Young Football Player

On November 3rd, in the 10th round of the Bundesliga, Schalke 04 came to Hoffenheim, a small village in southwestern Germany, and will challenge the Hoffenheim team here.

Hoffenheim is really just a small village in Germany, with a total population of just over 3,000, but there is a Bundesliga team in such a small village.

In Europe, in fact, most of the rural towns have their own teams, but these teams are basically semi-amateur in nature for self-entertainment. There are basically not many people outside the locals paying attention.

Hoffenheim was also such a team at the earliest. Although they were officially established in 1945, they have long been in the seventh-level league in Germany, that is, the city-level league, and have no match with most German village teams. what a difference.

However, in 1990, Hoffenheim ushered in a turning point. The German rich man Dietmar Hopp bought the village team, and Huo Village started the road to counterattack.

For more than ten years, Hoffenheim completed seven consecutive jumps in stages, and finally entered the Bundesliga in 2008.

The reason why Hope bought this village team and injected capital into it is because Hoffenheim is his hometown, and Hope joined the youth training camp of Hoffenheim when he was young, but later because of Eliminated due to lack of talent.

After being eliminated, Hope went back to study hard and was admitted to university. Later, he became the top rich man in Germany, and now he just gives back to his hometown.

In the first season of promotion to the Bundesliga, Hoffenheim amazed the whole of Germany.

In the Bundesliga season of 2008/09, Hoffenheim used the trident of Ibisevic, Demba Ba and Obasi to kill all sides, and even won the half-time Bundesliga championship as a newly promoted team.

You must know that the only time in the history of the Bundesliga that a newly promoted horse won the half-time championship was Kaiserslautern in the 97/98 season. They finally completed the miracle of Kaiserslautern and won the Bundesliga that year as a newly promoted horse. champion.

Just when everyone thought there would be another miracle, Ibisevic, the core of the Huo Village Trident, was seriously injured during the winter break, so he was reimbursed for the season.

So in the second half of the season, Hoffenheim's ranking fell all the way, and finally only won a seventh place in the Bundesliga, and did not even qualify for the European war.

But no matter what, Huo Cun's first promotion to the Bundesliga was completely fired, and it was played quite loudly. Almost the whole of Europe knew that there was such a village team in Germany.

However, after the resounding performance in the first season, in the next three seasons, Hoffenheim only won the 11th place in the Bundesliga, a standard mid-lower team ranking.

And the situation of Hoffenheim this season is not good. They are currently only ranked 14th in the Bundesliga, and they may need to relegation this season.

But this time at home, Hoffenheim does not want to make Schalke 04 feel better.

The Hoffenheim fans at the scene played the banner of "end undefeated". They wanted to snipe Schalke 04's undefeated record.

As long as Schalke 04 continues to remain unbeaten in this game, they can tie the longest unbeaten record in team history. This is known throughout Germany. Hoffenheim obviously does not want to be the background board, but wants to be a spoiler.

As soon as the game started, Hoffenheim took the lead in launching the offensive.

In just 3 minutes of the opening, Huo Cun's midfielder Firmino passed a cross and almost made Matip's own goal.

Fortunately, Onnerstahl responded in a timely manner, and hugged the ball sideways to the goal after rebounding from Matip's calf.

The threat was created at the beginning, and the Hoffenheim fans at the Rhein-Neckar Stadium immediately became excited and shouted in unison to cheer for the home team.

The Hoffenheim players also lived up to their expectations.

In the 12th minute, Hoffenheim's American full-back Fabian Johnson stepped forward to assist, cooperated with Joselu in the frontcourt and then sent a cross. Volland threw away Jermaine Jones from the center and pushed a shot.

Unnerstahl didn't react this time, and the opponent scored a goal.

"It's a bit of a surprise. Hoffenheim, who have not been in a good state since the beginning of the season, took the lead to break through the gate of Schalke 04. You must know that Schalke is the only undefeated team in our Bundesliga." The German commentator Say so.

The current Hoffenheim team's style of play is very German-style, playing games with wide opening and closing.

This season they have already fallen behind by three goals in away games, and finally lost to Freiburg 3:5, leading by two goals at home, but finally tied with newly promoted Ma Fürth 3:3 in a typical game.

Now that they took the lead in scoring goals, their morale was even higher, and then the continuous offensive came again.

And it really worked.

In the 27th minute, Schalke 04 pushed forward and was hit by a successful counterattack. Firmino got a single chance in the counterattack. Unnerstahl made a mistake and fell to Firmino's feet and tripped him. , Not only did he get a yellow card, Hoffenheim also got a penalty.

In the end, Firmino personally took the penalty kick and the score was extended to 2:0.

"Hoffenheim played very well at home. Are they really going to end Schalke's unbeaten streak?" Now the German commentator also began to doubt that Schalke 04 might be overturned.

Less than half an hour into the game, Schalke 04 was already behind by two goals in the away game.

Hub Stevens on the sidelines began to get anxious and kept yelling from the sidelines.

"Calm down, pay attention to defense!!"

"Don't panic, we still have time!!"

Seeing that he was about to tie the team's historical record, but at this time he encountered trouble with the not-so-strong Hoffenheim, which made Stevens a little anxious.

Stevens' words still had an effect. Then, under the leadership of captain Hewedes, the Schalke 04 team stabilized the situation first, and then dragged the opponent's continuous offensive.

In the next ten minutes of the first half, Schalke 04 focused on stabilizing the defense, and finally did not continue to concede the ball.

But Schalke 04 also failed to find a chance to regain some points. At the end of the first half, the score was still 2:0. Schalke 04 returned to the locker room with two goals behind.

"No one expected that Schalke 04, who have not lost a game so far this season, fell behind 0:2 at halftime at the Rhine-Neckar Stadium."

"If Schalke hadn't taken the initiative to retract their defense in the second half of the first half, they might have fallen behind even more."

"Although there are still 45 minutes in the game, if Schalke 04 cannot adjust their status as soon as possible, their first loss of the season may be coming, right here at the Rhein-Neckar Stadium." The German commentator started Halftime summary.

In the midfield locker room, Stevens is motivating his players.

"Don't worry everyone, as long as we play as we should in the second half, we will definitely be able to reverse the score."

"Although Hoffenheim is difficult to deal with when they are in an offensive state, they have not been able to defend well. Before that, they had a two-goal lead at home, but were eventually tied 3:3 by the newly promoted Fürth."

"So as long as we do our own thing well, we will definitely be able to reverse the score. It is absolutely impossible for us to be inferior to a newly promoted horse."