As the commentator said, even the Braga fans, who were the opponents, had some people applaud Cheng Hai's goal in the stands.

The frightening statistic of 20 goals in a single season in the UEFA Cup deserves anyone's awe.

However, Cheng Hai scored this goal in the 43rd minute, in fact, he had already run out of energy.

The outbreak was very reluctant.

So, in the 45th minute, when he received the ball again and tried to break through on the side, Cheng Hai suddenly fell down by himself without contact.

In the 43rd minute, the breakthrough process of that goal caused his legs to fatigue and cramp.

His teammates and team doctor rushed to give him emergency treatment and then replaced him off the field.

Fortunately, it was just cramps, no other major problems, and it was good to rest for two days.

When Cheng Hai left the field, everyone in the audience, including Braga fans, stood up and gave him a round of applause.

In the next stoppage time, neither side scored.

After one minute of stoppage time, the two sides went into the break with a 3-0 scoreline, and Dortmund, who were playing at home, had a three-goal lead.

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

Without Dortmund's press, Braga began to press boldly and try to get on the scoresheet.

After all, the situation of being three goals behind is quite unfavorable for them.

To be able to reach the semi-finals, Braga, an unknown team in the Portuguese Super League, does have some standards.

In the 53rd minute, their midfielder Yundianu received a half-high ball from a teammate from outside the penalty area and fired a groundbreaking volley.

The ball flew like a cannonball across the box and into the Borussia Dortmund goal against the underside of the crossbar.

Goalkeeper Weidenfeller tried his best, but he was still a little bit close, and finally failed to touch the ball, so he could only watch the ball go into the net.

Braga finally got on the scoresheet, and it was an away goal, and they managed to keep some hope alive.

Of course, the reality of being two goals behind is not happy for Braga's coaches and players.

They had to continue to attack aggressively to try to score more away goals and close the gap on aggregate.

However, on Dortmund's side, even without Cheng Hai, their counterattack is still quite sharp.

In the 77th minute, Dortmund cut off Braga's attack, and Nuri Shaheen sent a straight kick to the ground, straight into the heart of Braga's backfield.

Mario Gotze successfully defended offside to the cheers of the Hornets fans, received a pass from Shahin to form a one-on-one knife, rushed into the box with the ball and faced the attacking goalkeeper, Gotze volleyed the ball into the far corner of the goal.

Dortmund once again extended the score to a three-goal lead at 4-1.

In the last ten minutes, although Braga tried desperately to score, Braga's efforts failed in the face of Dortmund's excellent offensive and defensive strength.

After three minutes of stoppage time, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the match, and Dortmund won 4-1 in the first leg of the League Cup semi-finals, occupying the absolute initiative to advance to the final in the second leg.

However, after the game, the focus of media coverage was not Dortmund's three-goal victory, but Cheng Hai's 20th goal in the League Cup.

"Cheng Hai's total goals in the League Cup broke through the 20-goal mark to make history!" 》

"The gods descended to earth, Cheng Hai's individual goals in a single season of the League Cup exceeded the 20-goal mark! 》

"In the first leg of the League Cup semifinals, Dortmund defeated Braga 4-1, and Cheng Hai broke through the 20-goal mark and detonated the Westfarun Stadium! 》

"Cheng Hai was replaced after scoring more than 20 goals in the League Cup this season! 》

The news that Cheng Hai broke through the 20-goal mark in the League Cup has aroused media reports and heated discussions among fans around the world.

Now Cheng Hai has become the focus of the world's attention, and any of his goals and assists will occupy an important page in the media, and there are already signs of becoming a world superstar.

If it weren't for being too young and too young, with Cheng Hai's goal efficiency and some records and achievements at this time, it would be really no problem to call him a world-class superstar.

However, because he has only been in football for one season, the number of championships is indeed too small, and it is not too convincing, so it can only be said that the first person of the younger generation is indeed too early to call him a world superstar.

It is impossible for Cheng Hai to be surpassed by Cheng Hai in one season after a few years or more than ten years of hard work.

However, even so, in terms of popularity, Cheng Hai is indeed no worse than any world superstar.

Even in terms of endorsement value, because of the relationship between the Chinese market, Baker's endorsement fee for Cheng Hai is not far from those world superstars.

It's just that some brands are afraid that Cheng Hai is a short-lived meteor and are still on the sidelines.

But once Cheng Hai's ultra-high goal rate and championship winning rate continue for more than two seasons and win enough weighty championships and personal honors, it is a sure thing for Cheng Hai to become a world superstar.

After a few days of rest, on April 30, in the 32nd round of the Bundesliga, Dortmund hosted Nuremberg.

Borussia Dortmund, who had already won the title ahead of schedule, naturally rotated heavily and kept their main focus on the second leg of the League Cup semi-finals.

After all, there are many examples in the history of European competition where the first leg was won by three goals at home, and the second leg was overturned by the opponent on the road.

Therefore, even if he won 4-1 in the first leg, Klopp did not take the opponent lightly and rotated the main line-up, so that everyone could retain better fitness to cope with the away game in the second leg of the League Cup semi-finals.

Of course, Cheng Hai will not be rotated.

On the one hand, Cheng Hai's strong physique and rest ability allow him to recover quickly after the game despite his lack of physical fitness during the game, and he does not have to worry that playing one more league game will affect his semi-finals in the League Cup.

In addition, Cheng Hai will continue to compete with Ronaldo for the European Golden Boot Award!

Even if Ronaldo didn't score a goal in the last round of the league, everyone didn't dare to be careless, because Ronaldo was very scary when he broke out, and it was easy to score a hat trick, a senior or something, and he caught up in a few games.

What's more, Ronaldo has two more league games than Cheng Hai.

Therefore, Klopp and his players can only help Cheng Hai score as many goals as possible and build a bigger lead.

Nuremberg are currently sixth in the table and have a chance of securing a European place next season, but the gap between them and the previous places is not too big, and the competition is a bit fierce.

Therefore, despite knowing that the away game against Dortmund, who have Cheng Hai, the chances of winning are slim, Nuremberg still put on a defensive counter-attacking position, waiting for the opportunity to counterattack and try to score goals while defending solidly.

Because of the lack of tacit understanding among some of the substitutes in rotation, the other players on the field also had some physical problems at the end of the season, and they had won the championship in advance and lacked motivation, so Dortmund played a little difficult in this game.

It wasn't until the 32nd minute that Dortmund finally scored their first goal.

And the goal was scored by the long-awaited Cheng Hai.

Cheng Hai made a save from the opposing goalkeeper through his breakthrough and shot and won a corner kick.

In the corner kick attack, Cheng Hai successfully grabbed the first point through his running position and point-grabbing ability, jumped high on the line of the small penalty area, and scored with a header, giving Dortmund the first scoring lead.

After Dortmund took the lead, Nuremberg could not hold on.

The score is already behind, there is no point in defending, and it is still a loss to keep until the end of the game, and the most urgent thing for Nuremberg, which currently needs points, is to score, at least to equalize, and get 1 point to win.

Therefore, in the next game, Nuremberg began to increase the intensity of the counterattack.

But in this way, it gives Dortmund more room to counterattack. If it weren't for the lack of cooperation with his teammates, I'm afraid Cheng Hai would have scored again before the end of the first half.

However, due to the lack of coordination between his teammates, Cheng Hai did not score a second goal in the period before the end of the first half.

Of course, the others also failed to score, and in the end the two sides went into the break with a score of 1-0, and Dortmund, who were playing at home, temporarily took a one-goal lead because of Cheng Hai's goal.

At the start of the second half, Nuremberg once again stepped up their attacking efforts to try to score a quick equaliser.

However, they lacked the final blow of the super striker, always making mistakes on the final shot, either high or off, and occasionally hitting the frame and over-angled, which was easily saved by the goalkeeper.

Until the 54th minute, Nuremberg failed to score and equalized the score.

At this time, Cheng Hai once again found an opportunity in the positional attack.

He first received the ball in midfield and broke through an opposing player with croquettes, then passed the ball to Shinji Kagawa before another player on the opposing side grabbed it, and ran around the side without the ball himself and rushed to the edge of the penalty area.

Shinji Kagawa's pass was delivered to Cheng Hai's feet at the right time, but because Nuremberg had long been paying attention to Cheng Hai, two players in front of him blocked the way in an instant, and Cheng Hai had considerable difficulty in breaking through or shooting.

But Cheng Hai doesn't just break through and shoot.

As just now, Cheng Hai passed the ball horizontally to Grosskloitz, who ran to the corner of the penalty area on the side, and then changed to a no-ball run and rushed into the penalty area.

Although the opponent has been strictly guarding Cheng Hai's running position and grabbing points, Cheng Hai's speed is too fast, and his ability to run and grab points without the ball is too high, and the opponent will lose his position if he is not careful.

In this attack, the opponent failed to block the gap in Cheng Hai's running position in time, allowing Cheng Hai to run out of a gap on the left side of the penalty spot in the penalty area.

Grosskloytz, who had just received Cheng Hai's pass, also understood, and sent the ball to Cheng Hai's feet after a smash dodge the player defending him.

Nuremberg in the penalty area was afraid that Cheng Hai would shoot directly without stopping the ball, so he immediately flew to block the gun hole and blocked Cheng Hai's possible shooting route.

However, Cheng Hai did not shoot after receiving a pass from Grosskloitz, but stopped the ball first, and then pulled it to the middle, avoiding the central defender who tackled the ball and made a shot.

As a result, another player rushed over from the side and once again made a flying tackle, trying to block Cheng Hai's shooting route again.

There were also people who surrounded Cheng Hai from behind and pushed Cheng Hai from behind, trying to make Cheng Hai lose control of the ball.

But Cheng Hai's full physique and dribbling played a role at this time.

I saw that he used his strong physique to resist the impact of the opposing player behind him, and at the same time used a full-value dribble to flick the ball to the middle at one time, and avoided the opposing player who fell down.

At this time, there was finally no one in front of Cheng Hai to stop him from shooting.

Before the other players of the opposing team could come forward to block, Cheng Hai volleyed near the penalty spot and kicked the ball into the far corner.

The goalkeeper had been shaken out of judgment in Cheng Hai's previous two feints, and his reaction to Cheng Hai's shot was quite slow.

When he saw that Cheng Hai had shot the ball out, he had no time to react, and finally didn't even make a save, just watched the ball roll into the goal against the far post.

In the 54th minute of the second half, Dortmund played a series of exquisite combinations in the front, and finally Cheng Hai successfully scored a brace and extended Dortmund's lead to 2-0 by continuously feints in the penalty area.

After falling behind by two goals, Nuremberg intensified their counter-attacks and tried to make a final struggle.

But their attack not only failed to score, but instead provoked another wave of counter-attacks for themselves in the 65th minute.

This time it was not Cheng Hai's goal or Cheng Hai's assist, but his movement up front put a lot of pressure on the Nuremberg players, and at least three defenders were attracted by his movement and lost their card defense against the rest of Dortmund's players.

As a result, Lewandowski ran out of space in the box and volleyed past Nuremberg after receiving a pass from Mario Gotze.

In the 65th minute of the second half, Dortmund had already taken a 3-0 lead and basically sealed the victory.

This score basically announced the end of the game.

Even though Cheng Hai was substituted in the 68th minute, Nuremberg failed to organize a decent counterattack.

After all, the huge gap of three goals behind made the players lose confidence in equalising.

Neither side scored for the last twenty minutes.

After three minutes of stoppage time, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game as Borussia Dortmund thrashed Nuremberg 3-0 at home in the penultimate round of the league.

However, for Dortmund, who have already won the championship in advance, it does not matter if they win or lose.

Everyone cares about Cheng Hai.

After this game, Cheng Hai's league goal tally has reached 38, just two short of the 40 Bundesliga goals set by Gerd Muller in 1971/1972.

There are still two rounds left in this season's Bundesliga, and with Cheng Hai's goal rate, he only needs to score 3 goals in two league games to break Gerd Muller's record and set a new record of his own.

Countless people are looking forward to it, waiting for Cheng Hai's breakthrough.

Before that, though, Dortmund will have to play the second leg of the UEFA Cup semi-final against Braga in the Portuguese Super League.

At 21:00 on the evening of May 5, 2011, with the referee's whistle, the second leg of the UEFA Cup semi-final match between Dortmund and Braga officially began at the Braga Municipal Stadium.

Braga, who trailed by three goals in the first leg and was cornered, broke through the 433 attacking formation in this game, and tried to achieve a big comeback in a desperate attempt.

Not to mention, their wild attack really paid off in the 18th minute, when their wing-backs cut inside and then inverted a triangle pass, and midfielder Tro cut in the middle and fired a blast from behind the penalty spot in the penalty area to kick the ball into the Borussia Dortmund goal.

More than 20,000 Braga fans erupted in loud applause and cheers, screaming for Stro's goal.

The Braga players on the pitch were also quite excited, hugging Stro for a long celebration, and Dortmund did not complain about them.

Braga's players celebrated for more than half a minute, as if to realise that they were still two goals behind on aggregate, so they hurried to end their celebrations and return to their own half, allowing Borussia Dortmund to open the circle.

After the restart, Braga, who were still two goals behind, continued to attack aggressively, while Dortmund contracted their defense and counter-attacked.

Anyway, there is a striker like Cheng Hai, who is the fastest in the world, and it is actually the most advantageous to counterattack.

Braga went on a rampage to get another goal, but they didn't have the luck to score the first goal.

In the following period, although he created a few chances on goal, he was never able to find the back of the net.

On the contrary, it was Dortmund's side that finally played a successful quick counterattack in the 24th minute, and Cheng Hai successfully received a long pass from captain Kyle in the air against offside, unloaded the ball and formed a single knife, and finally scored easily outside the arc of the big penalty area.

Cheng Hai scored again, and while equalizing the score of this game, he also continued to expand the aggregate score to the extent of a 5-2 lead of three goals.

Moreover, Cheng Hai's goal also wiped out Braga's away goal advantage.

In the following period, even if Braga scored three goals in a row to level the aggregate score, they could not win outright and had to go into extra time.

And once Dortmund score again, the away goal advantage will go to Dortmund's side, and Braga can declare a complete exit.

Of course, regardless of whether Dortmund will score again, Braga, who are three goals behind, have no way to defend tightly, but can only continue to attack and try to win with attack.

But this kind of offensive did not do much for Dortmund, who were both strong at both ends of the pitch, with Hummels, Subotic, Kyle and others constantly disrupting their attack and waiting for opportunities to launch counterattacks.

On 31 minutes, less than ten minutes after the previous goal, Dortmund scored again.

This time it was also another quick counterattack, and it was Cheng Hai's goal again.

Although Cheng Hai did not score a single goal from an anti-offside position, his running and dribbling breakthrough skills still allowed him to bring the ball to the big penalty area, and then carried the pull and push of the opposing defender to dodge the angle and volley into the near corner through continuous smashes.

Cheng Hai scored a brace to help Borussia Dortmund lead Braga 2-1 away and rewrite the aggregate score to 6-2.