Chapter 173: Wonderful Cooperation

The draw for the Champions League group stage has been announced, and the defending Bundesliga champions, who are aiming to prove their strength in the Champions League in the new season, have been dealt a heavy blow and the team has been drawn in Group D with Real Madrid, Manchester City and Ajax, which is also known as the biggest "group of death" in the Champions League this season. For such a group result, Dortmund expressed their disappointment, but also made no secret of their expectation of creating a miracle and successfully qualifying.

Borussia Dortmund CEO Watzke said: "It's a difficult group, we have three teams in our group who have won the Champions League, and all four teams won the league last season, so it's definitely a difficult group. All I can say is that now we're expecting heroes to appear, and this is a group that will make legends. We want to make the cut! ”

Dortmund's sporting director Zorc said: "It's too difficult, it's definitely the hardest group stage of this year's Champions League, but like us, our opponents are certainly not comfortable. ”

Borussia Dortmund manager Jurgen Klopp said: "This group is full of anticipation, fear of the future and passion of the players, Manchester City and Real Madrid are the toughest opponents to play against, but we don't have too much respect for them on the pitch. Playing against strong opponents is good for our progress, so let's see who is stronger. We want to be the toughest opponent in this group and we want to write our own legacy. ”

Borussia Dortmund captain Kyle said: "This group is crazy, we have a strong opponent, Real Madrid, Manchester City are not fuel-efficient lamps. But playing against a big team is always a good memory and it helps us as a young team to gain experience. But I have to be honest and hope they're a little bit out of the way when it comes to us. ”

As for Guan Peng's interview with reporters: "We were assigned to the death group, and I have to say that this group is really terrifying." But I am confident that I and my teammates will beat strong opponents in such a terrible group and we will definitely qualify, as long as we play with a brave heart, we will definitely qualify! ”

Guan Peng did not feel scared, on the contrary, Guan Peng was still a little excited, Guan Peng and Dortmund last season were not very experienced to lose to Inter Milan in the quarterfinals. This season, Guan Peng wants to lead the team to the Champions League final, why is we Dortmund not the favorites to win the championship!

The group stage of the new Champions League season will begin on September 18, with Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund and Schalke competing for Europe's highest honour in the Bundesliga.

In a recent interview, Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho said that no one can underestimate the strength of the Bundesliga team, he emphasized that Dortmund, which is in the same group as Real Madrid, is not bad, and Real Madrid cannot take it lightly, and the result of losing to Bayern in the semifinals of the Champions League last season also made Mourinho impressed by the strength of the Bundesliga team.

This season's Champions League group stage. Real Madrid's Group D is known as the "Group of Death", with Real Madrid in a group with Manchester City, Ajax and Borussia Dortmund.

Mourinho said that Dortmund, who had a sluggish performance in the Champions League last season, has considerable strength, "Everyone in this group has a chance to qualify, Dortmund has won the Bundesliga twice in a row, and they have a lot of German internationals in their team, as well as Lewandowski and Guan Peng." GΓΆtze, a great star like Reuss. They have enough experience in the Champions League. On their terrifying home turf, anything can happen. ”

In addition to Dortmund in the same group, Bayern, who eliminated Real Madrid in the semi-finals of the Champions League last season, is clearly respected by Mourinho.

"Real Madrid, Barcelona and Bayern Munich are definitely the most special teams in the Champions League, and the heritage of these three teams is by no means measurable by money. There are some things that money just can't buy. Moreover, the best players in the world want to join these three teams, which money can't buy. It depends on good players to win the championship, but good players are not all bought by money. Mourinho said.

Bayern, Real Madrid, and Barcelona are all very attractive, and many players want to join these three teams. Self-sacrifice at all costs. Xavi Martinez, who joined Bayern Munich for 40 million euros this summer, did not hesitate to cut his salary in order to complete the transfer.

In addition to commenting on the quality of Bayern and Dort, Mourinho also predicted the prospects of this season's Champions League, "Barcelona, Real Madrid, and Bayern, whoever performs better in the sprint stage of these three teams will win the Champions League trophy." ”

Dortmund's opponent in the third round is the pharmaceutical company Bayer Leverkusen, the game time is September 15, this day is quite special, because four days later Dortmund will return to the Eredivisie champion Ajax for the first round of the Champions League group stage, as a Eredivisie giants, Ajax has an extremely glorious past, but the results of the past few years have declined greatly due to a large number of talented players being poached by European giants.

But after all, it is a strong team, Klopp does not dare to be careless, Klopp has made a lot of preparations for this game, Klopp is still more confident in the domestic league, Klopp's plan is to send the team's strongest lineup, strive to lock up the win in the first half, and then replace the main players to save physical strength for the Champions League group stage four days later.

Borussia Dortmund basically fielded the strongest starters, but there was a change in the starting position from the first two rounds, Gotze replaced Reuss, who had a foot injury in the national team, as the starting midfielder, and Reus and the injured S. Bender were on the bench.

Bayer Leverkusen also basically used the same starting line-up from the previous round, but captain Rolfes was substituted and Hegler was given the starting line-up.

In the 29th minute of the first half, Dortmund scored a goal, this time it was the team's defender Hummels who made a contribution, when Hummels won a corner, Schmelzer's cross found Hummels accurately, Hummels scored with a header, Dortmund 1-0 Leverkusen.

In the 37th minute, Dortmund went to the next city, Piszczek broke the ball in the backfield, found Guan Peng directly in the midfield, Guan Peng **** stopped the ball, turned around and handed the ball to Lewandowski, he accelerated at the same time, Lewandowski had a straight kick in his heart, the football passed through the back line of Leverkusen, Guan Peng successfully countered offside, faced the attacking Leverkusen goalkeeper Renault, Guan Peng picked up the football and passed to the back point of the Leverkusen goal, Lewandowski scored in the face of an empty goal.

"Beautiful cooperation, Guan Peng and Lewandowski successfully played the entire backline of Leverkusen, and in the face of Guan's just right pass, Lewandowski easily sent the football into the empty goal!" The Dortmund home commentator was also full of praise for the extremely tacit cooperation between the two this time. (To be continued.) )