Seven Crowns

After the game with Frankfurt, the biggest news was not that Hoffenheim won and continued to lead the standings, but Lu Wenbin's Bundesliga goals rose to 37.

Although this number of goals is 3 goals away from the 40 goals scored in a single season in the Bundesliga created by Gerd Muller in the 1971/1972 season, Lu Wenbin has already broken a record: that is, the European Golden Boot Award since the 1996/1997 season. The highest score record after the implementation of the points system.

The highest points of the European Golden Boot since the introduction of the points system in the 1996/1997 season is the league 36 goals and 72 points created by the Portuguese Super League Mario Jardel in Porto in the 1998/1999 season.

In that season, the Portuguese Super League ranked in the top five in the European League because of the points in the European war, so the points coefficient was 2, and Jardel scored 36 goals from this, creating the highest points record of 72 points in the European Golden Boot Award after the points system. No one breaks.

But now, after the game between Hoffenheim and Frankfurt, Jardel's record was declared dead, surpassed by Lu Wenbin's 37 goals and 74 points.

Moreover, Lu Wenbin's Bundesliga this season is far from over, and there are still ten Bundesliga rounds.

Lu Wenbin can not only create a higher points record, possibly surpass Gerd Muller's 40-goal Bundesliga record in a single season, but may even chase the 1967/1968 season when the European Golden Boot was established by the Portuguese Super League Sporting Lisbon. Keto Yassard in the 1973/1974 season created the 46-goal European Golden Boot record for the most goals.

In the past 24 rounds of the Bundesliga, Lu Wenbin played 21 times and scored 37 goals, averaging 1.76 goals per game.

Although Lu Wenbin's scoring efficiency decreased due to the opponent's double-marking tactics in the second half of the season, Lu Wenbin scored 8 goals in 6 appearances in the second half of the season, and the average goal per game was still more than 1.

As long as Lu Wenbin still averages 1 goal per game in the remaining 10 rounds of the league, he can break Gerd Muller's 40-goal Bundesliga single-season scoring record with 4 goals, and he can surpass Yassard's goal with 10 goals. 46 goals for the European Golden Boot scoring record.

As for the single-season Europa League scoring record of 60 goals set by William Dean in the English top flight in the 1927/1928 season, Lu Wenbin is a bit far away, and it seems difficult to break this season.

However, Lu Wenbin has played 34 official games in the third-tier battle this season and has scored a total of 59 goals for Hoffenheim, which is 67 away from the total goals scored by Gerd Muller in the five major leagues in the 1971/1972 season. There are only 8 missing.

The key is that in addition to the league, Lu Wenbin also has German Cup, UEFA Cup and other competitions. Gerd Muller's record of 67 total goals in a single season seems to be very hanging.

After the game, not only Germany, Europe, but even many media around the world reported on Lu Wenbin's breaking the European Golden Boot points record, and made forward-looking predictions on Lu Wenbin's total goals this season.

Even Gerd Muller himself stood up for an interview and said: "Lue is an incredible talent. He is balanced on his left and right feet, has excellent free kicks, runs the world's top without the ball, and has a higher shooting percentage than me. The key is, He is only 18 years old, his physical development has not yet completed, his physique, speed, etc. are still growing rapidly, which is amazing. I believe he can break my single-season Bundesliga record of 40 goals and a single-season club 67 this season. The total goalscoring record for the ball. As for the future, I'm sure Lue will become a world-class superstar."

Suddenly, Lu Wenbin's fame skyrocketed again, attracting countless fans.

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In the 24th round of the Bundesliga with Frankfurt, Lu Wenbin, who scored twice, won 2 goals of 20,000 + wins of 20,000, a total of 40,000 experience rewards, and the experience rose to 126,000/2 million at level 16.

Only 4 days after the end of this league, it is the second leg of the UEFA Cup 1/8 final away to Zenit St. Petersburg.

Because of the 4-0 victory in the first round, Ralph made a large rotation in the second round to save his strength for the league.

But Lu Wenbin continued to get the starter, not only to see if he could get an away goal to kill the game completely, but also to let Lu Wenbin suppress Zenit's backline and prevent them from easily pressing assists.

At 18:30 on the evening of March 19th, the second round of the 2008/2009 UEFA Cup 1/8 final match between Hoffenheim and Zenit St. Petersburg officially started at the St. Petersburg Stadium.

There was no snow in St. Petersburg that night, but the wind was still as cold as a knife, and the temperature was only about 1 degree. With the addition of artificial turf, it still had a great impact on the on-site performance of Hoffenheim players including Lu Wenbin.

But the total score of 4-0 allowed Hoffenheim to choose the 442 double midfielder formation calmly, and put the focus of the game on defense.

Even if Zenit scored a header from a cross in the 6th minute of the game, which aroused the cheers of tens of thousands of Russian fans, it did not make the Hoffenheim players nervous at all.

They also have 3 goal difference in hand, and they still have the opportunity to score away goals. The initiative of the game is always on Hoffenheim's side.

Sure enough, Zenit assisted and Hoffenheim took the lead. After the two sides were deadlocked for more than half an hour, the starter Lu Wenbin found a gap in the penalty area in the 42nd minute. The last round of the league was suspended and rested. Eduardo passed the ball at the right time, and Lu Wenbin swept the ball into the goal without stopping.

Goalkeeper Malafeev was beyond his reach and could only watch the ball into the net in despair.

The score is 1-1 and the aggregate score is 5-1, with Hoffenheim leading and having an away goal.

In the next game, Zenit St. Petersburg scored 4 goals to equalize the total score, and they will still be eliminated because of away goals.

They have to score 5 goals, overtake the total score, and prevent Hoffenheim from scoring in order to achieve a comeback.

And Lu Wenbin scored in the 42nd minute, and the second half and stoppage time were only about 50 minutes.

It is really impossible for Zenit, who has lost players of the golden generation such as Arshavin, to score 5 goals in 50 minutes.

Therefore, although Lu Wenbin's physical fitness was fine, he was replaced by Ralph with Dembaba at halftime.

On the one hand, it is to prepare for the next league game, and on the other hand, it is also for fear that the opponent will be angry with Lu Wenbin, and it is safer to replace Lu Wenbin.

To fight on the third front and win the triple crown, now Lu Wenbin really can't go wrong at all.