Chapter 121: The Terminator
No one expected that Hoffenheim's winning streak had reached 22 games, and since beating Osbros in the 7th round, Hoffenheim has been invincible, whether it is the leader Karlsruhe or the relegated Offenbach, no one can stop their victory, luck, strength, in short, Hoffenheim will set off a bloody storm wherever he goes. Hoffenheim were also unstoppable in the other arena, having reached the semi-finals in February with a penalty shootout of Bundesliga side Nuremberg thanks to their winter break newcomers and youth youngsters.
Romantics thought it was a winter fairy tale; Cynics, on the other hand, would argue that the rise of the German Golden Dollar Club has set a dangerous precedent. The whole of Germany was screaming for Hoffenheim, and everyone was looking for a team that could stop Hoffenheim's advance.
In the face of such a strong hillbilly, the Bundesliga giant Bayern Munich, who has both fallen in the league and cup this season, also has to admire, Bayern's chairman His Excellency Beckenbauer said that this Hoffenheim can enter the Champions League, and the manager of Hoeness said sourly that in the entire history of the Bundesliga, Bayern is the strongest, and in the entire history of the Bundesliga, this Hoffenheim is the strongest, and their record is unmatched. The implication is that Hoffenheim can only dominate the Bundesliga.
Now not only Germany, but also the European media are starting to pay attention to this country team that is set to be promoted, and Thompson, the most popular female host of Sky Sports in the United Kingdom, joked in a football show, "The Bundesliga is a strange league, the defenders dominate the scorers for two seasons in a row, and the free-kick is taken as a penalty, and the league, which is a competition in which 17 other teams participate, and Hoffenheim wins." ”
In the end, no one expected that Andahji, who was facing relegation, the referee and luck ended Hoffenheim's winning streak, and in the 28th round of the Bundesliga, the third-to-last Andahjech hosted the leader Hoffenheim, and the difference between the two teams was as high as 35 points.
Andahgees discharged a 9-0-1 lineup at home, using dense defense to fight, in fact, Hoffenheim is an expert in breaking dense defense this season, and Andahage's defense is not too good, otherwise they would not sit on the third-to-last throne, but in addition to intensive defense, the referee has also become an accomplice, the referee Henryton looks like a black whistle, in fact he is a faint whistle, his tolerance for physical confrontation is outrageous, a game full of rough fouls was actually blown clean and elegant by him, Not even a single yellow card was issued. After the match, Rangnick said lightly that Henryton should have gone to officiate the kickboxing tournament, and he went to the wrong venue.
Luck and impatience are twin sisters, impatience makes bad luck, bad luck makes players more impatient, Hoffenheim hit a total of seven goalposts in this game, Li Huan hit three yuan, Li Huan, who couldn't cry and laughed, sighed and said, "It's not that we don't work hard, it's the goalposts that don't let us win." ”
After the game, almost all the newspapers and television broadcast the news, Andahge's hero against the invasion of money, Bild's said, "The 22-game winning streak ended by Andahge, which no one could have imagined, Andahge's did what Karlsruhe, Rostock, Hamburg did not do." If Hoffenheim were allowed to continue their winning streak like this, the only way to do that would be for them to play on Mars. ”
"Despite the end of the 22-game winning streak, Hoffenheim also broke the record for the longest winning streak in the German league, and their performance made everyone fearful, and this terror is now spreading to the Bundesliga," said The Kicker. Li Huan, who has scored 18 goals in 22 games, has become Hoffenheim's leading figure, and this is the second time he has been at the top of the scorers' charts, the last time in Karlsruhe, where he was named top scorer. New fans should also be reminded that the top scorer is a defender. ”
The beginning of the review of "442" is very poetic, "The great Hoffenheim was ended by the tiny Andahch, the king's throne is still unbreakable, but the flame of hope has been lit, a draw has appeared, will defeat be far away?" ”
Even the German non-sports media reported on the Bundesliga match, with the Mirror commenting after the game: "SAP's Mr. Hoppe's side were held to a draw by Andahge, after they had won 22 games in a row, but the miracle of the country team is still playing out, with five rounds to go, nine points ahead of second-placed Karlsruhe and third-placed Rostock, 12 points ahead of third-placed Rostock, and promotion to the Bundesliga is almost a foregone conclusion." Now, they have turned their attention to another battlefield - the German Cup. ”
Although the end of the winning streak made Hoffenheim's players a little unhappy, the head coach Rangnick thinks that it is good to keep a low profile, and it is not a good thing to be noticed and calculated before being promoted to the Bundesliga, and they do have reservations about this game, because they have an important German Cup game on Wednesday, away to Eintracht Frankfurt in the Bundesliga, they have reached the last four of the German Cup, and they can reach the final by beating Eintracht Frankfurt. Compete for the championship.
Hoffenheim's more than 100-year history is a blank slate, they have never won any professional honours or competed for trophies, and now they have the opportunity to play not only in Germany's highest professional league, but also in the German Cup in addition to the league trophy, if they beat Eintracht Frankfurt, of course.
Eintracht Frankfurt has not won any major honours for 18 years, and the desire to reach the final of the German Cup is no less than that of Hoffenheim, but Frankfurt has more concerns than Hoffenheim, because they are 15th in the league and are fighting for relegation.
Hoffenheim's club personnel were still celebrating in the hotel after being held to a draw by Andahge, and then head coach Rangnick announced that from now on, the team's goal is now to add the German Cup, Hoffenheim has not won a single honor, and they should bring more joy to the fans when the overall situation of the league is basically a foregone conclusion, and now Stuttgart, a team from the same state, is in second place in the league, and there is no small hope of winning the title, and they also reached the last four in the German Cup, if Stuttgart wins the double, Whether it's Hoffenheim, Karlsruhe or Freiburg, the living conditions will become even worse, and Baden is so big, fans and sponsors are attracted to Stuttgart, their fans will be reduced and funding will be even more scarce, as was Karlsruhe last season.
Based on this situation, Hoffenheim must expand its influence and strive to reach the final, and Hoffenheim eliminated Nuremberg in the last game so that the club not only believes that they beat Frankfurt, but also has a lot of confidence in winning the championship, this time there are not many strong teams in the top four of the German Cup, Stuttgart has to fight hard for the league title, Wolfsburg and Frankfurt can only be regarded as mid-table teams in the Bundesliga, according to the calculation of the Hoffenheim coaching staff, Hoffenheim should also be able to sit in the bottom half of the Bundesliga now, so as long as they can reach the final, winning the title is not out of the question.
However, Hoffenheim is not without a little worry, as the team's record is getting better and better, the media has more and more exposure to the players, and now Hoffenheim's Zhengtai has not only attracted the attention of many Bundesliga teams, but even the Premier League, La Liga and Serie A teams have extended their tentacles into this small village, but these foreign teams are not very familiar with Hoffenheim's players, and their managers mainly know these players through videos and highlights, and these things are often very unreliable, So it's the Bundesliga teams that really want to dig into Hoffenheim's corner, especially Stuttgart and Bayern Munich, which are closer.
Stuttgart killed two birds with one stone, and digging into the corner of Hoffenheim would not only strengthen themselves, but also crack down on the expansion of their own state, and Hoffenheim has now replaced Karlsruhe as Stuttgart's henchmen. Recently, Staunt often talks about Hoffenheim's Li Huan, Demba Ba and Obasi, the black wind and envy, and the head coach Amin Fei has made no secret of the idea of wanting to get Demba Ba and Li Huan, he said that these two people are the talents that Stuttgart needs, at the end of last season, if the club can decisively take the risk to win Li Huan, maybe Stuttgart is now at the top of the list, because at that time Li Huan once said that he wanted to join Stuttgart.
However, Stuttgart knows what Li Huan means to Hoffenheim, even if Rangnick wants to sell, Hope will not be willing, this Hoffenheim's father is not short of money, some people say that his love for Li Huan is only this time because of his love for Hoffenheim, and it is almost impossible to snatch Li Huan from Hoffenheim's hands, it is not a matter of money. So their target is on Demba Ba, and it is rumored that Stuttgart has been in contact with Demba Ba's and Obasi's agents, and maybe Demba Ba will switch to Stuttgart after the end of the season.
Bayern Munich lost the hope of winning any championship with five rounds left in the league, which made the fans angry, and the media also took out Bayern to ridicule it, Bayern's manager Hoeness was determined to add several world-class stars to Bayern, enhance the competitiveness of the league and the Champions League, abroad their target is Frange-1 Ribery and Italy's Toney, at home their target is Li Huan, in Bayern's view, Li Huan's current strength is already world-class, Although his fame is not so great.
(To be continued)