What Chu Zhongtian didn't know was that while he was stimulated by head coach Rangnick, Fletcher was also stimulated by head coach Ferguson.

Fletcher will start in this game, which is his first time playing in the Champions League this season. Because he tackled Fabregas in the Champions League semi-final last season, he won a red card, was suspended for two games, missing the final and the first Champions League group stage in the new season.

Ferguson thought that Fletcher would need some excitement when he came back, so he moved Chu Zhongtian out.

In the tactical class, he repeatedly mentioned how powerful Chu Zhongtian was and how powerful he was. He asked him to pay attention to protecting the middle lane during the game and not let Chu Zhongtian easily cross this area.

But Ferguson never said a word like "Fletcher, you are not Chu Zhongtian's opponent", but Fletcher himself knew in his heart that the head coach was doubting his ability.

He studied Chu Zhongtian's game video and knew that Chu Zhongtian's range of activities was very large. In this game, the Lord did not let him keep an eye on Chu Zhongtian, and the whole team used regional defense tactics. But the area where Chu Zhongtian had the most activities was the middle road he guarded, so the collision between the two people was inevitable.

He wanted Ferguson to know that Chu Zhongtian was just a paper tiger.

He will soon have such an opportunity.

※※※Boss John greeted his companions to the stands: "Our work is there!" He pointed to a stand in front of him.

Someone among his companions whistled: "The location is good, Old John!"

This stand is right behind the goal, and is the area that only the most hardcore fans will choose, because it is actually not a good place to watch the game, but because it is close to the goal, you can enjoy wonderful shots and goals. If a goal occurs, you will react first.

Someone also saw fans wearing blue jerseys in that stand.

"Hey, it's the German guys! It's still the stands where Hoffenheim fans gather..."

"Of course, the boss started to book tickets from Germany, and it was naturally the stands where Hoffenheim fans were located!"

"Now, when we cheer for Chu in the game, we don't have to be wary of those Manchester United fans."

Everyone walked up to the stands while chatting.

After they walked into the stands, someone greeted the German fans wearing Hoffenheim jerseys in English: "You're still, man! We are your fans for the time being!"

But their attention quickly shifted from the German fans around them.

"They are out to warm up!" Someone shouted, and then the "battle-standing" English fans sang the song very neatly. However, they were not singing Hoffenheim's team songs, but Wimbledon's competitive... The German fans around them curiously looked at the Englishmen who appeared in the stands of the visiting team fans. They were also wearing blue jerseys, but not Hoffenheim's jerseys.

※※The current time is 7:30 pm on September 30, and there are still one hour and fifteen minutes before the game begins. Players on both sides are warming up on the court.

"Look, Chu. That person is Fletcher." Ibisevic stood beside Chu Zhongtian, pointed to the Manchester United player over there and said to Chu Zhongtian.

Of course, Fletcher Chu Zhongtian knew him. He had watched his game video and his photos. How could he not know him? After watching the video, he admitted that Fletcher had his own set in midfield defense, and his progress in the past few seasons was also obvious. But he still didn't think that this person could make him cautious.

If Manchester United does not intend to defend themselves by man, then Fletcher will not press himself close to him. He will only move his own defensive area, which is the middle lane at the front of the penalty area. Sooner or later, the two people will collide.

Chu Zhongtian glanced at Fletcher and turned his attention to the warm-up.

On the other side of the court, Darren_fletcher and Michael Carrick were both looking at Chu Zhongtian. Fletcher's motivation to look at Chu Zhongtian is easy to understand, and he will always look at his opponent a few more times.

Carrick did not stop Chu Zhongtian's death mission in the game. He stared at Chu Zhongtian and saw that before the game, some media compared him and Chu Zhongtian together, saying that their playing styles are close and their roles are similar. Since that is the case, of course I will pay more attention to this player with similar roles to my styles.

But in fact, the two of them are not the same.

Carrick is the kind of player who is good at controlling the rhythm of the game and passes accurately for a long time. He doesn't intervene as frequently as Chu Zhongtian, and he still belongs to the category of staying in the midfield. Although Ferguson once encouraged him to press forward, there are too many midfielders who participate in the offense before Manchester United. There is no difference in the fact that Feng Forward can win more goals for himself.

His main task is to stay in the middle and backcourt for dispatching and commanding.

In this game, Ferguson did not send Anderson, and Paul_scholes did not send Paul_scholes. Both ryan_giggs and Valencia were arranged on the wing. Fletcher must be responsible for the defense in the midfield. This arrangement means that the task of passing the ball in the middle was handed over to Carrick.

Carrick suddenly felt a heavy responsibility. Before the game, everyone was talking about how powerful Hoffenheim was, but in Carrick's opinion, they only won a CSKA Moscow. Manchester United doesn't take opponents like CSKA seriously at all. So what if they win? Manchester United has won countless giants, have they ever boasted?

At this point, he looked down on Hoffenheim. He thought Hoffenheim was just a rural team like a nouveau riche. He relied on his boss' wealth and luck to enter the Champions League, and thought this was their territory. He was very interested in teaching this team that didn't know the height of the sky and the earth and telling them what kind of game the Champions League was.

Perhaps the easiest person in the warm-up is Van Nistrui. As soon as he walked out of the player corridor, he met the coach Murrensten, whom he knew at Manchester United. The two of them hugged each other enthusiastically and greeted each other. When Van Nistrui was still at Manchester United, Murrensten was just an ordinary coach. He had to sit in the stands to make game analysis notes in every game. Now seeing him on the stadium means he has been promoted. As a first-team coach, he can sit in the coach's seat with head coach Ferguson and assistant coach Whelan in the game to analyze the game. Van Nistrui congratulated this Dutch fellow, and Murrensten also congratulated Van Nistrui on his own goal in the last Champions League match.

After saying goodbye to Mullensten, Van Nistrui also chatted with old Manchester United players such as Giggs, Scholes, etc. A fan in the stands put out a banner saying "Old Trafford welcomes you back, Luther!" to welcome him home. Although Van Nistrui had a bad time with Ferguson when he left Manchester United, the fans had a very good impression of him. Van Nistrui played for Manchester United for five seasons, had no off-court scandals, and always maintained an efficient goal rate, leaving many wonderful moments for fans that can be remembered for a long time. Such players will of course be loved by fans.

Later when Ferguson appeared on the sidelines, Van Nistrui ran up and hugged the old man. Although the quarrel was unpleasant at the beginning, now four years have passed, so what else can't be solved? Both sides showed greatness, and they meant to let go of grudges with a smile.

The TV-borne camera has been following Van Nistruei during this period. As a former Manchester United player who has returned to Old Trafford, he is one of the focus of this game.

Another focus is Ibisevic. The Bosnia and Herzegovina scorer has been in a surprisingly good condition recently, so it is naturally a target that Manchester United needs to be afraid of.

Chu Zhongtian only took the mirror once during the warm-up before the game. When the game was not available, outsiders seemed to be a dull player, without the heart-wrenching appearance of Beckham, nor did Cristiano Ronaldo's rebellious rebellious temperament. Some people once said that if he had not had a Hollywood movie star girlfriend, his exposure rate would have been much lower than now.

He is a pure player. He must wait until the whistle sounds before everyone can see the light gradually blooming from him.

※※After the warm-up, the players on both sides returned to their respective lounges to prepare for the game in 45 minutes.

"Gentlemen, this is the strongest opponent we have encountered in the Champions League, so far." After Rangnick and other players changed their clothes, they told everyone.

"I don't need to introduce this team. They just reached the Champions League final last season and won the runner-up. They won the championship last season. Compared to them, we are just small and real rookies. Whether in the Champions League or in the history of the club, we need to look up to them. They also have many reasons to underestimate us, but I don't think they will do that. Because they are Manchester United and their head coach is Ferguson. We also have many reasons to show cowardice and negativeness. We are here.

It is natural to lose to them away. But I don’t want you to really think so. Why can we win the league championship? It’s because we want to win. If you don’t even think about anything, you won’t be able to do it. If you don’t even have the courage to think, you won’t have the motivation to do it. The same goes for football. First of all, you must dare to imagine victory. As long as you have this motivation, you will be strong in the game. So I hope you will pursue offense and victory as always in this game just like playing in the league in China!”

On the other hand, Ferguson's speech was much shorter.

"Our opponent is Hoffenheim. No one heard of this name a season ago, right? But no matter what, remember we are Manchester United, this is our home court!"

※※※When the players of both sides appeared, the Old Trafford seemed to have been in full swing in advance. Manchester United fans, who had an absolute advantage in numbers, kept making shouts of thunder and thunder to build momentum for the appearance of Manchester United players.

Hoffenheim fans seemed immature and lacked experience before Manchester United fans were full. They lost completely to Manchester United fans in creating momentum. Facing Manchester United fans who were more than ten times more numerous than themselves, they lost the courage to open their mouths. As soon as they opened their mouths, they were soon drowned by the shouts of Manchester United fans, and in the end they simply shut up and saved their efforts.

The alien in the blue clothes was the team of more than 100 people of Boss John. They were wearing Wimbledon's blue jerseys and were singing neatly. Although their singing could not block the shouts of Manchester United fans, they were still singing seriously and energetic. After singing, they laughed, then clapped their hands and took a break and continued.

After the warm-up between the two sides ended, it started to rain in the sky, but such a little rain obviously could not have any impact on the fans who came to see the ball. Most fans didn't even wear rain ponchos, and just waved their arms naked in a cold rainy night to cheer for their team.

※※※The side picking was performed between the two captains. This was the first time Chu Zhongtian faced with Giggs. In the side picking, Chu Zhongtian got the right to pick the side, so he chose the half-time where the Hoffenheim player was when he warmed up.

At this time, in front of Chinese TV and computers, countless fans were also watching this focus battle. The biggest dark horse selected by UEFA season faced the giant Manchester United, who reached the Champions League final for two consecutive seasons. Manchester United is very popular in China and has many loyal fans. Hoffenheim has many supporters because of Chu Zhongtian.

"The game is about to begin, and it is drizzling in the night sky in Manchester. I hope the slippery field will not affect the players' performance." Commentator He Ping is usually responsible for commenting on La Liga, and when he debuted, he explained the Ligue 1 and Argentina Football League One. So although he was the first commentator to comment on Chu Zhongtian's game, now the person who commented on Chu Zhongtian's game every weekend is replaced by Duan Bin. He Ping only has the opportunity to talk about his fate with Chu Zhongtian in the mid-week Champions League.

"Chu Zhongtian started without any suspense and wore the captain's armband. In this game, Ferguson rotated many people in the Wednesday match, but Fletcher started in two consecutive games. He played the whole game in the last Premier League against Stoke City. Ferguson's intention was obvious. He decided to strengthen the defense of the midfield to curb Chu Zhongtian!"

He Ping is very proud of his words - being able to take care of a team of Manchester United's level, which shows that Chu Zhongtian has done a good job!

"Before the game has not started, we will take the time to read the starting list of both sides of this game..."

He Ping quickly lowered his head and started to recite the roster. Although he did not explain the Bundesliga game, he knew the characteristics of Hoffenheim. When everyone was not familiar with him in the past, Duan Bin always read the starting roster after the game began, and thus missed a lot of Hoffenheim's goals. The audience criticized the reaction too slowly. They scored goals here and were still reading the starting roster there... Later, Duan Bin learned the essence and quickly read the starting roster before the kickoff. His speaking speed was as fast as practicing tongue twisters.

Hoffenheim's last Champions League match was also explained by He Ping. Hoffenheim scored a goal in just one minute and twenty-three seconds at the beginning of the game, so if he waited until the start of the game to read the starting list, he would not be able to adjust his emotions to explain the goal.

He Ping had just finished reading the last name of Manchester United's starting lineup, and the referee blew the whistle to start the game and the game began!

"CCTV! CCTV! Good morning, viewers, welcome to watch the group stage of the 2009-2010 European Football Champions League. This is the second round of the group stage in Group B, with Manchester United playing Hoffenheim at home!" Even this standard opening remark, He Ping read it very quickly. In the last round of the Bundesliga, Hoffenheim scored a goal in 50 seconds. Who can guarantee that similar situations will not happen in this game?

That almost happened again in this game... Just four minutes after the start of the game, there was a problem with Manchester United's defense line.

Hoffenheim has been seeking attack since the beginning of the game. Although Manchester United players have watched the video and heard the coach repeatedly mention it, they are not more intuitive to watch through the TV screen. Therefore, they are not really familiar with Hoffenheim's offensive desire and fast football.

In the fourth minute of the game, Chu Zhongtian got the ball in the frontcourt and made a simple cooperation with Salihovic. He took the ball again and did not give Fletcher a chance to press him. He directly swung his foot and shot a long shot!

"Does Chu want to pass...shot - goal!!" The commentator thought according to inertial thinking that Chu Zhongtian would choose to pass the ball at this position, but he did not expect that Chu Zhongtian suddenly shot, which forced him to change his breath and change his words.

There is also Manchester United's midfielder Fletcher, who thought Chu Zhongtian would pass the ball directly, so he stuck the pass route, but he didn't pounce at the first time, but hesitated for a moment. Unexpectedly, this hesitation gave Chu Zhongtian the opportunity to kick directly.

The football flew towards Manchester United's goal while rubbing the turf. On the slippery turf, the football rolled very quickly!

Because of the sudden shooting, Manchester United's starting goalkeeper, Tomasz_kuszczak, could not hold it in this game, so he chose to fall to the ground and pounce on the side, hoping to play the football out.

He did play football, but did not save it out of the bottom line, but blocked it back... Because the football was too slippery, it was a bit difficult to control.

This accident left Manchester United's defense in chaos.

In this chaos, Manchester United defender failed to clear the ball, and the football got Hoffenheim's players.

Ibisevic got the football from a very small angle near the baseline, and he no longer had the shooting angle. However, he did not shoot, but passed the football back directly.

Football returned to Chu Zhongtian's feet again.

It was still very fast, without swinging his thighs, and by swinging his calves, Chu Zhongtian shot directly again from 12 yards away from the goal!

"Chu... is here again!"

This time, Kutssak had just gotten up from the ground and had to fall to the ground to save again. Fortunately, Chu Zhongtian shot a little straight and was directly hugged by him, so he didn't give Hoffenheim any chance to shoot again.

"Just four minutes into the game, Hoffenheim shot twice in a row! They were all Chu, and it seemed that he was in good shape today!" The commentator announced excitedly.

Missed the opportunity to score two shots, Chu Zhongtian accepted the result calmly as before, then turned around and ran back to wait for the opportunity to organize the offense. This time, he hugged his head with both hands, grabbed his hair, and then waved his arms hard, looking very upset. It seemed that he was very concerned about the failure of these two shots to score.

On Hoffenheim's coaching bench, assistant referee Zeidler turned his head and looked at Rangnick. He had just rushed out of the coaching bench and was preparing to celebrate the goal... "It seems that your provocation seems to have achieved good results."

Rangnick laughed: "I don't want the Chu who is stable in this game. I want a Chu who is aggressive and can explode at any time. Chu Ferguson must have studied it thoroughly, but what about a Chu who is stable in this game? We want to give our opponent a little surprise."
Chapter completed!