That night and the next day, the news that Cheng Hai led Borussia Dortmund to defeat Messi's Barcelona to win the 2011 UEFA Super Cup swept the pages of important media around the world.

"2011 UEFA Super Cup, Dortmund defeated Barcelona 3-2 to win the championship! 》

"Dortmund defeated Barcelona 3-2 to win the European Super Cup, Cheng Hai led Messi with one pass and two shots! 》

"Cheng Hai led Dortmund to defeat Barcelona to win the European Super Cup with one pass and two shots, and the false statements that relied on the abuse of vegetables to brush up the goal data can be closed! 》

"UEFA Super Cup Dortmund 3-2 Barcelona won the championship, Cheng Hai scored a total of 83 goals in one pass and two shots! 》

Dortmund 3-2 Barcelona won the UEFA Super Cup and achieved the quadruple crown of the year! 》

"Dortmund won the European Super Cup, Cheng Hai led Messi with one pass and two shots, and the FIFA Golden Ball Award was uncertain! 》

In the previous games, Cheng Hai was indeed considered by many people to rely more on the number of goals scored in low-level competitions such as the League Cup, Asian Cup, and Asian World Preliminaries, so that he could achieve such a high achievement and prestige, which cannot be compared with Messi's achievements in the Champions League, the highest technical and tactical level of world clubs.

However, this European Super Cup has changed the minds of countless people.

In the face-to-face duel, Cheng Hai proved that he is stronger than Messi, and he can also lead Dortmund to defeat the Cosmos team Barcelona to win the championship.

It shows that Cheng Hai's achievements are not false at all.

He has the quality to go head-to-head with Messi and win.

Obviously, this will have an impact on many of the judges who vote for the FIFA Ballon d'Or at the end of the year, and Messi's Ballon d'Or trifecta really doesn't look so secure.

Of course, it depends on the other performances of the two in the second half of the year.

If Messi has the ability to suppress Cheng Hai, performs well on multiple fronts, and often swipes the screen in front of the media to make big news, then he may be able to save some impression points.

But it seems that Cheng Hai has a greater probability of swiping the screen.

Because his annual goal tally in 2011 has reached a staggering 83, just two goals away from Gerd Muller's annual record of 85.

If not, Cheng Hai will be able to break this world record in the next game, create a new world record, and shock the world.

No matter how much Messi swipes the screen, I am afraid he can't compare to the shock of Cheng Hai's world record-breaking.

What's more, the second half of the year has just begun, Dortmund can fight on three fronts at the same time, and Cheng Hai even has the top 20 group stage matches in the Asian region of the World Preliminaries.

Although the level of competition in the Asian region of the World Preliminary Championship is low, no matter how low it is, it is also an international A' level event!

And it is a very formal World Preliminary Tournament involving the prospect of the national team qualifying for the World Cup, and the goal is definitely counted as a player's career goal.

In this way, not to mention Gerd Muller's record of 85 goals, Cheng Hai is even likely to break the annual 100-goal mark and increase the annual total goals to an unprecedented triple-digit level.

This is a terrifying number that has never been seen before, and I am afraid that it will never come after.

In the second half of the year, I am afraid that Cheng Hai will show his face in front of the media and swipe the screen much more times than Messi!

Time will tell.

And the next game is the time when Cheng Hai may break through Gerd Muller's 85 goals.

Therefore, on August 29, 2011, in the fourth round of the Bundesliga Leverkusen vs Dortmund, the scene was not only full of spectators, but also media reporters from various countries around the world poured in one or two hundred people, and even the media seats could not be seated, and they had to be seated separately.

Outside the billboards around the stadium, there were also piles of photographers and reporters from big-name media outlets who had been allowed to enter.

This is a game that is destined to be watched by the whole world.

Bayer Leverkusen's head coach, players and fans also know why this game is so much in the spotlight.

But as one of the traditional giants of the Bundesliga, and in their home stadium, they will definitely not be willing to be the background board for Cheng Hai to set a world record.

Therefore, the head coach of the pharmaceutical factory announced at the pre-match press conference: In this game, the pharmaceutical factory will play as the World Cup final, and use all its strength to confront Dortmund, not only to defeat Dortmund at home, but also to stare at Cheng Hai, so that Cheng Hai can't score goals.

In addition, Bayer Leverkusen's defender Lars Bender is the brother of Cheng Hai's teammate and Dortmund defender Sven Bender, who replaced him in the last game, and the two are two brothers.

In an interview with reporters, Lars Bender said he would not show mercy to Cheng Hai and his brother just because they were teammates.

He will use the toughest defense to let Cheng Hai know that Bayer Arena is not the place where he brushes goals and breaks world records.

On the-for-tat, the players and coaches on Dortmund's side also expressed their full support for Cheng Hai to score goals and break the world record, saying that they would do their best to assist Cheng Hai in the game, help Cheng Hai score more goals, and tie or even break Gerd Muller's annual world record of 85 goals.

As for Cheng Hai himself, he will naturally not be so sharp, so as to avoid becoming a laughing stock if he can't score goals and chase records.

It's not like he hasn't had games where he can't score.

Therefore, Cheng Hai said in an interview with reporters:

"Gerd Müller is a great superstar and his achievements will always deserve our respect."

"As for myself, it's certainly nice to have the opportunity to come close to Gerd Müller's world record, but I'm not going to go for it."

"I'm a Borussia Dortmund player first and foremost, and my task should be to help Dortmund win first, rather than dwelling on individual goals and breaking records."

"Therefore, I hope that this game will be treated with a normal heart by media friends and fans."

It's the truth.

Although breaking the world record is very tempting, Cheng Hai knows that it is precisely because he is close to breaking the world record that he will inevitably be strictly defended by the whole Leverkusen team who does not want to be the background board, and the probability of scoring is actually not high.

And once he takes it as usual and assists his team-mates to shoot while attracting a lot of defensive attention from his opponents, the probability of Dortmund winning is quite high.

Breaking the record is a certainty, it's just a matter of time. And if they want to win the treble, Dortmund must establish a big advantage on all fronts.

With one more win and more goal difference in the Bundesliga, perhaps at the end of the season, we can win the title early and put our energy into the German Cup and Champions League earlier.

Therefore, although Cheng Hai had the intention to break the record in this Bundesliga match with pharmaceutical companies, he did not have the determination to win and lose the reason for normal games.

Most people don't know this.

Most people, including the media, fans and Bayer Leverkusen players, believe that Cheng Hai must be very concerned about breaking Gerd Muller's annual record of 85 goals in order to compete with Messi for the FIFA Ballon d'Or.

In the game, Zhong Hai will definitely look very alone.

As long as Cheng Hai is guarded, Bayer Leverkusen may be able to freeze Dortmund's attack and achieve victory through counter-attacks.

At 20:30 on the evening of August 29, 2011, Bayer Arena, the home stadium of Bayer Leverkusen, which can accommodate 30,000 people, was cheered by all the fans, and with the referee's whistle, the fourth round of the 2011/2012 Bundesliga season Leverkusen hosted Dortmund officially began.

Bayer Leverkusen is not lying.

In order to prevent Cheng Hai from scoring two goals to tie the game, or even scoring three goals to break Gerd Muller's annual world record of 85 goals, and making himself a backdrop for the world's media to report Cheng Haiping's record or record, Leverkusen put on a posture of defending the counterattack from the beginning of the game and put all defensive attention on Cheng Hai.

As long as Cheng Hai enters the 30-meter range of Leverkusen's goal, there are at least two players around him at all times, and there are one or two people around him to help defend and fill in at any time.

It can be said that Leverkusen has improved the defense of Cheng Hai to the extreme, just to prevent Cheng Hai from scoring goals, breaking records, and making news on them.

With only 11 players on both sides playing, it was inevitable that the defense against the rest of Borussia Dortmund's players would be slackened.

But Bayer Leverkusen didn't pay too much attention to it, because they felt that in order to help Cheng Hai score, the rest of Dortmund would eventually have to send the ball to Cheng Hai's feet, and Cheng Hai would shoot at the goal.

As long as they guard against Cheng Hai, they basically have the ability to keep the goal intact.

In addition to the number of people to encircle Cheng Hai, Leverkusen's defensive hardness in this game is also top-notch, and it is better than Schalke 04 that Dortmund met in the Ruhr derby.

After the start of the game, Cheng Hai first tried to break through with the ball and run without the ball for a while, but found that Leverkusen's marking of him was too strict.

Even with his full value of dribbling and running off the ball, he can shake off and break through one or two players, but he can't get a shot on goal.

Seven or eight minutes have passed since the start of the game, and Cheng Hai didn't even have a shot on goal.

Not to mention the shooting in the penalty area, he can't even shoot from outside the penalty area, which shows how tightly Leverkusen has marked Cheng Hai.

In order to prevent Cheng Hai's shot, Bayer Leverkusen defended him almost with the strength of the whole team.

This kind of defense naturally allowed Dortmund's other players Lewandowski, Gotze, Shinji Kagawa, and Gundogan to get a lot of open opportunities to receive the ball.

But in order to achieve the awesome boast before the game and help Cheng Hai score a record-breaking goal, they rarely shoot themselves even if they take the ball in the gap, and they still try to pass the ball to Cheng Hai's feet and Cheng Hai shoots at the goal.

So, a few minutes before the game, Cheng Hai did not score, and Lewandowski and others did not take the opportunity to score a goal.

Seeing this situation, Cheng Hai knew that this game could no longer be forced to break the record.

If you insist on this, it is that Leverkusen guesses the combat intentions of the whole Dortmund team, they will be very easy to defend, and if they don't do well, they will take the opportunity to counterattack and sneak attack, and finally let Dortmund lose the game.

As a result, Cheng Hai changed his intentions and took advantage of the opportunity to gradually convey his opinion to his teammates.

Then, in the 12th minute, when Cheng Hai switched to the right side to receive the ball and was still intercepted and marked by the opponent's two players, Mario Gotze on the left side took advantage of the opponent's back line to focus all its attention on Cheng Hai and ran into a huge gap in the left rib of the penalty area.

Once the ball is in place, Götze can shoot almost undisturbed.

But in the first few minutes of the game, Leverkusen didn't care about Götze's running, they thought that Cheng Hai would continue to break through with the ball by himself, even if the pass was to cooperate with his teammates, and in the end Cheng Hai had to take the ball himself and try to shoot.

Therefore, Bayer Leverkusen, whether it is a defender or a goalkeeper, will keep their eyes on Cheng Hai to see his next move.

Unexpectedly, Cheng Hai, who had already made up his mind, did not hesitate at all after discovering Mario Gotze's running position, nor did he go to hit the wall with his nearby teammates to cooperate with the defenders in front of him, but after dodging a gap through the change of smashing and dribbling rhythm, he suddenly got up and hoisted the ball to the left rib of Leverkusen's penalty area.

Cheng Hai's big-footed long pass surprised most of the audience.

The commentators of the TV stations of various countries in the commentary seat were surprised:

"Pass!"

"Cheng Hai didn't fight alone, didn't break through by himself, but sent the ball to Mario Gotze, who was unguarded on the left side of the penalty area!"

"It's a very long-distance accurate long pass!"

"Bayer Leverkusen is in danger!"

They are all professional athletes, and when Cheng Hai sent this long ball in the air, even if the ball was still in the air and had not yet landed in front of Mario Gotze, they already knew that something was wrong.

Leno, the goalkeeper at the right end of the goal, rushed to the left of Götze, and the two closest defenders in the box also rushed towards Götze with all their might, trying to stop or disrupt Götze's shot.

However, it was too late.

Cheng Hai's full-value crosses and long passes in the air allowed him to accurately deliver the ball to the expected position, in front of Mario Gotze, who was running.

Because the Leverkusen players are focusing on Cheng Hai on the right, the gap in the left rib of the penalty area is very large, and Cheng Hai is seven or eight meters away from the nearest defender when he passes.

Therefore, Gotze observed the landing point of the ball and the position of the goalkeeper, and then faced the ball falling in the air without being guarded, and came with a volley.

The volley was powerful and Gotze was aimed in the opposite direction of goalkeeper Leno's save.

Although he couldn't point where to hit like Cheng Hai did when he kicked a penalty, because no one interfered, Gotze played quite well, and this shot played the effect Götze wanted.

And it's blazing fast.

Defender Reynerts, who came from the middle, tried to fly to block the gun's hole, but couldn't get it.

Leno, the goalkeeper who pounced on the near end, turned back to the ball for the first time because of the ball path observed by his eyes, but after all, he couldn't save far because of the opposite center of gravity, and he could only watch in despair as the ball flew far away in front of his palm, and then flew into the right end of the goal and hit the inside of the net.

In the 12th minute, Cheng Hai unexpectedly diverted the ball into the gap in the Leverkusen penalty area and assisted Mario Gotze to volley the goal.

Borussia Dortmund took a 1-0 lead away.

Dortmund's away fans immediately celebrated excitedly, and only Cheng Hai's fans were slightly disappointed.

However, although it was not a goal, it did get an assist, which can be regarded as a reluctant comfort!

But for Bayer Leverkusen, the ball was a bit of an ugly one.

You know, they are also Bundesliga giants, this is their home stadium, and their goal is not just to prevent Cheng Hai from scoring, that's too low.

Their goal is to freeze Cheng Hai and wait for an opportunity to fight back and get a home victory.

Therefore, Cheng Hai's long pass to divert the assist and Dortmund's lead was an accident that completely broke their expectations in the game.

They thought Cheng Hai would hold on to the ball and try to score goals.

Who would have thought that Cheng Hai still had such a calm side, and he was willing to pass the ball out and help his teammates score?

Is he going to break the record? Do you want to compete with Messi for the Ballon d'Or?

Bayer Leverkusen's coaches and players said their heads hurt.

However, after only one goal behind, everyone was not very panicked, and they didn't know if Cheng Hai was intentional or if it was an accidental pass.

Therefore, after the game restarted, Bayer Leverkusen did not change their game tactics, and still focused most of their energy on Cheng Hai.

For the other Dortmund players, it's just a little bit more attentive.

But this kind of defensive strength is far from enough for Dortmund, the Bundesliga champions.

In the case that Cheng Hai has already told his teammates that he does not need to help him score with all his might, others can also shoot and score.

After all, there are bonuses for goals and assists, and they will not forcibly refuse to shoot and insist on shoving the ball at Cheng Hai's feet.

So, less than 10 minutes before the last goal, in the 20th minute, Cheng Hai successfully attracted the defensive attention of a full three players through a short touch of running and receiving the ball, and brought them to the left side of the penalty area.

Then, Gundogan, Shinji Kagawa and Lewandowski played a wave of exquisite frontcourt cooperation on the right side of the penalty area, and finally Shinji Kagawa assisted Lewandowski to volley in the penalty area and broke through Leverkusen's goal again.

Borussia Dortmund took a 2-0 lead away.

At this moment, the players and coaches of the pharmaceutical factory can no longer calm down.

They have already seen that Dortmund are using their psychology of keeping an all-out eye on Cheng Hai and preventing Cheng Hai from scoring a record-breaking goal, scoring with other players and winning the game.

Cheng Hai didn't have the determination to score a record-breaking goal in this game at all, it was just their guess and estimate.

If they continue to play like this, they will not only lose, but they may also lose by a large margin.

Therefore, after the game restarted, Bayer Leverkusen, who were two goals behind, were forced to change their tactics and had to press forward in formation and take the initiative to attack.

And the defense of Cheng Hai, Lewandowski and others did not dare to concentrate all their forces on Cheng Hai alone.

They could only spread their forces and try to block Dortmund's attack.

However, how is that possible?

After the opponent was forced to press forward in formation for counterattack, the backcourt activity space expanded several times, and the number of players defending himself was divided into many games, Cheng Hai began to exert his power.

If you have the opportunity to shoot and score, he won't refuse.

In the 28th minute, Cheng Hai almost dribbled past two people to form a single goal, but when he broke through the last defender Toprak, he was directly knocked down by the opponent and lost the opportunity to score a single goal.

But the opponent ruined Cheng Hai's threatening offensive opportunity this time, and naturally received a yellow card.

However, although he received a yellow card, he prevented Cheng Hai's breakthrough and single-handedness, and Leverkusen's players and coaches still felt that it was quite cost-effective.

Although Dortmund was given a free-kick in front, it was 28 metres away and Dortmund did not have a free-kick master in their squad.

Therefore, Toprak, who used a yellow card to prevent Cheng Hai from breaking through to form a single knife, was also encouraged by his teammates to think that he did a good job in this tactical foul.

Unexpectedly, it was this free kick, after being sent by Shinji Kagawa, the ball flew over the wall and towards the frame of Leverkusen.

Shinji Kagawa played extraordinarily and sent a high-quality free-kick directly to the goal.

Unfortunately, Leverkusen's goalkeeper Leno was quite focused, made a save at the first time, successfully touched the ball, lifted the ball up, and tried to lift it off the crossbar.

Unexpectedly, his strength was not enough, and the ball did not fly off the crossbar as he expected, but hit the crossbar and bounced back into the penalty area.

Fortunately, it bounced back into the restricted area and did not bounce directly into the net.

Just when Leno was thinking this in his heart and expecting his teammates to quickly clear the ball out of the penalty area, he saw a player wearing a bumblebee jersey appear on the way to the rebound ball for the first time, and a light header shot will go into the empty goal formed by Leno because of the free kick of Shinji Kagawa.

Leno, who fell to the ground, took a closer look at the opponent's jersey number: No. 9!

It was Dortmund's No. 9 striker Cheng Hai who they couldn't defend and couldn't prevent.

Cheng Hai, with his superhuman off-ball running and point-grabbing ability, and header skills, was the first to grab the rebound ball that bounced off the crossbar in this free-kick attack and pushed it back into the Leverkusen goal.

In the 28th minute, Cheng Hai scored his first goal of the game through a free-kick attack, and increased his annual goal tally to 84, just one goal short of Gerd Muller's annual 85 goals.

Therefore, the moment Cheng Hai put the ball into the goal, thousands of Dortmund away fans cheered excitedly, cheering and celebrating Cheng Hai's goal.

The commentators in the commentary seat also immediately shouted at the highest volume:

“Toooooooooooooor……”

"The ball is in!"

"Cheng Hai finally scored!"

Cheng Hai scored through a stop-out shot, helping Borussia Dortmund to a 3-0 lead, while also bringing his own annual goal tally for 2011 to 84.

"That's just one goal away from Gerd Muller's annual world record of 85 goals!"

"As long as Cheng Hai scores one more goal, he can equal Gerd Muller's annual goal record. With just two more goals, he can set a new record. ”

"It's terrifying!"

"Leverkusen's strict defense still failed to stop Cheng Hai's goal after all!"

"Now they really can't let Cheng Hai score anymore, otherwise, they will at least become the background board for Cheng Hai to tie the record!"

"It's up to them to see if they can do it in the next game!"

"Let's look forward to the next games!"