The Ruhr area is Germany's and the world's most important industrial region. The region in western Germany, between the Ruhr and Lipper rivers, tributaries of the lower Rhine, in the state of North Rhine-Wester**; There are 24 cities with a population of more than 50,000 in the region, including Essen, Dortmund and Duisburg, each with a population of more than 500,000. In the southern Ruhr area, the area between the Ruhr and Emscher rivers is intertwined with factories, houses and a dense transport network to form a continuous urban belt. And it was formed in the middle of the 19th century, and it is a typical traditional industrial area, known as the "heart of German industry".

This area is also a very prosperous area of German football, with teams such as Borussia Dortmund, Schalke 04, Bochum, Duisburg and many others taking root in this area.

This region produces coal, but now the Ruhr area is also declining, there is no way to mine and dig for so many years, almost sitting on the empty mountain, the economy is weakening, this does not affect the activities of football in this place, Dortmund, Schalke 04 and so on have a large number of fans.

For example, the city of Dortmund, with a population of only around 500,000 and more than 80,000 seats at the West** Stadium, is hardly empty at every game, and the attendance is frightening, and the crowd is almost always local, which is not quite the case with Trapani.

Trapani's global influence is much greater than that of Dortmund, and Trapani's tourism industry is developed, so many of their spectators are foreign fans, and some are not even fans, just tourists.

Dortmund is amazing, almost from the local area, not only Dortmund, but also Schalke 04, Bochum, Duisburg, etc., their attendance is very high, whether it is in the Bundesliga or the Bundesliga, they have no shortage of spectators, which shows the love of people in this region for football.

Because of this, the Ruhr derby between Borussia Dortmund and Schalke 04 is one of the hottest in the world, and the battle between them is absolutely indispensable in the world's top 10 derby.

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Trapani felt the enthusiasm of the Schalke fans the day before the game, and the team was "entertained" by the Schalke 04 fans when they went to the Schalke Stadium to step on the field, but fortunately there was a police escort, otherwise Trapani's bus might not be able to move at all.

On 16 February, when Trapani was leaving the hotel for the stadium, the local police station in Gelsenkirchen had to clear the road ahead of time to ensure the safety of Trapani's bus.

Schalke's current head coach is the devil coach Magath, Magath is famous for his crazy physical training, and he couldn't get along in Bayern Munich back then, just because some big-name players in the team couldn't stand his training methods, but Magath's coaching ability is actually quite good.

After leaving Bayern Munich, Wolfsburg was immediately groomed as a champion, and last season he came to Schalke 04 to save Shakhtar from the struggling situation, and he did it successfully, Schalke 04 finished second in the league last season in such difficult circumstances.

Magath has contributed a lot, but this year Schalke 04 has not been very smooth, first of all, they have suffered a financial crisis in recent years, there is no money, a group of veterans were sent away in the summer, and there is no better reinforcement, Raul alone can not solve all the problems.

Secondly, they are facing a three-tier battle, which is very frustrating, so Schalke 04 showed two forms, in the league they performed badly, now only ranked 14th, in the Champions League they played well and successfully advanced to the knockout round.

However, they unfortunately met defending champions Trapani in the knockout rounds, and the German media was filled with pessimism.

Schalke 04 The whole team was silent before the game, and Magath did not forget to use words to motivate his young players in the pre-match press conference, these young players are actually holding back a lot of energy in their hearts, eager to play against Trapani, and do not need too much excitement from Magath.

The game started soon, Hugo and Trapani's senior management sat in the box arranged by the Schalke side, their expressions were very calm, Hugo didn't know the Schalke 04 team, before the game started today, the most impressive thing for him was the fans who went to the Schalke Stadium, they made a huge info, the Trapani players were booed when they came out, it was really big, the design of the Schalke Stadium can't be compared with the Google Stadium, but the decibels here are not bad.

Schalke 04 fans once created a noise of 129 decibels, and Google Stadium is considered the home of the devil, but it is still almost hot in front of the decibel recorder.

Hugo is not worried about this match, and he, like all the fans of Trapani, has a lot of confidence.

Magath is a 442 formation, double forward configuration, Raul and Huntelaar partner, Wenger's side is still 433, Schalke 04 is actually a muscular team, their midfield is young and powerful, the reason why Schalke 04 achieved good results last season is mainly due to Magath's physical football has been tried and tested.

However, this season's young people are too young and inexperienced to be exposed, and Schalke 04's surprising performance in the Champions League can only be said to be hung in one breath, and now they are being tested at the Schalke Stadium.

At the beginning, Schalke 04's fast-rushing style of play still caused some trouble for Trapani, especially in the midfield, which still bothered Trapani a little bit, but this difficulty was actually expected, and Wenger had a clear understanding of it.

So Schalke 04's tactical failure did not wait long, less than 10 minutes, Trapani's midfield triangle Cazorla, Modric, Schweinsteiger with their technical advantages, so that their fast closeness is difficult to play, and at this time Trapani's attack line also showed fangs.

In the sixteenth minute, Schalke 04 grabbed too much in the midfield, was got rid of Modric, passed the ball to Messi, Messi took the ball to the side and cut into the horizontal dribble, and it was another heads-up defense, around a circle, plus Suarez and others, Messi successfully entered the penalty area and shot low.

Schalke 04's young goalkeeper reacted quickly enough, but he still couldn't keep Messi's shot away.

An unexpected goal, all of a sudden, Schalke 04 players conceded before they could figure out what was going on.

Magath's reaction was a little sluggish, when his tactics failed, he should have made tactical adjustments earlier, but he didn't do that, and the lesson came quickly, although this goal is related to Messi's super individual ability, but this has a lot to do with Magath's deployment of the midfield, resulting in the gap between the team's defense and the midfield.

Magath didn't dare to take the initiative anymore and began to demand that his players recycle, defend intensively, and use more long balls to go straight to Huntelaar.

The most fundamental reason why a strong team is strong is the difference in the ability of the players, and a good coach must also have good players to achieve the goal of victory.

Schalke 04's players are obviously a lot worse than Trapani's side, their vision, technology, and positional awareness are not as good as Trapani's, and the only thing they can rely on is their bodies, but this doesn't matter after Trapani's tactics are adjusted, so Schalke 04's fans unfortunately saw the team being beaten at their home stadium.

Trapani had 14 shots on goal in the first half, while Magath's attacking ideas were almost never realized, and Schalke 04's shots were measurably few from set-pieces.

Arsene Wenger was very well prepared for this game, especially in terms of personnel, so the players on the field found their form quickly in this game, and the reason why there was only one goal in the first half had to be said that Schalke 04's young goalkeeper Neuer, who played very bravely and made 5 saves.

Magath didn't make much of a change in the second half, he needed his team to stick with it and use set-pieces or counter-attacks to equalise, and a brave Neuer in front of goal gave him a fluke.

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