In the 87th minute, Ibissevic helped Hoffenheim equalize the score. This goal was a very heavy blow to AC Milan. They now have to score two in the last few minutes before they can have a chance. But this is almost impossible. Even AC Milan can't do anything.

So Ibisevic's goal basically sentenced AC Milan to death.

AC Milan fans are also very clear about this, so when Hoffenheim players are still celebrating the goal, many of them have already begun to leave the game. Before, when they tied 1:1, some people left the game early, which was just a sporadic phenomenon.

But now it is different. The TV broadcast specially gave the stand a shot, showing a steady stream of people leaving the stage from various exits.

Only the most fanatical AC Milan fans are still standing on the stands, hoping to witness the birth of a miracle with their own eyes.

"They will definitely regret it!" Seeing those who left the game early, they were still shouting: "They will miss a great game because of this!!"

The fans' wishes are beautiful, but the AC Milan fans in the venue seem to have no fighting spirit. Hoffenheim's goal is really deadly. If the score is still 2:1, they will lead, and there is still hope. They only need to score one goal. Scoring one goal is not incredible. But it will not work to score two goals in these few minutes... Except for Gattuso, the other AC Milan players have basically stopped resisting. Ibrahimovic most of the time stands on the court, and he no longer runs, he is too tired. There was hope in his heart before, and he can support him to grit his teeth and run and pursue the opportunity to shoot. But now all this has become useless, so why do he have to waste his energy?

Hoffenheim fans and substitutes couldn't wait to start celebrating. All the substitutes walked out of their seats, stood on the sidelines, waiting for the final whistle to blow.

The commentators began to announce the winners of the game in advance.

In short, all this made any AC Milan fan feel heartbroken and angry after seeing it.

The live TV broadcast gave Allegri a close-up shot. The coach stood on the sidelines, wrapped his hands around his chest, and looked at the stadium with expressionless face. He still had a substitution quota, but he didn't plan to use it anymore, so there was no need to use it. Even if he replaced Maradona at this time, it would be useless.

The morale of the entire AC Milan team has fallen to a low point, and a star cannot change the status quo.

When the referee finally blew the whistle to the end of the game, San Siro booed everywhere. I just didn't know whether they were their teams or Hoffenheim who cheered for the qualifying line.

"The game ends! The last group match of the Death Group ends, which is really an unexpected result. When the lottery results came out, no one expected that this would be the situation. The seed team of this group AC Milan was eliminated! Real Madrid won the first place in the group, and the team that qualifies as the second in the group is... Hoffenheim!! This is the second time this young team has participated in the Champions League in history, and they have actually broken out from the Death Group. Last season, they also won the group qualifying! This team has made the whole of Europe look at it! If no one knew where Hoffenheim was at the beginning, then now everyone is no longer interested in the question of where they come from, because they all know."

"Acc Milan lost in the midfield, and they lacked a strong midfield. Gattuso, Sidov and Pirlo, the three core players who made Milan win the Champions League twice in five years, were old. Abat was not up to the top, and Boateng was too young. Ibrahimovic and Robinho had all the skills to play ahead but couldn't play because the midfield could not provide them with better opportunities. On the other hand, Hoffenheim, because of a midfield commander, the entire team was different. Chu Zhen is an excellent player!"

"I was thinking that Galliani must regret not being persistent at the beginning and taking Chu Zhongtian! Otherwise, how could it be so far? The AC Milan group did not qualify, which is definitely the biggest upset in this Champions League match so far!"

On the court, Hoffenheim players celebrated their victory. They used a draw to exchange for the group qualifiers and remained unbeaten against AC Milan in the group stage. Chu Zhongtian's personal career was also unbeaten against AC Milan. This is a very amazing result, because a team like AC Milan cannot defeat it.

※※※At the Bernabeu, Real Madrid and Ausselle match ended one minute earlier than the match between AC Milan and Hoffenheim. In an interview with reporters, a reporter mentioned the latest news from San Siro.

"Acc Milan failed to qualify from the group, are you surprised, Jose?"

Mourinho shook his head and shrugged: "No, this is the death group. It is normal for anyone who qualifies for the four teams to qualify for the line."

He was really not surprised by the result. If Hoffenheim did not have Chu Zhongtian, he might have been surprised. But after playing against this team four times, he already had a deep understanding of the strength of this team.

"Can you evaluate Hoffenheim who qualifies?"

"They are a very strong team. I think any team that can eliminate AC Milan is strong..."

※※※Acc Milan players collapsed on the court in disappointment. Players like Boateng could no longer suppress their inner sadness and became in pain, just like Garner was eliminated in the World Cup.

More players were confused - they still couldn't believe that their team would miss the Champions League knockout round.

Only Gattuso was very angry. He was always like this and would be very unwilling to accept it after losing. Chu Zhongtian was quite similar to him in this regard.

Behind the lost Milanese are Hoffenheim players celebrating the qualifying. However, they dare not celebrate too recklessly. Under the leadership of captain Chu Zhongtian, the team held a brief celebration and collectively came to the bottom of the stands where Hoffenheim fans gathered, thanking the fans who came from afar to support them.

Hoffenheim fans in the stands also applauded, thanking the teams for their wonderful performance.

※※※The news that Hoffenheim successfully squeezed out AC Milan and got the right to qualify in the group surprised many people. Although everyone thinks that Hoffenheim is very strong, it is still beyond the expectation of many people to break out of the death group. Everyone thinks that this group is very unfavorable for Hoffenheim. Real Madrid and AC Milan are big hits, and Hoffenheim's final destination is very likely to be the Europa League.

Unexpectedly, AC Milan's slow heat caused them to hurt them. They were at a disadvantage at the beginning. They lost to Real Madrid and Hoffenheim one after another, especially the away game to Hoffenheim is the most deadly. It can be said that Hoffenheim was the target of points in AC Milan's original plan. Ausserl and Hoffenheim are both opponents that AC Milan must win, and the six points between these two opponents are also within the plan. If you win these twelve points, even if you lose to Real Madrid in both games, they will be enough to qualify as the second in the group.

Unexpectedly, he lost to Hoffenheim away, which made AC Milan's position mess. Then he had the chance to win Real Madrid at home, but he didn't expect that Pedro Leon equalized the score in the last minute, and the three-pointer he got turned into one point. After the four-round group match, he only accumulated four points and was too far behind.

AC Milan has always been proud of its slow warm-up and talked about their ability to make efforts in the future. But this time, they lost to their slow warm-up.

After the game, Allerig took responsibility for the elimination at the press conference. The media were speculating whether this defeat would cause him to be dismissed by Berlusconi. After all, for AC Milan, being unable to participate in the Champions League knockout stage was a very serious failure, and it could even be considered a shame.

However, Berlusconi's voice came out later, and AC Milan would continue to trust Allegri and support his work.

Later, the media revealed that after this failure, Allegri and Berlusconi had another long talk. During this talk, Allegri analyzed the reasons for the team's defeat in detail to Berlusconi. He believed that the team was seriously aging and needed to replenish fresh blood. In addition, the delicate midfield style is no longer suitable for today's AC Milan. What AC Milan needs today is a muscle-type midfielder, and players like Boateng are the future strength of AC Milan.

It seems that Berlusconi is planning to accept Allegri's advice.

On the other hand, Rangnick was very satisfied with the result. His goal was to at least qualify in the group. However, what he valued more was not qualifying in the group, but qualifying from this group could greatly enhance the players' confidence. This would be of great help to their fight in the knockout stage. They had already met very strong opponents, and they all came out of it. Then even if they met opponents of the same level, the team would have the confidence to defeat them. There would be no situation where they would be weak when facing strong enemies.

This group stage experience is very valuable to Hoffenheim.

AC Milan was eliminated in the Champions League group stage, which caused great response in European football. While everyone lamented that football was perfect, criticized AC Milan's team building strategy in recent years, they also praised Hoffenheim, especially Chu Zhongtian.

Chu Zhongtian has now become one of the hottest players in Europe. As the winter break is gradually approaching, there are more and more rumors about him in the transfer market.

Many people firmly believe that Hoffenheim cannot keep him, although Hoffenheim has just renewed his contract with Chu Zhongtian for four years. Everyone believes that the contract renewal is just to facilitate the club to ask for a price that is concealed.

Can Hoffenheim really keep such an excellent player? Even if Hoffenheim wants to keep him, won’t he ask to leave by himself? Maybe not before, but as his fame increases, he will be tempted more and more, and his ambitions will become greater and greater. When what he wants cannot be satisfied at Hoffenheim, what reason does he have to stay in Hoffenheim?

The media have already known that Chu Zhongtian is an ambitious person. In the FM game, Chu Zhongtian is also twenty-years-old about ambition. How could such a person be willing to stay in a small team for the rest of his life?

So those wealthy clubs have a lot of confidence in digging Hoffenheim's core. They believe that they have many conditions that are better than Hoffenheim to make Chu Zhongtian excited. Do you want money? We have strong financial support. Do you want honor? Only in our wealthy teams can you be closer to honor. Do you want fame and fortune? The wealthy teams are specialized in this. Playing football in a wealthy team is obviously higher than that in a country team.

Since this game, outside the training base in Hoffenheim, you can always see many strange faces. Every time they open their training, they will wait around the training ground, just like ordinary fans pay attention to the training on the field. However, they are different from fans. Ordinary fans pay attention to many players, but these people only pay attention to one person.

Yes, they are all scouts from various clubs. They were ordered to follow up and observe Chu Zhongtian's performance and regularly report to the club so that their employers can keep up with the latest situation of Chu Zhongtian at any time.

Even if Chu Zhongtian talks with his teammates a lot on the training ground, he will be able to go to the desks of the head coaches and managers of the wealthy teams the next day.

The existence of these people certainly aroused Rangnick's vigilance. He knew that these people were here to follow Chu Zhongtian and were ready to poach at any time.

Logically speaking, after the club renewed the contract with Chu Zhongtian, he should have breathed a sigh of relief, but this was not the case. Instead, he was even more worried.

Chu Zhongtian's performance was like a Damocles sword, hanging above Rangnik's head at any time. The better he performed, the closer the sword was to Rangnik's head.

He was worried that his team would not be able to retain this increasingly dazzling star. His light had already made head coach Rangnick called the "most unpresented" head coach by the media, and now he is even above the club.

He dug him from Metz at the beginning, but he did not tailor the freeman tactics. In this tactical system, he could play freely, do whatever he wanted, and the team revolved around him, and no one could question him. All this made Chu Zhongtian today.

He has been worried about this since the first day. This is a very contradictory fact - he wants to build Chu Zhongtian into a unique "new free man" in today's football world, but at the same time his approach has made Chu Zhongtian farther and farther away from him. One day, when Chu Zhongtian is called a world-class star, Hoffenheim will no longer be able to retain him. And the person who brought him to this point is Rangnick.

However, there is no hope of staying, because before the transfer window opens in winter, rumors about Chu Zhongtian's transfer are rampant. Maybe it's just a "routine business", and after the transfer window passes, it will naturally be fine.

Hoffenheim fans are basically used to this drama that is performed every year. No matter how those wealthy clubs poach their number one star, Chu Zhongtian just won't leave.

This time, it should be the case.

Of course, the wealthy clubs are not thinking of poaching such a top player during the winter break. Generally speaking, there are no good players in the winter transfer market, and everyone is waiting to take action in the summer transfer market. Besides, Chu Zhongtian has participated in the Champions League. Even if he transfers in January next year, he will not be able to participate in the Champions League. He can’t buy tens of millions of dollars to play the most important game. What’s the use of it? The wealthy teams buy people to supplement their strength, of course, to cope with the most important game. Not being able to play the Champions League is a fatal disadvantage.

Therefore, the wealthy teams are now inspecting Chu Zhongtian, not to take action in the transfer market in January next year. Instead, they will not buy it until the end of next summer's season.

※※※The transfer rumors continue. Although everyone has concerns about living like this and that, they have nothing to say on the surface.

Training continues, and the league continues.

On December 11, in the 16th round of the league, Hoffenheim played against Nuremberg at home.

The game against AC Milan has really consumed too much energy, and the joy of qualifying in the group also makes the team unable to play when facing the league opponents.

In the end, the team was tied by Nuremberg at home with a score of 1:1. Van Nystruey scored a goal, but in the 80th minute, Nyema's city gate was finally lost, and Hoffenheim was equalized by the opponent. The score lasted until the end of the game and there was no change.

A week later, Hoffenheim challenged Wolfsburg away. This is the 17th round of the league and the last game before the winter break of the Bundesliga this season.

Hoffenheim probably won the winter break championship this season. The winter break championship is Dortmund, who has made great achievements this season. Even if he wins this game and Dortmund loses the game, the difference between the two sides is not enough to make Hoffenheim turn the tables.

After being tied by Nuremberg, the gap between the points between the two teams has widened to five points. During this period, Hoffenheim has been focused on the Champions League and voluntarily gave up the domestic league, so his performance in the league was not stable enough. He lost to Freiburg 0:1 and suffered the first defeat of the season. He was tied by Leverkusen and Nuremberg 2:2 and 1:1 respectively, and the gap between the two sides has become increasingly wide. Dortmund's momentum is unstoppable, and his consecutive victories have allowed them to lead the Bundesliga standings.

Although he could not win the winter break championship, in order to accumulate more capital before the intensive schedule of the second half of the season, Rangnick still asked the team to win this game. Dortmund played in Frankfurt away, and this game was not difficult, so it was not a problem for them to win.

In the end, Hoffenheim relied on Chu Zhongtian and Ibisevic's outstanding performance away, defeating Wolfsburg with a score of 2:1. Chu Zhongtian completed two assists, and Ibisevic scored twice.

Of course, Dortmund also defeated Frankfurt 3:0 and continued to occupy the top spot in the league standings.

The league has come to an end. What Chu Zhongtian has to consider is no longer the ranking in the league, and the UEFA Champions League has been thrown away by him.

Next, there is only one thing that is most important for him.

That is the Asian Cup that starts on January 7th and ends on January 29th.
Chapter completed!