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Chapter 234 Is this evenly matched?

Hoffenheim is just a village in the city of Sinsheim.

On the map of Germany, not to mention Hoffenheim, even Sinsheim is hard to find.The city is located between Mannheim and Heidelberg.In German, Hoffenheim means happy home.There is a train station in Hoffenheim, but the trains that go through here are just old, old country lines.This small village has only more than 3000 villagers.

But fortunately, Hoffenheim's home court is no longer in that small village, otherwise, it will be a huge trouble for both the home team players and the visiting team.

It is the place of Sinsheim. When Lu Chen first arrived here, he felt that it was far worse than Munich.

Perhaps this is one of the reasons why Hoffenheim cannot develop rapidly. The players have worked hard enough in training and games. If there is no bustling traffic light and green wine to let them relax, no one is willing. .

Isn't there a saying that goes like this: money is made for spending, if you only make money but have no place to spend it, then making more money is meaningless.

But this does not affect the difficulty of Hoffenheim.

The first season Hoffenheim was promoted to the Bundesliga was last season. Their performance in the first half was frantic. As a newly promoted team, they directly won the Bundesliga half-time championship.Ibisevic, Demba Ba, Obasi, this trident is simply sweeping.

Although they still did not win the Bundesliga championship that season in the end, it also made all the Bundesliga teams really realize the strength of this team.

As for why they didn't win the Bundesliga championship last season, there are many reasons, not to mention their tactics, that is, Ibisevic's direct reimbursement for half the time is enough for them to have a headache.

But this season, they have reappeared the same trend as last season.After ten rounds of the league, they are still able to occupy the top three positions, which is enough to explain the problem.

慕尼黑1860的首发比起之前并没有多大的改变，只是斯文·本德的位置被霍尔巴斯取代了而已。仍旧是4-3-1-2，仍旧是中路渗透。

As for Hoffenheim, because Demba Ba's goals this season are obviously not as many as last season, and his performance during this period is not so good.So he was not put on the squad by head coach Rangnick at all.Not much has changed in other respects.

The specific starting list is:

Goalkeeper: Hildebrand;
Defenders: Simunić, Campel, Ibertsberg, Eichner;

Midfielders: Michaelswell, Carlos Eduardo, Luis Gustavo, Salihovic;

Forwards: Ibisevic, Obasi;

Because there is not much difference in points between the two teams, public opinion before the game believed that the two teams would have a very fierce battle.Sure enough, in the first minute of the game, it was seen that the two teams had the idea of ​​competing for victory.

The heavy rain and poor field conditions made the rhythm of the two sides not fast after the opening. Such field conditions have a great impact on the rhythm of both sides' passing and the distribution of physical energy.

After the opening, Hoffenheim shrank obviously. The unfavorable conditions of borrowing the venue did not give Munich 1860 a chance to quickly penetrate, and the rotational pressure in the defense was completed very well.

When Munich 1860 slowly took control of the midfield, Ibisevic, who was originally in a higher position at Hoffenheim, retreated in time, until he retreated to a place almost parallel to Gustavo, and even backward At one point, he and his teammates formed a five-middle position, which fully compressed the space for 1860 to penetrate in the midfield.

From the perspective of stealing position, their stealing position in the first half hour of the first half was only 21 meters away from their own goal, just a little away from the penalty area, while 1860's stealing position was closer to the midfield.

On the scene, 1860 has completely suppressed Hoffenheim, and it seems that Huo Cun has no chance to fight back.

At this time, 1860 is also willing to take the initiative to slow down the game speed. On the one hand, they don't need to be too anxious to attack, on the other hand, their ball control ability is enough to ensure that they can take the initiative of the game when the ball is under their feet.

At the beginning, Lu Chen occupies the middle lane, while Lauth and Costa are on the left and right respectively, leaving a little space in the middle, so that Lu Chen can have a chance to break through quickly when he gets in.

But the team didn't get many chances, because of the heavy rain, the best one was Costa's long shot from around 30 meters.It almost caused Hildebrand to let go.

But at other times it was as if the two teams were wrestling in the mud, with all kinds of scrambling in the midfield.

At about 30 minutes, after Lu Chen and Lauth switched positions, through Lauth's retreat and the pass of several people in the midfield, the ball was inserted obliquely to the teammates in the penalty area, and several shots were made. opportunity, and both Lu Chen and Costa performed very well.

The frequent switching of positions between Lu Chen and Lauth, and the occasional Costa retreating to the midfield made it difficult for Huo Cun's players to defend.

In the 35th minute, Lu Chen received a pass from Lars Bender and directly dribbled the ball along the middle lane at high speed. Lauth did not respond to Lu Chen's intention, and retreated to the midfield against Lu Chen's direction. .

This running position of Lauth not only confuses the defensive players of Hoffenheim, but even the commentator with God's perspective is a little confused, "Lu Chen is dribbling the ball forward at high speed, but the running position of Lauth is very confusing. , is this a special tactic?"

Huo Cun's defensive players originally wanted to assign a player to defend the retreating Lauth, but because Lu Chen's threat was too great, and if Lu Chen passed back, the threat would definitely be reduced, so they Instead of worrying about Laosi, he surrounded Lu Chen directly.

The corners of Lu Chen's mouth turned up slightly, he knew this would be the case.

Pulling the ball and turning around, Lu Chen tightly protected the ball by his side, attracting several defensive players to defend.

Lu Chen didn't panic at all, and swung his left leg covertly. With his heel, Lu Chen directly passed the ball from Maxwell's crotch to Costa in front.

Costa did not take the ball forward directly, but adjusted it a little bit, and made a long-range shot, which attracted the defensive players to approach him.However, due to Lu Chen's threat, some players still stood by Lu Chen's side and did not leave.

"be cheated!"

Costa kicks directly!
But he is not shooting, but moving the ball!
On the right side of the restricted area!

At this time, due to the pull of Lu Chen and Costa, most of the defensive players were very close to the left, and a huge gap was formed on the right.

Lauth calmly stopped the ball, adjusted, and hit the goal!

(End of this chapter)