Chapter 125: Unprecedented Extreme Defense

Borussia Dortmund's 4-3 win at Marseille was the most exciting game of the Champions League.

Not only did he score more goals, but the key was that Cheng Hai scored three goals, raising his 2011 annual total goal record to 99 goals, just one goal away from reaching the annual 100-goal mark.

Therefore, after the game, countless media around the world reported on the game, focusing on Cheng Hai's annual record of 99 goals.

"The Champions League group stage staged a goal battle, Dortmund defeated Marseille 4-3 away to win two consecutive victories! 》

"Cheng Hai scored a hat trick to lead Dortmund to beat Marseille 4-3 away, and the total number of goals for the year reached 99! 》

"99 balls of the year, Cheng Hai is infinitely approaching the 100 balls mark of the year!" 》

"99 goals in 2011, Cheng Hai's annual goals are approaching 100, maybe the next game will break through the annual 100 goals mark!" 》

99 goals of the year, the next game, let's witness the most incredible miracle in world football! 》

Indeed, for anyone with football knowledge, scoring 100 professional goals in one year is an absolute miracle.

Before Gerd Müller, it was not even imagined that anyone could score 85 goals a year, let alone 100.

Even though Gerd Müller set a world record of 85 goals in 1972, no one has surpassed his world record for so many years.

Therefore, in the minds of many, Gerd Müller's 85 goals a year is already the limit of what a footballer can score in a year.

Unexpectedly, now Cheng Hai has come out of nowhere, not only breaking Gerd Muller's annual world record of 85 goals, but also raising the record to 99 goals, which is about to break the triple-digit mark.

It's a suffocating number.

With that number and reports comes the overcrowding for Dortmund's next game.

Whether it is the fans at the scene or the spectators watching the live broadcast in front of the TV sets of various countries, waiting for Cheng Hai to create the triple digit miracle of the annual goal, the number is so large that it exceeds any previous league game in the Bundesliga.

For the Chinese, the time for this game was just right, at 15:30 local time on October 1, 2011, which is 21:30 Beijing time.

It is not only the National Day holiday, but also the time of the evening. Not only are there National Day celebrations during the day, but after participating in the daytime activities, you can also sit in front of the TV and watch the live broadcast at night.

And you don't have to stay up late in the early hours of the morning.

Therefore, in this supposed ordinary Bundesliga, the viewership of Huaguo is simply close to the Asian Cup final, which is terrifying.

Similarly, at the scene, the Westfaren Stadium was also overcrowded, not only was the stadium full of spectators, but even outside the stadium, there were twenty or thirty thousand people who were unable to enter the door, and they couldn't buy scalper tickets at a high price.

Among them, there are many Cheng Hai fans who have traveled from all over the world and want to witness the history at the scene, among which the most overseas Chinese are Chinese.

But there is no ticket to die, and there is no way, and in the end, you can only watch the game that Cheng Hai may break through the 100-goal mark at close range through the big screen in the square outside the stadium or the live TV broadcast in the bar.

At 15:30 p.m. on October 1, 2011, local time in Germany, in the cheers of more than 80,000 fans at the Westfalen Stadium, with the referee's whistle, the 8th round of the 2011/2012 Bundesliga season Dortmund hosted the promoted Augsburg match officially began.

As a promoted horse, Augsburg is very weak, and has not tasted a win in the previous seven league rounds, only achieving 4 draws and 3 losses.

Facing Borussia Dortmund, the quadruple winner of the year, at the terrifying Westfaren Stadium, no one believed that Augsburg could win.

Not to mention winning, it is impossible to even draw, and their greatest pursuit may be to prevent Cheng Hai from breaking the annual 100-goal mark on them and becoming a tragedy in the background.

Even with this goal, few people believe they can achieve it.

Although Mainz did a clean sheet against Cheng Hai in the last round of the league and didn't even give Cheng Hai an assist, Mainz can do it, which does not mean that Augsburg can also do it.

What's more, Mainz played at home in the last game, and Cheng Hai also flew back to Asia in a very short time to play a match in Austria and Ya Qualifiers, which was not in good shape and was kept clean by Mainz.

But today's game is Dortmund's home stadium, and Cheng Hai has not flown back to Asia to play the national team, and there is no problem with his state.

Therefore, this is also the reason why countless media and fans around the world have paid attention to Cheng Hai and believe that Cheng Hai has a great chance of completing the annual 100-goal miracle in this game.

Of course, no matter whether Cheng Hai can do it or not, no one will miss a chance to witness the record with their own eyes. If Cheng Hai can't do it in this game, everyone will continue to follow and pay attention to the next game.

It was a terrible game for Augsburg.

As a promoted team, although everyone knows that the Bundesliga is difficult, their first target this season is definitely relegation.

However, the first 7 rounds of the league only achieved 4 draws and 3 losses, and this game is against Dortmund away, which is really bad enough.

As a result, this game also attracted the attention of the world because Cheng Hai may break the annual 100-goal mark, which can be called the world's attention.

If Cheng Hai is allowed to step on their corpses to complete the miracle of the annual 100-goal mark, it will not only be Cheng Hai's own glory, but also the shame that they have become a background board and have been repeatedly whipped by the media and fans around the world.

Therefore, knowing that it would be difficult to score points in this game, Augsburg, as expected by the media, put on a 532 formation to defend to the death.

The 532 in this is not two forwards, but two forwards + three defensive backs + five defenders.

Augsburg completely gave up the attack, and defended with a few goals as the goal, and the target of the strict defense was Cheng Hai.

Losing is a matter of obviousness, and they don't care how many goals they lose, anyway, their goal is to stare Cheng Hai to death, not to let Cheng Hai score a goal to break the annual 100-goal mark, and turn them into the background emperor of the world's media scrambling to report.

As for whether the other Dortmund players got a chance or whether they took the opportunity to score, they didn't care at all.

Encountering such a team, even with Cheng Hai's ability, he is helpless.

In ordinary games, being closely marked by two or three people on the other side is already a heavy defense.

As a result, Augsburg did a better job in this game, no matter where Cheng Hai ran, at least three players wrapped him closely, even if he didn't have the ball at his feet.

Unless he retreats to his own half.

When there is no ball, there are three people who defend him tightly, and after getting the ball, he will be surrounded by four or five people on the other side, and other defenders and goalkeepers are also staring at him.

Even if Cheng Hai gets the occasional shot through his physique and speed, the goalkeeper who focuses entirely on him won't give him any chance to score.

The result was that Dortmund was already 2-0 up half an hour into the game, but the two goals had nothing to do with Cheng Hai, Gundogan and Gotze scored respectively.

When the opponent didn't care about other Dortmund players and didn't care about conceding the ball, Cheng Hai was indeed frozen by Augsburg's strict defense, and couldn't find a chance to score a goal.

This made the fans and spectators in the stands and in front of the TV who were expecting Cheng Hai to break the annual 100-goal mark quite angry, and every time Cheng Hai was besieged, it would cause huge boos from tens of thousands of fans at the scene.

Obviously, Augsburg's helpless way of playing football has caused serious dissatisfaction among fans.

However, the Augsburg players on the field were indifferent.

They didn't want to win, they couldn't win.

Since this is the case, it is better to devote all your energy to defending Cheng Hai, and not letting Cheng Hai score goals on them and turning them into the background emperor of Cheng Hai's annual 100-goal mark is the greatest success.

Under the opponent's unprecedented, extreme defensive strategy, no matter how many skills Cheng Hai has, no matter how perfect his skills are, he will not be able to do it.

He's not a robot either.

It wasn't until the 32nd minute of the first half that Cheng Hai hit the first threatening shot within the goal frame, and it was a long-range shot from outside the penalty area.

Because Cheng Hai had no chance to shoot with the ball himself, this shot was deliberately passed to Cheng Hai by Gundogan, and Cheng Hai hurriedly got up and shot before the opponent's two players destroyed it.

Even so, the shot with good power, speed and angle was saved by Augsburg's goalkeeper Simone Jench.

Because Yanqi didn't care about Gundogan and other players at all, and kept paying attention to Cheng Hai, Cheng Hai's shot completely lost its suddenness.

Moreover, Cheng Hai did not draw arc skills, and he couldn't make deceptive arc shots, and it was easy for the goalkeeper to grasp the flight path of the ball.

This long-range shot of good quality was the first time that Simon Yanqi reacted and saved it from the bottom line because of these factors.

As for the next corner kick, it turned out that Cheng Hai could still head the goal by running and grabbing points in the game, but in the game against Augsburg, when he encountered a corner kick, four or five people surrounded Cheng Hai, so that he couldn't run.

Not to mention that his teammates don't have the skills to send the ball just above his head, even if it is sent to the top of his head, under the pull of several people on the other side, it is difficult for Cheng Hai to jump to the highest point to reach the ball for a header.

Such a result made Cheng Hai almost helpless throughout the first half, and there were few chances to shoot on goal.

Instead, the rest of Borussia Dortmund's players took advantage of Augsburg's deliberate negligence to score a full four goals to give them a 4-0 lead at half-time.

And the miracle of Cheng Hai's annual 100-goal miracle that the media and fans have been waiting for has still not arrived.