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315 Preliminary integration
In the first two rounds of the league, they encountered two underdogs, and in the third, fourth and fifth rounds, they met the top six teams of last season. Rangnick, who had already tied for two consecutive games, did not want to let go of Leverkusen, a strong competitor who won the Champions League qualification at home. You must know that the pressure on Rangnick’s performance this season is also very high. Rangnick also wants to use better results to prove that he is the best head coach Hoffenheim can find.

Since there is a rich and generous boss, Hoffenheim's salary is still quite attractive, otherwise it would not be possible to introduce the famous Bundesliga goalkeeper Hildebrand in the season when he entered the Bundesliga.

In this game, Rangnick sent his entire main lineup, the goalkeeper was Hildebrand, the defenders Baker, Simunić, Li Jie and Comper, the midfielders Gustavo, Eduardo, Marin and Salihovic, and the forwards were Obasi and Long Bisheng.

Heynckes was not to be outdone. Although he was on the road, he also sent his main lineup against Hoffenheim, one of his competitors.

The goalkeeper is Adler, the current No. 26 goal of the German national team. The defense line is captain Friedrich and Hyypia in the middle. The two full-backs are Castro and Kadlec. The midfielder is German midfielder Rolfes. Swiss midfielder Barnetta is on the left.

Kroos and Augusto are the source of Leverkusen's offense, while Kisling and Helmers are the terminators of the offense. Kisling is tall, has excellent confrontation ability, and has a strong ability to head the ball. He is a typical German center forward, while Helmers is another type of striker. Before the World Cup last year, he was rested for half a year due to a serious ankle injury. His name will definitely be included in the list of the German national team going to South Africa.

After the start of the game, Leverkusen began to attack Hoffenheim against the guest. Hoffenheim was already prepared to pay attention to defense.

Li Jie stared at Kisling closely. Although the opponent was 1.9 meters tall and had excellent confrontation ability, Li Jie, who was now 1.8 meters tall, would not be afraid of this kind of striker. He had spent five years in Germany and two years in the Bundesliga.

Augusto took the ball from the wing, and Baker immediately stared at him. Although Augusto is a midfielder with excellent skills in the Bundesliga, Baker is also a rookie full-back known for his defensive ability. Otherwise, he would not have been the main full-back in Hoffenheim for three seasons at the age of 23.

Unable to get rid of his opponent, Augusto gave the ball to Kroos in the middle. After getting the ball, Kroos swung past Gustavo, who was jumping too hard, and Long Bisheng, who returned to defense, immediately stopped him.

Seeing a big man lying in front of him, Cross' heart immediately twitched.

Of course he is not afraid of the dragon will win, but when he sees this big man, Cross will think of the painful experience in Egypt a year ago-it was the first time after Cross did not win the championship in the international competition for teenagers!
Thinking of this, Cross immediately took the ball and rushed towards Long Bisheng-passing this guy was a small revenge!
But it is not easy to get past the big man Long Bisheng—he occupies too much ground—after dribbling back and forth quickly and finally making Long Bisheng lose his center of gravity, Cross dribbled the ball from Long Bisheng's left side.

But what was waiting for him was Gustavo's flying shovel.

In order to prevent Long Bisheng's long legs from breaking the ball, Cross waded a bit too far, but this just gave Gustavo a chance, and Cross did not escape the tackle.

After shoveling the ball, Gustavo, who was still lying on the ground, immediately swept the ball forward and distributed it to Long Bisheng in front of him.

Long Bisheng is no longer the rookie who was at a loss when he got the ball in the midfield. After he took the ball and turned around, he didn't pass the ball to Marin, who was a little ahead, but passed the ball horizontally to Eduardo who came in from behind!
"Good pass." Lannick nodded off the court.

The reason why he appreciated this seemingly ordinary pass was not because his appreciation was worthless—on the contrary, Lannick was known for his strictness—if Long Bisheng passed the ball to Marin in front, it seemed that the counterattack would be faster.

After passing the pass to Eduardo, Marin can pull to the side to tear apart the opponent's defense, and Eduardo has a buffer in the middle, and Salihovic on the left can also quickly insert, so that a layered offense and threat can be formed.

Eduardo dribbled forward and broke through. Leverkusen's midfielder Rolfes wanted to stop the fourth-ranked playmaker in the Bundesliga in assists last season, but Long Bisheng intentionally or unintentionally blocked him and Eduardo, preventing him from pushing forward immediately. At this time, Eduardo had already dribbled the ball across the midfield, and then distributed the ball to Marin on the right.

When Edward scored more points, Long Bisheng began to speed up and rush forward.

Marin dribbled the ball on the right and saw that the opponent's full-back was guarding very tightly, so he stopped the ball under his feet. When the opponent's defender thought he had successfully stopped the opponent's fast break, Marin suddenly pushed the ball to the bottom line again...

During the period of delay, Obasi has already come up, and inserted to the side, just in time to receive Marin's through ball, and then took advantage of the opportunity to make a dunk to the middle, and entered the penalty area!
The defense on the side will always be weaker than that in the center, so it seems that Rangnick asks the forward to pull more and then break through the middle.

"Sammy! Keep an eye on that big man!" Friedrich yelled at Hypia while walking up to Obasi.

Hyypia looked at Long Bisheng who was rushing towards the penalty area, and greeted him at the same time.

At this moment, Long Bisheng, who was about to rush into the penalty area, suddenly stopped, changed direction and ran towards the back point. Hypia hesitated for a moment, but still followed.

And other teammates are about to return to defense, so it should be no problem to leave the center temporarily empty.

Hyypia's judgment was obviously correct. Under Friedrich's defense, Obasi did not use his speed and technique to break through. All he could do was barely dodge a gap, and then passed the ball into the penalty area.

Long Bisheng and Hyypia jumped up at the same time at the back point. Hyypia knew that he was no match for this young opponent in terms of strength and height, but he could use his experience.

When taking off, Hyypia put his arm on Long Bisheng's hand very covertly. While jumping with strength, he also put extra pressure on the opponent.

But Hypia miscalculated.

When he put his hand over, Long Bisheng's arm moved upwards naturally, just collided with the hand he reached over, neither of them took any advantage, and at the same time, Hypia's back seemed to hit a wall, the opponent didn't fight back hard, but he couldn't even knock him away.

Hyypia became famous in the Premier League, but Long Bisheng stayed in the League One and the Championship for two seasons. Although the defenders of the League One and the Championship were far inferior to those of the Premier League defenders, their defensive methods were similar. Long Bisheng had long adapted to this kind of defense.

After holding the opponent, Long Bisheng jumped a full head higher than Hyypia, but he didn't shake his head directly to attack the goal, because Leverkusen's goalkeeper Adler had already blocked the close point. Based on his reaction, no matter how powerful Long Bisheng was, it would be difficult for Long Bisheng to break through his ten fingers.

Because of this, and because he saw that Eduardo had rushed into the penalty area from the back row, Long Bisheng immediately swung the head and headed the ball directly to the vicinity of the penalty spot!
This was beyond Adler's expectation. He didn't expect that Long Bisheng would have enough energy to observe the situation outside the penalty area under Hyypia's full defense, so even though he saw Eduardo entering the penalty area, he still focused most of his attention on Long Bisheng, who was more threatening. When he saw Long Bisheng ferrying the ball down, he immediately turned around, but it was too late.

Eduardo, who was inserted into the penalty area, received Long Bisheng's header ferry, he took the ball forward a step, then immediately swung his left foot, and slammed the ball hard!
The ball flew out from Eduardo's feet and went straight to the far corner opposite where Adler was originally standing. Although Adler made the correct reaction at the first time, the ball still flew past him quickly and flew into the goal against the goal post!
Huge cheers immediately erupted in the Rhein-Neckar Stadium!

(End of this chapter)