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In the first half, Hoffenheim always wanted to perform well at both ends of the pitch because of Salihovic, and this idea came from the pressure that Chu Zhongtian gave him in daily training. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Although there has been no performance in the game, Chu Zhongtian has shown his balanced offensive and defensive side in training.

First of all, he defends well, which has been verified by Eduardo himself. Eduardo from Brazil not only resembles Ronaldinho in appearance, but also in terms of technique, he is the best individual player in the Hoffenheim team and is talented in dribbling.

But when such a player faces Chu Zhongtian, the ball at his feet is often broken. Salihovic observed Chu Zhongtian very carefully, and found that he often did not wait for Eduardo to move first and then move himself in defense, but almost at the same time as Eduardo, or even a little earlier, it seemed that Chu Zhongtian had been waiting there in advance, and Eduardo just bumped into it with the football.

Of course, it is not surprising that a defender has this ability, because anticipation is an important quality for a defensive player, and a player with excellent anticipation can often become a first-class defender.

Salihovic was just surprised that Chu Zhongtian had such qualities...... In terms of physical fitness, he lost to Chu Zhongtian, and now he is not as good as the opponent in defense.

So in this game he tried very hard to prove that he can also balance offense and defense...... As a result, he contributed little defensively, and he did not help the team offensively, resulting in Hoffenheim's attack in the first half was not sharp at all, and it completely lost the indomitable momentum of Hoffenheim in attack.

After Chu Zhongtian came on the field in the second half, the tactics did not change much, but because the football was handed over more to Chu Zhongtian's feet, Hoffenheim's performance also changed.

Chu Zhongtian has been familiar with and adapted to Hoffenheim's football these days, which is the kind of football that is fast, concise and impactful. In training, on videotape, he was wondering how he was going to fit with such a team.

To adapt to Hoffenheim's rhythm, he has to make some changes to his previous style of play, first of all, he has to reduce the habit of constantly passing the ball backwards in the back, because Hoffenheim's defenders are not used to this style of play, you give them too many return passes, it will make them feel overwhelmed, if the opponent presses, they can be in a hurry, and when the time comes, it is not impossible to lose possession and let the opponent face the goalkeeper directly...... Metz and Hoffenheim are different, although they both play attacking football, but they are two completely different styles.

Metz is like a "Rococo" football, although beautiful and flashy, but it is too complicated, and it is easy for opponents to take advantage of this and trap Mace's attack. Hoffenheim's style is more like modernism, with simple but sharper lines, and in art modernism developed with the Industrial Revolution, and in football, Hoffenheim also has a little bit of this meaning. They are German football, and German football itself is full of a smell of steel, hard and sharp, and Rangnick has added something of his own to this to make Hoffenheim's football more aggressive, like a steel structure, simple and direct, but powerful.

Playing in such a style, Chu Zhongtian must change his "Rococo" style of play, too much ball control in the midfield is not conducive to Hoffenheim's attack, it will only slow down the tempo and let the opponent defend calmly. This isn't the team that can kick down more than 20 times all the time and then find an opportunity to accelerate to a lethal blow, it's a team that keeps pounding your defence from the first minute until you collapse and then surging into a team that engulfs you.

Therefore, in Hoffenheim, Rangnick asked Chu Zhongtian to be more decisive when handling the ball. Such a request prompted Chu Zhongtian to think and observe the situation faster in the game, because he would not have a lot of time to think about those problems.

After learning about Hoffenheim's style of football, Chu Zhongtian knew what to do.

He's a midfielder, and when he's at the back, he has to keep watching the situation on the pitch and at the same time analyse it in his mind, find holes in the opposition's defense, and then when he gets forward, it's often fatal.

※※※ There may have been some people who were not convinced before, but with the ability he showed in daily training, there are fewer and fewer teammates who think so, and only a few people are still resisting stubbornly.

Since the head coach asked everyone to pass the football to Chu Zhongtian as much as possible, then it was to comply.

After the start of the second half, Chinese reporters noticed that football was clearly concentrated in Chu Zhongtian. If you use computer software to analyze Hoffenheim's passing routes in the second half, you will find that many passes end up pointing to Chu Zhongtian.

Not long after the start of the second half, Chu Zhongtian used an accurate long pass to send the football to Demba. At the foot of the foot, let the opponent complete a wonderful shot.

If it weren't for England's international Paul. Robinson put in a brilliant performance to save the ball and was afraid that just two minutes into the game, Blackburn's goal was about to be lost.

Demba. Ba looked a little annoyed that he didn't score, but he didn't forget to turn around and give Chu Zhongtian a thumbs up, indicating that he had passed the ball beautifully.

So how beautiful is it? Chu Zhongtian's pass flew nearly fifty meters in the air, just one meter in front of him, and there was no strong rotation, it was not difficult to stop the ball, he could easily unload the football as long as he stretched his foot, the football slipped to the ground against the instep, and there was no change of line and bounce, followed by his foot and shooting, and the football flew straight to the Blackburn goal.

The whole action was done in one go, which of course had something to do with his excellent personal skills, but if Chu Zhongtian's passing power was strong and had obvious rotation, I am afraid he would have to make more moves to stabilize the football. In that case, he may not have such a good chance to shoot.

As a striker, Demba. Ba clearly knows very well what the best pass for a striker in the penalty area is, that is, the kind of arc and unexpected angle that looks bland, without any weirdness, makes the striker very comfortable to pick up, does not need to make extra movements, and can follow the pass of the shot.

Demba. The reason why Ba gave Chu Zhongtian a thumbs up was definitely not just because he created a shot opportunity for himself, but because Chu Zhongtian's pass made him feel comfortable to stop.

It seems that this kid really has real talent and learning.

On the passing point, Demba. Ba unconsciously made a comparison between him and Salihovic, the two are almost the same, and Salihovic's passing is so comfortable.

Don't care about anything else, at least in terms of passing, Chu Zhongtian will replace Salihovic as the core, Demba. Ba didn't think there was anything wrong with it.

※※※ In the first few minutes of the game, Chu Zhongtian barely plugged in, and spent more time observing Blackburn in the back, looking for loopholes in the team's defensive line. Maybe it's because it's a warm-up game, because Hoffenheim is too weak and too famous, and they've never heard of saving money, so Blackburn's players don't feel any threat and just want to attack and show themselves. In Chu Zhongtian's eyes, this team's loopholes are everywhere, and it depends on whether he and his teammates can catch them.

In the fifty-fourth minute, after nearly ten minutes of observation in the backfield, he finally moved.

After receiving a pass from full-back Baker, he did not continue to rely on long passes to attack, but suddenly dribbled forward!

Blackburn's Swiss international Vogel didn't react, took a beat slower, and let Chu Zhongtian run past him with the ball.

Tugay saw Chu Zhongtian dribbling past the midfield, so he came up to defend. Chu Zhongtian did not one-on-one with him, but divided the football behind him.

Ibisevic received the ball!

In this Hoffenheim team, the one who has the most tacit understanding with Chu Zhongtian is Ibisevic. When he saw Chu Zhongtian suddenly step forward, he knew what he was going to do, so he didn't wait in front, but suddenly withdrew from the forbidden area and ran backwards to meet Chu Zhongtian. At the same time, his run will also be a central defender for Blackburn Ryan. Nelson (ryan_nelsen) pulled it out.

Chu Zhongtian, who finished passing the ball, did not stop, but continued to step forward, which made Tugai a little unexpected. Ibisevic received the ball only without turning around, but directly knocked the football to the right with the outside of his right foot, and Chu Zhongtian, who happened to be inserted, received the ball.

Chu Zhongtian and Hoffenheim's teammates did not cooperate well enough, so he could only play such a cooperation with Ibisevic, and if he was replaced by someone else, it was estimated that he would have turned around directly and came hard.

Chu Zhongtian, who re-received the ball, did not continue to dribble the ball forward, but directly sent a direct pass!

Blackburn's defenders are keeping an eye out for Demba who has just created a dangerous ball. Ba and another young striker, Marco. Tracino (marco_terrazzino) and completely neglected the protection of the mid.

Eduardo took this opportunity to get in, and just happened to receive a pass from Chu Zhongtian to him.

After receiving the ball, he did not hesitate at all, and shot directly with his left foot, and the football grazed the turf and flew in from the near corner of the goal!

1:0！

Hoffenheim finally broke the deadlock, and the person who instigated the first goal for the team was Chu Zhongtian, who spent 30 million euros on the club's transfer.

It wasn't the Hoffenheim fans who were most excited in the stands, but the Chinese journalists.

Chu Zhongtian's passing, they were old when they were in France, and they were used to it. But after coming to Germany, I never saw it, and I missed it again. Now that I've finally seen it, how can I not be excited? This means that Chu Zhongtian has made a good start in Hoffenheim.

When the team couldn't open the situation, he pierced the window paper with an assist.

After the goal, Eduardo happily turned around and ran back and hugged Chu Zhongtian, who assisted him, and Ibisevic also ran up, laughing and patting Chu Zhongtian's head. As a former Metz player, he is very happy to see Chu Zhongtian in action.

Everyone ran up to hug the three of them and celebrate the team's goal.

Salihovic didn't hug Chu Zhongtian directly, he waited next to him, and after Eduardo and Chu Zhongtian separated, he hugged Eduardo and congratulated him on his goal. Last season, he and Eduardo were two forward midfielders, he was on the right and Eduardo was on the left, and the two worked well together and accumulated friendship. Eduardo scored a goal, and of course he had to come up and congratulate him as a friend.

Chu Zhongtian's sudden insertion this time made him very concerned. He already knew from his daily training that this was one of Hoffenheim's new tactics, and when necessary, Chu Zhongtian would dribble forward and seek cooperation with his teammates to completely disrupt the opponent's defense. Judging from the performance in the actual game, Chu Zhongtian did a good job.

But this is only the first time, everyone has good luck and bad luck, maybe this time it is just Chu Zhongtian's luck? After all, Blackburn's defense was too casual.

We'll have to keep watching.

After the team scored, Rangnick stood up from his seat and took the lead in applauding. He didn't pay much attention to the score, and the warm-up game only focused on the process. Of course, if the process is good and the result is beautiful, he will be happier.

Chu Zhongtian's sudden forward insertion was the focus of training during this time, and now he saw the actual results and seemed very happy.

As a free man, forward insertion is something that must be mastered. The timing of the forward insertion, the technique of the forward insertion, these are all important to Rangnick. Chu Zhongtian often stepped forward in Mace, which was not a strange thing to him. However, the whole Hoffenheim team needs to adapt to Chu Zhongtian and cooperate with his sudden insertion. Rangnick didn't want to see Chu Zhongtian go bad before, but his teammates didn't keep up.

As Chu Zhongtian struggled to adapt to the team, the team also had to match Chu Zhongtian's style of play.

In the ensuing game, Chu Zhongtian did not step forward as often as expected to disrupt Blackburn's defense. Instead, he sent a wonderful pass from the back to Eduardo and Salihovic in front.

Especially Salihovic, Chu Zhongtian knows that Salihovic is a very capable player, and if he wants to be the real leader of this team, he must have a good relationship with Salihovic. So he considered improving the relationship between the two by constantly passing the ball to Salihovic during the game.

This trick is a subtle way to change the attitude of others, which cannot be seen in a short period of time, and it takes a long time to have a very significant effect.

Chu Zhongtian didn't expect a game to make Salihovic let go of his prejudice against him and cooperate sincerely. But he's going to keep doing it.

The so-called drop stone wears it, and it is not wrong to use it on it.

Blake equalised in the 63rd minute, after all, they were seventh in the Premier League last season, and their strength is still there. South Africa's legendary goalscorer McCarthy equalised.

But before Blackburn could breathe a sigh of relief, Hoffenheim scored again.

After Chu Zhongtian took the ball in the backfield, he distributed the ball to Salihovic, who seemed to deliberately want to show his offensive talent in front of Chu Zhongtian, he did not stop the ball, but directly sent a wonderful pass with his heel.

This time it was Eduardo again, who received a delicate pass from Salihovic's heel like a clever heart, and then shot from a distance, and the ball swiped through Robinson's fingertips and flew into the goal, 2:1!

After the goal, Eduardo went to Salihovic to celebrate, and Chu Zhongtian also ran up. He didn't want to make himself look too special, and the post-goal celebrations were the best chance to bond with his team-mates. If you want to be ahead of the team, you have to have a good relationship with your teammates.

He and Eduardo got to their arms, and Ibisevic quickly rushed up and squeezed him to Salihovic's side.

"Well done, haha!" Ibisevic laughed.

However, Salihovich was a little embarrassed after seeing Chu Zhongtian come over. But when everyone was so happy, he didn't push Chu Zhongtian away, he wanted to push him away, but a few teammates squeezed up behind him, and he couldn't retreat.

had no choice but to bite the bullet and celebrate the goal next to Chu Zhongtian. As soon as the celebration was over, he "escaped" from the crowd and returned to his position, waiting for the opponent to kick off.

Seeing him like this, Ibisevic secretly smiled.

※※※ Next, under the impetus of Chu Zhongtian, Hoffenheim continued to attack Blackburn. Created a lot of chances to score.

After receiving Chu Zhongtian's support, Salihovic no longer has to retreat to a deep place to receive the ball and organize the attack, and with Chu Zhongtian, his job has become simple - that is, pass the ball forward, pass the ball threatening, or shoot himself.

When he stopped running back and forth like he did in the first half, his performance returned to his normal level.

It's a pity that he created two chances for Ibisevic, but Ibisevic didn't take them, otherwise he could have completed the "hat-trick" of assists.

In the 75th minute, Salihovic was replaced by manager Rangnick and was greeted by 500 Hoffenheim fans, who waved to the fans in the stands on the sidelines and looked in a good mood.

When he sat down, he began to think about what made him feel so relaxed in the game.

He set his sights on the pitch for answers. In fact, the answer is right in front of him, but he is a little reluctant to admit it.

Watching Chu Zhongtian running non-stop on the field, appearing in every corner of the court, defending or passing, he vaguely felt that he couldn't do this...... At the very least, his physical strength could not support him to run like this...... A player like him has to learn to distribute his physical strength reasonably, but in Chu Zhongtian, this is not a problem at all.

He was a little envious of this man...... ※※※ For the coaches of both sides, the result of this game was not what they valued, so the two sides began to make frequent substitutions, Blackburn changed five people in one go, and Hoffenheim also changed three people.

Hoffenheim still dominated the field next, Blackburn was very uncomfortable with Hoffenheim's extremely oppressive style of play, and the rhythm of the game was firmly in Hoffenheim's hands. After Salihovic and Eduardo both left the field one after another, Chu Zhongtian took on the premise of organizing the team's attack and passing the last ball.

He created three chances for the team, but his team-mates didn't take them.

It wasn't until the eighty-fourth minute that Weiss, who was substituted on the field, received Chu Zhongtian's ball and scored from a distance.

The goal sealed the win for Hoffenheim.

In the end, the promoted side of the Bundesliga beat last season's seventh in the Premier League with a score of 3-1.

It was their third win in four warm-up games.

So far, the team is unbeaten in the warm-up matches.

More important than the result was the team's performance, with Rangnick telling Kraichgau-Elf after the game: "The warm-up game had its purpose, our players were very impactful on the pitch and created a lot of good chances. I hope the lads will be able to keep that at the end of the camp and go in the right direction. ”

Then he talked about Chu Zhongtian: "Although Chu only had 45 minutes in this game, his performance filled me with confidence. I always believe that our 30 million is a bargain, and Chu will definitely gradually show his ability. He showed us very well how to lead a team to victory. ”

Yes, he's right. After this game, there was a subtle change in the perception of Chu Zhongtian in the locker room and among the fans, and with the various qualities he showed in the past 45 minutes, more people believed that Chu Zhongtian was capable of leading the team.

The German media still has questions, but the question is not whether Chu Zhongtian is suitable for Hoffenheim, but whether he is really as good as Rangnick said, and become like Matthias. Summer, or even a player like Beckenbauer.

At this point, there was no disagreement, and everyone shook their heads.

It's impossible!

(To be continued)