After playing against Borussia Mönchengladbach, Hoffenheim ushered in the second round of the German Cup with Nuremberg in the middle of the week.

In this game, Rangnick did not send out the strongest lineup, and there were not even a few first-team players to support the team. Rangnick used the German Cup as a stage to train young people. The players who played fewer in the first-team game formed the team to go to Nuremberg.

Almost all of the main players such as Chu Zhongtian, Ibisevic, Salihovic and other main players got rest time, and they did not go out with the team.

The captain of this game is Swedish central defender Per Nilsson. Due to the arrival of Simonic and Metzeld and the rise of Compare, the former main central defender can only live on the bench. In this German Cup, Rangnick's central defender combination was Nilsson and Metzeld, and Nilsson wore the captain's armband, which is also a thank you to the captain.

Nilsson also responded to the head coach's trust with practical actions. In the 35th minute, he headed the ball in a corner kick, rewriting the score to 1:0.

This goal determined the result of the game. Until the end of the game, neither side scored. Hoffenheim relied on Nilsson's goal to eliminate Nuremberg 1:0 away and advanced to the quarterfinals.

※※ Three days after the German Cup, the seventh round of the league will be. Hoffenheim will face Hertha Berlin at home. Hertha Berlin, who finally won the fifth place in the league last season, ranked last in the league after leaving many core teams this season. In addition to the difficult victory over Hannover in the first round, Hertha Berlin suffered a five-game losing streak in the next six rounds, and the losses were still mid- and lower-level teams.

In the mid-week German Cup, Hertha Berlin was eliminated by the Bundesliga team Munich 1860.

Now the team's head coach Favre is facing tremendous pressure. It is said that the club's board of directors has given him an ultimatum. If he cannot reverse the decline in three rounds, he will become the fourth coach in the Bundesliga.

Losing 1:2 to Bochum, 0:1 to Bochum, 2:3 to Werder Bremen, 1:2 to Mainz, 0:4 to Freiburg. He lost twelve goals in five rounds of the league. I really don't know if Favre missed the central defender Simonic who was driven away by him after seeing this defense.

Simonic now performs well at Hoffenheim, and he scored a goal against Bochum in the fifth round of the league. However, he still cares about Hertha Berlin, after all, it was the team he played for nine and a half seasons. Although he hates Favre, he does not hate Hertha Berlin. Now he is still a little disappointed to see Hertha Berlin falling to the point of fighting for relegation.

Personal emotions and work are two different things. During the game, he will not show mercy to Hertha Berlin for this.

Another player who once played for Hertha Berlin is Salihovic. Although there are several people in Hertha Berlin today who are his good friends, he has no feelings for this team. He likes Hoffenheim. For this game, he does not have any special emotions like any league opponent.

Rangnick did not prepare too carefully in this game against Hertha Berlin. In fact, the players' minds were not on Hertha Berlin. This game is a game that Hertha Berlin must win, and for Favre, it is even more so, but as their opponent, Hoffenheim's vision is on England and Manchester United. On the evening of September 30, Hoffenheim will fly to challenge Manchester United away, which is their second game in the Champions League group stage. The game against Hertha Berlin is on September 27. It can be said that just after the game, Hoffenheim will immediately switch to Manchester, and he really has no intention of considering how Hertha Berlin is. Anyway, Hertha Berlin is in poor condition recently, Hoffenheim will sprinkle salt on their wounds.

※※※Favre has been really unlucky recently. His team lost five rounds in a row. If the German Cup is included, it will be a six-game losing streak. Before the German Cup, he was called to scold him by the club chairman and told him that if he doesn't find a way to solve the problem, he will wait to pack up and go home.

As soon as the speech ended, his team was eliminated by the underdogs in Munich in the German Cup in 1860. He didn't have to watch the replay of the TV, and he could tell how ugly the club chairman's face was.

Although the three-round match period does not include the German Cup, after losing to Munich in 1860, the young player Patrick Ebert (patrick_ebert) actually shouted at him in front of the players in the locker room, making him "shut up".

It made him lose face and lose all his prestige. The continuous failures have made no one listen to his words in this team, and even the 22-year-old young player dared to contradict him. This was something unimaginable in the past, and now it has all happened.

He knew that the root of all this was results. As long as he continued to lose, no matter what kind of player he was, he could point at his nose and scold him. Once he won the ball, the situation would be different.

As long as you win the ball, everything is easy to say. The players who contradict themselves will become honest and those who question themselves will shut up. The club's senior management will also smile again and cooperate with their work.

So he had to win the game against Hoffenheim.

※※※One side attaches great importance to it, but the other side doesn’t care at all. Then the result of this game should obviously be beneficial to the party that attaches importance to this game.

This is not the case in reality.

Before the game, Favre told his players a lot, telling them how to curb Chu Zhongtian, how to prevent Ibisek, and how to break through their defense... Just fifty seconds into the game, he knew that all his words were taken as farts, and the players didn't listen at all.

"Oh oh oh oh! Hertha Berlin, who is terminally ill, has encountered a start that cannot be broken!" Less than a minute before the game started, the commentator yelled. "Ibisevic's goal put them behind 0:1!!"

Not long after the game started, Chu Zhongtian passed the ball straight to the side. Seeing that he couldn't break the ball, Yankel, a full-back from Hertha, pulled down Kolarov who had broken through him. The referee did not hesitate to award Hoffenheim a free kick on the left side of the penalty area.

It was with this free kick that Hoffenheim opened the deadlock.

Salihovic took a free kick from the left, Chu Zhongtian jumped high from the front point, and then headed the ball to the back point. Ibisekic headed the ball at the back point, and the football flew into the goal. Hertha Berlin's goalkeeper Tim Oaks (timo_ochs) was out of reach, so he could only watch the football flew into the goal.

"Fifty seconds! Hoffenheim once again demonstrated their ability to score goals!! Favre's head is about to hurt, and his team is vulnerable in front of Hoffenheim. This game is a competition between the league leader and the league deputy squad leader. Judging from the opening fifty seconds, it is very consistent with their respective rankings in the league standings!"

Rhine Neka Stadium was ignited by Ibisevic's goal so quickly, and everyone cheered.

"Watch Hoffenheim's game, you'd better enter the game early! Or lock the channel early, otherwise you'll likely miss the best goal!" The commentator was also praising Hoffenheim's ability to score quickly. "Don't think it's no big deal to miss dozens of seconds!"

The players in Hertha Berlin were stunned by the ball and some of them didn't come back to their senses - why did they just kick off the ball when the game started again?

But what makes them more confused is still there.

Three minutes later, Hoffenheim scored another goal. Carlos Eduardo took a corner kick, and the unguarded Ibisekic pushed the ball into the goal seven meters in front of the goal, 2:0!

From this ball, you can see what kind of mental state the players of Hertha Berlin are in. As Hoffenheim's most threatening striker, they did not send anyone to guard the game. They just watched Ibisek jump high in front of their goal and then easily scored the football.

"Oh my God! 2:0! Hoffenheim scored another goal! They were only four minutes into the game, and they were already leading two goals! It was amazing!"

"Ibissevic scored twice! He is in very good shape! The super Ibi who swept the Bundesliga in the first half of last season is back!"

After scoring the goal, Ibisevic ran to the stands and whipped his fists and shouted at the fans in the stands.

"Super Ibi!" The fans in the stands shouted the hero's name loudly.

Duan Bin, a Chinese commentator who commented on the game, joked: "Ibisekic's name is good, Vedad Ibisekic, the great Ibisekic, haha!"

The players at Hertha Berlin were completely confused. They did not expect to concede two goals in the four minutes of the game.

They don't play such games often and have no idea how to deal with them in this situation.

Not to mention them, even head coach Favre didn't know how to adjust. The game only started for four minutes, which meant that his arrangement failed in the entire set. Should he replace all eleven people? If football rules allow, maybe he would really do that... Hertha Berlin's nightmare continues. Two minutes later, Obasi broke into the bottom line of the left side of the penalty area and dunked Yankel, then shot at the small angle of his right foot, and the football flew out of the bottom line from the outside of the left post. Such a disastrous start made the players of Hertha Berlin, who were already fragile in psychological defense, disarmed early, and they could not organize an effective offensive at all, so Hoffenheim's defender could boldly press on. Kolarov basically became the left winger, pressing against the opponent's 30-meter line and then not going back.

The consequence of letting the opponent's players gallop across their own 30-meter area is to continue to lose the ball.

In the 21st minute, Salihovic and Chu Zhongtian made exquisite cooperation on the side. After passing the ball to Chu Zhongtian, he accelerated to the bottom. In order to avoid Hertha's defender in Berlin, Chu Zhongtian passed a ball over the top. The football fell straight to the back of the opponent's defense line. After Salihovic waited for the ball near the baseline, he directly made a volley. The football passed the heads of many players in front of the goal and fell to the right of the penalty area. Inserting the assist, it was basically equivalent to a winger's full-back Baker passing the football to the goal again. Ibissevic or no one was on the guard. He headed the ball to the third time at Jiumi.

"gooooooooooooooal!!! Super Ibi-!!!" The commentator shouted excitedly. "Hat trick! He scored a hat trick! Although he performed extremely well in the first half of last season, he had not completed a hat trick! Today is his first hat trick in the Bundesliga! The new season has only started seven rounds and he scored six more goals!!"

"Super Ibi! Super Ibi!" The home team fans in the stands of the Rhine-Neka Stadium burst into loud cheers.

Ibisevic, who completed the hat-trick, opened his arms and raised his head to run on the court to score goals. He was enjoying this feeling.

"The Ibisevic, who used the goal as a breath, is back!" The live broadcast also added such cheers, and he announced passionately.

"Here you back!" The fans responded loudly.

The hat-trick was completed in 21 minutes, which was the second hat-trick record after the opening of the Bundesliga. The record with the fastest opening was maintained by Duisburg's scorer Tenes. He scored three goals in a row from the 11th to the 16th minute in the 1991 Duisburg defeated Karlsruhe 6-2, completing the hat-trick. At the same time, this is also the shortest hat-trick used in the Bundesliga.

The 0:3 trailing 21 minutes into the game also made the game lose its suspense early. Considering that the game was in the middle of the week, Hoffenheim players began to consciously adjust the rhythm on the court, and Chu Zhongtian and the whole team slowed down the rhythm and began to attack less with all their strength.

In the first half of injury time, Rafael broke through in front of the penalty area and was knocked down by Baker. Hertha Berlin won a direct free kick from 17 meters on the left. Rafael took the penalty himself. The ball crossed the wall and hit the inside of the left post and then entered the net. Hildebran had no response to this, Hertha Berlin scored a goal.

But it doesn't help.

In the 58th minute, Chu Zhongtian suddenly pressed in the frontcourt, blocking the ball from Hertha Berlin's pass from the penalty area to the right. Obasi quickly inserted a strong shot, and the ball flew into the lower left corner of the goal, 4:1! Hoffenheim expanded the lead again.

This score can already announce that the game ended early. Hoffenheim began to substitution one after another. Ibissevic, who scored three goals in the 60th minute, was replaced by Van Nissevic. Rangnick's substitution was to allow the heroes of this game to accept the cheers of the fans alone, and on the other hand, to allow Van Nissevic to find the state of the game. In the next game against Manchester United, Van Nissevic and Ibissevic will be the team's starting strikers.

Sure enough, when Ibissevic left the game, all the home team fans spontaneously stood up from their seats and applauded Ibissevic.

Although Ibisek was replaced by a goal-scoring hero, Hoffenheim's offensive firepower was not damaged. Just three minutes after Ibisek's exit, Van Nistrui, who had just appeared, received a pass from Chu Zhongtian in the penalty area, and then tripped by Stein (marc_stein) when turning around. Although Hoffenheim had already led three goals, the referee still awarded a penalty without hesitation.

The penalty kick is usually taken by Salihovic, but this time he gave the opportunity to Eduardo because Eduardo had just become a father.

Eduardo took over this powerful advantage from his teammates and scored the penalty. After scoring the goal, he called everyone up and made a cradle move with him to celebrate the goal.

Seeing that the overall situation was decided, Rangnick replaced Sana with Wosa and replaced Obasi with Wellington.

Despite this, Hoffenheim still has a chance to score. In the 76th minute, Wellington stopped the ball and skipped Arner. Friedrich (arne_friedrich) broke into the penalty area and shot from the left, and the football missed the near post. In the 89th minute, Van Nistrui's arc ball on the right side of the penalty area slightly missed the post, almost rewriting the score to 6:1.

In the end, Hoffenheim defeated Hertha Berlin with a score of 5:1, won four consecutive victories in the league, and continued to top the list. At the same time, they also gave Hertha Berlin a six-game losing streak, which allowed them to tie the club's history's losing streak record, and the team's points continued to be at the bottom.

As soon as the game ended, Favre left the stadium. At this time, he didn't want to see anyone. He was quiet and prepared to bear the anger from the club chairman. Simonic also went up to comfort his former teammates, exchanged jerseys with them, patted their shoulders and said something.

※※※Hoffenheim's game has just ended, and their game video and analysis reports have been sent to the desk of Manchester United coach Ferguson.

"Ibissevic's hat-trick, Hoffenheim beat Hertha Berlin 5:1." Assistant coach Whelan said to Ferguson.

Ibisevic was also a very optimistic player from Manchester United at the time, but it happened after Ibisevic suddenly broke out in the Bundesliga. There were rumors that Manchester United planned to introduce Ibisevic.

Ferguson nodded: "Where is Chu?"

But compared with Ibisevic, Ferguson is more concerned about Chu Zhongtian's performance.

"Once one assist, he couldn't see the data in other aspects. I've watched the live broadcast of the game and it's still very good. I roughly counted that 70% of Hoffenheim's offenses were initiated directly or indirectly by him."

Ferguson crossed his fingers on his abdomen. "It seems that our plan is right. This game is about focusing on Chu. Although Hoffenheim's forward is very powerful, as long as the midfield cannot pass the ball to them, they will be without any threat."

"Then the person we use to keep a guard against Chu is..." Huilan asked.

"Not to guard, area defense. Limit his space and time." Fogensen closed his hands together and made a double-team gesture. "His running ability is so good, and it won't work for people to guard people. Mike. That will only disrupt our own defense line. Once our own defense line is disrupted by him, he will find a lot of space. I don't want to see this happen."

Huilan nodded: "Okay, I understand."

After sending off the assistant coach, Ferguson looked at the game analysis report and video disc on the table. He did not immediately stuff the disc into the disc machine, but picked up the game report first and then started to look at it seriously.
Chapter completed!