The game entered its final moments, and Wolfsburg strangled in midfield, strengthening his defensive ability while destroying Schalke’s counter-attack opportunities. Under the Wolfsburg players, who ran at all costs

, Schalke 04’s organization in the midfield was completely disrupted.

Schalke 04, who could not create a threat at all, could only watch the game end.

With this victory, Wolfsburg has only 5 rounds left!

De Bruyne, who was a quasi-killer, became the best player of the match.

Wolfsburg have won 17 consecutive Bundesliga games!

Second only to Bayern Munich, the longest winning streak set in the 13-14 season, 19 in a row.

It was definitely one of the highlights of Wolfsburg’s history.

Although Bayern Munich beat Hoffenheim 2-0 in this round, Wolfsburg continued to lead the table with a one-point advantage.

The Bundesliga title race has reached a fever pitch.

The league battle has just been extinguished, but the second leg of the Europa League is about to begin.

After a three-day rest, Wolfsburg, whose form has not fully adjusted, traveled to Napoli, Italy, for the final battle of this round of knockout.

Although during the medical examination, the team doctor has issued a warning that some of the main players in the confrontation are not in good physical condition.

For players like De Bruyne, doctors have advised Dieter Heikin to take a rotation of one or two matches.

But at this critical moment, Dieter Heikin has no way not to send his core players on the field.

He knows a lot of people in the squad are eager for this Europa League title.

It’s not the Champions League, but how many players from the top five leagues can win Europe?

If the previous round was a one-to-four scoreline, that’s it.

But in the case of a draw, even if Dieter Heikin is willing to give up, the players will not agree!

Wolfsburg, with all the main players, came to the Stadio San Paolo, the home of Napoli.

Looking at the stadium in front of him, the reborn Zhao Jinge sighed with emotion.

A few years later, when the Argentine king Maradona died, it would be renamed Estadio Maradona.

To be able to play a good game in a place where the king of the ball has fought is also something that every player yearns for. After entering the stadium,

Zhao Jinge found that the attendance of this stadium was not high, and it would be filled with half of the people.

The last time I visited the Meazza Stadium, the attendance there was not high.

Attendance in European matches is not high. It can be seen that the entire Serie A market is in a downturn.

Dieter Heckin sent the entire main lineup, abandoning the regular 4231 and playing a more powerful 433 formation:

Goalkeeper: Benalio.

Defenders: Vieriña, Naldo, Tim Klose, Ricardo Rodríguez.

Midfielders: Alexander-Arnold, De Bruyne, Schurrle.

Forwards: Zhao Jinge, Dost, Perisic.

Napoli’s squad is the same as in the last contest and has not changed.

But Benitez had difficulties with tactical design.

How to limit the play of Zhao Jinge and De Bruyne has become his biggest headache.

As a master tactician, Benitez hates the most when the opposing superstar is super-god moments.

Just like Zhao Jinge in the last game, with the cooperation of De Bruyne, he destroyed Napoli’s back line with his individual ability alone.

This unexpected and unpreventable thing put Benitez under a lot of pressure.

As the match was about to take place, Dieter Heikin’s unexpected change of formation caught Benitez off guard.

In Benitez’s impression, Dieter Heikin is definitely not a person who chooses to attack strongly in a life and death battle.

But this did not fit with Dieter Heckin’s coaching philosophy, and completely frustrated Benitez’s pre-match tactical set-up.

With the referee’s whistle sounding, the game officially begins.

Wolfsburg, playing away, is obviously not physically advantageous due to physical condition.

So before the game, the whole team reached a consensus that Wolfsburg wanted to win quickly.

In this game, do everything possible to complete the overtake of the aggregate score by 65 minutes, and then do your best to defend.

The longer the time drags on, the worse it is for Wolfsburg, and they must get ahead as soon as possible.

Otherwise, Napoli’s away goal advantage will slowly hang them like a gradually tightening rope.

Wolfsburg won the kick-off and raised their own rhythm from the first minute of the game.

Under Kevin De Bruyne’s organisation, the entire Wolfsburg midfield overwhelmed the midline and attacked Napoli.

Seeing this, Naples was naturally cautious.

Mertens, Hamsik and Callejon all returned to their own half and fought with the Wolfsburg players who pressed on.

From the very beginning, the game was full of gunpowder.

De Bruyne, who dominated the attack, showed his midfield master at this time.

In the face of Napoli’s pressing, he led Wolfsburg’s frontcourt players to constantly play wonderful small-scale cooperation.

Keep the ball firmly at your feet.

And Zhao Jinge, who was very powerful in the last game, caused a lot of psychological pressure on Napoli’s defensive players.

As long as he breaks through with the ball, two Napoli defenders are bound to grab it.

If there is no teammate around to assist, then take the initiative to use foul tactics to interrupt Zhao Jinge’s breakthrough.

Just in the seventh minute of the game, when Zhao Jinge once again had the ball in front of him and coiled it in front of Inle.

It didn’t wait for Zhao Jinge to make a fake move to make a breakthrough. Inle followed Zhao Jinge’s footsteps and slowly retreated.

As he retreated, he shouted for Mertens and full-back Ghulam to come and assist.

Seeing the other party so careful, Zhao Jinge couldn’t help but feel a sense of accomplishment.

It turns out that he has grown to the point where his opponent takes it so seriously.

Before the opposing players came to help, Zhao Jinge and De Bruyne completed the cooperation and continued to move forward.

After several offensive attempts, relying on Zhao Jinge’s huge deterrent.

Wolfsburg directly pressed Napoli’s formation into a thirty-meter area.

No way, want to stop Zhao Jinge’s breakthrough, De Bruyne’s God perspective threatening pass.

Shrinking space and defending intensively are Napoli’s best options. Seeing the dense defense

, Wolfsburg has almost become an expert in breaking the dense defense in the past few months.

But unlike those mid-middle and lower Bundesliga teams, Napoli’s defense is significantly more rigorous.

Serie A’s world-famous chain defence is complemented by a tight pressing defense from Benitez on the demanding zone.

As a result, Wolfsburg could only make constant attempts at long-range shots about thirty meters in front of the goal. With defenders

blocking the gun and Napoli goalkeeper Andujar playing well, these long-range shots did not create many chances.

Can’t play the super world wave, and the long-range shot alone can’t threaten the Napoli goal at all.

After another shot hit Napoli centre-back Albior’s outstretched leg and bounced back into midfield.

De Bruyne frowned, put off his ineffective long-range attack, passed the ball to the dragged Alexander-Arnold, beckoned his teammates to retreat some distance and regain their attacking opportunities.

There are many people in the middle, so try it from the side.

Soon Wolfsburg was working on the wing.

After holding the ball from the midfield, Zhao Jinge pushed forward and made a wall collision with Vieriña who pressed behind and easily passed Mertens.

Close to the restricted area, it is opposite Ghulam head-on.

Faced with Zhao Jinge’s oppression, Gulam quickly recovered and defended Inle together with the defender of the upper right corner of the penalty area.

Before the game, Benitez asked him to give up the outside properly, but he must keep the inside line and not let people break into the box!

Zhao Jinge handed the ball to Vierinia, who quickly rushed towards the bottom line.

Zhao Jinge himself bypassed the defense and stepped forward with Dost and Perisic, who had already hovered on the line of the penalty area.

Unguarded, Vieriña smoothly came to his most comfortable starting position and rightfully sent a high-quality cross.

At this time, Zhao Jinge had already entered the box, he ran to the position in front of the goal, and Bristol who was close to him immediately defended him.

Dost ran towards the middle of the goal, and Albiol kept an eye on Dost, not daring to let it go.

The pair led Napoli’s double centre-back straight away, with Perisic also blocking the other full-back Macho.

When three pairs of players on both sides who are pasted together try their best to observe the football landing.

Vierinha’s cross drifts to the centre of goal.

Schurrle, who was inserted there, used a high-speed overhead to top the ball into the top right corner of Napoli’s goal with no one to follow.

When Schurrle saw the ball score, he immediately rushed to the stands where the away fans were with a smile. With

open hands, he made a celebratory gesture of hug to all the Wolfsburg fans who came from afar.

No one expected that the fully contracted Napoli back line would leave Schurle inserted at the back point in the defense of the cross!

It can only be said that they were completely attracted to the attention of the defense by the risk of Wolfsburg.

In particular, Zhao Jinge alone pinned down the attention of the opposing two defenders, Gulam and Britos.

“GOAL!!!! Wolfsburg, which opened with a full offensive rhythm, finally reaped the results they wanted!

“Five to four on aggregate, Wolfsburg took the lead! Now they are the side with more hope of making the cut!

Without Dieter Blackkin giving instructions from the sidelines, Wolfsburg, who pressed forward in formation, immediately retreated to the halfway position.

The forward three left Dost, who was the most capable of standing on piles, and the other two returned to the middle line to participate in the defense.

After taking the lead, Wolfsburg immediately adjusted to a defensive counter-attacking formation.

Arnold and Schurrle retreated directly to the back line.

This string of extremely smooth formation transformations stunned the Napoli players on the opposite side.

I thought that with Benitez, our Napoli defensive counterattack was conservative enough.

Now it seems that you Wolfsburg are better.

With ten minutes left in the first half, Wolfsburg did not contract as comprehensively as Napoli had just done.

With two strikers retreating, they fought for the ball against Napoli’s midfield in the space between the centre circle and the 30-metre zone.

Dieter Heikin explained to the players before the game, leading the tactical play.

It is possible to redraw, but not too deeply. Napoli’s midfield and wingers are above par.

Emptying both sides and midfield puts too much pressure on the Wolfsburg defence.

Therefore, a high-intensity midfield scramble after a proper retreat must not allow Napoli to easily deliver the ball within their own 30-metre area.

This tactic was resolutely implemented by the Wolfsburg defenders.

Dieter Heckin was also waiting for the break to pass before replacing the players in the back position with the more defensive Gustav and Gila Voji.

It soon came to half-time, and after a short break, Wolfsburg completed the substitution.

The second half of the game resumed, after strengthening the defense, Wolfsburg did not leave Napoli with a good attacking opportunity.

In the 60th minute of the game, under great attacking pressure, Napoli also made a substitution.

Insigne came on to replace Inle, and he came to the position behind Higuain as a shadow striker.

In the middle of the way can not open the situation.

Napoli started breaking through on the wing, starting with crosses and using Higuain and Insigne to grab points in the box. The

long-range shot after the cross between the wing and the center has also become Napoli’s attacking method tried many times.

Napoli began to pick up speed and Wolfsburg’s stranglehold in midfield became more and more intense.

The game has finally entered a wonderful situation where you come and go.

In the 68th minute, Mertens received a pass from Hamsik on the left side of the field and then cut inward.

Quickly lowered the ball to the feet of Higuain, who was running in the middle of the box.

After the small smoking gun stopped the ball, he fakely changed to break through and pass Naldo, and shot with his foot on the edge of the big penalty area, and Benalio struck in time to block the opponent’s shooting angle with his body!

Extremely critical interception blocking, blocking this dangerous shot!

It wasn’t long before Vierinha broke the ball against Hamsik with the help of Zhao Jinge, and Wolfsburg quickly launched a counterattack.

Alexander-Arnold’s backfield tackled with Zhao Jinge to form a wall and directly broke through Napoli’s central blockade.

And when Napoli were intercepted by David Lopez alone at half-time, he decisively passed the ball long to the left.

Perisic stopped the ball in the middle of the run, then changed his shoulders to break through the blockade of Napoli full-back Macho.

When Zhao Jinge stepped forward to the position on the line of the big penalty area, Perisic immediately passed the ball.

Zhao Jinge dribbled the ball forward with his feet, adapted to the defenders, and lightly picked the ball into the box.

Dost successfully countered the offside and volleyed in the face of the falling football!

But the ball hit the post and popped up the line, and Napoli escaped.

Eighty minutes into the game, Wolfsburg’s fitness had hit rock bottom.

All Wolfsburg defenders were running breathlessly.

Zhao Jinge, who has always been physically excellent, gradually felt the lack of physical strength in continuous high-intensity competitions.

Either endure Napoli’s stormy attack in the final moments of the game, or score a winning goal while there is still a bit of stamina.

Waiting has never been Zhao Jinge’s style, take a deep breath, Zhao Jinge observes the running positions of both sides, waiting for the opportunity to give Napoli a fatal blow.



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