In the first half, Hoffenheim always wanted to have excellent performances on both offense and defense because Salihovic wanted to have excellent performances on both offense and defense. This idea came from the pressure given by Chu Zhongtian in daily training. Although he had not performed much in the game, Chu Zhongtian had already shown his balanced side of offense and defense in training.

First of all, his defense is very good, which has been verified by Eduardo himself. Eduardo from Brazil not only looks like Ronaldinho, but also has technical similarities. He is the best player in Hoffenheim and is very talented in dribbling.

However, when such a player faces Chu Zhongtian, the ball under his feet is often cut off. Salihovic observed Chu Zhongtian carefully and found that in the defense, he often did not wait for Eduardo to move first and then move himself, but almost at the same time as Eduardo, and even had to make moves a little in advance. It seemed as if Chu Zhongtian had been waiting there in advance, and Eduardo just bumped into the ball with the football.

Of course, it is not surprising that defensive players with this ability, because for defensive players, prediction is a very important quality. Players with excellent predictions can often become first-class defenders.

Salihovic was just surprised that Chu Zhongtian actually had such qualities... He lost to Chu Zhongtian in terms of physical fitness, and now he is not as good as the opponent in terms of defense.

So in this game, he tried very hard to prove that he could balance off offense and defense... As a result, he made very little contribution to defense and did not help the team in offense, resulting in Hoffenheim's offense in the first half not sharp at all, completely losing the usual indomitable momentum of Hoffenheim in the offense.

After Chu Zhongtian came on the court in the second half, his tactics did not change much, but because the football was handed over to Chu Zhongtian more, Hoffenheim's performance also changed.

Chu Zhongtian has been familiar with and adapting to Hoffenheim's football these days, which is fast, simple and impactful football. During training and on the video, he is thinking about how he should cooperate with such a team.

To adapt to Hoffenheim's rhythm, he must make some changes to his previous style of playing. First of all, he must reduce his habit of constantly passing the ball in the back, because Hoffenheim's defenders are not used to such a way of playing. If you give them too many passes back, they will feel overwhelmed. If the opponent presses tightly, they will be in a hurry. If the opponent loses possession, it will not be impossible to let the opponent face the goalkeeper directly... Metz and Hoffenheim are different. Although they both play offensive football, they are completely different styles.

Metz is like a "Rococo" football. Although it is beautiful and gorgeous, it is too complex and can easily be used by opponents to trap Metz's attack. Hoffenheim's style is more like modernism, with simple lines but sharper. In art, modernism developed with the industrial revolution. In football, Hoffenheim also has this meaning. They are German football, and German football itself is full of steel flavor, hard and sharp. Rangnick added some of his own things to make Hoffenheim's football more aggressive, just like a steel structure, simple and direct, but very powerful.

In such a style, Chu Zhongtian must change his "Rococo" style of playing football. Too much control in the midfield is not helpful to Hoffenheim's offense, it will only slow down the pace and allow the opponent to defend calmly. This is not a team that can always fall back on its feet for more than twenty times and then find an opportunity to accelerate a fatal blow. This is a team that keeps rushing to your defense line from the first minute until you collapse and then rush into you.

Therefore, at Hoffenheim, Rangnick asked Chu Zhongtian to handle the ball more decisively. Such requests prompted Chu Zhongtian to think and observe the situation faster during the game, because he would not have much time to think about those problems.

After learning about Hoffenheim's football style, Chu Zhongtian knew what to do.

He is a midfielder. When he is in the back position, he must keep observing the situation on the field, and at the same time make an analysis in his mind to find the loopholes in the opponent's defense. Then when he is in front of him, it is often fatal.

※※※ Maybe there were people who were not convinced by Chu Zhongtian before, but with the ability he showed in daily training, fewer and fewer teammates were thinking about this, and only a few people were still resisting tenaciously.

Since the head coach asked everyone to pass all the football to Chu Zhongtian as much as possible, then it is to obey it.

After the second half of the game began, Chinese journalists found that football was obviously concentrated on Chu Zhongtian. If you want to use computer software to analyze Hoffenheim's passing route in the second half, you will find that many passes eventually point to Chu Zhongtian.

Not long after the second half began, Chu Zhongtian used a precise long pass to send the ball to Demba. Ba's feet, allowing the opponent to complete a wonderful shot.

If it weren't for England's national goal Paul Robinson's performance and saved the ball, he was afraid that Blackburn's goal would be lost after only two minutes of the game.

Demba Ba seemed a little annoyed that he didn't score, but he had not forgotten to turn around and give Chu Zhongtian a thumbs up, indicating that he passed the ball beautifully.

So how beautiful is it? Chu Zhongtian's pass flew nearly fifty meters in the air, just one meter in front of him. It did not rotate strongly, and it was not difficult to stop the ball. He could easily remove the football with just stretched his feet. The football slid to the ground against the instep, and there was no change of line bounce. He then swung his foot and shot, and the football flew straight to the Blackburn goal.

The whole move was completed in one go, of course, which was related to his excellent personal skills. But if Chu Zhongtian had a strong pass and had obvious rotation, he might have to do more movements to stabilize the football. In that case, he might not have such a good shooting opportunity.

As a forward, Demba Ba obviously knows what the best pass for the forward in the penalty area is, the kind that looks plain, without any weird arcs and unexpected angles, making the forward feel comfortable to connect, without unnecessary movements, and can follow the pass that shoots.

The reason why Demba Ba gave Chu Zhongtian a thumbs up is definitely not just because he created a shot opportunity for himself, but because Chu Zhongtian's pass made him feel comfortable to stop.

It seems that this kid is really talented and knowledgeable.

On the passing point, Demba Ba unconsciously compared him with Salihovic. The two were almost the same, and Salihovic's pass was so comfortable.

Regardless of the others, at least even if Chu Zhongtian takes over Salihovic as the core in passing, Demba Ba doesn't think there is anything wrong with it.

※※※In the first few minutes of the game, Chu Zhongtian almost didn't get into it. For more time, he observed Blackburn in the back to look for loopholes in the team's defense. Perhaps it was because this was a warm-up game, because Hoffenheim's opponent was too weak and too famous, and they had never heard of saving money, so Blackburn's players felt that there was no threat and just wanted to attack and show themselves. In Chu Zhongtian's eyes, the loopholes in this team were everywhere, and it depends on whether he and his teammates could catch it.

In the 54th minute, he finally moved after observing in the backcourt for nearly ten minutes.

After receiving the pass from full-back Baker, he did not continue to rely on long passes to launch the attack, but suddenly dribbled the ball forward!

Blackburn's Swiss international Vogel did not react and slowed down a beat and let Chu Zhongtian run away from him.

Tuguy saw Chu Zhongtian dribbling the ball through the midfield and came up to defend. Chu Zhongtian did not go one-on-one with him, but instead assigned the football behind him.

Ibisevic received the ball!

Among this Hoffenheim team, Ibisevic is the one who cooperates with Chu Zhongtian the most tacitly. When he saw Chu Zhongtian suddenly jumping forward, he knew what he was going to do. So he did not wait in the front, but suddenly withdrew from the penalty area and ran back to meet Chu Zhongtian. At the same time, his running position also pulled out a central defender Ryan Nelsen in Blackburn.

After passing the ball, Chu Zhongtian did not stop, but continued to step forward, which made Tuguy unexpected. Ibisekic did not turn around when he received the ball, but directly knocked the ball to the right with his right foot outside his instep. Chu Zhongtian, who was inserted, received the ball.

Chu Zhongtian and Hoffenheim's teammates did not cooperate well enough, so he could only play such cooperation with Ibisevic. If it were others, he would probably have turned around and gotten hard.

Chu Zhongtian, who received the ball again, did not continue to drive the ball forward, but directly sent a straight pass!

Blackburn's defenders were paying attention to Demba Ba who had just created a threatening ball and another young forward Marco Trazzino (marco_terrazzino), and completely ignored the protection of the middle.

Eduardo took this opportunity to get in and happened to receive the pass from Chu Zhongtian to him.

When he received the ball, he didn't hesitate at all. He directly shot with his left foot. The football rubbed against the turf and flew in from the near corner of the goal!

1:0!

Hoffenheim finally opened the deadlock, and the person who instigated the first goal for the team was Chu Zhongtian, who spent 30 million euros to transfer to the club.

The most exciting thing in the stands is not Hoffenheim fans, but Chinese journalists.

They were used to passing like Chu Zhongtian when they were in France. But after they came to Germany, they couldn't see it and missed it again. Now that they finally saw it, how could they not be excited? This means that Chu Zhongtian had a good start in Hoffenheim.

When the team was unable to open the situation for a long time, he used an assist to break through the window paper.

After scoring the goal, Eduardo turned around and ran back happily, hugging Chu Zhongtian who assisted him. Ibissevic also ran up and laughed and slapped Chu Zhongtian's head. As a former Metz player, he was very happy to see Chu Zhongtian show his power.

Everyone ran up and hugged them three to celebrate the team's goal.

Salihovic did not hug Chu Zhongtian directly. He waited by the side. After Eduardo and Chu Zhongtian separated, he hugged Eduardo and congratulated him on his goal. Last season, he and Eduardo were two midfielders, on his right and Eduardo left. The two cooperated well and accumulated friendship. Eduardo scored the goal, and as a friend, he of course had to come forward to congratulate him.

Chu Zhongtian's sudden insertion made him care. He had already learned from daily training that this was one of Hoffenheim's new tactics. When necessary, Chu Zhongtian would dribble the ball forward and seek cooperation with his teammates, completely disrupting the opponent's defense. Judging from his performance in the actual game, Chu Zhongtian did a good job.

But this is only the first time. Everyone has good luck and bad luck. Maybe this time it is just Chu Zhongtian who is lucky? After all, Blackburn's defense is too casual.

We have to continue to observe.

※※※After the team scored, Rangnick stood up from his seat and took the lead in applauding. He didn't pay much attention to the score, and the only thing he valued for the warm-up match was the process. Of course, if the process was good and the result was beautiful, he would be happier.

Chu Zhongtian's sudden forward penetration was what he focused on during this period of training. Now that he has seen the actual results, he seems very happy.

As a free man, forward insertion is necessary. The timing of forward insertion and the skills of forward insertion are all that Rangnick values. Chu Zhongtian often forward insertion in Metz, which is not unfamiliar to him. However, the entire Hoffenheim team needs to adapt to Chu Zhongtian and cooperate with his sudden forward insertion. Rangnick doesn't want to see Chu Zhongtian getting worse, but his teammates don't keep up.

In the process of Chu Zhongtian's efforts to adapt to the team, the team must also cooperate with Chu Zhongtian's playing style.

In the subsequent game, Chu Zhongtian did not make as frequent forwards as people expected to disrupt Blackburn's defense line. Instead, he sent out wonderful passes to Eduardo and Salihovic in the front from behind.

Especially Salihovic, Chu Zhongtian knew that Salihovic was a very capable player, and if he wanted to be the real leader of this team, he had to establish a good relationship with Salihovic. So he considered improving the relationship between the two by constantly passing the ball to Salihovic during the game.

This move is a subtle way to change other people's attitudes. It cannot be seen in a short period of time and will take a long time to have a significant effect.

Chu Zhongtian did not expect that Salihovic would let go of his prejudice against him and cooperate sincerely in one game. But he had to continue to do this.

The so-called water droplets wear out the stone, it is absolutely correct to use it on this.

In the 63rd minute, Blackburn equalized the score. After all, they were the seventh in the Premier League last season, and their strength was still there. South Africa's legendary scorer McCarthy equalized the score for the team.

But before Blackburn could breathe a sigh of relief, Hoffenheim scored another goal.

After Chu Zhongtian got the ball in the backcourt, he passed the ball to Salihovic. Salihovic seemed to be deliberately showing his offensive talent in front of Chu Zhongtian. He did not stop the ball, but directly sent a wonderful pass with his heel.

This time it was Eduardo again. He received a subtle pass from Salihovic's heel with a heart-warming look, then took a long shot. The football passed Robinson's fingertip and flew into the goal, 2:1!

After scoring the goal, Eduardo went to Salihovic to celebrate, and Chu Zhongtian ran up. He didn't want to make himself look too special. The celebration moment after scoring the goal is the best opportunity to get closer to his teammates. To be the team leader, you must have a good relationship with his teammates.

He hugged Eduardo, and Ibisevic quickly rushed up and squeezed him to Salihovic.

"Beautiful job, haha!" Ibisevic laughed.

However, Salihovic was a little embarrassed when he saw Chu Zhongtian approaching. But when everyone was so happy, he did not push Chu Zhongtian away. He wanted to push it away by himself, but a few teammates squeezed up behind him and could not retreat.

He had to bite the bullet and celebrated the goal with Chu Zhongtian next to him. As soon as the celebration was over, he "escaped" from the crowd, returned to his position, and waited for the opponent to kick off.

Seeing him like this, Ibisevic smiled secretly.

※※ Next, under Chu Zhongtian's push, Hoffenheim continued to attack Blackburn, creating many opportunities to score.

After Salihovic received the support of Chu Zhongtian, he didn't have to retreat to a deep place to catch the ball and organize the attack. With Chu Zhongtian, his work became simple - that is, pass the ball forward, pass the threatening ball, or shoot by himself.

When he stopped running back and forth like he did in the first half, his performance returned to normal levels.

Unfortunately, he created two opportunities for Ibisevic, but Ibisevic was not sure, otherwise he could have completed the "hat trick" of assists.

In the 75th minute, Salihovic was replaced by head coach Rangnick, and 500 Hoffenheim fans applauded him. He waved to the fans in the stands on the sidelines, looking in a good mood.

When he sat down, he began to think about what made him feel so relaxed during the game?

He turned his eyes to the stadium and looked for the answer. In fact, the answer was right in front of him, but he was a little reluctant to admit it.

Seeing Chu Zhongtian running on the court, appearing in every corner of the court, defending or passing the ball, he vaguely felt that he could not do this... At least his physical fitness would not support him in running like this... Players like him must learn to allocate their physical strength reasonably, and in Chu Zhongtian, this is not a problem at all.

He was a little envious of this person...※※※For both coaches, the results of this game were not what they valued, so both sides began to replace people frequently. Blackburn changed five people in one breath, and Hoffenheim changed three people.

Next, Hoffenheim still had the advantage on the field. Blackburn was not adapted to Hoffenheim's extremely oppressive style of play, and the rhythm of the game was firmly in his hands. After Salihovic and Eduardo both left the court one after another, Chu Zhongtian took on the position and took on the responsibility of organizing the team's offense and passing the last goal.

He created three opportunities for the team, but his teammates were not sure.

It was not until the 84th minute that Weis, who was replaced, received Chu Zhongtian's ball and scored a long shot.

This ball secured the victory for Hoffenheim.

In the end, the Bundesliga promoted team defeated the seventh place in the Premier League last season with a score of 3:1.

This is their third win in four warm-up matches.

So far, the team has remained unbeaten in the warm-up match.

What is more important than the result is the team's performance. Rangnick said in an interview with the kraichgau-elf website after the game: "The warm-up match has its purpose. Our players are very impactful on the court and have created many good opportunities to score. I hope that the guys can keep this state after the training camp and go further in the right direction."

Then he talked about Chu Zhongtian: "Although Chu only had forty-five minutes in this game, his performance made me full of confidence. I always believe that we had taken advantage of 30 million, and Chu will definitely gradually show his ability. In this game, he showed us well how to lead a team to victory."

Yes, he was right. After this game, the locker room and fans' views on Chu Zhongtian changed slightly again. With the various qualities he showed in the past forty-five minutes, more people believe that Chu Zhongtian is capable of leading the team.

The German media still have questions, but the question is not whether Chu Zhongtian is suitable for Hoffenheim, but whether he is really as good as Rangnick said, becoming a player like Matthias Summer, or even Beckenbauer.

At this point, everyone had no disagreement and everyone shook their heads.

This is absolutely impossible!
Chapter completed!