Seven Crowns

While Zenit St. Petersburg has repeatedly missed scoring opportunities, Hoffenheim's ability to seize opportunities is much higher.

In the 38th minute, Lu Wenbin finally ushered in his first goal of the game.

Eduardo's breakthrough resulted in a foul and Hoffenheim was awarded a free-kick from a superb position.

Lu Wenbin, who had not used the system skills in the previous two free kicks, turned on the special skills of the system this time, and directly scored the ball into the dead corner of Zenit's goal.

Malafeev was beyond his reach and could only watch the ball go into the net.

Hoffenheim led Zenit St Petersburg 2-0 in the first half, a score that shows no sign that Zenit can eliminate Hoffenheim.

With a 2-0 score, the two sides entered halftime.

After a 15-minute rest, the two sides changed sides and fought again. The anxious Zenit attacked more fiercely, but there were more loopholes in the backcourt.

Originally, there were two people dedicated to marking Lu Wenbin, and the full-backs had to assist, so the defensive pressure on Zenit's back line on Pargic, Dembaba, Eduardo and Copado was even easier.

In the 68th minute, Eduardo knocked down Zenit defender Anjogoff through constant spikes on the line of the big penalty area, and then passed the ball to Copado who was inserted in the back row and was in the neutral position.

Copado slammed the ball near the penalty spot, the ball passed through the penalty area like an arrow, and went straight to the goal.

Although Malafeev judged the right direction and touched the ball, he was too close and too powerful to fish out the ball.

The ball deflected a little on his fingertips, but he still flew into the goal of Zenit St Petersburg.

Hoffenheim led Zenit St Petersburg 3-0 in the 68th minute, a real reaction to the gap between the Bundesliga first and the Russian Super League team.

After this score, Zenit's players finally had emotional fluctuations.

The belligerent polar bear warriors also have to wonder if they can eliminate Hoffenheim.

Ed Walker on the sidelines also looked ugly and felt a little desperate.

After leaving Arshavin and other core players of the golden generation, Zenit's strength has indeed declined too seriously.

Last year, the team that eliminated Bayern Munich 5-1 and finally won the championship is now easily beaten 3-0 by the injured Hoffenheim within 70 minutes. How can they defend their title? sign?

However, Ed Walker has no choice, he can't surrender and admit defeat, right?

The history of European warfare is not without a net loss of three goals away from home. There is a precedent for a successful comeback after returning to the home court. The most famous one is the match between La Coruña and AC Milan in the quarter-finals of the Champions League in the 2003/2004 season.

Deportivo Deportivo lost 4-1 away to AC Milan in the first leg, with a net loss of three goals.

But after returning to the home court in the second round, Deportivo Deportivo gave AC Milan a 4-0, the comeback was successful, and the super giant AC Milan was sent home.

Therefore, Zenit was not fully sentenced to death.

If you can score an away goal and keep the score 3-1 until the end. After returning home, Zenit only needs a 2-0 to eliminate Hoffenheim.

Then there is more hope.

So, Ed Walker shouted to let the players continue to attack and try to score an away goal.

Of course, the backcourt can no longer allow Hoffenheim to score. Insufficient staff, use running to support.

Advocat asked all players to increase their running range, and immediately counterattack after losing the ball in the frontcourt. Even if the ball cannot be grabbed, Hoffenheim should delay the counterattack time.

Since Bayern Munich took the lead in using the tactic of double-marking Lu Wenbin and set an example for other teams, Lu Wenbin's goals have indeed dropped a lot, but it is not completely absent.

No one can really stick Lu Wenbin to death in 90 minutes, so that Lu Wenbin can't get a shot at goal.

In addition to free kicks in this game, Lu Wenbin is also pursuing goals in sports battles.

Although he has scored a free kick,

As long as the victory is maintained until the end of the game, he can upgrade, but the experience of the UEFA Cup is too high, and one more goal is 40,000 experience.

What's more, 3-0 is still in danger of being returned to the home court by the opponent, but if it is 4-0, Zenit is dead.

Therefore, Zenit was stepping up his running, and Lu Wenbin did not stop.

Anyway, he will definitely be able to upgrade after this game, and the physical problem will be solved, so there is no need to cherish it.

Under the constant running of Lu Wenbin, when Zenit still failed to score, Lu Wenbin finally ran out of a gap to get a good shot.

In the 82nd minute, Lu Wenbin suddenly changed direction near the corner of the big penalty area to throw off the defender and ran a short gap, and Eduardo, who cooperated with tacit understanding, passed the ball in time.

Lu Wenbin preempted the opponent's defender to make a clearance, kept the ball and rubbed the ball with one foot. The ball crossed a weak arc in the air, just bypassing the fingers of Malafeev, who was jumping to save, and got into the dead corner of the goal.

Lu Wenbin scored twice and led Hoffenheim to a 4-0 lead at home against Zenit St. Petersburg. This score can already be announced that the second round of the game has lost the suspense.

Afterwards, Ralph replaced Demba Ba with the midfielder Volsa, changing to a 442 double midfielder formation to strengthen defense.

As for Lu Wenbin, he has to stay on the court to continue to contain the opponent's back line.

In the last ten minutes, although the Zenit players attacked with all their might, Ralph's timely evolution played a key role. Volsa once sacrificed himself to block the hole and blocked the opponent's heavy artillery.

After 3 minutes of stoppage time, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game. Hoffenheim defeated the defending champion Zenit St. Petersburg 4-0 at home in the first round of the UEFA Cup 1/8 final.

When the game ended, the entire Rhine Neckar Arena erupted into warm applause and cheers.

The commentator of German Sports TV also announced: "At the end of the game, under the leadership of captain Lu Wenbin, Hoffenheim defeated the defending champion Zenit St. Petersburg 4-0 at home, basically declaring that the suspense in the second round was lost. Zenit returned to the home court. After that, it is necessary to score at least 4 goals and not allow Hoffenheim to score. It is possible to drag Hoffenheim out of the penalty shootout. However, for Zenit St Petersburg, which has lost the core players of the golden generation such as Arshavin It's a very difficult task, so we can announce that Hoffenheim has advanced to the quarter-finals ahead of schedule."

Indeed, anyone who has watched this game and this score will no longer have expectations for Zenit St. Petersburg's comeback.

Even the Russian TV commentator concluded with disappointment: "Zenit St Petersburg lost 4-0 to Hoffenheim on the road without even a single away goal. To advance to the quarter-finals, we can only expect a miracle to happen. already."