Returning to the team itself, after winning the Bundesliga ahead of schedule, everyone at Hoffenheim breathed a sigh of relief.

Now you can put your league down and give it all your energy into the Champions League.

For the Champions League, the players are clearly more motivated than to win the Bundesliga.

The Bundesliga title was won once last season, but the Champions League has never been won.

Moreover, the Champions League is recognized as the most technical and tactical level of football competition, and for many players with weak national teams, the Champions League is played as a World Cup.

After returning to Hoffenheim after winning the Bundesliga, he celebrated for a night, rested the next day, trained at his base on April 16, and then went to Munich on the 17th to borrow the training base of Bayern's arch-rival Munich 1860 to train and prepare for the game.

In the Champions League semi-finals with Bayern Munich, Hoffenheim played away first and then at home, occupying the schedule advantage.

While Hoffenheim was preparing for the match at the training base in Munich 1860, the first leg of another Champions League semi-final was over on 18 April.

Due to the impact of Icelandic volcanic ash that permeated the continent, flights to Europe were grounded, and Barcelona was unable to fly, so they had to travel overland to Italy by their own buses, and the players were tired and exhausted from the journey.

Jose Mourinho's Inter Milan are at home and give it their all.

In the end, Inter Milan beat Barcelona 3-1 in the first leg of the semi-finals, handing Pep Guardiola their biggest defeat in two years in charge, and also taking the lead on the road to the final.

Next, let's watch Hoffenheim and Bayern Munich perform.

Hoffenheim was not affected by volcanic ash.

Also in Germany, Hoffenheim is just over a three-hour drive from Munich, so you don't need to fly.

What's more, Hoffenheim also arrived in Munich by bus two days in advance, so he had enough time to rest.

Hoffenheim doesn't have the same tiring long car journeys as Barcelona does.

On the evening of April 19, the Allianz Arena in Munich was full, and more than 10,000 fans came to Hoffenheim, but only more than 5,000 people bought tickets to enter the stadium, and the others could only gather outside to watch the live broadcast through the big screen in the square.

With the exception of the more than 5,000 seats occupied by Hoffenheim fans, the rest of the seats were filled by Bayern Munich's home fans and neutral spectators.

The Great War is on the verge of breaking out.

After the entrance ceremony, handshake, group photo, and side picking, at 19:45 on the evening of April 19, with the referee's whistle, the first leg of the 2009/2010 Champions League semi-finals Bayern Munich vs Hoffenheim officially began at the Allianz Arena in Munich.

Bayern Munich, like Lyon, adopted a 541 defensive counterattack formation, regardless of their identity as the Bundesliga hegemon and the face of the home game.

Van Gaal has seven experienced stars in the backfield, including Demichelis, Van Bitten, Contento, Bad Stuber, Lahm, Schweinsteiger and Van Bommel to defend, and there are only two wing-backs in front of Ribery and Robben and Thomas Muller.

This is what the first leg of the quarter-final between Lyon and Hoffenheim has taught everyone.

In that game, Lyon managed to freeze Lu Wenbin in the sports battle, and in the end, Lu Wenbin was a little lucky with a free kick to help Hoffenheim equalize.

Although Lyon suffered a heavy defeat in the second round, it was largely due to the sudden increase in Lu's dribbling ability.

In particular, Lu Wenbin's wonderful goal scored in the opening 9.67 seconds by six people in a row gave the Lyon players a considerable psychological blow and stunned them, so that they had a final 1-6 defeat.

However, the first leg of Lyon's defense was quite successful, and the score of 1-6 in the second leg was not a real comparison of strength between the two sides.

Everyone came to the conclusion that Lu Wenbin's personal ability is indeed outstanding, but the defender can defend with more numbers.

In particular, the defensive counterattack formation of 541 can pile up more players within 30 meters of the backfield, and does not give Lu Wenbin space to run and break through near the forbidden area, which can greatly limit Lu Wenbin's play.

Although there were teams that played defensive counterattacks before, none of those teams had the strength of Lyon, and they carried out defensive counterattacks so thoroughly, so they couldn't limit Lu Wenbin.

Therefore, the first leg of the Champions League 1/4 between Lyon and Hoffenheim is very informative.

Bayern Munich copied this formation.

Moreover, their backfield players are more than a step higher than Lyon's.

Demichelis, Van Bitten, Contento, Lahm, Van Bommel and others are all well-known defensive stars, and Schweinsteiger plays as a playmaker, but he also has a certain defensive ability.

At the very least, there is no problem with jamming and jamming.

When Bundesliga hegemons like Bayern Munich pulled down their faces and played 541 defensive counterattacks, the defensive intensity faced by Lu Wenbin and Hoffenheim rose more than one notch.

Although Lu Wenbin's personal breakthrough is still extremely sharp, he cannot break through Bayern's entire defense, let alone others such as Eduardo.

In the 8th minute, Lu Wenbin broke through Van Bommel and Contento in a row, and was about to enter the forbidden area, but he was still shoveled by Van Biteng who fell to the ground and shoveled the ball out of Lu Wenbin.

Lu Wenbin's full-value dribbling can't control the ball to the level of no difference, and sometimes the slightest bit of lightning is destroyed by the opponent.

Bayern's backline, the individual strength and cooperation of the players are much better than Lyon.

Hoffenheim could only look for opportunities with inverted passes on the perimeter, and Lu Wenbin's occasional breakthrough could not penetrate Bayern's defence to form a shot.

It wasn't until the 16th minute that Hoffenheim had the first shot on goal.

As a result, Lu Wenbin's shot was still blocked by Demichelis with his leg stretched out in the forbidden area, and posed no threat to goalkeeper Bute.

In the ensuing corner, Hoffenheim did not grab the first point and was pushed out of the forbidden area by the Bayern players.

However, although this corner kick did not grab the first point to form an attack, Lu Wenbin also felt that he had found a way to break the dense defense.

He has just added his header attributes, and his off-ball running, physique, and bounce can make him compete for the top in the forbidden area as well as other players, and he may not be without the possibility of scoring from corners.

So, in the following time, Lu Wenbin reduced the number of times he broke through with the ball and increased the number of long-range shots outside the forbidden area.

As long as he has the ball, he doesn't ask to pass two or three people on the other side, as long as he passes one or two, or even if he doesn't pass anyone, as long as he has an angle, he shoots from a distance.

On the one hand, the probability of scoring a long shot, and on the other hand, a corner kick.

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