King of the Zone

That night and the next day, the news that Cheng Hai led Borussia Dortmund to win the 2011 UEFA Super Cup against Messi's Barcelona was swiped on the important pages of the media all over the world.

"2011 European Super Cup, Dortmund beat Barcelona 3-2 to win! "

"Dortmund beat Barcelona 3-2 to win the European Super Cup, Cheng Hai leads Messi with one pass and two shots! "

"Cheng Hai led Dortmund to defeat Barcelona and win the European Super Cup with one pass and two shots. The false remarks of relying on abuse to score goals can be stopped! "

"European Super Cup Dortmund 3-2 Barcelona won the championship, Cheng Hai scored 83 goals in one pass and two shots for the year! "

"Dortmund 3-2 Barcelona won the European Super Cup and achieved the annual quadruple crown! "

Dortmund won the European Super Cup, Cheng Hai led Messi with one pass and two shots, and the FIFA Ballon d'Or has changed! "

In the previous games, Cheng Hai was indeed considered by many people to rely more on scoring goals in low-level events such as the UEFA Cup, Asian Cup, and Asian World Preliminaries to achieve such a high level of achievement and prestige. It cannot be compared with Messi's achievements in the UEFA Champions League, which is the highest level of technical and tactical clubs in the world.

However, this European Super Cup has changed the minds of countless people.

In the face-to-face duel, Cheng Hai proved that he is stronger than Messi, and he can also lead Dortmund to defeat the Cosmic Team Barcelona to win the championship.

It shows that Cheng Hai's achievements are not in vain at all.

He has the strength to confront Messi head-on and win.

Obviously, this will have an impact on many judges who vote for the FIFA Ballon d'Or at the end of the year. Messi's three consecutive Golden Balls really don't look so secure.

Of course, it depends on the other performances of the two in the second half of the year.

If Messi's abilities surpass Cheng Hai's, perform well on multiple fronts, and often swipe the screen in front of the media to make big news, then maybe he can save some impression points.

But it seemed that Cheng Hai was more likely to swipe the screen.

Because his total number of goals in 2011 has reached a terrifying 83, which is only 85 goals away from Gerd Muller's annual record of 2 goals.

Maybe Cheng Hai will break this world record in the next match, create a new world record, and shock the world.

No matter how much Messi swipe the screen, I'm afraid it can't compare to Cheng Hai's world record-breaking power.

What's more, the second half of the year has just begun, and Dortmund can fight on three fronts at the same time. Cheng Hai even has a match in the top 20 group stage of the World Preliminaries in Asia.

Although the level of competition in the Asian region of the World Preliminaries is low, no matter how low it is, it is still an international A`level competition!

Moreover, it is a very formal world preliminaries involving the prospects of the national team qualifying for the World Cup. The goals must definitely be counted as the players' career goals.

From this point of view, not to mention Gerd Muller's record of 85 goals, Cheng Hai will even have a high probability of breaking through the annual 100-goal mark, raising the total annual goals to an unprecedented three-digit level.

This is a terrifying number that has never been seen before, and probably will never come after.

In the second half of the year, I am afraid that Cheng Hai will show his face in front of the media much more times than Messi!
Everything will tell with time.

And the next game is when Cheng Hai may break through Gerd Muller's 85 goals.

Therefore, on August 2011, 8, the fourth round of the Bundesliga match between Leverkusen and Dortmund was not only full of spectators, but also media reporters from all over the world poured in. A total of 29 people could not even sit in the media seats, and had to add seats separately.

Outside the billboards around the stadium, there are also photographers and reporters from big-name media who have been allowed to enter.

This is a game destined to be watched by the whole world.

The head coach, players and fans of Leverkusen also know why this game has attracted so much attention.

But as one of the traditional powerhouses of the Bundesliga, and they are at their home court, they will never be willing to become the background board for Cheng Hai to set a world record.

Therefore, the head coach of the pharmaceutical factory announced at the pre-match press conference: the pharmaceutical factory will play in the final of the World Cup and use all its strength to fight against Dortmund.

In addition, Leverkusen's midfielder Lars Bender is Cheng Hai's teammate and the older brother of Dortmund's midfielder Sven Bender who replaced him in the last game. They are two brothers.

In an interview with reporters, Lars Bender said that he would not show mercy just because Cheng Hai and his brother were teammates.

He will use the toughest defense to let Cheng Hai know that the Bayer Arena is not a place for him to score goals and break world records.

In contrast, Dortmund's players and coaches also expressed their full support for Cheng Hai's goals and breaking the world record, saying that they will fully assist Cheng Hai in the game, help Cheng Hai score more goals, equal or even break Gerd Müller's annual world record of 85 goals.

As for Cheng Hai himself, naturally he wouldn't be so sharp, so as to avoid becoming a laughing stock if he fails to score a goal or catch up with an uneven record.

It's not like he hasn't had a game where he can't score.

Therefore, Cheng Hai said in an interview with reporters:

"Gerd Müller is a great superstar, and his achievements will always be worthy of our respect."

"As for myself, it is certainly a pleasure to have the opportunity to approach Gerd Müller's world record, but I will not deliberately pursue breaking records."

"I am a Dortmund player first and foremost. My task should be to help Dortmund win first, not to be obsessed with personal goals and breaking records."

"So, for this game, I hope that friends from the media and fans will treat it with a normal heart."

This is the truth.

Although breaking the world record is very tempting, Cheng Hai knows that it is precisely because he is close to breaking the world record that he will inevitably be guarded by the Leverkusen team who does not want to be the background board. In fact, the probability of scoring is not high.

And once he treats it with a normal heart, assists his teammates to shoot while attracting a lot of defensive attention from the opponent, then the probability of Dortmund winning is quite high.

Breaking the record is certain, it is only a matter of time.In order to win the Triple Crown, Dortmund must establish greater advantages on all fronts.

If the Bundesliga wins one more game and has more goal difference, it may be possible to win the championship early at the end of the season and focus on the German Cup and the Champions League earlier.

Therefore, although Cheng Hai intends to break the record in the Bundesliga match with the pharmaceutical factory, he did not lose his reason for normal games with the determination to win.

This point, most people do not know.

Most people, including the media, fans and Leverkusen players, think that Cheng Hai must be very concerned about breaking Gerd Muller's annual record of 85 goals in order to compete with Messi for the FIFA Ballon d'Or.

Cheng Hai will definitely look very lonely during the game.

As long as Cheng Hai is defended, Leverkusen may freeze Dortmund's offense and win by counterattacking.

Amidst the turmoil, at 2011:8 on the evening of August 29, 20, Leverkusen’s Bayer Arena, which can accommodate 30 people, was cheered by all the fans, and with the whistle of the referee, the match between Leverkusen and Dortmund in the fourth round of the 3/2011 Bundesliga season officially began.

Leverkusen did not lie.

In order to prevent Cheng Hai from scoring two goals to tie, or even scoring three goals to break Gerd Muller's annual world record of 85 goals, and to make himself a background board for the world's media reporting on Cheng Haiping's record or breaking the record, Leverkusen put up a counterattack posture from the beginning of the game, and put all their defensive attention on Cheng Hai.

As long as Cheng Hai enters within 30 meters of Leverkusen's goal, at least two players around him will mark him closely at all times, and there will be one or two people around him to help defend and fill in at any time.

It can be said that Leverkusen has raised the defense against Cheng Hai to the extreme, just to prevent Cheng Hai from scoring goals, breaking records, and making news on them.

Both sides have only 11 players on the field. Under such circumstances, the defense against other Dortmund players will inevitably be lax.

But Leverkusen didn't take it too seriously, because they felt that in order to help Cheng Hai score, the rest of Dortmund would eventually have to send the ball to Cheng Hai's feet, and Cheng Hai would shoot.

As long as they defend Cheng Hai, they can basically keep the goal clean.

In addition to double-teaming Cheng Hai in terms of numbers, Leverkusen's defensive hardness in this game is also top-notch, even better than Schalke 04 that Dortmund encountered in the Ruhr Derby.

After the start of the game, Cheng Hai tried to break through with the ball and run without the ball for a while, but found that Leverkusen's marking of him was too strict.

Even with his full dribbling and off-the-ball movement, he can throw off and break through one or two players, but he still can't get a chance to shoot.

Seven or eight minutes had passed since the start of the game, and Cheng Hai didn't even take a single shot.

Not to mention the shots in the penalty area, he couldn't even make a long-range shot from outside the penalty area, which shows how closely Leverkusen's marking of Cheng Hai is.

In order to prevent Cheng Hai from shooting, Leverkusen almost defended him with the whole team.

This kind of defense naturally gave Dortmund's other players Lewandowski, Gotze, Kagawa Shinji, and Gundogan a lot of opportunities to catch the ball in open space.

However, in order to achieve the pre-match bragging and help Cheng Hai score a record, even if they got the ball in the gap, they rarely shot by themselves.

So, a few minutes before the game, Cheng Hai didn't score a goal, and Lewandowski and others didn't take the opportunity to score a goal.

Seeing this situation, Cheng Hai knew that this match could no longer force him to break the record.

If you are obsessed with this, Leverkusen will have guessed the combat intention of Dortmund's team. They will be very easy to defend, and they may take the opportunity to counterattack and sneak attack, and finally let Dortmund lose the game.

Therefore, Cheng Hai changed his intentions, and gradually conveyed his opinions to his teammates by using the opportunity of contact.

Then, in the 12th minute, when Cheng Hai changed position to the right to receive the ball and was still being intercepted and marked by two opponents, Mario Gotze on the left took advantage of the opponent's defense to focus all his attention on Cheng Hai and ran into a huge space on the left side of the penalty area.

At this time, once the ball is delivered, Gotze can shoot almost without interference.

But in the previous few minutes of the game, Leverkusen didn't care about Gotze's running position. They thought that Cheng Hai would continue to dribble and break through by himself.

Therefore, whether it is a defender or a goalkeeper, Leverkusen will keep their eyes on Cheng Hai to see his next move.

Unexpectedly, Cheng Hai, who had already made up his mind, did not hesitate at all after discovering Mario Gotze's running position, nor did he hit the wall with his nearby teammates to cooperate with the defender in front of him.

Cheng Hai's long pass surprised most of the audience.

The TV commentators from various countries in the commentary booth were surprised and said:

"Pass the ball!"

"Cheng Hai didn't fight alone, didn't break through by himself, but sent the ball to the unguarded Mario Gotze on the left side of the penalty area!"

"This is a super-long-distance precise long-pass transfer!"

"Leverkusen are in danger!"

They are all professional athletes. When Cheng Hai made this long pass in the air, even if the ball was still in the air and hadn't landed in front of Mario Gotze, the Leverkusen people already knew that something was wrong.

The goalkeeper Leno, who was guarding the right end of the goal, rushed to the left of Gotze, and the two closest defenders in the penalty area also rushed to Gotze with all their strength, trying to stop or destroy Gotze's shot.

However, it was too late.

Cheng Hai's full cross and long pass skills in the air allowed him to accurately send the ball to the expected position, in front of Mario Gotze who was running.

Because the Leverkusen players all focused on Cheng Hai on the right, there was a huge gap in the left side of the penalty area. When Cheng Hai passed the ball, the nearest defender was seven or eight meters away from him.

Therefore, Gotze observed the ball's landing point and the goalkeeper's position, and then faced the ball falling in the air without defense, and volleyed.

This volley was powerful and heavy, and Gotze also aimed at the opposite direction of goalkeeper Leno's save.

Although he couldn't point where to hit like Cheng Hai did when he kicked a penalty kick, because no one interfered, Gotze played quite well, and this shot achieved the effect Goce wanted.

And extremely fast.

Defender Reynaz, who came from the middle, wanted to fly to block the hole of the gun, but failed to get it.

Leno, the goalkeeper who was rushing towards the near end, turned back to the ball at the first time based on the path of the ball he observed from the corner of his eyes, but in the end he couldn't throw it far because of the opposite center of gravity.

In the 12th minute, Cheng Hai made an unexpected big-foot transfer and sent the ball into the gap in Leverkusen's penalty area, assisting Mario Götze to score with a volley.

Dortmund took a 1-0 lead away from home.

Dortmund's away fans immediately celebrated excitedly, only Cheng Hai's fans were slightly disappointed.

However, although it was not a goal, at least he got an assist, which can be considered a reluctant consolation!

But for Leverkusen, this ball made them look a little ugly.

You know, they are also the Bundesliga giants, this is their home court, and their goal is not just to prevent Cheng Hai from scoring, that is too low.

Their goal is to wait for an opportunity to counterattack while freezing Cheng Hai, and get a home victory.

Therefore, Cheng Hai's long pass to transfer assists and Dortmund's lead completely broke their game expectations.

They thought that Cheng Hai would hold onto the ball tightly and try to score a goal.

Who would have thought that Cheng Hai still had such a calm side, that he was willing to pass the ball to help his teammates score?

Is he still going to break the record?Do you still want to compete with Messi for the Ballon d'Or?

Leverkusen's coaches and players expressed headaches.

However, with only one goal behind, everyone is still not panicked, and they don't know whether Cheng Hai did it on purpose or if it was an accidental pass.

Therefore, after the game restarted, Leverkusen did not change their game tactics, and still focused most of their energy on Cheng Hai.

For other Dortmund players, it's just a little more thoughtful.

But such defensive strength is far from enough for Dortmund, the Bundesliga champion team.

After Cheng Hai has told his teammates that he does not need to fully assist him in scoring, others can also score.

After all, there are bonuses for goals and assists, and they won't forcefully refuse to shoot, insisting on stuffing the ball at Cheng Hai's feet.

So, less than 10 minutes before the last goal, at the 20th minute, Cheng Hai managed to attract the defensive attention of three players through a short touch of a running position and receiving the ball, and brought them to the left side of the penalty area.

Then, Gundogan, Shinji Kagawa, and Lewandowski played a wave of exquisite frontcourt cooperation outside the right side of the penalty area. In the end, Shinji Kagawa assisted Lewandowski to volley in the penalty area and broke Leverkusen's goal again.

Dortmund took a 2-0 lead away from home.

Now, the players and coaches of the pharmaceutical factory can no longer calm down.

They have already seen that Dortmund is using their psychology of marking Cheng Hai with all their strength to prevent Cheng Hai from breaking the record, and other players will score and win the game.

Cheng Hai didn't have the determination to score a record in this game at all, it was just their guess and estimate.

If they continue to fight like this, not only will they lose, but they may lose by a big margin.

Therefore, after the game restarted, Leverkusen, who was behind by two goals, was forced to change its tactics, and had to press forward and take the initiative to attack.

As for the defense against Cheng Hai, Lewandowski and others, he did not dare to concentrate all his strength on Cheng Hai alone.

They can only disperse their forces and try to block Dortmund's attacks as much as possible.

However, how is that possible?
After the opponent was forced to press forward to counterattack, the space in the backcourt expanded several times, and the number of players defending him was divided, Cheng Hai began to show his power.

If there is a chance to shoot and score, he will not refuse.

In the 28th minute, Cheng Hai almost dribbled the ball past the two to score a single-handed goal, but he was directly brought down by the opponent when he broke through the last defender Toprak, and lost the chance to score a single-handed goal.

But the opponent destroyed Cheng Hai's extremely threatening offensive opportunity, and naturally received a yellow card.

However, although he received a yellow card, it prevented Cheng Hai from breaking through and going to the meeting alone. The players and coaches of Leverkusen still think it is a good deal.

Although Dortmund was given a frontcourt free kick, the distance was a full 28 meters, and Dortmund did not have a free kick master.

Therefore, Toprak, who used a yellow card to prevent Cheng Hai from breaking through and forming a single-handedly, was encouraged by his teammates, thinking that his tactical foul was well done.

Unexpectedly, it was this free kick. After being sent by Shinji Kagawa, the ball crossed the wall and flew towards Leverkusen's goal frame.

Shinji Kagawa performed exceptionally well and sent a high-quality free kick to go straight to the goal.

It's a pity that Leverkusen's goalkeeper Leno was very focused, and he made a save immediately, successfully touched the ball, and lifted the ball up, trying to lift it out of the crossbar.

Unexpectedly, his strength was not enough, the ball did not fly out of the crossbar as he expected, but hit the crossbar and bounced back to the penalty area.

Fortunately, it bounced back to the penalty area and did not bounce directly into the net.

Just when Leno thought this way and expected his teammates to quickly clear the ball out of the penalty area, he saw a player wearing a Bumblebee jersey appearing on the path of the rebound ball for the first time, and a light header shot, and it will go into the empty goal formed by Leno's throwing down by Shinji Kagawa's free kick.

Leno, who landed on the ground, took a closer look at the opponent's jersey number: No. 9!
It was Cheng Hai, Dortmund's number 9 striker, who they had guarded against and failed to guard against.

Relying on his superhuman off-the-ball running and spot-grabbing ability, as well as his header skills, Cheng Hai was the first to grab the bounced ball that bounced off the crossbar in this free kick attack, and pushed it back to Leverkusen's goal.

In the 28th minute, Cheng Hai scored his first goal of the game through a free kick attack, and raised his total number of goals for the year to 84, which is only one goal away from Gerd Müller's 85 goals in the year.

Therefore, when Cheng Hai headed the ball into the goal, thousands of Dortmund away fans cheered excitedly, cheering and celebrating Cheng Hai's goal.

The commentators in the commentary booth immediately shouted at the highest volume:
"Toooooooooooooor..."

"The ball is in!"

"Cheng Hai finally scored a goal!"

"Cheng Hai scored the goal with a supplementary shot. While helping Dortmund lead 3-0, his own total goals in 2011 also reached 84 goals."

"This is only one goal away from Gerd Müller's annual world record of 85 goals!"

"As long as Cheng Hai scores one more goal, he can tie Gerd Muller's annual goal record. As long as he scores two more goals, he can set a new record."

"Simply terrifying!"

"Leverkusen's strict defense, after all, failed to stop Cheng Hai's goal!"

"Now they really can't let Cheng Hai score anymore, otherwise, they will at least become the background board for Cheng Hai to tie the record!"

"It depends on whether they can do it in the next game time!"

"Let's look forward to the next game!"