Chapter 365: Expectation

Metzeld's injury caused a brief panic in the Dortmund backline, but Ismael's play stabilized this, although he was not as popular as Metzeld, but in fact he was more mature and stable than Metzeld, Dick also had to admit that he may have been a little reckless in choosing to send Metzelder in this game, obviously against Elton such a fast striker, Ismael is more suitable than Metzelde.

After coming on the pitch, Ismail intercepted Miku's through pass to Elton in the middle, and then he immediately began to play a long ball and pass the ball to the front, Gomez put the ball on the run to Everton, Everton did not dribble the ball, but passed directly to Donovan with a diagonal pass, Donovan forced a breakthrough with the ball and shot at the edge of the box, the ball was slightly wide of the post.

"Well played, just like that." Dick slapped his face on the field, although the attack just now was not perfect, but the speed was very fast, and now Dortmund wants such a fast attack, not only fast in the counterattack, but also fast in the positional warfare attack!

It's easy to make some mistakes in this kind of attack, but if you run all the way down like this, the more you get to the end of the season, the more obvious Dortmund's advantage will be - Dortmund has no other advantages now, speed, fitness and running ability are the things Dick will play this season.

Dick can tolerate the mistakes in the initial stage, and at the same time, as time goes by, the flaws in the transition between attack and defense will become less and less, and then it will be the time for Dortmund's fast attack to exert its power!

In such a back-and-forth attack, Bremen relied on a chance to equalize before the end of the first half - Davara crossed from the side, Weidenfeller attacked the ball above the head of Charlie Steas, but the ball fell to the feet of Listes at the edge of the box, the Hungarian international did not wait for the ball to land, directly raised his foot and shot into the far corner, Weidenfeller could not defend himself, the ball flew over his head, and then fell into the goal!

The first-half equaliser undoubtedly made Bremen very happy, but Dortmund were very unhappy - one of their players was injured and now they have been equalised...... For young players like Borussia Dortmund, they can't stand it.

'I'm not going to make a substitution because we played well in the first half.

Dick's first words after entering the dressing room reassured his players: "This goal is nothing, as long as we can reduce some mistakes in the second half...... If Lymen hadn't recycled the defense and counter-attacked, maybe we would have been beaten into a sieve by their counter-attack, but would they have done it? No! Bremen don't defend and they're not good at it, so they'll just play against us! In this way, we will definitely get no shortage of opportunities, take advantage of the weakness of their slow backline to turn, and blow their defense for me! ”

After Dick agitated in this way, Dortmund began to deal with Bremen with more ferocious attacks.

Dick really doesn't plan to make substitutions, Olic and Arshavin have both played two games in the previous national team competitions, and there will definitely be physical problems, for the next Champions Cup, it is necessary to give them a good rest, not to mention that Dortmund has six strikers, if only three of them are used, then why should Dick keep Everton and bring in Donovan? It's because these two strikers may be lacking in the main force, but they are very suitable for rotation.

Donovan's performance is very eye-catching, when Arshavin is not on the field, now Dortmund is the most outstanding breakthrough ability on the field, so he keeps taking the ball, constantly impacting Bremen's back line with speed, which makes Bremen's defenders quite depressed to defend, it is precisely because of this advantage that Dortmund gradually occupies the advantage in the continuous impact, and the shouts of Dortmund fans in the stands began to get louder and louder, and in such shouts, The Dortmund players' attacks also began to become more and more violent.

Klinger's sudden forward insertion caused a wave of confusion in the Bremen backline, after seeing Donovan cutting from the side to the middle, Klinger immediately passed the ball to Donovan, Donovan took the ball laterally, dodged over to defend his Ernst, saw that the Bremen defenders did not come to defend themselves for the first time, immediately picked up his left foot, and shot decisively at the top of the arc of the penalty area!

Bowman rushed up to block Donovan's shot with his body, but Donovan's shot arced so high that it flew directly over his head.

Bremen's goalkeeper flew up and tried to stop the ball halfway through, but the ball flew in a very high arc in the air until it reached the penalty area, and then began to drop suddenly!

Lineke barely stretched out his hand, but he couldn't touch the ball, which slammed into the underside of the crossbar and fell into the Bremen goal!

"Nice long shot! Donovan's shot contributed to Bremen's goal! 2-1, Dortmund took the lead again! Beautiful goal! Now Borussia Dortmund are leading again, and if they can beat Bremen, then they can equal Bremen's points...... Borussia Dortmund have been quite proactive at home, they have the upper hand in the back-and-forth sprints, and Bremen will struggle to win if nothing changes......

Bremen are trying to change the current situation, because they also find it difficult for them to take advantage of such back-and-forth sprints, Ismael frequently intercepts other people's passes to Elton with around the front defense, so that the ball lightning is useless even if it runs fast, and Charlie Steas is eaten to death by the equally strong Warnes, and he is well controlled to grab the first landing point, Miku is also followed by Kyle, they are good at taking the ball and gradually advancing, giving full play to Miku's organizational ability and ability to pass through the ball, instead of running back and forth like this......

But Dortmund didn't give them that chance, they were still running, constantly increasing the speed and tempo of the whole stadium through the back and forth impact, they were young, they could run......

In addition to the players in the front field, the two Brazilian full-backs also began to show their ability to sprint back and forth, Dede and Alves almost became wingers, sprinting back and forth on the wings, and the opposite three midfielders rarely attacked forward, even if they were forward, they were only one person forward, and the other two were protecting at the back.

Even in the 65th minute, after Dick replaced Gomez with Odonko, Dortmund's attacking rhythm not only did not decline, but increased, and their forward sprint began to become more ferocious, and basically they shot when they found an opportunity, and the continuous attack made Bremen's defenders feel a little tired and could only passively resist.

In the 75th minute, Odonko forced an acceleration on the side and then crossed, which was blocked by Friedrich, Dortmund won a corner, Klinger came up to take the penalty, the ball flew to the middle of the penalty area, Bremen goalkeeper Lineke hit the ball out, but the ball hit the head of Ismael who was in front of the assist, and then bounced back into the Bremen goal......

'Ismael picked a goal! This is a really lucky guy, and Dortmund is very lucky! They are now 3-1 ahead! With just over ten minutes to go, Bremen will struggle to recover the gap...... Borussia Dortmund will be back in the top three! ”

The commentator makes sense to say this, originally Dortmund was in fifth place, the top three points are all ten points, the fourth place is nine points, and now win Bremen, Dortmund is very likely to return to the top three, which is a dividing line to participate in next season's Champions Cup.

Dick waved his fist, such an advantage is basically the overall situation, so he used up the third substitution, the young Demer came on the field to replace Donovan to strengthen the defense, he now just regrets that Shahin has not yet turned seventeen, according to the rules of the Bundesliga, players under the age of seventeen cannot play, unlike the Premier League, there is no such rule at all - so Dick can only let Shaheen play in the German Cup to gain some game experience.

In fact, in Dick's heart, Shahin is the best candidate to replace Rosicky, but he is still too young, and now he can only use Klinger, but fortunately, Klinger is also a good player, at least in the future, he may be able to control Dortmund's midfield with Shahin, as for the next batch of outstanding Dortmund players, it is not what he can cultivate now, Dortmund has the conditions and tradition of developing youth training, and they can patiently cultivate a group of good players in the next time, There is no money to buy people, but it is one of the conditions for breaking out of the cocoon and being reborn!

After falling behind by two goals, Bremen wanted to counterattack again, and they were a little weak, although Miku and others worked hard to attack, but Dortmund, who began to shrink the defense, did not give them too many opportunities, they intercepted Bremen's attack with excellent defense, Bremen can only continue to organize on the periphery, but it is difficult to create good opportunities.

In the end, when the referee blew the whistle for the end of the match, Dortmund, supported by 80,000 passionate fans, beat Bremen 3-1 at home!

With Bayern's surprise 3-2 defeat at Wolfsburg, Borussia Dortmund got back in third place – they had two more goal difference than Bayern and one more than Bremen to move into third place with 10 points, ahead of Bayer Leverkusen on 12 points and T11 on youth Stuttgart.

'We were back in the top three, but the position at the beginning of the season didn't make sense and I'm even happier that we won this game. Bremen are a tough opponent to play against and to beat them at home is so I'm happy with the performance of the players and the Champions League is coming up and it's a bigger test for us...... As the defending champions, the pressure will be high, but I'm confident in the performance of the players that we can achieve a good result even in the most difficult circumstances. ”

Speaking of this, a smile appeared on the corner of Dick's mouth: "I've been looking forward to this group stage for a long time!" It's a difficult group, but my players and I are ready for the Champions League group stage, and I think the Dortmund fans are looking forward to the Champions League group stage......