Magath is a person who likes to play chess.

Well, he played chess.

Magath became obsessed with the sport after transferring to Hamburg in 1976. The 64 squares of the chess board were once unable to extricate himself.

In the third year of transfer to Hamburg, 24-year-old Magath suffered from hepatitis and went to the hospital alone for treatment.

While queuing up, Magath passed the time by watching TV.

The TV is prepared by the hospital to prevent patients from being too bored while waiting.

Magat discovered that the TV was playing a game between Anatori Karpov, a former Soviet chess king, and Kortinoch. After a while, Magat was immersed in this game and couldn't extricate himself, even forgot the purpose of coming to the hospital. That day, Magat was unable to see the doctor in the end.

Such addiction has greatly increased Magath's chess skills. He even played against Kasparov, the chess master.

The sport of chess has also had a profound impact on Magath, including his subsequent midfield career in Hamburg and his current coaching style.

In Magath's eyes, there is no essential difference between chess board and football field.

Taking one step and looking at three steps is the basic operation of chess sports.

Magath learned from this and learned a lot of principles of playing football and coaching.

The locker room of the visiting team at Bayer Arena is a bit simple. There is a row of stand-alone cabinets against the wall when entering the door, which is for the visiting team players to hang clothes.

There are no independent seats in the locker room, so it is extended at the lower end of the vertical cabinet and a row of cabinet stools are made.

The players of Wolfburg sat in a row.

Magath had no place to sit, and was holding a midfield conversation with the only small bar in the locker room.

“…

Leverkusen led by half an hour, but we drew two goals in the last quarter of the hour, losing the original good situation.

Most people will not be willing to do this if this happens. If it were me, I would probably not be able to bear it.

At the beginning of the second half, they will definitely attack.

We must keep this wave well.

Everyone gave me a half-time trip, put the win and loss aside first, and supported the defense.

We already have the League Cup to play next season, and the points are still meaningful to us, but 1 point is not unacceptable.

Chen, you'd better stay in the midfield and give them some pressure behind them.

After the beginning of this wave, their positions have probably been opened, and this is our opportunity.

The boys, although the difference between 1 point and 3 points is not big. But standing on the court, it’s not for anything else, just to win. I still hope we can win this game.

…”

Magath did not ask the players to pursue the victory immediately, but instead allowed the players to take the lead in defense first and put their desire for victory or defeat on the game aside.

Magath even gave the League Cup a speech, with the purpose of letting the players put aside their burdens.

Of course, at the end, Ma Dashuai still expressed his desire to win, preventing the players from really just living by the way.

This set of verbal combination punches.

I can only say that ginger is still spicy.

After returning to the stadium, the situation on the stadium was indeed as Magath said.

Although Skibe is a person who emphasizes defense, when the score changes from 2:0 to 2:2, everyone will have a bit of temper and ambition.

After the second half kick-off, Leverkusen rushed to Wolfsburg from the first minute.

The one who drove the ball was Leverkusen's center Kislin. What you can't believe is that this 1.91-meter-old man is the best dribbling player in the home team.

Kislin's pace is not fast, but his basic skills are solid and his rhythm is very good. In addition, he is tall and his legs are long, so his steps are very large.

In a blink of an eye, he dribbled the ball and rushed to the penalty area of ​​Wolfsburg.

But Kislin can only do this.

Wolfsburg's central defender Madren took the initiative to greet him.

Like Kislin, Madren is also a big player over 1.9 meters tall.

The two confronted each other for a while in front of the penalty area, and finally Kislin found that he couldn't squeeze out the position and lost the ball.

Fortunately, Leverkusen's left forward Banetta reacted very quickly and grabbed the ball back.

Banetta, who grabbed the ball, did not find a good opportunity. The visiting team's penalty area was filled with Wolf Castle players wearing blue and black striped shirts.

Because Wolfburg has never achieved results, Nike's jersey designers are a bit perfunctory. This year's visiting team uniforms almost copied Inter Milan's blue and black striped shirts, but the collar has changed from a round collar to a chicken-hearted collar.

Fortunately, Wolf Castle has no European battle this season, otherwise it would have been the same dress.

Banetta finally passed the ball to Jecas.

Jekas was the Bundesliga top scorer last season.

Banetta couldn't find a breakthrough, so he could only throw the ball to the person who had the best ability to finish the game.

But Jekas had no good idea either.

Although the Greek striker made a double shot in life, his wife was pregnant with twins and was due to be born in July this year. But the stadium is not a delivery room.

After hesitating for a while, Jekas finally chose to shoot a long shot.

The ball hit Costa's thigh and flew out of the bottom line.

Corner kick.

Leverkusen's corner kick was the team's left-back, Slovakian player Vladislav Grasco.

Grasco is actually a very powerful defender. He has strong physical fitness and fierce performance on the field. He is very good at passing and crossing, and has a good free kick.

Such characteristics allowed Grasco to stand out from the Slovak League in 1999 and joined Leverkusen in the Bundesliga.

A year later, Inter Milan spent another 14 billion lira transfer fee to sign Grasco and signed a five-year contract with him.

Grasco's career should have been infinitely beautiful.

However, the only thing he is remembered is the last league game of the season in Inter Milan on May 5, 2002.

On that championship night that many Inter Milan fans were looking forward to, Grasco started, but was beaten up by Lazio's Pobosky. Pobosky took the left side of Grasco's defense and scored twice. In the end, Inter Milan lost 2:4 and gave the championship to Juventus.

The scene of Inter Milan's world-class star Ronaldo crying on the sidelines has become a memory of a generation.

That game also ended Grasco's glorious path.

After that, the Slovak defender played for Parma in Serie A, Blackburn in the Premier League, and Nuremberg in the Bundesliga, wasted his youth and talent while wandering.

This season, Grasco returned to Leverkusen, where the dream began. But he was no longer the energetic boy.

Grasco made a cross and kicked the ball accurately in front of Wolfsburg's goal.

Vidal, Haji and Ridrich are all good headers and are jumping up to compete for the ball.

But none of them snatched Ying Dzeko.

The ball was pushed away.

Leverkusen's offense failed.

This scene is like a microcosm of Leverkusen's second half game.

Leverkusen even rushed to the frontcourt to compete for the header, but still failed to pry the Wolf Castle goal.

On the contrary, in the 78th minute of the game, Leverkusen conceded the goal again.

After a successful interception, Wolfburg captain Josue passed the ball to his good friend Marcelinho.

Marcelinho made another long pass, completing a large-scale transfer.

The ball flew from Wolf Castle's small penalty area to Leverkusen's small penalty area.

Chen Qing, who had been struggling for half an hour in the midfield, seemed to be an arrow away from the string, and took the lead.

Leverkusen's goalkeeper Adler was obviously closer to the ball and attacked earlier, but he failed to run past Chen Qing.

Chen Qing shot with a lob shot, and the ball flew over the goal line.

2:3

This goal made Leverkusen a little confused. They finally realized that this was not a half-court offensive and defensive drill match.
Chapter completed!