Chapter 193: The First Match

On August 16, Dortmund ushered in the first official match of the new season, which was the first round of the German Cup.

Previously, they played friendly matches against six different teams, with four wins, one draw and one defeat.

And Shen Peng also performed well in the friendly match, scoring a total of four goals and two assists for the team, although this data is slightly inferior to his performance in the league, but he has helped other frontcourt players to involve a lot of space, and now he is still in the run-in period with the team, so in general, the performance is quite good, making people feel that Dortmund's 50 million is worth it.

During this period, Dortmund also brought in several people, one of whom was Shinji Kagawa, who played for Dortmund for two years before and was the hero of the team's championship in those two years, but then went to Manchester United.

Shinji Kagawa did not perform well for Manchester United, scoring six goals in 20 appearances in the 12-13 season, and in the 13-14 season, making 18 appearances and scoring a single goal, which was a far cry from his performance in a total of 49 appearances and 21 goals at Dortmund, so he eventually opted to return to the Bundesliga.

When Shinji Kagawa met Shen Peng for the first time, he said that he had heard his friend Yusuke Tasaka say that Shen Peng was a very powerful person, and that it was his honor to play football with Shen Peng.

For this kind of polite words, Shen Peng just smiled, and he didn't really think that the other party would be proud of it.

The match was against Stuttgart players from the German Bundesliga, who finished eighth in the Bundesliga last season, which is an underdog for Borussia Dortmund.

Although the opponent is not strong, Klopp attaches great importance to this game, because after Shen Peng came, his ambition is great, with the cards in his hand now, he is ready to attack the league and the German Cup double this season, and then try to make achievements in the Champions League.

Instead of the 4-2-3-1 formation he used last season, he went with a 4-3-3 formation and was ready to attack with all his might: Schmelzer, Subotic, Papastathopoulos and Piszczek; The three midfielders are Jojic, Kirsch and Mkhitaryan; The three strikers are Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Shen Peng and Reuss.

After the start of the game, facing the Bundesliga powerhouse Dortmund, the Stuttgart kickers unsurprisingly set up an iron bucket formation, but Dortmund's attack was very strong, creating danger in front of the opponent's goal many times, making the Stuttgart kickers a storm at half.

In the 11th minute, Dortmund's powerful attack finally turned into a goal, it was right wing-back Piszczek, who received the ball and sent it to Mkhitaryan in front, who scored with a push.

It was an away game and there was no cheering from the fans, but that didn't stop the Borussia Dortmund players from celebrating.

After Klopp saw this goal, he also celebrated passionately on the sidelines, as he thought, after Shen Peng came, in addition to his own strong scoring ability, he could also involve the opponent's defense, this goal was because the opponent's attention of three or four people was on Shen Peng, so that Mkhitaryan easily found a vacancy, interspersed with it to score.

This goal also made the opponent understand that if they blindly defend Shen Peng, it will be easy for other Dortmund players to score, so they left one player to mark Shen Peng, and the others defended an area.

They have a good idea, but they are not as good as Borussia Dortmund's players.

In the 32nd minute, when Shen Peng had fewer opponents in the middle, Mkhitaryan passed the ball directly to Shen Peng, and the Stuttgart kickers who defended Shen Peng immediately began to interfere with Shen Peng, in addition to preventing Shen Peng from shooting, but also to make Shen Peng unable to pass the ball comfortably, and also to create time for other teammates to come and wrap Shen Peng.

But Shen Peng didn't do what he thought, but when the ball rolled over, he used his foot to pad and pick the ball with his back!

When the defenders were still stunned, Shen Peng had already shook him with the ball, received the ball that landed, faced the goal head-on, and then directly volleyed!

Shen Peng didn't use any skills, and the ball flew into the net trickily.

Two to zero!

Klopp's eyes lit up and he appeared!

This is Shen Peng's personal ability, he can always make the most accurate judgment in this situation.

In fact, it's very simple to just pick the ball, basically professional players can, but it is difficult to achieve such an effect as Shen Peng.

One of the key points here is timing. Every time Shen Peng uses this trick, he can always break through the opponent's defenders, and when the ball falls, there are no other players on the other side of the landing, otherwise the ball will be sent directly to the opposite side.

Shen Peng's goal has already announced the death sentence for Stuttgart kickers: if they don't defend Shen Peng, Shen Peng will score; If Shen Peng is defended, others can score, and the only feeling of all the Stuttgart kickers now is despair.

Although they knew before the game that facing Dortmund was basically a life and death, they still felt powerless when they really played and had no power to fight back.

Rao is so, and the fans on the sidelines are also cheering loudly for the team.

In the 39th minute, Borussia Dortmund scored again, this time by Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.

Because Shen Peng was too much of a threat in the middle, the Stuttgart kickers had to defend heavily, so Aubameyang relied on his speed to force a break through two opposition players and then score in front of goal.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang's strength lies in his pace, his technique at his feet is not outstanding, but that is when he is also playing against top defenders, while in front of the players of the Bundesliga, his technique is sufficient.

The first half ended quickly after, with Dortmund leading by a wide margin.

At half-time, Jurgen Klopp praised the performance of his players, and the game was now decided, so in the second half he replaced some of the main players and let some players who usually don't have many opportunities to play go up and work.

Although two people were replaced, Dortmund's attack was still like a storm, and in the 58th, 78th, and 89th minutes of the second half, Dortmund scored three more goals to end the massacre with an aggregate score of 6-0!

In this game, Shen Peng had one goal and two assists, but his contribution to the team was far from what these two statistics could show, and Klopp knew it.

Now, he has slowly looked forward to the official start of the league, with Shen Peng's performance in the league last season, plus now more familiar with the league, Dortmund will definitely be able to make a difference this season.