In the locker room of Dortmund's visiting team, Dortmund coach Klopp is losing his temper, not only because of this score, but also because of the scene. Fans may care more about the score, but the head coach definitely values ​​the process first, the scene. From the scene and the process, they can see a lot of things. Whether this team still has hope of equalizing the score when they are lagging behind, and some clues can be seen from the first half. If the team is not at a disadvantage in the scene, but is just a little bad luck and lets the opponent score two goals, then a 0:2 score is not a problem at all. Forty-five minutes in the second half, a tactical adjustment can be made to save the defeat.

But Klopp didn't see this from this first half.

The scene he hoped to see did not happen. His team was suppressed by the opponent, and he had no power to fight back. He had few shots and almost no threatening attacks. The busiest player was not the striker but the goalkeeper Weidenfeller... Judging from the forty-five minutes of the first half, Klopp could not find a way to defeat his opponent.

So he was angry and lagging behind in all directions from the score to the scene. How else should he play this game?

"... Look at what you played in the first half? I counted. You only had four shots in forty-five minutes, and only one of them was within the range of the goal frame. The offense was not threatening. Our defense line had to bear huge pressure. Hoffenheim is an attacking team. They are good at attacking, and they are only good at attacking. If we can create pressure on their defense line, we can break this situation. But you didn't do it at all!"

The head coach's words made all the offensive players lower their heads and remain silent. He was scolding them. Dortmund's offensive players did not do well enough in the first half. There were not many opportunities, and they were wasted.

However, the players do not say anything, which does not mean they have no idea.

They also felt that this matter could not be simply blamed on them.

Although Hoffenheim focuses on offense, their defense is not vague, especially the No. 8. This No. 8 is simply a monster. He can appear in Dortmund's penalty area when attacking. When defending, he immediately built a blockade line in front of his back line, making Dortmund's offense unable to easily score in.

Klopp glanced around and seemed to know what the silent players were thinking.

In fact, he also noticed Chu Zhongtian's performance. Before the season, Hoffenheim's boss Hope and head coach Rangnick both compared the Bundesliga transfer betting king this season to Matthias Summer Klopp did not feel that his team was offended. After all, he was not a fan, but he was thinking about another problem - in fact, Summer is just a cover. The person they really want to compare is probably not Summer, but... Beckenbauer. But Beckenbauer's influence and status in German football is too great, and no one dares to compare with him. So in order to avoid being too swagger, they chose Summer, who is more low-key in comparison, to be a role model.

But don't be confused by this appearance. In fact, Hoffenheim and Rangnick have greater ambitions.

Because after learning about this, Klopp paid more attention to Chu Zhongtian's performance in this game.

From the first half, we can see that Chu Zhongtian is indeed the core of Hoffenheim. He can play a very critical role in both offense and defense.

Although he didn't know much about Chu Zhongtian, judging from the performance of these forty-five minutes, this Chinese might really have the potential to become the next Summer... Of course, it is almost impossible to become Beckenbauer. Beckenbauer only has one. His significance is not just what contributions he has made on the football field, not just his position on the technical and tactical level, but also many factors. In combination, no one can become the second Beckenbauer.

Obviously, if you want to defeat Hoffenheim, you must make adjustments to this core character.

If possible, he would have to completely freeze Chu Zhongtian. Even if he could not completely freeze, he would have to find a way to prevent Chu Zhongtian from playing the role he should have played.

Chu Zhongtian can organize offense and defend in Hoffenheim, and is the core of the team. This certainly gives him the capital to become the second Summer, but it also becomes his "fatal weakness".

He knew what Rangnick wanted to do. He wanted to make the "free man tactics" that were once popular and swept the world of German football to regain glory. But the times have changed. The Cold War has ended for more than ten years. East and West Germany have been unified for eighteen years. The "free man" has long become history. If he insists on restoring, he can only be a freak that is not suitable for today's football. If the soil suitable for the "free man" tactics is gone, how can he cultivate "free man"?

Therefore, Chu Zhongtian is destined to become an incomplete failure. In today's football world, it is impossible for a "free man" to appear again, and Hoffenheim cannot rely on such a failed pseudo-free man to achieve success.

As long as Chu Zhongtian is suppressed, it is equivalent to suppressing Hoffenheim.

The league has just begun... The fifth round, as the Zebras has been promoted, it was unknown before. It is reasonable to perform outstandingly when the opponents are not familiar with them. But once their opponents have thoroughly studied them, the good luck of the promoted team will come to an end.

Klopp does not believe that Hoffenheim will still have the ability to continue to make rapid progress in the future. This team will at most be rampant for five more rounds, and after ten rounds of the league, it will definitely return to the ranks of relegation.

Thinking of this, Klopp made his own adjustments to the team's second half.

In order to defend Chu Zhongtian, it is necessary to strengthen the defensive power in the midfield.

Originally, there was only one Brazilian Tinga, a defensive midfielder who started in this game, but in the first half he was tricked by Chu Zhongtian and could not keep up with Chu Zhongtian's strange running and erratic rhythm. Chu Zhongtian appeared in Dortmund's penalty area, at the forefront of the penalty area, at the right, and in the blink of an eye, he ran to the left again. Sometimes he retreated frequently and then inserted later.

This led to Tinga being unable to keep up at all and finally fell into a state of at a loss.

Poor Tinga...he was originally a good defensive midfielder.

Now, Klopp is considering adding another person to defend Chu Zhongtian.

He turned his attention to the roster of the game at hand.

The substitutes were warming up outside, and there was no one in the locker room except eleven starting players. He had to find players who could be replaced from here.

Since it is to curb Chu Zhongtian, you naturally need to replace it with a defensive player.

So Klopp directly turned his attention to the back midfielder.

Six substitutes are allowed in each game of the Bundesliga, and Klopp only brought one midfielder in this game, which is the team's first captain Sebastian Kyle (sebastian_kehl).

Dortmund played a League Cup match this Thursday, but Dortmund lost to Serie A team Udinese 0:2 at home. The failure of this game made Klopp very angry. As a punishment, he replaced most of the starters in the last game in this league, including captain Kyle. He believes that Kyle was not active enough in the game and did not show the level that a captain should have.

He didn't know if Kyle was seriously reflecting on himself, but now no one except Kyle was available.

No matter what, Kyle's strength is guaranteed. With him and Tinga, there should be no problem with the Chinese... Thinking of this, he said to his assistant coach, zeljko_buvac, who is beside him: "Call Kyle back."

Bouvaco took the order and left.

Taking advantage of this time, Klopp told the players what to do in the second half: "We can't just defend, we have to attack!"

After Kyle ran back with sweat, Klopp had already told other players what to do in the second half.

He glanced at Kyle who had returned to him, and called him and Tinga aside.

"You two have a very important second half mission." Klopp said straight to the two. He did not mention Kyle's performance in the last League Cup game, nor did he criticize Tinga for being fooled by Chu Zhongtian in the first half.

He knew this was not the time to blame the players.

"The core of Hoffenheim is their number eight. I hope you can join forces in the second half and completely freeze him!"

Although the head coach did not name a name to criticize his performance in the first half, this sentence and this action still embarrassed Tinga. Originally, his task was to defend Chu Zhongtian, but he did not defend the opponent at all in the first half, but instead allowed the opponent to continuously organize threatening attacks.

Until now, the head coach decided to change to another midfielder and ask him and Kyle to join forces to defend Chu Zhongtian, which is equivalent to admitting his failure in the first half.

Tinga has helped Brazil international team win the Copa Libertadores and was selected as the best player in Brazil. He has been selected as the Brazilian national team four times, but in the strong Brazilian national team, he has not gained a foothold. In the 2006-07 season, he transferred to Dortmund and quickly became the absolute main force of the team. His contract expires at the end of this season, and Dortmund may renew his contract with him, but if he cannot perform at the level of the previous two seasons, it may end here. After all, he is already thirty years old, and he has entered the decline stage of professional players, especially midfielders.

"He has a large range of running. You must follow him without any effort. As long as he catches the ball, he will go up and block the defense!" Klopp closed his hands and made a "encirclement" gesture.

The two nodded to indicate that they knew.

"Hoffenheim's ball is passed to him most of the time. You must try to intercept the ball directly from his feet, and then we will use this opportunity to launch a counterattack."

The two nodded again.

"The key to the second half is him, remember."

※※※When Dortmund's head coach was deliberately trying to deal with Chu Zhongtian, Chu Zhongtian was in the locker room and was questioned by Salihovic.

"I'm weird, how did you know I'm going to shoot when you turn your back to me?"

Although he scored the goal, Salihovic's doubts became stronger and stronger. This was not the first time that happened. During the extra training that day, Chu Zhongtian was also avoided by Chu Zhongtian. Is it really a coincidence? How could it happen twice? And Salihovic always felt that even if he and Chu Zhongtian did it again, Chu Zhongtian could avoid it.

In order to figure out this issue, he found Chu Zhongtian and asked just after the first half.

Chu Zhongtian shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands: "Intuition."

Salihovic didn't believe it. He stared straight into Chu Zhongtian's eyes, his eyes were full of doubts. "Intuition" was too fantastic for him, just like a person can win the first prize every time he bought a lottery. When you ask him, he told you that it was luck - people would suspect that there was something tricky inside.

Seeing that he didn't believe it, Chu Zhongtian couldn't explain it. In fact, he didn't even know whether his keen premonition that was beyond ordinary people was intuition or special abilities... He could only call this ability by "intuition". This ability helped him a lot. From exams to playing football, he was like Duan Yu's six-mechandise sword, but now he is becoming more and more proficient, and he feels quite "easy".

With the skillful use of this "intuition", he has become more and more excellent in the control of the game rhythm and the situation on the court. He knows when to pass the ball, when to dribble the ball, when to advance, and when to retreat. In the eyes of outsiders, he makes choices in a complicated and complex situation very quickly and accurately, without thinking at all, nor hesitation, which is amazing.

So Rangnick said that he has the potential to be the third free man, precisely because he has such talent.

"Okay, Saiyad. How did you care about Chu? We are ahead anyway, and you scored the goal, isn't that great? Haha!" Seeing the two people staring at each other but not talking, Ibisek also came up because of the conflict between the two people, so he hurried up to smooth things over, holding the two people's necks with one hand, shouting excitedly.

"Vito is right! We are the ones who lead the team in the first half, and we have the advantage!" Everyone is very satisfied with the team's current performance. No one wants to lose such momentum because of insufficient internal unity. So although at the beginning of the season, there are still people who are sympathetic to Salihovic's idea and can't stand Chu Zhongtian. Now, after seeing Chu Zhongtian's ability to lead the team, they have chosen to calm down and be peacemakers, for fear that the two powder kegs will explode and turn the achievements that everyone has finally achieved will be gone.

Chu Zhongtian saw everyone's concern. He knew that his position in the team was being established step by step. Now that he had communicated with Salihovic, his relationship with him was no longer as tense as before.

"Nothing, Saiyad and I were just a normal exchange. You don't have to be so nervous." Chu Zhongtian's right hand walked around Ibisevic's back and patted Salihovic on the shoulder. "Right, Saiyad?"

He looked at Salihovic.

Salihovic was stunned for a moment and nodded, "Yes, nothing."

When everyone heard the two of them say this, they were relieved, and then they dispersed and started to discuss the first half again. So far, Hoffenheim played in four and a half rounds of the Bundesliga, and never won the traditional Bundesliga team after the reunification of East and West Germany. One of them has always been a bottom team, and the other one was brilliant in the 1970s, but then declined. Then facing Leverkusen, he was beaten 2:5 without any mercy. Facing Stuttgart, he was forced to draw 0:0 by his opponent at home, which is also an important basis for many people to attack them - Hoffenheim can only win when playing against weak teams, and once he competes with strong teams, his true colors will be revealed.

If Hoffenheim wants to win more respect and recognition, he must prove his strength in the game against strong teams. How to prove it? Beating the opponent is obviously the most effective and only way.

In the first half with Dortmund, not only did he lead the score by two goals, but he also had a completely advantage in the field. This made Hoffenheim players very excited to chat. Speaking of their performance on the court, they could only be described as dancing and dancing.

Ibisevic did not get involved, but patted Chu Zhongtian and Salihovic on the shoulders and said happily: "It's good now! It's good now!"

He didn't say what it was, but his teammates who were constantly slapped on the shoulders were obviously clear.

Soon, the team's head coach Rangnick walked in, and the voice in the locker room was slightly lowered, but everyone was still chatting until Rangnick clapped his hands.

"You guys did a good job, gentlemen." Rangnick shoved his glasses on his nose and praised the player.

"We still have to do this in the second half. I want you to remember that two goals are not insured, and there is no insurance score in the world. If possible, expand the score as much as possible. If you can, don't be weak if you can score. So we don't care about what Dortmund does in the second half, and continue to attack from the beginning of the second half. Chu, your task is to constantly create opportunities to score goals."

"Okay, sir." Chu Zhongtian replied.

"I know I don't need to say too much to you." Rangnick laughed. He liked the Chinese player in front of him more and more. In the past, he only knew Chu Zhongtian on the game video, but after all, it was still far away. After working with him personally, he realized how happy it was to be his coach, because he was always thinking and was a smart person, so it was very easy to communicate.

Chu Zhongtian smiled confidently.

Then, Rangnick turned around and said to the players: "The league has started for five rounds, and I know there are a lot of discussions about us. I also know that everyone doesn't agree with those discussions. Then today is a good opportunity to beat Dortmund at our home court! Prove them that we are not kidding, we are really not here to relegate! We are trying to win every game!"

(To be continued)
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