Chapter 87: No Regrets
Yan Min, who finished shooting, watched the football deviate from the back post, and he knelt on the ground, holding his head in both hands, looking very regretful. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
And Mark and Royce, who were outflanked in front of the goal, both made a gesture to ask for a pass, and now seeing the football deflected out of the goal, they also looked at Yan Min and complained with gestures and expressions.
"Oh, that's too reckless, isn't it?" Zhou Jianliang shouted as he patted his thigh.
Zhou Yi also leaned back on the sofa, looking very regretful.
On the sidelines, all the Dortmund coaches and players who were expecting a stunner equaliser were on a rollercoaster ride.
Bwach turned and punched the roof of the dugout, and no one else was much better than him.
Klopp also gritted his teeth and clenched his fists.
On the Arsenal side, there is a sense of "escape from death" of happiness, and many people have breathed a sigh of relief.
When Yan Min broke through just now, they were scared half to death. Now they applauded Yan Min's reckless choice.
There are also many Chinese fans on the Internet who expressed their dissatisfaction with Yan Min's final choice.
"What a good pass! Royce and Mark are in front of goal!"
"Hey, it looks like this kid is still far from Zhou Yi......"
"I don't have the technology and speed, but I chose the last one, and my brain was not clear enough......"
"This ball quotient ...... It's really touching! If he couldn't learn how to handle the ball properly, I think that's how he could ...... develop."
"What is this kick! I cheered for him when I broke through before, and the last shot really made me feel like I had eaten a dead fly!"
They vented their anger and frustration at Dortmund's possible defeat on Yan Min.
But Yan Min didn't know about this.
He looked up at the sky, immersed in his own world, and didn't care what others looked at him.
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The TV broadcast was replaying Yan Min's breakthrough and shot just now, the breakthrough was very beautiful, and the continuous change of direction shook Sania at a loss, and the emergency stop and dodge Mertesacker was also amazing, but it was the last shot......
If it were passed to Mark and Royce, there might have been a completely different ending.
The narrators are still discussing this kick.
As a Chinese commentator, He Ping certainly has to speak for Yan Min emotionally, so he tries to say with a neutral and objective attitude: "To be honest, an offensive player has such a beautiful breakthrough before, facing the goal, it's not impossible to shoot." Choosing to shoot is also not something strange and incomprehensible...... It's just that the footwork of the last shot is a little bit worse, and I don't think we should criticize him blindly......"
Marcel Leif, the German, was not so polite, after all, Yan Min's kick buried Dortmund's hopes of equalizing: "Yan Min's choice to shoot was obviously not considered, maybe he was too fast, and his brain couldn't keep up with the speed of thinking?"
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Yan Min missed the chance in the 89th minute of the match. The fourth official then held up a sign with three minutes of stoppage time.
This stoppage time is not long, which is considered normal time, but it also means that there is not much time left for Dortmund.
In such a situation, the opportunity that Yan Min lost just now was extremely precious and regrettable.
It can even be said that the goal that Yan Min missed had a very heavy blow to the morale of Dortmund's other players.
However, Yan Min himself seems to know nothing.
After the restart, he continued to run tirelessly up front, looking for opportunities. He didn't fall into a sleepwalking mood just because he missed this opportunity......
Unfortunately, the other Dortmund players seemed to have lost faith in the equaliser and were not able to provide him with much support.
In the end, Borussia Dortmund lost 1-2 away to Arsenal, and the reigning Champions League champions lost two of their first three group games.
After being drawn into the group of death several times, Dortmund finally got a taste of the real group of death......
After the game, the media and fans were discussing the reasons why Dortmund lost this game.
Before the game, Zhou Yi did not go to London, which was thought to be the reason why Dortmund could lose the game on the road.
However, after the game, this reason became Yan Min.
Yan Min's shot in the final moments of the game was missed and was blamed for Dortmund's loss.
Almost everyone thinks that Yan Min's choice is wrong, he should pass the football to others after the breakthrough, whether it is Mark or Reuss, they are outflanked in front of the goal, as long as he passes the football, it is possible to cause a goal, and this possibility is still very high.
Some German media unceremoniously criticized Klopp's choice to replace Yan Min as wrong.
“...... Why not play more and more experienced Hoffman, and let a fledgling young man play in such an important game?"
The Chinese media are not as harsh as the German media, but rather tactfully shirk Yan Min's responsibility by throwing the blame at Klopp.
“...... Yan Min, as a newcomer to the team, did not play a minute in the official game before this, and suddenly let him play in the Champions League and gave him such an important task, the pressure he was under can be imagined. I think Yan Min's performance in the game is mainly Klopp's responsibility, if you want a newcomer to find a feeling for the game, the German Cup is a very suitable stage, or in the league, it is also a good choice when you are leading by a big score. But Jurgen Klopp sent Yan Min in a must-win Champions League game, and then Yan Min missed the best opportunity......
"Jurgen Klopp's approach has put Yan Min under tremendous pressure for no reason, and as a manager, this should be taken into account. But no, foreign media say that Yan Min is to blame for Dortmund's failure, but I think this accusation is completely unreasonable, and it is Klopp who is responsible for the team's failure, not Yan Min!"
However, their approach has also aroused the dissatisfaction of many domestic fans, who believe that the Chinese media's blind calf protection is not conducive to the development of Chinese players in Europe.
“...... Why hasn't Zhou Yi encountered this kind of thing?"
"That's right, He Ying, Sun Pan, Yang Muge and Guo Nu, when they were developing abroad, how could they encounter such a bad thing? I think we should reflect on it and blindly defend our players, this is harming him!"
"Kicking stinks is kicking stinks, what are so many excuses?"
"I know Yan Min, I watched him play when I was in Shanghai, and his biggest characteristic is that he doesn't like to pass the ball. I didn't expect it to be the same when I went abroad......"
"I remember that in that reality show, he also played like this, right? He was criticized by Zhou Yi, right? I didn't expect it to be the same as always, not forgetting his original intention...... After so many years, this problem has not changed. I don't know what Dortmund likes about him......"
Unlike the Chinese media, Chinese fans are much more demanding of their players, and the strictness even makes people wonder if Yan Min is Chinese. This may be due to the fact that our parents have always been strict with our educational tradition, and from an early age, they paid attention to "being lenient with others and strict with ourselves".
So I am very strict with my players, even if I make a little mistake.
For a while, after the loss, all kinds of criticism and pressure came to Yan Min.
When the whole team of Dortmund returned to Dortmund Airport, many reporters directly threw questions to Yan Min, which was the first time that Yan Min joined Dortmund.
Obviously, after the loss, Yan Min became the focus of media attention.
"Do you regret the choice of the last shot?"
"Wouldn't it be better if I passed the ball to Mark or Royce?"
"Ever thought that if that shot was a pass, not a shot, Dortmund wouldn't have lost?"
"Some people say that you have this style at home, you don't like to pass the ball to your teammates, you like to do it alone...... Is it true?"
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Chinese and German journalists, speaking Chinese, German, or English, threw their questions at the table.
If Zhou Yi was in the team at this time, he would definitely pull Yan Min away, or help him block these offensive questions.
But it's a pity that Zhou Yi didn't go with the team, so Yan Min could only face this scene by himself.
And with Yan Min's usual temper, it seemed difficult for him to give a proper answer.
So when he faced the camera and said, "I don't regret shooting and if I had the chance, I would have done it." "It's not surprising at all......
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“...... Yan Min, a Chinese player who only joined the team this season, said that he did not regret that his shot caused his team to lose the game, and if he had to do it again, he would have chosen to shoot instead of passing......"
In the sports news in the evening, the news of the return of the entire Dortmund team was being broadcast, and Yan Min's answer was repeated by the host.
"Damn, these media are really idle!"
When Zhou Yi saw the news on TV, he almost slapped the table.
On the Internet, Yan Min's answer has already caused an uproar.
On Twitter and Facebook, many Dortmund fans criticized Yan Min for having no sense of responsibility and no sense of the big picture. There are also fans who demand that Yan Min apologize for his answer.
And on the Internet in China, it's even more lively......
"Yan Min's brain is in water, and he can say such an answer?"
"Hehe, this is the quality of professional players in your country, it's really not surprising at all. Heartache that my family Royce has such an idiot teammate on the table......"
"Yan Min is so inflated, since he joined Dortmund, don't you know what your surname is......?
"That's why I said that Chinese players really can't change their, and this kind of words and deeds are simply discrediting the country!"
"It's a shame to be thrown abroad, it's really possible!"
"I think we should go over the wall and apologize to Dortmund on Twitter, to Reuss and Mark, and not to let them have a negative view of our Chinese players......"
"Heartache Zhou Yi, he must be caught in the middle now, it's very uncomfortable, right?"
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For a while, it seemed that Zhou Yi's new image of Chinese professional football players that they had worked so hard to create was completely destroyed by Yan Min's words......