Chapter 014: The Beginning of the Usurpation

Hoffenheim fans are crazy, Xiao Qing's goal helped them take a 1-0 lead, and in the face of Mainz, whose offensive ability is not excellent, Hoffenheim is sure enough to win this victory! And at this time, Hoffenheim fans also began to be curious about the yellow man who scored the leading goal.

Xiao Qing's presence in Hoffenheim is not strong, and before that, Xiao Qing did not have any fame in the entire football world; Edu, Eduardo, Demba Ba, Ibisevic each of the players who came to Hoffenheim still had some fame before that; Even Weiss, who has not yet played in the first team, has some fame in the youth team in Stuttgart.

As for Xiao Qing, even the most hardcore Hoffenheim fans don't know where this yellow man came from; Although Xiao Qing has scored two goals as a substitute in the previous game, it was only the icing on the cake, so it was all brushed off in the report. What's more, Xiao Qing is just a trial contract, and even an insignificant signing that is not reported on Hoffenheim's official website.

Therefore, it is normal for Hoffenheim fans not to know Xiao Qing; But after this game, maybe in Germany and in the German Second Division, Xiao Qing is still a small role with little reputation, but for Hoffenheim fans, a large part of them will definitely know Xiao Qing.

Hoffenheim's 1-0 win over Mainz, or rather, a bit of an upset; After all, Hoffenheim is only a promoted horse in the Bundesliga, while Mainz has just been relegated from the Bundesliga; Although Hoffenheim has been unbeaten in three rounds before, for this team, many people still seem to be the favorites, and Mainz is undoubtedly the favorite to win the first division.

The difference in strength between the two teams seems to be relatively large, Hoffenheim is only barely in the middle and lower reaches of the standings with the previous three rounds of unbeaten, while Mainz is in third place in the standings!

However, in the eighth round of the Bundesliga, Hoffenheim beat Mainz 1-0 at home; Hoffenheim have temporarily improved their points and they are starting to be in the middle of the table; And Mainz they are tragic, Mainz, who originally wanted to score all three points on Hoffenheim and hit the second place in the standings, fell out of the top three in the standings!

Although compared to the 34 rounds of the Bundesliga, only the eighth round of the standings is still not clear; But speaking of which, in the eighth round, some of the situations can also be seen a little; For example, the top two sides in the table, Borussia Mönchengladbach and Cologne, will certainly be the favourites for promotion. In the relegation zone, the vice-captain Jena is in danger, and teams such as Paderborn, Ergerberg, Offenbacha, Augsburg and Kaiserslautern are all in the relegation zone for the time being.

Hoffenheim is now in high spirits, although in the previous round of the game in the lead twice was equalized by the opponent, but in the last four rounds of Hoffenheim three wins and one draw remain unbeaten, which is also a strong contrast with the first four rounds of the league one draw and three losses, the team that almost those deputy squad leader positions Hoffenheim bottomed out and squeezed into the middle of the standings in one fell swoop!

Up to now, almost a third of the league has passed, and the media and football people at Hoffenheim still feel confused; Because Hoffenheim can be unbeaten in four rounds, and they can also lose to the end in four rounds, such two strong results are what this team showed everyone in the first eight rounds of the Bundesliga.

Hoffenheim are just a newcomer, having struggled in the German regional league last season; Hoffenheim have made quite a bit of a makeover to their squad this season, and it can even be said that it is a completely new team, but it is such a team, and their recent performances are a bit incomprehensible, and this small village team with only 3,000 inhabitants has begun to make waves in the Bundesliga.

Xiao Qing felt quite good, and in this game he scored a goal to help the team achieve a victory, so that Xiao Qing once again got ten experience points; Now Xiao Qing, who has twelve experience points, is still far from one hundred experience points, but Xiao Qing believes that he can quickly make another breakthrough.

The reason why Xiao Qing can have such confidence is because his current positioning in the team has been further enhanced, and because he is now more and more important in the eyes of head coach Rangnick; This is Xiao Qing's third appearance this season, three goals in three games, two of which were substitute appearances, and the first start scored the only goal of the game, Xiao Qing has enough reason to feel proud, although many people seem to Xiao Qing's first two goals are balloons smashed into the face by the face, but it doesn't matter to Xiao Qing, as long as he can score, who cares what part of the goal is scored!

Xiao Qing knows that although he can't firmly lock in the position of a main force now, he is naturally becoming more and more important in the team now. Because among the four strikers in the team, including him, Xiao Qing's temporary state is the most haode, and although Xiao Qing is a little low-key, he is also secretly happy, because he has become the team's top scorer with Copado for the time being, you must know that Xiao Qing has only played three games!

Xiao Qing's position in the team is becoming more and more important, and Xiao Qing, who was originally difficult to compete with the other three strikers in the team, gradually threatened the positions of several other strikers; Especially Edu and Demba Ba, who have basically locked the two main positions, their current state is actually not good, especially Demba Ba was robbed of his starting qualification by Xiao Qing in this round of the game.

So when Xiao Qing couldn't compete with other people, he could drink other players and mingle, but now, once Xiao Qing becomes their competitor, there will naturally be a faint estrangement between them. Edu and Demba Ba are worried about Xiao Qing's 'usurpation', the first substitute Ibisevic was robbed of playing time by Xiao Qing, although Xiao Qing still positions himself as a substitute, but Demba Ba, who can feel Xiao Qing's threat, and Edu and Xiao Qing have less communication on the training ground, and there is basically no contact in private. As for Ibisevic, who originally had a good relationship, although he still talks to Xiao Qing, he is not as unscrupulous as before.

However, although the relationship with the forwards is not very good, Xiao Qing, who has a cheerful personality and loves to play and make trouble, is still quite popular in the team, although there are still some language barriers, Xiao Qing can still play with his teammates; Basically, it can be said that Weiss, who is in trouble with Xiao Qing's brother, this is the earliest player Xiao Qing knows in the team, and he has cooperated in Stuttgart during the trial, although Weiss has not been able to play in the first team now, but the relationship with Xiao Qing is still good.

And Eduardo can be said to be Xiao Qing's most friendful now; Eduardo is from Brazil, and many Brazilian players have the impression of being lazy and unself-loving, they are very talented, but they don't work hard enough, such as Ronaldo, who has begun to get more and more rich, Ronaldinho, who quickly fell from the first person in Shijie, and Adriano, the former king of Inter.

But the enthusiasm of the Brazilian is also known all over the world, perhaps because it is the team's first value, Carlos. Eduardo is still vaguely ostracized by some players in the team, everyone is in their early twenties, we have been playing in European football for a few years now, but you have never proven yourself in European competition to be the first value of the team, which is certainly not easy to accept for some talented young players.

And this is the Bundesliga, which is a relatively low-level second-tier league, so everyone's starting point is not high, so those players who want to prove themselves more Haode are in some competition with Eduardo. And Eduardo, although he has the enthusiasm that is peculiar to Brazilians, he also has the confidence of Brazilians in football, he does not think that he is worse than anyone else, so he and those who are holding back their strength to compete with him, although there is no obvious contradiction, but he can't play together.

When Xiao Qing and Eduardo two enthusiastic people met, when they were both away from home for the first time and came to a strange country, the two of them could still find a lot of common topics; And both of them were rejected by a very small number of people in the team, but the people who could play with the vast majority of other people, and even the people who excluded them were basically the same people, Xiao Qing naturally played closer to Eduardo.

"Xiao, I really feel sorry for you." In the ninth round of the league, Hoffenheim challenged the relegation zone team Augsburg away; This is Hoffenheim's first game in October, but in the face of the relegation zone team, although Hoffenheim scored two goals, but the weak back line was also torn apart by Augsburg twice, 2-2 draw, Hoffenheim failed to take Augsburg in the relegation zone, and Xiao Qing came off the bench in the second half of the game, but Xiao Qing, who did not have enough time to play, broke the record of scoring goals in every game.

"Man, maybe my chance has come." Xiao Qing put his arm around Eduardo's shoulders and raised his chin very covertly towards Edu and Demba Ba, "Our forwards didn't perform well enough today. ”

"That's true, congratulations buddy, take the opportunity and show those guys what we're capable of!" Eduardo can also understand what Xiao Qing means, since the other strikers of the team are not performing well, then their slump can also prove that Xiao Qing is even better, Xiao Qing's opportunity is indeed here!