Chapter 134: Look at Zhou Yi at the last moment
In the face of Bayern Munich's indiscriminate bombardment after the goal, Dortmund once again contracted its defense. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
It's just that due to problems at the back, even if Dortmund's whole team is confined to their own half for half time, the situation is not very good.
Each of Bayern Munich's attacks seemed to be able to break through Borussia Dortmund's goal.
Zhou Yi, Yan Min, Aubameyang and other offensive players have also all recycled defense, so it is not so easy to counterattack.
For the remainder of the game, it seemed that Dortmund fans could only watch Bayern Munich lay siege to the Dortmund goal and then pray that the Dortmund goal would not be breached......
Zhou Yi is also very aware of how bad and unfavorable the current situation is.
It stands to reason that with Dortmund's state, being able to lose only one goal is already a result that requires all your might.
It was a non-war crime, Dortmund scored two goals, forcing Bayern Munich to be so embarrassed, and their performance could have made them walk off the pitch with their heads held high.
But Zhou Yi was unwilling.
If you've worked so hard, why do you still have to lose?
Bayern Munich are indeed aggressive at the moment, but that doesn't mean Dortmund don't have any chances.
First of all, it is necessary to ease Bayern Munich's frantic offensive.
So when Dortmund got the ball again, Zhou Yi didn't immediately pass forward with a big foot to hit Bayern Munich's counterattack - all the players in Dortmund were in their own half, and the effect of blindly playing a counterattack with a long pass at this time would not be much better.
Despite the rush to keep football away from the Dortmund goal.
But Zhou Yi did the opposite.
When he got the football, he first protected it, and only after the Bayern Munich players pressed it up, he passed the football out, not forward, but horizontally, or even back.
After passing the ball, he moved quickly and ran to the next free spot to ask for the ball.
After receiving the ball from his teammates, he repeats his old tricks.
If a teammate wants to quickly pass the ball forward and launch a counterattack, he will also stop him loudly and make a gesture to signal him to hold steady and pass the ball over.
After repeating this a few times, the rest of Dortmund's players also understood what Zhou Yi was going to do - he was trying to slow down the pace of the game and interrupt Bayern Munich's current attacking momentum.
has been cooperating with Zhou Yi for many years, and the degree of tacit understanding is very high, and it is not difficult to understand Zhou Yi. When Zhou Yi passed horizontally or back several times in a row, everyone knew what he was going to do.
So the other teammates also cooperated with Zhou Yi and turned the football upside down.
Although the lack of young players at the back has caused the team's defensive instability, it has not affected the ability of Dortmund's players to pass between them.
When Dortmund wants to pass the ball safely, even if Bayern Munich wants to grab it, it is not so easy.
And they can't so indefinitely surround Dortmund's players in the front court, otherwise there will be an empty space behind them, and what if Zhou Yi seizes the opportunity to make a long pass?
Whether it's Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Reus, or Yan Min, they're all fast, individual players who are perfect for counter-attacking.
Bayern Munich laid siege to Dortmund's goal in the hope of scoring another goal in a short period of time, not to concede another goal in a short period of time......
Anyway, now Bayern Munich is leading, if Dortmund does not counterattack, that is, in the backfield, they have no reason to cut off Dortmund's ball, let them fall in the backfield, as time goes by, the balance of victory is tilted more and more towards Bayern Munich's side.
3:2 is a win, 4:2 is also a win, it's all three points, there is no difference, the result is more important.
So when they saw Dortmund falling back and forth like this, Bayern Munich grabbed a lap down, and after not grabbing the ball, they also retreated, and if Dortmund was going to fall in the back, let them fall. If Dortmund are going to attack, then Bayern Munich don't mind playing Dortmund's counterattack either.
Anyway, no matter how you think about it now, Bayern Munich is invincible.
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Seeing that Bayern Munich recovered their half and no longer besieged Dortmund's goal, many Dortmund fans breathed a sigh of relief.
They were genuinely worried that their porous backline would not be able to stop Bayern Munich's onslaught, and if they conceded one more goal, the game would be over...... Although there is not much difference between the present and the end, there is still a glimmer of hope......
Speaking of silver linings. Many people have set their sights on Zhou Yi.
Although Zhou Yi has not scored a goal in this game so far, Yan Min, who came off the bench, is in the limelight again, but when it comes to a moment of crisis, many people will habitually go to see Zhou Yi and pin their hopes on him.
This is the trust that Zhou Yi has won again and again in the past few seasons.
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Zhou Yi saw Bayern Munich shrink back, so he no longer fell back and forth with his teammates in the backfield, he began to pass the football forward, but not the kind of simple and rough long pass, but a short pass penetration, a little bit forward.
It's not just the kind of cooperation between a few one or two people, but the entire attacking lineup is pushed forward, and even the two full-backs, Grosskreutz and Durm, Zhou Yi makes gestures for them to rush forward and participate in the attack.
This may seem too risky to some – doesn't he know that Bayern Munich are waiting to play the space behind Borussia Dortmund's two full-backs?
Zhou Yi used a more diligent run to appear near his teammates who got the ball at any time, and when they encountered difficulties and didn't know how to pass the ball, he passed the football to Zhou Yi.
It is up to Zhou Yi to complete the transition.
Bayern Munich wants to strengthen Zhou Yi's defense, but there is nowhere to exert force - unlike the backfield, once advanced to the front, Zhou Yi's passing rhythm becomes faster, he will hardly let the football stay under his feet, but will immediately pass the football out, Bayern Munich players if they work the state, it is almost impossible to break the ball from Zhou Yi, but it will cause other Dortmund players to not be tightly marked, giving Zhou Yi the opportunity to pass.
In this way, Dortmund pushed their line forward slowly, but tenaciously little by little, all the way to the 30-metre zone of Bayern Munich.
Of course, at this time, a lot of time has passed.
It's 85 minutes into the game, just five minutes before the end of the 90 minutes, and only eight or nine minutes of stoppage time.
Now that Dortmund has attacked the front of its own penalty area, Bayern Munich has simply tightened its defense, hoarding heavy troops inside and outside the penalty area, not allowing Dortmund to attack easily, and not giving Dortmund space and opportunities.
The offense hit this point, and it was beaten into the most difficult positional warfare.
Bayern Munich's defense is not like Dortmund, they are very intact, and the players are not lacking in tacit understanding due to lack of tactical training, and the awareness of helping to make up for the defense is impeccable.
In such a situation, it is not so easy to break through the goal of Bayern Munich. Even if Dortmund is given another half hour, it will be difficult, let alone ten minutes left......
Watching Borussia Dortmund keep passing back and forth from outside the penalty area, Bayern Munich fans are now very relieved.
He also kept laughing at Dortmund: "Pour it, pour it, time is gone!"
There is a reason why Bayern Munich fans are relaxed, and in fact now Dortmund do have the problem of "last step". They had already hit the edge of the Bayern Munich penalty area and were just one last pass away from being able to form a shot.
But this last pass is not so easy, or not as simple as people think - it is just a pass into the penalty area and it is over.
Actually, no, it's easy to pass a kick into the box, but what happens after the pass?
What's the point of a pass if it doesn't form a shot?
And Zhou Yi is more demanding, with little time left, if the last pass can't form a goal, what's the point?
He wants to make sure the success rate, not the number of shots on goal.
There are many teams that will choose to cross directly from the side when they encounter the same situation, send the football to the goal again and again, and then try their luck, if they are lucky, the football can be touched by their players, and then if they are lucky, they can enter the goal.
However, this kind of luck is not in line with Zhou Yi's philosophy.
He would rather keep possession on his side all the time, rather than give possession to the opponent casually and perfunctorily.
As he passed back and forth, he was always observing, looking for opportunities.
But it has to be said that Bayern Munich's defense is very intact and compact, and there are really not many opportunities for Dortmund, or even none.
Borussia Dortmund passed back and forth in front of Bayern Munich's defence and were unable to open a gap.
Zhou Yi realized that if he kept passing like this, his teammates would soon lose patience, and it would be even more difficult to get a good shot at that time.
He decided to make a change.
Since passing can't find space, take the initiative to create space!