Chapter 402: First win in Serie A
Before the first round of Serie A matches, Lu Wenbin first went to the draw ceremony for the Champions League group stage of the new season with Mourinho, Paulillo and others.
On 26 August, UEFA held the draw for the 2010/2011 Champions League group stage and the best of last season's Champions League awards ceremony at the Monte Carlo Convention Centre in Monaco.
Lu Wenbin won the best striker and best player awards last season with 26 goals in 13 Champions League games last season, and was selected into the best 11 players in last season's Champions League, becoming the brightest star of the night.
Subsequently, UEFA held a draw for the Champions League group stage, and Inter Milan was the undisputed seeded team.
Finally, Pot 2 is drawn against Inter Milan with Panathinaikos from Greece, Pot 3 is Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League and Pot 4 is last season's Eredivisie champions FC Twente.
It looks like Inter Milan should occupy one qualifying spot, with the other three teams vying for a second qualifying spot.
Inter Milan's qualification situation is more optimistic.
Elsewhere, Lu Wenbin's old club Hoffenheim and Barcelona were placed in a group, and AC Milan met Real Madrid again in the group stage.
At the same time, AC Milan and Real Madrid are also in the group of Eredivisie giants Ajax, who have won the Champions League three times in a row, and the total number of Champions League titles reached 20 times.
This turned that group into a group of death, and the fourth team, Auxerre, would almost certainly be the role of accompanying the prince to study, going out early.
After the draw for the Champions League group stage, the rest of the teams went home, with last season's Champions League winners Hoffenheim playing a UEFA Super Cup against Europa League winners Atletico Madrid.
In the end, Hoffenheim, who lost Lu Wenbin and a number of key players in the summer, lost 1-2 to Atletico Madrid and lost the UEFA Super Cup.
This made Lu Wenbin, who stayed to watch the game live, quite disappointed.
However, he couldn't help Hoffenheim anymore.
Now, he has to work hard for Inter Milan and for his treble task.
On 28 August, the opening match of the 2010/2011 Serie A season was played between Udinese and Genoa.
90 minutes later, Udinese, who was at home, was defeated by Genoa by one goal and caused a small upset.
The next day, the first round of Serie A was in full swing, with Roma held to a 0-0 draw at home by Cesena, Juventus lost away to Bari and Lazio lost 0-2 to Sampdoria......
In the first round of Serie A, there were many upsets.
Inter Milan's first Serie A game of the new season is the last game on the last day of the first round, and it is away, with Bologna hosting Inter Milan.
The match was broadcast live in Italy and many countries around the world, and countless people were eagerly waiting to see Lu Wenbin's Serie A debut.
The last game was the Super Cup, not the league. This game is Lu Wenbin's Serie A debut.
Moreover, Lu Wenbin also entered the starting list.
On August 30, at 21 o'clock in the evening, with the referee's whistle, the first round of the 2010/2011 Serie A season Inter Milan away against Bologna officially began.
Bologna finished fourth from bottom last season and narrowly avoided relegation, and are a standard relegation team with limited strength.
Although they are at home, it will be difficult for them to fend off Inter Milan's attack.
Inter Milan also did not blindly shrink the defense and play defensive counterattacks.
It would be too shameful to have to defend and counterattack against a relegation team like Bologna.
Moreover, Mourinho has to change the way the team plays, not only to win, but also to win better.
Therefore, when facing the weak team Bologna, Mourinho asked Lu Wenbin and Eto'o, Sneijder, Stankovic and others to break through and cooperate more in the frontcourt.
However, Lu Wenbin has just joined the team, and the tacit understanding with his teammates is much worse, and several people in the front court have not been able to cooperate together.
Although there are still amazing combinations and passes occasionally, more often than not, the pass is not in place, the pass is broken, and so on.
Fortunately, Lu Wenbin's personal ability makes up for the team's overall lack of cooperation.
In the 31st minute, Stankovic's diagonal pass to the side was originally wide, and it was impossible for other players to catch up.
But Lu Wenbin's full speed allowed him to catch the ball before it went out of the bottom line, causing thousands of Inter fans in the stands to cheer.
Then, Lu Wenbin crossed from the baseline, and Eto'o, who followed up in the middle, caught the attention of two defenders, but the three of them rose to the top in unison and the ball fell to the other side of the big penalty zone.
Sneijder rushed up, stopped the ball past a defender and volleyed it into the back of the net.
This is all an opportunity and a goal spelled out by Lu Wenbin's personal ability.
Although it was Sneijder who scored, it was Lu Wenbin who was praised by the commentators and the audience.
If it weren't for Lu Wenbin's unrelenting pursuit of the ball, who eventually chased the ball and crossed it, Sneijder would not have had a chance to shoot at all.
The first half ended with a score of 1-0, and although Inter Milan made many mistakes, the lead in the score still made everyone feel more relaxed.
In the second half, the Inter players played much better.
Although he is not familiar with Lu Wenbin, the cooperation between Sneijder, Stankovic, and Eto'o is still very pleasing to the eye.
And Lu Wenbin himself, after getting the ball, broke through more and shot more.
In this way, the whole team has cooperation, individual breakthroughs, and goals, and it looks a little better than Inter Milan last season.
Especially in the 76th minute, Inter Milan played a ban in the area, which made the audience in an uproar, and the Inter fans were even more excited.
It was Samuel Eto'o and Sneijder who played the ball through to Lu Wenbin in the gap outside the penalty area after a one-two from outside the box.
However, Lu Wenbin had his back to the goal, but everyone thought that Lu Wenbin would forcibly turn around and hit the goal.
After all, Lu Wenbin's goal efficiency in the forbidden zone is too high.
As a result, Lu Wenbin did not turn around and shoot, but made a hidden push and passed the ball to the gap on the other side of the forbidden area.
The combination of Samuel Eto'o and Sneijder, as well as Lu Wenbin in the penalty zone, drew all the attention of the Bologna backline and left the other side of the penalty zone completely empty.
When everyone saw the ball passed by Lu Wenbin, it was too late to react.
Stankovic cut in from the back and volleyed the ball undisturbed, and the ball slid into the back of the net like a cannonball.
In this attack, from the small one-two combination of Eto'o and Sneijder in the front of the forbidden area, to Lu Wenbin's clever pass in the forbidden area, the Bologna players did not even touch the ball, which was pleasing to watch.
Especially Lu Wenbin's wonderful pass, how did he see the gap on the other side of the forbidden area?
It's quite puzzling.
Either way, though, Inter Milan took a 2-0 lead through a pleasing play-up link-up, with both goals coming from assists from Lu Wenbin.
Later, Inter Milan never played such a beautiful attack, and Lu Wenbin also failed to score a personal goal under the deliberate marking of the opponent.
Neither side scored again, and in the end, Inter Milan ended the first round of Serie A with a score of 2-0 to get off to a flying start.
Although Lu Wenbin did not score, he still won the best of the match with two assists and made a good start. (Ask for a commuter pass)