Chapter 134: Contradictory schedules
Compared to the heavyweight European Golden Boot, an ordinary Bundesliga match seems to be less important.
However, in reality, the enthusiasm of the commentators and fans was not low at all.
Because Cheng Hai is now creating a new annual total goal record for every goal, and every goal is a new world record.
Cheng Hai didn't score many goals in this game, but he delivered as many assists as goals.
Cheng Hai scored a brace in goals and assists, not only raising his annual goal record to 127 goals, but also leading Borussia Dortmund to a 7-1 home victory.
It may be that Cheng Hai's European Golden Boot award stimulated his teammates, in addition to Cheng Hai's brace, Götze also scored a brace in this game, and the other three goals were scored by Shinji Kagawa, Gundogan, and Lewandowski.
Borussia Dortmund thrashed visiting Wolfsburg 7-1 at home.
After playing this round of the league, international football has entered the FIFA match day, Cheng Haifei went to Doha, Qatar, to meet with the Chinese national team, and prepare for the fourth round of the top 20 group stage of the world preliminary round with Iraq on November 11.
Speaking of which, football in Iraq is also very tenacious.
After years of war, they have not stopped football, and the national teams at all levels have maintained training and competitions.
Because of the war, Iraq's domestic football stadiums did not meet FIFA's requirements in terms of environmental and security, so they contacted other countries in the Middle East nearby to play games.
In other words, the Iraqi national team does not have a real home stadium. For example, in the group stage of the top 20 in the world preliminaries, Iraq's home stadium is located in Doha, Qatar.
It's all away, and the Chinese fans far outnumber their opponents in terms of economy and numbers, so the result is that when the time comes to play in Doha, the number of people on the scene is still the fans of the Chinese team.
Under such circumstances, Iraq's achievements in recent years have not been weak, and we cannot but show respect for their unity and morale.
Of course, respect is respect, and when it comes to the World Cup qualifiers, the Chinese team will not show mercy.
What's more, after the first three rounds, because of a loss to Jordan, the Huaguo team actually only ranked second in the group standings, and they were not qualified to talk about releasing water to their opponents.
At 17:15 p.m. local time on November 11, 2011, with the referee's whistle, the fourth round of Group A of the top 20 group stage of the 2014 Brazil World Cup Asian Qualifiers officially began.
Sure enough, as everyone expected before the game, among the more than 40,000 fans at the scene, more than 20,000 Chinese fans accounted for more than 20,000.
Add to that a large number of local Qatari fans, and there are only a pitiful few thousand Iraqi fans.
More than 20,000 Chinese fans are attracted by Cheng Hai and the recent performance of the Chinese team, and they have traveled thousands of miles to Qatar to cheer for the national football team.
They waved the five-star red flag in the stands, pulled a banner that read "Chinese football must win," sang the national anthem, sang the motherland and other songs, and shouted slogans, turning the game that was supposed to be Iraq's home stadium into the home stadium of the Chinese national team.
But the war-torn Iraqis were truly willful, and even though the atmosphere on the pitch was not in their favour, they played with great tenacity in the game, and they were more adapted to the weather conditions in the Middle East than the Chinese players, so they scored two goals in the end. It's a pity that when they encounter the Huaguo team led by the goal machine Cheng Hai, even if they fight hard, they will inevitably lose in the end.
In this game, Cheng Hai scored four goals with an overhead kick, staged a big four, and led the Huaguo team to a 4-2 away victory.
Some people guessed right, Cheng Hai was using the Asian game to score goals.
But his intention is not to brush some goal data to look good, but because the national football team has a lot of game experience, but it is easy to score, and brushing experience is first-class and easy to use!
In the other game, Jordan won comfortably 2-0 against Singapore.
After four rounds of group play, Jordan continued to win all of them and ranked first in the group with 12 points, the Chinese team was second with 9 points, Iraq was third with 3 points, and Singapore was at the bottom with 0 points after four consecutive defeats.
With two rounds of the group stage remaining, Jordan has actually qualified early, Singapore has already exited early, and Iraq is only theoretically likely to qualify.
Because the Chinese team has a goal difference of 18 goals ahead of Iraq.
In the last two rounds, the Chinese team needs to lose all, Iraq to win, and Iraq can recover a goal difference of 18 goals.
This difficulty is harder than climbing to the sky.
Therefore, in fact, after this round, the Huaguo team is basically qualified, and in the next game against Singapore, the Huaguo team can qualify if it draws.
Of course, Cheng Hai is not allowed to draw.
As mentioned earlier, he treats the Asian game as a game of experience.
Now that there is so much experience required to upgrade, why not score a few more goals in the World Preliminary Tournament with low difficulty of scoring goals and high experience rewards?
As a result, Singapore, the opponent of the fifth round of the group stage, was unlucky again.
On November 15, the fifth round of Group A of the top 20 group stage of the World Preliminary Championship was played at the home stadium of Singapore.
Having already exited the tournament early, the Singaporean players played listlessly in this game.
Encountering the Huaguo team that needs to qualify ahead of schedule and Cheng Hai, who wants to brush up on experience, although this game is played at Singapore's home stadium, the Singapore team has not played a very good state.
On the contrary, the Huaguo team that fought away, whether it was Cheng Hai or other players, played very energetically.
In the end, the Chinese team won another 9-0 victory. The only piece of consoling news for the Singaporeans is that they haven't conceded double-digit goals like they did in the previous leg.
Of the 9 goals scored by the Huaguo team, Cheng Hai swept 5 of them, staged 5 of them, and assisted his teammates for two goals, directly involved in 7 of them.
Unstoppable indeed.
After this game, Cheng Hai's annual total goals have reached a jaw-dropping 136 goals. Every time he scored a goal, he was able to elicit an exclamation from all the fans in the audience and in front of the TV.
Every goal of Cheng Hai is challenging people's perception of the limits of football.
After each game, Cheng Hai can swipe the screen on important pages of the world's media, and his popularity is getting higher and higher, and the title of world superstar is becoming less and less controversial.
After playing the World Preliminary Match against Singapore, Cheng Hai took the flight back to Germany to prepare for the next German national derby against Bayern Munich.
On November 16, the day after the match against Singapore, the AFC announced the final six-man squad for the 2011 Asian Footballer of the Year.
There is no doubt that Cheng Hai and his teammate Shinji Kagawa are among them. There is no doubt about Cheng Hai's selection, and even the FIFA Ballon d'Or is almost in the bag, not to mention the Asian Footballer of the Year?
Moreover, there is no suspense about the final winner, it is Cheng Hai.
In the FIFA Ballon d'Or, Messi can compete with Cheng Hai, and the Asian Footballer of the Year is unbeatable.
Cheng Hai's brilliance in Asian football is unapproachable.
The AFC has conducted several rounds of candidate voting, but it is just a serious formality and a down-to-earth process.
As for Shinji Kagawa, although he was overshadowed by Cheng Hai at Dortmund, he performed very well in both Dortmund and the Japanese national team, so he was able to be selected for the final six-man shortlist.
Of course, everyone knows that he is just a foil.
After returning to the club, Shinji Kagawa himself congratulated Cheng Hai in advance, wished him the Asian Footballer of the Year, and prayed that Cheng Hai would finally win the FIFA Golden Ball.
This is not only the glory of China, but also the glory of Asia.
No Asian player has won the Ballon d'Or before!
If Cheng Hai wins this year's FIFA Golden Ball Award, it will have a huge effect on the progress of Asian football as a whole.
Of course, whether it is the Asian Footballer of the Year or the FIFA Golden Ball Award, everyone does not care about it at this time, and everyone needs to concentrate on preparing for the German national derby in the 13th round of the Bundesliga: Dortmund away to Bayern Munich.
At 19:30 on the evening of November 19, 2011, the 13th round of the 2011/2012 Bundesliga Bayern Munich home vs Dortmund match officially started at the Allianz Arena.
It may be the FIFA match day a few days ago, as the two giants of the Bundesliga, Bayern and Dort, have contributed many international players, and everyone is running back and forth to participate in the national team competition, and the state of both teams is very poor.
After the whole game, Bayern Munich, which has a bunch of superstars such as Arjen Robben, Ribery, Muller, Gomez, Lahm, and Boateng, did not score a goal at their home stadium.
On Dortmund's side, although Cheng Hai's recovery ability is amazing, his teammates are also in a sluggish state and cannot provide him with support, resulting in Cheng Hai not playing much of a role, and in the end only scored 1 goal, plus an assist to Götze to score a goal.
Borussia Dortmund won the first leg of this season's national derby by beating Bayern Munich 2-0 away in a boistering Germany derby.
In the next few days of games, Cheng Hai and head coach Klopp had a little friction.
The match related to Cheng Hai was the fifth round of the Champions League group stage on November 23, when Borussia Dortmund challenged Arsenal away.
On the same day, the second round of the group stage of the Asian qualifiers for the London Olympics against Saudi Arabia will begin.
On the same day, the AFC will also hold a year-end awards ceremony at its headquarters in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where Cheng Hai's Asian Footballer of the Year will be presented.
Next is the 14th round of the Bundesliga Dortmund hosts Schalke 04's Ruhr derby on November 26, and the next day is the third round of the group stage of the Olympic team against Qatar.
In other words, these four matches face the clash between the club and the national Olympic team. Participating in the club's two games, the two games of the national Olympic team are destined not to participate.
Participate in the Olympic team's Olympic team's Olympic preliminaries, and the club's two games will not be able to participate.