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Chapter 19 Chu Zhongtian's Charge

When Chu Zhongtian and his teammates were warming up at the Carl-Benz Stadium, he saw that the stands were full. Fans wearing blue jerseys supported Hoffenheim, with about 10,000 people. Those wearing yellow and black jerseys must be Dortmund fans, with about 5,000 people. As for those fans who were dressed in colorful and all colors, they were non-Hoffenheim and Dortmund fans. These people were neutral fans in the previous games, but today they were different. Many of them obviously supported Dortmund, and you can tell from the slogans they played.

The slogan of "Bitch Legion" still appears in the stands of the stadium. Hoffenheim has played four league games. They have all seen this slogan since the first game. The "creative move" made by Cottbus fans soon became popular all over the country. Any fans of teams that are rivals Hoffenheim will play such slogans in the game to attack Hoffenheim.

"Why have we become the villains in the movie?" Ibisevic was a little dissatisfied with the fans' behavior. Players are also human beings, and even professional players have no reason to accept such insults.

Chu Zhongtian pulled his arm: "Okay, don't worry about so much. You can't stop them from scolding you. Even if you score their goal, they will only scold you even more crazy." He has always believed in the creed of not having a verbal battle with others because he knows it's useless. Just as the media and fans questioned his decision to transfer to Hoffenheim, he never spoke up to defend himself, just like those people. The power of silence is because no matter how much he says, it's better to achieve results.

"How can we block their mouths?" Ibissevic was still unhappy. Of course he was unhappy. He was called a "bitter" for no reason. Who would feel good about this? Even if a bitch really had to establish a chastity arch, let alone a person who was not a bitch at all. He paused for a moment and suddenly said, "If... I mean, if we won the Bundesliga championship, would they shut up?"

Chu Zhongtian glanced at the fans who held up slogans that insulted Hoffenheim and greeted Hoffenheim club owner Hope's female relatives, and shook his head: "No, they will still scold you."

"So what about me winning a lot of championships? I wonder if it is the Bundesliga champion or the Champions League champion?" Ibisevic asked again.

Chu Zhongtian continued to shake his head: "No, they will still scold you."

Ibisevi screamed strangely: "It's not over yet!"

Chu Zhongtian smiled and patted: "You just have to die, Ibi. I tell you, don't treat your opponent's insults and attacks as insults, just treat them all as praise."

"Praise? How can this be considered a praise? Do you think they are still happy to call you a 'bitch'?" Ibissevic thought Chu Zhongtian's statement was too strange.

What surprised him even more was that Chu Zhongtian actually nodded.

"Of course, I always see this. They scold us, which means they are afraid of us. Look, if we were still a German second team, we would have to fight to continue to stay in the second league every season, and any team could easily repair us when they see us. Will their supporters attack us so wildly?"

Ibisevic was stunned for a moment, then shook his head.

"So by the way. People will never attack the ants under their feet with the most vicious words, because it is too easy to crush them. But we will insult an enemy that poses a great threat to us. Why do we curse? Because there is no other way to do except scold them and breathe on our mouths. We can't defeat them, and we can't resist them, so we can only curse with our mouths. Now they are like this." Chu Zhongtian pointed to the slogan "Bitch Legion" in the stands and said to Ibisevic.

"They know we are very strong, they know they have no chance of winning, but they are unwilling to admit defeat, so they can only use this method to fight back. But being scolded by them can't make us lose, so they just want to scold. Anyway, I don't care, and I'm happy. Because the more crazy the opponent attacks you, the more you are threatening to them. This is a disguised praise, maybe they don't admit it themselves, but in fact it's like that. So, they are praising us because we panic them."

After saying that, Chu Zhongtian continued to do his pre-match warm-up.

Ibisevic stood there, recalling Chu Zhongtian's words. Then he looked at the slogans of the fans in the stands, then tilted his head and muttered: "Afraid of us? Will Dortmund be afraid of us?"

※※※The Dortmund fans shouted slogans in the stands to let Hope die, while the Hoffenheim fans were not to be outdone. They also fought back with slogans: "If you are jealous, just say it!"

Dortmund fans immediately responded: "Bortmund is jealous of Hoffenheim? This is the funniest joke I have ever heard in my life! Hahaha!"

The Mannheim policemen who were in charge of the security of this game were facing a great enemy.

German fans have never allowed the English to be more beautiful than before when it comes to making trouble.

Germany and the United Kingdom have always had old grudges, and both sides have to compete for the best in all aspects, especially in football. The national team and club competitions are naturally the focus of competition between the two sides, but in terms of football hooligans, both countries are unwilling to be left behind.

Before the game started, the atmosphere at Carl Mercedes-Benz Stadium was already a little nervous.

This surprised many Chinese reporters who came to the scene - this is just an ordinary league game, and the teams of both sides had no grudges before, so why are there such strong hostility in the stands?

Many of them have little time to contact Hoffenheim. Except for when staying in Sinsheim, it is impossible to know everything about German football. Naturally, they don’t know much about German fans’ feelings towards Hoffenheim.

Some Chinese journalists began to worry whether such a tense atmosphere would affect Chu Zhongtian's performance. Looking at the swear words and offensive slogans they had in the stands, can Chu Zhongtian still perform at a normal level in such an environment?

※※※Amid the bickering between fans of both sides, Hoffenheim and Dortmund have finished their warm-up and returned to their respective locker rooms. After resting here for 20 minutes, they will step onto the court again, and the game will officially begin.

When a new team encounters a strong team like Dortmund, the first thing you think about is relegation. However, this rule does not work for Hoffenheim.

Nowadays, the whole team is holding back their energy because the media fell to the point of thinking that they would lose. Except for the fans of our team, they also support them in losing. This makes them full of fighting spirit and vows to win in the game and prove it to everyone.

Hoffenheim is really not here to relegate in the first league, we are really trying to win every game.

Rangnick looked at his men, and he had seen such things in the eyes of these people. The game itself didn't need him to say anything more.

He just said to the players: "Don't be disturbed by external factors and play our football well. Remember, our goal is not to relegation, we have bigger goals."

Everyone nodded.

Yes, they are not willing to just relegate. In addition to wanting to continue to stay in the Bundesliga, they also desire honors.

On the other side, Dortmund's head coach Jurgen_klopp is making mobilization orders for his players.

"Hoffenheim is a team that has strong offense but not defense. We cannot stand firm in the back. If you don't put more pressure on them, they will do whatever they want outside our penalty area! Think about Stuttgart."

Klopp believes that the reason why Stuttgart was in a mess throughout the game was because he relaxed when the offense was successful in ten minutes, which allowed Hoffenheim to seize the opportunity and completely reverse the situation. After that, the game was always in the hands of Hoffenheim.

And this is what he wants to avoid. Therefore, he will never give Hoffenheim a chance to turn the tables. He will put huge pressure on his opponents as soon as he comes up, and use his offensive and offensive attacks to suppress Hoffenheim without time to counterattack. He can only be exhausted in defense, and eventually make mistakes in his busy schedule and completely collapse.

"So we have to attack and dare to push ourselves out and fight against them!"

Just as Klopp said this, Rangnick also said similar things in front of his players.

"Our specialty is offense. Facing a team like Dortmund, defensive counterattack is useless. We must use offense to oppress them, just like we oppress Stuttgart. So don't stop attacking!"

The tone of this game was set by the two head coaches at the same time.

※※When Chu Zhongtian and Weidenfeller led their respective teams into the stadium, the fans at the scene made deafening shouts.

At this time, Dortmund fans didn't care about attacking Hoffenheim, and they had to cheer for their Warriors.

Next, the captains of both sides exchanged team flags and guessed the coins and picked the edges.

Chu Zhongtian still remembers the words of head coach Rangnick, asking the team to attack as much as possible and keep attacking, just like in the game against Stuttgart. So he deliberately lost the right to pick the side, allowing Weidenfeller to get the right to pick the side, and he obtained the right to kick the ball.

Then Chu Zhongtian waved his hand and let his teammates surround him.

Hoffenheim's starting lineup is almost their strongest lineup.

He looked at his teammates without any extra words, just said to them: "In this game, you can score as many goals as you can, guys!"

No matter how beautiful it is, it is useless. The leader still has to lead the team through practical actions. This is the difference between "to go" and "to go with me". Chu Zhongtian is very clear about this. So he just reminded his teammates and stopped talking about it.

The players of both sides returned to their respective positions and stood up to wait for the kickoff. The shouts of insulting Hoffenheim in the stands sounded again. However, before they could form a climate, they were covered by Hoffenheim fans with louder singing.

"Come on! Come on! Hoffenheim Club is the best! Come on! Come on! Hoffenheim Club is the best!!"

While the fans were doing all this, the club owner, Dietma Hope, who sat on the rostrum to watch the game, sang along with them.

After singing, he sat down and apologized to Dortmund chairman Dr. Reinhard_rauball (Reinhard_rauball) next to him: "You know, Dr. Laubar, I am a hardcore Hoffenheim fan."

The chairman of the Dortmund club nodded: "Of course I know, you are at your own expense, Mr. Hope."

On the court, Hoffenheim's Ibissevic and Demba Ba went to kick off the ball. Chu Zhongtian made a gesture to Ibissevic from behind, telling him to try his best to rush forward as soon as the kick off and break through the middle.

Ibisevich nodded to show that he understood.

The TV broadcast gave some shots of the slogans in the stands that insulted Hoffenheim, one of which gave a special close-up. It was a slogan that insulted Chu Zhongtian: "Get back to your mother's stomach and eat semen! Chinese bastard!"

The camera opened again, and Chu Zhongtian was on the same line as the slogan, but he looked focused and looked straight ahead, not moved by the slogans at all.

After the referee and the fourth official off the court met with each other, the whistle sounded at the beginning of the game.

※※※"CCTV, CCTV. Good evening, everyone, welcome to watch the broadcast of the German Football League 2008 to 2009. This is a focus battle in the fifth round of the league. Dortmund challenged Hoffenheim away. Now the game has begun. Hoffenheim is wearing a blue jersey, and Hoffenheim is attacking from left to right, while Dortmund is attacking from right to left. In this game, Chinese player Chu Zhongtian still started and he has now got the ball..." The game just started, and the commentator of CCTV had not yet had time to introduce the appearance list to everyone, and Chu Zhongtian had received a return pass from Ibisek.

After Chu Zhongtian got the ball, he did not pass the ball directly. Although Hoffenheim's football style is to try to minimize back passes and cross passes, and pass the ball forward desperately. However, Rangnick also gave Chu Zhongtian absolute tactical freedom on the field. He can decide on his own what to do next, so it doesn't matter even if he passes back crosses. Last season, Hoffenheim banned players from passing balls and cross passes back, believing that most such passes are meaningless and will only make the players slack, so he has to use regulations to forcibly prevent the players from doing this.

But this season is different because there is one more Chu Zhongtian in the team. Rangnick believes in Chu Zhongtian's understanding of football and his judgment of the game situation. So he did not give him any restrictions, and everything was allowed to play freely. He was not worried that Chu Zhongtian would slow down the offensive rhythm of the entire team due to frequent return and cross-passes, causing the team to miss the opportunity to score.

Rangnick trusts Chu Zhongtian so much that he does not arrange specific positions. Chu Zhongtian is the midfielder in the formation that is arranged for outsiders to see, but his teammates all know that Chu Zhongtian is the most special person in the team. He has no specific position at all, left, middle, right, front, back, and middle. As long as he feels necessary, he can move freely. If he is farther back, he can keep in touch with the back line and stabilize the defense. If he is farther forward, he can maintain a compact formation with Salihovic, Eduardo, Ibisevic and others to suppress the opponent's defense line.

Rangnick rarely tells Chu Zhongtian about specific tactical requirements. He will only tell Chu Zhongtian one of his general ideas before the game, and then Chu Zhongtian is responsible for showing all the details in the game.

After four rounds of league and several warm-up matches, Chu Zhongtian is now much better at understanding Rangnick's tactical requirements than when he first came. The two of them cooperated more and more tacitly, which was reflected on the court. In the last round, they overwhelmed Stuttgart's team and bombed the Stuttgart team, almost making the Stuttgart's Baden-Futtition state's strength fall into the gutter.

After Chu Zhongtian took the ball, he observed the situation and turned around and passed the football back. After three passes from the defenders, the football returned to his feet. At this time, the three-line formation of Dortmund, which had been compressed very closely, had been pulled apart. They rushed up in a hurry, hoping to "keep pressure on Hoffenheim and not let them turn over" as head coach Klopp said.

Seeing this, Chu Zhongtian passed the football to the defender Baker who was inserted on the wing. He also followed him to run forward.

Baker and Weiss made a two-pass and one-on-one cooperation on the wing and continued to break forward. Just when everyone thought he would make a cross forty-five degrees, he suddenly swept the ball horizontally to the middle of the front of the penalty area.

After receiving the ball, Chu Zhongtian did not hesitate, but directly swung his feet and shot from a long time!

The football was hit by his right foot and flew towards the goal with a bang!

The football was like a cannonball, whizzing past Dortmund's central defender Felipe_santana's ears, and the Brazilian even felt that his ears were hurt by the wind.

Goalkeeper Weidenfeller (roman_weidenfeller) watched the football fly towards him, but he didn't have time to make a specific save, but just raised his hand like a conditioned reflex.

Then he felt a pain in his wrist, and the football completed contact with his hand... In his sight, the football hit his raised hand, then jumped high, crossed the crossbar, and landed on the billboard behind him.

"Chu's shot! It's very powerful! It's a pity that it's too straight..."

"Chu Zhongtian's unexpected long shot made Weidenfeller not react. It's a pity...but this long shot is so beautiful!"

The commentators from Germany and China both gave praise to Chu Zhongtian.

Weidenfeller held his wrist hit by a football in one hand and looked at Chu Zhongtian.

This kid has such a great shot... It seems that he should pay more attention during the game.

Then he turned his head and shouted: "Corner kick! Pay attention to defense!!"

Chu Zhongtian withdrew his gaze that had been staring at Weidenfell and slowly walked into the penalty area. He was about to compete for the top.

This long shot was not to allow Weidenfeller to pay more attention to himself, because it was not a warning. It was a charge, telling his teammates that the general attack began!
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