Chapter 20: The first pre-season friendlies

Although with the help of systematic dream training, Cheng Hai has made rapid progress under the professional training of the physical fitness coach, but after all, the time is still short.

This is training in reality, not cheating.

Therefore, in the training match on July 13, Cheng Hai still only played 30 minutes.

But in those 30 minutes, Cheng Hai still scored a hat-trick.

It is worth mentioning that one of the hat-tricks was a penalty.

After Cheng Hai's yellow team won the penalty, Zidan was originally going to take the penalty, but coach Klopp shouted on the sidelines and asked Cheng Hai to try, and Zidan gave it to Cheng Hai.

So, under everyone's gaze, Cheng Hai kicked the ball into the dead corner without any pressure.

Such accurate archery skills made Klopp really unstoppable, and he felt even more pity for Cheng Hai's physical fitness.

I just hope that Cheng Hai, with the help of the physical fitness coach, can make rapid progress and meet the requirements of the substitute!

After the training was completed that afternoon, Cheng Hai's experience had reached level 10 10,600/10,000, and it was automatically upgraded to level 11 0,600/20,000.

Because level 1-10 rewards 10 skill points, while levels 11-20 reward 20 skill points.

Therefore, Cheng Hai upgraded this time, and the acquisition of skill points increased to 20, making his skill point balance reach 24.

As for the newly opened skills, this time it was not bad, although it still did not open the "physical fitness" he hoped for the most, but it opened a practical skill of Shadow Blade "Grabbing Points".

Perhaps due to the influence of "running without the ball", the initial stat of this new skill is not low, a full 8 points.

This skill, combined with running without the ball, is simply a miracle skill. If both are added to the full value, and combined with the full value of archery, it is simply not too scary.

Therefore, Cheng Hai did not hesitate to spend 12 skill points to increase the "grab points" from 8 to 15, leaving 12 skill points in the balance.

Because the first friendly match of the season will start tomorrow, and there is no limit on the number of substitutes in the friendly match, Cheng Hai is likely to get the opportunity to play.

Therefore, this time Cheng Hai did not keep the skill points, and he spent 10 of the remaining 12 skill points to add the off-ball run, increasing the off-ball run from 15 to 17, and the balance of the skill points was 2.

17 runs without the ball, at a full value of 20, this is already a relatively good attribute among professional players.

After running without the ball is increased to 17, it may be affected by the double impact of grabbing points and running without the ball, and Cheng Hai's "steal" skill is automatically increased from 4 to 5.

However, this skill is of little use to Cheng Hai at the moment.

Aside from "tackles" and other skills that have little effect, Cheng Hai now has 20 marksmanship, 19 physique, 17 running off the ball, and three 15 skills of stopping, dribbling, and grabbing points.

Needless to say, archery is the most important skill of a striker.

The 19-point physique can allow Cheng Hai to compete with genetically dominant European professional players even if his height and weight are a little worse, and he will not be knocked down at the first touch.

A 17-point run without the ball and a 15-point grab, stoppage, and dribbling make it possible for him to shoot under the defence of a professional player.

In addition to these skills that can be seen by the system, in terms of physical fitness, because of the deep sleep recovery ability given by the system's dream training, coupled with the professional guidance of the physical fitness coach, Cheng Hai also feels that he has improved a lot.

Although he couldn't see the values, Cheng Hai felt that he had improved by at least two or three points.

This makes Cheng Hai even more full of expectations for tomorrow's friendly match.

As long as Jurgen Klopp gives him a little time off the bench, he can prove that he deserves to be signed by Borussia Dortmund.

The following day, 14 July 2010, the entire Dortmund first team travelled by bus to the city of Lot, also in North Rhine-Westfalen.

Borussia Dortmund will play their team's first pre-season friendly of the season there: away against Lott FC in the Western German League (fourth division).

The regional league is the fourth semi-professional league below the Bundesliga, and there are a number of amateur and professional youth teams, but this does not include Lot.

Lott is one of the stronger professional teams in the regional league, finishing second in the Western Conference last season, and although they did not finish in the Bundesliga, they are still the favourites for promotion this season.

Of course, for Borussia Dortmund, who are giants of the Bundesliga, Lott is an unattractive opponent, and the team's first pre-season friendly of the season chose such an opponent in order to get the players into the game faster and increase their confidence in the game.

It was also a rare opportunity for the players and fans of Lott to play against the Bundesliga giants.

As a result, there were plenty of spectators in this friendly match, with more than 5,000 people coming to the Flamer Stadium, which can accommodate more than 10,000 spectators.

For a friendly match, the attendance was nothing short of spectacular.

Among them, the attraction of Borussia Dortmund FC and their various internationals and big-name stars is the main factor.

There were even Lott fans chanting the names of Hummels, Schmelzer, Kehl, Gotze, Shaheen and Zidan, cheering for their arrival, as if they had forgotten that Dortmund was their opponent.

Especially Gotze, as an annual player who is only 18 years old and has a birthday a few days younger than Cheng Hai, it is very commendable to have such a high reputation and popularity in the away team.

Of course, in fact, it was only a friendly match, and everyone didn't care about winning or losing, so it was normal for fans to behave like this.

If the two sides meet in the German Cup, I believe that these Lott fans will no longer welcome Dortmund, but will want to beat Dortmund with a big score.

Of course, the fans welcome the big names.

For Cheng Hai, a yellow-skinned and black-eyed Asian, none of the fans of Lott know him, and some people have a lot of discussions about him and Shinji Kagawa, and they can't tell which country in East Asia these two people are.

Cheng Hai naturally doesn't care about the fans' opinions.

He just wants to play.

Playing in a real football stadium, in front of 5,000 real fans, it was something he had never experienced before.

Although there were thousands of people in the final of the FIFA National Finals, the stadium was only the stadium of Shengjing University of Technology, which was not professional.

The fans are just teachers and students of the school, just watching the excitement, not real fans.

This friendly was different, it was played in a professional stadium and the fans were also real Lott fans, as well as hundreds of Dortmund fans who came with the team.

In addition to the fans and the professionalism of the stadium, there were even several media reporters who followed the report.

As long as you can get on the pitch and score a goal, even if it's just a name mentioned by the German media after the game, it's good.

However, Cheng Hai definitely can't start if he wants to start.

As a trial player who is not fit enough, it is impossible to get Klopp to put him in the starting line-up.

Fortunately, there is no limit to the number of substitutions in the friendly match, and Cheng Hai will definitely have a chance to play in the second half.

He's already conquered the coaching staff with his performances in training and now it's just a real game test.

Although the friendly match is not an official professional match, the opponent is a professional team, which can still play a certain test effect.

On July 14, 2010, at 15 pm, Dortmund's first friendly of the 2010/2011 pre-season friendly against Lot officially began.

Before the game, everyone felt that with Dortmund's strength, playing the fourth-level Lott should be handy, and he would definitely lock in the victory early.

Unexpectedly, it may be too relaxed and too underestimated, Dortmund's players have not been able to enter the game for a long time, but it is the players of the opponent Lott who cherish the opportunity to play against the Bundesliga giants very much, play very hard, and create more opportunities.

However, their ability to seize opportunities is poor.

But despite this, in the 43rd minute of the first half, it was their centre-back Arsene Wengert who snatched the first point from a corner kick and headed the ball into the Borussia Dortmund goal.

Lot, who are in Germany's fourth tier, scored first and scored past Borussia Dortmund's goal, giving Lott a 1-0 lead over Dortmund.

At this moment, the fans in the stadium suddenly broke out into enthusiastic and huge cheers, and the cheers for Dortmund before the game were too high.

Regardless, the Lottes are their home team.

The home side were thrilled to be the first to score ahead of Borussia Dortmund, something they hadn't thought of before.

On the other hand, Dortmund, on the other hand, is like a mournful woman, and he is depressed.

As Bundesliga giants, they failed to score in the first half in a friendly against a fourth-tier team, allowing the opposition to score first.

It's an unprecedented shame.

Not only are they humiliated, but manager Jurgen Klopp is even more angry.

He was determined to win the championship in the new season, but he never dreamed that his Dortmund could not score a goal against the fourth-tier team in 45 minutes in the first half, and was led by the opponent's first goal.

Three minutes later, at the end of the first half, the bearded and aggressive Klopp scolded the starters to the core.

Not only that, but he also changed 8 of the starting 11, leaving only goalkeeper Weidenfeller and the better captain Kyle and forward Nuri Shaheen not replaced, and the other eight were all replaced.

Originally, Klopp didn't want to replace Cheng Hai at halftime, because Cheng Hai, who couldn't play the full 45 minutes in the team's training match, Klopp didn't believe he could finish the second half in this friendly match against Lot.

But the performance of his own players was so poor that Klopp felt the need to put a little pressure and lessons on the likes of Barrios and Zidan.

Therefore, he replaced the team's previous main center Barrios with Lewandowski, a newcomer who was only introduced this summer, and replaced the No. 10 core Zidan with Cheng Hai, a trial player who was not a regular player of the team at all.

This is simply an insult to Qi Dan, and Qi Dan's face is about to turn green.

But it can't be helped, who told him to be terrible in the first half and waste two chances to score in quick succession?

Moreover, his arms can't twist his thighs, and in the face of the strong scumbag uncle, Qi Dan can only estrus on his face, and he doesn't dare to squeak openly at all.

Of course, Fu Hangyi and Cheng Hai can't manage so much!

They only knew that Cheng Hai was about to play and had the opportunity to play in his first friendly match in Dortmund.

Now Fu Hangyi has much more confidence in Cheng Hai than when he first came to Germany.

When he first arrived in Germany, Cheng Hai had not yet shown his superb marksmanship, and it really seemed that there was no possibility of staying at Dortmund.

And now, after this period of intra-team training matches, it can be seen that the attitude of the coaching staff and players towards Cheng Hai has changed dramatically.

Although physical fitness is still Cheng Hai's weakness, the possibility of Cheng Hai staying at Dortmund is already very high.

Therefore, before going on the field, Fu Hangyi hugged Cheng Hai, and then encouraged: "Come on, strive for a goal, and let Klopp give you a contract!" ”

Cheng Hai nodded, wearing the No. 99 jersey and stepping onto the lawn of Frimer Stadium with his teammates.

The number 99 and the appearance of yellow skin and black hair are too conspicuous.

As soon as Cheng Hai stepped on the lawn, he attracted the attention of viewers and reporters.

A reporter asked inexplicably:

"Who is this?"

“cheng-hai? East Asians? ”

"South Korea or Japan?"

"It's not Japanese, is it? That No. 23 Shinji Kagawa is from Japan, and he just transferred. If this Cheng Hai is also Japanese, it is impossible for us not to know. ”

"It's weird!"

Everyone asked each other around, but no one knew where Cheng Hai came from, and they didn't know why he would play for Dortmund.

But there are people among the fans who know.

Because the team occasionally opens the training ground, fans have the opportunity to enter the training ground to watch and ask for autographs and photos from the stars, so some people know the origin of Cheng Hai.

Of course, only a few.

The vast majority of people usually don't have time to chase stars, where to care about Cheng Hai, an Asian who appeared out of nowhere.

In the midst of everyone's discussion, the second half of the game officially began.

Perhaps on the one hand, everyone felt Klopp's anger, and they were ashamed and courageous. On the other hand, the new signings are in a hurry to perform and want to fight for the main position.

So, just three minutes into the second half, in the 48th minute, Lewandowski, a center forward who had just joined this summer, received a pass from forward Nuri Shaheen in the penalty area and kicked the ball into the door of Lot with a volley.

Borussia Dortmund finally equalised, and hundreds of Hornets fans burst into applause and cheers.

Jurgen Klopp also clapped his hands on the sidelines, expressing satisfaction with his team's goal and equaliser at the start of the second half.

Of course, Lewandowski, the newly introduced Polish striker, is even more satisfied.

As for Cheng Hai, he hasn't had a chance to perform yet.

Because this is not a training match, it is an official friendly match, and the intensity of confrontation is much stronger than that of training matches.

In the training match, everyone is still on the same team, they can't tackle, the pull and collision is also very slight, and sometimes they even look at the defense and can't run.

But this friendly is different, and the players of Lott are eager to put on a show and beat Borussia Dortmund.

If you perform well and get the attention of Borussia Dortmund, wouldn't it be a big deal to transfer from the fourth tier to Dortmund in the Bundesliga?

Therefore, the defensive intensity that Cheng Hai faced inside and outside the Lott penalty area was not at all the same as the training match.

These Lott defenders are very aggressive and ferocious defensively, playing this friendly match as if it were a professional league.

Otherwise, they would not have withstood Borussia Dortmund's attack in the first half and scored first.

Although Cheng Hai looks like a bully in height and weight, they are not careless.

In their concept, the players who can join Dortmund are all at the Bundesliga level, even if they are substitutes for No. 99.

Therefore, despite being a trial player, Cheng Hai's defensive attention in the face of Lott in this game is not low, and there is a player running with him at any time and marking him closely.

There are also people to help defend it.

It has been more than 5 minutes since he was on the field, and Cheng Haidu has not yet had a chance to shoot.

Of course, it also had to do with the fact that Dortmund's teammates deliberately did not pass the ball to him.

Because everyone knows that Cheng Hai's physical fitness is not good, he can't pass the ball to him frequently, let him fight and dribble.

The best way is for Cheng Hai to walk around, and then take advantage of the opponent's inattention to suddenly accelerate and run out of space, and then his teammates pass the ball over at the right time, and Cheng Hai shoots directly without stopping.

This can be regarded as a more physical saving style for Cheng Hai, and it can also paralyze the opponent.

After five minutes without a shot on goal, and even only two touches of the ball, Lot's defenders were paralyzed unsurprisingly, focusing on Lewandowski, who scored the equalizer, and Nuri Shahin, who was more active and famous, and inevitably relaxed their marking of Cheng Hai.

As a shadow striker, Cheng Hai doesn't need too many opportunities to hold the ball, anyway, he doesn't have any breakthrough skills, and it is difficult to break through successfully when he gets the ball.

It's undoubtedly better now.

Just let him take advantage of the gap between one or two shots on goal and there is a good chance that it will be a goal.

The teammates also know Cheng Hai's current shooting level through the usual training and team training games, and everyone is willing to pass the ball to Cheng Hai, let him shoot and score, and they get their own assist data.

But that only if Cheng Hai is in a vacant position.

Time passes slowly.

Finally, more than 8 minutes into the second half, in the 53rd minute, the stronger Dortmund played the attack to the front, and formed a great pressure on the right side of the penalty area, forcing the goalkeeper and defenders to lean to the right and go all out to intercept Dortmund's attack.

On the left, around the left corner of the big forbidden area, there was a large gap.

Cheng Hai was walking outside the penalty area, but while watching the attacks of his teammates on the right, he was ready to rush into the box at any time.

But Lot's people didn't notice.

Cheng Hai's previous performance really paralyzed them, and they didn't know Cheng Hai's place in the minds of his teammates at Dortmund.

After training together during this period, the Dortmund players have completely strengthened Cheng Hai's confidence in shooting.

They all believe that as long as they hand the ball to Cheng Hai, as long as he gets a chance to shoot in the penalty area, Cheng Hai, who is so superb that his shooting skills can be called terrifying, will have a high probability of scoring goals.