Prior to the start of the league season, Bochum played four friendlies, a 1-1 draw with Hoffenheim, a 2-1 win over Bayer Leverkusen, a 3-1 defeat to Borussia Mönchengladbach and a 3-3 draw with Borussia Dortmund.

Judging from the performances in these warm-up games, the team has maintained good form, although the results are not very good, and that is due to the frequent substitutions caused by Neururell testing the condition of the players.

At 8:30 p.m. on January 24, 2014, the first match of the Bundesliga season was played between Borussia Mönchengladbach and Bayern Munich, and finally Bayern Munich won 2-0 away to Borussia Mönchengladbach, maintaining their unbeaten record in the season.

The next day, at 3:30 p.m. on the 25th, Bochum will play Nuremberg away.

Nuremberg set an embarrassing record in the first half of the season by going 17 games without a win, and are currently second to last with 10 draws and 7 defeats, just above Brunswick with two wins, two draws and 13 defeats.

It is said that the top brass at Nuremberg is considering a change of coach.

Such an opponent would have been easy for Bochum to deal with, and as is customary, the worst result was a draw with them, but after a few related events, the team did not dare to underestimate any team.

The process of this game was as expected, Nuremberg played very tenacious, and once put Bochum in a hard battle, but the good thing is that all the players of Bochum persevered, and finally won 4-2 against Nuremberg, Shen Peng contributed a goal and an assist, maintaining his form.

In this round of games, because of Leverkusen, Borussia Mönchengladbach lost, and Dortmund drew again, so Bayern Munich and Bochum have pulled away the score, Bayern Munich is currently ranked first with 48 points, second with 42 points from Bochum, and third Bayer Leverkusen is 34 points, a full 8 points less than Bochum, and 14 points less than Bayern Munich, and they now only have a theoretical possibility of competing for the championship.

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On February 1, the nineteenth round of the league, Bochum hosted Hamburg, Hamburg is currently ranked fifteenth in the league, not far from the relegation zone, so they played very seriously in the game, but under the containment of Shen Peng, they did not dare to attack at all, so they had to defend passively, but even so, they were scored three goals, of which Shen Peng scored two, and finally Bochum won the opponent 3-0.

In this round of games, Bayern Munich still maintained a strong momentum, beating Eintracht Frankfurt 5-0 to continue to lead the standings. Borussia Dortmund and Bayer Leverkusen both won their opponents, but Borussia Mönchen lost again, so Borussia Dortmund overtook Borussia Mönchen and moved to fourth place.

An interesting thing happened in this round of the game, that is, Nuremberg finally ended the embarrassing record of the season without a win, winning 3-1 away to Hertha Berlin, in this game, their players were in very good form, and it was obvious that they were holding their breath.

Hertha Berlin tragically became the first team to lose to Nuremberg this season, and it was also a home loss, which made their players and coaches a little depressed, they are now 11th in the league, and they can still play in the Europa League next season.

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At half past three in the afternoon of February 8, in the 20th round of the Bundesliga, Bochum challenged Freiburg away, and is currently ranked 16th in the relegation zone of the league.

Speaking of the relationship between the two teams, we have to talk about the semi-finals of the German Cup last season, when Freiburg lost to a Bundesliga team as a sixth in the Bundesliga, and in the third round of the league, although the players were not in good shape, they also narrowly defeated Freiburg 3-2, so Bochum seems to be Freiburg's nemesis.

This season, Freiburg was also eliminated early in the German Cup, and in the Europa League, they also had a record of one win, three draws and two losses, and did not even appear in the group stage.

So in this game, Freiburg will play their best at home and hope to win against Bochum.

After the game began, looking at the Freiburg players looking gearing up, Gorezka made a scared look, "Shen Peng, you said they wouldn't eat people, right?" ”

"If I want to eat, I won't eat you!" Shen Peng said that he knew Gryzka's character, and this kid was joking.

After the start of the game, Freiburg's players were desperately scrambling, and for a while Bochum's players were a little embarrassed, except for a few people such as Shen Peng Grezka, everyone else basically couldn't protect the ball, and if they didn't pass it out for the first time after taking the ball, they would usher in several Freiburg players.

Seeing this scene, Neulurell frowned slightly, and glanced at Freiburg coach Streich in the coach's box on the other side, he would not be unaware of the impact on the players' physical fitness, according to this style of play, Freiburg's players will last for a maximum of 30 minutes.

Isn't he ready to play in the second half?

Neulurell doesn't know what the opponent is thinking, but in the face of this kind of pressing, the only way to make the players be patient, don't rush to pass forward after getting the ball, you can pass back more, so as to pull the formation and consume the opponent's physical strength.

Because of the ferocious pressing in the midfield, it was difficult for Bochum's players to pass the ball to the front, so Shen Peng did not touch the ball once from the beginning of the game to the tenth minute of the game.

He sometimes wants to retreat to get the ball by himself, but now these teams in the Bundesliga have learned well and have studied ways to limit Shen Peng, once Shen Peng retreats to get the ball, then there will be players who will continue to interfere with him, limit his acceleration and breakthrough, and at the same time buy time for other defensive players to return to defense, so it will be difficult for Shen Peng to break through again. The opponent is not a child, and in the case of a good formation, no matter how good he is, it is impossible for him to break through the back line.

So he had to wait for his team-mates to pass the ball in the front court.

Freiburg's pressing was effective, and with the average level of Bochum's players except for a few players such as Shen Peng and Gorezka, they were successful in the 17th minute.

In a feint from the middle of the flank, Bochum's flaws were flawed when striker Ahmadi with the ball faked a shot and actually crossed the ball to Schmid on the right, who received the ball and fired it into the near corner from a tight angle.

1 to 0!

Freiburg took the lead at home, which cheered the home fans, after all, Bochum is now in second place in the Bundesliga and they are happy to score first.

At this time, Freiburg's Han coach Streich suddenly waved his hand, and all the players in Freiburg returned to defense!

Seeing this posture, Neururell instantly knew the opponent's intentions, and after scoring a goal, they planned to defend to the death!