Super Marshal

At the beginning of August, Bayern Munich played another warm-up match. The home team was a low-level league team from the surrounding area. The result was still a big score victory, but the team still allowed the opponent to score a goal and saved face.

On August 10, the first official game of the new season finally came, the first knockout round of the German Cup. The opponent was the third-tier league team Erfurt, but this time Bayern Munich showed no mercy. Won the away game by a score of 7-0.

However, teams such as Werder Bremen and Monchengladbach stole the show by scoring more goals than Bayern Munich.

One week after the German Cup, the first round of the Bundesliga came.

Because it was the opening game of the Bundesliga, a brief opening ceremony was held at the Allianz Arena before the game.

As the best coach of the Bundesliga last season and the best player of the season, Gao Han walked into the Allianz Arena side by side with Frank Ribery and was greeted by 60,000 Munich fans in the audience, especially when the ball Team captain Lahm and Bastian Schweinsteiger walked into the venue holding the championship sandbox. When they walked between Gao Han and Ribery, the fans in the audience shouted for the championship.

The whole scene was extremely inspiring and made everyone feel the ambition of Bayern Munich.

During the game, Bayern Munich, which was playing at home, was also very aggressive.

For the Hamburg team, this game obviously came at an untimely time, because they had just lost two of their top players.

One is the core midfielder Van der Vaart. The Dutch midfielder finally chose to join Real Madrid, which made Hamburg somewhat passive and is actively looking for players in the transfer market.

The other one is defense leader Vicente Kompany.

As early as before the summer training camp, the Belgian central defender had a very unpleasant quarrel with the Hamburg team in order to represent the national team in the BJ Olympics. Hamburg did not want him to go to the BJ, but he insisted on going, and the two sides were at loggerheads.

Some media broke the news that many teams, including Manchester City and Chelsea, have begun to extend invitations to Kompany.

But no matter what happens in the future, the absence of the two big players makes Hamburg's midfield and backcourt very unstable.

For this game, Gao Han specially sent people to spy on the Hamburg team's warm-up match, and finally formulated a tactical strategy to attack after the opening, taking advantage of the home court advantage to defeat Hamburg in one fell swoop.

Hamburg obviously also anticipated Bayern Munich's strategy and started defensively.

But it turned out that they only lasted ten minutes.

Ten minutes later, Gao Han saw that Hamburg's defense was loose, and immediately used the skill card, and the team attacked aggressively.

In the twelfth minute, Ram threw a free kick. Modric got the ball from the right, got rid of the defender and passed the ball into the penalty area. However, the opponent's defender Matteisen headed the ball out, but Schweinsteiger followed up in the middle. A volley opened the scoring for Bayern Munich.

This is also the first goal in the Bundesliga this season.

This goal completely ignited the fanatical atmosphere at the Allianz Arena.

On the court, Bayern Munich continued to strengthen their offensive.

Soon, in the 17th minute, after Robben dribbled the ball in from the right, he was pushed down by the opponent's player Matteisen. The referee directly awarded a free kick and showed a yellow card.

Franck Ribery took the free kick, but it hit the wall. Robben seized the opportunity and scored in one stroke, giving Bayern Munich another victory, 2-0.

After scoring two goals in a row, Bayern Munich slowed down its offensive, but still firmly controlled the situation on the field.

After stabilizing their position, Hamburg attempted to counterattack, but was soon defeated by Bayern Munich's counterattack.

This was after Vidal intercepted the ball in the middle and handed it to Modric. The latter made a precise through ball, tearing apart Hamburg's defense. Klose stepped in and easily pushed the ball home, making it 3-0.

With a three-goal lead in less than half an hour, Bayern Munich almost won the game early.

Martin Jol, the Dutch head coach of Hamburg, even made a crazy move, replacing a defender with a forward and playing three defenders, as if he wanted to give it a try and fight Bayern Munich to the death.

The two sides were indeed inseparable in the last ten minutes of the first half, but in the second half, Bayern Munich quickly regained control of the situation.

In the 55th minute, Bastian Schweinsteiger made a long pass. After Ribery quickly cut into the penalty area from the left, he stopped the ball with his chest. Before the ball hit the ground, he directly volleyed with his right foot. The opponent's goalkeeper Rost saved it, but the key was At the right moment, Robben caught up with him from the right and succeeded in scoring an empty goal with his left foot, making it 4-0.

This goal completely demoralized Hamburg's counterattack, and Martin Jol had to make another substitution, taking out a forward and replacing him with a midfielder to further strengthen the defense.

After that, Bayern Munich did not continue to increase its offensive, and the remaining game time was spent among substitutions.

In the end, the Bundesliga giants defeated Hamburg 4-0 at the Allianz Arena and won the first victory of the new season, which disappointed countless fans who were eagerly looking forward to Bayern Munich's capsize in the gutter.

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Bayern Munich defeated Hamburg 4-0 and won full applause.

But it only lasted one day.

Because, in the second day of the Bundesliga schedule, Hoffenheim surprised everyone and completely showed their dark horse potential.

Rangnick's team deployed a traditional four-four-two formation in the away game against Cottbus, with players such as Gustavo and Baker introduced this summer all starting.

As a result, Hoffenheim relied on the outstanding performance of its two forwards to defeat Cottbus 3-0 away from home.

Ibisevic made two shots and one pass, and Demba Ba made one pass and one shot, both of which attracted enough attention.

If before the game, fans still had doubts about Hoffenheim's dark horse status, they are now completely dispelled.

Head coach Rangnick also confidently stated at the post-match press conference that the team entered the Bundesliga not to avoid relegation, but to get a better ranking.

Facts have proved that Hoffenheim does have such strength.

A week later, in the second round of the Bundesliga, Hoffenheim faced Monchengladbach at home.

Also a newly promoted team, Monchengladbach lost 1-3 at home to Stuttgart in the first round. They also did not dare to be careless against Hoffenheim in this round. Although in the Bundesliga last season, Monchengladbach was very strong. They won the league title over Hoffenheim, but they fell behind in both rounds against Hoffenheim.

A scoreless draw at home and a 4-2 defeat away from home.

And this time, they returned with hatred again. Ibisevic's goal in the 31st minute helped Hoffenheim defeat Monchengladbach 1-0 and win two consecutive victories.

After two rounds of the Bundesliga in the new season, apart from Hoffenheim, only Bayern Munich has won two consecutive games.

The Bundesliga giants defeated Dortmund 2-0 away from home.

This was Gao Han's second encounter with Klopp within a month, and this time, the answer given by the German coach made Gao Han even more satisfied, because he arranged for the young player Sahin to start in the midfield, which made Dortmund's midfielder look forward to it. Be more organized.

Robben scored a goal at the Westminster Stadium, bringing his number of goals to three, tied with Hoffenheim's Ibisevic in the top scorer list. Franck Ribery scored another goal. ball.

Two consecutive victories, catching up with Bayern Munich, has attracted the attention of the newly promoted Hoffenheim. Some media even began to hype Hoffenheim's dark horse potential in fear of chaos, believing that they have the ability to overthrow Gao Han and Bayern Munich. Strength.

But in response to such remarks, Gao Han just smiled and did not refute.

But at the pre-match press conference for the third round home game against Hertha Berlin, he told Bild in an interview that what Hoffenheim needs most is stability, and two consecutive wins do not show anything at all.

The media criticized Gao Han's comments one after another, thinking that he was afraid of Hoffenheim.

But the facts proved that Gao Han's judgment was right.

After two consecutive victories, Hoffenheim finally faced a challenge, an away game against the pharmaceutical company Leverkusen.

As a traditional powerhouse in the Bundesliga, Leverkusen is obviously more experienced and stronger. Facing the menacing Hoffenheim at home, they scored two goals in just 17 minutes, which taught Hoffen a good lesson. Heim meal.

But Hoffenheim is not a fuel-saving lamp. Ibisevic pulled a goal back in the 20th minute, rewriting the score to 1-2, rekindling Hoffenheim's hope.

But in the 36th minute, Keesling's goal once again expanded the score to 3-1.

In the second half, the team changed sides and fought again. Rangnick made a decisive midfield substitution, which allowed the offensive to improve in the second half.

In the 58th minute, Ibisevic assisted teammate Salihovich to score, 2-3.

Leverkusen coach Labbadia coached in the Bundesliga last season and was very familiar with Hoffenheim. He calmly made adjustments and maintained the 3-2 score until the final stage. Then suddenly after 80 minutes Make efforts to make substitutions and adjustments.

As a result, Leverkusen scored two goals in the 83rd and 87th minutes, and finally beat Hoffenheim 5-2.

It can be said that this game fully exposed Hoffenheim's problems and allowed everyone to clearly see the weaknesses of this dark pony team.

On the other hand, Bayern Munich defeated Hertha Berlin 4-0 at home and won three consecutive victories.

After this round, Bayern Munich leads the Bundesliga standings with three consecutive victories. Schalke has scored 04 points and ranks second in the standings, followed by Hamburg, Dortmund, Leverkusen, Stuttgart and Hoffen. Heim both scored six points.

Hoffenheim, in particular, fell directly from second place in the league to seventh place in the league. This fall was quite miserable.

After the third round of the Bundesliga, there will be a break due to the national team competition, but Bayern Munich did not disband. Instead, Gao Han led the team to Monaco to prepare for the upcoming European Super Cup.

The UEFA Cup Triple Crown winner versus the Champions League Triple Crown winner is undoubtedly the most exciting peak matchup of the new season.

In particular, the master-disciple duel between Gao Han and Guardiola attracted even more attention.

The common view in the European media is that, looking at the entire European football world, if the team has the most hope of defeating Gao Han, it must be Guardiola's Barcelona.

But before the high-profile Super Cup, the annual UEFA Champions League group stage draw ceremony was held at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco.

What's interesting is that due to poor performance in the European wars over the past many years, Bayern Munich only got the second tier of places after returning to the Champions League this season, which immediately made the entire European football team suffer.

Everyone knows that whoever draws the cold Bayern Munich will be suicidal, so the eight seeded teams in the first tier are very depressed, and no one wants to meet Bayern Munich.

Also placed in the second tier was Real Madrid. This giant team also suffered from consecutive unfavorable results in European competitions, failing in the top 16 every year, and was eventually squeezed out of the first tier by Ligue 1 Lyon.

Therefore, before the draw of the Champions League group stage, the group of death has become a shadow hovering over the heads of all the first-seeded teams.

On the contrary, it was Gao Han. When the team arrived in Monaco, he accepted an official interview with UEFA in accordance with the procedure and said with a smile that he would not mind being drawn against any team.

"I believe that no team would be willing to be placed in the same group as us. My players and I are proud of this, but I still want to say, the Champions League, we are back!"