The game that forced Stuttgart to surprise many people because they did not see Hoffenheim's collapse.

But they didn't take it seriously. Even if Hoffenheim passed Stuttgart's level, Dortmund and Werder Bremen were waiting for them later.

Anyway, the four strong opponents lost one game and tied one game. This result cannot be said to be good, right? There are two more failures waiting for them.

Only Stuttgart's head coach Amin Fei said a fair word at the post-match press conference: "We were at a disadvantage in the field and were able to get a point. I am very satisfied with the team's performance."

This sentence is intertwined in an analysis of the game, and it is so inconspicuous that it is ignored intentionally or unintentionally by many people.

Sinsheim local media praised Hoffenheim's game because they had the advantage in the scene and did not score a goal because they were too lucky.

Judging from the scenes of this game, Rangnick's fencing training really played a certain role.

The players were active on the field, especially when the defenders moved, and were nimble, which was obviously inspired by the fencing movement.

The changes Chu Zhongtian felt were also obvious. When he faced the pressing of two Stuttgart players alone in the midfield, he was able to deal with them calmly. These are the results of fencing training in the past ten days.

This game allowed him to find the right direction. He believed that he would continue to strengthen his pace training and would be helpful for playing football well.

After playing tied with Stuttgart, it did not help Hoffenheim's ranking improvement. They were still ranked sixth in the league, the same as in the previous round. However, the morale and confidence of the players are recovering.

A week later on September 20, in the sixth round of the league, they will face Dortmund at home.

Dortmund also frequently encountered strong players in the beginning of the league. They tied the match against Bayern Munich and Schalke 04, and did not lose points on strong teams. It was a very good thing. In the first round, Leverkusen won the home team 3:2, and then played against the weak team Cottbus, and won 1:0.

They played four rounds of the league and have not lost yet. In this round, they also hope to continue their outstanding state.

They beat Leverkusen 3:2 away, and Hoffenheim lost to Leverkusen 2:5 away. If we simply compare the winning and losing relationship between the scores, many people will come to such a simple conclusion - Hoffenheim is weaker than Leverkusen, while Leverkusen is weaker than Dortmund, so Dortmund is far stronger than Hoffenheim, so winning this game is no problem.

But in fact, it is impossible to calculate the winning rate of both sides in this way.

※※ Before the match against Dortmund, to be precise, the entire Hoffenheim team felt the important atmosphere of this game. It was coming, and it couldn't help but feel it or not.

After they tied Stuttgart, the media began to pay more attention to the team. Most people hoped to see this team make a fool of themselves. These people were not Chinese fans who were looking forward to Hoffenheim being relegated and Chu Zhongtian could escape the sea of ​​suffering, but native German fans.

Dortmund fans have publicly announced that they would give Mr. Dietma Hope a "welcoming ceremony" that impressed him. Hope is already 68 years old and has been struggling in society for more than 40 years. He has never seen any storms. Of course, he would not naively think that the visiting team fans really want to welcome him.

Not only in Dortmund, but also in other parts of Germany, there are also many radical and hard-core fans supporting the actions of Dortmund fans. They have left messages online saying that they hope Dortmund will defeat Hoffenheim in this game.

"It's time for that little country bumpkin team to see the real power of German football! You should learn from Leverkusen, crush them completely and defeat them!"

"In the next league round, I will become a Dortmund fan!"

"Come on, defeat this upstart team! A foreign mercenary! They are not worthy of participating in the best German league!"

Why are there so many hardcore radical fans who hate Hoffenheim so much? There are many reasons, first of all, because they have money. They are not promoted to the First League because of the strength of football itself, but because their boss spent more than 100 million euros to appear here in 20 years. Without this money, they should go back to the place that should belong to them - the amateur league.

Secondly, Hoffenheim is rich, and they spend a lot of money to buy stars from foreign countries, but the real German players are not the core and assistant of the team. For example, that Chinese man spent 30 million euros on a Chinese player's transfer fee? That old man Hope is really confused. The best German player may not be able to sell at this price. Why is a Chinese man? Is Chinese football very strong? Why have I never heard of them? They are not German players, and they will not love this team. They are just a group of bitches who can get into money. Such a team can actually recruit the German Football League One. This is really a shame for our German football!

As a Kaiserslautern fan said: "They are not local youths, they are not all relying on Hope's money. As long as you look at their first team, you will know that most of them are foreign players bought by Hope's money. Let such a team play in the Bundesliga, while other teams with history and background struggle to survive. How can they bear it? This is simply an insult to German football."

Third, many people are worried that Hop spent more than 100 million euros to invest in Hoffenheim, which will eventually lead Hoffenheim to the first league, which will make a bad start in German football. Those big teams with real historical background and strength decline because no one invests, while those small teams that have never heard of before have made trouble because of some capital injection. In a few years, the entire Bundesliga will be filled with small teams controlled by those rich people: Hoffenheim vs. Wayne, Allen vs. Zvikao... What Hop is doing is pushing the Bundesliga into the abyss. Their fans are no longer loyal to the local teams who share the same fate, but are a group of "uppers" who invite guests to show off so that they can drive their Porsche Cayenne to play golf in a while. And such "fans" are worthless to football itself.

The soil for rooting and survival is those lower-level fans. Their whole family has been following a team for several lifetimes, and such fans are worthy of respect. How many such fans are there in Hoffenheim? 1,800 people - this is the number of registered members of Hoffenheim Club in Hoffenheim Town. How many season tickets have they sold this season? 13,200, and the additional 11,400 fans are the "upper people" who are vain and watch the game just to keep up with the trend. These people have no loyalty. If you have good grades, they will pursue you because chasing you can improve their taste and value. Once the team has poor performance, they will ruthlessly abandon the team and then choose another strong team to rely on. Just like the blood-sucking leeches, it is disgusting.

Fourth, not everyone hates this team because Hoffenheim is rich, or because there are more foreign players in their first team than German players, and they even hate this team from the height of German football development. These people are at the forefront of the sour grapes. Just like many people scold corrupt officials, it is not because they advocate integrity, but because they are not corrupt officials and cannot make a big profit in that position. Those who cannot eat grapes will say that grapes are sour.

Take the fans of Mannheim Club as an example. This season, Hoffenheim temporarily rented Mannheim's home court Karl-Benz Stadium. This stadium can accommodate more than 26,000 people, which is much larger than Hoffenheim's original home court Dietma Hope Stadium. However, the team with such a beautiful stadium is hang out in the regional amateur league because they are in an economic crisis. Hoffenheim, who is much smaller than them, can play in the German top league openly because they have a rich boss.

Many Mannheim fans still cannot understand why Hope devoted himself to the little country team of Hoffenheim, which is both motor and electricity, instead of saving the local historical background and cultivating Mannheim of Uwe Rahn, Hanno Balitsch, and Christian Wörns. As long as Hope is willing, they will definitely welcome his intervention. Mannheim still has the most fans in the league so far. Mannheim fans are puzzled and can only understand that perhaps Hope doesn't want a good, independent club at all.

In the eyes of Mannheim fans, Hoffenheim is now just a toy of Hope, a German billionaire. One day, he gets tired of playing, and will throw this toy in the garbage dump, letting it be covered in dust, and he will not take a look. Hoffenheim, who has lost Hope's financial support, will definitely return to his starting point - the Eighth League, an amateur league within the city of Sinsheim.

Of course, not all fans are so hostile to this emerging force. Some fans like Hoffenheim because they play well and play beautiful offensive football, which is much better than Frankfurt and others. And they believe that German football lacks competitiveness in European football, precisely because Hope is willing to concentrate on the team and has too few club owners with a long-term plan. If more funds flow into the German League, more high-level stars will come here to play. This will naturally be of great help to improve the overall level of the German Football League. However, whether the transfer bidder Chu Zhongtian this summer is the kind of "high-level stars" remains to be verified.

In addition, they also believe that many fans criticize Hoffenheim for being rich without reason. Teams like Bayern Munich, Hamburg, and Dortmund are getting financial support from investors just like Hoffenheim, but no one says they are a threat to football.

The emotions of fans have also affected the media's position. In reports from many professional sports media in Germany, Hoffenheim has been described as a pessimistic image of future prospects.

"...I admit that Hoffenheim's attack line is very powerful, but compared to it, their defense line is simply at the German second level... No, maybe it is at the amateur level. As long as this bad defense line is still there, Hoffenheim will not want to defeat Dortmund at home."

"...I heard that in the last game, Hoffenheim relied on continuous attacks and put pressure on Stuttgart to shake hands with the opponent. I think this is Rangnick's cleverness - he knew that blind defense would not work against a strong team, because his defense line was too bad, so he could only play to his strengths and avoid his weaknesses, and use his best offense to achieve the role of defense..."

"Bortmond has maintained a good state since the start of this season. They tied with Bayern Munich and Schalke 04, defeated teams like Leverkusen and Cottbus, and are still unbeaten. On the contrary, although Hoffenheim's early results were dazzling in the league, the newly promoted teams soon lacked experience and their unstable performance was exposed. I am not surprised at all, because I know that Hoffenheim can continue to participate in the Bundesliga next season, which is the biggest victory..."

A group of media commentators have criticized Hoffenheim, as if they have seen the spectacular scene of Dortmund's army breaking through the Carl-Benz Stadium.

But in fact, there are still five days before the game begins. Hoffenheim started training again after a day off.

※※※The afternoon training class just ended, and the players all left the stadium. Chu Zhongtian did not intend to walk into the locker room, so he wanted to stay and practice shooting.

Moreover, he was not the only one who did not leave, and there was another one who took the initiative to stay, but what he practiced was not shooting, but free kicks.

Chu Zhongtian has become accustomed to this. He has three days to practice for himself every week. In these three days, Salihovic will practice for himself.

Chu Zhongtian practiced shooting more, while Salihovic practiced free kicks more. Chu Zhongtian practiced shooting more to cultivate shooting habits and improve his shooting skills. He is far worse than his passing in this regard. On the contrary, Salihovic practiced free kicks not for the strength of his family, but for the sake of making him stronger with already strong abilities.

Salihovic is the team's number one free kick master. Chu Zhongtian has seen Proman's free kick, but he still feels that he cannot compare with Salihovic.

Salihovic has not scored free kicks in the Bundesliga yet, but he often scores some difficult free kicks in training.

There is a saying that is used to describe a free kick master: "He uses the free kick as a penalty." Chu Zhongtian thought that Salihovic's free kick might be better described in this way: "He uses the free kick as an empty goal."

One of them practices shooting and the other practices free kicks. They are both on the same training ground, but they are just different goals. However, no one has taken the initiative to talk to the other party.

Their sense of competition still exists. It will feel a little awkward to get along with each other alone. If you can, try not to speak.

Salihovic trained free kicks in the half behind Chu Zhongtian. His goal was not a goal, but a blackboard of the same size as the goal, with colorful signs on the four corners, which were used for free kick experts like Salihovic to practice. Salihovic's goal was colored corners, and only then could he get the football into those colored corners was considered successful. This blackboard is why Salihovic can kick a free kick as an empty goal.

The football kept hitting the blackboard, making a "bang bang" sound.

Chu Zhongtian heard it clearly at this end of the stadium.

After shooting out all the eighteen football balls in front of him, Chu Zhongtian did not run to pick up the ball, but stood there and turned around to look at Salihovic over there.

Chu Zhongtian counted for a while. Salihovic had ten balls in his group. After playing ten free kicks, he would pick them up and then put them at the front of the penalty area, at different positions and distances, and then kicked the footballs one by one to the four corners on the blackboard one by one. This cycle was repeated.

After watching the round, he turned around and ran to pick up the ball. He couldn't always be an audience member, and he had to practice by himself.

When Salihovic finished practicing the current set of free kicks, he did not rush to pick up the ball, but decided to take a break. He heard the sharp and crisp sound from behind him that the football hit the goal post.

So he turned his head and looked at the back in the setting sun.

After Chu Zhongtian assisted, he kicked the football in front of him towards the goal. The football flew into the empty goal easily, without any difficulty, but... it was not technical.

Salihovic frowned.

Chu Zhongtian was concentrating on competing with the football under his feet, and suddenly felt a gust of wind rushing from behind his ears. Then when he was about to swing his foot out and shoot, the football was stabbed away.

He almost played empty-handedly. If a player played empty-handedly, he would cause great damage to his knee ligaments. If he was not warmed up enough, he might be carried off the court.

Fortunately, Chu Zhongtian had a hazy premonition in his heart. He held his feet in time and did not fully exert force, so he did not strain his knee cruciate ligament.

He looked closely and found it was Salihovic.

What's going on? Salihovic never takes the initiative to contact him alone. What's wrong today? He actually ran up and cut off his ball?

He looked at Salihovic, and he knew that the other party must have something to say.

"The coach said that shooting training should be carried out in combination with defensive interference." Salihovic said, but his expression was a little unnatural. He himself didn't know what was wrong just now. When he saw Chu Zhongtian doing the wrong practice there, he felt uncomfortable all over. Then he ran over by a tragic way and stabbed the ball that Chu Zhongtian was about to shoot from behind. If Chu Zhongtian gave his kick, he would probably strain his ligament. He would have caused trouble. Although he had some complaints about Chu Zhongtian snatching his core position, he would not use such despicable means to regain his position.

Since everything has been done now, it is no need to think about why. Salihovic tried his best to make his tone and expression more natural, and said to Chu Zhongtian. But as soon as he opened his mouth, he still felt that he was teaching Chu Zhongtian a lesson.

Fortunately, Chu Zhongtian's reaction was not entangled in this, but spread his hands and smiled, "But I have no opponent."

He was right. Although he had a good relationship with Ibisevic, there were also some habits. Not everyone would stay with him after the training for more than 45 minutes after the training.

Salihovic didn't know what was wrong with him today. Perhaps the game against Dortmund was about to be, which gave him some impulses that he wouldn't have in the past.

Hearing Chu Zhongtian say this, he blurted out: "I'll be your opponent!"

After saying that, he and Chu Zhongtian were both stunned.
Chapter completed!