When Duan Bin got up from the hotel room where he was, the first thing he heard was the crackling sound from outside the window. The sound was very clear in this quiet morning. He got up and opened the curtains and saw a world of misty rain.

It's raining.

"It seems that it's really going to fight against the rain." At the same time, Chu Zhongtian also stood in front of the hotel window, looking at the wet world outside.

※※In fact, rain has little impact on professional players, not to mention that it is not a storm, it is just a drizzle.

But it was very annoying for the crew of CCTV Football Night who came to film this game. They had to be wet in the rain for at least ninety minutes. At the same time, Duan Bin and Yang Chen would explain the game on the spot in the commentary seat. They didn't have to worry about getting wet in the rain and not even a single drop of rain would float in.

However, the biggest impact of the weather on the players today is not the rain, but the low temperature. As time goes by October, Germany has entered late autumn. Baden-Württemberg, where Mannheim is located, is originally a famous summer resort in Germany. Even in summer, the temperature here is a few degrees lower than other places, so it will naturally become colder faster when it is cold.

The Mannheim area has started to cool down yesterday. Today, the weather department predicts the temperature to be 15 to 20 degrees Celsius. Such temperature has caused many fans who come to watch the game to wear thick clothes. The players also wore trousers and long-sleeved jackets when they warmed up. They did not take off their shorts, and even players who were afraid of the cold put on hats.

After CCTV's camera crew set up the camera, they began to shoot the players' warm-up scenes. Because it was just a shooting, there was no need for a reporter to chat with a microphone next to him, so the poor reporter shrank his neck and stood at the edge of an exit, hiding from the rain, watching the cameraman work from a distance.

When the players on both sides started to warm up in the rain, Emily also came to Carl Mercedes-Benz Stadium to watch the game in the private room.

Her appearance attracted the attention of the media. Before the game started, the TV broadcast specially gave Emily a shot that had been quite short. She not only appeared on the TV broadcast, but also on the big screen on the scene.

Others in the box saw Emily Stan, and they stood up to shake hands with her and asked to sign an autograph to take a photo. Emily was all satisfied. After working hard for a while, she sat down in her seat and watched her boyfriend’s warm-up.

※※※The team’s warm-up capacity today is more than usual, because the weather is not good, the temperature is low, and there is rain. In order to avoid players being injured in the game, the warm-up must be ten more minutes more than usual.

When the players were warming up, the live broadcast began to liven up the atmosphere. Generally speaking, the means to liven up the atmosphere are playing music, which began decades ago and continued to the present, which is a tradition. But today the means to liven up the atmosphere are different. Today, I think the announcer from the Chinese department of Deutsche Welle teaches everyone to speak Chinese.

"Now read with me—jiayou!"

“Out out!”

"Add wine!"

"Gui!"

Everyone shouted in a variety of strange ways, with all kinds of pronunciations. After shouting, everyone laughed.

"Very good, everyone has learned well, but we still have to continue practicing, and then come-jiayou!"

“Baola!!”

Duan Bin and Yang Chen looked at each other and smiled, which was obviously much better than before. The two started talking about this matter and talked about whether Yang Chen had enjoyed such treatment when he was in Frankfurt.

Yang Chen admitted: "No. There may be spontaneous fans, but this is the first time I have seen him in the club."

When the players finished warm-up and returned to their respective locker rooms to prepare for the final preparations for the game, the live broadcast announced that a Chinese dragon dance team from Munich would be invited to perform the authentic Chinese dragon dance for everyone.

There were huge cheers and applause in the scene. Such a warm scene was much better than simply playing pop music.

The Chinese dragon dance team from the local Chinese community in Munich wore traditional dragon dance costumes, and the dancer showed up with a colorful dragon.

Germans rarely see such a unique and exotic performance. They all watch it very much and cheer with every exciting move of the Dragon Dance Team.

While the audience was enjoying the dragon dance performance, the players on both sides were accepting the final arrangements of the head coach in their respective locker rooms.

Frankfurt lost two losses, three draws and one victory in the first six rounds of the league, and scored six points. He ranked 14th and was only one step away from the relegation zone.

As for Hoffenheim, he has three wins, two losses and one draw in the sixth round of the league, and has accumulated tens of tens, ranking sixth. If we look at points, Hoffenheim is better than Frankfurt. However, football cannot be compared so simply, especially in a football game, many statistics are actually meaningless.

A well-known football commentator in Argentina once said, "There is no logic in a single football game. Only when hundreds of games are added up can it have logic."

Therefore, when analyzing the opponents in this game, you cannot just watch this game, you must keep watching six rounds. From the beginning of the league to the present, Frankfurt has played a total of six rounds.

Their football is very boring, mainly focusing on defensive counterattacks. However, they do not have enough players in the frontcourt. This makes Rangnick thinks it will be very difficult for Frankfurt to threaten Hoffenheim away, so he chose to use the 433 formation before the game, which is a more attacking formation, which greatly increases the chances of the team winning when facing opponents who are not as strong as theirs.

In this game, Rangnick gave his players only one task - offense. He used continuous attacks to completely destroy Frankfurt.

Frankfurt's coach Friedhelm_funkel also understands the current situation of the team. Although the team won the ninth league record under his leadership last season, it is only so. After the new season begins, the team still needs to strive for relegation. He does not think Hoffenheim is just a no big deal of promotion like some people outside. He has already eliminated Hoffenheim from the list of relegation teams this season.

This team has money and some people have relationships - Dietma Hope has a very good relationship with the senior executives of the German Football Association - how can he be satisfied with relegation?

This team has performed very well recently. In the last round, Bremen almost pulled Bremen off the horse. Looking at their performance, only fools will believe that the team's goal is to relegation.

Since it is not a team of the same level, Vonkel has corrected his attitude and set the team a strategy of defending away from home and then waiting for an opportunity to counterattack. The counterattack is just waiting for an opportunity. If there is no good opportunity, it is better not to fight back. The task of this game is to get one point and be considered a victory.

However, it cannot be too weak.

"At the beginning of the game, if we kick off, we will use this opportunity to show Hoffenheim our attacking strength and give them the impression that we may threaten their goal at any time, so that they will restrain a lot when attacking."

※※If Hoffenheim Club puts aside this game and makes "China Day", it is actually just an ordinary game. Stuttgart, who kicks off at the same time in Germany, faces Werder Bremen at home.

After the Dragon Dance Team finished the performance, the live broadcast continued to teach everyone Chinese. The fans who watched the ball were quite excited. They followed the live broadcast over and over again and again and shouted: "Come on!" "Good ball!" "Get in one!" Such a cheering with great Chinese characteristics.

When the players on both sides stood in the corridor waiting to appear, Chu Zhongtian could not help laughing when he heard the shouts of unstandard pronunciation but enthusiastic.

"Now let's welcome our Warriors!"

When the live broadcast shouted this sentence, Chu Zhongtian put away his smile. He turned around and shouted to his teammates behind him: "I'm ready to appear!"

Then he followed the three referees and walked into the hazy drizzle.

When the live broadcast saw him, he shouted in Chinese: "Chu Zhongtian!!"

The Hoffenheim fans in the stands were also shouting in unison in the Chinese they had just learned: "Chu Zhongtian!!!"

When the name was just called out, Chu Zhongtian had not yet reacted to calling him. He had played football in England, France and Germany, but he had never been called out by people from the above three countries. They all called him "Chu", so that he himself was used to this title.

When the shouts of "Chu Zhongtian" sounded again in the stands, he realized that it was calling himself. So he waved to the stands.

The shouts of "Chu Zhongtian" became even louder.

But it is not only Chu Zhongtian's name that is pronounced in Chinese. Next, all Hoffenheim home players were read by the announcer using the Chinese pronunciation. Salihovic, Ibisevic and others heard it fresh and found it very interesting.

It’s fun, but they take their minds back as soon as they step onto the court.

Chu Zhongtian won the side pick and got the right to pick the side pick. He chose the half that he didn't have when he warmed up before, because the piece on the opposite side was the half that he warmed up, and it was obviously more advantageous to attack the familiar field when the field was slippery.

Frankfurt won the kick-off.

※※※In this game, the head coaches of both sides made some adjustments to their starting lineups. Although after the game, Rangnick did not criticize Nilsson for making the opponent score a winning goal, he still punished Nilsson when he was in the starting lineup. Nilsson was excluded from the starting lineup. Young player Jaisler replaced Nilsson who was in poor form recently as central defender, and Weiss replaced Teber as right forward again. Eduardo had just recovered from injury. Although he entered the roster in this game, he was unable to start.

Frankfurt coach Von Kerr made two adjustments to the starting lineup when he drew 1-1 at home with Bielefelder in the last round. Steinherfell (markus_steinhofer) and aaron_galindo replaced nikos_lyberopoulos and Michael Fink. At the same time, Marco_russ, who played central defender in the last game, changed to the midfielder to make room for Galindo. Their captain, Greek center Amanatidis, was sitting on the bench although he recovered from injury.

After the players took their place, the scene became a little quieter. After referee Fleisch and fourth official Wengenbach over the match, the whistle sounded at the beginning of the game.

"CCTV, CCTV! Audience friends, you are watching a game in the seventh round of the German Football League in the 2008-2009 season, with Hoffenheim playing Frankfurt at home!" As soon as the whistle sounded, Duan Bin started talking.

"This game has a special significance for the majority of Chinese fans - this game was designated as Hoffenheim's 'China Day'. We don't know why Hoffenheim club chose this day when choosing a day. But it's really a coincidence that the two teams in this game still have a deep connection with our China... I won't say Hoffenheim, right? There is a Chinese player Chu Zhongtian. As for Frankfurt, there was a Chinese player playing for four seasons from 1998 to 2002, and he was sitting next to me - Yang Chen!"

Yang Chen greeted everyone: "Hello everyone."

Then Duan Bin began to recall Frankfurt's performance when Yang Chen played for. As he said that, he interrupted his talk and turned his attention to the field.

Because Frankfurt took advantage of their kick-off opportunity to launch an offensive.

Czech midfielder Martin Fenin forced his way through Ibertsberger on the right and then entered the penalty area. Then he attracted the attention of Hoffenheim's young centre-back Yaisler, but did not make a cross or shoot directly, but chose to knock back. The football was received by Steinherfer, who followed.

The German under-21 national team player faced Chu Zhongtian who was returning to defense after receiving the ball.

He swung his feet to shoot, and Chu Zhongtian stretched out his feet to stop him, but he did not throw all the center of gravity out. He was careful, and the pile of places was just a fake move.

His idea was right, but today's venue was not worthy of face. He supported his body with his left foot and stopped his right foot. The stacking was indeed a fake move. Steinherfer dunked the football back. When Chu Zhongtian wanted to turn around to block it, his support foot slipped suddenly. He slipped directly to the ground and could only watch the opponent swipe past him and shoot.

Goalkeeper Ozjan saved when Steinherfer made a fake shot. Now there is no way to face the opponent's real shot. Fortunately, the young but calm Baker appeared in time and blocked the football out of the baseline with his feet, resolving the team's crisis.

"Oh! Frankfurt threatened Hoffenheim's goal as soon as he came up. It seems that they are unwilling to bring a point back away. Chu Zhongtian was easily shaken by the opponent in the defense just now. I wonder if it was because the court was too slippery..."

Frankfurt's attack made Hoffenheim cry out a cold sweat, which made Frankfurt fans very proud. Don't look at you, Hoffenheim is the most popular team at the moment, we Frankfurt are regular visitors to the Bundesliga. How can you let you shit on us?

Frankfurt's offensive made their fans happy, thinking that their team will definitely not disappoint this time.

Unexpectedly, after the corner kick failed to score, Frankfurt shrank back like in the previous few games.

This disappointed their supporters.

Since the new season, Frankfurt football has always been in a state of irritation. It seems that they do not intend to change this football that can make cows fall asleep in today's game.

In fact, this is also what Von Kerr means. He analyzed Hoffenheim's first six rounds of games and found that in most cases, Hoffenheim scored the first goal, and the goal time was very high. In the first game against Kotbus, Hoffenheim scored in the 16th minute. In the fifth round of the league, against Dortmund, Hoffenheim scored in less than five minutes of the game. In the sixth round of the league, Hoffenheim conceded the goal in eight minutes of the opening, they scored in the 15th minute.

From these examples, it can be seen that Hoffenheim is a team that is very good at scoring goals in the fifteen minutes before the opening. It is quite similar to the German blitz in World War II.

To be on the safe side, Vonkel's instructions to the Frankfurt players were to immediately shrink the defense line after the start of the game and to last for the first fifteen minutes. He even told his players: "As long as we ended the first half, we may win this game very much!"

So guarding 0:0 in the first half is Frankfurt's mission.

He is not afraid of others saying that his football is not good enough and can make the cows fall asleep. As long as he can win, everything is important, but a relegation team wants gorgeous football. This is simply the funniest joke he has ever heard. The results are not guaranteed. What's the use of any gorgeous football?

Facing Frankfurt's shrinking defense, Hoffenheim is not polite.

Chu Zhongtian passed the ball with a long pass to Salihovic on the wing.

After receiving the ball, Salihovic did not lead himself, but directly made a cross. Ibisevic followed up in the middle to rush to the top!

The football flew out of the bottom line by the goal post... "Oh!" Duan Bin shouted again. "What a pity! What a pity! Hoffenheim's attack was very concise and effective. But unfortunately, Ibisevic did not stand up, and was slightly off."

Yang Chen also felt sorry for this attack. Although he had played for Frankfurt, Frankfurt now has nothing to do with him. Moreover, Hoffenheim has his own compatriots. Is it worth mentioning which side to support?

"Frankfurt once again had a very threatening attack, but Hoffenheim quickly changed his clothes and told them who was home court today!"

"Hoffenheim! Hoffenheim! Hoffenheim is the best!"

Hoffenheim fans sang in the stands.

Now there are about 18,000 Hoffenheim fans in every home game, and the number is still increasing.

I believe that if Hoffenheim can still perform like this after a season, their new stadium, Rhine Neka, which can accommodate 30,000 people, will definitely be crowded by the home team fans...
Chapter completed!