Chapter 194: The 09-10 Season Ends

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The German Bundesliga has come to an end, and the entire European league has come to an end. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 The same goes for info Champions League.

Bayern Munich have always been defenders of the dignity of German football, and this time they defended it to the end - they eliminated Lyon and reached the Champions League final.

The other team to reach the final were a penalty shoot-out of Hoffenheim in the quarter-finals, where they beat the unbeatable Barcelona at Camp Nou with a thrilling 1-0 win in the second leg of the semi-finals. In the first leg, they beat the visitors from Barcelona to Milan in a coach 3-1 at their home stadium. The second leg returned to Camp Nou, and the whole Barcelona was clamoring for a reversal, a turnaround, and a reversal, and even some media claimed that since Hoffenheim could return to the home stadium 3:1 after losing the game 1:3 in the first leg, they were more than one grade better than Hoffenheim, why couldn't they be 3:0?

The game is indeed moving in Barcelona's favour. In the 28th minute of the first half, an exaggerated performance by Butzques from La Masia's academy sent Inter Milan's midfielder Motta off with a red card, and Inter Milan responded with 10 men.

With one less opponent and Barcelona's control, it is clear that this game should be easy to win.

But that's not the case.

Mourinho waved his hand, and Inter Milan switched to defensive football. He took the same tactics he had against Hoffenheim in the first leg, and he was much more mature than he was then. Giving up possession altogether, or even handing over the ball to Barcelona, allowing them to control the ball calmly outside the 30-metre zone, but just not giving the opposition a chance to play into the box. The three lines of Inter Milan remain very intact and compact. Even Xavi, Messi and others couldn't find a way to get in.

Chu Zhongtian watched the game in front of the TV at the time. Seeing this scene, he suddenly laughed, he knew that Barcelona was going to be unlucky. At that time, when Inter Milan's tactics were not mature enough, they suffered a lot, and now that they are mature, Barcelona may not have any good way to break the three walls that Mourinho erected in front of the goal.

As it turned out, Inter Milan contracted its defense, and all the players defended with an eye-catching momentum, and Barcelona couldn't do anything with such a team. Because the score of the first leg between the two sides is 3:1, Inter Milan 3, Barcelona 1, which means that Barcelona need to score at least two goals at their home stadium and ensure that Inter Milan does not score.

As it stands, the chances of Inter Milan scoring are slim, but Barcelona are unlikely to want to score...... It wasn't until the 84th minute that Barcelona relied on Pique's goal to pull a point back, but they needed one more goal to advance. Later, Bojan once scored a goal, but it was ruled offside.

By the end of the game, the score was 1-0 and Inter had progressed, with Jose Mourinho reaching the Champions League final on the first occasion. His last Champions League final was against Portugal side Porto in 2004. And the significance of this game is not only that he once again led the team to the Champions League final, but also that he once again took away Barcelona, the little translator who came out of Barcelona at the beginning, has now become the number one enemy of Barcelona's football in world football.

After the game, Mourinho was very arrogant and said that this game was the most wonderful defeat of his life. This phrase became a famous saying.

※※※After all, the Champions League is a feast for others, and watching the Champions League is just a means for Chu Zhongtian to maintain his understanding of world football.

His main battlefield is still at home.

He led his side to a 5-1 home win over Hamburg in the last round of the league, while Schalke 04 lost 1-0 away to Hertha Berlin, which moved Hoffenheim to second place in the league and will qualify directly for the Champions League as long as they can maintain that position until the end of the season, rather than playing in the Champions League play-offs at the end of July.

Starting from the penultimate round of the league, in order to prevent people from cheating and kicking corners or playing tacit kicks, all matches in the round are kicked off at the same time. The 33rd round of the league will start at 3:30 p.m. local time on May 1.

And what about the league title...... With two league games remaining, Bayern Munich are eight points ahead of second-placed Hoffenheim and have already won the title after the previous round of the league.

Louis van Gaal's Bayern Munich got off to a bad start but had a lot of momentum. However, it also shows from another side that other teams in the Bundesliga still lack enough strength to challenge Bayern Munich, if it is put in the Premier League, Bayern's start is so bad, it is estimated that this season can only strive for Champions League qualification. Other teams didn't perform well enough to give Bayern Munich a chance to win the title. The Bundesliga is still Bayern Munich's backyard.

Hoffenheim have also been inconsistent this season, with a nine-game winless run in between, which has caused them to plummet in the rankings. If that period holds, perhaps they could threaten Bayern Munich's league title and turn the season into a trio of them, Bayern Munich and Schalke 04.

It's a pity that the team played the Champions League for the first time, focusing too much on the Champions League and ignoring the domestic league. Rangnick was indeed a little inexperienced in dealing with two-front battles, and the pace was not well controlled. The team was able to catch up in the end, thanks to Chu Zhongtian's outburst, otherwise Dortmund would have been hanging.

At half past three o'clock in the afternoon of May 1, the 33rd round of the Bundesliga was fully launched.

Hoffenheim take on Eintracht Frankfurt away. Eintracht Frankfurt are in 10th place this season and belong to the kind of team that can't go up or down, so this game should not be difficult.

But it was Eintracht Frankfurt who opened the scoring. Young Swiss international Pyremin. Schwiegler (pirmin_schwegler) scored a goal for Eintracht Frankfurt in the twentieth minute.

Hoffenheim, led by Chu Zhongtian, then launched wave after wave of fierce attacks on the Eintracht Frankfurt goal, hoping to equalize.

But everyone seems to have forgotten to bring shooting boots. Although the offensive was fierce, there was no goal, and it did not rain with thunder.

In the end, it was not until the 80th minute that Obasi scored a goal to help the team equalize.

In the 88th minute, Chu Zhongtian grabbed a header in front of the goal to help the team overtake the score, which was also his thirteenth goal this season!

"Ahhh Clear! Clear! He's scoring again! It was his thirteenth goal of the season! He has thirteen goals and fifteen assists this season! He currently has four assists ahead of Wolfsburg's Misimovic and Werder Bremen's Mesut Ozil in the assists charts, and it would be great if he could become the Bundesliga's assist leader for two consecutive seasons! ”

In the end, Hoffenheim relied on Chu Zhongtian's goal in the 88th minute to defeat Eintracht Frankfurt with a little difficulty.

After the defeat to Hertha Berlin, Schalke 04 seemed to have been holding back the breath that they had been holding back, and they lost 0-2 to Werder Bremen at their home stadium. Bremen overtook Borussia Dortmund with this win and moved up to fourth place in the league. However, there is no difference between fourth and fifth in the league, both of which will participate in next season's Europa League, which is the former UEFA Cup.

Hoffenheim took advantage of this to shake off Schalke 04 and occupy second place in the league with a three-point advantage. With the final round of the league remaining, they have actually finished second in the league ahead of schedule and qualified for next season's Champions League, while Schalke 04 will 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 was over, the team began to celebrate in the locker room.

"Champions League! Next season, here we go again!! ”

"Oh!!"

Everyone cheered naked in the locker room, and some people brought out beers to have a drink.

Rangnick doesn't care about them anymore, anyway, the team has achieved the goal of this season, tired of a season, this is the time to enjoy it.

The goal this season is to qualify for next season's Champions League and now they have exceeded their task as they qualified for the main event. Directly participate in the main competition, there are only two places in the Bundesliga, and it is not easy to get it. They are now the second team in Germany after Bayern Munich.

※※※Don't think that if you finish second in the league in advance, you can sit back and relax, and you will have one game left. For the Hoffenheim players, even if they win the league title, they will have to give their all in this final game.

Because it's a Baden-Württemberg derby.

Hoffenheim welcomed Stuttgart on their home turf.

Stuttgart are sixth in the table this season and also have a chance of finishing in the top five and qualifying for the Europa League, so this game is not destined to be played in harmony.

Some people naively thought that Hoffenheim would give water to Big Brother for the sake of the fact that both teams are Baden-Württemberg and that they have a number of Stuttgart players in their squad.

Of course, this is not possible. In the first meeting between the two sides this season, Hoffenheim lost 1-2 away to Stuttgart. This time, they also want to take revenge.

And so it is.

Before the start of the game, there was a war of words between the two sides, and at the beginning of the game, the scramble was fierce.

In this game, Rangnick did not rest the main team because the team finished second in the league early, but sent the strongest squad he could to face Stuttgart.

Chu Zhongtian, Ibisevic, Salihovic, Van Nistelrooy, Eduardo, Sana and others all started.

The first goal was scored by the away team. Cacau gave Stuttgart the lead in the 19th minute. There was boos at the Rhine-Neckar Stadium.

Before the end of the first half, Chu Zhongtian equalized for the team. Salihovic's free kick cross from the side, Chu Zhongtian jumped high in the crowd, rubbed his header, and the football fell and flew into the goal, 1:1 draw!

"Wow! Chu scored again! How many times have we said this phrase in recent rounds? Since the 29th round of the league against Wolfsburg, Chu seems to have become a striker, scoring goals one after another, such a goal efficiency is simply more terrifying than a striker! One goal against Wolfsburg, two goals against Cologne, a hat-trick against Borussia Dortmund, a goal and three assists against Hamburg, a last-minute goal against Eintracht Frankfurt to help the team win the game, and now against Stuttgart, it was his goal again to equalize the score! ”

When did you start converting? It seems to have started when he was knocked out of the Champions League by Inter Milan, and he did very well in that game, and his good form never stopped. Before the twenty-ninth round of the league, Chu had only scored a total of four goals, but now he has scored fourteen goals! He's scored nine goals in six league games, which is terrifying! ”

"I have to say it's almost the end of the season, which is a shame. Otherwise, with Chu Zhongtian's state, it is likely to score consecutive goals, just like Ibisevic in the first half of last season! ”

Everyone praised Chu Zhongtian in different ways, this is already a fixed program for the commentators in the last few rounds of the league.

The Rhine-Neckar Stadium also resounded with shouts of cheers for Chu Zhongtian.

Chu Zhongtian has completely conquered the Bundesliga, conquered Rhine-Neckar, and now he is only about to conquer Europe.

The second half was still fierce, with Stuttgart having to win for Europa League qualification, while Hoffenheim wanted revenge no matter what.

The two teams went head-to-head and remained deadlocked until the 77th minute, when the deadlock was broken.

Chu Zhongtian assisted Eduardo to score the team's second goal to help Hoffenheim reverse the lead.

It also extended his lead at the assist charts even further.

He is currently 16 assists, three ahead of second-placed Misimovic and Mesut Ozil. It's not as dramatic as last season's 23 assists, but 16 assists is still remarkable. And there are fewer assists, but more goals, and Chu Zhongtian's decisive ability in attack has been improved. Assists are just paving the way for your teammates, and you can't control whether your teammates can grasp them or not. But in the game, I am afraid that this kind of uncontrollable situation will appear again and again, so it is necessary to improve my scoring ability, and it will be more helpful to the team in the future.

Hoffenheim made the comeback, but Stuttgart didn't want to give up easily, and they equalised after three minutes. It was still Cacau who scored the goal.

It may seem like a draw is fair for both sides, but it's not, no one wants to accept a draw with a derby opponent, everyone wants to win.

So in the final time of the game, the two sides staged a wonderful offensive battle, and you fought back and forth very fiercely.

It wasn't until the 89th minute that Hoffenheim's substitute Brazilian teenager Wellington scored a completely reversal goal. It was his only league goal of the season, but it was worth a thousand gold!

In the end, Hoffenheim beat Stuttgart 3-2 on their home turf to win the Baden-Württemberg derby and draw 1-1 with their opponents in this season's derby.

And in the overall record of the derby, they have the advantage with two wins, one draw and one loss.

This record looks shabby, and compared with the more than 260 Milan derbys, the 230 Spanish national derbys, and the 386 Scottish "old derby", it is simply not worth mentioning. But isn't any extraordinarily long and culturally rich derby built up from one, two, three? Who can guarantee that a hundred years from now, the Baden-Württem-Würty-Württem derby will not turn into one of the biggest derbies in world football?

※※※ There is nothing more wonderful than ending the season with a victory over an opponent in a derby.

After the game, the Hoffenheim players pulled out banners to thank the home fans for their support over the past season, and hoped that everyone would continue to look forward to and support them next season.

As the representative of the team, Chu Zhongtian held the microphone and promised all the home team fans present: "Next season, we will never stop at the quarterfinals of the Champions League!" We'll do our best to move forward! The farther you go, the better! ”

The audience resounded with thunderous applause in response to his promise.

"Thank you! See you next season! ”

Chu Zhongtian led the team to wave to the fans to thank them.

This is the end of the season.

In the 2009-2010 season, Hoffenheim finished second in the league and failed to defend their title. However, they made a historic breakthrough in the Champions League, reaching the knockout stages of their first Champions League appearance, including home wins over Manchester United and Inter Milan, two top giants, which made countless people talk about it.

Although they have not won a single title this season, no one has complained, and everyone thinks that Hoffenheim have given them wonderful enjoyment this season.

Next season, the young team will continue to make great strides ahead.

How far they will be able to go, no one knows.

But one thing is for sure, when they appear in the Champions League next season, there will be no one who doesn't know where Hoffenheim is, and no one who takes them lightly. They fulfilled the promise they made at the end of the last race.

Last season, they spent one season letting the whole of Germany know where Hoffenheim was. This season, they showed the whole of Europe where Hoffenheim was!

The 2009-2010 Bundesliga season came to an end, and Bayern Munich won the league title. Hoffenheim finished second, with Schalke 04 barely holding on to third. These three teams qualified for next season's Champions League, of which Schalke 04 participated in the Champions League qualification, and Bayern Munich and Hoffenheim participated directly in the main competition. Werder Bremen and Bayer Leverkusen finished fourth and fifth in the league and could play in next season's Europa League. Since Dortmund lost 3:1 to Chu Zhongtian at home, they have been slumped, winless in a row, losing the top five in the league, only finishing sixth in the league, and missing any European competition.

Hertha Berlin and Bochum were relegated directly to the second division, while Nuremberg had to play in the relegation play-offs.

In terms of individual honours, although Wolfsburg did not win any honors this season, their Bosnian and Herzegovina goalscorer Dzeko won the "small steel cannon" of the top scorer in the Bundesliga with 23 goals. Hoffenheim's top scorer Ibisevic is tied for fifth with Bremen's Pizarro and Bayern Munich's Arjen Robben with sixteen goals. Chu Zhongtian won the league assist title with 16 assists, while Mesut Ozil and Misimovic tied for second with 13 assists.

(To be continued)