Borussia Dortmund beat Ajax 1-0 in the first game of the 2012-2013 Champions League group stage at home thanks to Tang Zheng's goal, but the team's loss of Andrea Pirlo somewhat reduced the victory. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Pirlo's presence has made Dortmund's overall attack more three-dimensional, and his experience in Champions League games has been a valuable asset to the team.

Last season's Borussia Dortmund's return to the Champions League after a nine-year hiatus and reaching the quarter-finals of the Champions League is directly related to Andrea Pirlo's experience.

The next day, the MRI results came back and Pirlo's injury was not important, it was more difficult to recover.

Thigh muscle strain, this kind of injury is already troublesome to recover, plus Pirlo is old, and his self-recovery ability is much weaker than when he was young, so it is conservatively estimated that Pirlo will miss more than a month of play.

This news is a huge blow to Dortmund, and the league is okay to say, but the Champions League is more troublesome.

The next Champions League fixture will be a trip to Manchester City and then a home game against Galaxy Battleship Real Madrid.

Regardless of the opponent, the absence of Pirlo is fatal.

The absence of Andrea Pirlo was already evident in the weekend's league game, with Borussia Dortmund travelling to the Intronic Intent to take on home side Hamburg.

Hamburg are second to last in the league after losing all three of their first three rounds, so this game is considered to be a no-brainer, with the defending champions taking home side Hamburg lightly.

But the result?

Hamburg defeated defending champion Borussia Dortmund 3-2 at home, in which South Korean player Son Heung-min was in hot form and scored twice, which was the biggest contributor to Hamburg's victory.

Tang Zheng didn't score or assist, but he had the highest number of runs, clearances and passes in the game.

Therefore, many German media believe that Dortmund's away loss is due to Pirlo's injury, and Tang Zheng returned to the midfield to organize the team's attack in order to ensure that the team's offensive and defensive transitions are not affected.

Gotze is very capable, but his confrontation ability and the team's grasp of key balls are still a little bit worse.

Interestingly, the South Korean media have their opinion, they believe that Hamburg's home victory is entirely due to Son Heungmin's amazing play, which caused Tang Zheng to be unable to take care of the attack, so Hamburg's home victory is blamed on Son Heungmin.

Of course, this is just the opinion of the Korean media, and the analysis of most of the media is still very good and fair.

The 2012-2013 Bundesliga season started later than usual due to the European Championship, and in order to complete the first half of the 17 rounds of the league before Christmas, the original one-game league was squeezed and turned into a two-game game a week.

For example, the fourth round of the 2012-2013 Bundesliga season passed, followed by the domestic league in midweek.

Borussia Dortmund continue their road trip with a challenge to Eintracht Frankfurt, who are currently second in the league at the Forest Stadium.

In this game, Klopp considered that the use of Tang Zheng in the last round of away games was too inclined to defense, resulting in the team's relatively muted attack in the frontcourt, so Tang Zheng was relatively high in the league in midweek.

It didn't take long for Dortmund to start the game and score a miracle.

It was Tang Zheng who assisted, and he found Royce with a penetrating through ball in a careless manner, who stabbed the ball into the back of the net from between the legs of the attacking goalkeeper Trapp.

However, it was short-lived, as centre-back Hummels had a bad pass and Eintracht Frankfurt counter-attacked quickly, with striker Meyer firing the ball into the back of the net.

Before the end of the first half, Eintracht Frankfurt switched from defense to attack, and the back field directly made a long pass to find the goalkeeper Meyer, Meyer's header returned to the top, and the Canadian veteran O'Sian kicked the world wave to help the home team overtake the score!

The home fans were thrilled as Eintracht Frankfurt won their first four games of the season and finished second in the league on goal difference.

If they can beat the defending champion Borussia Dortmund in this round, it will definitely boost morale.

However, not long after the start of the second half, it was Dortmund midfield core Tang Zheng who stepped up, and his long-range shot from the edge of the penalty area caused goalkeeper Trapp to get out of his hands and follow Lewandowski to equalize.

In the 62nd minute, Dortmund overtook the score away from home, Gotze suddenly passed to the middle after a breakthrough on the left side of the penalty area, Tang Zheng dangled a shot in front of him, and Lewandowski, who retreated to respond, hit the ball into the bottom left corner of the goal.

Just when everyone thought defending champions Borussia Dortmund would beat Eintracht Frankfurt away, Japan's Kantaka helped Eintracht Frankfurt equalise.

The Japanese media were just as excited as the South Korean media last weekend, proud of their country's outstanding players.

3：3

It was also the final score of the game, with Borussia Dortmund dropping points again on the road.

Because Bayern Munich, which kicked off at the same time, defeated Wolfsburg 3-0 at home, it means that Dortmund, who have eight points in five games, two wins, two draws and one loss, has been thrown off by Bayern Munich, who is ranked first in the league, by a full seven points......

Since the 2012-2013 season, Dortmund has played six games, five in the league, one in the Champions League, and two wins in five league games have all been at home.

The German newspaper Bild wrote about Dortmund's poor away results: "Dortmund won the league in the 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 seasons because of their good hosts. The away results are linked, and this season's Dortmund has not tasted a win away so far, and the direct result is that the league has been thrown away by Bayern by seven points in the first five rounds......

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Borussia Dortmund are winless in two consecutive away games and manager Jurgen Klopp is under pressure.

As the star of the team, Tang Zheng has also received a lot of criticism, and many media believe that Dortmund's poor away results are directly related to his lack of performance.

Winning is able to mask a lot of things, while a winning streak can expose some problems.

Speaking to the media, Borussia Dortmund's homegrown star Gotze said he deserves more attention, especially in difficult circumstances.

Obviously, the implication is that Klopp is dissatisfied with Tang Zheng as always.

Captain Kyle has always been the boss of the dressing room, and with Tang Zheng leading Dortmund to the league championship and Europa League, Tang Zheng's status in the dressing room has skyrocketed, making some German players dissatisfied.

The most obvious of these is Gotze, who is a very ambitious player who has always wanted to be the flag of Borussia Dortmund.

But when many fans talk about Dortmund, their first reaction is Tang Zheng.

The content of Götze's interview with the media fermented quickly, and manager Jurgen Klopp felt a little dissatisfied, but he did not angrily reprimand Götze in person, but warned him privately.

The team's current predicament is not an individual problem, but a problem of the whole team.

Tang Zheng, who has focused on training, has always been skeptical of media reports, but he has slowly noticed a change in Gotze's attitude, especially in the dressing room.

Could it be ...... Really upset with yourself?

Thinking of this, Tang Zheng calmed down and carefully pondered the last few games.

It seems that Gotze gives himself a lot less passes, and ...... It was also a knife mountain ball that was passed.

Is it true that the content of the media report is true?

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Borussia Dortmund have their final league game at the end of September, returning home to last season's fourth-placed Borussia Mönchengladbach, with Reus once again facing his former club.

Bayern, who started the game, have beaten Werder Bremen 2-0 away and continue to top the league table.

Bayern's six-game winning streak in the league has put a lot of pressure on the Dortmund players, who have been a little impatient at the start.

Tang Zheng consciously slowed down the team's offensive tempo, but once the football reached the feet of Gotze or Reus, the offensive tempo would be accelerated, so often Tang Zheng had not participated in the attack, and the attack had already ended.

Coach Jurgen Klopp was keenly aware that his team was in too much of a hurry, so he took advantage of the dead-ball opportunity to remind Gotze and Reus to slow down their attack.

There is no doubt that the authority of the head coach is absolute, and no one dares to disobey it.

Borussia Mönchengladbach are no longer the top dark horses of last season's fourth-place finish in the league, winning just one of their last five league games, so they were clear on the road to Westphalia and were in contention for a draw.

Borussia Dortmund, who play at home, have dropped points on two consecutive away games and are understandably impatient in attack.

Under the reminder of the head coach and the control of Tang Zheng, it has to be said that Dortmund, who calmed down, was terrifying.

In the twelfth minute, Borussia Dortmund scored at home.

Tang Zheng suddenly accelerated the ball in the middle of the road, made a left foot to pass the ball to Götze, but suddenly used his heel to knock the football back, and then without making adjustments, he directly made a long pass to attack the right side, and Piszczek, who was inserted at high speed, made a horizontal pass.

Robert Lewandowski scored his fifth league goal of the season.

A minute later, the Swiss player Xhaka, who joined Borussia Mönchengladbach this summer, was cut off in midfield by Tang Zheng, who played a straight pass to the left, and Gotze played a good trick down the left to give Dortmund a two-goal lead at home.

Conceding two goals in two minutes, the visiting Borussia Mönchengladbach looked defeated.

Before the end of the first half, Tang Zheng, who had been making the ball for his teammates, suddenly fired at the edge of the penalty area, and the little lion king Ter Stegen, who was selected as the best goalkeeper last season, was unable to reach the whip and watched the football go into the net.

Borussia Dortmund added two more goals in the second half against Borussia Mönchengladbach, who were on the back of Perisic and Schibert.

In the end, Dortmund beat Borussia Mönchengladbach 5-0 at home.

But the home win didn't silence the media, as the next game was the test for Borussia Dortmund.

Borussia Dortmund travel to the Etihad Stadium in midweek to challenge last season's Premier League champions Manchester City.