On 12 March 2008, a plane landed at Hamburg International Airport in Germany, and the entire Bordeaux team disembarked from the plane.

Bordeaux didn't come to Germany a day earlier, France and Germany weren't too far away, and actually playing in Hamburg was like an away from home.

There are a lot of German journalists at the airport, the German team attaches great importance to the European competition, and the football media of football, a derivative industry of football, has also been infected, and likes to report the news of the European competition, and now they are coming to Bordeaux to dig up the news.

Liu Ting also replied casually: "Our whole team is confident that we will defeat our opponents and advance to the next round." ”

"Failed to win at home? That's because we rotated at home to prepare for the game against Lyon a few days ago. ”

"Hamburg is a great team, but that was only before, the current Hamburg is not the Hamburg that can dominate Europe before, there is a saying in China that a good man does not mention the courage of the past."

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Hamburg is indeed not comparable to Bordeaux in terms of European results, Hamburg has reached the final of the three major European cups, won the Cup Winners' Cup twice, won the championship once, reached the Champions Cup final twice, won the championship once, failed to win the League Cup final once, and failed to win the championship once, Hamburg has entered five finals in the three major cups, and Bordeaux has only led Zidane to the League Cup final once.

Winning the European Champions Cup should be Hamburg's highest moment, and the hero who helped Hamburg defeat Juventus in the Champions League final is still active in football, that is, the head coach Magath who was sacked by Bayern in the middle of last season.

Magath actually led the team to Bayern with good results, two consecutive years to win the Bundesliga and the German Cup double championship, the stain is the poor European competition, at that time the media reported Magath's class, and even dug out that Magath was driving a car to pick up his daughter from school home, suddenly the car radio said that Bayern Munich had announced the dismissal of head coach Magath, poor Magath only knew that he was fired.

After Magath was fired, the players were still unwilling to let him go, and the old Frankfurt veteran he once coached came out and stabbed him again, and the former Frankfurt Norwegian striker Fjotoft said in an interview: If Magath was on the Titanic, everyone would have been saved.

Reporter asked: Is there anything Magath can do to save the Titanic?

Fjotoft: I don't know if Magath could have saved the Titanic, but if he had been on board, all the passengers would have been able to swim back to Southampton alive, swim back, back to ...... (Southampton was the departure port of the Titanic)

Magath not only lost his position as head coach but was also beaten by various hangings, so he was full of resentment towards Bayern.

If there are no accidents, Magath will lead Wolfsburg to the Bundesliga title next year, and in the second half of next season, Wolfsburg will play Bayern Munich at home, with Wolfsburg already leading Bayern 5:1 in the second half, Magath used the last substitution in the 89th minute to replace the goalkeeper!! At the time of this substitution, Magath had a mysterious and incomparably deep contemptuous smile that made all Bayern fans hate it. He used this method to retaliate and humiliate Bayern, which shows how much he hates Bayern.

It is said that when the golden era of Chinese football opened, Magath went to China to coach and saw the first thing he said: The stadium of the Chinese Super League team has a runway, I like it so much.

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At noon, Bordeaux went to the home stadium of the Hamburg team to adapt to the venue, Hamburg's home stadium Nordbank Arena is worthy of being one of the five-star stadiums in Europe, the stadium turf, seats, dressing rooms and other aspects are top-notch, but the team is not very top-notch.

However, Hamburg also has a unique record, Hamburg is by far the only team in Germany that has never been relegated from the Bundesliga since its inception, and Hamburg has been shocked to be relegated for several years in a row, and it may be this belief that they have never been relegated.

The only top-flight team with a history, never relegated, and still in a big city like Hamburg, Hamburg will have a lot of fans even if the results are not good, and the enthusiasm and loyalty of German fans are not comparable to that of French fans.

In the evening, when the time came for the game, the whole Bordeaux team was once again at the Arena du Nord.

Blanco still made some rotations, the starting lineup was changed to 442, the forwards were Liu Ting and Belion starters, the main focus was still defensive counterattacks, and the midfield veteran Miku was also rested this time. This lineup reflects Blanco's ambivalence, hoping to advance but worrying about affecting the league and being dragged down, with a certain rotation and not completely rotating and abandoning.

The Hamburg team has achieved quite good results in the past two years, mainly because of the introduction of the Dutch golden boy Van der Vaart in 05, with Van der Vaart as the core of the lineup. Van der Vaart is the winner of the first European Golden Boy Award, and his strength cannot be ignored. The European Golden Boy Award is known as the Young Player Footballer, and has been held for 5 sessions, in fact, so far the first Van der Vaart is the lowest achievement, look at the winners of the first 5 sessions, Van der Vaart, Rooney, Messi, Fabregas, Aguero, each will have a high achievement, Van der Vaart was also very optimistic about the year, but injuries and his own choices affected his career.

When he was still in the Netherlands, many people were optimistic about Van der Vaart, and Barcelona's godfather Cruyff praised Van der Vaart many times, and he hoped that Van der Vaart could transfer to Barcelona to play, and Barcelona also expressed interest in Van der Vaart, but Van der Vaart chose to come to Hamburg in the Bundesliga when he was favored by many giants, so angry that Cruyff scolded Van der Vaart for not being motivated.

Although Van der Vaart's performance at Hamburg was remarkable, it was definitely a career downturn, and his failure to live up to expectations in his career had a lot to do with this move to Hamburg. Van der Vaart's move to Hamburg has a lot to do with his TV host fiancée, and it is said that it was his fiancée's constant pillow wind that blew him to Hamburg, and the Hamburg club spent a lot of money to convince his fiancée, and a big city like Hamburg is also beneficial to his fiancée's career.

Men can't listen to their wives about everything, and sometimes they have to make their own decisions.

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When the game time came, the two teams led the little ball boys into the room, and when the two teams shook hands, Liu Ting saw an impressive person, Ivica Olich.

Olic is not the kind of player who is very talented, but the kind of person who relies on hard work to help the team, and he is even considered clumsy with the ball, ugly with dribbling, and without star qualities. The highlight of his career came in the 09/10 season, when he led Bayern Munich to the Champions League final.

Facing Manchester United in the quarterfinals, the first leg of Bayern's home was Olich's last-minute goal to help Bayern beat Manchester United 2:1, and the second leg to play Manchester United away Olic also had an away goal, the two teams fought 4:4 over two legs, Bayern relied on away goals to advance, and in the semi-finals away to Lyon Olic completed a hat trick, which was the highlight of Olich's career, Olic became the second person in the history of the Champions League to complete a hat trick in the semifinals, the first was Juventus' Piero in 97/ It was completed in the semi-finals of the 98 season against Monaco.

"The game between the two sides has begun, Bordeaux has changed to a 442 formation this time, the two forwards are Liu Ting and Belion, Cavinaghi did not start, the midfield is also Diarra, Wendel, Fernando, Alonso four partners, the veteran Miku is rested, the defenders are Jurieti, Henrik, Jemeri and Chalme, and the defenders also rotate Diawara. Bordeaux rotated a key player on each of the three lines, did they think this game was inevitable? Liu Jianhong can only say that, he can't say that Bordeaux may have to give up the Europa League, which will affect the ratings.

At the start of the game, Hamburg went on the offensive under the leadership of Van der Vaart.

"Van der Vaart!! Pick the pass!! Olich!! Shot!! Oh, it's too dangerous, if it hadn't been for Lame's courageous reaction, Bordeaux would probably have been scored, Bordeaux's defense was not good in the first place, and now it is still in rotation. Liu Jianhong exclaimed.

Bordeaux's defense was not good enough, and he didn't know how many times he conceded the ball at the beginning, and now the main central defenders on the field are all substitutes, and the main player Puranus is not well injured, and Diavala has rotated again this time. Liu Ting is also aware of this problem and must hurry up to score a goal, otherwise Hamburg may be beaten by the opponent after a while.

Olich's shot set the stadium on fire, with more than 50,000 cheers and Hamburg's flag raised, with two overlapping diamonds in the middle of the blue background. Looking at such a simple team flag, Liu Ting thought, why don't you just put the hamburger on the team flag? Anyway, the hamburger is named after the German city of Hamburg, which is more local than yours.

In the cheers of the audience, Hamburg became more and more courageous, but behind him became more and more empty, and Liu Ting knew that the opportunity was coming.

"Van der Vaart!! Kick it yourself!! Didn't play hard, Lame took the ball and threw the ball with his hand!! Counterattack!! Giuletti received the ball and gave it to Liu Ting excessively, Liu Ting accelerated with the ball, Hamburg's half was empty, there were only three defenders, it was a good opportunity, and Beryone was also following up quickly. ”

"Atoba came over to defend Liu Ting, and Liu Ting changed direction to the right!! Buckle back!! Easily got rid of Atoba and got to the left side of the penalty area, Reinhardt came over, beautiful!! It's Marseille maneuver again!! After Reinhardt, cut into the penalty area, and Mathieson, who was following Berion on the other side, could only choose to abandon Berion and come to Liu Ting's side; Just listen to take another step and knock on the door in advance!! Far Corner!! The ball is in!! Strike!!! The ball is in!! This is the embodiment of Liu Ting's personal ability, Hamburg also paid the price for their big press, now every goal of Bordeaux is an away goal, now Hamburg will still be eliminated by an away goal even if it equalizes, they will score at least two goals to advance if Bordeaux does not score, Bordeaux occupies the lead. Liu Jianhong also shouted happily that this goal has greatly increased Bordeaux's hopes of qualifying.