Chapter Thirty-Nine: Blowing the Horn of Counterattack
The referee blew the whistle and the game officially began.
In this way, Lin Yu began his first professional league debut in the Bundesliga, the entire football world, and the success of this game will be directly related to his future life.
At the beginning of the game, Dortmund took the absolute initiative, and the overall strength was significantly stronger than that of Nuremberg's team, playing very easily and firmly controlling the ball.
Nuremberg didn't seem to be planning to play against Dortmund, and from the start, they defended almost with all their strength, setting up a bus in front of the goal, which was called "defensive counterattack".
In fact, many teams are playing defensive counterattacks, but some teams are 90% defensive and only 10% offensive, which feels like they have built a fortress in front of their own goal, and they refuse to go to the front.
For example, Nuremberg is like this now, they don't want to give Dortmund any chance, their goal is to force Dortmund to draw, if there is a chance, it is okay to steal one.
In order to score as soon as possible, Dortmund pressed almost all the way, in stark contrast to Nuremberg, and the attack was very ferocious, almost wave after wave.
Lin Yu's performance can be said to be only decent so far, and there is nothing outstanding about it, because he knows that his basic ability is not good enough, so after taking the ball, he chooses to pass the ball more to avoid mistakes, but in this way, he seems to have become a dispensable person on the court, even if he puts a wall there, the effect may not be worse than him.
None of the fans at the scene paid attention to Lin Yu, they focused more on Reuss, Lewandowski and others, as soon as these people got the ball, they immediately let out earth-shattering boos, putting huge pressure on the other party.
Lin Yu looked at the sidelines, Klopp had a straight face, and he didn't say anything, but he could guess that Klopp was not satisfied with his performance.
He took a deep breath, he didn't panic, he didn't disrupt his rhythm, the reason why he chose to pass the ball, of course, has his own purpose, and it can't be changed because someone doesn't understand, because that could lead to a bigger defeat.
But now there is a problem that even his teammates don't understand him, and in order to attack, his teammates at the back line have forced him to press up, forcing him to become a defender at the back.
Lin Yu knew very well that it was extremely dangerous to do so, and he wanted to remind his teammates, but he was neither the captain nor the star of the team, to put it mildly, his words were like fart, and no one would listen to them.
Only at this time did Lin Yu feel his insignificance and helplessness, he and this team were not actually integrated, his previous thoughts were just vain self-righteousness, if he really wanted to say that he was integrated, it was actually only a substitute team, not this main team.
At the end of the 31st minute of the game, Nuremberg player Hiroshi Kiyotake suddenly launched a long pass, the ball crossed the entire Dortmund backline, and fell at the feet of Nuremberg striker Peckhardt, who successfully countered offside and directly made a wonderful single chance.
But Peckhardt isn't fast, he's a typical point-grabbing striker, and even when he gets a single knife, he is much slower to dribble the ball.
At this time, Lin Yu was the only one in the back line.
He didn't want the team to concede a goal, he just had that idea, so he ran as hard as he could, chased as hard as he could.
He wasn't very fast, but he was definitely a lot faster than Peckhardt with the ball, so he caught up with Peckhardt and made a flying tackle that shoveled the ball off the touchline.
It can only be said that his luck is too good, just let him make a successful tackle, otherwise this tackle will be a red card.
Lin Yu stood up and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.
Peckhardt was lying on the ground, and the Nuremberg players pressed the referee for a yellow card, but the referee saw it clearly that Lin Yu's tackle was so clean that he didn't even touch Peckhardt.
Some Nuremberg fans said sourly: "That kid is a striker, why doesn't he go to the back?" ”
But no matter what, Lin Yu successfully dismantled the opponent's single chance, which can be said to be a meritorious achievement, but he couldn't be happy, because what a forward midfielder needs is not defense, but assists and goals, without these two data, no matter how good your defense is, you will only be ridiculed and ridiculed.
Nuremberg won a corner, Kiyotake Hiroji took a corner, and in the box, Peckhardt jumped up for the top and smashed the ball into the goal.
What should have come has come, and there is no way to avoid it.
Nuremberg still scored, and this goal also made the atmosphere of the scene extremely intense.
In China, in Dortmund's post bar, there are extreme fans who have already scolded.
"That Lin Yu is a bird, whether he can play football or not, if he can't get down quickly, he won't be embarrassed!"
"Upstairs, what you said is not right, how can you say that the ball was also stopped by him."
"What if you stop it, it's not that you have been entered, look how well that Japanese man plays."
"On the second floor, then Lin Yu is playing in the front waist position, Nima can't dribble the ball, can't pass people, as soon as he gets the ball, he passes, like a wall, it's annoying to watch."
"Hey, don't go too far upstairs, how to say that we are Chinese, it's not easy to come up with a player to play in Europe, can't you say something nice?"
"Nice? If this kid can stay in Dortmund for a season, I'll eat! ”
"One season is too far away, let's make a bet and see if he can score or assist in this game."
"Okay, I said he couldn't score a goal and couldn't have an assist."
"Then I'll bet on him to score or assist."
"Okay, if anyone loses, they will send a picture of Xiang!"
"Send it, who is afraid of whom, don't just admit it when the time comes."
It's a mixed bag, and because it's not a real-name system, it's hard to know who the other party is, so everyone dares to talk nonsense on it, and it's not illegal to scold people anyway.
Of course, Lin Yu couldn't hear these discussions, he just stood silently in the midfield, ready to kick off.
Lewandowski kicked the ball to him, he held the ball and didn't move.
Nuremberg's players didn't even come close to him, because everyone had the illusion that Lin Yu would only pass the ball and let him pass unless the sun came out from the west.
Even Nuremberg's head coach Dieter Hecking was in the same vein, shouting from the sidelines: "Watch the movement of Reus, Lewandowski and Kuba, and prevent them from killing." ”
"Look down on me? Hey, I've finally waited for this opportunity! A sneer rose at the corner of Lin Yu's mouth, and suddenly he rushed forward with the ball.
He was not slow to dribble the ball, and because it was so sudden, the Nuremberg backline was even stunned for a moment.
Moments later, the Nuremberg defenders, who had realised that something was wrong, immediately sent one man to defend Lin Yu, while the others continued to hold on to the three men assigned by their head coach to guard.
Seeing that only one person went to defend Lin Yu, Klopp on the sidelines finally smiled, although the team is still behind, he clearly feels that the opportunity has come.