On the court, Lu Wenbin, standing behind the penalty spot, felt a little nervous.
Although he has the system to back him up, Lu Wenbin is not surprised at his great success on the football field. He is full of confidence and hardly feels nervous at all.
But today it means something different.
It was Kate's first time to watch the game in person, and he was ready to express his love to Kate, and his teammates gave him full support and help.
Having already scored twice, it would have been a shame if he hadn't scored the third goal.
Although the game is not over yet, there are only 20 minutes left and time is running out.
There was no close interference from Kaufman on this free kick.
Although there was a human wall blocking the ball's path and the goalkeeper was well prepared, the ball had to be curved, which was much more difficult than a direct shot, but it was also an opportunity to score directly from a free kick with an excellent position and distance.
Lu Wenbin really wanted to break in directly.
Before the referee blew the whistle, he took a deep breath, forced himself to calm down, and began to analyze the positions of the human wall and the goalkeeper.
Without system skills, Lu Wenbin can only choose the shooting position by himself.
In Lu Wenbin's previous free kicks, because the human wall blocked the near end and the goalkeeper guarded the far end, whether it was a system skill or Lu Wenbin's own penalty, most of them were hit in the near corner.
The same is true now. The two people blocking the near end of the human wall formed by Bielefeld are the tallest two in their team, and the one blocking the far end is slightly shorter.
Although goalkeeper Elhoff was standing at the far end, Lu Wenbin took a closer look and found that Elhoff's body center of gravity was slightly tilted toward the near end, and he looked like he was ready to pounce at any time.
The position of Lu Wenbin's previous free kick goal gave everyone the illusion that Lu Wenbin was very likely to hit the near end again.
He figured that as soon as he touched the ball, before the ball even cleared the wall, Elhoff would dive for the near end with all his might.
In this case, why not take a gamble and directly hit the remote end
Moreover, the human wall has not completely blocked the far corner, so Lu Wenbin does not need to make a too big arc to bypass the human wall.
With his 20/20 shooting, he can definitely aim at the blind spot. As long as the goalkeeper makes a wrong judgment, the chance of scoring is much higher than kicking the ball in an arc at the near end.
The bet is that Elhoff's prediction is wrong.
After Lu Wenbin carefully confirmed Elhoff's position and the inclination angle of his upper body, he made up his mind to shoot in the far corner.
I don't feel nervous anymore.
As long as Elhoff made a wrong prediction and moved to the near end early, the ball would almost certainly go in.
Even if Elhoff had not moved in advance and saved the ball, there were still 20 minutes left and he would have had a chance to score another goal if he had tried harder.
After making the decision, Lu Wenbin looked at the referee, who confirmed the distance from the human wall and blew the whistle for the free throw.
Lu Wenbin lowered his head, took two steps, and kicked the football.
The human wall jumped up at the right time, hoping to stop the ball.
The moment Lu Wenbin kicked the ball, goalkeeper Elhoff pounced to the near end like a cheetah.
In the past, the angles of Lu Wenbin's free kicks were too rigid. If he didn't predict and move in advance, and then save the ball after seeing the flight path of the ball, he wouldn't even have a chance to touch the ball.
Therefore, Elhoff had no choice but to guess that Lu Wenbin would play at the near end based on Lu Wenbin's previous data, and move in advance the moment Lu Wenbin touched the ball.
However, when Elhoff moved his body and put his entire body weight towards the near end, he saw that the ball did not bypass the human wall at all, but flew straight to the far end where he had just stood.
Elhoff, who was rushing towards the near end and had already moved a step, was suddenly frightened and wanted to turn around and rush back.
However, the inertia of the movement of his body's center of gravity forced Elhoff to brake but was unable to pounce back in an instant.
Then, everyone at the scene and in front of the TV saw that Elhoff on the goal line seemed to be under a spell and could only turn his head blankly and watch Lu Wenbin's free kick go into the blind corner of the goal from behind him.
All the commentators in the commentary booth screamed together:
“Toooooooooooooooooor…”
"Hat trick! Hat trick!"
"In the 72nd minute, Lu scored a beautiful direct free kick and Elhoff was deceived!"
"Hoffenheim leads Bielefeld 3-0 and the Bundesliga half-season championship is secured!"
Just as the audience and commentators were applauding, screaming and cheering, and even Kate was excitedly hugging the beauties next to her to celebrate, Lu Wenbin, who scored the goal, did not do anything to celebrate like pumping his fists, yelling, sliding on his knees and diving.
Lu Wenbin and ten teammates including the goalkeeper ran towards the stands where Kate and others were. Eduardo and others ran in front, leaving Lu Wenbin, who had scored the goal, behind.
The commentator and the audience were somewhat confused.
"Uh, what do the Hoffenheim players want to do?"
"How are they going to celebrate? Why did they leave Lu Wenbin, who scored the goal, behind?"
Kate also looked at Lu Wenbin and his teammates in confusion. She didn't know why they ran to the stands where they were and left Lu Wenbin behind.
Is it that everyone has to come and hug their wives or girlfriends to celebrate, and even ignore Lu who scored the goal
At this moment, Eduardo and others had already run to a position only a few meters away from the guardrail of the stands.
Under the curious gaze of tens of thousands of people in the audience, Eduardo and ten other people stopped and stood in the shape of a heart, with the tip of the heart facing Kate, and then they all leaned over and lay on the ground.
Suddenly, a heart shape appeared clearly below the Hoffenheim players' family stands on the edge of the stadium. Everyone in the stands and in front of the TV could see it clearly, and there was an uproar at the scene.
"Wow… "
"Hoffenheim players are celebrating with their hearts out!"
"They're not celebrating. It should be that Lu is using his hat trick to express his love to some beautiful lady in the stands!"
"Look, Lu is making a move!"
Sure enough, on the court, after his teammates had posed, Lu Wenbin jumped into the middle of the heart shape made by his teammates, stood still, took a deep breath, raised his hands to his chest and also made a heart shape, then looked up at Kate in the stands who had a premonition of something and covered her mouth with her hands.
At the same time, the beautiful family members of other players on Kate's left and right and behind her also squeezed to the sides, sat down and deliberately shrank their bodies to lower their height, making Kate, who was standing, stand out.
The live broadcast equipment locked the camera on Kate at the right time.
Suddenly, a beautiful and sexy girl who made women jealous appeared in the camera, and appeared on the big screen at the scene and on the televisions of countless fans at home.
The commentators were even more excited.
"The real person has appeared. This is the person that the Bundesliga top scorer Lu is showing his love to!"
"So beautiful, even I'm jealous of Lu!"
“I just don’t know if the other party will accept Lu’s love!”
"How could such an outstanding and talented player like Lu not be accepted? And the fact that this beautiful woman was sitting in the players' family area proves that the two had been in contact for a long time, and may have even confirmed their relationship long ago. Lu just made it public on this occasion."
“I wonder how many female fans who adore Lu are going to be heartbroken!”
Indeed, whether at the scene or in front of the TV, countless female fans who like Lu Wenbin have felt heartbroken and have surged with infinite envy and jealousy towards Kate.
He also felt deeply "disappointed" that Lu was so "short-sighted" and fell in love with someone else.
At the scene, Lu Wenbin naturally couldn't care what the female fans thought. He just wanted to make sure whether Kate would accept him.
The Mercedes-Benz Stadium is a professional football stadium without a runway. The first row of the stands is very close to the stadium. From where Lu Wenbin was standing, he could clearly see the expression on Kate's face.
He saw that at the moment he made a heart shape with his hands, Kate's face was full of surprise, and she did not show any offense or displeasure.
Lu Wenbin was immediately delighted. After a few seconds of pausing, he raised his hands and made a trumpet shape on his mouth, then shouted to Kate: "Kate, I love you! Be my girlfriend!"
Although the scene was very noisy, Lu Wenbin's voice still reached Kate's ears clearly.
Kate nodded excitedly, lowered her hands that were covering her mouth, and spread them out in a hug gesture.
Lu Wenbin was overjoyed. He jumped out of the pose his teammates were making in two steps, rushed to the stands and hugged Kate across the guardrail.
“Pah, pah, pah…”
The whole audience burst into thunderous applause. Tens of thousands of people applauded and screamed for Lu Wenbin's successful confession of love and gave their blessings to the two of them.
(The first guaranteed update will be on April 13th. This chapter is numbered 214, which symbolizes Valentine's Day on February 14th. The protagonist and the heroine have also confirmed their relationship. Of course, this is a coincidence. The author only discovered it after he finished writing and uploaded it. Please give me a monthly ticket and a recommendation ticket!)