Lin Hai Ting Tao

Chapter 706 The Final Round

Mark Wagner's goal helped Dortmund take the lead in the final moments, even though there were still almost ten minutes left in the game. However, the morale-boosted Dortmund was no longer going to give Wolfsburg any chance.

Wolfsburg also lacked sufficient drive and fighting spirit, and their desireless characteristics were once again manifested.

In the remaining time of the game, both sides played without much excitement. Dortmund firmly controlled the ball, passing it back and forth, while Wolfsburg players didn't bother to press much. Even if they did, they couldn't win the ball and were prone to injury, so why bother?

Thus, the final moments of this game ended in this calm manner.

When the referee blew the whistle to end the game, Dortmund's substitutes rushed onto the field to embrace and celebrate with their teammates.

"The game is over! Dortmund has once again narrowly achieved victory! Now they are only one game, ninety minutes, away from a three-peat in the league!"

Marcel Reif said.

In another stadium, Bayern Munich scored another goal in the eighty-seventh minute through Gustavo, but it was meaningless.

Even if Bayern Munich beat Augsburg by ten goals, it still wouldn't change the fact that they were still in second place, one point behind.

Now, if Bayern Munich wants to win the championship, they can only pin all their hopes on the last game, hoping that Hoffenheim, who must secure their place in the league, can defeat Dortmund on the road.

In the game that just ended, Hoffenheim lost 1:4 at home to Hamburg and is currently ranked second to last in the league with twenty-eight points.

In addition to Fürth, who has already been relegated, Hoffenheim's situation is also very dangerous, but there is still a possibility of staying in the league, because their competitor Augsburg lost 0:3 on the road to Bayern Munich, and their same competitor Düsseldorf also lost 1:2 at home to Nuremberg.

The current situation is that with one round of league play remaining, Werder Bremen in fourteenth place has thirty-four points and has successfully secured their place in the league. Düsseldorf, ranked fifteenth, and Augsburg, ranked sixteenth, both have thirty points, while Hoffenheim has twenty-eight points, ranking seventeenth.

In the final round of the league, Hoffenheim must win to have any chance of staying in the league. This would turn twenty-eight points into thirty-one points, and then they would hope that Augsburg and Düsseldorf both lose, so that they could become fifteenth place, successfully jump out of the three realms, and stay in the top league.

This is the best plan.

The next best plan is that they win, and then either Düsseldorf or Augsburg loses, so that Hoffenheim is sixteenth in the league, at least avoiding direct relegation in the last two places, and obtaining a relegation play-off qualification, so that they can still struggle for their fate.

Augsburg will face the already relegated Fürth at home in the final round, and the possibility of winning is high.

Düsseldorf will challenge Hannover 96 on the road, and it is difficult to predict the outcome of this game.

But no matter which plan, Hoffenheim must win. If they lose, then no matter how the opponent plays, it has nothing to do with them.

But their opponent Dortmund must also win this game, otherwise their league title will fly away, and Dortmund will never allow this to happen.

Therefore, Hoffenheim's situation of staying in the league is very bad. Some media even asserted that Hoffenheim will definitely be relegated.

This is a sad thing for Hoffenheim, who almost created the Kaiserslautern miracle when they were promoted that year.

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After the game with Wolfsburg, there is a full week before the next league game.

This week, Klopp and his coaching team are trying to maintain calm within the team, training every day as usual, and the schedule is very full.

The coaches don't want the players to think wildly and be distracted at the last moment.

They want the team to stay focused.

Hoffenheim is not an easy opponent to deal with, especially since they must win to stay in the league, so no one knows what they will do at that time.

On the evening of May 18th, Beijing time, in the afternoon local time, the final finally arrived.

The final round of the Bundesliga will kick off simultaneously.

Westfalenstadion was packed, waiting to witness the birth of the three-peat.

Because the league title has not been completely determined, the Bundesliga also made two preparations. They brought two Bundesliga championship trophies, one was brought to Westfalenstadion, and the other went to Borussia Park, the home of Borussia Mönchengladbach.

Some media reported that the real championship trophy was brought to Westfalenstadion, while the one that went to Borussia Park was a replica.

Of course, the Bundesliga official did not explain.

This kind of thing is not easy to explain, because if it is true, it will definitely make Bayern Munich fans unhappy—oh, your officials think that Dortmund will win the championship, is this the meaning of being appointed?

Although the official did not explain, the vast majority of people are more willing to believe this rumor.

Before the game, no media reported that Dortmund had arranged celebrations after winning the championship.

Of course, Bayern Munich was more low-key, after all, they are now behind.

Before the game, Hoffenheim coach Markus Gisdol said in an interview that they would fight to stay in the league: "...It has nothing to do with whether I have a Schalke 04 background or not, it only has to do with Hoffenheim. We need a victory to possibly stay in the league successfully, so we must win. I am not happy to see Dortmund lose the championship, but for the survival of Hoffenheim, there must be sacrifices..."

Although he said so, everyone still doesn't believe it, thinking that his high fighting spirit must be related to his having served as an assistant coach at Schalke 04.

He will definitely do his best and do everything he can to lead the team against Dortmund.

This is good news for Bayern Munich.

Therefore, before the game, the Dortmund media desperately hyped up Gisdol's Schalke 04 background, which is what they meant, wanting to put some public opinion pressure on Gisdol.

But in fact, Markus Gisdol is from Hoffenheim. From 2009-2011, he served as the coach of Hoffenheim u23, and also served as the assistant coach of the first team coach, Rangnick.

Later, he went to Schalke 04 and served as the assistant coach of the Dutch coach Stevens.

However, at the end of last year, with Stevens' dismissal, he also left Schalke and returned to Hoffenheim to continue to serve as his assistant coach.

Hoffenheim's coach Kurtz and club manager Andreas Müller were both dismissed due to the team's poor performance this season, and Gisdol became the firefighter coach. And he is Hoffenheim's fourth coach this season.

Such frequent changes of coaches must also be one of the reasons for Hoffenheim's poor performance this season...

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At 9:30 pm Beijing time, the whistle to start the nine games of the last round of the Bundesliga sounded simultaneously.

Westfalenstadion was thunderous with cheers. The fans cheered for the team in this way, and at the same time looked forward to a good result that would satisfy them in the end.

Bayern Munich is also closely watching this game, hoping that Hoffenheim can create trouble for Bayern Munich.

But from the game, Hoffenheim does not seem to have created any trouble for Dortmund.

Just six minutes into the game, Lewandowski broke through in the middle and took the lead for Dortmund!

"The goal scorer is Robert—" The host Norbert Dickel held the microphone and shouted loudly, drawing out his voice.

"Lewandowski!!!!" Tens of thousands of Dortmund fans responded to him with a unified roar.

"Beautiful! Lewandowski took the lead for Dortmund! Only six minutes into the game! Dortmund has a very good start! It seems that Hoffenheim will hardly be able to create trouble for Dortmund in this game... Before the game, everyone was worried that the desire for the league title would make Dortmund unable to concentrate and unable to enter the game state for a long time. But now it seems that they entered the game state earlier than Hoffenheim!" Marcel Reif said.

When Lewandowski scored, Westfalenstadion seemed to have an earthquake, everyone was jumping, and the camera lens was shaking constantly.

"1:0! Great! Dortmund has a fantastic start! As long as they can continue this momentum, they can win the league title! And no matter what the result on Bayern Munich's side, it cannot be changed!"