Chapter 176: Hat-trick

Indeed, as some commentators have said, the truly intense game has only just begun.

Cheng Hai and his teammates celebrated for less than 30 seconds, but Barcelona complained that the celebration was too long, and the referee interfered to end the celebration.

It can be seen that the Barcelona players are in a hurry.

Guardiola couldn't calm down anymore and had to give the order for a general attack.

Falling behind by two goals, on the stage of the Champions League final, if you don't attack, you will have to die.

After the game restarted, Barcelona's passing speed suddenly accelerated, and the pace of both passing and breaking through was much faster.

Even with Cheng Hai to assist in the defense, Dortmund's defense was a bit stormy.

Because Barcelona's passing and cutting runs are too skillful and tacit.

This alone is not enough, if this kind of passing and cutting coordination is skillful, there is Cheng Hai's physical interference to force the sweep, plus the defensive cooperation of other Dortmund players, there is still a high probability that Barcelona's passing control can be stopped.

But the reason why Barcelona has become a cosmos team is that in addition to the collective pass-and-control cooperation, there is also Messi as an attacker.

He, like Cheng Hai, is a sharp knife that breaks the balance.

After Cheng Hai scored twice, Barcelona launched two attacks to the front, but both ultimately failed and failed to enter the penalty area to form a shot.

However, Barcelona's counter-attacking ability was also first-class, and they did not let Dortmund's counterattack start, and snatched the ball back in the midfield and attacked again.

Finally, in the 75th minute, Barcelona's frantic attack paid off.

In fact, this time it was equivalent to Dortmund being beaten on the counterattack, because Dortmund had already scored into Barcelona's half after getting the ball.

As a result, Cheng Hai's pass to Mario Gotze was a little bigger by Gotze, and then it was stabbed away by a flying tackle by Alves.

Barcelona launched a counterattack in an instant, and before Cheng Hai could even return to the defense, the ball was accurately and long passed by Xavi to the feet of Messi on the right side of the frontcourt.

After Messi got the ball, he faced the defense of Schmelzer and Subotic, and did not pass the ball, but chose to go alone.

Then, everyone saw a wonderful scene: Messi broke through the bag of Schmelzer and Subotic through continuous shaking, smashing, pulling, Matthews feints, etc., and entered the penalty area.

After entering the penalty area, Schmelzer and Subotic, who were left behind by Messi, did not even dare to foul, because they might face yellow cards + penalty kicks.

Hummels, who followed Sanchez in the middle, did not expect Schmelzer and Subotic to be able to stop Messi, and when he tried to rush over to fill the position, it was too late.

Messi, who dribbled into the box, glanced at Weidenfeller, who pounced on the near corner, and hit a reverse far corner with his left foot.

With his weight in the near corner, Weidenfeller couldn't save and could only watch as the ball flew from behind him into the back of the net.

In the 75th minute, Barcelona finally relied on the assist of the passing master Xavi and Messi's individual performance to score the score, and the score was 1-2 and only one goal behind.

Suddenly, the Barcelona fans on the scene and in front of the TV let out excited cheers and screams, and Messi on the field also vented and celebrated fiercely with his teammates.

However, they were still behind and didn't celebrate for long, so they consciously returned to their own half and allowed Dortmund to open the circle.

Barcelona scored to narrow the score to just one goal, and the Dortmund players suddenly became nervous.

A one-goal lead is the least safe score on the football field, because the leading side will suffer from gains and losses, and the lagging side can boost morale and launch a fierce attack, which may tie the score at any time.

Once the side with a goal lead is not unified in its internal thinking, some people want to stabilize the defense, and some people want to immediately launch an attack to expand the lead, then it is possible that the opponent will take advantage of it, score consecutive goals, equalize, or even reverse the score.

At this time, Klopp, as the head coach, made a wise decision.

He immediately replaced Lewandowski with full-time defender Bender to play a double defensive midfielder. He also replaced Gotze with Owomoyela, who was not as offensive as Gotze but had a much better defensive ability.

Then, let Shinji Kagawa, Owomoyela, and Gundogan all return to defense and defend solidly.

Cheng Hai went to the front line and became a single striker to intimidate Barcelona's backline, so that they could not attack recklessly, and maintained a certain counterattack ability.

In this way, with Cheng Hai able to contain at least two or three of Barcelona's defenders, the Dortmund backline has a numerical advantage.

In the case of the superiority in numbers, and the tactics of shrinking back to defense and putting buses to defend, even Messi is helpless to take Dortmund's defense.

Because there are so many people.

You break through one, and the second one makes up right away. Break through the second, and the third immediately closes the hole. Even if you break through the third one, maybe the first one you just broke through will rush back and the defense will be in place.

In short, no matter how Barcelona attacked, whether it was the passing scheduling, or the personal breakthroughs of Messi, Sanchez and others, they failed to score.

Of course, there was an occasional shot on goal, but it was all wide of the goal, and none of them hit the woodwork.

Fortunately, to the Barça people's hope, Dortmund have not been able to score on the counter-attack, and the score is still 1-2, and they are still only one goal behind.

As long as the game is over and the referee hasn't blown the whistle, they have the hope of scoring the equaliser and dragging the game into extra time.

But as the clock ticked down and the 90-minute regular break drew closer, the Barcelona players had to become more and more anxious, and even the two full-backs crossed the halfway line to get involved in the attack.

Cheng Hai was also a little worried, for fear that his teammates' defense line would not be able to withstand it.

Fortunately, Klopp's tactical arrangement was very appropriate, although Dortmund's backline looked a little stormy under the attack of Messi-led Barcelona, but it was never broken by Barcelona.

In the 87th minute, Pep Guardiola removed defensive defender Mascherano and replaced striker Pedro with a last-ditch effort.

However, Pedro's arrival, although it strengthened Barcelona's attack, failed to be the last straw that pressed the camel and helped Barcelona score.

On the contrary, in the 91st minute, after the game had already entered injury time, Dortmund suddenly had a great opportunity to counterattack.

It was when Cesc Fabregas was about to pass the ball to Messi, but he was forced to panic by Hummels, who suddenly grabbed it, and there was a passing error, and the ball passed to Messi was a little crooked by him.

Owomoella, who happened to be near the ball road, made a reflexive flying tackle to intercept the ball that Cesc Fabregas was about to pass to Messi.

Then, without waiting for Messi to counter-rob, Owomoyela, who was lying on the ground, immediately swept the ball to nearby Gundogan!

Puyol and Pique were very experienced in their positioning and did not give Cheng Hai a chance to counter offside.

Therefore, Cheng Hai did not grab the ball, but ran out of a gap on the left side of the center circle through a no-ball run when Owomoyela tackled.

After Gundogan took the ball, he glanced at Cheng Hai's position, and immediately kicked the ball towards the midfield.

Gundogan's pass was very accurate, and it happened to land near Cheng Hai. Cheng Hai immediately judged the landing point, occupied the position, and stuck Puyol, who saw Gundogan's pass and forced him to fight for the top.

No matter how Puyol pushed and rushed, Cheng Hai's full physique and balance ability kept him immobile and firmly occupied the landing point.

Then, with Puyol stuck behind him and unable to grab the ball, Cheng Hai stopped Gundogan's big-footed ball on the left side of the center circle.

His full-value stopping skills made this stop look lightweight, and he didn't even jump when he stopped, and was stopped on the ground by Cheng Hai.

However, now Cheng Hai has his back to the direction of attack, and nearby Xavi, Iniesta, Busquets, Alves and others are desperately trying to defend.

As long as Cheng Hai is held back by Puyol for a second or two, he may have to face the entire Barcelona defense that has been defended in place.

Just when everyone watched Cheng Hai being entangled by Puyol, although he unloaded the ball, he couldn't turn around, and the other Barcelona players were already using the fastest speed to defend, and Cheng Hai's counterattack was about to fail, but they saw Cheng Hai, who was facing away from Puyol, suddenly stretched out his foot and turned to the right to turn around and break through.

Puyol behind him couldn't see the ball, only saw Cheng Hai's body turn to the right, and subconsciously moved his center of gravity to the right, ready to block Cheng Hai's breakthrough.

Unexpectedly, Cheng Hai hooked the ball with the arch of his right foot behind the heel of his left foot in the process of turning, and completed most of the turn.

The ball was hooked to the left by Cheng Hai from behind Cheng Hai's left heel, but Puyol's defensive center of gravity was deceived by Cheng Hai and pounced to the right.

Cruyff turned around!

Cheng Hai used a perfect skill of full value at this critical moment: Cruyff turned around.

Puyol was deceived.

Cheng Hai, who had his back to the offensive direction, not only used Cruyff's turn to break through Puyol's close defense in one fell swoop, but also completed the turn, brushed past Puyol, so that Puyol didn't even have time to foul, he entered the Barcelona half with the ball and rushed towards Barcelona's penalty area.

Not only Puyol, but even the returning army Xavi, Iniesta, Alves, Butzques and others who were about to approach the middle line were left behind by Cheng Hai, and they have not been able to get close to Cheng Hai for the time being.

At this time, in front of Cheng Hai, only the last central defender Pique was left.

Pique didn't dare to grab it, for fear of being broken through at once, so he could only jam Cheng Hai's forward route while retreating, hoping to slow down Cheng Hai's offensive speed and buy time for his teammates who returned to defense.

But Cheng Hai naturally also knew that the Barcelona players behind him were frantically returning to defense, and as long as he was dragged by Pique for a moment, he would lose a good opportunity to score a single goal.

Therefore, Cheng Hai, who was sprinting with the ball, did not slow down at all, and met Pique, who was retreating and slow at the edge of the penalty area, about 20 meters away from the line of the Barcelona penalty area.

Peake showed a determined look on his face, and he had already made the decision to stop Cheng Hai even if he fouled.

Although Cheng Hai's free kick is also a big threat, it is always lower than Cheng Hai's one-shot goal rate.

As a result, just when Pique was thinking like this, Cheng Hai, who was moving forward at high speed with the ball, had already made a feint to step on the bicycle.

Pique's body subconsciously followed and moved repeatedly for two steps, and then lost his center of gravity and was about to fall.

In order not to be caught up by Xavi and others behind him, Cheng Hai was very fast with the ball. Then, the bicycle feint he made with his full value perfect skill in the process of advancing is very deceptive.

As a top defender, Pique sometimes couldn't control the knee-jerk reaction of his body, so he was deceived into swaying back and forth with Cheng Hai's feints, and then finally couldn't support it and was about to fall.

Pique's face changed.

He knew that once he fell to the ground and let Cheng Hai successfully break through, Cheng Hai, who formed a single knife to go to the meeting, would be able to score this ball nine out of nine.

At that point, Barcelona will be two goals behind Borussia Dortmund. At this point, it's already stoppage time. Once they trail by two goals, the game can be declared a complete end, and Barcelona have no hope of turning the tables around.

Therefore, before falling, Peake resolutely stretched out his right foot and hung on the ankle of Cheng Hai's right foot that was about to break through, trying to hook Cheng Hai down.

Even if it's a clear foul, you'll be sold. Even if you destroy a single goal, you may not be able to eat a red card.

But Pique couldn't care about that much.

He had to stop Cheng Hai's breakthrough.

He almost made it.

In the process of breaking through at high speed, his right foot was suddenly hooked by the opponent who was about to fall to the ground, and Cheng Hai was naturally greatly affected, and he almost fell to the ground.

The referee put the whistle in his mouth, and once Cheng Hai fell to the ground, he was about to whistle for a foul on Pique.

However, the idea of wanting to score a goal and wanting to kill the game, coupled with his 20-year-old balance ability, made Cheng Hai not admit defeat in the process of falling to the ground, but supported his hands on the ground, and even climbed and ran to stand up again.

Although there was a delay, when Cheng Hai caught up with the ball again, Iniesta, who had the fastest defense, had already rushed to the same position as Cheng Hai.

But Cheng Hai, who had already stood up, with his strong physique and balance, opened his arms and stuck Iniesta firmly at his side, unable to reach the ball at all, so he could only follow Cheng Hai desperately towards the big penalty area.

It's slow, but it's actually fast.

In the process of dribbling to the penalty area, Cheng Hai slightly changed direction several times, and briefly threw Iniesta away a little outside the arc of the big penalty area.

Although Iniesta was also determined to come from behind the side with a flying tackle, he wanted to fight for a foul and also stop Cheng Hai's shot.

But Cheng Hai's shot was quicker than Iniesta's flying tackle.

After Cheng Hai faced the attacking goalkeeper Valdés and kicked the ball out, Iniesta's flying tackle was in place and Cheng Hai fell on the line of the big penalty area.

But Iniesta's flying tackle was too late.

The ball had already crossed Valdés' head and fell into Barcelona's goal before he could return at full speed to try to save Alves from the goal line.

In the 91st minute of stoppage time, Cheng Hai scored a hat-trick to help Dortmund take a 3-1 lead.

This is the fifth hat-trick in the history of the Champions League final, the fourth person to score a hat-trick in the Champions League final, and the first in the history of the Champions League final after the restructuring.

At the same time, it was a goal that sealed the victory.

There are only more than 2 minutes left in the game, Cheng Hai has to celebrate for a while, but the score is two goals behind, Barcelona is unlikely to turn the tables again, even if they have the successor Messi, it is useless.

Cheng Hai scored all three goals for Dortmund, and used the first hat trick in the history of the final after the Champions League restructuring to completely defeat Messi's Barcelona and win the Champions League this season.

Therefore, when Cheng Hai's ball flew into the Barcelona goal, everyone else in the commentary booth except for the Spanish commentator roared in the craziest voice:

“Gooooooooooooooooooooooooal……”

“Toooooooooooooooooooooooor……”

"The ball went in !!"

"Autumn is !!"

"The ball went in, it went in, it went ......"

"Cheng Hai has scored again!"

"Cheng Hai scored his third goal of the game and scored a crazy hat-trick in the final!"

"This is the fifth hat-trick in the history of the Champions League, Cheng Hai is the fourth person in the history of the Champions League final to score a hat-trick, and the first superstar to score a hat-trick in the final after the Champions League restructuring."

"There is no suspense!"

"Cheng Hai's hat-trick gave Dortmund a 3-1 lead over Barcelona with only two minutes left on the clock."

"Barcelona will never be able to equalise!"

"Borussia Dortmund are on the verge of winning the Champions League this season, becoming the first team in the Bundesliga and the seventh great Treble in Europe!"

"Let's prepare to cheer for Dortmund and Cheng Hai!"

Yes!

It was a goal that killed the game completely, and everyone knew that Barcelona, who were two goals behind, would not have any chances.

Cheng Hai's hat trick completely killed the game.

Therefore, the moment the ball flew into the goal, in addition to the commentator, all the Dortmund players, fans, coaches, team doctors, and substitutes in the stadium celebrated wildly.

Even Cheng Hai, who had a system and knew that he would not lack the Champions League champion, could not suppress his excitement, turned over and got up excitedly, rushed all the way to the sidelines, jumped on the billboard, stood on it with strong balance, raised his hands, and made a celebration that reigned all over the world, causing Dortmund fans and many neutral fans in the stands to scream.

Subsequently, the excited Dortmund fans shouted Cheng Hai's name and saluted him, while making a Mexican wave in the stands, showing their inner enthusiasm and excitement.

On the other side, the Barcelona players who witnessed Cheng Hai using Cruyff's turn and pedaling on a bicycle to form a single knife and send the ball into their own door, completing the fifth in the history of the Champions League final and the first hat trick in the final after the Champions League restructuring, all lowered their heads and seriously revealed their desperate eyes.

Even though the referee has not yet blown the final whistle, the score of 1-3 behind by two goals makes even the most confident Barcelona players know that they have lost.