56. Chapter 56
It was only through the timely replay of the live footage that the German audience saw the reason why Dortmund conceded the goal.
Yaya Toure's shot failed to find the back of the net against Olympiacos this time around, as his shot was a little too right.
And it wasn't Olympiacos' goalkeeper who intercepted his shot. Their defender Stoltides came out halfway and blocked the ball with his body.
The ball bounced back after making contact with Stoltides, and he landed right at the feet of Olympiacos striker Castillo.
Borussia Dortmund's defence didn't press too hard to prevent such an unexpected situation, but Toure's forward intervention left a big gap in the middle.
Castillo drove in from the middle, and the rest of Olympiacos' team followed suit.
Shahin struggled to fill the gap in the middle alone, and he faced Castillo and was going to snatch the ball before he could break through, but Castillo didn't intend to go head-to-head with him, instead giving the ball to Yeogatos on the wing.
Yeogatos forced his way into the box and crossed with his feet, and the already running Castillo forced Thiago Silva to leap high and hit the goal with a powerful header, and the ball flew into the goal.
Toure, who was desperately rushing back and forth, could only watch Castillo score weakly, but the cheers of the Olympiacos fans at the scene made him feel more uncomfortable than boos.
Borussia Dortmund, who accidentally conceded a goal, did not panic in the final five minutes of the first half and were still in control at their own pace.
However, there is one person who is clearly not in good shape, and that is Yaya Toure.
Yan Jing looked at Toure's appearance on the sidelines, and regretted that he didn't take the initiative to ask for clarification last night.
It was stoppage time when his phone vibrate. He reached out and looked, and Yul Lambert answered the doubts he had raised not long ago.
It turns out that Yaya came to Dortmund after a strike, so it's no wonder that Mr. Zolke said that it would take a while to convince Olympiacos.
If only he could have known this in advance, he probably wouldn't have conceded this goal.
The referee blew the whistle at the end of the half, and Yan Jing and the people on the bench stood up and prepared to go back to the locker room.
It's not too late to correct it.
On the way back to the locker room, Toure deliberately left last alone.
He felt an indescribable and inexhaustible frustration in his heart, and as he passed through the players' tunnel, the Olympiacos fans began to yell at him again.
And one of the fans who "greeted" his family made him unable to suppress the anger in his heart.
He stopped and turned around, and was about to fight back when an arm suddenly placed on his shoulder brought him to a halt.
"Yaya, ignore them, let's go first. ”
Stopped by Yan Jing, Toure swallowed those words back into his stomach and followed Yan Jing into the players' tunnel.
After confirming that there was no one around, Yan Jing did not immediately return to the locker room, but took Toure to stop not far from the locker room door.
"Boss?"
Toure knew that he was the worst player on the team in the first half, and he waited with some anxiety for Yan Jing to speak.
Yan Jing was thinking about how to adjust Toure's feelings all the way, but he didn't speak immediately, but paused and said again.
"Yaya, do you regret coming to Dortmund to play?"
"Huh?" Toure didn't know why Yan Jing suddenly asked him this, but he still shook his head honestly, "I don't regret it at all, sir, Dortmund is great." ”
It's only been three months since I've been in Dortmund, but it's a lot better than it was at Olympiacos.
More developed cities, stronger teams, more passionate fans, more attention and income...... He is now very happy that he obeyed the agent's advice.
"I don't regret bringing you to Dortmund either. Yan Jing smiled slightly when he heard Toure's answer, "No matter what way it is." ”
Toure's eyelids jumped when he heard the word "way" and he realised what his manager might already know.
"As for people, a lot of times they don't think about things from other people's point of view, which also makes them have all kinds of negative feelings. Without waiting for Toure to reply, Yan Jing continued, "The fans who spit on you are a kind of selfish people, they don't know about you, about your family, about your motives for leaving, but they always feel that anyone should act according to their hearts. ”
"I want to tell you that they are completely wrong, and I think any 'loyalty' they say is a fart. You're not an academy player, you don't have a special affection for Olympiacos, you're just playing for them as a professional and you're paying them for that. ”
"No matter how loyal a player is, it's going to be built on enough gains, and they can't meet your needs, so what's wrong with asking you to leave?"
"Do you feel that you owe it to those who abuse you? They seem ridiculous to me, they don't pay you half a penny, they don't give you a chance, what do you owe to them?"
"People are always selfish, and as a professional footballer, it's normal to want to make more money, and there's nothing shameful about being selfish. ”
Yan Jing looked at Toure, and the other party had been listening carefully to his words.
"You do need to be responsible, but not to the people who scold you to satisfy their hearts, but to the teams that pay you now, the fans who cheer you on. Do you see what I mean?"
Toure listened to Yan Jing's words, and the knot in his heart was gradually untied.
Oh, yes...... The boss is right, those fans have nothing to do with him now, why should he care so much about their opinions, and what good will it do him to make them like him more?
Toure raised his head and nodded to Yan Jing steadily: "Boss, I understand." ”
"Also, don't feel too guilty about conceding in the first half. Yan Jing walked to the locker room, and he tilted his head to Toure and said, "Since I gave you the right to plug in the tactics, it means that I am willing to bear the negative consequences of this move." No tactic is perfect, right?"
"That's right, sir. ”
Toure smiled, the first time in days that he had such a relaxed expression on his face.
He pushed open the door of the locker room and shouted at his teammates who were wondering why Yan Jing hadn't come back: "I'm sorry, I'm late!"
The Dortmund players looked up and saw Toure smiling, and their spirits were different from those of the first half.
Yan Jing was standing behind Toure, and it was obvious that their head coach had taken advantage of this time to say something to Toure.
Yan Jing closed the locker room door, and he smiled confidently, as if the team that was now behind was not them.
"Guys, are you confident that you can win this game-"
At half-time, Dicker and Martin Feyer also summed up the table of the two teams in the first half.
In fact, Dortmund's performance in the whole first half was generally very good, but Toure did not look very good in their important back link, which also directly affected their attack and defense. ”
"The boos from the Olympiacos fans shook him, and if it goes on like this, something will definitely go wrong, and I think according to Yan Jing's habits, Kyle should come on as a substitute for Toure in the second half. ”
"Yes, Olympiacos's attack is not sharp, and the defense is often flawed, as long as you take care of the back link, I think there is still a good chance of equalizing or even overtaking the score. ”
However, at the start of the second half, they found Toure still on the pitch and there were no warm-up substitutes on the sidelines.
"Hey, Yan Jing didn't replace Toure, according to his habit, he rarely lets players who are not in good shape be kept from start to finish, maybe he plans to replace him later. ”
Toure's poor form in the first half also fell into the eyes of Olympiacos players and coaches, so at half-time Lemonis made tactical adjustments to let his players focus on Toure.
Rivaldo, a midfielder at Olympiacos, rushed towards Toure head-on after receiving the ball, but what he didn't expect was that he couldn't break through at all, and the ball at his feet was intercepted by Toure.
The moment Toure broke off the ball, there was another earth-shattering boo in the stadium as in the first half.
But this time Toure didn't waver, his eyes were only on the court, and no matter how fierce the boos were, he seemed to have nothing to hear.
Toure didn't hesitate to play the ball and was able to get the ball in front of David Silva before Rivaldo counter-attacked.
David Silva received the ball and Toure sent the ball with just the right amount of power, no longer as it was in the first half, which made him comfortable to continue dribbling forward without taking time to adjust.
Ribery also ran forward on the other side, with most of Olympiacos' defensive strength focused on the ball-carrier.
Their head coach clearly didn't know enough about Ribery to set up a mark-and-shoot tactic.
When David Silva played a diagonal pass from the edge of the box, Olympiacos' defenders were poor at marking Ribery, allowing Ribery to get the ball out of the chaos.
And when Ribery received the ball, the entire Olympiacos defence was unable to stop him.
He got his feet up before the defenders arrived, and it was a powerful shot with a curvature that aimed at Olympiacos.
Olympiacos' goalkeeper Afes leapt to make a save, but he couldn't get his hands on the high-speed ball and could only watch as Dortmund began the second half to destroy their hard-earned first-half advantage.
"Yaya Toure launched this offensive, and it was finally Frank Ribery who delivered the fatal blow!