After the training, when he returned home, Zhang Yuan was naturally ridiculed by Mai Xuewen and Docilia, he had been ridiculed by his teammates during the day, and now he was completely immune, but he still had a psychological barrier in the face of Doclilia, so after dinner, he went back to the room by himself, and the mobile phone rang, it was Anna calling.

"Hey, you haven't left yet?!" Zhang Yuan asked, which was really strange.

"You want me to leave?!" Anna said viciously.

"I—I didn't mean that, I mean you're not in class, isn't it okay if you don't go back for so long?"

"It's okay, I'm on leave!" Anna smiled lightly.

"Oh, when are you going to go back?, it's not good not to go to class after a long delay?!" Zhang Yuan asked.

"I'm going to watch Borussia Dortmund and Schalke 04 and then leave, can you get me a ticket?" Anna asked.

Of course, there is no problem in getting tickets, although it is an away game, but the club will definitely have tickets, but Docilia will definitely go to this game, since this sister is here, she will definitely stay for a few days, she must be interested in this Ruhr derby to see, she is a real fan, although not a fan of these two teams, but it does not prevent her from watching this game with an appreciative attitude.

Another problem is that Schalke 04 fans go to Dortmund is a very dangerous thing, there is no way, last season's Liangzi knot was too big, and Zhang Yuan didn't want Anna to be hurt because of watching the game.

Zhang Yuan told Anna about his concerns, of course, safety is the most important factor, although Anna was a little disappointed, but also agreed. Since she accompanied Zhang Yuan here for more than the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and did not watch the derby battle, Anna decided to leave tomorrow, and Zhang Yuan raised his hands in approval, which is good.

At the end of the training the next day, Zhang Yuan sent Anna out of Gelsenkirchen, he sent Anna to Dortmund Airport and then back, Gelsenkirchen is very close to Dortmund, half an hour's drive, of course, it is more than half an hour to Dortmund's airport, it takes about an hour.

After parting, Zhang Yuan got the fragrant kiss of Anna's little sister again, which made Zhang Yuan very aftertaste, this feels good, it is inevitable that there is still some reluctance in my heart, when will we meet next time, everyone has their own things, when they left, Zhang Yuan also specially told Anna that she didn't have to come for her birthday, it was a waste of time and money, Zhang Yuan basically understood the situation of Rosie's family, and the chocolate maker at home was still a little famous in Rimini, and the money was still there, but after all, this money was earned by her parents, not Anna's, and Anna should not be extravagant.

The media reports on the derby are endless, always changing tricks to promote the hatred between the two teams, the fans between the two teams are very opposed, under the media publicity, many Schalke 04 fans have not started the game before the game is shouted and cheered outside the Schalke 04 training base.

German fans are very loyal, of course, there is a certain reason for this, the most important thing is that many clubs in Germany are adopting a membership system, the Premier League, Serie A are privately controlled teams, such an advantage is that a good boss is willing to pay, the team's performance will grow quickly, the bad thing is that the boss is bankrupt will inevitably implicate the club, the results will plummet, and if you don't fall down, you will never be able to get up. In La Liga, only Barcelona and Real Madrid are membership, while the other clubs used to be but have not since been reformed.

Clubs in Germany are almost all membership-based, which is different from the two teams in La Liga. In the Bundesliga, the club's structure pursues the "50+1" rule, that is, the club's internal members have at least 51% of the voting rights, and the voting rights of business partners or investors are only 49% at most, so many members are dominant in the operation of the club, and the fans feel very owned, and investors can't control the dominance even if they have more money. However, there are two exceptions in the Bundesliga, one is Leverkusen, the other is Wolfsburg, Leverkusen was established by Bayer, which was originally Bayer's corporate team, and Wolfsburg was founded by Volkswagen, the situation is similar to Leverkusen, not subject to the 50+1 rule, this is a historical reason, and the German Football Association cannot change it.

That's why Bundesliga club fans are very loyal, so it's the fans who are the most excited in a derby like this.

At the end of training in the past few days, the fans who are looking for Zhang Yuan's autograph will invariably cheer for Zhang Yuan, Zhang Yuan is really crying and laughing, but he still has to tell everyone that I will do my best, we will definitely win.

Many media in Germany and China have also approached Zhang Yuan and wanted him to talk about his outlook and predictions for the derby.

Zhang Yuan said that we are an excellent team, there are many very good players, and I believe that as long as we do our best, we will be able to take away a victory at the West**** Stadium.

As a player of Schalke 04, Zhang Yuan will definitely not say that the opponent is very strong as before, we will do our best, and the result cannot be predicted. He has to say Schalke 04 can win, the rest of his team-mates say that, you don't say it's very different.

Lars Ricken is one of Dortmund's most loyal players, from the youth to the first team, until now he has played in Dortmund, and he can't play in Dortmund when he is older, but it does not prevent him from scolding Schalke 04, Ricken said: "Schalke 04 will never want to win the championship, they can only look at the salad plate but not touch it!"

The allusion to "salad plates can only be seen but not touched" comes from a famous slogan hanging on the home turf of Bumblebee: "Only look at it, not touch it". Interestingly, this sentence actually comes from an advertisement that Schalke's former manager Asauer took for sponsors, in which his girlfriend warned him to only look at other beauties and not touch them. As a result, it was used by Dortmund fans and ridiculed Schalke 04 for not touching the championship trophy.

Dortmund's spoof of Schalke 04 is far more than that, and after the derby last season, Dortmund fans rented a small plane and unfurled a huge banner over Gelsenkirchen: "You will never win the championship", and humiliated Schalke 04.

Ricken said this, of course, to ridicule Schalke 04 for not even having a league title, it's useless for you to say that you can't win, anyway, you don't have a championship, a complete loser.

There are also other players in Dortmund, who have spoken, must make Schalke 04 look good, and the central defender Dede swore on behalf of the defenders: "We have the advantage of being at home, and the forward group of Schalke 04 is destined to do nothing!"

When the reporter relayed this sentence to Zhang Yuan, Zhang Yuan replied with a smile, then let's try it!

Just as everyone is wholeheartedly preparing for the derby, Schalke 04 is unlucky, the main center forward was injured in training, and he was injured just after returning to the game, Kuranyi's fulcrum role and ability to grab points in the front court is an important reliance of Schalke 04, and now Kuranyi can't be on, other strikers can't be replaced, Zhang Yuan's header is not good, Asamoah can't do it, Slomka thought about it comprehensively, or decided to let Asamoah at the front, originally the team also had a center, Soren Larsson, but Slomka didn't trust him.

At the end of training on the afternoon of the 9th, Slomka announced the 18-man squad and starting list, Zhang Yuan got the start again, still playing the left winger position, Asamoah was at the front, the right winger position was Kobiashvili, the midfield was still Ernst, Jones and Rakitic, and the back line was the same as the last game, Bolton and Westerman partnered in the central defender, Raphinha and Krstadzic were separated on both sides.

The attention of the outside world does not have much impact on Zhang Yuan, after all, he has been playing professional football for more than a year and nearly two years, and he has seen a lot of big battles, and he does not have a deeper feeling for the Ruhr derby, so his mentality is relatively peaceful.

The next day was the day of the official game, in the morning Schalke 04 the whole team did recovery training, had lunch, and rested for 2 hours before taking a bus to the West **** stadium.

West **** Stadium is also called Signall Iduna Park Stadium, the latter name is the sponsor's crown, it is customary to call West **** Stadium, which can accommodate more than 80,000 spectators, and the Bundesliga attendance rate is the highest in the whole of Europe, and the West **** Stadium is the highest average attendance in Europe in the season, and it is the famous devil's home stadium.

When Schalke 04 set off, there were already a large number of fans beating gongs and drums to send the team out of Gelsenkirchen, and then returned, Zhang Yuan thought it was strange, these fans didn't go to the away stadium to cheer?

Neuer, who was sitting next to him, explained that these fans would not go to West**** to watch the game, because in their eyes the disgust of Dortmund had reached the point where they did not even want to enter the opponent's stadium. What a big hatred this is, Zhang Yuan can't understand that there was no such big hatred between Inter Milan and AC Milan, Inter Milan and Juventus fans at the beginning.

The derby is indeed a derby, on the way to the stadium, if it were not for the police escort, it is estimated that the Dortmund fans would have eaten the bus of Schalke 04!

Sitting in the dressing room changing clothes, everyone could hear the deafening singing outside, and the Dortmund fans started singing as soon as they arrived, singing the team anthem.

But when the players of Schalke 04 came out to warm up, well, the audience at the scene changed the song, this time the song is a song specifically mocking Schalke 04, in the singing and boos, the players of Schalke 04 ended the warm-up, Zhang Yuan felt that it was really not easy to play in the huge boos, but he was not afraid now.