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Newcastle began their first preview of the 08-09 season at home to Bundesliga promotion Hoffenheim! The reason why Li Tongfan chose Hoffenheim as his opponent in the warm-up match was mainly to bully this team as a new Bundesliga team!

In fact, a closer look at the four warm-up teams arranged by Li Tongfan can find the pattern, the first warm-up opponent and the last warm-up opponent are both weak teams with underground strength, and Real Madrid and Inter Milan in the middle are super strong teams. The purpose of this choice is to allow Newcastle, which has almost changed ninety eighths of the blood, to find weaknesses in time in the game with different strength teams, so that Lao Li can use FM2009 to make adjustments!

However, God seems to have played a joke with Lao Li!

Because, Hoffenheim does not seem to be a weak team.

Less than three minutes into the game, Hoffenheim scored from the visitors. Bundesliga-promoted Brazilian midfielder Eduardo made an imaginative through ball and Bosnian striker Vidad Ibisevic slotted into the far corner of the net from an offside position before Newcastle's young centre-back Sako turned...... 1：0！

Lao Li stood on the sidelines and was surprised!

Because in this game, Li Tongfan did not use FM2009 to deduce, and the players who sent out were all new players - goalkeeper Hugo Lloris, David Thornton appeared in the right-back position, Mamadou Sako and Steven Taylor partnered in the center back, left winger Yuri Zerkov, back Fernando Gago, wings Juan Mata and Marcelo, forward Pastore, forward Michael Owen partnered Hernan Crespo!

Originally, Lao Li thought that although the new players in today's lineup occupied most of the places, there were indeed many unfavorable factors such as poor cooperation...... However, the hammers on the field are all famous or up-and-coming names in European football, and it should be a piece of cake to integrate the team uniform and a team like Hoffenheim, right?

Who knew that after the opening, not only was the opponent scored first, but according to the performance of the "blue army" after the goal, the madman Li Yiyi Newcastle was unexpectedly exhausted by the opponent's gorgeous and surging offensive!

Hoffenheim's style of play made Li Tongfan's eyes shine, and if you ignore the blue uniforms worn by the players, Lao Li even thought that the team that appeared at St. James' Park was Arsenal...... Is this really a fucking Bundesliga promotion horse with no name?

At this moment, Li Tongfan had a feeling that he wanted to pinch a soft persimmon but pinched a hard stone!

In the stands.

Fifty-three thousand four hundred and twenty-one fanatical Newcastle fans turned St James' Park into a terrifying away hell, and the Hofenheim players booed like a storm as soon as they got the ball, but this formation obviously could not scare the opponent on the turf!

In the 22nd minute of the game, Hoffenheim, who was beaten by Newcastle, scored again!

Chu Zhongtian, a Chinese midfielder who had just joined the Bundesliga side in the summer, had an unbelievable back-heel knock through Newcastle's backline, which was still in the run-in period, and then it was Hoffenheim's No.19 striker Ibisevic who scrambled ahead of Sako and Steven Taylor...... 2：0！

Amid the stunned Newcastle fans, the Hoffenheim players rushed to the sidelines to hug and celebrate with their head coach Rangnick...... Sidelines.

Li Tongfan no longer worries about the final score this time, it's just a friendly match...... As early as two years ago, he lost several friendly matches when he was in charge of Real Madrid, so even if he loses this game, it will have no impact on the invincible reputation of the madman Lee!

What really intrigues Lee Tong-fan is why an unknown team that has just been promoted to the Bundesliga has such strength? In the more than 20 minutes just now, Li Tongfan carefully observed Hoffenheim's technical and tactical play and the strength level of each player, and the more he watched, the more surprised he became, because whether it is the individual ability of the team or the players, everything is not at all the level that the Bundesliga promotion horse should have...... Thinking of this, Lao Li's face hung a prank-like smile again, because the muffled man was sure that if the big brothers of the Bundesliga didn't take this team seriously, maybe the small team Hoffenheim would shock the whole world in the upcoming 08-09 season!

Lao Li had an idea, and found a good attention to pretending to be forced again!

…… Ninety minutes later, Newcastle lost 3-2 at home.

Hoffenheim relied on Chinese defender Chu Zhongtian's header to expand the score to 3:0 in the 44th minute of the game, and Newcastle, who finally found a sense of cooperation in the second half, played more and more smoothly, and Argentine center Herlan Crespo received Juan Mata's transfer in the 68th minute of the game and scored his first goal since joining the Magpies...... In the 84th minute, 17-year-old Argentine teenager forward Javier Pastore sent a free kick created by Owen directly into the Hoffenheim goal...... 2：3！

This is a score that no one expected before the game, and even the German media did not expect that the rural team that had just been promoted to the Bundesliga would be able to overturn the madman Lee who was in the hands of the European heroes away from home!

“…… To be honest, it was a surprise to me because before the game I and the players were aiming for a 10-0 or better win, but Hoffenheim earned my respect with their own strength...... I'm willing to bet that Mr. Rangnick and his team will be able to shock the whole world in the upcoming season...... Well, maybe they can work a miracle! ”

This is the "defeat speech" of the madman Lee at the post-match press conference!

But no one seriously thought about the meaning of Li Tongfan's words, and no one took a serious attitude to examine the true strength of Hoffenheim, who took away a surprise victory at St. James' Park, both the media and the fans, focused more on the loss of the madman Lee!

Flores, the former editor-in-chief of the World Sports Newspaper, who had already formed a mortal feud with Lee Tongfan, wasted no time in jumping out - "Hoffenheim can shock the world? Ha, that's the most ridiculous joke I've ever heard this century...... The reason why Crazy Lee is so tall for a rural team that has just been promoted from the Bundesliga is not to distract the media...... In fact, we can see from this game that the madman Lee is not as invincible as people think, at least the Bundesliga promotion coach Mr. Rangnick has done that......"

Although the feud between Flores and the madman Lee has long been known to the world, and saying this may not be without suspicion of personal revenge, it still arouses the approval of some media in other countries outside England.

Because, in terms of surnames, people are willing to witness the rise of a myth as spectators, but at the same time they prefer to bury a myth as a participant! Fortunately, because of the success of Euro 2008, England has maintained trust in Crazy Lee!

The Sun conducted a survey of fan trust after Newcastle's defeat in the friendly against Hoffenheim, and there was no doubt that support among Newcastle fans of Crazy Lee had not fallen by even one percentage point, but there was a faint sign of continued growth............ Newcastle Rigberton Training Base!

Obviously, the fanning of the outside media did not affect the enthusiasm of Lee Tongfan and the Newcastle players to prepare for the new season, and the team's morning training was carried out with joy and laughter. Outside the barbed wire fence at the base were media reporters from newspapers and enthusiastic Newcastle fans...... Tomorrow at 16:00 p.m., Newcastle will play Real Madrid at St James' Park, so the players have been very positive in training!

This will be a race that is destined to attract the attention of the world!

For the first time, Maniac Lee will face the team that once coached and created a myth as an enemy!

And even if this is removed, there are still countless shady gimmicks in this extraordinary friendly match!

Because, whether it is Real Madrid's huge fame or the past between the madman Lee and Real Madrid, all these are reasons to attract the world's attention to this friendly match. By this time, the media had stopped speculating about how Lee Tong-fan successfully invited the Galaxy to Newcastle when the La Liga league was still more than ten days away, and more attention was devoted to the meeting between the madman Lee and the old Real Madrid as enemies and the feud between the German Schuster and the madman Lee in the 06-07 season!

As we all know, when Schuster was still the head coach of Getafe, he complained to media reporters that the madman Lee had robbed him of his job, which caused the madman Li to be angry, and finally beat Getafe with a two-legged bloody score with the overwhelming momentum of Mount Tai...... Tomorrow, will Schuster, who has been relinquished as Real Madrid manager, be able to sweep past Newcastle, who have just lost at the feet of a rural team, at St James' Park?

…… For Lee Tong-beom, the friendly match against Real Madrid does have a special significance.

So compared to the unpreparedness against Hoffenheim, Lao Li has put in a lot of hard work this time. Each of the new players was surprised and excited the day before to receive the training plan made by the "boss" Lee Tong-beom according to their respective positions and technical characteristics...... Among all the new players introduced, Ronaldo's weight problem and Marcelo's recovery problem, which was completely out of form after a serious injury in Real Madrid, were put first by Lao Li! Judging from the results observed in the past few days, Marcelo's condition problem is not urgently solved by training, and the use of the FM2009 system is necessary, as for Ronaldo...... Lao Li decided to force the fat man to lose weight!

(To be continued)