King of the Zone

After the game, the news that Cheng Hai scored twice again and returned to the top of the Bundesliga scorer list continued to spread.

Now Cheng Hai is a super hot spot, media reporters are not bored at all, readers and fans also like to watch it, just like when Ronaldo was booming back then, everyone chased after him, and they would not feel bored watching Ronaldo news every day.

The more coverage, the more fans like it.

After the game, Klopp gave everyone a day off before continuing to train.

On December 12th, Dortmund flew to Spain to prepare for the last game of the UEFA Cup group stage with Seville.

In the case of already qualifying ahead of schedule, this away group match is not very important.

However, if you can get the first place in the group, you will occupy a certain favorable position in the knockout draw.

Therefore, although Klopp has rotated a few people, most of the main players are still brought.As for Cheng Hai, whose physical recovery ability is abnormal, he definitely took it with him.

At 2010 o'clock on the evening of December 12, 15, local time in Spain, the final round of the UEFA Cup group match between Sevilla VS Dortmund officially started at Sevilla's home court.

Dortmund has already qualified ahead of schedule, but Sevilla was deeply hurt by the death group. At this time, they are ranked third in the group, and they are 3 points behind Paris Saint-Germain.

Therefore, Sevilla must defeat Dortmund in this round, and pray that Paris Saint-Germain loses to Capaldi, so that they may qualify for the group stage with a goal difference advantage and advance to the knockout round.

In order to avoid match-fixing, the two games will start at the same time.

Sevilla can't control another game, so they can only do their best to fight Dortmund at their own home court, and beat Dortmund first.

After the game started, Sevilla, who played at home, launched a crazy attack on Dortmund's half amidst the cheers of the home fans.

On the one hand, they must attack and win, and on the other hand, they know how terrifying Cheng Hai is on Dortmund's bench.

They had to score more goals before Cheng Hai played in order to win the entire game.

This kind of thinking makes Sevilla's formation quite high, and the backcourt has a small number of people. It is necessary to rely on fouls to prevent Dortmund from counterattacking.

Sevilla, who were attacking with all their strength, broke through Dortmund's goal in the 4th minute, which attracted excited cheers from the home team fans.

However, in the 24th minute, Dortmund also played a sharp counterattack. If Sevilla hadn't relied on midfielder Ndri's tactical foul, I am afraid that Dortmund's striker Lewandowski will form a single goal.

Even so, their defense failed to withstand Dortmund's counterattack.

To be able to rank first in the Bundesliga standings, Dortmund's strength this season, even without Cheng Hai's appearance, they are still very strong.

In the 31st minute, Dortmund cut off Sevilla's ball and played a quick counterattack. Finally, the winger Feuerner made a pass from the bottom. Lewandowski grabbed the first point but his jumping posture was not good.

Shinji Kagawa performed very well after joining Dortmund. According to the evaluation of professional footballers, if Cheng Hai hadn't robbed all the limelight, Shinji Kagawa would have been the best player in the Bundesliga in the first half of the season.

Although he was upstaged by Cheng Hai, he still performed very well.

After receiving Lewandowski's header this time, everyone thought that he would take the time to shoot directly. Unexpectedly, his raised leg fell slightly, and the ball went to the right, passing the Sevilla defender who thought he was going to shoot directly and blocked the hole with his back, and entered the penalty area.

After entering the penalty area, although someone came up to intercept, Shinji Kagawa, who was excellent in technique, opened up a gap for shooting through a fake spike, and then kicked a shot less than 15 meters away from the goal.

The ball was also played at a very high level, with sufficient power, fast speed, and a tricky angle. In the end, the defender in the penalty area did not break the siege. The goalkeeper was beyond his reach and could only watch the ball enter the net.

Shinji Kagawa equalized for Dortmund.

This time, Seville was completely anxious.

You know, Cheng Hai hasn't played yet!
If they can't establish a lead without Cheng Hai playing, can they still win after Cheng Hai plays?

Therefore, next, Sevilla completely entered the berserk mode, almost giving up defense, and all players pressed forward and invested in offense.

Although in the 36th minute, someone had to use a foul to prevent Dortmund's counterattack due to insufficient defensive strength, and received another yellow card, but it finally prevented Dortmund from a possible goal.

Conversely, Sevilla, which invested almost the whole team in the attack, finally received the effect in the 41st minute amidst the cheers of the home fans. Forward Kanoute received a cross pass from his teammate on the penalty area line and volleyed the goal.

Sevilla, who played at home, finally took a 2-1 lead.

Neither side scored again in the next few minutes. After 1 minute of stoppage time, the two sides entered the intermission with a score of 2-1, and Sevilla led by one goal.

After 15 minutes of intermission, the two sides changed sides and fought again. Sevilla, who led by one goal, did not feel safe, and still maintained a high-intensity attack in the second half.

On the football field, there is indeed a big difference between home and away games.

While Dortmund were not bad either, Sevilla played better with the pressure of having to win and the advantage of playing at home.

The technical advantage of the Spanish team was also fully demonstrated in a team attack in the 52nd minute.

This time Sevilla's team attack caused the fans and reporters to exclaim, because Sevilla used a series of more than ten one-foot passes in the frontcourt and finally tore through Dortmund's defense. Finally, their No. 10 striker Fabiano volleyed and broke the goal guarded by Weidenfeller.

In this attack, most of Sevilla's passes were a small-scale one-touch coordination within 30 meters of the front goal. A slight mistake would be touched and destroyed by Dortmund's players.

Therefore, the team cooperation this time is quite pleasing to the eye, and it is enough to arouse the cheers of the fans in the audience.

What's more, the ball was scored in the end, which became a very successful teamwork and gave Sevilla a 3-1 lead, which made the home fans in the stands celebrate even more happily.

On Dortmund's side, although there is no pressure to qualify, Klopp still wants to win to ensure that the group will qualify first and get a better draw in the knockout round.

Therefore, seeing the team trailing by two goals, Klopp replaced Cheng Hai in the 62nd minute.

Playing at this time, plus stoppage time, must play more than 30 minutes of the game.

Originally, the physical fitness coach had trained Cheng Hai from the beginning of the season, and he was already capable of playing a 45-minute half-time game.

But now that Cheng Hai's speed has been added, the physical energy consumption during the long-distance raids will be greater than before, and he can't even play half of the game.

Can only continue to substitute in the second half and play until the end of the game.

He played in the 62nd minute and was basically close to Cheng Hai's physical limit. It is estimated that the last few minutes will be in a walking state.

However, the latter can't be controlled so much. Dortmund, who is two goals behind, must score.

After Cheng Hai took the field, Sevilla naturally didn't dare to attack aggressively anymore. The empty backcourt must be reserved for Cheng Hai's racecourse, and the counterattack was accurate.

In addition to already leading by two goals, Sevilla felt that even if Cheng Hai played, they would still have a chance to keep their two-goal lead until the end of the game, even if Cheng Hai scored a goal.

Therefore, a few minutes after Cheng Hai played, Sevilla also made substitution adjustments, and changed two people at once.

First, a striker was replaced and a defensive midfielder was replaced.

Then, a defender who had received a yellow card before was replaced and a new defender was replaced to prevent the same defender from receiving two yellow cards and being sent off from two yellow cards and one red.

After the substitutions and adjustments were made, Sevilla's tactics changed from a big offense to a shrinking defense, and the shrinking was quite severe. Anyway, it was trying to limit Cheng Hai's performance in the penalty area.

Although Cheng Hai has many offensive skills now, he lacks long-range shooting skills.

The basic skill "Long Shot" was not activated, and the auxiliary skills such as shooting power, arc, and volley were not activated, so that Cheng Hai's shots outside the penalty area lacked strength and speed, and thus lacked threat.

At present, most of Cheng Hai's shots are completed in the penalty area. If he does not enter the penalty area, Cheng Hai's shooting threat will be much lower, and it is not much different from ordinary forwards.

Sevilla saw this right, and piled up most of the defensive players in the penalty area, making it impossible for Cheng Hai's off-ball running, grabbing points, dribbling and other skills to be fully utilized.

From being replaced in the 62nd minute to the 72nd minute, a full 10 minutes passed, and Cheng Hai didn't even take a shot.

The only few times he touched the ball was with his back. He was stuck in a key position by several opponent defenders, unable to turn around and shoot. In the end, he had to pass the ball back to his teammates outside the penalty area.

Fortunately, after the ground attack was restricted, Cheng Hai still had the ability to head the ball, and his strength was also good.

In the 74th minute, Gotze's breakthrough on the wing finally caused the opposing defender to kick the ball out of the bottom line, allowing Dortmund to get a corner kick.

This time, not only Cheng Hai and Lewandowski were in the penalty area, but also central defenders Hummels and Subotic, and even captain Kyle was near the penalty spot, posing a great threat.

Relatively speaking, Cheng Hai's height of 179cm is not very conspicuous in the restricted area.

Although the Sevilla players know that Cheng Hai has scored a header, and now Cheng Hai's bounce is also very good, after all, there are Hummels, Lewandowski and others sharing the firepower. Sevilla dare not focus most of their attention on defending Cheng Hai like a sports attack.

Even Sevilla's two tallest central defenders did not defend Cheng Hai, but defended Lewandowski and Hummels.

To defend Cheng Hai, there was only one midfielder, Balas, who was only two or three centimeters taller than Cheng Hai.

Cheng Hai is tall and only two or three centimeters shorter, his bounce is increased to 19, his grab points are full, and his physique is also full. If this corner kick is taken and lands near the two of them, there is almost no need to think about it. Cheng Hai must be able to grab the header.

But Barras didn't think so. He defended very seriously, and kept pushing and fighting with Cheng Hai behind the penalty spot in the penalty area to compete for a favorable position.

Of course, other players from both sides were also fighting for it, and the referee came forward to warn everyone, which made everyone a little more rational.

Under such circumstances, Gotze finally took the corner kick.

Gotze originally wanted to throw the ball over the heads of Hummels and Subotic on the small penalty area line in the middle, but his footwork was not so precise. The ball was a little higher and tilted outward.

Everyone looked in the direction of the ball's flight, but found that it landed near Cheng Hai and Ballas behind the penalty spot.

With his strong physique, Cheng Hai took advantage of the geographical advantage, then watched the incoming ball push his legs hard, jumped up, faced the incoming ball with a fierce header, changed the flight direction of the ball, and headed the ball towards the goal.

Although Ballas also took off from the side to compete for the top, his judgment of the landing point and the height of the jump were not as good as Cheng Hai's. In the end, he could only stand in the air and watch Cheng Hai hit the ball and head the ball towards the goal.

The ball was a bit far away, so the goalkeeper Palop responded with a save.

However, with Cheng Hai's 17-point header technique, Barras failed to interfere too much with him. Although Cheng Hai's header didn't go straight to the dead corner, the angle was quite tricky.

In the end, Palop failed to save the goal.

He touched the ball but couldn't scoop it out of goal.The ball changed direction only slightly, but eventually flew into the goal.

In the 74th minute, Cheng Hai grabbed the first nod from a corner kick in the penalty area and headed the ball into Sevilla's goal, helping Dortmund tie the score to 2-3.

When the ball flew into Sevilla's goal, Sevilla's players, the coaches off the field, and even the fans in the stands all looked very bad.

Now, they are only one goal ahead.Leading by one goal is the most dangerous score on the football field. The leading side will be under great pressure and worry about being equalized by the opponent at any time.

Next, it becomes difficult to decide whether Sevilla should attack or defend.

In the end, when Cheng Hai and his teammates celebrated the goal, the head coach of Sevilla decided to let the team stick to it after half a minute of consideration.

Not only let the players on the field stick to it, but he also made substitutions, replacing the last forward on the field, and carried out a real bust to defend, trying to keep a one-goal lead.

After the game restarted, Dortmund faced the iron walls and tortoise shells put out by Sevilla.

Sevilla, who worked together and couldn't defend, did cause great trouble to Dortmund's offense.

Whether it is the ground cooperation of Cheng Hai, Shinji Kagawa and others, or the side attack of Gotze, Feuerner and others, it is almost impossible to work.

Because the goal is always in the middle, any attack from anywhere will eventually return to the center.

As for Sevilla, they deployed the most manpower in the middle of the penalty area, and they couldn't defend, making it almost impossible for Dortmund to speak.

Even with Cheng Hai's full-value dribbling and Matthews' fake moves, he couldn't cut a bloody path from the ground and get a chance to shoot.

After Cheng Hai scored a goal, Sevilla's marking of Cheng Hai also became stricter. Two or three people often followed Cheng Hai to move around, making him unable to get any space.

Whether it is running without the ball, dribbling breakthroughs, or heading for the top, Cheng Hai has almost no room for shooting.

However, in the case of attracting two or three defensive players from the opponent, Dortmund's other offensive players will occasionally run very good opportunities, but they have not seized them before.

Finally, when the time came to the 87th minute, Cheng Hai received a pass from Shinji Kagawa with his back to the goal on the right side of the penalty area.

This time Cheng Hai took the ball with his back and was besieged by three opponents. Two defenders blocked all his turning and shooting space. The No.3 player kept stretching his legs from the side to poke the ball off Cheng Hai's feet.

However, Cheng Hai's full dribbling and physique allowed him to resist the pressing of the opponent's three players, and firmly controlled the ball at his feet without being snatched by the opponent.

The ball stayed at Cheng Hai's feet for three or four seconds, and it attracted the attention of almost everyone. Dortmund's left back Schmelzer even entered the left penalty area from the wing, and no one knew it.

Only when Cheng Hai controlled the ball and found the route of the ball without being able to turn around and shoot, he found Schmelzer's sidewalk.

Immediately, Cheng Hai's eyes lit up. Since he couldn't shoot, he should assist his teammates!
Cheng Hai began to take the ball to the center for lateral dribbling.The players around him and the players in the middle all surrounded him. For a while, Cheng Hai was surrounded by four players, wanting to completely siege Cheng Hai.

But before the other four players sealed all the gaps, Cheng Hai dribbled out of a gap, then passed the ball, and the ball rolled to the left side of the penalty area.

Although Cheng Hai's passing skills have not been activated, he has full shooting skills, so his passing is not in the state of an amateur player, and this kind of short pass in the penalty area is still competent.

When Sevilla's defender and goalkeeper looked in the direction of Cheng Hai's pass and saw Schmelzer who had entered the penalty area from the wing, it was too late when they wanted to make up the defense.

Schmelzer faced Cheng Hai's pass, and without stopping to adjust, he volleyed directly to the lower left corner of Sevilla's goal.

Goalkeeper Palop was originally on the right to prevent Cheng Hai from turning around and shooting. Although he moved to the middle with Cheng Hai, he still failed to save Schmelzer's extremely fast shot.

In the process of Palop flying to make a save, the ball flew into the net before his palm was in place.

In the 87th minute, Cheng Hai sent an assist in the case of many people in the penalty area, helping full-back Schmelzer break through Sevilla's goal.

The score between the two sides became a 3-3 tie.