In the away locker room at Fritz-Walter-Stadion, Bayern players looked like they were full of complaints and grievances, speaking one after another, making the locker room as lively as the vegetable market two streets away from Ottmar Hitzfeld.

  The players' complaints were nothing more than focusing on Kaiserslautern's first goal in the game and their passiveness after the opening, they didn't dare to complain about his tactics in front of the head coach, so they all complained about the performance of a certain teammate in German.

  Trapatonni and his assistants stood silently in a corner of the locker room, although this was his second season coaching Bayern, his German was still very poor, like some dialects spoken by players, he couldn't understand at all, even many German words he only knew how to say but not understand.

  In the eyes of Bayern's big-name stars, Kaiserslautern's outstanding performance was not because their players were stronger than Bayern's, but because Bayern made mistakes and some of their own players were too bad, which led to Kaiserslautern's excellent play.

  The first to bear the brunt was naturally the captain Matth?us's mistake, but most of the players in the team did not dare to criticize the captain, only big names like Klinsmann dared to directly comment on Matth?us's mistake.

  "That was an absolutely stupid, low-level mistake!" After some attempted whitewashing, Klinsmann bluntly pointed out Matth?us' error and even took the opportunity to mock Bayern's captain.

  The discord between the two is no longer a strange phenomenon, and most teammates have maintained a rational neutrality. However, as soon as Klinsmann's words came out, they immediately enraged Matth?us, who was already in a terrible mood.

  The latter sprang up from his seat like a mad lion and rushed to Klinsmann's face, shouting: "What did you say?"

  Klinsmann held a bottle of water and sneered, "Isn't it?"

  "You dare say that again!" Mateus felt his authority as captain being challenged.

  "Come on, captain, don't get angry. I'm telling the truth. You made a fool of yourself in front of that young kid from Kaiserslautern. That was an elementary mistake."

  Matthaeus was so angry that he clenched his teeth, and if it weren't for the teammates around him holding him back tightly, he would have rushed up to beat Klinsmann. How could this guy scold himself in front of his teammates?

  But Klinsmann was still indignant, pointing at Matth?us and shouting: "I'm telling you, it's me and everyone else who saved you. If we hadn't scored that equalizing goal in the last minute, what would have happened? We'd be down 1-0 now, how would we play the second half? How would we play this game?"

  "Hey, you may be the captain, but you made a mistake, and we can point it out just like you can. You should have the tolerance to accept it humbly. And if one day I make the same mistake, you can scold me in the same way!" Klinsmann said with a hint of schadenfreude.

  "And don't worry, I'll definitely score more than 15 goals this season! You can go ahead and donate that 10,000 marks to Africa!" Klinsmann said, not forgetting to further provoke his teammate as he saw Matthaus getting furious.

  He is almost 36 years old, but he still feels dissatisfied with the captain's armband of Bayern. He thinks that as the current captain of the German national team, he should be the number one star in Bayern and does not need to be under Matthias' command.

  The contradictions between the two have been going on for a long time, dating back to the three-horse carriage era when Matthias and Bremer were both Germans of similar age and had similar personalities, so they got along better. Klinnsman was a bit self-centered, after all, he was a former striker, which made him feel that he was being squeezed out by his two compatriots, so the three of them were not on good terms.

  In 1994, German national coach Vogts blamed Matth?us for the team's failure in the World Cup and refused to select him for Euro '96. Instead, he appointed Klinsmann as captain of the national team.

  For this, Matth?us was furious and suspected that Klinsmann was behind it all, as the latter had repeatedly urged Vogts to strip him of his captaincy in public and private, but had never succeeded. This time, Matth?us naturally thought that Klinsmann was at work again.

  Two superstars quarreled over the captaincy of the national team, and now it is rumored that Klinsmann has been inciting players including Helmer, Babbel and Kahn to overthrow Matthaus as Bayern's captain. Meanwhile, Klinsmann publicly blasted Matthaus and Bayern manager Hoeness, betting 10,000 marks that he would not score 15 goals in a single season.

  In short, the grudges between two of Germany's top stars are not something that can be resolved overnight. Their discord is well-known to all, so even someone as powerful as Hoeness couldn't do anything about it, and was even forced out by them, ending up leaving Bayern in a sorry state midway through his tenure. As for outsiders like Trapattoni, they don't even stand a chance.

  When Matth?us and Klinsmann were staring at each other in anger, Trapattoni, who should have come forward to mediate, chose to ignore them. He stood with his assistant in a corner of the locker room, visibly angry but not speaking out, silently standing in the corner.

  It's obvious that he is for the game, because he is very clear that as long as he shows up at this time, no matter who he helps, he will offend the other in the end. If he doesn't take sides and doesn't help anyone, it's even worse, offending both sides.

  That's why he chose not to show up, let them make a fuss if they want to, as long as they defeat their opponents on the field!

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  The outside world can't possibly know what happened in the Bayern dressing room, but after the second half kicked off and players from both sides returned to the field one by one, Bayern's players seemed to have regained their calmness and rationality. At least on TV, they all looked confident about the game.

  Yang Chen watched as Bayern's stars passed by his side one by one, he was very clear that these guys were absolutely not to be trifled with, any one of them could swallow Kaiserslautern whole, especially after they had just managed to tie the score in the first half.

  "They will definitely avoid making the same mistakes in the second half, Trapattoni will surely launch an aggressive attack after the kick-off, we need to stabilize our defense first and then slowly counterattack!" Yang Cheng said with some reluctance.

  He prefers an active and aggressive attacking tactic, but that depends on who the opponent is. If Kaiserslautern were to recklessly go head-to-head with a giant like Bayern, it would undoubtedly end in tragedy.

  The initiative in the first half was based on Trapattoni's conservative foundation, but the second half will be different, the Italians will certainly want to take down this game as soon as possible.