Chapter 106: Thousands of Miles to Ride Alone
Cheng Hai was naturally unwilling to fail.
This is not only a question of whether the first official game of the new season and the first championship is a good start or a black start, but as long as he wins this game, he will have 10 skill points in his account!
What's more, it also involves the benefit of multiple crowns rewarding a random skill.
Therefore, although his teammates are not in good shape, Cheng Hai still has to fight.
The transmission and cutting did not run well, so Cheng Hai did it alone.
With Cheng Hai's physique, speed, and dribbling skills, it is not impossible to ride alone for thousands of miles and enter Longtan alone.
It's just that the chance of success is relatively low.
But no matter how low the odds are, it's never zero.
Therefore, after failing to break into Longtan alone with the ball twice in a row, in the 40th minute, Cheng Hai finally succeeded once.
The chance was because Schalke 04's attack was cut off by Kyle and Hurmes and then handed the ball to Schmelzer.
After Schmelzer smashed the ball past the counter-attacking Huntelaar, a long pass sent the ball to the feet of Cheng Hai on the side of the midfield.
Cheng Hai first wiped off the defenders around him through the full-value stopping technique, and then began to dribble to the Schalke 04 penalty area.
The previous two failed thousands of miles to ride alone made the opposing players see that Cheng Hai was ready to go it alone.
Therefore, they had no scruples, and they all rushed up to defend Cheng Hai.
Although there were only two Schalke 04 defenders who dragged in front of him when Cheng Hai received the ball, because he was on the side when he received the ball, he not only had to dribble past the two defenders, but also took a diagonal line, so there was a midfielder in the middle of the back to defend in front of him.
But even so, plus the player Cheng Hai passed when he stopped the ball, Cheng Hai still relied on his galloping speed and full value of physique, dribbling, croquettes, Matthews feints, ox tail and other skills to connect four people, and dribble to the big penalty area line.
Although there was a defender next to Cheng Hai who was not completely broken through by him in the end, pushing him behind the side, Cheng Hai's full physique allowed him to stabilize his body and complete the shot.
Facing Schalke 04 goalkeeper Farmman, who attacked into the big penalty area, Cheng Hai made a powerful volley after dribbling to the line of the big penalty area and pumped the ball to the far corner.
Despite Farman's save, Cheng Hai's full-value shot was too awkward, and Farman couldn't get it in the end, so he could only watch the ball pass in front of him, and finally drilled into Schalke 04's goal against the far post.
In the 40th minute of the first half, Cheng Hai finally scored his first goal of the game to help Dortmund draw the score at 1-1.
When Cheng Hai passed four people in a row and rode thousands of miles to send the ball into the goal of Schalke 04, the Dortmund commentator on the commentary seat suddenly roared excitedly:
“tooooooooooooooooor……”
"Cheng Hai has scored!"
"Cheng Hai finally scored!"
"1-1, Cheng Hai equalized for Borussia Dortmund, we still have hope!"
"As long as we still have Cheng Hai, Dortmund can win!"
On the field, the Dortmund soldiers, who had been making mistakes and depressed for 40 minutes, also rushed up with extreme excitement and hugged Cheng Hai to celebrate, thanking him for carrying the banner of the counterattack alone in such a difficult situation. In the stands, the more than 10,000 Hornets away fans, who had also been depressed for 40 minutes, could finally yell and cheer loudly to vent their excitement and celebrate Cheng Hai's goal.
As for the Chinese fans who stayed up late in front of the TV to watch the live broadcast, they celebrated that Cheng Hai's annual total goals had increased by one more.
Including this goal, Cheng Hai's total goals in the 2011 calendar year have reached a terrifying 67, just 18 goals short of the annual world record of 85 goals set by Gerd Muller in 1972.
And the second half of the season has just begun.
Countless people can't wait for Cheng Hai to break Gerd Muller's annual world record of 85 goals.
After Cheng Hai scored the goal, neither side scored again for the rest of the time.
One minute of stoppage time, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the first half, and Borussia Dortmund and Schalke 04 went into the break with a 1-1 scoreline.
Jurgen Klopp is not a good-natured person, and a good-natured person is not well suited to be a football coach and manage these big-name stars who earn millions of euros a year.
At half-time, when Cheng Hai fell into a deep sleep, Klopp reprimanded several other starters.
In particular, Gotze's performance today was extremely poor, and he was so trained by Klopp that he couldn't lift his head, and in the end, Klopp replaced him with Owomoyela, which was severely punished.
It may be that Klopp's reprimand played a role, or maybe it was Cheng Hai's equalizing performance that reduced the psychological pressure of the players a lot, and maybe it was because they had adapted to the atmosphere of the first game of the new season, and after the start of the second half, Dortmund's performance was much better than the first half.
Even Gundogan made a brilliant pass in the 49th minute.
If it weren't for Shinji Kagawa's shot being ruined by the opposing defender's flying shot, Gundogan might have received his first assist since joining Borussia Dortmund.
Although the goal was not scored, Gundogan played more and more smoothly after that, and gradually found his feeling as a playmaker at Nuremberg.
In the 54th minute, Gundogan actually had insight into Cheng Hai's running intentions when he was not very tacit with Cheng Hai, and a wonderful pass penetrated the defense line of Schalke 04 and passed the ball to the person in front of Cheng Hai's running position, so that Cheng Hai could successfully receive Cheng Hai's pass in the gap outside the penalty area.
Cheng Hai's catch naturally caused the players of Schalke 04 to be extremely nervous, and four nearby players rushed towards Cheng Hai at the same time, wanting to trap and rob him.
However, this time Cheng Hai did not choose to go alone.
He used his full-value short passing skills to push the ball to the left of the penalty spot in the penalty area two or three meters away.
At half-time, the substitute Götze came on as a left wing-back Owomoyela, who rushed up and raised his foot to make a blast of action, causing the nearest defender to throw his body out to block the gun, and goalkeeper Farman also subconsciously pounced on the bottom left corner.
Unexpectedly, Owomoyela actually made a calm fake pass in the penalty area, and when the goalkeeper was deflected and the last defender deviated from the defensive position, he calmly pushed the ball to the penalty spot.
The goalkeeper was deflected and the last defender was out of position, and captain Sebastian Kehl, who was cut in the back row, rushed up unguarded, stepped into the box and volleyed the ball into the bottom right corner of the net. Goalkeeper Valman, who was still on the ground, could only watch the ball into the net in despair, unable to make any effective save.
Borussia Dortmund finally broke through Schalke 04's defence through a series of clever short passes, and it was Kehl who scored the game-winning goal.
The key point of this breakthrough is that Gundogan discovered Cheng Hai's running intentions and seized this opportunity in time, and his passing skills were also in place, and he accurately sent the ball to Cheng Hai's feet, which contributed to Cheng Hai's continuous wonderful cooperation with Owomoyela and Kyle.
This is the true role of the core of an organization, and it is not just the assist stats that can reflect it.
After more than half a month of training and friendly matches, Gundogan finally found a little feeling in this official competition.
Klopp smiled with satisfaction on the sidelines.
Of course, Klopp was satisfied, but the Schalke 04 manager was furious.
You know, it's their home turf. Moreover, they were the first to score ahead.
As a result, now the score has been reversed.
From leading to lagging behind, this contrast is enough to make people angry and anxious.
So, the coach of Schalke 04 yelled at the players on the sidelines, and then ordered them to attack aggressively, not to be afraid of losing the ball, not to be soft, and to foul when they should be fouled.
This blatant encouragement of his players to foul the opponent naturally won a round of applause from the originally depressed home Schalke fans.
Of course, it was also warned by the referee.
At the referee's warning, he stopped shouting for players to attack aggressively and foul their tactics, but his order was actually received by the players.
Therefore, after the restart, Schalke 04 moved a lot bigger.
It is the most fierce Ruhr derby in Germany, the confrontation is fierce, and the action of the Schalke 04 players has become bigger, Dortmund's side immediately-for-tat, and the scramble on the field has become more intense.
is also a yellow race and an Asian player, Schalke 04's right-back Atsuto Uchida has long been full of envy and jealousy of Cheng Hai's success at Dortmund.
Coupled with the historical grievances between the two countries, he actually wanted to prove his strength through Cheng Hai's defense for a long time, and even had a little dark psychology of wanting to destroy Cheng Hai and destroy the hope of Chinese football.
It's just that he still had a little sense before, knowing that if he maliciously fouled, he might also be banned and interrupt his career.
However, now, under the influence of the atmosphere of the game between the two teams, Atsushi Uchida's sanity is gradually overshadowed by blood and madness.
So, in the 63rd minute, when Cheng Hai switched to the left to receive the ball and was about to break through Atsuto Uchida, Atsuto Uchida came with a flying tackle from the side.
The original intention was to tackle the ball, but after seeing Cheng Hai jump up to dodge, Atsuto Uchida suddenly became angry, lifted his foot upward, and deliberately hooked Cheng Hai's left foot.
Cheng Hai was originally extremely fast with the ball, but he was suddenly hooked by Atsuto Uchida in the air and lost his center of gravity and fell down.
Therefore, Cheng Hai fell extremely painfully. Although the full value of the physique made his body bones and muscles different from ordinary people, he was not injured by this hard fall.
But this fell from the air fiercely, it was an unprecedented pain, and it almost knocked Cheng Hai unconscious.