Chapter 102: Home Alone (2)
There was a roar of applause from the stands, including the Hamburg fans, and it was a rare thing for a 16-year-old to score a goal in a game like this, and even the opposing fans deserved a little encouragement.
There are only more than 100 fans in the away team, but the camera often sweeps the camera to this stand, because there is a beautiful fan here, who is still a famous figure in the music world, and she is naturally Wana who came to support her brother Stref in the game. After seeing Stref score, Wana jumped up from her seat excitedly, her blonde hair fluttering, her clothes fluttering, and her snow-white face flushed, "JΓΆrgen (Strefve's name) is so good!" That's great! β
Li Huan on the bench also applauded the wonderful performance of this little guy, speaking of which Strelve's progress also has a lot to do with Li Huan, but now this little guy's impression of Li Huan is not very good, firstly because Li Huan is famous in the team, and secondly, because Li Huan often teases and ridicules him when the first team and the second team practice together. As everyone knows, it was Li Huan's teasing and sarcasm that made his ball skills improve rapidly, far surpassing his peers.
Hoffenheim's goal did not have much impact on the coach's bench and the bench, but it just made the faces of the Hamburg players on the field a little unbearable, if the main players of Hoffenheim led by one goal, they did not have much shame, after all, Hoffenheim created a miracle of 11 consecutive wins in the Bundesliga, this is another inconsequential German Cup, but at home by a group of little hairy children, where do they still have face in the Bundesliga, how to see the Hamburg fans in the future.
Then the Hamburg players launched an onslaught, and they stopped playing with these young Hoffenheim players, and if they continued like this, they could lose face.
Once the players in Hamburg get serious, the little ones at Hoffenheim will not hold up, after all, they are still young, most of them are seventeen or eighteen years old, and the older ones are more than 20 years old, and they completely suffer in the physical confrontation, and want to use active running and passing to avoid the confrontation, but in terms of speed, they have no way to compete with these Bundesliga substitute players, the space is compressed very little, and in the end it can only be suppressed step by step.
Soon Hamburg's striker Coochu, who also came from the youth team, equalized for them, and the Hoffenheim players after conceding the goal showed their biggest weakness as a young player - inconsistency, eager to get back after the score was equalized, and the experienced Hamburg players made full use of the impatience of Hoffenheim's youth, a high-quality counterattack rewrote the score again, the backward Hoffenheim players were even more impatient, and even their small core Stref received a yellow card for the tackle, The impatience of the players can be imagined.
Seeing that Hoffenheim was so passive on the field, Hoffenheim fans and Chinese fans from Hamburg shouted to let Li Huan play, they wanted to watch Li Huan's game and not waste their genius on the bench.
The surging voices of the fans did not impress the head coach Rangnick, who was not even thinking about the game anymore, but kept discussing something with the club officials, only the assistant coach Marco was still watching the game seriously.
Soon the Hoffenheim youngsters were hit hard again when Hamburg's Couchu scored twice with a header and Hamburg made it 3-1. Hoffenheim's players are in a mess at the moment, the two old players who were supposed to stabilize their positions have not played a role, their influence and control are much worse, and when they are behind, they only know that the big wins are stupid and do not have the talent of a leader at all, and the young players simply ignore their stubble.
The referee blew the whistle for the end of the first half as the Hoffenheim youth team was on the verge of collapse, and the 15-minute break would give the youngsters a respite.
The Hoffenheim fans in the stands and the Chinese fans from Hamburg are still sparing no effort to shout Li Huan's name, hoping to impress the head coach Rangnick and let him let Li Huan play, they are just fans, they just want to see the team win, even if it is a friendly match, not as many things as the head coach has to consider.
But Rangnick is talking to Shinzeldemann about the transfer of Eduardo, known as Ronaldo of Brazil, and Demba Ba, an African striker, where does he have the energy to listen to the fans shouting again, he doesn't even plan to go to the dressing room, such a German Cup is a loss for him, it is a training for young players, let them experience. And these people who are coming on a winter transfer are what Hoffenheim hope for in the second half of the year and next season.
Li Huan, who was sitting on the side, was a little uneasy, he understood what kind of mood those young players on the field were in, if they were filled by the opponent in the second half, it might cause a big shadow to their careers, in fact, many people understand that failure is the mother of success, only for a few geniuses and people with strong willpower, in fact, for most ordinary people, success is the mother of success, and continuous success can form self-confidence and motivation for success, and, Li Huan didn't want hundreds of enthusiastic Chinese fans to not be able to see him perform for a minute, and he couldn't have imagined that these compatriots would be so enthusiastic before coming to Hamburg. He said to Rangnick: "Coach, I want to play in the second half for a while, what do you think?" β
Rangnick didn't want Li Huan to play at all, he was in a hurry to talk to Eduardo's agent who had called, and asked unceremoniously: "If you think you should be on it, you can do it." β
In fact, combined with the tone, Rangnick is refusal, but Li Huan is not a person who plays cards according to the rules of the cards at all, he went directly to the locker room without saying a word, and the assistant coach Marco in the locker room was talking to the listless young players, but his blower department was far less powerful than Sir Alex Ferguson of Manchester United, and the players did not agitate at all.
But after Li Huan came in, the little players in the locker room immediately came to their senses, coaxed them all to stand up, cheering and shouting: Brother Huan, Brother Huan, are you going to play? β
Li Huan smiled and said to Marko: "Coach Rangnick asked me to play in the second half. β
Marco didn't question this, because he didn't believe that Li Huan actually dared to play on his own, and said: "Did Ralph say which one did you change?" β
Li Huan thought of the poor performance of the defender Celal in the first half, and the two goals conceded were related to his loss of position, and said: "Let me play the position of the defender Zellar." β
Marco was taken aback and said, "Hit this position? β
Li Huan didn't hesitate at all: "Yes, the head coach said so." β
Marco thought that Rangnick wanted to give up this game at all, so he felt that it was possible for Rangnick to let Li Huan try in this position. So he agreed.
Then at the beginning of the second half, the fans in the stands saw No. 13 Li Huan who came on as a substitute, and immediately let out a burst of enthusiastic cheers.
Head coach Rangnick was awakened by the cheers, thinking that he had scored a goal, and looked up at the field, Li Huan's black hair suddenly caught his eyes, Rangnick almost turned his back in anger, and yelled loudly at Marco: "Why did you send Li Huan to the field, who asked you to send him to the field." β
Marco said inexplicably: "Didn't you let him play?" β
Sarihovic, who was next to Rangnick, reminded: "Coach, what you just told Li Huan, you said that if he thinks he should go, he will go." β
Rangnick was dumbfounded, and watched with a smile as Li Huan rushed to intercept in the position of the back waist, and stepped forward with the ball, as if he was in a no-man's land, and couldn't help but say helplessly: "This kid!" This kid! β
Club manager Shen Zeldmann said: "Forget it, geniuses have some quirks. β
Li Huan's appearance greatly boosted the morale of Hoffenheim's young players, young people are originally emotional products, inspired by their idols' appearances, one by one broke out of the morale several times higher than the beginning of the first half, running desperately like a little tiger after winning the ball handed over to Li Huan.
Although Li Huan has not played this position, but for a player like him, the back position also needs to be both offensive and defensive, and there is no essential difference with his style of play. Li Huan was more comfortable fighting.
And the Hamburg team because the first half has been 3-1 lead, the head coach actually removed a main striker Zidan, replaced by another youth team Mo Yan, although Zidan did not score, but Kuqiu's two goals were passed by him, his exit has a great impact on Hamburg's attacking power, one side and the other, the momentum of the Hamburg team was suppressed by Hoffenheim.
A few minutes later, Li Huan played more and more handy in the position of the back waist, his running speed was extremely fast, the card position was accurate, and the coverage area of the defense almost covered the entire half, and it also became a dark cloud hanging over the heads of the Hamburg offensive players, which player was not as good as the first half, because if he was not careful, he might be cut off by Li Huan who rushed up like a ghost, but the most chilling thing for the Hamburg players was Li Huan's attack, once the ball was broken, Li Huan immediately drove straight into with the ball, and he was now facing the opponent's door, The distance is closer, the threat is greater, and Li Huan's long-range shots are often fired within forty meters, which is powerful and accurate, making the defenders of the Hamburg team tremble one by one.
(To be continued)