There is a belief called football

Chapter 450 Naples
The mid-week league "Dortmund" is an away game against Hoffenheim. This is also the first time Wang Kong has returned to his old club after his transfer, but Klopp said before the game that Wang Kong will take a break in this game, and he will be replaced by the teenager Weigel.

The European League starts in September. Under normal circumstances, the first two weeks of September are traditional FIFA match days, so the Bundesliga will have a double match a week in late September to make up for the lost progress.

For ordinary teams, this is nothing, but for the four German teams playing in the Champions League, this is a big burden, because the Champions League will be played again in the middle of next week.

In this game, Klopp only made one position change, Wang Kong, and the other positions were exactly the same as when he played against Real Madrid.

When the "Dortmund" bus just arrived at Hoffenheim's home court, they encountered a group of protesters, but this time it was different. They didn't come to cause trouble for the visiting team, but to protest their home team "Hoffenheim".

The stingy owner of Hoffenheim has used the team as a cash machine for so many years. He has trained a star and sold it immediately. Gustavo, Firmino, Ibisevic, Wang Kong, familiar players have left the team one after another.

The fans could bear it at first, but this season the team has 4 losses and 1 win in the first five rounds, ranking third from the bottom, and is already in the relegation zone. Therefore, Huo Village fans can't bear it anymore. They ask the team owner to show sincerity, otherwise they will refuse to enter the game to watch the game.

There was chaos outside the stadium, and the riot police were even used. In the end, the warm-up of "Dortmund" was forced to be cancelled.

After returning to the hotel, Klopp was still very worried, because Huo Village is a small place and the police force is not enough. If it really becomes a big trouble, the game may be postponed. This situation has also been encountered before.

But nothing like this happened. In the end, the captain of the team "Ludi" came out to meet the fans, hoping that they would stop making trouble, otherwise the team would probably be penalized or directly relegated, just like Juventus in Serie A back then.

In the end, Hoffenheim's big boss, a software tycoon, came forward and promised to inject 1000 million euros into the team to buy players during the winter break, so that the team's crisis was temporarily resolved, and the fans did not continue to make trouble.

The reason why I want to talk about Hoffenheim is because this is a unique phenomenon in the Bundesliga, that is, the Bundesliga does not fight for fathers.

In the leagues of other countries, if a club has a rich father, it is rich and powerful, except for the Bundesliga. Many clubs in the Bundesliga have rich backstage bosses, but the clubs don’t have much money, such as Hoffenheim, or Ingolstadt. The big backstage boss in Ingolstadt is Audi. Many people think that Audi is your father, so you must be rich, but in fact it is not.

Ingolstadt's annual budget is more than 1000 million euros, which is less than Bayern Guardiola's salary alone.

But maybe it is precisely because of this that Germany has a large number of talents, because there is no money to buy people, so they can only cultivate them by themselves.

Facing such a dispirited team, "Dortmund" finally won a 4-0 away game. Li Qiao and Royce were like cheetahs who had been suppressed for a long time. The state was blown out. Li Qiao scored 2 goals in the first half, Royce scored 1 goal in the second half, and Aubameyang scored the last goal.

"Dortmund" won a big victory, but it is a pity that there is a god-level match in this round, that is, the match between Bayern and Wolfsburg. Lewandowski scored 9 goals in 5 minutes, so even if Li Qiao scored 6 goals in the first 7 rounds, averaging more than 1 goal per game, Lewandowski led the scorer list with 11 goals by virtue of his masterpiece in this game.

Li Qiao has two personal goals this season. The first is to help the team win the Champions League, and the other is to be the top scorer in the Bundesliga, that is, to win the Bundesliga "Small Steel Cannon". But now it seems that these two goals are very far away.

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After the game, the team quickly returned to "Dortmund" to prepare for the weekend's game. The opponent is the newly promoted team of this season, that is, the Bundesliga just promoted, called "Darmstadt". This team can be said to be the 17 opponents in the Bundesliga.

This kind of team is like Hoffenheim in 2008. It will either become a blockbuster, or go to the Bundesliga for one year and return to the Bundesliga next year.

The final result was unexpected. At home, "Dortmund" was tied by "Darmstadt", and the goal for "Darmstadt" was a man named "Marcel Heller". This is not important, what is important is that after this game, "Dortmund" was 4 points behind Bayern in the standings.

After the game, Darmstadt cheered at the Signal Iduna Park Stadium, as if they were promoted last season, and the "Dortmund" players just walked to the south stand silently to apologize to the fans. Such a game should have been won.

But no matter what, the two league games are over, and there are both joys and worries. Next, Klopp will prepare for the midweek Champions League match against "Naples".

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Naples, this city is famous for two things - cheese and Mediterranean style, but in terms of football, this city is famous for one person, that is Maradona, and because of this, so far in Naples' home stadium, fans still wave the flag with the head of the old horse.

After the weekend league, people carrying blue flags appeared on the streets of Dortmund one after another. Those were Naples fans. In order to book a suitable hotel in Dortmund, they came to Dortmund early.

And other fans who don't have that much money rent a caravan together and drive north from Italy to "Dortmund".

These Italians came to Germany with the enthusiasm of the Mediterranean. In fact, even if they did not wear the Naples jersey, the locals can recognize them by their appearance.

Naples defeated North Zealand in the first game. Now, like "Dortmund", they are all in the group with 3 points. After this game, the winning side will be the first in the group.

On Tuesday, the whole Naples team came to "Dortmund". The reason why they came so late was because the team did not find a suitable training base in "Dortmund", so they had to put several joint training sessions before the game in the local area.

Coincidentally, the head coach of Naples last season was the current Real Madrid head coach "Benix", and now their head coach is the former Empoli coach "Sarri".

After arriving at "Dortmund", Sarri took "Hamsik" and "Higuain" to the first press conference.

This is an independent press conference, that is to say, Sarri is not going to participate in the joint press conference with Klopp before the game. This move reveals two signals. First, Sarri is very nervous about this game.Second, Sarri must maintain a sense of mystery before the game.

The focus of the press conference was of course Higuain. The long-established Argentine striker broke out suddenly this season, and now he is hot in Serie A. He is Naples' big killer in this game.

""Dortmund" will of course be difficult to deal with. Their whole team is very balanced and has no obvious defects. Under Jurgen's training, this team is already one of the best teams in Europe," said the Naples coach.

"Will Napoli be conservative in this game"?
Sarri smiled, "Italian football always gives people a very stereotyped impression that we are very conservative, but in fact Naples is different. In addition, there are only 6 games in the Champions League. What I want to say is that there is no chance of being conservative at all."

What Sarri said is right. Although it is an away game, Naples does not have any conservative capital in this game. Why?
It's very simple. If you can defeat 4 of the 2 teams in the group stage, then you qualify. In this group, if Naples wants to qualify, they must defeat one of Real Madrid and "Dortmund". In Sarri's view, Real Madrid is still better than "Dortmund".

Sarri then handed time to Higuain, who cleared his throat and was ready for questions.

"You are in good form now, and there are even rumors that you will leave Naples. Would you like to join a team with a higher level?"
"I can tell you that I like Naples very much. The pizza here and the sea view here make me intoxicated. If possible, this may be my last stop in Europe."

Generally, Argentine players will return to their roots, although Higuain means that he will not move his nest in Europe again.

"Do you think you're going to score a goal"?
"Tevez called me yesterday and said he dreamed that I would score two goals in this game, and one of them was a penalty kick. I hope his dream will come true."

Higuain's words amused everyone.

A reporter hit a snake with a stick and asked, "What about the other one?"
Higuain shrugged with a smile, then pointed to his head, "according to him it was a header".

"Have you studied the opponent's defense"?
Higuain looked at his coach, "Yes, the coach showed us the highlights of the opponent's game repeatedly. The opponent's two central defenders are very strong, especially Hummels. He defended me in the World Cup. Unfortunately, I didn't win last time."

That means it won't happen this time.

The press conference was brief and Napoli disappeared from the public eye afterward, only to be seen again at the start of the Champions League.

(End of this chapter)