Because of Lu Wenbin's position in the team and the special nature of Chinese New Year's Eve and Spring Festival, Ralph deliberately gave Lu Wenbin an extra day off so that Lu Wenbin could have one more day to rest.
Although Lu Wenbin's physical fitness is much better than other players, it is not unlimited.
Continuously starting and not missing any games did make Lu Wenbin physically and mentally exhausted.
This factor also played a role in the team's poor performance in the last league away game against Bochum, in which they failed to score a single goal.
It was also the coaching staff's joint decision to let Lu Wenbin take two days off to have more rest.
Lu Wenbin and Kate played in Dietfurt for two days, celebrating the Chinese New Year and the Spring Festival. They did not return to the base until the evening of February 15 and resumed training on February 16.
That is, on February 14, the day of the Chinese New Year, the Chinese national team led by Gao Hongbo defeated the Hong Kong team 2-0 at the Tokyo National Stadium in Japan. With two wins and one draw in three games, the Chinese national team ranked first with 7 points and won the 2010 East Asian Four Finals Championship.
The Chinese national football team defeated South Korea 3-0, broke the Koreaphobia and finally won the championship, giving Chinese fans a good New Year's gift.
Two days after returning to the base for daily training from Dietfurt, on February 18, Lu Wenbin successfully scored a goal with a spike past Sukulini in an internal training match.
After the training match, Lu Wenbin accidentally opened the system interface and was surprised to find that the current ability value of his dribbling skill had increased by 1 point.
At the beginning of the season, Lu Wenbin's dribbling skill was 13/13. After winning the European Super Cup against Barcelona and receiving skill points as a reward, he used 10 skill points to increase his potential by 5 points to 13/18. Then, through training, it automatically increased by one point on September 11 to 14/18.
Since then, this attribute has never increased automatically. Lu Wenbin thought that it would never increase from now on and he could only increase it forcibly by using skill points!
Unexpectedly, now that 5 months have passed, Lu Wenbin's current ability value has suddenly increased a little, and his dribbling attribute has become 15/18, which surprised Lu Wenbin.
This saved him another skill point.
If there is no system, this should be the normal time interval for players to improve their strength. Moreover, it is fortunate that Lu Wenbin's potential value of 18 points is high enough.
If there are only 15 potential points and no system forcefully adds points, the attributes of 14/15 are basically considered to be exhausted.
Unless a genius has extraordinary self-discipline and hard work, his current ability value will never reach 15/15, which is the same as his potential value.
Now the dribbling attribute of 15/18 is already very good.
With Lu Wenbin's physique and speed, Lu Wenbin is more threatening in the frontcourt.
On the evening of February 19, before the start of the 23rd round of the league, even though it was drizzling on the stadium, the entire Rhine-Neckar Arena was still filled with Hoffenheim fans and Lu Wenbin's fans before the game started.
When the two teams were warming up before the game, there were already countless fans in the stands holding banners or photo flags and spray-painted canvases that read "Lu Wenbin - 100 Games", screaming and applauding for Lu Wenbin.
Slogans such as "Lu-Lu-Lu", "King of Shooters", "Hero of Holy Village" and so on were heard everywhere.
Yes, today's league game is Lu Wenbin's 100th official professional game in Hoffenheim's first team. It is a memorable game.
Fans used various banners, flags, portraits, cheers and screams to send their blessings to Lu Wenbin.
Lu Wenbin also took a jersey with the number 100 printed on it from the club's general manager Rothaus and put it on. He thanked the fans and then changed into training clothes and began to warm up.
After the warm-up, at 20:30, with the referee's whistle, the 23rd round of the Bundesliga match between Hoffenheim and Borussia Mönchengladbach officially began at home.
Hoffenheim's personal commentator Caster excitedly introduced to Hoffenheim fans Lu Wenbin's brilliant achievements after joining Hoffenheim, and had great expectations for Lu Wenbin's 100th game in the club today.
However, Lu Wenbin did not score a goal within the first 10 minutes.
The weather for this game was better than the previous games, but it was still drizzling, just much less than the previous games.
Therefore, the dribbling attribute that Lu Wenbin had just added was not of much use in this game. Lu Wenbin still relied on his speed, off-ball running, physique, etc. to attack.
Under the opponent's tight defense, Lu Wenbin only had one chance to shoot from outside the penalty area in the first ten minutes.
Although the ball hit the goal frame, it was saved by Borussia Mönchengladbach goalkeeper Jaime Roth because of the sharp angle.
Hoffenheim failed to get the first point in the next corner kick, and the ball was cleared by Monchengladbach players and headed out of the penalty area.
Hoffenheim continued to attack.
Fortunately, there were no other matches between the two rounds of the league, and there was a full 6 days between them. Demba Ba and Eduardo both recovered from their injuries and returned to the game. Lu Wenbin and other teammates also regained a lot of energy and spirit.
Therefore, in this home game against Borussia Mönchengladbach, who is ranked 11th in the Bundesliga standings, Hoffenheim has a considerable advantage.
In the second ten minutes, Lu Wenbin finally scored a goal.
In the 17th minute, Eduardo's breakthrough caused the opponent to foul, winning Lu Wenbin a free kick about 27 meters away from the goal with a good angle and position.
Then, Lu Wenbin activated the system skill and took a direct free kick. The ball went straight to the dead corner. Goalkeeper Jaime Roth failed to catch the ball and could only watch the ball go into the net.
The moment the ball went into the goal, fans in the entire stadium cheered and screamed.
The commentator Custer spoke passionately at the top of his voice:
"Tooooooooooooooooor..."
"Lu scored again. He scored a beautiful direct free kick in his 100th official game for Hoffenheim, opening the scoring for the team!"
"Lu is the greatest shooter in the world today, and Lu is Hoffenheim's greatest hero!"
Countless people cheered and congratulated Lu Wenbin for scoring in his 100th game for Hoffenheim, and Lu Wenbin also celebrated with his teammates for more than half a minute.
Next, the game continues.
Although the light rain had a certain impact on Hoffenheim's performance, it was Hoffenheim's home court after all, and there was still a certain gap in strength between the two sides. Hoffenheim always had the advantage on the field.
In the 36th minute, Demba Ba had a chance to score in the small penalty area, but maybe because he had been injured for too long, his shooting feeling was poor and he did not hit the goal frame. He kicked the ball out of the goal post and missed a good chance to score.
In the second half, Eduardo also wasted a good chance to score a goal and missed a shot in the penalty area.
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