For a full five minutes, the Kaiserslautern players seemed unable to snap out of it.
They were like zombies on the pitch.
They ran after the football, but they didn't actively anticipate or predict anything.
It wasn't that they couldn't, but rather they had no motivation left.
When a person suddenly loses hope and spirit, that kind of dejection is difficult to reverse by human effort.
The Kaiserslautern players needed time to digest all this.
It might be an off-season summer break, or it could be three to five matches.
But it certainly wasn't something they could get over in thirty to fifty minutes, or even three to five minutes.
The match began in the ninth minute.
Feeling no pressure, Pepe passed the football from the center to Deng Kai on the right flank.
But the problem was that Deng Kai's position was already very deep, and he was close to two Kaiserslautern players.
Such a pass carried a certain threat, but it also tested the ball handler's ability to deal with it.