Chapter 32: The Group of Death

Reynerts' true thoughts were naturally to shovel the ball away without fouling, avoid Gotze's shot, and defuse Dortmund's attack.

But Gotze moved faster than he thought.

The moment he was about to tackle the ball, Gotze had already kicked the ball out first, and then Reynertz failed to tackle the ball and instead tackled Gotze into the box.

It's okay to say if Gotze's shot goes in, but the key is that it doesn't go in.

Gotze's shot was saved by goalkeeper Adler.

So, naturally, Reynerts was shown a yellow card by the referee for a foul in the box and a penalty was awarded to Dortmund.

Penalties are usually taken by the main striker Shahin, and before Cheng Hai, it is his best technique.

But after Cheng Hai came, no one in the team, including Shahin, could catch up with Cheng Hai's marksmanship.

Let someone else take a penalty, it's just possible to score, and the chance of scoring is better, but after all, you may still miss it.

But Cheng Hai does not have such a problem.

He came to take the penalty, which was 100 percent, and it was not only the boccia, but also the two dead corners.

Shooting without interference at the penalty spot, Cheng Hai's full-value shooting skills were not mistaken.

The system 20 full value of the perfect state of shooting, is based on the penalty kick, in the penalty kick can be 100% of the point to hit, and then in the actual game according to the distance, strength, the opponent's degree of interference to produce different shooting accuracy.

Therefore, after Mario Gotze created this penalty, many fans and reporters found that it was not Shahin, the first penalty taker of last season, who went to take the penalty, but Cheng Hai, a substitute who had just joined the team.

Whether it was at the scene or in front of the TV, the fans were in an uproar.

Of course, ordinary fans were surprised that Cheng Hai was able to get penalty kicks as a new person, but Chinese fans were pleasantly surprised.

Originally, everyone thought that with the passage of time in the game, Cheng Hai's hope of scoring on his Bundesliga debut was getting slimmer and slimmer.

Unexpectedly, Dortmund won a penalty in stoppage time at the last moment, and this penalty was actually taken by Cheng Hailai.

This surprised and surprised everyone.

Countless Chinese reporters and Chinese fans are looking forward to Cheng Hai's overnight success and putting the ball in under pressure.

In fact, Cheng Hai didn't have any pressure at all, only the joy and excitement of being about to score.

If you want to say who is most confident in Cheng Hai's penalty, it is undoubtedly Cheng Hai himself.

The coach and teammates just felt that Cheng Hai's shooting skills could be so superb that the penalty kick goal rate was much higher than that of others because of the usual training and games.

But Cheng Hai is 100% sure that he will definitely be able to kick the ball in if he is added to the full value of 20 by the system, and there will be no accidents at all.

Therefore, he was not at all worried.

Outside, Cheng Hai looked very calm, and even had a smile on his face, which was in stark contrast to the goalkeeper Adler who was nervously preparing on the goal line.

Even the commentator of CCTV-5 was a little worried: "Cheng Hai looks full of confidence and has no stage fright at all." I don't know if it's confidence or conceit, I hope Cheng Hai can score this goal. As long as he is punished, Cheng Hai will create an unprecedented history: the first three official matches of his career are cup, European competition, and league, and his debut is a substitute and has scored. There is no need to look up the information, this is certainly an unprecedented record. ”

The guest also nodded: "Yes!" I hope Cheng Hai's self-confidence can score this goal and make history. ”

Just in the surprise or questioning eyes of everyone at the scene and in front of the TV, Cheng Hai and goalkeeper Adler were ready, and the referee standing on the left side of the penalty area blew the whistle for free throws.

Cheng Hai glanced at Adler, who was standing on the door line with his teeth and claws trying to interfere with Cheng Hai, and his heart did not fluctuate.

After two steps, Cheng Hai volleyed the ball into the bottom left corner.

Adler guessed the direction and pounced in advance.

However, even then, he failed to touch the ball.

Because the angle of Cheng Hai's penalty kick was too awkward, it actually hit the lower left corner post and then bounced into the net.

Definitely a dead end.

For a penalty of only 12 yards, even if Adler judged the right direction, it would be useless to watch.

Cheng Hai once again completed the feat of scoring on his debut in the Bundesliga, becoming the first player in European history to score his first three professional matches in the Cup, League Cup, and League, and all three competitions came off the bench to score his first goal, creating a new history.

In terms of score, Cheng Hai helped Dortmund pull a goal back, and the score became 1-2.

Although the game was nearing the end, it was a good thing to save a little face for the team and not be shaved head.

Therefore, Cheng Hai's goal still received warm applause from the Hornets fans in the stadium.

What disappointed Cheng Hai slightly was that although the experience of the Bundesliga was slightly higher than that of the German Cup, it was not much higher, and it was not as good as the experience reward of 50,000 goals and 100,000 wins in the League Cup.

After scoring this penalty, Cheng Hai only won a goal award of 30,000 experience, and the experience rose to 198,600/200,000 at level 16.

As for the best player and winning awards, for Dortmund, who lost the game, there is no chance with Cheng Hai.

Jurgen Klopp's line-up was widely criticised after the game, with Dortmund claiming that Dortmund's defeat in the first round of the Bundesliga this season was due to a change in tactics.

However, Cheng Hai has been widely praised.

Although the goal he scored was not a sports goal, it was just a penalty, but it was scored, and Cheng Hai naturally deserved to be widely praised for scoring on his debut in three consecutive games and three tournaments.

Especially in China, Cheng Hai is already regarded as a more talented player than Yang Chen. Although his total goals are still far from Yang Chen's, his current goal efficiency is much higher than Yang Chen's.

Some people even think that Cheng Hai surpassed Yang Chen's achievements in the Bundesliga.

Of course, that's all for later.

That night, after getting up from a good night's sleep, because of the 2000 experience added by the dream training, Cheng Hai's total experience reached 20.06/200,000 at level 16, and it was automatically upgraded to 0.06 thousand/300,000 at level 17, and he was rewarded with 20 skill points.

In terms of new skills, the system randomly opens the "defensive position" that has little effect on Cheng Hai at present, a skill that belongs to the backcourt defensive player, and the initial attribute is 4.

Therefore, Cheng Haixin spent 15 of the 20 skill points he obtained, directly increased the "stop the ball" skill of 18 to the full value of 20, and then spent 5 skill points to increase the "balance" of 15 to 16, and the balance of skill points was still 3.

Cheng Hai's skills are getting more and more, and his strength is getting stronger and stronger.

In addition, Cheng Hai's weight has also increased by 1kg, becoming 66kg, and his weight is increasing step by step.

When Cheng Hai can increase to more than 70kg, with his full physique, I am afraid that no one on the football field will be able to compete with him.

On the same day, Klopp, who lost in the first round of the Bundesliga and played a black start, did not give the team a holiday and let everyone continue training.

After helping Cheng Hai apply for passports, visas, accompany him for trial training, and teach German, Fu Hangyi finally embarked on the journey back to China.

After all, it's time for Yuzhou University to open.

Although Yuzhou University paid Fu Hangyi's salary, and even the business trip allowance was complete, Cheng Hai still bought many gifts for Fu Hangyi as a thank you, and gave tens of thousands of yuan in the name of tuition fees for learning German, so Fu Hangyi was still very happy when he left.

The next game is the second leg of the UEFA Cup play-offs away to Qarabag.

However, for Dortmund, who already led 5-0 in the first leg, the second leg was almost negligible.

Therefore, the team's main preparation plan is the next Bundesliga second round away to Stuttgart.

Three days later, the team flew to Azerbaijan to play away against Qarabak.

In this second-leg play-off, because of the huge advantage of a five-goal lead in the first leg, Klopp unsurprisingly sent most of the substitutes, and many main players such as Hummels, Schmelzer, Kyle, Shahin, Barrios and others did not even enter the squad and stayed directly at the training base for training.

However, even the substitutes of the Bundesliga giants are much stronger than Qarabag.

Therefore, even if most of the substitutes played, even away games, Dortmund won 1-0 in the end, and Qarabag, who was playing at home, still did not score a face-saving goal in the cheers of the home fans.

Borussia Dortmund qualified for the group stage of the 2010/2011 UEFA Cup.

Cheng Hai still came off the bench in the 70th minute of the second half in this game, but most of his teammates were substitutes, and Dortmund, who was not active in attacking under a large score lead, did not give Cheng Hai much support, resulting in him failing to score, and finally won the winning award of 100,000 experience just because of his participation in the game, and the experience rose to 17 levels of 109,600/300,000.

After the game, the coverage of this game was uneventful, and many media just posted a tofu block of "Dortmund defeated Qarabag 1-0 away and 6-0 in two legs to qualify for the main match of this season's UEFA Cup".

Even the Chinese media didn't have much to report, so they could only mention that Cheng Hai continued to get a chance to come off the bench, and two shots were said by the Chinese media to be a threat, and that's it.

The next day, Cheng Hai and others, who returned to the station, were given a day off, after all, they played an away game.

Also on this day, UEFA held a draw ceremony for the group stage of the UEFA Cup, and Dortmund was placed in Group J along with Paris Saint-Germain in Ligue 1, Sevilla in La Liga, and Capadedi in Ukraine.

When the group came out, the Dortmund club administrators, coaches, players, fans and so on who were following the draw ceremony in front of the TV were all lamenting.

There are three strong teams in the five major leagues in a group, which can be called the group of death.

This season's League Cup group stage is a bit difficult to play!

However, no matter what, Dortmund, as one of the giants of the Bundesliga, still has a little pursuit, and the Bundesliga, German Cup, and League Cup will not give up.

Which step counts as it goes!

Of course, the Bundesliga is the foundation and the most unmissable competition. Klopp, who has been in Germany for several seasons, has always wanted to compete for the Bundesliga title.

If you give up the other two competitions in exchange for the Bundesliga championship, presumably Klopp will not hesitate to give up, but unfortunately now that the season has just begun, nothing is still clear, so it is naturally impossible to give up too early.

I can only fight on three fronts with all my might.

Borussia Dortmund's bench squad also has this capital and strength.

After the draw for the group stage of the UEFA Cup, at 17:30 pm on August 29, 2010, the second round of the Bundesliga, Dortmund away to Stuttgart, officially started at the Mercedes-Benz Arena, the home stadium of Stuttgart.

Stuttgart are a good mid-table team in the Bundesliga, finishing 6th in the Bundesliga last season, and losing the first round of this season, just like Borussia Dortmund.

In today's home game, Stuttgart will be hoping to take advantage of home advantage to get all three points.

Therefore, as soon as the game started, Stuttgart played quite aggressively.

Unfortunately, sometimes the game of football is not subject to human will, and luck is a very important factor on the football field

Not long after the start of the game, when Stuttgart's morale was high and they wanted to score first in the cheers of the home fans, in the fifth minute, Dortmund sent a low cross from the wing in a counter-attack, and Stuttgart defender Bolaruz set himself up and headed the ball into his own goal.

Borussia Dortmund relied on the own goal of the opposing defender to take a 1-0 lead away.

Stuttgart, who had just conceded an own goal in the first 5 minutes, was demoralized by this goal and did not slow down for a long time.

As a result, just after more than ten minutes, when they were recovering and trying to regain their strength to attack and equalize, they were hit hard by Barrios.

Borussia Dortmund stole the first point from a corner kick in the 26th minute through centre-forward Barrios and headed the ball into the Stuttgart goal.

Then, in the 37th minute, Dortmund tore apart Stuttgart's defense through successive passes from players in front, and finally Mario Gotze, who entered the penalty area, completed the shot and sent the ball into the corner of Stuttgart's goal.

Before the end of the first half, Dortmund had already led 3-0 and basically sealed the win.

Throughout the first half, Stuttgart was almost pressed by Dortmund and had no way to fight back.

Of course, the cause may have been the unexpected own goal.

But it can't be helped, luck is indeed part of the football game, and Stuttgart, who played at home today, had no luck.

However, at half-time, Stuttgart's head coach made two changes in a row, hoping to strengthen the attack in the second half to see if there was a chance to save.

However, Dortmund's defense was also solid, and Stuttgart did not finally score a goal in the 69th minute of the second half through striker Cacau to make it 1-3.

However, at this time, there was not much time left until the end of the game, and there were only about 25 minutes of stoppage time.

Therefore, Klopp, who has a two-goal lead, did not have much to worry about, and replaced two main players without burden, including Zidan.

And one of the ones who was replaced was Cheng Hai, who thousands of Chinese fans were looking forward to.

Although Dortmund still has a two-goal lead and the overall offensive has slowed down, Cheng Hai, who has more and more professional skills and stronger and stronger strength, took advantage of Stuttgart's psychology of pressing on the attack and wanting to equalize, and kept running to seek opportunities to counterattack.

On the basis of the team's victory, if you can score again, you can also gain some more experience.

However, in the 74th minute, Cheng Hai's first counterattack failed. He tried to counter offside to form a single knife, but his teammate's pass was a little slower, causing him to fail to counter offside and was blown offside by the linesman.

However, thinking that Stuttgart has been pressing aggressively to attack and want to equalize, Cheng Hai still has a lot of opportunities to try to counter offside in the opponent's half.

After continuous attempts, in the 81st minute, Cheng Hai finally succeeded once.

This time it was Stuttgart's attack, but they couldn't complete the shot, and the opponent's ball-handler was intercepted by captain Kyle at the edge of the penalty area, and a precise tackle shoveled the ball away, and there was no foul.

Kyle's tackle fell to centre-back Hummels.

At the moment of Kyle's tackle, Cheng Hai keenly judged that the opportunity was coming, so he turned and rushed behind the Stuttgart defender.

And just when he was about to cross by the back line, Hummels, who had the ball at his feet, looked up, did not stop the ball, and kicked the ball directly to the front court with a big foot.

The ball flew over half of the pitch and towards the edge of Stuttgart's penalty area.

Cheng Hai was not offside.

This is a counter-attack with a long pass from the back after an anti-offside position, but Hummels' long pass in the air is a bit difficult to stop.

Moreover, Cheng Hai is not very fast.

At the beginning, he can also use the initiative and off-ball running to temporarily shake off the opponent's back line and form an anti-offside position. But after the opposing defender reacted, he immediately turned around and chased after him, and the speed was faster than Cheng Hai, and the two sides were gradually approaching.

As long as Cheng Hai stops to catch Hummels' aerial ball, he will definitely be overtaken.

But does Cheng Hai need to stop and catch the ball?

No, you don't.

His "stopping the ball" skill is 20 full value, which is better than anyone in football history, whether active or retired, it is not as good as him.

Under the gaze of countless people at the scene and in front of the TV, Cheng Hai, who was running, did not stop the ball at all, but stretched out his right foot after seeing the ball falling in the air during the run in the front area of the big penalty area, and stopped the ball with a weightless weight, and the ball rolled forward.

Although the two central defenders behind him had already caught up with Cheng Hai when he stopped the ball, Cheng Hai's full physique stuck the nearest defender behind the side.

Then, Cheng Hai didn't wait any longer, but looked up at the goalkeeper's position, and decisively shot with his feet.