In the blink of an eye, Lu Wenbin has been training in the Hoffenheim first team for half a month, and the time has come to January 28, 2008.

In half a month, Lu Wenbin, who had no language barrier and deliberately mingled with the veteran players, completely integrated into the team.

In order to play the game as soon as possible, help the team win the double, and complete the three system tasks, Lu Wenbin's training attitude is very serious.

Although Lu Wenbin's speed, physique, dribbling, etc. have been reduced to ordinary in the first team, he still relied on his 17/17 shooting attribute to firmly gain a firm foothold.

After half a month of training, both the coach and the players were surprised to find that the youngest 17-year-old Chinese teenager who had just been promoted from the youth team was the most accurate shooter in the Hoffenheim first team.

As long as he gets the opportunity to shoot from the front of the goal, the probability of hitting the frame of the goal is much higher than that of other strikers, and the goal efficiency is naturally much higher than that of others.

Such a performance on the training ground made Ralph Rangnick decide to give Lu Wenbin a chance to play and test Lu Wenbin's quality with a real game.

However, this opportunity is not a league, but a cup.

Hoffenheim's goal this season is promotion to the first division, not the German Cup.

Therefore, it is not impossible to give Lu Wenbin a chance to perform in the cup.

The German Cup is a winner-or-loser, and if you lose, you're out. But Ralph and owner Hope are not here, and they are out of the game, it doesn't matter.

Tomorrow is Hoffenheim's first match after the winter break: Hoffenheim's home game against first-division side Rostock in the 2007/2008 German Cup quarter-finals.

Just three days after the German Cup, the first Bundesliga match after the winter break will be: Hoffenheim away to Wynne Wiesbaden in the 18th round.

The interval between the two games is too short, and the second Bundesliga match against Wayne is more important.

Therefore, in the 1/8 finals of the German Cup, Hoffenheim is destined not to be able to play the main force and to stay for the league.

So, on the afternoon of January 28, when Ralph Rannick announced the eighteen-man squad for the 1/8 finals of the German Cup the next day, he announced a list of half main players and half substitutes.

And Lu Wenbin's name is also among these eighteen people.

The first official game promoted to the first team was an under-appreciated cup match, and Lu Wenbin was able to enter the squad, which can be regarded as his luck.

A night later, on the evening of January 29, Lu Wenbin walked into Hoffenheim's home stadium - Hope Stadium for the first time as a first-team player.

Although he made the 18-man squad, Lu Wenbin failed to start, and he sat on the bench with several other substitutes, waiting for the game to start.

The 6,300-seat Hope Arena was now packed, with spectators chanting "Come on Hoffenheim" or "Holy Village wins" for the first game of 2008.

Although Hoffenheim is only a village, the Hoffenheim Club also belongs to the county of Rhine Neckar and the city of Sinsheim.

As a result, many fans in Rhein-Nekar County and Sinsheim City regard Hoffenheim as their home team, driving to watch every home game, making every Hoffenheim home game full.

Lu Wenbin had seen such a scene when he watched the home game from the stands before.

However, it was the first time he had sat on the bench as a player and seen the cheers of the spectators in the stands.

When the live broadcast began to broadcast the list of players from both sides, every Hoffenheim player received applause and cheers from the audience, even the substitute Lu Wenbin and others.

It's just that Lu Wenbin's applause was a little lower than that of his teammates who were well known to the fans, and some fans from non-local villagers inexplicably asked each other who the No. 90 "Lu" who suddenly appeared was.

At 19 o'clock in the evening of January 29, German time, Hoffenheim's home game against the Bundesliga team Rostock in the 2007/2008 German FA Cup 1/8 finals officially began.

In fact, it is not only Hoffenheim who is unintentional in order to promote the German Cup, but Rostock is also unintentional in the German Cup in order to be relegated in the Bundesliga.

After the 17th round of the Bundesliga before the winter break, Rostock is fourth from bottom in the Bundesliga table with 17 points, just two points above the relegation zone with the same points as Nuremberg and second-to-last Ivbus Ivbus.

If you are not careful, Rostock could fall into the relegation zone after one game.

Therefore, in this German Cup match, Rostock rotated more thoroughly than Hoffenheim. Except for two or three main players, the others are all substitutes in the usual league.

This German Cup 1/8 final has been strategically abandoned by Rostock.

Moreover, even the players who are on the field are absent-minded.

In the 38th minute of the first half, Hoffenheim scored from outside the penalty area by Brazilian striker Carlos Eduardo, and Hoffenheim, who was promoted to the German second division, led Rostock 1-0 in the German Cup.

Suddenly, the entire Hope Arena was boiling, and the audience screamed Eduardo's name and celebrated wildly.

The momentum of thousands of spectators was greater than the momentum of tens of thousands of fans at Lu Wenbin when he played the high school league final at the Tianjin Olympic Sports Center.

European fans are looking even crazier.

Spectators don't care whether Rostock is doing their best or not, they only know that Hoffenheim, the second division side they support, are ahead of the first division side Rostock in the game.

This reason alone was enough for the audience to celebrate ecstatically.

However, the goal also ignited the anger of the Rostock players.

Anyway, Rostock is also a first-division team! Even if it is relegated next season, it will be one level higher than Hoffenheim this season.

Therefore, in the next game, Rostock launched a frantic attack on Hoffenheim to counterattack.

Although Hoffenheim held on to the lead in the final minutes of the first half and did not concede a goal, Rostock equalised just four minutes into the second half and the two sides were tied 1-1.

The game then remained unchanged until the 70th minute amid Rostock's onslaught and Hoffenheim's difficult defense.

Hoffenheim had two great counter-attacking chances, but they were all wasted by No.17 substitute striker Tobias Weiss.

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