Chapter 124: Not an Iron Man After All
When Cheng Hai received a pass from Kyle in an offside position and sent the ball into the Arsenal goal, the Westfalen Stadium became a sea of joy.
In the 69th minute of the second half, Cheng Hai scored a brace to help Dortmund take a 3-1 lead at home.
The goal at this time can be called the seal of victory.
In the following time, although Arsenal tried their best to counterattack, because of the presence of Cheng Hai, the midfielders did not dare to press and participate, and Arsenal's team cooperation was not strong enough, and they never broke through Dortmund's goal.
On Cheng Hai's side, after scoring the second goal, his physical strength was almost exhausted, and although he hadn't finished the game, he couldn't score again.
Of course, if you can hold on for one more second and deter Arsenal's backline, you still have to continue to insist on it.
However, in the 76th minute, Cheng Hai still couldn't hold on and couldn't take a walk, so he had to make a substitution gesture to the sidelines.
In the 76th minute, Cheng Hai was replaced by Klopp.
When Cheng Hai left the game, the scene resounded with warm applause, and more than 80,000 Hornets fans shouted his name and saluted him.
After Cheng Hai left the field, Arsenal could finally attack boldly and boldly.
But to be able to win last season's double, in addition to Cheng Hai's contributions, Dortmund's own strength should not be underestimated.
Although Arsenal's passing and cutting runs were very good, they were not enough to break down the Dortmund defence.
Arsenal did not score again until the end of the game.
After three minutes of stoppage time, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, and Borussia Dortmund got off to a good start to the Champions League with a 3-1 home win over Premier League giants Arsenal in the first round of the Champions League group stage.
In the other group game played at the same time, Marseille beat Olympiacos 1-0 away, with Borussia Dortmund having the upper hand in both goals and goal difference.
Therefore, after the first round, Dortmund is the first in the group with 3 points and 2 goal difference, Marseille is second with 3 points and 1 goal difference, Ollingpiac is third, and Arsenal is at the bottom.
However, the first round of the 6-round group stage was only played, which is not very significant, and does not mean that Arsenal is the weakest in the group.
Relatively speaking, Borussia Dortmund and Arsenal are still the two most likely teams to qualify.
After the game, the media affirmed Cheng Hai's performance of scoring a brace in his Champions League debut. Of course, the news that his annual goal record has been broken to 94 goals is still the focus of media coverage.
Cheng Hai is getting closer and closer to the annual 100 goals mark, and when the time comes, maybe Cheng Hai alone will be able to release a "2011 Top 100 Goals" album! (laughs and cries.jpg)
For Cheng Hai, in addition to scoring two goals on his debut and improving his annual total goal record, there are also many rewards for experience.
As he guessed before the game, the Champions League goal experience reward reached 100,000 per goal.
Therefore, in this game, Cheng Hai won 2 goals of 200,000 + the best 100,000 on the spot + winning prize of 200,000 = 500,000 experience rewards, and the level experience rose to level 26 17,059,300/20 million.
In comparison, the experience of 30,000 per goal in the Bundesliga is much less.
Five days later, on September 18, in the 6th round of the Bundesliga, Dortmund challenged Hannover 96 away. Despite the hard fight with Arsenal and the fact that everyone was not in great shape, Cheng Hai still played a mainstay role, scoring a brace and assisting Shinji Kagawa to help Dortmund win 3-2 away.
Cheng Hai's annual total goals have also reached 96, and he is only 4 goals away from breaking the triple-digit mark.
Millions of people around the world are looking forward to it.
However, before the next league game, Cheng Hai still has a group stage of the 2012 London Olympics Asian qualifiers to play.
And it's a strong conversation against the South Korean Olympic team.
Therefore, although there are only 6 days between the 6th and 7th rounds of the Bundesliga, Cheng Hai still returned to Asia without hesitation and is ready to lead the National Olympic team to challenge South Korea away.
This is also Cheng Hai's amazing recovery ability, he can recover his energy after a good night's sleep, and will not be affected by long-distance flights and jet lag.
For another person, with only a six-day break between league games, it is absolutely impossible to fly back to Asia to compete, and the club will not allow it.
Even so, when Cheng Hai left, Klopp's face was not very good-looking.
But Cheng Hai can't manage so much, as a Chinese, with a system plug-in, how can he not lead the National Olympic team to the Olympic Games and make a historic breakthrough?
Although the national football team has won the Asian Cup, the national Olympic team has not made any breakthrough!
We have to make it to the London Olympics and make a historic breakthrough.
As the third stage of the group stage, where each group has only one direct qualifier, the national Olympic team has almost no room for maneuver, and can only be led by Cheng Hai to establish a huge lead as soon as possible and strive to qualify early.
The group stage of the first round of Group A is composed of South Korea's Olympic home vs Hua Guoao, and Saudi Arabia's Olympic vs Qatar's Olympic team.
Cheng Hai naturally did not have to return to China, but flew directly from Germany to South Korea, and then only rested for one day, and ushered in the away match between China and South Korea.
If it weren't for the system's ability to sleep deeply anytime and anywhere, this kind of long-distance flight and playing a race with only one day off after jet lag would have been in terrible condition.
Fortunately, Cheng Hai has a system in hand, although it has been affected a little, it has not made Cheng Hai lose his combat effectiveness.
At the Asian level, even against the extremely strong South Korean team, Cheng Hai only played about 80% of his strength, which was enough to crush his opponent.
The South Korean Olympic team did not perform badly in the uniform cheering of the home fans, scoring 2 goals for the Chinese national team.
However, that didn't save them from losing at home.
Because of the Huaguo Olympic team, not only Cheng Hai scored 4 goals throughout the game, but also assisted his teammates to score a goal.
In the end, the Huaguo Olympic team won 5-2 away and got a good start to the third stage of the group stage of the Aoya preliminaries.
It's a pity that for Cheng Hai, the goal in this game belongs to the U23 youth team, not the goal of the professional game.
Otherwise, with the addition of the 4 goals in this game, Cheng Hai's annual total goals have really reached the triple-digit mark.
However, this is only September, and Cheng Hai still has a lot of games this year, and it is already a sure thing that his annual total goal will break the 100-goal mark, but there is no need to worry. After playing the Aoya preliminary match with the South Korean Olympic team, Cheng Hai didn't even take a break, and boarded the plane back to Germany overnight, and could only go into a deep sleep on the plane to rest and reverse jet lag.
If it weren't for the system's dream training function, no one would have been able to stand such a rapid back and forth halfway around the world to participate in a professional football match.
The point is, after returning to the club, Dortmund's next game is away again.
Klopp asked Cheng Hai's opinion, originally wanting him to take a turn to rest or sit on the bench, but Cheng Hai refused and insisted on starting the game.
However, although there is a systematic deep sleep function, so that Cheng Hai's body is not completely paralyzed, and he can continue to play, but the long-distance flight back and forth and the jet lag, as well as the rapid continuous away and professional games, made Cheng Hai, who is not an iron man after all, in a very poor state in the league against Mainz on September 24, and did not score a single goal.
Although he didn't score, Cheng Hai's presence still greatly deterred the opponent's midfield, so that Mainz did not dare to press on it, and also provided a good opportunity for Cheng Hai's teammates.
In the end, Dortmund won the game with a score of 2-1 away from home, and Cheng Hai did not score a goal or provide an assist.
This is an extremely rare thing for Cheng Hai.
Therefore, after the game, many hostile media of Bayern and Schalke 04 sneered at Cheng Hai and the Chinese Olympic team, believing that Cheng Hai's stubbornness to participate in the National Olympic team was a wrong decision, resulting in no goals scored and no assists in this game, delaying the time for him to break through the triple digits of annual goals.
No, the sea ignored it.
The patriotic complex of the Chinese people is incomprehensible to foreigners, and if they did, Europe would not be so divided into dozens of small countries.
After this league game, Dortmund continued away.
Fortunately, this time he didn't have to fly half the world, Cheng Hai got a short rest and recovered some well.
At 20:45 on the evening of September 28, 2011, the second round of the Champions League group stage Dortmund away to Marseille officially began at the home stadium of Marseille, the Welodrom Stadium.
As the only French team to have won the Champions League, Marseille's strength should not be underestimated, not to mention that they are still playing at home.
Cheered on by more than 60,000 fans at home, Marseille scored a total of three goals through sports battles and penalties.
However, they still did not block Cheng Hai's attack after all.
Cheng Hai, who has been resting for a few days and has not scored a hat-trick in many club games, broke out in this game.
Despite being away, Cheng Hai scored a full 3 goals with an overhead kick and scored a hat-trick away from home.
In addition, Cheng Hai also continued to tear apart Marseille's backline through running, allowing his teammates to get a lot of opportunities, and finally Lewandowski scored Dortmund's fourth goal.
In the end, Dortmund defeated Marseille 4-3 away in this exciting goal shootout and won two consecutive Champions League group stage victories.
In the other game, Arsenal unsurprisingly won at home to Olympiacos.
After this round of group stage, Dortmund continued to top the table with two consecutive wins, Marseille and Arsenal ranked second with the same points and goal difference, and Olympiacos was at the bottom.