Chapter 353: German League Cup

Although Schaaf does not plan to sell players aggressively this season, he has gone for various reasons.

Elton and Kolstadzic have already confirmed their departure from the team.

In addition, the team also lost Vikhlag, Skripnik, Banovic, Jurgen and others.

Some of them chose to play for other teams because they couldn't find a place in the team. Some are retired.

In addition, midfielder Listesh has left the team because he refused to renew his contract with the team.

Rolfes stayed in the squad as a result, and he could have been loaned to Aachen.

Most of the players who left Werder Bremen this summer are defenders.

Therefore, Alofs's recruitment plan also focuses on the enhancement of the back line.

He then brought in German defender Frank Farenhorst, who played for Bochum.

The player is on a free transfer and did not cost Werder Bremen a penny.

I have to say that Alofs is still quite good at budgeting.

In addition, he continues to pursue other transfer targets.

Of course, the team's preparations can't stop waiting for Alofs to buy all the players before starting the training camp.

So in this process, Werder Bremen's training camp did not stop for a moment.

Excellent physical fitness has allowed Rong Guang to perform well in the team's training camp.

The same is true for the pre-season warm-up games.

When the team went to Switzerland for training, he played three warm-up games, and in all three warm-up games, he scored.

The Chinese media hailed Rongguang's excellent performance, while the German media said that Rongguang's excellent form would certainly be a headache for Werder Bremen's opponents.

"The best news is not that Werder Bremen has brought in another reinforcement, but that Rong is in excellent form......"

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On 20 July, Werder Bremen had made all the signings.

After acquiring Gustavo Neri and **** Horst, they bought out Turkish full-back Jurmit Davala, who was loaned to the team last season, for half a million euros.

Also bought out was centre-back Ismael, who was on loan from Strasbourg last season, for €750,000.

And in one day, Danish midfielder Daniel Jensen from Murcia and Finnish defender Pasanen were signed, the former for one million euros and the latter for seven hundred and fifty thousand euros.

In addition, Werder Bremen has retained the main squad from last season to the maximum.

Scharf also adjusted the team's tactics and style of play.

Because Klose also performed well in the warm-up games.

So now the question arises.

Of the four strikers, three of them are well insured, how do you arrange that?

Originally, Schaaf was going to play 442, but now he found that he could only play 433.

Klose is in the middle, and Krasnich and Glory are separated.

But the three don't have a fixed position, which doesn't mean that Klose can only go in the middle, and Glory and Krasnic can only go to the wing.

Klose also played as a winger when he first started his debut, and he scored nine goals in a season in that position.

Krasnic isn't exactly a centre-forward either, he has the physicality and the pace, he can pass, dribble and shoot.

Not to mention the glory, there is nothing he can't do except not be able to physically confront the opposition's centre-backs in the penalty area.

The characteristics of the three players are very diverse, and when the three of them are combined, there are many possibilities.

Krasnic and Klose can take turns in the box, and Glory can play left or right, and can also drop back to play as a shadow striker.

And Klose and Krasnic have excellent assist ability, if there are two of them to feed the ball to glory.

Schaaf will be hoping for another record number of goals for Glory this season.

In the midfield, because of the departure of Listesh, there was one less person in the midfield of four people, and now it happens to play 433, three midfielders.

In midfield, Borowski, who was mainly a substitute last season, was entrusted with the task of replacing former midfield captain Bowman, who was withdrawn to central defence.

Because although Alofs bought a lot of defenders for Schaff, but in the warm-up game, Schaff tried a lot of center-back combinations, but he could not satisfy him, and in the end he still chose to let the captain Bowman retreat to play center back, anyway, Bowman can play both center back and midfielder.

The place left by Bowman was given to Borowski.

In addition, Miku and Ernst were the main midfielders last season.

Because he is playing three midfielders, Miku's position should be slightly withdrawn to leave room for the front trident to move freely.

Werder Bremen's tactics for the new season will also focus on attacking football.

With four players with excellent attacking power, Glory, Klose, Krasnic, and Miku, it would be a pity not to attack.

And Werder Bremen has always played attacking football, not for a season or two, and if they want to play defensively, they can't play.

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The first round of the new Bundesliga season will kick off on August 6.

The Bundesliga and the Premier League, as well as Ligue 1, started relatively early in Europe's top five leagues.

Before the start of the new league season, Glory received the trophy from the Werder Bremen fan representatives who voted for the most popular player last season, voted by Werder Bremen fans.

With his performance last season, he deserves it.

It only took him one season to completely conquer the players of Werder Bremen.

The only problem now is that he is still a Bayern Munich player, and at the end of the season, he will leave Werder Bremen and return to Bayern Munich. He will then be the opponent of Werder Bremen......

It can be said that Bremen fans are quite entangled in giving this award - it would be nice if Rongguang transferred to Werder Bremen.

However, these fans are also well aware that the better the Glory's performance, the less likely they will be to buy out the Glory after their two-year loan expires.

Bayern Munich is not a fool, don't let such a good player go, give it to a competitor.

At the beginning of this season, Rongguang played in a Werder Bremen jersey, which was really one less game......

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Before the start of the Bundesliga was the German League Cup.

This League Cup is not the same as the League Cup in England.

The German League Cup is actually the Super Cup of other countries before the start of the season.

It's just that there are more teams participating than in the Super Cup.

It is a competition that is played together with the top four finishers of the Bundesliga last season, the winner of the German Cup and the winner of the Bundesliga. If one of the top four is also the winner of the German Cup, the fifth place in the league will fill the gap.

The competition takes the form of a single knockout round.

First of all, there are two qualifying matches, in which the second place in the Bundesliga will face the Bundesliga champion, and the third place in the Bundesliga will face off against the fourth place in the Bundesliga.

However, since last season's Bundesliga and German Cup winners were both Werder Bremen, fifth-placed Bochum got a chance to play in the League Cup.

As last season's double-winners, Werder Bremen will not feature until the semi-finals.

This season's League Cup began on July 22, which is an important warm-up training before the league.

In fact, all the participating teams used this event as a warm-up match.

On 29 July, Werder Bremen faced Stuttgart in the semi-finals.

They beat their opponents 2-0 and advanced to the final.

In the other semi-final, Bayern Munich also beat Bayer Leverkusen 3-0 to also advance to the final.

So last season's rivals, the first championship battle of the season, met again.

This game is not as simple as a warm-up game.

Although in the national leagues, the Super Cup is not a championship full of gold. But it is also a relatively important honor.

Therefore, the double anti-dump is still quite important.

In this final, which was played on the afternoon of August 2, both sides played their main forces.

The match also attracted a lot of media attention.

Because this is the first meeting between Bayern Munich and Werder Bremen in the new season.

Judging from the strength of both sides and the performance of the warm-up matches, it is very likely that these two teams will compete for the league championship in the new season.

So what can people see from their confrontation this time?

Comparatively speaking, Werder Bremen, who have not changed many players, may be more stable, and it is worth watching how Bayern Munich, with a new manager, will perform against Werder Bremen.

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As long as it is against Bayern Munich, Glory is particularly energetic.

It's not that he's going to slap Bayern Munich in the face.

Heathfield is gone, whose face is it to hit?

When Glory played against Bayern Munich, he performed well, mainly because he wanted to show himself well in front of Bayern Munich. In this way, when he returns to Bayern Munich after the end of this season, Bayern Munich will definitely reuse him.

If Hoeness had known what he thought about the glory of the Dao, he would definitely call him and tell him that Bayern Munich was originally going to reuse him, so "take the supernatural powers, Great Sage"......

This League Cup final was no exception.

From the very beginning of the competition, Rongguang showed a good competitive state.

He opened the scoring in the first half.

"It seems that the glory is still Bayern Munich's nemesis...... This season, if Bayern Munich wants to win the title, I am afraid they can only count on Werder Bremen to make a mistake with other teams, and it ......will not be easy for them to beat Werder Bremen directly," said commentator Beckman.

The live TV broadcast gave Magath a close-up.

Beckman added: "The mess that Heathfield left behind is now up to Magath to clean up." It's not a good job! ”

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It's a really hard job.

In the end, Bayern Munich lost 2:3 to Werder Bremen in the final.

Magath did not show in the game how he was going to curb the glory at Bayern Munich, much to the disappointment of Bayern Munich supporters – even more so than the loss of the Carabao Cup.