After the match with Spartak Moscow, Lu Wenbin received 1 assist of 20,000 + 1 goal of 40,000 + win of 80,000, a total of 140,000 experience points as rewards, and his experience points increased to level 15, 247212/1 million.
In the second match of Group D that evening, Tottenham Hotspur, who had changed their coach like a knife, swept Dinamo Zagreb 4-0 at home and won their first group match victory.
After the second round of group matches, Hoffenheim won both games and ranked first in Group D with 6 points and 4 goals difference. Tottenham ranked second with 3 points and 1 goal difference. Dinamo Zagreb ranked third with 3 points - 3 goal difference. Nijmegen, which had a bye in this round, ranked fourth with 0 points - 1 goal difference and 2 goals scored. Spartak Moscow ranked fifth with 0 points - 1 goal difference and 1 goal scored.
After resting for a night in Moscow, the Hoffenheim team flew back to Germany the next day.
The German media praised Hoffenheim's performance in escaping the snowstorm in Moscow unscathed, but the coverage was not very long.
Because in this round of the UEFA Cup group stage, Wolfsburg defeated Heerenveen 5-1 at home, which was the focus of the German media's extensive coverage.
It was the Chinese media that gave extensive coverage to Lu Wenbin's performance of one assist and one goal in the snowstorm in Moscow.
In particular, that long-range shot with great speed, power and angle was broadcast over and over again by Chinese websites and TV stations, attracting the attention of many fans.
This is as it should be.
With Shao Jiayi injured and losing his starting position for Cottbus, Xie Hui in the German second division Wiesbaden, Sun Jihai transferring from Manchester City to Sheffield United in the English Championship on a free transfer, and Dong Fangzhuo transferring from Manchester United back to the Chinese Super League, Lu Wenbin has actually become the only Chinese overseas player who can play and perform well in both the top league and European competitions.
Such performance deserves no exaggeration in terms of reporting or praising.
With Lu Wenbin's outstanding performance in Europe, some domestic companies have contacted Lu Wenbin's agent Mendes, hoping to invite Lu Wenbin to be their domestic spokesperson.
However, the reputation of Chinese football has completely hit rock bottom after the Olympics.
As a member of Chinese football, it is still unknown whether Lu Wenbin's endorsement is effective, whether it has any advertising effect, or whether it will have the opposite effect and cause the brand to be spurned by ordinary consumers.
Therefore, the endorsement fees offered by domestic companies were very low, Mendes suggested rejecting them, and Lu Wenbin did not object.
Lu Wenbin understands the situation in the country.
If it is a endorsement by a sports star from gymnastics, diving, badminton, table tennis, basketball or other sports, there will be no problem in China, and the endorsement fee is not low, so consumers will buy it.
Only football has suffered due to the overall image of Chinese football. Not only Lu Wenbin, but even Shao Jiayi and Sun Jihai, who have been famous for a long time as national team players, have few domestic endorsements because consumers are not buying it.
Therefore, domestic companies only asked Lu Wenbin to be their spokesperson with a speculative and tentative mindset, and they are not really big companies, and the prices are also very low.
Mendes suggested rejecting it, and Lu Wenbin did not object.
His main focus should still be on upgrading the game.
Domestic companies are pressuring him to pay for endorsements, but Lu Wenbin is too lazy to waste his time!
If you have that much time, you might as well train more to keep in shape, score more goals in the game, and gain more experience rewards to level up.
When he becomes a superstar, naturally someone will offer him a lot of money to be their spokesperson!
However, even if Lu Wenbin wanted to play earlier, the coach would not allow it.
In the match against Spartak Moscow, although no one was injured, the slippery artificial turf field, the icy and snowy competition environment, and the fierce physical confrontation left many main players, including Lu Wenbin and Ibisevic, with bruises all over their bodies.
And two people unfortunately caught a cold.
In addition to the physical demands of the team's long-term three-line operations, rotation is also necessary.
Therefore, after returning to the club, many main players such as Lu Wenbin who played in the away game of the League Cup were given vacation to have a good rest for a few days.
As for the next Bundesliga match against Hertha Berlin, Lu Wenbin was not even included in the roster.
On November 9, in the 12th round of the Bundesliga, Hoffenheim will challenge Hertha Berlin, currently ranked seventh, away.
After 90 minutes, the score on the big screen was 1-0, with the home team Hertha Berlin in the lead.
Hoffenheim, who played with mostly substitute players, suffered their second Bundesliga defeat this season, but they still continued to rank first in the Bundesliga with 30 points from 12 league games, ten wins and two losses.
Defending champion Bayern Munich has already caught up to the second place with 24 points thanks to a five-game winning streak.
As expected, a giant club is a giant club. Even if they encounter some difficulties at the beginning of the season, they can still turn things around and catch up after adjusting their condition.
If Lu Wenbin wants to lead Hoffenheim to win the Bundesliga championship and stage the Hoffenheim miracle, Bayern Munich is a huge mountain that they can never get around and they must face them head-on and win.
After taking a break for a round of league games, on November 15, in the 13th round of the Bundesliga, Lu Wenbin returned to the starting lineup and led Hoffenheim to face Wolfsburg at home.
Wolfsburg is a club in the federal state of Lower Saxony in northwestern Germany, nicknamed Wolfsburg, and has not yet won any top league or cup championships.
However, they have been in a bit of a slump recently, and their offensive firepower seems to be even stronger than Hoffenheim.
After the last round of matches, Hertha Berlin, who beat Hoffenheim, rose to fifth place, while Wolfsburg, who also won 3-0 against Cottbus, rose to seventh place.
Before the 12th round of the Bundesliga, Wolfsburg even won 5-1 in the UEFA Cup, defeating Heerenveen from the Eredivisie.
Therefore, although the two teams are a bit far apart in the rankings, based on their form and offensive firepower in the last two games, this Bundesliga 13th round match against Hoffenheim is still considered to be the most intense and goal-scoring match of this round.
Therefore, among the seven Bundesliga matches that were held simultaneously on November 15, the German Sports TV station did not even broadcast the Bayern Munich game, but chose the match between Hoffenheim and Wolfsburg as the match to be broadcast live nationwide in this round.
On November 15th, the weather was not very good. It was drizzling and the temperature was relatively low, less than 10 degrees.
However, this little rain did not affect the game.
Especially for Hoffenheim players such as Lu Wenbin who had just experienced a UEFA Cup away game in Russia with temperatures below zero, ice and snow, and wind and snow, this little rain and temperature were already very warm.
At 15:30 in the afternoon, in the drizzle in Mannheim, the Hoffenheim home game against Wolfsburg started on time.
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