Chapter 220： The hardest shield

After the Golden Boy Award Ceremony, at 17:00 on December 14th, with the referee’s whistle, the 17th round of the 2008/2009 Bundesliga season, the last round of the league before the winter break, Hoffenheim vs. Sands The Erke 04 game officially started.

Schalke 04 is a veteran Bundesliga team with a long history. Before this round, it was ranked 7th in the Bundesliga standings this season, and it ranked well.

Coupled with Bayern Munich's demonstration of how to freeze Lu Wenbin, Schalke 04 coach Rutten called out the slogan that he can freeze Lu Wenbin and lead his team to defeat Hoffenheim before the game.

However, in fact, the defensive strength of the two players he sent was not up to the level of Bayern Otter and Demichelis.

After the game began, although Schalke 04 also sent No. 8 midfielder Ernst and No. 20 defender Kelstajic to jointly target Lu Wenbin's tactics, the effect was not as good as Bayern Munich.

Sacrificing two people to specifically target Lu Wenbin, the effect is certainly there, but it can't achieve the effect of Bayern Otter and Demichelis marking Lu Wenbin, so Lu Wenbin still gets a lot of opportunities to catch the ball.

Facing Lu Wenbin's 19/19 off-the-ball running, Ernst and Krstajic's man-marking awareness, assisting defense cooperation, etc., are somewhat different from the combination of Otter and Demichelis.

Had it not been for Schalke 04 to have a goalkeeper, Hoffenheim would have scored a goal.

In the 8th minute, Lu Wenbin threw off Entes and Krstajic's mark at the corner of the penalty area and received a header from Ibisevic. He took a non-stop volley and almost made it. Goal.

Fortunately, Schalke 04's goalkeeper Neuer made a world-class save like a door god, and saved Lu Wenbin's volley from within the goal frame to the bottom line.

Otherwise, Lu Wenbin scored in the 8th minute.

The absence of a goal against Bayern in the last round of the league made the team unable to win. Many people think that they have found a way to freeze Lu Wenbin and deal with Hoffenheim, which in itself makes Lu Wenbin full of fighting spirit and want to play in this round. Prove yourself in.

In addition to receiving the Golden Boy Award in front of so many people before the game, and his girlfriend Kate sitting in the stands, Lu Wenbin is even more forbidden to be jokes.

In today's game, Lu Wenbin really wanted to score and lead the team to victory, proving that their tactics against Hoffenheim and his own were invalid.

The minimum goal should also help the team win.

In this regard, Lu Wenbin has confidence in his teammates.

After a year of getting along, Lu Wenbin is convinced of the abilities of his teammates. These teammates, even without themselves, are capable of gaining a foothold in the Bundesliga, as evidenced by the fact that they could score two goals in the Allianz Arena in the last round of the league.

Opponents are heavily guarding themselves, and loopholes and gaps will inevitably occur in other places, creating shots for Lu Wenbin's teammates.

He does not believe that Schalke 04 also has the defensive and offensive strength of Bayern Munich. He can achieve fewer goals and counterattacks when there are fewer enemies and more enemies, and finally ties with Hoffenheim or even defeats Hoffenheim. .

No matter how great Neuer is, he is just a goalkeeper, not a bus, and can't completely block a goal that is more than 7 meters wide.

He can save Lu Wenbin's first required goal, and then Lu Wenbin will look for the next opportunity while assisting his teammates in attacking.

Anyway, after this game is the winter break, there is no need to retain any physical fitness. Lu Wenbin released all his physical strength in this game without hesitation.

Next, he not only took Ernst and Krstajic everywhere, disrupted Schalke 04’s defense and created opportunities for his teammates. He also used his 19/19 off-the-ball running to occasionally get shots. .

As Ralph said, Hoffenheim is not a team of Lu Wenbin alone.

While Lu Wenbin's shot chances were greatly reduced under the marking of two opponents, Hoffenheim's other players began to get more performance opportunities.

Eduardo, Salihovic, Ibisevic, Dembaba, Gustavo, Baker and others launched a wave of offensives against Schalke 04’s defense line amid the cheering of home fans, with an average of four. One shot in five minutes.

However, what is unexpected is that Hoffenheim has never scored a goal with such a powerful offensive.

In the 11th minute, Dembaba succeeded in reversing offside and almost received a through ball from Salihovic to get a single chance, but it was a pity that Neuer attacked in advance and kicked the ball out of the sideline.

In the 14th minute, Lu Wenbin got a long shot from outside the penalty area. However, this shot was timely interfered by Entes with a physical impact and missed the goal post.

In the 19th minute, Hoffenheim full-back Baker made a cross with the ball, and Ibisevic grabbed the first point. Unfortunately, Neuer's close header was magically set aside the crossbar.

In the 21st minute, Hoffenheim got a free kick in the front court. Lu Wenbin opened the system skills to hit the free kick and went straight to the dead corner of the goal, but Neuer was predicted to shift in advance and threw it out.

In the 23rd minute, Ibisevic received a wonderful pass from Salihović in the penalty area and turned to hit the goal. The ball went straight to the dead corner. Unfortunately, he was stabbed by a world-class save by Neuer who reacted quickly. Out of the bottom line In the 26th minute, Lu Wenbin successfully formed a single-handed shot at the front of the penalty area.

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Until the 40th minute of the first half, Hoffenheim did not score even a goal.

Schalke 04's 22-year-old goalkeeper Manuel Neuer performed brilliantly today. The high resistance made many wonderful, even world-class saves, and completely rejected Hoffenheim’s shot. outer.

Neuer's performance reminds everyone of his performance in the Champions League match at home in Porto VS Schalke 04 last season.

The Schalke 04 team performed poorly in that game and was beaten by Porto.

However, Neuer stood in front of the goal and turned his back on Wan Fu. He saved many of Porto's must goals close at hand, dragging the game into a penalty shoot-out.

In the penalty shoot-out, Neuer hit the other two consecutive penalties, sending Porto completely out of the game, and at the same time leading Schalke 04 into the Champions League quarter-finals of the 07/08 season, creating the best record in the history of the Champions League.

Today Neuer seems to have been beaten into an extraordinary state by Hoffenheim’s continuous offensive, and he continuously offered various tricks, making the commentators have to think of Neuer’s fame at the Porto Dragon Stadium. Battle.

The commentators in the commentary are all talking about the possibility of the birth of a world-class goalkeeper in German football after the Lion King Kahn.

And Lu Wenbin, the sharpest spear ranked first in the Bundesliga scorer list, will not only be marked by the opponent's two defenders, but will also encounter the most impressive goalkeeper and the toughest shield in all the games he has participated in.

Whether Lu Wenbin, the sharpest spear of the Bundesliga, can get rid of Entes and Kelstajic's markings and break Neuer's shield, everyone is full of doubts and curiosity.