Although the goal assist double hat is a huge honor for Cheng Hai, it is definitely enough to go down in European history.

However, for Borussia Dortmund, the more important significance of this match with Benfica is that Cheng Hai's starting test was an unprecedented success.

Facts have proved that Cheng Hai's physical fitness can support him to play through the first half, take a break at halftime, and continue to play in the second half.

In this way, Cheng Hai, who can play sixty or seventy minutes in the two halves combined, has improved Dortmund's offensive ability?

Not to mention the League Cup, the confidence of the club to win the league is getting more and more abundant.

Three days later, on March 19, in the 27th round of the Bundesliga, Dortmund sat at home and faced Mainz.

Although the game against Benfica was fierce, Klopp rotated many main players, but Cheng Hai's start was enough to make Dortmund win.

The final result did not disappoint Klopp and the crowd either.

Cheng Hai easily scored a brace and scored an assist in the more than 60 minutes of the two halves combined, helping Dortmund win 3-1 at home in the end.

Subsequently, the world football entered the FIFA match day, and the Chinese team did not have any official games, just two warm-up games, and Cheng Hai did not go back.

Cheng Hai, who has become more and more popular recently, has been favored by more international brands, so he has signed several advertising endorsements with Baker in the past few days.

On April 2, the league rekindled, and in the 28th round of the Bundesliga, Dortmund continued to sit at home against Hannover 96, and Cheng Hai continued to start.

Because the next match is the first leg of the UEFA Cup quarter-final against PSV Eindhoven in the Eredivisie, and it is only four days apart.

Therefore, Klopp still retained some of the main players in this game, allowing the players who should be called back to the national team during the FIFA break to have a good rest.

Even so, Dortmund, who started with Cheng Hai, easily won 5-1 at home and continued to lead the standings.

Cheng Hai, on the other hand, completed another hat trick, and the number of goals in the Bundesliga has reached 29, approaching the 30 mark.

Even in the ranking of the European Golden Boot Awards, Cheng Hai is in a leading position.

The European Golden Boot Award is a very well-known and highly valuable award in the world, which is ranked by the top leagues in Europe for league goals, not counting cups and European competitions, only league goals.

The top scorer in the league that season won the European Golden Boot for that season.

Think about it and know that being able to win the European Golden Boot Award for the most league goals that season in European football, which is the center of world football, full of giants and countless superstars, must be a bargain.

Therefore, the goalscorers of the major leagues must not only compete for the top scorer in the domestic league, but also join the competition for the European Golden Boot if the goal statistics are good.

However, in order to avoid the scorers of the minor leagues from brushing the data and reducing the gold content, the European Golden Boot Awards are ranked using a point system.

The points coefficient of the five major leagues is 2, the points coefficient of the Portuguese Super League, the Eredivisie and other secondary leagues is 1.5, and the league points coefficient of small countries such as Wales and Lithuania is only 1.

That is to say, in the points ranking of the European Golden Boot Awards, a goal scored by a scorer in the five major leagues is counted as 2 points, while a scorer in a minor league is only counted as 1 point, which avoids the possibility of a scorer in the minor league scoring a goal on the fish belly team to win the European Golden Boot Award.

Of course, this system is essentially tilting towards the five major leagues to increase the popularity and gold content of this award.

Because of the relationship of 2 points, as long as you score the first number of goals in the competition of the five major leagues, you are basically the winner of the European Golden Boot.

The European Golden Boot winners in recent seasons are all from the five major leagues, such as Henry, Mackay, Forlan, Totti, Ronaldo, Messi, etc., all of whom are goalscorers from the five major European leagues.

Originally, Cheng Hai was delayed by the Asian Games and the Asian Cup, and the number of league goals was delayed, and the previous top of the European Golden Boot goal list was Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo, who occupied the first place in the European Golden Boot goal list with 28 La Liga goals.

However, in the league on April 2, Cheng Hai scored a hat-trick to lead Dortmund to a 5-1 victory over Hannover 96, bringing his league goals to 29.

However, Ronaldo's Real Madrid overturned at home and was defeated 1-0 by Sporting Gijón at the Bernabeu Stadium.

The entire team of Galaxy Battleship did not score, and naturally Ronaldo did not score, and the number of goals remained at 28.

Therefore, after this round of the league, Cheng Hai surpassed Ronaldo's 28 La Liga goals with 29 Bundesliga goals and became the temporary first place in the European Golden Boot goal list this season.

Cheng Hai's ranking naturally caused an uproar.

You know, Ronaldo has been a superstar for many years, and when he transferred from Manchester United to Real Madrid in 2009, the transfer fee was as high as 94 million euros, setting a world record that no one has broken so far.

In other words, Ronaldo is the most valuable player in world football supported by transfer data.

Cheng Hai actually surpassed Ronaldo in the ranking of the European Golden Boot Award, and it is possible to win the European Golden Boot Award this season, which is simply too bullish.

Especially for Chinese fans, before Cheng Hai appeared, they didn't even dare to think about the European league golden boot.

Unexpectedly, now, Cheng Hai, who has just debuted in his first season, will directly compete with a world superstar like Ronaldo for the European Golden Boot Award.

Too much face, too much ambition? The fans were very excited, and they did voluntary publicity for Cheng Hai on various occasions, which increased a lot of fans for Cheng Hai and turned many ordinary fans into iron fans.

As for Cheng Hai himself, after seeing that he ranked first in the European Golden Boot goal list, he suddenly asked the system and asked if he would get a different or even higher reward from the Bundesliga Golden Boot if he won the European Golden Boot.

The system answered in the affirmative.

This made Cheng Hai suddenly even more excited.

It seems that in the future, we will continue to score goals in every league game!

In other words, Ronaldo has staged a big four in La Liga, and Cheng Hai has not staged a big four in the Bundesliga!

Gotta work in that direction.

Otherwise, it is not good which game of Ronaldo will have a big four, and Cheng Hai will be surpassed.

However, there is still a little more to go in the league and Dortmund will face the UEFA Cup quarter-finals against Eredivisie giants PSV Eindhoven.

Before the competition, Cheng Hai's height had grown by 1cm to 180cm. The weight also increased by 1kg to 76kg.

In this way, Cheng Hai's ability to compete for the top and fight in the opponent's penalty area has increased a lot.

In terms of physical confrontation ability alone, I'm afraid those 190cm big men can't touch Cheng Hai, who has a full physique.

Next, it's time to get to the test of Eindhoven.

PSV Eindhoven, like Benfica, is not a team in the top five leagues, but it is also a second-tier giants who have won the UEFA Champions League.

As one of the three giants of the Eredivisie along with Ajax and Feyenoord, PSV Eindhoven's strength is not weaker than Benfica.

The home-and-away schedule is also relatively unfavorable for Borussia Dortmund, and the Hornets can only win as big as possible at home to ensure that the away team is not eliminated by their opponents.

Therefore, Klopp sent the strongest lineup under his command, and Cheng Hai naturally started the game.

At 21:00 on the evening of April 6, 2011, the first leg of the 2010/2011 UEFA Cup quarter-finals match between Dortmund and PSV Eindhoven officially began with the cheers of tens of thousands of fans at the Westfaren Stadium and the referee's whistle.

Although it was an away game, although facing the threat of Cheng Hai in the starter, PSV Eindhoven did not play a defensive counterattack, but bravely played an offensive battle with Dortmund at the Westfalen Stadium.

Because, for the Dutch team, they are more familiar with the technical flow of the all-attack and all-defending, and if you let them play defensive counter-attack, they won't be able to play well, let alone play well.

It's better to play to your strengths and fight with Dortmund. Even if you lose, it's nice to get two away goals.

The idea is beautiful, but the reality is cruel.

PSV Eindhoven are attacking teams, and so are Borussia Dortmund.

Moreover, Dortmund has Cheng Hai, a perfect scoring machine, who has thrown PSV Eindhoven a few streets away in terms of offensive efficiency.

What's more, Cheng Hai on Dortmund's side is still the starter, just like when he faced Benfica in the second leg of the quarterfinals.

In this case, PSV Eindhoven and Borussia Dortmund are attacking?

Isn't that self-defeating?

So, blessed are the Hornets fans at home.

In just 6 minutes of the opening game, Cheng Hai used his running position to receive a pass from his teammates in the midfield, and then used his speed and breakthrough skills to connect three people to form a single knife, and hit the big penalty area and fired a low shot into the far corner.

Cheng Hai opened the scoring for Borussia Dortmund, who led 1-0.

What's more, Cheng Hai's goal is his 15th League Cup goal this season, which has tied Klinsmann's personal single-season League Cup goal record.

Therefore, the moment the ball shot by Cheng Hai rolled into the Eindhoven goal, the entire Westfaren Stadium was boiling, and the commentators on the commentary bench collectively shouted:

“Toooooooooooooooooooooooor……”

"The ball is in!"

"Cheng Hai has scored again!"

Cheng Hai scored his 15th goal in the UEFA Cup this season, equalling Klinsmann's personal record of 15 goals in a single season set in 1995/1996.

"This is Cheng Hai's first season in professional football, and he has equaled Klinsmann's record."

"It's incredible!"

"Saying that Cheng Hai is a genius, I don't think anyone will object."

"The point is that this game is not over yet, and this season's League Cup is not over yet, Cheng Hai still has a chance to break the record and create a new record of his own."

"Let's wait and see!"

The Dortmund fans in the stands shouted Cheng Hai's name in unison and bowed to him.

The teammates also gathered around and celebrated with Cheng Hai for a long time, and then they were complained by Eindhoven because the celebration was too long, and the celebration ended under the intervention of the referee.

After the game restarted, PSV Eindhoven launched a powerful counter-attack, and the Dutch all-attacking and all-defensive skills were indeed unique, and they sent the ball into the Dortmund box in the 11th minute through a series of exquisite combinations, and the striker Lens completed the final blow.

However, Lens's shooting skills cannot be compared to Cheng Hai at all, he can only suppress the ball as much as possible within the goal frame, but he cannot choose the angle of the shot when the opportunity is fleeting like Cheng Hai.

As a result, Lens's shot appeared to be slightly angled and was saved by Weidenfeller, who was giving it all out.

Although the goal was not out of the line and there was still a chance to make a follow-up shot, PSV Eindhoven's players were too far away to grab the goal.

In the end, the ball was cleared by Borussia Dortmund defender Hummels out of the box.

In fact, the overall ability of the two teams to create shooting opportunities is similar, but the difference in the last shot is too great, which is reflected in the goal statistics, and in the end it is a world of difference.

Originally, there were not many opportunities to shoot in a football game, and if you still fly, miss, be saved by the goalkeeper, and be destroyed by the defender, you won't be able to score any goals in that game.

On Dortmund's side, because Cheng Hai has full marksmanship, basically as long as he can create a chance to shoot, Cheng Hai can almost create a threat.

Although it cannot be said that every shot will be scored, the probability of scoring a goal is several times higher than that of the opponent.

For example, in the 16th minute, Cheng Hai once again ran out of the gap in the big penalty area and received a pass from his teammates to form a shot, but was destroyed by the opponent's defender flying and blocking the gun.

However, within a few minutes, in the 22nd minute, Dortmund made a comeback.

This time, Cheng Hai did not cross the bottom after breaking through on the wing, but unexpectedly suddenly cut inside with the ball, and with excellent technique and cooperation with teammates hitting the wall, he smoothly entered the penalty area to form a shot.

This time, no one flew in time to block the gun's hole.

Cheng Hai's shot flew smoothly under the goalkeeper's armpit and flew into the near goal against the post.

Less than half an hour into the first half, Cheng Hai scored a brace to give Dortmund a 2-0 lead.

More crucially, Cheng Hai's goal is his 16th goal in the League Cup this season, which has broken Klinsmann's League Cup single-season personal goal record and set a new record for the highest goal.

The commentators, who had already stood up collectively before Cheng Hai's shot, suddenly climaxed collectively after seeing the ball fly into the goal, and roared with all their might:

"The ball went in !!"

"New record!"

"A new record has been made!"

Cheng Hai scored again, he scored his 16th goal in the main draw of the League Cup, breaking Klinsmann's personal record of 15 goals in a single season in the League Cup, setting a new record.

"At the same time, it's the highest goal ever scored in Europe!"

"Following the feat of creating a double hat-trick of goals and assists last time and becoming the first person in European history, today, Cheng Hai has become the first person to score goals in a single season in Europe with a record of 16 goals."

Moreover, Cheng Hai's record can be improved. Because, this game is not over yet, this season's League Cup is not over yet, I even think that Cheng Hai may increase the League Cup single-season goal record to more than 20 goals, becoming a miracle that no one has ever looked up to, but cannot be approached. ”

In the excited roars of the commentators, Westfalun's live broadcast also led more than 80,000 Hornets diehard fans, shouting Cheng Hai's name over and over again, and worshipping Cheng Hai.

Such a record is naturally worthy of everyone's worship.

The Eindhoven players who fought with Cheng Hai for the first time can be regarded as having seen Cheng Hai's strength in person, and they had to restrain a little, and the back line guarded Cheng Hai tightly.

However, Dortmund is not Cheng Hai's team alone, and the other teammates are also quite strong.

After the game resumed, even if Cheng Hai did not score or assist, his dribbling, speed, and long passing ability in the air could provide great help to the team.

In the 37th minute, Cheng Hai took the ball on the right side of the midfield, but was surrounded by two midfielders and a fullback of the opponent, and it was difficult to break through.

However, on the other side of the pitch, on the left, the left midfielder Gotze was empty and unguarded, and he was cutting in at high speed and was about to form an anti-offside position.

Seeing this, after Cheng Hai shook off a gap by smashing the ball, he suddenly made a big foot near the side of the middle line, and a long pass in the air was transferred, and the ball was suddenly transferred to the left side.

And it's pretty accurate.

Gotze successfully countered offside and unloaded Cheng Hai's accurate long pass in the air with almost no one to defend.

PSV Eindhoven's defenders rushed over to defend and missed the middle.

After attracting the attention of one of the opposing defenders, Gotze suddenly braked through a change of tempo and then crossed wide.

Nuri Shaheen in the middle rushed forward and slammed the ball into the top right corner of the PSV Eindhoven goal before the defender's flying tackle could break it.

Borussia Dortmund scored another goal to give them a big 3-0 lead.

And this time, Cheng Hai did not rush to the front, neither scored nor assisted, but only came to the midfield with a long pass in the air, which broke through Eindhoven's defense, making Eindhoven realize that it is not feasible for everyone to defend Cheng Hai, but Cheng Hai can transfer the ball and let other teammates attack and shoot.

No way.

Attack, you can't score, you can't score. Defense, if there are fewer people, you can't prevent Cheng Hai, and if there are more people, Cheng Hai will transfer the ball out.

Such Dortmund, how can Eindhoven play?

I can't beat it!

Although the rest of the first half was not full of energy and Dortmund did not score again, after a 15-minute break in the midfield, Cheng Hai became lively again in the second half.

In the 51st minute, Cheng Hai performed a perfect rainbow pass again, playing the opposing fullback on the side, and then crossed the bottom.

Unfortunately, although Barrios grabbed the first point, the ball on the top was a little higher and flew off the crossbar, missing a chance to seal the win.