52. Chapter 52
The first two rounds of the Champions League group stage have all come to an end, and Borussia Dortmund are surprisingly top of the group with both wins in both games.
Barcelona are in second place for the time being, thanks to a 5-0 thrashing of Olympiacos in the first round and a better goal difference than Chelsea, who beat Olympiacos 3-1 in the second round.
Chelsea are third, with Olympiacos at the bottom, unsurprisingly, after losing both games.
Yan Jing led Dortmund to defeat strong opponents one after another, which made many media outlets look sideways, and they reported on the reborn Yellow and Black this season.
In China, Yan Jing is even more popular, and you can see small advertisements that steal Yan Jing's portrait everywhere, and the most laughable thing is that an aphrodisiac health product forcibly printed Yan Jing on their packaging.
Now when asked "which fan are you", "Dortmund" has surpassed "AC Milan", "Real Madrid" and other giants, and has become the most textbook standard answer.
In the Bundesliga, Borussia Dortmund continued to soar and were full of confidence as they beat Hannover 96 2-0 thanks to Franck Frangié's brace.
After this game, Dortmund have started the season on a six-game winning streak.
Such a strong performance has forced the media to mention a record - with just one more win, Dortmund will be able to equal the record for the best start in the Bundesliga!
Looking at the decades of Bundesliga history, only two teams have won seven games in a row: Bayern Munich in 1995/96 and Kaiserslautern in 2001/02.
But it wasn't enough to have a good start to the season, and both of these record-setting teams were unable to sustain their good momentum and eventually lost the title in the gutter.
It is worth mentioning that the Bundesliga titles in 1995/96 and 2001/02 happened to be Borussia Dortmund, and even Bayern Munich's seven-game winning streak was ended by them.
Documentary-related news always gets more attention, and what was supposed to be a very ordinary game was played up by reporters with a lot of pain.
When the head coach of the team that is likely to break this record is still a handsome Oriental guy who is only 25 years old, the media hype is even more lively.
Yan Jing himself doesn't have any special feelings about this. Breaking this record can't add extra points, can't break it and doesn't lose anything to the team, winning the game is the most important thing, if you can break the record by the way, it's a good thing.
However, the mentality of the players has suffered.
On 11 October 2006, Borussia Dortmund played Cottage Ivbus away.
Although they won the game 1-0 in the end, the process was not as easy as the previous games, and it could even be said to be quite tough.
Is Otbus strong? Can it be better than Barcelona and Chelsea?
But in the face of such a team that is now hovering in the relegation zone of the standings, Dortmund's players are in a difficult battle.
Looking at the whole game, Dortmund had 65 percent possession, far more than their opponents. They had 23 shots on goal, but only one of them was converted into a final goal, a contrast to the previous high efficiency, which even led football critics to suspect that they had hired a stuntman to play today.
Nowhere is this more evident than in Ribery's impatience to score goals. As the heart of Dortmund's attack, his appearance has also had an impact on other players, and the whole team has shown a kind of impetuous posture as a result.
Had it not been for a late Cottage defender's mistake that sent football to their own doors, their winning streak would have come to an end.
After the game, Yan Jing pondered the reason for the change in the locker room.
It stands to reason that it shouldn't be, the team has been in good shape recently, and there have been no accidents that have affected the morale of the army......
Just when Yan Jingsi was puzzled after thinking about it, Ribery's words made Yan Jingwan wake up.
"Boss, if we win the next game, we can break the record!"
Yes, yes.
To find the root cause of the symptoms, Yan Jing really wanted to greet the media who had to be hyped up like a strange anecdote for big things.
Well, although this thing is a bit bigger than a fart......
Yan Jing is sure that if it weren't for these media reading and saying every day, his players, especially those foreign aids, probably wouldn't have known that there was still this record.
was originally a good ordinary Bundesliga league, but they made it as if it were the first human landing on the moon.
"Frank, it's not a big deal." Yan Jing smiled and said, "When the team signed the contract with you, there was no treaty on how many bonuses would be awarded if this record was broken, and the team would not be crowned champion in advance because of this, right?" ”
After Borussia Dortmund beat Cottage Cottage Korbs, the team became only the third team in Bundesliga history to start a seven-game winning streak.
Their next match is against Bochum, who are currently at the bottom of the table, and if nothing else, many commentators believe that the holder of this record will change his name.
Yan Jing didn't think too much about it at the time, but just verbally told the players not to affect their performance because of this incident.
In the past two months since the start of the season, the players have been very obedient, and if there is a small mistake, Yan Jing can correct it immediately after saying a few words, so Yan Jing feels that after he talked about it, everyone should not think about it too deliberately.
In the pre-match press conference with Bochum, Juul Lambert's gossip soul lives on, and he noticed that Yan Jing was not wearing his usual yellow and black tie today, and threw the question at Yan Jing.
Yan Jing curled his eyebrows with a smile, saying that he just "just took it to clean." ”
Many media have asked Yan Jing about breaking the record, and Yan Jing said, "Victory is the most important thing, and the record is just a side giveaway." ”
But apparently the Dortmund players don't think so, and most of the Dortmund players have not yet been honored.
For this record, although they are no different from usual in front of Yan Jing, only they know that under the hype of the media, they care very much in their hearts.
This time, the players couldn't get rid of their inner distractions as before, and the record of seven consecutive wins in the league and two consecutive wins in the Champions League also dulled Yan Jing's observation, and he didn't notice the subtle change in the players' mentality in his usual training.
In itself, it was just an ordinary game, but now the players are treating it as a "life-and-death battle to win the championship" or a "relegation life-and-death battle".
The overly nonsensical tension limited the players' performance, and in the first 20 minutes of the game, Yan Jing stared at the situation on the field with a straight toothache.
Creator wigs, what are these goddamn fellows smoking?! Why does he think this is worse than the last game against Hannover 96?!
Dortmund had a high rate of possession and the team as a whole lost the efficiency they had in previous games.
When Ribery and Villa sent the ball into the sky again and again, Yan Jing couldn't help but want to change immediately, but he had to resist his urge to withdraw the two.
Because in an ordinary game, if it weren't for an injury or an unexpected situation where a player was sent off the pitch late for a red card, it was rare for a coach to make a player change before the end of the first half.
To be substituted in front of the fans before half-time was almost a shame for the players.
So even if the players play badly, most coaches will endure the half, and of course there are those who are replaced before the first half is over, but that is a very rare case.
For this reason, and although Ribery and Villa always waste opportunities, it is Dortmund who has the advantage in the situation, and Yan Jing did not implement what he wanted.
At first, Yan Jing was still standing on the sidelines to give instructions to the players, but later he found that the command that could have made the players unite was now making them more anxious, so he simply turned around and sat back on the bench.
Damn, Lao Tzu has to endure it for your face, can you fight for Lao Tzu!
On the bench, the players who did not enter the starting lineup peeked at Yan Jing, who was angry, and even sat up a little more upright, for fear of provoking their own head coach.
Not to mention the veteran players, although the new players this season have not yet experienced the "Yanjing brand hair dryer", they also understand that people who are usually difficult to get angry must be more terrible than a volcanic eruption once they get angry.
Coentrão, who was sitting behind Yan Jing on the right, saw Yan Jing take out the notebook he was carrying, and then began to write something that he couldn't read, like images and words.
Well, isn't that the language of the chief's hometown......
Yan Jing didn't write anything in terms of tactics, there was no problem with the tactics of this game at all, the problem was the mentality of the players.
He was very angry, angry that these players were really caught in such a small thing, and at the same time angry that he didn't find the problem in time.
Yan Jing felt that he needed to vent, and he used a moment to think about what kind of venting was feasible without attracting attention.
Dropping something is certainly not a good thing, and last season he lost a water bottle for losing a ball, which attracted the attention of the fourth official. If it weren't for the fourth official on duty to open the net and let him go, he might have to watch the game from the stands.
Yelling is not a good way to do it, the players are already distracted, and if they do it themselves, it will make them unable to concentrate.
After thinking about it, Yan Jingsi simply took out his notebook and scolded his father on paper in Chinese.
There was a lot of luck in winning Hannover 96 in the last game, and today it was clear that Lady Luck was not on Dortmund's side.
Towards the end of the first half, Bochum took advantage of a misplaced pass between Ribery and Villa to cut off the ball, and then a long ball across the half of the pitch stumbled into the striker who had not had time to get back in time.
Faced with a shot from the Bochum striker, Weidenfeller judged the right direction in the save and also touched the ball.
It's just that the ball hits the inside of the post behind the touchline and then bounces back into the net.
After Bochum's goal, Suarez on the bench seemed to hear some slight cracking, but soon the boos in the Westphalen stadium made him think he had misheard.
Yan Jing buried his head and looked at the thin plastic shell of the pen in his hand, and there were slight cracks on it, thinking that he had pinched it too hard just now.
Yan Jing put away his notebook and pen, rubbed his temples and sighed.
Well, in the second half, it was definitely going to have to be a substitution.