Seven Crowns

　　 Before the start of the Hoffenheim VS Udinese game, the other German teams that started earlier the same day had already ended.

Stuttgart beat Bulgaria's Chalomore 2-1 in the away game, Hamburg drew 0-0 at home with Uniria from Romania, and Wolfsburg quickly drew 1 with Bucharest from Romania at home. -0, get a small win.

　　 So far, five of the German teams that have competed in the third round of the UEFA Cup qualifying round have finished the first round and achieved four wins and one draw.

　　 Now it's up to the performance of the last German team Hoffenheim.

After some appearance ceremonies and the captain picking the side, at 19:45 pm on September 18th, local time in Germany, and 2:45 am on September 19th, Beijing time, with the referee’s whistle, the 2008/2009 season European Union The first round of the third round of the Cup Qualifiers Hoffenheim VS Udinese officially began.

　　 Hoffenheim won the kick-off right. Amid the excitement of the Hoffenheim fans, Lu Wenbin knocked the ball to Ibisevic, and then ran towards the opponent half.

　　 The game was broadcast live across Germany, and CCTV-5 was also broadcast to Chinese fans.

　　 After all, this is a game where a few Chinese players can play as a core player in European competitions.

　　 Therefore, even if it is already midnight in China, there are still countless Chinese fans who follow the European League and Lu Wenbin sitting in front of the TV watching the game.

　　 Of course, Lu Wenbin, who has already started the game at this time, will not think about those things. He just wants to score quickly, help the team beat Udinese, and get the initiative to advance to the UEFA Cup group stage in the second round.

　　 However, after the start of the game, Lu Wenbin found that the opponent did not send someone to guard him personally like the German team he had encountered before.

　　 This made Lu Wenbin quite surprised and somewhat delighted, thinking that he would get a shot soon.

　　 However, after 30 minutes passed, Lu Wenbin did not get even one shot.

　　 not only didn't have the chance to shoot, he didn't even touch the ball a few times. The only few touches were forced to pass back to teammates.

　　 Lu Wenbin only discovered that Udinese’s defense was completely different from the Bundesliga teams he had encountered in the league before. Lu Wenbin also saw for the first time what an Italian defense is.

　　 In the Bundesliga, Hoffenheim’s opponents basically sent people to closely guard Lu Wenbin, and then other players helped to prevent Lu Wenbin from kicking the goal or causing sabotage, blocking the eye of the gun, and so on.

　　 However, Udinese did not do this, and did not even send someone to target Lu Wenbin personally.

　　 They put their work on the overall defense.

　　 Udinese used the chain defense of seven or eight players in the midfield and the zone defense to almost cut off the connection between Lu Wenbin and other teammates.

　　 Other people have to break through and shoot without much pressure.

　　 But as long as someone tries to pass the ball to Lu Wenbin, they will find that there are always Udinese players between them and Lu Wenbin, and there is almost no chance for them to pass the ball to Lu Wenbin.

　　 As long as the ball is passed, it will be intercepted or destroyed by the opponent in nine out of ten.

　　 Even if Lu Wenbin's various reversing runs, emergency stop and steering are useless, because they did not send someone to follow Lu Wenbin at all, there is no situation in which Lu Wenbin uses emergency stop and steering to get rid of the defensive player.

　　 The defensive ability of the Italian team is indeed unique in football.

　　Although Udinese was passively playing defensive counterattacks. Seven or eight players shrank in the backcourt to defend. They did not have many offensive opportunities themselves, but they succeeded in freezing Hoffenheim's first core Lu Wenbin.

　　 This freeze is not a one-on-one man-to-man freeze, but the use of the Italian team's deep-rooted chain defense and zone defense to reduce Lu Wenbin's chances of getting the ball and also reduce the threat of Lu Wenbin's kicking shot.

　　 Ralph frowned when he watched from the sidelines, and the German commentators in the commentary booth went from being full of confidence to becoming worried.

　　 In fact, whether it is the national team or the league, Italy is more restrained from Germany.

　　 Judging from the historical record, at the national team level, Italy VS Germany has mostly won by Italy in recent years.

　　 From the perspective of the league style, the German team focuses on offense and the Italian team focuses on defense.

　　 If it weren't for a team like Bayern Munich where there are too many superstars who can change the game by one person, the German team will lose more than the Italian team.

　　 Like today’s game, Udinese’s tactics have been quite obvious, which is to cut off the connection between other Hoffenheim teammates and Lu Wenbin.

　　 Others can break through or shoot, but as long as they try to pass to Lu Wenbin, they will be blocked by layers and it is difficult to succeed.

　　 Of course, Salihović, Eduardo and others did not discover this situation. They also tried to break through the goal by themselves.

　　 However, on the one hand, Udinese himself played a defensive counterattack. There were a lot of defensive players accumulated in the backcourt, and there would not be too many gaps because of their defense against Lu Wenbin.

　　 On the other side, the shooting accuracy of other Hoffenheim teammates is far from that of Lu Wenbin.

　　 Within the first 30 minutes, Hoffenheim still created four or five shots.

　　 However, all their shots were only within the range of the goal frame once ~www.ltnovel.com~ and they were threw out by the fast-reacting Udinese goalkeeper Samir Handanovic without a goal.

　　 The situation is very difficult for Hoffenheim at home, not as easy as the German media commented before the game.

　　 After watching for half an hour, he found that it was really difficult for Lu Wenbin to receive the ball and form the final blow, so Ralph had to make tactical adjustments.

　　 Taking advantage of a dead ball opportunity, Ralph called the captain Salihovic to the sidelines to convey new tactical instructions.

　　 Afterwards, Salihović, Eduardo, Dembaba and others began to increase the number of personal breakthroughs, trying to foul the other side, giving Lu Wenbin a chance to create a free kick in the frontcourt.

　　 However, before Hoffenheim's free kick tactics were effective, Udinese instead scored a counter-attack goal by their No. 10 forward Di Natale in the 38th minute.

　　 Udinese led Hoffenheim 1-0 away and scored a key away goal.

　　 At that moment, the entire Carl Benz Stadium almost lost its voice, and only a few hundred Udinese fans ecstatic cheers and screams spread all over the stadium.

　　 Lu Wenbin stood at the front of Udinese’s big penalty area, looking at the Udinese players who rushed to celebrate on the court, his eyes were full of fighting flames.

　　 The head coach said rightly that the European war and the league are indeed two worlds. The Italians proved this to Lu Wenbin with their excellent overall defense and deadly counterattack.

　　 To win the UEFA Cup and achieve the triple crown, Lu Wenbin must work harder.

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