When the game was over 90 minutes, Celta fans let out a sigh, their team was not able to beat Dortmund at home, although Mostopovoy's goal in the 74th minute once helped Celta take the lead, but in the 90th minute, Arshavin did not let his predecessor Zhumei lightning strike in the penalty area, and turned Celta's three points into a point!

Dick shook his fist hard and came to the away side, all he wanted was a point, even if Ajax beat AC Milan, if they beat Ajax at home in the last round, they could also qualify for the group!

Putting Po on the last home court, that's Dick's plan.

On the other pitch, there was good news.

Relying on Shepchenko's only goal, AC Milan beat Ajax 1-0 away from home, and Ajax suffered two consecutive defeats and remained on six points.

After two consecutive 1-0 away wins, AC Milan is already five rounds of 10 points, the first to qualify from this group, Dortmund five rounds of two wins, one draw, two losses and seven points in second place, Ajax two wins, three losses and six points in third place, Celta Vigo one win, two draws, two losses and five points in fourth place......

In the last round, Dortmund hosts Ajax, AC Milan hosts Celta, in addition to AC Milan has qualified in advance, Celta has been out of the tournament in advance, no matter what the final results of Dortmund and Ajax are, if Dortmund loses to Ajax, then the nine-point Ajax they have not been able to catch up, Dortmund drew with Ajax, they are also tied with Dortmund at most, and in the two-legged meeting, Dortmund has the upper hand - and Dortmund wins, They have no chance of qualifying, so all they can pursue now is to qualify for the League Cup.

Now it's up to Dortmund or Ajax to grab the last place in the group stage, but Dortmund is at home, and a draw will be able to qualify, and it is obvious that Dortmund has stumbled again to occupy a dominant position in a group of death!

Dick was pleased with the situation.

Although it suffered a series of events such as player suspensions and home defeats, the stalemate of this group of death still allowed Dortmund to find a way, as long as they can qualify, as for whether it is first or second in the group, it really doesn't make much difference in Dick's opinion......

After a draw away at Celta Vigo, Borussia Dortmund returned to Germany contentedly and went on to do well in the next series of matches.

On December 1, in the 14th round of the league, Dortmund defeated Rostock 2-1 away, and goals from Gomez and Olic gave Dortmund the game.

On December 4, in the third round of the German Cup, Dortmund hosted Stuttgart, in the case of both sides sent a large number of youth team players, Dortmund's substitutes and young players showed excellent ability, the young midfielder Shahin who was given the responsibility by Dick in this game performed well in the game, his instigation and control in the midfield helped Dortmund completely control the midfield, which made Dortmund attack far more than Stuttgart, and also allowed Dortmund to win the game in the end.

Piszczek, Everton, Ricken and Donovan scored a goal each in the game to help Dortmund beat Stuttgart 4-2 at home to advance to the quarter-finals of the German Cup.

Many discerning commentators are praising Shahin, believing that although he is not yet 17 years old, he already has the style of a general on the field, if it were not for the Bundesliga's rule that players younger than 17 years old cannot play, presumably Dick has already begun to reuse him - he will become another new star from Dortmund!

On 7 December, Borussia Dortmund drew 1-1 at home to Hertha Berlin after rotating half of their squad – they took four points from both league games and the top three suffered two straight draws in a plague – leaving Dortmund one point ahead of Bayer Leverkusen and back in third place, just three points and one point behind the top two, while Bayern also suffered two draws, extending Dortmund's lead over Bayern Munich to three points......

Although Dortmund's focus will be in the league this season, it is already close to advancing to the knockout stage, and Dick will naturally not let the promotion slip away from his hands.

Dick doesn't know if there is a defending champion in the history of the Champions Cup who was eliminated in the group stage, but he would never allow his team to become such an existence!

December 10th, the final round of the Champions Cup group stage!

Borussia Dortmund is about to welcome Ajax at home, in the previous games in this group, Dortmund did not fall behind AC Milan, two games with one win and one loss, and against Celta they won one win and one draw to gain an advantage, but in the face of Ajax, they lost away from home without temper at all......

'We didn't have two main strikers back then, and luck wasn't on our side, so it's not going to happen anymore.' Dick said this in his pre-match press conference.

And for Ajax, this game is also a life-and-death battle, this group of Ajax players are quite good, but unfortunately last season in the knockout round by AC Milan, this season hit a group of death, if this season can not play anything, after this season, the whole Ajax may be scattered......

In fact, it is also the case that it is difficult for the Eredivisie to keep their good players, they have lost Donny van der Meyde and Zivo this summer, who will they lose next year? Is it Ibrahimovic, Sonk, or Van der Vaart?

This game is also quite crucial for Dortmund, and more importantly, in five days, they will play in Japan for the Toyota Cup, and it is expected that the Dortmund players will be tired enough after these two games.

In this game, Ajax's Czech veteran Galasek was unable to play due to injury, making the average age of Ajax only twenty-one years old, and Dortmund was not much better, except for Warnes and Dede, all players under the age of twenty-five, such a young man's war also attracted the attention of quite a lot of people.

Dick knows that this Ajax team has a lot of good youngsters, such as Ibrahimovic, Sonck, Sneijder, Van der Vaart...... However, the biggest problem with this Ajax team is that their defence is not consistent, especially after Zivo's departure, and the two full-backs Maxwell and Trabelsi are both attacking players who are not very good defensively.

So in this game, Dortmund once again adopted the tactics of defensive counterattack to lure Ajax out of the attack, although Dortmund is also young, but not young to the outrageous extent of Ajax, they can still stabilize, and the young people of Ajax, if they want to stabilize, it will be difficult and difficult.

Ajax, who were trying to beat their opponents to qualify, launched a fierce attack from the start, while Borussia Dortmund recycled and quietly fended off Ajax's attack in the half-time, and then kept looking for opportunities to open the scoring - they only needed a draw to qualify, so there was no need to rush too much.

In the 27th minute, Ajax, who launched a fierce attack despite the loopholes in the backline, finally tasted the bitterness, Alves stepped forward and passed directly to Ajax's penalty area near the middle line, Gomez, who occupied the favorable terrain by running, resisted Heitinga who came up to defend with his body, and then directly shook his head to rub the ball out, and the ball drew a strange arc in the air, passed over Lobont's hand, and flew into the corner of the goal......

Before the end of the first half, the attacking Ajax finally created a chance, Ibra crossed from the side, and Madoni, who had replaced Ismael in the game, gave Ajax a penalty for an unnecessary handball at the back post, and Sonk converted the penalty to equalise.

This goal gave Ajax hope, but in the second half their attack still failed to create too many good chances, always unable to hit Ajax's penalty area, and in the 76th minute, Maxwell's tackle error gave the substitute Odonko a single chance, Odonko who burst into the penalty area did not be greedy, but distributed the ball to the other side, and the follow-up Olic pushed the empty goal to score, and once again took the lead for Dortmund!

With that goal, Dortmund could essentially be declared qualified – unless they concede two goals in a row in the next game to give up qualification to Ajax......

And Dick has also begun to strengthen the defense through substitutions, he doesn't want to waste too much physical energy in this game, otherwise he won't hide the two main players of Arshavin and Ismail, now that he is ahead, let's use defense to keep the score until the end......

Ismael came on and replaced Dede, Madoni moved to the left as left-back, and Piszczek replaced Alves to strengthen the defense on the right.

Such a defense allowed Dortmund to withstand Ajax's frenzied attack in the next game, although Ibrahimovic equalized again in the 89th minute through a chest stop at the edge of the penalty area that can be called a world wave, but such a goal was not enough for Ajax to advance, and even qualifying for the League Cup did not give them ......

2-2 draw, Dortmund ended up with eight points, Ajax ended up with seven points, and in the other game, Celta beat AC Milan away from home, but still because of the relationship between each other, with eight points in the third place, the only gain is that they got the opportunity to participate in the League Cup......

10 points, 8 points, 8 points, 7 points. Just by looking at the points won by the final four teams in this group, you can see how fierce the competition is in this group, Dortmund stumbled into the knockout stage, will they do the miracle again like last season?

"Our goal is to qualify from the group...... Now that we've reached that goal, it's time for the knockout rounds...... We don't have much preparation right now, after all, it will be a few months away...... All I'm thinking about now is the next Toyota Cup, because I missed a chance to participate in the Toyota Cup before, and I don't want to miss it again. ”

Dick smiled at the post-match press conference and said that it was not easy to compete in the Toyota Cup, and he had the opportunity to participate in it before, but because of his departure from Atletico Madrid, this will be his first time leading the team to the Toyota Cup.