Chapter 293: Riding the Momentum
"It's great that we were able to qualify from this group one round earlier. 【Latest chapter reading. This means that we can take it a little easier next. It's a great pleasure to qualify in the Champions Cup, but it will also put us with a heavy burden of dealing with all the dominant opponents on all fronts...... But we don't care about that. I came to Dortmund to win the championship, whether it is a three-line or two-line battle, I don't care, Dortmund now has a lot of good players, we can afford to fight on several fronts, for the Bundesliga to impact the European honor task, we Dortmund is willing to take on! ”
Dick's words after the game immediately caused a stir in the entire Bundesliga.
Bayern have been surprisingly eliminated from the group in the first round this season, and it is obvious that they will not be able to achieve any good results in the Champions Cup, and they will go all out in the league next, which is very detrimental to Dortmund, who are still distracted from the Champions Cup, but Dick's words show his strong ambition - in the case of Bayern's law fighting for glory in the Champions Cup, Dortmund will step up and fill such a gap!
This is a provocation to Bayern!
Bayern have also had a rare slump in the Champions Cup for several years, and Dick immediately seized this opportunity to create the image of Dortmund as the representative of the Bundesliga!
Such a provocation naturally makes Bayern fans very unhappy - who has played both the league and the Champions Cup in the past few years to win glory for the Bundesliga? It's Bayern! What were you doing in Dortmund then? Now that we're in bad shape, you're starting to jump out......
However, in this way, Dortmund fans began to feel confident enough!
They are not afraid of offending Bayern, Dortmund wants to rise in the Bundesliga, it will definitely hurt Bayern's interests, a league will only have one boss, even if temporarily.
"Dick is really a restless fellow...... A few days after going to the Bundesliga, he immediately used this way to provoke Bayern. However, sometimes we have to say that although he is restless, his restlessness is based on his own strength, Dortmund has made more than 20 million in the transfer market this season, and his salary expenses have shrunk by more than 10 million, but the results in the same period are even better than last season...... At least until the end of the season, let's take a good look at what Dick can do at Dortmund......"
After winning the fifth round of the Champions League, Dortmund's next game is still a double game, but one is the German Cup, the other is the sixth round of the Champions Cup group stage, for Dortmund they can focus entirely on the league - and must also be put in the league, the next weekend Dortmund will go away to the current third place Werder Bremen, and next weekend, they will go to the away team to challenge Bayern!
Now Dortmund is two points ahead of Bayern in the standings, and the next two rounds of the league are very important for Dortmund's next games!
Obviously, when Dick made it clear that he wanted Dortmund to attack Bayern's supremacy, this approach greatly stimulated the fighting spirit of Dortmund players!
Bremen's morale has also started to improve rapidly after beating Bayern Munich in the last round, this team has been quite good in attack this season, the trident of Miku, Charlie Steas and Elton has been formed, Krasnić is not yet the main force, and he has often performed well after coming off the bench, plus the ability and cooperation of Ernst, Borowski and Hungarian star Listesh behind them are not bad, it is no wonder that they can perform well in the Bundesliga.
They now have 19 goals in the league, behind only Bayern Munich with 26 goals, Bochum with 22 goals and Borussia Dortmund with 20 goals, but they have also conceded a lot of goals – also 19, and they can beat Nuremberg and Bochum 4-1 and lose 0-3 to mid-table teams like Munich 1860 and Bielefeld, which is one of the factors why they are now only in third place, ahead of Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich by a lot of points.
Compared with their offense, Bremen's defense has always been a hard injury, the current two main central defenders Kostakic and Bowman are good head-on confrontation and headers, but the return defense and turn are very general, it is easy to be beaten behind, such a problem is actually most of the Bundesliga teams have, all Bundesliga teams that have achieved good results in the Champions Cup must have a more flexible backline, Bayern in the Champions Cup in the past few years of good results, defender Link plays a very big role, Bayer Leverkusendo relied on the nimble Lucio in defence last year, and Bremen also had a good record in the Champions Cup when they had Ismael, and after losing Ismael, they always lost by big scores.
Dick is naturally very clear about this, against a team like Bremen, stabilize the midfield, control Miku's passing, don't give their two strikers too many chances, and then keep playing behind them - this is the best way to deal with them!
Miku's defense is handed over to Kyle, Elton is very fast, although this chubby guy looks clumsy and bloated, but running will make you forget how big he is, but he also needs the pass of his teammates to be able to play, and controlling Miku can maximize the advantage.
As for Charlie Steias...... The centre-forward would have had little effect if he had cut off passes on both wings, and Bremen's trident now is nowhere near as good as it was a year or two later, at least the combination of Klose and Krasnich is better than the two strikers.
On 2 November, Borussia Dortmund welcomed Werder Bremen away.
The win over Bayern Munich in the last round clearly gave Bremen fans enough confidence to keep shouting on the pitch that they could continue to beat Borussia Dortmund and close the gap between them and the top of the table again!
Dick started Alves again in this game, and the pressure on both wings was important, and after the opening two minutes, Alves proved that Dick's trust in him was right with a beautiful assist!
Rosicky delivered a beautiful through ball down the middle that slipped past Bremen's midfield defence and into the feet of Alves, and the Brazilian immediately forced a break down the right, slotting the ball straight past the 32-year-old Ukrainian full-back Skolniko before speeding up to force his way through and lift his foot into the box after catching the ball......
It was Frings who appeared at the back post, but he appeared on the left side of the opposition penalty area as a right midfielder, and met the passing ball Frings directly volleyed the ball into the far corner of the goal!
The goal two minutes later immediately made all the Bremen fans scream!
In the next game, Dortmund firmly controlled the midfield, constantly wearing down the fighting spirit and physical fitness of the Bremen players, and the players in the midfield were running back and forth with each other to create opportunities, trying to disrupt Bremen's defense and make their defense more and more chaotic.
Although in the thirtieth minute of the first half, Ernst received Miku's return pass and equalized with a 30-meter long-range shot that was a world wave, but at the end of the game, the Bremen players gasped more than the Dortmund players who only played a crucial game in midweek, and Dick knew that victory was not too far away from Dortmund.
However, two minutes after the start of the second half, Rosicky went off injured in a scramble, making Dortmund a little further away from victory, but at this time, Ricken, who came on as a substitute for Rosicky, showed quite good form.
For Ricken, Dick also put a lot of thought into it, this player who showed a top level at the age of twenty, but the development of the next few years has stagnated, five years ago he was a top show in Europe, and now he is still a show, and his contemporaries whether it is Ronaldo, Raul, Totti, Piero, Kluivert and others are already the top players in Europe, but he began to gradually fall silent - continuous injuries, is also a big factor, although he has not had any major injuries, But there are always small injuries, so he can't continue to play.
Dick's approach to this is still the same old way, dropping back, playing with his big picture, keeping him away from the box, reducing physical confrontation, and playing to his technical and awareness strengths - Ricken's big picture and awareness are definitely top of this group of German players, but his physical fitness is much worse than most German players.
In the 70th minute, Ricken received a pass from Okocha, a beautiful pull pass dodged Skolniko, and then picked the ball to the edge of the penalty area, and the forward Dede received the ball and shot vigorously, and the ball flew into the goal again against the near post!
The two goals were the same, both of them broke down the flanks and scored through the back row of the players, and this style of play played against Bremen's soft underbelly, and their defenders were not afraid of frontal impact, but they were afraid of this kind of roundabout attack......
"Dick's tactical intent was clear and it worked very well...... If this continues, Bremen will suffer. ”
The commentator's words were good, and in the following time, Dortmund continued to use this back-and-forth attacking tactic to keep Bremen's gates open.
It was another perfect combination, Okocha passed the ball to Ricken, who burst into the box and picked the ball past the goalkeeper, then passed the ball near the baseline, and Rivaldo followed up with the ball into the empty net in the box, three to one.
Bremen, who had already begun to lose their fighting spirit, were followed by another goal by Rivaldo – a beautiful individual performance, Rivaldo started to dribble the ball in midfield, shook off two defenders in one go, and then curled a left-footed kick from the edge of the box into the corner!
Four to one! Dortmund swept Bremen away, and to the delight of Dortmund fans, Bayern played a big draw with promoted Hannover 96 away from home, the score of four to four made Bayern be thrown away by Dortmund four points, in the Bundesliga, such a four-point advantage is already a pretty huge advantage, Bayern was also greatly affected after being eliminated in the Champions Cup, and Dortmund took advantage of the situation to pull the score away!
"We're going to beat Bayern again! A seven-point advantage would have given us a guarantee of winning the Bundesliga! A Dortmund fan said excitedly after the end of this round that in their opinion, Bayern has now begun to decline, and it is time for Dortmund to take advantage of the momentum!