Seven Crowns

With so many fans coming, the team naturally couldn't lose their momentum and let their supporters be ridiculed by local fans in Udine.

Therefore, at the pre-match press conference in the afternoon after arriving in Udine, Ralph strongly announced that Hoffenheim came to create the 5% miracle and come back.

It must be Hoffenheim, not Udinese, who has advanced to the UEFA Cup group stage this season.

Ralph's declaration was naturally scoffed at by the Italian media, who satirized him as a dead duck.

Even though the German media will not dismantle their national teams in front of foreigners, the disbelief in their eyes is obvious.

If Hoffenheim is eliminated in the end, it proves that Ralph's words are really stubborn, then not only the Italian media, but also the German media will definitely bombard Ralph and Hoffenheim.

When a reporter relayed Ralph's declaration to Udinese coach Marino, Marino smiled indifferently and said:

"Ralph is just cheering himself up! The final result of the game will tell him that this is Italy and this is Udinese!"

Obviously, Marino's response was more domineering and more in line with everyone's predictions for the game.

"This is Italy, this is Udinese!"

In just one sentence, it expressed the confidence of Marino and Udinese Club.

They are also entitled to be assertive.

Not only the historical statistics gave them confidence, but they also had confidence in their defense.

Even though Lu Wenbin scored twice in 45 minutes in the last round of the Bundesliga, and his running range was greatly increased, the Italians don't think that Lu Wenbin's ability has become stronger and he can break free from the Italian-style chain defense and zone defense.

They will only confidently believe that the overall defensive ability of the Bundesliga is not good, and Dortmund's tradition is not to play defense.

Lu Wenbin's goals in the Bundesliga are not a big deal at all, just like he has scored goals in the previous rounds of the league.

In this game, they will continue to use Italian-style defense to prove to everyone that Lu Wenbin is a top scorer in the Bundesliga, but in the European game: no!

On the evening of September 24th, before the start of the game, Hoffenheim returned to the locker room after warming up before the game and put on the official jersey, ready to play the game.

At this time, captain Salihovic stood up and signaled him to have something to say.

Everyone fell silent and listened to Salihovic's speech.

Salihovic looked around for a week and asked everyone: "Did you all see the more than 2,000 Hoffenheim fans who were assigned to the farthest corner during the warm-up just now?"

Lu Wenbin and the others nodded, and replied, "I see!"

Salihovic nodded and said, "Yes, I saw it too! We all saw it!"

"I hope everyone understands how we were underestimated by all the media before the game. Including our own domestic media, they all think that representing Germany, we are dead."

"There was no one to cheer us on except the media in Sinsheim, and no one encouraged us to perform a miracle in the second leg and beat Udinese to advance to the group stage."

"Under such circumstances, there are still so many fans coming with the team, cheering for us knowing that the chances of qualifying are slim, it is really rare, especially for a team like ours from Hoffenheim Village. country club."

"If we lose this game, not only will we become the real laughing stock, but the fans who came with the team will also become the object of the jokes of the fans of the other team."

"But if we win today, eliminate Udinese and advance to the UEFA Cup group stage, it will not only face the media who were not optimistic about us before the game,

It can also make these lovely fans walk out of the stadium with their heads held high and return to Germany. "

"I hope that everyone in the team will try their best to win today, without thinking about the next round of the Bundesliga."

"Even if you get down tired, you have to get down after finishing the defense, passing the ball or shooting. Let us prove to everyone with practical actions: Hoffenheim can create miracles and eliminate Udinese!"

The captain's words made everyone's blood boil. Everyone gathered together and shouted the slogan "Create a miracle, eliminate Udinese", and then walked out of the locker room with their heads held high, waiting to enter the field.

In the player tunnel, the Udinese players looked at the Hoffenheim players with their heads up and their chests upright, but they thought they were too nervous and laughed in their hearts.

The mentality of Udinese players is very relaxed.

Can beat Hoffenheim 2-1 away, can it be possible to make Hoffenheim comeback at home?

Historical facts have told everyone that the chances of that are very slim. Anyway, the Udinese players don't believe that Hoffenheim can come back.

At 19:50, the referee team brought the starting 11 players of the two teams to the field.

After taking group photos, shaking hands, and picking sides, at 20 o'clock in the evening on September 24th, with the whistle of the referee, the second round of the second round of the UEFA Cup third qualifying round of the 2008/2009 UEFA Cup. Mu's game has officially begun.

In this game, the starters of both sides were exactly the same as in the previous game, even the positions did not change.

Everyone thought that Lu Wenbin would retreat to the midfield like he did in the second half of the last game, so that he could get some chances to take the ball and shoot.

Unexpectedly, Lu Wenbin's position was still on the forward line.

This made Udinese's coaches and players more at ease.

Lu Wenbin, who plays as a winger on the forward line, has much fewer receiving routes than the midfielder. The Udinese players are also easier to defend. Everyone is more confident in intercepting the ball passed by the Hoffenheim players to Lu Wenbin. Give him a chance to get the ball and shoot.

However, after 10 minutes of the game, whether it was the Udinese players on the field, Udinese coach Marino on the sidelines, or even the Italian commentator and Udinese fans in the stands, they were a little surprised up.

Because, Udinese's defense, which adopted the same defensive strategy as the previous game, failed to defend Lu Wenbin this time.

In just 10 minutes, Lu Wenbin received the ball twice, one of which formed a shot, but in the end he was thrown out by the goalkeeper Handanovic who reacted quickly.

However, such a phenomenon is not normal.

Referring to the first round of the match between the two sides, Lu Wenbin shouldn't have received the ball so quickly, and it was twice, and there was a shot.

How is this going?

The Udinese players on the field consciously did not relax their vigilance. They implemented the same defensive method as in the first round, and they implemented it 100% without any release.

Although they are relaxed and confident, it does not mean that they will relax their vigilance against Lu Wenbin, who scored a goal in the first round and scored twice in the Bundesliga.

Under such a concentrated defense, Lu Wenbin, who had almost no performance in the first half of the first round, now received the ball twice within 10 minutes, and had a chance to shoot once, which is too abnormal.

However, because the time is too short, everyone has not figured out what is going on, including Udinese coach Marino.

Marino plans to observe for a while to see what caused his team to fail to defend Lu Wenbin, and then make corresponding adjustments.