Chapter 35: Fishing
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When Salihovic was about to take the free-kick, people had already turned their attention away from Chu Zhongtian. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info All eyes are on Salihovic, the set-piece specialist. He has scored from direct free-kicks in two consecutive rounds, so can he continue to score in this round?
So when football was played by Salihovic, Weiss, Demba. After a series of passes, no one saw that Chu Zhongtian had quietly appeared in the penalty area, and was closely watching the movement of the football.
Of course, Chu Zhongtian could not predict that he would be able to score, and his current move was completely normal - to increase the number of our side in front of the opponent's goal, and to put pressure on the opponent in the attack.
He thought Dengba. Ba will shoot straight at the goal, who would think of Demba. Ba is so selfless, and it was unexpectedly spread horizontally.
Ibisevic didn't expect this, so the football was cleared by BlackRock first.
Then the football fell to Chu Zhongtian's feet.
Before that, Chu Zhongtian was completely unprepared to shoot. But when the opportunity came, he didn't need much preparation, and his body instinct made him shoot on goal.
Until this time, everyone's eyes were all focused on Chu Zhongtian.
"Oh......" Duan Bin took a breath, ready to open his mouth and yell.
"Good shot!" Yang Chen, who was next to him, shouted out first.
Chu Zhongtian flicked his leg against the kicked football, and the football flew towards the empty goal. BlackRock was still lying on the ground, Nikolov struggled to get up, but before he could stabilize his center of gravity, he saw Chu Zhongtian stretch out his foot to shoot, and he hurriedly flew over, trying to stop the ball.
He was a step late.
The ball slipped between him and BlackRock.
Then he heard loud cheers from the stands on the pitch.
"The ball is in!!"
"Hoffenheim! Hoffenheim!! ”
The breath that Duan Bin had taken before could finally be spit out, and he yelled: "Good ball!" The ball is in! The ball is in!! Less than two minutes into the second half, Chu Zhongtian scored! Hoffenheim took the lead!! He's scored in three games in a row! Chu Zhongtian's state has been surprisingly good recently! ”
After the goal, Chu Zhongtian rushed to the sidelines excitedly, and then kept raising his arms to the Hoffenheim fans in the stands, making their cheers a little louder, a little bigger.
"Chu Zhongtian!" The live broadcast was shouting Chu Zhongtian's name in Chinese, and the fans who had studied with the broadcast for half an hour also roared, which was much more spectacular this time. In the past, the voice was too short and rapid to hear clearly. But the three-tone "Chu Zhongtian" is different, and it is still very shocking when more than 10,000 people shout this together.
"Chu Zhongtian!!"
Then the announcer shouted in German: "In the 47th minute, Hoffenheim scored a goal!" The shot was, Eight-"
The Hoffenheim fans in the stands chanted in Chinese very tacitly: "Chu Zhongtian!! ”
※※※Duan Bin and Yang Chen were a little excited when they heard such a shout in the broadcast seat. Duan Bin was because it was the first time he had heard so many foreigners chanting the name of a Chinese at the scene, which was really shocking. And Yang Chen was exchanged for memories of ten years ago by this shout.
Ten years ago, he was a player who could not play in Beijing Guoan, and in order to get a chance to play, he moved to unfamiliar Germany and joined Eintracht Frankfurt alone. The first season was an unexpected success, with 23 appearances and eight goals, all of which were spectacular.
At that time, when he scored a goal, the stands of the Merzbank-Arena (Frankfurt's home stadium) would resound with the chant of "Yang Chen", exactly like today.
At that moment, he felt like he was the center of the whole world. The blood was boiling.
That feels so good...... Now that he is retired, he hasn't relived this feeling for a long time before he retired.
Until now, sitting in the commentary seat, as a guest commentator, hearing the shouts of "Chu Zhongtian" in the audience, he felt that his blood was hot again.
Looking at Chu Zhongtian, who was mobilizing the emotions of the fans, he was very envious of him. He was better than his chances, and of course he was better than his own strength...... Eintracht Frankfurt manager Ursula von Kel was helpless, he had expected Hoffenheim to continue attacking aggressively at the beginning of the second half, and he also made his players pay attention to the defense. Despite this, Hoffenheim scored less than two minutes into the second half...... What else to do?
He didn't know.
Eintracht Frankfurt and Hoffenheim are really not teams of the same class these days...... But are you going to throw in the towel?
No, it's still early! We were just one goal behind, we still had chances, we had time.
He walked to the sidelines and yelled at the players who were standing still in the rain: "Don't panic! We continue to defend and counterattack!! ”
Counter-attacking is the only thing Eintracht Frankfurt can do at the moment. Vonkel really did research on Hoffenheim. He knows that Hoffenheim are not the kind of team that takes a lead and then shrinks their defence, they attack from the first minute to the last minute of the game, scoring as many goals as they can. This is also the reason why Hoffenheim have not won a game 1-0 after six rounds of league play.
In the eyes of the fans, such a football is very good-looking, very eye-catching and full of passion. But in the eyes of professionals like Vonkel, this is risky. If Hoffenheim were up against a team with a sharper counter-attack, Hoffenheim would have lost.
Even if it is against Frankfurt, Frankfurt may not be without opportunities.
So Vonkel let his team continue to defend and counter-attack after conceding the goal, and he is confident that his team will definitely find a chance if Hoffenheim continue to attack.
As a veteran team, Eintracht Frankfurt don't want to throw in easily.
Duan Bin was still there excited, as he was on hand to witness a goal scored by a Chinese player. It's not the first time he's commented on the Europa League live, and he's done it all in Spain's national derby. But no matter how bright the stars are in that kind of game, they are also other people's stars, no matter how many goals those superstars score, Duan Bin always feels that he is out of breath, and his feelings are not fully released.
This time was different, he was like a volcano that had been silent for too long, erupting violently, bursting with huge energy.
"Listen to the cheers of the scene! Nearly 20,000 people chanted the name of one person at the same time! How spectacular?! ”
"Audience friends, we witnessed Chu Zhongtian's goal, and we witnessed his goal on the spot! He opened the scoring for Hoffenheim and it was his third goal in three consecutive rounds! ”
The cheers of "Chu Zhongtian" continued until the kick-off, and when the referee blew the whistle to restart the game, the cheers gradually stopped.
As Vonkel had predicted, Hoffenheim did not shrink their defence by a goal and continued to press for assists, with two full-backs, Beck and Ibertsberger, taking turns to attack the Eintracht Frankfurt defence.
And during this time, all the players of Eintracht Frankfurt shrank back and held on to the goal. They know that Hoffenheim have just scored a goal and their morale is high, so they have to hold on at this time, and as long as they can hold it, they can thwart it.
After attacking for a while, Chu Zhongtian found that Frankfurt had made up his mind that he couldn't defend it, and if his side attacked more fiercely, the tighter the opponent would shrink, which would be unfavorable to his own attack. So Chu Zhongtian decided to change the rhythm.
After playing at Hoffenheim for so many months, he always felt that Rangnick's tactics looked scary at first glance, a bit like "Cheng Biting Jin's three-board axe", and if the opponent parried the three-board axe, trouble would come. Simply put, it's a lack of change. Always blindly emphasize the attack, ask for as many forward passes as possible, as few long passes and horizontal passes as possible, so that once the forward pass is frustrated, what should I do?
He decided to give full play to his free power on the field. To be a free man, we must first start by emancipating our minds. If his mind is still limited and he has to obey the manager in everything, then he will never be a free man.
will be subject to the king's order outside. Originally, the final of his midfield core was equivalent to the head coach on the field, and he had the right to decide freely. That's what Rangnick mentioned to him, too.
So when he saw that Eintracht Frankfurt was recycling, he stopped blindly passing the ball forward, but suddenly changed to a return pass. He passed the ball to centre-back Jaisler. Yaisler was stunned for a moment, and then wanted to pass the football back to Chu Zhongtian, but Chu Zhongtian waved his hand and refused, and asked him to pass the ball to goalkeeper Ozcan.
Jaisler was a little confused, and in normal training, head coach Rangnick did not allow him to do this.
Chu Zhongtian saw that he was hesitating, and looked back, but the players from Frankfurt had not yet pressed up. So he waved his hand again and repeated his request: pass the ball back to goalkeeper Ozcan.
Jaisler thought about it, anyway, Rangnick has a request, and he will listen to Chu when he gets on the court, since he wants to pass it back himself, then he will pass it back himself. If Rangnick blames him after the game, he can't blame himself. So he turned around and passed the ball back to Ozjan.
Faced with Jaisler's pass, Ozcan was also surprised. He was almost too frightened to know how to catch the ball: should he hold it with his hands, or should he catch it with his hands? Luckily, the nearest Eintracht Frankfurt player was almost halfway up the pitch at this time. Otherwise, if there is an Eintracht Frankfurt player who is brave enough to chase the ball without giving up, he may be able to see the smile of the goddess of luck on him.
Unfortunately, Eintracht Frankfurt missed their chances of a possible rewrite.
Ozjan's brain cleared up as the ball rolled in front of him, and he gave up on catching the ball with his hands and stopped it with his feet. Then he habitually wanted to kick forward with his big foot, and saw Chu Zhongtian waving to him. This gesture was familiar to him, and whenever he was about to kick the goal kick with a big kick, Chu Zhongtian would do so, motioning for him to pass the football over. He basically did it every time, because Rangnick told him that Chu Zhongtian was equivalent to a head coach on the field, and he tried to listen to him as much as possible.
This time Ozcan did the same.
After Chu Zhongtian received the ball, he glanced back again. Eintracht Frankfurt's striker Fenning had the intention of running up, so in that case, he continued to fish. He passed the football to Jaisler and asked him not to pass it to himself, but to another centre-back, Camper.
Then Chu Zhongtian beckoned to the front, signaling everyone to recycle a little, not to press so high one by one, so that the front and back fields are completely disjointed. The two full-backs rushed to the front like a full-back, how can this ball be kicked?
Although Hoffenheim's players are not very used to it, they still follow Chu Zhongtian's request and recycle. The most active of them is Ibisevic, because only he understands what Chu Zhongtian is doing.
If there are fans of Mace, or let. If Fernandez saw this game, they would definitely feel that Chu Zhongtian at this moment was very similar to the Chu Zhongtian when he was in Metz, but now Chu Zhongtian is a little different from him when he was in Metz, and now Chu Zhongtian is more aggressive, which can be seen from the fact that he has scored in three consecutive rounds.
Chu Zhongtian successfully got his teammates to recover it, but he didn't rush forward, because he found that Frankfurt didn't follow, and he had to wait patiently. Eintracht Frankfurt are determined to defend and counter-attack, but how can they score if they don't want to go forward?
Therefore, Chu Zhongtian was not worried at all that Frankfurt would not take the bait.
※※※Assistant coach Zeidler, who was watching the game from the sidelines, turned his head to look at Lannick next to him. As an assistant coach with Rangnick for two seasons, he is already familiar with Hoffenheim's tactical play. But now Hoffenheim on the pitch is playing a football that feels alien to him.
"I don't remember asking for that ...... in training," he said.
Rangnick nodded, "Yes, I didn't ask for it." But I also gave Chu the most freedom, he was free to decide how to play on the court. ”
"The players are not very comfortable yet, even if he has such freedom, he still has to consider the degree of cooperation...... It was a real risk to pass back to Ozjan because if there had been an Eintracht Frankfurt player who had been pressing, they would have been celebrating the goal. "Zeidler didn't understand.
Rangnick didn't answer him. But it was clear in his own heart. The forward-looking style of play was an option last season in order to jump out of the Bundesliga as soon as possible, and he has no intention of sticking to this style of play forever. But now the team is very familiar with this style of play, if it suddenly changes, I am afraid that there will be a big decline in the team's performance if it is not adaptable. So he could only take his time, and Chu Zhongtian's existence could play this role. Little by little, the other players change their mindset and re-adapt to a richer and more diverse football.
At this point, Rangnick will not criticize Chu Zhongtian, on the contrary, he has to encourage Chu Zhongtian.
※※※ Frankfurt didn't come up, and Chu Zhongtian was happy to fall behind.
Hoffenheim fans don't understand it now, they are not just people who have watched Hoffenheim play a game or two, many of them have followed Hoffenheim for at least three seasons, from the time Hoffenheim played in the regional league, until now, they have witnessed how the team can complete the triple jump in two years.
They are already very familiar with the football that Hoffenheim played last season, and suddenly they see an unfamiliar Hoffenheim, and some of them have not come to their senses.
However, Duan Bin didn't have such an idea, because he was not familiar with Hoffenheim last season, and the chapter about Hoffenheim in his mind was completely blank.
In the first few rounds, Hoffenheim played the kind of football that was fast and offensive and unstoppable, like a pawn in Chinese chess who crossed the Chu River and Han borders. But this did not make Duan Bin form an impression that "Hoffenheim's football should be played like this", so seeing Chu Zhongtian commanding his teammates to fall in the back, he felt quite normal: "If Frankfurt doesn't come out, Hoffenheim will naturally pull them out." ”
Unless Frankfurt made up his mind not to come out, they would have to be fished out like fish.
Of course, Eintracht Frankfurt can't really shrink back and not be able to sell it, they are shrinking back to defend and counterattack, but if Hoffenheim don't attack, what do they defend and how can they counterattack?
So when the ball went around at the feet of the four Hoffenheim defenders plus one Chu Zhongtian, Eintracht Frankfurt finally pounced. Starting from the striker and going all the way to the midfield, they were all fished by Chu Zhongtian. However, Eintracht Frankfurt still remembered to guard against Hoffenheim's attack, so none of the four defenders moved, and all of them stayed honestly at the back.
The opponent comes up, maybe Chu Zhongtian will be more defended when he gets the ball, but this is a good thing for the whole Hoffenheim. Because there is more space behind them.
In the 59th minute, Eintracht Frankfurt launched an attack, and BlackRock made a long pass at the back, but it was intercepted by Chu Zhongtian in the midfield.
After stopping Frankfurt's attack, Chu Zhongtian waved his hand and asked everyone to counterattack.
Immediately Demba. Ba, Ibisevic, Obasi and Salihovic immediately turned forward and charged towards the Eintracht Frankfurt goal.
And what about Chu Zhongtian? He took two steps, looked at it, and saw that most of his teammates had already run into position, so he passed the ball to Obasi, who was retreating to pick him up. The Nigerian striker received the ball and drove straight into the ball and fired a left-footed shot from the edge of the box, only to be denied by the onrushing Nikolov.
But Hoffenheim's attack wasn't over yet. They were soon given a second chance to attack. This is also a characteristic of Hoffenheim football - their attack is very layered, like the waves of the sea, wave after wave, endlessly. In the league, they have scored several goals through secondary attacks.
Nikolov blocked the ball, but it didn't fall at the feet of any of the Eintracht Frankfurt players, but to Demba. Ba's feet. Demba. Ba faced the Defence of BeRock, and instead of shooting, he passed the ball to Ibisevic. Ibisevic then smashed the ball directly with his heel to Salihovic, and the Bosnian midfielder dodged the angle and fired a left-footed shot from 18 yards out.
Nikolov pounced again, but the ball slipped past his fingertips!
As soon as he turned around, he saw the ball hit the inside of the post and bounced in...... The second goal is conceded!
“2:0! Hoffenheim, playing at home, extended their lead!! ”
(To be continued)