Off-ball running is not a very conspicuous attribute. In the first few years after Inzaghi's debut, he was even despised by the media and fans as a scavenger and a speculator who lived on the offside line.
In the world of football, Ronaldo's domineering long-distance runs during his peak period and Ronaldinho's spiritual shots after dribbling past opponents are more popular among the media and fans.
Inzaghi's style of play, which involves running without the ball to find loopholes in the penalty area and then receiving the ball with a simple and light shot to score a goal, is not popular or respected.
Inzaghi-style goals are also considered by people to be speculation, picking up leaks, good luck, and not long-lasting.
However, when people later discovered that Inzaghi could score many goals every season, and there were kings of small penalty areas like Van Nistelrooy, professionals began to notice their ability to run without the ball.
This ability and attribute, which had previously received little attention, has attracted the attention of the media and professional coaches.
However, no matter how much attention is paid to this attribute, it is still insignificant compared to dribbling, passing, speed, shooting, etc.
The people at Udinese could not see Lu Wenbin's values. Before Lu Wenbin scored a goal, it was naturally difficult for everyone to notice the changes in the attributes of his ability.
This is the current situation. Although Lu Wenbin received the ball twice and had a shooting opportunity within 10 minutes, no one in Udinese expected that Lu Wenbin's off-ball running ability has improved a lot compared to the first round and is close to the maximum value.
Many people are still conducting self-examination, wondering if the Udinese defenders on the field were a little proud and underestimated the opponent after winning the first round away game, and relaxed their guard on Lu Wenbin.
Just when everyone in Udinese felt a little confused, in the 14th minute of the first half, Lu Wenbin used 19/19 off-ball running to run into a short gap.
Moreover, this time it was in the penalty area, near the penalty spot, facing the goal, which was extremely threatening.
Then, Eduardo received a quick pass from Salihovic on the penalty area line.
Then, he and Demba Ba made a two-pass cooperation and broke into the penalty area. He first pretended to shoot to shake the Udinese defender and goalkeeper, and then he kicked the ball to the penalty spot with his heel without even looking at Lu Wenbin's position.
Lu Wenbin, who had just run there, received the heel pass at the right time, which fully demonstrated the tacit cooperation between Lu Wenbin and his teammates.
It was precisely because of Eduardo's fake shot and unexpected heel pass that Lu Wenbin, who happened to be near the penalty spot and was in a brief gap, received the ball.
Then, Lu Wenbin just pulled the ball lightly and avoided the defender Andre Korda who came up to defend, and before another defender Motta came up to grab the ball, he pushed the ball to the far corner of the goal.
Although Handanovic was shaken by Eduardo, he still reacted quickly and turned around to block Lu Wenbin's shot, but Lu Wenbin's shot in the penalty area was too close. In the end, he didn't even touch the ball and could only watch the ball slip into the goal from in front of his palm.
In the 14th minute, Hoffenheim No. 9 Lu Wenbin scored a goal, helping Hoffenheim to lead Udinese 1-0 away at the Friuli Stadium, and the total score between the two sides became 2-2.
“Toooooooooooooooooooooooooor…”
Sinsheim TV commentator Caster let out a long roar, stood up from the commentary booth, and shouted excitedly: "Goal, goal! Our super shooter Lu scored in the 14th minute of the game! He scored an away goal for Hoffenheim at Udinese's Friuli Stadium and tied the total score to 2-2. Now, Hoffenheim only needs to score one more goal to eliminate Udinese. Lu is leading Hoffenheim to perform a miracle!"
Because there were two other German clubs' European matches starting at the same time, after feeling that Hoffenheim had no hope of advancing, the German TV stations chose to broadcast the other matches live. Only Sinsheim TV station broadcast Hoffenheim's away challenge to Udinese to its local audience.
But it is precisely because of this that commentator Kaster can be more involved and cheer wildly for this goal as a Hoffenheim supporter, making Hoffenheim fans in front of the TV even more excited.
It was indeed a subtle score and an exciting goal!
After losing 1-2 to Udinese at home, not only the media but also Hoffenheim's own fans thought they had little hope.
Unexpectedly, Hoffenheim also scored a goal away from home and equalized the total score.
As long as Hoffenheim scores one more goal, they will eliminate Udinese.
Suddenly, all the 2,000-plus Hoffenheim fans at the scene and in front of the TV started cheering and celebrating wildly.
On the field and sidelines, Hoffenheim's coaches and players also celebrated excitedly.
This goal completely ignited everyone's passion and fighting spirit.
If at the beginning of the game everyone was inspired by the tragic and heroic speech made by captain Salihovic in the locker room, now everyone is filled with the fire of hope.
Now, Hoffenheim is only one goal away from eliminating Udinese.
Hoffenheim was celebrating Lu Wenbin's goal wildly, while Udinese players were a little dazed.
"How did Lu Wenbin run to that position and receive the pass from Eduardo?" This is the question in many people's minds.
However, Udinese head coach Marino has woken up.
He discovered that the abilities Lu Wenbin displayed in this goal were different from those in the first round: Lu Wenbin's off-ball running ability had improved a lot, and Udinese's chain defense and zone defense could no longer trap Lu Wenbin.
He didn't know why this happened. Maybe it was because Lu Wenbin had a great on-the-spot performance in this game, or maybe it was because Lu Wenbin was not a normal person in the previous round.
But no matter what the reason is, he must come up with a solution.
The score of 2-2 is indeed quite dangerous.
Although Udinese still has the advantage of away goals, if they can maintain this score until the end of the game, Udinese will still advance.
But looking at the performance of Hoffenheim and Lu Wenbin in the past ten minutes, Marino was not optimistic at all. He had no confidence that his team could maintain this score until the end of the 90-minute game.
If Hoffenheim scores one more goal, it will erase their two away goals and take the lead in the aggregate score and eliminate them.
Therefore, Lu Wenbin can no longer score goals, and Marino must come up with a solution.