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The draw with Stuttgart surprised a lot of people because they didn't see Hoffenheim collapse. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

But they didn't take it to heart, and even if Hoffenheim passed Stuttgart, Dortmund and Werder Bremen were waiting for them.

Anyway, four strong opponents, they lost one game and drew one, this result must not be said to be good, right? There are still two defeats waiting for them.

Only Stuttgart's head coach Amin. Speaking at the post-match press conference, Fei said fairly: "We were at the bottom of the pitch and we were able to get a point, so I'm happy with the team's performance. ”

This sentence is sandwiched in an analysis of the game, so inconspicuous that many people have intentionally or unintentionally ignored it.

The local media at Sinsheim praised Hoffenheim for their dominance on the pitch and the lack of a goal was a cause of bad luck.

Judging from the scene of this match, Rangnick's fencing training really played a role.

The players were active on the pitch, especially when the defenders were moving, and were clearly inspired by the sport of fencing.

And the changes that Chu Zhongtian felt were also obvious, when he faced the pressure of two Stuttgart players alone in the midfield, he was still able to deal with it calmly, which was the result of fencing training in the last ten days.

This game has allowed him to find the right direction and he believes that he will continue to work on his pace and help him play good football.

The draw with Stuttgart did nothing to help Hoffenheim move up the table, as they remain sixth in the league, the same as in the previous round. But the morale and confidence of the players are recovering.

A week later, on 20 September, they will host Borussia Dortmund in the sixth round of the league.

Borussia Dortmund also frequently encountered strong opponents at the beginning of the league, and the games with Bayern Munich and Schalke 04 were drawn, and there were no points lost on the strong teams, which is a very good thing. In the first round, they also won 3-2 against the home team against Bayer Leverkusen, and then beat the weak team Petbus, which also won 1-0.

The league has played four rounds and has not lost a match. Playing Hoffenheim in this round, they will certainly hope to continue this excellent form.

They won 3-2 away at Bayer Leverkusen, while Hoffenheim lost 2-5 away to Bayer Leverkusen, and if you just compare the win-loss relationship between such scores, many people will come to such a simple conclusion - Hoffenheim is weaker than Bayer Leverkusen, and Bayer Leverkusen is weaker than Borussia Dortmund, so Dortmund is much stronger than Hoffenheim, and this game is not a problem.

But in reality? In soccer matches, it is not possible to calculate the winning percentage of both sides in this way.

※※※ Before the match against Dortmund, to be precise, just after the match against Stuttgart, the whole Hoffenheim team felt the important breath of this game, and it rushed to the face, and it was impossible to feel it or not.

After they drew with Stuttgart, the media began to pay more attention to the team, and most people wanted to see the team make a fool of themselves, not the Chinese fans who hoped that Hoffenheim would be relegated and Chu Zhongtian could get out of the misery, but the German fans.

Dortmund fans have publicly announced that they want to give Dietma. Mr. Hope made a memorable "welcome ceremony" to him. Hope is sixty-eight years old, has been in society for more than 40 years, has never seen any storms, and of course he will not be naïve to think that the visiting fans really want to welcome him.

Not only in Dortmund, but also in other parts of Germany, there are many radical die-hard fans who have shown their solidarity with the actions of the Dortmund fans. They have left messages online saying that they hope Dortmund beat Hoffenheim in this game.

"It's time for that hillbilly team to see the true power of German football! You should learn from Leverkusen, crush them completely, and defeat them! ”

"In the next round of the league, I will be a Dortmund fan!"

"Come on, beat this upstart team! A foreign mercenary! They don't deserve to play in the best league in Germany! ”

Why do so many hardcore radical fans hate Hoffenheim so much? There are many reasons for this, first of all because they have money. They were not promoted to the first division because of the strength of football itself, but because their owners spent more than 100 million euros in 20 years to be here. Without the money, they would have gone back to where they were supposed to belong—the amateur league.

Secondly, Hoffenheim have money, they spend a lot of money to buy stars from abroad, but the real German players are not the core and assistants of the team. For example, the Chinese spent 30 million euros on a transfer fee for a Chinese player? Hope's old man is really old and confused, and the best German players may not be able to sell at this price, why should a Chinese? Is Chinese football strong? Why have I never heard of them? They are not German players, they don't love this team, they are just a bunch of bitches who can get on for money, and it is a shame for us that a team of bitches can be called up to the German Football League!

As one Kaiserslautern fan put it: "None of them are homegrown youths, and they don't rely on Hoppe's money yet. If you look at their first team, most of them are foreign players bought on Hoppe's money. It is an insult to German football to let such a new upstart team play in the Bundesliga while other teams with historical heritage struggle to survive. ”

Third, many people are worried that Hope spent more than 100 million euros to invest in Hoffenheim, and finally allowed Hoffenheim to be promoted to the first division, which will make a bad start in German football - those big teams with real history and strength are declining because no one invests, and those small teams that have never heard of before are making waves because of some capital injection. In a few years, the Bundesliga will be filled with small teams dominated by the rich: Hoffenheim vs. Wayne, Allen vs. Zwickau...... What Hope is doing is pushing the Bundesliga into the abyss, and their fans are no longer die-hard loyalists who share the fate of the local team, but a bunch of "high people" who invite guests to show off so that they can drive their Porsche Cayenne to play golf for a while. And such "fans" are worthless to football itself, and the soil for football to take root and survive is those low-class fans, whose whole family has been born and died with a team for several lifetimes, and such fans are worthy of respect. How many such fans are there at Hoffenheim? Eighteen hundred - this is the number of registered members of the Hoffenheim Club in the town of Hoffenheim. And how many season tickets have they sold this season? 13,200 tickets, and the extra 11,400 fans are those "upper-class people" who love vanity and watch football just to catch up with fashion, but actually don't know anything. These people have nothing to be loyal to, and if you have good grades, they will seek you because you can improve their taste and worth. Once the team does not perform well, they will ruthlessly abandon the team and then choose another strong team to cling to. As disgusting as blood-sucking grasshoppers.

Fourth, not everyone hates Hoffenheim because they have money, or because they have more foreign players than German players in their first team, or even because they hate the team from the perspective of German football. This part of the people is sour grapes psychology at work. Just like many people scold corrupt officials, not because they advocate honesty, but just because they are not corrupt officials themselves, and they can't make a big profit in that position. People who can't eat grapes will say that grapes are sour.

In the case of FC Mannheim's fans, Hoffenheim have temporarily rented out Mannheim's home stadium, Carl Benz, this season. The stadium has a capacity of more than 26,000 people, far more than Hoffenheim's original home stadium, Dietmar. Hope Field is big. But the team with such a beautiful stadium is struggling in the regional amateur league because they are in a financial crisis. Hoffenheim, who have a much smaller pitch than them, are able to play in the German top flight only because they have a rich owner.

Many Mannheim fans still can't understand why Hope spent both motor and electricity to devote himself to the small hillbilly team of Hoffenheim, instead of saving the local history and cultivating Uwe. Rahne (uwe_rahn), Hanno. Balic (hanno_balitsch), Christian. Mannheim in Warnes (christian_wrns). As long as Hope wanted to, they would welcome his intervention with open arms. Mannheim still have by far the largest number of fans in their league. Mannheim fans are puzzled and can only understand that maybe Hope doesn't want a good, self-directed club at all.

In the eyes of Mannheim fans, Hoffenheim is now just the toy of Hopper, a German billionaire who will throw it in the garbage heap when he gets tired of playing with it, and let it be dusted and never look again. Hoffenheim, who had lost Hope's financial backing, would also be back to his starting point – the eighth division, an amateur league within the city limits of Sinsheim.

Of course, not all fans are so hostile to this emerging force, and some fans like Hoffenheim because they play good-looking, beautiful attacking football, much better than the likes of Eintracht Frankfurt. And they believe that German football is not competitive in European football, precisely because there are too few club owners like Hope who are willing to concentrate on the team and have a long-term plan, and if more money pours into the German league, there will be more high-level stars to play here, which will naturally help to improve the overall level of the German football league. It's just that this summer's transfer bid Wang Chu Zhongtian is not the kind of "high-level star", which remains to be verified.

In addition, they also think that many fans' harsh criticism of Hoffenheim's money is unreasonable. Teams like Bayern Munich, Hamburg and Borussia Dortmund take financial support from investors like Hoffenheim, but no one says they are a threat to football.

The mood of the fans has also affected the stance of the media, and Hoffenheim has been portrayed as pessimistic in the coverage of several professional sports media in Germany.

“…… I admit that Hoffenheim's attacking line is very strong, but in comparison to their defensive line is simply Bundesliga...... No, maybe at the amateur level. As long as this poor defence remains, Hoffenheim will not want to win Dortmund at home. ”

“…… I've heard that Hoffenheim relied on constant attacks and pressure on Stuttgart in the last game to shake hands with the opponent. I think that's where Rangnick comes in - he knows that against a strong team, it won't work to defend blindly, because his defense is so bad, so he can only play to his strengths and avoid weaknesses and use his best offense to achieve the role of defense......"

"Borussia Dortmund have been in good form since the start of the season, drawing with Bayern Munich and Schalke 04, as well as winning against the likes of Bayer Leverkusen and Ivbus and are currently unbeaten. On the contrary, although Hoffenheim had a dazzling early performance in the league, they soon lacked experience in the promotion and the old problem of inconsistent performance was exposed. I'm not surprised at all, because I know that Hoffenheim will be able to play in the Bundesliga next season, which will already be the biggest win......"

A group of media commentators sang the praises of Hoffenheim as if they had seen the spectacle of Borussia Dortmund's breaching the Karl Benz Stadium.

But in reality, there are still five days before the start of the race. Hoffenheim resumed training after a day off.

※※※ The afternoon training session has just ended, and the players have left the pitch one after another. Chu Zhongtian had no intention of going to the locker room, he wanted to stay and practice shooting.

And he was not the only one who didn't leave, and another person took the initiative to stay, but he didn't practice shooting, but free kicks.

Chu Zhongtian is used to this, he will have three days a week to practice for himself, and in the same three days, Salihovic will also practice for himself.

Chu Zhongtian practiced shooting, while Salihovic practiced free kicks. Chu Zhongtian practiced shooting in order to cultivate shooting habits and improve shooting skills, and he was far worse than his own passing in this regard. On the contrary, Salihovic's free-kicks were not for the sake of his family's strength, but to make his already strong ability stronger.

Salihovic is the team's number one free kick master, Chu Zhongtian has seen Promans' free kicks, but he still feels that he can't compare with Salihovic.

Salihovic has yet to score a free-kick in the Bundesliga, but he regularly scores some difficult free-kicks in training.

There is a phrase used to describe a free-kick master: "He takes a free-kick as a penalty." Chu Zhongtian thinks Salihovic's free-kick might be better described like this: "He kicks the free-kick as an empty goal. ”

Two people, one on goal and one on free kicks, are on the same training ground, just in different goals. But no one took the initiative to talk to each other.

The sense of competition between them still exists, and they will feel a little awkward when they are alone with each other, and try not to open their mouths if they can.

Salihovic trained for a free-kick in the half behind Chu Zhongtian. His goal is not a goal, but a goal-sized blackboard with coloured markers on the four corners, for free-kick specialists like Salihovic to practice. Salihovic's goal is the colored corners, and it is only when he kicks the ball into those colored corners that he succeeds. This blackboard is why Salihovic can kick a free-kick as an empty goal.

The soccer ball kept hitting the blackboard and making a "bang" sound.

Chu Zhongtian heard it very clearly on this side of the court.

After shooting out all the eighteen soccer balls lined up in front of him, Chu Zhongtian did not run to pick up the ball, but stood in place and turned to look at Salihovic over there.

Chu Zhongtian counted a little, Salihovic is a group of ten balls, after kicking ten free kicks, he will pick them up, and then put them at the front of the penalty area, at different positions and different distances, and then kick those footballs to the four corners of the blackboard one by one. And so on and so forth.

After watching a round, he turned around and ran to pick up the ball, he can't always be a spectator, he has to practice by himself.

When Salihovic finished his current set of free-kicks, he didn't rush to pick them up, but decided to take a break. He heard the sharp crunch of a soccer ball hitting the goalpost behind him.

So he turned his head and looked at the back in the setting sun.

After Chu Zhongtian ran hard, he kicked the football in front of him towards the goal, and the football flew into the empty goal easily, without difficulty, but ...... It's not very technical.

Salihovich frowned.

Chu Zhongtian was concentrating on competing with the football under his feet, when he suddenly felt a gust of wind behind his ears. Then, when he was about to shoot with his foot, the ball was stabbed away.

He almost kicked an empty kick, and if a player kicked the air, it would cause a lot of damage to his knee ligaments, and if he didn't warm up enough, he might be carried off the court.

Fortunately, Chu Zhongtian had a little hazy premonition in his heart, so he stopped his foot in time and didn't fully exert his strength, so he didn't strain the cruciate ligament of his knee.

He fixed his eyes on Salihovic.

What's going on? Salihovic has never been in contact with himself alone, so what's wrong with him today? He actually took the initiative to run up and break his ball?

He looked at Salihovic, and he knew that the other party must have something to say.

"The coach said that shooting training should be combined with defensive interference." Salihovich spoke, but his expression was still a little unnatural. He didn't even know what was going on just now, and when he saw Chu Zhongtian doing the wrong practice there, he felt uncomfortable, and then he ran over and stabbed the ball that Chu Zhongtian was about to shoot from behind. If Chu Zhongtian's kick is strong, then there is a good chance that he will strain his ligaments. I'm in trouble. Although he complained a little about Chu Zhongtian snatching away his core position, he would not use such despicable means to regain his position.

Now that everything has been done, there is no need to think about why again. Salihovic tried his best to make his tone and expression natural, and said to Chu Zhongtian. But as soon as he opened his mouth, he still felt that he was teaching Chu Zhongtian a lesson.

Fortunately, Chu Zhongtian's reaction was not to dwell on this, but to spread out his hands and said with a smile: "But I have no opponent." ”

He is also right, although he has a good relationship with Ibisevic, but people also have other people's habits, not everyone will stay with him after training for 45 minutes because they have a good relationship with him.

Salihovic didn't know what was going on with him today, maybe it was the upcoming match against Borussia Dortmund that gave him some impulses that he didn't normally have.

Hearing Chu Zhongtian say this, his words blurted out: "I'll be your opponent!" ”

After speaking, he and Chu Zhongtian were stunned.

(To be continued)