Chapter 670: Questions from the famous German media 'Bild'
Manchester City will go away from home in this round of the Champions League to challenge the Bundesliga powerhouse Hoffenheim.
Hoffenheim Football Club is a football club based in Sinsheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Since 2000, Hoffenheim has received continuous capital injections from SAP founder Dietmar Hopp.
Hoffenheim began to expand. In 2006, it hired players and coaches with Bundesliga experience, including Ralf Rangnick, who had coached Stuttgart, Hannover 96 and Schalke 04, as the head coach and signed a five-year contract.
There are Jochen Seitz and Tomislav Maric, etc.
The investment paid off, with Hoffenheim finishing second in the 2006/07 Regional League Southern Division. They defeated Fürth 5-0 on the final day, overwhelming Cologne, which had already qualified for promotion, and won the second place, continuously being promoted to the Bundesliga 2.
After the 2007-08 season, it was promoted to the Bundesliga, the top league, in two years.
In their first Bundesliga season, they continued their crazy three-year triple jump. With the outstanding performance of the forward trident Ibisevic, Demba Ba, and Obasi, Hoffenheim drew with Schal in the 17th round.
After K04, with 35 points in 17 rounds, it became the second newly promoted Bundesliga team to become the half-time champion after Kaiserslautern!
Among them, Ibisevic even had an amazing performance of scoring 18 goals in 17 rounds, winning the Bundesliga half-time top scorer!
However, due to the increase in injuries to the team after the winter break, especially Ibisevic, who had an amazing performance in the first half of the season, tore his cruciate ligament in the warm-up match against Hamburg during the winter break and was reimbursed for the season, Hoffenheim was unable to continue.
The craziness of the first half of the season even led to the bitter fruit of 12 consecutive games without a win.
At the end of the season, they only ranked seventh and missed out on the European competition.
After the baptism of the first Bundesliga season, Hoffenheim, who made a stunning debut, gradually faded away from being a dark horse. In the subsequent 2009-10 season, Hoffenheim maintained its top five position at the beginning of the season.
However, the club once again suffered a large number of injuries and suspensions. In the second half of the season, Hoffenheim won only four games out of 17 games. In the end, Hoffenheim finished the season in second place.
Disappointed eleventh place.
During the winter break of the 2010-11 season, an earthquake occurred in the Hoffenheim team.
Before the winter break, the team ranked fifth in the Bundesliga and reached the quarterfinals of the German Cup.
However, team owner Hope sold midfielder Luis Gustavo to Bundesliga hegemon Bayern Munich for 17 million on the first day of the winter transfer window!
Because Hope sold Gustavo without notifying team coach Ralf Rangnick, the meritorious coach Rangnick resigned angrily the day after the transfer was agreed, and the team was replaced by the then assistant coach
Marco Pezzaivoli takes over as coach.
At the end of the season, Hoffenheim fell from fifth place in the league during the winter break to eleventh place.
Hoffenheim began to recover in the 16-17 season, finishing fourth in the Bundesliga. In the 17-18 season, it went a step further, finishing third in the Bundesliga, creating the best results in the team's history, and possibly qualifying for the Champions League!
Hoffenheim's success in the Bundesliga for two consecutive seasons has made them an important force in the Bundesliga.
In the first game of the Champions League group stage this season, Hoffenheim went away and played Shakhtar Donetsk 2-2.
This was good for Hoffenheim, which was participating in the Champions League for the first time.
As for whether they can defeat Manchester City at home this round?
The British media thought there was little hope.
"The Times" said: "Although Hoffenheim was impressive in the Bundesliga last season and created the best result in team history - third place in the Bundesliga, their performance in the Bundesliga this season is unsatisfactory.
In the last six rounds of Bundesliga games, Hoffenheim has only achieved two victories, two wins, one draw and three losses, and is currently ranked ninth in the Bundesliga.
Their results cannot be compared with the invincible Blue Moon.
Although De Bruyne still has a high exemption card, it is still doubtful whether Li can appear at the Rhein-Neckar Arena. However, with Manchester City's strong overall strength, it is very difficult for Hoffenheim to win at home.
Hoffenheim can get a draw with home advantage, which is good for them.
Therefore, Hoffenheim’s most realistic strategy is to draw with Blue Moon at home!”
The German media cheered and encouraged Hoffenheim. Bild published an article: Is Manchester City really invincible?
Bild believes that Manchester City is not invincible: "Manchester City has won seven consecutive victories in the Premier League, which seems invincible, but so far they have not encountered a truly strong team.
The only threat to them is Arsenal, but the two teams met in the first round.
Arsenal coach Emery is obviously not familiar with the Premier League. Coupled with Lee's explosion in that game, Arsenal suffered a disastrous defeat at their home court.
Does this game illustrate anything?
cannot!
First of all, Arsenal is no longer the Arsenal in its heyday. There is a certain gap between them and Manchester City in terms of overall strength.
Secondly, as mentioned above, Arsenal coach Emery is not familiar with the Premier League.
After this, Manchester City did not encounter a strong team in the Premier League.
Some people say that Manchester City has never played against Chelsea in the Community Shield and won 3-0.
We don’t think Chelsea were in 100% form in that game because the Premier League had not yet started and Chelsea had not yet entered the state.
And Chelsea was trying to fine-tune their lineup in that game.
In the seventh round of the Premier League that just ended, Chelsea faced off against Liverpool. That is the true level of Chelsea. They almost defeated Liverpool, who had won six consecutive games at home!
Therefore, Manchester City's victory over Chelsea in the Community Shield does not mean anything.
And we have also seen that although Manchester City defeated Brighton 2-0 at home in the seventh round of the Premier League that just ended, how difficult it was for them to win.
Therefore, it is not impossible for Hoffenheim to defeat Manchester City at home.
Manchester City's top star Lee did not participate in the game against Brighton. According to Guardiola, Lee has recovered and did not appear in the game against Brighton because of the Champions League.
Is this sentence a smoke bomb? In fact, Li has not recovered!
It's hard to say yet, but we think that even if Li recovers, it is unlikely that he will be able to return to his peak condition.
Two weeks ago, Lyon coach Genesio said in an interview at Manchester International Airport that he had found the pattern of Lee's ups and downs and received theoretical support from many experts.
As a result, Li slapped Genesio and the experts hard in the face, scoring five goals in the first half!
But does this mean that Li Neng ignores the laws of the human body?
No!
Lee missed two consecutive Premier League games. Although Manchester City claimed that it was an injury problem, we believe that this is not just an injury problem. Lee should indeed be in poor condition.
So even if Li can appear in the game against Hoffenheim, who can guarantee that he will perform well!
What's more, it is very likely that he will not be able to appear in the game against Hoffenheim.
More importantly, Manchester City did not perform well against Bundesliga teams and lost all of their first six away games!
In the past two years, Manchester City has slowly improved, achieving two wins, one draw and one loss.
Therefore, Hoffenheim must be confident in defeating Manchester City at home!
Another important reason for Hoffenheim's victory over Manchester City is that Manchester City will have a 'top battle' with Liverpool this weekend!
For Manchester City, that game is the most important.
To win the battle for the top spot, we don't think Lee will even show up against Hoffenheim!"
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