"In order to prepare for this league, I even watched a lot of videos of Chinese Super League matches this week." Ahead of this round of bundesliga match between Hoffenheim and Hertha Berlin, Hoffenheim manager Hoeness Jr. was so candid at a press conference.
Before this season, no one could have imagined that Hertha Berlin, who has invested nearly 180 million euros in the transfer market in the past three years, has struggled this season. Especially since the winter break of this season, Hertha Berlin, who has drawn 2 and lost 6, has not yet tasted victory, and the German Cup has also been eliminated by the same city rival Berlin United. So after losing 2-0 to Borussia Moncheng in the league last weekend, Hertha Berlin, who had lost five consecutive league games, decisively sacked head coach Colcutte.
As the saying goes: the old horse knows the way, the puppy knows the way! Hertha Berlin immediately announced that the 68-year-old coach Magat had come out of the mountains to serve as the team's "firefighting coach". Unfortunately, the veteran coach who led Bayern Munich and Wolfsburg to win the Bundesliga championship was tested positive just after taking office, and now has to stay at home to rest and remotely control the team.
Thus, in this weekend's Hertha Berlin match against Hoffenheim, the team can only be temporarily commanded by assistant coach Fosselingham. But who is Forselingham? The 38-year-old Scotsman didn't have much of a brilliant career in playing, spending most of his time in the lower leagues until he retired from Soviet Second Division side Cordenbeas three years ago. Previously, Forsselingam had only a brief teaching assistant experience in Karlsruhe and Kaudembes, and now he actually had to direct a Bundesliga match on the spot. I really don't know, how did Magat choose the assistant professor?
In this regard, Hoffenheim manager Hoeness Jr., who played for Herta as a player, also said in the pre-match press conference, "I was very surprised, I did not expect Hertha Berlin to fall like this this season. We have to focus more on ourselves now because we don't know how Herta's new head coach Magath recruits his coaching team and how to arrange tactics..."
You know, Magat has been away from the Bundesliga coaching position for 10 years, and even away from European football for nearly 10 years. Looking back at the last time Magath coached in Europe was in 2014-15, leading Fulham to the Championship after the first seven league rounds scored only one point, and then left the class. Prior to that season, Forserlingham joined Fulham on a free fly, but was also sacked shortly after Magath's departure, leaving him with more than a year of leisure.
Later, Magath's only coaching resume was that in 2016-17, he was the head coach of the Chinese Super League team Shandong Luneng. It can be seen that the 39-year-old Hoffenheim manager Hoeness Jr. is really not familiar with this predecessor - not only has no experience in combat, but even has not witnessed Magath's coaching performance.
In order to prepare for this weekend's league, Hoeness Jr. had to take pains: "Of course we watched his last game in the Bundesliga, but that was ten years ago. So I even watched some video of the matches from the Chinese league this week..."
It must be admitted that The Preparation of Hoeness Jr. does demonstrate the professionalism and professionalism of the Bundesliga coach, which makes Hoeness Jr. say carefully before the game, "We want to remain unbeaten and enter the international match day with a victory." Currently, Hoffenheim are unbeaten in five league games and are sixth in the Bundesliga with 44 points, the same points as RB Leipzig, who are 4th in the league.