In the 14th round of the league, Kaiserslautern sat at home and bloodied Rostock 4:0, and then ushered in two weeks of national team training and match days.

On November 18, Kaiserslautern visited Borussia Mönchengladbach to challenge the Bundesliga team led by Tiger Effenberg, but Borussia Mönchengladbach's situation is relatively bad, and he is currently on the verge of relegation zone, and Tiger Effenberg is also helpless, after all, he is only one man.

After a minute-long match, Kaiserslautern won away from home.

Three days later, Kaiserslautern defeated the promoted brothers Wolfsburg 3:0 away, although Veron, Denilson and other internationals returned to the main lineup, but the performance was average, Kaiserslautern was able to win, more because of Larsson's outbreak, the Swedes scored in this game.

Incidentally, Frijns, who started the game with Deco in midfield, played his best game since joining Kaiserslautern, providing two assists and excelling defensively, and was rated by the kickers as the best player in the team after Larsson, who scored a hat-trick.

Through this game, Frings also played with his confidence and won the appreciation of the fans.

A week later, Kaiserslautern was at home after plenty of time to recuperate, and the team played with the main force to win a crucial game at home to Hamburg 4-0.

Almost at the same time, Bayern Munich challenged Le Tikusen away, and in the case of two equalizers, Kirsten's hat-trick made Bayern Munich finally hate the Haveland Stadium" and the gap between this green Hollywood team and Kaiserslautern points has also widened to 4 points.

Kaiserslautern is at the top of the league table with 15 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss in 17 rounds of league with 46 points, while Bayern Munich is second with points, and in third place is Le Tikusen, who only won the halfway point.

As a result, the biggest favorites to win the Bundesliga this season are located in Kaiserslautern and Bayern Munich, especially Kaiserslautern "This season's promoted horse has performed very steadily in the Bundesliga, without the youth and panic of the promoted horse.

However, there are also many authoritative media who are worried about the second half of Kaiserslautern, after all, there are many precedents of promotion horses that prove the latest chapter of the martial arts, and the first half of the performance is excellent, "because the opponent ignores them and lacks experience in dealing with them, but with the half of the season" they have figured out how to deal with Kaiserslautern.

"The second half is what really makes or breaks Kaiserslautern this season! …”

As if to confirm this, four days after the end of the Dibi League, ushered in the knockout round of 16 of the German Cup, Kaiserslautern lost 2:1 away to Bayern Munich, Trapattoni's team won the Bundesliga Red Devils with difficulty with Elber's two goals, and qualified for the next round, knocking Kaiserslautern out of the German Cup.

The visitors' dressing rooms at the Stadio Olimpico are better than those of Fritz and Walter's home teams, with more upscale decoration and better facilities, and in the words of flattery, "even their seats are softer than those at Fritz and Walter Stadium."

After the game, Yang Cheng took the players back to the locker room from the court in a gloomy manner, and during the whole process, no one spoke, and everyone was sulking.

In this game, Kaiserslautern occupied the absolute initiative, the possession rate was 43:57, Kaiserslautern was higher than Bayern, the number of shots on goal was 7:16, Kaiserslautern had 6 shots on target, Bayern only 3" but Kaiserslautern scored, but Bayern scored 2.

There was not much controversy at full-time and it can be said that Kaiserslautern lost this game without saying anything.

scored one first, but was reversed by Bayern scoring two goals in a row, and Yang Cheng undoubtedly suffered the most painful lesson in his coaching career.

Originally, he was full of confidence in this game, and he felt that Trapattoni would definitely lose again with an attacking starting line-up away from home, but the Italian did choose to be conservative, but arranged a targeted counterattack, followed by a reversal directed by Elber.

Young, aggressive, mistaking, inexperienced...,...,... Yang Cheng could have made a lot of excuses for this game, but he didn't!

"We lost!." Yang Cheng broke the silence in the locker room.

The players were a little surprised, because they never admit defeat, even in the game against Dortmund, Yang Cheng was still sure that his team deserved to win, but now he actually admitted to losing!

"If you lose, you lose, I won't, and I don't want to make excuses for myself, we did lose! Yang Cheng generously admitted, because he has never been a person who can't afford to lose.

Those who can't afford to lose will never be a great manager in their lifetime!

"Football is like that, somebody wins, somebody loses, it's normal, we can't always be winners, because there's no team in the world that wins forever, so we're going to lose, there's nothing to be ashamed of!."

Yang Cheng stood in the middle of the locker room, and all the players' eyes were focused on him.

"The game is over, what we have to do now is not to continue to regret and feel guilty about the loss of this game, but to stand outside the game and look at the process of this game again with a neutral attitude, why did we lose? Where do we lose? …”

The players all hung their heads one by one, since Yang Cheng coached this team, the loss seems to have become very rare, whether it is in the German Second Division, or the Cup Winners' Cup, they are used to winning, but now they have lost a key knockout game, and were eliminated from the German Cup by Bayern Munich, this is the first time for them, and the blow is inevitably a little bigger.

"Although we lost this game, I am still very happy, at least we stuck to our tactical philosophy, we always thought about attacking, we actively wanted to reverse the game, but unfortunately, the opponent's defense was too solid and we had to reflect, is our offensive approach too simple?"

Speaking of which, as the team's leading scorer, Ruud van Nistelrooy bowed his head in shame, because in this game he seemed to be stared at and completely lost the crosshairs of the shot, especially under the interference of the opponent, he almost did nothing, and the only four shots on goal were almost ineffective, one was saved by Kahn's divine help, the other two were too weak, and one shot was missed.

The same goes for everyone else on the team!

I have to admit that Kahn showed Patronus level in this crucial battle, he at least defused Kaiserslaupern's chances to score, his performance can almost be described as perfect, and his excellent performance greatly boosted the morale of the Bayern players and demoralized the Kaiserslautern players.

With his hands, with his fighting spirit and performance, Kahn proved that the goalkeeper can also be the core of the team!

Losing to such a person, Yang Cheng had nothing to say.

"Three days from now it's the first league game, you all know better than me, we have to play Bayern Munich at home!" Yang Cheng's heart remembered the two games at the beginning of the season.

I don't know if it's a coincidence that the difference between the League Cup final and the first round of the league is 3 days, and the difference between the German Cup round of 6 knockout round and the Bundesliga first is another 3 days, and Kaiserslautern and Bayern Munich have been entangled throughout the season.

At the beginning of the season, Kaiserslautern defeated Bayern Munich to win the League Cup by virtue of the victory in the League Cup final, and then beat Bayern away without 0, and now the situation seems to have reversed.

Yang Cheng looked at the players in front of him, they all pulled their heads one by one, looking listless, and they had not yet come out of the blow of losing the game, but as the head coach of the team, he definitely couldn't continue to let the team go on like this.

"I'll give you a choice now and it's up to you to decide how we should play against Bayern in three days' time?" Yang Cheng gritted his teeth and said, "There are still 3 days to go, and we follow the usual practice to decide the squad and tactics the night before the game, but this time the situation is different from the past." ”

Yang Cheng looked very resolute, "This time it is not me who decides the team's tactics and the team's starters, but you, you tell me, how should we play this game in 3 days, is it to continue to attack?" Or do you want to shrink back on the defensive? Is it to fight for a draw and avoid defeat? Or do you want to take the initiative to attack, beat Bayern, and the shame of losing this game? ”

"I will wait for you to make a decision, 3 days later, the pre-war preparation meeting, you tell me the answer, if you decide to retreat, then I will let you retreat, if you decide to take the initiative, then I will accompany you to go out and fight a fucking fight!"

Yang Cheng couldn't stop nodding, "You guys think about it, if you have the answer, tell me again!" With that, he turned and left the dressing room, where he had to attend the post-match press conference as manager.

After a win over Kaiserslautern, Trapattoni seemed to be in a good mood, at least he wouldn't be ranting anymore, and he was polite and polite in answering questions from the media.

Yang Cheng was a little embarrassed as a loser, but he didn't seem to care at all.

"There's no doubt that Kaiserslaude is a fantastic team, especially with their attacking prowess, which is absolutely the best in the Bundesliga and their ability to create chances is among the best in Europe!" The white-haired Italian first punched Kaiserslautern with a grin, but everyone knew it wouldn't be that simple.

Sure enough, he quickly changed his voice, "However, I'm glad that we found a way to restrain Kaiserslautern, in a 1-0 situation, my players didn't lose confidence in the game, we stuck to our tactics day by day, and finally got the result and reversed Kaiserslautern, which is very, very difficult." ”

Trapattoni smiled like an upstart, "At the very least, we should be the first team to reverse Kaiserslautern, in two seasons!" “

The reporters below thought for a while, and then nodded in unison.

The most well-known feature of Kaiserslautern coached by Yang Cheng is the restlessness and attacking football, and the other point is the tenacious fighting spirit, so this team has hardly been reversed, and even the games of women's football are pitiful, but now they have been defeated by Bayern.

Trapattoni mentioned this matter at this time, obviously not to show off, but to further attack Yang Cheng.

"Excuse me, Mr. Trapattoni, you said that you have found a way to restrain Kaiserslautern, does that mean that you have a chance to win the league in three days?" A reporter raised his hand and asked.

Trapattoni was in a good mood and nodded with a bright smile: "I am very confident that although everything is possible on the football field, I believe that as long as we can maintain the form and performance of this game, we can beat Kaiserslautern away and then reverse Kaiserslautern in the league to win the championship!" “

This season, Bayern fans have long complained about Bayern's long-term subservience to Kaiserslautern, and if Trapattoni can't reverse Kaiserslautern to win the championship, then even if he is re-elected, he will definitely be drowned by Bayern fans, because he is not even as good as a promoted polo team.

After that, the media asked Trapattoni a few questions one after another, and the Italian obviously did not miss the opportunity to hit Yang Cheng and Kaiserslautern, and he did everything possible to shift the topic to the aspect of attacking Kaiserslautern.

In order to detonate the atmosphere of the press conference, the media immediately shifted their focus to Yang Cheng.

"Hello.xzsj8., Mr. Yang Cheng" What do you think of this game? ”

Yang Cheng suddenly remembered a very famous sentence of Ferguson in the later generations, and sneered slightly, "We are unlucky, Bayern has a god-like Kahn, but we are also very lucky" because Bayern only has one Kahn! “

The media were immediately amused by Yang Cheng's witty remark, and they all rushed to record it.

"Are you suggesting that the Kahn performance was the culmination of Kaiserslautern's defeat in this game?"

Yang Cheng shrugged his shoulders, "This is only one of the reasons" but not all! ”

"So what do you think was the main reason for Kaiserslau's knee loss in this crucial game? Who is to blame for this? The media lit the fire further.

Yang Cheng's current character experience is good, at least this time he didn't go berserk for the media's fanning of the flames, but just sneered, "No one should be responsible for this loss" or it should be said that if someone must be responsible for this loss, "The first thing to bear the brunt of is that as the head coach, I have to bear all the responsibility!" “

As soon as Yang Cheng's words came out, all the reporters in the audience were in an uproar, which was equivalent to taking all the responsibility for losing on himself.

Many reporters looked at the young Chinese coach sitting in the middle of the meeting, and there was a hint of respect in his eyes, at least he dared to take all the responsibility after the defeat, instead of passing the responsibility to others.

Trapattoni also cautiously glanced at the young coach next to him for the first time, he is a qualified coach himself, so he knows very well that if he is a smart person, he can completely shift the responsibility to some players with poor performance, but Yang Cheng did not do this.

Should he be called a fool? Or is he angry?

Trapattoni had a wry smile in his heart, but at the very least, there was a little less coldness in his eyes when he looked at Yang Cheng, and a little more appreciation and recognition.

"And how do you think your players are performing?" Perhaps stimulated by what he just said, the questions of the media are not as acute as before.

'It's good, they play with everything they can and I'm happy with their performance.

At this moment, in the distance, Gran, Nack raised his hand high and stood up after being named.

"Hello.xzsj8., Mr. Yang Cheng, in this game, Kaiserslautern adhered to his tactical concept and dealt with Bayern with proactive offensive football, and indeed forced Bayern to adopt a more conservative Italian defensive counterattack tactics to deal with it, the game was lost, we are all regretful, but I don't know if it will have an impact on Kaiserslautern's next tactical thinking? Will Kaiserslautern continue to stick to his attacking football philosophy in the future? Or will they become more conservative for the sake of grades? ”

Yang Cheng nodded towards Gran and Nack, and everyone in the audience knew that the two had a close relationship, and they were all used to it.

"I don't think it's the tactical concept that went wrong when we lost the game, I think it's because we didn't do well enough in some areas, it's our own problem, not the tactics, because I always believe that the tactics themselves are not biased, so I can be sure that Kaiserslautern's tactical thinking will not change!"

Gran, Nack took the initiative to applaud, he admired Yang Cheng's dedication to offensive football.

At first, there were only Gran and Nack, but gradually, the number of people who applauded began to increase, and finally it evolved into a applause from all the reporters in the audience, obviously affirming Yang Cheng's persistence.

Nowadays, there are very few managers in the Bundesliga who insist on attacking football, except for Yang Cheng of Kaiserslautern, Stuttgart's Loew has been affected by the departure of Elber this season, and the team's tactics have begun to focus on balance, as has other teams such as Bochum.

It can be said that in this season's Bundesliga, Kaiserslautern's offensive football is an alternative landscape, and after the run-in at the beginning of the season, the team's offensive football is becoming more and more hearty, and it is commendable that this team's results are very good, ranking in the league standings.

Yang Cheng's coaching ability has long been no longer in doubt, and what really needs to be worried is whether the team he leads can continue to unswervingly implement his philosophy, and whether Kaiserslautern can continue to maintain the current momentum.

"Can you tell us a little bit about your tactics for the next game? Are you sure you want to continue to intensify your attack? A reporter asked tentatively.

Who knew that Yang Cheng replied without thinking about it, "Of course, we will not give up the pursuit of offensive football!" “

Now there is no problem with anything he says in front of the media, if he plays attacking football in three days' time, then he has fulfilled his promise, if he plays a more balanced, even conservative counter-attack, then he is deliberately playing smoke bombs.

He has already given the decision to the players, so he is willing to wait for them for 3 days and let them make a decision!

This is not only to let them call the shots, but also to hope that they can get out of the shadow of defeat through these 3 days of decision-making and regain the confidence and fighting spirit to beat Bayern!

If the players really can't even get over this defeat, then Yang Cheng's previous hard work and efforts are in vain, then even if he loses, he has nothing to say!