Chapter 084: Ready for Celebration!
On March 23, 2008, the 25th round of the Bundesliga match against Mainz against the leader Hoffenheim was played at the Bruch Road Stadium; Hoffenheim and Mainz will be pushing hard for that precious promotion spot in what promises to be an uneventful game as both teams are favourites for promotion as they have already engaged in a pre-match war of words.
"Hoppe's haggard ruined German football!" "The arrogant Chinese kid will leave crying!" "The Pro League doesn't need Hoffenheim!" When the Hoffenheim players walked out of the players' tunnel, the Bruch Road Stadium, which can accommodate 20,000 people, resounded with boos, and at this time Xiao Qing and Hoffenheim were booed and abused by the Mainz fans, the war of words between the two teams before the game unabashedly showed that the two teams did not have the slightest haode atmosphere, and more importantly, this is Mainz's home stadium, in order for the team to be promoted they must win against Hoffenheim, they need to put hard pressure on the young grassroots team Hoffenheim at this time.
Xiao Qing and his teammates obviously know that they will be booed and provoked by the fans of Mainz in this game, as the leader of the league, they can naturally understand that they are now the target of the public, and they can obviously understand that they are now those who want to be promoted, or those fans who can't see the hope of promotion, because the rise of Hoffenheim is really beyond everyone's expectations, and everyone did not expect Hoffenheim to be able to enter the Bundesliga so suddenly. They didn't expect Hoffenheim to become the league leader and the favourites for promotion in their first season in the Bundesliga!
The boos and abuse of the fans did not bother the Hoffenheim players more, to be honest, the current Hoffenheim players must learn to adjust themselves, because now they are standing on a relatively high stage, now they are the focus of attention of many fans and the media, and now they must learn to take on more.
Xiao Qing and his teammates don't care about the provocation of the fans, now they just want to play well, they must win this game, and only such a victory in a key game can make the fans who provoke them even more uncomfortable and depressed, as for the provocation of the fans now, it is obviously not necessary.
When the referee blew the whistle for the game, the atmosphere at Bruch Road was completely exploded, and the players of the two teams quickly put all their attention into the game, of course, because of some pre-game war of words and the importance of the game, the game was fierce from the beginning, so the smell of gunpowder on the field was also very strong!
Hoffenheim's attack is stronger than defense, and Mainz is also strong in attack and weak in defense, so if the two teams want to win this game, then they first need to strengthen their defense in the game, they must first ensure that they do not concede goals as much as possible, and only in this way can they win this game. This game is so important that the players of both teams can't afford to make any mistakes in the game, they have to be careful in every detail of the game, and they have to make sure that they don't make mistakes as much as possible in the game.
The first 20 minutes of the game were fierce battles between the two teams in the midfield, and they had to play steadily in this game, and they had to make sure that they didn't make mistakes and didn't leave more chances for their opponents.
Hoffenheim is very good, at least although in the first twenty minutes and Mainz in the midfield launched a bayonet hand-to-hand fight, but although Mainz was still in the Bundesliga last season, some of their main players also left after relegation, and the most important thing is that Hoffenheim's aggressive recruitment in this season has had a lot of effect; Although Copado and Salihovic both came out of the regional league, their growth over the years has made their current ability absolutely good, at least in the Bundesliga-level confrontation, not only do not suffer, but even have an advantage; The addition of Eduardo this season has greatly improved Hoffenheim's midfield, and the current Hoffenheim midfielder is definitely one of the most haode in the Bundesliga.
And Xiao Qing's occasional retreat also gives Hoffenheim an advantage in the battle for control of the midfield, and now they can slowly eat away at Mainz's control of the rhythm of the midfield, and they can slowly make Mainz lose their rhythm in the midfield. When Hoffenheim began to control the midfield more, when Hoffenheim began to slowly establish some advantages, then they don't need to be polite, they don't need to continue to fight with Mainz, now they need to convert the current advantage into goals, now they need to strengthen the attack and wait for more opportunities!
Xiao Qing is very smart, at least Xiao Qing's ability to grasp the situation on the court is getting clearer and clearer; Xiao Qing's initial retreat was to help the team stabilize its position, hoping to help the team establish an advantage in the midfield; And once the team has established the advantage in midfield, then what Xiao Qing needs now is to return to the front court to enhance the team's threat on the offensive end, and now he is only when he appears in the front court, then he can help the team the most. Although Xiao Qing has not scored in two consecutive rounds, Mainz should be able to know that Xiao Qing is still Hoffenheim's most attacking point!
In the 31st minute of the game, Hoffenheim's attack made Bruch Road Stadium a panicked exclamation, and it was Hoffenheim striker Xiao Qing, who was considered to have failed to score in two consecutive rounds before the game, who brought a huge challenge to Mainz!
Xiao Qing received a pass from Copado with his back to the goal, although Xiao Qing already had a defender from Mainz behind him at this time, he still found an opportunity. Using his physical fitness, using his liliang is good, Xiao Qing, who is leaning on the Mainz defender, keeps squeezing the Mainz defender hard, and when the Mainz defender Subotic seems to be using all his energy to compete with Xiao Qing, Xiao Qing slammed the ball with his heel to the left back.
It is still very possible for Xiao Qing, who has excellent explosiveness and speed, to bully Subotic, who is 1.93 meters tall, so although Subotic hurriedly chased back, although the Mainz defenders began to prepare to block Xiao Qing who entered the penalty area in an instant, Xiao Qing didn't care.
Although the encircled Mainz defenders are constantly interfering with Xiao Qing with some small actions, although the current Xiao Qing's chances are not very good, but using their own good dribbling, of course, there are also Mainz defenders who dare not have too big defensive actions, Xiao Qing continues to kill towards the goal strongly, and the current Mainz is more to block Xiao Qing's shooting space, they can only wait for Xiao Qing to make a mistake.
Although it is a little difficult to protect the ball, Xiao Qing still stubbornly continues to advance with the ball, although there is no space for haode to shoot, but Xiao Qing believes that he will have more opportunities, because he is about to enter the small penalty area, at that time he can find more haode almost anyway. But when Xiao Qing just entered the small penalty area, Mainz goalkeeper Dimo, who had already been a little impatient. Vache directly chose to attack; Xiao Qing didn't notice Wache's attack at all, or Xiao Qing, who was in the crowded small penalty area in order to protect the ball, didn't have time to make more moves.
'Force', the referee's sharp whistle sounded, Xiao Qing was directly knocked to the ground by the Mainz goalkeeper, at this time the Mainz players were emotionally loud to the referee to justify, because although Vache rushed towards the ball, but he still knocked down Xiao Qing, which is likely to be a red card plus a penalty!
Xiao Qing and his teammates were very dissatisfied, because the referee only gave Vache a yellow card, it seems that the home advantage still has some impact, of course, it may also be because in such an important game the referee is a little bit afraid to have too controversial decisions, because the game has only been played for 30 minutes, and the red card and penalty kick are likely to cause huge controversy after the game.
Xiao Qing was naturally quite dissatisfied with such a penalty, but he also knew that it was no good to continue to entangle with the referee now; However, this does not prevent Hoffenheim's players from putting some pressure on the referee, and a decision that is not good for Hoffenheim is barely acceptable, but if such a decision occurs again and again, then it is absolutely unacceptable.
Xiao Qing smiled bitterly and shook his head, he could have created more opportunities, because he believed that as long as he continued to dribble the ball, then he would be able to reach the goal, so the celebration he had been preparing for a long time could appear, but now it seems that Xiao Qing's celebration needs to be postponed. However, the postponement is postponed, Xiao Qing believes that this celebration will come soon, he has confidence in himself, he believes that he can score, not to improve the bad record of not scoring to three games, you must know that Xiao Qing has not exceeded the record of two consecutive games without scoring after coming to Hoffenheim, although he has had a record of two consecutive games without scoring before, but that is already the limit that Xiao Qing thinks!
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