Chapter 238: Yesterday Reappears
After Cheng Hai has completed the goal of the 400-goal milestone, the players of Augsburg are no longer just against Cheng Hai.
If you continue to guard against Cheng Hai alone, it is not good to be scored more goals and lose by other Dortmund players.
In the end, Cheng Hai scored a goal in each half of the game, and also had an assist, while the other Dortmund players scored three goals and Dortmund won 5-0 at home.
After the game, the media around the world reported the news that Cheng Hai had reached the milestone of 400 goals in his career.
There are many prolific strikers who have scored 400 goals in their careers, but completing 400 goals in three seasons is something that no one can do, and only Cheng Hai can do it, which certainly deserves a lot of coverage and praise.
Three days later, on 9 April, Borussia Dortmund hosted the second leg of their Champions League quarter-final tie against Malaga.
With a 4-1 win away from home in the first leg, Dortmund could naturally sit back and wait for the gap to leak out after the opponent's attack.
Malaga also had no choice, even if they knew Dortmund's intentions, they could only press on all fronts and attack aggressively.
Because they were three goals behind at home in the first leg, they had no choice but to attack aggressively in the second leg and fight for the negligible and almost zero chance of a reversal.
But Malaga's suicidal assault did not meet the results they wanted, and it only took a few minutes to receive a deadly counterattack from Borussia Dortmund.
Although he has paid great attention to the defense of Cheng Hai's counterattack when attacking, Cheng Hai's personal ability is still too strong, and he can't defend it strictly, not to mention that it is only a defense in the offense.
In the 8th minute, it was a straight plug from the defender Sebastian Kyle after breaking the ball, which allowed Cheng Hai to share the ball with a homeopathic person when he received the ball, forming a chance to go to the meeting alone.
The rest is simple.
When dribbling the ball to the outside of the penalty area, Cheng Hai sent the ball into the goal behind the opponent with a relaxed and freehand hanging shot.
1-0!
Cheng Hai gave Dortmund a huge lead of 1-0 in the second leg and 5-1 in the second leg.
The difference of four goals was enough to send Málaga into despair, but the game had to go on.
Even if they don't even have a 1 in 10,000 chance of turning the tables, as professional players, they still have to continue to attack.
But they are short of an efficient striker like Cheng Hai, even if they get the opportunity to shoot, they can't grasp it, and they can't finally form a goal.
In the 19th minute, Cheng Hai's long pass from the right side to the left side made Reus easily score Dortmund's second goal of the game.
Borussia Dortmund have a 6-1 lead over two legs, and there will be no surprises, and Malaga will never be able to turn it around.
The Málaga players also realized this, and instead of attacking aggressively in the rest of the game, they first stood on the defensive to avoid conceding more goals and causing a tragedy, and then waited for the opportunity to counterattack.
Jurgen Klopp made two substitutions at half-time and used up a third substitution in the 70th minute to give the main players a break.
At the end of the season, Dortmund, which is fighting in the Bundesliga, German Cup, and Champions League, is basically two games a week, which is a great physical test for the players, and the main players must be given more rest time as much as possible.
In the end, the game was 4-0, Cheng Hai scored one goal in the first half, scored two in the second half, scored a hat trick, and finally the goal scored by Reus was assisted by him, Cheng Hai made all four goals for the team alone, and Dortmund also advanced to the semi-finals with an aggregate score of 8-1.
With the three Champions League goals in this game, Cheng Hai also surpassed Shepchenko with 48 goals, Di Stefano with 49 goals, and Thierry Henry with 50 goals, only behind Raul with 71 goals, Messi with 59 goals, and Van Nistelrooy with 56 goals, ranking fourth in the Champions League all-time scorer list.
Cheng Hai surpassing Raul and topping the Champions League's all-time scorer list is just around the corner.
In the other semi-final that ended at the same time, Real Madrid eliminated Galatasaray without any suspense and advanced to the last four of this season's Champions League.
The next day, the other two semi-finals were decided, with Barcelona knocking out Paris Saint-Germain and Bayern Munich knocking out Juventus to advance to the semi-finals.
This season's Champions League semi-finals are all produced by Real Madrid and Barcelona from La Liga, Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund in the Bundesliga.
This scene can't help but remind everyone of last season. Because last season's Champions League semi-finals, the same four teams, none of them changed.
Last season, Barcelona and Borussia Dortmund eliminated Bayern Munich and Real Madrid respectively to advance to the final, and finally Dortmund defeated Barcelona 3-1 to win the Champions League, ushering in the new era of the Bundesliga's first treble and six crowns of the year.
However, this season's Champions League semi-finals have some differences from last season in terms of format. Last season, only the quarter-final draw was held, and the semi-finals were also decided.
This season, however, UEFA has made changes to include a draw for the semi-finals and the removal of the restriction on not playing against teams in the league.
In other words, it is entirely possible that there will be La Liga and Bundesliga national derbies between Real Madrid vs Barcelona and Bayern Munich vs Borussia Dortmund in the semi-finals.
Of course, the last thing the other three teams want is to be drawn to play Borussia Dortmund.
Dortmund, which has Cheng Hai, is something that no team wants to encounter.
Although after entering the final, they have to touch it after all, but before entering the final, no one wants to run into Dortmund and go home early.
Real Madrid, in particular, was eliminated 7-4 by Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League semi-finals last season, and this season the two teams were placed in the same group, and Real Madrid lost 13-5 over two legs, which is a shame.
Although everyone fantasizes about it, they can't help but think that the semi-final draw can draw Dortmund and take revenge, but from a realistic point of view, it is better to avoid Dortmund.
On 13 April 2013, the day after all the Champions League semi-finals were announced, UEFA held a draw for the 2012/2013 Champions League semi-finals.
The results were surprising, and the situation of the semi-final draw was exactly the same as last season: Dortmund vs Real Madrid, Bayern Munich vs Barcelona.
When the draw results came out, many people felt sad for Real Madrid.
Bayern Munich and Barcelona may be evenly matched, but Real Madrid, looking at the history of the two teams in last season's semi-finals and the last four games in this season's group stage, you know: Real Madrid is likely to be tragic.
Many people have a premonition that Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho is about to leave the class.
However, the semi-finals will not start until April 24, and there is still some preparation time, so now everyone will play the domestic league and cup competitions first.