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After winning Wolfsburg, Hoffenheim won another league game against Cologne in the 14th round of the league on November 22. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, this game cost Hoffenheim a big player...... Chu Zhongtian accumulated two yellow cards in the match against Cologne and was expelled from the game with a red card.

The race started to smell of gunpowder from Hoffenheim's lead. The players of Cologne think that the goal of Demba. Ba was offside, although the replay of the televised slow-motion showed it was a good shot. But the Cologne players didn't care so much, and they decided that it must be the referee's bias towards Hoffenheim. Cologne's head coach Daum was even more furious off the field, shouting and reprimanding the manager, for which he summoned the manager's verbal warning......

In the second half, the smell of gunpowder became stronger and stronger, and in the 52nd minute, Canadian defender McKenna (kevin_mckenna) was directly shown a red card for a tackle on Salihovic in the midfield. Four minutes later, Chu Zhongtian knocked down Xi Xi (adil_chihi), who had already passed the football out, and received his second yellow card of the game, and was also punished.

Although Hoffenheim won the game with a score of 2:1, the coaches of both sides continued to fight with words in the subsequent press conference and after the game, and pushed Chu Zhongtian to the forefront.

At the press conference, Cologne's head coach Daum (christoph_daum) said that the referee gave Hoffenheim "special preferential treatment": "I don't think there has been too much praise about Hoffenheim in the media recently, and the referees also like the kind of team that plays beautiful football." They are always portrayed by the media as playing beautiful football and how cute they are, but they are pressuring the referee on the sidelines to send their opponents off. I would say it was the most unfair scene I could ever see in the stadium, a big stain on the image of the clean people in the village. He was referring to McKenna's flying tackle on Salihovic, which happened right in front of Hoffenheim's bench, when the entire Hoffenheim bench rushed to the sidelines, blaming McKenna for the tackle and demanding that the referee show McKenna a card.

Then he turned his words and pointed the finger at Chu Zhongtian: "Chu's violation of the rules is completely revenge!" Heeki had already passed the ball out, but he kicked him down from behind! I think he deserves an additional penalty! ”

At present, Chu Zhongtian is suspended for one round by default, and if he really wants to be punished by the addition, he will definitely not be able to participate in the next round of the key game against Bayern Munich. His words immediately made the atmosphere at the scene tense.

Rangnick immediately hit back at Daum: "It's clear to everyone whether we've been treated favorably or not. I respect the referee's decision, unlike some people who always babble and complain, and I think that's why they don't get 'preferential treatment'. Of course, I would say that we have never been treated favorably by the referee. But for Chu, I want to talk about it. People remember McKenna's ferocious flying tackle against Salihovic, but how many people know that Chu was violated as many as 11 times in the first 56 minutes of this game, an average of once every 5 minutes! And what is the highest number of violations in the Bundesliga right now? Nineteen minutes at a time! Of these eleven times, some of them were not blown by the referee, and some were blown up. Every part of his lower body was violated by his opponents. Now that he has only violated his opponent once and has been attacked, should all the Cologne players be collectively punished with additional penalties and suspended for three rounds? ”

Rangnick is polite most of the time, and looks like a real "professor", but he is also terrible if he starts a fire. Daum was immediately enraged by his words.

After the press conference, he straightened up and left the scene, without even shaking Rangnick's hand.

Later, Daum defended himself in the media that he and Rangnick had no personal grudges, but no one believed him. The two of them must not like each other...... There are also a lot of rumors around whether Chu Zhongtian will be punished additionally, and it will be said for a while that Chu Zhongtian may be suspended for two rounds for a retaliatory foul, just missing the news with Bayern Munich. After a while, he said that Chu Zhongtian would not be punished additionally, he had nothing to do, and he was determined to participate in the match with Bayern Munich.

In China, there was a big criticism of Daum, many Chinese media and fans thought Daum was talking nonsense, and the activists on the lips demanded that Daum apologize to all the Chinese fans and Chinese people who were hurt by him - of course, Daum himself did not know about these things.

Because of Daum's words, Chu Zhongtian has also received a lot of media attention, in the eyes of some people, Chu Zhongtian is indeed a move that has lost his calm, when Xi Xi has already passed the football out, but he came from behind and directly swept Xi Xi down. There are also some people who defend Chu Zhongtian, thinking that Chu Zhongtian is just a little slower, he didn't kick people on purpose, and Xixi's action of falling to the ground is too exaggerated, "He 'fell' almost one person high, and the loud scream can be heard by the whole audience." Others believe that it is important to look at what Cologne did before blaming Chu Zhongtian, citing the data provided by Rangnick in his post-match press conference to show how wronged Chu Zhongtian was.

But no matter what, everyone still wants to hear what Chu Zhongtian himself thinks about this matter.

"It was indeed a foul." Chu Zhongtian admitted, "But I think the other party was a little exaggerated when he fell." I kicked him, but not hard, and he screamed so much that I thought I had kicked his leg. He followed and defended himself.

His subtext is actually - the red card has punished me, so don't throw dirt on my head anymore, and I'm not a bully.

Although Daum is a senior in German football, he said this about himself, Chu Zhongtian will still be unhappy, and since he is unhappy, he will fight back. At the time of the press conference, Chu Zhongtian was not there, otherwise he would definitely defend himself.

Daum didn't continue on the subject, and he then fell silent. News of the match in the media quickly faded away, and more eyes were on ...... One round later, on December 5, Hoffenheim travel to Bayern Munich and, if nothing else, it will be a battle for the top two in the league.

In fact, the media hype about Hoffenheim and Bayern Munich is not very recent, the league has just started, and the two teams are often compared by people. At that time, Bayern Munich started badly, while Hoffenheim was soaring, the best and worst are always easy to compare together, Hoffenheim as a promoted zebra, no one is optimistic, but people believe that Bayern Munich will be the league champion this season. That all changed after Hoffenheim was born.

When people talk about Hoffenheim, they always piggyback on Bayern Munich - "The dark horses are doing well, they will launch a strong attack on Bayern Munich!" ”

"Hoffenheim's owner was able to buy Bayern Munich, but he chose to invest in an amateur team!"

"Ibisevic scored more goals alone than Bayern Munich's three strikers combined!"

“…… So far, in various technical statistics, Hoffenheim has beaten Bayern Munich! ”

"Bayern naps, Huocun rises!"

"The Little Village team is a year older than Bayern Munich!"

…… At that time, Bayern Munich had a kind of "Lao Tzu was shot while lying down!" "The indignation. So when Ribery asked Hoffenheim about the score in the dressing room, he got a lot of eyes from his teammates - the Bayern players were very unhappy with the constant mention of Hoffenheim's name in front of them and the use of Hoffenheim as evidence to denounce their poor performances. In their eyes, Hoffenheim is Hoffenheim, they are them. Hoffenheim playing well is a good thing, of course, but what does it have to do with yourself? Why is it always customary for everyone to praise Hoffenheim while scolding Bayern Munich?

This sentiment has accumulated after a long period of media hype, which has caused Bayern Munich's players to have a somewhat skewed view of Hoffenheim. Many people do not have a good impression of Hoffenheim, and they will express contempt for Hoffenheim when they mention it.

Now the media is getting even crazier and all the German sports media are talking about the game that has only two weeks to go.

First, the media began to put forward a very intriguing speculation - "Can Ibisevic, who has scored 17 goals in 14 league games, score 40 league goals in one season?" ”

Note that the "forty" here does not refer to the sum of all the goals scored in the league and cup competitions, but refers to the league goals alone.

Such a remarkable achievement was achieved thirty-eight years ago by the famous German bomber Ged. In the 1971-1972 season, Muller (gerd_muller) set the Bundesliga record of 44 goals scored in a single season - 44 goals.

In modern football, which is increasingly focused on defence, this is an almost impossible miracle to achieve. But why is the media suddenly interested in this? Because some media made a side-by-side comparison - Ibisevic scored 17 goals in 14 league games, which is a remarkable achievement, a very terrifying goal efficiency: the average goal rate per game is more than one. Such a high goal percentage is the highest in Europe's top four leagues, ahead of Barcelona's samuel_eto'o, who has scored 13 goals in 12 games.

You must know that in the past, when Alofs, Vorfath and Bobic were the top scorers in the Bundesliga, the result was only 17 goals in the whole season.

So who is better than him in history? There is only one person. "Bomber" Gad. Muller, who scored nineteen goals in 14 rounds in 1967-1968 and 20 goals in 14 rounds in 1968-1969. Another legendary goalscorer, Borussia Mönchengladbach's striker Piete. Meyer, on the other hand, scored 17 goals in 14 rounds in the 1967-1968 season, equalling Ibisevic.

And Gad. Muller scored only 11 goals in the first 14 rounds of that crazy season of 40 goals, and Ibisevic is now starting much higher than him, and if he continues to be in such crazy form, 40 goals a season is not an impossible luxury.

Even the bomber himself, who coached Bayern Munich's B team, Ged . Muller came out to praise Ibisevic, believing that the Bosnian striker could break his 38-year-old record.

After Hoffenheim's win over Bielefeld, Ibisevic added another goal and now has scored eighteen goals in 15 rounds. The legend himself came out in solidarity with Ibisevic, "anything is possible. If he continues, then he can definitely reach the forty-goal mark and then I will congratulate him. In an interview with Deutsche Sport, Gerd . Mueller said. In the opinion of the former Ballon d'Or winner, "the instinct to score goals is something you can't learn. Some have, some don't, and Ibisevic undoubtedly does. ”

Everyone focused their attention on Ibisevic, and the legend also spoke personally, believing that Ibisevic could inherit his mantle, and all the visible and invisible pressures were focused on Ibisevic. In order to relieve the pressure on his disciples, Rangnick had to come out and "sing" about Ibisevic: "I don't think it's easy to score 40 goals in a season. Now we are not thinking about him scoring 40 goals in a season, but winning the next game. ”

Ibisevic himself is quite smart, and he said he was flattered to be favored by the legend himself, but he didn't think he could score so many goals, maybe if you analyzed it purely in terms of goal percentage, but football is not that simple.

In an interview with reporters, he also made a joke. "I've heard of another guy who did the same, but then he wasn't doing well? I don't want to be his ......."

Ibisevic is talking about the aforementioned man who is on a par with him - Borussia Mönchengladbach's goalscorer Pitt. Meyer. The striker scored seventeen goals in the 14 rounds of the 1967-1968 season, second only to Gade, who scored 19 goals in the same 14 rounds. Muller, that's a great achievement. But the hapless brother, who scored 19 goals in 18 rounds, was devastated by a training injury, and he broke a bone in his leg during the winter break and retired two years later.

Hoffenheim appeared to be calm, but Bayern Munich were reluctant to put Hoffenheim in a calm preparation environment.

Bayern Munich actively cooperated with the media and put pressure on Hoffenheim. The club's and Germany's football history legend, the legendary Beckenbauer, has come out to predict Hoffenheim's winter league title.

The club's current chairman, Karl-heinz_rummenigge, simply said that Hoffenheim could win the Bundesliga this season.

This can be regarded as a shocking statement, let alone from the mouth of the chairman of the Bundesliga hegemon Bayern Munich. Bayern Munich have always treated the Bundesliga as their own backyard, where they can dominate and as long as they don't make mistakes, the league title can't run.

In the face of this remark, Rangnick hurriedly came out to relieve pressure: "Even if we win Bayern Munich in this game, it doesn't mean that we can win the league championship......"

Rangnick is well aware that this is Bayern Munich's psychological warfare. They have always been like this, and whenever they encounter a strong opponent, they will use this kind of psychological warfare, and the whole team will always come up with some off-the-field tricks to put psychological pressure on the opponent. It's just that the objects they used in the past were Schalke 04 and Werder Bremen, but now they have been replaced by promoted Mahoffenheim.

And don't think that they will only "kill the opponent" this trick.

Some people sing red faces, so naturally some people have to sing white faces.

The man who rushed forward in this regard was Bayern Munich's general manager Hoeness (uli_hoenes). Hoeness began by saying: "Obviously, we can get rid of them very easily, Hoffenheim only deserve to stop on our heels!" ”

In response to Hoeness's home game against Bielefeld, Hopenheim fans made banners like this: "How can an Audi outrun a Mercedes in Mannheim?" "Coupled with Hoffenheim's 3-0 win over Bielefeld, it was very powerful.

Audi is the sponsor of Bayern Munich, and Mercedes-Benz is headquartered in Mannheim, Hoffenheim's temporary home stadium is also called "Karl-Benz Stadium", fans use Audi to refer to Bayern Munich, Mercedes-Benz to refer to Hoffenheim, this metaphor is quite graphic and interesting. There is also a toughness in the humor that does not admit defeat.

Hoeness then criticized Hoffenheim for burning too much money. This sentence was refuted by Rangnick, who said that Hoffenheim spent 27 million euros a year on his salary, of which Chu Zhongtian's salary was the highest, which was 3 million euros after tax (author's note: it was written before 3 million before tax, which was a clerical error...... He is in the first grade. Obsi and Salihovic, as well as Ibisevic, are in the second tier, with an annual salary of 2 million euros, while a midfielder like Eduardo has an annual salary of only 1.3 million euros. What about Bayern Munich? The combined annual salaries of the three superstars of Ribery, Toney and Klose add up to at least 15 million euros, not counting the high salaries of the other stars.

Hoeness's accusations are somewhat clueless. Hoffenheim's manager Jan Brown. Shendelmaize (jan_schindelmeiser) shot back: "The income of Ribery, Toney and Klose alone could feed our entire team, and Hoffenheim's salary level is really many light years different from Bayern's!" ”

Then the media in Munich "inadvertently" revealed Rummenigge's ridicule of Hoffenheim at the FC Bayern annual meeting last month: "Since their name is 'Hoffenheim 1899', where have they been in the last 100 years? The media that reported on the incident also described it like this at the end of this sentence: "After speaking, there was laughter in the banquet. ”

Former Bayern legend Augenthaler (klaus_augenthaler) has expressed a degree of contempt for Hoffenheim and Ibisevic's performances, believing that Hoffenheim is not qualified enough to compete for the title, and Bayern Munich will win comfortably at the weekend.

For a while, there were more sarcastic articles about Hoffenheim in the media, as if it was back at the beginning of the season, when Hoffenheim became a bird, a target of public criticism, and made people feel fearful and disgusted.

Even Hoffenheim's owner, Hope, who is on vacation in Florida, USA, responded to the messy comments in the media during this time: "I had a good relationship with Beckenbauer, I thought I was good friends with Hoeness, but now I have to re-examine my relationship with him." I'm unhappy with Bayern's recent series of provocations, first Rummenigge ridiculing us for not knowing what we've been doing for the last 100 years, and then Hoeness starting to make a fuss about our input, and the next time I have the chance to meet him, I'll be sure to point out his mistakes to his face. ”

And after the three-goal win over Bielefeld, Hoffenheim's players also hit back at Bayern Munich's arrogant attitude.

The team's main centre-back, Comper, said: "This [three-goal win over Bielefeld] makes it clear to Bayern that we are favourites for the winter title. They should understand this by now. ”

Another German international, midfielder Weiss, said: "We will go to the Allianz Arena to prove to the whole of Germany how wrong those who say Bayern can easily beat us!" ”

Teber, who played against Bielefeld and re-wore the captain's armband, also said: "We have a lot of respect for Bayern, but we don't think they can beat us easily......

Chu Zhongtian, who was next to him, came up and interjected: "Maybe it's very difficult for them to even defeat us." The camera camera quickly pointed at him. Chu Zhongtian smiled at the camera: "Bayern Munich thinks they can win? How many balls is just to win? Then we'll let them try it. ”

Bosnian striker Ibisevic, who has exploded this season, scored again against Bielefeld and scored 18 goals after 15 rounds to give him confidence: "I hope to score against Bayern!" I'm in great shape right now, why not? ”

Rangnick tried hard to keep his team calm, but now it looks like he's failed...... The game was getting closer and closer, and in the war of words between the two sides, everyone could see the billowing gunpowder smoke and smell the thick smell of gunpowder from the air.

(To be continued)