Chapter 207 Some embarrassed Bayern
After conceding the ball, Bayern Munich launched a fierce attack on Hoffenheim's goal. They could sweep the giant teams throughout Europe, reverse again and again, and eventually reach the Champions League final. But for some reason, when they faced Hoffenheim, they just felt very painful.
Is it really a fate that is incompatible?
Hoffenheim's defense line is much better than before, which may be related to Enyema's rapid integration into the team and always directing the team loudly during the game.
This goalkeeper has a leadership temperament, and perhaps the outstanding performance in the three World Cup group stages gave him confidence. After joining Hoffenheim, he had no adaptation period at all and showed his strength on the goal line.
Ribery's injury was not yet perfect, so he rushed desperately on the court, creating opportunities for his teammates, and sometimes he would just kick and shoot by himself.
But his and his teammates' shots were all resolved by Nyema and other Hoffenheim players one by one.
However, Hoffenheim's fast attack made them feel uncomfortable and they were a little overwhelmed.
Chu Zhongtian, who scored the goal, was more active. He could always pass the football to places that made Bayern players feel uncomfortable - some places they didn't expect, but Chu Zhongtian could always pass the football there, and then Hoffenheim players could also intervene in time.
These are obviously all the results of Hoffenheim's drills during the pre-season training camp.
Bayern Munich players have a headache, but the commentator is very excited.
"We saw the Inter Milan playing again and couldn't find Hoffenheim in North!"
"Chu's improvisation is really pleasing to the eye! He and his teammates cooperate with each passing, and every pass is a cheerful master-level performance!"
"Look at his pass... his back to the direction of the pass, how did he know there would be a gap there?"
"When it was very difficult, Chu Yiran sent a wonderful pass! His pass was so accurate that it was centimeters!"
In addition to passing, Chu Zhongtian's shot also made his opponent frightened.
Since transferring to Hoffenheim, Rangnick has consciously asked him to shoot more goals in the game. Therefore, Chu Zhongtian practices himself with extra shots every day in daily training to remind him of his shooting ability, so that he will not find that the football he shot out is outrageous when he wants to shoot in the game.
After two seasons of continuous practice, Chu Zhongtian is no longer the rookie who made a goal in Wimbledon when he was not high and he was biased. He would be used to bet on a nude runner when he made a goal statement.
Long shots have become his main method of scoring. After years of hard practice, his long shots have stable quality, small arcs, flat lines, but strong and fast, and look amazing. Therefore, he was nicknamed "Greater Chinese Cannon" by the German media.
In addition to long-range shooting, he was asked to actively participate in the offense, so he often appears in the penalty area, so he can get a lot of scoring opportunities directly facing the goal.
A midfielder who can pass the ball and score his own goal is a nightmare for all defenders because you don't know what action he will take. If you choose to find a good defensive position and don't come out, then he can threaten the goal from a long shot. If you save it to stop him from shooting, the gap left just allows him to send a deadly pass.
In addition to being able to pass and shoot, Chu Zhongtian's ball control skills under his feet were always ignored before, but he didn't think about how poor his skills were as a player who had been in Ligue 1 for four seasons and was trained by Zidane's mentor Fernandez? Look at his relaxed and easy turn around and break through under the siege of two Manchester United. This is the crystallization of his skills in Ligue 1.
Although he doesn't like to drive the ball by one person, it doesn't mean he can't do it. In games, he often attacks from the backcourt, trains several defensive players on the opponent, and then passes or shoots. His dribbling movements are very simple and basic, but it is this simplest basic movement, combined with his speed and body, as well as his extraordinary consciousness, the effect is unexpectedly good.
It is just a simple change of direction, with emergency stops and acceleration, and can always get rid of the pursuers and break out of the siege from the siege.
He became more versatile and terrifying.
Many people firmly believe this: a little Bundesliga can no longer tolerate him. If he were not in Hoffenheim, but in a top giant team like Real Madrid and Manchester United, he would have long been a strong contender for World Footballer - of course, he was a strong contender for World Footballer in non-World Cup competition... The Chinese team dragged him down.
※※※Let us turn our attention to the game itself.
After Hoffenheim players get the ball, they will hand over the football to Chu Zhongtian because he is the core. He is responsible for allocating the next direction of the ball, he is responsible for organizing the offense, he is responsible for dispatching the entire team, and he is responsible for controlling the rhythm.
His opponents also know this, but what if they know this? You still can't defend against him.
Weiss passed the football to Chu Zhongtian and ran forward. Seeing that the two of them were going to have two or one. Bayern Munich's left-back diego_contento quickly followed Weiss back, and at the same time, Lanic came up to grab Chu Zhongtian's ball.
Bayern Munich players all know this. No matter how others run, as long as football is at Chu Zhongtian's feet, the first priority is always to grab Chu Zhongtian, rather than occupying a defensive position.
Pranic went up to grab Chu Zhongtian. Chu Zhongtian did not get into trouble with him, nor did he pass the ball to Weiss and beat him one by one. Instead, he knocked the ball back with his heel and gave the full-back Baker who was following behind him. Because Pranic was defending Chu Zhongtian and Contento was pulled away by Weiss, there was no obstacle at all when Baker dribbled the ball forward. He easily passed the midfield and advanced towards the hinterland of Bayern Munich's penalty area!
Seeing that Baker was at the most threat, both Pranic and Contento turned to Baker.
Of course, Chu Zhongtian could not be idle. Schweiingsteiger ran up and closely followed his movements next to Chu Zhongtian.
Facing the defense of the two opponents, Baker did not pass the football to Chu Zhongtian, but passed it directly to Weiss in front.
Since the full-back was pulled out, the central defender naturally had to make up for the position.
So Badstuber made up for the wing, and the defense in the middle was slightly weak.
Weiss also knew this. He did not continue to dribble the ball, but directly passed the football to the middle while running!
Obasi, who followed up in the middle, jumped high, beat Demikalis and headed the ball!
This time, Craft made a wonderful save and held the ball out of the crossbar with one hand!
"Oh! It's so dangerous! Hoffenheim almost expanded the score again! It took more than 20 minutes in the first half, and Bayern Munich still couldn't find a good way to equalize the score. Instead, their defense line was constantly harassed by Hoffenheim."
"The German internationals who performed well in the World Cup have not yet come back from the holidays, and most of them have performed in this game that are not satisfactory. Thomas Muller and Klose work hard, but they lack support from the midfield. What about Ribery? He is in trouble..."
Ribery's trouble is Chu Zhongtian.
During the offense, Chu Zhongtian was responsible for organizing the team's offensive. In the defense, he restricted Ribery tightly.
Since the team had Sana, a genuine midfielder, Chu Zhongtian was freed from his work of defending the middle lane. He was replaced by Sana, and he was much more flexible and swam around the entire midfield and backcourt, giving full play to his characteristics of good physical fitness, strong running ability, outstanding consciousness, and accurate position selection. He rushed wherever he needed it and rescued many times, ensuring the safety of the team's defense line.
Ribery was quite active at the beginning. Since Chu Zhongtian set his sights on him, his good days have come to an end.
Chu Zhongtian did not follow Ribery in an endless manner, so that Bayern players would not pass the ball, and the opponent was not a fool.
He just looked at Ribery from a distance, and when Ribery raised his hand to ask for the ball and his opponent passed the ball over, he rushed forward to defend.
Unless Ribery reacts quickly and can poke the ball out first and put himself in a state of movement, once he stops, he will fall into the quagmire created by Chu Zhongtian. Chu Zhongtian's one-on-one defense ability is very strong, and Ribery knew about this when he was at Metz.
So he had to try his best not to stop the football. For this reason, he felt that he was really tired and desperate. Few played a game like this.
The last time I felt that this was not in the World Cup, but the warm-up match with the Chinese team before the World Cup. At that time, Chu Zhongtian did not participate in the game because he was going to get married. But even so, a Chinese team without Chu Zhongtian still made Ribery, Henry, Evra and other big-name stars feel very painful. In the end, they lost to the Chinese team 0:1, and Chu Zhongtian's roommate Deng Zhuoxiang scored a very exciting direct free kick.
The moment that made the French team feel painful began with the goal. In the following time, they tried their best and could not break through the Chinese team's goal. Every Chinese player was very desperate. It was just an ordinary warm-up match, but they seemed to have some beliefs to support them. They fought until they had cramps and couldn't let the French team score.
This is not a warm-up match, but in the end it completely evolved into a real game, and the intensity is no less than the knockout round of the World Cup.
In fact, this is true. Many games in the World Cup were not as fierce and of this warm-up match... Later, after the French team's World Cup journey ended, Ribery was thinking that if Chu Zhongtian had participated in the game at that time, such a French team would probably not have lost only one goal... Maybe that would be better, and more contradictions could be exposed before the World Cup, so as not to be embarrassed when everyone was on the World Cup.
Now Ribery has to find a way to deal with this increasingly powerful "old friend".
His teammates passed the football over, and he could usually wait for the ball on the spot, but facing Chu Zhongtian's defense, he had to come forward to catch the ball, because what he waited for was the football destroyed or intercepted by Chu Zhongtian. Although Chu Zhongtian's defense could not be cut off the ball every time, he forced Ribery, who was injured but failed to heal, kept trying his best to sprint and could not relax for a moment. This made him even more tired.
Ribery accelerated and ran towards the football, and Chu Zhongtian's goal was the same as him. Ribery grabbed the initiative with his outstanding speed. He gently knocked the football forward with his left foot outside his instep, and then bypassed Chu Zhongtian to chase the ball. This series of sudden stops and changes and re-starts were burdened with a lot of burden on his body.
But in order to win, he still gritted his teeth and persevered.
Ribery's extraordinary person won him the applause and cheers from Bayern fans in the stands, and also made the commentator cheer.
But he knew it was not that simple. If he could get rid of Chu Zhongtian so easily, then the kid would not have let him use all his strength to deal with it.
After he bypassed Chu Zhongtian, he tried his best to speed up, trying to get rid of the pursuers behind him.
His idea was correct. Chu Zhongtian turned around almost at the same time as him and chased the football. He is only half a position behind Ribery now. Ribery wants to drive the ball, and he runs without a ball, and he can always catch up with speed.
In addition, defense is not purely a battle for speed!
Chu Zhongtian seized the opportunity, reached out and pulled Ribery's shoulder, then let go with a little force. It seemed useless, but Ribery knew that the speed he had just been about to soar was broken by that boy Chu Zhongtian. He pulled himself back at the most critical point, just like an emergency braking, and the more power it took to accelerate was impossible for Ribery.
At the same time, this slight slowdown was enough to catch up with Chu Zhongtian.
Seeing that the bottom line was right in front of me, it was impossible to break into the penalty area, Ribery planned to cross it.
He used his right foot to support him, swung his left foot to make the move before the cross.
At the same time, Chu Zhongtian also fell to the ground and tackled. He took advantage of Ribery's left foot, only his right foot was used as support, lacking enough protection for the football, and decisively tackledly!
He scored the football before Ribery, and he raised the sideline. Then he swept Ribery's support foot, and at the same time, Ribery's left foot also pulled down, just mentioning Chu Zhongtian's tackle on the oncoming bone of his right leg.
Ribery felt that he was like mentioning an iron plate, and then he was shoveled out of the bottom line by Chu Zhongtian.
The referee's whistle sounded. He did not give Bayern Munich an out-of-bounds ball, but he saw that he was fouling Chu Zhongtian!
Chu Zhongtian was very surprised. He jumped up from the ground, shook his hand constantly, and appealed to the referee in German: "How can this be a foul? I shoveled the ball first! I shoveled the ball first!"
No matter how he explained, the referee just didn't listen. In his opinion, although Chu Zhongtian tackled the ball, his movements were dangerous and caused damage to the opponent's players - otherwise why would Ribery roll on the ground with such pain while covering her feet?
Seeing that the complaint was invalid, Chu Zhongtian turned around to see Ribery's situation. He was lying on the ground with his feet covering his feet.
Chu Zhongtian walked up and patted Ribery on the shoulder: "Hey, Frank. Stop pretending, I didn't kick you."
"Damn!" Ribery grinned in pain. Hearing Chu Zhongtian say this, he shouted. "You didn't kick me, otherwise I should have ended up directly! Is your leg guard plate made of steel plates?"
Chu Zhongtian knew where he had kicked, so he laughed and stretched out his hand to Ribery, "Okay, man. You kicked me by yourself, don't blame me."
"I don't care! The referee awarded a free kick to us, and that's what you foul!" Ribery took Chu Zhongtian's hand and pulled it up. He moved his toes and didn't feel anything unusual. Although he felt it hurt when he kicked it, it was just a flaw, and it didn't hurt his muscles, which made him feel much more relieved.
The average person has only a thin layer of skin outside the oncoming bone of the calves. Although it is easy to bruise or even fracture when knocked there. However, Chu Zhongtian is full of muscles, and the front of the oncoming bone of the calves is tightly wrapped by a layer of strong muscles, which plays a role in protecting the bones. For Chu Zhongtian, the impact does not bring him any feeling. But for an unlucky guy like Ribery, it is too hard... After pulling Ribery up, Chu Zhongtian shrugged helplessly to the referee, then retreated to the front of the goal to defend this free kick that was almost a corner kick.
Demikelis, Badstuber and other high-ranking people squeezed into Hoffenheim's penalty area, but in the end the football allowed Chu Zhongtian to push it out. He was not tall, only 1.83 meters tall, but he jumped higher than anyone else. It was no reason to judge the landing point of the football.
"The offense and defense are so outstanding, this is Chu!"
※※※The whole first half was like before. Bayern Munich tried hard to equalize the score, but they had to be wary of Hoffenheim's quick attacks first.
The game was in a deadlock and remained until the end of the first half.
Hoffenheim entered the halftime break with a 1-0 lead.
"The first half is over! Hoffenheim leads the score, and they are not at all lost to Bayern Munich in the field! It's really unexpected that Bayern Munich, the double champion who reached the Champions League final last season, actually had no choice but to win Hoffenheim!"
"In this first half, Chu is a brilliant superstar! He alone gave Bayern Munich a headache!"
"Bayern Munich will definitely counterattack in the second half, but what countermeasures will Hoffenheim have? It's worth looking forward to!"
In the locker room, Van Gaal was scolding his men to the point of being terrified.
"Look at your performance in the first half! Always remember that you were the double champions of German football last season, you were the team that reached the Champions League final! You can't be bullied by a country bumpkin team like this!"
From the first day he came to the Bundesliga, Van Gaal was unhappy with this team that had been popular. He couldn't tell where this discomfort came from, but just like he hated Rivaldo, he hated this team and also hated Chu Zhongtian, the core of this team.
So although Beckenbauer once criticized Bayern Munich's midfield organization for being in chaos, he also hinted that the team could buy Hoffenheim's Chu Zhongtian. Van Gaal just turned a deaf ear.
Although the team won the double championship of the Bundesliga and Cup last season, this did not make Van Gaal feel happy and relaxed. He always believed that Bayern should regard the Bundesliga as the back garden. But now it seems that the back garden is not safe at all and may catch fire at any time. The reason is Hoffenheim!
For some reason, this team gave him a strong sense of crisis, which made him unable to wait to get rid of them.
Chapter completed!