As the saying goes, people are unlucky, and they stuff their teeth when they drink water.

This is the case for Cheng Hai now.

Not to mention the loss of the national football team to Jordan in the world preliminary round, after returning to the club, it was learned that several teammates were injured because of participating in the national team, including captain Kyle, and Gundogan, Shinji Kagawa, and Gotze are the four absolute main players.

It's a disaster.

Because of last season's double, Dortmund has also become a big international player, and almost all of the main players in the team have been called back to their home countries to participate in the national team matches during FIFA match days.

As a result, not only Kyle, Gundogan and others were injured, but other teammates who participated in the national team were also exhausted, and they did not have the energy recovery speed that Cheng Hai could enter a deep sleep at any time.

As a result, in his first game back at the club, Jurgen Klopp's line-up was in a difficult situation.

On the contrary, there are not many opponent internationals, and there is almost no impact.

As a result, in the fifth round of the Bundesliga on September 10, Dortmund lost 2-3 to visiting opponents Hertha Berlin at their home stadium Westfalen Stadium.

Although Cheng Hai was ashamed after the national football team's game against Jordan, even if he was not familiar with his teammate who started off the bench in this game, he also handed over the data of one pass and one shot to dominate all two goals of Dortmund.

But even that didn't stop Dortmund from losing.

With as many as four absolute players out injured, the impact on Borussia Dortmund is too significant.

This made Cheng Hai even if he scored another goal to refresh his annual total goal record to 92 goals, and there was no smile on his face after the game.

Thankfully, no one was seriously injured and after a few days back at the club, everyone but Gundogan was able to play in the next game.

The next game is the UEFA Champions League, which is the world's attention.

At club level, the Champions League is the most technically and tactically charged competition in the world, and it is also the center of the media and fans' attention.

Compared to the League Cup, the influence and exposure may be more than ten times worse.

Many fans have been paying attention to the Champions League since the group stage, and the UEFA Cup may not even know who the winner is after the final.

Despite losing in the league and Gundogan not returning from injury, Borussia Dortmund are fully prepared for their first Champions League group game of the season.

And Dortmund's first opponent in the Champions League group stage this season is also quite difficult to deal with, it is the Premier League giants Arsenal!

Arsenal may be the only team in the world that has not won the Champions League but is widely regarded as a world giant.

Because the technical stream football they play is so beautiful, and they have a lot of fans all over the world.

The crowd alone doesn't tell the story, but Arsenal have been quite consistent in the Premier League, finishing in the top four almost every year and getting the chance to play in the Champions League.

In the very competitive Premier League, this is quite a consistent and remarkable result.

There are the so-called four big ones in European football, including Arsenal: Bayern in the semifinals, Manchester United in super long stoppage time, Borussia Dort who met Real Madrid, and Arsenal, who are fighting for the fourth.

Although it is difficult to win the championship in the Premier League and never win the Champions League, Arsenal under the leadership of Professor Arsene Wenger is definitely not to be underestimated in the Champions League group stage.

Van Persie, Walcott, Arshavin, etc., are all famous in world football.

For Arsenal, who have never won the Champions League, there is never a lack of motivation for Champions League games.

Borussia Dortmund's home game against Arsenal in this group stage will never be easy.

Fortunately, Gundogan was out due to injury on Dortmund's side, and Arsenal were even more unlucky, and their No. 1 main goalkeeper was also out due to injury, and Dortmund did not suffer too much.

Even, the absence of Arsenal's main goalkeeper is more beneficial to Dortmund.

However, Klopp did not dare to be careless, and conducted very targeted training two days before the game, striving to win the first victory of this season's Champions League group stage at home and get off to a good start.

At 20:45 on the evening of September 13, 2011, the Westfaren Stadium was full, cheered by more than 80,000 fans, and with the referee's whistle, the 2011/2012 Champions League group stage Group F first round Dortmund vs Arsenal match officially began.

This is Cheng Hai's first Champions League game, and it is also the first time that a Chinese player has started in the Champions League.

Therefore, although it was already 2:45 a.m. on the 14th in China at this time, there were still a lot of Chinese fans watching the live broadcast of this game in front of the TV or computer.

Before Cheng Hai, Sun Xiang represented PSV Eindhoven, Dong Fangzhuo represented Manchester United, and Hao Junmin represented Schalke 04 last season.

But all three of them only came off the bench, and now Cheng Hai is the starter.

This is the first debut of a Chinese player in the Champions League, which is of great significance.

In addition, everyone also wants to witness the first goal of a Chinese player in the Champions League, and the heroic appearance of Cheng Hai continuing to break the annual total goal record.

Therefore, the game has a very large audience in China.

The commentator of CCTV-5 also excitedly explained to the domestic audience after the game began:

"It's on!"

"Viewers, you're watching Borussia Dortmund host Premier League giants Arsenal in the first round of Group F of the 2011/2012 Champions League group stage at the Westfalen Stadium."

Chinese player Cheng Hai started for Dortmund in this game, becoming the fourth Chinese player to appear in the Champions League after Sun Xiang, Dong Fangzhuo and Hao Junmin. At the same time, he is also the first Chinese player to start, which is of great significance. ”

"I believe that at this time in China, there must be countless die-hard fans and Cheng Hai's die-hard fans watching the live broadcast of this game."

"In addition to watching Cheng Hai's Chinese players start the Champions League, we are more looking forward to Cheng Hai scoring in this game."

"Everyone knows that Cheng Hai's goal efficiency is very high. Even aside from the national football team's games in Asia, Cheng Hai's club's total goal efficiency exceeded the average goal per game, reaching an efficiency of 1.66 goals per game. ”

"That's a very efficient time."

"Therefore, we have every reason to expect Cheng Hai to put on the performance of the first goal of the Champions League by a Chinese player."

"Let's get into the game and look forward to Cheng Hai's performance!"

In the midst of the excited commentary of the commentators, the live game has begun.

Because the strength of both sides is very good, one is the League Cup champion last season, and the other is the Premier League giants, so both sides started cautiously and did not rashly attack, but just began to try. In the first 15 minutes, the atmosphere of the game between the two sides was relatively relaxed, and there was no too fierce scramble and confrontation.

Of course, there was no threat to attack and shoot. If both sides get the ball, they are both tentative attacks, and once they encounter the opponent's interception, they will end the attack with a return pass.

But such a relaxed atmosphere is unlikely to last long.

With a sudden forward insertion by Cheng Hai in the 16th minute, after receiving the ball outside the penalty area, two people shot with their feet, and the atmosphere of the game between the two sides suddenly became tense.

Although Cheng Hai's shot was blocked by the Arsenal defender who rushed over next to him in time to block the gun's eye, it still made the Gunners tremble.

In addition to being frightened, he naturally began to fight back.

This group is called the Group of Death, but it is not so easy to qualify, and you have to fight to the death in every game.

In the 17th minute, Arsenal played their trademark team combination.

A dazzling array of passes and runs paralyzed Dortmund's backline.

The Dortmund players didn't even touch the ball before Arsenal crossed the ball into the box and then Theo Walcott, nicknamed Little Tiger, finished the shot.

Fortunately, Walcott's shooting skills are not as good as Cheng Hai, and this time there is no luck to shoot straight to the dead corner, the angle is correct, and he was directly held in his arms by goalkeeper Weidenfeller, and he didn't even leave them a chance to make up shots.

Arsenal's attack put pressure on the whole Dortmund team.

Despite the strong attack of Dortmund with Cheng Hai, it has been proven that Arsenal's team attack can also penetrate the Dortmund defence.

If Borussia Dortmund can't get on the scoresheet, they won't be able to concede a goal and then be beaten by Arsenal.

It's something that no one wants to happen.

Therefore, in addition to defending, Dortmund also stepped up their attack.

Arsenal wants to win and get points, so Dortmund, who are playing at home, even more.

Otherwise, after losing at home, do you expect to pick up points away from home?

Under the leadership of Cheng Hai, Dortmund's offensive gradually overtook Arsenal and achieved the advantage on the field.

Cheng Hai's personal strength is indeed too prominent, running without the ball, grabbing points, passing and receiving, breaking through, shooting in the penalty area, long-range shots outside the penalty area, etc.

Under normal circumstances, Cheng Hai alone can at least draw the defensive attention of the other two people, and even more often attract three or four people to be surrounded by them.

Otherwise, if you don't pay attention to it, you may be seized by Cheng Hai to break through or shoot successfully.

However, Arsenal has not played against or played with Cheng Hai before, so they do not have an intuitive understanding of Cheng Hai's strength, and sometimes it is inevitable to be negligent.

In the 26th minute, Cheng Hai, Shinji Kagawa, Lewandowski, and Gotze played a wonderful frontcourt cooperation in the frontcourt.

The four of them are the main players from last season to this season, and the team cooperation is already very skilled and tacit.

Coupled with this extraordinary performance, it played a team combination that also dazzled the Arsenal midfielders.

This is not Cheng Hai's breakthrough alone, but a team attack, so the passing and running cooperation of Shinji Kagawa, Lewandowski, and Gotze shared a lot of defensive pressure for Cheng Hai, so that Cheng Hai faced only two defenders.