Sports Weekly all-media reporter Huang Sijun
Is It true that Borussia Mönchengladbach will only eat and sleep to play Bayern, other games? Lose though! After a 2-1 away win over Bayern in the opening game of the new year and a season double against the Bundesliga banba (two wins and one draw in total), Hüttle's side immediately lost 1-2 at home to Bayer Leverkusen in the Rhine derby last Saturday night, and also lost after goalkeeper Zome saved two penalties and the opponent's expected goal value was as high as 6.2.
At just 19 years old, Beyer scored twice, leading Hannover to knock out Borussia Moncheng.
By Wednesday night, Hannover 96, who was 12th in the Bundesliga in the 1/8 final of the German Cup, the "Foal" currently ranked 12th in the Bundesliga has swallowed 3 eggs and lost to the end, and marvin Friedrich, who joined the Berlin Union only a week ago, has sent points in two consecutive games. Is Hüttle the right person to lead the rebuilding of the team? The question mark is getting bigger and bigger.
19-year-old rising star 2 goals 1 point
Like Borussia Dortmund, who were eliminated by Bundesliga leader St. Pauli a day earlier, Borussia Borussia Borussia Moncheng also lost less than four minutes into the opening. 19-year-old striker Maximilian Bayer received Weidant's diagonal thrust and counter-offside inserted into the right rib of the penalty area to face Zomer's right foot and shoot into the net. Beyer's performance began. In the 34th minute, Beyer defended the two men on the right side of the penalty area and his left-footed shot was blocked by Marvin Friedrich in front of him. Prompted by VAR, referee Bad Stibner checked the video and found that the ball hit Friedrich's open right arm, so he decided to make up for the penalty, and Krk changed the score to 2-0.
Friedrich joined Borussia Möncheng and gave a penalty in two consecutive games.
In the last game against Bayer Leverkusen, Friedrich, who started with Günster immediately after joining Borussia Möncheng, pressed for a foul on Bella Rabi in the penalty area. Although Hick's penalty was saved by Zome, Bayer Leverkusen used this corner kick to open the scoring with Andreich. Then, in the free-kick defense, Friedrich blocked Hick's header into his own goal, which was half a oolong, and the debut was like a nightmare. Unexpectedly, this game and Genter started, Friedrich is still so unlucky.
Yi Bian fought again, and it was still Bayer who dominated the game. He received a clever pass from Miner in the 51st minute to form a half-court counter-offside, single-handedly slashing all the way to the front of the small penalty area to face Zommer's right foot outside the instep of the goal. After an hour of playing, Bayer even nearly scored a hat-trick, taking advantage of the opportunity of a corner kick to hit the right post.
Ziller returned to the national level
Without a doubt, it was Bayer's best match since joining Hannover. Born in Brandenburg am Havre, brandenburg, the lean striker spent three years in Academy training at Cottbus before moving to Hoffenheim in 2018. In the 2019/20 season, he made his Bundesliga debut off the bench against Freiburg at just 17 years, 3 months and 22 days, making him the youngest player in the history of the team. The following season, Bayer scored twice in the Europa League group stage at home against Ghent, plus an assist.
Bayer single-handedly faced Zomer twice.
With Hoffenheim struggling to get plenty of playing opportunities (playing just nine Bundesliga games), the Germany U20 international went on loan to Hannover after the season began. In the last round of home 3-0 elimination of fellow Dusseldorf, Bayer had a brilliant performance of 2 goals and 1 assist, and both goals were completed in stoppage time. Even more coincidentally, another goal scorer at the time was also a set-piece specialist Krk. Bayer is also currently leading the german Cup top scorers list with Haaland (Borussia Dortmund), Shubo Motin (Bayern) and Pantovich (Bochum) with four goals.
However, in the Bundesliga, Bayer has scored only one goal in 16 appearances so far this season. And Hannover is also the weakest attacking team in the Bundesliga, scoring only 15 goals in 19 rounds (the same as Ingolstadt at the bottom) and only 3 goals in 1 game (3-0 Holstein kiel in the 7th round), which further highlights Borussia Moncheng's embarrassment.
The 32-year-old Ziller has returned to his original German style.
Hannover was able to beat Borussia Moncheng, not only by relying on Bayer's efficient play on the offensive end, but also thanks to the water-free work of Germany's former international Ziller. The 2014 World Cup winner used both hands and feet to defuse the threatening shots of Neuhaus, Pleya, Zakaria and others in the penalty area, making All 17 shots of Borussia Monchengung nullified. What's even more remarkable is that it is only the second game after 13 weeks of injury suspension, so he is quite satisfied with his performance, "Of course, I am also happy with my performance, but more importantly, we have qualified, and everything is possible." This is the first time the 32-year-old Ziller has reached the quarter-finals of the German Cup, and his best result in his first time for Hanover or for Stuttgart and Cologne is only in the quarterfinals.
Hannover were the only Bundesliga team in the history of the German Cup to win the title, and they accomplished this feat in 1991/92. Who was the final opponent at the time? It was Borussia Moncheng! The two sides still exchanged blanks after 120 minutes of fierce fighting, and Hannover won 4-3 with penalties from each other. Coincidentally, Danish defender Schyongberg, who scored the last penalty at the time, celebrated his 55th birthday on the day he beat Borussia Moncheng again in Hannover. In the first round of the 1997/98 DFB-Pokal, Hannover, who had fallen to the regional league (Tier 3), once again beat Borussia Monchenging with a penalty shoot-out. The last 3 times they have faced Borussia Borussia Moncheng in the DFB-Pokal, Hannover have been the winners of each. If Borussia Moncheng is recognized as Bayern's nemesis, then Hannover can also be regarded as Borussia Moncheng's cup nemesis.
Borussia Moncheng's defeat "incomprehensible"
Borussia Moncheng thought that he had eliminated Bayern 5-0 in the last round, and his nemesis Dortmund would become the DFB-pokal hit after his upset exit in this round, but he did not expect to exacerbate the crisis of the season in such a humiliating way. Captain Stender said after the game that "we didn't have the energy and intensity on the pitch, we didn't even get close to the opponent, we just ran forward occasionally, we didn't participate in the confrontation at all, we ran back and someone made the wrong decision in the process of conceding the ball." This happens all the time, and it's not a problem. But this has continued throughout the year, not on an isolated basis, but every week. The captain's statement will undoubtedly embarrass the Austrian godhead Schüter, who has been unable to solve the problem for a long time.
Borussia Mönchenglader captain Stindall expressed incomprehension of the team's continued slump.
In addition to continuing the old problems that began at the beginning of last year, Steendel also admitted that the team made a mistake of light-heartedness, "We ignored our situation and came here with joy after watching yesterday's (St. Pauli's 2-1 elimination of Dortmund)." As a result, Borussia Moncheng repeated the mistakes of a day ago, and even lost worse.
Counting the penalties from each other to eliminate Hamburg in Cologne, the Bundesliga team completed the "three kills" against the Bundesliga team in the 1/8 final of the German Cup. Only the Leipzig RB saved a bit of face for the Bundesliga, knocking back promoted Mahansa Rostock 2-0 at home, but the process was not so easy. In Wednesday night's two Bundesliga civil and regional derbys, Hoffenheim lost 4-1 at home to Freiburg, two defensive main defenders Flecken and Niko Schlotterbeck, and the Berlin Union eliminated Hertha 3-2 at the German Cup final venue, the Olympic Stadium in Berlin.
Fogel Summer scored brilliantly to open the scoring as the Berlin Union eliminated Hertha 3-2 in the city derby.
The DFB-Pokal quarterfinals were released, with the Bundesliga (Bochum, Leipzig, Freiburg, Union Berlin) and bundescap (Karlsruhe, Hamburg, St. Pauli, Hanover) occupying 4 seats each, and none of the 4 Bundesliga teams had a Record of winning the German Cup (Bochum, the Berlin Union and Leipzig reached the final five times in total, but all were runners-up), but Hamburg (3 crowns), Karlsruhe (2 crowns) and Hanover (1 crown) were the former champions.
The draw ceremony for the quarter-finals will take place on 30 January at the German Football Museum in Borussia Dortmund, while the four quarter-finals will take place on 1 and 2 March. Will this year's German Cup produce a new title, or will there be another Bundesliga team winning? We'll see.
List of results of the DFB-Pokal quarter-finals:
Munich 1860 (C) 0-1 Karlsruhe (B)
Cologne home penalty 3-4 Hamburg (B)
St. Pauli (B) 2-1 at home to Borussia Dortmund
Bochum is 3-1 at home to Mainz 05
Hannover 96 (B) 3-0 at home to Borussia Mönchengladbach
Leipzig RB 2-0 Lufthansa Rostock (B)
Hoffenheim 1-4 at home to Freiburg
Hertha Berlin 2-3 at home to the Berlin Union