Chapter 306: Advance to the final of the German Cup
The league is heating up, but Dortmund's next game is not the league.
In two days' time, Borussia Dortmund will host Augsburg on their home turf.
This game is not the Bundesliga, but the semi-final of this season's German Cup, and this game is also very important for Dortmund, who are also very hungry for this title.
Jurgen Klopp has been preparing for this title as well.
Truth be told, Borussia Dortmund's chances of winning the German Cup are much higher than their chances of winning the league, and they are now almost one foot in the final of the German Cup.
Borussia Dortmund were lucky enough to face Augsburg, a team from the Bundesliga 2, in the semi-finals of the German Cup. Augsburg is a decent team and is one of the favourites for promotion from the Bundesliga this season, and is doing well right now.
But Augsburg is also not at the top of the Bundesliga and is now third.
In other words, Augsburg's strength does not go beyond the scope of the Bundesliga, it is still the strength of a Bundesliga team.
Therefore, in the face of such an opponent, Dortmund should not have any problems.
The outside media also thinks this game, Augsburg is not capable of stopping Dortmund at all, and Dortmund's promotion to the German Cup final is already a certainty.
For this game, Klopp is also very cautious and attaches great importance to it, and does not underestimate Augsburg.
In this game, Dortmund is the main starter, and Gu Zhen also appeared in the starting list, which also shows that Dortmund is real.
After the start of the game, Dortmund took the absolute initiative with a few words.
In the 21st minute of the first half, Gu Zhen directly grabbed a point at the back of the penalty area and sent the football into the goal of Augsburg, helping the team take the lead.
Sure enough, Gu Zhen is still the terrifying assassin!
In the 16th minute of the second half, Borussia Dortmund's full-back Schmelzer suddenly fired a shot from the corner of the penalty area and sent the ball into the Augsburg goal.
In this way, Dortmund comfortably beat Augsburg 2-0 and successfully qualified for the final of this season's German Cup.
In this game, Gu Zhen only played half a game and was replaced to rest, mainly to maintain Gu Zhen's physical fitness and stay for the league.
Yes, nothing is as important as the Bundesliga right now.
Fortunately, in this game, Dortmund completed the task, won 2-0 against the opponent, and qualified for the final of this season's German Cup.
At the same time, another semi-final of the German Cup was also played, with Bayern Munich taking on Schalke 04 away from home.
These two teams are not bad, and they are the third and second teams in the Bundesliga.
However, both teams seemed to be focused on the league, so both teams had some reservations in this game, as they went 0-0 in the regular 90 minutes and then 1-1 in extra time before going to penalties.
It can be seen that the strength of these two teams seems to be really between them!
During the penalty shootout, Schalke 04's goalkeeper Manuel Neuer showed great courage and saved two penalties from Bayern Munich in a row. Unfortunately, Schalke 04 still lost, and they lost to Bayern Munich 2-3 on aggregate.
It wasn't Bayern Munich's goalkeeper Bout who performed
Amazing, but the players of the Schalke 04 team did not stabilize their mentality and directly shot three penalties, which led to the strength of the game.
In the end, it was Bayern Munich who advanced to the final of the German Cup!
Yes, Borussia Dortmund will face Bayern Munich for the German Cup this season. The final will be played after the Bundesliga, so now both teams will be able to put all their energy into the league.
Now both teams are fighting for the league and the championship.
Now the Bundesliga has really entered a white-hot stage, and the top four teams are all thinking about winning the championship, and they are all preparing seriously.
Borussia Dortmund will travel to Hertha Berlin this weekend!
This is the 28th round of the Bundesliga this season, and this game was supposed to not have much attention, after all, Hertha Berlin is the vice-president of the Bundesliga and has almost been relegated early. They really had big problems this season, putting all their attention on the Europa League and doing well, but they didn't achieve the goals they set out for. On the contrary, the league is indeed a mess, and by the end of the half season, they have not even reached double digits in points.
Shouldn't Hertha Berlin be relegated?
The reason why this game has attracted so much attention is because of the term "Chinese derby".
Because there is a Chinese player in the Hertha Berlin team, it is Zhang Ningpeng. And Zhang Ningpeng and Gu Zhen's personal relationship is very good, once the two of the national youth team were roommates, and both of them were players under Gu Zhen's father Gu Yongchen, and their relationship was very good.
So, naturally, this game has attracted a lot of attention.
Countless Chinese fans are flocking to this game, and there are also countless Chinese media reporters are flocking to this game.
Of course, they will also have some worries, will Zhang Ningpeng be able to play in this game?
Zhang Ningpeng is not the absolute main force in Hertha Berlin, just a rotation player, does Zhang Ningpeng have a chance in this game?
After many inquiries by media reporters, they learned that Zhang Ningpeng was included in the squad for this game, and as for whether he will appear in the starting list, they really don't know about it, and Hertha Berlin did not say it clearly.
Now Hertha Berlin is still leading the way with results and they don't want to be relegated.
At the end of the Bundesliga's half-17 rounds, they had only six points from Hertha Berlin, not even reaching double figures. And now their points are 18 points, although the points are not very much, but they are not bad.
Freiburg and Hainover in front of them now have 23 points from 96, which is not much different, and Nuremberg outside the relegation zone has only 25 points. Now that there are so many rounds of games left in the league, they still have a chance for Hertha Berlin, although it is relatively slim, but they are still willing to fight, and they firmly believe that their quality can be relegated.
Of course, every game that follows is very important for Hertha Berlin. Even against Borussia Dortmund, the top of the Bundesliga, they will go all out and try to win.
So in this game, they lined up a very strong lineup, and Zhang Ningpeng also appeared in the starting list. But what was surprising was that Gu Zhen did not appear in this game, which stunned everyone.
It is said that Gu Zhen followed the team to Hertha Berlin, but soon after coming here, Gu Zhen had a problem with his body and caught a severe cold. So Klopp directly deleted Gu Zhen's name from this game, and Gu Zhen was also in advance
Go back and rest.
Yes, now Gu Zhen is not in Hertha Berlin, he is back to Dortmund.
This really made the Chinese fans and the media very speechless and disappointed, how did this come to be? They were all worried about Zhang Ningpeng before, but what they didn't expect was that Gu Zhen didn't appear in this game, he was really speechless!
But hey, Zhang Ningpeng is on the starting list, and this game still has to be seen.
In the end, the two sides played a 0-0 draw, which made the Dortmund people very dissatisfied and uncomfortable.
They had a lot of chances in this game, almost besieging Hertha Berlin, but they just didn't score. Their strikers were really bad, they didn't score any shots from close range, and Barrios looked like he was really going to change his shoes.
Of course, Zhang Ningpeng's performance in this game was also very good, his defense was to create a lot of trouble for the Dortmund people, which made the Chinese fans very excited, Zhang Ningpeng is very good, this is really not to make up the number.
After this round of matches, in fact, both teams are not satisfied, they are both aiming for victory.
It's a pity that they only got a draw and only got a point, which is really a drop in the bucket for them.
With just 19 points, Hertha Berlin is still a long way from escaping the relegation zone, and they have one less chance to escape the relegation zone.
Of course, this has the biggest impact on Dortmund, they just opened a little gap with the tiger wolf behind them, and they didn't expect that the gap would be narrowed, they were very worried. So, they're all watching the other three teams play now, and they really want those three teams to continue to have problems and lose them all.
Indeed, Bayer Leverkusen did what the Dortmund people wanted, and they really lost.
However, Bayer Leverkusen lost at home to Schalke 04, the second-best team in the league who won and got three points, which had a huge impact on Dortmund.
However, there is still good news, Bayern Munich also lost, they lost 1-2 at home to Stuttgart, and it is said that Super Mario Gomez actually scored an own goal in this game, sending Bayern Munich to the abyss of defeat. Is Gomez secretly helping his old club Stuttgart? Many Bayern Munich fans are skeptical.
However, this has nothing to do with Dortmund, as long as the Dortmund people know that Bayern Munich also lost, the pressure on them is much less.
Of course, Bayern Munich fans are very unhappy and complain about the team. What a great opportunity this is, they didn't even take it, and it will be really difficult to get such an opportunity in the future.
At the end of this round of games, Dortmund's points have reached 60 points, and they are still at the top of the Bundesliga. Second-placed Schalke 04 have 56 points, only four points behind Dortmund, and they have a chance to surpass Dortmund.
Bayer Leverkusen and Bayern Munich have both lost, their points are unchanged at 52 points, Bayern Munich is still relying on the advantage of goal difference, and is now ahead of Bayer Leverkusen in third place in the Bundesliga.
This season's Bundesliga is really up and down, at such a critical moment, these two teams have such an accident, do they really want to say goodbye to the competition for the league title in advance? Will Schalke 04 and Borussia Dortmund compete for the Bundesliga title in the end?
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