In order to take care of TV broadcasts, the Champions League matches are arranged in the evenings of local time. At this time, everyone has finished their work for a day and has enough free time to sit in front of the TV to watch the game. The interests of advertisers and TV broadcasters are guaranteed.

When the players walked into the stadium from the corridor, the lighting lights at the top of the Bernabeu Stadium had already been turned on. Unlike the Chinese stadium, which was foggy and dim, and unevenly illuminated, the lighting lights of top European stadiums can make the huge stadium look without blind spots. Playing football at different venues will bring different feelings to the players, and the players' performance will naturally be different.

Although the quality of the turf at the Bernabeu Stadium was not very good, when Hoffenheim players walked into the stadium with the Champions League flag, they still felt excited.

The theme song of the Champions League was played live, and the passionate music hit everyone's chest. In the Bernabeu game, Hoffenheim players never dared to think about it. Now they are not dreaming.

Everyone is familiar with the pre-match plan. Chu Zhongtian won the kick-off right, while Real Madrid won the right to pick the side.

Since you want to play against Real Madrid, you must strive to take the initiative in your hands at the beginning of the game. If you kick off first, you can also use this opportunity to launch an attack. Maybe you will enter if you are lucky? Even if you don’t enter, it can pose some threat to Real Madrid and strengthen your reputation.

After picking the side, Chu Zhongtian shook hands with Real Madrid captain Casillas again, then shook hands with the three referees respectively, and ran back to his half. He summoned all his teammates together, and even goalkeeper Enyema, who was already standing in front of the goal, ran up.

"This season, no matter what, we have to go further in the Champions League. This is the first step, brothers! Let Real Madrid see how powerful we are! No matter what the situation is, we must stick to our football!"

"After the kick-off, rush forward on both sides, don't stop." He said to the two wing forwards who started this game, first to Salihovic in German, and then he changed to Portuguese, who was not very skilled, and said to Quaresma.

Quaresma understood and nodded.

Others were no longer surprised by Chu Zhongtian's language talent.

"I may not pass the football to you, but you have to rush forward and involve the opponent's defensive attention."

After the explanation, Chu Zhongtian signaled everyone to disperse and prepare to kick off.

※※※Van Nistruei and Ibisevic stood beside the mid-circle football and prepared to kick off.

He looked up at the stands at the Bernabeu Stadium. He was very familiar with everything here because he played for three full seasons. He won the La Liga top scorer in his first season at Real Madrid, helping the team win the La Liga championship for two consecutive seasons. There are wonderful memories here.

But I must say that there is any regret, that is, he has never won the highest honor in European football - the Champions League championship.

Whether at Real Madrid or Manchester United, in his best years, in his golden age, he has never been able to help the team win the Champions League championship, and has never held the Big Ear Cup.

This is a great regret of his career. He has won three league golden boots and three league championships, but he has no Champions League championship.

However, when he transferred to Hoffenheim, he didn't expect to win the Champions League. If he stayed at Real Madrid in order to win the Champions League, he would have a bigger hope. He transferred to Hoffenheim just to be able to get a stable chance of playing before the South African World Cup, so he was re-selected to the Dutch national team and compete in the World Cup. You must know that if he could go to South Africa, it would only be his second time in his life. Because the Netherlands missed the 2002 South Korea-Japan World Cup, Van Nistru was in his year of playing.

Yi missed his first World Cup. His first World Cup journey was not late until the Netherlands in 2006. However, because of his bad relationship with Basten, that World Cup journey was just bitter and sweet to him. The World Cup just passed in a mess and nothing was left in his body. Unexpectedly, he did not get such a chance in the end. Although his motherland reached the World Cup final again thirty-two years later and was almost winning the championship, it had nothing to do with him.

The South African World Cup has ended, and his last dream has been shattered. He is already 34 years old this year and has absolutely no hope of participating in the next Brazil World Cup. By then, he is 38 years old and will retire long ago. The Netherlands, a country with many talented people, cannot leave a place for a 38-year-old veteran.

So what are the expectations left for his career?

His contract with Hoffenheim will end by the end of the season. He does not intend to renew his contract with the club, nor does he plan to return to a small team in the Netherlands. He plans to retire and completely end his career.

In this last season, he should have no desires. The league champion, the Golden Boots and so on are all over the world. He just wants to enjoy the simplest happiness that football brings him in this last season.

But when he stood on the Bernabeu field again and listened to the passionate Champions League theme song in his ears, he found that his heart was still beating a little faster - just like when he first appeared on the Champions League stage when he was young. He suddenly realized that Chu Zhongtian's repeated emphasis on "we want to go further in the Champions League" was actually affecting him.

The decision to retire at the end of the contract has not changed, but he doesn't want to enjoy football so simply. He has goals. He wants to continue to score the Champions League goals in the last stage of his career, closer to his old teammate Raul at Real Madrid. This is one point, and in addition, he wants to help Hoffenheim, a young team, go further in the Champions League.

The Champions League is all his goal in the last season of his career. He doesn't care about how the league performs, he just wants to play and score goals in the Champions League.

So far, he has scored 60 goals in the Champions League, eight more goals from Raul's 68 Champions League mid-time goals, but he can secure the second place.

I still haven't finished my work, so why don't I go all out to pursue this last year?

The referee's whistle woke Van Nystruey from his contemplation, Ibisevic next to him gently knocked the football out, and ran forward.

He stepped forward, turned around and kicked the football back.

The football crossed half of the middle circle and landed straight at Chu Zhongtian's feet.

※※※The focus returned to Chu Zhongtian with the football.

He controlled the football, turned around and passed it back, and after passing the ball, he ran sideways. The defender who received the ball was well aware of Chu Zhongtian's habits, and he quickly passed the football in front of Chu Zhongtian. Chu Zhongtian received the ball during the run, just about every second, just right. In this way, he would not stop and wait for the ball to waste time, and give the opponent a chance to force it up, nor would he not be able to receive the ball because of too much pass.

Chu Zhongtian, who received the ball, adjusted his posture with the trend and faced the attack direction.

He saw Real Madrid players.

Real Madrid striker Higuain is less than ten meters away from him, and this guy comes for his own ball.

After Chu Zhongtian waited for him to pounce, he divided the football into the side road, and then suddenly accelerated and bypassed Higuain.

Higuain did not continue running forward, but turned around and followed!

Chu Zhongtian glanced back and found that Higuain was still following him. He knew that this must be Mourinho's decision off the field. It seems that Real Madrid's defense is really strict.

But Chu Zhongtian was not afraid of such treatment.

Baker, who received the pass from Chu Zhongtian on the side, saw Higuain back to chase Chu Zhongtian, did not pass the ball, but instead drove the ball forward.

Chu Zhongtian looked at the situation ahead and knew that if Baker took it like this, he would soon encounter a dead end. So he moved from the middle to the side, slowed down slightly, and came behind Baker. Once Baker encountered an interception, he could immediately pass the football back, without even turning around to observe, just use his heel.

Baker did encounter an interruption soon, c. Ronaldo and Marcelo were both standing in front of him. Ronaldo was closest to him, while Marcelo was hanging far behind. If he planned to break through with speed and scored the ball and slapped Ronaldo, he would not be able to succeed, because as long as he kicked the football out, Marcelo would come up and intercept the ball.

Baker knew that he couldn't get through, so he directly passed the football to Chu Zhongtian with his heel.

Chu Zhongtian could know that Higuain was like he was rushing when he saw the ball, so he leaned forward and did not rush to take the ball away, but blocked Higuain behind and protected the football.

He stopped suddenly, and Higuain could not have imagined it and hit him violently. Chu Zhongtian felt the impact force from behind him. He knew that this was the time to get rid of it, so he knocked the ball out, then stretched out his right foot and hit the ball to the left, just avoiding the foot of Ronaldo who came up to grab the ball.

Chu Zhongtian, who came out of the encirclement, did not continue to dribble the ball, but instead moved his feet suddenly.

The football flew over the field and fell straight to the left side of the opposite side.

Ramos originally planned to push the ball away from behind Salihovic, who was catching the ball. But he had just rushed one step and found something was wrong - the ball was passing very fast! When he ran over, the football had already arrived. He was beat too late and would leave a huge gap behind him for his opponent. So he stopped suddenly. As expected, Salihovic just stopped the football with his chest.

One minute after seeing Hoffenheim hit the opponent's 30-meter area, and more than 6,000 Hoffenheim fans who were visiting gave huge cheers.

They really didn't expect their team to be so active and calm at the Bernabeu Stadium, as if this was not a Champions League group match, but an ordinary Bundesliga match. Their opponents were not super giants like Real Madrid, but ordinary Bundesliga German teams like Nuremberg and Frankfurt.

Amid their loud cheers, Salihovic passed the football directly into the penalty area.

Hoffenheim's football is so simple and direct. As long as there is a chance in front, they will never pass the ball back in the air. After twenty-six consecutive passes, the opponent has not even touched the ball and then passed it into the penalty area to shoot.

Chu Zhongtian and Rangnick set the style tone for Hoffenheim football in the new season is "fast and direct". Fast means trying to play to our young players, good physical fitness, and fast speed, pass and run quickly, and use wave after wave of speed offensive to defeat the opponent. Direct means trying to shoot as much as possible if you can shoot, play simpler in the midfield, and try to create more shooting opportunities, rather than show off your tacit understanding and frequently fall down. Competitive football, without shooting, there is nothing.

Salihovic's football is not high, but very flat and fast, which is also the standard that Rangnik specifically requires all players to meet when crossing on the wing. Hoffenheim's offense is already fast. If the football is high and floating when crossing, then the previous speed will be in vain. The opponent has enough time to return to defense and stare at people, and even stand at the position and jump to clear the ball.

So no matter who it is, the ball is passed from the wing, and it must be fast and flat. It looks like the football is being whipped, spinning rapidly and flying towards the goal!

Van Nistrui rushed forward. When he saw the football being transferred to Salihovic by Chu Zhongtian's big feet, he knew what to do next. So when Salihovic passed the football over, he stood out from the neat defense line of Real Madrid and rushed towards the goal.

When he jumped high, there was no Real Madrid player beside him. Neither Pepe nor Carvalho could only look up from below and look up at him.

He is the flying Dutch!

Van Nistruy, who was jumping in the air, saw the football flying, but his body had already sunk again. At this time, he felt the impact of his aging. The game had just begun, and his physical fitness was not at all problem, but he had jumped not as high as before, and the time of staying in the air was not as long as before... He could not wait for the football to reach the best place before and then headed to attack the goal, so he would pass by the football, so he struggled to stop in the air while headed to attack the goal!

"Van Nystruey-!!"

He felt the football hit his forehead, but fortunately, it was not too biased... He tried hard to throw the football towards the goal.

Near the penalty point, the football was hit by Van Nistruy and flew towards the goal.

Faced with this close shot, Real Madrid captain Casillas didn't even have time to react. His body just raised it up slightly and did not make any follow-up moves because the football had already flown... He could only choose to look at it with his eyes and could not do anything.

At that moment, all Real Madrid fans were hearted with Casillas' move. Should their team concede the ball just one minute before the game?

"van_goo--" Some commentators can't wait to chant "van_goo" .

But with a "clang", the football ruthlessly hit the crossbar!

"Horizontal! The beam...it's a pity!"

The breathing sounds of eighty thousand people in the Bernabeu can be clearly heard through the TV.

The football hit the crossbar and bounced back. This time Carvalho kicked the football out of the sideline, and Hoffenheim's first offense ended.

After Van Nystruey landed, he saw the football hitting the crossbar. He grinned regretfully, frowned, and hugged his head with both hands, very regretful.

If he could be four years younger, this goal would definitely be scored!

"Van Nistruy almost scored the goal in one minute of the game! The King of the Small Boundary Zone is not old!"

The commentator praised this, but in fact, he didn't know that if Van Nistrue really had "no age", the ball would fly into the goal... Real Madrid players escaped from death. Casillas only reacted at this time. He slapped his teammates and shouted: "Pay attention to defense! Defense!"

He has been teammates with Van Nystruey for three years, so of course he knows how powerful this Dutchman is. Don’t think that he can’t take it seriously as he gets old. Such people become more and more powerful as they get older.

Van Nystruey was very regretful if he didn't score the first record for the team, but when he raised his head, he still saw Ibisek's thumbs up at him. Chu Zhongtian simply ran up and patted his shoulder. "Beautiful job, Luther!"

"It's a pity that I didn't enter..." Van Nistroy shook his head.

Chu Zhongtian grabbed his shoulders and tightened his mind: "It's okay, just keep playing like this, we will definitely score a goal!"

Van Nistroy turned his head to look at Chu Zhongtian. There were not many people who said this at the Bernabeu Stadium so confidently. They were all world-class superstars with top giants as their backers. But Chu Zhongtian only had a young Hoffenheim.

But he said this sentence so confidently, without being pretentious or artificial. Many people may not dare to think about such a simple sentence, and many people will have to consider whether he has the courage even if he says it for a long time.

But he said that.

Very good player... Van Nystruey is 34 years old. It has been seventeen years since he started playing in the professional league in 1993-94. He has worked with many excellent players and he has played many excellent players. He knows what a truly excellent player is.

In his eyes, Chu Zhongtian is such a truly excellent player.

He nodded.

Chu Zhongtian ran away, preparing to take the out-of-bounds ball and organizes the attack again.

Van Nistruy smiled at his back, turned around and reentered the penalty area.

Just one minute after the game began, Hoffenheim had already shot the goal frame, threatening the goal of La Liga giants Real Madrid.

This is unexpected to many people.

And in the remaining eighty-nine minutes, how many times can this young team make things that no one can imagine happen?
Chapter completed!