With so many fans coming, the team naturally couldn't afford to weaken their momentum and let their supporters be ridiculed by local fans in Udine.

Therefore, at the pre-match press conference in the afternoon after arriving in Udine, Ralph strongly announced that Hoffenheim was here to create the 5% miracle and turn the tables around.

It will be Hoffenheim, not Udinese, who will qualify for the group stage of this season's UEFA Cup.

Ralph's manifesto, naturally, was scoffed at by the Italian media, which caricatured it as a dead duck with a hard mouth.

Even if the German media will not tear down the table of their own team in front of foreigners, the disbelief in their eyes is obvious.

If Hoffenheim is eliminated in the end and proves that Ralph's words are really a dead duck, then not only the Italian media, but also the German media will definitely bombard Ralph and Hoffenheim.

When a reporter relayed Ralph's declaration to Udinese coach Marino, Marino smiled indifferently and said:

"Ralph is just cheering himself up! The final result will tell him that this is Italy, this is Udinese! ”

Obviously, Marino's response was more domineering and more in line with everyone's predictions for the game.

"This is Italy, this is Udinese!"

In just one sentence, it exhausted the confidence of Marino and Udinese clubs.

They are also qualified to be confident.

It's not just the historical stats that give them confidence, they also have confidence in their own defense.

Even if Lu Wenbin scored a brace in 45 minutes in the last round of the Bundesliga, and his running range increased greatly, the Italians don't think that Lu Wenbin's ability has become stronger and he can break free from the Italian-style chain defense and regional defense.

They can only confidently believe that the overall defensive ability of the Bundesliga is not good, and Dortmund's tradition is not to play defensively.

Lu Wenbin's goal in the Bundesliga is not a matter at all, just like he has scored in the previous league games.

In this game, they will continue to use Italian defense to prove to everyone that Lu Wenbin is a top scorer in the Bundesliga, but in Europe: no!

On the evening of September 24, before the start of the game, Hoffenheim returned to the locker room after warming up before the game to change into the official jersey and prepare to play.

At this time, the captain Salihovich stood up and signaled that he had something to say.

Everyone fell silent and listened to Salikhovich's speech.

Salihovic looked around and asked everyone: "Did you see the more than 2,000 Hoffenheim fans who were assigned to the corner during the warm-up?" ”

Lu Wenbin and the others nodded and replied, "I see!" ”

Salihovich nodded: "Yes, I saw it too!" We all saw it! ”

"I want everybody to understand how we were looked down upon by all the media before the game. Even our own domestic media believe that we representing Germany are dead. ”

"No one cheered us on except for the media at Sinsheim and no one encouraged us to pull off a miracle in the second leg and beat Udinese to advance to the group stage."

'It's really rare to have so many fans coming with us in this situation and cheering us on when we know our chances of progressing are slim to none, especially for a country club like ours from Hoffenheim.

"If we lose this game, not only will we be a real laughing stock, but these fans who come with the team will also become the object of laughter from the fans of other teams."

"But if we win today and beat Udinese to qualify for the UEFA Cup group stage, it will not only slap the media who didn't think well of us before the game, but also get these lovely fans to walk out of the pitch and back to Germany with their heads held high."

'I hope that today everyone in the team will try their best to win and not think about the next round of the Bundesliga.

"Even if you're tired, you have to go down after you've defended, passed or shot. Let's prove to everyone that Hoffenheim can work miracles and eliminate Udinese! ”

The captain's words made everyone's blood boil, and everyone gathered together and shouted the slogan "create a miracle, eliminate Udinese", and then walked out of the locker room with his head held high, waiting to enter.

In the tunnel of the players, the Udinese players looked at the Hoffenheim players with their heads held high and did not squint, but they thought they were too nervous and laughed in their hearts.

The mentality of the players at Udinese is very relaxed.

If you can play Hoffenheim 2-1 away from home, can you still make Hoffenheim turn the tables at home?

History has shown you that the odds are slim to none, and the Udinese players don't believe Hoffenheim can turn the tables anyway.

At 19:50, the referee team came out with the starting 11 of the two teams.

After taking a group photo, shaking hands, and picking sides, at 20 o'clock in the evening of September 24, with the referee's whistle, the 2008/2009 UEFA Cup third round qualifying second leg Udinese home vs Hoffenheim match officially began.

In this game, the starters of both sides were exactly the same as in the previous game, and even the positions did not change.

Everyone thought that Lu Wenbin would retreat to the midfield like he did in the second half of the last game, so that he could get some opportunities to shoot with the ball.

Unexpectedly, Lu Wenbin's position is still on the forward line.

This reassures Udinese's coaches and players.

Lu Wenbin, who plays as a winger on the forward line, has many fewer routes to receive the ball than in the midfield, and the players of Udinese are easier to defend, so everyone is more confident to intercept the ball passed to Lu Wenbin by Hoffenheim players and prevent him from having a chance to shoot with the ball.

However, when the game went on for 10 minutes, both the Udinese players on the field, the Udinese coach Marino on the sidelines, and even the Italian commentators and Udinese fans in the stands were a little surprised.

Because, the Udinese backline, which adopted the same defensive strategy as in the last game, failed to prevent Lu Wenbin this time.

In just 10 minutes, Lu Wenbin received two balls, one of which was a shot on goal, but it was finally saved by goalkeeper Handanovic, who reacted quickly.

However, such a phenomenon is not normal.

Referring to the first leg between the two sides, Lu Wenbin should not have received the ball so quickly, and it was twice, and one time formed a shot.

What's going on?

The Udinese players on the pitch did not let their guard down, they did the same way they defended in the first leg, and they did it 100 per cent, without any release.

Although they are relaxed and confident, it does not mean that they will let their guard down against Lu Wenbin, who scored a goal in the first leg of the Bundesliga and scored twice in the last Bundesliga.

With such a concentrated defense, Lu Wenbin, who had almost no performance in the first half of the first leg, now received two balls in 10 minutes and once formed a shooting opportunity, which is too abnormal.

However, because of the short period of time, everyone has not yet figured out what is going on, including the head coach of Udinese, Marino.

Marino is going to wait a little longer to see what caused his team to not defend against Lu Wenbin, and then make adjustments accordingly.