Seven Crowns

Seeing that Lu Wenbin, who had just won the Golden Boy Award, was not on the starting list announced by Ralph in advance, the Nijmegen team and the Dutch media were relieved.

Although the last match between Hoffenheim and Bayern Munich let everyone know that as long as two people are sent to mark Lu Wenbin, it is very likely that Lu Wenbin will be completely frozen.

But after all, it will abolish two of their own, which is equivalent to the remaining 9 people playing against the other 10 people, and the number is at a disadvantage.

Moreover, Bayern Munich's Otell and Demichelis are both top defensive players and can defend against Lu Wenbin.

But whether other teams have such a configuration, and whether they can really defend Lu Wenbin with two people, there is still a question mark!

Therefore, it would be better if Lu Wenbin didn't make it. Nijmegen has a better chance of defeating Hoffenheim to get 3 points and get the right to qualify.

On Ralph's side, he was ready to see the trend of the game, and the trend of another Tottenham-Sparta game to decide whether to send Lu Wenbin to play in the second half.

At 20:45 on the evening of December 10th, the last two games of Group D of the UEFA Cup group stage will start at the same time.

In the first half, although Nijmegen tried his best to score, he was unlucky and failed to score a single goal in as many as five shots.

And Hoffenheim, without Lu Wenbin, plus Pargic, Obasi, Weiss and others are all substitutes, the tacit understanding of passing, receiving, running and scoring efficiency are also greatly reduced.

After 45 minutes, the two sides scored a goalless draw and entered halftime with a score of 0-0.

At half-time, the half-time score of the other game was passed, and Spartak Moscow actually led Tottenham Hotspur 2-0 in the first half of the away game.

If the game ends with such a score, even if Hoffenheim loses, it will still be ranked first in the group with 9 points.

Tottenham, with 6 points, can tie the points and surpass the losing Hoffenheim on goal difference unless they reverse Sparta Moscow by a big score in the second half.

And this is not something that Tottenham can decide. Sparta Moscow, who also want to qualify, will definitely try their best to keep their 2-0 lead and try to score again.

Hoffenheim's group first is basically stable.

Therefore, not long after the opening of the second half, Ralph replaced Ibisevic and Eduardo,

Stay tuned for the next Bundesliga game.

Lu Wenbin didn't even get a minute of playing time.

The UEFA Cup group stage, which was irrelevant for Hoffenheim, has been strategically abandoned by coach Ralf.

With Hoffenheim almost equal to the water, Nijmegen finally seized the opportunity to score two goals in the second half, and finally beat Hoffenheim at home with a score of 2-0, increasing their points to 6 point.

In another game, Tottenham deserves to be the Premier League tycoon.

Even though they fell behind 0-2 in the first half, they did not lose heart and staged a Jedi counterattack in the second half, finally scoring two goals in a row and keeping a clean sheet against Sparta Moscow to tie the final score at 2-2.

As a result, after the final round of the group stage is over, the final points of Group D of the UEFA Cup group stage are Hoffenheim ranked first with 9 points, Tottenham Hotspur ranked second with 7 points, and Nijmegen ranked second with 7 points. They are third with 6 points, Spartak Moscow is fourth with 4 points, and Dinamo Zagreb is fifth with 3 points.

Hoffenheim, Tottenham Hotspur, and Nijmegen became the three teams that finally qualified for Group D and advanced to the knockout rounds.

Next, they will compete with the other 7 groups of 21 teams, as well as 8 teams that sink to the third place in the UEFA Champions League group stage, a total of 32 teams will be drawn for the knockout round to determine the 1/16 final match table .

However, the draw was held during the winter break of the Bundesliga, and the 1/16 finals went to the second half of the season.

The most important thing for Hoffenheim at the moment is the 17th round of the Bundesliga with Schalke 04, which is also the last game before the winter break.

The day before the game, the entire Schalke 04 team arrived in Mannheim. Head coach Rutten said in a pre-match press conference that he had found a way to freeze Lu Wenbin, the new golden boy in Europe. Schalke 04 will be at the Karl Benz Stadium. get a victory.

We all know what the method Ruteng said was that he followed the example of Bayern Munich coach Klinsmann to use two people to mark Lu Wenbin, as if it was the strategy he found first.

However, it is difficult to say whether it will work or not.

In the Bundesliga, not everyone can find top defenders such as Otter and Demichelis in Bayern.

As an opponent, Ralph naturally scoffed at Rutten's method and expressed disdain.

Ralph said that Hoffenheim is not a team of Lu Wenbin alone.

Even if Schalke 04 sent more people and tried their best to target Lu Wenbin, Hoffenheim could have other players score goals, as they did at the Allianz Arena.

Therefore, Ruteng was wishful thinking of winning against Hoffenheim by staring at Lu Wenbin.

As for whether Lu Wenbin will be targeted by Schalke 04 and whether Hoffenheim will lose because Lu Wenbin is frozen, we will only know after the real comparison.

On the afternoon of December 14, the Carl Benz Stadium was completely full.

Tens of thousands of Hoffenheim fans not only came to witness Lu Wenbin's European Golden Boy Award Ceremony, but also came to watch the team's last game before the winter break, but also to the rented Carl Benz Stadium in Mannheim. bid farewell.

The new Rhein-Neckar Arena invested by club president Dietmar Hope in the Rhein-Neckar County has been completed and will soon be put into use.

After the winter break, Hoffenheim will play their new home stadium, the Rhein Neckar Arena, for the second half of the season.

It is a new home stadium that can accommodate more than 30,000 people. It can accommodate more fans, a better viewing experience, more advanced and complete facilities, and a better environment for players to play.

That is Hoffenheim's real home, its real home, bigger, newer and more promising than Karl Benz Stadium.

Therefore, after this game with Schalke 04, Hoffenheim will bid farewell to the Karl Benz Stadium. The fans come to witness the last game of Hoffenheim's loan of Karl Benz Stadium as the home court.

After 16 o'clock, before the start of the game, "Turin Sports News" held the award ceremony of the 2008 European Golden Boy Award for Lu Wenbin.

In the witness and applause of tens of thousands of Hoffenheim fans and fans, Lu Wenbin took over the model of the Golden Boy Award from the editor-in-chief of Turin Sports Daily, which is almost identical to the European Golden Globe Award. Said to be the most important individual award.

Of course, although the Golden Boy Award, known as the European youth version of the Golden Globe Award, looks like a Golden Ball, it still cannot be compared with the real Golden Globe Award.

Lu Wenbin's future must be to conquer the UEFA Champions League and win the real European Golden Ball!

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