Chapter 94: 20 Goals
Dortmund's championship celebration continued from the stadium to the city, from the afternoon to the early hours of the morning, allowing the players and fans to vent some of their enthusiasm for winning the championship.
On the club side, there was also a celebration banquet the next day, and the players had a day off and could bring their families to attend.
Cheng Hai's parents were not around, so he brought his agent Baker to attend.
Now Cheng Hai is no longer a nobody.
He was the top scorer who led the team to win the Bundesliga title four rounds ahead of schedule as the team's top scorer.
The 100 million euros liquidated damages agreed upon at the time of the previous contract renewal should be manageable for a year or two in the eyes of Dortmund's top management, right?
As a result, I didn't expect that before the season ended, Cheng Hai looked like he might be worth more than that.
A super scorer who won the Bundesliga championship as the first scorer at the age of 18, and ranked first in the Bundesliga scorer list, the European Golden Boot Award, and the League Cup scorer list, not to mention talent and potential, the current goal efficiency alone seems to be higher than that of Ronaldo with 94 million.
If 100 million euros Dortmund are willing to let go, there are definitely clubs willing to buy.
Fortunately, the team kept an eye on it, limiting the liquidated damages clause to three seasons before it could take effect.
Otherwise, someone will forcibly take Cheng Hai away with liquidated damages this summer.
The club's management asked Cheng Hai to bring Baker to the celebration banquet, and also continued to communicate to see if he could re-sign the contract.
It's a pity that this time Cheng Hai and Baker reached a consensus and only accepted a salary increase and did not accept the change in liquidated damages terms.
It is estimated that in the end, most of them broke up unhappily.
But no matter what, it should be talked about or it has to be discussed, isn't this what the broker does?
For Cheng Hai himself, this early victory allowed him to add another heavyweight championship to his qualifications, making him more worthy of his current world-famous reputation in terms of honor.
This shows that Cheng Hai can not only score goals and fight for personal honors for himself, but also bring team honor to the team.
Now Cheng Hai has two heavyweight championships, the Asian Cup and the Bundesliga championship, and the gold medal in the Asian Games is also the icing on the cake.
If the UEFA Cup can also be won and the double is won, then this first season in football can be regarded as a real success.
I'm afraid it's hard to find a few young players who can win so many titles in their first season in the top flight.
Of course, if you continue to get the Bundesliga Golden Boot, the Bundesliga Best Player, the European Golden Boot, the League Cup Best Player, the League Cup Golden Boot, etc., in terms of personal honors, then Cheng Hai will be considered a super consummation, whether it is individual or team honors, it is really no joke to chase superstars like Ronaldo.
In any case, now the super heavy honor of the Bundesliga championship is in hand.
As a result, Cheng Hai completed Task 3 about the Bundesliga championship and received a task reward of 50 skill points.
These 50 skill points Cheng Hai didn't use them, he stayed there, and he was going to use them when he opened other new skills later, and these skills that were not filled up at the moment didn't have much effect on him as a striker, so there was no need to waste skill points.
With the league already in the title, Dortmund can turn their attention to the UEFA Cup.
On April 23, in the 31st round of the Bundesliga, Dortmund played Borussia Mönchengladbach away, and Klopp sent most of the substitutes, because the next game was the first leg of Dortmund's home match against Braga in the UEFA Cup semi-finals.
However, Cheng Hai still started this league, and his teammates also gave Cheng Hai a lot of assists.
Because everyone wants to help Cheng Hai score goals in the league and compete with Ronaldo for the European Golden Boot Award.
And Cheng Hai only has four league games, but Ronaldo still has six, and Cheng Hai must have a higher goal efficiency.
Therefore, despite Borussia Mönchengladbach's explosive fighting power at home, a total of 2 goals were scored.
But Dortmund, especially Cheng Hai, went in more.
Cheng Hai scored another hat-trick in this game and provided an assist for his team-mates to help Borussia Dortmund win 4-2 at Borussia Mönchengladbach, taking Cheng Hai's league goal tally to 36.
At this time, suddenly some media sent out such a set of data:
In the 1971/1972 season, bomber Gerd Müller scored a total of 40 league goals in that season, which remains the highest single-season goal record in the Bundesliga.
Cheng Hai's 36 goals this season are still four goals short of Gerd Muller's 40-goal record, and with three rounds left in this season's Bundesliga, Cheng Hai has every chance of creating a miracle and breaking Gerd Muller's record that has been in the dust for 39 years.
Also in the 1971/1972 season, Gerd Müller scored a total of 67 goals in 48 games for Bayern Munich, an average of 1.4 goals per game.
This is also the record for the highest individual total goals scored by a club in a single season in Europe's top five leagues.
In the 2010/2011 season of Dortmund, Cheng Hai made a total of 39 appearances and scored 58 goals, with an average goal efficiency of 1.5 per game, which is higher than Gerd Muller.
Cheng Hai has at least three league games and two League Cup semi-finals left this season, for a total of five games.
Once the League Cup reaches the final, Cheng Hai will have six games to play.
So, does he have any chance of breaking Gerd Muller's single-season club record of 67 goals set in 1971/1972?
At the same time, Cheng Hai has scored a total of 51 goals since January 1, 2011, breaking the 50-goal mark, counting the goals scored by the club and the national team.
You know, the first half of 2011 is not over yet!
The outlet also listed the annual record of 85 goals set by Gerd Muller in 1972. In the past, everyone thought that Gerd Muller's annual 85 goals were a miracle, let alone surpassing, and it was difficult to connect closely, so they rarely mentioned it.
Unexpectedly, now there is such a pervert as Cheng Hai, it is only April this year, and his total goals have reached 51.
It seems that Gerd Muller's annual total goal record of 85 goals is also likely to be broken by Cheng Hai!
All over the world, Gerd Müller is a football monument to look up to.
He is the greatest scorer in the history of world football, having won all the group competitions he has competed in, the individual Ballon d'Or and the Golden Boot and goal records in all competitions throughout his career. His attacking prowess is at its peak, and his storied career has been filled with epic records one after another, each of which will be admired and surpassed by future generations of footballers. (Note: This paragraph is quoted from Baidu Encyclopedia)
The previous World Cup record was Gerd Muller's 14 goals, which was only surpassed by Ronaldo in 2006 with 15 goals.
But Gerd Muller's 14 goals took only 13 games in two World Cups, while Ronaldo surpassed the record in 19 games in three World Cups, and he simply can't compare with Gerd Muller in terms of efficiency.
In the German national team, Gerd Müller has scored 68 goals in 62 games, averaging more than one goal per game to become the all-time top scorer of the German national team, which has not been surpassed so far.
In terms of total goals in Europe, Gerd Muller's record of 69 goals in 72 games has been broken by Raul and Inzaghi one after another, but their goal efficiency is much worse than that of Gerd Muller.
In 2000, Gerd Muller won the "Golden Boot of the Century" award issued by FIFA with 1,216 goals in 1,461 games, 180 more than the goals counted by the football king Pele, which is unprecedented.
This record-high career goal record can be called the Everest of world football.
However, when it comes to championship honours, Gerd Müller is even more impressive.
World Cup, European Cup, Champions League, League Cup, League, Cup, Gerd Muller won all the major tournaments and the Golden Boot of the tournament and set a record for Golden Boot goals in all competitions.
After watching such results, Cheng Hai felt that Gerd Muller had also been possessed by the football system at that time?
Otherwise, how did you come up with such horrible results and data?
Perhaps it was because of his success that Gerd Müller felt that he had nothing left to pursue, so he announced his retirement from the national team at the age of 28 at the peak of his career.
Otherwise, it is not known what kind of horror honor and record he will create.
In Germany, Gerd Müller's reputation is naturally even greater. To put it bluntly, Pele is not as high as Gerd Muller's status in the eyes of the German media and fans.
Now, Cheng Hai has a chance to surpass Gerd Muller's single-season Bundesliga goal record of 40 goals, a single-season club goal record of 67 goals, and an annual record of 85 goals.
Only then did everyone suddenly realize that Cheng Hai's goal efficiency in his first season in professional football was already on par with the terrifying bomber Gerd Muller, and it was possible that he would soon break Gerd Muller's three records.
This report was quickly reported by the media around the world, and the new generation of fans exclaimed that there is such a super goal machine as Gad Muller in world football, but also fell in love with Cheng Hai's talent.
There are even European media who unabashedly said: "Cheng Hai is the most efficient talented player in world football after Gerd Muller, leaving aside the national team, at the club level alone, Cheng Hai is definitely likely to break Gerd Muller's many records." As long as he is not injured and retires early, Cheng Hai can definitely be expected to become the most terrifying goal machine in world football. ”
These reports and praises have made Cheng Hai's popularity and attention in Germany and Europe increase rapidly, and also made the semi-finals of the League Cup in which he participated more eye-catching, no worse than the semi-finals of the Champions League.
At 21:00 on April 27, 2011, the first leg of the 2010/2011 UEFA Cup semi-finals between Dortmund and Portuguese Super League team Braga officially began with the cheers of tens of thousands of fans at the Westfaren Stadium and the referee's whistle.
In addition to watching the competition between the two teams, Cheng Hai's personal performance was also extremely eye-catching.
Not to mention that Cheng Hai is infinitely close to Gerd Muller's single-season club total goal record of 67 goals, the fact that Cheng Hai has scored 19 goals in the League Cup before is enough to make people look forward to whether Cheng Hai can score in this game and raise the League Cup single-season personal goal record to 20 goals.
This is a record that is enough to look up to for a lifetime.
If Cheng Hai plays in the Champions League after participating in this season's League Cup and is unable to participate in the League Cup, then his record may have to be remembered in the history of European football for a long, long time.
Because, from the group stage to the final, there are only 15 games in total.
Scoring more than 20 goals in 15 games in the competitive UEFA Cup is hellish difficult.
Before Cheng Hai, only Klinsmann had scored 15 goals in a single season, which shows the difficulty.
Once Cheng Hai raised Klinsmann's record to more than 20 goals at once, the difficulty was increased by several orders of magnitude.
As long as Cheng Hai himself no longer participates in the League Cup, his record may become an unprecedented monument that can only be looked up to, but can never be surpassed.
Both the media and fans are looking forward to Cheng Hai's goal.
Braga naturally knew this, so they put on a 4231 defensive counterattack formation away from home, trying to defend the goal while waiting for the opportunity to counterattack.
Defensively, they guarded Cheng Hai extremely strictly, and someone kept Cheng Hai close to him from the midfield.
Although the speed can't keep up, there are always people who help to make up for it, and they won't let Cheng Hai easily run out of the gap.
Such a result caused Cheng Hai's first goal to arrive for a long time.
However, when Braga focused too much on Cheng Hai, Dortmund's other players got a lot of chances.
Although their goal efficiency is not as good as that of Cheng Hai, they are still not to be underestimated.
In the 18th minute, Shinji Kagawa made a cross from the bottom, and Cheng Hai was rarely pulled by the opponent's defender at the front point, failed to jump fully, did not reach the ball, and rose to the top.
However, just as some Braga fans were breathing a sigh of relief, Lewandowski in the middle jumped up in the crowd and a powerful lion shook his head and headed the ball into Braga's goal.
Robert Lewandowski opened the scoring to give Borussia Dortmund a 1-0 lead.
However, Braga's attitude towards Cheng Hai has not changed, as if they have decided that the biggest threat to Dortmund is Cheng Hai.
As a result, in the 32nd minute, Dortmund scored again.
Although Cheng Hai was involved in the attack, he didn't even touch the ball, he just deceived his opponent through his running position and the feint that his teammates looked like they were going to pass the ball to him, and took the opposing two defenders away from the middle.
Then, with the ball in hand, Gotze passed the ball to the top of the penalty area, and Sebastian Kyle, who was inserted in the back row, rushed up to meet the ball and slammed it into the top left corner of the Braga goal.
After falling behind by two goals, Braga seemed to wake up from a dream and understood that Dortmund would have scored even if it didn't rely on Cheng Hai.
They had to focus on other Dortmund players such as Lewandowski, Gotze, and Shahin.
However, after they distracted the defense and couldn't concentrate on keeping an eye on Cheng Hai, Cheng Hai suddenly became active again.
Cheng Hai is close to 20 of all kinds of full-value perfect skills, even if two or three people are surrounded at the same time, they may not be able to prevent Cheng Hai, not to mention that they are forced to disperse and can't defend him together?
Before the end of the first half, in the 43rd minute, Cheng Hai finally seized a chance.
Braga, who is two goals behind, still has to fight back, otherwise they will surrender and admit defeat.
As a result, their attack was cut off by Dortmund and played a quick counterattack, and Cheng Hai successfully received a pass from his teammate in the gap on the right side of the middle line.
Of course, when Cheng Hai received the ball, he had a defender from Braga by his side.
But how can a person defend against Cheng Hai?
Cheng Hai's full-value dribbling and stopping skills allowed him to complete the turn the moment he received the ball, and tricked the opponent into losing his center of gravity with a sudden oxtail pass, and Cheng Hai rushed over from the other side of the opponent's body and walked away.
The opponent's hand stretched out and tried to pull Cheng Hai only touched a corner of his clothes, but he still failed to pull down Cheng Hai after all, and he couldn't even make a tactical foul.
Cheng Hai rushed into Braga's half with the ball, and the central defender Paulo, who was originally marking Lewandowski in the middle, had to run diagonally, and a flying tackle tried to stop Cheng Hai with a tactical foul.
However, Cheng Hai's explosiveness and speed were faster than he imagined.
Before Bao Lao's flying tackle was in place, Cheng Hai slipped the ball out one by one, and then jumped up and leaped over Bao Lao who fell to the ground.
Although Bao Lao deliberately raised his foot and tripped Cheng Hai, causing Cheng Hai to stumble when he landed, his strong balance ability still made Cheng Hai not fall, but staggered and rushed two steps before finally standing up again, and caught up with the ball he had just slapped out to form a single knife.
The rest is simple.
All the Braga defenders who were thrown away by Cheng Hai behind him could not affect Cheng Hai, allowing him to play a light lob shot at goalkeeper Artur who had come out of the penalty area outside the penalty area.
The ball flew over Artur's head, crossed a parabola and fell against the underside of the crossbar into Braga's goal.
In the 43rd minute, Cheng Hai scored a single goal through two people in a counterattack, helping Dortmund take a 3-0 lead.
At the same time, it was also Cheng Hai's 20th goal in the League Cup this season.
The moment Cheng Hai's hanging ball fell into the Braga goal, the entire Westfaren Stadium was completely boiling, and countless people applauded and screamed excitedly, shouting Cheng Hai's name and worshipping him.
The commentators from all over the world on the commentary table also shouted excitedly:
"Goal!"
"Cheng Hai finally scored!"
"20th goal!"
"Cheng Hai scored his 20th goal in the League Cup this season, breaking the 20-goal mark!"
"Before the end of the first half, in the 43rd minute, the 20th goal of Cheng Hai, which we had been waiting for for a long time, finally appeared."
Cheng Hai improved his League Cup single-season scoring record to 20 goals.
"This is the first time in the history of European continental football that a single goal has exceeded the 20-goal mark in a single season, which is shocking!"
"With 20 goals scored in a single season in a League Cup, Cheng Hai's goal efficiency is simply impressive."
"There is no doubt that Cheng Hai has become one of the top strikers in Europe."
"Borussia Dortmund's move to sign Cheng Hai has paid off hugely, and the scout who brought Cheng Hai back to Germany from the Chinese University Amateur League has made a big difference."
"He's not only unearthed a young talent for Borussia Dortmund, he's also contributed a goal machine to world football!"
"Let's give Cheng Hai a round of applause!"
"The record of 20 goals in a single season in the UEFA Cup deserves anyone's respect! Even if it's an opponent! ”