After Lu Wenbin scored twice and helped the team lead 3-0, Ralph started to make substitutions.
Although the energetic Lu Wenbin was not replaced, Demba Ba and Gustavo were replaced by Weiss and Sukulini.
The formation changed to 442, and began to focus on defense. In addition, the new players Weiss, Sukulini and Lu Wenbin did not cooperate well.
In the end, until the end of the 90-minute game, Lu Wenbin failed to score another goal to complete the feat of a hat-trick in his Champions League debut.
However, even so, the performance of scoring twice in the first game still made Lu Wenbin's fans and Chinese fans very excited.
In this game, Lu Wenbin received 1 assist of 50,000 + 2 goals of 200,000 + 200,000 for winning, for a total of 450,000 experience points.
Including the rewards from the previous Bundesliga match against Bochum, Lu Wenbin's experience has risen to level 17, 1.018 million/5 million.
The Champions League is worthy of being the ultimate battlefield at the European club level, and the rewards are indeed very generous, 2.5 times that of the UEFA Cup and half of the European Super Cup.
If Lu Wenbin wants to continue to upgrade, he may have to rely on his experience in the Champions League. His experience in the Bundesliga can only be considered passable, and his experience in the German Cup is not good enough at all.
In addition to the skill points awarded by the German Cup champion, the experience points from other single games are almost negligible compared to the 5 million experience points required to upgrade from level 17 to level 18.
If it is not for the final championship reward and completing the quadruple crown mission, there is no need to play the German Cup at all, it is a waste of time.
After the game, although Hoffenheim vs. Glasgow Rangers was not the focus of this round, in the context of Inter Milan's 0-0 draw with Barcelona, Hoffenheim's 3-0 victory and Lu Wenbin's two goals were still very interesting.
European media praised Lu Wenbin's performance.
"The European Golden Boot is still strong in the new season. China's Lu scored twice and had an assist in his first Champions League match!"
"Hoffenheim beat Glasgow Rangers 3-0, Lu scored two goals and assisted once, shining throughout the game!"
As for the Chinese media, needless to say.
Not only the sports media, but all major comprehensive media have made lengthy and heavy reports on Lu Wenbin's brilliant performance in the first Champions League match of the new season.
No matter how disappointing the Chinese national football team is, football is still the world's number one sport and has a very large fan base in China.
Lu Wenbin's performance like a world superstar in Europe is naturally worthy of extensive coverage and reprinting by domestic media, and fans also love to watch and discuss it.
Of course, as Lu Wenbin's performance gets better and better, the calls from the media and fans for Lu Wenbin to join the national team become louder and louder.
However, no one from the Football Association has come forward to give an explanation on whether Lu Wenbin will be recruited into the national team.
Rumor has it that the Ministry of Public Security's anti-gambling and anti-gangster campaign has begun to involve the Chinese Football Association and senior executives of major clubs. The officials of the Chinese Football Association are so busy with their own affairs that they have no energy to manage the national team.
Lu Wenbin couldn't decide this matter himself, he could only continue to devote all his energy to the club.
However, although Lu Wenbin's two goals were outstanding, after the first round of the Champions League, Lu Wenbin did not occupy the top spot in the Champions League scorer list.
Wolfsburg is worthy of being the runner-up of the Bundesliga last season and the strongest team in the fourth tier. They actually defeated CSKA Moscow 3-1 away in Moscow.
All three of Wolfsburg's goals came from Grafite, who scored a hat trick.
Therefore, after the first round of the group stage, Grafite was the top scorer in the Champions League, while Lu Wenbin, Thomas Muller, Inzaghi, Ronaldo and others tied for second with two goals.
Of course, one game doesn't tell you anything.
Whether or not you can win the Champions League Golden Boot depends on your performance in the Champions League throughout the season.
After three days of rest, on September 19, in the 6th round of the Bundesliga, Hoffenheim challenged Borussia Mönchengladbach away.
Because the next game is a decisive German Cup match, Ralph made a certain degree of rotation in this league.
However, Lu Wenbin, who has no worries about physical fitness, is still the unshakable starting main force and continues to perform well.
Lu Wenbin scored a goal in the 35th minute of the first half and the 69th minute of the second half, scoring twice again.
In addition, Ibisevic scored a header and Salihovic scored a long shot outside the penalty area.
Hoffenheim finally defeated Borussia Mönchengladbach 4-2 away and won all three points. With four wins, one draw and one loss in six rounds, they have accumulated 13 points and moved up to third place in the standings.
Ahead of them are Hamburg and Leverkusen, who are tied for first place with four wins and two draws and 14 points. Bayern Munich has climbed to fourth place with 11 points thanks to a three-game winning streak, just behind Hoffenheim.
Four days after the end of the league, Hoffenheim went away again to challenge Nuremberg.
On September 23, in the second round of the 2009/2010 German Football Association Cup, Hoffenheim challenged Nuremberg away.
Although both are Bundesliga teams, Nuremberg is a newly promoted team. They ranked third in the Bundesliga last season and barely qualified for the Bundesliga through the promotion play-offs.
After six rounds of this season, Nuremberg is unsurprisingly ranked last.
Therefore, the German Cup is not even a consideration for Nuremberg.
Facing the powerful Hoffenheim, Nuremberg even sent out a lineup of half main players and half substitutes, and their mind was not on this game at all.
There was a huge gap in strength and the two teams had no intention of fighting. Unsurprisingly, Hoffenheim won 4-0 away from home and easily advanced to the next round.
However, Lu Wenbin did not perform well in this game.
After two consecutive away games and consecutive starts, although there was no problem with physical fitness, he was still a little tired mentally, which made Lu Wenbin not in good shape in this game. He only scored one goal and was replaced by Ralph with Obasi in the 65th minute of the second half.
Of course, the poor performance only applies to Lu Wenbin himself.
To the outside world, except for the three Bundesliga games during which he was suspended, Lu Wenbin has scored in every game since the start of the new season, averaging more than two goals per game, which is already terrifying enough.
After returning to the base after the German Cup, Ralph gave the team a day off to let everyone rest and relax.
A few days later, on September 27, in the 7th round of the Bundesliga, Hoffenheim played against Hertha Berlin at home.
In the familiar stadium and with the familiar cheers of fans, Lu Wenbin performed well again, scoring a total of 3 goals in the first and second half, performing a hat trick again, helping Hoffenheim to a 5-1 home win over Hertha Berlin.
The other two goals were scored by Sukulini and Demba Ba.
However, Hamburg and Leverkusen both won in this game, so Hoffenheim can only continue to rank third in the Bundesliga standings.
On the Bundesliga scoring list, although Lu Wenbin was suspended for three games, he still ranked first with an amazing efficiency of 10 goals in four appearances.
This season's Bundesliga Golden Boot is likely to be won by Lu Wenbin again, and he might even break his record of 47 goals from last season.