After the Golden Boy Award ceremony, at 17 o'clock in the afternoon of December 14, 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 hosted Schalke 04 officially began.

Schalke 04 is an old Bundesliga powerhouse with a long history, and they are in 7th place in the Bundesliga table this season before this round of matches, which is a good position.

Coupled with Bayern Munich's demonstration of how to freeze Lu Wenbin, Schalke 04 coach Ruten shouted the slogan before the game that he could also freeze Lu Wenbin and lead the team to victory over Hoffenheim.

However, the fact is that the two players he sent were not as strong as Bayern Otter and Demichelis.

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

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

In the face of Lu Wenbin's 19/19 running without the ball, Ernst and Kelstajic's marking awareness, co-defense coordination, etc., are a little different from the combination of Otter and Demichelis.

If it weren't for Schalke 04 having a goalkeeper, Hoffenheim would have scored a goal.

In the 8th minute, Lu Wenbin shook off the marking of Entes and Kelstajic on the corner of the big ban area, received Ibisevic's header and crossed it, and a non-stop volley almost caused the goal.

Schalke 04's goalkeeper Manuel Neuer made a world-class save like a goalkeeper, saving Lu Wenbin's volley from the woodwork.

Otherwise, Lu Wenbin scored in the 8th minute.

In the last round of the league, the team could not win a goal against Bayern Munich away from home, and many people thought that they had found a way to freeze Lu Wenbin and deal with Hoffenheim, which in itself made Lu Wenbin full of fighting spirit and wanted to prove himself in this round of games.

Coupled with the fact that he received the Golden Boy Award in front of so many people before the competition, and his girlfriend Kate was sitting in the stands, Lu Wenbin was even more unwilling to be seen as a joke.

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

The minimum goal is also to help the team win.

At this point, Lu Wenbin is confident in his teammates.

After a year of getting along, Lu Wenbin is convinced of the abilities of his teammates. This group of teammates, even without themselves, is capable of establishing themselves in the Bundesliga, as evidenced by the fact that they were able to score two goals at the Allianz Arena in the last round of the league.

The opponent is heavily guarding himself, and other places are bound to create loopholes and gaps, creating shooting opportunities for Lu Wenbin's teammates.

He doesn't believe that Schalke 04 also has Bayern Munich's defensive and offensive strength, and can concede fewer goals when there are fewer opponents in numbers, and can counterattack, and finally draw with Hoffenheim or even defeat Hoffenheim.

No matter how god Neuer is, he is only a goalkeeper, not a bus, and he can't completely seal the goal more than 7 meters wide.

If he can save Lu Wenbin's first must-score goal, then Lu Wenbin will look for the next opportunity and assist his teammates in attacking.

Anyway, this game is followed by a winter break, and there is no need to keep any physical fitness. Lu Wenbin released all his physical strength in this game without hesitation.

Not only did he then take Ernst and Kelstajic around to disrupt the Schalke 04 defence and create chances for his team-mates, but he also used his 19/19 off-ball run to get the occasional shot on target.

As Ralph said, Hoffenheim is not Lu Wenbin's team alone.

While Lu Wenbin's chances of shooting were greatly reduced under the marking of the opponent's two players, the rest of Hoffenheim's players began to get more opportunities to perform.

Eduardo, Salihovic, Ibisevic, Demba Ba, Gustavo, Baker and others launched wave after wave of attacks against Schalke 04's defense with the cheers of the home fans, with an average of one shot on goal every four or five minutes.

However, what is surprising is that Hoffenheim's powerful attack has never scored a goal.

In the 11th minute, Demba Ba successfully countered offside and almost received Salihovic's through ball to get a single chance, but unfortunately Neuer attacked in advance and kicked the ball out of the sideline outside the forbidden area.

In the 14th minute, Lu Wenbin got a chance to shoot from outside the big forbidden area. However, this time the shot was disrupted by Entes with his body and went wide of the post.

In the 19th minute, Hoffenheim full-back Baker took the ball down and crossed, Ibisevic grabbed the first point, but unfortunately his close header was magically pulled off the crossbar by Neuer.

In the 21st minute, Hoffenheim won a free kick in front, and Lu Wenbin turned on the system skill to play a free kick that went straight to the corner of the goal, but it was saved by Neuer in advance.

In the 23rd minute, Ibisevic received a wonderful pass from Salihovic in the big penalty area, turned and hit the goal, and the ball went straight to the corner, but unfortunately it was poked out of the bottom line by a world-class save from Neuer, who reacted quickly.

In the 26th minute, Lu Wenbin successfully formed a single knife in the front of the forbidden area, but before he could get up and shoot, Neuer, who attacked in advance, saved the ball.

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

Schalke 04's 22-year-old goalkeeper Manuel Neuer was brilliant today, making a number of brilliant and even world-class saves from high interceptions to keep Hoffenheim's shots out.

Neuer's performance reminded us of his performance in last season's Champions League match against FC Porto at home to Schalke 04.

In that game, Schalke 04 did not perform well as the whole team and was beaten by Porto.

However, Neuer stood in front of the goal, and repeatedly saved Porto's close must-score goals, dragging the game into a penalty shootout.

In the penalty shootout, Neuer saved two more penalties in a row, sending Porto out completely, and also led Schalke 04 to the quarterfinals of the Champions League in the 07/08 season, creating the best record in the Champions League in team history.

Today, Neuer seems to have been beaten by Hoffenheim's continuous attack, delivering a variety of saves, which reminded the commentators of Neuer's famous battle at the Porto Dragons Stadium.

The commentators on the commentary bench are all talking about the possibility that after the lion king Kahn, German football may have another world-class goalkeeper.

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 meet the most divine goalkeeper and the toughest shield in all the games he has participated in.

Whether Lu Wenbin, the sharpest spear in the Bundesliga, can get rid of the marking of Entes and Kelstajić and break through Neuer's shield, everyone is full of questions and curiosity.