Chapter 138: A God-like Record

On December 20, 2011, the Paul Jens Arena, home of the Bundesliga side Dusseldorf, was packed with more than 50,000 spectators.

Originally, a German Cup match of a Bundesliga team, even if the opponent was the Bundesliga giants Borussia Dortmund, was not enough to attract enough spectators to fill all the more than 50,000 seats.

In fact, the fact that there are fewer than 30,000 home fans in Dusseldorf can be seen from the fact that it is average.

However, the remaining more than 20,000 seats were filled with Dortmund fans, overseas Chinese, Cheng Hai's personal fans, news reporters, scouts, etc.

This was Cheng Hai's last race in 2011. Prior to this game, Cheng Hai's annual goal record in 2011 had reached 149 goals and was about to break the 150-goal mark.

The previous world record for total goals was set by Gerd Muller in 1972 with 85 goals, a record that had been held for 39 years before Cheng Hai, nearly 40 years ago.

Before Cheng Hai, even people thought that Gerd Muller's 85 goals a year were miraculous, accomplished in an era when defense was not taken seriously.

In modern football, which is more defence-oriented, it is no longer possible for anyone to break Gerd Muller's annual world record of 85 goals.

However, unexpectedly, Cheng Hai was born out of nowhere, and at the age of less than 20, he not only broke Gerd Muller's record, raised the record to the triple-digit level, and even raised the record to 149 goals close to 150 goals.

It's a jaw-dropping, unbelievable record, but it's happening.

Moreover, today's last game in 2011, the opponent is still a German B team, the strength is lackluster, everyone believes that in such a game to meet such an opponent, even if the opponent goes all out to defend Cheng Hai, it will not be able to hold.

Cheng Hai was able to score nine out of nine, breaking the annual 150-goal mark.

That's why so many non-home fans rushed to the away stadium to try to witness Cheng Hai's annual record of 150 goals.

Everyone is waiting for the moment when Cheng Hai scores a goal and breaks the 150-goal mark for the year.

Of course, this is not a time to look forward to for Borussia Dortmund's opponents, Fortuna Dusseldorf.

If Cheng Hai scores a goal to break the 150-goal mark, then they will inevitably become the news background for Cheng Hai to swipe the screen in the media.

Even if they are weak, even if they are a Bundesliga team, they don't want to be in such a background.

Therefore, at 21:30 in the evening, after the start of the third round of the 2011/2012 German FA Cup Dusseldorf vs Dortmund, Fortuna Dusseldorf, who was playing at home, sent a defensive formation of 541 to defend the range within 30 meters of the goal.

Of course, the key target is Cheng Hai.

They were doing their best to prevent Cheng Hai from scoring, and they didn't even pay much attention to counterattacks.

With the strength of their Bundesliga team facing the top of the Bundesliga, when facing the Dortmund attack led by Cheng Hai, they really have no time to think about attacking and scoring goals.

Defending with all their might and trying to drag the game into extra time or even a penalty shoot-out is their strategy and tactics.

In the opening 20 minutes, Fortuna Dusseldorf's defence did work well.

Because they are playing at home, they get into the groove faster and they are very hard defensively, and this is the last game of the year, and after the game, they will enter the winter break, and there is no need to think about conserving fitness.

Therefore, under the scramble and defense of the Dusseldorf players, Dortmund did not score a goal in the first 20 minutes.

Even if Cheng Hai is facing two or three people around him defending and interfering at any time, it is difficult to even get the ball, let alone shoot.

The only attack was in the 13th minute when Cheng Hai had a long shot from 28 meters from outside the penalty area, but unfortunately the distance was too far, even if Cheng Hai's shot went straight to the corner, but goalkeeper Michel Rataisak still saved the ball with plenty of time to save.

Other than that, Cheng Hai didn't get any other shots.

But it seems that there are no goals, and there are few threatening shots, but Cheng Hai and his teammates have not been fruitless in these 20 minutes.

Because the gap between the strength of the two sides is too big, even if the players of Fortuna Dusseldorf entered the game earlier and defended resolutely, Cheng Hai and his teammates still caused fouls and yellow cards from the opponent's two midfielders through passing and receiving the ball, personal breakthroughs, etc.

Just 20 minutes into the game, two defenders were booked. It can be seen how hard and difficult the players of Fortuna Dusseldorf defended in order to defend Dortmund and Cheng Hai.

As time passed, Cheng Hai and his teammates gradually got into the game, and two more players in the opponent became afraid to fight so hard because of yellow cards.

Finally, in the 26th minute, the defender Bozek, who had already carried a yellow card, made a mistake.

Outside the Cheng Hai penalty area, he took the ball to break through the defense of two people in a row, and when he was about to enter the penalty area, Bozek, who rushed from the side, hesitated, did not break the shovel, but tried to rush over to collide with Cheng Hai, so that Cheng Hai lost his center of gravity and lost control of the ball.

However, Cheng Hai's height, weight, physique, balance, and dribbling skills, how could he be knocked out of control of the ball by a German second-class player?

If he tackles in time and decisively, he may have a chance to shovel Cheng Hai's ball, even if he can't shovel it, he can foul Cheng Hai and prevent Cheng Hai from taking the ball into the penalty area to shoot.

However, it was precisely because he had already carried a yellow card that Bronzek hesitated slightly, and did not take extreme defensive actions such as side tackles, but hoped to use his body to collide and make Cheng Hai lose control of the ball.

As a result, he immediately regretted it.

Because when his shoulders collided with Cheng Hai, even if he added the pushing action in his hand, Cheng Hai did not fall to the side and lose control of the ball, but only shook his body, but kept moving the ball forward without stopping and continued to chase it.

And Bozek himself was left behind by Cheng Hai's instantaneous acceleration with the ball, and he stumbled because of the collision just now, losing his defense against Cheng Hai.

At this time, unless he tackles from behind Cheng Hai, he can stop Cheng Hai.

But at this time, Cheng Hai had already dribbled the ball to the line of the big penalty area, and when Bozek made a tackle, Cheng Hai would definitely fall in the penalty area.

In this case, he was no longer allowed to put a shovel from behind.

That's not only a matter of fouling and eating cards, but also giving Cheng Hai a penalty, what is the difference between that and giving Cheng Hai a ball?

It's better to save hope for your teammates in the box!

There are indeed people in the penalty area, but because of Cheng Hai and his teammates' passing and running positions outside the penalty area just now, as well as Cheng Hai's successive three, in fact, there is only one central defender Asani Lukimuya in front of him in the penalty area.

And Cheng Hai didn't need to break through Lukimuya, he just took the ball into the penalty area and changed the rhythm of the dribbling through smashing and dribbling, shook off an angle and immediately got up and volleyed.

The ball grazed past Lukimuya's outstretched toe and slid against the turf towards the bottom right corner of the goal.

Goalkeeper Rataisak has been keeping an eye on Cheng Hai and saved the moment Cheng Hai shoots.

However, Cheng Hai's shot played quite perfectly under the full value of the shooting, the ball went straight to the dead corner, although Rataisak tried his best to make a save at the first time, but he was still out of reach, and could only watch the ball drill into the net from forty or fifty centimeters in front of his palm against the goalpost.

In the 26th minute of the first half, Cheng Hai dribbled past three people and scored a low shot into the penalty area, helping Dortmund to take a 1-0 lead while also setting a new record for his annual total goals in 2011 to the height of the 150-goal mark.

In an instant, more than 20,000 away fans at the Paul Jens Stadium suddenly screamed and cheered, and even those Dusseldorf fans of the home team, some of them stood up and applauded Cheng Hai.

On the commentary seat, commentators from countless national TV stations around the world shouted excitedly in various Chinese languages:

"The ball went in, it went in, it went ......"

"150th goal!"

"Cheng Hai scored his 150th goal of 2011, it's incredible, it's unbelievable!"

"Somebody has scored 150 goals in a year!"

"Before Cheng Hai, I definitely didn't believe anyone could do this!"

"But, now, Cheng Hai really did it!"

"There is no doubt that Cheng Hai is the most powerful striker in the world, the striker who can score goals, the real striker and the king of the penalty area!"

Amid the screams of the fans, Cheng Haiye's teammates celebrated for more than half a minute before returning to their own half to get Fortuna Dusseldorf back on the pitch.

As soon as the game restarted, the suspense was lost.

Because, the significance of Dusseldorf preventing Cheng Hai from scoring and breaking through the 150-goal mark no longer exists.

Therefore, Fortuna Dusseldorf played some counter-attacks in the next game. Because, even if they know that the difference in strength is huge, they still fantasize that they can eliminate Dortmund and advance to the next round of the German Cup.

But the final score tells everyone that when the difference in strength is too large, it is difficult for luck to favor the weak team.

After 90 minutes, the score was 0-5 on the big screen, with the home team Fortuna Dusseldorf in front and the away team Borussia Dortmund in the back.

Below the score, there is the name of the scorer, of which Cheng Hai's name appears three times, proving that Cheng Hai scored a hat-trick.

In the end, Cheng Hai's annual total goal figure in 2011 was fixed at 152 goals, which is the final number of Cheng Hai's 2011 annual total goal record.

As some media declared after the game: 152 goals a year, it is simply a god-like number, an unsurpassable limit!

Except for Cheng Hai himself, such a record is absolutely unprecedented, unprecedented, and impossible for anyone to surpass.