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Chapter 392 Changes in Mentality

Baumsong and Clark who were chasing after Long Bisheng didn't want to disturb him, but they couldn't shake Long Bisheng at all. Clark even kicked Long Bisheng behind him, but Long Bisheng didn't move, giving him the feeling that the kick was on someone else.

The speed is not fast, but it can't resist, ignore everything, run over all obstacles in front of it, until it arrives and buys it. This is the ability that Long Bisheng showed in the last season. It is not gorgeous, but it is extremely practical and almost impossible to crack.

Looking at the ball rolling in front of him, Long Bisheng used his running strength to swing his right foot and shoot the ball in one go!

The ball suddenly flew to the lower left corner of the goal. As the French national goal, Lloris quickly judged the flight route of the ball, and then flew out.

But... just when the ball flew a little in front of his palm, it suddenly jumped down, bounced on the lawn, flew over his palm, and plunged into the net!

The ball is in!
Long pass, ferry, breakthrough, ball distribution, shooting - just five links, and a goal is completed.

The Gerland Stadium, which was still extremely boiling just now, became quiet in an instant, only the cheers of hundreds of Hoffenheim fans who came from afar, and the loud whistle remained.

Long Bisheng got up from the ground - just now he was pushed down from behind by Baumsson after he shot - after confirming that the ball was rolling in the goal, he immediately rushed to the sidelines, shouting loudly while rushing, and after rushing to the side of the stands, he opened his arms to the hundreds of Hoffenheim fans in the stands.

"This is what I want!" Long Bisheng thought excitedly, what Ning Xi said was right, the pleasure of living with two people outside the penalty area is not as good as scoring a goal!Only real goals can really gain benefits and hit opponents!What fans want to see is also a real goal!Compared with passing others, scoring goals is more exciting!

Marin, who was running behind him, jumped onto Long Bisheng's back and waved his arms towards the stands at the same time. Long Bisheng cheerfully turned around with his back on his back, and hugged and celebrated with other teammates one by one.

This is Hoffenheim's first goal in the Champions League!After attacking a lot in the first two games but failing to score a goal, Hoffenheim was ridiculed by many European media, and even several bookmakers offered good odds on whether Hoffenheim would miss a single goal in the six Champions League group matches. Now that Hoffenheim has finally scored a goal, at least they don’t need to worry about such boring things...

Maybe Long Bisheng didn't know how important this goal was to Hoffenheim, and he didn't know that he had created another history for Hoffenheim. He was just happy for this goal, and happy that he finally knew what to do on the field.

Seeing this scene, Rangnick realized why even though Hoffenheim played well in the previous games, they didn't have the taste of the second half of last season. It turned out that after Long Bisheng pulled out of the penalty area to show his so-called skills, Hoffenheim's offense was far from being as threatening as last season, as concise, direct and deadly.

In just one season, Long Bisheng left his deep imprint on Hoffenheim's tactical system, an imprint that could hardly be erased.

Rangnick thought of Leeds, Long Bisheng's last club. Long Bisheng only stayed in Leeds for two seasons, but he has become one of the most efficient scorers in the history of the Leeds club. He led a group of teammates who can only be regarded as the top level of the League One in the Championship. They have a chance to be directly promoted to the Premier League. The miracle, if not for Delphine's absence for half a season, they really might create such a miracle. Players, but last season they barely got No.6 and entered the play-offs, and were eliminated in the semi-finals - the money spent on selling Long Bisheng and Delphi was almost the same, but the effect was almost nothing.

Long Bisheng is inconspicuous on the court, but his role cannot be ignored by anyone.

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After taking the lead, Hoffenheim shrunk their defense and became tighter, but Long Bisheng and Marin in the frontcourt still did not recover. With the lesson of the ball lost just now, Lyon no longer dared to take these two lightly, and their offense began to have scruples.

The resolute defensive counterattack made it very difficult for Lyon to play. Long Bisheng's ferrying ability, Marin's speed, and Ibisevic and Salihovic who may be plugged in to help attack at any time, Hoffenheim's counterattacks are not many, but every time is terrible.

However, Lyon is, after all, one of the strongest teams in Europe. As Rangnick said before the game, they far surpassed Hoffenheim in terms of experience. Under such a difficult situation, they were still not discouraged and used constant attacks to tear apart Hoffenheim's defense.

In the 301st minute of the game, Bodmer's jumping assist attracted Salihovic's defense, and then he quickly distributed the ball to Karlstrom. When Gustavo was restrained by Edelson, the Swedish veteran quickly dribbled the ball. Seeing that no one came up to defend him for a while, he immediately took a long shot 28 meters away from the goal!

This shot was of great quality. Although Hildebrand, who has been performing very well so far, saved the ball, he failed to catch the ball or hold it out of the baseline. He dropped it!
The ball flew back into the penalty area, Gomis carried Comper with his body, and then distributed the ball to Lopez who came in, a beautiful diagonal pass!

After receiving the ball, Lopez kicked the ball vigorously before Li Jiefei blocked it. The ball flew upwards, passed Hildebrand's outstretched hand, and then hit the net above the goal heavily!
"Alessandro - Lopez!"

The on-site commentator at the Gerland Stadium shouted loudly. Lyon's onslaught finally had results. Under the continuous attack, Hoffenheim's tenacious defense was finally torn open, and they evened the score!

"Great job!" Puel yelled loudly as he waved his fist on the sidelines in a gaffe. He expected Hoffenheim's tenacious performance, but he never thought of the conceded goal, let alone Long Bisheng, who he didn't notice, scored such a beautiful goal!
Now that the score has been tied, Puel has regained his confidence. As long as the score is balanced, if the entanglement continues, the more experienced Lyon will definitely have the advantage.

After being equalized, Hoffenheim launched several attacks, but Lyon, who had been prepared for a long time, shrunk the defensive formation in time to resist Hoffenheim's attack, and then once again took advantage of Hoffenheim through an offensive error by Hoffenheim, and beat Hoffenheim back.

The conceded goal just now was really just an accident. They shrunk their defense, waited for an opportunity to counterattack, and started to defend after scoring a goal. This is obviously the behavior of an inexperienced team. If they were replaced by a team with rich experience in the Champions League, they would not defend like this after taking the lead.

At the end of the first half, Puel didn't say anything else in the locker room. He just wanted the team to be calmer and more efficient when attacking. In the first half, Hoffenheim didn't attack many times, but they did a good job defensively.

After the start of the second half, Lyon's offense became more rational and calm, and at the same time, it was very strict against Hoffenheim's counterattack. In this case, Hoffenheim's disadvantage on the field became more obvious.

Hoffenheim seemed to be unable to support the next minute, but after many minutes passed, they still did not allow Lyon to score.

Puel is also a little anxious, Hoffenheim's tenacity makes him a little upset, although the score is still a tie, but if they can only get one point at home, Lyon will go to Hoffenheim in the next game, and that level will be even more sad.

You must know that Hoffenheim's last game is against Newcastle. At that time, Newcastle may have already qualified ahead of schedule. It is Newcastle's tradition in the Champions League group stage to send second-tier players to play in the early qualifying situation. At that time, Hoffenheim may be able to rely on the advantages of the schedule to come back to life!
Hoffenheim is extremely eager for the victory of this game, and Lyon is not eager!Hoffenheim had two away games in the first three group games, which means that they have two home games in the last three group games, while Lyon has only one home game...

The head coach's impatience also affected the players on the field. The Lyon players began to make more mistakes on the field. At this time, Hoffenheim discovered the subtle changes in the opponent's emotions with the calmness and tenacity unique to the German team.

In fact, in this stalemate situation, it should be the inexperienced Hoffenheim who is prone to lose their mentality. However, Rangnick's low-key before the game started, so that Lyon, from the coach to the players, already had the idea of ​​​​absolutely winning the game.

The situation began to develop in a direction favorable to Hoffenheim.

(End of this chapter)