Chapter 228: Away Reversal

Shakhtar Donetsk is one of the most successful teams in Ukraine, and together with Dynamo Kyiv, they support most of Ukrainian football.

2009 was the pinnacle of Shakhtar Donetsk, who won the UEFA Cup in the 2008/2009 season and ascended to the European throne.

And, in the 2009 UEFA Super Cup, they held the six-time champions Barcelona to a 0-0 draw in 90 minutes of regular time.

It wasn't until the 115th minute of the second half of extra time that Messi assisted Pedro with a goal to beat Shakhtar Donetsk 1-0 and win the UEFA Super Cup that year.

These years have been relatively good years for Shakhtar Donetsk, so neither Klopp nor Dortmund have dared to be careless.

The last time the six-time champions Barcelona almost fell to Shakhtar Donetsk, don't this time the new six-time champion Borussia Dortmund planted at their feet, but it's funny.

The world of football is full of different possibilities, and it is often the case that the weak will defeat the strong for various reasons.

Even if Dortmund is the six-time champion of the previous year and the new Cosmos team, even if Cheng Hai is the new Mr. Golden Ball, he may not be able to lead Dortmund to win Shakhtar Donetsk to advance to the quarterfinals.

Therefore, Klopp only made a large rotation in the last league game, which led to Dortmund being forced to draw by Hamburg at their home stadium Westfalen, giving the South Korean media the capital to kick Son Heung-min to brag.

At 21:45 on February 13, 2013, Shakhtar Donetsk vs Dortmund officially started the first leg of the 2012/2013 UEFA Champions League 1/8 finals at the Metalist Stadium, which can accommodate 40,000 people.

During the pre-match warm-up, in addition to a small number of Dortmund fans who accompanied the team and some local Chinese fans in Ukraine, there were also many Shakhtar Donetsk fans who paid homage to him with banners or slogans that loved Cheng Hai.

However, when the game officially started, these home fans, who were still Cheng Hai fans during the pre-game warm-up, immediately put away their worship of Cheng Hai and joined the camp of booing Dortmund and Cheng Hai.

As long as Cheng Hai got the ball, except for a few Dortmund fans, more than 30,000 Shakhtar Donetsk fans in the stadium booed loudly, wanting to affect Cheng Hai's actions.

In the face of defending against foreign enemies, the Ukrainians are still very united.

Maybe it was affected by the cold weather, maybe it was the discomfort of the away game, maybe it was because of Gundogan's injury, Shaheen started the game, or maybe it was really disturbed by the boos of Shakhtar Donetsk fans.

At the beginning of the game, Dortmund's whole team did not play well, including Cheng Hai.

Cheng Hai tried to run long distances in the 5th minute, but only passed one person, and when he passed the opponent's second person, he was stabbed by the opponent's accurate snatch.

At that moment, the opponent played extraordinarily, and the instantaneous play exceeded the strength level under the blessing of Cheng Hai's system, resulting in the loss of the ball.

In the 9th minute, Cheng Hai got a chance to shoot from outside the penalty area, and even under the interference of the opposing defenders, he also hit a heavy artillery shot with good speed and quality, which hung directly in the lower right corner of the goal.

Just when Cheng Hai and his teammates widened their eyes and thought that the ball would go in and open the record, the 190cm tall Shakhtar Donetsk goalkeeper Pyatov reacted quickly to turn Cheng Hai out of the ball and save the bottom line.

Pyatov's performance won the applause of more than 30,000 fans at home, and also surprised Cheng Hai and others.

There was already a 115-minute effort to defend against the six-champion Universe team Barcelona in 2009, and this time facing the same six-time champion Universe team Dortmund, the morale of the Shakhtar Donetsk players and Pyatov's wonderful save made the players and fans suddenly boost their morale and play stronger.

In the case of Dortmund's delay in getting into the game, in the 21st minute of the first half, Shakhtar Donetsk actually scored first.

It wasn't their striker or midfielder who scored, but their right-back Srna.

It was the sudden insertion of right-back Srna that caught the Dortmund backline off guard, and when Hummels, Kyle and others went to mark the midfielders of the Shakhtar team, Srna cut inside from the wing, made a wall collision with his teammates and scored in the penalty area.

Srna's goal ignited the enthusiasm of more than 30,000 home fans at the Metalist Stadium, and the huge cheers and shouts seemed to make people think that there were more than 100,000 home fans on the opposing side.

Perhaps it was the opponent's goal that finally stimulated the Dortmund players.

Less than 10 minutes after Srna's goal, Dortmund finally scored in the 28th minute to equalise. However, this goal has nothing to do with Cheng Hai.

Because everyone knew Cheng Hai's threat, Shakhtar Donetsk focused their main defensive efforts on Cheng Hai, and as a result, Dortmund gave the rest of the players a chance, and finally full-back Reus assisted Lewandowski in the gap to score in the box.

Borussia Dortmund finally scored the first goal and equalised.

After Lewandowski's goal, Shakhtar Donetsk seemed to find out that Dortmund is not only Cheng Hai, but other players are also very capable and can score assists, and they have to increase their marking of Lewandowski, Reuss, Gotze, and Shahin.

This situation not only greatly reduced their own counterattack ability, but also made Cheng Hai's defensive pressure a lot lighter.

Although there are still people who keep him on hand and someone to make up for it at any time, Cheng Hai's super off-ball running ability and speed make it difficult for the opponent to completely control and defend.

As a result, more than ten minutes after Lewandowski scored, Cheng Hai scored his first goal of the game in the 43rd minute before the end of the first half.

The way of scoring the goal, officially through the change of direction acceleration run to get rid of the opponent's run out of the gap on the line of the big penalty area, facing the inverted triangle pass after Mario Gotze cut down the bottom on the side, Cheng Hai slashed the ground with a strong kick, and finally opened his goal account.

Cheng Hai scored his first goal of the game and also helped Dortmund to a 2-1 comeback.

Whether it is Cheng Hai himself or the whole team of Dortmund, they have finally entered the game.

With the whole team playing normally, it is basically difficult for the opponent to have a chance to win.

Even though Shakhtar Donetsk, who were playing at home, did their best in the cheers of the fans, and scored a goal in the corner kick duel in the second half of the game, the final score on the big screen was still 2-4, Shakhtar Donetsk lost the first leg of the 1/8 final at home, and lost four goals, and allowed Dortmund to score four away goals.

The suspense was almost lost in the second round.

Cheng Hai scored two goals in this game, which is a normal performance, not bad, and it can be regarded as an away game.

In general, the team won, and it was a 4-2 away victory, and also scored 4 away goals, and there was almost no suspense in the second leg to advance to the quarterfinals with an aggregate score, and Cheng Hai himself was very satisfied.