This warm-up match against the Czech team looks more like a match between the two teams who are examining the substitute lineup.

The main players of the Czech team are similar to those of the German team, and they all play in mainstream European leagues, which makes them also suffer from the situation where many main players are unable to participate in the national team training camp, and both sides are also inspecting the substitute lineup.

Among the 11 players in the starting lineup of Yang Cheng in this game, there was not a single main player, and the captain's armband was also worn on midfielder Khedira. It is conceivable how strong Yang Cheng's adjustment and reform are.

But it is precisely because of the strong reform efforts that the German team encountered huge difficulties in the game against the Czech Republic, especially the young players, who obviously lacked enough tacit understanding and cooperation, were directly curbed by the Czech Republic and eventually lost the game 0:2 in Prague.

Although he lost the warm-up match, Yang Cheng repeatedly stated in an interview with the media after the game that he wanted to observe the players more in this game, and many of the players fully demonstrated their abilities in the game.

"Win and lose are another matter. I am very happy to see the gratifying changes the players have shown in the game. Many young players have performed hard and good. I am satisfied with this and I believe they have the ability to continue to stay in this national team."

Losing this game did not have any impact on the German team and Yang Cheng, because everyone knew that this was a game to examine new players. Look at the players in the game, Afodigaki was only 17 years old, but was still sent by Yang Cheng in the second half. It can be imagined that this game was purely a playful and veritable friendly match.

In contrast, although the Czech team has many main players, the players are basically mature. They are all mature stars who have been practicing in the European League for many years. Compared with the group of young boy scouts of the German team, they only got 2 goals ahead, which is not a glorious thing.

At least the head coach of the Czech team repeatedly emphasized after the game that he was not satisfied with the team's performance, and believed that he wasted too many opportunities and failed to create more absolute scoring opportunities. Because in his opinion, the Czech substitute team played against the German youth team and won 2 goals. Is it glorious?

After returning to Germany from Prague, the new national team training camp after the Federation Cup was officially disbanded. After a week of training camp, the players returned to the club and began to devote themselves to the league preparations for the new season. Yang Cheng and the coaching staff also began to prepare for the September roster and announced it to the public two days later.

The new German national team list is divided into two parts. One is the regular roster of 23 people.

The goalkeepers are Neuer, Adler and Zielle; the defenders are Ram, Jerome Boateng, Hevedes, Badstuber, Hummels, Mertesacker and Schmeltzer; the midfielders are Sven Bend, Lars Bend, Gotze, Khedira, Tony Klos, Thomas Muller, Ozil, Schweinsteiger, Reus, Podolski and Scherle; the forwards are Klose and Gomez.

This is also the regular roster of the German national team, and it does not seem to be at all different from the roster during the Federation Cup. Yang Cheng also knew that this should be the strongest roster lineup that Germany can form at present.

But this time, in addition to the regular list, Yang Cheng added an additional 7 people to the list.

The seven people who were lucky enough to follow the national team for training are Samed Yehill, Gundogan, Draxler, Kacao, Kevin Walland, Lewis Holtby and Emrekan.

The above are all old acquaintances, and many people are not unfamiliar with them. Lewis Holtby is a midfielder with good skills. He is a typical Bundesliga player who passes, cuts, and runs. His advantages and disadvantages are also obvious. In the midfielder position, he already has outstanding stars such as Ozil, Tony Klos, and Gotze. Holtby cannot shake their position for the time being, but he also has a big advantage, at the age of 22.

Emre Kan is a Turkish descendant. When he was competing with Turkey for Yeshir, the player was also the target of the Turks' focus, but Emre Kan was always unmoved and said that he only hoped to play for the German team.

He is the captain of the German youth team and an organizational midfielder. However, he has good defense and running abilities, and his skills and passing are also very distinctive. He is the midfield engine of the German youth team. He has made a name for himself in Bayern Munich and is known as the ideal successor after Schweinsteiger.

Moreover, this player has good physical fitness, high-level defense and positional sense. The key is that he can also play in the central defender. He is the type that Yang Cheng likes at first sight. He also played for a while in the warm-up match with the Czech team and performed well, so Yang Cheng stayed in the team.

At the press conference to announce the national team training roster, Yang Cheng did not conceal his focus on adjusting the national team in the future, and he also put forward higher requirements for Gomez.

"I know that Bayern Munich's forward competition is very fierce, and I also know that Gomez's ability is not a problem, but I think that any player who wants to enter the national team must have enough games to prove himself and ensure his condition so that he has the opportunity to play better in the national team."

"Gomez is an excellent striker, and I firmly believe he can prove himself again at Bayern!"

Since losing the main position last season, Gomez's performance this season is still lukewarm. He doesn't seem to have the ambition and ambition to swear to regain the main position, which makes Yang Cheng not satisfied with his attitude.

One of the important reasons for this situation is that everyone thinks that Gomez is Klose's natural successor. They all think that Klose is so old. Once retired, Gomez will be the front line of the German national team in the next ten years, but Yang Cheng is not going to give him such imagination.

"We should see that in the current Bundesliga, a group of outstanding strikers have emerged, such as Samed Yehill, Kevin Walland and Kacao, who have performed well after the start of this season. I think they have performed well and meet the current national team's requirements."

"I will consider appropriately in the next training camp and competition to allow more new players to appear in the national team's lineup. My criteria for selecting players have never been based on the hype remarks of the media, nor have they never been based on the voices and ideas of the fans. I am the head coach of the national team. I want to be responsible for this team, for the Football Association, and for all fans who love German football!"

"No one, no matter who he is, can always ensure his position as the main player of this national team!"

Yang Cheng's words were considered to be a final warning to Gomez, reminding the forward that he should chase him. At least he should show the sharpness that a killer and forward should have, rather than being willing to be on the bench. That is definitely not what any head coach would like to see.

With the announcement of Yang Cheng's roster and his remarks, the new round of forward competition for the national team has also rekindled the flames. Many forwards, including Kislin and Helmers, have left the national team for a long time. However, forwards who have always maintained good goal efficiency in the Bundesliga have expressed that they hope to return to the national team.

Just kidding. In the past two years, the German national team has achieved great harvests, winning the European Cup and Federation Cup one after another. It is the most competitive team in the Brazil World Cup next year. Who doesn’t want to have the opportunity to play in such a team and have the opportunity to use the national team platform to get involved in the coveted World Cup?

The spokesperson of the national team responded to the hot media, saying that Yang Cheng welcomed any forward to enter the national team. He would continue to inspect every player. As long as he was suitable and outstanding, he would have the opportunity to enter the national team.

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September 5, Kelslautern, Germany, Fritz Walter Stadium

We welcomed our old opponent Austria. This time, the German team took advantage of the home court and did not be polite to Austria.

Yang Cheng arranged the main lineup in this game, with goalkeepers Neuer, defense lines being Ram, Badstuber, Hummels, Jerome Boateng, the midfield double midfielder Schweinsteiger, Sven Bend, attacking forwards being Scherle, Ozil and Reus, and single forward Klose.

After a week of training, the German team put strong offensive pressure on Austria from the beginning at its home court, especially in this game, which replaced Thomas Mueller, who was injured in training, and started with all his strength.

In the 21st minute of the game, Schurle cooperated with Ram on the left. After getting the ball, the latter broke through the opponent's defense line and passed the back point. Reus inserted and pushed the ball into the goal, scoring the first record for the German team!

Afterwards, Austria began to enter the defensive state, and both sides kept the score at 1:0 and entered the intermission.

After the second half of the game, the German team once again sounded the horn of the offensive.

Less than a minute after the whistle rang, Ozil passed the ball to the right in the middle, and Reus dribbled the ball and drove straight in, assisting Klose to help the German team change the score to 2:0 in the 46th minute!

The successive goals made the German team seem unstoppable, especially the two sides seemed impactful. Shurle and Reus frequently created threats on both wings, tearing open Austria's defense and creating opportunities for Klose in the middle.

In the 67th minute, Badstuber crossed over and found Xuerle. The latter made a cross from the bottom line. Kloze, who was surrounded in the middle, rushed to the horse and headed the ball to push Xuerle's cross into Austria's goal, 3:0!

After ensuring the victory, Yang Cheng made a substitution adjustment. He tried to let Podolsky play the forward, and then used Lars Bend and Tony Close to go up and play the 433 tactics to see if the appropriate changes can be made.

In the end, the effect of changing the lineup was not very ideal. The German team fell into a chaotic offensive stage. If the defense was not guaranteed by stable defense, it might have been sneaked up by Austria to score a goal.

In this way, the German team defeated Austria 3-0 in Kaiserslautern, winning seven consecutive wins in the European regional qualifiers in the World Cup perimeter. With three rounds left in the group stage, the German team can almost be said to have secured the first place in the group.

There are some praises and criticisms about Yang Cheng's adjustments in the last moment of this game, but it is generally believed that Podolski is not suitable for playing single forwards. Yang Cheng should consider letting Gomez play. At least as a striker, the latter is more suitable for being single forward than Podolski. And it is also more impactful.

But Yang Cheng was obviously not ready to compromise. During the training camp, he had an exchange with Gomez. The player Gomez was very humble. Yang Cheng never denies this. He also knew that Gomez was a very professional player, but now he needed Gomez to show his domineering and unyielding tough personality to compete for a main position.

Yang Cheng could not imagine that the forward whom he had high expectations would be difficult to play in the club. It would be a terrible tragedy. Especially when he was only 29 years old, he began to be willing to be substituted?

Four days later, the team went away to face the Faroe Islands. Gomez was not seen in Yang Cheng's starting lineup. Even Yang Cheng would rather continue to debug his own strikeless tactics than give Gomez a chance without being prepared to play Klose.

Goalkeeper Neuer, on the defense, are Schmelzer, Badstuber, Hummels and Ram. The midfielders are Sven Bend, Schweinsteiger and Tony Klos, and Thomas Muller, Ozil and Reus are in front. Thomas Muller and Reus are at the front, while Ozil frequently retreats to get the ball to support him.

Facing the Faroe Islands, the German team's strikeless tactic showed an unparalleled offensive power. The team directly broke through the goal of the Faroe Islands in the third minute. After that, the German team did not leave any face to the Faroe Islands away, but did their best to play a round of offensive frenzy.

Thomas Muller and Reus both scored twice, Ozil and Tony Close each scored one goal. The German team slammed the Faroe Islands 6:0 away, winning the eight-game winning streak in the group with a huge lead, and at the same time qualifying from the group in advance, winning the title of first place in the group.

This also made the German team the first team to stand out in Europe in this World Cup, even earlier than Spain. What is even more rare is that the German team's performance in the qualifiers is convincing. Not to mention the 8 consecutive wins, it is the team with the strongest offensive ability and the best defensive ability in the qualifiers.

The outstanding performance has brought overwhelming praise to the German team. Multimedia has praised Yang Cheng's team, believing that he has found the key to open the door to victory for the German team, believing that he has built a complete offensive and defensive system for the German team.

Yang Cheng did not hide his satisfaction with the team's outstanding performance.

"I am proud of the performance of the players. They are all very outstanding players and have made great contributions to the team. Many of them are indispensable members of the team. I firmly believe that as long as all of us work together, our team will definitely get better and better."

As for the team's spiritual changes, Yang Cheng thinks that the biggest thing is self-confidence.

"Graduated the European Cup and the Federation Cup has brought about a very gratifying change in our team's mental outlook. The players have become more confident and more patient. Even when they encounter difficulties, they have enough confidence to believe that they and their teammates will be able to overcome difficulties and perform better. This is very important for a team."

However, when everything the team performed well, Gomez seemed to be a big problem for the German team, because as the media hailed as the German striker in the next few years, he failed to get even one-minute chance in these two rounds of qualifiers.

"I talked to Gomez, and I think he should be more proactive. He should show convincing appearance time to prove himself, but more importantly, he should give people a view that he has the ambition and fighting spirit to change the status quo!"

"I believe that no head coach can accept that his striker lacks fighting spirit and unstoppable spirit, but I have not seen this in Gomez. I think it is necessary for him to regain his ambitions and prove with facts that he is still the best striker in German football!"

From this interview, what the media interpreted is that Yang Cheng’s regret for Gomez is not strong.

Perhaps it was because he had been sitting on the bench for a long time that he had worn off some of his ambitions and ambitions, which made Gomez feel a little at ease with the status quo, but the striker that Yang Cheng wanted was not like this, so Gomez's changes were somewhat deviated from the head coach's expectations, and it was not difficult to understand that he was placed on the bench.

After being criticized by Yang Cheng, Gomez said in an interview with the media that he would try to regain his state and regain his confidence and fighting spirit. "Do more and say less, this is my creed. I hope the best Gomez can come back in the shortest time!"

But Yang Cheng seemed to be dissatisfied with Gomez's progress. When announcing the October national team training roster at the end of September, he even forced Gomez to directly exclude him from the 23-man roster and the 7-man substitute list, and replaced him. Leverkusen's young player Samed Yehill was included in the 23-man roster.

Yang Cheng did not give any answer to why Gomez was abandoned, but everyone could see that this was Yang Cheng's step-by-step pressing against Gomez. He would at least make the Bayern striker explode in such a desperate situation.

Of course, if Gomez can even accept leaving the national team, there is nothing he can do. There is a saying that is right and the mud cannot support the wall. Then Yang Cheng will be forced to give up and let him die on Bayern's bench.

After all, he is the head coach of the national team, and what he needs and chooses are the kind of players he can fight when he comes.
Chapter completed!