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It was Hoffenheim's first ever Champions League match and the Rhein-Neckar Stadium was packed. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info not many CSKA Moscow fans came, except for a few hundred people who came with the team, the whole stadium was a sea of blue. Hoffenheim is too small for professional clubs to know where it is, let alone the average fan. People are not interested in running so far to a small place where they can't find it.

The away fans were not interested, but the home fans were very interested. While the players on both sides were still warming up on the field, the fans sang in the stands, and they were not tired at all. The Hoffenheim Fans' Association also made a huge Hoffenheim team flag and spread it in the stands, which was very spectacular.

Such a home atmosphere is even better than the team's first game of the new season against Bayern Munich.

"The Champions League, it's really different...... "Ibisevic muttered as he looked up at the packed stands. Although he has also won the UEFA Cup and played in the UEFA Super Cup, it is also the first time for him to participate in the Champions League.

Salihovich slapped him the back: "Is the blood boiling?" ”

"Sort of, haha!"

Most of the Hoffenheim players showed excitement during the warm-up, compared to CSKA Moscow's average warm-up, with all but a few players looking calm. Hoffenheim were the opposite, with all but a few people excited and excited to start the game now, rather than warming up for another 20 minutes and then going back to the dressing room for almost half an hour.

Assistant coach Marić kept reminding the players: "Don't get too excited! Watch the action! Beware of straining muscles! ”

It's not good not to be excited, it's not good to be too excited. If you are not excited, you will not be able to enter the game, and if you are too excited, you will be prone to injury. So the form of a player is really a very esoteric science.

It was supposed to be a twenty-minute warm-up, but because the players were overexcited, the coaching staff temporarily decided to add ten minutes. After CSKA Moscow had all the players left the pitch, Hoffenheim's players warmed up under the guidance of assistant coaches. The 30-minute long warm-up gradually calmed down the minds of many players.

After the warm-up, the players returned to the dressing room one after another, and the head coach Rangnick also returned, with more than ten minutes to go before the game, during which time there is usually no tactical arrangement, just a few casual words to boost morale. But there was obviously no need to boost morale today, so Rangnick had to do the opposite – he had to calm down the players.

"Yesterday I had a conversation with Chu in the stands of this stadium." He said, and everyone turned their eyes to Chu Zhongtian. "We both decided on the spur of the moment to visit the empty Rhine-Neckar Stadium. So it's quite a coincidence that I was able to meet him. I asked him how he was preparing for today's game. He told me how to prepare for the usual games, and how to prepare for today's games. ”

"I think it's a good state of mind. Of course it's the Champions League, it's our team's first time, but before that it was a football game, no different from any ordinary football game, it was 90 minutes, there were four referees, each side sent 11 people to start, and no hands were allowed to touch the ball except the goalkeeper...... If you're too excited about this game, what if we make it to the final one day? ”

One player laughed: "Coach Rangnick, that's too far away!" ”

"yes, it's really far away." Rangnick smiled and waved his hand, as if he felt that he was talking a little far. 'But anyway, it's just a normal Champions League group game and a loss won't prevent us from qualifying. Winning won't give us a straight cut into the final. Could it be more important than a match that decides the league title? Since we were all calm in the away game against Schalke 04 last season, why wasn't this game the same? ”

"I want you to do well, but I don't want you to get too excited. You're all professionals, so you know what the consequences are. So this game, just like any normal game, deal with it. ”

So how does Hoffenheim cope with any ordinary game?

Coach Rangnick exited the dressing room with the members of the coaching staff after that, knowing he needed to leave a little time and space for the players to be themselves.

"Alright, brothers, let's get up." Chu Zhongtian slapped his face and stood up from his seat, and the other teammates also stood up.

This is a pre-war mobilization, but under normal circumstances, Weiss does this thing, although he is not the captain, but his character is very suitable for this kind of thing, and he did it spontaneously at the earliest. It became a tradition, and everyone had to do it before the big game.

Now that Weiss has to rest for four to six weeks after undergoing surgery, this matter can only be done by Chu Zhongtian. Chu Zhongtian is not the kind of person who likes to speak grandiosely, but he can also be competent if he takes over temporarily.

"Attack!" After everyone stood up, he clenched his fists and said to everyone.

"Attack!!" Everyone shouted together.

"Attack! Reckless attack!! Chu Zhongtian raised his voice.

Everyone also raised their voices: "Desperate attack!! ”

"All right, brothers! Let's get out of the game! After seeing that everyone's mood was good, Chu Zhongtian ended the pre-war mobilization.

That's how Hoffenheim approach every game.

The CSKA Moscow players know very little about their opponents, they don't even know what the names of the opposing players are, but fortunately football has a back number and a name, otherwise it would be a headless fly on the field. Not to mention, football was like this in the earliest days, everyone had no number, no name, and could only identify each other and their own players by their faces. This is a great challenge for players, coaches and referees.

Until the twenties of the twentieth century, Arsenal's legendary manager Herbert . Chapman only introduced jerseys with numbers to identify players. But it was not officially recognised for a long time, and it was not officially on the field until the FA Cup final in 1933. At that time, Everton, who participated in the final, from goalkeeper to left winger, used the numbers from one to eleven to mark the players, while Manchester City, the other team participating in the final, used the numbers from twelve to twenty-two from goalkeeper to left winger. In the 1938-1939 season, each team was numbered with numbers from one to eleven, which had become the standard in English football at the time.

This simple numbering system was still prevalent until the nineties of the twentieth century, and until now there are national teams assigning numbers to players according to their starting position on the field, from one to eleven, rather than players picking their numbers according to their preferences, as in the case of five-time World Cup winners Brazil.

Among players and spectators, this numbering has led to a universal assumption that numbers refer to the exact position on the field, such as the number 11 always being the left winger and the number nine being the centre. This was one of the reasons why England suffered a big defeat to Hungary in 1953: England's centre-back Harry. Based on the "knowledge" he has learned, Johnson keeps his eyes on the Hungarian number nine. But the team's No.9 doesn't play as a central striker, but only in midfield, much to Johnson's confusion.

The practice of wearing standard numbers on jerseys did not appear in the World Cup until 1950. The name on the back of the shirt appeared much later, even beyond most people's perception - it didn't appear until the Premier League in 1993.

If you were to rewind the game by a century, CSKA Moscow's players would be overwhelmed by the unfamiliarity of the Hoffenheim players.

Before the game, Juander. Ramos' coaching staff has highlighted only a few Hoffenheim players: Chu Zhongtian, Ibisevic, Ruud van Nistelrooy and Simunic, as well as Salihovic. Other than that, others only mentioned it slightly.

Ramos believes that these are the core players of the Hoffenheim team, and as long as they are guarded, Hoffenheim will not be a threat.

He also studied Hoffenheim and knew that Hoffenheim was characterized by attack and speed. He didn't know much about how fast and how to attack.

The players don't know even more.

Anyway, when the time comes, you will know when you come on the field.

CSKA players took to the turf of the Rhine-Neckar with that in mind.

The live broadcast was broadcasting to the fans the list of players from both sides who started today, and at the beginning it was all the away players, and the Hoffenheim fans reacted indifferently, with few boos and little cheers. When it was the home team's turn to come on the pitch, the atmosphere immediately became lively. Every name was shouted on the radio, the fans cheered. And Chu Zhongtian's cheers were the most enthusiastic and long-lasting, which shows how high his status is in the hearts of fans.

※※※ After two teams that are very strangers to each other meet, they usually test each other for a few minutes to ten minutes, and only after finding out the details of each other will they play according to their own plan.

So CSKA Moscow's players also plan to test after the game to see what the strength of this mysterious and strange team is and what their style of football is.

So they decided to attack.

If they knew Hoffenheim enough, they wouldn't have done it. At least in the whole of Germany, there is no Bundesliga team that will play Hoffenheim in the first five to ten minutes of the game, and the manager of the Bundesliga team usually asks his team to hold for a few minutes first.

CSKA Moscow took advantage of the first kick-off opportunity to launch an attack towards Hoffenheim's goal.

The football was quickly passed to Krasic (milos_krasic), the 24-year-old Serbia international who best played as a right winger, but today he played as a striker and on the left flank, he can play on both the left and right, and is a versatile wide player. After receiving the ball, he was accustomed to break through Hoffenheim's right-back.

He did succeed, and Baker was easily shaken off by his change of direction acceleration. But the ball immediately following him was broken.

The man who broke his ball was Sana.

If you just look at the number, Krasic thought that Hoffenheim's number ten was a forward midfielder and should not be involved in defense, but he thought that it was this "forward midfielder" who rushed to the edge of the penalty area to break his ball.

CSKA Moscow's players knew very little about Hoffenheim, but Hoffenheim knew a lot about CSKA. Everyone knows that Krasic is the most dangerous player in the CSKA team, he is very fast in the break, he is in excellent physical condition, and his explosive ability is very good. Characteristically, Krasic is a bit like the Portuguese Cristiano who moved to Real Madrid. Ronaldo, but his style of play is simple and practical, and there are not so many fancy moves, and from this point of view, it seems to be more like Ribery. But Krasic's shortcomings are also obvious - too much dribbling and a lack of passing awareness. A lot of the time, when faced with two or three defenders, he is used to burying his head on the ball and trying to make a way out of the crowd, rather than passing the football to a teammate in a better position. Passing the ball is his last option, unless he really can't break through, he thinks about passing the ball. So the way to deal with him is very simple, just grab his ball. For defensive players, the favorite is this kind of player who likes to bury his head in breaking through and never pass the ball with his feet and speed, because it is always easier for defenders to come than to defend the ball.

Sana, who broke the ball, did not continue to control the ball, but turned around and passed the football to Chu Zhongtian in front.

Chu Zhongtian turned around while receiving the ball, and when the football rolled over, he also adjusted to the offensive direction.

Because they knew the importance of Chu Zhongtian, the players of CSKA Moscow did not dare to slack off on defending Chu Zhongtian. Seeing Chu Zhongtian receiving the ball, the thirty-three-year-old experienced defender Rasimic (elver_rahimic) forced up.

At the same time, another midfielder, Aldonin (evgeni_aldonin), is in the back to protect and is ready to pounce on and steal at any time.

Chu Zhongtian did not want to entangle with the opponent's two backs in the midfield. Hoffenheim's style is attacking and fast, and it would be unwise to waste time in midfield at this time. So as soon as he turned around, he passed the football out again. Rasimic pounced, Aldonin also defended himself, he followed the football to the wing, Chu Zhongtian passed the football to Eduardo on the right side.

Eduardo didn't dribble the ball down the flank, and he sent the ball sideways to the centre of the box, where Ruud van Nistelrooy had just dropped back to pick it up. Ruud van Nistelrooy was also a key figure for CSKA Moscow, so when he was seen retreating, a CSKA centre-back followed. Ruud van Nistelrooy didn't let the centre-back keep a close eye on him, but instead passed the ball back to Chu Zhongtian.

When Chu Zhongtian received the ball, he didn't make too many adjustments, and immediately after stopping the ball with his left foot, he used the outside of his right foot to pass a penetrating direct pass, and the two actions were connected very quickly, because he used the outside instep, and he didn't even have the action of turning his hips, and the opponent naturally couldn't judge what Chu Zhongtian was going to do through this action. Chu Zhongtian's pass did not give CSKA Moscow's defenders and midfielders time to react. Rasimic had planned to turn and pounce, but now he could only watch the football leave Chu Zhongtian's feet and run towards their penalty area.

The ball raced through the ribs of CSKA Moscow's centre-backs and right wing-backs, and behind them, Kolarov, who had just been told from the full-back position, had slapped the ball and he had received it!

Salikhovich pulled on the flanks and helped Kolarov attract the attention of CSKA Moscow. Kolarov doesn't have the slightest defensive pressure these days!

"Nice direct pass!" The narrator shouted.

"Good shot!" CCTV's commentator He Ping became excited. "It was Hoffenheim's best chance since the opening!"

The cheers at the Rhine-Neckar Stadium increased sharply at this moment.

CSKA right-back Sembras (deividas_semberas) turned to chase from the outside, but it was too late. Goalkeeper and captain Akinfeev struck quickly to block Kolarov's angle.

Kolarov was not greedy when faced with this great opportunity, he saw the opposing goalkeeper attack and shook his legs and feet, rubbing the football, just over the head of the returning central defender Ignashevic (sergei_ignashevitch), and naturally over the attacking goalkeeper Akinfeev.

Van Nistelrooy, who turned around and followed up after seeing Chu Zhongtian's direct pass to Kolarov, waited for his chance!

For the "King of the Small Forbidden Zone", such an opportunity is as easy as picking it up for nothing.

He jumped high on the run, and another strong centre-back, Vasily. Berezudsky (vasily_berezutskiy) smashed the ball in the air into CSKA Moscow's goal with his head!

"The ball is in!! The ball is in!! Hoffenheim has scored! It was the first Champions League goal in their club's more than 100-year history!! From Van Nistelrooy! The narrator shouted. If he doesn't shout, he won't be able to hear himself, because the Rhine-Neckar is not much different from the erupting crater.

"Hoffenheim! Hoffenheim! Hoffenheim – "All the Hoffenheim fans jumped up from their seats, raised their arms and shouted in unison.

"Hoffenheim leads CSKA Moscow 1:0! It's only been one minute and twenty-three seconds since the start of the race!! He Ping continued his excitement. It's so fast! Hoffenheim's attack was too fast! ”

Ruud van Nistelrooy rushed up to the goal and hugged Kolarov, who provided the assist, and the two new signings joined forces to create a moment in Hoffenheim's history that will be remembered forever. Rangnick's summer signings have been well received.

Chu Zhongtian also rushed forward with his other teammates and celebrated the goal with Van Nistelrooy and Kolarov.

The Hoffenheim fans in the stands began to sing after the shouting, the same song announcing who they were, the song was deafening, and under the singing, it was the panicked faces of the CSKA Moscow players.

"Attack! Offensive! The blood of the offense flows forever!! ”

"We're - Hoffenheim! Let you taste our football!! ”

This is Hoffenheim!

(To be continued)