Chapter 126: Rushing Left and Rushing Right
A promoted polo team in the Bundesliga can freeze Cheng Hai for 45 minutes without scoring a goal, which is also very powerful.
Of course, this is not without a price.
Sometimes in order to prevent Cheng Hai's breakthrough or shooting, Augsburg's players inevitably use all their strength to pull and shovel Cheng Hai.
Even if Cheng Hai didn't want to fake a fall, in the face of these genuine fouls, he couldn't bear to fall to the ground, and then the opponent was shown a yellow card by the referee.
Throughout the first half, four Augsburg players received yellow cards.
Of course, the opponent is also very experienced, and the person who gets the yellow card doesn't foul Cheng Hai very much, but only assists in defense, mainly by other people who haven't eaten the card to make tactical fouls on Cheng Hai.
But even so, the four players who have already received yellow cards are still a ticking time bomb for Augsburg.
Therefore, at halftime, after Cheng Hai woke up from a deep sleep for ten minutes, Klopp told Cheng Hai to tell him to retreat in the second half and start from midfield to strengthen the dribble and break through.
Anyway, the team is already 4-0 ahead, and winning is a sure win, now it depends on whether Cheng Hai can score goals and break through the annual total goal mark of 100 goals.
Taking the ball from midfield, on the one hand, the opposition backline cannot follow that far. On the other hand, you can use Cheng Hai's speed and dribbling ability to try to make various breaks against the opposing defenders.
If you cause a foul on the opponent in the process, or even get a yellow card, you can let the opponent reduce the number of players.
Even if you can dribble into the box and get fouled by the opponent, you may get a penalty.
And when you don't have the ball, you need to increase the number of switchback runs and take the opportunity to shake off the opposing defenders.
Although the defensive attention of the opposing team is focused on Cheng Hai, Cheng Hai's off-ball movement has little effect, but his world's No. 1 speed and explosiveness are still a big advantage.
Once he runs at full speed, there will definitely be many people on the other side who can't keep up.
On Dortmund's side, even if Cheng Hai is too fast and may not be able to receive the passes of his teammates, his full-value stopping skills can make up for some and should be able to receive some passes.
Although in this way, it may be that Cheng Hai will not be able to hold out for even 20 minutes in the second half. But otherwise, you won't be able to break through the walls of Augsburg, so you can only try this method.
However, what is slightly disappointing is that after the start of the second half, Augsburg made a substitution first, replacing one of the defenders with a yellow card, and replacing it with a new force with no yellow card and full of physical energy, and continued to defend Cheng Hai strictly.
As a result, there are only three players with yellow cards on the field.
Despite this, Cheng Hai did not flinch, and still rose to the challenge, following the method instructed by Klopp, first the position and then retreated, until he withdrew to the vicinity of the midfield.
No matter how tightly Augsburg defended, it was impossible to move the defensive line to such a high front, and only a few midfielders could defend it.
But in this way, it is impossible to completely block Cheng Hai's route to receive the ball.
With Cheng Hai's off-ball movement and speed, it is no problem to get a pass from a teammate near the midfield with huge space.
Then he can use his physique, dribbling, speed, breakthrough technique, etc., to attack with the ball.
The change in Cheng Hai was something that Augsburg had not expected before.
In the 46th minute, just one minute into the second half, Cheng Hai retreated to the left side of the center circle to get a pass from his teammate, and then began his performance. Because the number of defenders near the midfield is too small, and the people involved in the defense and interception of Cheng Hai are all midfielders, not professional defenders, and their defensive ability is not as good as the players on the back line.
Therefore, although there is no striker who does not understand defense at all, he still can't stop Cheng Hai.
Facing the first player, Cheng Hai naturally used a perfect ox tail, shook the opponent away in one fell swoop, and broke through the opponent.
Although the other party immediately turned around and followed, Cheng Hai's speed was too much faster than him, not only did he fail to catch up with Cheng Hai, but he didn't even have a chance to foul, but was thrown farther and farther away by Cheng Hai.
Subsequently, two more players stopped Cheng Hai on his way.
Cheng Hai first put himself in a situation of facing off against one player of the opposing side through the change of dribbling route and rhythm, and the other player was placed on the side.
Then, he did the perfect cycling. After stepping on four bicycles in a row, the other party was finally deceived by Cheng Hai's flawless and natural feints and lost his center of gravity and fell to the ground, while Cheng Hai broke through from the inside of the opponent.
It is precisely because it is on the inside, and there is another player, that it is sudden and deceptive.
Cheng Hai broke through the first one with a bicycle, and then used his physique to resist the collision of another player on the side, and dribbled to the front of the big penalty area.
At this time, Cheng Hai had already broken through three people in a row, causing the opposing guard line to swarm.
There were three players who surrounded Cheng Hai from all directions, and they were about to form an encirclement with the players behind him who had just broken through him.
If the opponent succeeds in surrounding several people, then even with Cheng Hai's full-value dribbling skills, there is only one way to concede the ball.
But Cheng Hai naturally won't throw the ball out easily.
Although there was a full distance of twenty-seven or eight meters from the goal at this time, Cheng Hai still decisively dialed to the side, dodged a gap, and then immediately started to shoot.
Cheng Hai's full value of shooting power and shooting skills, the shot he hit is naturally powerful, there is no lack of strength, speed, and angle.
Unfortunately, it was a little too far away, and goalkeeper Simon Yanqi was also quite attentive and reacted to the first save.
But Cheng Hai's shot was too awkward, and although Yanqi eventually touched the ball, he couldn't lift the ball off the crossbar, but the ball hit his palm, jumped up, and then hit the crossbar, and bounced back into the penalty area, before being kicked off the sideline by an Augsburg defender.
Seeing this rebounding ball, Cheng Hai suddenly had a new idea.
Not only can he strengthen his breakthrough shots, but he can also use multiple shots to create clearance errors or saves for opponents.
He noticed just now that after he finished shooting, the players around him finally stopped staring at him, but involuntarily followed the ball with his shot to see if his shot would turn into a goal.
In that case, the next time he finishes his shot, he has a brief chance to be unmarked or undermarked, and he can use his off-the-ball movement and pace to burst into the box and take advantage of what may be fleeting follow-up shots.
Although opportunities may not arise and may not be seized, they must always be tried.
In the next time, Cheng Hai, as Klopp said, kept retreating to the midfield to receive the ball, and then rushed left and right with the ball in the huge cheering of the fans, and then kept trying to shoot, looking for as many opportunities as possible.
With Cheng Hai's strength of more than 20 perfect skills, when he deliberately strengthened the dribbling breakthrough, it was indeed difficult for Augsburg to defend Cheng Hai perfectly.
In the 48th minute, another player tackled Cheng Hai while trying his best to defend and received a yellow card.
In the 49th minute, Cheng Hai hit an earth-shattering violent long-range shot, which was neither destroyed by the opponent's defender flying to block the gun's hole, nor was it saved by the goalkeeper, but hit the post and bounced back to the penalty area.
However, Cheng Hai himself did not predict the direction of the rebound of the ball, so although he rushed into the penalty area, he failed to grab the first point to complete the follow-up shot.
But this goal made Cheng Hai see the possibility of scoring a supplementary goal.
Cheng Hai's dribbling breakout continued.
In order to stop Cheng Hai's breakthrough and shooting, the Augsburg players did their best.
However, Cheng Hai passed the ball out in the 54th minute after breaking through two players.
In the past, Cheng Hai broke through the ball by himself, until he completed the shot or was put down by the opponent, and he never passed the ball to his teammates in the middle.
Therefore, Cheng Hai's split ball at the front of the big penalty area this time stunned the players who defended him.
It was this time that Cheng Hai, who had no ball at his feet, ran flexibly on a broken line, hit the line of the big penalty area, and received the ball from his teammate Gundogan.
It was a sudden collision with the wall during a breakthrough.
It is also a tactic that Cheng Hai suddenly figured out after the first few breakthroughs, with the help of his teammates, although the opponent will still focus on him in the main defense, but if he does not have the ball at his feet, it will be easier to break through in the run.
That's it this time.
Originally, he had already broken through two people, and his speed slowed down, and it was difficult to break through the two defenders in front of him in a row.
But Cheng Hai did not break through directly, but passed the ball out, and when there was no ball under his feet, it was easier to break through when the five-ball run.
After completing the off-ball breakthrough and receiving the ball back from a teammate, it is much easier to shoot.
This time it was like this, Cheng Hai, who broke through to the line of the big penalty area without the ball, received the ball back from the cooperation with Gundogan hitting the wall, Cheng Hai did not wait for the other defenders of the opposing side to block his shooting route, and volleyed the ball to the bottom left corner of the goal in the run.
However, because Augsburg's defense against him was too tight, Cheng Hai's shot was relatively hasty, and the angle was not good, but he was still saved by the attentive goalkeeper Simon Yanqi for the first time.
But Cheng Hai's shot was on the line of the big penalty area, and the distance was already quite close, only more than ten meters, much closer than the long-range shot of 267 meters.
Therefore, although Yanqi pounced on the ball, he couldn't save the ball completely.
The ball hit his finger and changed direction slightly to continue towards the goal.
In the expectant eyes of countless fans at the scene and in front of the TV, the ball slammed into the post and rebounded back into the penalty area.
In the 54th minute, Cheng Hai completed another shot, and it was a threatening shot on the penalty line.
Unfortunately, the goal was not scored and was saved by goalkeeper Yanqi.
The ball was touched by Yanqi and finally bounced off the post, but it didn't bounce into the goal.
The Dortmund fans suddenly sighed and looked disappointed, while the Augsburg players and coaches breathed a sigh of relief.
was finally saved again, and Cheng Hai did not score a goal to break the annual 100-goal mark, making them the background emperor of media reports and heated discussions around the world.