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After playing Borussia Mönchengladbach, Hoffenheim host Nuremberg in the second round of the German Cup in midweek. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Rangnick did not field the strongest squad in this game, and there were not even a few first-team players to press the lineup, and Rangnick used the German Cup as a stage to train young people. The players who played less in the first team and the youth army formed the team for Nuremberg.

Chu Zhongtian, Ibisevic, Salihovic and other main players almost all got a break, and they did not travel with the team.

The captain of this match was Swedish centre-back Pell. Nelson. Thanks to the arrivals of Simunic and Metzeld, as well as the rise of Camper, the former first-choice centre-back has been confined to the bench. In this German Cup, Rangnick's central defender combination is Nelsson and Metzelde, and Nelsson wears the captain's armband, which can be regarded as a thank you to the captain.

Nelson also responded to the manager's trust with practical actions, scoring with a header from a corner kick in the 35th minute to make it 1-0.

It was one goal that decided the outcome of the game, and until the end of the game, neither side found the back of the net, and Hoffenheim relied on a goal from Nelsson to knock out Nuremberg 1-0 away and advance to the round of 16.

※※※Three days after the German Cup, it will be the seventh round of the league. Hoffenheim host Hertha Berlin, who finished fifth in the league last season, are bottom of the league after a number of key players this season. In addition to a hard-fought first round win over Hannover, Hertha Berlin suffered a five-game losing streak in the next six rounds, all of which were to be lost by teams in the lower middle of the game.

In the German Cup in midweek, Hertha Berlin was knocked out by Bundesliga side Munich 1860.

Now the team's head coach Favre is under a lot of pressure. The club's board of directors is said to have given him an ultimatum that if he fails to turn things around in three rounds, he will become the fourth manager to be sacked in the Bundesliga.

Lost 1:2 to Borussia Mönchengladbach, 0:1 to Bochum, 2:3 to Werder Bremen, 1:2 to Mainz, 0:4 to Freiburg. With 12 goals conceded in five league games, I wonder if Favre will miss the centre-back Simunic who he drove away after seeing this defence.

Simunic is now in excellent form at Hoffenheim and scored a goal against Bochum in the fifth round of the league. However, he still cares about Hertha Berlin, a team he has played for for nine and a half seasons. Although he hated Favre, he did not hate Hertha Berlin. Now seeing Hertha Berlin fall to the point of fighting for relegation, he is still a little disappointed.

Emotions and work are two different things, and when it comes to the game, he doesn't let that stop him from showing mercy to Hertha Berlin.

Another player who used to play for Hertha Berlin was Salihovic, and although there are several people in Hertha Berlin today who are good friends, he has little affection for the team, he likes Hoffenheim. For this game, he treated any league opponent like he would, there was nothing too special about it.

Rangnick did not prepare too carefully for the match against Hertha Berlin, in fact, the players' minds were not on Hertha Berlin. This game is a must-win game for Hertha Berlin, and even more so for Favre, but as their opponent, Hoffenheim has his eyes on England and Manchester United. On the evening of 30 September, Hoffenheim will fly away to Manchester United for their second Champions League group game. The match with Hertha Berlin is on September 27, and it can be said that Hoffenheim will immediately move to Manchester after the game, and I really don't have the heart to think about Hertha Berlin. Anyway, Hertha Berlin is not doing well lately, so Hoffenheim will rub salt in their wounds.

Favre has been unlucky lately, losing five games in a row, six in a row if you count the German Cup. Before the German Cup, he was called by the president of the club and reprimanded, telling him that if he didn't find a way to solve the problem, he should wait to pack up and go home.

As soon as this recourse ended, his team was eliminated in the German Cup by underdogs Munich 1860. He didn't have to watch the replay on TV to know how ugly the club's president's face was.

Although the three-round deadline does not include the German Cup, after losing to Munich 1860, the young player Patrick Bush of the team. Albert (patrick_ebert) actually yelled at him in front of the whole team in the locker room to tell him to "shut up".

Let him lose face and lose his prestige. The successive defeats have made him no one listen to him in this team, and even the young players of the twenty-two-year-old dare to stand up to him. This was unthinkable in the past, but now it's happening.

He knows that the root of it all is results, and as long as he keeps losing, then no matter what kind of player he is, he can point his nose at him and scold him, and once he wins, it's different.

As long as you win, you can say anything, the players who oppose you will become honest, and those who question you will shut up. The club's top management will also smile again and cooperate with their work.

So he had to win the game against Hoffenheim.

※※※ One side is very important, but the other side does not pay attention to it at all, then the result of this game should obviously be in favor of the side that values this game.

This is not the case.

Favre told his players a lot before the game, telling them how to contain Chu Zhongtian, how to guard against Ibisevic, how to break through their defense...... After only fifty seconds of the game, he knew that his words were being treated as farts, and the players didn't listen to them at all.

"Oh, oh, oh! Terminally ill Hertha Berlin has had a bad start! "Less than a minute into the game, the commentator yelled." Ibisevic's goal puts them 1-0 down!! ”

Not long after the game started, Chu Zhongtian passed directly to the side, and Hertha Berlin's fullback Yankel saw that he couldn't break the ball, so he pulled down Kolarov, who broke through from his side. The referee did not hesitate to award Hoffenheim a free-kick on the left side of the box.

It was with this free-kick that Hoffenheim opened the deadlock.

Salihovic took a free kick from the left, Chu Zhongtian jumped high in front of the post, and then the header was ferried to the back post, Ibisevic grabbed the header at the back post, the ball flew into the goal, Hertha Berlin goalkeeper Thiem. Oakes (timo_ochs) was so long that he could only watch the football fly into the goal.

"Fifty seconds! Hoffenheim have once again shown their ability to score first!! Favre's head was starting to hurt and his team was vulnerable to Hoffenheim. This game is a battle between the league leader and the league vice-captain, and judging from the opening fifty seconds, it is very much in line with their respective positions in the league standings! ”

The Rhine-Neckar Stadium was set on fire by Ibisevic's quick goal, and everyone cheered.

"Watching Hoffenheim, you'd better get in early! Or lock the channel early, or you're likely to miss out on the best score! "The commentators are also praising Hoffenheim's ability to score goals quickly." Don't think missing a few tens of seconds is no big deal! ”

The Hertha Berlin players were stunned by the goal, and some of them didn't come to their senses - why did the game just kick off and then kick off again?

But what makes them even more confused is yet to come.

Three minutes later, Hoffenheim scored again. Carlos. Eduardo takes a corner kick, and the unguarded Ibisevic puts the ball into the goal from seven meters in front of the goal, 2:0!

You can see from this goal what kind of mental state Hertha Berlin players are in right now. As Hoffenheim's most dangerous striker, they didn't even send a man to mark and watched as Ibisevic leaped high in front of their goal and scored the ball with ease.

"Oh my God! 2:0！ Hoffenheim scored again! It's only been four minutes and they're already two goals ahead! It's amazing! ”

"Ibisevic scored twice! He's in great shape! Super Ibby, who swept the Bundesliga in the first half of last season, is back! ”

After the goal, Ibisevic ran to the stands and shouted at the fans in the stands.

"Super Ibby!" Fans in the stands shouted the hero's name.

Duan Bin, the Chinese commentator who commented on the game, joked: "It's good to get the name of Ibisevic. Ibisevic, great Ibisevic, haha! ”

Hertha Berlin's players were completely stunned, they did not expect to concede two goals in the first four minutes of the game.

They don't play games like this very often, and they don't know how to deal with them in such situations.

Not to mention them, even head coach Favre doesn't know how to adjust. Just four minutes into the game, they conceded two goals in a row, which meant that their arrangement was completely lost. Do you want him to replace all eleven people? Maybe he would have done that if the rules of football had allowed it...... Hertha Berlin's nightmare continued, and two minutes later, Obasi struck the box on the left side of the box and fired a right-footed shot from a tight angle, which flew off the outside of the left post. Such a disastrous start made the already fragile Hertha Berlin players disarm early, and they were completely unable to organize an effective attack, so Hoffenheim's defenders could boldly press, and Kolarov basically became a left winger, pressing on the opponent's 30-meter line and not going back.

The consequence of letting the opposing player gallop within his own 30-metre zone is to continue to concede the ball.

In the 21st minute, Salihovic and Chu Zhongtian made a delicate cooperation on the side, he passed the ball to Chu Zhongtian and then accelerated to the bottom, Chu Zhongtian passed an overhead ball in order to avoid Hertha Berlin's defenders, and the football fell straight to the back of the opponent's backline, Salihovic waited for the ball near the bottom line, and directly volleyed the cross, and the football crossed the heads of many players in front of the goal and fell to the right side of the penalty area. Inserting an assist, which is basically equivalent to a winger's full-back, Baker once again passed the football to the goal, still Ibisevic, still unmarked, and scored for the third time with a header from the nine fans.

“gooooooooooal！！ Super Ibi - !! The narrator yelled excitedly. Hat-trick! He scored a hat-trick! Even though he was extremely good in the first half of last season, he didn't score a hat-trick either! Today was his first hat-trick in the Bundesliga! The new season has only started seven rounds and he has scored six more goals!! ”

"Super Ibby! Super Ibi! The home fans in the stands at the Rhine-Neckar Stadium erupted in loud cheers.

Ibisevic, who scored a hat-trick, spread his arms and ran with his head up on the pitch, enjoying the feeling.

"The Ibisevic who took the goal as a breath is back!" The live broadcast also joined in such cheers, and he announced passionately.

"It's back!" The fans responded loudly to him.

A hat-trick was scored in 21 minutes, the second to score a hat-trick in the Bundesliga after the opening kick-off. The record for the fastest opening game was held by Duisburg's Tenis, who scored three goals in the 11th and 16th minutes in Duisburg's 6-2 win over Karlsruhe in 1991 to complete his hat-trick, the shortest in the Bundesliga.

fell behind 0:3 in the opening 21 minutes, which also made the game lose suspense early. Considering that the midweek game was against Manchester United, the Hoffenheim players began to consciously adjust their rhythm on the field, and Chu Zhongtian led the whole team to slow down the pace and began to attack less vigorously.

In first-half stoppage time, Rafael (Raffael) broke through in front of the box and was brought down by Beck, Hertha Berlin won a direct free kick from 17 meters on the left, Rafael took it himself, the ball went over the wall and hit the inside of the left post and into the net, Hildebrand did not react to this, Hertha Berlin pulled a goal back.

But it didn't help.

In the 58th minute, Chu Zhongtian suddenly launched a scramble in the front court, blocking the football from Hertha Berlin into the right side of the penalty area, Obasi quickly inserted a strong volley, and the football accurately flew into the lower left corner of the goal, 4:1! Hoffenheim reextended their lead.

This score can already declare the end of the game early, Hoffenheim began to make substitutions one after another, Ibisevic, who scored three goals in the 60th minute, was replaced by Van Nistelrooy, Rangnick's substitution is on the one hand to let the hero of the game accept the cheers of the fans alone, on the other hand, it is also to let Van Nistelrooy find the state of the game, the next game against Manchester United, Van Nistelrooy and Ibisevic will be the team's starting forwards.

Sure enough, when Ibisevic left the game, all the home fans spontaneously got up from their seats and applauded Ibisevic.

Although goal-scorer Ibisevic was replaced, Hoffenheim's attacking firepower was not compromised. Just three minutes after Ibisevic came off the pitch, Van Nistelrooy, who had just come on the pitch, received a pass from Chu Zhongtian in the penalty area, and then tripped Stein (marc_stein) when he turned. Although Hoffenheim had already taken a three-goal lead, the referee did not hesitate to award a penalty.

Penalties are usually taken by Salihovic, but this time he gave the penalty to Eduardo, who had just become a father.

Eduardo took advantage of his team-mate's favour and converted the penalty. After the goal, he beckoned everyone to come up and celebrate the goal with him by making a cradle gesture.

Seeing that the big picture was decided, Rangnick replaced Sana with Voxa and Obbasi with Wellington.

Still, Hoffenheim still had chances to score. In the 76th minute, Wellington stopped the ball and skipped Arna. Friedrich (arne_friedrich) volleys into the left side of the box and the ball goes wide of the near post. In the 89th minute, Vonesterooy's curling ball from the right side of the penalty area was slightly off the post, almost rewriting the score to 6:1.

In the end, Hoffenheim defeated Hertha Berlin with a score of 5-1 to make it four consecutive league wins and remain at the top of the table. They also handed Hertha Berlin a six-game losing streak, which saw them equal the club's all-time losing streak and keep them bottom of the table.

As soon as the game was over, Favre left the pitch, and at this time he didn't want to see anyone, so he quieted himself and prepared to bear the wrath of the club president. Simunic went up to comfort his former team-mates, swapped shirts with them, patted them on the shoulder and said something.

The Hoffenheim game has just ended, and their game footage and analysis have been sent to Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson's desk.

"Ibisevic scored a hat-trick as Hoffenheim beat Hertha Berlin 5-1." Assistant coach Whelan said to Ferguson.

Ibisevic was also a very optimistic player for Manchester United, but it was after Ibisevic's sudden outbreak in the Bundesliga, and there were rumors that Manchester United planned to bring in Ibisevic.

Ferguson nodded: "What about Chu?" ”

But compared to Ibisevic, Ferguson is more concerned about Chu Zhongtian's performance.

"There was an assist, you can't see the data in other aspects, I've watched the game live, it's still very good, I roughly counted, 70 percent of Hoffenheim's offense was directly or indirectly initiated by him."

Ferguson placed his fingers crossed on his abdomen. "It seems that our plan is right, this game is to keep an eye on Chu. Although Hoffenheim's forwards are very good, as long as the midfielders can't pass the ball to them, they are no threat. ”

"So who are the people we use to keep an eye on Chu......" Whelan asked.

"No marking, zone defense. Limit his space and time. Fügensen clasped his hands together and made a gesture of clasping. He's so good at running that man marking doesn't work, Mike. That would only disrupt our own defenses. And once his own defenses are disrupted, he will find a lot of openings. I don't want to see that happen. ”

Whelan nodded: "Okay, I understand. ”

After sending off the assistant coach, Ferguson looked at the match analysis report and video disc on the table, and instead of immediately stuffing the disc into the CD player, he picked up the game report first and then read it carefully.

(To be continued)