Seven Crowns

Three days later, on May 3, Hoffenheim ushered in the 30th round of the Bundesliga against Wolfsburg.

Originally, this game was supposed to be the pinnacle of the first and second place in the standings, but because the two UEFA Cup semi-finals were too close, this league was an away game again, and the league’s points lead was too big. , Ralph fearlessly, directly rotated most of the main lineup and gave up the game.

Even the physically fit Lu Wenbin did not start, but sat on the bench.

Although the German Football Association brought the championship salad plate to Wolfsburg's home stadium, Hoffenheim, who played for most of the bench, lost 0-2 to Wolfsburg on the road and failed to win the championship ahead of schedule.

Although some fans are inevitably disappointed, there is no impact on the Hoffenheim team.

This game was originally abandoned, and their hearts have long been placed on the next UEFA Cup game against Hamburg.

If the next UEFA Cup semi-final advances to the final, and then the league returns to the home court to win the championship at the Rhein-Neckar Arena in front of tens of thousands of Hoffenheim fans, it will actually be more refreshing.

After returning to the station, Hoffenheim took a day off, trained for two days, and then flew to Hamburg on the afternoon of the 6th to prepare for the second leg of the UEFA Cup semi-final.

Another semi-final second leg was already decided before Hoffenheim vs Hamburg.

The two teams from the Ukrainian Super League, Shakhtar Donetsk and Dynamo Kyiv also staged a domestic civil war in the semi-finals. In the end, Shakhtar Donetsk defeated Dynamo Kyiv with a total score of 3-2 in two rounds to advance. the final of the UEFA Cup this season.

The winner of Hoffenheim and Hamburg will compete with the miners in the final for the final UEFA Cup championship.

In the general impression, the Ukrainian team should be weaker than the teams in the five major leagues.

Whoever advances to the final between Hoffenheim and Hamburg has a pretty good chance of defeating the Miners to win the championship.

Therefore, even with a net loss of three goals in the first round, Hamburg will not give up easily.

At 20 o'clock on the evening of May 7th, the second round of the 2008/2009 UEFA Cup semi-final against Hoffenheim at home between Hamburg and Hoffenheim started at the Hamburg Volkspark Stadium.

With a total score of 4-1, Hoffenheim can choose tactics calmly, without risking against the opponent.

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Ralph chose the 442 double midfielder formation, strengthened defense, led snakes out of the hole, and then waited for an opportunity to counterattack.

And Hamburg has no choice but to press on the offense.

90 minutes, the gap of 3 goals, we must hurry up!

However, the combination of Yanker and Nilsson's main central defender, the double midfielder protection of Gustavo and Volsa, plus the help of two full-backs and Eduardo and Salihovic's defense is not so easy to break through.

For a full 20 minutes, the aggressive Hamburg team did not even threaten to shoot once.

Only the No. 9 striker Guerrero shot a long-range shot from outside the penalty area within the range of the goal frame, but he was weak, slow, and without threat. Ozjan easily confiscated it and held him directly in his arms.

On the contrary, it was Hoffenheim. In the 14th minute, Lu Wenbin completed a threatening shot within the range of the door frame.

However, the Hamburgers should be thankful that their goalkeeper Rost played well, and reflexively used a Banksy-style save to fish out Lu Wenbin's shot that went straight to the dead end.

Otherwise, Hoffenheim would have scored the first goal and wiped out Hamburg's away-goal advantage.

However, playing at home in Hamburg does have some advantages.

Familiar venues, enthusiastic fan atmosphere, and the referee's partiality to a certain extent, etc., all have a certain impact on the players' performance. The Hamburg team, who persisted in attacking, finally scored a goal.

In the 27th minute, the Hamburg team won a corner kick. De Jong, who was relatively short, asked Boateng to head the ball in the penalty area, and it was enough for him to guard Lu Wenbin by himself.

It was Boateng, who was as high as 192cm, who jumped high in the penalty area and headed a corner kick from teammate Trokhovsky into Hoffenheim's goal.

The distance was too close, and Ozjan just threw a conditioned reflex, but he still couldn't make it.

Hamburg scored a goal to make it 2-4 on aggregate, just 2 goals away.

Tens of thousands of Hamburg fans at the scene cheered enthusiastically and seemed to see the hope of reversing the promotion.

However, it is always Hamburg who are behind, they must continue to attack, and then Hoffenheim has left too many counter-attack opportunities in the backcourt.

In the 33rd minute, the Hamburg team's attack was interrupted, and Volsa shoveled Guerrero and shoveled the ball under his feet to Gustavo, and there was no foul.

Gustavo passed the ball to Eduardo in midfield before another player came up to counter.

The moment Eduardo received the ball, Lu Wenbin first approached Eduardo's position and made a gesture of cooperation. After De Jong and Boateng followed, he suddenly turned and rushed towards the backcourt of the Hamburg team.

Eduardo, who cooperated tacitly, did not stop the ball. He turned around and passed the ball over the top. The ball flew over the heads of De Jong and Boateng and fell into the Hamburg team's half.

Lu Wenbin was not offside, but he successfully received the ball in the frontcourt and started to dribble forward.

However, Lu Wenbin's speed was flawed. De Jong and another central defender, who turned around and rushed over, were about to catch up with Lu Wenbin.

Lu Wenbin knows that his speed is too slow, and his opponent must be much faster than himself without the ball.

Therefore, Lu Wenbin didn't want to follow Ronaldo's way of dribbling the ball over several people in a row, passing the goalkeeper and scoring the ball into the empty goal.

Besides, his dribbling skills are not good enough at the level of the Bundesliga and the UEFA Cup.

Anyway, the strength brought by his 18/18 physique is enough for him to shoot powerful long-range shots from outside the penalty area.

Therefore, when De Jong on the left was about 30 meters away from the goal, he had already caught up and started to stretch out his hand to grab Lu Wenbin. Lu Wenbin determined the position of the goalkeeper Rost while running, and raised his thighs. A strong volley kicked the ball out, before losing weight and being pulled to the ground by De Jong.

But the ball shot by Lu Wenbin had escaped Rost's save like an arrow from the string and flew straight to the goal.

Because he was going to attack Lu Wenbin's single-handed shot, Rost stood a bit forward, and Lu Wenbin's shot from outside the penalty area was powerful and fast, giving Rost a very short save time.

By the time Rost threw himself on the ball, the ball had already passed his palm and flew towards the goal.

Then, under the desperate eyes of tens of thousands of Hamburg fans and the excited gaze of thousands of Hoffenheim fans, the ball flew directly into the net.