Chapter 134: Hub Stevens

Not long after Li Chenglong joined the team, the official game soon came.
　　 On August 20th, in the first round of the German Cup, which is the top sixty-four, Schalke 04 went away to challenge the German C team Saarbrücken.
The first round of the German Cup is held every year before the start of the Bundesliga, and the first-round competition system is quite special. 18 Bundesliga teams and 14 Bundesliga non-promoted teams form the senior group, 4 Bundesliga and 28 newly promoted teams. Teams at different levels form the lower group.
　　The first round of the matchup was the senior group against the lower group, and all the lower group teams had home court advantage.
　　The reason for this is that the German Football Association believes that this can help lower-level teams increase their income.
　　 For example, if a low-level team draws a competitive Bundesliga team, the tickets will definitely sell very well.
　　 Of course, this special format is also limited to the first round.
　　 After the first round, every subsequent round of matches is drawn immediately, and the home and away games are also random.
This time facing a German C team, and it is still a German C relegation team, Schalke 04 head coach Huber Stevens did not let Lee Chenglong enter the squad, after all, he has just joined the team for a few days. And also played the Olympics in the summer.
　　 Lee Chenglong watched the game while learning German at home. In the end, Schalke 04 won the game easily 5:0 away without any accident.
　　Although most Germans can understand English and even speak some, but in Germany, German is the mainstream, and Jackie Lee also needs to go to the countryside and learn German quickly.
　　 Jackie Lee himself is very good in English, and German and English are both Germanic, and there are still some interoperability. So as long as you learn more, talk more and watch TV, you should learn it quickly.
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　　 After the German Cup, Jackie Lee started training with the team again.
　　 During the time when he came to Schalke 04, Li Chenglong also basically figured out the tactical formation of the team's head coach Hubb Stevens.
　　 Huber Stevens is a Dutchman, he played as a central defender in his player era, and he was also a very famous defender in the Netherlands.
Later, after becoming a coach, by leading Roda JC, a small Dutch team to the Dutch Cup final, Stevens was valued by the meritorious chairman of Schalke 04, Asauer, and let him take charge of Schalke. 04 handsome.
In the 96/97 season, Stevens coached Schalke's first season in 04, he successfully led the team to the Europa League final, and finally drew 1:1 with Serie A giants Inter Milan in the final. With a penalty shootout, he successfully defeated the opponent and won the most golden championship in the history of the Schalke 04 team.
　　 Relying on this championship, Stevens consolidated his position in Schalke 04 and has been coaching at Schalke 04 for a full 6 years, during which he was still in the year, and won the German Cup for two consecutive years.
　　 Stevens won the German Cup twice in a row, in fact, they are quite stubborn.
　　 In 2001, Schalke 04 really almost won the German double crown. Unfortunately, there was only one German Cup champion in the end. In the Bundesliga, only the famous "four-minute champion" was left.
　　 In the last round of the Bundesliga, if Schalke 04 wins and Bayern loses, Schalke 04 will be able to win the championship.
　　 Although Schalke 04 had some twists and turns at home, there was still a breathtaking 5:3 victory over the opponent Unterhaching.
　　 But on the side of Bayern, the King of Nantah, they faced off against their old rival decades ago, Burger King.
　　 Burger really wanted to attack Bayern, and it really almost did.
　　 The score was 0:0 for most of the game, but in the 90th minute, Hamburg made a random cross. Hamburg forward Babarec beat Bayern’s Swedish defender Anderson and scored directly with a header.
　　 At that moment, not only did Hamburg's home game boil, but Gelsenkirchen also boiled hundreds of miles away.
　　 The goal in the 90th minute is simply a lore. Schalke 04’s first Bundesliga title is coming.
　　 The referee at the time gave a 4-minute "extra-long" stoppage time, and the problem really lay in this stoppage time.
　　 In the last minute of stoppage time, Bayern desperately pressed the attack and the Hamburg players chose to pass the ball back to the goalkeeper to consume time.
　　 Then Hamburg goalkeeper Sobel inexplicably used his hand to catch the pass from his teammate's feet. This is undoubtedly a violation of the hand to catch the ball. The referee gave Bayern an indirect free kick in the penalty area.
　　 So Swedish defender Anderson, who made a big mistake a few minutes ago, scored with a powerful volley to help Bayern equalize.
　　 Schalke 04 almost got the championship, but Bayern snatched it back.
　　 During the whole process, Schalke 04 only occupied the top of the four-minute leaderboard, so it was the "four-minute champion".
　　 In four minutes, Schalke 04 experienced a magical journey from to heaven, and from heaven to hell.
Needless to say, in the 2002 German Cup, everyone knows that Leverkusen, a pharmaceutical company that has been advancing for the entire season, has the triple crown in sight, but has lost three consecutive championships within 10 days. The famous Sanya king in football.
　　 At that time, Leverkusen was defeated by Schalke 04 in the German Cup final.
It’s worth mentioning that last season, Bayern Munich successfully replicated the miracle of the pharmaceutical factory after ten years after the Sanya king of Leverkusen. They became the second Sanya king in European football. Wakusen has exactly the same formula-Champions League runner-up, Bundesliga runner-up, German Cup runner-up.
　　 After 2002, Stevens left Schalke 04 and has coached Hertha Berlin, Cologne, Hamburg and other Bundesliga teams.
There is no doubt that Stevens is a standard Bundesliga old fritters, who has been in the German football for a long time. Whether it is a relegation team or a European team, he will always come to EbookFREE.me~ The Bundesliga last season started shortly. , Schalke 04 head coach Ralph Lannick resigned due to physical reasons, so Stevens, who happened to be idle at home, entered the palace for the second time and started his second trip to coach Schalke 04.
　　 His coaching performance last season was pretty good, and he successfully helped Schalke 04 get third place in the Bundesliga, an ideal result.
　　According to what Lee Chenglong has learned these past few days, he can be regarded as knowing Stevens's main tactics.
　　 In fact, at the beginning of his coaching career, Stevens was a standard defensive coach, focusing on defensive counterattacks. The Europa League champion of Schalke 04 was won by defensive counterattacks.
　　 But after a long time in the Bundesliga, Stevens also has some flexibility, no longer blindly defensive counterattack.
　　Many teams in Germany like to play games with big openings and closings. Long-term defensive counterattacks can easily arouse the disgust of players.
　　 So the current Stevens, when facing the general team, his style of play is not conservative, but when he encounters a real strong team, he still emphasizes defensive counterattacks very much.
　　 And the current lineup of Schalke 04, the main lineup is 4231 formation, but occasionally Stevens will make some changes, such as changes.
　　 Lee Chenglong's current position in the team, he is the first candidate for the right forward position.
　　 If Li Chenglong is willing, he can also switch to the left forward position.
　　 At present, Schalke 04 is at the left and right avant-garde positions, and there is no strong candidate.
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