On February 22, after easily defeating Sporting CP 3-0, Wolfsburg moved to the Bundesliga.
In the 22nd round of the Bundesliga, Wolfsburg's opponent is Hertha Berlin.
Hertha Berlin has lost three consecutive games after the winter break. Because Dortmund won Mainz 4-2 in the last round, they have fallen into the relegation zone. If they continue to lose, they may be trapped in the relegation quagmire.
It's hard to get out.
Dieter Heijing did not rotate in this game because Bayern's pursuit was too tight.
Since losing to Wolfsburg and being tied by Schalke, Bayern has won three consecutive victories.
3-0 Stuttgart in the 20th round away game
In the 21st round, Hamburg was slaughtered 8-0 at home
The day before yesterday in the 22nd round of the Bundesliga, Bayern beat Paderborn 7-0 away from home.
This continuous big score victory made the Bundesliga media shout that the Bundesliga giant has stood up again.
Wolfsburg can also feel the tremendous pressure brought by Bayern.
Therefore, after Dieter Heijing held a meeting with the medical director and understood the players' physical conditions, he decided to continue to let Chu Zheng, De Bruyne and others start.
After the game, the score and facts proved that Dieter Heijing's caution was correct, and Wolfsburg's state had ups and downs again.
Not long after the first half of this game started, Chu Zheng, who was playing Naldo's right back position, received a cross pass from Knoch in the backcourt and transferred the ball.
Chu Zheng took the ball and quickly separated the sides, launching an attack from the weak side of Hertha Berlin's defense.
After receiving Chu Zheng's pass, Vierinha successfully broke through the opponent's full-back one-on-one in front of the center line, and then passed the ball diagonally to the penalty spot in Hertha Berlin's penalty area.
Schürrle headed the ball across the left side of the penalty area.
Doster stopped and shot, and succeeded easily, rewriting the score to 1-0.
But it didn’t take long for Wolfsburg’s defense to play with fire.
During Hertha Berlin's attack, a direct pass was passed from the ribs. Sebastian Rong had obviously blocked the opponent's player on the wing outside the penalty area. As a result, he raised his foot to take the ball but made a misjudgment, causing Hertha Berlin's midfielder to
Toke successfully made the pass.
This mistake caught Chu Zheng off guard, and he could only watch as the ball was headed towards the goal from close range by Sibel, who dived from behind.
After that, Wolfsburg pressed Hertha Berlin and used offensive methods such as crosses from the wing, penetration of short passes from the ribs, and long shots in turn.
However, the attack was so ferocious that Hertha Berlin couldn't even get past halftime, but it was still unable to score a goal.
This made Wolfsburg fans very helpless and worried.
This is an old problem and a stubborn disease that is difficult to get rid of!
It wasn't until the 78th minute of the second half that Gustavo fired a high-quality shot from a position more than 30 meters away from the right rib and hit the goal post. Only then did Dost, who was in hot form in front of the goal, succeed with a follow-up shot.
, helping the team narrowly beat Hertha Berlin 2-1.
After winning this game, the Wolfsburg team traveled to Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, to play the second leg quarter-finals at the José Alvalade Stadium with Sporting CP.
Although Wolfsburg played with the strongest lineup in this game, Dieter Heijing's tactical strategy was defensive counterattack.
Dieter Heijing's guess was correct.
After the game started, Sporting CP took advantage of their home court to launch a fierce attack.
Sporting CP shot 24 times in the game, with a accuracy rate of 47.8%, but zero goals were scored.
Wolfsburg, on the other hand, is focused on preventing counterattacks.
There were seven counterattacks in the game, but the goals were still poor, and the shooting accuracy rate was only a pitiful 14.7%, which almost set a new record for this season.
Chu Zheng's statistics in this game are still very dazzling.
Not only did he destroy most of Portugal's offensive, he also planned two very threatening counterattacks.
It's a pity that De Bruyne, Dost and others were in really bad condition in away games, so they took turns playing happy football.
In the end, Wolfsburg defeated Sporting CP with a total score of 3-0 and advanced to the last sixteen of the Europa League.
Less than three days after returning from Lisbon, Wolfsburg hurriedly embarked on the journey to the Weser Stadium in Bremen, Germany to challenge their opponent in the 23rd round of the Bundesliga, Werder Bremen.
Bremen was deep in the relegation zone in the first half of the season, but since Dutt was fired and Skripnik took over the team, they have reversed their decline and started to make great progress.
After the winter break, Bremen has been very strong. In the recent 5 league rounds, they have achieved excellent results of 4 wins, 1 draw and 10 goals.
They are currently ranked seventh in the Bundesliga standings.
There is only a 3-point difference between Schalke 04 in sixth place and Bayer Leverkusen in fifth place. It is very promising to enter the Bundesliga European competition this season.
At 17:25 pm on March 1, the 50,000 seats at the Weser Arena in Bremen were packed to capacity, and there were even fans standing in the aisles to watch.
"Domestic fans may be very familiar with Werder Bremen. Wolfsburg currently has many former Werder Bremen players in the team, such as Nardo, Hundt, and even Wolfsburg's sports director Alof
Stu worked in Werder Bremen."
"Wolfsburg, they just eliminated Sporting Lisbon in the middle of the week."
"I believe fans and friends who watched that game will find that Wolfsburg's players are a little tired, and Dieter Heijing's tactics are uncharacteristically, playing extremely conservatively."
"But whether Wolfsburg encounters physical problems or is gathering strength for the league, maybe we will find the answer in this game!"
After He Wei finished speaking, Zhang Lu smiled and said: "Both teams are the teams with the best results after the winter break, so today will definitely be a fierce battle. After Bremen changed coaches, they are completely different teams!"
After Zhang Lu finished speaking, the starting lineups of both sides were shown on the camera.
Attacking midfielder: Alexander-Arnold, De Bruyne, Caligiuri
Defensive midfielder: Gustavo, Guilavoji
Defenders: Schaefer, Chu Zheng, Nardo, Vierinha
Goalkeeper: Benaglio
Seeing the starting lineup for Wolfsburg, He Wei smiled and said: "It seems that Wolfsburg is indeed troubled by physical problems."
"Compared with the lineup of the last game, four players were rotated in this game!"
"Both Wolfsburg's two main full-backs were rested in this game. Dieter Heijing started Schaeffer and Vierinha played as a right-back. Maybe there is no other way!"
Not long after, the referee blew the whistle to start the game.
On the field, Wolfsburg wore a blue jersey and attacked from left to right.
But at the beginning of the game, it was Werder Bremen who took the lead to sound the attack horn.
Bremen took advantage of the advantage of playing at home and launched a surprise attack at the kick-off. The offense was extremely concise and they played offensive football.
Their tactical intention is very obvious, which is to play against the two full-backs Vierinha and Schaefer.
At 1 minute and 28 seconds into the game, Wolfsburg was pressed high by Bremen.
Chu Zheng quickly moved to the left corner to get the ball, and after Bremen forward Selke rushed over to press him, he crossed to Benaglio.
After receiving the ball, Benaglio was also pressed by another Bremen forward Di Santo.
He didn't dare to stick to the ball. After stopping the ball, he immediately drove to the right side of the frontcourt with his big foot.
On the wing center line, Vierinha and Bremen left back Sternberg competed for the top.
However, his height of 173cm was fully 10cm shorter than Sternberg, and Sternberg finally tipped the ball to Bremen midfielder Kroos.
Bremen's wing attack suddenly launched at this moment.
After Cross took the ball, he saw that the left wing was empty in front of him, so he took advantage of the situation and stuffed the ball over.
Suddenly Vierinha and Sternberg chased the ball side by side.
Along the way, the two engaged in exciting physical confrontation.
Outside the penalty area, the two decided the winner.
In the continuous confrontation, the delicate and frail Vierinha was knocked away.
Sternberg made a strong pass to the center before the ball went out of the baseline.
Although his pass was rushed, his accuracy was very high.
The ball crossed the top of the penalty area and went straight to the back point.
On the left side of the small penalty area, Chu Zheng arrived in time.
He and Werder Bremen striker Selke took off almost at the same time.
However, Chu Zheng's jumping is second to none in the Bundesliga. Even though Selke is 10 centimeters taller than Chu Zheng, Chu Zheng jumped a head higher than him, and then cleared the ball directly to the left wing.
Schaefer got Chu Zheng's clearance ball and was about to launch a side counterattack. However, the next second he was violently tackled by Bremen midfielder Fritz and rolled out of the sideline with the ball.
Just two minutes later, Bremen once again threatened Wolfsburg's goal.
In the 4th minute of the game, Vierinha was broken through by Bremen right midfielder Yunuzovic.
Naldo quickly grabbed Yunuzovic who was dribbling the ball in the rib area on the right side of the arc.
Yunuzovic is just over 1.7 meters tall. He is a typical small and agile player. He is the natural enemy of a tank-type central defender like Nardo.
The result was no surprise. Naldo was half a beat slower and stepped directly on the instep of Yunuzovic's right foot, allowing Bremen to get a rib free kick within 25 meters of the goal.
This time, the Bremen players learned the lesson. They chose to start forward and look for striker Di Santo, who is about the same height as Nardo.
But they still didn't attack the goal, and Nardo's height of two meters was not a decoration.
Moreover, Naldo also used a hidden pulling action, taking advantage of the moment when Disanto's center of gravity fell back and quickly jumped to clear the ball out of the penalty area.
This continuous threat made Dieter Heijing on the sidelines frown. His intuition for many years told him that they were in danger in this game.
Bremen is now obviously targeting the two weak points of the defense, Schaefer and Vierinha.
But Dieter Heijing really can't do anything. The other players are not as good as Schaefer and Vierinha.
Although Sebastian Yung and Rodriguez were not injured, their bodies need to rest due to consecutive starts.
Dieter Heijing didn't take any chances.
These two players can almost be said to be Wolfsburg's other two lifebloods. Once injured and absent from the game for a long time, Wolfsburg's offensive strength will immediately decrease sharply.
Whether it is Rodriguez or Sebastian Rong, both have strong assist capabilities.
Before the game, he had thought about letting Chu Zheng play full-back and Kenoch as central defender.
This can at least strengthen the defense of a wing.
But he finally gave up!
Because now Chu Zheng is on the court, he is not only a central defender, he also has the task of playing the ball from the backcourt to instigate counterattacks.
Dieter Heijing needs Chu Zheng to send the ball into the space in the front court to tear apart the opponent's defense.
Once Chu Zheng and De Bruyne, the two core players in the front and backcourt, are online, they can immediately create a very threatening offensive.
This has happened countless times in the team's training matches, and Dieter Heijing is elated every time.
Therefore, Dieter Heijing was really reluctant to give up Chu Zheng's ability to shoot the ball forward to find gaps.
Therefore, he thought about it and finally decided to take a gamble.
But now it seems that he lost the bet, but he seems not to have lost. Every time he sees Bremen launch a targeted attack from the wing, he is terrified.