Chapter 252: Five League Records (Asking for a Monthly Pass)
In Europe, in addition to the media and football celebrities such as Gerd Müller standing up to congratulate Lu Wenbin on his achievements, even the German Football Association released a congratulatory message on its official website, congratulating Lu Wenbin on breaking Gerd Müller's record.
Of course, in addition to congratulating Lu Wenbin, the Football Association also announced additional penalties for Eduardo's elbow and Daniel Haas's malicious pulling down of the opposing striker's egregious behavior during the game.
Eduardo received a five-game domestic suspension and Haas received a three-game domestic suspension.
Suddenly, Lu Wenbin's joy of breaking the record was diluted, and the whole team was gloomy.
Goalkeeper Haas didn't care, anyway, there were better Ozcan and Hildebrand to support, but Eduardo's five-game ban was a big blow to the team.
Receiving a straight red card, which would have been automatically suspended for one game, is now subject to an additional five-game suspension, which is equivalent to Eduardo's six-game suspension.
According to the schedule of the Bundesliga and the German Cup, Eduardo will not be able to return until more than a month later in the 33rd round of the Bundesliga on May 16 when Hoffenheim plays Bayern Munich at home.
With a six-game suspension and more than a month's suspension, this hit Hoffenheim too hard.
Eduardo's performance in the midfield and forward positions is even better than captain Salihovic, even more important.
Because Eduardo is a Brazilian player, his small skills are very good, and his breakthroughs often create a lot of shooting opportunities for himself and his teammates.
Even if he can't break through, sometimes he will use dazzling feints to cause the opponent to foul and create a free kick opportunity for Lu Wenbin.
Therefore, after the additional penalty came out, the fans of other rival teams secretly gloated, and Hoffenheim was a little difficult to accept.
General manager Rothouse immediately initiated the appeal process, hoping that the Football Association would reduce or even withdraw the punishment.
However, everyone knows that there is little hope, and Hoffenheim is only making a last-ditch effort.
Not to mention whether the decision already made by the Football Association will be easily changed, Eduardo's deliberate elbow on the opponent's head is too bad in nature.
Fortunately, there were no problems with Grote's post-game examination, and if Grote had been injured, Eduardo could have faced a heavier penalty.
Whether the appeal is successful or not, Eduardo's absence from a few domestic games is already a certainty.
Fortunately, the second leg of the next UEFA Cup quarter-final against Werder Bremen, although it is a civil war between two Bundesliga teams, does not belong to the German domestic league and is not under the jurisdiction of the German Football Association.
Therefore, Eduardo can still play in this UEFA Cup match. If Hoffenheim can beat Werder Bremen to advance, they will also be available in the semi-finals.
That's not the best of the best!
In addition to the good news that Eduardo can play in the League Cup, Lu Wenbin also used up the remaining two skill points.
After all, the speed of 12/13 still failed to improve to 13/13 with training, so I could only use skill points to directly increase the points.
The increase in physique to 18/18 and the speed to 13/13 is to increase the chances of qualifying for the second leg of the UEFA Cup win over Werder Bremen.
Werder Bremen are a well-known nerve squad that can beat Bayern Munich at the Allianz Arena or lose to relegation at home.
The 2-2 score in the first leg of the League Cup did not make Lu Wenbin feel safe and have great hopes of advancing to the second leg of the home game.
Therefore, just after a month, he added points to his physique and speed, and used up the remaining two skill points, not caring if others could find the abnormality.
Anyway, more than a month has passed, step by step, without adding a few points at once, the outside world is most suspicious that Lu Wenbin's progress is faster, but he will not suspect anything else.
In the match with Bochum, Lu Wenbin got 3 goals of 30,000 + 20,000 for the team to win, a total of 50,000 experience points, and the experience rose to 251,000/2 million at level 16.
After adding the physique and speed attributes, Lu Wenbin devoted himself to the preparation of the League Cup.
During the training, Lu Wenbin's good physical fitness, confrontation, and speed improvement after his full resurrection made his teammates feel a little strange, but it was not obvious.
Moreover, the club's appeal against Eduardo had no effect, and as soon as it was submitted, it was directly called back by the Football Association mercilessly, and the fact that Eduardo had to be suspended for a total of six games in domestic matches cannot be changed.
In such a situation, everyone didn't pay much attention to Lu Wenbin's physique and speed.
The day before the game, on the afternoon of April 14, the entire Werder Bremen team arrived in the county of Rhine Neckar.
Speaking at the pre-match press conference, head coach Schaaf expressed confidence that he would win. Captain Bowman also said that they could win the second leg if they could draw in the last minute of the first leg.
Not to be outdone, Hoffenheim said he had two away goals in his hands and that the victory would have belonged to Hoffenheim.
Eduardo says he is out of action for more than a month for the upcoming domestic games, so he will devote all his energy to dealing with Werder Bremen.
As for the average Hoffenheim fan, there is no doubt that they are all proud to have a single-season scorer king in the Bundesliga like Lu Wenbin.
In a random interview with reporters, fans confidently said that as long as there is Lu Wenbin, Hoffenheim will definitely win and advance.
Moreover, Lu Wenbin will also break Gerd Muller's single-season total goal record of 67 goals in the five major leagues.
After 19 o'clock the next evening, dozens of minutes before the start of the game, but the Rhein Neckar Arena was already full.
There are still thousands of Huocun fans outside who do not have tickets to enter, so they can only ask around if there are scalpers selling tickets or other fans to refund their tickets.
Especially for those individual fans who worship Lu Wenbin, this game has come quite a lot.
Because after the match with Bochum, Lu Wenbin not only broke Gerd Muller's single-season Bundesliga goal record, but also his season total goals reached 66, which is only one short of Gerd Muller's single-season total goal record of 67 goals in the top five leagues.
In this game, Lu Wenbin only needs to score one, and he will tie the record.
If he scores a brace, he will break the record.
In the last game, Lu Wenbin completed 41 league goals and became the top scorer in the Bundesliga in a single season, and this game Lu Wenbin may become the king of scorers in the five major leagues.
As a result, many fans who had already missed Lu's record-breaking fight in the previous game were clearly more positive in this match.
Even if many female fans who originally liked Lu Wenbin and later saw Lu Wenbin and Kate confirm their relationship, they couldn't help but come to watch the game again this time and watch Lu Wenbin's record-breaking performance.
Relatively speaking, the football circle is still more pure than the entertainment industry.