Chapter 230: Hoffenheim-style fast attack

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On match day, the German media gathered in the small city of Sinsheim to follow the match between Hoffenheim and AC Milan. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoThis Champions League matchday, Hoffenheim was the first team to appear among the German teams, and the opponent was a strong team like AC Milan, so the German media paid a lot of attention.

There has been a lot of news about the two teams before the game, but as the game approaches, all the irrelevant news is gone, and everyone still only pays attention to whether the players on both sides are in line and what tactics the managers of both sides will come up with.

The time finally came, the Rhine-Neckar Stadium was packed, and there were even many loyal fans waiting outside the stadium five minutes before the start of the game, holding signs that said "I need tickets", hoping that if they were lucky, they could get their tickets refunded if they were unable to attend the game on the spot.

But their wait was doomed to be in vain. Tickets for this game are very tight, and many people are already out of stock a week in advance. And those tickets that were reserved for sale before the game were also sold out as soon as they were released.

The people waiting for their tickets were still stubbornly outside, and next to them was the bustling Rhine-Neckar Stadium, all the lights on and the sound could be heard from inside.

The players from both sides have already stepped onto the pitch, accompanied by the Champions League theme song, they lined up for reporters to take pictures and videos, and then the away players took the initiative to walk up to the home team players and shake hands with them one by one.

Chu Zhongtian, as the captain of the team, stood at the front of the queue, and every AC Milan player would be the first to shake hands with him after coming up.

He doesn't have any good friends in AC Milan, so he won't shake hands and greet each other, everyone just shakes hands and lets go, some people will say something, but it's not English, it's not French, it's not German, it's not Portuguese, anyway, Chu Zhongtian can't understand it. As long as the other party speaks to him, he always replies in Chinese - he doesn't care whether the other party understands it or not, he has no obligation to do so.

The first AC Milan player to shake hands with Chu Zhongtian made their captain Gattuso.

Chu Zhongtian only has a special feeling for this Milan player, because when he was in the European Super Cup, he was once closely targeted by Gattuso, and he could only take advantage of the opportunity when he was injured and received treatment to launch an attack and create a goal.

At that time, Gattuso was still the world's top midfielder. It is someone who Chu Zhongtian will feel very headache. However, Gattuso is now thirty-two years old, and although his fighting spirit is still tenacious, his physical fitness is not as good as before.

Looking at Gattuso, who was obviously old, Chu Zhongtian didn't have any contempt. Because he felt that when he shook hands with himself, the Italian "butcher" used a force on his hands.

What does that mean, Chu Zhongtian knows very well.

This is a war letter to myself. Gattuso will be his opponent in this match. In fact, Chu Zhongtian has known this since AC Milan's starting list came out. In the last Champions League game against Auxerre, Allegri did not let Gattuso play, but this game started the 32-year-old, so it is already clear what that means.

Fortunately, since the 2007 UEFA Super Cup, Chu Zhongtian has not played against this famous midfield butcher. Although Gattuso is three years older, Chu Zhongtian is still eager to fight against such a high-level player.

After shaking hands, the captains of the two sides met again. Chu Zhongtian and Gattuso exchanged team flags with each other and picked sides. Chu Zhongtian deliberately lost the right to pick the edge and got the right to tee. Compared with picking sides, Chu Zhongtian pays more attention to kick-off. Whoever tees off first takes advantage first, just as black has an advantage first.

Hoffenheim's football is fast and straightforward and requires pressure on the opposition as soon as they come up, so it is more beneficial for them to kick off first. AC Milan is a slow football, they tend to be slow to heat up, what difference does it make for them to kick off first and then kick off.

At the end of the pick, the two captains returned to their respective teams. Chu Zhongtian gathered his teammates together as usual for a brief pre-match mobilization.

"We have to win against them, and we've said that many times in the past half week, so I'm not going to repeat it." Chu Zhongtian said. "I just want to say one thing - let them see our football, brothers!"

Ibisevic and Obasi stood in the center circle, with Ibisevic waiting for the referee to blow the whistle with his soccer ball on his feet.

Salihovic and Quaresma stood at opposite ends of the center line, next to the sideline, and Chu Zhongtian stood in the middle of the center circle. Hoffenheim always kicks off and passes the football to him.

Sana stood behind Chu Zhongtian as a protector.

The formation is relatively compact when the kick-off is played, once the football is kicked to Chu Zhongtian's feet, Hoffenheim's formation will quickly disperse, the two fullbacks will step forward, Sana will run to the side, and the back line will retreat as a whole, providing Chu Zhongtian with the space to pass the ball.

※※※ For this game, China Central Television Sports Channel also did a live broadcast. Hoffenheim's last-minute defeat to Real Madrid in the last game was a disappointment for Chinese fans, but it also gave hope to the Chinese fans. Playing against Real Madrid at the Bernabeu and losing just one goal and scoring two goals was a great performance.

With such a performance against Real Madrid away from home, it won't be bad to go back to playing AC Milan at home, right?

Many people are expecting a miracle from Hoffenheim in this game.

In the pre-game program, the commentator Heping and the guest teacher Zhang Lu have already made an analysis of the starting lists of both sides. Zhang Lu thought that Allegri's intention in sending Gattuso was obvious, that is, to contain Chu Zhongtian. Now Chu Zhongtian is the core of Hoffenheim, which is no secret, so as long as Hoffenheim is played, he will find a way to freeze Chu Zhongtian, which is also the consensus of the coaches. But it's one thing to say it, it's another thing to do it. There are not many players in the world who can really successfully freeze Chu Zhongtian, he has excellent running ability, good skills, high passing awareness and accuracy, and also has long-range shooting skills, such a comprehensive midfielder, you can prevent him from dribbling the ball, you can't prevent him from passing, you can prevent him from passing, you can't prevent him from shooting. And he's running all over the field, which makes it very difficult to freeze him. He can appear anywhere on the pitch, which means that players in any position on his team must have the ability to freeze Chu Zhongtian, how is this possible?

And Hoffenheim's fast football is exactly the kind of style that AC Milan fear, and as long as you play well, it is not impossible to win.

This is the analysis of Chinese experts, which is basically the same as that of German football legends.

At the same time as the TV station broadcast the game live, the Internet is also full of expectations for this game, many netizens are watching the game on TV, while communicating with others through the Internet, everyone hopes that Chu Zhongtian can have a good performance, but to say that the most tangled people should belong to the AC Milan fan group in China, on the one hand, they want the team they support to win, and on the other hand, they want to see Chu Zhongtian perform well, which is really a dilemma for them...... The last time Hoffenheim and Inter Milan met in the quarter-finals of the Champions League, Inter Milan fans were very entangled, while AC Milan fans, who had just been eliminated from the competition, gloated and cheered for Hoffenheim in the game, hoping that Inter Milan would be eliminated. This time, the feng shui rotated, replaced by AC Milan entanglement, and Inter Milan fans waited to see a good show.

On the TV screen, the players from both sides were already in their respective formations, just waiting for the game to begin.

The referee and the fourth official off the field matched the time, and then blew the whistle in his mouth!

"CCTV! Cctv! Good morning, viewers! Tune in to the second round of Group G of the 2010-2011 UEFA Champions League against Hoffenheim and AC Milan! He Ping's voice rang out. Hoffenheim in the blue home shirt from left to right on the screen, while away AC Milan from right to left in the white away shirt! ”

He Ping quickly introduced the basic situation of the two teams, and did not report the starting lists of the two sides. He's only covered a few Hoffenheim games, but he already knows a lot about the team's style – it's fast! They are very good at using kick-off opportunities to launch fast attacks after the game, and if you think of this period as an opportunity to bury your head in the starting line-ups, you would be mistaken, and you could have missed a great scene with your head down, or even a beautiful goal.

Hoffenheim got the kick-off again in this game, and the commentators should pay more attention.

So instead of looking down at the starting line-up, he looked at Hoffenheim's attack first.

※※※ Heping's choice is correct.

After kick-off, Ibisevic knocked the ball forward, and Obasi turned around and passed the ball to Chu Zhongtian.

Chu Zhongtian did not go forward directly with the football, but let go of the football, turned around and passed the football backwards.

But don't think Hoffenheim won't launch a quick attack. Generally, the team's fast attack is to pass the football to the side after the kick-off, and then launch an offensive on the side, and soon hit the front of the opponent's penalty area. But Hoffenheim's fast break wasn't that simple. Their speed is not fast in the absolute sense, but fast in the relative sense. They also have to go through a series of passes, not just a big foot to pass up.

Sure enough, Chu Zhongtian, who finished passing the ball, did not stand in place, but ran back and asked the central defender Simunic for the ball. By the time Simunic handed him the ball, he had almost stepped back to the same line as the centre-backs, and he did so because the team was now increasingly guarding him, and if he was still receiving the ball in midfield, he would probably be cut off by the opposition players coming from behind. So now he used to run back and forth to avoid the opposing players who had just kicked off.

On the back line, Chu Zhongtian calmly received the ball and turned around, and the closest person to him was Robinho, but there were also more than ten meters. It's a safe location.

Chu Zhongtian looked up at the front, and made a posture of making a long pass with a big foot - the football is in front, the person is behind, open his arms, and raise his legs, this is the posture of a big foot.

He saw that the AC Milan backline reacted to his move immediately, and the defenders paid attention to Ibisevic and Obasi, as well as Salihovic and Quaresma, who had already entered the opposition half.

Chu Zhongtian's feet fell but it was only a low pass, and he passed the football to Sana not far in front.

Then he ran forward on his own.

Sana passed the football directly to him and hit the wall in a match.

Robinho was five or six meters in front of Chu Zhongtian, Chu Zhongtian took the ball over, Robinho made a defensive move, but it was very amateurish, Chu Zhongtian only changed direction slightly, and Robinho gave up continuing to defend. He's a striker, a Brazilian striker, and he's not going to defend aggressively.

The other striker, Ibrahimovic, is not the kind of striker who will actively fight and defend in the frontcourt, so Chu Zhongtian is basically safe in his backcourt.

After bringing the football past Robinho, Chu Zhongtian motioned for everyone to lean over and not get too far away. There is Ibisevic in front of him, and it is enough to carry it alone. Salihovic and Quaresma began to close in the ribs.

When Chu Zhongtian crossed the halfway line, he felt the pressure, the captain from AC Milan Gattuso!

"Gattuso pressed up, his target was Chu! This is the first time that the two captains have spoken directly in this game! The narrator shouted.

Fans watching the game in China chanted: "It's over him! Chu Zhongtian! ”

Everyone is looking forward to a showdown between these two people like Mars hitting Earth. However, they were disappointed, Chu Zhongtian had no chance to collide with Gattuso head-on, and he quickly passed the football out while Gattuso was not entangled with him.

The target is Quaresma.

Instead of rushing down the flank, Quaresma went down the ribs and attracted another defensive defender from AC Milan, Flamini.

Flamini went up to defend Quaresma, while the corner of his eye was on Chu Zhongtian. Defending Quaresma is because he is the most dangerous player with football at his feet now, but his main purpose in this game is to cooperate with Gattuso and completely freeze Chu Zhongtian.

He noticed that Chu Zhongtian was plugging in from behind, so he kept an eye on it and didn't pounce too fiercely, anyway, there was Thiago behind him. Silva and Nesta.

Sure enough, Quaresma saw Chu Zhongtian plugging in from behind, so he passed the football sideways!

"Hey!" Flamini was proud of his foresight, he quickly turned around and followed the football to Chu Zhongtian, he was a little close to the position of the football, even if Chu Zhongtian received the ball, he couldn't avoid his steal, while he had just received the ball and was not yet in control, he stepped down to steal, and the success rate was very high!

In addition, on Chu Zhongtian's side, there was Gattuso following, and Flamini didn't believe that Chu Zhongtian could run away with the joint efforts of himself and Gattuso!

People can in the past, the ball stays!

He watched the football roll towards Chu Zhongtian, and Chu Zhongtian also had a slowing down to catch the ball, so he shoveled it off!

Gattuso noticed Flamini's movements, he didn't follow the tackle, that would only allow himself to collide with Flamini, he just struggled to the left and crashed into Chu Zhongtian, hoping to knock him off and make him unable to catch the ball and help Flamini break the ball.

The cooperation of the two people can be said to be perfect. But the premise of their success is that Chu Zhongtian has to take the ball...... Now Chu Zhongtian's feet were raised, but he only stepped over the top of the football, and he leaked the ball!

"Beautiful leak!" The narrator shouted.

The reason why he thinks that this leak is beautiful, not Chu Zhongtian's mistake, is because he sees the whole situation above, and he knows that behind Chu Zhongtian's side, Salihovic has rushed up, and Chu Zhongtian's leak just leaked the football to Salihovic!

Flamini made a tackle, Gattuso hit the man in vain, and both of AC Milan's midfielders were attracted to Chu Zhongtian and pinned to him. Salihovic, who didn't even have a single defender around him, received a pass from Quaresma on the 30-metre zone line, and Chu Zhongtian leaked a ball to him. He even had time to adjust the football from his right foot to his left foot, which he was not good at, and then shoot with his feet!

Throughout the whole process, not a single AC Milan player rushed up to defend.

"Salihovich! Shoot! ”

The ball was shot out by him, flying very low and straight into the near corner of the goal!

Thiago. Silva reflexively stretched out and the ball flew past the side of his calf.

Fortunately, Abbiati reacted quickly, pounced and shot the football out of the bottom line.

"Corner! Just a minute into the game, Hoffenheim had a very dangerous shot on goal and won a corner! ”

Fans in the Rhine-Neckar stands chanted Hoffenheim's name and cheered on their team. From the very beginning, the game became very intense and exciting.

The moment Salihovic's shot shot went straight into the near corner, the hearts of the AC Milan players beat violently. They were really scared, they didn't expect that at the beginning of the game, the opponent could have such a threatening shot on goal...... ※※※ corner kick was opened, Salihovic opened the front point, but it was a little low, and the football let Flamini who was guarding the front point to push it out.

Chu Zhongtian's leak just now made him a clown, so this time the corner kick defense was particularly strong, he shook his head violently, pushed the football far away, and fell outside the penalty area.

Chu Zhongtian was originally preparing to fight for the top in the penalty area, but as soon as he saw the football flying out, he turned around and ran out. The football was picked up by Kolarov, who was guarding outside, and he stopped the football with his chest, and when he looked up, he saw Chu Zhongtian in the middle not far from him.

Without Chu Zhongtian beckoning, after a season, Kolarov already knew what to do in this situation, and he directly passed the football to Chu Zhongtian.

As soon as he finished passing, he started at high speed and thrust forward. At this time, the AC Milan back line saw that the football was cleared, and in order to prevent the Hoffenheim players outside from hoisting the football into the penalty area again, they were pressing out for offside, so behind them, there was a large gap.

Their idea was correct, but they didn't notice Kolarov's presence and resolute forward insertion, as well as Chu Zhongtian's resolute overhead diagonal pass! The ball flew over the heads of a group of AC Milan and Hoffenheim players and fell straight to the flanks.

Kolarov cut in right from behind and received the ball.

Some AC Milan players raised their hands to signal that Kolarov was offside, but the linesman at the far end saw it very clearly, Kolarov was still very far behind when Chu Zhongtian got up and passed the ball, and he didn't appear behind the defense line until the football crossed everyone's heads and fell to the side, and he was not offside!

After Kolarov received the ball, he was not offside, and the stands at the Rhine-Neckar Stadium erupted in loud cheers.

"This is Hoffenheim's chance! In just three minutes, they had another very dangerous attacking opportunity! From the exquisite cooperation between Chu and Kolarov! ”

The commentators were also excited, as if a goal could happen at any time.

Kolarov received the ball, looked up at the penalty area, he didn't look for a direct cross, but took the ball into the box!

The AC Milan defenders, who found it offside, rushed back at this point, some in front of goal and others in front of goal, others to grab the ball at Kolarov's feet.

Seeing the chaos in the AC Milan penalty area, Kolarov sent a low flat ball, and the football was not passed to the goal, but behind the defenders, near the penalty spot!

Right-back Srna is here and kicks the ball up!

"Srna...... Shot!! ”

Football from Thiago. Silva and Nesta slid between him, past Abbiati's fingers, and hit the net headfirst!

“goooooooooooooooooooooal!!!”

(To be continued)