Chapter 20 FIFA Virus Attack
Since next weekend is the national team game day, this week's Swiss League is a weekly double match. Just three days after playing Thun, Gosau will continue to play against Basel at home. Basel is also facing a two-line battle this season. Their bench depth is far less than that of Gosho. Therefore, it is impossible for head coach Yakin to rotate players as large as Lin Fenglei. This year, their luck is also not very good. Less than three months of the season, two main players have been injured, and one injury is one. More than a month.
Too many injuries and two-line battles have also affected Basel's performance. At present, they have only achieved 4 wins, 4 draws, 3 losses and 11 points in 11 rounds of the league, ranking fifth in the league. Now they have encountered a strong Gosau team on the road. Therefore, Yakin led the team to Gosau in a low profile, and he is in Ben In the game, there was a defensive formation, trying to get a point in the away game.
Lin Fenglei sent most of the main players in this game, and Egman, who has a strong desire to fight, was certainly sent by him. In this game, although Basel has played intensive defensive tactics, it still can't beat Egman, who has a strong desire to score goals.
In the 13th minute of the game, Egman pulled to the side. After receiving a direct pass from Avazzini behind him, he took the ball past Basel's Austrian right-back Garisis, broke into the penalty area, and then shook down Brazilian central defender Mariano with a fake shot, and then went right. The foot shot angrily, and the ball penetrated into the upper left corner of the goal like a cannonball out of the ball, hitting the net heavily. Basel's Ukrainian goalkeeper Bachilevich had nothing to do with this strong volley at close range, so he could only look at the ball and sigh.
In the 34th minute of the game, Ivanovic divided the ball to the right side in the backcourt. Horenstein advanced the ball to the bottom line back pass at high speed. Egman jumped high at the back point and headed the ball to the lower right corner of the goal. This time, Bachilvic made a wonderful save. He blocked the ball out of the door with one palm, but It was in a hurry that the ball did not hit far. Codingho appeared at the second drop and easily pushed the ball into the empty goal.
In the 67th minute of the second half, Basel attacked in an attempt to win back the score, but they made a mistake in their pass. Ivanovic passed the ball directly to the front court after getting the ball in the backcourt. Kadinho got a single shot. He did not miss this opportunity. In the face of the attacking Bachilevic, he was calm. The push shot at the near corner was successful, and the score was rewritten to 3:0.
Since then, neither side has scored again, and Gosau defeated Basel 3-0. Now Gosau has 11 wins, 1 draw and 34 points in 12 rounds of the league, ranking first in the league table, leading the second-ranked Zurich by as much as 11 points.
After the game against Basel, the Swiss League will be suspended for ten days because it is the national team match day. Of course, this does not mean that the players can also have a rest. Most of the main players of the Gosau team will return to their national teams to participate in the qualifiers of Euro 2016.
The new World Cup champion Switzerland was in Group E in this European Cup qualifiers. The teams in the same group were England, Georgia, Cyprus, Finland, Sweden and Kazakhstan. In the first two group matches held on September 6 and 10, Switzerland played against Cyprus and England. With a win and a loss, the performance is not very satisfactory.
On October 11 and October 15, they will play two home games in a row, facing Georgia and Finland. These two games are very important to what Switzerland can achieve in this group.
Of course, from a private point of view, Lin Fenglei doesn't care what kind of results the Swiss team has achieved. His only hope is that his players will not get hurt. In the last two national team games, his main players were exhausted after returning from the national team. It took him a long time to adjust their state. This time, he had to play two games in a row. Lin Fenglei was still worried that the players would be injured in a row.
But Lin Fenglei can't change this situation. He can't even complain too much about the players participating in the national team, because the players themselves are full of longing to represent the national team.
On October 16, the players who returned to the national team returned to the club one by one tired. In addition to almost all the main players returned to the national team, many young players who rotated were selected to their respective U21 national teams to participate in the European U21 competition. Fortunately, no one has been seriously injured. Only Gugleman and Kodinho each suffered a little injury and needed to take a break from a game.
The Swiss team's performance was still unsatisfactory in these two home games. They drew with Georgia 1:1 and defeated Finland 3-0. Egman scored one goal each in each of the two games. However, the Swiss team currently ranks England with only 7 points in four games in Group E, only after England, which has won all three games. Ranked second in the group, such a result is obviously not worthy of the Swiss team's world champion.
However, Lin Fenglei can't care about the Swiss team's performance now. When he saw that even the Iron Man's Egman showed a trace of fatigue, he had a headache about the starting lineup for the second round of the Swiss Cup against Saint-Galen.
St. Garren's performance has not declined recently. They are still ranked third in the table, which is a leap for their eighth place last season. Their new head coach Peret is also ambitious and hopes to make a breakthrough in the cup, but he didn't expect them to be so unlucky that they won the defending champion, the powerful Gosho team, in the second round.
The result of this draw made Perret secretly depressed, but on the surface, he was still very hard-spoken. He said that he was very happy to win the Gosho team, which gave him another chance to defeat the derby opponent.
Lin Fenglei has no other idea about winning St. Garren. He is discussing with the coaching staff what kind of starting lineup to send. Most of the main players in the team are very tired, and young players like Hodel and Clement also played two U21 games, which have some physical problems. He can only send some players who are in good physical fitness or who don't play in the national team.
On the forward line, Lin Fenglei sent a combination of Espousto and Zhou Guodong. Esposito was not selected for the Italian national team, and he was over 21 years old, so he could not participate in the U21 game. He rested for ten days and was very good, and Zhou Guodong was not selected for the Chinese national team. He is in good condition.
The goalkeeper is still Chekareli, and his position determines that his physical fitness is not a problem.
On the guard line, from left to right are Chekaroni, Silva, Henkoz and San Pedro. None of them have been selected for the national team or the U21 national team. There is no problem with physical fitness.
The midfielder is still Antunović. His physical fitness has always been very good, and Lin Fenglei has paid attention to his rotation in the league this season, and he has not played many games this season.
The two wingers are Avazzini and Sartre. Avazzini's physical fitness has always been good, and the captain's sense of responsibility makes him insist on playing when the team is in trouble.
The front waist is Lima. The Brazilian national team hasn't played much recently. He is very good.
The starting lineup of Gosho's team made Perret feel happy. There are not many international players in St. Garren's team. His main lineup is basically complete. Against Gosho, which is basically composed of rotating players, he feels that his team still has a chance to win.
And the Swiss football world generally believes that this game will be a close match. Gosau, which has encountered the FIFA virus, will have a chance to win against St. Garren, which has recently performed well. Many people also hope that St. Garren will win. After all, Gosau's rule over Swiss football makes many people a little dissatisfied. Even if the league can't overturn their rule, it's good to overturn them first in a knockout game like the Cup.