Volume 2 Miracle of Huo Village Chapter 157 Strong Dragon (1)
To the southwest of Dortmund, about 5 kilometres west of the train station, the famous Westphalian Stadium is unremarkable. It's just four pillars of the same color as the Dortmund jersey, suggesting that this is Dortmund's home stadium. But as soon as you step onto the pitch, a sea of shouts roars down from the top of the stands like a waterfall, making it immediately clear to those who are playing and watching the games that they have arrived at the most terrifying stadium in Europe, Westphalia.
Compared to other courses, Westphalia's stands are steeply angled, with stands on all sides forming a valley shape around the course, creating a good reverberation effect. There is no distance between the fans and the stadium. The front row of seats, less than 5 metres from the touchline, is almost as close as you reach out to the warm-up players, and the boos and scolding of the home team's fans are clearly audible. Playing in such an environment, it is difficult to play their technical level normally without good mental quality, so the Dortmund players dare to say that Hoffenheim may be scared here.
At this moment, the game between Hoffenheim and Dortmund has been played for half an hour, and the shouts and boos of the 80,000 fans at the Westphalen Stadium have not stopped for a moment. This embarrassed the chairman of Dortmund, who was watching the game in the box, because he was sitting next to Hope. Hope has worked hard for so many years and has experienced any scene, but he still can't stand the insults of more than 80,000 people at the scene, he tried his best to hold back the displeasure in his heart and talked about some trivial matters with the chairman of Dortmund, and in his heart he very much hoped that the players on the field could fight for him, score a goal for Dortmund, and shut up these ignorant fans.
The boos of more than 80,000 fans did not make Hoffenheim's players feel scared and frightened, as if they didn't hear anything, playing the game in the way they are best at, high-speed and large-scale pressing, fast passing and running after taking the ball, whether it is in the front field or in the backfield, except for goalkeeper Haas, everyone is actively running, from the situation on the field, Hoffenheim is not lagging behind, but Dortmund is a little unbearable, although their players are fighting at home, But they are all older, and their running ability is much worse than Hoffenheim, and they have never seen such a team that can run, just like track and field athletes, they are desperately chasing the ball that has no hope, as if their physical strength will never be exhausted. Under Hoffenheim's running and pressing, Dortmund's passing quality has dropped a lot, and mistakes have begun to increase, there is no way, they are now playing at a much faster pace than they did last season, too fast, and the error rate will inevitably increase.
Dortmund's head coach Dole was surprised that Hoffenheim's players' psychological quality would be so good, a small promoted horse, in the away from home more than 80,000 fans booed indifferent, the attack and defense are very orderly, and not because of the fast chaos. He said to the assistant coach next to him: "This Hoffenheim team is very strange, I have never seen such a promoted horse, not to mention that they can run so much, they have always been able to run, but they are not afraid of our hell at all, this psychological endurance is really good." The level of Rangnick's tuning is really good. “
The assistant coach said: "Now it looks like it's not going to be easy for us to win them. ”
Dole said calmly: "Not necessarily, don't look at their good runs, but their backline is inexperienced, Frei and Klimovic will have a chance to break their goal." ”
Rangnick smiled at the look of surprise on his opponent's face, he knew a lot about the home field here when he led Stuttgart and Schalke 04, and he knew that Hoffenheim was a promoted horse in the 5,500-strong Dieterma. Hope Stadium is used to playing football, and when he comes to a stadium here, it must be uncomfortable to hear such boos and harmonies, so he asked Marco to customize some earplugs, two for each player, and stuff them in his ears during the game, so no matter how much the Dortmund fans shout, it can't affect the players.
Not all Hoffenheim players wear earplugs, Li Huan did not wear them, Weiss did not wear them, Li Huan's psychological quality is very strong, after experiencing life and death, there is rarely anything that can affect his mood anymore, and Weiss, this kid is stubborn, the more the opponent's fans humiliate him, the more he boos him, the harder he is to fight the opponent, the more the two of them cooperate on the right side is also more and more tacit, when Li Huan assists, he is responsible for filling the position and intercepting in the midfield, eliminating Li Huan's worries, and when Li Huan defends, he retracts to assist in defense, Waiting for the opportunity to steal, Dortmund's attack on the right side basically did not take advantage of the two people, and their defense was repeatedly broken through by Li Huan and Weiss, it turned out that Dede also relied on his young speed to step forward to assist, and then was beaten by Li Huan and twice in a row, and he didn't dare to step forward again.
Dortmund's two wings, Dede's assists were suppressed, only Degen's side remained, the 29-year-old Degen's peak has come to an end, his assists are no longer as sharp as they used to be, and Salihovic in order to take care of his new teammate Ibetsberg, he attaches great importance to defense, Degen did not make any cheap on the right side, and maintained a tie. ,
Gustavo in the middle performed very well, continuing the good form against Augsburg in the second half of the German Cup, Petritsch in the opponent's camp was stared at by him, and he couldn't find room to play, and then Suo avoided Gustavo a little.
Hoffenheim, who performed so well in the Bundesliga for the first time, won the praise of the Dortmund commentators, "This should be the most powerful promotion horse we have seen, they were able to draw with Dortmund at the Westphalen Stadium, and it seems that they have a slight advantage, it is incredible, Rangnick's tuning ability is really amazing, their full-court pressing, fast forward style of play is also full of aggression, the Bundesliga has never seen such a style of play, Last season they won 22 games in a row and went 31 unbeaten in this way, and now they are moving to the Bundesliga. Whether we can achieve the same effect as the German Second Division, we need to observe further. ”
Thirty minutes later, Li Huan saw Dortmund's weakness, this Dortmund, the back line is old, the midfield is rusty, the forward line is still a bit of the Bundesliga style, Hoffenheim's strength is a little worse than them, but Hoffenheim is young, Hoffenheim's average age is less than 24 years old, their super running ability can be called the first in the Bundesliga, as long as Hoffenheim works hard, it is not impossible to retreat from Westphalia Stadium.
Li Huan had the idea of winning, and his pressing and attacking on the side were intentionally strengthened. With 33 minutes played, Hoffenheim launched their most dangerous attack since the start from the right. This attack was launched from a steal, Li Huan met the opponent's tall Argentine striker Klimovic on the side, Klimovic did not find a chance to shoot in the middle, although the opponent's defender was not as tall as him, but these young people were like wolves, running desperately, compressing the space almost nothing, Klimovic had no chance to get the ball at all, so he ran to the side to break through, hoping that changing opponents could have a good effect. However, upon moving to the wing, Klimovic found his opponent stronger and he had no chance of breaking through.
Li Huan is not afraid to deal with a striker like Klimovich who is more than 1.9 meters tall, Li Huan followed directly when Klimovic got the ball, he was not afraid at all, and he was not worried that Klimovich would pass him, Li Huan believed in his defensive ability.
Klimovich understood Li Huan's speed and flexibility, he didn't dare to use feints or change direction, so he directly used his strong body to lean on Li Huan, wanting to forcibly turn around and rush into the penalty area. Li Huan was leaned on by Klimovich, and his body was like a mountain, but he was not in a hurry, and he held on hard, preventing Klimovich from turning around easily. When Klimovich suddenly threw his big butt backwards and forcibly turned around, Li Huan's body suddenly withdrew, and he fell to the ground and tackled the ball from Klimovich's feet. Klimovich tripped and stumbled under his feet, at this time Li Huan had already climbed up as fast as he could, chased two steps to get the ball, and then quickly inserted it along the side.
Li Huan's speed with the ball is extremely fast, Klimovich has just turned around, Li Huan has already run out of five or six meters with the ball, Granule Movic's ability to use his body is very strong, and he can rely on the opponent's defender to turn around, but compared to speed, he is too bad, it is impossible to counter-rob, he does not have the ability to counter-rob, only to watch Li Huan leave.
Blaszczykowski in the middle came over quickly to intercept, the Pole's speed and technique are good, but his defensive ability is really average, he flew too long is a sliding tackle, which is a very irresponsible defensive method, the sliding tackle arrived, that is, the interception was successful, but if this sliding tackle was not intercepted, basically their fullbacks would face the opponent's right midfielder and right back. However, Blaszczykowski is an attacking midfielder, and it is already good to be able to defend like that. But he still didn't stop it, Li Huan's speed exceeded his judgment, his interception passed, and Li Huan's people and balls also passed.
(To be continued)