The nineties is the world of Serie A, when Serie A was known as the small World Cup, the late nineties to the beginning of the new century is the strong rise of La Liga, and 04 years without a leader, Porto won the championship, and then the Premier League gradually strengthened, and now it has become the strongest and most interesting league in Europe with La Liga. The Bundesliga has been tepid, except for Bayern, who can occasionally show a small hand in the Champions League, other teams are basically playing soy sauce. With Bayern falling to the UEFA Cup, the Bundesliga is in danger of being overtaken by the Eredivisie and Ligue 1.

Everton, who finished sixth in the Premier League last season, have been even stronger this season, and have now squeezed their rivals Liverpool out of the semi-finals, with such a record, manager David Moyes naturally hopes to make a difference in the UEFA Cup, although this game is against Bundesliga leaders Hoffenheim, and it is an away game, but Moyes is not the slightest fear, he still aims to win away from home.

Because the British media does not know Hoffenheim well, some newspapers believe that Hoffenheim can beat Bayern to become the leader, and now it has not been defeated, and its strength should not be underestimated, especially the freak-like defender is invincible, and Everton must be cautious on this trip. Some media disdain the Bundesliga, the boss Bayern can only play the League Cup now, the last round was still out of breath by the Red Star Belgrade led for more than 70 minutes, too good luck to reverse the win, and the defending champion of the Bundesliga is now desperate in the relegation circle, these situations show that the Bundesliga has completely degenerated, Hoffenheim is not worth fearing, as long as Li Huan can be prevented. According to the analysis of the media, the two Hoffenheim and Everton are the kind of teams with super physical fitness, but one focuses on attack, the other is solid at the back, and the outcome is unpredictable.

The news reached Germany, and the German media were very angry that the British media looked down on the Bundesliga leader, although they didn't take Hoffenheim to heart, but they couldn't let the media in other countries despise the Premier League no matter how strong it is, Everton is the second-rate team of the Premier League, and it is so arrogant to come to Germany to challenge the Bundesliga leader to get three points. The German media have made suggestions for Hoffenheim, hoping that Hoffenheim will be able to give Everton a little bit of a good look at it at that time.

Hoffenheim attaches great importance to this, this is the first time they have played against a team from the Premier League, although there was a German gram of the United Kingdom, but in recent years, the Premier League team has been operating in the form of a corporatization, attracting a lot of funds to enter, and many teams have obtained funds for team operation through market-oriented capitalization. A large number of excellent foreign players and foreign coaches have joined, bringing advanced technology and tactical concepts, which have greatly improved the old roughness of Premier League teams. The current Premier League teams have strengthened their technical and tactical level under the old impact, which is very difficult to deal with.

Rangnick, who has always regarded attack as his life, has also stepped up his defensive training, making a number of personnel combinations at the back in the past two days, and once again trying the two-back style of play of Weiss and Gustavo.

On the contrary, Hoffenheim's players are full of confidence, and Bayern has been pulled out by 6 points in 12 rounds, which has given the players great encouragement, not to mention Everton, even Manchester United and Chelsea, they will not be afraid. In Demba Ba's words, "Everton, haven't heard of it, whoever comes, we're going to beat them." ”

The match between Hoffenheim and Everton has attracted strong attention in China, Li Huan's popularity in China is needless to say, Everton also has a high reputation in the hearts of Chinese fans, because there are two Chinese players who have played in Everton, Li Gang and Li Feng, although they have now left Everton, but at that time, Li and Sun Hai caused a big Premier League trend in China, and the large number of Premier League fans in China also has a great relationship with the three of them playing in the Premier League. After the 12th round of the Bundesliga, more than a dozen TV stations, including Imperial Television, decided to broadcast the game, and the major media also bombarded the fans' eyes with carpet news bombs before the game. So much so that a well-known reporter said that a Li Huan saved all the sports stations and football reporters who were destroyed by the Chinese team.

In the early morning of November 9th, the UEFA Cup Group A match officially kicked off, and another battle in Group A held two hours earlier has ended, Zenit St. Petersburg of the Russian Premier League defeated Greece's Larissa 3:2 away, Larissa has been out of the tournament with two games and two losses, Zenit, AZ Alkmaar, and Everton have shown their strong strength, only the Bundesliga promotion horse and leader Hoffenheim have not yet revealed their details, but soon Everton will become their touchstone.

Tao Wei, the Bundesliga commentator of the imperial court, commented on the game between Leverkusen and Sparta Moscow, Duan Xuan's partner in this game was Liu Jianhong, many fans saw that the two commentators made the following moves, seventeen or eighteen-year-old fans immediately changed to Shanghai Sports and Guangdong Sports, twenty-seven or eighteen-year-old fans angrily scolded on the computer, and middle-aged fans said a stupid combination and turned off the sound.

It's no wonder that fans are so annoyed by these two commentators, although Duan Xuan is blind and running the train with his mouth full, he can barely listen to it as entertainment, but Liu Jianhong's tone is flat and hypnous, and he can't pull the edge, and the combination of these two to explain must be a weapon with great lethality.

"This is Hoffenheim's toughest opponent in the UEFA Cup, Everton have been excellent this season, manager David Moyes is known as a little Zhuge and Rooney is the ...... he has bred"

Duan Xuan took Liu Jianhong's words and said: "Chinese players Li Gang and Li Feng were once favored by this young coach, but because they are not suitable for the fierce scramble of the Premier League, Li Gang and Li Feng have now left the Premier League, Li Gang went to Xie United in the English League, Li Feng returned to China, maybe Moyes will be interested in Li Huan after this game." Li Huan is now a popular newcomer in the Bundesliga. ”

Liu Jianhong said: "Moyes has always liked to run a small business, he will not buy a player like Li Huan, Everton can not compete with the giants who are interested in Li Huan now, such as Bayern, Manchester United, Barcelona, Real Madrid, Chelsea are all interested in Li Huan, and it is conservatively estimated that Li Huan is now worth more than 30 million." ”

At this time, there was a cheer from Karl Benz Stadium, and the two teams had already come out of the locker room.

Hoffenheim, who were playing at home, looked confident, and the players waved to the stands as they walked out of the mixed tunnel, and Demba Oba saw the female fans screaming above the tunnel and whistled at them proudly.

The relaxed attitude of the Hoffenheim players made the fans at the scene even more excited, and the applause was wave after wave, the singing resounded throughout the stadium, and the Everton fans who came to watch the away game did not show weakness, and they also used the team song to cheer for their team. The Karl Benz Stadium has almost become a singing field.

The match was refereed by Italian Bettini and with his whistle, the match began.

Hoffenheim was determined to win, the newborn calf was not afraid of tigers, and did not show any fear and conservatism in the face of an unfamiliar team, and pressed aggressively after the opening to give Everton, who had vowed to win away from home before the game.

Everton is still their usual 442 formation, with Carsley, Neville, and Anicheby in the midfield, three very hard defensive players, even the Spaniard Arteta, who is responsible for the organization, has no lack of defensive ability, Moyes has been paying attention to the hardness and thickness of the midfield and backfield since he came to power, and the teams that play against Everton know that this is not a piece of toffee, they are a piece of kraft candy that cannot be chewed and beaten thoroughly.

Hoffenheim's big pressure on Everton, but Everton has become accustomed to being pressed, their midfield players in the backfield are active in the backfield, tough confrontation, and do not reduce the pressing and physical confrontation in the backfield because of Li Huan's free kick, and the handling after getting the ball is also very decisive, all of them are kicked out, and they don't give Hoffenheim the opportunity to counterattack in the front court.

The Bundesliga team's big kick-off is easy to be picked up by Hoffenheim's backfield players to continue the siege, but Everton's big-foot kick-off is like having eyes, almost all of them are driven to their strikers, so that their strikers and Hoffenheim's defenders form a scramble situation, and even pass directly to their own players, this ability to play long passes and punch is the ancestral heritage of the English team, although it is now integrated into the technical style of play, but this kind of thing that penetrates into their blood has not been lost, Now any player in the Premier League has the ability to make accurate long passes, until a few years later, the Premier League's ability to pass long passes gradually declined, so much so that a famous Chinese journalist joked that "ten years ago, any player in the Premier League could hit a cigarette butt 40 meters away, and ten years later they couldn't even hit a wall 40 meters away".

Most of the balls are in the air, and once the ball hits the ground, it's either a goal or a foul.

The match between Hoffenheim and Everton accurately illustrated this comment from the Premier League game ten years ago, when the ball fell to the ground in the tenth minute of the game, Everton striker Yakub was brought down by Hoffenheim's defender Gustavo and defender Jaisler, and Everton won a free-kick in a great position.

Yakubu is only 1.8 meters tall, but weighs 180 pounds, he is like a buffalo in the front, rampage, Everton's long pass to Hoffenheim's backfield, Hoffenheim's back line is about to pull up the alarm, Gustavo and Jaisler, Comber can not carry, standing in the position will be squeezed away by him, it is difficult to prevent him from rushing to the penalty area without fouling. This foul was still two kicks and one pull, and it took down the strong man.

(To be continued)