King of the Zone

Chapter 221 2012 Balls in 183

Just when the players on both sides were exhausted and ready to wait for the penalty shootout, the second half of overtime, seeing that the overtime was about to end, Cheng Hai still had the energy to run in the frontcourt, forcing Hannover 96's backcourt to fall.

Although Cheng Hai was in poor form in this game, it was largely due to mental exhaustion, which resulted in a lot of poor control over the ball.

But in terms of physical fitness, Cheng Hai became the only player who could run all over the court at this time.

At this time, the ball is controlled at the feet of the Hannover 96 defenders, and they have no energy for passing and cutting.

Of course, the same is true for Dortmund, so Lewandowski, Gundogan and others are just pretending, and they didn't sprint like Cheng Hai to press.

The defenders of Hannover 96 were also unable to pass the ball to the midfield, and did not dare, for fear of being intercepted by Dortmund and counterattacked.

They were just playing in the backcourt, and even the goalkeeper was involved, trying to delay the rest of the time, play penalties, and try their luck.

It is enough to be proud to be able to force Dortmund, the freshly released six-time champion of the year and Shinco Cosmos team Dortmund, into a penalty shootout, even if they lose in the end.

What's more, they may not necessarily lose in the penalty shootout.

With this in mind, several defenders and goalkeepers of Hannover 96 continued to pass the ball according to Cheng Hai's running position, which looked like a monkey-walking performance.

Cheng Hai rushed to John Zhulu who was holding the ball near the right corner of the penalty area, but Zhulu did not wait for Cheng Hai to approach, and passed the ball to the goalkeeper Ziller on the line of the small penalty area.

Cheng Hai immediately turned around and rushed into the penalty area, running towards Qi Le. Qi Le didn't wait for Cheng Hai to approach, and passed the ball to Cherundolo on the left.

Cheng Hai ran to Cherundolo, who then passed to another central defender Ejman, and then passed to full-back Pandel, and so on.

Because Lewandowski and others are really exhausted, they can't run, they can only take a walk and press their eyes. Therefore, the Hannover defenders can choose many directions to shoot the ball. Even if Cheng Hai's full physical fitness, sprint speed, defensive position, and stealing ability, it is difficult to create any pressure on the opponent.

This situation has actually lasted for two to three minutes. Some extreme Hannover fans and racial discriminators in the stands began to laugh and mock Cheng Hai.

In their view, Cheng Hai is just a monkey and clown being played around by his backcourt players, which is extremely ridiculous.

Cheng Hai didn't care that much.

He doesn't want to play penalty shootouts, because there are too many uncertainties in penalty shootouts. Even if Dortmund has more stars than Hannover 96 and goalkeeper Weidenfeller looks better than the opponent's goalkeeper Ziller, he may not be able to win in penalty shootouts.

Therefore, although he has been walked by the opponent for two or three minutes and he can hear the jeers from the stands, he still has not given up.

What if the last chance presents itself?

Who can tell.

As a result, under Cheng Hai's continuous high-speed press, in the 119th minute, the full-back Cerendolo passed the ball back to Julu in the penalty area with a little less force, resulting in a very slow ball speed.

Cheng Hai, who ran halfway, his eyes lit up, and immediately changed direction and rushed towards the ball.

On the other side, Gundogan, Lewandowski and others also had their eyes brightened. Seeing the opportunity, they immediately mobilized their little physical strength and forced the remaining defenders Pandel, Ejman and others to prevent Julu from having a place to play.

Full-back Gotze also rushed towards Dorencielo, preventing Juru from passing the ball back to him.

Seeing that Dorenciello's passing power was too small, Julu was shocked, and immediately rushed out of the penalty area and rushed up to meet the incoming ball.

After all, the ball was passed to Zhulu by Cherendolo, and the direction was closer to Zhulu. Zhulu grabbed the ball before Cheng Hai.

But when he scanned his eyes, he found that Dorencello, Pander, Ejman and others were all defended by Dortmund players, and there was a risk of losing the ball when passing the ball.

Cheng Hai rushed up quickly again, Zhu Lu didn't have time to think, and didn't even stop Dorencello's pass. He immediately turned around and passed the ball, trying to pass the ball back to goalkeeper Zile in the small penalty area.

However, an accident happened suddenly at this moment.

Zhulu has also played for 120 minutes, and he is still a defender. Under the strong pressure exerted by Dortmund's attack group led by Cheng Hai, his running distance is even greater than that of Hannover's forwards. At this time, he is already physically exhausted.

It's just that when there was no accident before, he could stop and pass the ball in a leisurely manner, leaving him with more room and time to adjust, so there were no mistakes.

But this time Cherendolo made a mistake in passing the ball, leaving him no time to adjust and pass the ball calmly under Cheng Hai's high-speed press.

Under Cheng Hai's threat, he didn't even dare to stop the ball, so he half-turned and wanted to pass the ball back to the goalkeeper.

As a result, at the moment of half-turning to pass the ball, Zhulu's supporting foot suddenly felt a sore feeling, which caused a slight change in the center of gravity of his body.

The ball that Zhu Lu expected to pass to the goalkeeper was kicked by him. He didn't kick hard, just touched it lightly, and rolled towards the corner of the small penalty area, and the direction was not towards the goalkeeper Ziller.

Zhu Lu was shocked, and immediately put his foot on his feet, trying to rush up to grab the ball, but his left foot continued to soften, and a tingling pain came from his thigh: Zhu Lu's thigh cramp.

He collapsed in despair, watching Cheng Hai whizzing past him and rushing into the restricted area.

In the penalty area, the goalkeeper Ziller was already ready to catch the ball. Unexpectedly, Zhulu's thigh cramped at a critical moment and kicked the ball.

When he reacted and wanted to rush over to grab the ball, it was too late.

After estimating the distance between him and the ball, Ziller found that he would not touch the ball earlier than Cheng Hai, so he could only move his body to the near corner to block Cheng Hai's shooting angle first.

Of course, the goalkeeper is only one person after all, and the door frame is so big, it is impossible to seal it completely, it only depends on the opponent's striker's shooting skills.

It just so happened that Cheng Hai was the one and only person in the world with perfect marksmanship.

Although the state of Li Chenghai in the first 120 minutes of the game was extremely poor, he failed many shots and either went out of bounds or was saved by the goalkeeper.

But this time, Cheng Hai still decided to shoot directly, and he couldn't give the opponent's other defenders time to get back in place.

While Cheng Hai was chasing the ball, he saw the goalkeeper Ziller moving towards the near corner. The center of gravity moved towards the near corner, and he probably thought that Cheng Hai would hit the near corner. In addition, he didn't look at the goal behind him, but just moved by feeling. Therefore, the angle of Ziller's blocking is mainly from the near corner.

Therefore, Cheng Hai did not hesitate, and when he caught up with the ball outside the corner of the penalty area and kicked the goal, he kicked the ball to the far corner.

Cheng Hai didn't hit the grounder. Instead, he raised the ball slightly and drew a low flat ball in the air. This was also to prevent Qi Le from extending his legs to block the grounder from the far end even though his body was in the near corner.

Then Cheng Hai himself was thrown out by inertia and fell off the bottom line.

But the ball kicked by Cheng Hai has successfully lifted off the ground and flew past Qi Le's outstretched right leg.

Ziller really responded well, sat down on his buttocks, stretched his legs as hard as he could to block Cheng Hai's shot to the far corner.

But Cheng Hai kicked the ball in the air, just flew over his feet, and then flew into the far goal before the other central defender Ejiman, who returned to defend, hit the far side net.

Ejman also crashed into the goal but was unable to stop the goal.

Cheng Hai, who was in a bad state throughout the game, finally played his normal level in the counter-attack shot in the last minute and kicked the ball into the goal of Hannover 1.

The moment the ball flew into the goal and hit the inner net, the entire Westfalenstadion exploded. Tens of thousands of Bumblebee fans jumped up, screaming and shouting loudly, roaring and angrily, venting their excitement.

The commentators in the commentary booth also roared with the loudest voice:

"Toooooooooooooooooooooooor..."

"Loud!!!"

"Final lore!!!"

"Cheng Hai scored a winning goal in the last minute of overtime!"

"Cheng Hai, who was in poor form in this game, finally broke out in the last minute. Through his counterattack in the frontcourt, he got a chance to shoot directly and scored a crucial lore goal! Helped Dortmund beat Hannover 1 2-1 and advance to the quarterfinals of the German Cup."

"No matter how bad his condition is, Cheng Hai will always be Cheng Hai, the number one striker in the world!"

"With Cheng Hai's brace, Dortmund finally defeated Hannover 120 2-1 in 96 minutes, and there was no need for a frightening penalty shootout."

"Cheng Hai scored a lore goal in the last minute of overtime in the last game of 2012, which decided the fate of Dortmund's German Cup, drawing a perfect end to his 1 game."

On the court, Cheng Hai, who scored the lore goal, was also very excited. He rushed to the sidelines, stepped over the billboard, and then jumped into the group of diehard fans in the South Stand. They were hugged, pulled and patted by the fans, celebrating this crucial goal together.

Cheng Hai's lore preserved the possibility for Dortmund to continue to win the German Cup this season, and also retained the possibility of winning six championships this season.

Lewandowski, Gundogan and others, who were already physically exhausted, also rushed over excitedly, rushed to the stands together, and celebrated with Cheng Hai and the fans.

Flying more than half the world to Japan to play two Club World Cup games, and coming back to play the German Cup three days later, in extremely poor condition, he was able to kill his opponent and advance to the next round of the German Cup. Whether it was Cheng Hai, his teammates, or the fans, there were enough reasons to be excited.

However, the game isn't over yet.

Especially the players of Hannover 96 were naturally unwilling to be killed by Cheng Hai in the last minute. After Cheng Hai and others celebrated for more than 1 seconds, they protested to the referee, hoping that the game would start soon.

Under the intervention of the referee, Cheng Hai and others returned to the court, waiting for Hannover 96 to kick off again.

However, before kick-off, Klopp made substitution adjustments to delay time.

At this time, the time has reached 120 minutes, and the fourth official gave 1 minute of stoppage time.The Hannover fans in the stands booed that stoppage time was too short, but the referee ignored it.

Although Hannover 96 launched a full-on attack in the final stage, they both had physical and technical problems.

In the final stage, they only had time to hit a wave shot from outside the penalty area, which flew high off the crossbar and flew towards the stands, causing a burst of laughter from Dortmund fans in the stands.

Then, after stoppage time was over and the referee delayed for more than ten seconds, the ball was finally destroyed and went out of the sideline.

When the Hannover players were about to take a throw-in, the referee finally blew the whistle for the end of the game.

Relying on Cheng Hai's penalty kick and a lore in the last minute of overtime, Dortmund defeated Hannover 1 2-1 and advanced to the fourth round of the 96/2012 German Cup, which is the quarterfinals, retaining the hope of continuing to win the season's six crowns.

同时，多特蒙德在2012年的最后一场比赛也落下帷幕，程海2012年度的最终进球定格在了183球，比2011年的152球整整多了31个球。

Although it has not broken through the 200-ball mark, it is already a shocking enough record.