Chapter 666: Champions League, We're Back!
At the beginning of August, Bayern Munich played another warm-up game, the home team was a lower league team in the surrounding area, and the result was still a big win, but the team still allowed the opponent to score a goal and save face. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
On August 10, the first official match of the new season was finally ushered in, the first round of the German Cup, the opponent was Erfurt, a team in the third division, but this time Bayern Munich did not show mercy again, winning 7-0 away.
However, teams such as Werder Bremen and Borussia Mönchengladbach have scored more goals than Bayern Munich and stole the show.
A week after the German Cup, the first round of the Bundesliga was played.
Because it was the opening match of the Bundesliga, a brief unveiling ceremony was held at the Allianz Arena before the game.
As the best coach of the Bundesliga last season and the best player of the season, Gao Han walked into the Allianz Arena side by side with Frank Ribery, and was greeted by the 60,000 Munich fans in the stadium, especially when the team's vice-captains Lahm and Schweinsteiger walked into the stadium with the championship sand table in their hands, and walked between Gao Han and Ribery, the fans chanted for the championship.
The whole scene was extremely exciting, and everyone felt the ambition of Bayern Munich.
And in the game, Bayern Munich, who was playing at home, was also very aggressive.
It was clearly an ill-timed match for Hamburg, who had just lost two Tigers.
One is the core of the midfield, Van der Vaart, the Dutch midfielder finally chose to join Real Madrid, which made the Hamburg team a little passive and is actively looking for reinforcements in the transfer market.
The other is defender Vicente Kompany.
The Belgian central defender had a very unpleasant quarrel with the Hamburg team in order to represent the national team in the Beijing Olympics before the summer training camp, and Hamburg did not want him to go to Beijing, but he insisted on going, and the two sides had a lot of trouble over it.
Some media broke the news that many teams, including Manchester City and Chelsea, have begun to send invitations to Kompany.
But no matter what the future holds, the absence of the two tigers has made the Hamburg team's midfield very unstable.
For this game, Gao Han specially sent someone to spy on the warm-up match of the Hamburg team, and finally formulated a tactical strategy of attacking after the opening, using the home advantage to defeat Hamburg in one fell swoop.
Hamburg also apparently anticipated Bayern Munich's strategy and started the game with a defensive focus.
But as it turned out, they only lasted ten minutes.
Ten minutes later, Gao Han saw that Hamburg's defense had loosened, and immediately used the skill card, and the team attacked aggressively.
In the twelfth minute, Lahm threw a free kick, Modric won the ball on the right, got rid of the defender and picked up the penalty area, but the opposing defender Mathieson headed the header, but Schweinsteiger, who followed in the middle, volleyed directly to open the scoring for Bayern Munich.
It was also the first goal of the season in the Bundesliga.
It was a goal that ignited the frenzy at the Allianz Arena.
On the pitch, Bayern Munich continued to intensify their attack.
Soon, in the seventeenth minute, after Robben cut inside with the ball on the right side, he was pushed down by the opposing player Matthison, and the referee directly awarded a free kick and showed a yellow card.
Ribery took the free-kick but hit the wall, and Robben seized the opportunity to keep up with the previous goal and make it 2-0 for Bayern Munich.
After scoring two goals in a row, Bayern Munich slowed down their offensive but still firmly controlled the situation on the field.
Hamburg tried to fight back after stabilizing their position, but they were soon beaten back by Bayern Munich.
It was Vidal who broke the ball down the middle and handed it to Luka Modric, who tore through the Hamburg defence with a precise and straight shot, and Klose cut in and slotted home with ease, making it 3-0.
In less than half an hour, with a three-goal lead, Bayern Munich almost sealed the victory in advance.
Hamburg's Dutch head coach Martin Joel even made a crazy move, replacing a defender with a striker and switching to a back three, as if he wanted to give it a go and fight Bayern Munich to the death.
The last ten minutes of the first half between the two sides were indeed inseparable, but in the second half, Bayern Munich quickly regained control of the situation.
In the 55th minute, Schweinsteiger made a long pass, and after Ribery quickly cut into the penalty area on the left, he stopped the ball on his chest, did not wait for the ball to land, and directly volleyed with his right foot, which was saved by the opponent's goalkeeper Rost, but at the critical moment, Robben on the right side followed up and scored with his left foot to push the empty goal, 4-0.
The goal completely demoralized the Hamburg team's counterattack, and Martin Joel had to make another substitution, taking on a striker and a midfielder to further strengthen the defense.
After that, Bayern Munich did not continue to increase their attack, and the rest of the game was spent in substitutions.
In the end, the Bundesliga giants defeated Hamburg 4-0 at the Allianz Arena to win their first victory of the new season, which disappointed countless fans who were looking forward to Bayern Munich capsizing in the gutter.
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The 4-0 win on Hamburg gave Bayern Munich a full round of applause.
But it only lasted a day.
Because, in the Bundesliga schedule the next day, Hoffenheim surprised everyone and completely played the potential of a dark horse.
Rangnick's side lined up in a traditional four-four-two formation for the away game against Cottage Ivbus, with the likes of Gustavo and Baker, who were brought in this summer, all starting.
As a result, Hoffenheim won 3-0 away at Cottage with the excellent performance of two forwards.
Ibisevic scored two shots and one pass, and Demba Ba made one pass and one shot, all of which earned enough eyeballs.
If, before the game, fans were still suspicious of Hoffenheim's dark horse ingredients, then now they have been completely dispelled.
Head coach Rangnick also confidently stated in his post-match press conference that the team is not coming to the Bundesliga for relegation, but to get a better standing.
As it turns out, Hoffenheim does have such strength.
A week later, in the second round of the Bundesliga, Hoffenheim hosted Borussia Mönchengladbach.
Also promoted horses, Borussia Mönchengladbach lost 3-1 at home to Stuttgart in the first round, and they also did not dare to be careless against Hoffenheim in this round, although last season's Bundesliga, Borussia Mönchengladbach beat Hoffenheim to win the league title, but in the two-legged match against Hoffenheim, they were all behind.
A 0-0 draw at home and a 2-4 defeat away.
This time, however, they were in a hate again, with Ibisevic's 31st-minute goal helping Hoffenheim beat Borussia Mönchengladbach 1-0 to make it two wins in a row.
After two rounds of the Bundesliga in the new season, in addition to Hoffenheim, only Bayern Munich has won two consecutive victories.
The Bundesliga giants beat Borussia Dortmund 2-0 away.
This is also the second time that Gao Han has met Klopp in a month, and this time, the German young coach handed in the answer sheet to make Gao Han more satisfied, because he arranged for teenager Shahin to start in midfield, which made Dortmund's midfield look more organised.
Arjen Robben's goal at the Stade de West** took his tally to three, joint-top scorer with Hoffenheim's Ibisevic, with Franck Ribery netting the other.
Two consecutive wins to catch up with Bayern Munich, which made the promoted Hoffenheim win all the eyeballs, and even began to hype Hoffenheim's dark horse potential for fear of the world, thinking that they have the strength to subvert Gao Han and Bayern Munich.
But for such remarks, Gao Han just smiled and did not refute them.
But in his pre-match press conference at home to Hertha Berlin in the third round, he said in an interview with Bild that Hoffenheim needed consistency most and that two wins in a row would not show anything at all.
The media criticized Gao Han's comments one after another, believing that he was jealous of Hoffenheim.
But it turns out that Gao Han's judgment was right.
After two consecutive wins, Hoffenheim finally have a challenge to take on pharmaceutical company Bayer Leverkusen.
As a traditional powerhouse in the Bundesliga, Bayer Leverkusen are clearly more experienced and better, and they scored two goals in just 17 minutes at home against a menacing Hoffenheim side, teaching Hoffenheim a good lesson.
But Hoffenheim was not a fuel-efficient lamp, and Ibisevic pulled a goal back in the 20th minute to make the score 1-2, rekindling Hoffenheim's hope.
But in the 36th minute, Kiessling's goal extended the score to 3-1 again.
In the second half, Rangnick made a decisive midfield substitution to improve the offensive in the second half.
Ibisevic assisted teammate Salihovic in the 58th minute to score, 2-3.
Bayer Leverkusen coach Labadia, who was in charge of the Bundesliga last season, was very familiar with Hoffenheim and calmly made adjustments, keeping the score 3-2 until the final stages, and then suddenly making a substitution after 80 minutes.
As a result, Bayer Leverkusen scored two goals in the 83rd and 87th minutes to beat Hoffenheim 5-2.
It can be said that this game fully exposed Hoffenheim's problems and made everyone clearly see the weakness of this dark horse team.
Bayern Munich, on the other hand, won three consecutive victories by beating Hertha Berlin 4-0 at home.
At the end of this round, Bayern Munich leads the Bundesliga standings with three consecutive wins, Schalke 04, Hamburg and Borussia Dortmund all have seven points, followed by Bayer Leverkusen, Stuttgart and Hoffenheim all with six points.
Hoffenheim, in particular, fell directly from the second place in the league to the seventh place in the league, which is a bad fall.
After the third round of the Bundesliga, there will be a break due to the national team competition, but Bayern Munich did not disband, but led the team to Monaco by Gao Han to prepare for the upcoming European Super Cup.
The triple crown of the League Cup against the triple crown of the Champions Cup is undoubtedly the most exciting peak matchup of the new season.
In particular, the master-apprentice duel between Gao Han and Guardiola is even more interesting.
According to the general opinion of the European media, looking at the entire European football scene, if there is one team with the most hope of beating the alpine, it must be Pep Guardiola's Barcelona.
But ahead of the high-profile Super Cup, the annual UEFA Champions League group stage draw ceremony took place at the Grimaldi Convention Centre in Monaco.
Interestingly, because of the poor European results in the past many years, after returning to the Champions League this season, Bayern Munich only got a place in the second pot, which suddenly made the giants of the entire European football team mourn.
Everyone knows that whoever draws the cold Bayern Munich is equivalent to suicide, so the eight seeded teams in the first pot are very depressed, and no one wants to touch Bayern Munich.
Also drawn in the second pot of the team is Real Madrid, this giant team is also a continuous European disadvantage, stopping in the round of 16 every year, and was finally squeezed out of the first pot by Lyon in Ligue 1.
So, ahead of the Champions League group stage draw, the Death Pack is a shadow over the heads of all the first-seeded teams.
On the contrary, when the team arrived in Monaco, he gave an interview to UEFA officials according to the process, and said with a smile that he didn't mind drawing any team.
'I'm sure there shouldn't be any team that wants to be in the same group as us, I'm proud of that and my players, but I still want to say, Champions League, we're back!'