His teammates kept wasting opportunities until the 72nd minute, when Lu Wenbin ran out of the penalty area and received a pass from Salihovic.
Before the opponents could double-team him, Lu Wenbin took a long shot directly from outside the penalty area.
The ball passed through the crowd in the penalty area and went into the goal of Borussia Mönchengladbach along the grass.
Lu Wenbin scored twice to give Hoffenheim a 2-0 lead.
After Lu Wenbin scored twice to give Hoffenheim a 2-0 lead, neither side scored any more goals in the following period.
In the 85th minute, Lu Wenbin was replaced by Ralph and enjoyed the cheers of the home fans alone.
After 3 minutes of stoppage time, the referee blew the whistle to end the game. Hoffenheim won 2-0 easily in Lu Wenbin's 100th game for the club, taking all three points.
Lu Wenbin also received a reward of 20,000 experience points for scoring 2 goals and 20,000 experience points for winning, for a total of 40,000 experience points. The experience points increased to level 17, 3.975 million/5 million.
After the game, Lu Wenbin interacted with the fans in the stadium for a while wearing his 100th game commemorative jersey. He took the microphone to say some words and met the requests of some fans for autographs and photos.
After the game, Lu Wenbin's 100 club games and two goals naturally attracted a lot of attention.
"Lu completed Hoffenheim's 100th official game appearance, with a total of 190 goals!"
"100 club games, 190 goals, Hoffenheim's success is all thanks to Lu!"
In addition to media reports, Hoffenheim’s official website also did a special review of Lu Wenbin’s 100 games to pay tribute to Lu Wenbin’s achievements.
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After the 23rd round of the Bundesliga against Borussia Mönchengladbach, Hoffenheim entered the preparation period for the Champions League.
Lu Wenbin began to use dribbling more often in training. Although he couldn't dribble past opponents countless times, his success rate was higher than before.
On February 22, Hoffenheim arrived in Piraeus, a port city near the Greek capital Athens, two days in advance. This is the city where Hoffenheim's Champions League round of 16 opponent Olympiacos is located.
As the first place in the Champions League group stage, Hoffenheim automatically enjoys the more favorable schedule of playing away first and then at home in the round of 16.
Therefore, they will first go away to challenge Olympiacos.
Olympiacos is a giant in the Greek Super League. It has won seven consecutive Greek Super League titles and reached the quarterfinals of the UEFA Champions League in the 1998/1999 season. It is currently ranked second in the Greek Super League, 2 points behind its arch-rival Panathinaikos.
In the 1/8 finals facing Hoffenheim, the leader of the Bundesliga, Olympiacos can only put their hopes on the first round home game.
Olympiacos had no expectations for the second round away game.
Once, they created an embarrassing record of 31 consecutive away games without a win in the Champions League, which shows how bad their away performance is.
Although the record was later ended, Olympiacos' away performance did not change fundamentally.
Therefore, they must defeat Hoffenheim at home to have a glimmer of hope of advancing to the quarterfinals.
Of course, this is very difficult.
It is not easy to attack and defend against Lu Wenbin at the same time and prevent Hoffenheim from scoring an away goal.
The coach and players of Olympiacos can only do their best.
But for Hoffenheim, it is relatively simple.
Although Olympiacos is a giant in Greece, it is not good enough in the entire European football world. As long as Hoffenheim plays well and performs at the level they have performed in training, I believe winning will not be difficult.
Moreover, Greece is in the south and the weather is much warmer than in Germany.
For the Hoffenheim players who had been playing in the rain with temperatures around zero degrees in the previous games, the current average temperature in Greece of over 10 degrees is simply too warm.
Therefore, in the first round of the 2009/2010 Champions League round of 16 on February 23, when Hoffenheim challenged Olympiacos away, Hoffenheim players including Lu Wenbin were much more excited.
One is that the meaning of the Champions League itself is different, and the other is the impact that the improved weather has brought to everyone.
After the start of the game, Hoffenheim quickly took the initiative and launched a fierce bombardment on Olympiacos away from home.
Although Olympiacos really wanted to defeat Hoffenheim at home and retain the hope of advancing, the huge gap in strength forced them to choose defensive counterattacks to defend against Lu Wenbin, Ibisevic and Demba Ba.
As a result, Olympiacos' frontcourt was seriously short of people, and even if they occasionally had counterattack opportunities, they could not seize them.
In the 12th minute, Olympiacos tried to steal the ball and launched a counterattack, but their forward was isolated and helpless with the ball in front. In the end, Gustavo, Simunić and Nilsson surrounded and intercepted the ball, and he didn't even have time to shoot.
On the other hand, Hoffenheim had more opportunities to shoot.
In the 6th minute, Lu Wenbin pulled away two defenders by running, and Ibisevic got an open shot in the middle.
However, his shot was saved by the opponent's goalkeeper Purdys.
In the 9th minute, Lu Wenbin also got a chance to shoot, but the ball was touched by the opponent's defender and went out of the goal.
The continuous attack finally paid off in the 22nd minute.
Although the opponent played a defensive counterattack and there were many people in the penalty area, making it difficult to create shooting opportunities, there were still many long-range shooting opportunities outside the penalty area.
In the 22nd minute, Lu Wenbin got the ball outside the corner of the penalty area and took a long shot. The ball made an arc in the air, bypassed the palm of Purdys who jumped into the air to save the ball, and went into the far corner of the goal.
Lu Wenbin scored the first goal, giving Hoffenheim a 1-0 lead away from home and scoring an away goal. Lu Wenbin's number of goals in the Champions League this season has reached 14.
German commentator Dickenson immediately shouted: "Toooooooooooooooooooooor..."
"Goal, Lu scored!"
“There is no goal that Lu can’t break!”
"This is Lu's 14th goal of the season, tying the single-season Champions League goal record of 14 goals set by AC Milan star Altafini in the 1962/1963 season!"
"This game is not over yet, and this season's Champions League is not over yet. Lu still has a chance to break Altafini's Champions League single-season goal record!"
More than a thousand Hoffenheim fans who traveled with the team to Greece also cheered loudly to celebrate Lu Wenbin's record-tying goal.
After Lu Wenbin celebrated with his teammates for a while, the game resumed.
After falling behind at home, Olympiacos fell into a more passive position. They had to devote their manpower to attack and equalize the score, or even reverse the score.
However, when they started to attack, Hoffenheim had more opportunities in the backcourt.
In the 31st minute, Eduardo pretended to pass the ball to Lu Wenbin to deceive his opponent, but passed the ball to Demba Ba in the penalty area.
Demba Ba shot the ball and it flew into the net like lightning.
Demba Ba scored his first goal after returning from injury, helping Hoffenheim to two away goals and a 2-0 lead.
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