Because of Udinese's pre-match remarks, the ceremonies before the game were quite friendly on both sides, and even when queuing up in the dressing room passage, the Udinese players exchanged greetings with the Hoffenheim players in stiff English. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Beta's conversation was with the Chilean player who played as a right winger in Udinese's starting line-up, Alexis Sanchez, who was only a year older than Beta.

"I heard you live in the village?" At this time, Sanchez was not the "thigh" who later joined Barcelona and later became an Arsenal star.

Beta couldn't get disgusted with him, and patiently explained to him: "It's not about living in the village, our team has been rooted in Hoffenheim from the beginning, and now the village has been built like a small city......"

As he explained, Beta was making eye contact with Salihovic.

"These guys are here to compete, right? It's not for fun, is it? ”

"It should be ......"

"Why are you so enthusiastic?"

"Isn't it probing our mysteries?"

"So scheming? Do you want to beat them up? ”

“…… Not quite right? ”

Of course, this is just a joke, and during the exchange, Beta did know a piece of information: in Udinese, they have a Marco Mota who has just returned from the Olympic Games in Beijing, and he is also the captain of the Italian Olympic team!

Of course, the performance of the Italian Olympic team is not as good as that of their national team, perhaps because of the lack of attention, they only have one overage player, Rocchi, and Rocchi was injured after the group stage and returned home early.

The young players were not able to produce great results and only made it to the quarter-finals, much to the disappointment of the Italian fans.

As an aside, from the results of this National Olympic team, we can also see the withering of the young generation of Italian players. Although their experts now consider Aquafresca, Giovinco, Rossi and Montolivo to be talented Italian hopefuls, they have not developed well since then, compared to the likes of Nesta, Zambrotta, Pirlo, Gattuso and Ambrosini.

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After a whistle from referee Atkinson, the game begins!

Udinese's line-up is different from the dominant formation in Germany's domestic game, with a 4-5-1 single striker formation.

This formation is still relatively popular in Serie A, the Italian chain defense is undoubtedly strong, and such an intensive defensive counterattack formation, they also play like their peers!

So, Hoffenheim's attack was seriously tested from the start.

Ibisevic wanted to give the Italian a dismount, but as soon as Salihovic's pass reached his feet, Ibisevic felt as if he was in a deep quagmire.

It's not even that he wants to stick to the ball, but he looks up and sees that there are Udinese players on all sides! There was no choice but to seek to get rid of it.

However, Mauricio Aníbal Isla's entanglement made him at a loss, and finally he hurriedly got up and could only hit the Udinese player and bounced back.

Under coach Pasquale Marino, Udinese played solidly, opening the game with a solid presence in their own half, so Hoffenheim looked fierce but not effective.

Tom, the long-lost on-site commentator, flipped through his own information in the commentary booth and introduced the head coach of Udinese to the radio listeners: "Marino is also a Rangnick-style manager, he used to coach the semi-professional club Paterno, and helped Paterno to be promoted to the Italian third division two levels in two years. ”

Later, he took charge of Sicilian side Catania, who promoted them from Serie B to Serie A within a year. And in the next season, Marino will build this promoted horse, which is lacking in domestic and foreign aid, into a trump card powerhouse! ”

"Almost in the first half of the season, they were at the top of the table, and if it weren't for the Catania tragedy, which cost them their home stadium, I am afraid that this team would have produced even more brilliant results. Of course, even so, they managed to complete relegation! ”

"Marino is a good player, but I believe that Mr. Rangnick is better than him! Because we have similar experiences, we have better grades, don't we? ”

But what is unpredictable is that Hoffenheim was not able to play on their home turf! Although it was only the opening moment, and both sides were still in a relatively unfamiliar state, Hoffenheim's attack actually didn't even hit the goal frame in the first ten minutes!

Italians are so tough? Rangnick frowned on the sidelines.

Immediately, the next scene made Rangnick unable to sit still anymore!

Ibisevic made another attacking combination with Demba Ba in the 11th minute, and after attracting the attention of the defence, he passed the ball to Demba Ba, but Demba Ba took two steps and was intercepted by Andre Korda and Damia Ferronetti.

Ibisevic should have come over to pick him up!

But he didn't, and as Ibisevic turned, he collided with Gekhan Inle and fell to the ground, and Demba Ba could only watch as Korda made a steal and handed it to Sanchez on the wing to attack!

Sanchez was quick, beating Eduardo with a three-and-five-two, and then drove all the way in. Ibertsberg rushed to meet him, but Sanchez used only one change of direction to get him away.

It's dangerous!

Beta felt his adrenaline rush as he saw Sanchez pass down the middle, and immediately pushed past Compaq, who was still a little sluggish, and pounced on Udinese midfielder Gatano de Agostino.

De Agostino can be said to be a late bloomer, but players who have experienced setbacks and ups and downs in their youth are often experienced and calm, and in the face of the pressure brought by Beta, he did not try to get past Beta, but knocked on his right heel and passed the ball behind him!

Udinese's lone striker, Antonio Di Natale, came around and just received a pass from De Agostino.

He dribbled past De Agostino and then a team-mate blocked Gustavo who was chasing him, and then Di Natale fired a powerful shot with his right foot into the ball.

Hoffenheim's goalkeeper today is Ozcan, and Rangnick decided to give Ozcan a chance. He didn't mean to beat Ozcan to death and make way for Hildebrand, it would be cruel not to let Ozcan participate in this European competition.

But Ozcan was slow to react, and he only jumped up after Di Natale had a shot, and the ball swooped into the net before his fingers could reach for him.