Chapter 98: The League Cup Final

On May 14, 2011, Dortmund sat at home and ushered in the final round of the 2010/2011 Bundesliga season with Eintracht Frankfurt.

As the final game of the Bundesliga season, although Dortmund has won the title ahead of schedule and it is drizzling today, this game is still full of Westfaren [fo] field.

Countless Dortmund fans and Cheng Hai fans came from all over the world to fill more than 80,000 seats.

They are going to witness Cheng Hai's possible record for the highest Bundesliga goal in a single season.

42 balls is certainly not the end of Cheng Hai's game, and he should be able to pull this record even higher.

In addition, the German Football Association has brought the trophy representing the top scorer of the Bundesliga - a small steel cannon to the scene, and the award ceremony for the top scorer will be held for Cheng Hai after the game.

For Cheng Hai, this is the final game of the league in the first season of his career, and it is also the day of harvest.

At 15:30 in the afternoon, in the light drizzle, the Dortmund vs Frankfurt match officially began.

Eintracht Frankfurt sit second from bottom in the Bundesliga table heading into the final round and are in the extremely dangerous relegation zone, but there is still a possibility of relegation.

Therefore, Eintracht Frankfurt is naturally the main force in this game and has to fight at the Westfaren Stadium.

Dortmund had already won the title ahead of schedule, and Klopp sent a half-main and half-substitute lineup to prepare for the next UEFA Cup final.

But even so, in the game with Cheng Hai playing, Dortmund still had a lot of combat effectiveness.

While Frankfurt was attacking aggressively, he naturally guarded Cheng Hai to prevent him from scoring a record on himself.

But they have to attack and keep an eye on Cheng Hai, and they will inevitably neglect to guard against other Dortmund players.

As a result, in the 13th minute, Cheng Hella attracted the attention of two or three Eintracht Frankfurt players, and then Lewandowski received a pass from Shahin in the gap and sent the ball into the corner of the Frankfurt goal with a volley.

Borussia Dortmund leads 1-0.

For Eintracht Frankfurt, who are deep in the relegation zone, they have been cornered by this time.

If they lose this game, then they will definitely be relegated, no surprise.

Therefore, they had no choice but to devote more manpower to strengthen the attack. As for the backline, it is no longer a concern.

As a result, before they could score, their own goal was breached by Borussia Dortmund.

And this time, it was the much-anticipated Cheng Hai who scored the goal.

Cheng Hai successfully countered offside in a counterattack, received a long pass from Bender to form a single goal, and easily hoisted the ball into the Eintracht Frankfurt goal.

Borussia Dortmund leads 2-0.

Cheng Hai, on the other hand, raised his Bundesliga goal record this season to 43 goals, which is beyond the reach of the mountains.

Driven to the brink, Eintracht Frankfurt went crazy to press the attack, and the defense began to use foul tactics.

In the 20th minute, Cheng Hai once again received the ball in the midfield and got a chance to counterattack.

At the moment when he used Matthews feints to break through the defender Coral and was about to leave, Coral in a hurry gave Cheng Hai a flying shovel from the side, knocking Cheng Hai to the ground with the ball.

However, Cheng Hai, who was full of physique, was not injured, but in the process of falling to the ground, he elbowed Korel on the head, which directly caused Korel to faint.

Both Coral and Cheng Hai were shown yellow cards, Coral was deliberately fouled, and Cheng Hai was a dangerous move to hurt people.

However, it was Coral who committed the foul first, and the referee awarded Dortmund a free-kick in midfield.

However, to add insult to injury, Coral who was knocked out by Cheng Hai's elbow woke up and couldn't continue the game, was helped off the field by the team doctor, and had to be replaced by a substitute defender.

The main defender was forced to replace in the opening 20 minutes and replaced with a substitute defender, which was indeed a disaster for Eintracht Frankfurt's defence.

Although Eintracht Frankfurt's imminent relegation plight deserved sympathy, Cheng Hai and his teammates did not hold back.

It can be said that Coral suffered his fate. If he hadn't maliciously fouled Cheng Hai, he wouldn't have been knocked out by Cheng Hai's elbow and forced to leave the game.

Therefore, in the 34th minute, Cheng Hai took the lead in a corner kick attack without any psychological burden, grabbed the first point in the penalty area and shook his head to attack the goal, and blasted Frankfurt's goal again with a powerful header.

Cheng Hai has improved his Bundesliga season goal record to 44 goals, much to the excitement of fans and fans in the stadium, constantly shouting his name and bowing to him.

There were even fans who sang the "Song of Cheng Hai" they wrote:

"Ah, Cheng Hai, the son of football from the mysterious East......"

"You attack everything, you score goals, you are the god of football!"

"Come on, the feast of champions is ready!"

"Come on, the shattering of records is your mission!"

"Cheng Hai, hey, you are the pride of Dortmund......"

"Cheng Hai, hey, you are our friend......"

"Thank you, Cheng Hai, we will always be with you......"

The lyrics are not very literary, and the tunes are not very lofty, but it is this simple tone, but it is catchy, and more and more fans can sing it, and others will involuntarily hum along.

In his first season in professional football, fans were able to compose songs for him and cause thousands of people to sing at the Westfaren Stadium, which is enough to show how successful Cheng Hai's first season at Dortmund was.

The disadvantage of being three goals behind made Eintracht Frankfurt from the coach to the players, and then to the hundreds of Eintracht Frankfurt away fans who came with the team with all their hearts.

However, the game is not over yet, and they can't raise their hands to surrender and admit defeat.

Eintracht Frankfurt continued to attack aggressively, trying to score with a numerical advantage.

In the 42nd minute, Eintracht Frankfurt's aggressive attack finally paid off, when their midfielder Rhodes fired a powerful long-range shot from outside the box to find the back of the net for Borussia Dortmund.

Eintracht Frankfurt finally got on the scoresheet to level the score at 3-1 and only two goals behind.

The excited Eintracht Frankfurt players and fans alike celebrated excitedly and seemed to see hope.

One minute of stoppage time, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the first half and the two sides went into the break with a 3-1 scoreline, with Borussia Dortmund leading by two goals at home.

After a 15-minute break, the two sides changed sides and fought again.

Eintracht Frankfurt, who were two goals down and were cornered, were forced to continue their attacking spree, aiming for an equaliser or even a reversal of the game in order to maintain a glimmer of hope of relegation.

However, their hopes were completely dashed in the 58th minute of the second half.

And what made their hopes shattered was Cheng Hai again.

Cheng Hai broke through with the ball after taking the ball on the side, and came to a rainbow pass that made the fans excited and applauded, and then dangled a shot when facing the fullback who came forward to intercept, but did not cross the bottom, but cut inside with the ball himself.

In the process of cutting inside to the penalty area, Cheng Hai did not force a breakthrough, but made a two-over-one collision with his teammates outside the penalty area, and easily passed the defender who came forward to intercept the opponent, ran into the penalty area without the ball, and then received the ball passed by his teammates against the wall to dodge the gap and shoot.

The moment the ball flew into the near corner of the Frankfurt goal, the commentators in the commentary box roared loudly with excitement:

“Tooooooooooooooooooor……”

"The ball is in!"

"In the 58th minute of the second half, Cheng Hai scored again to help Dortmund lead Eintracht Frankfurt 4-1!"

"This game has ended early, and Eintracht Frankfurt's relegation is certain."

"Cheng Hai, on the other hand, scored another hat-trick to raise his league goal this season to a terrifying level of 45 goals."

"This is already the second-highest number of goals scored since the official establishment of the European Golden Boot in 1967/1968, behind only Argentine striker Héctor Yasard, who won the European Golden Boot at Sporting Lisbon in 1973/1974."

"Héctor Yassard won the European Golden Boot that season with 46 league goals, the highest number of goals ever scored by the European Golden Boot since its inception, and no one has ever broken it."

"It's a pity that Cheng Hai is only one goal away from catching up with this record, and only two goals away from breaking this record."

"If Cheng Hai hadn't gone to the Asian Games and the Asian Cup halfway, Cheng Hai would definitely have broken this record."

"However, although there is no record now, Cheng Hai's feat of scoring 45 goals in 26 Bundesliga games is enough to be proud of European football in terms of goal efficiency, and no one can beat it in the top league."

"Cheng Hai is still very young, he is not even 19 years old, this is his first season, his career is still very long, looking forward to the day when Cheng Hai will break the record of the highest goal in the European Golden Boot with 46 goals by Héctor Yasard."

In the singing of Cheng Haiding by the fans, the players in Frankfurt completely lost the confidence to continue playing.

With three goals behind and just over 30 minutes on the game, how can they get it back?

Moreover, even an equaliser may not work, and a win over Borussia Dortmund is a slight chance of relegation.

Then you have to score four goals.

At Westfalen Stadium, scoring four goals in just over 30 minutes is an unattainable luxury.

They have given up.

Even in the 65th minute, Klopp replaced Cheng Hai, and Eintracht Frankfurt did not raise the spirit to counterattack and try to reverse the score.

It's really too big a point difference, which makes people desperate, and they can't raise any hope and fighting spirit at all.

In the end, neither side scored again for the rest of the period.

After three minutes of stoppage time, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, and Borussia Dortmund ended their final Bundesliga game of the season with a 4-1 victory, while Eintracht Frankfurt were sadly relegated to the second bottom of the Bundesliga.

The mournful Eintracht Frankfurt fans quietly left in frustration, while the Westfaren Stadium became a sea of celebration for the Dortmund players.

Witnessed by more than 80,000 fans and countless reporters and celebrities, Cheng Hai won the 2010/2011 Bundesliga Golden Boot with a record of 45 goals in 26 Bundesliga games, received the small steel cannon representing the Golden Boot, and broke Gerd Muller's record of 40 goals, raising the Bundesliga's single-season personal goal record to 45 goals.

In addition to Cheng Hai himself, there is a high probability that no one in the Bundesliga, which has only 18 teams and 34 rounds of leagues, will be able to break Cheng Hai's record.

Cheng Hai's 45 goals in the Bundesliga are also the second-highest goals ever scored by the European Golden Boot since its inception in 1967/1968, behind Héctor Yasard's record of 46 goals for the highest goals scored in a single European Golden Boot in a single season set in 1973/1974.

If anyone can break Héctor Yasard's record of 46 goals that has been sealed for nearly 40 years in the future, it will most likely be Cheng Hai.

However, although he did not break Héctor Yasard's European Golden Boot scoring record, Cheng Hai finally broke Gerd Muller's 40-goal Bundesliga single-season personal goal record.

Therefore, in addition to the rewards that can be seen by the media and fans, Cheng Hai also received the Bundesliga Golden Boot reward issued by the system, that is, the 10 times the goal award of 300,000 experience.

In addition to this, there is also a record-breaking reward twice as much as the Golden Boot Award, which is 600,000 experience.

Coupled with the previous competition rewards, Cheng Hai's total experience has risen to level 25 2,429,100/10 million.

As you level up, you need more and more experience to level up, and it becomes more and more difficult to level up.

In addition to the Bundesliga Golden Boot and record-breaking awards, there are also awards for the best Bundesliga player, best rookie, best foreign player, and best team, but it will take some time for the Bundesliga professional players union to announce the selection answer before the award.

But basically there will be no surprises, whether it is the best player or the best rookie, the best foreign aid, and the best lineup, they are basically Cheng Hai's bag.

It is worth mentioning that perhaps it was Cheng Hai who was thrown too far away in the list of European Golden Boot Awards, which stimulated the proud Ronaldo.

Cristiano Ronaldo has scored in successive games and has already increased his tally to 36 goals after the penultimate round of La Liga.

If it weren't for Cheng Hai's 45 goals being too high, I'm afraid no one would be sure that Cheng Hai would be able to win the European Golden Boot this season.

Now, although Ronaldo still has two rounds of league games, the reality of being 9 goals behind Cheng Hai makes it absolutely impossible to catch up with the two league games.

The gap of 9 goals requires a single win of five yuan and a big four joy to catch up.

To surpass the sea of the process, you need two independent five yuan.

It's two games in a row.

If this can be caught up by Ronaldo, then Ronaldo can simply become a god.

Of course, for Ronaldo, like Falcao, it is extremely unlucky to meet Cheng Hai this season.

If it weren't for Cheng Hai, Falcao would have been the man to break Klinsmann's record of 15 goals and win the Confederations Cup Golden Boot this season.

Cristiano Ronaldo will also win the European Golden Boot this season.

As a result, both of them lost a major honor because of Cheng Hai's qualification, and people have to sigh that the two are unlucky.

Of course, after this year, it is estimated that European shooters will have to tremble under the barrel of Cheng Hai's gun.

As long as Cheng Hai is not injured and retires, with Cheng Hai's goal efficiency and progress speed, I am afraid that there will be nothing else to do with the European Golden Boot Award, the Champions League Golden Boot Award, etc.

With the end of the German domestic league fixture, Borussia Dortmund are left with only one of their last and most important UEFA Cup final of the season.

This season's UEFA Cup final will be held at Aviva Stadium in Dublin, Ireland, which is large enough to accommodate 50,000 people, and is still not small, and is the only five-star stadium in Ireland.

The day after the league match with Eintracht Frankfurt, Dortmund flew to Ireland on a chartered flight to make final preparations for the final.

This time it was not just the players in the squad, but all the first-team players who flew to Ireland together.

If the team wins, UEFA has 24 medals on the table, and some important players who did not make it to the final but played in the UEFA Cup can get a medal.

Even the remaining fringe substitutes were brought in by Jurgen Klopp, who will sit in the stands and celebrate with the team the UEFA Cup title and Borussia Dortmund's glorious double this season.

In addition to the top and bottom of the team, there are tens of thousands of ordinary Dortmund fans and fans of various players, who travel to Ireland in various ways.

Among them, Cheng Hai undoubtedly has the most fans.

On the streets of Dublin, the capital of Ireland, you can see Chinese and overseas Chinese fans holding five-star red flags and smearing the national flag or national emblem on their faces, coming all the way to Dublin to cheer for Cheng Hai.

Cheng Hai has undoubtedly become the number one star in Asia and the representative of Chinese football, and countless overseas Chinese are looking forward to Cheng Hai leading Dortmund to win the League Cup and win the first European championship trophy won by Chinese players.

As matchday approached, the UEFA Cup final was being paid more and more attention in European newspapers, with tactical analysis, interviews and interviews with players and coaches from both sides filling the pages of major newspapers.

Of course, the most eye-catching ones are Dortmund and Porto's respective star stars Cheng Hai and Falcao.

Cheng Hai expressed absolute confidence in an interview: "Dortmund has won the Champions League, won the European Cup Winners' Cup, but has never won the League Cup. This time, we are confident of making history and winning the first UEFA Cup for Borussia Dortmund in the club's history. ”

For himself, Cheng Hai is a little more modest: "I have already set a single-season individual goal record in the League Cup, so for me, it doesn't matter if this record can be raised too high." As long as I can help the team win and win the championship, it doesn't matter if I score a goal or not. However, as the attacker of the team, I will try to score in the final and help the team to the final victory. ”

On Porto's side, Falcao also expressed the same meaning in an interview with reporters, it doesn't matter if he can score goals himself, as long as the team can beat Dortmund to win the title, it will be the greatest glory for him.

For Cheng Hai, Falcao also expressed his appreciation, saying that Cheng Hai is one of the most talented talents in football history, whether it is the Bundesliga 45 goals or the League Cup 23 goals record, it is an unattainable peak.

However, he believes that Cheng Haiqiang is only one person, and he will unite with his teammates in Porto to defeat Cheng Hai and his Dortmund as a whole and win the final championship.

Of course, these are just pre-match verbal battles.

The real result will naturally be decided by a real competition!

The final of the UEFA Cup, one of Europe's two major cups, is about to begin.