After AC Milan's 4-3 Borussia Dortmund goal shootout, the world's media rushed to cover it.

"The Champions League focus battle is over, AC Milan 4-3 Dortmund! 》

"AC Milan 4-3 Dortmund, Cheng Hai was frozen without a goal! 》

"AC Milan won the first leg of the Champions League 4-3 at home to Borussia Dortmund in the San Siro goal shootout! 》

"In the first leg of the Champions League 1/8 finals, AC Milan won 4-3 Dortmund at home, and Cheng Hai scored no goals! 》

Some media commented:

"On the evening of February 15, the first leg of the Champions League 1/8 final between AC Milan and Dortmund was played at the San Siro Stadium, the home of AC Milan."

"This season's Champions League 1/8 final, which is the most watched by fans all over the world, was as everyone thought before the game, and finally played a high score of 4-3, with a total of 7 goals scored by both sides, and neutral fans can be described as a feast for their eyes."

"In the end, AC Milan, who are playing at home, won a narrow one-goal victory, but allowed Dortmund to take three away goals."

"It's not good for AC Milan in the second leg away."

"In the game, in order to defend Cheng Hai, AC Milan also had four people with yellow cards, among which Nesta was suspended for the second leg of the accumulation of yellow cards, which had to be said to be worse for AC Milan."

'For Borussia Dortmund, they lost the game but only one goal, and with three away goals in their hands, they have an even better chance of progressing than AC Milan when they return to the Westfaren Stadium in the second leg.

"In addition to the goal battle between the two sides, the biggest highlight of this game is the duel between Cheng Hai and the AC Milan defense."

"Judging from the results, AC Milan successfully froze Cheng Hai and did not let Cheng Hai score a single goal."

"Ibrahimovic personally created a penalty in the game and scored it, and in terms of goals, Ibrahimovic defeated Cheng Hai."

"But from a process point of view, AC Milan's prospects of reaching the quarter-finals are even less optimistic."

"Because, although AC Milan successfully froze Cheng Hai in the first half, it was because Cheng Hai fell into the trap of fighting alone, so Cheng Hai did not have any play."

"But when Cheng Hai came to his senses and started passing, AC Milan's aging defense was a little overwhelmed."

"Although Cheng Hai didn't score directly, Dortmund's three goals were all scored after Cheng Hai gave up playing alone and started passing the ball to his teammates."

"This proves that Cheng Hai's strength is still very terrifying, and the number of goals does not reflect his threat. On the other hand, it also increases the difficulty of AC Milan's second leg qualification. ”

"Perhaps, Dortmund have a better chance of progressing to the quarter-finals."

Of course, this is a fair report, and more media and fans are disappointed and puzzled by Cheng Hai's performance.

Although AC Milan's chain defense is very strong, as a super striker who can score 152 goals in one year, Cheng Hai did not score a single goal at the San Siro.

This had to disappoint a lot of the media and fans who supported him.

In particular, some media and fans who didn't like Cheng Hai in the first place gloated:

"Cheng Hai can only score against teams in the Bundesliga, the League Cup, and Asia, and he can't do anything against AC Milan's steel defense."

But Cheng Hai won't pay attention to it so much, he knows the reason why he didn't score in this game. As long as he gets rid of that, he believes he will score in the second leg.

He wasted almost 40 minutes in the last game.

If he hadn't been caught up in a solo game at the beginning, and the opponent couldn't figure out what he was thinking, he would have scored.

What's more, the second leg is still a home game, no matter the venue or the atmosphere of the stadium, Cheng Hai is confident to break through AC Milan's goal.

Three days later, on February 18, in the 22nd round of the Bundesliga, Dortmund challenged Hertha Berlin away.

Two away games in a row, and the last San Siro game did take a lot of physical drain on Borussia Dortmund's players.

As a result, Klopp has undergone a certain degree of rotation in this Bundesliga match.

But even so, Dortmund managed to claim a 3-0 away victory. Cheng Hai vented his anger at Hertha Berlin in the last Champions League game and scored a hat-trick at Hertha Berlin's home stadium.

This hat-trick allowed Cheng Hai to break through the 50-goal mark in the Bundesliga this season and reach a terrifying 51 goals.

That's just nine goals shy of the 60 goals set by William Dean of England club in England in 1927/1928 for the most goals scored in a single season in Europe's top leagues!

In this season's Bundesliga, only 22 rounds have been played, and there are still 12 rounds to go.

With Cheng Hai's current goal efficiency, is it still a problem to score 9 goals in 12 rounds?

Not a problem at all!

Everyone can already foresee the moment when Cheng Hai breaks the record for the highest goal in the European Golden Boot.

In addition, Cheng Hai's career total goals have reached 198 goals, and he is only 2 goals away from breaking the 200-goal mark.

This made many Cheng Hai's fans and compatriots extremely excited.

Therefore, in the 23rd round of the Bundesliga between Dortmund and Hannover 96 on February 26, many Dortmund fans and Cheng Hai's fans put up a banner of 200 goals, hoping that Cheng Hai would score at least two goals and break the 200-goal mark.

Cheng Hai did not disappoint those who supported him.

In the cheers of more than 80,000 fans in the stadium, Cheng Hai once again staged a big four, helping Dortmund win 5-1 at home, while also increasing his career total to 202 goals.

The club and the national team have scored 202 goals in official professional matches, and Cheng Hai has spent 89 games, with an average goal rate of 2.27 per game.

That's it, because Cheng Hai couldn't start for a long time in the early part of his career, and he could only play twenty or thirty minutes off the bench in the second half of each game.

In this way, it can reach a goal rate of 2.27 per game, and it can only be said that Cheng Hai's goal rate and stability are really terrible.

After playing this round of the Bundesliga, Cheng Haifei returned to China and led the national football team to face Jordan, the last opponent of the top 20 group stage of the World Preliminaries, at the Yangcheng University City Stadium.

In fact, after the Chinese team defeated Singapore and Jordan unexpectedly lost to Iraq in the last round of the world preliminaries, the Chinese team overtook the points and rose to the top of the group.

Regardless of whether it is first or second in the group, it will not affect the result of the Huaguo team to advance to the top 10.

But Cheng Hai didn't want to miss the game, because in the first leg of the coaches of both sides, the Huaguo team he led lost 1-2 to Jordan, which is a defeat that Cheng Hai will not forget.

In addition, he will also have to ensure that the Chinese team advances to the top 10 of the group and strive for a better group draw in the top 10.

Finally, the opponents of the national football team are not strong, it is easy to score, and there is a lot of experience in a single goal.

Therefore, when the national football team had advanced to the top 10 in advance, Cheng Hai did not stay in Germany to rest, but flew back to China to participate in the last game of the top 20 group stage of the world preliminaries.

The last World Preliminary Game in which the national football team lost 1-2 to Jordan was on September 6 last year, and nearly half a year has passed.

In the past six months, Cheng Hai's strength has long been different from what it used to be, and it has advanced by leaps and bounds to a point that Jordanians can't imagine.

Although the Jordanians did their best and wanted to win away from home, win the first place in the group and advance to the top ten, but in the face of the crazy Cheng Hai, the Jordanians completely surrendered before the first half was over.

In the end, Cheng Hai, who played the whole 90 minutes, easily staged a single-game five-goal performance in this world preliminaries, and also had an assist, leading the national team to a 7-1 bloody defeat of Jordan and avenging the 1-2 loss to the opponent in the last round.

The top 20 group stage of the 2014 Brazil World Cup Asian qualifiers has come to an end, and the teams that advanced to the top 10 are China, South Korea, Japan, Iran, Australia, Uzbekistan, Qatar, Lebanon, Jordan and Oman.

The top two teams from the top two groups will qualify directly for the World Cup in Brazil, the third place will play the play-offs, and the winner will play the play-offs against the fifth-placed South American team to qualify for the World Cup.

Asian teams play play-offs against South American teams, and there are basically no wins or losses.

Therefore, for Asian teams, there are actually only two top-two spots in the group to fight for, and the competition is still very fierce.

However, the draw for the top 10 will have to wait a few days.

After returning to Germany, on March 3, Cheng Hai ushered in the 24th round of the Bundesliga against Mainz.

Mainz is ranked in the middle of the table, the strength is average, and they are away against Dortmund led by Cheng Hai, so they are very realistic, and they sent a 4321 Christmas tree formation away from home, striving to lose less, and they didn't want to win at all.

As they expected, they lost the game.

However, because Dortmund had to retain their strength to deal with the second leg of the Champions League 1/8 final against AC Milan three days later, Mainz, who tried their best to defend, did not lose much, losing only two goals.

The final score was 3-1, and Cheng Hai only scored one goal and had one assist.

After the game, the focus of the media and fans was not on this match, but on the next match between Borussia Dortmund and AC Milan in the second leg of the Champions League quarter-finals.

After playing a high score of 4-3 in the first leg, everyone can already predict what kind of Mars hit the Earth in the second leg.

Borussia Dortmund, who are trailing on aggregate, are sure to score.

And once Borussia Dortmund score a goal and they will advance on away goals in the event of an aggregate draw, AC Milan will have to fight back.

It's not controlled by the two teams themselves at all.

It's definitely the same as the first leg, it's another goal shootout.

Before the game, players from both sides shouted in the media.

Although AC Milan did not win much in the first leg, and let Dortmund take away 3 away goals, they won in the end, and AC Milan took the lead in the aggregate score.

Therefore, Ibrahimovic boasted:

'I only scored one penalty in the first leg and I don't think I played well. In the second leg I will score at least two goals away from home and conquer the Westfalen Stadium. ”

"As for Cheng Hai? People who didn't score a single goal in the first leg are not qualified to talk to me! ”

This time, Cheng Hai was not silent, but mocked: "Ibu said he could score two goals? Perhaps! But in the end, AC Milan left the Westfaren Stadium in tears, and his few goals didn't matter at all. ”

Why is Cheng Hai so confident?

On the one hand, it is because he has come to his senses and will never fight alone again in the second round.

On the other hand, there are various objective reasons that are extremely beneficial to Dortmund.

Gundogan and Gotze are both back from injury, and being able to play in this game is not a small increase in strength for Dortmund.

On AC Milan's side, it was Nesta who was suspended and lost a stalwart at the back, which was a huge hole for AC Milan's defence.

On paper, Dortmund are on the rise, while AC Milan are on the decline.

On top of that, Klopp has been working harder ever since the end of the first round.

The tactic he formulated for the team was to press high-pitched at home in the second leg and use plenty of physical strength to drag down the opponent.

For Dortmund, whose average age is only about 23 years old, it is entirely possible to deliberately speed up the pace of the game and high-intensity pressing to bring down a group of AC Milan veterans over the age of 30.

AC Milan did not know what Dortmund were going to do, they felt they had won the first leg, and even if the second leg was a little tougher, they were not low in the last eight if they were ahead on aggregate and played with their good defensive counter-attack.

Just get the defense right.

To do this, and to compensate for Nesta's absence, Allegri reduced one striker and added one defender to play in a 5311 formation.

Zambrotta replaced Nesta at centre-back compared to the first leg, then added a centre-back Mex, removed Robinho's start, and Ibrahimovic played as a lone striker.

Although Zambrotta's strength is not as good as Nesta's, it is not much different, and he is also a top defensive superstar.

And, with the addition of a 29-year-old Mexes in his prime, Allegri feels his defence is stronger than in the first round.

Even if Cheng Hai has come to his senses and is no longer fighting alone, AC Milan's defense is not afraid.

Therefore, when he stepped into the Westfaren Stadium, Allegri and his AC Milan stars were full of confidence.

Then, it's the pre-game warm-up, the appearance ceremony, and waiting for the game to start.

At 21:45 on the evening of March 6, 2012, in the cheers of more than 80,000 fans at the Westfaren Stadium, with the referee's whistle, the second leg of the 2011/2012 Champions League 1/8 final Dortmund against AC Milan officially began.

From the very beginning of the game, Dortmund pressed directly and launched a ferocious attack on the visiting AC Milan without being tempted.

This was not unexpected by AC Milan, because after all, it was Borussia Dortmund who were behind on aggregate.

No matter how many away goals there are, they will only work in the case of a draw, and if the second leg is ended with a 4-3 aggregate scoreline, then Dortmund will still have to lose.

Therefore, Borussia Dortmund must attack.

In turn, AC Milan can sit firmly on the Diaoyu Tai, wait for Dortmund to attack, and then break the ball to play the opponent's counterattack.

Whether it's Seedorf, Boateng, or Ibrahimovic, they are all superstars who can solve the battle alone.

Just give them a chance and it could form a counter-attacking goal.

Therefore, AC Milan's counter-attack does not need too many people, just defend well.

Although Nesta was suspended, Zambrotta made up for Nesta's position and added a central defender Mex, and AC Milan's defensive strength can be said to have increased compared to the first leg.

Dortmund attacked aggressively, and the Milanes did not panic at all.

In fact, this is also true.

Even if Cheng Hai no longer fights alone and passes the ball when he can't break through, because of the increased number of defenders, it is difficult for other Dortmund players to get a chance to shoot.

Fifteen minutes into the game, Dortmund are yet to complete a shot from within the woodwork.

Cheng Hai had a volley from outside the box, but it flew slightly off the crossbar under Gattuso's interference.

Lewandowski also headed in from a low cross from Gotze in the box, but it went wide of the post.

After 15 minutes of continuous attack, Allegri thought to himself that Dortmund should finally take a break, and it was AC Milan's turn to attack.

Unexpectedly, after 15 minutes, Dortmund's offensive did not slow down, and they were still passing and breaking through quickly, making pass-and-run coordination, so that AC Milan's back line had to run back and forth according to the position of the ball to make up for the holes in the defensive line.

After 20 minutes, Dortmund's attack has not slowed down, and it is still attacking aggressively, pressing AC Milan within 30 meters of the fans and almost unable to get out, and forward Boateng was forced to retreat to the top of the arc of the penalty area to participate in the defense.

Allegri's face changed slightly.

He has realized that Dortmund is trying to use their youthful body and physical strength to bring down AC Milan.

But he couldn't make any adjustments.

Because the people sitting on the bench are all old guys. Moreover, there are only 3 substitutions in a game, and now it is only the first half, and no one is injured, how can it be possible to start making substitutions?

Allegri could only pray that his players on the pitch would withstand the onslaught of Borussia Dortmund's youth army and hold the back of the net.

However, just minutes after the idea came to mind, AC Milan's goal was in a huge crisis.