After the match with Levante, on September 21, in the 5th round of La Liga, Real Madrid will challenge Racing Santander away again.
However, on the same day, the Chinese Olympic team will also face the group stage of the top 12 of the London Olympic Games Asian qualifiers.
In the third stage of the group stage of the Asian zone of the Olympic qualifiers, the 12 teams are divided into three groups. Only the first place in each group will directly advance to the London Olympics. The second place will have to play in the play-offs, and even if they win, they will still have to compete with the fourth place in the African zone for a qualifying spot.
Therefore, the safest option is to get first place in the group and go directly to London.
The Chinese team is in Group A with South Korea, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, which is quite dangerous.
If Lu Wenbin had not returned to China to compete, it would have been almost certain that South Korea would have been first in the group, and the Chinese team might not even have qualified for the second-place play-off.
Therefore, if the Chinese team wants to appear in the London Olympics, Lu Wenbin can only return to China and lead his teammates in the National Olympic Team.
So, after the game with Levante, Lu Wenbin quickly flew back to Asia.
Moreover, they did not return to China and stay there, but flew directly to South Korea.
Because in the first round of the Asian qualifying match for the Chinese team, the Chinese Olympic team will play away against the South Korean Olympic team.
On the evening of September 21st local time, the first round of Group A of the Austrian Asian Qualifiers for the top 12, with the Chinese National Olympic Team playing away against the South Korean National Olympic Team, officially began.
South Korea's biggest enemy in Group A is obviously the Chinese team led by Lu Wenbin.
Therefore, if South Korea wants to qualify directly from the group stage, it can only compete with the Chinese team.
However, at the U23 level, Lu Wenbin's strength is so outstanding that it's like an adult playing football with elementary school students.
Although it was an away game, the stands were filled with boos from Korean fans, trying to disrupt Lu Wenbin, but to no avail.
Lu Wenbin had seen too many big scenes, including European football hooligans, let alone these ordinary Korean fans.
The Korean fans group who think they are the twelfth group are nothing in Lu Wenbin's heart and cannot disturb him at all.
In order to secure victory as soon as possible, force the Koreans to give up resistance and save energy, Lu Wenbin gave his all from the beginning of the game without holding back.
As a result, just in the second minute of the game, Lu Wenbin made a terrifying move by dribbling past four players and sent the ball into the South Korean team's goal, causing tens of thousands of South Korean fans in the stadium to fall silent. Only thousands of Chinese fans in a remote corner of the stands were cheering loudly and ecstatically.
The Chinese commentator was also yelling in the commentary booth as if no one was around, completely ignoring the murderous look of the Korean commentator.
Subsequently, Lu Wenbin completely dominated the Chinese team's offense.
Although the Koreans tried every means to double-team Lu Wenbin with multiple players, they were still unable to defend themselves, so much so that they had no energy to attack and could only defend passively.
The desire to fight hard against the Chinese team and win points at home was simply a mirage under Lu Wenbin's strong attack.
Lu Wenbin almost single-handedly forced the entire South Korean team into their own half, unable to move.
In the 19th minute, Lu Wenbin made a stunning long shot from outside the penalty area. The ball flew into the goal like a cannonball, and the Korean goalkeeper could only watch the ball go into the net.
In the 34th minute, Lu Wenbin assisted his teammate to score another goal, changing the score to 3-0.
Before the end of the first half, in the 42nd minute, Lu Wenbin once again forced the opponent to commit a foul through his dribbling, winning a free kick and scoring it.
Before the end of the first half, Lu Wenbin completed a hat trick and made an assist, helping the Chinese team to a 4-0 lead away from home.
At the U23 level, Lu Wenbin is like a tiger among a flock of sheep, invincible.
The goalkeeper of the Chinese Olympic team almost fell asleep on the goal line throughout the first half.
With Lu Wenbin on the Chinese team, no other team in Asia can even fight back.
Moreover, Lu Wenbin's hat trick in the first half brought his total number of goals for the year to 98, just short of the 100-goal mark.
However, just when many fans were expecting Lu Wenbin to score two more goals in the second half and directly break the 100-goal mark for the year, the head coach replaced Lu Wenbin during the half-time break.
Because the Austrian Asian qualifiers are not national team matches and do not fall within the scope of compulsory national team call-ups, the club has the right to refuse.
The reason why Real Madrid did not refuse was simply that they did not want to ruin the relationship with Lu Wenbin, but Real Madrid still reached a verbal agreement with the Chinese Football Association, hoping to replace Lu Wenbin early after securing the victory and let him have more rest.
This year, Real Madrid is fighting on three fronts and striving for the treble. Lu Wenbin is obviously the core player for Real Madrid to win the tenth Champions League or even the treble.
Then, Lu Wenbin has the national team's World Cup qualifiers and the national Olympic team's Austrian and Asian preliminaries. He is also a double core and even captain, and needs to fly back and forth between Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
No matter how strong Lu Wenbin's physique is, he is not an indefatigable robot after all, and he cannot withstand such torture.
Therefore, if the victory is secured in advance and conditions permit, both the Real Madrid Club and the national team and the National Olympic Team are obliged to replace Lu Wenbin in advance to give him more rest opportunities.
After Lu Wenbin was substituted, the South Korean team finally got a chance to catch their breath and started a counterattack in the second half.
However, the Chinese team, which was already leading 4-0, no longer needed to think about attacking and only needed to pile up defensive players in the backcourt to defend.
The Chinese team's head coach replaced two defensive midfielders and contracted the overall formation to strengthen the defense.
Although the overall strength of the South Korean team is obviously higher than that of the Chinese team without Lu Wenbin, they still have few ways to deal with the Chinese team's bus formation.
Even though the South Korean team tried their best in the second half, they only scored two goals and finally lost the game 2-4. They lost to Lu Wenbin, who made one assist and three shots in just half the game.
In this away Asian qualifying match against South Korea, Lu Wenbin scored three goals and one assist, bringing his total number of goals for the year to 98, and he is only two goals away from the 100-goal mark.
In the 5th round of La Liga, Real Madrid challenged Racing Santander away on the same day. Three consecutive away games in the Champions League and the League made the Real Madrid stars, who did not have good physical reserves during the summer preparation period, in a collective slump. In the end, they were tied 0-0 by Racing Santander away, and neither side scored a goal.
After the fifth round of La Liga, Real Madrid and Real Betis both had four wins and one draw, with 13 points, but Real Madrid topped the standings with the advantage of goal difference.
Following them are Barcelona and Valencia, who had three wins and two draws. Atletico Madrid, Espanyol and others, who had lost, are ranked even lower.