Chapter 334: History First
After the away game against Hamburg, Lu Wenbin and Kate, as well as the club's general manager Rothaus, boarded a plane to France amid media discussions about Lu's consecutive goals streak and annual total.
They're going to this year's European Golden Globe Awards.
At 10 a.m. local time on December 6, the 2009 European Golden Globe Awards ceremony was held in the recording hall of France Télévision.
This is destined to be an award ceremony to accompany the prince to study, Lu Wenbin actually didn't want to come, but it was too ungraceful to do so.
Not only Lu Wenbin has to go to the scene, but Ronaldo, who is in third place, also has to be there to watch Messi receive the award.
When he arrived at the TV station and was surrounded by reporters for an interview, Lu Wenbin had to pretend to be very happy and said that he was very happy to get the second place vote, congratulate Messi on winning the Golden Ball Award, and so on.
Lu Wenbin watched a large number of videos, interviews, and pictures prepared by the program team for Messi at the scene, and personally witnessed the whole process of Messi receiving the golden ball from the editor-in-chief of "French Football".
In fact, Lu Wenbin himself wants that golden ball......
Finally, Lu Wenbin and Ronaldo also took a group photo with Messi on stage for reporters to take pictures.
In fact, Lu Wenbin and Ronaldo both wish the award ceremony would end early.
The award ceremony lasted for more than an hour, and finally ended as he wished, and Lu Wenbin could finally fly back to Germany with his girlfriend and the general manager of the club.
However, flying back to Germany does not mean that Lu Wenbin can get rid of Messi's name.
On December 6, the award ceremony of the European Ballon d'Or was held, and on December 7, FIFA announced the final five-man squad for the 2009 World Footballer of the Year.
Entering the final five-man squad of the 2009 FIFA World Footballer of the Year are Messi, Ronaldo, Kaka, Xavi and Lu Wenbin.
However, this time the rankings were not directly announced like the Golden Globe Awards, but the final five-man roster was announced.
Who is the first, who is the second, and who is the third will not know the result until the scene of the award ceremony.
But if you think about it, you know that Messi is definitely the first, and Lu Wenbin has to be a spectator again.
This feeling made Lu Wenbin very unhappy.
As a result, in the sixth round of the Champions League group stage on December 9, Hoffenheim's opponent Uniria became the target of Lu Wenbin's venting.
After the first five rounds of the group stage, Uniria beat Sevilla to finish second in Group G and have a chance to qualify from the group.
If Uniria can win away at Hoffenheim in the final round, Sevilla will qualify for the round of 16 as runners-up in Group G, regardless of how Sevilla play Rangers and Rangers.
For Hoffenheim, it is in the interests of Hoffenheim to play a tacit game to defeat Sevilla, which is also in the top five leagues, when he has already qualified ahead of schedule and locked the first place in the group.
Because no one can say whether Sevilla, as a team in the top five leagues, will break out in the knockout round, and whether it will finally meet Hoffenheim in the knockout round and cause trouble for Hoffenheim.
Therefore, it is in Hoffenheim's interest to let Uniria of the Romanian league qualify for the group stage, and Sevilla can only finish third to play in the Europa League.
What's more, for Hoffenheim, who is fighting on the third line, sending substitutes to the last inconsequential Champions League group stage and resting the main players is a completely normal adjustment, and no one can say anything.
That's exactly what Ralph did.
In addition to Lu Wenbin, Ralph changed the main lineup of the entire team.
On the one hand, Lu Wenbin is full of energy he has shown in training, and on the other hand, Lu Wenbin has scored in five consecutive Champions League group stage games.
If Lu Wenbin scores again in this game, he will set an unprecedented record: six consecutive Champions League group stage goals.
This is an achievement that no one has ever done before, and there is no one in the early stage.
At the same time, Lu Wenbin's previous Champions League goals have reached 11. One more goal in this group stage would bring the total to 12, tying Ruud van Nistelrooy's single-season record of 12 goals after the Champions League restructuring.
If he scores two, Lu Wenbin will break Ruud van Nistelrooy's record and become the new record holder.
Therefore, when Lu Wenbin proposed that he would not rotate but continue to start, he won Ralph's approval.
At 20:45 on the evening of December 9, with the referee's whistle, Hoffenheim's home match against Uniria in the final round of Group G of the 2009/2010 Champions League group stage officially began.
The full substitute lineup does have a gap with the main lineup in terms of strength, and the cooperation is not good.
In the 8th minute, Lu Wenbin won the ball in the front court, ready to make a two-one-one collision with center forward Tagoi and then hit the wall and then hit the forbidden area to shoot.
As a result, Tagoi's pass did not match Lu Wenbin's running, and the ball fell behind Lu Wenbin and was kicked out of the sideline by the opposing player.
Taghoi made an apologetic gesture to Lu Wenbin, who could only wave his hand to indicate that it didn't matter.
The game continued.
Fortunately, Uniria did not expect Sevilla to lose to Rangers in this group stage.
Therefore, they have to attack and try to win for themselves, regardless of what happens to Sevilla.
It just so happened that Hoffenheim sent an almost all-out bench lineup, giving Uniria hope of winning, so they boldly pressed the attack.
However, their pressing attack gave Lu Wenbin more space in the frontcourt.
Lu Wenbin's current 18/20 speed is not for the sake of seeing.
So, in the 25th minute of the first half, Uniria had not yet scored, but Hoffenheim took the lead in scoring.
It was Lu Wenbin who scored the goal.
He received a pass from a team-mate in the 25th minute and began to counter-attack, and he used his speed to get past the Uniria defender before slotting home an empty net from the onrushing goalkeeper in the big penalty zone to give Hoffenheim a 1-0 lead.
When they saw Lu Wenbin pick the ball into the empty goal, all the fans at home cheered, and all the commentators in the commentary seat also roared in the loudest voice:
“Toooooooooooooooooooooooooor……”
"The ball is in, the ball is in! Lou scored! ”
"No one has done it before, and he scored in six group games in the 2009/2010 Champions League group stage!"
"Scored 12 goals in 6 Champions League group games, Lu Wenbin equaled Van Nistelrooy's single-season Champions League record of 12 goals after the Champions League restructuring, and became the first super scorer in history to score in the Champions League group game!"
"Shocking, amazing, incredible! Scored in six Champions League games, a total of 12 goals, an average of two goals per game, Lu Wenbin was born for the Champions League! ”