Winning all three games and advancing to the first place in the group, the Chinese team not only advanced to the knockout round, but also faced Jordan, the second in Group A, in the knockout round.

This is a team in the FIFA rankings that is about the same as Kuwait, Qatar, and Uzbekistan, all of them are below the top 100, and they are ranked lower than Kuwait.

You must know that the current FIFA ranking is still the ranking before Cheng Hai participated in the Asian Cup, Cheng Hai has not participated in the national football team before this, and the 87th ranking of the national football FIFA is completely played by the national football players led by Gao Hongbo.

Therefore, it can be considered that in the absence of Cheng Hai, the strength of the Huaguo team itself is stronger than Jordan.

Now coupled with the factor of Cheng Hai, and the history of the previous three group stage opponents all winning, whether it is the media, fans, or the team, everyone is very confident in the quarterfinals.

Cheng Hai is naturally even more confident.

However, in the gap before the start of the quarter-finals, on January 19, the second half of the German football season was played in the third round of the German Cup, with Borussia Dortmund away to Nuremberg.

Cheng Hai is more concerned about this game, because if the team loses, his German Cup journey this season will be over.

Before the start of the game, Cheng Hai also called his teammates to cheer them up, hoping that their teammates would overcome Nuremberg and advance to the next round.

It's a pity that things didn't develop as Cheng Hai intended.

On the one hand, this German Cup is an away game, and the opponent is also Nuremberg, which is also a Bundesliga team.

On the other hand, Klopp planned to give up the German Cup as early as the first half of the season, and most of the substitutes were sent in the second round of the German Cup against Offenbacha, and Dortmund relied on Cheng Hai to steal a mistake from the opponent in the second half and score a goal to advance to the third round.

Klopp did not send the main team in this game, and most of the 18-man squad were substitutes, such as Hummels, Schmelzer, Kyle, Shaheen, Barrios and other absolute main players, all stayed at the training base.

In addition, for Nuremberg, who are at the bottom of the table at this time, winning the German Cup will be another way to qualify for Europe.

Dortmund's own lack of attention, combined with the away factor and the desperateness of their opponents, resulted in a 2-1 defeat away to Nuremberg after 90 minutes, ending this season's German Cup.

Cheng Hai's task 4 of the German FA Cup champion was also declared a failure in advance, and he said goodbye to the 30 skill points for winning the championship.

This made Cheng Hai a little disappointed, but there was no way, since he came to participate in the Asian Cup, the German Cup will definitely not be able to participate, in the case of coach Klopp striving for the Bundesliga championship and not wanting to affect the league goal on multiple fronts, the German Cup is actually a foreshadower.

Even if this round is not out, Cheng Hai may still be playing in the Asian Cup in the next round of the German Cup and has not yet returned, and the probability of Klopp sending a substitute lineup and being eliminated by the opponent is still very high.

It's just a pity that the 30 skill points are rewarded for the mission.

Cheng Hai, who was a little depressed, vented his anger on Jordan, the opponent in the quarterfinals of the Asian Cup.

Jordan are the biggest dark horses of this Asian Cup, as they are in Group B with Asian powerhouses Japan, last year's Asian Cup runners-up Saudi Arabia and arch-rivals Syria in the group stage.

Before the start of the Asian Cup, the media generally believed that the Jordanian team had no chance of qualifying.

As a result, they finished second in Group B, ahead of Saudi Arabia and Syria.

However, for this qualifying place, the Jordanian team also paid a heavy price in the group stage, the team's captain and main defender Ekki, and the main striker Yusuf Ismu were seriously injured and could not participate in the quarterfinals.

Another main defender, Omar Ofivin, was suspended for accumulating yellow cards and was unavailable in the quarter-finals.

This is also the reason why the Chinese media, fans, and the team are full of confidence, and feel that the Chinese team should have no problem defeating Jordan and advancing to the semifinals.

However, for Cheng Hai, he simply wanted to defeat Jordan to advance to the semi-finals, but now that Dortmund has been eliminated from the German Cup and has one less event, the Asian Cup can no longer afford to lose.

The loss of 30 skill points is barely bearable, but if he loses the 200 skill point reward of the Asian Cup champion, Cheng Hai will definitely not be able to stand it.

Even so, he has to do his best in the quarter-finals, taking advantage of the opponent's weak opportunity to score more goals and gain more experience.

Now he has more than 2.5 million experience, and he is only 500,000 short of leveling up.

As long as he scores more than two goals in this game, gets the best on the spot, and the team wins, then he can be promoted again and get an upgrade reward of 30 skill points, which can be regarded as how much to make up for his lost heart!

Before the start of the game, the Khalifa International Stadium, which has enough capacity for 48,000 spectators, was packed.

With the three consecutive wins in the group stage and the fan attraction effect of Cheng Hai's eight goals in three games, almost 30,000 of the more than 48,000 fans at the scene are overseas Chinese fans from China.

They wore red Chinese jerseys and waved the national flag, turning the entire Khalifa International Stadium into the home of the Chinese team.

The remaining 18,000 or so fans are Jordanian fans or neutral fans in Qatar.

At 16:25 p.m. local time on January 21, 2011, with the referee's whistle, the 2011 Qatar Asian Cup quarterfinals Chinese team VS Jordan match officially kicked off at the Khalifa International Stadium in Qatar.

In the face of Cheng Hai's huge threat, the Jordanian team chose the tactics of defensive counterattack, first trying not to concede a goal, and then attacking after Cheng Hai was substituted in the second half.

The Jordanian team's defense is extreme, playing 541 tactics, with a full 3 central defenders in the penalty area, and two midfielders in front of the central defenders to protect them.

Such extreme defensive tactics almost gave up the vast majority of offensive opportunities, just to prevent being scored by Cheng Hai.

It can already be seen from the previous games that Cheng Hai's speed is used to fight counterattacks, and the opponent has almost no power to fight back.

In the positional attack, Cheng Hai's goals outside the penalty area are relatively few, because his shooting power is average, and he does not have the skill of arcing the ball, even if the angle is tricky, it is easier to be judged by the goalkeeper to save the ball.

Therefore, the Jordanian team adopted an extreme defensive strategy, guarding Cheng Hai to the death, and resolutely not allowing him to get a shot in the penalty area.

However, in this game, Cheng Hai held his breath to score more goals and brush up on experience, and he fought quite hard.

Since he couldn't run out of space in the box and his teammates couldn't get the ball to his feet, he pulled out of the box to get the ball and then used his full-value dribbling and Matthews feints to break through.

No team's defense can really be leaky, especially Jordan's own strength is not strong, and many people have been injured and banned, and their strength has declined seriously.

In the 8th minute, Cheng Hai first used speed and off-ball running to run out of the gap on the left wing outside the penalty area to receive a pass from his teammates, and then broke through three defenders in a row to enter the penalty area and shoot low.

The ball slipped under the goalkeeper's crotch and into the goal behind him.

In just 8 minutes of the opening game, Cheng Hai broke through the layers of defense of the Jordanian team and opened the scoring to give the Chinese team a 1-0 lead.

Looking at Cheng Hai, who was running to celebrate, many players of the Jordanian team showed weak eyes in their eyes.

Strikers of this level, they really don't know how to defend against them.

With their strength, they can't prevent it at all!

However, after all, they are only one goal behind, and they have not fallen into despair and have not given up.

In the next game, the Jordan team continued to defend Cheng Hai strictly, and even the strength of the defense was even greater, and there were people who paid attention to Cheng Hai's running position at any time to assist in defense and blocking, and tried all means to block Cheng Hai's running, breakthrough, shooting, etc.

However, Cheng Hai is not the only one in the Huaguo team, and the other players are not completely paper-paste.

Although the national football team was scolded as if it couldn't kick a primary school student, these are all exaggerated remarks that fans hate iron and steel. To be selected for the national team, at least there is still a little level.

After the Jordan team became more and more frightened of Cheng Hai after his first goal and focused most of their attention on Cheng Hai, other Chinese players inevitably got a lot of opportunities.

If you have more chances, you can score goals.

In the 20th minute, Cheng Hai took the ball on the right side outside the penalty area to break through a defender, and made a posture of wanting to shoot in the penalty area, attracting four Jordanian players around him to rush up and want to surround Cheng Hai.

Facing the encirclement of four people, Cheng Hai naturally couldn't force a breakthrough again.

Although his dribbling and Matthews feints are 20, the defense of others is also fifteen or sixteen, not zero.

The four of them rushed up, and even with Cheng Hai's physique, it was unlikely that they would break through. After all, his current breakthrough technology is still very single.

What croquettes, Marseille slaloms, ox tails, bicycles, etc., none of them.

Not to mention the breakthrough, it is a big question whether you can control the ball at your feet. Four people surrounded him, and there was a high probability that he would still be able to poke the ball off his feet.

What's more, since he has attracted four people to surround him, doesn't that mean that the rest of the place is empty? There must be teammates who are in an unguarded position.

Although Cheng Hai is not a playmaker and does not have a good vision and insight to find gaps, he just needs to pass the ball out.

Moreover, it is not necessary to have a good passing ability.

Because right near him, there are teammates in the middle of the space.

Cheng Hai made a low pass to the front midfielder Deng Zhuoxiang outside the penalty area with a low cross before four people surrounded him.

Although Cheng Hai's passing skills were not good, but the short pass of less than 10 meters between the two, this time Cheng Hai still passed well, and the ball successfully avoided the Jordanian player who grabbed and rolled in front of Deng Zhuoxiang.

As the main striker, Deng Zhuoxiang's vision and passing skills are naturally better than Cheng Hai.

Before receiving Cheng Hai's ball, Deng Zhuoxiang found the gap on the other side of the penalty area and the running position of his teammates, and had already thought about how to deal with the ball.

So, facing the ball passed by Cheng Hai, Deng Zhuoxiang did not adjust at all to give the opponent a chance to steal, and directly passed the ball to the position of the left rib of the penalty area.

Because Cheng Hai attracted too much attention, left midfielder Yu Hai rushed into the penalty area unguarded, and kicked the ball towards the goal with a volley without stopping the ball in the face of Deng Zhuoxiang's pass.

In fact, the Huaguo team has also had a few shots from other players before, but they either flew away or were saved by the goalkeeper.

It can be said that the shots of the previous Chinese team players really reflect their level.

And this time Yu Hai's shot, luck finally stood on the side of the Huaguo team, allowing him to hit a high-quality shot.

The ball sprang out in an instant, scurrying towards the underside of the near end of the Jordanian goal, dodging the foot of a Jordanian defender who was coming by the flying tackle, and scavenging into the Jordanian goal before the palm of the flying save Jordanian goalkeeper Shafi was in place.

In the 20th minute, the Huaguo team took advantage of Cheng Hai's attraction to the Jordanian team's defensive attention, and Yu Hai, who ran out of the gap, successfully shot on the left rib of the big penalty area, expanding the score to 2-0.

The goal and score finally broke all the confidence and morale of the Jordanian team.

Football is no better than basketball, and there are very few examples of two goals behind and then equalizing and reversing. If one goal behind Jordan is still stable, then no one can afford to be two goals behind.

They must attack, and if they don't, they will almost certainly die.

At the same time, in this goal, it was not Cheng Hai who scored the goal of the Huaguo team, and even the assist was not Cheng Hai, but the goal scored by Yu Hai, who Deng Zhuoxiang assisted and ran out of the gap.

At the moment when Deng Zhuoxiang passed the ball, the unguarded Yu Hai looked so dazzling.

Yu Hai's shooting and scoring without defense is simply a shame on the overall defense of the Jordanian team, which proves that it is absolutely undesirable for them to focus most of their attention on Cheng Hai, and the rest of the Chinese team can also shoot and score.

So, in the next game, the Jordan team began to counterattack while strengthening the marking of other offensive players of the Chinese national team.

However, as a result, the strength of defending Cheng Hai will inevitably drop significantly, and when they attack, there are many more gaps and opportunities in the backfield than if they can't defend it.

Such a situation is undoubtedly very cool for Cheng Hai.

Therefore, it is very logical that in the 31st minute, the Jordanian team's attack was cut off, Cheng Hai successfully received Zheng Zhi's long pass from the backfield in an offside position, and easily unloaded the ball with a full value of 20 stopping skills in the run, and then continued to dribble to the Jordanian team's penalty area.

Although he delayed his speed when he stopped the ball, he was chased by Jordanian defender Munir who was returning to the defense.

But it's useless to catch up, Cheng Hai's full physique and dribbling skills make Munir helpless against Cheng Hai, he can't grab the ball, he can't even commit fouls, and he can't knock down Cheng Hai.

Cheng Hai carried Munir's pull and push, and after dribbling the ball to the top of the arc of the big penalty area, he chose a light pick in the face of the goalkeeper Shafei who attacked into the big penalty area.

When Cheng Hai was about to shoot, Munir was ruthless and made a tackle from the side, wanting to stop Cheng Hai's shot.

However, his decision came a step too late. After Cheng Hai kicked the ball out, his feet were in place.

As a result, Munir finally failed to stop Cheng Hai's hanging shot, and just tripped Cheng Hai on the line of the big penalty area.

Shafei jumped up and down when Cheng Hai was shooting, trying to stop the ball, but although Cheng Hai did not have the skill of hanging shot, his full-value shooting skills still played a great role.

The ball went over Shafi's head, avoiding his fingers, before slicing a parabola through the air and into the Jordan goal.

In the 31st minute, Cheng Hai scored a brace to help the Chinese team expand the score to 3-0, and the Chinese fans broke out into huge cheers, both at the scene and in front of the TV.

With a three-goal lead, even if Cheng Hai is immediately replaced, the chances of the Chinese team being reversed by Jordan are quite low.

If the three-goal lead had been reversed so easily, the Istanbul Miracle would not have become a world-famous miracle battle.

It is precisely because of the rarity and small odds that the three-goal lead can almost be considered a win.

Everyone can conclude that the Huaguo team is basically going to advance to the semifinals.

That's why the fans of the Chinese team are so excited.

Of course, the players of the Huaguo team on the field were even more excited, and they rushed up to celebrate with Cheng Hai, who scored the goal.

The Jordanian players, on the other hand, are as dead as ashes.

This conceded goal is basically a death sentence for them.

After struggling with the pitch for a while, the head coach of the Jordan team resolutely replaced a defender with a yellow card and replaced it with a striker to strengthen the attack.

You know, it was only the 31st minute of the first half, and before even halftime, he overturned his tactics and made substitutions, which shows how critical the situation is for the Jordanian team.

After the game started anew, the Jordanian team pressed all over the line and carried out a crazy attack.

However, this kind of full-line attack not only did not break through the goal of the Huaguo team, but instead exposed more gaps and opportunities in their backfield, giving Cheng Hai more opportunities to counterattack.

Before the end of the first half, in the 42nd minute, the Jordan team's shot was confiscated by goalkeeper Yang Zhi.

Subsequently, Yang Zhi didn't wait for everyone to withdraw from the penalty area, and suddenly drove the ball to the front court with a big kick, and Cheng Hai chased after him.

However, Yang Zhi's ball was not good, and it did not match Cheng Hai's speed, and Cheng Hai, who was successful in the anti-offside position, had to stop and wait for the ball to fall after running to the front court.

Just when Cheng Hai stopped to wait for the ball, a defender who returned to the defense chased after him again and entangled him.

Fortunately, Cheng Hai's physique and stopping skills are full value, and after occupying the landing point with his body, he easily unloaded the ball.

However, when Cheng Hai unloaded the ball, another defender who returned to the defense also rushed to the position, stuck Cheng Hai, and could not turn around with the ball.

Seeing this, in order to save time, Cheng Hai did not force himself to do it alone, because Qu Bo had already inserted it from the middle and threw off the defender four or five meters away.

So, after Cheng Hai unloaded the ball, he made a decisive horizontal pass, and sent the ball to Qu Bo who was inserted in the middle, and then ran without the ball and rushed to the Jordanian team's penalty area around the two defenders behind him.

Although the two defenders also immediately turned around and tried to jam Cheng Hai, Cheng Hai without the ball, both in terms of confrontation ability and speed, far surpassed them.

Almost in the blink of an eye, Cheng Hai shook off the two of them and ran to the front, so fast that the two couldn't catch up if they wanted to.