Volume 2 The Miracle of Huo Village Chapter 294 Victory or defeat is a thought
The arrogant Hoffenheim came to the Bayer Stadium with two blows, and less than three minutes into the game, Bayer Leverkusen striker Keessling found the back of the net with a long-range shot, and before Hoffenheim could react, Hadji bounced home the post with a long-range shot three minutes later.
Within six minutes, Hoffenheim had not yet completed a single attack before their opponents scored two brilliant long-range shots. The Hoffenheim fans who came to the scene to help were stunned by the two goals. I can hardly believe my eyes, but Hoffenheim has had the miracle of coming back from three goals behind, and the Hoffenheim fans are anxious but not desperate, and they are still cheering for their team in the hope that they can create a miracle again.
But today's god surname Leverkusen, Hoffenheim's continuous onslaught failed, and Leverkusen, who got a fantastic start, scored again, this time it was Leverkusen's central defender Friedrich, Leverkusen played extremely bold and confident in this game, and the central defender Friedricht rushed to the front to assist, this time Friedrich's still relied on long-range shots. His long-range shot was like a cannonball, and it went straight into the net. Rewrote the score to 3:0.
At this time, the game had only been played for 15 minutes, and the Hoffenheim players and fans were dumbfounded, no one could have imagined that they would come to Bayer Stadium with the confidence of victory, and actually suffered such an ending. Duan Xuan, the commentator of the imperial court station, couldn't help but chant that all the players in Leverkusen were sharpshooters.
Worse than 3-0, Bayern scored on their home turf, with Toney's header giving Bayern a 1-0 lead over Hertha Berlin at their home stadium, and if Hoffenheim lose, the four-point lead would be wiped out.
In such a desperate situation, Hoffenheim's players finally woke up from a dream, they launched a tidal wave of attack on Leverkusen's defense, less than three minutes after Leverkusen scored the third goal, Li Huan sounded the attack horn for Hoffenheim with a long shot, a minute later, Li Huan's free kick made a contribution, the score was 3:1, ten minutes later, Li Huan tore Leverkusen's defense on the side, and then sent a nanny-like pass, Ibisevic's header in front of the goal broke through Leverkusen's door twice. The score was 3:2.
By the 32 minutes of the first half, the two teams had already scored five goals, and the pace of the attack was so fast that the fans in attendance were dazzled.
Seeing that Hoffenheim's morale was boosted, the score was chased to only one goal, but at this time bad luck came again, the central defender Compaq who performed abnormally in this game committed a handball foul in his own penalty area, was sentenced to death by the referee, and was given a yellow card by him, Comber saw that the good situation was wiped out because of his handball, and the mistakes of the front and back lines made the team passive, he became extremely emotionally unstable, regardless of the pull of his teammates, he stepped forward and the referee theory, and also swore words, The referee, Kempt Kamp, a young man, feared that his authority would not be able to suppress the Bundesliga stars, so he immediately pulled out another yellow card and ejected Compaq from the pitch.
Kiessling then converted the penalty and Bayer Leverkusen stretched the score to two goals again.
The penalty and the dismissal of Compaq had a huge impact on Hoffenheim's morale and morale, and their fear of last season's unbeaten run being shattered by their opponents and their eagerness to complete a comeback made them extremely uncool on the edge of the penalty area, and several chances were missed.
In the second half, Hoffenheim replaced Saviola with central defender Nelson and replaced Sarihovic with Arshavin, hoping to use Arshavin's breakthrough to create more free kicks, but Bayer Leverkusen played boldly and carefully in this game, and the back line did not give Hoffenheim many chances.
In the 80th minute, Li Huan scored another goal from a long shot in the corner of the penalty area to make the score 4:3, but the super defender could not save Hoffenheim's life today, and three minutes later, Bayer Leverkusen's Bannetta stabbed the goal in the penalty area to seal the win for Leverkusen. In the end, Hoffenheim lost 3-5 away from home, ending their unbeaten run of a season and a half.
In the third round, the Bundesliga powers showed a strong and stable side except for Bremen, Schalke 04, Hamburg, Bayern, and Dortmund all won, Bayern won 4-1 and recovered strongly, Hamburg and Hoffenheim were two goals behind at the beginning of the away game, but in the end the tough Hamburgers completed a big reversal with 4:2. Schalke 04 won this round and moved to the top of the table with seven points from two wins and one draw, with Hoffenheim still in second place.
After the game, the Bundesliga powers, who had been suppressed by Hoffenheim for a long time, couldn't wait to jump out and say bad things about Hoffenheim, and Bayer Leverkusen's coach Labadia said: "There is no undefeated team in the world, Hoffenheim's defeat is actually normal, I am proud of my team, because they broke Hoffenheim's unbeaten golden body." Bayern manager Hoeness said that Hoffenheim finally showed its original form, and when all the teams were familiar with Hoffenheim, they lost all the secrets they had as dark horses, and just like Bayern, they had to be studied by their opponents all the time.
The German media also strongly accused Hoffenheim of slacking off before the game, and "Kicker" gave Li Huan a rare 2 points after the game, knowing that in the three seasons that Li Huan landed in the Bundesliga, he scored 2 points and added up to less than four times. "Kicker" believes that Hoffenheim is not in good shape in this game, luck is not a reason for failure, and just after playing Manchester United, it cannot be said that the players have no physical strength, everyone knows that Hoffenheim's physical fitness is the best in the Bundesliga. "Kicker" pointed out sharply that Hoffenheim lost to themselves, lost to pride and complacency, thinking that they can sweep Manchester United to dominate Europe, in fact, the difference between the top teams in Europe is very small, no hard work, even a relegation player can beat the European champion.
"Bild" also believes that Hoffenheim has gone too well in the last two years, they have won almost all the honors, for these young teams in their twenties, they need to fail to clear their heads, the Champions League is about to start, this defeat is not necessarily a bad thing, the Bundesliga still has a long time, it is too early to say that the championship belongs, Hoffenheim as long as they can adjust their form in time, they are still one of the biggest favorites for the Bundesliga title.
The British newspaper The Times was shocked by Hoffenheim's defeat: "Hoffenheim had just beaten Manchester United by five goals in the Super Cup and lost to Bayer Leverkusen by five goals on his return to Germany. "The Times" analyzed the game and believed that this defeat was a combination of luck, form, and Hoffenheim's own reasons, and it was very unbeaten in 65 consecutive games from the Bundesliga to the Bundesliga, and the failure was normal, and the only abnormal thing was that the opponent scored 5 goals.
Hoffenheim's players declined to be interviewed after the game, and only Rangnick said expressionlessly after the game that there were wins and losses in football matches, and there was nothing strange about Hoffenheim losing, and he believed that Hoffenheim would definitely find the winning code again.
After returning to Hoffenheim, Li Huan, as the team's spiritual leader, publicly expressed his thoughts on the defeat, and the Bundesliga first man did not seem to take defeat seriously, "Defeat may be a good thing, there is a Chinese fable that says that if the unbeaten record is broken, we may set other records." ”
Li Huan's confident and arrogant speech made the Hoffenheim fans excited, and of course, it was also caricatured by many teams as pretending to be calm and self-comforting.
In the midst of everyone's doubts and waiting, Hoffenheim ushered in the fourth round of the Baden derby, they faced Stuttgart at home, it was a battle for Hoffenheim to prove themselves, if they lost, Hoffenheim will surely fall into greater doubts, and even bigger problems may arise within the team.
Although Hoffenheim made a deep reflection on the last big loss, many players still think that they are the quadruple champions, and their strength is higher than that of the Bundesliga team, and this psychology can not be changed by a loss.
As a result, Stuttgart scored the first goal in the game, but this time Stuttgart was not as lucky as Leverkusen, and Hoffenheim was much more cautious and calm than the previous loss to Bayer Leverkusen, and finally Hoffenheim won the Baden derby with a 2:1 reversal of Stuttgart after 90 minutes of hard fighting, and nip the likely crisis of confidence in the bud.
After playing these two games, Hoffenheim finally have a calm mind to welcome the first Champions League game in the history of their club, although they have to face the same Champions League rookie Anossos of Cyprus, or at their home turf, but no matter how good the opponent is, it can't change the fact that Hoffenheim is also a rookie, a game between a pair of rookies, everyone wants to make history, this game is also not easy to play.
After Hoffenheim won the Super Cup, Jia Lei was originally going to ask Li Huan to help find Arshavin for an interview, but because the Super Cup was an additional event, it was squeezed out of the schedule, and after the game, he went to Bayer to play Leverkusen, Li Huan said that after playing Leverkusen, he told Leverkusen about the interview, but because of the away defeat to Leverkusen, Li Huan himself was not in the mood to be interviewed, let alone let Arshavin be interviewed by Jia Lei, so it has been delayed. Now that Hoffenheim has won the derby, Li Huan told Arshavin about it, and Arshavin naturally couldn't save Li Huan's face, so he readily agreed.
Li Huan called and told Jia Lei that the matter was done, Jia Lei was very happy to hear it, it was definitely a great achievement to be able to get the interview of this rising star and send it back, but people said that Long Wangshu, this girl rolled her eyes and said: "Li Huan, I heard that Arshavin is very shy, I am afraid it will be difficult to ask any valuable news if I go to interview him alone, can you ask him to your house, or, go to the café, I will do an interview with the two of you, right?" ”
Li Huan was stunned for a moment and said with a smile: "Your appetite is not small, but after the matter is completed, how can you thank me?"
"How can I thank you, you don't need money, and if there are many people who invite you to drink, you have to make an appointment......"
"Then you made a personal promise?" Li Huan and Jia Lei are old friends, and they are not taboo in their words.
"I really promised to be in person, but I'm afraid that you will scare away again." Jia Lei said half-truthfully.
Li Huan smiled and said, "Run?" That must have been a joy to come. ”
The two made a few jokes, Li Huan was in a good mood, agreed to Jia Lei's request, and told Jia Lei to invite Arshavin to her home for dinner after training in the afternoon, to pick up the new teammate, and to accept Jia Lei's interview by the way.
In the evening, Li Huan and Arshavin had just had dinner, and Jia Lei came with a colleague who was proficient in Russian, although Arshavin was interviewed by Jia Lei for the sake of Li Huan's face, but seeing that the interviewer was a very beautiful and temperamental female reporter, Arshavin's mood immediately improved a lot.
After Li Huan introduced the three of them with a smile, the two sides sat down and began tonight's interview.
Jia Lei got straight to the point and said, "Andres, I want to interview you about your transfer to Hoffenheim, is it okay?" Arshavin hesitated for a moment and said, "No problem." Jia Lei said: "I remember after the UEFA Cup final and during the European Championship, there were a lot of transfer rumors about you, including Barcelona, Arsenal, Chelsea and Tottenham, are these rumours true?" Arshavin said with a wry smile: "It's all true, Barcelona contacted me through my friend Selyuko in the Donetsk Shakhtar team, and Barcelona's president Rabulta also called me, and we negotiated the treatment, Barcelona wanted fifteen million to buy me, but the president of our club, Mr. Dukov, insisted on more than 20 million, and finally Barcelona bought Hleb." Tottenham's coach Sergio Ramos also called me personally, and eventually gave up because of the transfer fee. Chelsea and Arsenal were also unsuccessful in negotiations because of the transfer fee. "Then why do many media say that the transfer was not successful because you were too demanding?" Jia Lei asked sharply.
"How is that possible, I don't have a problem with Barcelona and Tottenham in terms of personal requirements. I can say that if I go abroad to play, I make less money than in Russia. Arshavin said angrily.
"Does Zenit FC not want you to move or do they want to get more money from you?" Jia Lei asked.
"The club didn't want me to go at all, they were doing everything they could to stop me. But I was thinking that if I don't transfer now, maybe I'll never be able to leave. Arshavin said helplessly.
"Your transfer this season has been like a soap opera, so why did you choose Hoffenheim in the end?" Jia Lei said.
"I just used the soap opera to watch it, I didn't feel good in it, although I didn't choose Hoffenheim as my next stop at first, but Hoffenheim FC was very sincere to me, and Mr. Hope and Coach Rangnick called me. They also talked about Hoffenheim's ambitions, so I decided to move to Hoffenheim. Arshavin said.
"It's been a week since you came to Hoffenheim, what do you think? Happy? ”
"It's okay, it's just that I don't speak much German, and I'm practicing right now. I'm happy to be able to live here now. ”
"What are your goals for the season?"
"Winning the league and the Champions League and scoring more goals and assists at the same time." There was a hint of excitement in Arshavin's eyes.
At this time, Jia Lei turned her gaze to Li Huan and said, "After winning the derby, is your mood much better?" ”
Li Huan smiled, "Of course." Winning is always a joy to make. ”
"Can you tell me about your 3:5 defeat? I remember it was one of the few fiascos you've ever had. Jia Lei said.
"It's normal to lose that time, we are too careless and proud, and the opponent's luck is so good, but I think it's a good thing for us to lose, to be able to clearly recognize our own strength," he said. "The day after tomorrow in the Champions League against Anocissos, are you ready? Are you confident of beating your opponents? Li Huan smiled slightly and said, "The first time I played in the Champions League, I didn't have any experience." I can't compare the quality of the Champions League opponents, but I think we can win it as long as we play properly. "You and Andres. Did Arshavin match on the pitch? Do you think he will be able to succeed in the Bundesliga? Jia Lei asked.
"Arshavin's individual ability is very outstanding, his success is inevitable, no matter what club he is at, we are not working together well enough, but I believe we will work well together in the future." Li Huan said slowly.
"What are your goals for the three races this season? Is it the same as last season's treble? Jia Lei said.
Li Huan smiled slightly and said: "These are all things that coaches do, my goal is to win as many championships as possible, of course, the Champions Cup is still the most special one, we will strive to achieve better results." ”
Jia Lei smiled and turned to Arshavin and said, "Andres, if you have to choose one for the league championship and the European Champions Cup, which one do you say you choose?" ”
Arshavin scratched his head and said, "This...... It's really hard to choose. I think the Champions League is the most important. ”
Jia Lei asked Li Huan and Arshavin at the same time: "This is the last small question, you two can answer it separately, when will you leave Hoffenheim?" ”
Arshavin said: "It's hard to say, I hope to be able to complete the contract later, of course, I may retire at Hoffenheim, as long as the club wants me." ”
But Li Huan said nonchalantly: "I'm a hedonist, if I'm not happy, I'll leave at any time, but I'm living happily now, so I won't leave here." ”
(To be continued)