Chapter 345: A Heavy Blow

Zhou Yi's goal gave Dortmund a regain the lead in the 83rd minute.

While the Borussia Dortmund players were celebrating creatively, Real Madrid was in a state of flux.

From the head coach Carlo Ancelotti but the players, none seem to react.

Casillas, who jumped up on his back, but did not touch the soccer ball and could only watch the soccer ball go into the net, gave up his balance and fell straight to the ground, and then he covered his face with his hands.

He knew he had made another unforgivable mistake.

There was a fatal error in the judgment of the high ball.

The rest of the Real Madrid players kept their heads down, fully demonstrating what it means to be "downcast".

The Real Madrid fans in the stands also held their heads in their hands and looked inside the stadium in disbelief.

Two minutes earlier, they had just been cheering for Real Madrid's goal.

Now there is a dead silence, like a hospital morgue......

They couldn't understand why the thriving atmosphere suddenly took a sharp turn and turned them backward.

Zhou Yi's two goals came without warning. Especially this goal. When Zhou Yi got the ball outside the penalty area, everyone thought he would send a pass, and the Real Madrid players on the field were also focusing on defending his pass.

When he kicked the football, everyone thought it was a cross.

As a result, the ball drifted into the Real Madrid goal......

Is it bad luck or is the opponent too strong?

It's hard to say.

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"It doesn't matter if Zhou Yi's kick is a cross, or if he deliberately shoots...... There is no need to discuss this now. Real Madrid are behind again, although they are only one goal behind, but considering that this is a backward situation in the situation of just equalising, it cannot but take into account the blow of this conceded goal to Real Madrid......"

The Spanish commentators were a little frustrated, and with less than ten minutes left in the game, they were led by their opponents, and the huge psychological pressure threatened to crush Real Madrid.

Real Madrid reached the Champions League final and became the top scorer in the Champions League this season, but that doesn't mean they're the best. Their outstanding performance in the Champions League has come at the expense of the league.

Real Madrid finished third in the league this season, and in the last decade, only a decade ago, in the 2003-2004 season, finished fourth. But it was a rare low point in Real Madrid's history, as Queiroz's side ended up on a five-game losing streak in the league, setting the most humiliating losing streak in Real Madrid's history.

Now the Real Madrid side has given up the league in exchange for a chance to reach the Champions League final.

But that doesn't mean they're strong.

This team is full of hidden dangers, infighting is constant, and Casillas's problems are the product of infighting.

In the Champions League final, Dortmund also twice seized Casillas' weakness of inaccurate judgment of high balls and scored two goals.

In the final analysis, it is the disunity within Real Madrid that is to blame.

If Casillas can continue to get consistent playing opportunities, even if his physical function decreases slightly as he gets older, his game form will not have such an avalanche of decline.

I wonder if some people will regret seeing this scene?

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The Borussia Dortmund players returned to their own half after their goal celebrations, and the Real Madrid players were already waiting for them.

With a goal behind and ten minutes to go, it's not without a chance if you have to fight hard.

Scoring another goal in 10 minutes is not an impossible task for Real Madrid, who have the most attacking firepower this season.

The key is whether the team has enough fighting spirit and morale.

If they had only conceded a goal, Real Madrid might have launched a desperate comeback now.

However, the score of this game is now 4:3, and the two sides have scored seven goals.

Borussia Dortmund scored, Real Madrid then equalized and then overtook again, then Dortmund equalized and then overtook again, Real Madrid equalized again, and Dortmund took the lead again......

The back-to-back goals and conceded goals took their toll on Real Madrid's players, especially after Real Madrid's first equaliser, which hit Real Madrid hard.

Every Real Madrid player will first think about it when they want to go up and attack - this Dortmund team is capable of counterattacking, and if we press up and attack, will it allow Dortmund to score goals by counterattacking?

Usually, the difference of one goal is nothing, and it will arouse the fighting spirit of Real Madrid players to fight back frantically at the end of the game.

However, in the current situation, the one-goal gap has become a constraint that restricts the performance of Real Madrid players. Because their opponents Borussia Dortmund have the ability to counter-attack.

If Real Madrid are already two goals behind, then there is nothing to scruple about, and at the last moment they will fight back frantically and try to create a miracle, because losing two goals is no different from losing three.

But there's a big difference between losing one goal and losing two.

Only one goal behind, you can still see the hope of equalizing, and there is also the possibility of being extended by the opponent again.

After the game resumed, Real Madrid's players also launched attacks on the Borussia Dortmund goal, but their attacks were more one-on-one.

Luka Modric wanted to organise an attack at home, but he struggled to do it alone.

Whether it's Cristiano Ronaldo or Bale or Morata, they are more of a one-man fighter.

The mentality of the players is very impatient.

The weakness of this team was magnified countless times at this time.

And what about Dortmund?

They are not afraid of Real Madrid, who are fighting alone, what is there to fear from a loose opponent?

And they did play a couple of counter-attacks, taking advantage of Real Madrid's pressure to attack, which made Real Madrid's internal chaos even more - how to play?

At this time, Ancelotti must make a move, otherwise if he continues to let the team continue to be so chaotic, he is afraid that he will lose his last chance.

So he decisively replaced Khedira, who was used to contain Zhou Yi, and replaced him with Isco.

Khedira, who replaced Alonso in this game, was tasked with defending Zhou Yi, but judging from the actual performance, he did not complete the task very well.

Zhou Yi not only has assists, but also two goals, which can be said to be the best in the game.

His outstanding performance made Khedira even more embarrassed.

Khedira suffered a serious injury in Germany's international match against Italy this season, tearing the anterior cruciate ligament and medial collateral ligament in his right knee and necessitating surgery, which led to him missing most of the season's games until the penultimate round of the league.

If it weren't for Xavi Alonso's ban, I believe Ancelotti would definitely be reluctant to start Khedira in this final.

After Khedira came on the field, he also showed the discomfort of not playing for a long time, and his condition was not good enough and he was not excited enough.

So his blockade of Zhou Yi basically failed.

It is useless to keep Khedira when he needs to fight for his life, although his fate may lift the last bit of shackles of Zhou Yi, but Ancelotti can't think about it so much at this time.

Isco used up Ancelotti's last substitution, and all the cards in his hand were played, and now what the outcome can be is beyond his control......

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Facing Real Madrid's desperate style of play.

Jurgen Klopp also made a substitution.

He replaced Mark Wagner with Nuri Shahin.

Mark didn't score in this Champions League final and his performances weren't as impressive as last year's final. But as a center forward, he still supported the team's attack well in the final.

After Shaheen came on the field, he and Sven Bender formed a double midfield, on the one hand, to strengthen the midfield defense, on the other hand, there is also an extra point to play the ball to counterattack, so that even if Zhou Yi is trapped, Shaheen can use his long ball to launch a counterattack. Klopp had thought of counter-attacking until this point......

When Shaheen ran onto the pitch, Marcel Leif suddenly sighed: "Shaheen was determined to leave Dortmund and join Real Madrid. At that time, he was still the well-deserved core of Dortmund, and Zhou Yidu could only assist him. He thought he would be able to break new ground when he went to Real Madrid, and he was eager to succeed at Real Madrid. But in the end, he had nothing to do at Real Madrid, so he could only return to Dortmund, rent-to-buy, and his life trajectory came full circle and returned to square one. When he returned to Dortmund, he was no longer the core of the team, and his assistant Zhou Yi was radiant back then, and he couldn't even play as a main starter, so he had to play as a rotational substitute...... Such a gap may only be understood by Shaheen himself...... But in any case, he finally settled down at Dortmund, even as a substitute, he did not complain and started from scratch. He didn't succeed at Real Madrid and when he returned to Dortmund, he won the Champions League. Now he is playing in the Champions League final against Real Madrid, facing his former club...... The fate of life is really unpredictable. ”..