No one thought that the game would turn out like this. Before the game, everyone analyzed this game. Even the most optimistic Hoffenheim supporters believed that Hoffenheim had the possibility of winning, but they did not expect that they would win so easily. They led 2:0 in the 17th minute of the first half.

The fans of AC Milan were even more unthinkable. Whether they were on the scene or in front of the TV, they all looked at the score in a daze and dared not accept it.

But what can I do? Hoffenheim's second goal is fine. If they can still scold Kolarov for offside after conceding the first goal, the second goal will be clean and have no problems at all.

"It's really incredible, incredible..." The commentators also shook their heads and sighed. "The game has only been going on for seventeen minutes, and Hoffenheim has already led 2:0!"

"Ibissevic! He scored his first goal in the Champions League this season! It's really wonderful!"

"Chu Zhongtian's breakthrough disrupted AC Milan's defense! This was a really beautiful attack! Neither Vlamini nor Gattuso could stop him. He carried Silva alone and still gave a wonderful assist under the interference of Nesta! It can be said that he defeated AC Milan's entire defense alone!"

"Oh oh oh! Ibissevic! Hoffenheim's start was perfect, their fast attack completely restrained AC Milan's football. The old AC Milan was rushed by the young Hoffenheim and could not find the north!"

After scoring the goal, Ibisevic ran to Chu Zhongtian, then hugged him and thanked him for his assist.

In fact, he was not sure whether Chu Zhongtian would pass the football to himself at the beginning, because Chu Zhongtian is also very capable of scoring now. However, due to the habit of a forward, he still appeared at the position he should appear. If Chu Zhongtian wanted to pass the ball, he would not have wasted this opportunity. Sure enough, Chu Zhongtian divided the football over, and what he had to do was very simple. He did not have a defensive player from AC Milan around him. As a forward, if such a ball could not be scored, he could die.

Other Hoffenheim players also rushed up and everyone started a celebration in front of AC Milan's goal.

The disappointed, frustrated and even a little confused AC Milan players became their best foil.

The Hoffenheim fans in the stands were singing Hoffenheim's team songs. Such a wonderful start made everyone forget it.

"Before the game, Allegri said that Chu was the most threatening player in Hoffenheim, so he would arrange special people to guard Chu, but now it seems that his arrangement has not been effective at all. In the face of Chu's outstanding performance, although Gattuso was thrown in the fighting spirit, he was old after all. And Flamini couldn't keep up with Chu's rhythm at all!"

The Italian commentator also criticized AC Milan for such poor performance. In his opinion, AC Milan does have a group of excellent players. Although they are older, they are not 2:0 by a team like Hoffenheim in the first 17 minutes. The main reason is Allegri. Allegri lacks experience in playing Champions League. He thinks that the Champions League is the same as the domestic league. But in fact, it is very different. The Champions League is the Champions League and the domestic league is the domestic league. There are many coaches who have made great progress in the domestic league, and their performance in the Champions League is very dull, which is related to their lack of Champions League experience.

The German commentator praised Chu Zhongtian's performance: "This is Chu's strength! He can score goals by himself and be the finisher of the offense. He can also create opportunities for his teammates, indirectly or directly assist his teammates to score. In short, he is a player that makes it difficult for you to freeze! Rangnick's 30 million really made a huge advantage. You should know that many well-known clubs in Europe were interested in Chu at that time! But Chu chose Hoffenheim, a newly promoted team. Before the game, the Milan Sports Daily said that Hoffenheim was Chu's team alone. Although it was a bit exaggerated, it was roughly right. Hoffenheim without Chu might still develop into the mainstay of the Bundesliga, but Chu has increased Hoffenheim's development speed by several orders of magnitude. Today, Hoffenheim is like a rocket in the sky, rising rapidly!"

The TV broadcast did not give a close-up to Ibisevich, who scored a goal, but instead gave a close-up to Chu Zhongtian, which shows that the director of the broadcast also understands the ball well. Sometimes, it is not that the person who scores the goal is the most important, and the person who creates opportunities for his teammates before scoring the goal is even more powerful.

After the Hoffenheim fans sang the team songs, they began to sing songs written for Chu Zhongtian. This is a new work. Before, everyone expressed their love for Chu just shouted his name. Chu Zhongtian had his own songs at Wimbledon and Metz. Now in Hoffenheim, two seasons have passed, and he has also enjoyed such treatment.

"Charge, Chu! You are invincible! The boards are flying all over the field, you are invincible! You are the truth. On the court, let your opponent salute you. Ascend the throne! The world is in your hands!!" (Thanks to Sina Weibo user "The Hell of the Egg" for providing Chinese and English lyrics, thank you!) The singing originally rang in the stands of the Hoffenheim Fan Club where Koniriya and the others were. Because the melody was simple, the lyrics were catchy and easy to understand, it quickly spread and rang throughout the stadium.

This song was done by Koniriya and the others for Chu Zhongtian to express their love for Chu Zhongtian. They had such ideas before. However, because they could never find the right tune and lyrics, they dragged it down again and again. Hoffenheim's performance this season was getting better and better, and Chu Zhongtian, as the team's leader, naturally had a very outstanding performance. Everyone's desire to write songs for Chu Zhongtian became stronger and stronger.

Now, the "Song of Chu" has finally been released.

And the first time it was sung, the audience resounded throughout the audience, and a full house was full of reds!

※※※When the competition begins again, the hymns sung for Chu can still be clearly heard.

Chu Zhongtian used his celebrating goals to remind his excited teammates that the game had just begun and it was not the time to celebrate. Leading two goals is really not a big advantage when the opponent is a team of AC Milan. If you want to win the game, you must keep this lead until the end of the game. So now is not a time to relax. If you want to win, you can keep playing like this!

So after the game started, AC Milan found that the Hoffenheim they were facing had no change at all, did not relax because of the two goals, nor did the forwards want to attack, the defenders want to defend, and were disconnected from the front and back. They were still facing the active Hoffenheim who was pressing all over the game and started defending from AC Milan's penalty area.

Such football makes AC Milan players very uncomfortable. Once Hoffenheim grabs the ball, they launch a quick counterattack on the spot, leaving the old AC Milan exhausted from running from here to there, from front to back, and at all unable to rest.

The following time in the first half was always in such a situation.

AC Milan wanted to organize the offense, but was always disturbed by Hoffenheim. After finally organizing, the forwards were wasted again. Robinho and Ibrahimovic always couldn't touch football in front, and the two had to retreat in turn, but the results were very little. Chu Zhongtian led Hoffenheim's midfielder to cut off the connection between AC Milan's midfielder and forward. AC Milan's midfielder's brain, Pirlo's performance in this game was also very average because of the lack of Siddorf's support. Siddorf's performance can be said to be sleepwalking.

Until the end of the first half, the score was not changed. Hoffenheim led AC Milan 2:0. Statistics in the first half also showed the home team's overall advantage - Hoffenheim shot eleven times, AC Milan only had four shots, and Hoffenheim shot straight. The ball possession time was 56% higher than Hoffenheim leading AC Milan by 44%.

"Acc Milan players have finally waited for the halftime break and hope that in the locker room, their head coach can make some adjustments to this bad situation..."

This halftime break is indeed a relief for AC Milan players. They hope to calmly think about why the first half became like this through fifteen minutes of rest.

And if possible, Chu Zhongtian hopes that this game will continue like this and will not rest until the end of the game.

However, the football rules are arranged in this way, and he must abide by them.

Back in the locker room, Rangnick praised the team's performance, but he did not praise it, but told everyone: "I only praised your performance in the first half, but it does not mean that you can be proud in the second half. I hope everyone will remember Istanbul in 2005. In that Champions League final, AC Milan led Liverpool 3-0 in the first half. As a result, AC Milan players who returned to the locker room began to celebrate freely. Their voices were so loud that they even passed through the walls that Liverpool players heard, so the whole world knew what happened in the second half. Do you want to be the laughing stock of the whole world?"

"No one wants to!" everyone replied.

"So you have to play in the second half like in the first half! You are not allowed to celebrate unless the final whistle sounds!"

The tactical rival, Rangnick has nothing to adjust, and the team just needs to continue playing like this.

But in the locker room next door, Allegri was not so relaxed. He was disappointed with the team's performance, but he did not angrily scold the players. In the locker room, he actually had no authority, and the players here were better than him, so he was always very low-key.

But in the face of such a dilemma, he always has to do something, right?

He cleared his throat and signaled everyone to calm down and listen to him.

The players who were talking about the first half just now gradually became quiet after a while. Some people looked at the head coach, while others simply lowered their heads, not knowing what they were thinking.

"Uh, our first half performance... was a bit bad." Allegri said, while he was paying attention to every Milan player to see if there was anything unusual in their expressions. "I believe you all know it too. If we continue to be so confused in the second half, I think we will not be able to win this game. Do you hope... hope we will lose this game away? So we have to make a countermeasure in the second half. We, uh, we must strengthen our defense against Chu!"

Some players who had turned their heads and looked at Allegri turned their heads away.

If this continues, what is the difference between the strategy in the first half? I always say that I should defend Chu Zhongtian strictly, but how should I defend strictly? He couldn't say anything. This made AC Milan players very at a loss.

Gattuso could only rely on his own foul to stop Chu Zhongtian. As a result, everyone saw that the foul gave Hoffenheim a chance to launch an offensive calmly, which eventually led to the second goal conceding.

Foul tactics are of course a type of defense, but it is hard to say whether they can play the expected role.

Then Allegri shifted the topic to offense. He believed that the key was that the team's offense was not effective, not defense. As long as the team's goal problem was solved, other problems would be solved. How can you win without scoring a goal in the football game?

So you have to score a goal.

He asked Robinho to retreat a little more and connect the midfield. He also noticed that Hoffenheim's midfield cut off the connection between AC Milan's forward and forward, so he had such a request.

"We have to score a goal. As long as we can get one goal back this morning, the initiative in this game will come back to us. The leading side is always under great pressure, especially as we have taken the lead so early. We have a full forty-five minutes to recover the score, as long as we can score as early as possible!"

※※※That's what he said and pursued it so much.

The second half started for more than ten minutes, and seeing that the team had not scored yet, Allegri made an unexpected substitution, and he replaced No. 8 Gattuso with Ronaldinho!

This is a substitution to strengthen the offense, but the problem is that he replaced Gattuso, the most active and tenacious midfielder in AC Milan!

Gattuso was a little unhappy when he was substituted, but he still put the overall situation first and retreated the captain's armband and handed it to Pirlo, and then ran off the field all the way, without wasting time.

But this time the substitution was destined to be wrong. Not only did it not help AC Milan regain the initiative in the game, but it lost more control. Without Gattuso, Chu Zhongtian performed more freely. He played with Flamini and could show off his footwork when facing Ronaldinho.

Hoffenheim has regained the upper hand.

Allegri also realized his mistake, so he made a replacement adjustment again. In the 65th minute, he replaced Flamini with Boateng.

Poor Flamini was ambitious at first to freeze Chu Zhongtian and get more opportunities for him to play in the team. However, he was fooled by Chu Zhongtian twice at the beginning and suffered a heavy blow. He has not recovered until now.

Boateng is also a defensive player with a tough style. He is a Ghana international and performed well in the South African World Cup, so he transferred to AC Milan. He also has a younger brother who plays for the German national team, has played in the South African World Cup, and plays as a full-back.

After Boateng came on the court, he actively ran and fierce defense slightly curbed Hoffenheim's midfield offense.

However, Sidorf's performance was not good and could not provide more support to the team. Due to the confused substitution of Gattuso, Allegri wasted a substitution opportunity. Now he only has one substitution quota, and the game is less than seventy minutes. In case of precaution, he must keep this substitution quota. If a player is injured or has lost his strength and cramps and cannot continue the game, it is easier to make a substitution adjustment.

Even if he knew that Seidorf was in a bad state, he could not replace him in a short time.

Robinho's retreat did not help the team connect the midfield and frontcourt. Most of the time, he and Ibrahimovic could only rely on their personal skills to seek breakthroughs and shots in Hoffenheim's defense.

Can AC Milan still win like this?

As the game progresses, more and more people have asked such questions.

Television broadcasts kept giving Alegre close-up shots, and his expression gradually became solemn. From the 70th minute, he had been standing on the sidelines and never returned to the coach's seat. He stared anxiously at the court, and sometimes waved his arms and shouted a few words to remind the players to attack or defend.

But this did not help.

In the 80th minute, Allegri finally made the right substitution, and he replaced Seedorf with Inzaghi.

But there is too little time left for Inzagi. This player who made Mourinho feel scared only has ten minutes of performance, and he is still playing on the right side that he is not good at.

At the last moment of the game, Hoffenheim began to make continuous substitutions, replacing three main players and three substitutes. AC Milan also seized this opportunity, with Inzaghi assisting Ibrahimovic to score a goal, but this goal could not change the result of the game.

In the end, Hoffenheim defeated AC Milan 2:1 at his home court, which surprised some people. Anyone who has watched the game thinks this result is natural. Allegri's AC Milan does not show the momentum of a European giant. It is normal to lose to the young and impactful Hoffenheim.

Hoffenheim took the initiative in qualifying in the group because of his victory in this game. Although he was still third in the group, because his goal difference was one less than AC Milan, they ate a team like AC Milan at their home court, and these three-pointers were of extraordinary value.

Therefore, as soon as the game ended, the Hoffenheim players hugged each other. They had been waiting for a moment for a full forty-five minutes, and finally they could celebrate it!

The TV broadcast once again gave the close-up to Chu Zhongtian.

"Although there was no goal in the game, he was undoubtedly the best player in this game! In the game against Real Madrid, the team lost the goal, and he was still the best player. Chu's light can no longer be blocked by the victory or defeat of the game and the goal!"

After celebrating the victory, Chu Zhongtian led his teammates to applaud and thank the fans in the stands, thanking them for their support in this game. This victory was the best gift to them.

And Hoffenheim fans can have a great night again.

The commentator praised Hoffenheim's home court so much: "In this home court, Hoffenheim defeated Bayern Munich, Manchester United and Inter Milan and other top European giants. Now they have won AC Milan 2:1. Maybe we can start looking forward to the second-last match day in the group stage, Real Madrid will challenge Hoffenheim away!"
Chapter completed!