In the game against Frankfurt, Ibisevic scored a hat-trick, which was his first hat-trick of the season and his second hat-trick ten months later. The last time he scored a hat-trick was on September 27 last year, when Hoffenheim played against Hertha Berlin at home. Ibisevic scored a hat-trick in the game, helping the team beat the opponent 5-1.

This hat trick made Ibisevic ranked second in the scorer list, second only to Frankfurt's scorer Greek scorer Jekas. Jekas scored eleven goals in the thirteenth round of the league. The second place with Ibisevic in the scorer list is Freiburg's Cise, who once played for Mes, and is also a teammate of Ibisevic and Chu Zhongtian. However, when Chu Zhongtian and Ibisevic were calling the wind and rain in Mes' first team, Cise was still in the youth team and reserve team.

Now Ibisek surpassed Chu Zhongtian and became the team's top scorer, while Chu Zhongtian ranked second with eight goals. However, Chu Zhongtian is now ranked first in the Bundesliga assist list with six assists. Following this momentum, he is likely to win the title of Bundesliga assist leader for three consecutive seasons, which is a very impressive result.

After playing against Frankfurt, the match against Real Madrid is imminent.

As soon as the entire Hoffenheim team returned to Sinsheim, they entered the preparation stage for the final sprint.

Nearly two months have passed since their first match against Real Madrid in the blink of an eye. In the past two months, Real Madrid has undergone a lot of changes, which is completely different from the time. When Hoffenheim first met with Real Madrid, the team won one and draw in the league, and only scored one goal in two games. The forwards were criticized for wasting opportunities, and Mourinho's conservatism also made fans and the media criticize them.

But now, Mourinho has become the only hero of the Bernabeu, and even the team's top star Cristiano Ronaldo is not as glorious as him. When he was criticized and criticized outside, from club chairman Florentino and general manager Bardano to ordinary fans and players, he fully supports Mourinho. Such treatment has never been enjoyed before. Just like Bosque, an excellent head coach, has won the love of the players, but cannot handle the conflict with club chairman Florentino. But Mourinho is versatile and he has completely conquered the Bernabeu, inside and out. The entire Bernabeu only follows Mourinho.

Mourinho's heart makes sense, look at Real Madrid under his leadership... Real Madrid has maintained an unbeaten record in the past two months. Since being tied by Levante 0-0 in the away game in the fifth round of the league, he has completed seven consecutive victories and scored an astonishing twenty-seven goals! From the warm-up matches that began the season, Real Madrid led by Mourinho still doesn't know what it feels like to lose. At the same time, they are the only team in Europe that remains unbeaten at home. They scored 33 goals in the twelve rounds of the league.

The number of goals is better than La Liga and Europe. Only Barcelona can compare with it in the whole of Europe. Barcelona only relied on the 8:0 away game in the last round of the league to catch up with the goals. The team with the most goals in Europe before has always been exclusive to Real Madrid. The last round of the league beat Athletic Bilbao 5:1 at home, which is their fourth time in a single game this season. The number of goals is the first in Europe, and the defense is also the best in Europe - they conceded only six goals in the twelve rounds of the league. The offense is sharp and the defense is excellent. This is the impression Mourinho's Real Madrid left on people.

In the twelve rounds of the game, with ten wins and two draws, Mourinho's Real Madrid became the third best team in La Liga history, surpassing the previous Real Madrid head coach Juander Ramos. At the same time, Mourinho also set a new start score record for the first twelve rounds of the season with this result, surpassing Guardiola, and becoming the strongest "newcomer head coach" in La Liga.

Nowadays, Real Madrid is no longer the "pseudo-rich" that people bullied. Barcelona is also in excellent form this season, but they are so outstanding that they are firmly suppressed by Real Madrid in the La Liga standings, with a point gap, and they can only rank second.

Real Madrid is overall excellent, and the players' performance is also outstanding. Take the team's number one star, Cristiano Ronaldo, for example. Ronaldo scored 15 goals in twelve league games, and such goal efficiency dominates Europe. He staged a good show of four big hits a month ago and completed a hat trick in the last round of the league. He cannot score by himself, but can create opportunities for his teammates. He is currently the assist leader in La Liga, with five assists. His goal rate at Real Madrid has surpassed the four legends in the history of Real Madrid clubs. Behind him are Stefano, Ugo Sanchez, Raul and Brazilian Ronaldo.

In addition to Ronaldo's excellent performance, other players also performed well, and they are also the reason why Real Madrid can be so strong.

This Real Madrid is harder to deal with than the Real Madrid team when Hoffenheim first played against him in September. Even at home, Hoffenheim's hopes of winning against the current Real Madrid team are very slim.

Despite this, the whole Hoffenheim team still must maintain the belief of winning. Because the players are pursuing victory, even if they are not strong enough, they may still be able to win a draw. But if they go for a draw as soon as they come, they will definitely lose the game in the end.

Of course, there is no good news at all.

The good news is that Real Madrid will play the century war with Barcelona next Monday, a national derby. This game is the game that Real Madrid valued the most recently. The game against Hoffenheim is no longer very important to them. Anyway, they have already qualified in advance, and they may not be able to use all their strength.

According to Spanish media reports, Mourinho did not have their main central defender Carvalho, nor their main striker Higuain, nor their main midfielder Khedira in the Champions League roster. These three main players have had a chance to rest, and Mourinho hopes that they can regain their strength to deal with Barcelona.

In addition, the main players who came with Sinsheim with the team are unlikely to play the whole game.

Mourinho is a very smart person, he is a pragmatist. He knows that the national derby with Barcelona is the top priority in the near future, and he does not need to put all the main players on Hoffenheim. Moreover, Real Madrid players will also be very clear about this. After qualifying early, the interest in the Champions League is obviously not as big as that of the national derby. For Real Madrid players, the most important thing is not the Champions League game, but the national derby with Barcelona. They themselves will be full of Barcelona in the game, not theirs, and they will definitely be afraid of being injured. If they are injured before the national derby and cannot participate in the national derby, the loss will be great.

Therefore, the tactical strategy Rangnick formulated for Hoffenheim to deal with this is to move bigger and more fiercely in the defense, making Real Madrid players think that they may be injured in the game at any time, so that they will have some concerns and cannot let go of their performance in the game.

As long as the players perform abnormally, no matter how powerful Mourinho is, it will be useless.

This is what Rangnick wants to do.

※※ In fact, it is almost the same. In Spain, the media are hyping up the national derby. The match against Hoffenheim on Tuesday only accounted for a very small part of the news. Spanish media, especially Madrid's media, only reported on Real Madrid's roster to Hoffenheim, never mentioned this game again. It was all the national derby between Barcelona and Real Madrid, which was overwhelming. What is "The Spanish national derby is a record battle"? What is "the most expensive derby in history"?

World Cup finals, what is "Real Madrid and Barcelona create Guinness derby", what is "Who is stronger, Ronaldo or Messi", what is "Murinho is looking forward to conquering the Camp Nou again"... Even Ramos snatched Cristiano Ronaldo's penalty kick power in the last round of the league, which made the media hype for three days... Perhaps for the Madrid people, this Champions League game is no longer important, and Mourinho's team can easily crush Hoffenheim, just like they crush the "Basque Lions".

For Real Madrid, it may be true, it is an insignificant game. But for Hoffenheim, it does matter whether they can qualify. They are not qualified to look at the weekend league.

For this game, they have been preparing for more than two weeks, so how can they fail?

※※※On Monday afternoon, Real Madrid arrived in Sinsheim. Their arrival caused a white whirlwind in the small town of Sinsheim.

Although Sinsheim has welcomed European giants such as Manchester United, Inter Milan and AC Milan, it is obvious that Real Madrid is the most special one. Even though their performance has not been ideal over the years, their influence has not diminished. This team no longer represents football, but also represents a culture.

However, what excited Sinsheim was not the culture of Real Madrid, but the stars of Real Madrid, Cristiano Ronaldo and Mourinho are the two most popular stars.

Even in the small town of Sinsheim, Mourinho has many supporters.

When the bus that Real Madrid players took arrived in Sinsheim, the road was covered with Real Madrid fans who came early and some local star-chasers of Sinsheim, holding Real Madrid's flag and shouting Mourinho's name.

This is the first team here that I want to receive the locals' pursuit. Before, whether it was Manchester United, Inter Milan, or AC Milan, they were greeted with only the overwhelming Hoffenheim team flag.

Today, Sinsheim was of course covered with Hoffenheim's blue and white flag... "This place is so small..." A Real Madrid player muttered on the bus as he looked at the street scene outside.

They drove in from the west of Sinsheim, passed through Sinsheim, and drove straight to the hotel east of Sinsheim. The hotel was very close to the Rhine-Neka Stadium, the stadium of this game. The Rhine-Neka Stadium is east of Sinsheim, so Real Madrid players took a bus and almost moved Sinsheim.

More Real Madrid players are not very interested in this game, especially the main players, who are indeed thinking about the national derby next Monday night. What they are thinking about now is how to preserve their strength in this game and avoid injury.

The substitutes are full of expectations for this game. Real Madrid under Mourinho does not use the rotation system very much. Although Mourinho has always claimed that his team has no distinction between main players and substitutes, any main players may become substitutes, and any substitutes may also become main players. However, it is indeed an indisputable fact that his starting lineup is very fixed since the beginning of the season. The main lineup is those eleven people, and there will be no changes. He can use the same starting lineup for several consecutive games without giving substitutes any chances.

Of course, he has his own considerations. He just came to Real Madrid and did not have a thorough understanding of the team. In addition, the team has experienced coach changes and added several new teammates. The team needs to be run-in and a stable lineup. Frequent rotations during the run-in period are obviously not conducive to the formation of the team.

However, for substitutes, this is really hard to bear. Benzema has been playing as a substitute before, and rumors about him leaving the players spread throughout Madrid. Other substitutes are inevitably not very thoughtful, but they are not very good at playing with the star-stirring style and the brand is not big enough, so no one cares about them even if there are complaints.

Now as the team's formation matures, Mourinho has also begun to rotate with restrictions - he is not the kind of rotation that changes the entire starting lineup, but a small rotation that is finely adjusted in certain places.

For example, in this game, he did not let Higuain, Khdira and Carvalho come to Sinsheim, but stayed in Madrid. He will give Benzema, Roussena Diarra and Orbior the chance to start.

Among them, Benzema and Roussena Diara have both complained that they cannot play as the main player, and Diara complained even more. She threatened that the winter transfer window would be opened and she must leave Real Madrid, and even pulled Benzema. As a result, Mourinho was furious and threw him into the cold palace.

Diyala may not need this opportunity to perform, because his life at Real Madrid is destined not to be too long. He is the kind of player who must play the main player and transfer when playing as a substitute no matter which team he is in. He must be a substitute in Real Madrid. Mourinho has not yet agreed to let him go because there are too many injuries in the team's position in the back. Gago has left, and Mohamed Diyala has been injured again. Apart from Alonso and Khdira, there are no other substitutes, so Diyala cannot leave for the time being.

But his French fellow Benzema needs it very much. He joined Real Madrid with a price of 35 million euros, but his performance was not satisfactory, so his high value and low performance have always become heavy pressure that Benzema must bear. At the beginning of the season, he was once rumored that he was going to transfer and leave. It is said that AC Milan, Inter Milan, and Manchester United are all very interested in him.

However, in the past month, his performance has rebounded. Although he is always a substitute, he can always play a key role. The outside world's criticism of him has gradually decreased, replaced by praise and expectation.

Benzema really hopes to use the wonderful performance of this game to prove to Mourinho that he can also be competent for the main force and is no worse than Higuain.

He contributed several key assists in previous games, but he hoped to score goals, after all, he was a forward, not a forward.

Albiol also needs this opportunity. As a member of the Spanish national team, he won the South African World Cup this summer with the team, which should be very helpful for his career. He has been Real Madrid's main central defender last season. But before the season started, he was injured. Mourinho bought his trusted veteran Carvalho, and Carvalho's performance was quite outstanding. Real Madrid's first league victory and the first league goal were all related to him. As of now

So far, Carvalho has scored two goals in the league, which is an amazing result as a central defender. He has made outstanding contributions to the team in offense, is also very stable in defense, and basically does not make mistakes. Mourinho's Real Madrid defense is so stable that it has a lot to do with Carvalho's joining. At first, Carvalho, who was bought for 8 million euros as a firefighter, only because Albiol, Gare and Pepe were injured one after another, and now it seems to be worth the money.

This makes Albiol look very embarrassed. His strength is not bad, but he can only play as a substitute. Therefore, this game is very important to him, and he hopes to impress Mourinho through this game.

The main players leaned on the seats of the bus and closed their eyes to rest or listen to music. Several substitute players who had the opportunity to start in this game stared at the Rhine Neka Stadium and were stunning. They might be looking forward to what kind of outstanding performance they would have in this game, which could impress Mourinho, who was in charge of the iron-fisted army... The bus turned a corner, drove away from the Rhine Neka Stadium, and headed towards the hotel they were staying. Where, Real Madrid fans who arrived in Sinsheim in advance were ready to welcome them.

When the bus arrived at the hotel, Mourinho got off the bus and became the focus of media attention.

The reporters flocked to him and reached the microphone to him, but the question asked by Spanish reporters was that it had nothing to do with the game.

Their relationship is still the national derby.

This made Mourinho a little unhappy, and he refused to answer such questions with a gloomy face: "I only answer questions related to tomorrow night's game."

German reporters rushed up: "You are in very good shape now. Does this mean you are full of confidence in the game against Hoffenheim?"

Mourinho shook his head: "No, Hoffenheim can beat AC Milan at home, such a team cannot be underestimated. We will take this game seriously."

"That's right, you used rotation..."

"My team has no distinction between main players and substitutes." Mourinho glared at the German reporter.

Mourinho answered questions from several normal Spanish journalists, then squeezed into the gate and disappeared into the hotel.

Other players got off the car one after another, but only the number of media and fans around Cristiano Ronaldo can be roughly comparable to Mourinho, and the others are completely like playing soy sauce.

This Real Madrid team has been famous for more than a century as its stars. From its initial glory, it has the largest stars and the smallest coach. Now for the first time, Real Madrid's number one star is not a player, but their head coach.

Perhaps, this is exactly why they become difficult to deal with...
Chapter completed!