Chapter 153: Strategic Abandonment

The injured Mark's task now is to recuperate from his injuries and strive for a speedy recovery. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

And Zhou Yi's task is to lead the team to victory.

After the match against Shakhtar Donetsk, Borussia Dortmund will welcome their league game. In the league, they host Eintracht Frankfurt.

Because the away game against Shakhtar Donetsk was so difficult and the players were extremely draining, Klopp continued to rotate for this game.

The vast majority of players who have played in Champions League games have been replaced.

Only a handful of them have started in a row.

Zhou Yi is one of them.

Today's Zhou Yi's physical fitness is not too much of a problem, so Klopp will not rotate him when he can.

Borussia Dortmund are now two points clear of Bayern Munich in the league, which looks like a small gap, but they can't catch up, and if they lose, they will be pulled further and further away by the opposition - Bayern Munich beat Wolfsburg 2-0 away in the other league game that ended yesterday, temporarily five points ahead of Dortmund who have a game in hand.

At this time, Klopp did not dare to let Zhou Yi rest, as the absolute core of the team, he can play, which can greatly increase Dortmund's chances of winning.

In the end, with the help of a goal from Zhou Yi, Dortmund defeated Eintracht Frankfurt 3-0 at home. Narrowing the gap between them and Bayern Munich to just two points.

After Zhou Yi scored in the game, he took off his jersey and revealed the white T-shirt inside, with the words "Come on Mark" written on it, and he cheered for Mark in this way and wished him a speedy recovery.

Of course, he also received a yellow card for the celebration.

When the referee Brich showed him the yellow card, it caused the Dortmund fans to boo, and the commentator Marcel Leif also felt that although Brich's decision was okay from the rules, it was a little unreasonable, and a verbal warning was enough, and there was no need to give a yellow card.

Zhou Yi doesn't care if he has a yellow card or not, anyway, he rarely eats cards, because the accumulation of yellow cards and being suspended may not happen to him once in a season. It was totally worth it to exchange this yellow card for his blessing to Mark.

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The following week, Bayern Munich met Arsenal in the Champions League and, somewhat surprisingly, beat Arsenal 3-1 away. Originally, everyone thought that this would be a close game, and Arsenal was playing at home, so there must be an advantage, but they didn't expect Bayern Munich to win so smoothly. Three away goals and a two-goal lead on aggregate have almost been able to advance to the quarter-finals for Bayern Munich.

This is not good news for Borussia Dortmund, who of course hope that Arsenal can cause a little trouble for Bayern Munich and make Bayern Munich focus more on the Champions League and thus affect their performance in the league.

But now, Bayern Munich have only played one game in the Champions League and can refocus on the league against Borussia Dortmund......

On the second day of Bayern's Munich game, the last Chinese player also appeared in the Champions League.

Yang Muge's Schalke 04 challenged Galatasaray away, and finally the two sides played a 1:1 draw, the result was not bad, no loss, and an away goal, after returning to the home field, Schalke 04 can eliminate the opponent as long as it can maintain a 0:0 draw.

Yang Muge also has a great hope of reaching the quarterfinals of the Champions League.

In this way, there will be three Chinese players in the Champions League quarterfinals, which is also the first time in history.

The media and fans in China are excited about who will make it to the quarterfinals with three Chinese players.

The only suspense is who can enter the quarterfinals between He Ying and Sun Pan.

He Ying's fans and Sun Pan's fans once again quarreled on the Internet......

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In the 23rd round of the league, Bayern Munich swept Werder Bremen 6:1 at home, showing their super good form and super strength. The German media, especially the Munich media, have exclaimed that Heynckes' Bayern Munich has been superb, and what everyone can't figure out is why after announcing in advance that they will change the coach next season, this Bayern Munich team has burst out with very huge energy, better than the performance in the first half of the season, and they have been winning streaks since the start of the second half of the season.

There are also media critics of Bayern Munich's high-level hasty decision to change the coach, they believe that Bayern Munich should let Heynckes continue to lead the team, just for the current performance of Bayern Munich, which can show that Heynckes is the most suitable head coach for Bayern Munich.

Some media ridiculed: "I wonder if Hoeness is starting to regret his decision to change the coach now?"

Everyone was cheering for Bayern Munich's strong performance, but they forgot that Bayern Munich was not the only one who had been on a winning streak since the start of the second half of the season......

There is one more team that has been on a winning streak since the start of the second half of the season, and that is Bayern Munich's opponent Borussia Dortmund!

In the 23rd round of the league, they challenged Borussia Mönchengladbach away.

In the first half of this game, they took a 1:0 lead, and although they were pulled back by Borussia Mönchengladbach in the second half, they finally won the game 2:1 with Zhou Yi's assist for a goal from Lewandowski.

Although it was not easy to win, it was a good win. The winning streak after the second half of the season, Dortmund and Bayern Munich's painting style is completely different, Bayern Munich is a variety of crazy and cool victories, what 4:0 win Schalke 04, what 6:1 sweep Werder Bremen, they scored nineteen goals in six rounds of league games, only conceded one, a huge advantage.

In comparison, Dortmund will be a little bummer. He also scored nineteen goals, but conceded four, more than Bayern Munich, and also experienced games such as narrowly beating Bayer Leverkusen 3:2 and Borussia Mönchengladbach 2:1 in specific matches.

This can also be seen as a manifestation of the difference in strength between the two teams.

According to this reflection, some media believe that Bayern Munich has a great hope of winning the championship, while Dortmund is likely to collapse as the Champions League schedule deepens.

“...... You know, Dortmund has to face not only the Champions League and the league, but also the German Cup!"

So the media said.

In four days' time, Borussia Dortmund will host their German Cup rivals, Bayern Munich......

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Last season, Borussia Dortmund beat Bayern Munich 5-2 in the German Cup final, a game with a clear advantage, and it could be described as "Dortmund slaughtered Bayern Munich".

That game gave Bayern Munich a 'Sanya king' that season – second place with a league defeat to Borussia Dortmund, a runner-up finish at home to Chelsea in the Champions League final, and another runner-up at Borussia Dortmund in the German Cup final. They replicated the tragedy of Bayer Leverkusen's 2001-2002 season.

This is a huge shame for Bayern Munich, a team with such a long history.

Now that the two teams meet again in the German Cup, it is bound to cause a lot of reverie.

For Bayern Munich, this is a revenge battle, the league competition is not yet in sight, but the German Cup is a single-elimination system, as long as Bayern Munich can beat Dortmund, they can be kicked out of the German Cup, completely beat them, so that they can no longer defend the German Cup title.

According to this reasoning, Bayern Munich should give it their all in this game and try to beat Borussia Dortmund.

But the actual situation is a little different from what everyone thinks.

In this game, both teams invariably adopted a rotation......

In other words, neither team is the main force.

Bayern Munich's rotation is still limited, while Dortmund's rotation is even greater, because even Zhou Yi was put on the bench by Klopp.

What does this mean?

If Bayern Munich's rotation is a normal personnel adjustment, then Borussia's rotation makes people wonder if Klopp has some other purpose......

Because he even changed Zhou Yi to Dortmund's guarantee of winning, doesn't that mean that he doesn't care about the result?

Against an opponent like Bayern Munich, he dared to let Zhou Yi not play, and he definitely didn't go for victory.

Sure enough, in the end, this strong dialogue that everyone was looking forward to ended with Bayern Munich defeating Dortmund 1-0 at home.

The game was not exciting, intense, but not exciting, there was a lot of physical contact between the players on both sides, Bayern Munich had four yellow cards, and Dortmund also had three yellow cards on their accounts.

Under such circumstances, Zhou Yi sat on the bench for a full 90 minutes and did not get a chance to play.

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After the game, Chinese reporters grabbed Zhou Yi and wanted him to talk about his thoughts on the defeat of the game.

"I don't have a big opinion, it's normal for us and Bayern Munich to win or lose. ”

Zhou Yi threw off a sentence and wanted to leave, but how could the reporters let him get his wish, pulled him and asked: "What made you not play in this game?"

"It's a lot of work in a row, the players are tired, it's normal to rotate. It's also normal for me to be rotated. The manager has his considerations, but it's normal. ”

Zhou Yi used three "normal" in a row, but it made reporters feel that this failure was abnormal.

A reporter simply asked: "Was the loss to Bayern Munich deliberate?

Zhou Yi shook his head, said in a very serious tone with a straight face: "Absolutely not!"

Then he slipped away, and this time the reporter couldn't stop him, because he had already stopped someone once, and it would be a bit unreasonable to stop him again.

But everyone thinks that Zhou Yi's answer is basically nonsense, every sentence can be believed, and there is no sentence that can be used.

In the end, they decided to report on Dortmund's defeat as they understood it.

"Jurgen Klopp gave up the German Cup to focus on the league and the Champions League. ”

"Jurgen Klopp: A gambler. (To be continued.) )