King of the Zone

On October 10, the Hua Guo team first played a warm-up match against the UAE national team.

However, this game is not an international A`level event, but a real warm-up match. The referees are randomly selected, and there are no restrictions on substitutions. It is mainly training before the official world preliminaries.

Cheng Hai didn't play the whole game, he only played the first half, scored 3 goals and assisted one.

In the end, the Hua Guo team beat the United Arab Emirates 6-1 at home, which can be regarded as a victory rehearsal for the next official world preliminaries.

The 3 goals scored by Cheng Haijin in this warm-up match cannot be counted as career goals, nor can they be counted in the annual total goal record, but they can be counted as Cheng Chenghai's total goals in his sports career, just like Pele's [-]-goal record.

If only career goals are counted, no one in the world has scored more than 1000 goals in his career. Whether it is Pele or Gerd Müller, their more than [-] goals are all counting warm-up matches, friendly matches and other games to reach more than [-] goals.

Therefore, these 3 goals are counted into Cheng Hai's total goals in his football career, but not professional goals.

After this warm-up match, everyone continued to train hard.

Although it was a home game this time, facing Iraq, whose strength was similar to that of Jordan, the Hua Guo team, which was defeated by the Jordanians in the last game, did not dare to have any thoughts of underestimating the enemy.

Including Cheng Hai.

Although he has completed the miracle of reaching triple-digit goals for the year, it has sparked heated discussions around the world, and is recognized as the youngest world superstar in football history.

However, the lesson of losing to Jordan in the last world preliminaries is still fresh in Cheng Hai's memory. Facing Iraq in this game, Cheng Hai, like his teammates, did not have any contempt, but was determined to go all out.

5天后，2011年10月11日晚上20:15，鹏城大运中心体育场座无虚席。

Amidst the cheers of more than 6 Chinese fans and the whistle of the referee, the third round of the 2014 Brazil World Cup Asian Qualifier Group A match between Hua Guo and Iraq officially began.

There is nothing wrong with Cheng Hai and his teammates being cautious.

The strength of Iraq is similar to that of Jordan. Seeing that the Jordan team was able to defeat the Huaguo team led by Cheng Hai in the last game, this gave the Iraqis infinite confidence and courage.

Therefore, they played as tough as the Jordanians in this game.Even the Iraqis, who have suffered so much from the war and have to play their home games at neutral grounds, have even better fighting spirit than the Jordanians.

Coupled with the inspiration of Augsburg's strict defense against Cheng Hai in the 8th round of the Bundesliga, Iraq, like Augsburg, used an extreme defensive strategy against Cheng Hai in this game.

They are betting that the other players in the Hua Guo team do not have the scoring ability of the other players in Dortmund.

Unfortunately, they bet wrong.

Although Zheng Zhi, Yu Hai and other players of the Chinese team are not as good as Dortmund's Gundogan, Kagawa Shinji and others, Iraq's own defensive players are not as good as Augsburg's players!

Although a lot of opportunities were wasted, with Cheng Hai attracting most of the Iraqis' defensive attention, the Hua Guo team finally seized the opportunity in the 31st minute of the first half. Deng Zhuoxiang assisted Yu Haishou to open the scoring and scored the Hua Guo team's first goal.

The Chinese team led Iraq 1-0.

This time, the Iraqis could no longer hold on.

They are not really like Augsburg. To stop Cheng Hai's annual record of [-] goals, all their tactics must serve the victory.

Even if you can't win an away game, you have to work hard to draw and get a point!

Therefore, when the score fell behind, the Iraqis had no choice but to continue to defend while looking for opportunities to counterattack.

But Iraq itself is not as strong as the Hua Guo team, and it is an away game. When they have to strengthen their offense, isn't it just to provide Cheng Hai with a chance?
Before the Iraqis defended him like Augsburg, he hadn't found a chance, but when the opponents stepped up their offense and retreated to Cheng Hai near the midfield, there were too many opportunities.

Before the end of the first half, in the 43rd minute, it was the attack of the Iraqi team that was interrupted. After stealing the ball, Zheng Zhi immediately made a long pass and sent the ball to Cheng Hai near the center circle.

Although Cheng Hai still had two Iraqi defenders close to him to defend him, the two Asian-level defenders had too great a chance to break through for Cheng Hai.

This time, Cheng Hai played well.

He first took advantage of the opportunity to stop the ball, wiped out the first man with a stop, and then immediately followed a bull's tail, shaking the second defender away, and then rushed to the empty Iraqi backcourt with the ball.

Because it was the attack of the Iraqis just now, although they did not invest all their troops, in order to avoid the disconnection of the front and back courts, the forward pressure of the overall formation is inevitable.

Therefore, after Cheng Hai broke through the two players defending him and entered the Iraqi half, there was actually only one central defender Ali Hussein left in front of him.

Although there were still two players behind who had just been broken by Cheng Hai, their speed was far behind Cheng Hai.

Cheng Hai's full speed and dribbling, even with the ball, is faster than them, making them chase farther and farther.

Although Hussein wanted to retreat and block defense, waiting for the support of his teammates, his retreat speed was also much slower than that of Cheng Hai.

Before he retreated to the top of the restricted area, he was overtaken by Cheng Hai, and he was forced to stop and half-squat to block Cheng Hai's progress, planning to stop Cheng Hai even if he made a foul.

However, Cheng Hai's ability to control the ball is too strong.

Before the two of them got close, Cheng Hai used a perfect bicycle pedal.

At this moment, Hussein was a little blinded. He couldn't tell whether Cheng Hai's movement was a fake or a real breakthrough movement, so he could only follow Cheng Hai's movement and shake his center of gravity back and forth with his body instinct.

As a result, Cheng Hai only stepped on the bicycle three times, and Hussein lost his center of gravity and fell to the left.

Cheng Hai took this opportunity to flick the ball to the right, and was about to break through from Hussein's right.

Hussein knew that something was wrong. Anyway, he hadn't entered the penalty area yet, and even if he made a foul, he would not be awarded a penalty kick. Therefore, Hussein immediately threw his whole body out, preparing to stop Cheng Hai's single-handed kick even if he fouled with a shovel.

However, after the Jordan team, Augsburg, and the opponent's defensive training in the first half of the game, Cheng Hai had already expected that the opponent might do everything to prevent him from breaking through and scoring goals.

Therefore, although Hussein's shovel threw his body out, he neither shoveled the ball nor shoveled down the person.

Relying on his powerful explosive power, Cheng Hai suddenly accelerated, touched the ball one step ahead, swung the ball to the front right, and jumped up immediately, just avoiding Hussein's tackle.

The next thing is simple.

Cheng Hai caught up with the ball he waded out on the right rib of the penalty area, and faced the attacking goalkeeper through a change of rhythm to dodge a gap and then volley from the far corner.

Because the distance was too close, although the goalkeeper Kasde made a save, it was still too late.

The ball skipped past his feet and bounced into the back of the net as all the Iraqis watched desperately on the inside of the far post.

In the 43rd minute of the first half, Cheng Hai scored his first goal of the game, helping Hua Guo to take a 2-0 lead.

At the same time, this is also Cheng Hai's 101st goal of the year. He is still continuing to set his own record of total goals for the year, and is heading towards an increasingly unattainable height.

Now every goal of Cheng Hai is a new record, so everyone on the scene burst into applause and cheers, applauding Cheng Hai's goal.

Not long after Cheng Hai scored the goal, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the first half. The two sides entered the intermission with a 2-0 score.

After a 15-minute break, the two sides changed sides and fought again. Iraq, which was behind by two goals, was forced to a dead end. They had no longer cared about defending Cheng Hai. They had to strengthen their offense.

Moreover, the Iraqis, who had been troubled by the war and had extremely tenacious mental strength, really pulled back a goal in the 53rd minute.

They passed a long pass from the backcourt to the penalty area of ​​the Huaguo team. The central defender Dewey lost in the one-on-one header competition. Iraq's No. 10 forward Younis Mahmoud grabbed the first header and ferried it to his teammate Mustafa Karim who inserted in the back row.

Karim volleyed vigorously on the line of the penalty area and sent the ball into the lower right corner of the Hua Guo team's goal.

Goalkeeper Yang Zhi made a save, but Kareem's shot was too powerful, too fast, and the angle was too tricky, which made him unable to do anything. He could only watch the ball enter the net in front of his eyes.

Iraq finally pulled one back and were only one point behind.

This goal immediately boosted the confidence and morale of the Iraqi players, and then they became more determined to score goals by strengthening their offense to equalize or even reverse the score.

However, they were never able to play the same offense just now.

In fact, for the ball just now, Younis was able to grab the first point when the lone army went deep, which was a bit of luck in itself.

To grab the first point and accurately ferry the ball to the teammates in the back row without making mistakes, this also requires luck.

As for Karim's final shot, the strength, speed, and angle were all excellent, and it was not damaged by any Hua Guo player flying to block the hole of the gun, which was even more luck.

He doesn't have the perfect shooting skills like Cheng Hai. Even if Karim is asked to catch the same pass in the same position and hit the goal, let him hit five kicks, it may not be able to hit the same shot just now.

So, after scoring the first goal, the Iraqi team never got to see their second goal.