278 Getting Better
Cottbus originally wanted to play Hamburg as a youth team, but found that there were a group of big brothers behind the guys as backing!
In the early years of Monaco, Situ Yunbing's lineup was a strong three-line driving De Gea's growth. In the early days of Hamburg, the team's reconstruction starting point was lower, but now it is a strong defense in the backcourt to create growth and fault tolerance for the young attack group in the midfield and frontcourt.
They have room to make mistakes, make mistakes, and hone their growth, while the backcourt defense led by Boateng and Matison will bear more pressure, but they can still bear it.
Situ Yunbing takes the friendly match seriously beyond imagination. When Aubameyang, who scored the goal, relaxed, Situ Yunbing would yell at him unceremoniously on the sidelines!
Cottbus attached more importance to and devoted himself to the game, making the game intense. When De Bruyne was a little neglected in defense in the midfield, Situ Yunbing would also warn him and direct him to actively participate in the defense.
In the first half, Hamburg led Cottbus 1:0. Situ Yunbing did not make any adjustments during the halftime break. Now he started from scratch. The team needs to get in bit by bit. There is really not much room for Situ Yunbing to change tactics frequently.
In the second half, Hamburg performed significantly better than in the first half. Perhaps the team adapted to the rhythm and gradually showed positive chemical reactions.
Although Kanter was a little out of the team, his active running gradually became effective.
In the 57th minute of the game, Reus responded to Aubameyang's pass from the middle. When he dribbled, he changed his way and cut inward and accelerated and entered the left rib of the penalty area. Facing the defender who was blocking the attacking goalkeeper, he knocked the ball diagonally back to the right in front of the penalty area. Elia pulled her foot and shot here. She was originally a bit missed, but fortunately, the football hit the defender Cottbus and reflexed and flew into the goal.
After he scored this goal, Situ Yunbing made a substitution.
There is no limit on the number of substitutions in the friendly match, and Situ Yunbing almost changed the entire team.
Griezmann, Son Heung-min and Wu Lei replaced the three forwards.
Lincon replaced Matuidi, Rodriguez, Azpilicueta, Van Dijk and Westman replaced the entire defense line.
Except for goalkeepers Navas, Kante and De Bruyne, substitutions were completed in other positions.
Cottbus also started to substitution, which was a friendly match after all. Investigating the player's status is the team's main goal. Unlike Hamburg, there are more training and running-in.
After the substitution, the performance of both teams declined and the scene was quite chaotic!
However, during the chaos, the Hamburg team's attacking speed did not decline, but on the contrary, it maintained a relatively high breakthrough speed.
However, now the team is more inclined to play on the right side of Son Heung-min, and Wu Lei gave up because he made two mistakes and made no results.
Son Heung-min obviously feels better on the court, after all, he has been growing in the German youth training football system over the past two years.
De Bruyne kept delivering shells to the front line, and Griezmann fought against the center at any time, but he was very callous to De Bruyne. In terms of the sense of counter-offside at any time when the running starts, Griezmann is better than Aubameyang, although the extreme speed may be faster.
Cotbus probably didn't expect that they would be tortured by Hamburg's rapid forward today. If they were not careful, they would get a single shot that would make their opponents offside, so their defense began to shrink and retreat.
At this time, the threat of winger cutting began to intensify. In the 77th minute of the game, Son Heung-min responded to Azpilicueta's pass from the right and then changed direction and dunked over the opponent's cut in and broke into the penalty area. The push shot was not of particularly high quality, but it rolled into the goal.
Hamburg leads Cottbus at home: 0.
In the last 15 minutes of the game, Situ Yunbing ordered the team's full-back to strengthen the offense, and at the same time gave Kanter a new task to assist in the defense of the wings at any time!
In helping Kanter grow, the defense line cannot be completely safe. On the one hand, the team's offense is more mature. The full-back must participate in the attack on the front line. On the other hand, only by letting Kanter realize his role can he grow better.
In the last 10 minutes, Hamburg was almost performing half-court offensive and defensive drills on the court. Rodriguez and Azpilicueta were physically in good health, so there was no problem in straight up and down on the side. In addition, Kanter's speed characteristics in interception were displayed. Even if he could not intercept the ball as soon as the opponent counterattacked, he was always able to entangle and delay the opponent, making the opponent unable to continue to advance the offensive. When Hamburg's teammates came to assist Kanter, he could easily kill Cottbus' counterattack.
Before the end of the game, Wu Lei shot and was blocked by Kotbus goalkeeper, and then Griezmann made a follow-up shot in the penalty area and sent the ball into the goal!
Hamburg fans cheered in the stands, excited and satisfied with the energetic team. At least the players all looked very distinctive, at least not mediocre.
In the first friendly match, Hamburg beat Cottbus 4:0.
Situ Yunbing is quite satisfied with the performance of the defense line, and the team's running-in and players' growth have a long way to go.
After the game, he and the players carefully summarized the game and reminded the players that they needed to improve in the game. The players realized that Situ Yunbing did not simply let the team warm up, and indeed regarded the game as their most important growth stage before the new season.
These players who came to Hamburg also have ideals and ambitions. For example, Matuidi had the opportunity to go to the Ligue 1 and the Champions League team, but he still chose Hamburg because of Situ Yunbing's call. In the past two years, he witnessed Situ Yunbing leading Monaco to conquer the country in Ligue 1. Now he is going to participate in the great plan to revive Hamburg.
De Bruyne, Azpilicueta, Reus, Griezmann, etc., these young players who were not coached by Situ Yunbing, might not be interested in Hamburg at all. Staying in the original team would have developed better.
Just because Situ Yunbing has a reputation, especially in Ligue 1, he has also established a good reputation for himself in the past two years, and is good at training and training young players!
Young players who have become famous in Monaco are the targets they want to be!
In an average of three days, Situ Yunbing rotates. Basically, the players who play in the first game will become substitutes in the next game, and then play for about 0 minutes in the bench in about 60 minutes. This will allow the players he needs to use to play more evenly during the warm-up game.
Warmup matches one after another, every home game of Hamburg will be full!
The fans have achieved the support Situ Yunbing begged for the team.
Situ Yunbing is also using his serious work to fulfill his promises.
Make the team stronger!
When Hamburg played its last warm-up match against Bochum in early August, the team was getting better!
At least the team's technical and tactical system framework has already taken shape.
The midfield commander is De Bruyne. The offense relies on three forwards to quickly attack, with four defenders on the defensive end and two back midfielders, one back midfielder is responsible for interception, and the other back midfielder is connected in series to attack and defense, and they all perform their duties together. At the same time, the overall team is still asked by Situ Yunbing to start a defense from the front line!
In the last warm-up match, Hamburg almost crushed the low-level team Bochum!
Although Bochum is a Class B team, it is one of the popular teams to be promoted next season, and a relegation team close to the Bundesliga.
They were unable to resist the repeated attacks in the Hamburg front line, and the Hamburg team completed a 6-0 victory at home!
At this point, the pre-season warm-up match of Hamburg ended and won all 7 games!
Scored 4 goals and conceded 4 goals.
But the German media are questioning the quality of the Hamburg warm-up match.
On August 14, before the start of the new Bundesliga season, the German Cup will first kick off, and Hamburg will be the guest against the low-level team Grave.
At the pre-match press conference, Situ Yunbing was able to answer reporters' questions in simple German.
When asked by reporters that Hamburg had selected weak opponents in the warm-up match and could not really test the team's strength level, Situ Yunbing replied lightly: "Our goal in the warm-up match is to run-in the team. Before the start of the new season, all work is preparing. It is unfair to be tested if we are not prepared, so there is no need to talk about Hamburg's strength now. I also experienced doubts in the early days of coaching in Monaco. My answer is that it usually takes three months to test the coaching level. I don't have high requirements. At least one month is given. That is to say, after the start of the new season, you will comment on my coaching level and the combat effectiveness of the Hamburg team."
"Kickers" reporter then asked: "Hamburg played 7 games in the pre-season warm-up game. Don't you think the amount of games is too large? The new season has not started yet, so it's not good to exhaust the players."
Situ Yunbing smiled and shook his head and said, "Although we played 7 games, each player actually only played less than 400 minutes on average, which means they actually played about four games."
The last question comes from a reporter from the Hamburg Evening News.
"At present, we still cannot see that Hamburg's main lineup in the new season, about half of the players are fixed main players, Navas, Boateng, Mattson, De Meer, De Bruyne, and Matuidi. Other positions include three players on the front line. What is the main framework of Hamburg?"
Situ Yunbing smiled and nodded and said, "This question is very good. Some of the players you mentioned are indeed the main players that we cannot play, but I have not fixed the main players in some positions yet. Take the forward line as an example. We have 6 forwards, 4-5 of them are very close to their strengths, and some of them can play centers and wingers. I cannot neglect who is the main players. I need them to win the qualification with practical actions."
The disadvantage of unfixed lineup is that the tacit understanding of the main lineup will be affected, and the advantage is that it promotes healthy competition within the team.
In fact, he already has a fixed candidate on the front line in his mind.
Chapter completed!