At the Mercedes-Benz Stadium, in the 78th minute, Demba Ba's shot was saved by Stuttgart goalkeeper Lewin and landed right in front of Lu Wenbin who had reached the goal.
This was a follow-up shot less than 10 meters away from the goal, which was too easy for Lu Wenbin.
Before defender Boulahrouz, who fell to the ground in a panic to try to disrupt the ball, could get the ball, Lu Wenbin easily kicked the ball into the goal with a toe shot.
Then, Lu Wenbin was knocked to the ground by Bohraluz who made a tackle. However, he was unharmed.
Seeing the ball go into the goal, Lu Wenbin turned over and got up, rushed to the stands where Hoffenheim fans gathered, raised his hands and punched the air to celebrate, causing the fans in the stands to scream excitedly.
Lu Wenbin has more and more fans among football fans and his influence is growing. His every move can touch the hearts of many people!
The commentator Custer shouted excitedly: "Toooooooooooooooooor, Lu scored again, he scored twice, it's amazing. You have to know that this is the Bundesliga, not the German Second Division, Lu Wenbin's goal efficiency is really terrifying. However, as a Hoffenheim fan, I hope Lu is as terrifying as possible!"
Hoffenheim fans in front of the TV also cheered and echoed: "Yes, the more terrifying Lu is, the better!"
After Lu Wenbin scored, Hoffenheim led Stuttgart 3-0 and the game was not far from over.
Therefore, there is no problem in winning this game.
So Ralph replaced Lu Wenbin with Weiss and changed to 442.
Hoffenheim slowed down the pace and strengthened their defense. Stuttgart wanted to score a goal but ultimately failed.
The final result of the game was that Hoffenheim defeated Stuttgart 3-0 at home. Lu Wenbin continued to score twice, and Andreas Beck scored his first official goal after joining Hoffenheim.
In this game, Lu Wenbin received 20,000 experience points for scoring 2 goals and 20,000 for the team's win, for a total of 40,000 experience points. His level of experience rose to level 13, 148212/200,000.
The next day, after the last two league games, Hoffenheim continued to top the Bundesliga standings with 12 points from four wins, while Hamburg ranked second with 10 points from three wins and one draw.
The third place was a bit unexpected, it was Bayern Munich.
After two draws in the first two league games, Bayern won two consecutive games and because of the goal difference, they surpassed Schalke 04 and Dortmund, who had the same 8 points, and ranked third.
Bayern indeed has a strong foundation and caught up in just a few games.
However, after this round of the league, no one will care about the domestic league.
Even though Bayern recovered and soared to third place, newly promoted Hoffenheim continued to dominate the top of the standings and Lu Wenbin has scored 9 league goals, it did not attract large-scale coverage from the German media.
Because everyone's eyes are on the European competition between the fourth and fifth rounds of the league.
This season, there are a lot of German teams participating in the European arena, especially in the UEFA Cup.
Bayern Munich and Werder Bremen were the top two teams in the Bundesliga last season and directly qualified for the group stage of this season's Champions League.
Schalke 04 finished third in the Bundesliga last season and qualified for the third qualifying round of the Champions League.
However, they lost 1-4 to Atletico Madrid in the two-leg qualifying match of La Liga and were eliminated.
According to the European competition system of the 2008/2009 season, Schalke 04 was eliminated in the third round of the Champions League qualifiers but did not return home completely. Instead, it was relegated to the third round of the UEFA Cup qualifiers.
Then, Hamburg and Wolfsburg were the fourth and fifth in the Bundesliga last season and directly qualified for the third qualifying round of the UEFA Cup.
Hoffenheim won the German Football Association Cup last season and therefore qualified for the third qualifying round of the new season's UEFA Cup.
As mentioned earlier, Stuttgart was sixth in the Bundesliga last season. Although they did not directly qualify for the UEFA Cup, they qualified for the Intertoto Cup.
In the summer Toto Cup competition, Stuttgart successfully broke through and entered the second qualifying round of the new season's UEFA Cup.
In the two-legged match of the second qualifying round of the UEFA Cup, Stuttgart easily eliminated the Giović Club from the Hungarian First Division with a total score of 6-2 and advanced to the third qualifying round of the UEFA Cup.
The Bundesliga now has two teams participating in the Champions League group stage and five teams participating in the third qualifying round of the UEFA Cup.
But that’s not all.
Because UEFA also has a way to qualify for the first qualifying round of the UEFA Cup through the Fair Play Award.
Germany qualified for the UEFA Cup because of its overall civilized play, fewer fouls and conflicts in all European leagues last season, and its high fair play points ranking.
This qualification was awarded to Hertha Berlin, which had the highest fair play points among the above-mentioned teams that qualified for the European Cup.
Then, Hertha Berlin defeated Otais Club from the First Division of the Republic of Moldova with an aggregate score of 8-1 in two legs in the first round of the UEFA Cup qualifiers and advanced to the second round.
In the second round of the UEFA Cup qualifiers, Hertha Berlin easily defeated Interbrog of the Slovenian First League with a score of 3-0 in two rounds and advanced to the third round.
In this way, in the European war time between the fourth and fifth rounds of the league, in addition to Bayern Munich and Werder Bremen participating in the Champions League group stage, Germany actually had a total of six teams including Schalke 04, Hamburg, Wolfsburg, Hoffenheim, Stuttgart and Hertha Berlin participating in the third round of the UEFA Cup qualifiers. It is the league with the most teams participating in the UEFA Cup among all European countries, which is simply magnificent.
There are so many strong teams in the Champions League and the competition is so fierce that no one dares to make big claims easily.
But in this final UEFA Cup, the Bundesliga lineup of as many as six teams made some German media even proudly shout the slogan of meeting in the final and winning the championship and runner-up of the last UEFA Cup.
Of course, this is only the third round of qualifiers and we haven't even reached the group stage yet. Big media like Bild and Kicker won't shout like this. It's the small media that are shouting these slogans.
But even those rigorous big media are extremely optimistic about the prospects of Bundesliga teams in this UEFA Cup.
In this atmosphere, on September 16, the first three matches of the first leg of the third round of the UEFA Cup qualifiers started simultaneously.
After 90 minutes of the game, Schalke 04 unsurprisingly won 4-1 away against APOEL of the Cyprus First Division, while Hertha Berlin also beat St. Patrick's from the Irish Premier League 2-0 at home, both taking the initiative to advance to the second round.
The remaining matches will be held one day later, on September 18th.