After losing the game, the players knew that they would definitely not have any good fruits to eat.

The holiday on the second day of the game was cancelled, and they had to practice more. This is a punishment.

Although losing is not a good thing, Rangnick always smiles, which makes many players confused - does the head coach want us to lose? Or is it that the five consecutive victories a while ago that he has not found a chance to mess with us. Now the opportunity is here, so I am happy?

Before the training of the next day, Rangnick revealed the answer: "Okay, kids. You should put down the pressure now, right? Now, I can worry less about rankings. Of course, we will fight for honors that can be won, but keeping it on our lips all day does not mean that we can really succeed. Remember, the championship is composed of victory after victory. If you can't win the next game, then don't talk about the championship."

Rangnick finally found an opportunity to say what he said to the players. In fact, he could say this at any time, but the effect would be the best at this time. The players had just experienced a failure, and it was like a bowl of cold water was poured on their heads. Only at this time can they truly calm down and be willing to listen to the opinions of the outside world.

After saying this, Rangnick looked at the team, and the players' expressions were still very nervous. He suddenly realized what the problem was, so he smiled: "Don't worry, there will be no unexpected training subjects today. Today is just a tactical training for set pieces."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

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Losing to Hertha Berlin is not a good thing, but it is also a good thing, because it makes the players realize that this is the top league in Germany, not a southern regional league. Don’t think that you can win the league championship in five consecutive games. Don’t underestimate any opponent, they are not qualified to do so. Currently, any team in the Bundesliga is more experienced and experienced than them.

There is a Chinese saying that "It's a blessing to lose a man." It's really suitable for Hoffenheim. After losing the ball, news that is beneficial to Hoffenheim comes one after another.

First of all, there is news about Salihovic's contract renewal.

Although there are many transfer rumors and there have been clear news that Bayern is interested in him, Salihovic still renewed his contract with Hoffenheim, and he will renew his contract until 2012.

Previously, German media generally reported news that Bayern Munich was interested in Salihovic. In Hoffenheim's 3-1 victory over Karlsruhe, Bayern's transfer adviser Paul_breitner appeared in the stands, confirming the news.

Salihovic's contract with Hoffenheim expired after the end of this season. Bayern Munich originally planned to get the Bosnian for free. However, their transfer action was ultimately declared a failure.

For many years, Bayern has always been a strong signing in the Bundesliga, and there are few stars they want but cannot get, but this season's appearance has changed this situation. Since Hoffenheim chairman Hope himself is a billionaire, he also said a few days ago: "I don't care about the high transfer fees offered by other teams. I spend so much money to build a club not to be a reserve corps for the giants. We will not sell our leading stars for the transfer fee." Hope did what he said, and Bayern's request to buy Salihovic was clearly rejected, which also made the Bundesliga boss feel disappointed.

After rejecting Bayern Munich, Hoffenheim officially announced that he had reached a contract renewal with Salihovic.

Salihovic later said on his website that he was happy to keep his future at Hoffenheim: "I love this team, and I hope to continue playing for this team."

Salihovic is not leaving, which is good news for Hoffenheim players who have just experienced a failure. The atmosphere inside the team is very good at the moment. All the players are like a family, and no one wants anyone in their family to leave this big family.

After Salihovic renewed his contract, two German players also received good news. On November 13, German coach Joachim_low announced the German national team roster against England. For the first time in Hoffenheim's history, players were selected for the German national team. They were central defender Comper and midfielder Weiss.

Teammates congratulated the two men. The two men are both twenty-three years old. With their outstanding performance in the team and the amazing performance of Hoffenheim, they have won the favor of Loew. Next Thursday, they will participate in the friendly match between Germany and England, which is also the last match of Germany this year. Loew hopes to take advantage of this opportunity to examine the young people who have performed well in the league recently.

The team's main player renewed his contract until 2012, and the two young players were promoted to German internationals - even if it was only temporary.

With this good news, Hoffenheim's morale quickly recovered.

They are about to usher in a strong opponent - Wolfsburg.

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Hoffenheim has been winning all the time, which has formed a panic in the Bundesliga.

Bayern Munich started the league with a bad start and once ranked ninth, but now they have also won five consecutive victories and their ranking has risen to third. Don’t think that Bayern Munich has regained everything. In the just-concluded round of the league, although Hoffenheim lost, he was still the biggest winner of the Bundesliga. In the match between Bayern Munich and Schalke 04, the first time there was a scene where Bayern fans and Schalke fans cheered together - at that time, the big screen above the center of the stadium was showing the game in Berlin: Herta 2:0 Hoffenheim. This feeling of celebrating Herta comes from the heart, and everyone breathes a sigh of relief. This time, it is no longer Hoffenheim scored a goal and won, and everyone does not need to continue to be surprised and whispered, everything is over.

Yes, Hoffenheim's loss made many people feel at ease - the Bundesliga that they recognize has finally returned to normal. Hoffenheim is just a dark horse that has disrupted the situation, but does not have the ability to threaten the strong. The Bundesliga, dominated by traditional strong teams such as Bayern Munich, Schalke 04, Hamburg, Wolfsburg, etc., is the Bundesliga that they are familiar with. Only such Bundesliga can make them feel at ease: the nouveau riche finally does not threaten the richest families with a long history...

But in fact, Hoffenheim has a much more impact on the Bundesliga than this. Some of them are unaware of it, or are unwilling to admit it:

Everyone saw how Hoffenheim broke the old order of the Bundesliga and rebuilt new rules as a small team, and how he had the courage to invite top players, and then built his own system with their exclusive coaching philosophy and football philosophy and achieved success.

This made the Bundesliga champions start to feel fear.

So respect and disgust were carried out at the same time, and each team also cheered up for this, with only one goal: not to lose to Hoffenheim. Hamburg's victory was frequent, Wolfsburg was not willing to fall behind, and even Hertha, who had been in a sluggish for many years, began to make people admire him. Just to be stronger than Hoffenheim.

The Bundesliga has always been a stagnant pool, but now it has been thrown into a huge stone called "Hoffenheim", which has caused huge waves and the ripples have spread to all places. As long as you are in this pool of water, no one will be spared.

Because of this, the Bundesliga this season suddenly became better, and everyone was full of expectations and curiosity about the Bundesliga. Everyone was still discussing Bayern Munich, but no longer saying "they must be the champion of this season". They were discussing "Can Bayern Munich still win the league championship?"

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Before the match against Wolfsburg, Hoffenheim accepted Wolfsburg's suggestion that they would replace the sponsor logo on the chest of the jersey with the logo of the children's charity "dedicated to the heart of the child".

This news before the game seemed to prove that it was a love game.

But in the game, love is love, and neither of the two teams wants to lose because of love...

Before this game, Rangnick asked the team to attack desperately in the locker room: "We are at home, what else can we do besides offense? The opponent is not good at playing away games, and this is our opportunity. I remember I told you: Don't consider the championship, but if you really want to win the championship, then try to win every game! How can you win every game? Offense!"

Before the player came on the court, he patted Chu Zhongtian on the shoulder and said, "You know how to do it, Chu."

Chu Zhongtian nodded: "Yes, I know."

After the game began, Hoffenheim launched a fierce attack as always.

In the seventh minute, Baker assisted and stuffed the ball into the right side of the penalty area. Ibissevic shot high. Soon, Wolfsburg returned with a color. Japanese midfielder Makoto Hasegawa shot from 20 meters away from the middle and was confiscated by Hoffenheim goalkeeper Has.

There is an Asian player on both sides of this game, but no media is interested in hyping up any "Asian derby". Chinese media think that Chu Zhongtian is now far higher than Makoto Hasegawa, and compared him with a player who can only play rotation in Wolfsburg, it is a self-depreciation. Japanese media are not interested in the concept of "Asian derby".

So before the game, the media of both countries were surprisingly calm.

However, in the game, the two players met.

When Makoto Hasegawa shot just now, Chu Zhongtian was disturbing him. After that, Makoto Hasegawa was not so relaxed.

He was closely guarded by Chu Zhongtian. If he had the ball on his back, he would not turn around. If he broke through head-on, he was also cut off the ball by Chu Zhongtian many times. He was completely at a disadvantage in his one-on-one shot with Chu Zhongtian.

Makoto Hasegawa was the front midfielder in this game, but after he was frozen by Chu Zhongtian, Wolfsburg's offense also fell into a brief silence. After taking over Makoto Hasegawa, Chu Zhongtian began to free up his hands to organize the attack. In the 15th minute, Chu Zhongtian hurled the football into the left side of the penalty area. Eduardo passed the ball from the bottom and Ibissevic scored a shot in front of the goal and missed the left post.

In the 23rd minute, Chu Zhongtian dribbled the ball forward, and after passing Makoto Hasegawa and Josue, he divided the football to the right in the middle. Ibissevic received the ball and entered the penalty area and shot. The ball hit Wolfsburg's central defender Ricardo Costa's feet and bounced high. Swiss goalkeeper Diego Benaglio could not save it and could only watch the football fly into the far corner!

This is Ibisevic's 14th goal this season!

1:0!

Carl Mercedes-Benz Stadium burst into loud cheers.

Since Hoffenheim's performance has become more and more outstanding, more and more fans have come to watch their game. These people are not indigenous people of Hoffenheim, nor are they local residents of Mannheim where the venue is located. They are from Sinsheim, Hoffenheim, Mannheim, Stuttgart, Heidelberg, Tauberbischowsheim... and other places, driving dozens of kilometers in a car just to watch a Hoffenheim game. Hoffenheim is located in the Rhine-Neka region, which is located at the junction of three states - Baden-Württemberg, Hesse and

Rhineland-Palatinate. This is one of the most economically developed regions in Germany, with a large population, with about 2.4 million people. However, fans in this region cannot enjoy the local team's Bundesliga match. Because before that, there was no Bundesliga team in the Rhine-Neckar region. Now Hoffenheim has appeared, and they have fulfilled all the fans here's desire to watch the Bundesliga match, so they have also received the support of many Rhine-Neckar fans. The Karl-Benz stadium, which can accommodate 26,300 people in each home game, is full.

Now there are more and more fans watching Hoffenheim's game, but Hoffenheim's indigenous people still have a way to distinguish them - they have a blue T-shirt with the following sentence: "The whole village is here!" As long as you wear this T-shirt, it means that this is an old fan who has been supporting Hoffenheim since a long time ago.

Seeing Hoffenheim's continuous attacks finally received rewards, Hoffenheim's new and old fans jumped out of their seats, waved their arms vigorously, and shouted the name of the goalkeeper Ibisevic.

Hoffenheim spent 40 million euros to buy Chu Zhongtian and Ibisevic this season. At first, some people suspected that these two were parallel and they were not worth 40 million. But now no one thinks that anymore. They still think that 40 million is a huge sum of money, but they all think that the money is spent on Chu Zhongtian and Ibisevic, which is not unfair at all.

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Hoffenheim scored as always, but Wolfsburg is not a soft persimmon that can be pinched casually. They also have many powerful players in their team, such as Bosnian scorer Dzeko, Bosnian midfielder Misimovic, Brazilian striker Grafite, and young left-back Marcel_schafer, who was selected for the national team roster at the same time as Comper and Weiss.

After conceding the ball, they did not surrender, but instead actively counterattacked.

In the 27th minute, Wolfsburg finally equalized the score. Dzeko assisted and Grafitt scored.

Ten minutes later, Hoffenheim took the lead again, this time Eduardo scored a free kick directly from the top of the penalty area with his left foot. Because Salihovic did not start in this game, Eduardo took over the baton who took the free kick.

Before the end of the first half, the tenacious Wolfsburg equalized the score again. Misimovic's free kick in the midfield was directly hung into the penalty area. In the small penalty area, central defender Costa blocked the ball with his body, and Dzeko next to him immediately sent the ball into the empty goal with his left foot, 2:2.

In the first half, both sides scored four goals, and everyone played offensive football, which made the fans very satisfied with the offensive battle. However, it was not enough to satisfy such fans' needs, and neither side wanted to be the loser.

The two teams changed places and fought again in the second half. As a result, the visiting team Wolfsburg had the upper hand as soon as they started, Hoffenheim was a little embarrassed by a series of offensives, and Chu Zhongtian could only be exhausted from defense during this period and could not effectively organize the offense.

Seeing this situation, Rangnick decided to share the pressure for Chu Zhongtian. He replaced Salihovic and replaced Weiss.

Weiss was a little reluctant when he left the court because he knew that the head coach of the German national team, Loew, was sitting in the box at the Carl-Benz Stadium to watch the game. He originally wanted to play the whole game...

When Chu Zhongtian saw Salihovic come on the court, he knew what the head coach thought. So he adjusted his style of playing, took the lead in the midfield, and then sent shells to Salihovic, and he and Eduardo organized the attack. He was responsible for controlling the rhythm.

Such changes made Wolfsburg a little unresponsive - they used to treat Chu Zhongtian as the core of Hoffenheim's organization and strictly guard him. But now Chu Zhongtian has ignored the organization's attack and has become a hand-off manager. The real threat comes from behind Hoffenheim. Chu Zhongtian frequently used his medium-length pass to mobilize Wolfsburg's defense line, and then Salihovic and Eduardo made the final deadly pass or a fatal blow.

Taking advantage of Wolfsburg's unacceptable to this change, Hoffenheim suddenly exerted force. In the 69th minute, Chu Zhongtian made a long pass from the backcourt, Eduardo made a cross after stopping the ball on the right, Salihovic stopped the ball in the middle and sent a straight pass. Obasi counter-offside successfully entered the penalty area, and then he pushed the goalkeeper Benalio from the blocking angle eight meters away from the left to score in the far corner.

3:2!

"Hoffenheim scored another goal!!" the commentator shouted excitedly. "Their offensive is like a tide, and Wolfburg's defense seems to concede the ball at any time!"

This is Hoffenheim's style - keep attacking and constantly rushing to your defense until you collapse. Facing such an opponent, you have only one choice - to attack them. Either lose in the attack or defeat them in the attack and win a game with a hockey score.

Wolfsburg continued to attack after being led, and they also knew this truth well, "either lose in the offense or defeat Hoffenheim in the offense." Anyway, there is no other way except for attack. They almost could rewritten the score, but unfortunately Dzeko's header hit the crossbar.

The football bounced out and landed at Chu Zhongtian's feet. This time, Chu Zhongtian did not pass the ball in the backcourt for a long time, but directly dribbled the ball to the front line. He turned Wolfsburg's defense line upside down, and finally passed the ball to Ibisekic at the front of the penalty area. Ibisekic did not stop the ball and directly pushed the ball into the far corner. The football rushed into the net, and Benalio could not save it.

4:2! Hoffenheim completely secured the victory!

Wolfsburg was defeated in the attack!

In the end, Hoffenheim defeated the powerful Wolfsburg 4:2 at their home court, avoiding two consecutive losses.

In this round of the league, Bayern Munich tied away, and Hamburg lost to Hertha Berlin away. Among the top four teams in the league, only Hoffenheim and Hertha Berlin won. As a result, Hertha Berlin ranked first in the standings with one point advantage, while Hoffenheim is still in second place. Hamburg fell to fourth, while Bayern Munich is still third in the league.

Look at these four teams. Except for Hoffenheim, the other three teams ranked in this position is not surprising. Only Hoffenheim's name seems very eye-catching.

This is the big rock that stirred up the stagnant waters of the Bundesliga this season. Many people like it, and many people hate it, even hate it, and curse it.

But no matter what, it is like a huge rock, standing in front of everyone's eyes, making you unable to look away and you cannot ignore it.

But to those who don’t like it, this stone is not only big, ugly, but also smells and is crazy...
Chapter completed!