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Chapter 400 The silver lining

"The game is coming to an end, and the away team is still ahead. St. James is crying, and the away team is elated. The soul of Jack Milburn is sighing, and Alan Shearer is shaking his head on the bench. Is it all over? Is it all over? No, no, no, Newcastle's NO.11 stood up, the game is not over! The game is not over yet!"

Nearly 809 Newcastle fans sang this song in unison. In a league game two years ago, Arsenal kept a [-]-[-] score at St. James' Park in No. [-] minutes, but Drogba miraculously scored two goals at the last moment to help the team reverse Arsenal [-]-[-]. After that, Newcastle fans created a song specially for him. Whenever Drogba scored a goal, they would sing this song to express their love for the Ivorians.

Amid the deafening singing, the Hoffenheim players looked at each other. Although the Rhein-Neckar Stadium can accommodate 3 people, compared with St. James' Park Stadium, whether it is the fanaticism of the fans or the uniformity of the singing, it seems to be far behind the boss!
No wonder no team has been able to take away three points on this field for eight years!In addition to the strong fighting spirit of the players and the strategizing of the head coach, these tens of thousands of crazy Newcastle fans are also their solid backing!

After the equalizer, Newcastle was like a shark smelling blood, and the toughness of the midfield suddenly rose by two levels!

Eduardo was about to pass the ball to Marin just now, but Essien appeared out of nowhere and broke the ball halfway!
Eduardo, who made a pass error, planned to go up and intercept the ball, but his physical fitness was not at the same level as Essien. Essien forcibly broke through him.

But when he posted it, he realized that he had been fooled—Essien was trying to attract him. After resisting his impact, Essien passed the ball and passed it to John Bostock who was plugging in.

The 19-year-old young midfielder rushed forward with the ball. Gustavo would not be able to return for a while. He had enough time to advance with the ball. It was not until he entered the 30-meter area with the ball that Salihovic, who was back on defense, rushed over to defend him.

Faced with the Bosnian press, Bostock first made a fake move to pass the ball to Franck Ribery. Salihovic was really fooled, because there was an entire Hoffenheim defense line behind him. Does this kid have the ability to break through?

But he did just that. As a young genius who became famous in English football at the age of 16, he was much more courageous than ordinary players-after luring Salihovic to stretch his feet, he immediately dunked the ball and then flashed past Salihovic!

Hoffenheim's entire midfield was broken!

Comper was forced to leave Drogba behind to defend Bostock, and Li Jie filled his position to defend Drogba, but Bostock passed the ball to Ribery while running, and Ribery passed the ball back to him in time. With a beautiful two-to-one, Bostock threw off Comper again and broke into the penalty area!
"John! John! John!" The Newcastle fans in the stands shouted Bostock's name loudly. Hildebrand attacked, but Bostock passed the ball to the back point when he attacked!
Ribery, who got rid of Baker, stabbed the ball before Baker made a tackle, and the ball flew into the goal without any suspense!
"No. 203 minutes in the second half! Newcastle overtook the score! Franck Ribery scored his first goal in the Champions League this season! What he wants to thank is the 19-year-old Bostock. After transferring to Newcastle, Bostock didn't get many opportunities to play, but in this goal just now, he threw away two Hoffenheim players and scored! It seems that Mourinho will slowly give him more opportunities to play in the following games. Gerrard has 31 years old, Carrick is 29 years old, Newcastle's future midfielder should definitely have a place in John Bostock!"

The commentator's words resonated with the Newcastle fans in the stands. Amidst the huge cheers, Rangnick shook his head. Compared with the first half, Newcastle in the second half looked like two different players. It seemed that the possibility of ending the home unbeaten record gave them a lot of excitement. It would be great if the leading goal was scored in the second half...

He called Maxwell on the bench: "Get ready to play, tell everyone, attack, increase the offensive on the side, you are in charge of the left, let Marin break through more on the right, tell him that his opponent is just an old defender, if even he can't break through, then I will replace him...Let Eduardo not stick the ball in the middle, score the ball more to both sides, increase the wide-range transfer, so that their Essien can't help the full-back defense...We only have this chance."

Seeing that Maxwell was about to play, Lannick let out a sigh of relief. There was no news from the other field, and he still had to fight for his own destiny.

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After being overtaken by Newcastle, the Hoffenheim players were indeed distracted for a moment, but they were not so vulnerable. The unyielding and perseverance in the bones of the Bundesliga team was stimulated at this moment. They knew that now they had to fight!

Rangnick's substitution told them that the head coach hadn't given up yet, and they couldn't give up either!

If you don't fight at this time, you will have no chance to fight until you are eliminated!
Hoffenheim, which was on the verge of extinction, showed amazing fighting spirit and perseverance. After the game restarted, they had a fierce battle with Newcastle in the midfield!

That's right, it was a fierce competition.

If you want to take advantage of the two center forwards in the penalty area, you have to increase the crosses from the two wings. If the two wings want to have enough crosses, the midfielder has to give more balls to the two wings. Although they can directly drop the ball into the penalty area, the opponent's two center forwards are also about 1.9 meters tall, and the frontal defense will not suffer. Only when the quality of the crosses is high enough, Long Bisheng and Ibisevic can play their full role.

Turning around, or turning to the midfield, Eduardo and Gustavo really fought hard, Eduardo organized, Gustavo swept behind him to protect, and they faced opponents such as Essien, Janus and Bostock.

In this case, Eduardo showed his true qualities as the core of the midfielder. His frequent distribution of the ball in the middle made Hoffenheim's side come alive, especially Maxwell, who had just played, gave full play to his physical advantages and kept attacking the area guarded by Srna on the side.

Seeing the danger on the right, Essien had to go to the right to make up more. When he made up to the right again, Maxwell did not continue to bottom, but passed the ball to Marin on the other side with a big foot.

Janus jumped up, but failed to destroy the ball. Marin received the ball, faced Bernard who was defending him, and went straight to the bottom line, and then used his own speed to get rid of Bernard. After catching up with the ball, he made a cross!
Long Bisheng entangled with Taylor and jumped up. In the end, he got the header, but under the interference of the experienced Taylor, his header was too high.

Two minutes later, Marin made another breakthrough from the side. This time his cross was headed straight by Ibisevic, but Cech made a world-class save and blocked the ball out of the baseline. Kolarov took a corner kick and assisted the forward Li Jie to go high.

Rangnick looked anxiously at his watch. Now that Hoffenheim is gaining momentum and cannot score, Newcastle's defense looks impenetrable, and there are only 15 minutes left before the end of the game...

The ball hit Marin's feet again, and Essien quickly made up for it this time. Everyone could see that Bernard was no longer under Marin's impact...

Seeing that Essien was about to form a siege with Bernard, Marin immediately passed the ball back, and Baker who assisted forward distributed the ball to the center. Eduardo rushed the ball in front of Bostock and passed the ball to Maxwell on the left.

Maxwell broke through, but was forced to the corner flag by two opponents. He tried his best to knock Srna away a little, turned around and saw a figure in a blue jersey behind him, and immediately passed the ball back without thinking.

It's Kolarov with the ball!Generally speaking, Hoffenheim has only one full-back to step in for an assist. This time, both full-backs came up, and Li Jie and Compo also pressed near the center circle...

After getting the ball, Kolarov didn't pass directly, but unexpectedly dunked the ball into the penalty area and directly broke into the penalty area!

"Come on! Alexander!" Someone shouted from Hoffenheim's bench. Kolarov dribbled the ball into the penalty area forcibly, and Ribery, who returned to the defense, was left behind by him, but another desperate figure had already run over.
Kolarov threw the ball near the bottom line and made a breakthrough!

Essien stuck up and cut off his route to continue breaking into the penalty area!

"I moved here to play in the Champions League! Hell, no one can stop me at this time!"

Kolarov roared in his heart, then turned around and passed the ball into the penalty area under Essien's collision!

Long Bisheng leaned on Taylor and stretched out his feet first to shoot!
Taylor's outstretched foot couldn't block it, and Cech's body couldn't block it either!The ball rolled into the goal from Cech's armpit, two to two draws!

After scoring the goal, Long Bisheng had no time to celebrate, he rushed into the goal to scoop up the ball, and then ran back!

Even if there is only a glimmer of hope, we must make the greatest efforts!Long Bisheng was running and high-fiving Kolarov while thinking in his heart.

(End of this chapter)