Chapter 84: Benfica

After the game, the game became a blockbuster news reported by the media all over the world, and Cheng Hai's goal and assist double brace became the object of everyone's praise.

"After the German national derby, Dortmund defeated Bayern Munich 5-2 away! 》

"Dortmund beat Bayern twice this season, Cheng Hai scored a goal and assisted twice! 》

"Cheng Hai scored two goals and assists to dominate the German national derby! 》

"Cheng Hai captured the Allianz Arena in Munich, scoring goals and assists and scoring two braces! 》

"The German national derby staged a goal battle, Cheng Hai scored a goal and assisted two goals to lead the Hornets to beat Bayern 5-2! 》

On the Internet in various countries, Cheng Hai's fans are as excited as a holiday.

Now Cheng Hai's fans are not limited to overseas Chinese and Dortmund fans, there are many fans who are not related to Huaguo and Dortmund, and they have become his fans after watching Cheng Hai's games, and there are quite a few of them.

These are the fans who were really impressed by Cheng Hai's skills and goals, and everyone discussed them in social forums and chat groups:

"Cheng Hai is simply amazing, he scored two goals in one game, and Bayern Munich was stunned!"

"Haha, Van Gaal gloated before the game thinking that goalkeeper Weidenfeller was injured and he was going to take advantage of it and beat Dortmund! I didn't expect Cheng Hai to explode so violently, and he captured the Allianz Stadium alone. ”

"The key is Cheng Hai's playing time, which is not the whole game, only more than 30 minutes."

"In terms of the playing time spent on each goal, I will serve Cheng Hai, absolutely invincible in the world."

"Even regardless of the goal rate per unit time, in terms of the average goal per game, Cheng Hai now has 35 games and 54 goals in his career, and the average goal per game efficiency of 1.5 is also the highest in the history of football."

"A true peerless genius! I think with Cheng Hai's speed, physique, technique, and archery, it is possible to become a superstar like Ronaldo in the future! ”

"This is excessive! You know, Ronaldo's talent is considered to be the highest in football history, but it was delayed by an injury! If you don't get injured often, it is possible for Ronaldo to surpass Pele! ”

"Not necessarily! Cheng Hai only entered professional football at the age of 18, and Ronaldo has been playing football for seven or eight years at the age of 18. Cheng Hai now scored 23 goals in 17 games in the Bundesliga in his first season, and Ronaldo scored 30 goals in 33 games in Eindhoven at the age of 18, and his goal efficiency is not comparable to Cheng Hai. Although the season is not over yet, I think Cheng Hai can surpass Ronaldo's goals in his first season at PSV Eindhoven, and far surpass Ronaldo in terms of goals per game. ”

"Judging from the speed of Cheng Hai's progress, I also think it is entirely possible for him to surpass Ronaldo's achievements. However, Ronaldo's status has been accumulated from the club to the national team over the years, and Cheng Hai is still far from it, and it still needs to be accumulated. ”

"Anyway, anyway, I think Cheng Hai's football talent is the highest in the history of world football, it just depends on how far he can go in the end!"

"I'm optimistic about him!"

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The media and fans continued to talk about Cheng Hai for several days until the next league game arrived.

On March 4, in the 25th round of the Bundesliga, Dortmund hosted Cologne.

The Cologne team is ranked in the middle of the ranks, and its strength is naturally not as good as Dortmund. In addition, Dortmund is playing at home again, and everyone thought that Dortmund would win by a big score.

However, the last German derby against Bayern Munich took a lot of energy on the main players, and in order to prepare for the first leg of the next UEFA Cup quarter-final away to Benfica, Klopp changed almost half of the starting line-up for the league against Cologne.

Anyway, Bayern, who finished third in the last round, lost to themselves, and second-placed Bayer Leverkusen were forced to draw by their opponents, and Dortmund's advantage in the standings has expanded, and Dortmund can afford to lose this league game against Cologne.

What's more, Klopp only changed half of the starting lineup, and he didn't give up completely. Coupled with the fact that Cheng Hai, who has amazing recovery ability, can still come on as a substitute in the second half, the probability of Dortmund winning is even greater than the probability of losing.

In fact, this is also true.

Although before Cheng Hai went to the field, the away Cologne team withstood Dortmund's attack and kept the score 0-0 until the 60th minute of the second half.

But after Cheng Hai came on in the 60th minute, the Cologne team couldn't stand it.

Even Bayern Munich can't withstand Cheng Hai's attack, let alone the Cologne team?

Although many teammates were rotated, Cheng Hai's personal offensive ability was also very strong, and Cheng Hai's weight increased by 1kg before the game, reaching 75kg, and his offensive confrontation ability was even more extraordinary.

When the 90-minute game was over, the score on the big screen was 2-0, and Cheng Hai passed and shot in more than 30 minutes on the bench, helping Dortmund easily win 2-0 and continue to be the object of loud cheers from more than 80,000 Dortmund fans.

If it was other strikers who made the only two goals in the game with one pass and one shot in a game, there would certainly be no shortage of post-game reports.

However, everyone is tired of Cheng Hai's goals, and scoring a goal in a game is not even the average level per game in everyone's minds, so naturally there is not much reporting value.

Coupled with the fact that the Cologne team is not newsy, the media and the public have turned their attention to the upcoming Champions League and UEFA Cup.

Borussia Dortmund met Portugal's Benfica after beating Belarus' Borisov Bart to reach the round of 16.

Although Benfica's Portuguese Prieral League is not included in the top five leagues, the teams from the Portuguese Super League seem to be weaker than the teams in the top five leagues.

But in reality, in some years, the Portuguese Super League has surpassed Ligue 1 in European points to rank fifth. It's just that everyone traditionally and customarily places Ligue 1 in the fifth place of the five major leagues, not the Portuguese Super League, but this does not mean that the Portuguese Super League is weak. Although Borussia Dortmund are currently top of the Bundesliga and Benfica are only second in the Portuguese Super League, Klopp does not dare to be careless.

In terms of Champions League record and historical background, Benfica is even more like a giant than Borussia Dortmund.

In the comparison of Champions League titles alone, Benfica has two, while Dortmund has one.

And the number of Benfica's Champions League runners-up is even more staggering.

Of course, there is a famous Gutmann spell involved.

In other words, in 1961 and 1962, football coach Bella Gutmann led Benfica to defeat Barcelona and Real Madrid for two consecutive years to win the Champions League.

As a result, Gutmann asked Benfica's board of directors for a salary increase, which was refused.

Enraged, Gutmann issued a vicious curse as he left the team: "From now on, Benfica will not win the European championship in 100 years!" ”

Then, over time, the jaw-dropping results emerged one by one.

Since Gutmann's departure to 2010, Benfica have reached six finals, including five Champions League finals and one UEFA Cup final.

However, in the six European finals, Benfica lost all of them and did not win any of them.

This made Gutman's curse famous all over the world, and it also gave Benfica an inexplicable injury.

If they meet Benfica in the final, Dortmund may be much more relaxed and confident psychologically: anyway, the opponent is cursed by Gutmann, and he will definitely not win the championship.

But now it's not the final, it's the quarterfinals, and as you can see from the number of Benfica final defeats, Benfica's winning rate in European competition was very high before reaching the final, not a minor league.

That's why Klopp was so careful, not only rotating in the game against Cologne, but also rushing to Portugal two days in advance to carry out field adaptation training to improve the winning rate of playing away.

Of course, Dortmund be careful, and Benfica are even more careful.

If you are not careful, the existence of Cheng Hai has become a nightmare for all Dortmund's opponents. Even if Benfica is not a Bundesliga team, they already know Cheng Hai's name and know his offensive strength.

If Benfica wants to step on Dortmund's corpse to advance to the quarterfinals, they must contain Cheng Hai's play, otherwise everything will be empty words.

The two sides engaged in a psychological war before the game, but instead of insulting and attacking each other, they praised each other.

Jurgen Klopp claims that Benfica are European giants who come away from home to lose less and not to win.

The coach of Benfica said in an interview that Dortmund is the first in the Bundesliga, Cheng Hai is the first in the Bundesliga scorer list, and this League Cup quarter-final meets Dortmund.

Both sides try to paralyze each other by complimenting their opponents, but in reality both sides are very cautious and just wait for the game to come and see who can come out on top!