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Chapter 316 Rhine Neckar's Cheers

"yeah!"

While the Hoffenheim fans in the stands were cheering, the Chinese reporters filming on the field also gave each other high fives, and the Hoffenheim fans in the stands looked sideways—how could these Chinese reporters be so happy?Are they also fans of Hoffenheim?

"See, Long Bisheng's assist!" A reporter said happily.

"Now I have something to write about." Another reporter was equally happy.

"Unfortunately, it was only one assist. He had already had one assist in the previous game, and the gimmick is still not enough." Another experienced reporter said.

"It would be great if I could still score a goal." A reporter said longingly.

"It's better to be a hat-trick." A reporter was whimsical.

Naturally, Long Bisheng didn't know what was going on in these reporters' minds. He celebrated with his teammates. Although this was not his first assist in Hoffenheim, the last assist had a lot of luck.

Rangnick also nodded off the court, and said to the assistant coach Maric beside him: "Dragon performed well... He was very keenly aware of Eduardo's running position."

Maric agrees with Lannick: "I didn't expect this big man to have such a strong understanding of tactics, and his jumping ability is really good. Although Hyypia is old, he is still very strong, but he won the header easily. If he continues to behave like this, then you may soon have a headache."

Lannick laughed: "This kind of headache is very happy, at least it is much better than having no one available!"

The old coach Heynckes on the other side shook his head helplessly. Hoffenheim's fast counterattack is getting stronger and stronger. It is not a blind fast break, but an organized counterattack.

"This young man is doing better and better." Heynckes glanced at Rangnick. When Rangnick bombarded German football tactics on TV as outdated and rigid, Heynckes was also one of the people who were criticized. However, Heynckes did not ridicule Rangnick because of this, but kept silent—the old coach who had coached in Real Madrid did vaguely feel that German football needs to change.

With a relaxed coaching environment, a boss who strongly supports him in buying people, and a group of outstanding young players who follow his words unconditionally, Rangnick really set off a youthful storm in the Bundesliga... However, he will not just admit defeat like this, because his subordinates also have a group of equally outstanding young players!

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Under Toni Kroos' midfield organization, Leverkusen launched a fierce counterattack.

Since the conceded goal just now was caused by his own dribbling and being intercepted, Kroos, stimulated by this fact, began to show his best side. His dribbling and organization gave Gustavo a headache. Both Keasling and Helmers have excellent personal scoring ability!
Kroos alone is enough, no matter how good he is, he is only one person. Gustavo can go all out and stare at him. Leverkusen’s other Brazilian midfielder, Augusto, is also an excellent attacker. Both personal ability and organizational ability are quite good. The two took turns to organize the attack, which brought great difficulties to Hoffenheim’s defense.

Fortunately, Hoffenheim's frontier of the penalty area is not defended by Gustavo alone. Eduardo, Salihovic, Marin and two forwards often participate in the defense. Similarly, Gustavo, Baker and even Li Jie and other defenders will also participate in the offense.

The situation quickly turned into a tug-of-war. Both sides took advantage of the field for a certain period of time, and were also overwhelmed by the opponent for a certain period of time. At the same time, compared with the offense, the defense of both sides seemed a bit weak, so the two teams also focused more on defense.

Kroos took the ball in the midfield, and then he saw the dense defensive crowd in front of him. He had no choice but to pass the ball to Barnetta on the wing. Barnetta made a pass at a 45-degree angle, and the ball was pushed out by Li Jie first.

Hoffenheim once again launched a counterattack. This time Leverkusen slowed Hoffenheim's attack speed very well. After Long Bisheng pulled the ball to the side to get the ball, he saw that there was no good chance to pass the ball, so he distributed the ball to Marin behind him, and then ran into the penalty area by himself.

Marin took the ball to the middle, and then passed it to Eduardo behind him, allowing him to organize the attack.

Eduardo encountered the same problem as Kroos just now. Facing a dense defensive formation, no matter how good the midfielder was, he couldn't organize the offense.

Hoffenheim's players kicked back and forth in the midfield a few times, but they still couldn't get out of any gaps. Baker stepped forward to assist, and after receiving a cross pass from Marin, he directly hoisted the ball into the penalty area.

Generally speaking, such a cross at a 45-degree angle cannot create too much threat. Even Baker did not have much hope for his cross. After passing the ball, he immediately turned around and ran back, preparing to prevent Leverkusen from counterattacking.

Just when Baker ran near the middle circle and was about to stop and look back at the situation, he suddenly heard cheers from the stands that were ten times more enthusiastic than before!

Andreas Beck, who has played in Hoffenheim for two seasons, can certainly hear that this is Hoffenheim fans cheering for their team's goal!
Beck turned his head and looked into Leverkusen's penalty area, just in time to see Long Bisheng rushing out of the crowd, rushing to the stands, waving his fists and roaring loudly!

Did the big guy score a goal?

A thought flashed through Baker's mind, and then he lost his footing and slid down the field obliquely, just crashing into a group of substitute players rushing out to celebrate the goal...

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Baker's cross is not of high quality, the speed is not very fast, and the arc of the cross is also high, which can give the defensive players enough time. When Long Bisheng looked up to observe the ball's landing point, Friedrich had already judged the ball's landing point and ran over quickly.

The two huddled together, and Friedrich, who was at the end of the golden age of a defender, was much better at fighting than the old Hyypia. Long Bisheng entangled with him, but failed to knock the opponent away. The ball had already reached the top of their heads and was about to fall.

"This kid is just a bit brute force, but the old Hypia may not be able to withstand him, and this is their home field." Friedrich pushed Long Bisheng behind him while thinking in his heart: "In the next game, I will mark this kid, and Obasi will leave it to Hypia. In front of his experience, that guy's speed and skills will not play much role."

Friedrich thought well. At this moment, he felt Long Bisheng behind him squeezed to the left, as if he was about to squeeze to his side to even out his position advantage. Friedrich naturally had rich experience in such situations, so he immediately moved to the side, intending to continue to squeeze Long Bisheng behind him.

If a defender can completely squeeze the forward behind him, even if the forward's jumping and height are better than him, it will be difficult to grab the header in front of him.

Unexpectedly, just as he started to move, Long Bisheng had completely changed the direction of his movement, quickly moved over from behind him, and just squeezed through the space he gave up. When Friedrich reacted, Long Bisheng had reversely stuck him behind him, and then jumped up high!
"Damn!" Friedrich cursed in his heart, and jumped up close to Long Bisheng. Although he could no longer push the ball out, it would be nice to interfere behind him.

But Long Bisheng didn't shake his head and attack the goal.

He already felt that the defense of the Bundesliga is indeed a level higher than that of the British Championship. Even if those defenders are robbed by you, they will try their best to prevent you from directly swinging your head to attack the goal. If Long Bisheng is still the center forward who only knows how to head the ball and only relies on his physical fitness and jumping ability to score goals, then it may be difficult for him to score goals.

After Long Bisheng jumped up, he unloaded the ball with his chest. When he fell, the ball landed with him and bounced upwards.

Without any extra movement, after Long Bisheng landed, he immediately turned around halfway. While turning around, he swung his left foot and directly kicked the ball out!
He is not very sure about this kind of shot, but there are many players on both sides in the penalty area. If he stops the ball for a while, maybe Leverkusen's defender Pu will come to block his shot line immediately, so he can only choose to hit the goal immediately!

His luck was obviously good. He controlled the shot very well. The ball flew straight to the far corner of the goal. Although Adler made a save, he still could only watch the ball go into the net!

After scoring his first goal in Leverkusen, Long Bisheng's mind went blank for a moment, but he is not a rookie who has just debuted. In Serie A, he has already scored goals in top league appearances, so after being stunned for a moment, he immediately got rid of his teammates who were about to come up to celebrate, rushed to the stands, and roared at the stands just like he did at Elland Road Stadium!
"Dragon! Dragon! Dragon!"

The same cheers came from the stands, just like at the Elland Road Stadium, the only difference is that now this stadium is Hoffenheim's Rhein-Neckar Stadium!

(End of this chapter)