Chapter 316: Injuries Strike

Borussia Dortmund beat Ajax 3-0 away and Real Madrid drew 1-1 at Manchester City as they secured top spot after qualifying for the group as Dortmund and Real Madrid had a dominant win-loss relationship. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Real Madrid, who drew away in this round, accumulated eight points, Ajax had four points, and Manchester City had three points, which means that Real Madrid also qualified for the group ahead of schedule.

However, Real Madrid's qualification has somewhat dissatisfied fans, how can a team that has won the Champions League nine times be second in the group?

But the result has come out, Dortmund defeated Real Madrid 2:1 at home, and drew with Real Madrid with Tang Zheng's two goals away, with a difference of three points between them, but Dortmund has the advantage of winning and losing......

Moreover, if it weren't for Real Madrid's home game with Mesut Ozil's stroke of genius in injury time, Real Madrid would have been beaten home and away by Borussia Dortmund.

It's not easy to qualify from the group with Real Madrid, so why do you expect so much?

The Borussia Dortmund players, who had won away from home, were thrilled and raised their fists in excitement to vent the great joy of qualifying early and securing the top spot in the group.

It is worth mentioning that in the two games of Group E at the same time, the defending champion Chelsea lost 0:3 away to Juventus, and Shakhtar Donetsk defeated North Zealand 5:2 away, which means that Shakhtar Donetsk is ranked first with ten points, Juventus is second with nine points, and the defending champion Chelsea who lost is still seven points.

So the problem is, Shakhtar Donetsk, who have accumulated 10 points, have a better home and away win than Chelsea, and they have qualified for the group one round earlier.

Chelsea will have no chance of qualifying if they want to beat North Zealand and hope Shakhtar Donetsk beat Juventus at home......

So after the game, many European media said that Chelsea could be done by Shakhtar Donetsk and Juventus.

After all, Juventus' home and away results have overwhelmed Chelsea, and they can qualify from the group as long as they don't lose to Shakhtar Donetsk on the road!

The fifth round of the 2012-2013 Champions League group is over, of which the ten qualifying places in groups A, B, C, D, and F have been decided, and one team in groups E, G, and H has been determined, which means that there are still three places to wait until the final round to decide.

Borussia Dortmund qualified early and secured top spot in the group, Jurgen Klopp has a lot of room for adjustment in terms of line-up, and even a full bench can be fielded in the final group game against Manchester City, allowing the main players to concentrate on preparing for the domestic league......

At this time, the German media and domestic media began to be lively, Bayern Munich won eight consecutive wins at the beginning of the season, and the difference with Dortmund was once stretched to nine points.

With two rounds to go until the first leg of the 2012-2013 German national derby, the gap between the two has narrowed to four points.

Borussia Dortmund emerged from the Champions League Super Death Group and also secured top spot in the group.

Bayern Munich is different, they have 11 points with Valencia to qualify, relying on home and away records to dominate the top of the table, but if they want to avoid the big clubs in the Champions League 1/8 final draw, they must get first!

With the final round of the Champions League group remaining, Bayern Munich will have to settle for second place if they want to take the initiative, otherwise Bayern Munich will have to settle for second place if they make a mistake and Valencia wins.

In order to avoid this situation, Bayern had to stay in the final group stage of the Champions League.

Dortmund's preparation is definitely better than Bayern's.

Looking at the 10 meetings between the two teams over the past three seasons, Borussia Dortmund have won eight in a row against Bayern Munich, and the first leg of the 2012-2013 German national derby at the Allianz Arena is more or less in favour of the visitors.

According to the odds given by the three major European bookmakers, Dortmund, who are more inclined to be visitors, take all three points.

However, in this case, both Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich have chosen to remain silent and concentrate on preparing for the upcoming domestic league.

They all know that before the national derby, they must first make sure that they do not make mistakes, otherwise everything will be in vain!

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In the thirteenth round of the 2012-2013 Bundesliga, Bayern Munich hosted Hannover 96, Dortmund challenged Mainz away, and Klopp once again led the team to challenge his old club.

Bayern Munich and Hannover 96 kicked off the round with Bayern in full bloom at the Allianz Arena, with Harvey Martinez and Dante scoring their first league goals, while Kroos, Franck Ribery and Gomez scored one each.

In the end, Bayern Munich 5:0 Hannover 96 at home, the points came to 34 points in the first game, and opened up seven points with Dortmund, the second place in the league.

The pressure is on Borussia Dortmund's side, with Mainz not having been bad this season and currently sitting eighth in the league.

Like Borussia Dortmund, they have won all of their games at home this season.

Less than 10 minutes into the game, Mainz, who were at home to the Coface Arena, broke the deadlock with a long-range strike from midfielder Kirchhoff.

The Coface Arena, which has a capacity of 34,000 fans, burst into deafening cheers for the team's performance!

Borussia Dortmund want to take the three points away from our home stadium?

Just think about it!

However, the home fans were happy for less than ten minutes, Tang Zheng faked a shot at the edge of the penalty area, and the hidden outside instep of the real buckle was sent straight to the left rib of the attack, and the left-back Schmelzer inserted an inverted triangle pass at high speed, and Reus scored with a right-footed push into the far corner near the penalty spot to help Dortmund equalize!

Borussia Dortmund had just beaten Ajax by three goals at the Stade Amsterdam, and Mainz seemed to them like a level in the game, and it was only a matter of time before they cleared it!

Before the end of the first half, Tang Zheng passed a long diagonal pass of more than 40 meters on the right side of the attack, and Götze, who followed up at high speed on the left side, used his chest to stop and shoot decisively from 15 meters from the goal.

Gotze's shot bounced in front of goal, and Mainz goalkeeper Wittkolo's fingertips only slightly changed the trajectory of the ball, but it didn't stop the ball from getting in......

1:2

The visiting Dortmund overtook the score!

Tuchel clearly didn't want his predecessor to take all three points away at Coface Arena and made three substitutions in the second half in an effort to equalise at home.

However, Klopp's tactical choice in the second half was dominated by possession, with a five-man technical midfield of Tang Zheng, Andrea Pirlo, Gotze, Reus and Gundogan controlling the tempo.

Mainz's players are also not skilled enough at their feet, and they are easily affected by Dortmund's high pressing as they move from defense to attack, which leads to a sharp drop in pass success rate.

Borussia Dortmund also squandered two great chances in the second half as the two sides ended up 2-1, with second-placed Borussia Dortmund taking all three points as they wished.

With an away win, the difference between Dortmund and Bayern Munich has once again become four points, and the local media in Munich are a little worried.

Borussia Dortmund host Fortuna Dusseldorf at the Westphalen Stadium in midweek, while Bayern Munich travels to Freiburg.

With Borussia Dortmund beating Mainz 2-1 away, they became the only team in the Bundesliga to keep a clean home win this season.

Fortuna Dusseldorf has lost all of its last three away games, and only beat Hamburg 2-0 at home in the last seven rounds of the league, and its competitive form is not good, and it is one of the two teams with the lowest odds of the three major European lottery companies to open the Bundesliga relegation favorites this season.

They are also not high in the league at the moment, 14th and fifth from bottom.

On the other hand, Dortmund has won six consecutive victories since the draw against Hannover 96 in the seventh round, and then took advantage of Bayern Munich's one draw and one loss to narrow the gap between them.

In the regular press conference before the game, the visiting team Fortuna Dusseldorf in the North Rhine-Westphalia derby was very low-key, and head coach Jens Kohler will be interviewed by the media to show weakness, saying that Dortmund are more champions than Bayern Munich......

Everyone knew that Jens Kohler was showing weakness, as did the Borussia Dortmund players who had learned about it from the media, but they still had some underdogs.

Because Fortuna Dusseldorf's capacity is so limited, the team will be at the Allianz Arena to challenge league leaders Bayern Munich at the weekend, and it can be said that most of the players' minds are focused on the German national derby.

Even Tang Zheng is the same.

Fortuna Dusseldorf have just one win in their last seven games, but the victory came four days ago at the Esprit Arena, and they remember the victory vividly, so they were quite resilient at Westfal Stadium.

At the end of the first half, the scoreboard did not change in any way.

0:0

The two sides exchanged blank papers.

In the home team's dressing room, Klopp rarely criticized the players for underestimating the enemy: "Fortuna Dusseldorf is a Bundesliga team even if the overall strength is poor, look at what you played in the first half? If you prepare for the German national derby at the weekend with such a performance, if you don't lose by four goals, I will lose!"

In the second half, the Dortmund players, who seemed to be in low spirits in the first half, gradually found their own form of play.

In the 67th minute, Andrea Pirlo sent a long ball over 60 metres from a defensive turn to find substitute Perisic, who cut inside and scored the only goal of the game.

However, the game was won, but manager Jurgen Klopp was not happy, and Andrea Pirlo and captain Kyle were unable to continue the game due to injuries in the closing stages of the game.

According to the preliminary diagnosis of the team doctor Dr. Schrenberg, Pirlo is an ordinary muscle strain, and the recent double match of a week has made him unwell at the age of Chinese New Year's Eve, and he can resume training after about half a month of recuperation.

Kyle's injury was relatively troublesome, and from the slow-motion replays at the time, there was no physical confrontation......

The next day, the MRI results came out, Kyle's old injury recurred, and he tore the cruciate ligament in his left knee, which was considered a reimbursement for the whole season.

The use of personnel in the midfield position was quite generous, but now it has lost two in a game, and it has become overstretched in an instant.

However, it is not without good news for Klopp, as winger Arjen Robben, who Bayern have relied heavily on in attack, is still on the recovery list and will miss the first leg of the 2012-2013 German national derby.