Hoffenheim's luck seemed to have improved. They not only won Bochum 3-0 in the 27th round of the league, but also stopped the decline. Good news also came from the German Football Association.

The German Football Association's Discipline Committee did not impose any ban on Pogattz and Fabricio, who were five minutes late for drug tests, and there was no ban on a single game. It was just fined Hoffenheim Club 75,000 euros.

This incident made the media very dissatisfied. They all made a big fuss about Hope's relationship with the senior executives of the Football Association. They believed that this was a matter of Hope's use of his personal relationship to seek improper benefits for his club. The German Football Association's approach was a shame.

Hope has a very good relationship with many people in the German sports circle, because he invests in not only football, but also ice hockey, handball, golf and other sports. Hoffenheim is just a part of his huge sports kingdom. Bayern Munich's former chairman Beckenbauer is his golfer golfer, and former national team head coach Klinsmann also has a good relationship with him. More importantly, German Football Association chairman Hill Zwonchig has a close relationship with Hope. His team at Hope has been vilified by many media as a nouveau riche like Chelsea, and compared Hope to Germany.

When Abrasimovic of the country, the German Football Association chairman came forward to express his support for Hope. In addition, the founder of Hoffenheim women's football team is Ralph Zwanchig, who is the son of Hill Zwanchig, and Hoffenheim women's football team is also part of Hoffenheim club... But no matter how the media make noise, Hoffenheim club did not respond to these doubts and criticisms. They are indeed getting cheap now, so don't behave well anymore. Rangnick just issued a statement saying that the team will learn from this lesson and accept the punishment from the German Football Association.

The German Football Association explained the reason for such a punishment in the penalty decision: "Foreignty shows that this incident is not a typical doping problem. It is just a violation of the process arrangement of the German Football Association's anti-doping regulations. This is caused by Hoffenheim's management mistakes." This punishment means that the incident is not serious, and Hoffenheim will not be fined for this. No one will be suspended. Apart from giving some money, Hoffenheim has no loss.

You should know that the German media can keep hyping up what two players were suspended for one year before the decision came out, and Hoffenheim was fined. Now that the real result has come out, they undoubtedly seemed to have been slapped in the face.

In response to this, the German Biography Bird said slightly sarcastically: "It is only a fine of 75,000 euros? For Mr. Dietmar Hope, this amount of money may not be enough for him to go to Florida for a walk..."

"To the richest people, I don't think it's a punishment at all, I just think it's a punishment... If you can escape punishment because of money, what will those small clubs think? Where is the dignity of German football?"

The German media are still hyping this matter, but the German Football Association and Hoffenheim Club both tacitly stopped talking about drug tests.

Hoffenheim's goal is to play the game well and strive to win the first professional league championship in their club's history - they only won second in the Bundesliga last season and did not win the championship.

The German Football Association does not want to say more about this matter, as more words will lead to mistakes. The media hyped for a while and ignored them, which will naturally divert their interest.

※※On April 18th, Hoffenheim challenged Karlsruhe away. Before this game, no media made any noise, saying that Hoffenheim is in poor condition at present, and Karlsruhe should be able to win like this. Although Karlsruhe is also a relegation team.

They said this before the last round, but Hoffenheim was slapped in the face. No one expected that Hoffenheim would win so easily, Bochum, who vowed to relegation.

Although they stopped talking about the game, they focused on the drug test. One of the parties involved in the drug test was five minutes late, Watts appeared on the starting list, and central defender Fabricio also sat on the bench.

German media believe that these two people should be banned, and even tabloids said that Rangnick should ban Pogattz and Fabricio for one year so that he and his team can win respect... Of course, this unlimited remark was fiercely criticized by the local media of Sinsheim, "Rhine Neckar", who believed that the reporter who wrote the article was simply a problem with his brain. As a local media that has been reporting on Hoffenheim, "Rhine Neckar" has always kept a low profile in the drug test incident. Apart from mentioning this matter, it did not hype like other media, especially the Munich media. They left more pages to report on the team's preparation, training and competition, and various gossips.

Although the media said before the game that Hoffenheim and the German Football Association had some conflicts, Hoffenheim still defeated Karlsruhe 3-0 away under pressure.

Karlsruhe is currently ranked second from the bottom and is also a team that needs to score crazy points in the last few rounds in order to relegate.

After the game started, the home team was very imposing because they needed to relegate, so they were full of motivation and fighting spirit.

There was a threatening shot in the first five minutes.

Rangnick was very dissatisfied with the team's defense this time off the court. This is how young teams are. They are prone to falling into a slump when they are in adversity, and once they are smooth sailing, they are prone to being complacent.

The team's previous series of bad performances is hard to say what it has to do with the curse. Rangnick believes that it is related to the team's pride and complacency. This pride and complacency is not obvious and is not reflected in certain things, but it subtly affects the players' mentality. There is a technical statistics that can tell the changes in the team's mentality - in terms of running distance, the average running distance of Hoffenheim players in the first half of the season was twelve kilometers per game, but now it is only ten kilometers.

Less running means that the players are not attentive enough during the game and often choose to walk on the court, which is not as active as in the first half of the season.

Only a few people can run actively as always. Captain Chu Zhongtian is one of them. His average running distance is more than 12 kilometers per game. But unfortunately, football is not a one-person sport. No matter how outstanding he performs alone, it cannot improve the performance of the whole team.

However, in the game against Bochum, the team regained that vitality and ran actively in the whole game, so it was normal for them to win the game 3:0.

The same is true for this game. Although Karlsruhe took the initiative at the beginning, these advantages soon disappeared as the Hoffenheim players actively ran.

In the 28th minute, Chu Zhongtian suddenly divided the sides at the front of the penalty area. Obasi broke into the penalty area without defending and received the ball. Then he hit the goalkeeper with a blocking angle. The football rushed into the upper corner of the goal from Karlsruhe's goalkeeper Markus_miller (markus_miller), 1:0!

But five minutes later, Karlsruhe almost equalized the score, with Australian international josshua_kennedy passing it to his forward partner sebastian_freis, who faced goalkeeper Haas, but pushed the football off the line.

Although the ball failed to score, it greatly boosted the morale of the home team and made them realize that there are many loopholes in Hoffenheim's defense that can be exploited.

Karlsruhe, who had to fight for survival, launched a crazy counterattack, and several threatening shots shocked Hoffenheim fans.

But Hoffenheim's chances often appear in the middle of the opponent's crazy counterattack.

Chu Zhongtian calmly observed the situation, even when his goal was in a storm. In the 44th minute, he finally seized this opportunity.

In the 44th minute, he launched a long pass in the backcourt. Ibissevic headed the ball to Salihovic who followed him, and then turned around and ran in. Salihovic dribbled the ball to the side and made another cross. Ibissevic leaned against the opponent's central defender Delpic (dimo_drpic) in the middle, then turned halfway and shot. The football got in between goalkeeper Miller's legs, 2:0!

"Ibissevic scored his 25th goal this season! Helmers, who ranked second in the scorer list, is still eight goals away from him. It seems that Ibissevic has almost won the Golden Boot this season!"

The first half was 2-0, which made the second half better, and the atmosphere in the locker room was relaxed during the break. The two goals were under pressure from Karlsruhe.

Just three minutes into the second half, Hoffenheim expanded the score. In the 48th minute, the home team's 20-year-old young defender stefano_celozzi was pressed by Demba Ba and Ibissevic, and conceded the ball in the midfield. Demba Ba intercepted the ball and passed it to Salihovic. Salihovic made another cross. This time the person who responded was Obasi, who headed the ball, scored 3:0!

At this point, the game has lost its suspense.

The same goes for the final result of the game.

Hoffenheim won two consecutive victories after losing to Hamburg 0:1, and both games were won by 3:0.

This greatly boosted the morale of the team.

In the locker room after the game, everyone ate together to replenish their energy, chatted and laughed, and started to joke again, and the harmonious atmosphere returned to the team.

No one mentioned curses anymore, and even Demba Ba felt that it was just a joke.

※※ Although Hoffenheim won two consecutive victories, their rankings remain unchanged and they are still second in the league. Wolfsburg also won the same league round, and they defeated Leverkusen 2:1 at home. This was their eleventh consecutive victory. No one in Wolfsburg was optimistic that they could win the championship at the beginning of the season, but they took advantage of the unstable performance in the second half of Bayern Munich and Hoffenheim and quietly rose to the top of the league.

Especially in the last round of the league, Wolfsburg defeated Bayern Munich 5-1 at home, making the whole team full of fighting spirit and confidence.

Hoffenheim also regarded his biggest competitive target as Bayern in the first half of the season, but he didn't expect that Bayern has been replaced by Wolfsburg. It seems that Hoffenheim is going to redirect the direction of the muzzle.

After 28 rounds of the league, Hoffenheim ranked second in the league with 61 points, while Wolfsburg ranked 62 points, only one point apart between the two sides, while Hertha Berlin, the third in the league, has 60 points, Bayern Munich ranked fourth in the 58 points, Stuttgart ranked fifth in the 57 points, and Hamburg ranked sixth in the 55 points.

The points of the top six are very close. Although there are still six rounds before the end of the league, the sprint for the league championship has already begun.

Next, Hoffenheim will face a strong opponent at home, Hertha Berlin, currently ranked third, while Bayern Munich will fight Schalke 04. Hamburg will challenge Dortmund, ranked seventh and 52 points away. These three games are all strong dialogues. Stuttgart, third in the league, and Wolfsburg, first in the league, are relatively weak. Stuttgart faces Frankfurt at home, and Wolfsburg will challenge Cottbus away. It should be no problem for them to win their respective opponents. In this way, the outcome of the first few games is very important.

The most eye-catching thing in this round of the league is naturally Hoffenheim's home match against Hertha Berlin. This is a match between the second and third in the league. If Hoffenheim wins, the gap with Hertha Berlin will widen. If they lose, Hertha Berlin will replace Hertha Hoffenheim's second in the league. Similarly, if Hertha Berlin loses, Stuttgart and Bayern Munich are both eyeing him... Hoffenheim performed smoothly in the first half of the season. They only lost three games, and the last one lost to Hertha Berlin. After that game, Hoffenheim maintained an excellent record of unbeaten in ten rounds. He knew that they were "double-killed" by Bremen at home.

Before losing to Hertha Berlin, Hoffenheim created a shocking five-game winning streak. As a newly promoted team, this result is enough to stand out. However, the team lost to Hertha Berlin in an extreme self-inflation.

For the team's head coach Rangnick, losing to Hertha Berlin is a good thing, because it poured cold water on the team, reminding them that they are just promoted teams.

It is precisely because they lost to Hertha Berlin that they were able to tie the powerful Bayern Munich at the Allianz Stadium.

Rangnick once proudly stated that this is a team that can learn a lot after every failure and find strength from failure to move on.

However, this does not mean that his team can allow failure at a critical moment in the championship.

Before the game, both coaches of both sides talked about Chu Zhongtian. Rangnick said that Chu Zhongtian is the core of the team and he is very satisfied with Chu Zhongtian's performance and role in the team since the beginning of a season. This is more than once he has praised Chu Zhongtian in public. However, the team did not express jealousy and dissatisfaction with Chu Zhongtian's "special treatment", because everyone knows that he deserves. He deserves these praises, he deserves these praises, and he deserves the praises. Everyone also knows that under these praises is the responsibility and pressure of being the captain and the core of the team. Everything has to be paid to be rewarded. The rich rewards are the hard work first.

Hertha Berlin's head coach also talked about Chu Zhongtian. Although he also praised Chu Zhongtian's performance, he talked more about how to deal with Chu Zhongtian.

"We already have a way to deal with him, but I'm sorry I can't announce it here."

In fact, everyone knows what that is - just refer to the two teams' matchup in the first half of the season.

In that game, Hertha Berlin adopted a foul strategy and constantly used rough movements and fouls to invade Chu Zhongtian, making it impossible for him to control the ball well. Without protection, he lost the ball, the opponent could face the back line directly, so Chu Zhongtian seemed to be frustrated and performed poorly when attacking.

Hertha Berlin will obviously do the same in this game.

In the past, when I was in Ligue 1, many teams were trying many ways to deal with Chu Zhongtian. They tried many ways, but it seems that none of them is a one-time and for all. As long as coach Metz is smart enough, these tactics can only be proud for a while.

Will Hertha Berlin's foul tactics follow in the footsteps?

This is really hard to say.

However, Hertha Berlin is full of confidence in defeating Hoffenheim away.

Hertha Berlin's defensive midfielder Gojko_kacar (Gojko_kacar) spoke of Chu Zhongtian a little disdained: "He often hides behind, from there anyone can organize the offense calmly. If he dares to come up and face me head-on, I will let him taste the power of Serbian football!"

The young Serbian midfielder transferred from the domestic league to Hertha Berlin during the winter break last season. He spent three million euros on the team to play all the remaining games and scored a goal. He is now the main midfielder of Hertha Berlin.

The offense and defense are good, but the defense is better. In Hertha Berlin, head coach Favre also uses him as an interception player.

If you don't plan to use foul tactics, I'm afraid this guy will become a weapon to guard Chu Zhongtian.

Chu Zhongtian did not scold Katzar for such blatant provocation. He said in an interview with Chinese media: "Everyone has the right to express his opinion, and I have nothing to say about this. Anyway, football is not played with your mouth, so I will talk about it until the game."

Chu Zhongtian said it was calm and gentle, but in fact he had some impression of this person. The last time the two sides fought, Kachar was among the people who kept fouling him.

It seems that the success of defending himself made him feel fulfilled... Since that's the case, let's try it this time.

No matter how beautiful the football is, it is useless. It is useless to play psychological warfare with me? The media in Munich are all useless to play psychological warfare with me, let alone you, a 22-year-old guy... In the training, Chu Zhongtian shot the football into the goal guarded by Hildebran with one kick, and the fans' applause and cheers came from the sidelines.

"Chu is in a good state. It seems that we have a big chance of winning this game!" The fans talked excitedly.

(To be continued)
Chapter completed!