Chapter Two Hundred and Four: The Decisive Battle of the Madridians
After the match against Fortuna Dusselmund, the whole team rushed back to their base camp overnight, but fortunately Fortuna Dusselmund is not too far away. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ γ ο½ο½ο½ο½
After returning to Dortmund, Jurgen Klopp announced that the squad was disbanded, and the players who participated in the game against Fortuna Dusseldorf will not be able to train tomorrow morning, so they can sleep at home, rest and then return to the team in the afternoon.
On Monday, the whole team will fly to Madrid for the second leg of the semi-finals.
Some people think that the game is just a formality, but I'm afraid it's not as simple as everyone thinks......
Before the game, Madrid's media had already begun to mobilize, calling on fans to support Real Madrid on the publicity front for two consecutive days, and what they said was quite appalling.
β...... Real Madrid have reached the most critical moment and it's time to show our love for the team!"
"Let's unite, put all our preconceptions behind and fight until the last moment at the Bernabeu!"
"The team needs us! Any wavering and retreating at this time is no different from surrendering and defecting!"
"Go to the Bernabeu! Turn it into hell!Use our passion to melt the boulders and turn them into boiling lava!"
"This is the final! This is the final! We have to treat this game like a final, the players have to give their all on the pitch and we fans should not be like gentlemen in the stands anymore!"
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There are also media outlets that cite various successful reversals in history to cheer up Real Madrid fans and teams.
The most mentioned is naturally the miracle of A CoruΓ±a.
In the quarterfinals of the 2004 Champions League, Deportivo La Coruna challenged AC Milan in the first leg and lost 1:4.
As a result, Deportivo La Coruna, who answered his home stadium, eliminated AC Milan with a total score of 5:4 with a 4:0 score.
Some media even specifically recruited Deportivo Uruguay striker Pandiani, who performed well in that game at the time, and asked him to support Real Madrid's reversal.
Pandiani said that if Real Madrid want to reverse Dortmund at their own home, then the first thing they need to do is play Dortmund and try to score as soon as possible in the early hours of the game. As long as there is a goal, the rest of the game will be much better, and there will be some subtle changes in the mentality of the players on both sides, and these changes will have a direct impact on the game.
In addition, the referee of this game has also attracted much attention.
The Madrid media naturally hopes that there will be a referee in Real Madrid's favor to officiate the game, not that the referee will really be biased towards Real Madrid, but from the historical data on Real Madrid's game, some probabilities can be drawn from his enforcement of the historical data on Real Madrid's matches.
According to UEFA's announcement, the referee officiating the match will be England's golden whistle Howard Webb.
This choice has mixed feelings for Real Madrid fans and the media alike.
First of all, as a referee who has officiated in Champions League finals and World Cup finals, Webber is of course very high-level, but sometimes he makes some very inexplicable mistakes.
For example, when he was officiating in the 2010 World Cup final, there was an obviously controversial decision in the game - when the Dutch national team defender Frenkie de Jong kicked Spanish midfielder Xavi Alonso in the chest, which was a very bad foul, but Webber only gave De Jong a yellow card and kept him on the pitch. Webber himself admitted after the game that he should have sent De Jong off at the time. Thankfully, Spain won the World Cup, and if Spain loses, the controversial decision will have to be talked about after the game.
The Madrid media made a statistic on Weber's enforcement of the match related to Real Madrid, before this game, he had officiated Real Madrid three times, and Real Madrid's results were one win, one draw and one loss, a very average result. Two of those games were against German teams.
Weber's first game in charge of Real Madrid was the 2007-2008 Champions League group stage, where Real Madrid beat Werder Bremen 2-1 at home.
The other game related to Germany was last season's Champions League semi-final, where Real Madrid lost 2-1 away to Bayern Munich.
If you have to analyze it, it can be said that in the match between Real Madrid and the German team that Weber enforced, as long as Real Madrid faces the German team at home, it will win.
But this kind of analysis is meaningless, because the data is too little and not convincing.
And in Real Madrid's defeat to Bayern Munich last season, Webber also had a controversial decision - when Franck Ribery opened the scoring for Bayern Munich, Gustavo affected Casillas in an offside position, but Webber insisted that the goal was valid.
If you look at it this way, Webb's game may not be good news for Real Madrid.
But the media still have to find something good for Real Madrid to cheer up the team and fans.
In the case of Real Madrid, then look for people related to Real Madrid.
It really let the media find out, and the media found that for Real Madrid's current coach Jose Mourinho, Webber should be an old acquaintance. When Jose Mourinho was in charge of Chelsea, he had a lot of dealings with Webb. In the 2010 Champions League final, Inter Milan played Bayern Munich, and it was Howard Webb who officiated in the 2010 Champions League final, when Jose Mourinho's side beat Bayern Munich 2-0 and the Portuguese coach won his second Champions League title in charge.
In this sense, Webber seems to be Mourinho's "lucky star".
And there is another thing that can also testify that the two seem to have a good relationship - it is still the 1-2 loss to Bayern Munich last season, although Webber had a controversial decision in the game, but after the game, Mourinho chose to defend the English referee: "This goal is obviously offside, but it is normal for the referee to make such a mistake, I will not criticize anyone." β
This is very rare for Mourinho, who has always been harsh on referees.
So if Webber and Mourinho have a really good personal relationship, then maybe he will be biased towards Real Madrid a little bit in the game, consciously or unconsciously?
In addition, the Madrid media also found that Weber is actually a "lucky star" for the Spaniards. The World Cup final in South Africa was Spain's first World Cup title in history, and Webb was the referee for that match.
Of course, not everyone thinks that Webber's game against Real Madrid is a good thing for Real Madrid.
First of all, he often has some inexplicable mistakes in the game, some controversial decisions, Real Madrid was cheated by Webb last season, and no one can guarantee that everything will go well this time.
In addition, everyone knows that Webber is a supporter of Manchester United. When Jose Mourinho was in charge of Chelsea, his main opponent was Manchester United. Meanwhile, in the quarter-finals of this season, Real Madrid had just eliminated Manchester United's ......
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On 29 April, the entire Dortmund team arrived in Madrid by plane.
At the airport, the team had to deal with a large number of reporters and the questions they asked.
Some people chose not to talk about it, and some people chose to be perfunctory, but Zhou Yi stopped and made a posture of active cooperation.
So reporters quickly surrounded him and separated him from the rest of his teammates.
Everyone threw the questions they had prepared to Zhou Yi.
In the face of the swarming reporters and the questions they raised, Zhou Yi did not change his face, and replied with a smile: "How do you feel about Madrid? To be honest, I don't want to come, we have been here too many times this season, ha!"
When he said this, the reporters laughed too.
In the group stage, Borussia Dortmund and Real Madrid were placed in a group, so the team visited Madrid once in the group stage. Then in the quarter-finals, Borussia Dortmund and Atletico Madrid met again. So do it again. Now, in the semi-finals, they meet Real Madrid again, and just like that, they have come to Madrid three times in a season......
"So what do you think of the next game......?
Zhou Yi interrupted the other party's words, shook his head and said, "No, no, no." How can it be formal? Three goals in a game is not difficult for Real Madrid. If we think it's just a formality, I'm afraid we're going to get out of the Champions League in the end. β
A Chinese reporter asked: "Some media in Madrid used Deportivo Argentina's match against AC Milan as an example, thinking that Real Madrid still has the possibility of a comeback......
"Of course, even if it's a 0.00 percent probability, that's a possibility. So we don't take it lightly, we're not AC Milan...... In addition, I think the media is too unfriendly to AC Milan, when it comes to reversal miracles or something, they all take AC Milan as an example, what Istanbul miracle, what Deportivo miracle...... Really, I, who is not an AC Milan fan, can't stand it!" Zhou Yi joked.
"Marca calls on Real Madrid fans to turn the Bernabeu into hell......"
"Isn't that great, because we've been playing at hellish home for half of the season, so it's a familiar feeling. If the Bernabeu does turn into hell, I think it will help us play. β
On the one hand, he said that he would not underestimate the enemy, and on the other hand, Zhou Yi was very confident.
Although Zhou Yi didn't participate much in the pre-game verbal fight, every time he participated, he took advantage of the other party in an understatement. That's what he's capable of.
A reporter once lamented that if Zhou Yi is keen on fighting a war of words, I am afraid that few people in football can do his ...... We all saw this during the Olympics last year.
But it's a pity that Zhou Yi's "big killer" level mouth is not easy to fire, otherwise the media practitioners will be like the New Year every day......