Under the guidance of head coach Gao Hongbo, the support that the Chinese team could provide to Lu Wenbin in the midfield and backcourt was indeed insufficient.
Coupled with the physical exhaustion, lack of coordination, and inaccurate passing and running, Lu Wenbin didn't even score a single goal in open play in the second half.
However, even if he doesn't score goals in open play, Lu Wenbin still has the ability to score from set pieces.
In the 65th minute, Lu Wenbin once again used his speed to break through and counterattack, but was directly pulled down by Lebanese defender Rabil Sheikh and was awarded a free kick.
There were several free kick opportunities in the first half, but the positions were not very good. Lu Wenbin did not use the system skills and did not score any free kicks.
The position and distance of this free kick are better, so Lu Wenbin activated the system's special skills.
Then, under the gaze of all the fans, Lu Wenbin used his special skills to kick the direct free kick into the blind corner of Lebanon's goal.
Goalkeeper Larry didn't even make a save and just watched the ball go into the net.
Lu Wenbin scored a hat trick in his national team debut and led China to a 4-0 lead over Lebanon.
The Chinese fans in the stands cheered and screamed loudly, while tens of thousands of Lebanese fans could only remain silent.
Faced with such a Lu Wenbin, all the Lebanese players and fans felt powerless and could only watch Lu Wenbin celebrate with his teammates on the court.
After Lu Wenbin completed his hat trick, Gao Hongbo started to make substitutions.
Of course, Lu Wenbin will not be replaced. He will have to stay on the court to put pressure on the opponents so that they cannot concentrate the team's strength to counterattack.
Gao Hongbo replaced older players such as Zheng Zhi, allowing them to rest early and prepare for the next game.
The team was already weak, and after replacing three main players, Lu Wenbin got even less support from the backcourt.
Therefore, until the end of the 90-minute game, Lu Wenbin did not score any more goals.
However, completing a hat trick in his first national team debut, helping the Chinese team to a 4-0 away win over Lebanon, was enough and was definitely a perfect debut.
After the game, Lu Wenbin also received his first national team game system experience reward.
What surprised Lu Wenbin was that the experience of playing for the national team was quite valuable.
In terms of technical and tactical level, the Asian Cup finals may not be able to catch up with the level of the Bundesliga, let alone the Asian Cup qualifiers.
The Asian Cup qualifiers are at most equivalent to the level of the German Bundesliga.
When Lu Wenbin came to participate in the national team's Asian preliminaries, he had no idea how much system experience rewards he could get. He really just wanted to fight for the country.
However, when the game ended and the system released the single-game experience rewards, Lu Wenbin realized that he was wrong.
The rewards for national team games are completely different from those for club games.
Even in the Asian Cup qualifiers, which Lu Wenbin thinks is at most equivalent to the level of the German Bundesliga, the experience reward for a single game is already on par with the Bundesliga.
In other words, Lu Wenbin's performance in this game earned him 30,000 experience points for scoring 3 goals and 20,000 for the team's win, for a total of 50,000 experience points, which brought his experience points to level 17, 2.729 million/5 million.
This reward is exactly the same as that of the Bundesliga, but the technical and tactical level of the Asian qualifiers is definitely far inferior to that of the Bundesliga.
Not to mention the qualifiers, in Lu Wenbin's mind, the Asian Cup finals are not as good as the Bundesliga.
When Lu Wenbin asked the system, he found out that there was an experience bonus in national team competitions.
This is a matter of national honor and cannot be compared with a simple club match.
However, the system also told Lu Wenbin that there was another reason why Lu Wenbin did not change his nationality and join other national teams.
If Lu Wenbin changes his nationality and joins another national team, he will lose points in terms of nationality. Secondly, if he joins a stronger national team such as Germany, it will be easier to win games, so the reward will naturally be reduced.
The system's inclination towards national honor, the weak strength of the Chinese team, and the fact that Lu Wenbin did not change his nationality are all reasons why Lu Wenbin has gained much more national team competition experience than club competition experience.
Therefore, the experience reward for this Asian qualifying match was much higher than Lu Wenbin had originally expected.
By the same token, the experience rewards from the Asian Cup, World Cup qualifiers, and World Cup finals will be many times higher than what Lu Wenbin originally expected.
Although the Asian qualifiers are only equivalent to the experience of the Bundesliga, once you get into the Asian Cup finals, you will have much more experience.
Although the system did not say it, Lu Wenbin estimated that the reward level would at least be equivalent to the League Cup or even the Champions League.
With this calculation, the rewards for the World Cup finals will not be less and will definitely exceed those of the Champions League.
Now, Lu Wenbin has one more reason to fight for the country and lead the national football team to qualify for the World Cup finals.
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After the game, Lu Wenbin and his teammates lined up to thank the 3,000 Chinese fans who came with the team, and celebrated warmly with the fans.
How long has it been since the Chinese team won such a resounding 4-0 victory, away from home
Including the main matches, warm-up matches and friendly matches, the last time the Chinese team won by more than 4 goals on someone else's field was in the group stage of the 14th Asian Cup in 2007, when the Chinese team defeated Malaysia 5-1.
However, in that Asian Cup, the Chinese team had one win, one draw and one loss. It was the first time in the history of the Asian Cup that they did not even qualify for the group stage. Even that 5-1 victory can hardly be considered a pleasant memory.
Since then, the Chinese team has never won an away game by more than 4 goals.
Therefore, this victory attracted heavy coverage from countless media outlets across the country after the game. Even some small media outlets reprinted the reports from major media outlets.
"Lu Wenbin scored a hat trick and the Chinese team beat Lebanon 4-0 away from home!"
"In the third round of the 15th Asian Cup qualifiers, the Chinese team defeated Lebanon 4-0, and Lu Wenbin scored a hat trick in his national team debut!"
"The new core of the Chinese national football team, Lu Wenbin, lived up to expectations and scored a hat trick to lead the Chinese national football team to a 4-0 away victory over Lebanon!"
In various domestic forums and bulletin boards, there are suddenly more and more fans discussing and supporting the Chinese national football team.
Many fans who had disappeared under the siege of trolls have now stood up and expressed their infinite longing for the future of the Chinese team.
"666, a hat trick in his national team debut. Lu Wenbin has no adaptation period at all!"
"I watched the live broadcast and was so excited. Lu Wenbin is really awesome!"
"He's a striker, and his jersey number has been changed to 6. Is it okay not to use 6?"
"The Chinese national football team will have no problem qualifying for the Asian qualifiers!"
"Not to mention the Asian qualifiers, there's hope for qualifying for the World Cup qualifiers!"
"Yes! I hope the Chinese national football team can make it to the World Cup finals again! Then my life will be worth it!"
"It's not enough to just make it to the World Cup finals, we also have to score goals, get points, and even better, win a game!"
"With Lu Wenbin here and the right tactics, I think there's a lot of hope!"
"Absolutely. I believe that with Lu Wenbin leading the national football team, the Chinese team will definitely be able to break out of Asia, enter the World Cup finals and achieve better results than in 2002!"
“I’m looking forward to it!”