In the sixth round of the league, Hoffenheim's opponent was Werder Bremen, and they played away.

In fact, from the third round of the league to the sixth round, Hoffenheim can be regarded as a "devil schedule". The "devil schedule" has several meanings. One is that the schedule is very dense, such as playing three games within eight days, or a double match for three consecutive weeks; the other is that it encounters strong enemies in a row; the third type is naturally that it is that it has both a dense schedule and a strong team in a row... Hoffenheim's "devil schedule" belongs to the second situation. From the third round, they encountered Leverkusen, Stuttgart, Dortmund and Werder Bremen backwards. These teams are old strong teams in the Bundesliga.

This is also the main reason why experts were not optimistic about Hoffenheim when analyzing before the season, because their opponents are too strong, and there is a four-round defeat in these four rounds. Once you are injured here, you will be waiting to struggle for relegation this season.

Unexpectedly, Hoffenheim did not lose four consecutive times. Although they lost to Leverkusen, they also tied Stuttgart. If they hadn't been for bad luck, they might have won the opponent long ago. Next, they won a big score and won one by one in three games, and this result was not considered bad.

Now they face their last opponent, Werder Bremen, of the "Devil Schedule".

Bremen once won the Bundesliga championship once in the 2003-04 season, but that was a long time ago. Although he has not won the league championship in recent years, he has also guaranteed a long-term position in the Bundesliga No. 1 Group. The 2004-05 season is the third in the league, the 2005-06 season is the second in the league, and the 2006-07 season is the third in the league. Last season, the 2007-08 season is the second in the league. He can participate in the UEFA Champions League every year, which is not comparable to a team like Hoffenheim who has only participated in the German top league for the first time in more than a hundred years.

But facing such an opponent, Hoffenheim's entire team was not afraid at all. They didn't even think about the question of "what if you lose".

※※After playing against Freiburg, the match against Bremen was about to be played. On the afternoon of September 27, Hoffenheim challenged Bremen away.

The weather is clear, sunny and not hot on the day, and it is a good weather suitable for competition.

Due to Hoffenheim's recent outstanding performance and their opponent in this game is the strong team Bremen, German broadcaster Premiere TV's Balsamic Vinegar Anze sent their football commentary director Marcel Leif (marcel_reif) to explain the game.

Lef is a famous German football commentator and TV reporter. In 1972, he conducted political reports at zdf. In 1984, he changed his career as a reporter and commentator in the sports department of 2 Germany. In 1994, he served as the director of football commentary at RTL, a free TV station under Bertelsmann. From 1997 to 1998, he served as the chief football editor of RTL TV. In 1999, he became the director of football commentary at the pay TV station Permiere. In 2003, he won the German TV Award and the Adolf-Grimme Award (adolf-grimme), known as the "German TV Oscar". Last year, he ranked sixth among the "Most Famous Sports Hosts" selected by German TV audiences, and third among the "Most Trusted TV Hosts".

His comments and explanations are very sharp and offensive. Whether it is criticism or praise, they are very frank and direct. If they criticize, they will not give people any face. Even if that person is "football emperor" Beckenbauer, he will not be stingy with praise.

This commentator is still active on the front line of commentary, but the competition he personally commented must be a very important competition.

Hoffenheim and Werder Bremen also invited him to come, which is enough to show Premiere's attention to this game.

Not only Germany attaches importance to this game, but China's CCTV is the same. This game will be broadcast live all over China, and the live broadcast time is also very good - Saturday at 9:30 pm, which is the prime time. As Chu Zhongtian performed better and better in Hoffenheim, more and more viewers watching the Bundesliga in China have also been watching. In fact, with the rise of La Liga and the Premier League in recent years, CCTV's Bundesliga game broadcast ratings have been falling, and it has long since disappeared from the glory of ten years ago.

But with the emergence of Chu Zhongtian, the ratings of the Bundesliga matches have rebounded significantly.

The quality of broadcasting of Bundesliga games has always been among the best in the world. Unfortunately, they lack big-name stars in the league. The Germans' rigorous and low-key style makes them not well-known in the minds of Chinese fans. There are probably no one watching the broadcasting of German Football League, except those hardcore German fans.

Fortunately, Chu Zhongtian is here.

This is a good thing for CCTV. If Chu Zhongtian goes to the Premier League, then they will lose a lot of advertising revenue.

※※※"In a sense, this is a fight between two losers." Before the game began, Marcel Lef made a lot of witty comments. "Because Bremen and Hoffenheim were both eliminated in the mid-week German Cup. But I noticed a problem. The impact of Bremen in the media after being eliminated was far less than Hoffenheim. What is the reason? If we analyze it simply based on the strength of the two teams, it is normal for Hoffenheim to be eliminated, but everyone seems to think Hoffenheim should go further. Should I congratulate Rangnick? He has successfully changed his views on Hoffenheim..."

In this game, Bremen and Huofeng also adjusted the starting lineup of the last Cup. Per_mertesacker, Fritz, Hunt (aaron_hunt) and torsten_frings respectively replaced Sebastian_prodl, Petri_pasanen, Jurica_vranjes and Frank_baumann, who was unable to participate in the game due to a cold.

Hoffenheim also made adjustments, Per Nilsson replaced Jaisler who replaced him in the last game, Chu Zhongtian replaced Gustavo, Teber replaced Weiss, and Obasi replaced Eduardo.

Eduardo did not perform well, but because he was contusion in metatarsal bones during training before the game. In addition, Obasi was obviously capable, but he could not play in the game and needed some comfort.

In order to satisfy the three forwards playing at the same time, Rangnick also made some adjustments to the team's formation. He did not play 442, but instead played 433.

Ibisevic is in the center, Demba Ba and Obasi are one left and one right. There is no front midfielder, and the midfielder is in the inverted triangle position. Chu Zhongtian is still in the back midfield position, but Salihovic and Teber are slightly closer to the middle, at the ribs.

Others remain unchanged.

Before the game, Rangnick specifically reminded Chu Zhongtian that without Eduardo and the midfielder in this game, Chu Zhongtian should go up and participate in the offense more. In defense, pay attention to Bremen's midfield core No. 10 Diego.

He didn't say too much. In fact, if it's too detailed for a player like Chu Zhongtian, it's wrong. Just let him go and play freely and know what to do. Don't set too many rules and regulations for him, and don't be like this or not. Now many head coaches are used to doing this. It's not that it's wrong to do this, but for a player like Chu Zhongtian, it's not that doing this will not work.

※※After the game started, Hoffenheim started badly. In the eighth minute, the opponent captured the city.

Bremen's 19-year-old young player Ozil (mesut_ozil) broke into the penalty area after cooperating with Hunter in a row at the front of the penalty area, and then shot the ball with his left foot 11 meters away from the left side of the penalty area and flew into the left side of the goal. Ozjan was powerless.

"Ah... Hoffenheim fell behind in the eighth minute! Ozil! What a beautiful goal! This young star is rising rapidly!" Lef was not stingy in praise of this young man's performance.

In the last round of the league, Hoffenheim was not the only one who defeated his opponents, Werder Bremen also defeated Bayern Munich 5-2 in the game, and Ozil shone in that game and scored a shocking long shot. This ball was rated as the best goal of the round.

But in fact, he became famous earlier. He became famous in Schalke 04. In January this year, he transferred to Bremen for 4.5 million euros and quickly became Bremen's main midfielder. He is skilled and good at dribbling and assists. Now he has played for the German under 21 national team and is regarded as the hope star of Bremen and Germany.

After Ozil scored the goal, huge cheers erupted at Bremen Wies.

Bremen fans will not sympathize with Dortmund, but they do not want their team to be the second victim.

At the same time, there were many fans of other teams cheering for Bremen in front of the TV.

After Hoffenheim lost to Leverkusen in a big score, the uptrend momentum of frustration has reappeared. Those who hate Hoffenheim will not change their positions just because Hoffenheim won a few games, as Chu Zhongtian said: Those who hate you will always hate you. Instead of wasting energy to please them, it is better to work hard to do better and make them hate you even more, because your success is their failure.

Now those who hate Hoffenheim hope that a team can stand up and block Hoffenheim, just like Leverkusen at the time. Dortmund and Stuttgart did not do it, and Werder Bremen became the last hope. In the next round, Hoffenheim returned to home to face Frankfurt, which was obviously not a team that could defeat Hoffenheim. I don’t know when, but many people already thought that Hoffenheim was not the kind of bottom team that could be bullied at will... "Beautiful job! Bremen!!" Those people yelled excitedly with their fists in front of the TV, even more excited than their own team scored the goal.

※※※Hoffenheim, who concedes the ball, was not panicked, or rather, Chu Zhongtian was not panicked. At the beginning of the game, Bremen's attack was fierce, and he focused most of his energy on defense and had not had time to show his offensive talent.

Now it's time to fight back.

In the fifteenth minute, Chu Zhongtian got the ball in the backcourt, then played a two-pass and one-way match with Salihovic. Suddenly, he passed the ball from the left side of the court to the right side.

There, the one who responded was not Obasi, but Ibissevic. He and Obasi had a transfer. After removing Chu Zhongtian's long pass, Ibissevic passed the penalty area from the right. Obasi shook in front, attracting the attention of the Bremen defender. But he did not grab the point. The football slid over and on the left side of the penalty area, Demba Ba inserted at high speed, snatched Fritz's left foot low shot eleven meters away before the tackle, and the football went straight to the far corner!

"Oh! Hoffenheim equalized the score so quickly! In the fifteenth minute, they tied the score one-to-one!" Leif was also a little surprised. His surprise did not come from Hoffenheim's goal, but from the calmness that Hoffenheim showed before. This did not look like a newly promoted team who had never had experience in the top league before... But just as Hoffenheim's players were celebrating to equalize the score so quickly, Bremen's players had already placed the football in the middle circle and were waiting for them to come back to continue the game.

Hoffenheim players were still immersed in the joy of scoring the goal, and the referee blew the whistle to the start of the game.

Using this mid-circle kick-off, Bremen immediately initiated the attack. Diego received the ball in the middle and led forward. After seeing Chu Zhongtian pounce, he passed the ball to the side and passed the ball behind the top. The football passed over Hoffenheim's left back Ibertberger's head and fell straight to the large gap behind.

Bremen's right back Fritz inserted at high speed and received the ball without any signing!

"Damn!" Hoffenheim coach Rangnick couldn't help but curse.

He could already foresee what would happen after this.

Fritz did not continue to dribble the ball, he looked up at the penalty area and swept the football into the penalty area.

Chu Zhongtian was returning to defense, but it was too late.

Bremen's Swedish international Markus_rosenberg received the ball in the penalty area and broke through the bottom, then made a cross. The football was sent to the goal by him. Peruvian scorer Claudio_pizarro, who followed, knocked the football into the goal with his heel in front of Nilsson... Before this, CCTV's Bundesliga commentator Duan Bin was still talking about Hoffenheim's previous goal, and said that equalizing the score so quickly would help Hoffenheim's next game. They could deal with Bremen more calmly, because Bremen had already expressed how aggressive they were with the first goal... Unexpectedly, before he finished speaking, Bremen scored another goal!

At that time, he was saying that Chu Zhongtian would play a decisive role in the game, and then Bremen hit Hoffenheim's penalty area. He quickly changed his words: "Look at this ball!"

Another second later, the ball entered.

He yelled twice, his brain was a little short-circuited, and he didn't know what to say next.

On Germany, Lef's performance is much better than his Chinese counterparts. When he saw Bremen score a goal, he shouted: "It's incredible! Bremen actually scored again after just conceding the ball. They took advantage of the ball control opportunity after the kickoff and launched a blitzkrieg-like offensive! Hoffenheim was completely stunned! They must still remember Demba's previous goal? What a pity, the goal is meaningless now!" The 59-year-old Lef is still full of passion, and it's no wonder he can be liked by so many TV viewers.

The eight-minute ball of Bremen has not affected Hoffenheim, but this ball... As Leif said, it really made Hoffenheim "stupid".

Less than a minute before the equalization scored, the opponent scored another goal. It felt like they had just discovered that they had won the 500 million euro European Lotto prize, but then they found that the prize redemption period had passed. This kind of joy and sorrow is really not something that ordinary people can face and accept calmly.

The strike against Hoffenheim is not over yet. In the 21st minute, only five minutes passed before the last one conceding the ball. Rosenberg hangs the football into Hoffenheim's penalty area. Hoffenheim's left back Ibertzberger clears the ball but does not kick the ball far, and the football falls to the right side of the penalty area.

Diego appeared there!

Chu Zhongtian was originally defending in the middle, but at the end of Ibertsberger, he had already chased the football and ran over.

Diego looked up at the football, and from the corner of his eyes he also glanced at Chu Zhongtian who was chasing him with the football.

He knew that this man had to defend himself. They had already had a confrontation in previous games. There were several times when he won, there were several times when Chu Zhongtian won, and there were several times when the two did not decide the winner. But Diego had no intention of avoiding him. He swung his right foot against the football.

Chu Zhongtian couldn't tell whether he was a fake move or a real move, but the first defensive principle is always to block the shot, so he treated Diego's kick as a real move. He went out horizontally, intending to use his body to block Diego's shot.

Diego really didn't want to shake Chu Zhongtian away with fake moves. He didn't have that time anymore. There were people in the penalty area. He had just successfully shaken Chu Zhongtian away. Following him, another person might come up and block the angle of his shooting.

So now is the best opportunity!

His body leaned towards the penalty spot, pulled his posture away, swung his right foot, and volleyed directly towards the flying football!

At the same time, Chu Zhongtian jumped up, stretched his legs and turned around, trying to expand the defense area. The football may also hit his legs if it doesn't hit his back.

But the football did not hit his back, his legs, nor any part of his body, even his hands... he only felt the football flew past his face, and a gust of wind blew.

He faced the goal and saw the football flew into the upper right corner of the goal by rubbing the right post. Ozjan made a save, but that happened after the football hit the net.

Then he heard the deafening cheers in the stands of the Wessel Stadium, which could accommodate 42,100 people, and gushed out like a volcano eruption.

"boom--"

"The ball has entered-!"
Chapter completed!