49. Chapter 49

Thiago Silva squatted down to tie his shoelaces carefully as he sat on the bench in the away dressing room.

Since Thuram's move to Borussia Dortmund, he has become the team's third centre-back, and has been squeezed out of the starting eleven by Thuram and Metzelde.

He has nothing to complain about, and the difference in experience between him and Thuram is evident from the usual training.

As for Metzelde, Thiago thinks that his skills are on par with him, but Yan Jing chose Metzelde, and he has no position to blame.

Now that Metzelder is injured, his chance has finally come.

Before the team entered the players' tunnel, Yan Jing handed the captain's armband, which represents the leader, to Thuram.

"Lilian, don't forget it. ”

Originally, the team's vice-captain was Kyle, and it stands to reason that he should be the captain of the field in the event of Metzelde's injury.

However, he did not enter the starting list in this game, so Yan Jing chose to let Thuram, a defender who is very prestigious among the players, be the captain.

Thuram slammed the captain's armband firmly over his left arm.

Before coming to Dortmund, he had always thought that German teams were not very competitive except for Bayern Munich, but the Dortmund led by Yan Jing made him change his mind.

Before he actually met his teammates, he looked at the names of the list with a little worry, except for his national team teammate Franck Ribery and Sneijder, who was selected for the Dutch national team, he basically didn't know anyone else.

But after really integrating into the team, this team with a large number of young people, both on and off the field, showed amazing potential that surprised him.

He has been teaching his most valuable experience to Thiago Silva, who is in the same position as him, not only because Yan Jing wants him to do so, but more importantly, what he has shown in Thiago that he is willing to help the younger generation.

The Bundesliga started with five consecutive wins and won the first leg of the Champions League against local tycoon Chelsea...... How far can Dortmund go this season?

Thuram was full of anticipation, and he changed his mind about regretting signing the outrageous deal.

Maybe coming to Dortmund was the right choice?

After the usual morale-boosting formation, this time the switch Thuram waved at his teammates.

"Guys, let's go!"

"Good evening, audience, I wonder if today's dinner will be enough to satisfy you?" Dicker sat in the German studio, and his partner Faye punctually explained to the German fans, "It doesn't matter if you don't taste your favorite food, because the upcoming Champions League matches will definitely make you 'feast'!"

After Dicker finished his opening remarks, Faye continued: "The players of both teams have already entered the stadium, and I will introduce you to the starting line-ups of both sides. ”

'For Barcelona, they used their usual 4-3-3 formation. Goalkeeper No. 1 Valdés, at the back are No. 11 Zambrotta, No. 4 Marcos, No. 5 captain Puyol, No. 12 Van Bronhorst, in midfield, No. 3 Motta, No. 20 Deco and No. 24 Iniesta, in the forward line, No. 10 Ronaldinho returned from injury, No. 9 Eto'o in the middle, and No. 19 Messi on the wing. ”

Yan Jing looked over the Barcelona bench, where their number 6 Xavi sat on the bench. Xavi suffered a serious injury such as a torn ligament in his knee last season and had to rest for several months to barely make it to the Champions League final and the World Cup.

And during training, his old wound began to ache again. Despite saying that there was no problem after a doctor's examination, Rijkaard did not add him to the starting line-up for this game just in case.

On the Borussia Dortmund side, the goalkeeper is still No. 1 Weidenfeller, in the backline, due to the injury of captain Metzelde, Thiago Silva took his place, and this season's new signing Lilian Thuram wore the captain's armband for the first time, and the two full-backs are still Dede and Lichtsteiner. In midfield, Shaheen and Yaya Toure remain unchanged in midfield, with David Silva, Sneijder and Franck Ribery in front of them, while Spanish striker Villa remains up front. ”

Villa, who kicked off first, stood in front of the ball, and he raised his foot on the surface of the ball to wait for the referee to give the order.

Ronaldinho was in his place, confident and not taking the German team he toyed with last year to applause.

Although he didn't have a very good rest last night because he hooked up with a hot Spanish woman to go home and spend ** together, it certainly won't get in the way of his appearance on the court, which is all routine anyway.

"The referee blew the whistle for the start of the game!"

Villa passes the ball to David Silva. The two Spaniards are no strangers to the Camp Nou and have played against Barcelona at Camp Nou when they played in Spain.

David Silva took aim at the position of Barcelona's starter and immediately moved the ball to Sneijder in the middle after receiving the ball.

The Barcelona players did not take the initiative to press forward like they did, but quickly found their position to stabilize the formation, as if waiting for them to attack.

With Villa running ahead, Sneijder would have liked to penetrate Barcelona's defence with a single pass, as he had done in previous games, but he didn't look for such an opportunity as the Barcelona players were already in position.

As he ran, Villa also found Sneijder unable to get the ball directly to his feet, and he quickly pulled back to keep the team's lines from spreading too wide.

Yan Jing stood on the sidelines from the beginning, he looked at the situation on the field with a calm expression, but his heart was turbulent.

If there was one game last season that changed Yan Jing's mindset about winning and losing, it was undoubtedly last season's Champions League quarter-final defeat to Barcelona at Camp Nou.

Before losing to Barcelona, Dortmund did not say that they had never lost, but Yan Jing had never experienced the feeling of being unable to do anything.

Now, half a year later, there are a large number of players wearing Dortmund shirts that are different from those of that time. They are younger, more energetic than their predecessors, and share his hunger for glory.

How effective was his hard work in the summer? Yan Jing felt that Tong Guò's game could be more or less discerning.

Rijkaard, sitting on the home bench, was talking to his assistant Neeskens about Cruyff, the godfather of Barca, and didn't seem to worry about the outcome of the game.

"John, sir, he's here today?"

While Rijkaard is the manager, Neeskens is his elder, with the low-key Dutch superstar having been teammates with his mentor Cruyff for many years.

Neeskens smiled at Rijkaard: "Yes, he called me before the game and said he wanted to see a good win. ”

Ten minutes into the game, Barcelona began to attack aggressively after the first two minutes of caution, snatching the ball.

Borussia Dortmund failed to find any decent chances and now the ball was at the feet of the Barcelona players.

Barcelona captain Puyol handed the ball to Marcos, and Villa immediately habitually stepped forward to harass, but Marcos immediately handed the ball to Deco in front.

David Silva and Sneijder, who were next to Deco, shrank and tried to squeeze Deco with the ball, but the Portuguese still found a way to pass the ball out of the gap.

And it was Ronaldinho on the left who received Deco's pass.

Facing his youngster Lichtsteiner, Ronaldinho bent down to tilt his weight towards his foot, and then gently swept the ball from the inside to the outside with the outside of the instep to make a gesture to break through from this side.

Yan Jing didn't know what Lichtsteiner was thinking at the moment, but when he saw Ronaldinho's outside instep on his side ready to cut in, he knew that the Brazilian was likely to perform his stunt again.

Sure enough, although Yan Jingyou had told the players about Ronaldinho's usual skills before the game, the young Swiss was obviously deceived by the opponent's overly realistic movements.

Lichtsteiner saw that Ronaldinho's body was already tilted like this, and subconsciously moved his body to prepare to intercept.

But what he didn't expect was that when he had completely surrendered his center of gravity, Ronaldinho suddenly moved his center of gravity in a circular arc in the opposite direction, and at the same time hooked the ball back with the outside instep.

By this time, Shaheen had lost his center of gravity, and by the time he adjusted his focus, Ronaldinho had already thrown off him and rushed to the Dortmund backline.

When Barcelona played against Chelsea last year, Ronaldinho used this trick to frequently tease Chelsea's defender Ferreira!"

The excited Dicker slapped his big hand and landed on Faye's thigh next to him, so painful that Faye beside him couldn't help but reach out and pinch Dicker's thigh meat fiercely.

Feiye is not easy to do, if it weren't for Dicker's patience, it is estimated that he would have lost the nickname of a "screaming genre" commentator.

Thiago Silva has suffered a lot from two strikers, Inter striker Adriano who delayed him to the first red dot package of his career, and Ronaldinho, who is rushing towards him.

In last season's Champions League game, he couldn't come up with much to deal with the elf-like dancing Xiao Luo and having to defend his teammates.

Lilian is watching Eto'o and Dede is defending Messi...... It seems that they will not be able to help defend it.

Thiago Silva glanced at the situation next to him, and he was prepared for the worst by himself.