When Lu Wenbin was about to take the free kick, Custer in the commentary booth had already stood up.
After seeing Lu Wenbin unexpectedly hit the ball into the goal from under the wall, Custer immediately screamed like a madman: "Tooooooooooooooor..."
It was not enough to just shout once. Caster took two breaths in the middle, stretched the "Tor" to more than 20 seconds, and then excitedly explained to the Hoffenheim fans in front of the TV:
"Hat trick, hat trick! The omnipotent super shooter, the magical Chinese Lu, performed a hat trick away from home, not only helping Hoffenheim lead Udinese 4-3 on aggregate, but also surpassing Udinese's 2 away goals with 3 away goals."
"Next, unless Udinese can score two goals and surpass us in the total score, Hoffenheim will perform a miracle. After losing at home in the first round in an unfavorable schedule of home first and away later, they will turn the tables in the second round and advance to the UEFA Cup group stage."
"The game time is now the 108th minute, and there are only more than 10 minutes left before the end of extra time. I can bet that Udinese will not score two goals and Hoffenheim will definitely advance to the UEFA Cup group stage."
"This is a miracle that only a very small number of teams in the world of football can achieve, the proportion is less than 5%!"
"Long live Hoffenheim! Long live the Holy Village! Long live the great Chinese Lu!"
In addition to Custer, other TV commentators in the commentary booth also explained to the audience with shocked expressions.
Even the Italian commentator kept using words like shock, incredible, and great to describe their complex emotions.
On the one hand, they were shocked that the German team was about to eliminate the Italian team they supported. On the other hand, they felt it was incredible and great that Lu Wenbin could perform a hat trick in the Italian-style defense.
In the top five leagues, both the total number of goals scored by the team and the number of goals scored by the top scorer in each season are generally behind other leagues, which proves the defensive level of the Italian league as a whole.
Even for those world-famous super shooters, it is extremely difficult to complete a hat trick against an Italian team.
No wonder even these Italian commentators had to admit that Lu Wenbin was amazing.
As for the host and guests of the CCTV-5 live broadcast room, they were so excited that they couldn't speak clearly.
Chinese players can not only play in European competitions, not only score goals, not only serve as core players of the team, but now they can also perform a hat trick in a game. This was something we never dared to think about before.
The special guest commented incoherently: "Lu Wenbin's hat trick is a landmark hat trick! In the environment where domestic football has fallen into a trough, it is Lu Wenbin who has maintained the love of football for Chinese fans in Europe! It's great, it's great, I don't know how to describe it, but I think Lu Wenbin is the most successful Chinese overseas player at this moment, even though he is only 18 years old, even though he has only been in Europe for a year!"
Faced with Lu Wenbin's hat trick in the European competition, countless fans in front of the TV could not help but celebrate excitedly and nodded to agree with what the CCTV commentator said: Lu Wenbin is currently the most successful overseas player in Chinese football.
At the scene, the more than 2,000 Hoffenheim away fans and dozens of German and Chinese reporters were naturally immersed in crazy celebrations.
Celebrate Lu Wenbin's hat trick and Hoffenheim's upcoming elimination of their opponents and advancement.
However, when everyone was so excited that they forgot themselves, Lu Wenbin fell to the ground after taking a free kick on the field, hugged his thigh, and curled up into a ball, with veins popping out on his face.
When the live TV camera followed the football to score the goal and switched to the scorer Lu Wenbin, everyone found that Lu Wenbin had fallen to the ground and Hoffenheim's players were surrounding Lu Wenbin to give him first aid.
Lu Wenbin has a thigh cramp!
The referee waved to the sidelines, and head coach Ralph, who had just jumped up to celebrate the goal, quickly asked the team doctor to enter the field.
The team doctor rushed to the field and gave Lu Wenbin first aid for a while. After relieving his pain, he made a substitution gesture to Ralph on the sidelines, and then called for a stretcher to carry Lu Wenbin off the field.
When leaving, Lu Wenbin said to his teammates including Salihovic who were surrounding him: “I’m counting on you all!”
Salihovic and others came up one after another and patted Lu Wenbin and said, "Don't worry, we will definitely advance!"
In the 109th minute of the second half of extra time, Lu Wenbin scored a direct free kick and then left the field with a hamstring cramp. Ralph immediately made a substitution.
Not only did he replace Lu Wenbin with No. 17 forward Weiss, he also replaced Demba Ba with No. 25 substitute midfielder Wolsa, changing the formation to 4231 and strengthening the intercepting and defensive power of the midfield.
In the next ten minutes or so, Udinese, who were about to be eliminated, naturally launched a crazy counterattack and didn't even care about their defense.
Moreover, they actually scored a goal through a desperate attack. No. 11 attacking midfielder Ellis scored a long-range goal to equalize the total score in the 117th minute.
However, simply equalizing the score would not help.
A few minutes after Ellis scored the goal, the referee blew the whistle to end the game.
All the Udinese players who were extremely tired immediately collapsed to the ground, while the Hoffenheim players who were also extremely tired suddenly revived and ran wildly across the field to celebrate this great victory.
Even Lu Wenbin, who had just left the field due to cramps, was standing on the sidelines and hugging his teammates and coaches on the bench.
In the third round of the 2008/2009 UEFA Cup qualifiers, Hoffenheim lost 1-2 at home in the first leg, but defeated Udinese 3-2 away in the second leg. With the same total score, they eliminated Udinese with the advantage of more away goals and advanced to the group stage of this season's UEFA Cup.
Lu Wenbin, who performed a hat trick and left the field with hamstring cramps in this game, naturally became the hero of everyone in Hoffenheim.
After running wildly on the court to celebrate for a while, the teammates ran to the sidelines to surround Lu Wenbin and then threw him up to celebrate.
The field was left with the laughter of Hoffenheim players, coaches and fans, but also with Udinese suffering an unexpected defeat and loneliness.
Hoffenheim's players and fans celebrated on the stadium for a full half hour until all Udinese's players and fans had left and the stadium management workers came out to drive them away. Everyone left reluctantly.
Tonight is an exciting sleepless night for both Hoffenheim players and fans.
Even for other media and fans in Germany, Italy and China, many people will not be able to sleep today.