunity to easily shoot, but just now, Bayern's entire defensive system was in chaos.

It is absolutely impossible to ignore Bayern's defensive strength just because of this. After all, players have to make judgments in an instant, especially when facing strong offensive pressure, they will definitely not be able to do a tacit understanding like they usually do, and there will inevitably be some mistakes.

With previous experience, Kaiserslautern played more calmly next time. The team's offense was like flowing. No matter where he was on the left, right or middle, as soon as he saw a loophole, he would try his best to hit the loophole, and he would transfer from time to time, playing the smoke bombing method of pointing to the east and hitting the west.

Bayern's defense emphasizes rigorous order, and Trapatoni's Italian defense requires the reduction of the number of times the opponent enters the 32-meter area as much as possible. In order to do this, Trapatoni even played two defensive midfielders in this game.

But when the rigorous order encounters a casual attack, it suddenly appears extremely passive and embarrassed.

In the 29th minute, Kaiserslautern intercepted the ball in the backcourt and launched a counterattack. Peron made a long diagonal pass in the middle, directly passing it to the unguarded right. After Lizarazu stepped forward to support the attack, there was a large gap left behind him. Larson grabbed the ball before Bayern defended the player.

Protect the ball near the sideline and knocked back to Schneider who was coming forward to respond. The latter hit the ball again. Barack ran over to receive the ball, but he sent it to the right corner of the 45-degree penalty area.

Larson, who had already run from the sideline, received the ball and rushed into the penalty area, but Kufuel forced him tightly and did not give him a chance to face Kahn directly. There was no way, so he could only stop suddenly and pass across the middle.

Fanny leaned against Helmer with his body. His feet were long and he stopped the ball, but the teammates around him seemed to be restricted by Bayern's defensive players. In an instant, his mind decided to do it himself.

But just as he was about to turn around and shoot, he suddenly found a player wearing a red jersey rushed over from the backcourt. He couldn't see clearly in a hurry, but he gestured a gesture that everyone often cooperated in training.

Fanny almost desperately squeezed his body towards Helmer, and then the ball was gently sent away from his feet by him, but he ran to the left, looking like he was turning around with the ball, ready to shoot.

This fake move not only deceived Helmer, but even Kahn was deceived and moved the center of gravity to the left.

But at this moment, everyone was surprised to find that after receiving the ball, a red figure stopped the ball in an extremely awkward posture, and then gently sent it into Bayern's goal.

Kahn felt something was wrong, but when he reacted and made another save, it was too late.

This shot was too pursuing the angle, as if the shot was extremely lacking in confidence, so the shot seemed a little weak. However, because Kahn was deceived by Fanny, the reaction was slow and he could only watch the weak shot roll into Bayern's goal.

"goallllllllll!"

"In the 30th minute, Kaiserslautern took the lead in breaking the deadlock on the court!"

"It was Gatuso, the Italian young player Gatuso, who scored the leading goal. This was also the first goal this full-time defender scored after joining Kaiserslautern. It was his veritable goal in his career!"

"It's really hard to believe it. This is definitely the most shocking fact, because many people speculate that Kaiserslautern can score, but they absolutely did not expect it would be Gattuso!"

"Vanny, Larson, Barack, and Kaiserslautern's three players who scored the most goals this season have all appeared on the court, but no one would have thought that Gattuso, who was the first to help Kaiserslautern score goals, has never scored in the professional league!"

Not only was the live commentator amazed, but even the Kaiserslautern player was extremely surprised, because Gattuso had never scored a goal. It would not be surprising if he scored an own goal, but he scored a goal that might even be a winning one. This is simply a miracle!

"Haha, you guy, suddenly got into it!" However, the players were extremely excited to score the goal, and they all rushed towards Gattuso, who was still full of disbelief.

"It's so silly. You fish seller, finally scored a goal!"

Gattuso stood there stupidly, this was one of his few forwards this season and the first time in this game.

"Yes... it was the boss who asked me to fuck me forward!" Gattuso was surrounded by his teammates, and even this time he still felt incredible.

"Boss?" The players were all shocked.

Yang Cheng has been improving Gattuso's offensive ability, which is well known, because he feels that with the maturity of Kaiserslautern's frontcourt pressing tactics, Gattuso, a full-time defender, is really a waste. He hopes to allow Gattuso to participate more in the offense, and it is best to launch a counterattack as soon as he grabs the ball.

But the Italian seems to be a defensive genius, but he is an absolute fool in offense. He has not made any progress in half a season, but unexpectedly, he scored a goal in this game!

"The boss just now frequently told me to participate in the attack more, but I didn't think much about it. Seeing that there were Bayern players staring around you, there was another flaw in the middle, and we were controlling the ball, so I ran forward and ran into the penalty area!" Gattuso smiled foolishly.

Everyone almost collapsed after hearing this. Shouldn’t this guy be said to be lucky to be foolish?

Yang Cheng shook his head when he watched the ball. It felt very good to score goals, but as the head coach, he thought more.

"This kid Gattuso probably won't be able to afford to organize counterattacks even if he kills him, but I think we can appropriately increase the number of times he participates in front court offenses, such as participating in offensive cooperation, or even directly participating in goals!"

Monitz and Murenstin looked at each other and smiled bitterly because they were both clear about the difficulty of Gattuso's training skills. This kid seemed to be born with insulated from technology. But he was a guy who could not bear the boredom. No one could let him practice a very simple stopping action like Fanny, spend half an hour repeatedly practicing the extremely simple stopping action.

"His football is very simple, and the skills are enough for him, so I also think that your arrangement is the most ideal for him, because he is a pure butcher!" Monitz said with a smile.
Chapter completed!