Seven Crowns

After the game restarted, Shakhtar Donetsk, who was 0-2 behind, paid more attention to the marking of Lu Wenbin, who scored twice, and also launched a Jedi counterattack in the midfield.

To be able to reach the UEFA Cup final, and to eliminate the five major league teams such as Tottenham Hotspur and Marseille on the way, the Miners are not really soft persimmons to be kneaded.

In the 39th minute, the miners played an efficient counterattack.

Their No. 18 playmaking midfielder Lewandowski (not Lewandowski) broke off Salihovic's dribble and launched a counterattack, and No. 17 striker Luis Adriano dribbled the ball into the penalty area , passed Yankel's interception and hit the far corner successfully.

Shakhtar Donetsk pulled one point back, one point behind Hoffenheim.

Immediately, both the players on the field and the Miners fans in the stands, as well as the Fenerbahce and Galatasaray fans who cheered for the Miners, all gave out warm applause and cheers.

With just one goal behind, they can see hope.

However, not long after the Miners scored, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the first half.

During the intermission, the commentators explained and analyzed the situation of the final, and most people still believed that Hoffenheim would win, and may directly solve the battle within 90 minutes.

Hoffenheim, with super scorer Lu Wenbin, will basically make a team like Shakhtar Donetsk basically have one less person to fight before the game starts, because they must send at least two people to closely mark Lu Wenbin.

Coupled with the disparity in the overall strength of other players, it is almost impossible for the Miners from the Ukrainian League to make a comeback.

Even if they are only one goal behind now, there is not much hope.

Because, while they have the potential to score in the second half, maybe Hoffenheim will score more.

Sure enough, after a 15-minute rest, after the two sides changed sides and fought again, the Miners inevitably gave other Hoffenheim players more opportunities when they marked Lu Wenbin more closely.

In the 57th minute, Salihovic dribbled the ball on the wing, Lu Wenbin pretended to go to meet him, and took the two players who were closely guarding him away from the middle.

Then Salihovic passed the ball to the other side of the penalty area and was picked up by Eduardo.

Eduardo first used his gorgeous dribbling skills to pass the defender Rat who came up to defend and enter the penalty area.

Then he made a fake shot in the penalty area, swayed the other central defender and the goalkeeper, and then passed the ball to the space on the other side of the penalty area.

The unmarked Demba Ba rushed in from outside the penalty area and volleyed the ball into Shakhtar Donetsk's goal from the corner of the small penalty area before defender Srna wanted to make a clearance.

The goalkeeper Pyatov, who was shaken by Eduardo, was unable to save in time and could only watch the ball helplessly into the net.

In the 57th minute of the second half, Eduardo assisted forward Demba Ba and scored another goal. Hoffenheim led Shakhtar Donetsk 3-1 and regained the two-goal lead.

Hoffenheim fans in the stands were already chanting champions with models of the UEFA Cup.

However, Shakhtar Donetsk, the hegemon of the Ukrainian league, is not the kind of team that will collapse after two goals behind, even in the face of a Bundesliga champion like Hoffenheim.

And they also want to win the championship, and also want to win the first European trophy for the Miners and Ukraine.

Therefore, the Miners players went through frantic pressing, and finally, in the 76th minute, midfielder Fernandinho broke the ball at the feet of Lu Wenbin, who was not good at dribbling, and played a successful counterattack.

Fernandinho intercepted the ball and forwarded it to Judson. As a Brazilian player, Judson is also very skilled. He is the midfield brain and attack core of the Miners.

Gustavo's attack was deceived by Judson's tail, and before Nelson came up and grabbed, Judson made a fake pass to striker Adriano, putting Nelson and Gustavo away. All tricked into Adriano's direction.

As a result, Judson crossed the ball to the other side of the midfielder Isinho from the flank.

After receiving the ball in the penalty area, Isinho smashed the ball past Jaisler and entered the penalty area to form a single-handed shot. Facing the attacking goalkeeper Ozjan calmly hit a far corner.

Ozjan, who anticipated the approach to the corner, could only sit down, but his feet did not touch the ball.

The ball rolled precisely into the far corner of the goal, and Shakhtar Donetsk tenaciously pulled a goal back and was only one point behind Hoffenheim.

They saw hope again.

In the frantic celebration of the Miners players and fans, Lu Wenbin in the frontcourt clenched his fists.

The loss just now started when he was intercepted by Fernandinho. Speaking of which, he has a certain responsibility.

Although no one would blame him, he felt that he should use a goal to smooth out the loss. At the same time, completely seal the victory for the team.

It is now the 76th minute, and there is not much time left in the regular game. As long as Hoffenheim can score one more goal and regain the lead by two goals, the victory will definitely be sealed.

Next, Lu Wenbin strengthened his running speed and running range.

The 19/19 without the ball has the first-mover advantage, and the speed of 14/16 is barely sufficient. Lu Wenbin's movement makes the miners even more uncomfortable to mark.

In the 85th minute, Lu Wenbin successfully ran out of the space outside the penalty area to receive a pass from the captain Salihovic and shot a powerful long-range shot.

Fortunately, goalkeeper Pyatov performed well and saved the ball from the bottom line.

Hoffenheim was awarded a corner, and Shakhtar Donetsk's men breathed a sigh of relief.

Just one goal behind, even if the time is only a few minutes, there is always hope.

If you are two goals behind, you can basically declare defeat.

Eduardo, who is only 170m tall, took a corner kick. Salihovic, Pargic, Dembaba, Yanker and other taller people entered the penalty area to fight for a header, while Lu Wenbin stood outside the penalty area. As a spectator, I have no intention of competing for the corner kick.

Knowing that Lu Wenbin's header is not good, the Miners did not use two more people to mark Lu Wenbin in this corner kick. Only the midfielder Fernandinho was alone, and the center defender Kuchel was in the penalty area to mark his peer Yang. Kerr went.

However, Eduardo, who was about to take a corner kick, raised his palm and stretched out four fingers after looking at the positions of the players on both sides inside and outside the penalty area.

This is a corner kick backup tactic that Hoffenheim has never used in the game. The first place is to find Lu Wenbin.

Because Lu Wenbin is not too low now, and his physique is also very strong, he can stand in the penalty area, so Ralph has trained the corner kick tactics with Lu Wenbin as the first landing point.

But after all, Lu Wenbin's header attribute is only 8/9. Even if he grabs the first point, it is difficult to score, so he doesn't practice much in training, and he has never used it in the game.

However, after seeing that the Miners were not strictly marking Lu Wenbin in this corner kick, Eduardo wanted to try a new tactic with Lu Wenbin as the first point.

On the one hand, Lu Wenbin is facing a very loose defense. On the other hand, he wants to see if Lu Wenbin, who has already scored twice, can score another goal and score a hat-trick in the UEFA Cup final.

A hat-trick in the UEFA Cup final is a remarkable achievement, and in the decades-long UEFA Cup final history, only Heynckes at Mönchengladbach has done it.