Fortunately, when Eduardo committed the foul, there was little time left in the first half.
Because Eduardo was sent off, there was one less man in the midfield, and Ralph replaced Obasi with Sukulini and changed to 432.
Obasi, who had just come on the court for a short time, was substituted off again, which made him quite depressed.
A few minutes after the game resumed, the referee blew the whistle to end the first half.
When the game was over, the referee found the captains of both teams, Van Bommel and Salihovic, and asked them to restrain their teammates and not to commit intentional fouls or intentional injuries.
The two of them nodded repeatedly, but in reality, neither of them took it to heart and both wished the other would die.
Today's game was more intense than the German Cup final in which both sides competed for the championship last season.
It has to be said that the referee's soft enforcement at the beginning of the game caused the game to get out of control later.
During the half-time break, commentators from all sides criticized the referee's decision three minutes into the game, and all believed that Van Bommel should at least be given a yellow card.
To be more fair, even Lu Wenbin, who deliberately stepped on Van Bommel, should have received one card, so that the two sides would not have retaliated against each other and become more and more angry.
Everyone just hopes that after the 15-minute break, both sides will be more restrained and not let the game really turn into a brawl and bring shame to the Bundesliga.
But obviously, they did not achieve their goal.
After a 15-minute break, the anger of both sides did not dissipate, and the referee's instructions to the captains of both teams to restrain their teammates did not produce any effect.
In the 57th minute, after Olic broke through the wing and was intercepted by Yasle, Olic stepped directly on Yasle's heel from behind.
Yaisle screamed and fell to the ground. After taking off his socks, he found that his heel was bleeding from being stepped on by Olic.
Yaisle was replaced by Ibertsberg and Olic was shown a yellow card.
The two sides continued the game with each other committing intentional fouls and injuring each other.
In the 73rd minute, Lu Wenbin received a pass from Salihovic outside the penalty area, and Van Bommel made another flying tackle.
This time Lu Wenbin was well prepared. He dodged the ball by jumping the moment Van Bommel's foot arrived, but was caught by the tip of Van Bommel's shoe. He fell to the ground and rolled twice, indicating that he was tackled by Van Bommel.
This time the ball was kicked away by Lu Wenbin first, and Van Bommel did tackle Lu Wenbin.
In addition to regretting the penalty at the beginning of the first half, the referee penalized Van Bommel for a foul without hesitation, giving Hoffenheim a free kick with an excellent distance, position and angle.
Then, the next second everyone saw Lu Wenbin turned over and got up unharmed, picked up the ball and walked to the penalty spot, ready to take the free kick.
Bayern's players immediately shouted that Lu Wenbin was diving, but the referee did not make any further comments.
Although he was a little angry that his teammates Demba Ba and Yaisle were deliberately injured by their opponents, Lu Wenbin still forced himself to calm down at this time.
The way to make your opponent regret is to defeat him.
Lu Wenbin's special free kick skills had already been used in the first half, but this time the free kick was in a good position and angle, so even if Lu Wenbin took the penalty himself, he still had a good chance of scoring.
Therefore, he stood a few meters behind the ball, took a few deep breaths, calmed himself down, and started his run-up after hearing the referee's whistle for a free throw.
After taking a few steps, Lu Wenbin stood on his left foot and kicked the ball hard with his right foot.
The football flew into the air, passed by Van Buyten's head in the wall, then drew an arc in the air, hit the bottom of the near crossbar, and bounced into the net.
Van Buiten jumped up and stretched his neck but failed to block the ball.
Although goalkeeper Rensing anticipated that Lu Wenbin would hit the near end, there was nothing he could do about the ball that hit the crossbar.
Unless he has been standing at that position for a long time and then jumped on the spot, he could not reach the ball.
In the end, although Rensing made a save, his palm was unable to reach the ball and he could only watch the ball hit the bottom of the crossbar and bounce into the net.
Lu Wenbin finally scored the first goal for Hoffenheim with a free kick in this melee, giving Hoffenheim the lead.
After scoring a free kick in the previous German Cup match, Lu Wenbin scored another free kick in this match. Lu Wenbin's free kicks have become a powerful weapon for him to score goals.
After scoring the goal, Lu Wenbin and his teammates celebrated wildly. Hoffenheim fans in the stands also shouted loudly to vent their anger.
Lu Wenbin finally taught Bayern Munich a lesson with a goal.
After Hoffenheim took the lead, Bayern Munich finally became a little anxious and intensified their offensive.
However, today all the players from both teams focused their energy on physical confrontation and revenge, and no one was in good shape.
Ribery once made a long run and broke through all the defenders to get a one-on-one shot, but the ball went wide of the goal.
Then, in the 82nd minute, the two sides clashed again.
Lahm made a cross from the bottom, and Gustavo and Cuca Toni jumped in the penalty area to compete for the header.
As a result, neither of them headed the ball. Toni jumped slightly higher than Gustavo, and Gustavo landed first. Then Toni's foot stepped on Gustavo's instep, causing Gustavo's instep to be injured.
This is the third player injured in Hoffenheim, and the quota for substitutions has been used up, so they can't make substitutions. The entire Hoffenheim team was suddenly excited and wanted to rush up and beat Tony up.
Of course, the Bayern Munich players quickly protected Toni, and then the referee intervened and gave Toni a yellow card.
But it was of no avail.
Gustavo was injured and had to be carried away on a stretcher. Hoffenheim had no choice but to play with one less player because they had used up their quota for substitutions.
Their own team injured Demba Ba, Jaisle and Gustavo, while the opponent only injured Demichelis, which naturally made Hoffenheim's players full of anger.
As a member of the team and the second captain, Lu Wenbin was naturally full of anger.
Thinking about what happened in the second half of last season, Lu Wenbin couldn't help but speculate conspiratorially whether this was a conspiracy of Bayern Munich. Did they decide to eliminate several Hoffenheim players in the first round of the league to facilitate their competition for the league title throughout the entire season
Next, when he saw Bayern Munich taking advantage of Hoffenheim's disadvantage of having one less man in the backcourt and launching a fierce attack in an attempt to score a goal to equalize the score, Lu Wenbin became even more furious.
So, in the 85th minute, when Van Bommel received a pass from Lahm and was about to avoid Lu Wenbin and dribble forward to assist, Lu Wenbin made a flying tackle from the side.
Lu Wenbin's 5/7 defense made it difficult for him to snatch the ball from Van Bommel's feet. Therefore, he simply made a flying tackle to stop Van Bommel from dribbling the ball, and it was also a revenge.
Lu Wenbin's thought at this time was that even if he couldn't tackle the ball, he had to keep Van Bommel and not let the defense line without main midfielder Gustavo be under too much pressure.