At 20:45 p.m. on September 18, 2012, the first round of the 2012/2013 Champions League group stage Group D match between Dortmund and Ajax officially started at Dortmund's home stadium Westfaren Stadium.

Atletico Madrid's Europa League victory last season and Dortmund's performance in this season's UEFA Super Cup have shown everyone how to break the game at a time when pass-and-control football is all the rage, and many coaches and teams have begun to learn from Simeone and try to press high.

That's exactly what Ajax did.

They have been preparing for a long time to counter Dortmund with a high-pressing tactic that does not spare physical strength in order to achieve unexpected results.

In this group of the strongest group of death in the history of the Champions League, every game is a lot of blood, even against Dortmund away, you can't give up, you have to try to win.

However, Klopp is not a fool, and the experience of almost being cornered by Atletico Madrid in the UEFA Super Cup has made Klopp also see the tactical direction of world football in the future.

He experienced it on the sidelines all the way to stoppage time, much more than Ajax felt about Simeone's pressing tactics in the high post.

As a top coach in Europe, Jurgen Klopp, who has already won the Champions League and has been promoted to the top coach, is also very good at learning.

Therefore, it is not only Ajax who is learning to train Atletico Madrid's high pressing tactics, but Dortmund is also learning.

The first two Bundesliga games were short in training and the results have not yet come out, but after almost half a month of training, Dortmund can already try this tactic in this Champions League.

After all, Dortmund are all young people in the team, and their fitness is basically worry-free.

As for Ajax, it was originally the star-making factory of the five major leagues, and there were more young people.

So this Champions League group stage was exciting, and it became a battle between Dortmund and Ajax, which made neutral fans addicted.

From the very beginning of the game, both sides launched a large-scale press in any corner of the field, and everyone was constantly moving, even the goalkeeper.

As a result, Dortmund, who are still playing at home, entered the state faster, after all, they have Cheng Hai as a goal machine.

In the 7th minute, Cheng Hai stopped the ball with his chest on the side pass to Reus outside the Ajax penalty area, and then before the ball landed, he suddenly picked the ball past and picked the ball over the heads of himself and the Ajax players defending him behind him.

Then Cheng Hai completed the turn with his strong physique, stuck the push of the opposing defender, and without waiting for the ball to land, he completed a high-quality volley and kicked the ball towards the goal.

The ball smashed into Ajax's goal like a cannonball, although goalkeeper Vermel made a save at the moment of Cheng Hai's shot, but Cheng Hai's volley was too powerful and too fast, even if the angle was not very tricky, but it was still faster than Vermmel's save reaction.

Eventually, the ball flew into the back of the net before Vermmel's palm was in place.

According to the statistics after the game, the goal turned out to be a heavy shot with a speed of more than 100 km/h, no wonder Vermel failed to save the ball even if the angle was not good.

However, although Dortmund opened the scoring by Cheng Hai in the opening 7 minutes to make a dream start, Ajax, as the leader of the Eredivisie, is still very strong.

Through the high pressing step by step, in the 13th minute, Ajax forced Schmelzer to make a passing error, and Ajax counter-attacked on the spot.

Eventually, the ball was passed to striker Ryan Babel, who rushed into the box, and before Hummels, who fell to the ground and tried to tackle the ball, stabbed the ball into the bottom left corner of the Dortmund goal.

Weidenfeller was also unable to prevent the goal.

Ajax levelled the score to a 1-1 draw, and the game suddenly reached a climax.

However, Dortmund's overall strength is indeed higher, especially Cheng Hai's genius-like performance, so that Ajax often can't guess his next move.

This is Cheng Haiman's "creativity" at work.

In the 25th minute, Cheng Hai rushed into the penalty area with the ball.

Just when the Ajax defenders and goalkeepers were desperately blocking Cheng Hai's shot, Cheng Hai suddenly knocked the ball with a heel and knocked the ball to the side and back.

Under the threat of Cheng Hai breaking through the penalty area with the ball, Ajax's men went to besiege Cheng Hai and neglected to defend against other Dortmund players.

As a result, the unguarded Gundogan inserted into the penalty area from behind, volleyed two meters to the left of the penalty spot in the penalty area, and kicked Cheng Hai's heel pass into the bottom right corner of the goal.

Because the distance was too far, goalkeeper Vermmel, who was still on the left side of the goal line to prevent Cheng Hai's shot, couldn't even make a save, and watched the ball fly into the net.

Cheng Hai assisted Gundogan for Dortmund's second goal, and Dortmund took the lead again at 2-1.

The score fell behind again, allowing the Ajax players to push harder.

However, this kind of high pressing increases the probability of the opponent making mistakes, and at the same time, he may also make mistakes.

Because the pace of offensive and defensive transitions is too fast.

In the 33rd minute, Cheng Haila went to the side to dribble the ball and broke through two Ajax defenders in a row, then cut inside, and when he was close to the line of the big penalty area, he made an inverted triangle pass, and sent the ball to the penalty spot of the big penalty area accurately.

Mario Gotze was cutting in at high speed, ready to shoot at the ball.

The result may have been too much to make a contribution and too much to destroy the threat of the goal, and Ajax defender Aldeveld came in with a flying tackle from the flank.

But Mario Gotze got the ball in front of him and flicked it away.

Then, Aldeveld's flying tackle sent Mario Goetze down in the box.

Aldveld fouled a tackle in the penalty area and was given a yellow card + penalty by the referee.

As far as penalty kicks are concerned, Cheng Hai is naturally a hit in every shot.

He smiled and fired a volley into the corner to score a brace to make it 3-1.

This was the final score of the first half.

After a 15-minute break, the two sides changed sides again in the second half, and Ajax, who were two goals behind, continued to press high to try to break the ball in front of the court to counterattack.

And also successfully played a few threatening counterattacks, after all, the error rate of Dortmund's side when the ball was not at the feet of Cheng Hai was also not low.

However, Ajax did not have a sharpshooter like Cheng Hai, and only one of the few good shots on goal hit the woodwork, and was saved by Weidenfeller.

Dortmund is different.

Once the ball is handed to Cheng Hai's feet, Ajax's goal will face a huge threat, even if Ajax does not hesitate to use many people to besiege and grab Cheng Hai, they can't stop Cheng Hai's goal.

Cheng Hai's archery skills and various skills are too powerful.

In the 66th minute, Cheng Hai dribbled past a person outside the penalty area and attracted interceptions from three or four Ajax defenders, trying to stop him from entering the penalty area.

With so many people blocking the way, even with Cheng Hai's ability, the probability of wanting to break through and enter the forbidden area is not large.

But Cheng Hai is not without teammates, so why bother to hit the wall by himself?

When he attracted three or four people to defend and intercept, there were naturally other teammates in the gap of no defense, and Cheng Hai's full value of "vision" allowed him to easily find the running position of his teammates and the gap where he could pass the ball.

Therefore, Cheng Hai immediately distributed the ball and distributed it to Mario Gotze, who was inserted on the wing and unguarded.

Then, Cheng Hai himself ran without the ball and rushed into the penalty area.

Without the ball, there are basically few people who can keep up with Cheng Hai.

Even if the people in the penalty area can keep up with Cheng Hai with their distance advantage, Cheng Hai's erratic running position and strong physique make him have an advantage even in the penalty area full of long people.

Of course, Guangcheng Hai has an advantage, and it depends on the passing of teammates.

Sometimes, a teammate's pass is too low, and before it reaches his head, he is intercepted and destroyed by an opponent at the front post. Or the pass is too high, no matter how high he jumps, he can't top it, it's useless.

What's more, if the pass is too close to the goalkeeper, no matter how good he bounces, he can't compare to the goalkeeper who can catch or hit the ball with his hands, so he can only cry out in vain.

Therefore, Cheng Hai is not able to score headers in every game.

But this time, Cheng Hai's running and grabbing points were combined with Mario Gotze's cross.

After receiving the ball from Cheng Hai unguarded, Gotze took two steps to the baseline, and then successfully crossed with his feet before the opposing defender rushed over to block the cross route.

The ball flew into the air, flew over most of the penalty area, and landed behind the line of the small penalty area.

Although the goalkeeper moved to the back post according to the flight path of the ball, Cheng Hai beat the bounce of the crowd in the penalty area, and still made a timely header attack, rushing the ball into the back of the Ajax goal before goalkeeper Vermel blocked the goal.

In the 66th minute, Cheng Hai scored another goal to complete a hat-trick and help Dortmund take a 4-1 lead.

It was a sealed goal and Ajax couldn't have scored three goals in a row with less than half an hour left on the game time to complete the miracle.

But Ajax won't give in either.

Because the group stage is not a win-or-lose, nor is it a direct competition with Borussia Dortmund, even if they can't win this one, they will have to score more goals, get more goal difference or goals, and maybe they will have an advantage with the same number of points at the end of the group stage.

Therefore, Ajax, who conceded the goal again and fell behind 1-4, was not discouraged, but continued to press and attack Dortmund all over the field.

And Ajax, as the technical foundation of the Dutch giants, did allow them to play a wonderful quick counterattack in the 74th minute.

And this time it was caused by Cheng Hai losing the ball.

Even if Cheng Hai dribbles at full value, there is no guarantee that he will never concede a goal. This time, it was he who was interfered with by two opposing defenders in the process of breaking through with the ball, and then the ball was poked off.

Then, before Cheng Hai could use his full-value tackling ability to counter-rob, Ajax had already passed the ball out and started a counterattack.

And just now because the ball was at the feet of Cheng Hai, the Dortmund players were more relieved and mentally unprepared, and as a result, several Ajax attacking players played a 3-2 situation in the frontcourt. The quick counterattack and the number of people are again, and the passing and cutting runs in this counterattack are super good.

Even at Cheng Hai's full speed, he failed to return to the defense after losing the ball, and was kicked into the goal by Ajax with three passes and two downs.

Ajax scored another goal to make it 2-4 and just two goals behind.

That even gave the Ajax players hope of equalising.

It's not that no team has scored two goals in the last ten minutes, Cheng Hai even staged a miracle of scoring two goals in stoppage time in the past European Super Cup.

Therefore, after the game restarted, Ajax continued to increase their attack, and in the 81st minute, they replaced two new forces, continued to press high and broke the ball at any time to launch a counterattack.

However, Dortmund's tactics are also high-level pressing, and they will immediately counter-rob after losing the ball, which will not allow Ajax to easily counterattack.

And even if they do occasionally play, their strikers' shooting skills are not as good as Cheng Hai's, and they still fail to convert counterattacks into goals after all.

But on Dortmund's side, once Cheng Hai seizes the opportunity, it can form a huge threat.

Ajax naturally knows this, so the more they end up guarding Cheng Hai, the more closely they guard Cheng Hai.

But in this way, Dortmund's other players have more gaps and opportunities.

Just when the game was about to enter stoppage time, in the 89th minute, Cheng Hai switched to the right side to get the ball, and as a result, Ajax's midfielders moved to the right to block Cheng Hai's breakthrough and shooting route.

As a result, Cheng Hai did not force a breakthrough at all, and after seeing that Ajax's entire backfield was pressed, Cheng Hai dodged the defender in front of him and took up his feet, and a precise long pass in the air sent the ball to the outside of the big penalty area on the left side of the field.

Cheng Hai's full vision allowed him to spot the gap on the left and the running position of his teammate Reus.

And the full value of the long pass in the air also allowed him to pass the ball accurately, and it matched with Reus's running position.

Although Reuss stopped the ball and was blocked in front of a defender who had stepped in to make it past him, it was unlikely that he would dribble into the box to shoot.

But Cheng Hai attracted too many people to defend, and Royce was not the only one who got the opportunity to get a gap.

Seeing that he was blocked, Reus did not hesitate to send the ball to the feet of Lewandowski in the penalty area.

Lewandowski received a wonderful pass from Reus near the penalty spot in the penalty area, stopped and wiped the ball to the right, dodged the defender who rushed over from the side to block his shot, and then got a shot gap and decisively kicked the goal.

The ball went like an arrow through the six-yard box and into the bottom right corner of the goal.

Goalkeeper Wilmel had just pounced to the left to prevent Reus's shot, but Lewandowski's shot was too long for him to end up watching the ball go into the net.

In the 89th minute, Lewandowski scored Dortmund's fifth goal with an assist from Reus, and Dortmund led Ajax 5-2 at home.

The game completely lost the last suspense, even Dortmund, who had Cheng Hai, could not come back from three goals behind in the 90th minute.

The final score was 5-2 and Borussia Dortmund won their first Champions League group stage win of the season.

Group D is really worthy of the group of death, although Ajax lost by a large score, they still scored two goals at the Westfalen Stadium, which is already considered a strong attack.

In the other group game, which was played at the same time and ended at the same time, Real Madrid, who were sitting at home, were even beaten to a 0-0 draw by Manchester City in the first half.

In the second half, the game changed dramatically, with Manchester City opening the scoring in the 68th minute through Dzeko.

Immediately afterwards, Real Madrid equalized the score in the 76th minute after breaking through the side by defender Marcelo with a knife.

As a result, in the 85th minute, Manchester City also stepped forward with an assist from Kolarov on the wing, and after completing the cooperation with his teammates, he scored in the penalty area to expand the score to 2-1 again.

At this time, it was less than ten minutes before the end of the game time, but Real Madrid, who were playing at home, was still in a situation of falling behind by the score.

Many people thought that Real Madrid were going to capsize in the gutter and lose at home, but just two minutes later, Real Madrid equalized the score with a header from Karim Benzema in the 87th minute.

As Cristiano Ronaldo, who holds the world record for today's football transfer fee, he used an earth-shattering long-range shot in the 90th minute to complete the score overtake for Real Madrid, staged a super reversal, and defeated Manchester City at home in a thrilling way, winning all three points.

Although Manchester City lost, they caused huge problems for Real Madrid away from home, and it can be said that although it was defeated, it was still honorable.

This thrilling match at the Bernabeu Stadium truly illustrates the difficulty of the group of death, even the Galaxy Battleship Real Madrid was almost defeated by their opponents on their home turf, which shows the difficulty of this group.

After the first round, Dortmund is in first place with 3 points and 3 goal difference, Real Madrid is second with 3 points and 1 goal difference, Manchester City is third and Ajax is fourth.

However, this is only the first round, anyone can qualify, anyone can be out, and the battle for the qualifying place has just begun.