In addition to helping Hoffenheim defend the Bundesliga title, Lu Wenbin also completed 31 Bundesliga appearances and scored 52 goals in personal statistics.
Although Messi, who ranks second in the Golden Boot points, is currently ranked first in the La Liga scorer list, he is more than ten goals behind Lu Wenbin. There is no doubt that Lu Wenbin will successfully defend the European Golden Boot this season.
Even if there is still one round of La Liga left, Messi will not be able to catch up with Lu Wenbin.
This result increased Lu Wenbin's European Golden Boot goal record of 47 goals set last season by 5 goals.
More importantly, this is the first time since the establishment of the European Golden Boot award that someone has scored more than 50 goals and the European Golden Boot points have exceeded 100 points.
Therefore, after the Bundesliga ended, Lu Wenbin's 52 Bundesliga goals even received more news coverage than Hoffenheim's defending champions.
One of the reasons is that Hoffenheim won the championship in advance and now it is just repeated reporting after the end of the league. Now reporting on Hoffenheim's defending Bundesliga championship is not as newsworthy as Lu Wenbin's 52 league goals.
Many media and fans who like Lu Wenbin believe that Lu Wenbin's personal performance has already booked the first FIFA Golden Ball Award after the merger this year.
Even if Inter Milan beat Hoffenheim to win the Champions League and others won the World Cup, it would not be able to cover up Lu Wenbin's performance.
There are those who praise him, and naturally there are also those who criticize Lu Wenbin.
Lu Wenbin's nationality, skin color, the fact that he cannot participate in the World Cup in South Africa, etc. are all reasons for racists or media and fans who don't like Lu Wenbin to discredit him.
It is impossible for anyone to be liked and recognized by everyone. Lu Wenbin can only try his best to be himself.
If he can lead Hoffenheim to complete the treble and become the sixth team in European football and the first in Germany to win the treble, no one can stop him from winning the Golden Ball.
Even if someone is unhappy, they have to keep it to themselves.
At present, Hoffenheim has won the Bundesliga championship this season. There are two games left, the German Cup final and the Champions League final.
Among them, the German Cup final will be held on May 15, and the opponent is Bayern Munich again.
The Champions League final was held on May 23rd, with the opponent being Inter Milan, which also happened to be Lu Wenbin’s 20th birthday.
If Lu Wenbin can lead the team to defeat Inter Milan on May 23 and win the Champions League and complete the treble, it will undoubtedly be the best birthday gift.
Of course, the prerequisite is that Hoffenheim must first defeat Bayern Munich and win the German Cup, otherwise there is no talk of winning the triple crown.
Therefore, after the end of the league, Hoffenheim only took one day off, and then started training and preparing for the German Cup.
In the two-round Champions League semi-final, Bayern Munich caused Hoffenheim huge trouble.
Hoffenheim lost 0-1 in the first round away from home. If Lu Wenbin had not scored twice in the second round at home with his personal ability and led the team to beat Bayern 2-1 on aggregate, Hoffenheim would have been eliminated.
In a decisive German Cup final, no one can guarantee that Hoffenheim will win.
Therefore, Hoffenheim was very cautious and made adequate preparations for the German Cup final.
When there is an opportunity to challenge for the Triple Crown, no one wants to underestimate the opponent and leave the regret of missing out on the Triple Crown.
Of course, no team has the right to underestimate the Bundesliga champion Bayern Munich.
As for Bayern Munich, the tactics used by Van Gaal in the second leg of the Champions League semi-final were severely criticized by the media.
Everyone believed that if Bayern was bolder and could score an away goal in the second leg of the Champions League semi-final, they would have eliminated Hoffenheim with the advantage of away goals.
As for whether increasing the intensity of the attack would allow Hoffenheim to score more goals, the media and fans did not consider it. All they saw was that Hoffenheim only scored two goals and Bayern lost with a total score of 1-2.
The 541 defensive counterattack was ugly to begin with. It would be fine if they had won, but now that they played so ugly and were eliminated, they will naturally be criticized by the media and fans.
Van Gaal did not speak out, but the top management of Bayern club came out to express support for Van Gaal.
Because Van Gaal has just been in office for one season, the team was second in the Bundesliga, in the semi-finals of the Champions League, and reached the final of the German Cup, losing to Hoffenheim, which has super striker Lu Wenbin. The results cannot be said to be bad.
Therefore, Bayern's top management showed rare patience and said that they would trust Van Gaal and would not interfere no matter what tactics Van Gaal adopted.
Of course, as the German Cup final approaches, Bayern media and fans will still support their own team.
Amid the anticipation of the media and fans, the 2009/2010 German Football Association Cup final officially began at the Berlin Olympic Sports Center at 19:30 on the evening of May 15.
Van Gaal continued to use his 541 defensive counterattack tactics, but he increased the assists from midfielder Schweinsteiger and the two wingers.
After all, penalty shootouts are not safe, and Van Gaal also wants to resolve the battle within regular time and does not want to rely solely on defending to drag the game into a penalty shootout.
Hoffenheim's midfield and frontcourt bombarded Bayern Munich's half, but Bayern also counterattacked fiercely whenever they had the chance based on their solid defense.
In the 11th minute, Lu Wenbin's long shot after breaking through Van Bommel outside the penalty area was caught by goalkeeper Butt.
After Butt stood up, he immediately kicked the ball to launch an attack. Finally, Ribery made a cross from the bottom, and Thomas Muller headed the ball in the penalty area, but the ball was slightly higher than the crossbar.
In the 25th minute, Hoffenheim won a free kick. Although Lu Wenbin activated the system skill and shot the free kick within the goal frame, the angle was not good and was saved by Butt at the bottom line.
Hoffenheim failed to get the first point in the subsequent corner kick, and the ball was cleared by Bayern defender Van Buyten out of the penalty area.
The two sides fought back and forth, and the fight was quite lively.
Hoffenheim's sustained attack looked quite threatening, but the quick counterattacks from Bayern Munich's wingers Ribery and Robben were also threatening.
In the 31st minute, Lu Wenbin created a short gap in the penalty area by running without the ball, and Eduardo made a wonderful pass with his tacit cooperation. Lu Wenbin shot without stopping before the defender blocked the ball. The ball flew past goalkeeper Butt and into the goal. Hoffenheim led 1-0.
However, Bayern Munich equalized the score within 10 minutes, with Robben scoring the goal.
In the 39th minute, Robben broke through the wing and cut inside to hit a signature arc ball with his golden left foot. The ball bypassed Ozcan's save and went into the goal.
The two sides were tied 1-1 in the first half.
After a 15-minute break, the two sides changed sides and continued the game.
There was no change in the tactics of both sides in the second half, with Hoffenheim continuing to attack and Bayern Munich defending.