Chapter 168 The beginning of the new season - League Cup
"Sao Paulo's goal is aimed directly at the League Cup champion! Zhen Shaolong's goal is aimed directly at the Bundesliga scorer king!"
"Zhen Shaolong: I want to keep improving. The Bundesliga Scorer King is just a small goal!"
"St. Pauli's League Cup and Scorer King!"
"Sao Pauli has fantasies about the new season..."
"We should not criticize a 19-year-old player's great dream, but perhaps the first thing he needs to do is to adapt to the fierce competitive environment in the Bundesliga."
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On the night of the open training match, the media couldn't wait to send out various reports, which were naturally targeted at two o'clock. One was St. Pauli's banner hanging a "Target League Cup Champion", and the other was the "Shooter King Xiao Target" ordered by Zhen Shaolong. Of course, there were also a few players who were wearing training suits with championship publicity and sweating on the court.
There are two accents in the media -
One is a joke with a positive meaning. They are all used to St. Pauli's style, but encourage St. Pauli's "ambition" and then report in a teasing tone, obviously not taking the content seriously.
The other is criticism and irony.
This part of the media can be said to be the hostile media of St. Pauli.
They are very resistant to St. Pauli's style and criticize St. Pauli for ruining the German football atmosphere. The promoted team should steadily aim to relegate. Talking about the League Cup championship is completely a sensationalist, deliberately creating gimmicks to achieve the purpose of publicity.
To some extent, when the media continues to make critical reports, St. Pauli's purpose has been achieved.
Zhen Shaolong also became the target of criticism.
But at the same time, many media believe that the reason why Zhen Shaolong talked about "the Bundesliga scorer king is a small goal" is entirely to match the club to set the League Cup championship as a big goal.
Those fans who support Zhen Shaolong also quickly evolved into rehabilitation navy forces-
"This must be because of St. Pauli! Zhen is usually very low-key and usually refuses interviews!"
"Sao Pauli wanted to do publicity, but Zhen Shaolong was sacrificed."
"As a St. Pauli player, Zhen Shaolong has no choice. He can't go against the team's atmosphere!"
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While the media is constantly reporting, a series of new season previews are also being conducted, and the strength analysis of each team is a normal new season preview. Even Zhen Shaolong was attracted to the prediction of the new season scorer list.
"Kicker", the most influential German football world, made a prediction on the scorer list for the new season-
The most anticipated striker in the Bundesliga is undoubtedly Werder Bremen's Klose. Kruze is the Bundesliga scorer last season and won the World Cup Golden Boot with five goals. Such a crazy performance also made Kruze very popular for a while.
"With Kruze's stable performance, he may become the shooter king in the new season!"
The second expected striker is Kuranyi, who plays for Schalke 04. Kuranyi became famous in Stuttgart and has always had excellent goal efficiency. After joining Schalke 04, he became one of the most stable local scorers with the efficiency of scoring one goal in two games.
"Kurany may be difficult to get an explosion, but his stable efficiency is enough to ensure a good number of goals."
Next, it is Bayern Munich's Roy Makai and Pizarro. As the main striker of the giant Bayern Munich, there is no need to doubt its strength. Makai has always been the most efficient shooter. Pizarro's skills are quite outstanding and are highly anticipated by fans.
Then, Pantlic of Hertha Berlin.
Kakao in Stuttgart.
Hunter of Werder Bremen.
Zidan of Mainz.
...
Following the list, he continued to pull down and then down. Finally, at the 26th place, he finally saw the name of "Zhen Shaolong". In a comment, he said, "As an efficient Bundesliga scorer, it is still unknown whether the Chinese young player can adapt to the Bundesliga. If he can adapt quickly, he might have performed well..."
The comments on "Kicker" didn't say anything bad, but Zhen Shaolong still felt very upset when he saw that he ranked 26th.
Other teammates also saw the report.
Luz Felix's views were completely different. He said with a little enviousness, "You're actually on the list."
This is a comfort!
"Kickers" commented on thirty strikers, but there are 18 teams in the Bundesliga, with one team having two forwards on average and six more players. It is obvious that as another striker of the newly promoted team, Luz was unfortunately ignored.
Cruze was not interested in this, but he said another thing, "Zhen, do you remember? That football game has been updated, St. Pauli has been upgraded to the Bundesliga, and you and I have a character model."
Zhen Shaolong immediately became concerned about the game.
In his free time during training, Cruze opened the game and checked out the characters in St. Pauli. Zhen Shaolong is a newly added player, wearing the No. 13 jersey just like reality.
After opening the character attributes, it is a bit unpleasant.
Among Zhen Shaolong's character attributes, shooting is the only highlight, reaching the red 94 points, surpassing most players and reaching the top level in the world, but other data are a bit bleak.
The speed of the ball, the dribble, the set ball, and the green values are all white. In the defense-related data, there are attributes with a low value of 31.
With such bleak comprehensive data, the characters are definitely not very popular, and it is difficult to perform well in the game. When Kruze plays a stand-alone game, he doesn't want to arrange for Zhen Shaolong to start.
"You can't score at all when you come on the court!"
Zhen Shaolong looked at him with a dark face. He found that not only the media despised him, but only the game despised him, "What a broken game! Is it? How come my attribute data is so bad!"
He was a little depressed.
In fact, it’s not just the game, but some newcomers in the team are not optimistic about Zhen Shaolong, because his performance in daily training can only be considered very average, and it’s good to be able to catch up with the average level.
The only point of protrusion is shooting.
Zhen Shaolong's accurate shooting is recognized as the best in the team, but other aspects, such as confrontation, tactical ability, running position, etc., are not very good. The team recognizes that he is the main striker, but some new players in the team do not think he can perform in the Bundesliga.
In many unsupportant environments, Zhen Shaolong just kept training in a low-key manner.
train.
Write a reply.
Before the first round of the new season officially started, Zhen Shaolong only did these two things. For training, what he paid the most was running position. If he wanted to perform well on the field, relying on skills alone was not enough, and his own strength must be strong. The ability of "Calibration" is an all-round improvement in shooting.
As long as you can run well, you will find opportunities easily.
"Calibration" can continue to show its strength and continue to score goals. When other aspects are difficult to improve, the running position will undoubtedly become the most important one.
Zhen Shaolong is also constantly conducting set-piece training, and finding opportunities for free kicks to score directly is also a means.
He knew his talent was average.
It is almost impossible to train a variety of set pieces. Even very talented players have to make progress in their technical aspects step by step, so Zhen Shaolong only practices one type of game.
Leaf balls!
After several months of practice, his progress in kicking the fallen leaf ball was obvious.
In the past, I only had three or four successful kicks for the fallen leaf balls, but now my success rate has increased to six or seven times. Then, with the help of "Calibration", the number of times I can get the ball to the exact position is as high as three or four times.
This efficiency is no longer low.
Zhen Shaolong was still not very satisfied and felt that he had to persist in practicing and strive to further improve his efficiency in order to truly become an important method of making a goal.
In addition, it is just a reply.
Since the plan to write a reply to fans, Zhen Shaolong has been insisting on writing ten reply letters every day. When he is more energetic, he will write a few more. Until now, the progress of skill acquisition tasks has also increased to a certain level.
8688/10000.
Although the distance is still a little worse, the gap is not too big. As long as you insist on writing a reply, according to the normal speed, it is enough to complete the task before September.
Then you will be able to obtain a new skill - "Golden Body".
"It's really worth looking forward to!"
As preparations for training continued to unfold, Saint-Paul also experienced a warm-up match in the middle, with his opponent last season's rival Aachen.
Aachen is unlucky enough.
Last season, Aachen continued to rank in the top two in the league, surpassing Bochum for a period of time and ranked first in the Bundesliga, but was surpassed by Saint Pauli in the last round of the league. Then, in the last round of the league, he encountered the tenacious Salbrücken, and Aachen still lost the game.
Cottbus came from behind, with the third place in the Aachen League, and won the upgrade match and successfully qualified for the Bundesliga.
As the fourth in the league, Aachen can only continue to work hard.
Aachen failed to qualify for upgrade, but its strength is still very strong. They continue to strengthen their strength and hope to successfully upgrade this season. They also played very hard in the warm-up match against Sao Pauli, and even led Sao Pauli 2-0 for the whole half.
But Zhen Shaolong showed his power in the second half.
Fighting for points in the penalty area, shot directly from the right side. Zhen Shaolong scored two consecutive goals in five minutes, helping St. Pauli tie the score. Then Hinkel assisted forward to help Boer find an opportunity and help the team overtake the score with a strong shot.
In the end, the two sides fought 3 to 2.
Saint-Paul won the warm-up match, but failed to bring any positive impact. During the game, the media found that Saint-Paul's strength was hard to say that it had made any real progress. Aachen is just a German second team. Even the top German second team is still not out of the German second team.
Both Saint-Paul and Aachen have played so hard, it is really hard to expect any performance they can perform in the Bundesliga.
Time is coming to the end of July.
Chapter completed!