Chapter 154: Huo Village's Counterattack

On November 3, the 10th round of the Bundesliga, Schalke 04 came to the small village of Hoffenheim in southwestern Germany and will challenge Hoffenheim here.
Hoffenheim is really just a small village in Germany, the total population of the village is only more than 3,000, but in such a small village, there is a Bundesliga team inside.
In Europe, in fact, most rural towns have their own team, but these teams are basically self-entertaining and semi-amateur in nature. They have long been mixed up in their respective domestic bottom leagues and even amateur leagues, except Not many people outside the locals pay much attention.
Hoffenheim was also the first such team. Although they were formally established in 1945, they have long been a seventh-level league in Germany, that is, the municipal league, and they have nothing to do with most German village teams. What difference.
However, in 1990, Hoffenheim ushered in a turning point. German billionaire Dietmar Hope bought the village team, and Huo Cun began the road of counterattack.
In more than ten years, Hoffenheim completed seven consecutive jumps in stages, and was finally promoted to the Bundesliga in 2008.
Hope bought the village team and injected capital into it because Hoffenheim is his hometown, and Hope also joined Hoffenheim’s youth academy when he was young, but later because Insufficient talent and was eliminated.
After being eliminated, Hope went back to earnestly studying and admitted to university, and later became Germany's top rich man, and now he is just giving back to his hometown.
In the first season of promotion to the Bundesliga, Hoffenheim surprised the whole of Germany.
In the 08/09 Bundesliga season, Hoffenheim killed the Quartet with a trident composed of Ibisevic, Dembaba and Obasi, and actually won the Bundesliga half championship as a newly promoted.
We must know that the only time in the history of the Bundesliga was a promotion to win the half-time championship. It was Kaiserslautern in the 97/98 season. They finally completed the Kaiserslautern miracle and won the Bundesliga that year as a promotion. champion.
Just when everyone thought there would be another miracle, Ibisevic, the core of the Huocun Trident, was seriously injured during the winter break and was reimbursed for the season.
So in the second half of the season, Hoffenheim's ranking dropped all the way, and finally only won a seventh place in the Bundesliga, not even a European qualification.
But in any case, Huo Cun’s first shot in the Bundesliga was completely fired, and it was quite loud. Almost the entire Europe knew that Germany had such a village team.
But after the resounding of the first season, in the next three seasons, Hoffenheim only won 11th in the Bundesliga, a standard middle and lower team ranking.
And this season Hoffenheim's situation is not good, they are currently only ranked 14th in the Bundesliga, maybe this season still need to be relegated.
But this time at home, Hoffenheim didn't want Schalke 04 to get better.
The Hoffenheim fans at the scene played the "End Undefeated" banner. They wanted to snipe Schalke 04's unbeaten record.
In this game, as long as Schalke 04 continues to remain unbeaten, he can tie the longest unbeaten record in team history. This is known to all of Germany. Hoffenheim obviously does not want to be this background board, but wants to be a Spoiler.
As soon as the game started, Hoffenheim took the lead on the offensive.
In just 3 minutes of the opening, Huo Cun’s core midfielder, Firmino, passed a pass and almost made Matip’s own goal.
Fortunately, Unnastahl reacted in time and hugged the ball that flew to the goal after rebounding from Matip's calf.
At the beginning of the game, a threat was created. The Hoffenheim fans at the Rheinneca Stadium immediately became excited and shouted in unison to cheer for the home team.
The Hoffenheim players did not live up to their expectations.
In the 12th minute, Hoffenheim’s American full-back Fabian Johnson stepped forward and assisted, and after cooperating with Joselu’s frontcourt, he sent a cross. Flanders threw off Jermaine Jones in the middle and kicked it. Tsionnerstal did not react, and the opponent scored a goal.
"This is a bit of a surprise. Hoffenheim, who has not been in a good state since the beginning of the season, took the lead in breaking through the gate of Schalke 04. We must know that Schalke is the only unbeaten team in our Bundesliga" German commentary Said so.
At present, the Hoffenheim game is very German-style, and the game is open and close.
This season, they have fallen behind by three goals in the away game, and finally lost to Freiburg 3:5, led by two goals at home, but finally tied the typical game like the promoted Mafelt 3:3.
Now that they are the first to score goals, it is even more morale, and then the continuous offensive has come again.
And it really achieved results.
In the 27th minute, Schalke 04 pressed onto the offense and was hit by a successful counterattack. Firmino got a single chance in the counterattack. Onnastahl made a mistake and threw him at the feet of Firmino. Not only did he get a yellow card, Hoffenheim also won a penalty.
In the end, Firmino personally took the penalty kick and the score was expanded to 2:0.
"Hoffenheim played very well at home, are they really going to end Schalke's unbeaten streak?" Now the German commentary also began to doubt, Schalke 04 might be overturned.
Less than half an hour after the opening, Schalke 04 was already two goals behind on the road.
Hubble Stevens on the sidelines began to get anxious and kept yelling from the sidelines.
"Calm down~EbookFREE.me~ pay attention to defense!!"
"Don't panic, all we have is time!!"
Seeing that he was about to tie the team history record, at this time he was in trouble with Hoffenheim, who was not strong enough, which made Stevens a little anxious.
Stevens's words still worked. Next, under the leadership of Captain Hevides, the Schalke 04 team first stabilized the situation and dragged the opponent's continuous offensive.
In the next ten minutes of the first half, Schalke 04 focused on holding the defense, and finally did not continue to lose the ball.
But Schalke 04 also failed to find a chance to regain some scores. 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 thought that Schalke 04, who has not lost a game so far this season, fell behind 0:2 at halftime at the Rheinneka Stadium."
"If it weren't for Schalke's initiative to retract the defense in the second half of the first half, they might be behind even more."
"Although there are still 45 minutes in the game, if Schalke 04 can't adjust the state as soon as possible, their first defeat of the season may be coming, in this Rheinneka stadium." The German commentator started. A half-time summary.
In the locker room of the midfield, Stevens is motivating his players.
"Don't worry, as long as we play the strength we should have in the second half, we can definitely reverse the score."
"Although Hoffenheim is difficult to deal with when offensively, they have always been poorly defensive. They have had a two-goal lead at home before, but they were finally drawn by the promoted Firth 3:3.
"So as long as we do our own thing, we can definitely reverse the score. We can never even match a newly promoted horse."