Chapter 194 End of the 09-10 season
The German Football League has come to an end, and the entire European League has come to an end. The same is true for the Champions League.
Bayern Munich has always been the defender of German football dignity, and this time they defended to the end - they eliminated Lyon and entered the Champions League final.
Another team that reached the finals eliminated Hoffenheim in the eighth-finals. They eliminated the invincible Barcelona at Camp Nou with a heart-warming 0:1 in the second leg of the semi-finals. In the first leg, they defeated the away team from Barcelona to Milan in their own home court 3:1. When they returned to Camp Nou in the second leg, the whole Barcelona was clamoring to reverse, turn around, and go against the will. Some media even claimed that since Hoffenheim could return to home 3:1 when he lost the game 1:3 in the first leg, they were more than one level better than Hoffenheim, so why can't they 3:0?
The game was indeed moving in a direction that was beneficial to Barcelona. In the 28th minute of the first half, Buzquez, who came from Lamacia's youth training camp, made Inter Milan's midfielder Mota be sent off with a red card, and Inter Milan's ten players faced the challenge.
With one less opponent, with Barcelona's control, it is obvious that this game should be easily won.
But in fact it is not like this.
Mourinho waved his hand and Inter Milan started to play defensive football instead. He took out the tactics of Hoffenheim in the first round, and it was much more mature than it was at that time. He completely gave up the ball control and even handed the football to Barcelona, allowing them to control the ball calmly outside the 30-meter area, but they just didn't give the opponent a chance to enter the penalty area. Inter Milan's three lines were kept very complete and compact. Even Xavi, Messi and others could not find a way to get in.
Chu Zhongtian watched the game in front of the TV. Seeing this scene, he suddenly laughed. He knew that Barcelona was going to be in trouble. When Inter Milan's tactics were not mature enough, he suffered a lot. Now that he is mature, Barcelona probably won't have any good way to break the three walls Mourinho erected in front of the goal.
As expected, Inter Milan contracted its defense, and all players defended with a striking momentum. Barcelona had no choice but to use such a team. Because the scores of both sides in the first leg were 3:1, Inter Milan 3 and Barcelona 1, which means that Barcelona needs to score at least two goals at their home court, and also ensure that Inter Milan does not score.
From the current point of view, Inter Milan's chance of scoring is very small, but Barcelona's chance of scoring is not high... It was not until the 84th minute that Barcelona relied on Pique's goal to score a point, but they still needed one goal before they advanced. Later, Bo Yang scored a goal, but was judged to be offside first.
When the game ended, the 1:0 score indicated that Inter Milan advanced and Mourinho reached the Champions League final. The last time he reached the Champions League final was the Portuguese powerhouse Porto in 2004. The significance of this game was not only that he led the team to the Champions League final again, but that he once again left Barcelona. This little translator who came out of Barcelona at the time has now become Barcelona's football's number one enemy in the world football world.
After the game, Mourinho arrogantly said that this game was the most wonderful failure in his life. This sentence became a famous saying.
※※※The Champions League is a feast for others after all, and watching the Champions League is just a way to keep Chu Zhongtian understanding of the world football world.
His main battlefield is still in the country.
In the last round of the league, he led the team to defeat Hamburg 5-1 at home, while Schalke lost 0-1 to Hertha Berlin away, which allowed Hoffenheim to second place in the league. As long as they can maintain this ranking until the end of the season, they will be qualified to directly participate in the Champions League main match without having to play in the Champions League playoffs at the end of July.
Starting from the penultimate round of the league, in order to prevent those who are interested from cheating and playing corner kicks or playing tacit balls, all matches kick off at the same time. The 33rd round of the league starts uniformly at 3:30 p.m. local time on May 1st.
What about the league championship... With two rounds left in the league, Bayern Munich led Hoffenheim, who ranked second, for eight points, and had already won the championship ahead of schedule after the last round of the league.
Van Gaal's Bayern Munich started poorly, but it had a lot of momentum. However, it also shows from another aspect that other teams in the Bundesliga lack sufficient strength to challenge Bayern Munich. If this is put into the Premier League, Bayern's start is so bad. I guess they can only compete for the Champions League this season. Other teams performed well enough, which gave Bayern Munich the opportunity to overtake and win the championship. The Bundesliga is indeed Bayern Munich's back garden.
Hoffenheim's performance this season is not stable enough, with a poor record of nine consecutive rounds of defeats, which has caused their ranking to plummet. If they can stabilize during that period, perhaps they can threaten Bayern Munich's league championship and evolve this season into their situation, Bayern Munich and Schalke 04, three-way competition.
Unfortunately, the team played in the Champions League for the first time and paid too much attention to the Champions League and ignored the domestic league. Rangnick did lack experience in dealing with the two-line battles and was not sure about the rhythm. The team was able to catch up in the end, thanks to Chu Zhongtian for his outbreak, otherwise it would be unstoppable to play Dortmund.
At 3:30 pm on May 1st, the 33rd round of the Bundesliga began in full swing.
Hoffenheim challenged Frankfurt away. Frankfurt ranks tenth this season, and is a team that has no desires and no desires, so this game should not be difficult.
But the first record was Frankfurt's young Swiss international Pirmin_schwegler scored a goal for Frankfurt in the 20th minute.
Then, under the leadership of Chu Zhongtian, Hoffenheim launched fierce attacks on Frankfurt's goal, hoping to equalize the score.
But in this game, everyone seemed to have forgotten to bring shooting boots. Although the offensive was strong, there was no goal, and it was thunder but not raining.
Finally, it was not until the 80th minute that Obasi scored a goal, helping the team equalize the score.
In the 88th minute, Chu Zhongtian's header in front of the goal helped the team overtake the score, which was also his personal thirteenth goal this season!
"Ahhhhhhh! Chu! Chu! He scored another goal! This is his thirteenth goal this season! He has thirteen goals and fifteen assists this season! He currently leads Wolfsburg's Misimovic and Werder Bremen's Ozil in the assist list. It would be amazing if he can become the assist king in the Bundesliga for two consecutive seasons!"
In the end, Hoffenheim relied on Chu Zhongtian's goal in the 88th minute to defeat Frankfurt with a slightly difficult time.
After losing to Hertha Berlin, Schalke 04 seemed to have been holding back the breath, and they lost to Werder Bremen 0:2 at their home court. Bremen surpassed Dortmund with his victory in this game and rose to fourth place in the league. However, there is no difference between fourth and fifth places in the league, and they both participated in next season's Europa League, which is the previous League Cup.
Hoffenheim took this opportunity to get rid of Schalke 04 and occupy the second place in the league with a three-point advantage. With the last round left in the league, they actually won the second place in the league in advance and qualified for the Champions League next season. Schalke 04 may not even be able to participate in the Champions League qualifiers, because the gap between them and Bremen is only two points... As soon as the game ended, the team celebrated in the locker room.
"Champions League! Next season, we are here again!!"
"oh--!!"
Everyone cheered and celebrated naked in the locker room, and some people took out beer and wanted to drink it.
Rangnick doesn't care about them anymore. Anyway, the team has achieved the goal of this season and has been tired for a season. He should enjoy it at this time.
The goal of this season is to enter the Champions League next season. Now they have exceeded the task because they have qualified for the main competition. They have participated directly in the main competition, and there are only two places in the Bundesliga, so it is not easy to get it. They are now the second team in Germany after Bayern Munich.
※※Don’t think that you can rest assured if you win the second place in the league in advance, and the remaining game will be done. For Hoffenheim players, even if they win the league championship, they must do their best in this last game.
Because this is a derby in Bawu.
Hoffenheim welcomed Stuttgart at his home court.
Stuttgart ranks sixth this season and also has the possibility of entering the top five to qualify for the Europa League, so this game is destined not to be played in harmony.
Some people naively think that Hoffenheim would give the big brother a lot of money because both teams are from Bawu State, and there are many Stuttgart players in their team.
Of course this is impossible. The first time the two sides faced each other this season, Hoffenheim lost 1:2 to Stuttgart away. No matter how they say this, they will also take revenge.
The same is true.
Before the game started, the two sides had a war of verbal battle, and at the beginning of the game, the fight was even more intense.
In this game, Rangnick did not let the main players rest just because the team won the second place in the league in advance, but instead sent the strongest lineup he could to face Stuttgart.
Chu Zhongtian, Ibisevic, Salihovic, Van Nistruei, Eduardo, Sana and others all started.
The first goal was the away team. Kacao took the lead for Stuttgart in the 19th minute. Rhine Neka Stadium was booed.
Before the end of the first half, Chu Zhongtian equalized the score for the team. Salihovic made a cross from the side, and Chu Zhongtian jumped high in the crowd, headed the ball, and the football fell and flew into the goal, tied 1:1!
"Wow! Chu scored another goal! How many times have we said this sentence in recent rounds? Since the 29th round of the league, Chu seems to have transformed into a striker, and goals come one by one. Such goal efficiency is even more terrifying than the striker! One goal against Wolfsburg, he took charge of all the two goals of the team for Cologne, and even a hat-trick against Dortmund. He scored one goal against Hamburg and three assists against Frankfurt at the last moment to help the team reverse the victory. Now, it is his goal against Stuttgart, which equalized the score for the team!"
"When did it start to change? It seems that he was eliminated by Inter Milan in the Champions League. He performed very well in that game, and he never stopped in good shape. Before the 29th round of the league, Chu only scored four goals in total, but now he has scored fourteen goals! He scored nine goals in six league rounds, which is really terrifying!"
"I have to say that the season is coming to an end, which is a pity. Otherwise, in Chu Zhongtian's state, he would likely score consecutive goals, just like Ibisevic in the first half of last season!"
Everyone praised Chu Zhongtian in different ways. This is a regular program for commentators in recent rounds of leagues.
The Rhine-Neka Stadium also sounded again to cheer for Chu Zhongtian.
Chu Zhongtian has completely conquered the Bundesliga and Rhine-Neka. He is only about to conquer Europe now.
The two sides were still fierce in the second half. Stuttgart must win, for the purpose of qualifying for the Europa League, while Hoffenheim must avenge no matter what.
The two teams faced Mai Mang and remained stalemate until the 77th minute, and the deadlock was broken.
Chu Zhongtian assisted Eduardo to score the team's second goal, helping Hoffenheim reverse the lead.
This also further expanded his lead in the assists list.
He currently has 16 assists, leading second-place Misimovic and Ozil three assists. Although it is not as exaggerated as last season's twenty-three assists, 16 assists are still amazing. And there are fewer assists, but there are more goals, Chu Zhongtian's decisive ability in offense has been improved. Assisted only pave the way for his teammates, and you can't control whether his teammates can grasp it. But in the game, I'm afraid that this situation of inability to control will occur again and again, so it is necessary to improve his scoring ability and will help the team more in the future.
Hoffenheim made a reversal, but Stuttgart did not want to give up easily. They equalized the score three minutes later. Kakao still scored the goal.
It seems that the draw seems to be fair to both sides, but it is not the case. No one is willing to accept the result of a tie with the Derby opponent, and no one wants to win.
So at the end of the game, the two sides staged a wonderful battle, and the fight was very fierce.
It was not until the 89th minute that Hoffenheim had a substitute Brazilian young player Wellington scored a completely reverse goal. This was his only league goal this season, but it was worth a thousand gold!
In the end, Hoffenheim defeated Stuttgart 3:2 at home, winning the derby battle in Bawu State, and tied with his opponent 1:1 in the derby battle this season.
In the overall record of the derby, they have the advantage with two wins, one draw and one loss.
This record looks very shabby, compared with the Milan derby with more than 260 games, the Spanish national derby with more than 230 games, and the Scottish "time-brand derby" of 386 games, it is simply not worth mentioning. However, isn't any derby with an unusually long history and cultural heritage accumulated from one, two, and three games? Who can guarantee that the Bawu State derby between Hoffenheim and Stuttgart will not become a well-known derby battle in the world football in a hundred years?
※※※Nothing is more wonderful than ending this season by defeating your opponent in the Derby.
After the game, Hoffenheim players pulled out banners to thank the home fans for their support for the season. At the same time, we hope that everyone will continue to look forward to and support them next season.
As the representative of the team, Chu Zhongtian held a microphone and promised all the home team fans present: "Next season, we will never stop in the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals! We will try our best to move forward! The further you go, the better!"
Thunderous applause sounded in the scene to respond to his promise.
"Thank you! Let's see you next season!"
Chu Zhongtian led the team to wave to the fans.
The season came to an end.
In the 2009-2010 season, Hoffenheim finally won the second place in the league, and they did not defend their title successfully. However, they made a historic breakthrough in the Champions League and entered the knockout round for the first time in the Champions League, where they defeated Manchester United and Inter Milan at home, which made countless people talk about it.
Although no one of the championships this season was won, no one complained, and everyone thought Hoffenheim gave them a wonderful enjoyment this season.
Next season, this young team will continue to move forward with a big stride.
No one knows how far they can go.
But one thing is certain, when they appear in the Champions League again next season, no one will know where Hoffenheim is, and no one will despise them again. They fulfilled their promise at the end of last game.
Last season, they spent a season letting the whole of Germany know where Hoffenheim is. This season, they let the whole Europe know where Hoffenheim is!
※※※The German Football League came to a close range in the 2009-2010 season, Bayern Munich won the league championship. Hoffenheim ranked second, Schalke 04 finally barely retained third. These three teams qualified for the Champions League next season, among which Schalke 04 participated in the Champions League qualifiers, Bayern Munich and Hoffenheim directly participated in the main competition. Werder Bremen and Leverkusen won the fourth and fifth leagues and can participate in the Europa League next season. Dortmund has been in a slump since losing to Chu Zhongtian 3-1 at home, and has not won consecutive victories, losing the top five in the league, only winning sixth in the league, missing any European event.
Hertha Berlin and Bochum are directly demoted to Class B, while Nuremberg will participate in the relegation play-offs.
In terms of personal honors, although Wolfsburg has not won any honors this season, their Bosnian scorer Dzeko won the "little cannon" of the Bundesliga top scorer with 23 goals. Hoffenheim's first scorer Ibissevic tied for fifth with 16 goals with Bremen's Pizarro and Bayern Munich's Robben. Chu Zhongtian won the league assist king with 16 assists, and Ozil and Misimovic tied for second with 13 assists.
Chapter completed!