Chapter 36: Seville

After the referee blew the final whistle, Cheng Hai really won the best player award recognized by the system.

Coupled with the experience of scoring goals and winning, Cheng Hai's experience has risen to level 18 351,600/500,000, and there is only more than 100,000 experience left before he can be upgraded.

After the game, the Ruhr derby, with red cards, yellow cards, penalties, injuries, and confrontations between players and fans, received a wide range of coverage and commentary not only in Germany and China, but also in Europe and Asia.

Cheng Hai's performance of scoring a brace for the first time since his career debut has naturally become the top priority of various media reports.

He scored eight goals in his first eight official matches in his career, an average of one goal per game. And none of the 8 games started, all of them came off the bench in the second half, and Cheng Hai actually only played twenty or thirty minutes in each game.

It's jaw-dropping to be able to maintain such a goalscoring efficiency with this amount of playing time.

Even Pele, the former king of the ball, can't do it to such an extent.

There may be a top striker who can average more than one goal per game in eight games at a certain time, but he can't average a goal in just over 20 minutes of playing time, let alone in his first eight games in football.

In addition, Cheng Hai also scored twice this time and topped the Bundesliga scorer list with 5 goals in four rounds.

A substitute player who didn't even start a game, topping the scorer list, is also a huge news hotspot.

Therefore, with the coverage of the Ruhr derby this time, Cheng Hai's popularity and popularity have ushered in another wave of skyrocketing.

For Borussia Dortmund, the Ruhr derby victory was also a multiplicity of benefits.

On the one hand, Dortmund won the Ruhr derby while sending their rivals Schalke 04 to a wave of four consecutive defeats.

At present, the first four rounds of the Bundesliga have all lost, and only Schalke 04 is left. Therefore, there is no suspense, Schalke 04 is in the last place in the standings.

If Schalke 04 are really relegated at the end of the season, it will be a feast for Borussia Dortmund.

In addition, for Dortmund itself, after winning this game, Dortmund has reached the third place in the standings with 9 points from three wins and one loss in four rounds.

You know, after losing at home in the first round, Dortmund was criticized. Now it turns out that Klopp is still a bit of a level, and the defeat in the first round was just an accident.

In front of Dortmund in the standings are Mainz, who have won all four games, and Hoffenheim, who have won three and drawn one.

In the long-term league battle, Dortmund may not have a chance to surpass Mainz and Hoffenheim and reach the top of the standings.

Of course, the focus is also on the word "long-term".

The league is a long-distance race and it is not surprising to win one or two games, and Dortmund will have to get more wins and step on all their opponents in order to win the title.

Although it was nice to win the Ruhr derby, it was only three days apart for the next league game.

As a result, the team couldn't celebrate, so they immediately went into training for the next league game.

On September 22, 2010, in the 5th round of the Bundesliga, Dortmund hosted Kaiserslautern.

Perhaps spurred on by an away win in the Ruhr derby last out, Dortmund played quite well in this game, leading 2-0 at half-time.

The second half went even further, with a third goal scored in the 65th minute from a corner kick by centre-back Hummels.

Borussia Dortmund have gone crazy 3-0 up.

In the 68th minute, Klopp made a substitution, and Cheng Hai came on as a substitute again.

Now Cheng Hai is famous in Germany, and any opponent knows how powerful he is, so Kaiserslautern strictly defended Cheng Hai.

The problem is that Dortmund is not alone with Cheng Hai.

As a result, in the 75th minute, Cheng Hai ran sideways in the penalty area and took away two defenders, but Nuri Shahin's pass was found by center forward Lewandowski.

Lewandowski, who received a pass from Shahin in the box, swept the ball into the Kaiserslautern goal with a half-turn sweep.

Borussia Dortmund leads 4-0.

With four goals down, Kaiserslautern completely lost confidence and was broken.

Moreover, Dortmund's four goals came from four different players, which can be called a multi-point flower, which makes Kaiserslautern at a loss to defend, and he can't concentrate on marking Cheng Hai at all.

So, in the 88th minute, Dortmund launched a wide attack, Mario Gotze and his teammates combined on the wing to get past the opposing full-back and then crossed the bottom, and Lewandowski fought for the top at the front point and caused chaos.

As a result, the ball was too high, and Lewandowski's duel did not touch the ball and rose to the top.

Although Lewandowski rose to the top, his battle for the top shook the opponent's defenders and goalkeepers fiercely, causing them to fail to keep an eye on Cheng Hai at the first time.

And Cheng Hai's full-value off-ball running and point-grabbing skills played a role at this time.

Cheng Hai, who rushed to the spot where the ball landed for the first time, pushed the ball firmly into Kaiserslautern's goal before everyone could react.

Borussia Dortmund won 5-0 and moved up to second place in the table after Hoffenheim lost the game, three points behind Mainz, the top team who won all five rounds.

And Cheng Hai scored again in more than 20 minutes of play, proving his strength.

With the goals scored and winning experience rewards in this game, Cheng Hai's total experience rose to level 18 449,600/500,000.

It's a very busy time to play.

Just three days later, on September 25, Dortmund ushered in the sixth round of the Bundesliga away against St. Pauli.

In this game, Cheng Hai still came on as a substitute in the second half for 20 minutes.

But perhaps it was the previous consecutive goals that used up the goal, and in today's game, Cheng Hai completed three shots in the penalty area in 20 minutes.

Unfortunately, one of the three shots was blocked by a defender, once by a goalkeeper, and once by a post bounced back into the box and cleared.

With Cheng Hai's perfect shooting skills, this is the first time that Cheng Hai has experienced a game in which he has not scored a goal with three shots in the penalty area, which makes him quite helpless.

Fortunately, although Cheng Hai did not score, Dortmund is not a team that relies on anyone to win.

In this game, fullback Grosskloyc, who rarely started once, seized the rare opportunity and scored a brace.

In addition, Shinji Kagawa also scored again.

In other words, Shinji Kagawa's performance after transferring to Dortmund is also very impressive.

If there is no Cheng Hai to make a comparison, then Dortmund's 350,000 euros to introduce Shinji Kagawa will also make a lot of money.

Although Cheng Hai is more in the limelight now, Shinji Kagawa is not completely covered, constantly proving his worth with goals and his passing organization.

Fortunately, for Cheng Hai, although there was no goal in this game, he still got the opportunity to play, and then naturally enjoyed the reward of the team's win.

After obtaining the winning prize of 60,000 experience, Cheng Hai's total experience rose to level 18 525,600/500,000, and was automatically upgraded to level 19 25,600/700,000, and he obtained an upgrade reward of 20 skill points, and the balance of skill points was 20.

In terms of skills, the skill that is randomly activated as you level up is "Gateball", and the initial stat is 5.

Goalball, that is, the skill of the goalkeeper to open a big foot on the line of the small penalty area after the ball is out of the bottom line, naturally has no effect on the current Cheng Hai.

Therefore, the 20 new skill points he earned naturally need to be used to add other skills.

As Cheng Hai's fame grows, the opponent pays more and more attention to his marking, and the opportunity to run out of the gap and shoot directly without stopping the ball is becoming more and more rare.

Many times, Cheng Hai needs to find a way to turn around and shoot after receiving the ball with his back to the goal. If you can't complete the turn, you can only pass the ball back to your teammates.

This made Cheng Hai lose a lot of opportunities.

Therefore, after thinking about it, Cheng Hai added all 20 skill points to the "dribbling", and directly increased the dribbling of 15 to the level of 19, which is close to the full value.

With the 19 dribble, it is relatively easy to control the ball, and then depending on the situation, pass the ball out or turn around and shoot.

The dribbling of 19 allows him to control the ball at his feet for more time and grasp it more often, rather than for fear of being broken.

In addition, Cheng Hai's height has also increased by 1cm to 178cm, which is already good for a non-center forward second striker.

After all, Gotze, Kagawa Shinji and many other people in the team are about the same height as him, as long as they don't play center forward and center back, this height is no longer a cripple on the football field.

The height has increased, and the weight deliberately increased through the nutritious meal has also increased, reaching 68kg.

Birth defects in weight are being made up for step by step.

When Cheng Hai's weight increases to about 75kg, with Cheng Hai's full physique, even those heavy tanks on the court that weigh more than 90kg, Cheng Hai will not be at a disadvantage against him.

The two games in a row made the team a little tired.

Therefore, after the sixth round of the Bundesliga against St. Pauli, Klopp gave everyone a day off before returning to training to prepare for the next game.

Borussia Dortmund's next game is a home game against Sevilla in the second round of the UEFA Cup group stage.

The Hornets are finally about to face the test of the top five league teams.

In the first round of the group stage, Capadei almost capsized in the face of the weakest group in the group, and it may not be easy to pass in the face of Sevilla from La Liga!

Although Sevilla is not as good as Real Madrid, Barcelona and Atletico Madrid, it is also one of the upper reaches of La Liga, otherwise it will not be able to enter the group stage of the League Cup.

In addition, Sevilla also won the UEFA Cup in 2005/2006 and 2006/2007.

Another thing that has to be admitted is that the overall strength of La Liga teams is stronger than that of the Bundesliga, and they play better in European competitions, otherwise the five major leagues will not basically be the first place in the La Liga Premier League and the fourth place in the Bundesliga.

This is because La Liga teams have a higher chance of winning European competitions and have earned more European points than Bundesliga teams.

In the Bundesliga, except for Bayern Munich, other teams are not very competitive in European competitions.

Therefore, for the group stage of the second round of the League Cup, Dortmund is like a big enemy up and down.

As it turned out, Ru was right to be on the verge of a great enemy.

Despite Klopp's cautious pre-match planning, Borussia Dortmund, who were playing at home in the game, were beaten by Sevilla in the 35th minute of the first half.

Borussia Dortmund, playing at home, are one goal behind Sevilla.

To add insult to injury, the German defenders looked much more clumsy against Sevilla's technical style of play, and sometimes had to resort to foul tactics to stop the opposition's attack.

As a result, the main defender Schmelzer received a yellow card in the first half and another at the beginning of the second half. Two yellows turned into one red, and he was naturally sent out of the game.

With the score down and one man left to play, Dortmund was in the toughest situation.

At this time, Dortmund needed heroes.

However, Jurgen Klopp took a look around the bench and although Cheng Hai's goal rate has attracted the attention of all over Europe, he is still not fit enough to play the full 45 minutes.

Even if Cheng Hai is replaced, playing for twenty or thirty minutes is not physically exhausted and walking on the field, then the team will face the situation of two fewer people fighting.

Therefore, there is no way, Klopp can only replace Zidan with a defender first, fill the backfield hole of Schmelzer who was sent off by the red card, and then let Cheng Hai warm up and be ready to play at any time.

Seville's offensive has not stopped.

Because for Sevilla, this season's UEFA Cup group stage will not be easy. They also lost at home in the first round, losing to Paris Saint-Germain.

Therefore, they also need to work hard in this game. One goal is simply not enough, they have to win not only but more goal difference.

What's more, Cheng Hai on the bench is also a great threat, they must score more goals before Cheng Hai comes on as a substitute, widen the score gap, and don't give Cheng Hai a chance to equalize the substitute goal.

Fortunately, although Dortmund's strength may be slightly worse than Sevilla, it is not much worse, and under the full defense, although there is one less person, Sevilla has no way to take Dortmund.

The score lasted until 63 minutes, and Klopp finally couldn't help but replace Cheng Hai.

Including stoppage time, Cheng Hai has about 30 minutes of playing time, which is almost the longest playing time for Cheng Hai in an official match.

In addition, with the score behind and one man less, Dortmund will need more movement from the strikers and more physical exertion if they want to equalize.

Klopp had expected Cheng Hai to fall in less than 90 minutes, but he couldn't help it, only Cheng Hai had the highest goal rate in the whole team.

With the score behind, Klopp couldn't help but want to send Cheng Hai in advance to try to turn the tide.

Yes, whether in the eyes of Klopp, teammates, and fans, Cheng Hai, who can score goals on most of the substitutes, is expected to be high at this time, and countless people are looking forward to Cheng Hai scoring again as a substitute to help Dortmund equalize and even stage a reversal.

But the reality is that Borussia Dortmund have one man less, and after Zidan was replaced by a defender to make up for the holes in the back, Barrios was left alone in the forward line.

And Cheng Hai replaced it in the field, it was Barrios.

In other words, in the case of playing one less, Cheng Hai is actually playing as a single striker now, and there is no one to cover him and provide tactical support at all.

Cheng Hai needs one man up front to fight against all the defenders in the Sevilla penalty area.

Not to mention whether it can be done or not, the consumption of physical energy is not at the same level as the usual competition.

In addition, for the Sevilla players, with only Cheng Hai as a striker, even if Cheng Hai runs without the ball and grabs points, no matter how powerful his skills are, two or three of them are staring at Cheng Hai alone, and Cheng Hai is helpless.

In the case of only one striker, Cheng Hai also needs to often use his body to directly confront the opponent.

Cheng Hai's full physique is naturally not afraid of confrontation with the opponent's central defender, but the problem is that this kind of fierce physical confrontation consumes physical energy very large and fast.

After only ten minutes on the field, Cheng Hai not only did not get a chance to shoot, but was already out of breath.

The speed of physical consumption in this game exceeded Cheng Hai's expectations.

Cheng Hai, who did not have a center forward to cover, lost his previous flexibility and agility on the field, and fell into the muscle jungle in the Sevilla penalty area, helpless.

Shahin, Shinji Kagawa, Owomoira and others in the midfield did not hesitate to break through, cut inside, plug through, and pass the ball, but they were never able to send the ball into the gap.

Because there is one less person to fight and no one to cover, Sevilla's defense of Cheng Hai is much more targeted.

Two or three people stared at him, and they didn't even give Cheng Hai a chance.

When he played in the 80th minute, Cheng Hai felt like he was usually tired at the end of the game, and wanted to lie down directly.

But he knew he couldn't.

Whether it is at the scene or in front of the TV, there are countless Hornets fans who are looking forward to him scoring and equalizing for Dortmund!

In addition, Cheng Hai also knows that there are countless fans in China who are staying up late to watch the game and watch their performance.

He can not score, but he must not go down.

Originally, his physical fitness was enough to be criticized, if he couldn't even hold on to the 30-minute game, in the context of the team's home loss, he didn't know what to be sprayed after the game!

Therefore, he cannot fall.

When his physical strength was almost exhausted, Cheng Hai could not show his ability to run without the ball and grab points, so he could only walk in the penalty area, and then use his still dominant physique to confront the opposing defenders to win a little chance.

In the 83rd minute, Cheng Hai turned his back to the goal in the penalty area, and received a pass from Shinji Kagawa with the push of a central defender on the other side, but he was never able to complete the turn and shoot.

Even his 19-point dribble didn't keep him in control.

As a result, after another defender came up from the opponent to grab it, Cheng Hai, who had been trying to turn around and shoot but couldn't achieve it, finally lost the ball, and the ball was stabbed away by the opponent from the side.

Once again, the offensive failed.