Chapter 498: Extravagant Rehearsal

Just like the boring Spanish derby a few seasons ago, this March and April will see a very frequent German derby, but I don't know how it will feel.

However, because of Dortmund's upset in the Champions League, in fact, the situation of the entire European football this season has been affected.

For example, in La Liga, Barcelona, which is fighting in the third tier, made every effort to adjust its state and prepare to defend the league title after exiting the Champions League.

This makes Real Madrid, which already has a certain point difference with them and has to take care of the three lines, a lot more difficult.

In the end, Zidane also made up his mind, anyway, I have more players, I will arrange more newcomers to play in the league, and now the league championship is no longer dependent on us not making mistakes, so everything makes way for the Champions League.

Paris Saint-Germain have no worries with Ibrahimovic and the league already eight rounds ahead of schedule, and they are all wondering if they can play Real Madrid, after one breakthrough, and then make a second breakthrough.

As for Bayern, they are clearly the hardest team in the Champions League semi-finals right now, not only because of the pressure they have in the league, but more importantly, they have to play Borussia Dortmund three times in two weeks, and all of them are the kind of decisive battles that affect the outcome of the season final.

After beating Barcelona, Dortmund finally caught the attention of the media and fans, who found that this team that only played weak teams at the beginning of the season and in the middle of the season that they thought was completely dependent on Lin Yi was not as simple as they thought it was.

Although they don't understand the reason, the facts tell them that it is impossible for such a team to win against Barcelona.

Everyone is analysing what is different about Dortmund now, and they are still looking forward to Pep Guardiola leading Bayern Munich to help his old club avenge and defeat Dortmund.

Because Dortmund have slapped them in the face too many times this season, not many people have shown their support.

With this attention, Dortmund soon had their first game against Bayern Munich.

The first leg was played at Borussia Dortmund's home stadium, which allowed Dortmund to get a better rest.

This extra few days of rest can be regarded as the most positive factor, because Dortmund have not fallen behind against Bayern this season, so it seems that there will be no problems whether it is at the Allianz Arena or their own stadium.

When the players of the two teams met in the players' tunnel, they were already a little tired of each other, because they really changed the soup and did not change the medicine.

Ram now has a strong immunity to Lin Yi's trash talk, and can even give a little counterattack from time to time.

The core of the starting midfield is still Thiago, the only difference is that today Guardiola put Douglas Costa and Kingsley Coman on both flanks of the team, and he is clearly ready to put pressure on Dortmund with a more impactful flank attack.

But the current Bayern Munich seems to have really been psychologically shadowed by Dortmund, or Lin Yi, and from the beginning of this game, they were frantically suppressed by Dortmund.

What is even more unfortunate is that in less than ten minutes of the opening game, they had a very unexpected attrition.

When Jérôme Boateng was staring at Lin Yi, he was quickly shaken to the ground by Lin Yi.

Then Lin Yi, who broke through to the penalty area, not only sent the ball into the goal behind Neuer, but also raised his hand after Boateng, who got up after falling to the ground, and signaled to the field that he needed a team doctor.

After the examination, the team doctor looked at Guardiola with great regret, "I think, I think you should make a substitution." ”

After a pause, he added, "Not only that, but it's very likely that he won't be able to play this season." You're ready. ”

For Guardiola, who was already one goal behind, it was really a leak in the overnight rain, he thought about it repeatedly for a long time, and finally did not choose Dante, who was basically leaving the team at the end of the season, but called the Spaniard Javi Martinez who he strongly advocated the introduction.

"You go and play as a central defender in place of Jérôme, and by the way act as a midfielder, but the main task is to defend well and try not to rush up. Then tell Arturo to go forward. ”

Conceding a goal has already prevented Guardiola from staying on the Diaoyu Tai, so with Boateng injured, he replaced him with Xavi Martinez, who defended well and was also a midfielder, to not only defend well, but also allow Vidal to increase his attacking opportunities.

But Pep Guardiola's arrangement didn't work, as Dortmund's attack was now fully open.

Although Vidal and Thiago were also able to organize some attacks, they were then countered by Dortmund's stronger attacks, but Bayern's side, because the attack was pressed too high, Dortmund made a storm in the penalty area.

Despite Javi Martinez's hard work to defend well, Lin Yi's dribbling still stretched Bayern's backline.

Neither Benettia nor Xavi Martinez are speed players, and the counter-attacks of Lin Yi and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang always find holes between the two of them.

Since the second half, Baltra, who has gradually replaced Hummels in the starting line-up, is still very consistent today.

Pep Guardiola looked at the centre-back who he picked up with one hand, but didn't take it away, and suddenly felt that sometimes reality really likes to joke with himself.

At half-time, he immediately used up his remaining substitutions and prepared to adopt a more extreme way of possessing the ball.

"Mario, you and Frank are ready to play, and in the second half with Arturo, you guys are looking for chances in midfield."

Götze came on for Costa, while Franck Ribery replaced Thomas Müller, who started today but did nothing.

Kyle was fine today, not setting up anything in the locker room at halftime.

Just asked, "Is there anyone who can't stand it?" Osman was in a hurry to play. If you can't stand it, you say, I'll replace him, you guys come down and rest. The rest of the season is crucial, so don't use up your stamina for one game. ”

The players didn't speak, after all, they were tired in the first half, and Lin Yi on Dortmund's side suffered all the tiredness for them alone.

Kyle actually wanted to liven up the atmosphere in the locker room, and seeing that everyone was in good shape, he got up and went out to watch the substitutes warm up.

"If we can score another goal in the second half, I think they will be forced to come out and fight us in the next leg, so it should be easier to score."

Royce raised an eyebrow, "I don't think you understand the situation. I don't think they've been fighting us all the time, haven't you seen that all of them have been pushing through the half? ”

'It's natural because it would have been very different if they had scored an away goal in this game.

"Don't worry. I'm not going to let them score. Langlak swore an oath.

Lin Yi still believes in his statement, because Langlak has always been stable in the face of Bayern, and he is familiar with Lewandowski, he can always make some wonderful saves.

Another point is that Longerak is a man who never speaks big, and in the previous game against Barcelona, he was always silent in the dressing room because he was not sure. Now that he dares to say this, he will definitely try to do it better.

After halftime, looking at Bayern Munich's playing list, Lin Yi was actually a little surprised, because Guardiola's substitution was really unexpected. Under normal circumstances, Guardiola will not make substitutions in midfield, let alone use up all the substitutions at once when a player is injured.

Gotze is once again on the ground of Borussia Dortmund and has been greeted by largely no boos. Because the players don't seem to have any feelings for him anymore.

In other words, because of Lin Yi's existence, fans feel that even if there is no Gotze, it is not a big deal.

Gotze soon had his first touch of the ball, but before he could make any moves, the ball was stabbed by Lin Yi, who was robbing.

Dortmund's ferocity of on-the-spot counter-robbery now seems to have surpassed Barcelona and Bayern now.

Pep Guardiola shouted instructions to Vidal on the sidelines, asking him to entangle Lin Yi, but Lin Yi only used a pass to make Vidal's runs all in vain.

"All I can say is that Lin Yi stepped up once again and made me feel like I didn't know what to do with him during the game."

This is what Guardiola told reporters in a post-match interview that he has never heard such an assessment from him in all his years of coaching.

'I think he's at the same level as Leo after I've been in charge for a few years, at least they're doing the same things on the pitch and having the same impact on the opposition.

Such an evaluation can be regarded as quite high, after all, although Lin Yi has just beaten Messi, Messi is still recognized as the world's top star, and Guardiola is obviously treating Messi as the world's number one star.

At the end of the game, Lin Yi's wish was not fully realized, and the score stopped at 1-0, failing to expand the advantage.

This goal finally changed his Champions League goal tally to twelve.

However, Cristiano Ronaldo was a bit more aggressive, scoring twice in the first leg in Paris to overtake Lin Yi with 13 goals and rush to the top of this season's Champions League scorers' list.

Regarding the question raised by the reporters to himself, Lin Yi's reaction was so calm that it made the reporters crazy.

"Oh, you say that, but no matter how many goals he scores more than me, aren't we both in the semi-finals?"

Borussia Dortmund beat Bayern Munich 1-0 at home to the first leg of the Champions League semi-finals, while Real Madrid beat Paris Saint-Germain 3-0 away.

It wasn't until this time that Lin Yi suddenly realized that the venue for the Champions League final announced this year was the Bernabeu.

In other words, if we do make it to the final, will we face them on Real Madrid's home turf?

Of course, Lin Yi is still a little early to think about this, because Bayern Munich did not give up the game because of the defeat in the first leg.

As some optimistic fans said: Dortmund's comeback against Barcelona was not also a 2-0 reversal at home after 0-1 away? If they can do it, we can do it.

The confidence of the fans did not help the team, and both the players and coaches are now pondering how to deal with Dortmund.

But no matter what, the morale of the team still can't be dispersed, so Guardiola, who is still in the final period of time, who should choose the central defender, said, "It's okay, anyway, whether it's the Champions League or the league, it's a decisive battle between our two teams, and it's a chance to have a few dress rehearsals." ”

Listening to his words, not to mention the fans and the media, even his players felt that this rehearsal was too extravagant.

And at present, the ending of this rehearsal does not seem to be very good, if the final final also follows the script of the rehearsal, then the team seems to have an accident.

At this moment, Dortmund, the whole team is extremely stable, and under the guidance of Kyle, they have also trained several different sets of tactics, ready to be ready at any time.

And Ousmane Dembele has been integrated very quickly, and due to his impressive play on the wing, Lin Yi seems to have stepped down from the central striker position to continue to play as a striker. But what is even more surprising is not that, Ousmane Dembele has not only integrated into the team very quickly, but he has also integrated the Dortmund trident very well.

Because now Dortmund's frontcourt trio has a lot of cross-running, and they can rely on each other's tacit understanding to play a lot of cooperation.

A player like Mechtaryan who has been in the team for a long time has not done it, but Ousmane Dembele has done it.

Kyle watched the cooperation of these four people on the field, and suddenly felt as if he saw the shadow of Kaka, who was still in good form last season. Since Kaka left the team freely, Dortmund's attack has only left the trident, and the previous terrifying quartet has not been seen for a long time, I didn't expect that this young man I fancy can actually do this?

Kyle has deliberately strengthened the tactical bond between the four and is poised to further catalyze this style of play, which opens up a myriad of possibilities and is very free.

The next two rounds of league opponents can suffer, and Dortmund's fixed front four seem to have gone crazy.

6-0, 5-0.

Lin Yi led the way and scored four goals.