The unpleasant things aside, and on May 4, Hoffenheim had a crucial game when they traveled to Cologne on the Rhine, Germany's fourth largest city!

Why is this game crucial?

Not only because of the importance of these three points for them to win the championship, but also because Beta and Novakovic, Cologne's top scorer, are going to stage a battle for the first and second top scorers in the list! Third place, of course, is also Cologne's striker Patrick Helmers!

Helmers has scored 15 goals, but there is still a big gap between Novakovic's 18 and Beta's 21. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

This match is a battle of focus, as Cologne is not an opponent that Hoffenheim can easily beat! Cologne, who are battling Mainz for third place – a place in the play-offs – will surely give it their all.

For this reason, Rangnick did not slack off, he did his best to deploy the main force and put out a 4-4-2 formation! Of course, it wasn't exactly the main players, with Obasi and Demba Ba in the strikers being on hot form at the moment, and right midfielder Rangnick sent Tobias Weiss, who had been in excellent form in the team's training matches recently.

Weiss performed well, in fact, Beta gave him the skill of "deploying the battery", with the form buff, plus Beta's longer and better shots, Weiss got a lot of assists in the training match.

After all, Beta had a good relationship with Weiss, and he gave his friend a little boost.

It's just that after Weiss came on the field, he was a little nervous, and helped the Cologne people break their own goal in the tenth minute! His header was mistaken and went straight into his own goal, while Beta and Ozcan could only shake their heads with tears and laughter.

Who would want to defend their teammates?

Fortunately, Weiss gradually got into the groove behind him, otherwise Rangnick would really be.

In the first half, Hoffenheim's players had good offensive firepower, creating a few threatening shots, and Eduardo forced the opponent to foul with sharp dribbles in the penalty area, and the referee awarded Hoffenheim a penalty!

Salihovic equalised for Hoffenheim in one fell swoop.

However, the scene was very hot, with the Cologne players eager to win and the Hoffenheim players who couldn't wait to confirm the promotion place constantly friction, and Salihovic both received a yellow card for scolding the opponent!

Shortly after the start of the second half, Salihovic had to replace him because of a muscle strain, but it was Copado who came on the field, and Kopado's passing was not bad, but his organizational skills were a little weaker.

For a moment, Hoffenheim's attack became scattered.

Obasi and Demba Ba wasted their chances with a few shots, and they were punished for wasting them!

Organized by Thomas Breuich, Cologne has scored! Beta's defending Novakovic snatched the header, but he didn't hit the goal himself, Beta interfered too much with him, and Novakovic's header was crossed, and teammate Lebanese Roda Antar followed up to score the leading goal!

Hoffenheim's players were starting to get a little irritable, and even the defence was starting to get out of shape.

Beta found out, and he decisively opened the particle barrier and began to sit in the rear to command his teammates' defensive positions! There was a particle barrier, and Beta clearly understood the holes in his teammates' defensive positions for the past ten minutes, and kept calling his teammates or going up to fill in the positions himself.

Three minutes later, Beta blocked Cologne defender Yusf Mohammed's sudden shot, and if it hadn't been for Beta's timely appearance, Mohammed would have extended the difference between the two teams to two points!

With Beta stabilizing, Hoffenheim's players slowly managed to control their emotions, and even after the Beta skill ended, Hoffenheim's backline stabilized.

Weiss's performance was mediocre, but Rangnick replaced him and brought on Ibisevic as a temporary midfielder.

"Fifteen or six minutes to go!" Beta approached Ibisevic and Kopado and said, "We have to step up our attacks, not just to equalize, we want to win!" ”

Beta began to run wildly regardless of his physical strength, and a few seconds ago, he was still involved in the defense in his own penalty area, and a few seconds later, Beta appeared in the front of the Cologne penalty area!

Ibisevic and Beta also have a tacit understanding, he knocked the ball sideways, and Copado also desperately used his 1.7-meter body to block Kevin Pezzoni who wanted to come up and block!

His teammates helped to open the angle of the shot, and Beta didn't hesitate to pick up his thighs and slam them on the top of the ball. Colombian 37-year-old goalkeeper Farid Mondragon couldn't react, the football was already in the goal!

Mondragon is definitely not a goalkeeper who is overwhelmed because of his age, and in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, Mondragon was also selected for the Colombian national team at the age of forty-two! This is the oldest player to play in a World Cup!

But in the face of Beta's burst of shots, the experienced veteran goalkeeper could only sigh.

Beta equalised for Hoffenheim, which sent the Cologne players in a panic.

How can it be? Mainz, who had already won the game two days earlier, would have started to fall behind if Cologne and Hoffenheim had drawn and they would have fallen two points behind......

Cologne's players began to storm up.

But it also gave Hoffenheim more opportunities to fight back!

In the 86th minute, Beta suddenly appeared in the Cologne penalty area, and when he was competing for the high ball, he did not shoot the goal himself, but the header was ferried to Copado, Copado missed, and Ibisevic, who was in a better position, completed the final shot!

Ibisevic was a strong pick-up and his shot went into the bottom right corner of the net before Mondragon could make a move.

3:2！ Hoffenheim won a one-point lead over the home team Cologne!

After this game, the gap between Beta and Novakovic's goals widened again, 22 and 18, four goals short, and it was not easy for Novakovic to catch up with Beta!

Of course, the focus is not on the scorers. What everyone is talking about now is that Hoffenheim has basically confirmed that they have won the Bundesliga!

Borussia Mönchengladbach also had hope, and they showed terrible strength in this round, slaughtering the home team 7-1 at Offenbach's home stadium.

But they are still 9 points away from Hoffenheim!

So this hope is also only a theoretical hope!

If they can complete the counterattack, they must meet three conditions at the same time.

First, Hoffenheim lost all three rounds! You can't draw a game, you have to lose them all!

Second, Borussia Mönchengladbach must win all three of his last three rounds!

Thirdly, Borussia Mönchengladbach will have to win by a big margin as they have to catch up with Hoffenheim on 10 goal difference in the final three rounds!

But is it possible? (To be continued.) )