Those who were sure to leave gradually left, Kopado, Lev, Seitz and Kischbaum all transferred and left the team. Except for Love who brought Hoffenheim 500,000 euros in income, everyone else transferred freely and didn't get a penny. Hoffenheim of Hope really doesn't care about this little money.

Yankel stayed because if he left, the team would not find a suitable right-back substitute. Time is tight now, and there is no suitable right-back to choose from in the winter transfer market.

Hoffenheim's bench strength is not strong enough. If he leaves, he will never dare to have any injuries in the second half of the season. After communicating with Rangnick, Yankel decided to stay in the team for the time being.

At the same time, the team failed to pursue Simonic. The team chose to loan flamenco's young defender Fabricio (fabricio_silva_dornellas). The 18-year-old Brazilian young player is a player of the Brazilian national youth team under the age of 20. He is a very talented player. Hoffenheim fell in love with his talent and age. The team first loaned him for half a season, and then decided whether to buy him depending on the situation.

※※As the club's transfer work progressed, players continued to leave the training camp in Namanga, Spain, and new teammates joined.

While training, the team also played several warm-up matches with the team that was also training in Namanga.

On January 13, the first warm-up match was played, and the opponent was Bochum. As a result, the team lost to Bochum 0:2 when almost all the main players appeared.

But what is important about the warm-up match is not the result, but the process. Hildebrand started in this game, but only Beck and Nilsson were the main players in the defense line. Yankel played the central defender in this game, while Löv played the left-back. After the game, Hildebrand was very depressed. This was his first time to play for Hoffenheim. Although it was just a warm-up match, he also hoped to have an outstanding performance. He may be the most serious and hardworking starter among all the starters, but unfortunately he was the goal he guarded was scored two goals... He was still a member of the German national team in the 2006 World Cup in Germany, but now he has not been selected for the national team for a long time. The South African World Cup is less than two years away, and he hopes to adjust his state before this to welcome the arrival of the South African World Cup. Kahn retired, Lehman is old, he

I always thought that the main goalkeeper of the German team should finally be his turn, but I didn't expect that in recent years, there have been many excellent young goalkeepers in Germany, such as Schalke 04's main goalkeeper Neuer, who was only 22 years old, was already selected for the national team. There are also Leverkusen's goalkeeper Adler, who was a few days away from turning 24. Now the oldest goalkeeper in the German national team is Robert Enke who plays for Hannover, 30 years old. And Hildebrand is 29 years old, and there is no big advantage in age compared to Enke... Germany has a tradition of producing excellent goalkeepers, from Schumacher to Ilgner, from Kopke to Kahn, Lehmann, and now a large group of young goalkeepers are rising. Hildebrand feels great pressure.

Therefore, even if it is just a warm-up match, he hopes that he can perform well.

Three days later, Hoffenheim lost to Hamburg with the same score in the second warm-up match.

The teams that did not defeat Hoffenheim in the league finally found a chance to avenge this.

The game was a little angry in the middle of the game. Hamburg's foot was rather harsh, not like he was playing in a friendly match at all. Brazilian striker Wellington, who was eager to show off, did not avoid a ball in a fight, and tackled to the ground with the opponent's player Mathijsen.

Wellington transferred for a permanent transfer last summer with a net worth of 4.2 million euros, but he did not get much chance to play, and his performance was not good enough and he had not adapted to German football for a long time. Seeing his teammates performing well and winning a winter championship for the team, he also wanted to show himself and prove to the head coach that he could gain a foothold in the team. This mentality brought him bad luck. He was lifted off the spot and could no longer continue the game.

As a compatriot, Brazilian players were very together outside. Seeing Wellington being hurt, Eduardo naturally had to avenge his compatriots. Then he tackled Olic in the game. Although Olic was not injured, Eduardo's move was very dangerous. Olic was very angry. He got up from the ground and rushed towards Eduardo.

He stuck Eduardo's neck, and Eduardo also slapped Olic, and both of them were sent out.

Rangnick was very dissatisfied with the team's performance during the game. He believed that the team had put too much energy into trouble with finding opponents, so as a punishment, all the team members ran back from the training ground to the hotel in the station - in the past they came on bicycles and then took a bus back.

The injured Wellington flew back to Germany from Spain that day. He will go to Heidelberg University Hospital for an MRI scan to determine the final injury.

The whole team was sad about Wellington's injury, while Ibisevic felt a little scared.

Originally, the ball was closest to him, but at that time he was in a warm-up match mentality and did not actively fight. Instead, Wellington behind him rushed up, and it turned out to be... a tragedy.

What if the person who went up to grab the ball was not Wellington, but him? Ibissevic almost didn't dare to think about it. He just took the Bosnian Footballer from last year, but he didn't want to suffer such a serious injury - although Wellington's test results have not yet come out, anyone could see that the injury was very serious, and it was definitely not the injury that could return to the court after two weeks of rest.

Ma Tyson's moment was very fierce, and his feet were raised very high, not like he was going to grab the ball.

No wonder Eduardo was so angry that he felt that the Dutch centre-back's kick was not for the ball at all, but was prepared to play for Hoffenheim's player from the beginning.

A day later, Wellington's test results came out - a torn cruciate ligament on his right knee, which would mean Wellington would miss all the remaining games of the team this season.

Everyone was shocked when they heard this news... The only good news for Rangnick is that Wellington is not the team's main scorer, and the team does not rely on his performance. However, as a very talented player, it is not a good thing to suffer such a serious injury at such a young age, and it may have immeasurable serious consequences for his future development. Last summer, Wellington had a calf muscle fiber strain after joining the team and missed the team's training and warm-up game for three weeks. It was these three weeks that made him unable to integrate into the team well. He lost at the starting line, and even if he wanted to catch up, he could not catch up.

※※※Wellington's injury is a sad thing, but the training camp will continue.

Then in the third warm-up match, Hoffenheim finally won, and they defeated Switzerland's Zurich team 4-1.

The main reason for the team's poor performance in the previous warm-up match was that Rangnick has been running in the defense line, and the newly joined players also need to adapt to the team's style. For them, Hoffenheim's fast-paced style of play is not so easy to adapt.

In addition, after a crazy holiday, players also need to recover their physical fitness and lose weight.

Training is used to adjust the state. At this time, the state is not a problem. As long as you can adjust it after the league starts.

For the attack line, training is to adjust the state. If nothing unexpected happens, Rangnick will stick to a more aggressive 433 in the second half of the league. The team's defense is limited by the fact that there are not many choices for winter transfers and cannot be completely transformed. Since this is the case, just use their strengths to the extreme so that all opponents can't stop them even if they study them thoroughly, just like in the first half of the season. Football games should play to their strengths and avoid their weaknesses.

The attacking lineup performed very well in this warm-up match, scoring four goals from his opponent. Chu Zhongtian also scored his first goal in the training camp, which was a very beautiful long shot. During the training, Rangnick allowed Chu Zhongtian to increase his long shot practice and attempt. The goal against Bayern Munich in the last moment allowed everyone to see Chu Zhongtian's long shot ability.

The German media later gave Chu Zhongtian a nickname - "Greater China Cannon". It is very vivid and imposing. Chu Zhongtian himself likes this nickname very much, so he consciously added long-range shots in competitions and training.

Wellington was seriously injured and missed the rest of the season. Hoffenheim had only four forwards, and Rangnick played in a 433 formation and started three forwards. Now after Wellington was injured, the team did not even have a substitute forward.

Chu Zhongtian realized that this was a problem. Of course, the club is now trying to find a suitable replacement, but such a striker is not easy to find - it cannot be too expensive, practical, and can also be willing to play as a substitute. He feels that if he can shoot more long shots in the game, or simply enter the penalty area and shoot directly, it may help the team's forward line relieve the pressure.

Rangnick always felt that Chu Zhongtian was impeccable in passing organization, but his desire to score was not strong, which was a bottleneck that hindered him from becoming a world-class star. When the team couldn't open the situation, his shooting score would be a weapon to break the balance and deadlock.

※※When the team was still advancing to find a striker substitute, the team also ended their training camp in Namanga, Spain and returned to the cold Germany.

As soon as we returned to the snowy Germany, everyone was still a little uncomfortable. Eduardo caught a cold and missed the team's training the next day.

Since Wellington was injured, there has been a lot of bad news in the team. Eduardo missed training due to a cold. After two days, when Eduardo returned to the team, Obasi strained his thigh muscles in training. In the last game before the winter break, Obasi strained his thighs in the game. From this point of view, his strain has developed into a long-term chronic injury. If that is true, it will be completely bad news for the team and himself.

"Wellington was reimbursed for the second half of the season, and Obasius will definitely miss the first game in the second half of the Bundesliga. He is not happy at all when he passed this winter break. Does this mean that Hoffenheim's Bundesliga will not be as smooth as the first half?" German media began to doubt Hoffenheim's performance in the second half of the season.

Even if they win the Winter Championship, not many people really believe they can win the league championship prize plate.

"Respect belongs to Hoffenheim, but the championship belongs to Bayern" is a consensus among many people. They believe that Hoffenheim has won everyone's respect and glory with a beautiful first-half season and winter championship, but their strength is limited after all. When they are thoroughly studied by their opponents, they will naturally encounter Waterloo. In fact, many opponents in Schalke 04 have provided a reference example - using rough defense to disrupt Hoffenheim's fast attack. The football of this team is always at the same speed and lacks changes. Once their rhythm is disrupted, they will face great difficulties. If it weren't for Teber's free kick with explosive character in that game, the final result would be hard to say.

Bayern, who plays steadily, will eventually win the league championship with their wealthy background and experience, as well as strong strength. Although many people are not happy with Bayern, it cannot be denied that Bayern Munich is the well-deserved overlord in the Bundesliga. As long as the Bundesliga championship is mentioned, "Bayern" is an unavoidable name.

"Bayern is too strong, Hoffenheim has shown their courage, which is enough... Now they have encountered injuries again... This reminds us. Hoffenheim's performance in the first half of the season was so outstanding because their players were rarely injured. But such situations are not often found in the football world, and Hoffenheim's substitute lineup is too different from their main players. Once someone is injured in the main lineup and the substitute players cannot stand up, failure will come. The league is long, and no one can guarantee that no one is injured, or always maintain a good condition... In fact, I

Now I doubt how many goals Ibissevic still has after a winter break? For him, the winter break must not be a good thing, because it interrupted his goal rhythm. Rhythm is a very wonderful thing. For top scorers, they can roughly have a premonition when they can score goals, which is the sense of rhythm. Once the rhythm is disrupted, it will be difficult to get back such a crazy goal state... I'm not saying that Ibissevic will not score goals in the second half of the season, but he definitely can't do the 17-round twenty goals as crazy as the first half of the season!"

The second half of the Bundesliga is getting closer and the media are also becoming active. Before the winter break, Chu Zhongtian said the bold words of "winning the championship" at the TV show and the German Annual Sports Awards ceremony. Naturally, everyone was watching Hoffenheim, wanting to see if Chu Zhongtian was talking nonsense or really having the ability.

On January 31, in the 18th round of the Bundesliga, Hoffenheim will welcome Cottbus at their new home court Rhineka Stadium.

The schedule of the second half of the Bundesliga Lindsea is exactly the same as in the first half. After playing with Cottbus, it was against Borussia Mönchengladbach. Both teams were relegation teams, and in order to relegation, they had to start working hard from this time. So these two games were not necessarily easy. Then there was the "devil schedule". On February 13, they swept their Leverkusen at home 5:2 in the first half of the season. On February 21, they challenged Stuttgart away, and on February 28, they challenged Dortmund away, and Dortmund was determined to take revenge. There is no need to say more about this game. On March 7, they faced Werder Bremen at home.

Critics generally believe that after these two games, you can roughly see Hoffenheim's final result this season. Is it the champion? Or is it a qualification for the European competition? Or is it a waste of money and nothing is gained?

※※The match with Cottbus is not the first match at Rhine Neka Stadium. On January 24, the first match of Rhine Neka will be held here. The opening match is also the team's last warm-up match before the second half of the Bundesliga begins. It is also the farewell match of veteran Copado in Hoffenheim.

They faced Rhine-Neka Regional United.

Before the game, club owner Dietma Hope, mayor of Sinsheim and governor of Baden Württemberg delivered speeches respectively. Hope said in his speech: "This is a great day in the team's history, we now have the best stadium! We have witnessed too many miracles in the first half of the season, but we still hope to see more miracles! I hope our team can always appear in the German football territory!"

This is the declaration of this ambitious boss, just as Mao Zedong solemnly announced on the Tiananmen Gate Tower that the Chinese people have stood up from now on, Hope's words also mean that Hoffenheim football has appeared in the territory of German football since then and will exist for a long time, even permanently.

In this game, Hoffenheim defeated his opponent with a score of 6:2 in the new stadium where there was still a little snow. Copado received a pass from Chu Zhongtian in the 90th minute, which put a perfect end to his farewell. At that time, Chu Zhongtian had already passed the goalkeeper and faced the empty goal, but he did not choose to shoot, but pushed the ball to Copado who was inserted next to him, and the latter easily scored.

After scoring the goal, Copado raised his hands to thank more than 30,000 fans at the scene, and thunderous applause rang out from the stands.

Chu Zhongtian and his teammates also stood beside him and applauded together.

After thanking the fans, Copado turned around and hugged Chu Zhongtian, thanking him for his assists, making this farewell match particularly perfect. Everyone also rushed up and hugged him.

"Goodbye, Francisco. Remember to think of us."

"I will, brothers! I will remember you forever, remember Hoffenheim's!"

Copado said goodbye to Hoffenheim and joined Ontehaxing for free. His story at Hoffenheim ended, while Chu Zhongtian ushered in a new stadium in Hoffenheim, a new year. His story here has just begun.
Chapter completed!