Chapter 94: Second Victory (2)
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In the past ten minutes, there was a strange scene on the field, Hoffenheim in addition to goalkeeper Haas other nine players into their own offensive and defensive system, and the cooperation is very tacit, although the technique is a little rough, but occasionally there are a few feet like a smart pass, but on the right, today's starting German B king, many Cologne fans also buy tickets to watch the object - Li Huan, he has his own system so honestly defending in the back, once he gets the ball, he drives straight into the half of Cologne, Unless he encounters the opponent's heavy defense, Li Huan basically will not pass the ball in the middle, and the ball passed by Li Huan will generally be passed back to him to let him continue to attack. Unless the player receiving the ball is pressed too quickly to pass the ball.
But it can't be said that Li Huan is too alone, because Li Huan basically made high-quality bottom crosses in the first ten minutes, and his passing line was very tricky, with bocce balls, high-altitude balls, and hitting the top of the arc of the penalty area to create long-range opportunities for teammates. In the first ten minutes, Li Huan had a total of five crosses, each of which landed at a different point, and the only thing in common was that Li Huan's passes were able to accurately find his companions.
Hoffenheim's forwards Alkhoff and Stiku are terrible and have average individual ability, but the cooperation between the two is very tacit, and they are followed by a real strength who has not yet played Sarihovic. Li Huan's passing still put a lot of pressure on Cologne's defense.
Cologne's left-back Greek Gramozis was worried about Li Huan's inward cut, and he didn't dare to easily stretch out his foot to block Li Huan's cross, but now he had to start intercepting, the midfielder couldn't intercept Li Huan, and if he didn't block his cross, Hoffenheim would score sooner or later.
Originally, Gramozis was very difficult to defend Li Huan, Li Huan's speed was very fast, and it was a little difficult for the central defender and the back to fill the position, Gramozis went up to block Li Huan's cross and then took care of the other, the Greek body is strong, but the speed is average, and Li Huan's body is not weaker than him, the explosiveness and starting power can catch him up to a half, in the 18th minute, Gramozis stepped forward for the first time to block, and Li Huan deducted him into the penalty area.
The 20-year-old German youth team's main central defender Matip defended very decisively, but today he was a little decisive, directly tackled in the penalty area, he thought he could tackle the ball, but Li Huan used his right foot to pull the ball behind him lightly and dialed it to the side of his left foot at the moment when he kicked out, Matip's tall body did not touch the ball but knocked Li Huan to the ground.
If it weren't for Li Huan's pull and pull, maybe the referee Songke would have let it go vaguely, after all, this is Cologne's home field, but Li Huan's two actions made Mathieson's tackle completely turn into a head. The referee could only award a penalty and gave Mattieson a yellow card.
Mattheeson lay on the ground looking very annoyed, and his left-back Gramozis, who was not far away, looked similar to him, and the penalty was awarded to Hoffenheim by the two men.
Rannick, the head coach who has been keeping an eye on Li Huan's every move, stood up suddenly, took the lead in applauding, Songke awarded this penalty means that Hoffenheim is basically ahead, Li Huan's personal goals will reach three, three goals in two games, Rangnick believes that no matter how picky reporters and fans are, they will not find fault again.
"Bang Bang!" More than 300 Hoffenheim fans in the stands suddenly burst into warm applause, although the number of 300 people is small, but it is one-tenth of the population of Hoffenheim Village, if you don't want to see Li Huan's starting performance, it is normal to come to 100 people. And today's performance of Li Huan also made the away team fans very satisfied.
It was Li Huan who took the penalty, and Sarihovic could only stand and watch from the side, this was Rangnick's pre-game order, no player dared to violate it, in fact, even if there was no coach's order, Li Huan would mostly become the penalty kick and free kick penalizer, in the usual training, Li Huan repeatedly let them see the magic skills of Xiao Li's flying knife.
The commentator of Cologne said nervously: "Mr. 9 million stood in front of the penalty spot, this is a penalty of his own making, in the first 18 minutes of the game, he caused a lot of trouble for Gramozis, and now the trouble has finally reached the penalty area, Mathieson made a big mistake, this young man loves to be confident, and it is not a good habit to put a tackle in the box." It seems that this penalty is probably a must-score, Li Huan's penalty has never missed so far, will he make an exception today? Entered, entered, entered! Oh! Oh, God! It's so easy! Hoffenheim took a 1-0 lead. ”
Li Huan easily hit the ball into the dead corner of the goal, and Mondragon's flying save did not touch a single ball hair, and could only watch the ball go into the net.
The stands of the Rhein Energy Stadium, which can accommodate more than 50,000 people, once again burst into applause and cheers, and the applause of more than 300 people did not look sparse in such a large stadium, and the neat applause and team songs instantly filled every corner of the stadium.
Rangnick was very excited when he made the penalty, and now he is sitting calmly in the coach's box, he has seen the dawn of the first away win, not because of a 1-0 lead, but he saw the low morale of the Cologne team, the immature tactical deployment, and the incorrect defense of the star Li Huan, Hasler, who has just retired for two years, is obviously far from meeting the requirements of coaching the professional league, the pre-game arrangements are not clear at all, or the tactics he arranged have not had the desired effect, and the head coach Lature has just left class, Hasler did not suppress the authority of these players who had just come down from the Bundesliga. It was a lucky thing to meet such a team at a time when Hoffenheim's morale was just getting a little higher, and a win would make the average Hoffenheim more confident and united.
Li Huan still didn't hug his teammates, he still chose to run to the stands and be with the fans, there was a strange scene on the field again, the other players of Hoffenheim celebrated together, and Li Huan was alone on the sidelines to celebrate with the fans.
Cologne's interim coach Hassler looked at the celebrating Hoffenheim fans and players with a gloomy expression, he really wanted to play well, and he also wanted to be able to usurp the throne and be a professional coach, this is the opportunity given to him by God, his opponent Hoffenheim is not a strong team, that is, the last game only broke the embarrassing situation of six games without a win, but the penalty made by Li Huan made Hassler give up his dream, these players did not do what he deployed before the war, and played the game completely according to their own preferences, Seven consecutive losses in the first row don't seem to be accidental, and Latourde's dismissal may not be a regret, but a relief, and it's really painful to watch these people play.
Hoffenheim's penalty hit the already demoralized Cologne team even more devastation, and the head coach Hasler stood on the sidelines and shouted for a big victory to no avail, and soon Hoffenheim's second goal came again, the team's core Saarihovic and the two strikers played a small combination and then burst into the penalty area to shoot, rewriting the score to 2-0.
The excitement of the Hoffenheim fans was not yet over, when Li Huan's cross found Olhoff, and the Hoffenheim striker scored his fifth goal of the season in the long box, and on 25 minutes, Hoffenheim took a 3-0 lead away from home to essentially seal the win.
Olhoff's goal finally broke the bottom line in the hearts of Cologne fans, and there was a noisy noise at the Rheinenergy Stadium, and the fans began to boo the home team's players, and the applause and singing of the away team's fans were quickly drowned out in the boos of more than 20,000 people, and the whole stadium could only hear the home team fans booing their players.
Olhoff picked up his thumb and ran to Li Huan excitedly, he was less than one meter eight tall, and he didn't want to be able to score a header in the Cologne penalty area, but Li Huan's pass was too accurate, past Schneider, who was two meters tall, and fell above his head, Olhoff didn't even need to jump, and directly shook his head to break through Mondragon's ten fingers.
This was the first player from Hoffenheim to hug Li Huan, Li Huan did not refuse, and hugged the striker who took the initiative to show him goodwill. Li Huan believes that as long as he can continue to assist his teammates, it will be a matter of time before he is accepted by them, because getting a comfortable pass makes his teammates happy than saying a hundred good words to the opponent. In a football club, most of the relationships are built through passing, assisting, and helping to defend during the game, like comrades on the battlefield.
"Thank you for the pass, Lee!" Olhoff said gratefully.
"That's what I'm supposed to do." After saying this, Li Huan suddenly found that this dialogue was very similar to his own jersey number, very stupid 13, just like what Lei Feng often said when he was learning to do good deeds in elementary school, Li Huan couldn't help laughing, and said: "If you can keep up with me with the ball, you can win the league silver boot award." ”
Olhoff didn't understand for a moment, and said, "Why the Silver Boots?" ”
Li Huan smiled and replied: "Because I may be more advanced than you." ”
Olhoff suddenly smiled and said, "The Silver Boot Award is also a great thing." ”
Rangnick on the sidelines saw that the players began to take the initiative to hug and celebrate with Li Huan, he was very happy, he believed that this was just the beginning, there would be more players to accept Li Huan in the future, there was a layer of paper between jealousy and worship, when the strength of the object of jealousy reached the point that the jealous can never catch up, this jealousy easily turned into worship, Li Huan, like all other geniuses, has the strength to make people worship.
After 3-0, Hoffenheim slightly recycled the formation and played a steady game, Cologne finally got a little respite, and held up until the end of the first half without being scored by Hoffenheim again.
(To be continued)