Chapter 41: Rick Paris Saint-Germain
After falling behind in the score, Paris Saint-Germain also became anxious and began to increase their attack.
Moreover, they changed two new forces in a row in order to break down Dortmund's defense.
And they really let them do it.
On the football field, luck is a big factor.
This time, in fact, Dortmund's defense did not cross, but Paris Saint-Germain had better luck.
In the 68th minute, seeing that he had been unable to create a threatening shot in the penalty area, the midfielder Chadume, who held the ball in Paris, suddenly came from outside the box with a heavy long-range shot.
In fact, although this shot is powerful and fast, it is too far away, and it is a full distance of 256 meters from the goal.
The angle is a bit awkward, but not to the extent that Cheng Hai goes straight to the dead end.
Goalkeeper Weidenfeller has already made a save, according to the direction of Weidenfeller's save and the direction of the ball's flight, even if the ball is not directly held by Weidenfeller, it will be saved and cannot form a goal.
But Paris Saint-Germain was lucky that Dortmund centre-back Sobiech, who was near the ball in the box, had his back to the goal and did not pay attention to goalkeeper Weidenfeller's save, but was bent on clearing the ball and destroying Chadume's long-range shot.
Therefore, Sobieh, who was a little far away, saw that he didn't have time to stand and destroy the ball, so he threw his whole person out from the side and came to a flying tackle.
Unfortunately, although his flying tackle touched the ball, it still did not destroy the ball as he imagined, but only touched the ball lightly.
Although the ball changed course a bit, it did not touch the ball out of the frame.
As a result, Chadumey's shot, which was not much of a threat, hit the tip of Sobiech's flying tackle, and flew into the net from behind Weidenfeller, who made a flying save.
In the 68th minute, Chadume helped Paris Saint-Germain tie the score at 1-1 with a ball that was generated by luck, and the few visiting Parisian fans in the stands who came with the team immediately burst into enthusiastic cheers.
The players and fans of Dortmund held their heads one by one, feeling that their luck was exhausted.
In particular, Sobiehe, the direct maker of the line change ball, lay on the ground for a long time and didn't get up, and he had a feeling of being faceless.
In the end, it was goalkeeper Weidenfeller who pulled him up.
Either way, the game has to go on.
Neither side was satisfied with a draw and continued to attack.
Because Grand Paris knew Cheng Hai's strength, in the previous ten minutes, Cheng Hai only had one shot on goal except for a penalty, and he also played at a slightly correct angle under the interference of the opposing defender and was pounced on by the goalkeeper.
However, now Cheng Hai can not only score goals by himself, he can also make balls.
Although you are not tall enough to grab a header, it is okay to occupy a position in the penalty area with your back to the goal and play for your teammates with your back to the goal.
He had previously provided assists to his team-mates and helped them draw against Sevilla.
With that experience, and the fact that the team can add this training content to their training, Cheng Hai can now not only grab points to shoot in the penalty area, but also play the role of making balls for his teammates.
So, in the 74th minute of the game, Dortmund played a successful positional attack.
This attack was not a counterattack, so there was no space for Cheng Hai to run offside without the ball, and the penalty area was full of players from both sides, so that Dortmund could not find space to shoot.
In such a situation, Cheng Hai took up his position on the right side of the penalty spot with his back to the goal, and behind him was a central defender from Paris pushing and defending him.
But with Cheng Hai's full physique, the centre-back can't get past Cheng Hai to stop him from receiving the ball.
What's more, he didn't dare.
If he goes around in front of Cheng Hai, Cheng Hai may turn to face the goal. In case a Dortmund player passes a wonderful pass, Cheng Hai can shoot directly.
Therefore, he can only defend Cheng Hai behind Cheng Hai and not let him turn around after receiving the ball.
Cheng Hai really received the ball.
Because there are so many people around the penalty area, every Dortmund player has someone around them to defend, and the next move after receiving the ball is not easy to do.
Therefore, Shinji Kagawa, who took the ball, was forced by the big Paris midfielders around him, and the ball was about to be lost, but he couldn't find a place to get the ball.
At this moment, Shinji Kagawa was guarding the ball while his eyes were out of the corner of his eye, but he saw left full-back Schmelzer quietly plugging in from the left wing.
In this positional attack, the midfielders, forwards, forwards, forwards, etc. were all guarded by Paris Saint-Germain's men, but the sudden insertion of fullbacks can often achieve unexpected results.
This is the case with Schmelzer this time, and the people of Greater Paris have not yet found Schmelzer's side plugged in.
But Shinji Kagawa saw it.
Following the direction of Schmelzer's run, Shinji Kagawa twisted his head and looked at the left side of the penalty area, where he saw a little space that could be exploited.
But apparently the opposing defenders also noticed there, blocking the route of Shinji Kagawa's pass to that gap.
Shinji Kagawa couldn't send the ball straight there, as long as he dared to pass the ball to the left side of the penalty area, he would definitely be intercepted halfway through.
What to do?
While carrying the pressing of the players around him, Shinji Kagawa looked at the penalty area, and then saw Cheng Hai, who was firmly occupying the position in the penalty area with his strong physique.
Cheng Hai had his back to the goal, and there were people who defended him closely, even if he received the ball, he couldn't turn around and shoot.
However, he can send the ball to the left flank.
This is a routine that has been practiced in training.
Shinji Kagawa immediately sent the ball to the feet of Cheng Hai in the penalty area, and at the same time shouted "left" in Chinese.
These are some simple terms that Cheng Hai and Kagawa Shinji have recently agreed on, such as left, right, back, leaking ball, etc., some are Chinese, some are Japanese, just see which pronunciation is simpler.
These two East Asian languages, except for Cheng Hai and Shinji Kagawa, are incomprehensible to Europeans, and even if they shout and cooperate on the field, the other party can't understand them and can't defend.
Just like at this time, Cheng Hai heard Shinji Kagawa shout a left word before receiving the ball, and knew that Shinji Kagawa meant to tell him to pass the ball to the left.
As a result, he is ready to pass the ball directly before he receives it.
And although the big Parisian player behind him heard Shinji Kagawa's shout, he didn't understand what it meant, so he couldn't make a corresponding defense.
As a result, just when everyone was nervously preventing Cheng Hai from turning around to shoot after receiving the ball, Cheng Hai kicked the ball to the left rib of the penalty area without stopping.
The players of Grand Paris looked in the direction of the ball rolling, and saw that the left wingback Schmelzer of the Hornets wearing the No. 29 jersey did not know when he rushed to the front, and was about to rush into the penalty area and receive a pass from Cheng Hai.
The Paris Saint-Germain defenders were stunned, and the two closest defenders rushed in the direction of the ball rolling at the same time, trying to clear the ball before Schmelzer did.
It's a pity that Dortmund's attack was extremely fast under the instigation of Shinji Kagawa, especially Cheng Hai's transfer, and there was no extra action, so that the speed of the ball conversion perfectly matched Schmelzer's sprinting speed.
Schmelzer, who rushed to the front, did not need to slow down at all, and when the two big Paris defenders just started, they rushed into the penalty area with an indomitable momentum, and then volleyed the ball without stopping and kicked the ball towards the goal of big Paris.
On and off the pitch, countless people looked at Schmelzer for his shot.
After he had that shot, all eyes were on goal, to goalkeeper Eder.
This is quite normal.
On the pitch, when someone shoots, most people's eyes will be involuntarily attracted by the shot, forgetting their own work.
But Cheng Hai did not forget.
The full value of running off the ball and grabbing points made him instinctively turn around the defender who had just defended him closely, and rushed into the small penalty area.
In front of the goal, when Cheng Hai received a pass from Shinji Kagawa and passed the ball to the left, Eder had already found Schmelzer's side plugged in and quickly pounced to the left side of the goal.
Eder's save was very timely.
And Schmelzer's shooting skills are not as good as Cheng Hai, although this shot is very powerful and very fast, but the angle is not very tricky.
Then, Schmelzer's burst shot from inside the box was saved by Eder.
But Schmelzer's powerful volley still caused Eder to make a mistake. Eder couldn't hold the ball down and hit him in the chest before bouncing gently back into the six-yard box.
Eder's reflexive limbs strained and he wanted to pounce forward and hold the ball under him.
However, before he could make a move, he saw a foot appear behind the ball and stabbed it into the goal behind him.
Then, he swooped down and didn't touch the ball, but only knocked a Dortmund player to the ground.
Eder didn't have time to see who had been knocked down, he just turned his head to look behind him, and found that the ball had rolled into the net, and he had to sigh in pain.
At this time, he turned his head to look at the Dortmund player who had been knocked down by him just now, only to find that it was the opponent's No. 9 Cheng Hai.
Didn't Cheng Hai pass the ball to Schmelzer in the big penalty area just now?
Why did you suddenly run in front of you?
At this moment, Eder's head was a little short-circuited, and he didn't know how Cheng Hai ran into the small penalty area.
In fact, of course, it is the role of Cheng Hai's full-value off-ball running and point-grabbing ability, and without using his head to command, Cheng Hai instinctively rushed into the small penalty area.
It's not that he knew that Schmelzer's shot would be saved, but that his body, which was full of off-ball running and point-grabbing skills, instinctively made the choice to maximize his benefits.
Once Schmelzer's shot is saved, the ball has the best chance of landing in the six-yard box.
Although this probability is extremely low, it is the easiest one for Cheng Hai to grasp all the landing points when the shot is saved.
As a result, Eder really couldn't save the ball, and the ball really fell at the feet of Cheng Hai.
Next, Cheng Hai just grabbed ahead of Eder and stabbed the ball into the Paris Saint-Germain goal with a light stab.
Running off the ball and tackling points is certainly not everything, but taking advantage of one such opportunity in a game is enough to score a goal.
Cheng Hai, who was running to celebrate, admired the power of the system plug-in.
In the 74th minute, Cheng Hai made a supplementary contribution in a positional attack by Dortmund, and stabbed the ball that Schmelzer shot into the goal after being saved by Eder, and scored a brace to help Dortmund take a one-goal lead again.
Cheng Hai, who scored a brace, swept all two goals of the game for Borussia Dortmund.
It can be said that without Cheng Hai, Dortmund may not be able to take the lead.
It's hard to say whether the first penalty will go in, and it's not like no one has missed it.
Therefore, Cheng Hai, who scored two goals, was warmly cheered by the fans. The live announcer and the fans cooperated tacitly with three consecutive sounds:
"It was ...... who scored the goal"
"Cheng Hai!!"
"It was ...... who scored the goal"
"Cheng Hai!!"
"It was ...... who scored the goal"
"Cheng Hai!!"
It also pushed the atmosphere to a climax, making hundreds of overseas Chinese and Chinese students fans who came to watch the game to support Cheng Hai excited.
However, when he scored the second goal, Cheng Hai had already played for more than 20 minutes.
Moreover, this is still a League Cup with a faster attack and defense speed than the Bundesliga, and Paris Saint-Germain is also stronger than Cheng Hai's opponents in the Bundesliga.
Therefore, not long after scoring the second goal, after 80 minutes, Cheng Hai basically couldn't run, and he no longer had the physical strength to run without the ball and grab shots, so he could only occupy the position with his physical advantage to do the work of transfer, and it was difficult to pose a threat to the opponent's goal.
But even so, Paris Saint-Germain did not dare to relax their guard against Cheng Hai.
With Cheng Hai's shooting skills, as long as he is given a chance to shoot, even if he has no strength, as long as he kicks the ball into a dead corner, there is a great possibility of forming a goal.
Therefore, no one dared to be careless, and no one dared to relax their defense against Cheng Hai.
At the same time, in the case of closely guarding Cheng Hai and preventing him from getting another chance to shoot, Paris Saint-Germain also attacked.
Trailing by just one goal, they still had a chance to equalise even in the last second.
Thus, PSG's attack continued until the last minute of stoppage time.
Sadly, they didn't have the same luck as they did when they scored the equaliser. Until the last second of the game, they were unable to score the equaliser.
Three minutes after stoppage time, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game and a brace from the substitute gave Borussia Dortmund a 2-1 victory at home to Paris Saint-Germain in the third round of the UEFA Cup group stage.
When the referee blew the final whistle, Cheng Hai collapsed directly to the ground.
In the last ten minutes, he was completely relying on his full physique, and in fact, he had no physical strength at all.
So, as soon as the game was over, he collapsed directly to the ground and didn't want to move.
However, with a brace to help Dortmund win a difficult victory, Cheng Hai was systematically rated as the best player of the game and received an additional 50,000 experience reward.
With the goal award and winning award, Cheng Hai's total experience has risen to level 19 547,600/700,000, and there is only more than 100,000 experience left before he can be upgraded.
In the other game played at the same time, Sevilla FC unsurprisingly won over Capadedi, taking all three points.
After the first three rounds of the group stage, Dortmund ranked first with 7 points with two wins and one draw, Paris Saint-Germain ranked second with 6 points with two wins and one loss, and Sevilla ranked third with 4 points with one win, one draw and one loss.
Not to mention that second-placed Paris Saint-Germain is only one point away from Borussia Dortmund, and third-placed Sevilla is only three points away from Dortmund.
The top three teams in the top three five major leagues still have to continue to fight, and it is difficult to qualify in advance.
It is worthy of the group of death.
After the game, Cheng Hai, who came on as a substitute again but scored a brace, was praised by major media throughout Europe.
As for the Chinese media, they were even more excited, with many saying that Cheng Hai dominated the game. If it weren't for Cheng Hai, Dortmund would probably not have been easy to beat Paris Saint-Germain.
From this point of view, it cannot be said wrong.
Cheng Hai's brace was indeed all Dortmund's goals in this game, and it is barely reasonable to say that he dominated the game.
Being able to score a brace in the UEFA Cup is even more exciting for Chinese fans.
Although Cheng Hai has only debuted for two months, and although Cheng Hai is only 18 years old, some crazy fans already regard Cheng Hai as the first brother of Chinese football.
Of course, this is only the private shouting of a very small number of fans.
After all, Cheng Hai's qualifications are too short, even if he has some goals, he still doesn't have any honor, and if he wants to be the first brother of Chinese football, he can't convince the public, and there is still some distance.
Fortunately, Cheng Hai didn't know this.
If he knew, I'm afraid he would scoff at it.
He didn't want to be the first brother of Chinese football in his heart, he wanted to be the king of football and the emperor of football.
With the system plug-in, if the goal is to dominate the country, it is simply too low.
It must be the conquest of the whole world.
Of course, that is very far away from the current Cheng Hai.
Let's focus on the game in front of us first.
The match against Paris Saint-Germain was very intense and everyone's physical exertion was very high.
Therefore, the day after the game, Klopp gave the whole team a day off to rest for a good day and resume training the next day.
On October 24, in the 9th round of the Bundesliga, Dortmund hosted Hoffenheim.
Hoffenheim are an amazing team, having only been promoted to the Bundesliga for the first time in history at the end of the 2007/2008 season, and then won the halfway title in 2008/2009.
Cheng Hai clearly remembers the "Huocun Miracle" that was popular all over the world that winter, and even they knew about this magical Bundesliga promotion polo team in their intense high school studies.
Although Hoffenheim didn't really win the final championship that season, the halfway victory has proved their strength and resilience.
After playing the first 8 rounds this season, Hoffenheim's results are not bad, ranking 4th in the standings, and Bayern Munich, Wolfsburg, Schalke 04, Werder Bremen, Hamburg and other strong teams are all under him, and the strength is quite good.
As it turned out, Hoffenheim really wasn't here to give away points.
At the Westfalen Stadium, Dortmund, who should have attacked aggressively and took the initiative in the game, were broken by Hoffenheim in the 9th minute.
Borussia Dortmund are 1-0 down.
Dortmund, who were then behind, attacked aggressively, but Hoffenheim, who had taken the lead, immediately retreated and started a defensive counterattack.
Although Dortmund were stronger overall, Hoffenheim relied on shrinking defense and foul tactics after taking the lead to maintain a one-goal lead until the end of the first half.
Even though they paid the price of three yellow cards in the first half, Hoffenheim managed to maintain a one-goal lead until half-time.
At half-time, Hoffenheim made another substitution, replacing two players who had received yellow cards and continued to hold on.
Dortmund tried all kinds of ways and made the same substitutions, but to no avail.
Today's goal luck was also a little worse, resulting in Dortmund still failing to score an equalizer until the 65th minute of the second half, which made the fans in the stands feel very depressed.
Fortunately, in the 65th minute, Klopp finally replaced Cheng Hai, who the fans had been waiting for and had high hopes for.
Everyone believes that Cheng Hai should be able to score a goal to help Dortmund equalize and even reverse the score.