During the performance, Pledel and Bauman, who had just landed, looked at Lu Wenbin, who jumped up from the ground and rushed towards his teammates to celebrate the goal, with a look of shock on their faces.
Then the two looked at each other, their eyes full of surprise.
Unexpectedly, Lu Wenbin was able to hold his position despite the impact of the two of them, and jumped up and headed the ball into the goal.
Lu Wenbin's physique and heading skills have improved significantly compared to the first half of the season.
Not long after Lu Wenbin scored a header in the 41st minute to help Hoffenheim equalize the score, the referee blew the whistle to end the first half, and the two sides entered the halftime break with a score of 1-1.
After a 15-minute break, the two sides changed sides and continued the game, but the rain still did not stop, just a little lighter than in the first half.
Both sides could only continue to serve high balls, constantly compete for headers, and constantly fall down.
In the 58th minute, Eduardo was knocked over while competing for a header outside the penalty area. The referee called a foul but did not give a card.
Hoffenheim got a free kick in a good position.
However, Lu Wenbin, who had already used up his system skills in the first half, took the penalty kick himself this time. However, because the ball was soaked in water too much, he was unable to kick the ball and it hit the wall directly and was cleared.
In a rainy game, the ball is not only heavy but also slippery, making it easy for goalkeepers to make low-level mistakes.
In the 67th minute, Werder Bremen's No. 11 attacking midfielder Ozil had a powerful long shot from outside the penalty area, but the angle was very straight and under normal circumstances it would have been easy for the goalkeeper to catch it.
As a result, it was this inadvertent long shot that caused Ozcan to lose the ball.
However, Bremen failed to seize this opportunity for a follow-up shot. Their nearest striker Pisano did not expect Ozcan to lose the ball.
By the time he reacted and tried to grab the ball, Ozcan had already rolled and pressed the ball under his body, causing all the Bremen fans to sigh in frustration.
In the heavy rain, both sides were in a state of disarray and made frequent mistakes, which resulted in a large number of fouls.
Finally, in the 74th minute, Werder Bremen defender Bernisch made a big mistake.
At that time, Eduardo was about to break into the penalty area with the ball, but the ball paused in the puddle on the penalty area line.
Bernish rushed over to defend, but he didn't catch the ball. Instead, he tackled Eduardo who rushed into the penalty area by inertia and made him roll on the ground several times, splashing water.
The referee immediately awarded a penalty kick, leaving Bernish in tears.
According to the normal rolling route of the ball, he should have tackled the ball first, which would have been a beautiful tackle.
Unexpectedly, the ball stopped in the middle, which resulted in his tackle changing from a tackle to a tackle. It was an unexpected disaster.
The Weser Stadium is really cheating its owner!
The penalty kick was naturally taken by Lu Wenbin, which was too easy for him.
Lu Wenbin succeeded in one fell swoop and kicked the ball steadily into the dead corner. Although goalkeeper Wiese judged the direction correctly, he still couldn't save it.
In the 75th minute of the game, Lu Wenbin scored twice to lead Hoffenheim to reverse the score and lead Werder Bremen 2-1 away from home.
Such a score is too dangerous for Werder Bremen.
Therefore, Werder Bremen started a crazy attack.
Hoffenheim, who were already leading away from home, naturally retreated on all fronts. In addition to Lu Wenbin pressing on the opponent's back line to tie down the opponent's defense, even Paljic returned to the penalty area to participate in the header clearance.
Werder Bremen's attack will naturally cause emptiness in the backcourt, and with Lu Wenbin's distraction, other places will be very empty.
In the 83rd minute, Hoffenheim launched a quick counterattack, and Salihovic shot into the far corner facing Bremen goalkeeper Wiese.
The ball passed under Wiese's armpit and was about to roll into the goal, but unexpectedly it sank into the puddle of water in front of the goal with a plop and remained motionless. Then defender Mertesacker, who was desperately trying to return to defense, kicked the ball out of the sideline.
The Hoffenheim players, including Lu Wenbin, who had already raised their hands to celebrate, were suddenly stunned. They could only curse loudly, but there was nothing they could do.
This frustrating rainy game gave Hoffenheim a penalty kick, but also eliminated a sure goal for Hoffenheim, which almost made it a draw.
If Hoffenheim had also scored this goal, the 3-1 away victory would almost mean that the second round would no longer be suspenseful.
But the fact that this ball didn't go in made the game still full of suspense.
Especially the Bremen players who survived the disaster, their morale was boosted and they launched a more frantic attack, hoping that the luck in their favor in this ball could be converted into a goal.
The result may be that their unremitting pursuit moved God. When the game entered the last minute of extra time, in the 93rd minute, Werder Bremen's last cross from the bottom actually scored a goal.
The goal was scored by Bremen captain Frank Baumann, who was supposed to defend Lu Wenbin in the backcourt.
Baumann left Lu Wenbin and rushed forward to join the attack when he saw that there was little time left. Unexpectedly, he actually headed the equalizer in the last attack, leaving Werder Bremen with a glimmer of hope to turn the tables away from home and advance.
Being forced to draw at home was originally a very dangerous thing, but this equalizing goal in the last minute caused wild celebrations among Werder Bremen players and more than 20,000 fans at the scene.
The Hoffenheim team, which should have been celebrating happily with a 2-2 draw with Bremen and two away goals, had only the national curses of their respective countries in their minds.
Lu Wenbin, who originally thought that he had won the winning prize of 80,000 experience points, couldn't help but curse in his heart when he saw the 195cm Bauman leap high in the penalty area and head the ball from midfielder Frings into his own goal: Damn it.
The Bremen players who scored the equalizer celebrated wildly for a while. Hoffenheim kicked the ball out of the center circle, but before Hoffenheim could launch an attack, the referee blew the whistle to end the game.
When the referee blew the whistle to end the game, Werder Bremen, who had been celebrating wildly just now, came to their senses: they were tied by Hoffenheim at home, and their opponents also scored two away goals.
Suddenly, the players of Werder Bremen, who equalized the game in the last minute, were no longer happy.
As for Hoffenheim, although they were a little unhappy about being equalized in the end, after the game they thought about the fact that they had tied their opponents in an away game in the rain and scored two away goals, and they immediately felt much better and were less depressed about being scored the equalizing goal.
Of course, no one would be happy if the opponent equalized the game in the last minute after they thought they had won.
The end result was that both Hoffenheim and Werder Bremen were unhappy, and no one was satisfied with the game played in the heavy rain.
Everyone can only wait until the second round to decide the winner.
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