When Lu Wenbin was substituted off the court, Ralph asked Weiss to give instructions to the players on the field to slow down the offensive pace.
On the one hand, the score of 3-0 was enough to ensure victory.
On the other hand, Hoffenheim will fight on three fronts this season and must plan the players' physical fitness and rotation policy from the first game.
Therefore, after seeing that the team was leading 3-0, Ralph replaced Lu Wenbin early and asked the players on the field to slow down the pace.
Not only that, in the 77th and 84th minutes, Ralph replaced Gustavo and Eduardo respectively, using up all three substitutions.
Hoffenheim slowed down the pace of attack and made constant substitutions but did not score any more goals.
Of course, the weak Cottbus failed to score a goal, not even a goal to save face, and was completely defeated 0-3 by the newly promoted team and country club Hoffenheim at their home ground.
After the game, Lu Wenbin received the experience reward for his first Bundesliga single game from the system. The amount of experience surprised Lu Wenbin.
According to the system settings, for the five major leagues including the Bundesliga, Ligue 1, Premier League, Serie A and La Liga, the single-game experience is 5,000 points for assists, 10,000 points for goals and 20,000 points for wins.
This experience is ten times that of the German 2nd Division and five times that of the German Cup. It is really rich.
Of course, for Lu Wenbin, the richer the better!
In the match against Cottbus, Lu Wenbin received a reward of 30,000 experience points for scoring 3 goals and 20,000 experience points for the team's win, for a total of 50,000 experience points.
As a result, after the first Bundesliga game, Lu Wenbin's experience rose to level 12 118212/100,000, exceeding the upgrade line.
So, Lu Wenbin was promoted to the next level, and his level experience reached level 13 18212/200,000, and he was rewarded with 10 upgraded skill points.
Without hesitation, Lu Wenbin used all 10 skill points to reduce his injury tendency, reducing his injury tendency value from 8 to 6. It seemed that he finally felt a little safer.
Of course, it is not enough, we need to continue to lower it.
However, without skill points, you can only take it slowly.
Apart from completing the system tasks at the end of the season, Lu Wenbin can only play every game seriously, score more goals, win more games, and then obtain skill point rewards by upgrading.
The next day, after the last two games of the first round of the Bundesliga, Hoffenheim and Schalke 04 became the only two teams that defeated their opponents 3-0 and achieved a goal difference of 3 after the first round of the Bundesliga in the new season.
However, Hoffenheim beat Cottbus 3-0 away, and Schalke 04 beat Hannover 96 3-0 at home.
According to the rule in world football that away goals are superior to home goals, although both teams have a goal difference of 3, Hoffenheim's 3 away goals are more valuable than Schalke 04's 3 home goals.
So, after the first round of the standings, Hoffenheim surpassed Schalke 04 and took the first place in the Bundesliga standings in the 2008/2009 season.
Although this is only the first round and the media and fans from other places don’t care, in Sinsheim, this ranking in the standings still aroused the excitement of countless Hoffenheim fans.
This meant that in the second round of Hoffenheim's home game, even though the game was rented at Mannheim's stadium, tens of thousands of fans flocked to the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Mannheim, more than 50 kilometers away, to watch the game and cheer for Hoffenheim.
On August 22, Hannover 96 and Cottbus, two teams that also had weak offense and lost 0-3 in the first round, drew 0-0 and shook hands in peace.
Then, on August 23, six Bundesliga games kicked off simultaneously.
Among them, the German national derby between Dortmund and Bayern Munich at the Westfalen Stadium was naturally selected by the German sports television station as the match for nationwide live broadcast.
Not only that, many countries around the world will also broadcast this game.
In fact, judging by championship honors, there is no real national derby in Germany. Bayern Munich is simply the only one in the world and has no equal opponents in Germany.
However, Dortmund is relatively closer to Bayern in terms of championship honors, and has the Champions League title. It is one of the G14 members. Everyone admits that Dortmund is a wealthy club.
Coupled with the lively atmosphere at the Westfalen Stadium, everyone is relatively accepting of Dortmund.
Therefore, the vast majority of media and fans recognize the match between Bayern Munich and Dortmund as the German national derby.
When these two teams play, it is basically the game with the highest ratings and the greatest influence in the world in the Bundesliga. It is also the German national derby brand that is promoted the most by the German Football Association, just like the Spanish Football Association promotes the Spanish national derby between Real Madrid and Barcelona.
Of course, the influence of the German national derby is far less than that of the Spanish national derby.
With the German national derby taking place, the two newly promoted teams Hoffenheim playing at home against Borussia Mönchengladbach, which started at the same time, naturally attracted no attention. Only the two teams' own local TV stations were broadcasting it and their die-hard fans were watching it.
In fact, there is no historical grudge between these two teams. The only grudge is probably that the two teams competed for the Bundesliga championship in the last few rounds of last season.
Before the penultimate round, Borussia Mönchengladbach was at the top of the Bundesliga and on the verge of winning the championship. However, they lost to Freiburg in the penultimate round, and the championship fell into the hands of Hoffenheim.
This made the players and fans of Borussia Mönchengladbach very unhappy.
Although winning the 2. Bundesliga championship is nothing great, it is still an honor after all. It is better to have a championship than to have no championship, right
It was certainly uncomfortable to have the championship title snatched away by a country club armed with money-driven football at the last minute.
Therefore, before the game, more than a thousand Borussia Mönchengladbach fans who came with the team held up slogans of revenge in the stands, cheering for the team to defeat Hoffenheim away and get revenge.
However, Hoffenheim's players didn't care.
After a 3-0 away win over Cottbus in the first game, no one was afraid of revenge from Borussia Mönchengladbach, who lost at home in the first round of the Bundesliga last season.
Anyway, the goal of the Hoffenheim team is to do a great job in the first season in the Bundesliga and strive to qualify for the Champions League.
Even though the opponent in front of them is an established powerhouse that has won the UEFA Cup and the Bundesliga, Hoffenheim is not afraid at all.
As for Lu Wenbin, let alone the system task of winning the treble. Even without the task, the generous experience rewards of each Bundesliga game were enough to make Lu Wenbin full of fighting spirit, desperately score goals and lead the team to victory.
So, at 14:30 on August 23, after the game officially started, Hoffenheim still used the starting lineup of the previous game and took the initiative to attack Monchengladbach.