Chapter 37: The Start

(Congratulations to Bayern on winning the championship, and I wish the young Dortmund continued good work!) οΌ‰

Once all the check-in was done and everyone had put their things back in their rooms, Jurgen Klopp gathered the group together to arrange the starting line-up and some tactical ideas for the game.

Although he didn't have much hope of getting into the starting list, Lin Yu still went to this impromptu meeting with Piszczek.

According to Lin Yu's idea, Dortmund takes the 4231 position, and the striker is Lewandowski, as long as Lewandowski has no problems, he will be the starter.

In the midfield, the positions of left wingback Reus and right midfielder Blaszczykowski are also relatively fixed, and in terms of the front waist, Gotze should be put on the bench because of something wrong with his body, as for who will replace Gotze's position, this is not something Lin Yu can speculate, but he feels from the bottom of his heart that if he puts himself in Gotze's position, he can also be competent.

After Shaheen, the original main force of the defensive midfield, went to Real Madrid, it is now basically Gundogan and Kehl, and the back line is even more stable.

Lin Yu seems to think that the only possibility for him to start is to replace the unwell GΓΆtze to play in the front midfield.

Dortmund's tactical thinking is also very clear, although it looks like a defensive counterattack on the surface, but it is played very beautifully, and the short pass coordination is simply wonderful, in fact, from Lin Yu's point of view, Dortmund is more like a full attack and defense tactics, when attacking, the defenders will actively participate in the attack, and when they return to defense, the frontcourt players almost retreat to their own half.

The dense and staggered defense makes it very difficult for the opponent to pass the ball, and it is even more difficult to penetrate this defense.

Klopp speaks very funny, and when explaining tactics, he also likes to use some local German proverbs or stories to describe them, Lin Yu does not feel bored, but laughs many times.

After the tactical explanation, Klopp began to announce who would start the game.

"Goalkeeper Weidenfeller!"

There is nothing to say about this, Weidenfeller, as the captain of Borussia Dortmund, has always been a starter, and he has performed very well.

Weidenfeller is a very calm person, when he heard that he was starting, he just smiled and nodded, and did not react much, after all, it is basically impossible for anyone in the current team to snatch his main position.

'Centre-backs Subotic and Hummels, left wing-back Schmelzer, right wing-back Piszczek.

Hearing this arrangement, Piszczek, who was sitting next to Lin Yu, suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, because in the last game against Werder Bremen, he did not start, although he was the team's main defender, Klopp preferred to see the state of the players to arrange.

"Congratulations." Lin Yu said to Piszczek with a smile.

"Ha, what's there to congratulate, the starter should have been mine." Piszczek smiled: "It's you, you've been training hard these days, I don't know if it's possible to start, if you can, I'll invite you to Nuremberg to walk around, I'll pay for it, you just have to play." ”

"Really?"

"I'm talking, but only if you want to start, otherwise there's no way."

"Cut, it's really stingy, you know that my chances of starting are very low."

"Low doesn't mean nothing, the coach hasn't finished yet, be patient." Piszczek smiled and comforted Lin Yudao.

Lin Yu sighed in his heart, his requirements were not high, as long as he could come off the bench, he was already satisfied, as for whether he could start, he really didn't have extravagant expectations.

"Defensive midfielder Kyle, as well as Gundogan, left wing-back Reuss, right midfielder Kuba (Blaszczykowski), striker Lewandowski!"

"Coach, did you miss a position?" Lin Yu was a little out of breath and hurriedly asked.

"Do you want to kick?" Klopp asked Lin Yu with a smile.

Lin Yu nodded and said, "Yes!" Of course I want to kick! A player who doesn't want to start is not a good player! ”

Although he has little hope for the starter, it doesn't mean that Lin Yu doesn't want to start, except that the old player who is about to retire may be content with the substitution, and a young man like Lin Yu, the substitute can't satisfy them.

"Then you can play in the midfield position, this game is to give you a chance to perform, don't play badly." Klopp said.

Happiness came too suddenly, Lin Yu suddenly had a feeling of ascending to heaven, stunned, really stunned.

"What? Didn't understand me? ”

"Understood, understood!" Lin Yu came back to his senses and nodded vigorously.

"That's good, don't live up to my expectations of you."

"Hmm!"

Lin Yu's excitement is in stark contrast to the silence and helplessness of the other two people, one is Perisic, he actually guessed that it would be like this, a few days ago in the intra-team match, his performance was indeed not as eye-catching as Lin Yu, and it could even be said that it was a little bad, the more he wanted to perform well and perform better than Lin Yu, the more he made mistakes because of nervousness, and later he was a little absent-minded in training, and he even began to wonder if it was a mistake to come to Dortmund.

The other is midfielder Kevin Grosskreutz.

In fact, all along, as long as Gotze is injured, it must be him who replaces Gotze, this time he is waiting for the start with confidence, who knows that the result is Lin Yu.

In the last game against Werder Bremen, it was he who replaced Gotze in the midfield, but his performance was not good, which led to a difficult win in that game, and in the end it was Gotze who replaced him that saved the game.

"Maybe it's because of the bad performance in the last game." Grosskloitz could only think so, because he didn't think Lin Yu was better than him.

After the starting list was arranged, Klopp deliberately kept Lin Yu and told him: "Remember, you play the role of threading the needle on the field, don't deliberately pursue shooting and mess up, pass the ball as much as you can, in terms of archery, Lewandowski is much better than you." ”

Hearing this, Lin Yu's heart was full of feelings, although he wanted to play as a forward instead of a striker, but as a very offensive person, he especially liked the sense of accomplishment after scoring a goal, although the assist was not bad, but the goal was more attractive to him.

"What if there was a chance?" Lin Yu asked.

"If you can pass the ball or try to pass the ball, you have to shoot, unless you are facing an empty goal, don't get up easily, otherwise it will only be a waste of attacking opportunities to a large extent." Jurgen Klopp said harshly: "If you can't do it, don't play. ”

"Well, I'll listen to your arrangement." Although he said so, Lin Yu was not convinced in his heart, he had already thought about it, as long as the opportunity came, he would still shoot, if he scored, Klopp would have nothing to say, if he didn't let him play because he scored, then Klopp was not a good coach, he believed that Klopp could bring Dortmund to where he is today, and he would never be that kind of confused coach.

And in the final analysis, even if Klopp is really that kind of confused coach, with the ball king cultivator in Lin Yu's hands, any team can achieve a great legend, if Klopp really has to give up on him because of this, then it can only be Klopp's own loss.