King of the Zone

After AC Milan's 4-3 Dortmund goal shootout, the world's media rushed to report.

"The focus of the Champions League ends, AC Milan 4-3 Dortmund! "

"AC Milan 4-3 Dortmund, Cheng Hai was frozen without scoring! "

"AC Milan won the first leg of the Champions League 4-3 Dortmund at home in the San Siro goal battle! "

"The first round of the UEFA Champions League 1/8 final, AC Milan won 4-3 Dortmund at home, Cheng Hai scored no goals! "

Some media commented:

"On the evening of February 2th, the first round of the UEFA Champions League 15/1 final between AC Milan and Dortmund will be held at the San Siro Stadium, home of AC Milan."

"The UEFA Champions League 1/8 finals, which has attracted the most attention from fans all over the world this season, was as expected before the game. Sparks were flying everywhere, and finally a high score of 4-3 was scored. The two sides scored a total of 7 goals. The neutral fans can be said to be feasting their eyes."

"In the end, AC Milan, who played at home, struggled to achieve a small victory, but allowed Dortmund to take away 3 away goals."

"This is quite unfavorable for AC Milan's away game in the second leg."

"During the match, in order to defend Cheng Hai, four players from AC Milan received yellow cards. Among them, Nesta was suspended for the second round because of the accumulation of yellow cards. For AC Milan, it has to be said to be worse."

"For Dortmund, although they lost the game, they only lost one goal, and they had three away goals. After returning to the Westfalenstadion in the second round, Dortmund's chances of advancing are even higher than AC Milan."

"In addition to the goal battle between the two sides, the biggest highlight of this game is the duel between Cheng Hai and AC Milan's defense."

"From the results point of view, AC Milan successfully froze Cheng Hai and did not allow Cheng Hai to score a goal."

"Ibrahimovic made points in the game and scored them. Judging from the number of goals, Ibrahimovic defeated Cheng Hai."

"But from the perspective of the process, the prospect of AC Milan advancing to the quarter-finals is even less optimistic."

"Because, although AC Milan successfully froze Cheng Hai in the first half, it was because Cheng Hai fell into the trap of fighting alone, so Cheng Hai didn't have any performance."

"But when Cheng Hai woke up and started passing the ball, AC Milan's old defense line couldn't stand it anymore."

"Although Cheng Hai didn't score a direct goal, all three of Dortmund's goals were scored after Cheng Hai gave up playing alone and started passing the ball to his teammates."

"On the one hand, this proves that Cheng Hai's strength is still very terrifying, and the number of goals does not reflect his threat. On the other hand, it also increases the difficulty for AC Milan to advance in the second round."

"Maybe, Dortmund has a higher probability of advancing to the quarterfinals."

Of course, this is a relatively fair report, and more media and fans expressed disappointment and bewilderment with Cheng Hai's performance.

Although AC Milan's chain defense is very powerful, as a super striker who can score 152 goals in a year, Cheng Hai didn't score a single goal in San Siro.

This has to disappoint many media and fans who support him.

In particular, some media and fans who didn't like Cheng Hai even gloated:
"Cheng Hai can only score goals in the Bundesliga, UEFA Cup, and Asian-level teams. Facing AC Milan's steel defense, he has no choice."

But Cheng Hai didn't care so much, he knew the reason why he didn't score in this game.As long as he gets rid of this problem, he believes that he will definitely score in the second round.

He wasted almost 40 minutes in the last game.

If he didn't fall into the vicious circle of fighting alone at the beginning, and the opponent couldn't figure out his thoughts, then he would definitely score goals.

What's more, the second round is still a home game. Regardless of the venue or the atmosphere of the stadium, Cheng Hai is confident of breaking AC Milan's goal.

Three days later, on February 2, in the 18nd round of the Bundesliga, Dortmund challenged Hertha Berlin away.

Two consecutive away games, and the last San Siro battle did exhaust Dortmund's players a lot.

Therefore, Klopp performed a certain degree of rotation in this Bundesliga game.

But even so, Dortmund still achieved a 3-0 away victory.Cheng Hai vented his anger about not scoring a goal in the last Champions League match on Hertha Berlin and scored a hat-trick at Hertha Berlin's home court.

This hat-trick allowed Cheng Hai to break through the 50-goal mark in the Bundesliga this season, reaching a terrifying 51 goals.

This is only 1927 goals away from the record of 1928 goals in a single season in the top European league created by William Dean of Everton Club in England in 60/9!
In the Bundesliga this season, there have only been 22 rounds, and there are still 12 rounds.

In terms of Cheng Hai's current scoring efficiency, is it still a problem to score 12 goals in 9 rounds?
Not a problem at all!
Everyone can already foresee the moment when Cheng Hai breaks the European Golden Boot highest scoring record.

In addition, Cheng Hai's total career goals have reached 198 goals, and he is only 2 goals away from breaking through the 200-goal mark.

This made many fans and compatriots of Cheng Hai extremely excited.

Therefore, on February 2, when Dortmund played against Hannover 26 at home in the 96rd round of the Bundesliga, many fans of Dortmund and Cheng Hai played a 23-goal banner, hoping that Cheng Hai would score at least two goals and break through the 200-goal mark.

Cheng Hai did not disappoint those who supported him.

Amidst the cheers and cheers of more than 8 fans in the audience, Cheng Hai kicked his head again and staged a big four. While helping Dortmund win a 5-1 home victory, he also raised his career total to 202 goals.

The club and the national team have scored 202 goals in official professional matches. Cheng Hai spent 89 games with an average goal rate of 2.27 per game.

This is because Cheng Hai was unable to start for a long time in the early stages of his career. He could only play two or three 10 minutes as a substitute in the second half of each game.

This can achieve a goal rate of 2.27 goals per game. It can only be said that Cheng Hai's goal rate and stability are really terrible.

After playing this round of the Bundesliga, Cheng Haifei returned to China and led the national football team to face Jordan, the last opponent in the top 20 group stage of the world preliminaries, at the Yangcheng University City Stadium.

In fact, after the Chinese team beat Singapore in the last round of world preliminaries and Jordan unexpectedly lost to Iraq, the Chinese team overtook the points and rose to the first place in the group.

Regardless of whether the group is first or second, it does not affect the result of the Hua Guo team's promotion to the top ten.

But Cheng Hai didn't want to miss the game, because in the first round of the coaches of the two sides, the Hua Guo team he led lost to Jordan 1-2. This is a loss that Cheng Hai will never forget.

In addition, he also needs to ensure that the Hua Guo team advances to the top ten competition with the first place in the group, and strives to get a better group draw in the top ten competition.

Finally, the opponents of the national football team are not strong, it is easy to score goals, and there is a lot of experience in a single goal. The world preliminaries are the same as the experience in the Champions League, and it is the best place to gain experience.

Therefore, Cheng Hai did not stay in Germany to rest, but flew back to China to participate in the last game of the top 20 group stage of the world preliminaries when the national football team had already advanced to the top ten.

The last national football team lost 1-2 to Jordan in the world preliminaries was September 9 last year, and nearly half a year has passed.

In the past six months, Cheng Hai's strength has long been different from what it used to be, and it has advanced by leaps and bounds to a level that Jordanians can't imagine.

Although the Jordanians played their best, they wanted to win the away game and advance to the top ten in the group, but facing the crazy Cheng Hai, the Jordanians completely surrendered before the first half was over.

In the end, Cheng Hai, who played the full 90 minutes, easily staged a performance of five goals in a single game in this world preliminaries, and also had one assist, leading the country to a 7-1 score to wash Jordan, avenging the 1-2 loss to the opponent in the last round.

The top 2014 group stage of the 20 Brazil World Cup Asian qualifiers came to an end. The teams that advanced to the top ten were China, South Korea, Japan, Iran, Australia, Uzbekistan, Qatar, Lebanon, Jordan, and Oman.

The ten teams will be drawn on March 3th and divided into two groups to play a double round-robin group stage. The top two of the two groups will directly advance to the World Cup in Brazil, while No.9 will play a play-off, and the winner will have to play a play-off with No.3 from South America.

Asian teams play play-offs with South American teams, basically there is no win.

Therefore, for the Asian teams, there are actually only two places for the top two places in the group to fight for, and the competition is still very fierce.

However, the top ten draw will have to wait a few days.

After returning to Germany, on March 3, Cheng Hai ushered in the 3th round of the Bundesliga against Mainz at home.

Mainz ranks in the middle, their strength is average, and they are facing Dortmund led by Cheng Hai in the away game, so they are very realistic. They sent a 4321 Christmas tree formation in the away game, trying to lose as little as possible, and did not want to win at all.

As they expected, they lost the game.

But because Dortmund had to retain their strength to deal with the second round of the UEFA Champions League 1/8 final with AC Milan three days later, Mainz, who tried their best to defend, did not lose much, only losing two goals.

The final score was 3-1, and Cheng Hai only scored one goal and one assist.

After the game, the focus of the media and fans was not on this game, but on the next match between Dortmund and AC Milan in the second round of the UEFA Champions League 1/8 final.

After the high score of 4-3 in the first round, everyone can already predict what kind of sparks hit the earth in the second round.

Dortmund, who are behind on aggregate, will definitely score.

And once Dortmund scores a goal, they will advance on away goals with the total score tied, and AC Milan must fight back.

It is simply not controlled by the two teams themselves.

It must be the same as the first round, another goal battle.

Before the game, players from both sides made air calls to the media.

Although AC Milan did not win much in the first round and allowed Dortmund to take away 3 away goals, they finally won and took the lead in the total score. AC Milan took the lead.

Therefore, Ibrahimovic swaggered:
"I only scored one penalty in the first leg and I don't think I played well. In the second leg I will score at least two goals away and conquer Westfalenstadion."

"As for Cheng Hai? Someone who didn't score a goal in the first round is not qualified to talk to me!"

This time, Cheng Hai did not remain silent, but mocked: "Ibrahimovic said he could score two goals? Maybe! But in the end, the entire AC Milan team left the Westfalenstadion in tears. It doesn't matter how many goals he scored."

Why is Cheng Hai so confident?

On the one hand, it was because he himself had come to his senses, and he would never fight alone again in the second round.

On the other hand, there are various objective reasons that are extremely beneficial to Dortmund.

Gundogan and Gotze both returned from injury, and being able to play in this game is not a small increase in strength for Dortmund.

On AC Milan's side, Nesta was suspended and lost a defensive backbone, which was a huge loophole for AC Milan's defense.

One ebbs and another, in terms of strength on paper, Dortmund is on the rise, while AC Milan is on the decline.

In addition, since the end of the first round, Klopp has increased the intensity of physical training.

The tactic he formulated for the team was to carry out a high-position press at home in the second round, and use his abundant physical fitness to wear down the opponent.

For Dortmund, whose average age is only about 23 years old, it is entirely possible to deliberately speed up the game rhythm and high-intensity pressing to drag down a group of AC Milan veterans over 30 years old.

AC Milan didn't know about Dortmund's plan. They felt that they had won the first round. Even though the away game in the second round was a bit more difficult, they had a good chance of advancing to the quarter-finals when they played the defensive counterattack they were good at when they led the total score.

Just get the defense right.

In order to do this and make up for Nesta's absence, Allegri dropped a striker and added a defender, forming a 5311 formation.

Compared with the first round, Zambrotta replaced Nesta's central defender position, then added a central defender Mex, canceled Robinho's starting lineup, and Ibrahimovic played a single forward.

Although Zambrotta's strength is not as good as Nesta's, the difference is not too much. He is also a top defense superstar.

Moreover, adding a 29-year-old Mex who is in his prime, Allegri feels that his defense is stronger than in the first round.

Even if Cheng Hai has come to his senses and no longer fights alone, AC Milan's defense is not afraid.

Therefore, when they stepped into the Westfalen Stadium, Allegri and his AC Milan stars were full of confidence.

Then, it is the warm-up before the game, the appearance ceremony, and waiting for the game to start.

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From the very beginning of the game, Dortmund pressed forward without a test, and launched a fierce offensive against the visiting AC Milan.

This is not beyond AC Milan's expectations, because after all, Dortmund is behind in the total score.

No matter how many away goals there are, it will only work in a draw. If the second round ends with a total score of 4-3, then Dortmund will still lose.

Therefore, Dortmund must attack.

Conversely, AC Milan can sit firmly on the Diaoyutai, wait for Dortmund to attack, and then steal the ball and hit the opponent's counterattack.

Whether it is Seedorf, Boateng, or Ibrahimovic, they are all superstars who can solve the battle alone.

As long as they are given a chance, a counterattack goal may be formed.

Therefore, AC Milan's counterattack does not need too many people, as long as the defense is enough.

Although Nesta was suspended, Zambrotta made up for Nesta's position, and also added a central defender Mex. AC Milan's defensive strength can be said to have increased rather than decreased compared to the first round.

Dortmund's aggressive attack did not panic the Milanese at all.

In fact it is.

Even if Cheng Hai no longer fights alone, he will pass the ball out when he can't break through, but because of the increased number of defenders, it will be difficult for other Dortmund players to get a chance to shoot.

Fifteen minutes into the game, Dortmund hadn't managed a single shot on target.

Cheng Hai once had a volley from outside the penalty area, but it flew slightly out of the crossbar under the interference of Gattuso.

Lewandowski also received a header from Gotze's wide cross in the penalty area, but it missed the post.

After 15 minutes of continuous attack, Allegri thought that Dortmund should finally take a break. It's the turn of AC Milan to attack, right?

Unexpectedly, after 15 minutes, Dortmund's offensive did not slow down, and they were still passing and breaking through quickly, with passing and running cooperation, so that AC Milan's defense had to run back and forth according to the position of the ball to make up for the loopholes in the defense.

After 20 minutes, Dortmund's offense has not slowed down, and it is still aggressively attacking, pressing AC Milan within 30 meters of the fans, and it is almost impossible to get out. The midfielder Boateng was forced to withdraw to the top of the penalty area to participate in the defense.

Allegri changed his face a little.

He has realized that Dortmund is going to use their young and vigorous body and physical fitness to drag down AC Milan.

But he couldn't make adjustments.

Because the people sitting on the bench are all old guys.Moreover, there are only 3 substitutions in a game, and it is only the first half, and no one is injured, so how could it be possible to start substitutions?

Allegri can only pray that the players on the field can withstand the impact of Dortmund's youth army and keep the goal.

However, just a few minutes after this idea came up, AC Milan's goal suffered a huge crisis.