Mourinho believes that Hoffenheim will definitely launch a fierce attack at the beginning of the game, and he guessed it right. Hoffenheim did take advantage of his home court advantage and launched a fierce offensive to Inter Milan's hinterland at the beginning of the game.

This was as expected by him, so he was more confident in winning the game.

For Hoffenheim, they must win this game, and they must win more than two goals to have hope of advancing. Otherwise, they can only watch their opponents enter the quarterfinals at home and are eliminated.

This result is unacceptable to them, so they attacked Inter Milan's penalty area at the beginning of the game, and it seems that they will not defend at all.

Although Inter Milan plays 433, it still defends and counterattacks. 433 does not represent the ultimate of offensive football for Mourinho. He uses 433 only because the 433 formation has a very reasonable position distribution. A stable triangle can be formed between every three players, which is very suitable for Mourinho, who pursues the compactness of three lines and the stable formation. However, the 433 formation also has very high requirements for players...※※※ Chu Zhongtian is still the core of the team. Everyone will look for him as soon as possible when they have the ball. If they can pass it to him, they will pass it to him. When they cannot pass it to him, they will think of him.

Inter Milan also continued to strictly guard Chu Zhongtian like they did when the two sides fought in the first round. However, they soon discovered that Chu Zhongtian and Hoffenheim are not very different today.

First of all, they are faster. Although Hoffenheim is famous for their fastness, they are faster than usual today and much faster than they did in the first round.

There are many passes that are not stopped and directly passed. It is not uncommon for such passes to appear in the game. What is unusual is that they have done this from the beginning. Regardless of whether there are people pressing or not, they all shoot the ball, as if they were forcibly asked by the head coach in the training game.

Sana passed the football to Chu Zhongtian. Cambiaso was about to go up and press, so that he could not turn around, but Chu Zhongtian directly moved the football horizontally to the right side. Inter Milan's defensive focus had just adjusted to the side, and Eduardo on the right side immediately moved the football's big foot to the left side.

Salihovic on the left side stopped the ball beautifully without any extra moves, and used his left foot to push a straight pass, and Kolarov had already taken the ball from the side. The Serbian full-back who caught up with the football also kept stopping and not adjusting the ball, and directly made a cross!

The effect of direct crossing in high-speed running is often much better than the effect of passing after adjustment, such as this time.

Kolarov's cross accurately found Hoffenheim ambushed in the penalty area Reed center Van Nistroy. The Dutch jumped high and headed the ball!

"Van Nystruey—"

Cesar's reaction was also very fast. He jumped up hastily and reached out to hold the football out with one hand!

"Beautiful offense! Beautiful defense! Van Nistruy and Cesar joined forces to contribute such an excellent offense and defense to us!"

Cesar would not think this was a very happy defense. He got up from the ground, slapped his hands and shouted at his teammates: "Defense! Keep a close eye on their people!"

At this time, Inter Milan players had time to think about their own performance in defense just now. They seemed to be led by the opponent all the time... The advantage of leading two goals still made them a little relaxed, and they won easily at home, which made them underestimate the opponent.

"Stop giving them such a chance! Come back! Defensive corner kick!" Cesar shouted and directed his teammates to participate in the defense.

The goal was immediately crowded with players from both sides.

Chu Zhongtian did not go in. He stood outside the corner kick area, next to Salihovic who was free throwing.

Generally speaking, Chu Zhongtian is definitely a very important member of Hoffenheim's corner kick tactics, because his bounce and heading ability are excellent, which allows the team to gain some advantages in set-piece offense.

However, for Inter Milan, Chu Zhongtian and Hoffenheim's coaching staff have designed some new routines, including some set pieces tactics.

He raised his right hand, stretched out his index and middle fingers, and compared the "v" gesture. This is a signal.

Of course, Inter Milan players also know that this is a secret code, but they don’t know what the specific meaning of this secret code means. But look at the position of Chu Zhongtian, isn’t it obvious what it means? Chu Zhongtian is the core of Hoffenheim. He ran to the corner kick area. Isn’t this just to play a tactical corner kick? Salihovic will pass the football to him and then reorganize the attack, so people must be sent to defend him... Cambiaso ran out of the penalty area and ran towards Chu Zhongtian. However, he could not lean on because according to the rules of the football game, when one side gave a corner kick, the other side’s most forward defender must be 9.15 meters away from the football ball. It would be a foul if it was too close.

When Chu Zhongtian and Salihovic stand together, it is equivalent to being with football, so Cambiaso must be nine or five meters away from him.

Cambiaso came up, and other Inter Milan players, in addition to the centre-back, also focused on outside the penalty area. If it was a tactical corner kick, as long as Salihovic passed the football to Chu Zhongtian, they could collectively push off the offside. At that time, the players who stayed in front of the goal were in offside and could not participate in the offensive at all. The main threats all came from the rear, outside the penalty area or the edge of the penalty area.

Lucio was commanding the defense line to create an offside: "Press the kick-off! Pinch the kick-off!"

"After three minutes of the game, the atmosphere on the court suddenly became warm. Hoffenheim took the initiative in his home court..." said the commentator.

The referee whistled, and Salihovic kicked the football out, but he did not pass it to Chu Zhongtian who was right beside him, but directly passed it to the front of the goal!

Inter Milan players were originally planning to make offside, and their center of gravity leaned forward. Unexpectedly, Salihovic directly hit the football in front of the goal, and they couldn't react one by one. The only people who really jumped up to defend were Samuel and Zanetti.

The effect of the defense in such a hasty situation is imagined. No one got the ball, but the central defender Simonic headed the ball!

The football flew straight from the front point to the back point. Although Cesar jumped hard, he was beyond his reach and could only watch the football fly to the back end.

Hoffenheim fans in the stands stood up from their seats and prepared to cheer for the goal.

But the football hit the outside of the goal post and bounced out!

"Pule! Oh! It's such a pity that the ball didn't make it!!" The German commentator hugged his head with his hands, as regretful as the Hoffenheim fans in the stands.

Looking at the surprised expression on Cambiaso's face when he turned his head and turned back, Chu Zhongtian really had the urge to make faces at him. They were fooled.

That code actually has nothing to say, just to make Inter Milan fool.

But this is actually just the first step. In this game, Chu Zhongtianshi wanted to use the "fair and real" military strategy of China's ancestors to the extreme. He kept deceiving his opponents throughout the game, making the opponent unable to figure out what they wanted to do. In this way, when the real killer move comes, they will relax their vigilance.

There will be many small actions like this that seem to have conspiracies, but in fact there will be many small actions. In addition, there are "something that seems to have conspiracies, but in fact there is some conspiracy". The two are entangled and completely disrupt the thinking of Inter Milan players.

Seeing that this attack did not result in a goal, Hoffenheim ran back, leaving behind a depressed Inter Milan player.

※※※When Hoffenheim attacked again, Chu Zhongtian once again used the magic of virtual and real.

He first made the move to pass the ball while dribbling, and his body leaned back. The ball must be passed, otherwise he would not be able to continue to control the ball well. You should know that Cambiaso and Mota are not far away from him.

Seeing Chu Zhongtian make this move, the two of them pounced on without hesitation.

Chu Zhongtian did not pass the ball, so he swung his feet and pulled the ball back with the soles of his shoes.

However, his center of gravity still did not adjust, and his body was leaning back and stiff.

This was obviously a good opportunity to grab the ball. Cambiaso leaned up and broke his foot. Unexpectedly, Chu Zhongtian was tilted back and stiff, but he didn't move his upper body, but he just used his right foot to shake his wrist to pick up the ball. The football just jumped over Cambiaso's steal and was picked up to Sana who was inserted from behind Cambiaso!

"Oh! Beautiful!" The commentator was amazed by Chu Zhongtian's pass.

Cambiaso really didn't expect Chu Zhongtian to pass the football out in such a situation. It is logical that it is difficult to pass the ball in such a posture. Anyone who kicks the ball tries this action - leans back, supports the left foot, stretches out his right foot to step on the football, and becomes an oblique straight line from the right toe to the head. His body is almost straight, and there are few joints that can move. Under the action of this inertia, it takes more time and strength to do any action than usual.

In this case, Chu Zhongtian completed the pass action with only a small movement of his ankle and knee!

No wonder Cambiaso is hard to defend.

What is even more surprising is that Sana's rear insertion. Originally, Sana was still a little far from Chu Zhongtian. Before Cambiaso came on the robbery, he took a special look at the situation around Chu Zhongtian and confirmed that there were no teammates around him who could immediately respond. Unexpectedly, when he turned around, Sana suddenly accelerated and rushed up. Judging from the running route, this was obviously trained... Sana would not give Cambiaso time to amazed. After receiving the ball, he continued to rush forward. Chu Zhongtian also adjusted his posture at this time and chased after him.

The two major midfielders advanced side by side and rushed towards Inter Milan's penalty area at the same time.

"Chu must be the passer, please be careful!" Cesar shouted in front of the goal, reminding his teammates who are the real threatening figures.

Cambiaso was left behind, and at this time the only midfielder was Mota.

Mota came up to grab Sana's ball, and Sana passed the football to Chu Zhongtian.

Cambiaso caught up from behind and tried to intercept the ball.

Chu Zhongtian didn't give him such a chance, so he swept the ball to the left with his right foot.

When Salihovic received the ball, Sana stopped and Chu Zhongtian continued to rush forward, but he changed direction a little and did not go directly into the penalty area, but ran to the ribs, intending to respond to Salihovic.

At the same time, Ibisevic also pulled to the edge of the penalty area to make a support letter.

Between the three Hoffenheim players, a triangle is formed.

At the same time, Kolarov was still inserting from the back at high speed. The triangle was very stable, but lacked changes and was easily stared at by the opponent. At this time, a change that broke this balance and stability appeared. Kolarov was the one who broke the balance. His strong forwards brought more trouble to Inter Milan's defense. They had to be distracted to defend Kolarov's side, and also defend Salihovic who took the ball, as well as Chu Zhongtian and Ibisevic who came to meet him from different positions.

The full-back Macon, who was originally defending Salihovic, took a little step to the side and resisted the possible route Kolarov came up, while Samuel ran out with Ibissevic. Cambiaso ran over from Chu Zhongtian to defend Salihovic. At the same time, Pandev, the man who went to defend Salihovic was also Pandev. Mota moved to defend Chu Zhongtian. Lucio leaned towards the middle and stared at Van Nistruei, while Sane returned to the penalty area and played a temporary guest center back to make up for Lucio's defense. Sneed returned to the middle to defend, Etoo returned to the side and became a full-back.

It takes a long time and space to express it in words, but all of this actually only happens in a very short time. Inter Milan's defensive recovery is indeed very fast and breathtaking. At the same time, their defensive focus shifted to this side, and in front of Salihovic there was a wall of iron. It seemed that there was no chance.

Chu Zhongtian retreated a little, raised his arm, stretched out his index finger and thumb of his right hand, and made the "eight" gesture that the Chinese are most accustomed to, which is naturally another signal. Seeing his move, Hoffenheim players understood and knew what to do. His gesture also made Inter Milan players know that he was asking for the ball. Salihovic will definitely pass the football to him next, so they turned their attention to him. Sneider and Cambia were ready to defend with him immediately as long as Salihovic passed the ball over and did not give him any chance.

Salihovic did pass the football to him, and this time it was not "empty".

Seeing Chu Zhongtian catch the ball, Sneider and Cambiaso forced them up at the same time. They can deal with other Hoffenheim players one-on-one, but against Chu Zhongtian, they must always maintain two-on-one, which is what Mourinho repeatedly emphasized to them.

Chu Zhongtian knew what they were going to do to him. He did not give two Inter Milan players the chance to double-team themselves. At the same time he received the ball, he drove the football forward and drilled through Sneider and Cambiaso.

Cambiaso wanted to commit a foul and stretched out his foot to trip Chu Zhongtian, but Chu Zhongtian seemed to have eyes below, jumped up and avoided the opponent's "tripper".

"He broke through!"

This time, Mota was the one who made up for defense, while Cambiaso completed the series of actions that turned around and chased back very quickly. It was still two-on-one.

Chu Zhongtian did not continue to break through, but instead used his left instep to pass the ball to Salihovic, who had been beside him. After passing the ball, he straight into the penalty area.

Lucio saw that he was going to play two and one match with Salihovic, so he gave up Van Nystruei beside him and went to save Chu Zhongtian.

Sure enough, Salihovic directly passed the football into the penalty area. As long as he passed it to Chu Zhongtian, the ball would be cut off by Lucio in advance. Lucio had already copied Chu Zhongtian and blocked between him and Salihovic.

Unexpectedly, Salihovic didn't want to fight Chu Zhongtian with two or one. Chu Zhongtian's forward insertion was a fake move from the beginning!

The football was rubbed by him and passed high above Lucio's head. At this height, even if Chu Zhongtian transformed into Jordan, he would not be able to receive it without his hands. So the ball was not passed to him, and the football fell straight to the back of Chu Zhongtian... "Van Nistruy!!"

The Dutch stopped the football with his chest, and Sanetti rushed up, but the best position had already allowed the Dutch to take over. He was carried behind by Van Nistruei, who was thirty-four and Sanetti was thirty-six. Both of them were veterans, and their physical fitness was not as good as before, so as long as they stood in a favorable position, they would almost never be stolen again.

The Dutch archer leaned back, leaned against Sanetti, then swung his left foot and turned around and shot!

The football flew to the upper left corner of the goal like a cannonball!

Less than ten meters away from the goal, Cesar could no longer make a world-class save. He didn't even make a save, but just let his eyes follow the football.

Van Nistroy hit the bottom edge of the crossbar, then bounced down and drilled into the net... "The ball went in! The ball went in!!"

"Hoffenheim took the lead after just eight minutes of the game! Great! They tied the total score of both sides to 2:3! Only one goal behind Inter Milan!"

"Van Nistruei proved that Hoffenheim's introduction this summer was definitely the right choice. The Dutchman quickly got into the form from the beginning of the game! He had a shot before that forced Cesar to make a world-class save, and this time, he finally scored a goal!!"

"goooooooooooooooooooal! Van Nistrui! Van Nistrui!!"

"It must be seen that although Van Nisstruy scored the goal, the initiator and leader of this goal were Chu Zhongtian! It was him who threaded a series of needles in front of the penalty area that created such a good opportunity for his teammates! If Lucio did not come up to defend Chu Zhongtian, how could Van Nisstruy get such a good opportunity? When he received the ball in the penalty area, there was no one around him!" He Ping did not forget to emphasize the importance of Chu Zhongtian.

The Rhine-Neka Stadium was filled with cheers like tsunamis, and Hoffenheim fans finally waited for the moment of scoring the goal.

"Hoffenheim! Hoffenheim! Hoffenheim!!" Such shouts continued and resounded throughout the city!
Chapter completed!