Time entered October, in the 9th round of the Bundesliga, Kaiserslautern hosted Winterhachen.

Yang Cheng still retained the main team against Red Star Belgrade in the starting line-up, only replacing Ruud van Nistelrooy with Marshall, and the Dutchman was on the bench because Marshall's form was clearly better than that of the Dutchman.

As a result, Marshall did not live up to Yang Cheng's high expectations, scoring twice in this strong conversation, helping Kaiserslautern beat Winterhaching 3-0 at home to continue to guarantee the top spot in the league.

Wolfsburg, who are also aiming for promotion, were forced to draw 0:0 away by Zwickau, while Hertha Berlin defeated Chemnitz 4:1 away, reversing Wolfsburg and finishing second in the league.

However, the 9th round of the Bundesliga attracted the most media attention not in these games, but in Oldenburg's home match against Leipzig, the result of the match was 4:1, and Oldenburg won at home.

The score is normal, what is not normal is the course of the game.

Leipzig's players were injured throughout the game, and the manager of Leipzig had to accept from the 78th minute that another player was injured after using up the substitutions, resulting in the team having one less person on the field to fight after using up the substitutions.

Also from the 80th minute, Oldenburg scored two goals in a row, rewriting the score from the original 2:1 to 4:1!

The team, which has been hailed as an ironclad relegation team this season, has now temporarily extricated themselves from the relegation quagmire with this victory, and after the game, in the face of the Leipzig manager's bloody and tearful denunciation, Oldenburg officials refused to admit that their players had black feet in the game.

And after the 9th round, the draw for the round of 16 of the European Cup Winners' Cup was also released.

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"Team Bran?" It was the first time Yang Cheng had heard of this unfamiliar team.

Seeing Yang Cheng's expression, Paul Baier couldn't help but feel amused, and nodded: "Yes, a team from the Norwegian Premier League, founded in 1908, is located in Bergen, the second largest city in Norway. ”

Yang Cheng glared at Paul Bayer, who was laughing at him, with some reproach, looked at the stack of information about the Bran team in his hand, and secretly admired in his heart, having an assistant is such a benefit, the lottery has just come out, but he has already prepared all the information and clues, and he doesn't need to waste time collecting it at all.

"It seems that the strength of this Bran team is also okay, and it is in the middle of the Norwegian league rankings!" Yang Cheng muttered to himself

Who knew that Paul Baier burst out laughing after hearing this, which made Tim, Moniz and others in the office wonder if this guy is sick today.

"Brother, don't look at Team Bran hovering between 8-12, you know? Norway has only 14 teams in the league, and the last two teams have been relegated to the Norwegian First Division, so Bran are a bit worse in Norway, with their best position in history being last season, when they finished 4th in the league. ”

When Yang Cheng heard this, he was immediately embarrassed, and then looked around, the assistants all wanted to laugh but were not embarrassed to laugh, and immediately laughed and scolded: "You bastards, if you don't look at this stack of information, who of you knows all this?" ”

Everyone couldn't help but laugh at this moment.

But what Yang Cheng said was also true, the Bran team was indeed too unpopular, and if it weren't for Paul Bayer's special collection of information about this team, not many people would have paid attention to this team at all.

"The second round of the Cup Winners' Cup is on 17 and 31 October, but there are only three rounds left in the Norwegian Premier League so far, so I wanted to be able to go and see the Bran team in person to get a better picture of the opponents!" After the joke, Paul Beyer seriously proposed.

Yang Cheng also agrees with this.

The Norwegian Premier League schedule is different from other countries, they are not multi-year competitions, but start in April and end in October, avoiding the whole cold winter, so October is the time when other leagues are in full swing, but it is the final stage of the Norwegian league.

The Bran team have been in excellent form this season and are currently competing with Stormgast and Molde for European qualification, which means that all three teams will compete for qualification in the UEFA Cup, while the league title has already fallen to Rosenborg, which is also the sixth consecutive title for the Norwegian team.

The difference in fixtures has a plus for Kaiserslautern, as Bran is not as good as Kaiserslautern's players, but there is a downside, with Norway starting to experience a cold spell in late October, while Bergen has been rainy all year round.

Yang Cheng once heard a joke in his previous life, a tourist asked a local boy when the rain would stop, and the boy replied: "I don't know, I'm only 12 years old!" ”

You can imagine how much of a headache the city fell to the ground!

But Yang Cheng still felt that he was lucky, and at least drew a weaker opponent in the round of 16 knockout round.

Barcelona, PSV Eindhoven, Paris Saint-Germain, Liverpool, Benfica, Fiorentina, Galatasaray, Sparta Prague...... This team is one of the best teams in Europe, and Kaiserslautern was lucky to be able to avoid them.

Of course, if we can successfully eliminate the Bran team and enter the top 8 knockout rounds, then Kaiserslautern will not have such good luck and will inevitably usher in a tough battle.

The draw for the German Cup was revealed a day after the European Cup Winners' Cup schedule was released.

However, Kaiserslautern was a bit unlucky this time, as they were drawn against Bayern Munich, the Bundesliga champions.

When Yang Cheng heard the news, the whole person was Spartan.

But no matter what, the game has to go on.

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In the 10th round of the league, Kaiserslautern challenged Essen away, and with Ballack and Marshall's brace, Kaiserslautern defeated Essen 4:1 away.

In the 11th round of the league, as a guest in Cologne, he encountered the tenacious sniping of the S Cologne team, especially the opponent's almost lifeless defense, Kaiserslautern could not open the situation until the 73rd minute of the second half, Yang Cheng replaced Pavel Kuka, and the Croatian striker scored the winning goal.

After beating FC Cologne, Kaiserslautern travelled to Norway to take on Bran.

Because Yang Cheng had made enough preparations before the game, especially to let the team adapt to the rain battle in advance, in the away game, despite the resistance of the home team, he finally retreated 0:0 from the away side with Gattuso's excellent performance.

Three days later, Kaiserslautern travelled to Mannheim again.

The frustration at Bran, this time Kaiserslautern was all on Mannheim, Marshall scored a hat-trick, Denilson scored twice, Kaiserslautern won 5-0 away, but Fritz also went off injured in the game and was finally diagnosed to be out for at least a month.

Back in Kaiserslautern, the team welcomed Zwickau.

Wagner, who came in place of Fritz, got the chance to start and put in a decent performance, with Nedved scoring a pass and two shots to help Kaiserslautern beat visiting Zwickau 3-0 at home.

Two days later, the team ushered in the second leg of the second round of the Cup Winners' Cup, and with the excellent performances of Ballack and Denilson, they defeated Bran 2-0 at home and advanced to the quarterfinals with an aggregate score of 2-0.

Kaiserslautern's opponent in the top 8 was also quickly drawn, it was the Red Army Liverpool from England, and the game will be played in March next year, so Yang Cheng still has plenty of time to prepare.

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