Chapter 356: Champions League 1/4 Finals

Hoffenheim's home vs Olympiacos match is also the last match of this season's Champions League quarter-finals, and after the game, all the names for the 2009/2010 Champions League quarter-finals have been decided.

In the end, Hoffenheim, Bayern Munich, Manchester United, Arsenal, Barcelona, Inter Milan, Lyon and CSKA Moscow advanced to the quarter-finals.

Real Madrid was really eliminated by Lyon in the 1/8 finals, and stopped in the round of 16 of the Champions League for the sixth consecutive season, and the title of Champions League Sixteen is becoming more and more deserved.

On March 18, 2010, the day after the tournament, UEFA held a draw for the quarter-finals.

Hoffenheim was lucky again and drew Lyon in Ligue 1.

It's not the weakest team in the last eight, but it's clearly much easier to deal with than the likes of Manchester United, Barcelona, Inter Milan and Arsenal.

Hoffenheim's first season in the Champions League, Lu Wenbin's Champions League debut, felt like UEFA had been escorting Huocun to the promotion.

The other matchups are Bayern Munich vs Manchester United, Inter Milan vs CSKA Moscow, and Arsenal vs Barcelona.

Except for Inter Milan, which is a little easier, the other four giants are not easy to catch each other.

The media is generally optimistic that Hoffenheim and Inter Milan will advance to the last four, and no one will be sure of the remaining two semi-final spots.

After the draw ceremony, Hoffenheim ushered in the 27th round of the Bundesliga amid heated discussions among the media and fans.

On March 20, in the 27th round of the Bundesliga, Hoffenheim challenged Nuremberg away.

For Hoffenheim, the schedule for the third-tier battle is really tight.

Three days after this away league game, the semi-finals of the German Cup will be played.

The league has a big lead in points, but the German Cup is a winner-winner.

Now that they have all entered the semi-finals, Hoffenheim naturally wants to go for the final and the championship, and it is impossible to be careless about the German Cup.

As a result, Ralph only brought a semi-main and half-substitute rotation squad in the away league against Nuremberg, allowing some of the main players to rest and prepare for the semi-finals of the German Cup.

For Nuremberg, who are playing at home, it is natural to go all out.

After the first 26 rounds, Nuremberg are fourth from the bottom, just one point away from the relegation zone in the bottom three, and the relegation situation is very serious.

Therefore, the Nuremberg players are very desperate in this game.

It is a fact that the strength of the relegation team is poor, but when the relegation team is desperate, it is not easy to play.

The same is true for this game.

Hoffenheim, who played half-main and half-substitute, narrowly won 2-1 away from home, with both goals coming from Lu Wenbin.

But the victory came at the cost of injuries to Gustavo and Paldjic, and Jaisler was sent off with a red card.

Fortunately, Ralph rotated beforehand, and Hoffenheim did not lack a starting line-up for the next German Cup game.

Lu Wenbin, who scored 2 goals, got 2 goals of 20,000 + won 20,000 goals, a total of 40,000 experience, and the system experience rose to level 17 4.855 million/5 million.

After the game, Lu Wenbin received a lot of media coverage.

Because Lu Wenbin's brace on the road brought his career goal tally at Hoffenheim to 200.

And these 200 goals, he only took 106 games.

Lu Wenbin has undoubtedly become the top scorer in the history of Hoffenheim, and it is estimated that it will be difficult for anyone to surpass him for a long time, even if others have played longer than Lu Wenbin and have more games than Lu Wenbin.

It's really Lu Wenbin's goal efficiency is too high, with an average goal efficiency of about 1.9 per game, which is unmatched in world football.

With such a performance, some people even shouted that even if Lu Wenbin can't win the Champions League this year, he won't be able to participate in the World Cup, but the FIFA Golden Ball Award after the merger of the European Golden Ball Award and the World Footballer of the Year will be awarded to Lu Wenbin.

It is really Lu Wenbin's personal performance that is too dazzling, and in the eyes of many people, it has surpassed the collective honor.

Of course, if Lu Wenbin can win the Champions League and even lead Hoffenheim to a big treble, then the Ballon d'Or will be more stable.

In the heated discussion and worship of Lu Wenbin by countless people, on March 23, in the semi-finals of the 2009/2010 German FA Cup, Hoffenheim welcomed his opponent Augsburg at home.

Bundesliga side Augsburg is the dark horse of this season's German Cup, eliminating Freiburg, Cologne and other Bundesliga teams along the way to the semifinals.

However, at the Rhein-Neckar Arena, Augsburg's dark horse road ended with Hoffenheim, who was almost at full strength and gave it his all.

In the first half alone, Hoffenheim, who went all out, poured three goals into Augsburg with the cheers of the home fans.

In the second half, Hoffenheim continued to work hard and scored two more goals to finally beat Augsburg 5-1 at home to advance to the final.

Augsburg scored a face-saving goal in the final stages of the game, when Ralph had already replaced Lu Wenbin and Eduardo.

Lu Wenbin scored two sports goals and a free kick in this game, completed a hat trick, scored 3 goals 6000+ won 4000, a total of 10,000 experience rewards, and the experience rose to level 17 4.865 million/5 million.

The next day, another German Cup semi-final was decided, with Bayern Munich playing 0-0 with Schalke 04 in 90 minutes, and only eliminated Schalke 04 1-0 in 120 minutes to advance to the final thanks to a goal in extra time.

After the 2007/2008 season, Hoffenheim once again met Bayern Munich in the German Cup final.

Whether Hoffenheim will continue to step on the corpse of the Bundesliga giant to win the German Cup for the third time in a row, or Bayern Munich will beat Hoffenheim, will not be known until the German Cup final day on May 15.

After the semi-finals of the German Cup, on March 28, in the 28th round of the Bundesliga, Hoffenheim faced Freiburg at home.

Because just three days later it was the first leg of the Champions League quarter-final against Lyon, and it was away.

As a result, the league was strategically abandoned by Ralph.

Even Lu Wenbin was put on the bench by Ralph for the first time. Even if Lu Wenbin said that he had no problem with his physical fitness, he was pressed on the bench by Ralph on the grounds of preventing injury.

Ralph didn't know that Lu Wenbin's injury propensity was 0, and Freiburg was the second-to-last relegation team in the relegation zone.

Facing relegation rivals Nuremberg in the last round, Gustavo and Paljic were injured, and Ralph didn't want to take any risks.

With the league still almost 10 points clear of second place, it is clear that the Champions League quarter-finals are more important to Ralph than the league.

If the time interval is a little longer, it is still possible to play on two fronts, but the two games are only three days apart, and Lyon is still away, Ralph will have to give up the league.

Hoffenheim, who were mostly substitutes, were unable to win and were held to a 1-1 draw at home by a desperate Freiburg side.

Lu Wenbin only came on as a substitute in the 85th minute of the second half, failed to score, and failed to help Hoffenheim win, so naturally he did not get any experience reward.

Of course, no one cares about that.

Everyone knows that Hoffenheim's focus is on the Champions League quarter-final against Lyon in three days' time.

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