Chapter 432: A Bad Start
Rangnick was right, the Bundesliga has just been rekindled, and Hoffenheim was strongly blocked by their opponents in the first league game of the new year. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
At that time, Hoffenheim was at home against Cottages, and it is worth mentioning that Shao Jiayi was not even able to enter the squad in this game, so the Chinese derby that domestic media and fans were looking forward to before the game could not be played at all.
There is no way to do this, Shao Jiayi's form is sluggish, and their head coach, Mr. Bojan Plasnica, also doesn't look down on Shao Jiayi at all......
But the game broadcast by CCTV is extremely intense, you must know that Ketbus is the big fish belly among the eighteen teams in the Bundesliga, and now he is still struggling in the relegation zone!
Why is there such a fierce fight with Hoffenheim?
Rangnick didn't expect it at all, he underestimated his opponent before the start of this game, and the striker discharged the double striker of Sanogo and Demba Ba, obviously playing as a warm-up game, and wanted to try a new lineup.
But Ketbus played fiercely, and in less than twenty minutes of the opening game, the referee showed four yellow cards to both teams!
Of course, with the strength of Ketbus, it is simply impossible to score at the home stadium of Hoffenheim, where Beta sits!
But they managed to repel Hoffenheim's attacks again and again, and even at the end of the first half, the score was still 0:0!
Just when everyone was shocked by the tenacity of Cottages, Hoffenheim seemed to wake up, and they showed the strength of the first team in the Bundesliga in the second half!
In the 63rd minute, Demba Ba received a pass from Teber, stabbed his left foot, and completed the goal in the penalty area!
Subsequently, because of the foul of the anxious Otbus player, Hoffenheim got a free kick opportunity, and Beta received a pass from Salihovic to complete the header!
2:0, before half of the second half, Hoffenheim played a tough counterattack under the dense defensive formation of Ketbus.
Interestingly, though, when Hoffenheim played with momentum, Cottages didn't take a big hit, but instead didn't hesitate to get out of their half.
Is this Red Bull-named team really like a chicken blood, trying to regain confidence in Hoffenheim?
But have they forgotten something? Hoffenheim is no ordinary promotion horse! Hoffenheim is a legendary promotion horse who will rival Kaiserslautern, is it so easy to mess with the top spot in the Bundesliga?
Without saying a word, Hoffenheim launched a vigorous battle with the other party.
Although Beta did not press it up, Hoffenheim's offensive firepower showed the difference in strength in the face of Cottbus, whose defensive lineup was not so neat!
In the 75th minute, Eduardo's shot was saved, but Demba Ba grabbed the spot, and he didn't take credit for it, passing the ball to Sanogo, who fell into the open space.
Sanogo opened the scoring, his first goal in the previous three warm-up games since joining Hoffenheim, and the Ivory Coast international raced on the sidelines!
In this game, Hoffenheim still won with a score of 3:0, and Ketbus's ferocity became the laughing stock of the mantis arm.
Rangnick was jubilant after the game, and even when he was interviewed by the media, he said more than ever before.
It's not that he thinks the win over Cottages is so happy, it's that Sanogo's goal gives him another point of hope!
Therefore, in the next 19th round of the league, Rangnick added Sanogo to the starting list, and he wanted to see if he could tap more of Sanogo's potential!
However, the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment!
Sanogo was able to score in the last game, there was a certain element of luck, and more importantly, the strength of the opponent in the last game was really weak.
And this round, Hoffenheim is away against Borussia Mönchengladbach, although Mönchenbach's ranking in the first half of this season is not as good as Ketbus, but after all, they are old powerhouses, and their heritage is too rich.
Borussia Mönchenchen's decorated manager Hans Meyer, the most successful goalkeeper in German football history, has won one World Cup, four Bundesliga titles and three Champions Leagues with his contemporaries Beckenbauer and Müller.
As a coach, he also took charge of Borussia Monchenchen and led the team back to the Bundesliga! In the first half, after the original coach of Mönchenbach Lu Xukai was fired because of his poor results, Meyer returned to Mönchenchen and continued to coach the declining giants.
Meyer's 3-3-3-1 formation caused Hoffenheim a lot of problems!
They formed a powerful strangulation chain of six players in midfield, forcing Salihovic to make a series of mistakes.
Hoffenheim's midfield is good, but it has not yet reached the top level, so after being strongly targeted by the opponent, there is a lot less support for the frontcourt!
And at the level of Demba Ba and Sanogo, they can't complete the feat of 1v2 and 1v3.
In the first half, Hoffenheim's attack seemed to be dumb, with very few shots on goal and zero shots on target!
Sanogo's lack of strength was vividly demonstrated in this game!
He shouldn't have been allowed to start!
Beta didn't do it, he was targeted even worse, as soon as he crossed the half-court, the American Bradley followed him step by step!
If the ordinary defense is okay, Beta has a way to get rid of the opponent, but Meyer obviously made a special arrangement, Bradley is like kraft candy, no one cares, the ball is not watched, just stick to Beta's body!
With the help of his teammates, Beta was still able to complete the shot, but due to Bradley's small movements, his shots were all from a wide angle.
At the end of the first half, Hoffenheim was a little silent, but Mönchen suddenly launched a fast attack and caught Hoffenheim off guard.
The fast break was done, Alexander Baumjohn received a pass from a team-mate in the penalty area, and with a flash of inspiration, the ball crossed Beta's feet and drilled into the bottom right corner of the goal!
In the second half, Borussia Mönchen replaced three central midfielders one after another to strengthen the defense, but Hoffenheim did not equalize until the last minute.
A corner opportunity, after the big target Beta pulled out space, Compaq headed in the air, Weiss grabbed the second spot, and the header relayed home.
1:1, Hoffenheim narrowly and narrowly equalized in the last minute of regular time, and also avoided the embarrassment of losing.
But for Hoffenheim, playing against a team like Borussia Mönchenchen, if you don't win, you lose!
After these two games, Hoffenheim has seen what it is like to be a "public enemy of the Bundesliga"!
And these two weak opponents are just the beginning, the next game, facing the strong Leverkusen, Hoffenheim's challenge is coming!