On April 13, in the 29th round of the Bundesliga, Dortmund played away against Fürth.

After 90 minutes, the score on the big screen was 1-6, and Dortmund won by five goals away from home, Cheng Hai staged a big four, Gundogan scored a brace, and Dortmund continued to top the Bundesliga standings with an unbeaten record.

However, Bayern Munich, who strengthened the squad in the summer transfer period, still did not fall behind, and won the same round of games as their opponents, and continued to bite Dortmund in the standings.

Three days later, on 16 April, Dortmund hosted their German Cup semi-final against Wolfsburg at their home stadium, the Westphalen Arena.

Wolfsburg, nicknamed Wolfsburg, did not play in Europe this season due to poor results last season.

This season, the league has been played so far, Wolfsburg is in the middle of the table again, let alone competing for the championship, and it is difficult to even qualify for European competition this season.

As a traditional powerhouse in the Bundesliga, the performance of these two seasons has been rather disappointing. Therefore, the German Cup became a lifesaver for them.

They have already reached the semi-finals, only need to win two more games to win the title, and can participate in next season's Europa League as the winner of the German Cup.

Therefore, even in the face of the new universe team Dortmund led by Cheng Hai, and even at the Westfaren Stadium, which is known as the most terrifying home stadium in Europe, Wolfsburg still has the heart to fight with Dortmund and grab the opportunity to enter the final.

Of course, to fight Dortmund, it is absolutely impossible to attack, and Cheng Hai's counterattack can collapse the defense of any team in this world.

Wolfsburg could only put up a 532 formation to defend to the death, trying to drag the game into a penalty shoot-out opportunity.

The 2 in 532 is not the 2 strikers in the formation that everyone is usually familiar with, but the two midfielders.

3, it is 3 defensive midfielders.

In other words, in order to defend to the end, Wolfsburg did not play forward at all in this game, but used the configuration of 3 central defenders, 3 midfielders, and 2 defensive midfielders, wanting to drag the 0-0 score into a penalty shootout.

Only then will they have the slightest chance of beating Borussia Dortmund and advancing to the final. Otherwise, a normal game would never have been able to play Dortmund led by Cheng Hai.

Wolfsburg, who didn't even have a striker, did execute the tactics of putting the bus to the extreme, making it difficult for Cheng Hai to perform.

Because there are no strikers, not only three of the five midfielders are full-time defensive midfielders, but even the two forwards are weak in attack and defense, and good at defense.

Not to mention the other Dortmund players, it is difficult to bring the ball into or pass into the danger zone of 30 meters in the goal, except for lifting the ball high into the Wolfsburg penalty area.

Even with Cheng Hai's dribbling breakthrough ability, he can encounter three or four full-time defensive players every time he advances, so he can't perform.

It's not that they didn't try to shoot from a distance, but the players of Wolfsburg are all good at defending, even if they can't stop Cheng Hai's shot, they are also very experienced in interfering with their side, so that Cheng Hai's three long-range shots in the half time failed to work.

There were also free-kicks, a bit of luck, one of which hit the crossbar and bounced back into the box to be saved by the goalkeeper, resulting in a 0-0 score at the end of the first half.

This is a relatively rare scene for Borussia Dortmund.

It also shows that football is indeed a team sport of 11 people, and in the case of all the opponent's defensive players playing the bus, even with Cheng Hai's strength, he cannot break through the opponent's defense.

However, Wolfsburg's failure to concede a goal in the first half also accounted for a lot of luck. Therefore, at half-time, the Wolfsburg players did not have the ecstasy of holding the goal.

On the one hand, the game is not over yet, and on the other hand, because Dortmund are so strong, they didn't concede a goal in the first half and it was just luck.

If the second half didn't have the luck of the first half, it would have been easy to concede, so it's really not worth celebrating.

Of course, Borussia Dortmund's players weren't happy either. In the case of Cheng Hai's start, the experience of not scoring a goal in the first half for 45 minutes is also difficult for everyone to encounter.

Fortunately, Wolfsburg completely abandoned the strikers, and there was not even a counterattack in the first half, so everyone didn't have to worry about their goals, just continue to attack.

Even if they don't score in the second half and there are still 30 minutes of extra time, Dortmund's chances of scoring to advance to the final are still much higher than Wolfsburg's.

However, in terms of specific tactics, Dortmund still need to change.

With Wolfsburg heavily defended in the first half, Cheng Hai mainly retreated to the outside of the box to shoot from a distance or use his dribbling to break through to make a free kick.

But because the opponent was full of defensive players and was very professional in defense, even outside the penalty area, Cheng Hai was not given too many opportunities, so Klopp adjusted the tactics in the second half, allowing Cheng Hai and Lewandowski to go to the penalty area together to fight for the header.

Although Cheng Hai's height is not the tallest on the field, his physique, running, bounce, etc., are indeed the best on the field.

In the case of a ground attack that cannot score, it can only try to attack from the air. Even if the opponent piles up too many people in the penalty area, it is better to hoist the ball into the penalty area than not even to get in the penalty area.

Even if you can't score a goal, it may cause an own goal in the panic of the opponent.

After a fifteen-minute break, the second half of the game officially began.

VfL Wolfsburg, as a passive side, had no choice but to continue the tactics of the first half, hoping to continue to keep a clean sheet against Dortmund and not allow the Hornets to score.

But Dortmund showed a different tactic from the first half, Cheng Hai and Lewandowski entered the penalty area, and other players began to hang the ball into the penalty area from the side, allowing Cheng Hai and Lewandowski to compete for the top.

In the first half, because Cheng Hai withdrew from the penalty area to play a long shot, Lewandowski was alone in the penalty area without cover, and the Wolfsburg defenders could easily mark him off, almost giving him any threatening opportunities.

But when the second half started, things were different.

On the one hand, Cheng Hai is much more dangerous in the box than Lewandowski. In addition to being slightly shorter than Lewandowski in height, Cheng Hai's physique, bounce, running, point grabbing, heading skills and other aspects of physical and technical skills are much better than Lewandowski.

Coupled with the reason of fame, once Cheng Hai entered the penalty area, the opposing defenders were suddenly a little frightened, and Cheng Hai was almost a swarm of people.

That gave Lewandowski a chance.

In the 57th minute, Lewandowski had a good chance to score.

The ball that Royce hoisted into the penalty area on the side was grabbed by Cheng Hai to the first point, but he couldn't shake his head to attack the goal under the pull and collision of several people on the other side, so Cheng Hai ferried the ball to Lewandowski in the small penalty area.

It's a pity that Lewandowski volleyed the ball high and couldn't score.

But this attack made the Dortmund players see the direction, and everyone strengthened the attack of this routine in the next game: the ball from the side, Cheng Hai's header ferry, and Lewandowski's goal grab.

Although under the strict defense of the Wolfsburg defenders, neither Cheng Hai nor Lewandowski had many chances to succeed in grabbing points, but in general, the threat was higher than in the first half, and the frequency of creating danger was also higher than in the first half.

After a couple of more failures, Dortmund finally scored in the 83rd minute, not long before the end of 90 minutes of regular time.

And the goal this time was neither Cheng Hai who fought for the header, nor Lewandowski, who had been cooperating with Cheng Hai in the penalty area.

Because the two of them have played a lot of Cheng Hai's routine of competing for the header and Lewandowski grabbing the point to shoot, the players of Wolfsburg are familiar with it, even if Cheng Hai attracts firepower, Lewandowski is still guarded to death.

On the contrary, Gundogan, who was plugged in the back row, was in a short gap.

Cheng Hai's full value of creativity was naturally not given in vain, and almost without consideration, Cheng Hai gave up the plan to continue to ferry the ball to Lewandowski, and instead ferried the ball to Gundogan who was inserted in the back row.

Gundogan did not disappoint Cheng Hai either.

In the case that Cheng Hai and Lewandowski attracted most of the defenders in the penalty area, Gundogan, who was inserted in the back row, met the ball ferried by Cheng Hai, did not stop the ball to adjust, and directly volleyed, and played a very high-quality world wave without being marked.

This volley is not only powerful and fast, but also hits a very tricky angle.

Although goalkeeper Benaglio reacted to the first save, the power of Gundogan's shot was too great, the speed was too fast, and the angle was very tricky, causing Benaglio to not even touch the shadow of the ball, and watched in despair in the air as the ball grazed the post and flew into the goal.

In the 83rd minute of the game, Dortmund finally led Wolfsburg 1-0 with Cheng Hai's header and Gundogan's volley when Wolfsburg did not have a striker and all the players were on the bus.

In the German Cup, which was decided by a single game, the situation on the field was suddenly reversed, and Dortmund became the side that had a good time, and it was time to change to Wolfsburg in a hurry.

After the game resumed, Dortmund did not press the attack aggressively, but retreated to their own half, and Wolfsburg, who were behind the score, had to make substitutions and adjustments, replacing two strikers in a row to make a last ditch.

However, the consequence of the whole Wolfsburg team pressing the offense is naturally that there are a lot of gaps left in the backfield, and Cheng Hai is no longer given almost no room to play as before.

Before the attacking Wolfsburg team scored an equalizer, in the 88th minute, Gundogan broke the ball at the back and passed diagonally to the side, Mario Gotze received the ball, dribbled the ball on the side, and Mi Hai also cut in at the fastest speed in the middle.

With Wolves pressing aggressively to try to equalize, there were not many people who could be used to stop Dortmund's counterattack, and Gundogan's break and pass were too fast, Wolfsburg didn't have time to react, and the ball was passed to the flank, giving Gotze a large space to dribble forward.

Although Cheng Hai followed up in the middle and was a huge threat, he couldn't ignore Gotze with the ball, and could only assign a guard to intercept Gotze, and there was only one defender left in the middle who could mark Cheng Hai in the end.

As for the others, they all attacked just now, and before they had time to return to the defense at this time, they were still eating ashes behind Cheng Hai's fart!

In the case of Cheng Hai and Mario Gotze playing two-on-two, the next thing is simple.

When Gotze dribbled the ball to the level of the line of the big penalty area, after seeing that Cheng Hai was about to rush into the penalty area, he dodged a gap through the change of rhythm and crossed.

Wolfsburg defender Naldo and Cheng Hai rushed into the penalty area together, seeing that they had fallen behind in terms of physique, bounce, and ability to grab points, this ball was likely to be grabbed by Cheng Hai and form a header to attack the goal, so he was ruthless, and directly reached out and grabbed Cheng Hai's clothes, and pulled Cheng Hai, who was about to jump.

This obvious pull not only made Cheng Hai unable to jump, but also made Cheng Hai run over his head under inertia, and it was unrealistic to jump up and hit the goal with a header.

The referee put the whistle in his mouth and seemed to be about to blow for a foul on Naldo.

Naldo himself also understands how obvious his action is just now, and when he made this action, he knew that he could not escape the punishment of yellow card + penalty, and it was even possible to be directly shown a red card.

Therefore, after pulling Cheng Hai so that he couldn't jump, he let go of his hand and thought that this defensive task was over.

Unexpectedly, Cheng Hai hadn't given up yet.

If he was pulled by Naldo all the time, then Cheng Hai couldn't do anything, but now that Naldo let go of his hand, Cheng Hai didn't want to give up, he still had to try.

I saw Cheng Hai turn around and jump directly when he ran over his head, and a stretched inverted volley shot kicked the ball that was about to fly towards the goal.

This shot was relatively hasty, so he didn't actually play a good angle, but goalkeeper Benaglio also thought that the referee was going to blow his teammate Naldo for a foul, and he was not prepared for Cheng Hai's shot, so he was slow to save and react, and finally missed the ball by a fraction of a second.

In the 88th minute, Dortmund scored a beautiful inverted shot with the assist of Mario Gotze in the counterattack, extending the score to 2-0.

But Naldo still did not escape punishment.

The referee first blew the whistle for Cheng Hai's goal, and then ran to Naldo and showed him a yellow card as punishment for his strong pull on Cheng Hai in the penalty area just now.

2-0 in the 88th minute, Cheng Hai celebrated with his teammates for a while, and Klopp made another substitution to delay time......

Wolfsburg is no longer able to recover.

And so it is.

In the final minutes of the attack, Wolfsburg pressed the attack with almost completely undefended players, but still failed to score a single goal.

After three minutes of stoppage time, the referee blew the full-time whistle as Borussia Dortmund beat Wolfsburg 2-0 in the semi-finals to reach the final of the 2012/2013 German Cup.

The match caused a lot of discussion after the game, as Dortmund's victory was not as easy as it seemed on the scoreline.

If we are unlucky, Dortmund may really be dragged into extra time or even a penalty shootout by Wolfsburg.

After the game, the media and fans analysed Wolfsburg's tactics, and most people thought that Wolfsburg's tactics had a chance of success, but they were not very lucky.

Dortmund has Cheng Hai, a pervert with strong breakthroughs, excellent marksmanship, and physical inability, which is almost equivalent to fighting one or two more than the opponent.

The usual tactics are too bad to fight with Dortmund, even if all the players retreat, because the strikers are only one more person when they retreat, and the defensive skills and experience are still not good.

Only by completely abandoning the strikers and piling up enough professional defenders at the back can there be a slight possibility of a draw for Dortmund.

Some teams have learned from Wolfsburg and are already on the move.

Especially those opponents in the league, they don't need to beat Borussia Dortmund, as long as they draw and get a point, they win.

Even if you lose, it's acceptable to only concede two goals like Wolfsburg and lose a little less goal difference.

Borussia Dortmund themselves were aware of the adverse effects of the game and began to strengthen their training in training against the opponent's real swing tactics.

The next day, another German Cup semi-final came to an end, with Stuttgart beating Freiburg 2-1 to meet Borussia Dortmund.

The final between the two sides will be held on June 1, when the Bundesliga and Champions League matches will be over, so the German Cup final will also be Dortmund's last game of the season.