Chapter 31: Bundesliga debut

Because this game was in the evening local time, it was already 3 o'clock in the morning when Peking time, so Cheng Hai's parents did not watch the live broadcast.

But on the land of China, there are still countless fans who stay up late to watch this game.

Seeing Cheng Hai score a goal, watching Cheng Hai and his teammates celebrate, and listening to the excited roar and commentary of the commentator, countless Chinese fans who stayed up late to watch the game felt deep happiness.

Many people use computers to watch live webcasts, and they can discuss in the comment area, forums, and QQ groups while watching the game.

While listening to the commentators and guests praising Cheng Hai, everyone posted a speech to express their excitement:

"Cheng Hai is really awesome! Following his debut in the German Cup, he also scored on his debut in the UEFA Cup. ”

"I only heard about Cheng Hai after he scored in his debut in the German Cup last time, and I got up in the middle of the night today to watch the live broadcast to see if it was so awesome! I relied on it, and it didn't disappoint, and it was worth watching the game in the middle of the night! ”

"Cheng Hai's level, if it is not a physical limitation, it is a proper main force."

"Even so, it's enough. Klopp has taken him with him every game and given him the opportunity to come off the bench every game, which is already much better than the vast majority of Chinese players who have broken into Europe. ”

"Yes! Just being able to come off the bench and score goals in the League Cup, this performance is worthy of Dortmund's attention, don't you see that Dortmund's jersey number to Cheng Hai is No. 9? While the shirt number doesn't tell the whole story, it does at least tell part of the story, and the club certainly won't give the number 9 shirt to a dispensable fringe substitute. ”

"Not bad! From now on, I should pay more attention to Cheng Hai, I estimate that he will definitely be selected for the national team. ”

"Alas, don't mention the national football team to me!"

"Yes! Don't mention the national football team, it affects the mood! ”

At the scene, the excited Cheng Hai and his teammates celebrated for more than 20 seconds before returning to their own half and waiting for Kabbalak's players to kick off.

In fact, Cheng Hai's ball has knocked out all the resistance of Kabbalak's entire team.

With five goals down, it is impossible for Kabbarak to turn the tables, and they have recognized the facts: it is impossible to reverse the game.

Therefore, in the next few minutes, Kabalak did not counterattack again, Dortmund did not attack much, and Cheng Hai did not find any good opportunities.

In the 92nd minute, Cheng Hai completed the last shot in the penalty area, but unfortunately he played weak under the interference of the opposing defender and was easily confiscated by the goalkeeper.

After three minutes of stoppage time, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, and Dortmund essentially qualified for the group stage of the UEFA Cup with a 5-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan's Qarabag in the first leg of the 2010/2011 UEFA Cup play-offs.

And Cheng Hai also received a winning prize of 100,000 experience after the game. It's a pity that just one goal didn't make him the best player in the system's mind, and he didn't win the best player award.

Even so, the rich experience of the League Cup still makes Cheng Hai very satisfied. Scoring 50,000 goals and winning 100,000 is quite interesting.

After a game, Cheng Hai's experience soared to level 16 16,600/200,000, and he was still more than 30,000 years away before he was about to be upgraded.

It's so cool.

Unfortunately, the Bundesliga will not play the second leg of the play-offs against Qarabag until one round apart.

The next day, August 20, Jurgen Klopp gave the team a day off to get some rest.

It was also on this day that Cheng Hai, who made his debut in the League Cup, signed an agent contract with Beck, a big-name German agent.

From then on, Baker will become Cheng Hai's agent, helping him take care of a series of things in terms of contract renewal, transfer, commercial endorsement, etc., and various endorsements in Europe and China will also be classified in detail.

Just when Cheng Hai and Baker were negotiating an agent contract, many TV stations, newspapers, and online media in China reported on Cheng Hai's debut in the League Cup and scored a goal.

You must know that this is the second goal scored by a Chinese player in the European competition after Sun Jihai.

As a result, the media coverage is very widespread.

The same is true in Germany.

If a normal player scores in the UEFA Cup play-offs, he can't make waves at all. But Cheng Hai is different, he has a certain reputation before he starts his professional debut, and is regarded as a peerless genius on the same level as Mario Gotze.

While making his career debut, Cheng Hai scored two consecutive games as a substitute, playing less than 40 minutes in total, but scored two goals in a row.

Coupled with the fact that Cheng Hai is only 18 years old and has no previous experience in professional competition, this is very valuable for reporting.

In general, although Cheng Hai has only played two professional games, his potential and background in the Huaguo market are higher in news and commercial value than many professional players in the Bundesliga.

No matter how low the share ratio is, as long as Cheng Hai is signed anyway, it is equivalent to picking up money.

This is also the reason why Baker decided to accept the harsh conditions offered by Cheng Hai and Fu Hangyi.

After a day of rest and a day of training, on August 22, 2010 at 17:30 p.m., Borussia Dortmund sat at home against Bayer Leverkusen.

German football is actually a situation of many superpowers, one supernatural refers to Bayern Munich, and many strong refers to Dortmund, Bayer Leverkusen, Schalke 04, Werder Bremen and other strong teams.

Among them, Dortmund has won the Champions League and is a little more famous among the second-tier teams, but the advantage in the usual games against other teams that are also in the second tier is not very large.

Therefore, Klopp was a little cautious in this game, not playing the 442 formation that everyone was used to in front of him, but playing a 4231 double back formation to strengthen the defense.

Jurgen Klopp pulled Shinji Kagawa to the back line, partnering captain Kyle with a double back to protect the defence, leaving only center forward Barrios alone in the forward line.

As a result, this style of play made Dortmund, who were playing at home, suffer enough.

Originally, as the first Bundesliga game of the new season, it was a strong dialogue, and the Westfalen Stadium was also full, and fans wanted to see an exciting and emotional battle against each other.

Unexpectedly, Klopp actually sent a formation of double backs to defend and counterattack, which not only made the fans look confused, but even the players were very uncomfortable.

After Shinji Kagawa came to the team, he played as a forward and a full-back in training matches, friendly matches, and official matches, but he just didn't play as a midfielder.

Although he has the experience and ability to play as a midfielder in Japan, the problem is that he has not played since coming to Dortmund, and there is a huge problem with his teammates at the back.

The result was caught by Bayer Leverkusen.

At the Westfalen Stadium, Bayer Leverkusen dominated the game and took advantage of a hole between Shinji Kagawa and Kehl in the 19th minute of the first half to penetrate the defence and send the ball into the goal of Borussia Dortmund.

Bayer Leverkusen lead 1-0 away.

Just when the Dortmund players were still a little confused and couldn't believe that they were behind at home, just three minutes later, in the 22nd minute, Bayer Leverkusen played another exquisite combination, sent the ball into the penalty area, and the ball was sent into the Dortmund goal by a volley from forward Augusto.

Bayer Leverkusen scored twice in three minutes to give Borussia Dortmund a 2-0 lead at the Westfaren Stadium.

The Hornets fans in the stands were dumbfounded, and Klopp on the sidelines was a little angry. Of course, in addition to the anger at the players, it may not be without the frustration of their own formation.

After the anger, Klopp rushed to make amends, allowing Shinji Kagawa to move forward to Nuri Shaheen and roam around Barrios to play shadow striker.

It's a pity that Shinji Kagawa and Barrios are not familiar with the cooperation, and they are not as good as the cooperation between Zidan or Cheng Hai and Barrios.

In addition, Shinji Kagawa is used to playing the front waist, and he always habitually retreats, and squeezes the position of the front waist Shahin.

As a result, by the end of the first half, Dortmund had not pulled a single goal back.

Borussia Dortmund, who were playing at home, returned to the dressing room with a score of 0-2 down.

Fortunately, the home fans in the stands did not boo the home team, which was a relief to Cheng Hai on the bench.

After a 15-minute break, the two sides changed sides and fought again, but Klopp did not make any substitutions, and continued the second half of the game with the same lineup as in the first half.

You can imagine what effect this can have.

More than ten minutes passed in the second half, and Dortmund's attack still did not improve, still trailing Bayer Leverkusen 0-2.

Finally, in the 63rd minute, Klopp made the decision to make a substitution.

As a result, it was not Shinji Kagawa who was replaced, but a full-back.

I don't know what he thinks, maybe he doesn't want to admit that he made a mistake in arranging his troops?

As you can imagine, the game still did not improve.

By the 70-minute mark, Klopp might have finally figured it out and wanted to replace Shinji Kagawa.

He glanced twice at the bench, and after sweeping back and forth between Cheng Hai and Qi Dan for a while, he finally decided who to change: he asked Cheng Hai to warm up.

Zidan had a disappointed look on his face.

But Cheng Hai didn't care so much, he immediately got up excitedly and warmed up outside the sideline.

He felt he might be making his Bundesliga debut.

Although he is now 0-2 behind, there is a high probability that he will not be able to help the team win, but for Cheng Hai, being able to play is a victory, and he doesn't care so much.

The same is true for Chinese reporters, overseas Chinese fans, and Cheng Hai's parents on the scene and in front of the TV.

Dortmund's life or death is none of their business, they just want to see Cheng Hai play. If you can score, it will be even better.

Now seeing the head coach asking Cheng Hai to warm up, everyone suddenly felt refreshed and felt that the wait for staying up late to watch the game was worth it.

Sure enough, after Cheng Hai was hot for a while, Klopp called him to his side, admonished him for a while, and then made a decision to replace.

In the 74th minute, Dortmund made a substitution, No. 23 Shinji Kagawa, No. 9 Cheng Hai.

After scoring on the bench for two consecutive games, and the last UEFA Cup play-off game was a home game, many fans have already remembered the No. 9 talent from Huaguo, and everyone has high hopes for him.

Therefore, when Cheng Hai played, he also received applause and cheers from many fans, obviously hoping that Cheng Hai would continue to carry forward the tradition of scoring goals as a substitute and help Dortmund equalize or even reverse the score.

Of course, for Cheng Hai, plus stoppage time, there are only about 20 minutes, and it is almost impossible to score two or three goals.

Cheng Hai can only take one step at a time to see if he can score a goal.

Leverkusen naturally knows Cheng Hai, although Cheng Hai has not started from pre-season friendly matches to official games, but everyone knows that Cheng Hai is actually Dortmund's main attacking player, but he has not been able to start because of physical reasons.

They don't want to be scored by Cheng Hai, becoming the backdrop for Cheng Hai's bench goals in three consecutive games, and the possible danger of being equalised.

Therefore, Cheng Hai was targeted by Bayer Leverkusen after the game. Not only is Hyypia, a famous central defender, specifically targeting him, but even world superstar and Bayer Leverkusen's midfielder Michael Ballack is cruising around Cheng Hai and helping to defend at any time.

That's right, everyone read that right, it is the captain of the German national team, the No. 13 who has the same agent "Beck" as Cheng Hai, and the international superstar Ballack.

At this time, Ballack has come to the end of his career, and has just moved from Chelsea to his former club Bayer Leverkusen on a free transfer this summer, and the level of competition is no longer comparable to that of his peak.

But no matter what, the experience of various big scenes is also very rich, and Cheng Hai is simply a child in front of Barak.

Therefore, in the face of the coordinated defense of Hyypia and Ballack, it was difficult for Cheng Hai to get the opportunity to shoot in the open space.

Coupled with the strength of Bayer Leverkusen, it is stronger than all the opponents Cheng Hai has faced before, including Manchester City in friendly form.

If Manchester City, which played in a friendly match, only exerted 50% of its strength, then Bayer Leverkusen, who played in the Bundesliga, exerted 100% of its strength, and Cheng Hai's feelings were naturally stronger than Manchester City.

There are also fewer opportunities.

In the 79th minute, Cheng Hai ran out of a fleeting gap in the penalty area, ready to receive Grosskloitz's pass and shoot.

As a result, Hyypia had an insight into the passing and running cooperation of Cheng Hai and his teammates in advance, and a flying tackle intercepted the ball passed by Grosskloitz halfway out of the penalty area to clear the siege, Cheng Hai kicked a shot into the air, and almost fell to the ground, causing ridicule from some Leverkusen fans who came with the team in the stands.

In the 83rd minute, Leverkusen's attack was counterattacked by Dortmund, Cheng Hai successfully countered offside, but Shahin's long pass was tackled by Ballack on the way.

It wasn't until the 86th minute that Cheng Hai finally completed his first shot on goal after coming on the field.

This time, it wasn't actually passed to him by his team-mates, but Mario Gotze broke through on the flank, but Barrios didn't grab the first point and was headed up by Bayer Leverkusen defender Kadlec.

But Kadlec also did not top well under Barrios's interference, neither pushing the bottom line nor pushing out of the penalty area, but only rubbed it slightly, allowing the ball to change the line and fall into the big penalty area.

And this time, Cheng Hai, who had full value of running without the ball and grabbing points, finally seized the opportunity, suddenly started to shake off Hyypia and grabbed the landing point first, and then stabbed the ball back to the goal.

Originally, Cheng Hai thought that he could finally score this time.

Unexpectedly, Bayer Leverkusen's goalkeeper Rene Adler made a world-class save, and a sideways seafishing moon fished out Cheng Hai's shot that almost went straight to the dead corner.

Not only fished out the ball, Adler didn't even lose control of the ball, and firmly pressed the ball under him in the process of falling down, and didn't even give Cheng Hai a chance to make up shots.

Countless Hornets fans and Chinese fans at the scene and in front of the TV set lamented, feeling very sorry that Cheng Hai's shot was saved by Adler this time.

Cheng Hai, who was about to celebrate the goal, also widened his eyes, looking at goalkeeper Adler incredulously, feeling like he had hit a ghost!

How could a goalkeeper whose name he had never even heard of make such a world-class save?

Cheng Hai felt that he was too unlucky.

In fact, Cheng Hai didn't know that Rene Adler was a very good goalkeeper in Germany, but he was covered up by Kahn, Lehmann, Neuer and others, and his popularity was not high.

This world-class save is not a miracle for Adler. Otherwise, he will not be able to sit firmly as the main goalkeeper of a strong team in the Bundesliga like Leverkusen.

The game continued.

Although time was running out and Dortmund's chances of equalising were getting dwindling, they didn't give up.

After all, they are fighting at home, even if they know that this game is lost, they must show their spirit of never giving up in front of the more than 80,000 Hornets fans in the stadium, otherwise they will not be able to explain to the fans.

I already lost, and I showed a look of frustration and surrender in advance, and I didn't know what to be scolded after the game.

Therefore, in the last minutes of the game, Dortmund was still trying to attack.

Westfarun fans did not give up either, and the more they reached the final stage of the game, the more they cheered for Dortmund.

Especially in the famous South Stand, more than 20,000 die-hard fans have been singing the Dortmund team anthem, cheering for the team and never giving up.

Such an atmosphere allowed Dortmund to finally get a chance in the 91st minute of stoppage time.

This opportunity was created by Mario Gotze.

Mario Gotze's quality is undeniable as he is the darling of the Westfalen Stadium, one of the best young players in all of European football, and many even predict that he will be one of the strong contenders for the future European Ballon d'Or.

Of course, the future is still far away.

But in the Bundesliga, GΓΆtze is strong enough to threaten many goal-keeping threats.

This time, it was Gotze who didn't make a low cross after breaking through on the wing, but suddenly changed course and cut inside into the Bayer Leverkusen box.

This caught Bayer Leverkusen's defenders off guard.

When Gotze entered the big penalty area, approached the corner of the small penalty area, and was about to shoot with his feet, defender Reynerts ignored the risk of fouls in the penalty area, and decisively shoveled the ball at Gotze's feet from the side.