While the pro-United media were over-the-top and had a schadenfrefret in their tone, they were right. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 InfoAfter the 2-3 defeat away to Real Madrid, Manchester City is really optimistic.

At that time, there was optimism not only in the team, but also among the fans and the media.

It is believed that Manchester City has accumulated enough experience in the Champions League last season, and even if they are placed in the group of death this season, there is nothing to fear. They are the champions of the Premier League, and the Premier League is the first league in Europe, so the Premier League title is obviously higher than the Bundesliga, Serie A and La Liga, Manchester City has a team full of superstars, and the strength is not weak, and it is not a problem to qualify from the group of death, and the only thing they think about is whether to win the group or the second group. As for who you qualify with, it doesn't matter at all.

This blind optimism was contagious and affected the team.

But in fact, Manchester City's strength is still far behind, and the Champions League and the Premier League are indeed completely different.

The Premier League teams with a "continental" style of play are even excellent in the Premier League, but when they reach the Champions League, they will find that their skills are still very rough, and in the face of faster-paced and higher-intensity confrontation games, those technical flaws are often magnified. For example, a slightly larger stop is not a problem at all in the Premier League, because bigger stops abound. But in the Champions League, if you stop the ball a little bigger, you can give up possession.

If you lack experience in the Champions League, you will inevitably be uncomfortable in playing.

Borussia Dortmund are playing in the Champions League for the first time in seven years, and they still have a process of adaptation, let alone Manchester City.

What about Manchester City, Dortmund doesn't care, Manchester City can't qualify, and Dortmund doesn't care.

By the time they took off from Manchester Airport and left the city, they had already left the race behind.

The next time we meet Manchester City will be in the final round of the Champions League group stage, with Borussia Dortmund hosting Manchester City. At that point, who knows what will happen? Maybe the outcome of the game will be meaningless by then?

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Back in Germany, the next day, Zhou Yi was arranged to go to the team medical team for treatment.

According to Dr. Marcus Braun's advice, it is better not to play the weekend away game against Hannover 96 to avoid the injury getting worse, which is not a big problem in the first place, but if it is forced to play, it can become a serious problem. So it's better to be cautious.

And Zhou Yi will not participate in this game, and there will be no club competitions, and then he will return to China to participate in the World Cup qualifiers for the Chinese team to face Australia at home.

That match is the most crucial thing, and there are only twelve days until now, if Zhou Yi is injured in the game against Hannover, it will basically be goodbye to the top 10. At that time, the Chinese Football Association and Dortmund Club will definitely have a saliva lawsuit. Originally, the relationship between the two sides was handled well, and I couldn't offend people for a game that was not very important.

At the same time, in order to ensure that Zhou Yi's injury will not affect the national team's game, Dortmund Club also arranged a special doctor for him, and only took care of him in the past two days.

The barefoot Zhou Yi sat cross-legged on the physiotherapy bed, and looked up slightly at Cortana, who was wearing gloves next to him: "So you are my exclusive doctor?"

Cortana didn't answer his question.

Zhou Yi looked left and right, there were just the two of them in this room, and the door of the physiotherapy room was also closed.

Looks like it's pretty private.

So he lowered his voice and asked, "Won't anyone know about the two of us?"

Cortana finally turned her head this time and waited for Zhou Yi to take a look: "What are you talking about? What's the matter?"

"Living together......" Cortana's series of rhetorical questions surprised Zhou Yi, he didn't expect her reaction to be so intense......

Cortana said angrily: "To be clear, who lives with you?"

"Living together is also called cohabitation......" Zhou Yiting was aggrieved. "I thought the club knew I was living with you, so they asked you to take care of me?"

"......" Cortana originally wanted to deny it, but seeing that Zhou Yi said it so firmly, she herself had some doubts about whether it was really known that she and Zhou Yi lived together...... After all, paper can't hold fire, how can no one know about this kind of thing after a long time?

But she thought about it again, if she really knew, why would it only be reflected in the current arrangement for the doctor's treatment? If this matter was really exposed, how could it not be publicized everywhere with the virtue of the media, and everyone would know about it?

So after she thought about it seriously, she felt that she was too worried.

So she snorted, "Thinking too much." Sit tight. ”

Zhou Yi obediently changed his position, leaned on the physiotherapy bed, then patted his chest, and let out a long breath: "That's good, that's good......"

"Why are you so afraid that others will know, do you feel ashamed?" Cortana leaned in and pinched Zhou Yi's left ankle with her hand.

Zhou Yi took a breath with a "hiss".

"Does it hurt?" Cortana glanced at him.

"No, it's just that your action is a bit ......sudden," Zhou Yi hurriedly shook his head, "I'm afraid that if this matter is known, it will cause you trouble...... You also know what the media is. ”

"What's the big deal, we didn't do anything, are we afraid of what people say?" Cortana shrugged.

"Yes, yes, yes, I am not afraid of shadows, I am not afraid of the reporter knocking on the door and asking ...... if I don't do anything wrong," Zhou Yi hurriedly nodded in agreement. "By the way, are you going to live in your house all the time?"

"In fact, I'm moving back next week. Cortana said while giving Zhou Yi physiotherapy.

"That's great!" Zhou Yi was delighted.

Cortana raised her head and looked at Zhou Yi suspiciously: "What are you so happy about?"

Zhou Yi said seriously: "You don't have to live at home all the time, which means that Mark's injury should be fine, and he can participate in the competition at any time, right?"

Cortana tilted her head and thought about it, as if that was really the case. So she nodded, "Yes." ”

"So. ”

"So that's why you're happy?" asked Cortana.

"Of course. Mark is a good friend of mine!"

Cortana lowered her head and kept her men: "Well, it's a very good friend, Mark said the same." ”

"Hiss-" Zhou Yi shouted, "Pain and pain......"

"It's just the pain. ”

"Heroine, be merciful!"

"Do you still want to play in the national team?"

As soon as the national team was mentioned, Zhou Yi immediately stopped calling, but gritted his teeth and endured it.

Cortana just said it casually, but she didn't expect it to work, which gave rise to her curiosity.

So she asked, "Is it important for you to serve your country?"

"For me, yes. ”

"Why?"

"Do you still have to ask why?" Zhou Yi was very strange. "I'm a Chinese, just like Mark is a German, so it's normal and natural for him to play for the German team, right?"

'That being said, but the German team is strong and it's an honour to play for the German team. But as far as I know, the strength of Chinese football is not strong, and the image in public opinion does not seem to be very good, right?"

"Hey, do you still know about Chinese football?" Zhou Yi was even more surprised.

"Didn't you win the gold medal in the just-concluded London Olympics, and the German media also reported that this was a historic breakthrough in Chinese football, which introduced the current situation of Chinese football a little. Cortana said calmly.

"Well, yes, the image of Chinese football is not very good, there are many scandals, and a lot of corrupt officials of the Football Association have been arrested in the past two years...... But after all, that's our own country's football, and anyway, it represents China. Since I'm a footballer, of course I want to be an international. This has nothing to do with the strength of the team, you see that there are many low-level teams in Europe, even amateur teams, and there are no decent results for a hundred years or decades, but it doesn't prevent them from having so many fans......"

"Your example is not quite right. Those teams are not very famous, but they don't have the scandals that you mentioned, so their fans can support them. Cortana shook her head.

"Yes. There are indeed a lot of scandals. But I'll give you another inappropriate example, there is a child, he made a mistake and broke the heart of his parents, and normal people want to scold him and then hope that he will die? Impossible, right? Shouldn't normal people still hope that he can correct his mistakes and get on the right path after scolding and beating? No real parent would want to give up on their children, and I think many Chinese fans, including me, have always had such expectations for our country's own football, hoping that it can get better and that it can get on the right track. In the past, I was just an ordinary fan, a student in school, and I couldn't do anything to Chinese football. But now that I'm a player and I can wear the national team jersey to play for my country, then I hope to do something to change the future of Chinese football and push it a little bit harder. I have the opportunity and the ability, so I have the responsibility. ”

During the narration, Zhou Yi remembered the past events related to Chinese football when he was a child.

When he was three years old, China had its own professional football league, and his hometown also had a professional football team, at that time his father was a crazy fan, and took him to the scene to watch the football when he was only three years old, for which he was scolded by his mother, saying that it was too noisy and not good for the child.

But at the critical juncture of the relegation battle of his hometown team the following year, his father still lied to his mother and secretly took him to see that crucial game, and the tickets were bought by his father who stayed up all night and queued up with a cotton coat and a small maza. He was four years old that year and was on hand to witness his hometown team defeat their opponents at key moments and successfully stay in the first division. The churning crowd and deafening cheers in the stadium, as well as the tears on his father's face, were forever seared into his heart.

Chinese football and football enlightened him so profoundly that he may never forget it in his life.

Later, when he was 10 years old, his father persuaded his mother to take him to the stands of Wulihe Stadium in Shenyang on October 7, 2001. At that time, he was wearing a slightly larger Chinese national team jersey, a red cloth strip with "must win" written on his forehead, and a scarf printed with the five-star red flag around his neck, witnessing the most glorious moment in the history of Chinese football with his father at the scene.

He is a Chinese, he is a Chinese who plays football, and since he liked the sport of football, "Chinese football" has been inseparable from him, whether as a fan or a player.

Zhou Yi said it deeply, and Cortana was fascinated by it, and even forgot the movements in her hands. It was the first time she had seen such a serious Zhou Yi - she had seen a serious Zhou Yi before, but those "seriousness" had some performance elements in front of this "seriousness", in other words, he was using those "seriousness" to cover up something, maybe it was the true thoughts in his heart.

But this time, Cortana could clearly feel that Zhou Yi did not hide it at all, and showed his heart naked in front of her, and his seriousness was sincere.

But this seriousness and sincerity made her feel incredible.

She really doesn't know much about Chinese football, the only thing she knows comes from the reports of the German media during the Olympic Games, and if it weren't for the Chinese Olympic team with Zhou Yi and Yang Muge, two players who played in Germany, I'm afraid the German media would also disdain to mention popular science.

All her knowledge of Chinese football comes from media reports, in fact, she can only know some labels, which is a very superficial impression.

So it's really hard for her to understand why Chinese football can make a twenty-one-year-old suddenly become so deep, like an old man who has gone through vicissitudes.

However, Zhou Yi didn't stay so deep, after he finished speaking, he found that Cortana seemed to be stunned, so he smiled and said: "Maybe in Brazil, the Chinese team may still meet the German team?"

"Got put in a group?"

"Maybe it's a knockout. ”

"Then your path is at the end of your journey. Cortana snorted, Zhou Yi's brain hole was big enough.

"Not necessarily, but when the time comes, the football is round!"

Cortana patted Zhou Yi's foot: "Okay!"

The treatment is over, and so is the chat. (To be continued.) )