Chapter 255: Dominating the Ruhr Derby (3/10, Subscribe Please!)

Borussia Dortmund's home win over Bayern Munich came as little of a surprise, given that Bayern have a crucial first leg of the Champions League semi-final in midweek. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Champions League is clearly more attractive than the illusory league title.

Therefore, the visiting Bayern Munich did not release the full main line-up, but let the core players get enough rest to prepare for the first leg of the Champions League semi-final at the Allianz Arena in the middle of next week.

With a home win over Bayern Munich, Dortmund moved to 75 points, seven points short of the 82 points they set last season, meaning they only need eight points for the next four league games.

According to the schedule, Dortmund are likely to pick up eight points, and if the game goes well, they are likely to get twelve.

The remaining four league fixtures are away to Schalke 04, home to Borussia Mönchengladbach, away to Kaiserslautern and home to Freiburg.

After 30 rounds of the league, Schalke 04 ranks third in the league with 57 points, and Borussia Mönchengladbach ranks fourth in the league with 53 points.

Kaiserslautern are bottom of the league with 20 points, nine points away from third-to-bottom Cologne, and there should be no suspense about direct relegation this season.

Freiburg is 14th in the league with 35 points, five points ahead of Cologne in the bottom of the league, and relegation is not a big problem.

Moreover, the last two league games of Dortmund, Kaiserslautern and Freiburg are basically clear, and the teams that should be directly relegated have been directly relegated, and those who should have completed relegation should also complete relegation.

It is equivalent to saying that the two teams of Kaiserslautern and Freiburg are likely to become Dortmund's score-giving boys, with six points.

As for the remaining two points, it will not be a problem to get them on Schalke 04 and Borussia Mönchengladbach.

If it goes well, six points is not too much.

It's just that the problem arises in the next league meeting, with Borussia Dortmund visiting Fairtings Arena to take on Schalke 04.

Interestingly, according to the calculation of European points so far this season, the Bundesliga European points will surpass Serie A to the third place in the European League after the season, which means that the 2012-2013 Champions League Bundesliga is no longer a 2+1 Champions League place, but a 3+1.

The top three teams in the league directly qualify for the round of 32 of the Champions League, and the fourth place plays in the fourth qualifying round of the Champions League.

Schalke 04, who are currently third in the league, are four points ahead of fourth-placed Borussia Mönchengladbach, with four rounds of the league remaining and there is still some risk, so the 31st round of the league tie at home to league leaders Borussia Dortmund is the most important game.

Because in the match at the same time, Borussia Mönchengladbach hosts Cologne, the bottom three of the league, and the odds of winning are very high.

To get a place in next season's Champions League, Schalke 04 must at least not lose at home.

However, considering the particularity of the Ruhr derby, Schalke 04, who are playing at home, cannot be coaxed.

While the German media are focusing on Bayern Munich's midweek Champions League semi-final with Real Madrid, they are also focusing on the Ruhr derby at the Gelsenkirchen Athletic Stadium at the weekend.

At the same time, the Chinese media also paid considerable attention to the Ruhr derby.

However, the Chinese media focused on this game, not only the direct confrontation between Tang Zheng and Hao Junmin, the two Chinese players, but more importantly, after Dortmund's home win over Bayern Munich, manager Jurgen Klopp mentioned that he wanted to promote young people.

Borussia Dortmund's defending league title has lost its suspense, and Klopp only needs to focus on the final of the German Cup against Bayern Munich at the end of the season.

Young players such as Koch, Reitner and Kinczek will be trained, but the Chinese media will not focus on them.

It was Lu Liang, a Chinese teenager who crossed over to the Dortmund U19 youth team at the age of seventeen.

This demonic winger, who was excavated by Tang Zheng at his alma mater, has become a rising star with considerable attention from the Chinese media.

If nothing else, Borussia Dortmund will be on the bench in the 31st round of the 2011-2012 Bundesliga season against arch-rivals Schalke 04, giving them their first close experience of the Bundesliga frenetic atmosphere.

Borussia Dortmund was training in preparation for Schalke 04 away, and the 17-year-old Chinese winger Lu Liang appeared at the first-team training ground.

Like all young players who have been drawn to the first team, he is excited and overwhelmed.

Fortunately, there was a big brother Tang Zheng in the team, and before the start of Lu Liang's first training class, Tang Zheng put his arm on the shoulder of Lu Liang, who was less than 1.8 meters, and said to his teammates half-jokingly: "This is my little brother, take care of me." ”

Actually, there is no need for Tang Zheng to say more.

Tang Zheng is the most important part of Dortmund, and there is no need to say many things, and Lu Liang, who was excavated by Tang Zheng to Dortmund, will naturally be treated well.

In training, Lu Liang has Tang Zheng, the big brother, constantly feeding the ball, and he integrates into the team very quickly.

His left-footed rhythmic in-cut dribble even gave Piszczek the illusion that it was Robben.

Head coach Jurgen Klopp was very pleased with the Chinese youngster recommended by youth director Ricken, and he really didn't expect that there was a young player with such outstanding talent in China besides Tang Zheng.

It was only then that he realized that the football desert was not really a desert, and there were still many young talents in China who had not been tapped.

Klopp had a relevant understanding with Tang Zheng, and Lu Liang was just an alumnus and disciple that Tang Zheng discovered by chance.

China has a lot of land, so don't there be other talented young players?

No way!

So Jurgen Klopp decided that this summer he could promise CEO Watzke to let the team play commercial games in China to see if he could find other talented young Chinese players.

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In midweek, the Champions League semi-finals kicked off at the Allianz Arena in Munich and Stamford Bridge in London.

After 90 minutes, Bayern Munich defeated Real Madrid 2-1 at home.

At 8:45 p.m. local time the next day, Chelsea hosted Barcelona in the first leg of the Champions League semi-final, and after 90 minutes of fierce battle, Chelsea at Stamford Bridge beat Barcelona 1-0 thanks to a goal from Didier Drogba.

Tang Zheng watched the two Champions League semi-finals at home, and it was a pity for his friend Alexis Sanchez to miss the equaliser with a volley that hit the crossbar early in the game.

At half past two o'clock in the afternoon of Saturday local time in Germany, Dortmund challenged Schalke 04 away in the 31st round of the 2011-2012 Bundesliga season at the Battlens Arena.

Chinese media attention of the teenager Lu Liang wearing the number 39 in the Ruhr derby in the 18-man squad, but at the age of 17 years and 79 days, whether he can become the second youngest player in Dortmund's history depends on the specific arrangements of manager Klopp.

Tang Zheng appeared in his relatively familiar midfield position in this game, partnering Gundogan and Gotze as the front midfielder.

Reus and Kooba are left and right, with Polish striker Robert Lewandowski, who has improved a lot this season, at the top.

It is worth mentioning that Barrios, who has been unable to play in the starting position for a long time after recovering from injury this season, has already had the idea of leaving, and it is said that the club most likely to become Barrios's next home is Guangzhou Evergrande, which is known as Kaiserslautern in the Chinese Super League.

Once again, Chinese football and world football have a connection.

Attention returned to the Battlens Arena, and Schalke 04, who were playing at home, were all the main players.

Goalkeeper Unesthal, the four defenders are Atsuto Uchida, Papadopoulos, Metzeld and Fuchs, the two midfielders Moritz and Jones, the three forwards are Artemisia Junmin, Raul and Draxler, and Huntelaar is at the front.

With a capacity of more than 61,000 fans, the Fairtings Arena was packed to the brim, with every fan who came to the stadium hysterically contributing their own voice, making the game hot before it started.

The German media focused on the content of the game, while the Chinese media focused on the performance of Tang Zheng and Hao Junmin.

In addition, it would be even more perfect if the seventeen-year-old Lu Liang could get the opportunity to come off the bench.

At the beginning of the game, Schalke 04 at home were significantly more aggressive, breaking through Dortmund's high press through successive passes, and then taking the lead with the superb dribbling ability of talented teenager Draxler.

Subsequently, Tang Zheng strengthened the assistance defense of Draxler, and the Schalke 04 outstanding academy player went into stealth mode.

However, the first to take the lead was Schalke 04 at home, Hao Junmin won the ball on the right side and crossed directly 45 degrees to find the hidden Huntelaar in the penalty area, who completed the leap to the top and broke the deadlock.

But the Schalke 04 fans in the stands didn't stay happy for long.

Two minutes later, Tang Zheng cut off the ball at Draxler's feet, and then made a long pass of more than 50 meters to find Reuss who was inserted at high speed on the left.

Reuss cut inside laterally and slotted straight into the left side of the box, and the follow-up Lewandowski made a fake pass and Gotze was able to score in front of the penalty spot.

The score of 1:1 remained unchanged until the end of the first half.

In the second half, Dortmund made substitution adjustments on both lines, Pirlo replaced Kuba, Tang Zheng was positional, and Pirlo partnered with Gundogan.

This substitution took effect quickly, and the direct effect of Tang Zheng's position premise was that the pressure on the defenders in Schalke 04 was greatly increased.

Tang Zheng broke through and won a well-placed direct free-kick, and substitute Andrea Pirlo showed off his free-kick skills in the Bundesliga.

The 21-year-old goalkeeper was out of reach as Borussia Dortmund overtook Schalke 04 away.

Dortmund's 2:1 lead over Schalke 04 lasted until injury time, just when everyone thought the 140th Ruhr derby was over, Chinese international Hao Junmin took advantage of a direct free kick opportunity to help Schalke 04 equalize at Battlens Arena!

Although the Chinese media did not wait for the debut of the teenager Lu Liang, the domination of the Ruhr derby by two Chinese players made the Chinese media and fans very satisfied.

The final draw at home gave Dortmund 76 points, and even if Bayern Munich beat Mainz at home, Dortmund defended their league title three games ahead of schedule with a 10-point lead.