Because of the appearance of football star Lu Wenbin, Dietfurt's Bavarian Chinese Carnival became famous, and many sports media and comprehensive media in Germany reported on it, attracting more people to visit Dietfurt.

Lu Wenbin returned to Hoffenheim for a night's rest, and when he joined the team for training the next morning of January 27, his teammates and coaches also curiously asked Lu Wenbin about Dietford, saying that they would also go to see it in the future if they had the opportunity.

After the Chinese reporter reported the relevant information about Dietfort back to China, it also caused a heated discussion among domestic netizens.

Everyone was surprised to find that there is such a small town in Europe that likes China. Some Chinese who are going to travel to Europe are also planning to see European Chinatown.

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After a recovery session in the morning, Hoffenheim departed for Mainz in the afternoon to prepare for the third round of the German Cup against Mainz the following day.

It was Hoffenheim's first official race after the winter break.

In the pre-match press conference, the media continued to focus on the injuries of Ibisevic and Obasi, asking about Hoffenheim's starting line-up, tactical options and so on.

In the face of the Bundesliga team, although the team had some difficulties in arranging the lineup, Ralph confidently announced the starting list and formation, and was not afraid of Mainz's targeted arrangement.

If the first place in the Bundesliga is still timid to play a Bundesliga team, it is even more difficult for the media to be optimistic about them.

The next day, at 20:30 on the evening of January 28, 2009, the 2008/2009 German FA Cup third round 1/8 final Hoffenheim away to Mainz in the German second division officially began.

Due to the absence of Ibisevic and the injury of Obasi, Ralph could only send a 442 midfield diamond position, and the starting center forward was the original No. 7 substitute Dragan Paljic.

The two strikers are Paldjic and Lu Wenbin, and Demba Ba sits on the bench as a mobile force.

Mainz of course continued to learn from Bayern and Schalke 04 to mark Lu Wenbin, and went further, within 40 meters from the goal, two people were close to Lu Wenbin to avoid being hit by Lu Wenbin's long shot.

Anyway, Hoffenheim has only two people in the forward line now, not three.

Moreover, Palgic does not pose as much of a threat to his opponent as Ibisevic, and Mainz can spare more manpower to mark Lu Wenbin.

As for long-range shots from 40 yards, as long as the goalkeeper doesn't stand up front like Neuer, there is plenty of reaction time to make a save, and there is basically no danger.

Lu Wenbin played a little unwell in this game, even if the opponent was a German second team.

On the one hand, the opponent's double-man marking after expanding the range has reduced Lu Wenbin's chances of even shooting from a distance, and on the other hand, because Lu Wenbin's tacit understanding with Paldjic is far inferior to Ibisevic, and there is no third striker to run, pull, and respond.

The forward line completely relies on the cooperation of Lu Wenbin and Paljic, the passing and receiving of the ball is not very smooth, and the opponent is relatively simple to defend.

Finally, there is another reason, that is, Lu Wenbin and his girlfriend spent the New Year in Dietfort two days ago, and participated in Dietford's carnival parade.

Sometimes Lu Wenbin ran into the gap, but Paldjic didn't get the ball over in time.

Sometimes Lu Wenbin was offside, and Paljic passed the ball, but it was useless.

Sometimes Lu Wenbin felt that he had little chance of shooting, and passed the ball to Paljic, but Palgic didn't even react, he didn't expect Lu Wenbin to pass the ball to him, and then it was intercepted by the opponent.

In addition, he occasionally gets a chance to shoot with his feet, and because of the interference of the opponent's two defenders and his own on-the-spot situation, the shooting angle is not good, the power is not great, etc., or is saved by the goalkeeper, or misses the goal.

In the whole game, Lu Wenbin only got four or five shots on goal in the sports battle, only two hit the goal frame, and was saved by the Mainz goalkeeper, and did not score a single sports goal.

Fortunately, Lu Wenbin also has a killer feature, which is a free kick.

There is no status issue with system-specific skills.

In the 32nd minute of the first half, Lu Wenbin was knocked down by the opponent, and the referee awarded a free kick in front, and Lu Wenbin turned on the system skills to hit the free kick.

In addition to Lu Wenbin's free-kick goal, the forward Eduardo, who was banned from playing in the next two Bundesliga games, released all his energy into this game.

Eduardo played a pass and a shot throughout the game, not only scoring a goal for himself that was past two people in a row, but also assisting Salihovic to score a goal.

Mainz, who played at home, scored two goals despite their best efforts to score two goals in the cheers of the fans, but still lost to Hoffenheim with a score of 2-3.

They were successful in defending Lu Wenbin in the athletic battle, but lost to Eduardo.

Hoffenheim qualified for the next round of the German Cup with a narrow one-goal win over Mainz away from home.

After the game, Eduardo was voted the best of the game, and Lu Wenbin rarely became a foil.

Moreover, Lu Wenbin's poor performance has also become the focus of media discussion.

You know, in the next Bundesliga game, Eduardo can't play.

This game is so difficult to play the Bundesliga team, only a narrow victory of one goal, the next round of the Bundesliga Eduardo can not play, can Lu Wenbin, who is not in good form, still lead Hoffenheim to win the Bundesliga team?

These doubts were naturally strongly refuted by Ralph: Lu Wenbin scored a free kick, where is the claim of poor form?

Do you have to score two or three in every game to play properly? Is that still human?

In the first half of the season, whether it was Lu Wenbin or Hoffenheim, they were both recruits and promoted horses in the Bundesliga, and everyone was unfamiliar with them and was a little caught off guard.

Now, with the opponent's study and familiarity with Lu Wenbin and Hoffenheim, coupled with the team's injury difficulties, Lu Wenbin has scored fewer and fewer goals, and it is predictable that Hoffenheim's game will become more and more difficult.

But no matter how difficult it is, Hoffenheim will continue to work hard towards the goal of winning the Bundesliga.

Everyone can't deny Ralph's hard mouth, whether Lu Wenbin is normal, and whether Hoffenheim can still play as well as in the first half of the season, everyone can just look at the actual game.

Lu Wenbin knew that he didn't play well in this game, but there were many reasons, and he didn't care too much.

Indeed, as Ralph said, as time goes on, the opponent will study him more and more deeply, and the defense will become more and more tight, and it is certain that he will have fewer and fewer chances to shoot.

But that doesn't mean he can't shoot or score at all, and no team can really freeze him completely unless the opponent defends only one of the 10 men except the goalkeeper.

In this game, he did not play well, in addition to the opponent's double marking, there was also the reason for his poor state on the field and the lack of tacit cooperation with his teammates.

Two more days of adjustment and he'll be back in shape.

Then in training, I strengthened my chemistry with Paljic, who is still the top scorer who scores goals.

Of course, what gives Lu Wenbin the most confidence is his own championship system.

As long as the game keeps escalating, no one can stop him from scoring.