"There aren't many fans at the scene!" Dai Zhiwei deliberately observed the number of fans in the West** stadium when he warmed up before the game, and at a glance, it can be said that it is sparse.

Dortmund's home stadium, the Wester** Stadium, is known as "Europe's No. 1 Home Stadium".

The reason for this title should be analyzed from several aspects.

First of all, the West** Stadium can accommodate up to more than 83,000 spectators during a match, with the South Stand standing seat accommodating 25,000 fans, making it the largest one-sided stand in a European stadium.

Secondly, Dortmund's traditional jersey is yellow with black, which is more visually striking, and a sea of yellow and black often appears in the stands.

Thirdly, Dortmund is located in the Ruhr industrial region of Germany, where the traditional mining area is located, and the people here are bold and unrestrained, which will undoubtedly make the atmosphere of the stadium even more terrifying.

Finally, Dortmund, as a veteran giant team in the Bundesliga, has an excellent historical record and attracts the love of many fans.

But in the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals between Villarreal and Borussia Dortmund, the West** Stadium was no longer terrifying in the shadow of the bombing attack the day before.

On the one hand, many Dortmund fans are worried that yesterday's bombing attack will happen again at home, after all, football really is not more important than life and death.

On the other hand, because after the postponement of the game, many fans who were preparing to watch the game yesterday may not have time today.

For many reasons, today's West ** Stadium is no longer popular!

This is undoubtedly good news for Villarreal!

Borussia Dortmund's starting line-up was also affected by yesterday's bombing, with Baltra injured and taken to hospital.

Borussia Dortmund starting line-up –

Goalkeeper: Bilky

Defenders: Ginter, Papastathopoulos, Bender

Midfielders: Piszczek, Shinji Kagawa, Weigel, Schmelzer

Forwards: Dembele, Aubameyang, Guerreiro

Villarreal starting line-up -

Goalkeeper: Fernandes

Defenders: Gaspar, Musacchio, Ruiz, Joe Ingres

Defenders: Dos Santos, Bruno, Rodrygo, Castillejo

Forwards: Bakambu, Dai Zhiwei

Because the home jerseys of the "Yellow Submarine" Villarreal and the "Hornet" Dortmund are both light yellow, and the gray jersey of the Dortmund goalkeeper is colored with the away jersey of Villarreal, so Villarreal, who played away in this game, chose the third set of pink jerseys.

Borussia Dortmund's defense today was very targeted, that is, to defend Dai Zhiwei tightly and cut off the connection between him and the players on the field of Villarreal.

In Tuchel's view, as long as they can stare at Dai Zhiwei, Villarreal's scoring ability will not be feared!

Indeed, nearly half of Villarreal's goals this season have been directly linked to Dai Zhiwei – either by him or by assisting his team-mates to score.

Many teams want to suppress Villarreal's attack by watching Dai Zhiwei die, but Dai Zhiwei is young and can run, and his brain is alive, and he often pulls back and forth in a wide range of fronts and forwards, which increases the chance of leaks at the back.

Unless you put the bus in a resolute position, rely on strong central defenders to mark, or limit Dai Zhiwei's running space with a very tactical discipline in the overall defense.

However, many teams do not have a top central defender partner, and the overall defense is not solid enough, so Dai Zhiwei's defense is often drawn into an anti-dog, and he is beaten by Dai Zhiwei's inspiration.

So, today's Papastathopoulos and Bender in Dortmund have a lot to do.

Dai Zhiwei received the ball and Rodrygo simply reversed his feet, and then broke through diagonally from the right side.

Shinji Kagawa immediately blocked Dai Zhiwei's route straight forward into the penalty area, Dai Zhiwei was not in a hurry to break through with speed, and his feet nimbly played with the football, which turned under his feet like an obedient pet.

Facing Shinji Kagawa, Dai Zhiwei tentatively used a bicycle to confuse the other party, but Shinji Kagawa stood very steadily, he knew very well what he should do, lowered his center of gravity and stared at Dai Zhiwei to make feints.

After being "returned" by Manchester United, although Shinji Kagawa is no longer as talented as he used to be, he is much calmer.

Dai Zhiwei was a little depressed, this Japanese midfielder didn't shake, so he decided to use speed to break through.

Without any feints, Dai Zhiwei suddenly pushed forward with the instep of his outer foot, and his two long legs started quickly, and he stepped to Shinji Kagawa's side in only two steps.

Kagawa Shinji was shocked, this was the first time he had countered Dai Zhiwei, and he had no intuitive impression of Dai Zhiwei's speed before, but this time he suddenly started, and he immediately realized that there was some mistake in his prediction.

The speed couldn't keep up, and Shinji Kagawa slammed into Dai Zhiwei with his body very old-fashioned, so as to slow down Dai Zhiwei's speed.

Sure enough, Kagawa Shinji's collision from the side and rear made Dai Zhiwei's footsteps stumble, and the young player Ginter, who returned from the front court, was timely in time, overtook behind Kagawa Shinji, and rushed to Dai Zhiwei's side to forcibly block Dai Zhiwei's position with his body.

Ginter's defense is very fierce, and Dai Zhiwei has also tasted the fierce defense of his opponent.

After Ginter was stuck, his arm hit Dai Zhiwei's chest with a linkage movement, which happened to be numb and crispy, making him almost angry.

This time the forced stuck position has blocked Dai Zhiwei's route to continue to break through, but Dai Zhiwei will not admit defeat easily, he used his hands and elbows to resist Ginter in turn, pushing and shoving, taking advantage of Ginter's steps to mess up the rhythm, he suddenly stretched out a kick, and actually hooked the football back.

The Bundesliga moves roughly, but we are experts in martial arts football in the Super League!

Dai Zhiwei gritted his teeth and endured the pain, his feet were fast, his eyes were faster, he aimed at Dos Santos's running position, hooked the ball back and plugged it straight away, and he was assigned to the side for the first time.

Dos Santos and Borussia Dortmund's right-back Schmelzer dragged each other and forced an overtake into the box from the outside, and Schmelzer did not show weakness, and the tackle left Dos Santos even with the ball.

Dai Zhiwei immediately raised his arms to signal the referee to ask for a penalty, but the referee only glanced at it twice but ignored it.

With the advantage of the home field, Dortmund took the initiative on the field for a while in the following game, and made several consecutive combinations on the right side, playing well, but unfortunately the final kick was a little worse and could not penetrate Fernandes' ten fingers.

Villarreal's passivity on the field also made Dai Zhiwei helpless to continue to retreat, but the game was relatively easy, Papastathopoulos, who was responsible for marking him, had been moving at the edge of the penalty area and did not seem to care about his movement in midfield.

Borussia Dortmund came close to taking the lead in the 26th minute when Ginter combined with Piszczek to kick the wall and burst into the right-hand side of the box with a powerful shot saved by Fernandes, and Aubameyang scrambled to shoot the ball wide before Musacchio scrambled to shoot from five yards.

Villarreal's quick counterattack, Castillejo pretended to break through, and the flexible dribbling at his feet made Kagawa Shinji secretly complain, he pretended to pass the ball to Rodrigo inadvertently, Rodrigo made a gesture to retreat, and immediately passed the ball back to Castillejo, and then let go of the speed and rushed to the bottom line.

This was the old routine between Castillejo and Rodrygo, with Borussia Dortmund players habitually moving to the corners on the left.

Although it's only mid-April, Castillejo has already been booked by AC Milan, and it will be difficult for Villarreal fans to see him playing at the Love Song Stadium next season.

At this moment, Castillejo did not immediately plug the ball through, but picked up his right foot and pumped the ball into the lower middle of the ball, and with a sharp and flat wide transfer, the attack was transferred to the feet of dos Santos on the left side of the penalty area.

Attentive dos Santos brought Castillejo's pass to a steady halt and sprinted into the Dortmund penalty area as soon as possible.

Facing right-back Schmelzer, Dos Santos did not have any fear, the feints at his feet became more and more flexible, constantly testing Schmelzer's flanks, and once Schmelzer made any tendentious move, Dos Santos would immediately break through in the opposite direction.

But Schmelzer held his ground and didn't give Dos Santos any chance.

As the saying goes: if the enemy does not move, I will not move.

In the midst of the stalemate, Castillejo shifted from the right and Rodrigo stepped forward to pick him up.

Dos Santos hurriedly passed the ball back to Rodrigo, who easily stopped the ball, looked at the positions of his teammates around him, and suddenly pushed the ball with his right foot to the left.

Shinji Kagawa subconsciously raised his foot to block, but unexpectedly it was just Rodrigo's feint, Rodrigo wiped the soles of his left foot, and the football actually changed direction and drilled through Shinji Kagawa's legs.

After Rodrigo quickly broke through Shinji Kagawa, he was about to shoot a long shot before running to the penalty area in the middle, and Ginter hurriedly turned his back and blocked it with his back.

It's just that Rodrygo suddenly turned into a short pass, and the football passed straight to Dai Zhiwei, who threw off Papastathopoulos and went straight into the penalty area.

The football flew into the penalty area, and Bender and goalkeeper Bilquiqi went out to block the ball, but Dai Zhiwei between the two was the first to touch the football.

Dai Zhiwei's long legs were lightly picked, and the football flew towards the back of Bilky's head.

Borussia Dortmund goalkeeper Bilki is somewhat similar to Arsenal striker Olivier Giroud, you say he's okay, and you'll give you a slap on the backhand; You say he's pitting, and he'll give you a slap on the backhand.

It is a rare face-slapping goalkeeper.

This time, Bilki showed his godly side, only to see him jump bravely, leaned back and stabbed the football with his fingers, the speed of the football was suddenly slowed down a lot, hitting the goal crossbar and bouncing back into the penalty area.

Amazing reaction!

Just when the hearts of Dortmund fans were relieved, a white figure suddenly rushed out in front of the Dortmund goal and rushed towards the rebounding football.

It turned out that Bakambu, who was near the goal, quickly stepped forward when Dai Zhiwei picked the goal, and the Congolese striker, who was about to make up the shot, saw the rebounding football and shook the ball with a clever header.

The ball leaped over Bilki, who had fallen to the ground, and flew into the goal through the very center of the empty goal.

Bakambu breaks the deadlock first for Villarreal, 1:0!

Bakambu grinned and laughed as he ran, and Dai Zhiwei almost failed to hold the happy black man.

As Bakambu broke the deadlock, the situation immediately changed, and it was clear that Dortmund could not easily concede defeat at home, or even accept a draw, and soon changed their tactics, frequently starting to fight fiercely up front and then attacking on the spot.

Rodrigo steals in the backcourt and passes straight to Dai Zhiwei in the frontcourt.

Before Dai Zhiwei received the ball, Papastathopoulos behind him hit his back, Dai Zhiwei was caught off guard and was stumbled, but fortunately he quickly stabilized his footing and grabbed the football first.

But as soon as he turned around with the ball, Dortmund rushed up alone.

Bender rushed up fiercely and kicked Dai Zhiwei fiercely, and the two slammed into each other.

Dai Zhiwei gritted his teeth and crashed into Bend, and wanted to change the line to break through with the ball at his feet, but unexpectedly Bender used his scissor leg with difficulty and tripped him to the ground.

Dai Zhiwei made his body look a lot stronger through fitness, but it was only better than Messi and Neymar's small bean sprouts, but it was not the perverted level of Drogba, and Dortmund's continuous fouls made him also consume a lot of physical strength, lying on the ground gasping for breath, and silently protesting to the referee.

Sure enough, the protests worked.

The referee showed Bender a yellow card, ignored Bender's protests, called him to his side and gave him a few warnings.

Borussia Dortmund fouled so many fouls up front that even the referee couldn't stand it, let alone the hot-tempered players.

There had been a clash of players before because of a vicious foul by Schmelzer on Castillejo – Schmelzer took Castillejo straight off the touchline with a very large sliding tackle.

Dai Zhiwei and Musacchio, the two guys who are not afraid of making a big deal out of Villarreal, directly surrounded Schmelzer and sprayed wildly, but the German man with a stick was not afraid at all, and the yellow submarine players stood up to the bull.

The referee hurriedly separated the players of the two teams, gave Schmelzer a yellow card, and called the captains of the two teams together again, warning repeatedly!

So far in the first half, the referee has also roughly counted Dortmund's fouls against Villarreal, taking Dai Zhiwei, who is more active in the front court, as an example, Dai Zhiwei has been violated no less than 10 times in less than half a game.

Just when the Dortmund players protested and slowly returned to the defense, Rodrygo took advantage of the good opportunity before the opponent was in place and immediately served quickly.

The Dortmund players were walking slowly, but they didn't expect the yellow submarine to send a free kick quickly, and while playing to defend with their lives, they once again protested to the referee.

But the referee didn't stop the game at all, but ran after the football to the front court.

Good chance for Villarreal to fight back!