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On November 3, in the Champions League group stage, Hoffenheim defeated their opponents with a score of 3:0 at the home stadium of Besiktas, avenging the previous draw by the opponent at their home stadium. www.biquge.info The Turkish team's devil's home stadium didn't work against Hoffenheim, and the frantic shouts of the Besiktas fans couldn't stop Hoffenheim from putting the ball into their goal three times.

Salihovic, Eduardo and Kararov each scored a goal in this game, while Chu Zhongtian contributed an assist.

The game also saw Hoffenheim leapfrog Manchester United in the group, with both teams equally on eight points, but Hoffenheim had the advantage on goal difference. After four group games, Hoffenheim beat CSKA Moscow 3-0, drew 2-2 with Manchester United, drew 0-0 with Besiktas, beat Besiktas 3-0, scored eight goals and conceded two, and the goal difference was six. Manchester United, on the other hand, scored seven goals and conceded five, with a goal difference of two.

Manchester United were held to a 3-3 draw at home by CSKA in this matchday. It was this draw that gave Hoffenheim a chance to catch up with Manchester United. In this season's Champions League group stage, last season's runner-up Manchester United has not won at home in either of their two home games, but they have also beaten Besiktas and CSKA Moscow 1-0 away respectively.

Originally, everyone thought that Manchester United would definitely qualify from this group, but now they have to re-observe this group. Hoffenheim are in good shape at the moment, but Manchester United are full of crises.

After a big win over Besiktas, Hoffenheim showed their inconsistency with a 2-1 defeat to VfL Wolfsburg. This team is young and full of energy and energy, but it is still a little less than good at maintaining consistency.

After this round of the league, there was bad news in German football. The No. 1 goalkeeper of the national team, Robert Brown, who plays for Hannover 96. Enke (robert_enke) was hit by a train at a railroad crossing and died, and at first everyone thought it was a traffic accident. Soon after, it was revealed that Enke had committed suicide because of depression. There is a renewed focus on the mental health of footballers. In Germany, Enke is not the first player to suffer from depression, and the talented midfielder of German football, Deisler, was forced to retire early due to depression.

Even Hoffenheim's centre-back Simunic suffered from depression in his early years, which was not cured until he turned to a psychiatrist when he moved to Hertha Berlin. Hoffenheim now has a resident psychiatrist in the squad to prevent the players from developing depression. Because most players live in a stressful environment for a long time, many people don't know why they are depressed and lack understanding of each other, so it is easy to fall into the abyss of emotions.

Enke's death put the topic of depression in footballers at the heart of the discussion in German football. Everyone is concerned about the health of the players. Hoffenheim are proud of this, they have a professional psychiatrist, and they have a strong captain. No one has ever seen Chu Zhongtian at a low point of emotion, although he is not the kind of player who likes to make trouble, but he is never pessimistic. On the contrary, when his teammates feel pessimistic, he can also encourage everyone to get out of this pessimism. Just like what Chu Zhongtian did when he won the championship last season at the most critical time, after Ibisevic was injured.

So when it came to depression, Ibisevic specifically thanked Chu Zhongtian in an interview with reporters. If it hadn't been for Chu Zhongtian's timely appearance, he might have suffered from depression...... Chu Zhongtian himself did not escape this discussion, and the Chinese media did not forget to call Chu Zhongtian when reporting Enke's death, so Chu Zhongtian's phone always rang at any time these days, even when he was sleeping at night, which made him have to turn off his mobile phone at night - because Emily and himself were not in the same time zone, their mobile phones were not turned off 24 hours a day.

Chu Zhongtian has nothing else to say about Enke's death except regret, at most, he is facing the media's inquiries and recalling what kind of person this person is. But apart from a few fights on the court, he and Enke have no other contact, and I don't know what kind of person this is. So in the end his answer was somewhat cookie-cutter: "He's a good guy......"

Speaking of depression, Chu Zhongtian said that he had no trouble at all: "I live a full and satisfying life every day, why do I have depression?" Stressed? That's not a problem for me, pressure is motivation. ”

Chu Zhongtian was on the sidelines of the Chinese team's training ground at the time of the interview, and he had flown from Germany to Lebanon to represent the Chinese team in the qualifiers for the 2011 Asian Cup, and their opponent was Lebanon.

Prior to this, in the two qualifiers in January, the Chinese team lost to Syria away and won at home against Vietnam, and currently has three points, the same as Vietnam. In the two games this time, facing Lebanon, the weakest team in this group, the Chinese team must win both to ensure the advantage of qualifying.

So in this game, Chu Zhongtian rushed thousands of miles to help, flew over from Germany, and participated in the competition.

Because of the schedule, there was a conflict between the second game of the Chinese team and the Bundesliga, so the two sides launched a fierce competition for Chu Zhongtian.

Hoffenheim originally only planned to let Chu Zhongtian go back to play a game, and after the Chinese team played the away game against Lebanon, Chu Zhongtian was going to come back. The Chinese Football Association hopes that Chu Zhongtian will participate in two games and then go back. If that is the case, he will miss Hoffenheim's away league game against Cologne, which is played on November 20, while China's second game is on November 22. Not only that, if Chu Zhongtian plays both games, it will also affect Hoffenheim's Champions League group stage, according to the schedule, Hoffenheim's fifth Champions League group stage is to kick off on the evening of November 25, and Chu Zhongtian After playing the game with Lebanon, even if he rushes back to Germany overnight, there is only two days of training and adjustment time on the 23rd and 24th, and considering that he has traveled tens of thousands of kilometers back and forth and has no time to rest, what kind of physical state can Chu Zhongtian use to play at that time, It's really worrying. Even if it's iron, I can't stand such a toss.

So before Chu Zhongtian returned to China, Hoffenheim Club and the Chinese Football Association engaged in a fierce tug-of-war. And this war has already begun, not in the past two days. The two sides have their own opinions, Hoffenheim has the interests of Hoffenheim, and the Chinese Football Association also has the interests of the Chinese Football Association.

Chu Zhongtian expressed his thoughts to Rangnick that he still wanted to go back to participate in the national team competition. Now the national team regards him as the core, which makes him feel that he has hope and hope to play in the national team, so the motivation is much higher than before. However, Rangnick has his own arrangements and does not let Chu Zhongtian go, Rangnick doesn't care about the needs of the Chinese team, he only knows the needs of his side. Chu Zhongtian can't help it, he can't protest by boycotting, right? In order to play for the national team, it's not worth making a fuss like this, otherwise this time I will return to China to play, and when I come back from the national team, my days in this team will come to an end...... Later, he simply shut up and didn't care about anything, anyway, whoever wins, he listens to whomever he wants.

In the case of a dispute, the Chinese Football Association sued FIFA about the matter. In the end, FIFA issued an arbitration order, and the Chinese national team asked for a good reason to call up players Chu Zhongtian, because the Asian Cup qualifiers are international A-level events recognized by FIFA, and the national team has the right to recruit players, and the club cannot stop it. In the end, Hoffenheim had to let Chu Zhongtian return to China to participate in two Asian Cup qualifiers for the national team.

Although the two sides had a bit of an unpleasant quarrel because of this, it can also be seen from this incident how important Hoffenheim is to the Chinese national team and Hoffenheim now.

Chu Zhongtian, who returned to the national team, followed the team for a day of training and started to challenge Lebanon. The final result of this game was a 3-0 victory for the Chinese team away from home, and despite the terrible field, Chu Zhongtian's dispatch and command made the victory of the Chinese team not very difficult, and he also scored a penalty himself. And it turned out to be his first goal for the national team in several years...... After finishing their match in Lebanon, the Chinese team returned to China to prepare for the second leg of the match between the two sides on the evening of November 22.

Prior to this game, Hoffenheim played their thirteenth round of the league and were held to a 2-2 draw by Cologne without Chu Zhongtian. CCTV 5 broadcast the game live, and although it was the middle of the night, Chu Zhongtian still watched the whole game in his hotel room. Without him, there was some confusion in the midfield organization, and neither Zucurini nor Sana could replace him.

Deng Zhuoxiang, a newcomer to the national team who lives in a room with Chu Zhongtian, watched the game with him, as a junior, Deng Zhuoxiang has always admired Chu Zhongtian very much, and this time he was very happy to be able to live in a room with Chu Zhongtian. By watching this game today, he realized the power of Chu Zhongtian again, and his admiration for Chu Zhongtian was even greater.

simply seized the time to study in the room, and kept asking questions to Chu Zhongtian about this competition.

Chu Zhongtian didn't have a fight, and he also answered them one by one. The two of them watched the game, but they saw a lot of insights.

What Deng Zhuoxiang learned from Chu Zhongtian by watching the game quickly came in handy, and the Chinese team faced Lebanon at home, Deng Zhuoxiang started the game, assisted Dewey to score a goal in front of the goal, and helped the Chinese team take the lead.

This is his first international A-level game, and his first appearance for the national team is a good start.

And before he assisted, it was Chu Zhongtian who passed the ball to him, and this was the harvest of the two of them watching the game together in the middle of the night the day before.

Considering that Chu Zhongtian would have to face the Champions League when he went back, Gao Hongbo only let Chu Zhongtian play for 65 minutes before replacing him. When he left the game, Chu Zhongtian received cheers and applause from the Chinese fans in the audience.

In order to be in a hurry, Chu Zhongtian, who was substituted, didn't even wait for the game to end, went back alone to take a shower, changed clothes, and went directly to Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport in Xu Xiaodi's car, where he flew to Shanghai, and then from Shanghai to Frankfurt, Germany, and finally from Frankfurt back to Hoffenheim. It's like a celebrity rushing to perform, so busy that he doesn't even have time to sleep.

Chu Zhongtian only learned the result of the Chinese team when he was waiting for boarding at Xiaoshan International Airport, and the Chinese team defeated Lebanon 1:0 by relying on Deng Zhuoxiang's goal to assist Dewey. Two consecutive wins have left China with nine points, while Vietnam lost at home to Syria and drew away to accumulate seven points. In the rankings, the Chinese team won the second place in the group, and the last two games, playing Syria at home and challenging Vietnam away, as long as the home draw against Syria, it should not be a big problem to play Vietnam away. Chu Zhongtian is likely to participate in the Asian Cup for the first time as the captain.

When Chu Zhongtian returned to his home in Hoffenheim from China, it was already past ten o'clock local time on the evening of the 22nd, and he fell asleep directly on the bus from Frankfurt to Hoffenheim. Driving him was his agent, Mr. Merry, who was here in Europe.

Merry originally wanted to talk to him about finding a personal assistant, but when he saw that Chu Zhongtian had just gotten into the car and didn't say a few words, he tilted his head and snored, and he had to put this matter aside for the time being.

Chu Zhongtian's physical fitness is indeed good, but this does not mean that he can still be idle in the case of lack of sleep, he is a player, not a cultivator.

So Chu Zhongtian, who appeared on the training ground the next day, looked a little listless. Rangnick only watched it for a while, and then asked Chu Zhongtian not to train today and go home to rest.

As a result, Chu Zhongtian did not have a systematic joint training with the team until the start of the game with CSKA Moscow. Because this game is an away game, and he is going to Moscow in the ice and snow to challenge CSKA, Chu Zhongtian has just returned to Germany from China, and a day later, he will take a plane to Moscow. In the past week, he has traveled more than 20,000 kilometers on the plane alone, and he has spent almost 24 hours on the plane, which is not a pleasure.

One can imagine what his state was like.

The core is not in good shape, and it is now the end of November, Moscow has already entered winter, and there was heavy snow on the day of the game, and CSKA used artificial turf at the Luzhniki Stadium, and Hoffenheim's players were very uncomfortable with playing artificial turf in heavy snowy weather. As a result, they lost 1-2 away to CSKA Moscow.

Chu Zhongtian's performance was mediocre, and the feeling of commanding on the court in the past was completely unfound. After 67 minutes, Rangnick replaced him with Zuculini. He himself felt very depressed and dissatisfied with his performance. But what's the solution? The situation of the Chinese team in the Asian Cup has improved, and he will have to pay the price that Hoffenheim's prospects of qualifying for the Champions League group have become uncertain.

Hoffenheim lost and it was a good opportunity for their opponents Manchester United to complete the comeback as the game was played later. As a result, Manchester United lost 0-1 at their own home stadium to Besiktas, the weakest side in the group! It was an upset.

Now the situation has become even more chaotic with the emergence of this group.

With five rounds of the group stage played and the final round remaining, Group B standings like this: Hoffenheim are top of the table on goal difference and have eight points. Manchester United, on the other hand, also have eight points, and could have topped the group with eleven points if they had beaten Besiktas at home, but unfortunately they did not take such a good opportunity themselves.

CSKA Moscow, on the other hand, went from four to seven points after a home win over Hoffenheim, and are just one point away from qualifying for first and second place in the group. Besiktas also have four points after playing away at Manchester United. With one round left in the group stage, all four teams in this group have the hope of qualifying and being eliminated from the Champions League knockout round, except for Besiktas, who is already doomed to the knockout round. Even Besiktas will be hoping to finish third in the group and qualify for the fifth round of the League Cup.

And the final round of this group is also very interesting. Hoffenheim and Manchester United will meet at the Rhine-Neckar Stadium, while CSKA Moscow travels to Besiktas. The different outcomes of these two games will lead to a variety of dramatic scenes.

If Hoffenheim beat Manchester United at home stadium – which is not out of the question, just look at their home stadium – and CSKA Moscow beat Besiktas in the opening game, the Reds would be knocked out of the tournament and Hoffenheim and CSKA Moscow would be the biggest upset in the Champions League group stage.

If Manchester United beat Hoffenheim away and CSKA Moscow still beat Besiktas, then it would be Manchester United and CSKA Moscow who have joined forces to qualify, and Hoffenheim will end up playing in the UEFA Cup.

If Manchester United draw with Hoffenheim and CSKA Moscow win, then United will also be eliminated from the competition. Then there is the fate of the four teams in many cases of a draw and a loss for CSKA Moscow.

Originally, when the draw was just over, everyone thought that Manchester United had drawn a good draw, and there were few teams in this group that could threaten their prospects of qualifying, whether it was Hoffenheim, the champion of the Bundesliga last season, or CSKA Moscow, the runner-up of the Russian Premier League, and the Turkish powerhouse Besiktas, all of which had to fight for second place in the group. Who would have thought that before the final round of the group stage, the situation of this group would turn out like this...... The key is that Manchester United did not play well at home in the group stage this time, and the Old Trafford stadium was considered the most difficult home stadium in the whole of Europe, and Manchester United had a huge advantage in this category, and the players often played extraordinary. It was here that Rome was slaughtered 7:1. Who would have thought that this season, in all three home games in the group stage, Manchester United drew two and lost one, and there was no win, which greatly dragged down their results, otherwise, Manchester United should have qualified in advance.

Hoffenheim's situation was surprisingly good at first, but a draw at home to Besiktas and a defeat away to CSKA Moscow wiped out their advantage.

CSKA Moscow came back to life with a win over Besiktas, a win over Hoffenheim and a draw with Manchester United, and regained hope in the final minute of the group stage.

Group B of the Champions League group stage is really a mess.

(To be continued)