When Lu Wenbin's ground free kick was blocked by a player in the wall who did not jump, many fans and followers sighed.
However, the next second, the ball came to Lu Wenbin's side again. Lu Wenbin shot the ball directly without stopping and kicked it to the far end of the goal. Neither the defensive player nor the goalkeeper touched it.
When the whole stadium saw the blocked ball being kicked back by Lu Wenbin and going into the goal along the post, the excitement grew.
The Chinese commentator shouted excitedly, "GOAL, GOAL! Although Lu Wenbin's first free kick was blocked, he made a follow-up shot right after. Lu Wenbin scored four goals in this game and scored his 400th official goal in his 200th career game."
"It took Lu Wenbin only 200 games to score 400 goals, averaging 2 goals per game. Lu Wenbin is the first person in football history to score 2 goals per game after playing 200 games."
Commentators from other national TV stations also explained Lu Wenbin's great goal to global audiences.
The 200th game, the 400th goal, the 120th goal of the year. These numbers seem so perfect and dazzling.
Such goal numbers and goal efficiency are destined to be a monument that is difficult to surpass in world football.
Originally, if the venue of this game was really Iraq's home court, the opponent would definitely not congratulate Lu Wenbin for his 200th game and 400th goal.
But this is Qatar, this is Doha!
Although Qatar is a close neighbor of Iraq, the Qataris obviously want to please Lu Wenbin more.
Even though Lu Wenbin rejected Paris Saint-Germain in the summer, the Qataris still want to continue trying hard to leave a good impression for Paris Saint-Germain to bring Lu Wenbin to the team in the future.
If Paris Saint-Germain wants to make a breakthrough in the Champions League, they must invite Lu Wenbin.
Just look at the fact that Lu Wenbin scored 120 goals in a year, an average of 2 goals per game, and you will understand the role of Lu Wenbin.
Therefore, before the game, the Qataris made full preparations to celebrate for Lu Wenbin.
When Lu Wenbin finally scored his 400th goal in his 200th game through a free kick in the 83rd minute, a big "GOAL" immediately appeared on the large LCD screen at the stadium. Then the word representing goal disappeared, revealing Lu Wenbin's name and photo, as well as the words "400 goals in 200 games".
Qatar Football Association officials in the box and Qatari fans in the stands all stood up together with the Chinese fans and applauded and paid tribute to Lu Wenbin.
Even the Iraqi players and fans, after what had already happened, applauded Lu Wenbin with respect.
When your strength reaches a certain level, even your enemies will start to admire you.
After completing the achievement of 400 goals in 200 games, Lu Wenbin and his teammates slowed down their offensive.
The Iraqi players defended for the entire game but were exhausted, and both sides took the game for the rest of the game.
In the 89th minute, Gao Hongbo replaced Lu Wenbin in advance and received a standing ovation from the audience.
In the 90th minute, seeing that both sides did not want to continue the game, the referee did not grant extra time and blew the whistle to end the game early. The Chinese team defeated Iraq 6-0 away from home and won their fourth World Cup qualifying match.
After this battle, the Chinese team won all four games and scored 12 points, Jordan won three games and lost one game and scored 9 points, Iraq won one game and lost three games and scored 3 points, and Singapore lost all four games and scored 0 points and ranked last.
There are a total of six games in the double round-robin group stage among the four teams. Even if the Chinese team loses all the remaining two games and third-placed Iraq wins all, Iraq will not be able to catch up with the Chinese team.
With the top two teams in the group advancing directly to the top ten, the Chinese team has actually already qualified for the top ten of the Asian qualifiers for the World Cup, and the remaining two games are no longer important.
After missing two consecutive World Cup Asian qualifiers, the Chinese team finally broke through in the top 20 of the Asian qualifiers for the Brazil World Cup and advanced to the top ten.
Of course, the media and fans around the world know very well who has made the greatest contribution.
After the game, the news that Lu Wenbin had scored 400 goals in 200 games in his career, averaging 2 goals per game, naturally spread quickly around the world.
In world football, a striker who can score 0.5 goals per game is considered a top striker, while a player like Gerd Muller who can score more than 1 goal per game is considered an unsurpassed legend.
However, now, Lu Wenbin's average goal data has surpassed Gerd Muller by not just a little bit, but has directly broken through the 2-goal mark.
Even Gerd Muller can't match this goal-scoring efficiency.
Countless people worship Lu Wenbin and believe that Lu Wenbin is likely to become one of the few players in the football world to score more than 1,000 goals in his career, and may even surpass the total goal record of the King of Football Pele and aim for 2,000 goals.
In the records officially recognized by FIFA, the total number of goals scored by King of Football Pele in his career was officially recognized as the Guinness World Record. He is the only player to have scored more than 1,000 goals, the highest total number of goals scored in a football career.
In addition to Pele's official record recognized by FIFA, other players in the rumored 1,000-goal club include Austria's Josef Biken (1,468 goals), Austria's Franz Binder (1,006 goals), Spain's Puskas (1,176 goals), Brazil's Romario (more than 1,000 goals), Portugal's Eusebio (1,137 goals), Germany's Gerd Muller (1,461 goals), Brazil's Friedenreck (1,329 goals), and China's Li Huitang (1,860 goals), etc.
Because of the long time, the actual number of goals scored cannot be accurately counted. They are all random statistics by the media and the players themselves. There is no evidence, and many of the games are not official games.
Therefore, except for the 1,283 goals scored by the King of Football Pele, the more than 1,000 goals scored by others have not been recognized by FIFA.
In this day and age, Lu Wenbin's goals are naturally counted very accurately.
Since January 2008, when Lu Wenbin joined Hoffenheim's first team and scored a goal as a substitute in the 77th minute of the German Cup quarter-final against Rostock in his first professional game, every game of Lu Wenbin has been recorded with video and audio materials to ensure safety.
As long as Lu Wenbin surpasses Pele's 1,283 goals, FIFA will recognize that record as his new career total goal record and issue him a Guinness World Record certificate.
Of course, if Lu Wenbin can surpass the rumored 1,860 goals of Li Huitang and reach the achievement of 2,000 goals, then he will definitely be the world's number one both officially and privately.
Speaking of Li Huitang, because it happened too long ago, there is no data to support it, and China's current football strength is very weak, many Chinese fans with low self-esteem do not recognize him.
But in fact, whether we agree or not, the fact that an authoritative German football magazine in 1976 listed Li Huitang as one of the top five football players in the world, along with Pele, Puskas, Beckenbauer and Stefano, was definitely not a fabrication by the editor with his head stuck in the door.
Even if he cannot be called the world's best football player, he is definitely worthy of the title of Asian best football player.
Some fans believe that even Li Huitang's title of Asian Football King is a product of Chinese people's fantasy, which is an idea born of extreme inferiority complex.
Especially now that Lu Wenbin has scored 400 goals in 200 games in more than three years of his professional career, Li Huitang's title of Asian King of Soccer, which has reached nearly 2,000 goals in his career, has been recognized by more and more fans.
Lu Wenbin's performance proves that Chinese people are not incapable of playing football.
If Lu Wenbin can lead the Chinese team to win the World Cup, then we can expect him to become the third football king after Pele and Maradona.
It's a pity that the Chinese team is too weak. We are thankful to be able to make it to the World Cup finals or qualify from the group stage. Winning the championship is simply unimaginable.
Perhaps, Lu Wenbin will never win the world championship in his life and will never be able to become the world-recognized king of tennis.
This is the consensus among Chinese fans and even fans around the world.