Chapter 193: Only one round of brilliance
After the second round of the German Cup, Beta had little chance to savor the glory of his first hat-trick of the German Cup, and he soon followed the team into the Bundesliga in November. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Hoffenheim have three league games to play in November, starting with a home game against St. Pauli on November 2!
This round of the game may have been affected by the German Cup, and many traditional strong teams have invariably broken out relatively unpopular overturn results.
For example, Cologne was defeated 1:2 by the quasi-fish belly team Osnabrück, Aachen was taken away by Earls Auer 1:2, and the powerful Mainz was forced to draw 1:1 by Paderborn, who is at the bottom of the Bundesliga standings and has not tasted a win so far!
Unfortunately, Borussia Mönchengladbach continued to play steadily, with a 2-1 win over Carl Zeiss Jena, which once again dashed their hopes of reaching the top with a 2-1 win over St. Pauli's Hoffenheim a few days earlier.
In this round of the game, I don't know if the German Cup was played too conspicuously, causing the opponent to target frantically, Beta did not score.
After the race on the second level, Hoffenheim had nine days to recuperate. Until the 11th, the thirteenth round of the league Hoffenheim went to central Germany, Thuringia and Carl Zeiss Jena to play.
Carl Zeiss Jena are certainly the best of the bunch, and they are only marginally better than Paderborn – at least one game winner. Of course, both teams are difficult brothers, and they have only accumulated 6 points and 5 points after 12 rounds of league games, which is also a miserable gamble.
In the face of the weak team, although Rangnick did not take it lightly, he also played!
He used half of the bench and half of the main line-up to test whether the 4-4-2 formation could stand the test of actual combat.
Obviously, the attacking firepower of the new squad with half of the substitutes was a bit weak, but Salihovic took the opportunity and passed the ball to Obasi, who had a shot on goal.
In the end, the team won 1-0 against Carl Zeiss Jena, with Beta failing to score as he was in the rotation and was sent on by Rangnick in the last five minutes of the second half to get his senses.
There was nothing to celebrate in the win against the underdogs, but the Hoffenheim fans celebrated ecstatically the next day after a long wait.
With the same points, three rounds of league stalemate, Borussia Mönchengladbach finally dropped the chain!
Their match with Munich 1860 in this round dragged on 0:0 until the end of the game!
With only one point in the draw, Hoffenheim completed the counterattack against Borussia Mönchengladbach with a 2-point advantage brought by the victory!
Finally, the Hoffenheimers have been waiting for a few months as they struggled to top the table in the thirteenth round of the league!
However, the joy didn't last long!
In the last game of November, Hoffenheim at home actually overturned!
What ended Hoffenheim's seven-game winning streak (including the German Cup) was the traditional giants of the Bundesliga, the former Bundesliga powerhouse Cologne!
Of course, this Cologne is not the Cologne that originally owned their prince Lucas Podolski. After Cologne was relegated from the Bundesliga in 2006, Podolski joined Bayern Munich.
However, although the stars of this Cologne team are dim among the players, their coach's bench is shining with stars!
Christoph Daum can be said to be famous or notorious.
Daum started in Cologne in 1986 and finished runners-up in the Bundesliga in '89 and '90 and the UEFA Cup in '86! After taking charge of Stuttgart in '90, Daum led the team to the Bundesliga title in 1992.
Since then, Daum has managed a number of teams, including Bayer Leverkusen, who he led to become the closest challenger to league dominance Bayern Munich in the mid-90s.
From 1997 to 2000, the Bundesliga record of the pharmaceutical company has never fallen out of the top three, three runners-up, one third place, and the biggest pity is that it has not won a championship!
Therefore, Daum is a generation of famous coaches in Germany, and this evaluation is not untrue!
It's just that when Daum's career reached its peak and he was about to take over as the coach of the German national team, Daum fell from the top because of the drug abuse scandal that broke out.
Since then, Daum has been mixed with the Austrian Super League and the Austrian League abroad for many years, and it was not until 06 that he returned to Cologne and led his old club to continue to attack the Bundesliga.
Daum's character and reputation are debatable, but his coaching ability is indeed at the level of a champion coach! In front of him, Rangnick also suffered a dark loss!
Although Rangnick did his best in this game, fielding their best 4-2-3-1 formation, Daum broke Hoffenheim's best defence in the league with a long-range shot - not the least number of goals conceded, but it was a matter of goalkeeper quality!
You know, Cologne's long-range shot is not a wasted opportunity to kick a big foot outside the box. They used their players to constantly run and disrupt the Hoffenheim defence, pulling out space for their shots before Milivoye Novakovic scored from distance!
Novakovic, a Slovenian, is Beta's biggest opponent in the scorer charts!
He took advantage of Beta's lack of a goal in the first two rounds and fought to catch up! In the last round of the league, he tied Beta with two goals, and is currently tied for the top scorer with Beta with 11 goals!
And in the thirtieth minute, Novakovic's powerful long-range shot broke the deadlock of the game and broke the balance of the scorers' list!
If Beta still doesn't score in this game, then Novakovic will be at the top of the scorer charts after that! You know, Rob Friend in third place also scored 9 goals, and his Borussia Mönchengladbach completed the game the day before yesterday!
Inspired by the desire to score, Beta really broke out in the second half, helping his team equalize with a calm and powerful header, and continued to maintain the tug-of-war with Novakovic in the scorers' charts!
However, Hoffenheim were unable to earn points in this game, and the old Daum arranged a virtual free-kick in the second half. Patrick Helmers received a pass from a team-mate in the box and slotted his right foot past Hoffenheim again!
In this round of the game, it was Hoffenheim who dropped the chain, but Mönchengladbach defeated Offenbach 3:0, not only regaining the first place, but also overtaking Hoffenheim by one point!
The joy of Hoffenheim fans only lasted for more than ten days, and they only sat on the top spot in the league for one round but had to give it up. Hoffenheim's suffering is known only to his own family.
Of course, winning or losing a game is not on everyone's mind. Even the media didn't care much, but in the eyes of many managers who racked their brains to find Hoffenheim's weaknesses, this game was undoubtedly a textbook case! (To be continued.) )