Chapter 123: Goal Again
For Cheng Hai, although the defense of the two people is not as high as the success rate of the breakthrough, it is certainly much higher than the others.
Because of his full value of dribbling, body, speed, and breakthrough skills, his ability to control the ball in the narrow space of the front court is much higher than that of other players.
Therefore, when Dortmund pulled Arsenal's defense apart through a series of team cooperation, and finally sent the ball to the foot of Cheng Hai on the right side of the front of the penalty area, Cheng Hai first used perfect stopping skills to make a stop-and-wipe stop pass, and passed the pressure of the back waist to grab Shanda Song.
Although Song was not completely broken away by Cheng Hai, with his strong physique, Cheng Hai still stuck the delivery behind him and could not pose a threat to the ball at his feet.
After breaking through the pressure of Shanda Song, Cheng Hai dribbled the ball to the line of the penalty area and faced Arsenal central defender Koscielny in the big penalty area.
Koscielny knew that there was no one behind him, and the other teammates had just been pulled apart by the team cooperation of Shinji Kagawa, Gotze and Lewandowski, and his closest teammates were still four or five meters away.
Therefore, Koscielny did not dare to rush up like the pressure of Song.
He is ready to retreat and block the position, as long as he blocks Cheng Hai's breakthrough and shooting route, and gives the other teammates on the side a second or two, they can rush over to form a siege against Cheng Hai and defuse Cheng Hai's attack.
However, Cheng Hai didn't give him the space and time to retreat slowly.
After breaking through the pressure, Cheng Hai faced Koscielny and used a perfect magic level cycling.
Although Koscielny wanted to delay Cheng Hai's attack and wait for the support of his teammates, in the face of Cheng Hai's unusually skilled and fake bicycle pedaling, Koscielny couldn't tell which time Cheng Hai's bicycle was real and which time was fake, and could only rely on his body instinct to follow Cheng Hai's feints to defend.
But apparently, his defense failed.
Cheng Hai's bicycle pedaling was indeed too perfect, he couldn't tell it at all, Cheng Hai stepped on the two-legged bicycle, and Koscielny involuntarily shifted his center of gravity, revealing space for Cheng Hai to shoot.
In addition, he had already entered the penalty area, and the pressure behind him was a bogey, and he didn't dare to use all his strength to push Cheng Hai, afraid that Cheng Hai would fall and be shown a yellow card + penalty by the referee.
Therefore, after Koscielny was shaken by Cheng Hai's perfect bicycle and lost his center of gravity and exposed the neutral, the rest of the matter was simple.
When Koscielny's center of gravity involuntarily shifted to the left, Cheng Hai's feint turned into a real move, and he flicked the ball to the right to dodge a huge gap.
Then, before Koscielny threw his entire body out and wanted to fly to block the gun's hole, Cheng Hai had already completed the shot.
Koscielny's flying shovel was too late.
Even if he hurriedly shot in the penalty area after connecting two people, Cheng Hai's full value of shooting power and shooting skills, the shot was perfect in terms of speed and angle.
Originally, goalkeeper Szczesny was standing in the near corner and defending the near goal, but Cheng Hai still calmly hit a far corner in such a race against time.
The ball flew past Koscielny's toe in front of the tackle, evaded goalkeeper Szczesny's fingers and flew into the far post against the far post.
In the 26th minute, Cheng Hai opened the scoring and scored his first goal in the Champions League, which also helped Dortmund take a 1-0 lead at home.
More than 80,000 people suddenly erupted in earth-shattering applause, cheers and shouts, and countless people cheered and celebrated Cheng Hai's goal.
In fact, when Cheng Hai and his teammates broke up Arsenal's defense through a series of team cooperation outside the penalty area, and finally sent the ball to Cheng Hai's feet by Shinji Kagawa, the commentator of CCTV-5 was already a little excited to stand up.
He was eagerly looking forward to Cheng Hai breaking through the penalty area with the ball, and then hitting the ball in.
As a result, Cheng Hai did not disappoint him, and sure enough, he successfully broke through the defense of Shan Da Song with the ball, and shook off the last central defender, Koscielny, to get a shot space, and then decisively shot and hit the far corner.
When he saw the ball avoid the goalkeeper's ten fingers and fly into the goal against the post, the on-site commentator of CCTV-5 roared excitedly with all his strength:
"The ball went in, it went in, it went ......"
"First Champions League goal!"
"Cheng Hai scored the first official goal of a Chinese player in the Champions League!"
At the same time, Cheng Hai also became the first Chinese player to start and score in the Champions League!"
"Cheng Hai's annual total goal record has also improved to 93 goals, and he is getting closer and closer to the 100-goal mark!"
"Listen to the huge shouts at the scene, more than 80,000 Hornets fans at Westfalen Stadium are shouting Cheng Hai's name in unison and bowing to him!"
"Cheng Hai is the pride of our country!"
Not to be outdone, the other commentators shouted out to their TV viewers the significance of the ball.
This is Cheng Hai's first goal in the Champions League, marking Cheng Hai's beginning to attack the Champions League record.
Although this is only Cheng Hai's first Champions League goal, with Cheng Hai's goal efficiency, everyone said that various Champions League records have become precarious, and it is not clear that Cheng Hai will be broken one day.
In addition, the annual total goal record was refreshed again, and it also gave everyone a lot of topics to discuss and hotly discussed.
In the heated discussion of the commentators and fans, Cheng Hai himself was also very excited and had a fierce celebration with his teammates.
As many commentators have said, it was his first Champions League game, his first goal, and it came against Premier League giants Arsenal.
You know what you're doing.
As you level up, it gets harder and harder to level up.
The experience reward of the Champions League will be much higher than that of the Bundesliga and the German Cup, each goal is 100,000 experience, and the same as the World Preliminaries, a goal should top the Bundesliga to score more than three goals, which is very rich.
In addition, he himself knows that he is the first Chinese player to score in the Champions League, and the annual total goal record has been refreshed again, so Cheng Hai also celebrated warmly.
After the celebration ended and the game resumed, Arsenal had more scruples about Cheng Hai, while Dortmund's side suddenly boosted morale and became more aggressive because of Cheng Hai's goal and lead.
Sometimes, however, dominating the game doesn't mean scoring goals.
Under Arsenal's tight defense, Dortmund did not score a second goal until the end of the first half.
Instead, Arsenal played a quick counter-attack in the 42nd minute, and finally Arshavin assisted Van Persie to score the equaliser, and Arsenal equalised. After one minute of stoppage time, the two sides went into the break with a 1-1 scoreline.
After a 15-minute break, the two sides changed sides and fought again.
After the adjustment at halftime, Arsenal did not rush to attack in the second half, but first solidified the defense, and then carried out occasional counterattacks on the basis of not allowing Cheng Hai to score easily.
Cheng Hai's threat is too great.
Moreover, it is an away game, and a draw is not a bad result for Arsenal, they can accept it.
Therefore, in the second half, Dortmund continued to attack around Arsenal, but failed to score.
Because Arsenal's defense of Cheng Hai was too tight, it was difficult for Cheng Hai to even want to shoot from outside the penalty area.
However, Dortmund is not Cheng Hai's team alone.
Even if Cheng Hai can't score goals, there are still other players. And with Cheng Hai attracting most of the defensive attention, there are not many opportunities for other players to attack and shoot on goal.
Finally, after wasting several chances, in the 60th minute, Dortmund scored another goal for Dortmund through Mario Gotze's cross from the side and Lewandowski in the middle.
Borussia Dortmund regained a 2-1 lead.
For Arsenal, a draw is acceptable, but a loss is not.
Since it's all about losing anyway, it's better to fight it.
Therefore, after Lewandowski's goal to give Dortmund the lead, Arsenal, who were one side behind, were finally forced to step up their attack.
But now, they haven't been able to play as smoothly as in the first half.
The beauty of Arsenal's football is beautiful, but it's not easy to win and win the title, and it always feels a little bit less meaningful.
Now, when they are obsessed with using their skills and team to break down Dortmund's defence and goal, it is inevitable that they will invest a lot of troops.
This is not comparable to a single soldier breakthrough force like Cheng Hai, who can penetrate the opponent's defense line alone.
Arsenal, which places too much emphasis on passing and running coordination, not only has to invest a lot of midfield forces to participate in the attack, but also makes mistakes if they pass too much.
So, in the 69th minute, less than ten minutes after the last Lewandowski goal, Arsenal's team really made a passing error, and was cut off by captain Sebastian Kyle, and then sent the ball to Arsenal's back with a long pass in the air.
Because it was Arsenal's team attacking just now, the overall formation was pressed quite high, and only three defenders were left in the backfield, one of whom was defending Lewandowski.
There were only two defenders in front of Cheng Hai, and they were all absentmindedly stretching their necks to watch the attacks of their teammates in the front court just now, and they seemed to want to participate in the assist at any time.
As a result, they were jointly beaten by Cheng Hai and Kyle against offside.
Cheng Hai's running, speed, and physique allowed him to complete the overtaking of the backline composed of two defenders on the other side after Kyle completed the pass, and the anti-offside position was successful.
The rest is simple.
Cheng Hai used his perfect stopping technique to unload Kyle's long ball in the air in the front, and then dribbled the ball to the outside of the penalty area, facing the attacking goalkeeper Szczesny to score a goal, and at the same time scored a brace himself, and extended Dortmund's lead to 3-1.