Before the first round of Serie A matches, Lu Wenbin attended the new season's Champions League group stage draw ceremony with Mourinho, Paolillo and others.
On August 26, UEFA held the 2010/2011 UEFA Champions League group stage draw ceremony and the award ceremony for the best players of last season's Champions League at the Monte Carlo Conference Center in Monaco.
With his terrifying stats of 26 goals in 13 Champions League games last season, Lu Wenbin won the awards of Best Forward and Best Player last season, and was selected into the best 11-man list of last season's Champions League, becoming the most dazzling star of the night.
Afterwards, UEFA held the Champions League group stage draw ceremony, and Inter Milan was naturally the undisputed seeded team.
Finally, the second-tier team drawn with Inter Milan is Panathinaikos from Greece, the third-tier team is Tottenham Hotspur from the Premier League, and the fourth-tier team is last season's Eredivisie champion Twente.
It seems that Inter Milan will occupy one qualifying spot, and the other three teams will compete for the second qualifying spot.
Inter Milan's qualifying situation is relatively optimistic.
Elsewhere, Lu Wenbin’s old club Hoffenheim was grouped with Barcelona, and AC Milan met Real Madrid again in the group stage.
At the same time, the group of AC Milan and Real Madrid also includes the Dutch Eredivisie giants Ajax, which has won the Champions League three times in a row. The total number of Champions League titles won by these three teams has reached 20.
This turned that group into the group of death, and the fourth team, Auxerre, would almost certainly become the one to accompany the prince to study and be eliminated early.
After the Champions League group stage draw ceremony, other teams returned home, and last season's Champions League champion Hoffenheim will play a European Super Cup against the Europa League champion Atletico Madrid.
In the end, Hoffenheim, who lost Lu Wenbin and several main players in the summer, lost 1-2 to Atletico Madrid and lost the European Super Cup.
This made Lu Wenbin, who stayed to watch the game, quite disappointed.
However, he could no longer help Hoffenheim.
Now, he has to work hard for Inter Milan's championship and his own treble mission.
On August 28, the opening match of the 2010/2011 Italian Serie A season was played between Udinese and Genoa.
90 minutes later, Udinese, playing at home, was defeated by Genoa 1-0, which was a small upset.
The next day, the first round of the Serie A league kicked off. Roma was tied 0-0 by Cesena at home, Juventus lost to Bari away, and Lazio lost 0-2 to Sampdoria...
In the first round of Serie A, there were many upsets.
Inter Milan's first Serie A game of the new season is the last game on the last day of the first round, and it is an away game, with Bologna hosting Inter Milan at home.
The game was broadcast live in Italy and many countries around the world, and countless people were eagerly waiting to watch Lu Wenbin's Serie A debut.
The last game was the Super Cup, not the league. This game was Lu Wenbin's first Serie A appearance.
Moreover, Lu Wenbin also made the starting lineup.
At 9 p.m. on August 30, with the referee's whistle, the first round of the 2010/2011 Serie A match between Inter Milan and Bologna away officially began.
Bologna ranked fourth from the bottom last season and narrowly avoided relegation. They are a standard relegation team with limited strength.
Although they are playing at home, it is still difficult for them to resist Inter Milan's attack.
Inter Milan did not simply shrink its defense and launch a defensive counterattack.
It would be too embarrassing to have to play defensive counterattacks against a relegation team like Bologna.
Moreover, Mourinho also wants to change the team's playing style. He wants to not only win but also win beautifully.
Therefore, when facing the weak team Bologna, Mourinho asked Lu Wenbin, Eto'o, Sneijder, Stankovic and others to make more breakthroughs and cooperate more in the frontcourt.
However, Lu Wenbin had just joined the team and lacked tacit understanding with his teammates, and the players in the frontcourt were slow to work together.
Although there are occasionally amazing cooperation and passes, more often than not, the passing and cutting are not coordinated well, the passes are intercepted, etc.
Fortunately, Lu Wenbin's personal ability made up for the team's overall lack of coordination.
In the 31st minute, Stankovic's diagonal pass to the wing was too long and it was impossible for other players to catch up.
But Lu Wenbin's full speed allowed him to catch the ball before it went out of the baseline, causing cheers from thousands of Inter Milan fans in the stands.
Then, Lu Wenbin made a cross from the bottom line, and Eto'o who followed up in the middle attracted the attention of two defensive players, but three of them headed the ball together and it fell to the other side of the penalty area.
Sneijder rushed forward, stopped the ball, dribbled past a defender and then volleyed the ball into the goal.
This was an opportunity and a goal entirely created by Lu Wenbin's personal ability.
Although it was Sneijder who scored the goal, it was Lu Wenbin who was praised by the commentator and the audience.
If Lu Wenbin had not never given up chasing the ball, and finally caught the ball and made a cross, Sneijder would have had no chance to shoot at all.
The first half ended with a score of 1-0. Although Inter Milan made many mistakes, the lead in the score still made everyone feel more relaxed.
In the second half, Inter Milan players performed much better.
Although he was not familiar with Lu Wenbin, the cooperation between Sneijder, Stankovic and Eto'o was still pleasing to the eye.
As for Lu Wenbin himself, he made more breakthroughs and shots after getting the ball.
In this way, the whole team has cooperation, individual breakthroughs, and goals, which looks better than Inter Milan last season.
Especially in the 76th minute, Inter Milan's cooperation in the penalty area caused an uproar in the audience, and Inter Milan fans were extremely excited.
That was Eto'o and Sneijder passing the ball to Lu Wenbin in the empty space inside the penalty area after a two-on-one cooperation outside the penalty area.
However, Lu Wenbin had his back to the goal, but everyone thought that Lu Wenbin would force himself to turn around and shoot.
After all, Lu Wenbin's goal efficiency in the penalty area is too high.
As a result, Lu Wenbin did not turn around and shoot, but instead made a hidden pass and passed the ball to the empty space on the other side of the penalty area.
The cooperation between Eto'o and Sneijder, as well as Lu Wenbin in the penalty area, attracted all the attention of Bologna's defense line, leaving the other side of the penalty area completely empty.
By the time everyone saw Lu Wenbin pass the ball, it was too late to react.
Stankovic came in from the back row and shot the ball without any interference, and the ball went into the goal like a cannonball.
In this attack, from the small-scale two-on-one cooperation between Eto'o and Sneijder at the front of the penalty area, to Lu Wenbin's wonderful pass in the penalty area, Bologna players didn't even touch the ball, which was a pleasure to watch.
Especially Lu Wenbin's wonderful pass, how did he see the gap on the other side of the penalty area
It is quite puzzling.
However, no matter what, Inter Milan took a 2-0 lead through a pleasing frontcourt cooperation, and both goals were assisted by Lu Wenbin.
Afterwards, Inter Milan was unable to launch such a beautiful attack again, and Lu Wenbin was unable to score a personal goal due to the opponent's deliberate defense.
Neither side scored any more goals, and Inter Milan finally won the first round of the new Serie A season with a score of 2-0, getting off to a good start.
Although Lu Wenbin did not score a goal, he still won the best player of the match with his outstanding performance of two assists, which was a good start. (Seeking monthly votes)