Hoffenheim's goal gave them the lead in the first half. In the following time, Manchester United tried to counterattack, but the results were not great - they were affected by this concealment and seemed panicked on the court, just like Hoffenheim who had just started, which made Ferguson, who was commanding the game on the sidelines, very angry. Of course, his anger was not to pick up the water bottle and smash the coach's seat ceiling, but to have a dark face.

Until the end of the first half, the score did not change, and the home team Hoffenheim led 1:0.

When leaving the scene, the TV broadcast gave Ferguson a close-up of his face, and everyone could see how dark Ferguson's face was.

The "hair dryer" is about to start blowing during the intermission.

Rangnick was very satisfied with the team's performance. He led 1:0 at the beginning when the situation was unfavorable. There was nothing to blame for the team to have such a performance. Now they have the advantage in the qualifying form.

Back in the locker room, Rangnick had a distinct smile on his face.

The expressions on the players' faces were also relaxed.

"You guys did a good job!" Before anyone could completely sit down, Rangnick couldn't wait to praise the player.

At the same time, Ferguson closed the door of the locker room heavily. Manchester United players all sat down in their respective positions, not daring to take a breath. They knew that the "hair dryer" was about to explode.

"What are you doing! What are you doing! A great situation makes you look like this shit! We should lead 2:0 in the first twenty minutes! Instead of being fucking behind!" When Ferguson was angry, he liked to throw things or kick things to vent. This time he was no exception. He kicked a bottle of mineral water on the ground towards the door. The mineral water bottle filled with water hit the door, making a loud bang, which scared many people.

"In the second half, no matter what method you use, I will win the score back and overtake me! Do you bastards want to be eliminated in the group stage? Do you want to be the laughing stock of the whole Europe! Find out the situation, bastards! We must win this game!"

Ferguson was still venting his anger, while Rangnick slowly arranged the second half tactics.

"We still play like this in the second half, but be careful of Manchester United's counterattack. Remember, they are just like us and cannot afford to lose. I think we will encounter many difficulties in the second half. But no matter which difficulty it is, don't panic and don't give up. Of course, Manchester United is very strong, but we are not weak. The score says everything."

Everyone laughed. As players, they like to hear the head coach praise them like this.

"Chu, Manchester United will definitely defend you more closely in the second half. You must be careful." Rangnick turned around and said to Chu Zhongtian.

Chu Zhongtian nodded.

"Michael! Darren!" Ferguson stared at Carrick and Fletcher, "You see what you played in the first half by yourself? You are so gentle to Chu! You want to foul! Foul! You only made two fouls against him in the whole first half! What's that? I said before the game, stop him at all costs and interfere with him! How many times do you want to be humiliated by him!"

Although Ferguson likes Chu Zhongtian very much, they are opponents now. Since they are opponents, the best way to let the opponent go to hell.

He wanted to sigh now. If Keen was at his peak, why should he do this? As long as he handed Chu to Keen, he wouldn't worry.

Ferguson couldn't help but lose his temper. In another stadium, the away CSKA Moscow scored a goal four minutes before the end of the first half. The score is now 0:1, the home team fell behind and the away team led. If the score remained until the end of the game, it would mean that Manchester United would be eliminated. For Ferguson, this is absolutely unacceptable. Teams like Manchester United cannot go home in the group stage.

Under the current situation, if you want to qualify, you can only go the way to defeat Hoffenheim.

※※※Ferguson was wearing a powerful hairdryer in the locker room. His roar never stopped during the halftime break. The 68-year-old man was still energetic and full of passion for this career. He just felt sorry for his players. He could only lower his head during the fifteen-minute halftime break. No one dared to look at the furious old Lord, because that would make Ferguson stare at him and chase him hard, and make every mistake he made in the game alone to ask him to say.

When Manchester United players walked out of the locker room, they seemed to have been bathed by Ferguson's saliva. But their mental outlook was completely different, and they were not frustrated or panic to lose the ball. On the contrary, after being scolded by Ferguson, they are now full of fighting spirit.

They took the lead in playing and came to the court to wait for Hoffenheim players. Not long after, Hoffenheim players ran out of the passage one after another. Unlike Manchester United players who gritted their teeth, Hoffenheim players still had smiles on their faces. They had a very pleasant stay in the intermission.

※※※"Hey, the game is about to begin!" In the Wimbledon bar, after the people who had just gone out for free during the intermission, they heard the greetings of their companions, returned to the bar one after another, called a glass of beer, and prepared to continue watching the game.

"Hey, if Chu scored another goal in the second half, it would be even more perfect!" Everyone returned to the bar and started to discuss.

"Yes, yes! Every time I see Chu scored, my blood is boiling!"

At the same time, in the stands at the Rhine-Neka Stadium, fans returned to their seats to prepare for the second half of the game.

December 8th is already winter, and the temperature is a bit cold at night. During the halftime, the fans who looked listless were also regaining their vitality at this time. They stood up from their seats, waved their arms, and shouted a few times, which was considered warm-up.

"Okay, let's go back to the Rhine-Neka Stadium, the second half of the game is about to begin. The players on both sides have returned to the court. Judging from the players, neither team has made any personnel adjustments." The commentators have also returned to their respective jobs.

The broadcast footage gave Rooney a close-up, and he happened to get up from the bench to warm up. The commentators were also guessing in the first half of the reason why Rooney didn't start. It doesn't seem to be injured now.

※※※ Not long after the second half of the game began, Chu Zhongtian found that some changes had occurred beside him. Fletcher and Carrick were more attacking. When he took the ball and was about to turn around, he was pulled by Fletcher from behind and could not move forward. When Chu Zhongtian was still rushing forward, the referee's whistle sounded and gave Hoffenheim a free kick in the middle circle. Although the ball was still from Hoffenheim, the time for the attack was lost.

The foul was not serious this time and did not cause any damage to him. The only function was to interrupt Hoffenheim's offensive rhythm. Naturally, it was not enough to let the referee give the opponent a yellow or red card.

But such a foul is the most annoying thing.

Seeing Fletcher pulling Chu Zhongtian, Ferguson applauded him on the sidelines.

After that, Chu Zhongtian will always be attacked by his opponents, some of which pull the jerseys, and some of which kick the ankles. In the past, the pressing was even more tight, at most it was actively robbed. Chu Zhongtian only had to shoot the ball with one kick, and there was still room for performance. But now it is different. The opponent doesn't even give him a chance to throw the ball with one kick. If Chu Zhongtian doesn't want to be injured, it's best to give up football and jump up to avoid the opponent's black feet.

How can we organize an attack in this way?

Rangnick kept protesting against Manchester United's foul tactics, but it was useless. Manchester United players' fouls are very sensible and will not cause you serious damage, so they will naturally not be enough to get a card. Anyway, you can't see Chu Zhongtian being flew to the ground for several rounds, and then hugging his ankles in pain. Many of them are pulling the jerseys, pushing the thighs, and kicking the calves. Some fouls seem to be aimed at football, but when they encounter football, he will also knock Chu Zhongtian to the ground. Such steals are of course a foul.

In order to put pressure on the referee, even though he had a foul, Manchester United players would open their arms and complain loudly, saying that they were clearly aiming for football and also encountered the ball.

So sometimes even if Chu Zhongtian fell to the ground, the referee would not call Manchester United foul, but instead signaled the game to continue. This would cause booing fans in the stands.

※※※As long as Chu Zhongtian is contained, Hoffenheim can be contained. This is the tactic Ferguson gave to Manchester United.

In the first half, Manchester United did not completely curb Chu Zhongtian, and the result was that Chu Zhongtian had a good show of practicing two people and then assisting Salihovic. In the second half, Manchester United midfielder stepped up their defense against Chu Zhongtian and also used foul tactics to prevent Chu Zhongtian from leading the team normally, so Manchester United's chance came naturally.

In the 56th minute, Manchester United instigated the wide-range at the same time. Because the pressure on defense was lighter, both full-backs pressed out to participate in the attack this time. Evra and Park Ji-sung intervened at the same time, which made Hoffenheim players a little confused and didn't know which side Manchester United's main attack direction was.

Carrick distributed the football to Evra. Evra and Scholes played two passes and one match, and then made a cross from the bottom. Baker failed to block it. Comper at the front point again. After a series of mistakes, the football fell to Michael Irving. He jumped and headed the ball from five yards in front of the goal!

The football flew in from Hildebran who was not reacting enough... the ball entered!

More than 5,000 Manchester United fans in the stands jumped from their seats and raised their arms to cheer. Their voices even overwhelmed the home fans who had always had the advantage.

"Manchester United!!"

"Michael Irving!!"

"Manchester United tied the score! Oh! Now the score is tied 1:1!!"

Seeing Irving scored, Ferguson rushed out of the coaching board and raised his arms. He could finally breathe a sigh of relief for a while. Although the draw was still useless for them, it was always a positive signal.

Rangnick seemed very angry, but he was not angry because of conceding the ball, but because of Manchester United's previous foul tactics, the referee's penalty was always too light. He rushed to the fourth official and pointed at the stadium and protested loudly: "All Manchester United players should be sent off by red cards!"

The fourth official shook his head. It was the matter of the referee on the court, and it had nothing to do with him. At most, he could write everything he saw into the post-match game report, but the results of the game cannot be changed.

"Damn!" The Hoffenheim players on the court couldn't see the smile on their faces, and instead they were furious.

※※※"Oh-damn!" A sigh rang out of the Wimbledon bar. Although they were all Englishmen, there were also Manchester United fans, so they should cheer for Manchester United at this time. But at this moment, they were all fans of Hoffenheim and Chu Zhongtian.

"Manchester United's foul tactics are so powerful! Chu has been completely curbed!"

"This is so despicable!"

"Hi, what's mean or not on the football field..."

"Think about the 'crazy gang' back then..."

The man who shouted despicable immediately stopped talking. The crazy gang also relied on his rough fouls and brave style in the League One field to make the enemy terrified. They enjoyed such football. If it weren't for this kind of football, they would not be able to defeat the powerful Liverpool at Wembley. At that time, the legend of the "crazy gang" Winnie Jones destroyed Liverpool's midfielder McMahon in three minutes of the game and fulfilled his pre-match victory promise. "You will win with one kick and you will win!" It was precisely because Liverpool was not prepared for McMahon's injury that he never found the rhythm in the subsequent games. In the end, they lost the game in front of 100,000 live audiences, and Wimbledon became the first FA Cup championship in the history of the "crazy gang" and was the only one.

"But I always feel that only we weak teams can use foul tactics... I didn't expect Manchester United to use them like this..."

"Well, that means that in Sir Alex Ferguson's eyes, Chu is a very threatening person!"

"I'm very worried about Chu's performance in the subsequent game now..."

※※※Konelia and the others in the stands were also disappointed with the conceding. Because even if Chu Zhongtian was curbed by the opponent and the attack was not smooth, it did not mean that they should have conceded the ball. This concealed ball was entirely caused by his own defender's mistake.

"That little idiot Comper!" Konilia cursed in the stands. "When training, I will definitely let him know how disappointed I am with his performance! Such a ball can be topped, is it done by others to help him heading!"

"Konelia, maybe something went wrong with our offense was the cause..." someone next to him said.

"Shut up! If there is something wrong with our offense, then we should stabilize our defense during this period, rather than make such a mistake that I will not make!" Koniriya interrupted the other party with a queen temperament. What she said made it very reasonable, which made it difficult for the other party to refute for a while.

But in her heart, she was also worried about Chu Zhongtian. Hoffenheim's game in this season and a half has proved that Hoffenheim is Chu Zhongtian's team. Once Chu Zhongtian is not in shape or is frozen by the opponent in every way, then Hoffenheim's performance is a second-rate team. No matter how many good players there are, no one can lead them.

She stared at the No. 8 player on the court wearing a blue jersey.

Manchester United's foul tactics and close-fitting entanglements really make every player treated like this feel uncomfortable. But you are different, Chu. You are Chu, you are our core, I hope. You are a promising player. In your future career, you will encounter many similar scenes. How can you be stumped by such a group match, Chu?

※※Sana came to Chu Zhongtian and asked him, "There's nothing?" It sounded like a mockery, but Chu Zhongtian knew that Sana was speaking in this tone. For his former teammates, he could not treat him like Ibisevic. Different people have different personalities, so they naturally need different ways of dating.

"You have to protect me." Chu Zhongtian said to him.

"How do I protect you? Their foul tactics, the referee blew the whistle whenever a foul is foul. The ball possession is still ours. Whose ball will I snatch?" Sana asked with a spreading hand. Protecting football in the offense generally means that once the player who controls the ball loses the ball, he must go up and grab the ball back in time and hand it back to his teammates. But after Manchester United fouls, most of the time the ball possession will belong to Hoffenheim, and he has no place to snatch it... "I'm not talking about counter-grabbing, I mean you are closer to me, I can't control the ball for too long. You are closer to me, which is easier." Chu Zhongtian gestured.

But Sana shook her head: "I see that the other party doesn't even want to give you the time to touch the ball."

"That's my responsibility. In short, don't be too far away from me. I will find a way to pass the football to you. It's too easy to get rid of them without the ball." Chu Zhongtian thought that Manchester United's defense was getting tighter and it might be difficult to make up for ordinary passes, so he had to think of some different ways.

Sana knew what Chu Zhongtian wanted to do, and relied on quick passes and cuts to break the opponent's close defense, while trying not to give the opponent a chance to foul. However, this has high requirements for ball control - ball control is not only dribbling, but also includes skills such as stopping and passing.

It is not easy to pass quickly and pass accurately under the opponent's strict control and foul.

But he did not question it, but said to Chu Zhongtian: "If you find it useful, then do it."

Anyway, when attacking, the two people don’t have to consider covering the defense zone, so they can get closer appropriately.

Just as the two were discussing countermeasures, Manchester United's celebration was over. Irving and his teammates returned to the court. Hoffenheim's forwards Van Nistrui and Ibicevic had already stood in the center circle and were waiting for the kickoff.

"In fact, even if it is a draw, Manchester United will be out. Because at this time, Moscow CSKA still leads Besiktas away. Hoffenheim and Manchester United score the same points, and the win-loss relationship is the same, and then the goal difference in each other's game is the same. The goal difference in each other's game is the same. If it is still the same, the goal difference in group goals are the same. The goal difference in group goals are the same... From the goal difference in each other to the goal difference in each other's game, Hoffenheim and Manchester United are the same, but at present, Hoffenheim will have the advantage in the away goals of each other, and they are two, and Manchester United is one. Unless Manchester United continues to score goals in the later time."

The commentator began to analyze the current situation of the group to the audience.

"So in the next game, Manchester United will continue to attack fiercely! It's time to test the entire Hoffenheim team!"
Chapter completed!