Last season's League Cup quarterfinals were not easy to bully, and the Bucharest Rapid team launched a strong offensive is also very impressive, and their smooth cooperation in the front court made Hoffenheim's players only use fouls to obstruct, but the Bucharest Rapid team did not have Li Huan's perverted free kick skills, they got a few free kicks in a good position that were either saved by Haas, or they flew away, which made Bergedi sigh again and again, and looked at Li Huan's eyes became very hot, just like a nympho girl saw her beloved handsome man. made Rangnick, who was standing beside him, a little weak in his heart, he was worried that the Italian coach loved and hated to let his players shovel Li Huan fiercely, this kind of thing, the Italian coach did it.

As the game became more and more open, the left full-back of the Bucharest Rapid team Pozovic finally cupped, Li Huan broke through his defense and walked in from the bottom line, Pozovic finally lost control of his emotions, he pushed Li Huan who cut in from outside the bottom line to the billboard, referee Marek showed him the second yellow card of the game, sent him off the field, and Pozovic was also unable to participate in the next game at home.

The dismissal of Pozovic calmed down the hot-headed coach and players of Rapid Bucharest, they recognized the reality, stopped attacking aggressively, continued to defend well, and then waited for the opportunity to counterattack, now they can't concede any more goals, and if they concede again, they have no chance of turning the tables back at home.

Li Huan passed a free kick near the bottom line to the middle, Sarihovic volleyed, but the ball hit the post, after this post, Hoffenheim's foot wind suddenly became uncomfortable, 11 to 10, they created a lot of good chances, but either missed, or hit the post, or could not score the third goal.

Rangnick found that his players were a little impatient, so he replaced Obasi with the veteran Copado and replaced Gustavo with Weiss, hoping to use Weiss's interception and running ability to strengthen the defense at the back and let the midfield attack with confidence.

Now even Duan Xuan saw Hoffenheim's frivolous and impatient mood, and said: "Hoffenheim was too relaxed after leading 2:0 and having one more person, thinking that he would be able to score soon, but he didn't see that the Bucharest Rapid team had recovered at the moment, their shots were a little impatient, and when the foot wind was not smooth, they should actually cooperate more, let the foot wind be smooth, and the lucky player hit the goal, such as Li Huan, he should shoot more, don't reduce his number of shots because the German media said that he grabbed the shooting opportunity of his teammates." ”

Hoffenheim's inability to score has cast a shadow over the hearts of the fans, and fans who have watched the game for more than five years know that there are many amazing things on the football field, such as when you miss a chance to score, and immediately the opponent will punish you with a goal. If you don't score, you're likely to be scored. A lot of fans even wanted the game to end quickly, and 2-0 was a good scoreline, after all, it didn't allow the opponent to score a single away goal.

Then the fears of Hoffenheim fans quickly became a reality, the game went on for 90 minutes, the Bucharest Rapid team, which had been holding back after one less person, finally seized an opportunity to counterattack, and was cut off by Mardarasanu when he broke through with the ball in the middle, Mardarasanu made a long pass over the top of forty meters, and Beducha, who came on as a substitute, headed the ball behind Compaq under the defense of Jaisler, and another striker, Sersenha, followed up quickly, stopped the ball with his chest, and when Weiss rebounded, He smashed the ball and shook Weiss, who pounced too fiercely, and then hung the goal, Haas hit halfway, standing relatively forward, when Se Xinha's hanging shot, Haas jumped up and didn't hit it with his hand, the ball flew over his head, fluttering into the net, even if Li Huan ran fast, he didn't intercept the ball before it went into the net. Instead, it flew into the net with the ball.

At 1:2, Rapid Bucharest pulled a goal back from an extremely disadvantaged situation, and this significant away goal made coach Bergedi run into the field excitedly to hug his players.

The more than 20,000 fans at home were silent, and no one could have imagined that the two forwards of Rapid Bucharest would play with their three defenders and score a beautiful lob shot. This is an away goal, in the two-legged knockout round, one away goal is equivalent to two goals, and now Hoffenheim is still leading 2-1, but if the battle ends with such a scoreline, it will be a draw at best. 2:1 can only be equivalent to a draw. It's not even as good as 1:0.

The on-site commentator said angrily: "It's really undeserved, two central defenders, a midfielder, was actually played by the opponent's two forwards, in the case of an absolute advantage of 11 to 10, let the opponent get a valuable away goal, it is really a tragedy, if Hoffenheim can not score another goal in the remaining minutes, the trip to Romania will become extremely difficult, the next game will be played at the opponent's home stadium, and there is no numerical advantage, Hoffenheim can get a draw?" ”

Duan Xuan said: "It's 2:0, Hoffenheim should defend and counterattack, and shouldn't attack so fiercely." “

Tao Wei said: "Hoffenheim's style of attacking football suffers a lot in the knockout round. “

Rangnick didn't think so, he waved his big hand expressionlessly, ordering the players to continue attacking, he had nothing to be angry about the goal conceded by the backline, Hoffenheim's back line has never been stable, almost every game has conceded goals, he regrets and disappoints that so many good chances in front of him have not scored. Don't mention other good opportunities, as long as those two goalposts are scored, now 4:1 is definitely stronger than 2:0, but now ......, he can only let the players continue to attack.

With only five minutes of stoppage time to play, Hoffenheim couldn't afford to open the scoring against an Italianate Romanian side, and in the last minute, Demba Ba's header was deflected wide and referee Marek's whistle blew for the end of the game. Hoffenheim managed a narrow 2-1 win with a dominant advantage, leaving the suspense of promotion until the match in Bucharest on 4 October.

The commentator at the scene said with regret: "Hoffenheim's first European game ended 2:1, Hoffenheim could have played more beautifully, but luck was not on their side, but for the first time in European competition, such a result is commendable." The opponents were last season's UEFA Cup quarter-finalists, and beating them was a surprise to many European media. The game only ended the first half, with a 2-1 scoreline amounting to a draw, and it will be hoped that Hoffenheim will be able to progress to the group stage away from home in two weeks' time. Judging from this game, Hoffenheim can go further in the UEFA Cup. ”

(To be continued)