Despite beating Zenit St. Petersburg 4-2 away, the Dortmund players heard some criticism after returning to Germany, mainly focused on defence. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

After all, in the face of the weak Zenit St. Petersburg, Dortmund conceded two goals and couldn't keep a clean sheet.

It does illustrate that there is a big problem with their backline.

The absence of Hummels and Subotic has a great impact on the team's defense.

Such Dortmund, even if they pass the St. Petersburg Zenit hurdle, with the deepening of the Champions League schedule, I am afraid it will be difficult for them to go further. What if you meet a stronger team and you can't solve the problem by attacking, and you can't defend it?

However, it now seems that Dortmund's focus should be in the league, with the Champions League falling behind the league.

Just as Borussia Dortmund returned to Germany, the next day's Champions League match went ahead as scheduled. Two other Chinese players made their debut in the Champions League.

The results were different.

Sun Pan played for Chelsea away at Juventus. In the end, the two teams played to a 1:1 draw.

As an away game, the result is good. Got an away goal and are unbeaten. Chelsea, who are back at home, have better hopes of qualifying than Juventus.

And Yang Muge's Schalke 04 is facing the powerful Real Madrid.

The difference in strength between the two teams is indeed very large, although Yang Muge tried his best in the game, he could not prevent the team's heavy defeat at home.

Schalke 04 lost 1-6 to Real Madrid at their home stadium. It's basically a bid farewell to this season's Champions League ahead of schedule.

Schalke 04 didn't pull a goal back until the 90th minute by Huntelaar, and finally did not get his head shaved on his home turf.

After this game, many fans in China felt that Yang Muge should seek a transfer and leave Schalke 04. He has already proven his quality at Schalke 04 and there are other teams interested in him in the European transfer market.

Staying at Schalke 04 will not help him in his career, and everyone hopes that Yang Muge can go to a better team and improve himself.

Regarding the expectations of domestic fans, Yang Muge did not respond.

He is as low-key as ever, using social networks sparingly and appearing in the media very rarely.

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After the match in Zenit St. Petersburg, Dortmund will face Nuremberg in the 23rd round of the league.

Ahead of this game, there was good news and bad news.

The good news is that Hummels, who was previously injured, can finally return to the line-up and will be in action for this game.

The bad news is that Reuss will be automatically suspended for one game for accumulating five yellow cards.

Nuremberg, on the other hand, have been in good form of late, having escaped the relegation zone with four wins and one defeat in the last five league games, losing only to in-form Bayern Munich.

However, Dortmund have been in good form lately......

Just five minutes into the game, Schmelzer sent in an inverted triangle cross from the left, Grosskreutz missed the tackle at the front post, and Piszczek followed up with the push, and the ball was deflected wide of the goal.

Although the goal was not scored, it set the tone for this game, and it was basically Dortmund who pressed Nuremberg to play.

In the 16th minute, Nuremberg goalkeeper Schaefer fouled a defender's return pass, and Dortmund won an indirect free kick on the line of the six-yard box.

Mark knocked the football to Zhou Yi behind him with his heel, and Zhou Yi won the ball and volleyed, but the football was blocked by the human wall.

Six minutes later, Schmelzer fired a long-range shot from 20 yards out, which was saved by Schaefer.

In the 25th minute, Yan Min broke through on the left side of the penalty area, and after entering the penalty area, he chose to shoot from a small angle, and the football grazed the post and missed.

Dortmund's attack was in full swing, and it wasn't until the thirtieth minute that Nuremberg got their chances. Papastathopoulos made a mistake when he passed the ball to Hummels at the back, and Dermic broke the ball and crossed to Peckhardt to form a one-on-one shot, who pushed it in the face of Weidenfeller!

As a result, the ball hit the right post and popped up!

"Ahhhh "That's what everyone has been worried about all the time - Borussia Dortmund's attack is not to be said, and it can be seen from their performance in the first 30 minutes of the game, that the injury wave has had the lowest impact on their attack. But Dortmund's backline ...... It's really not reassuring these days......"

Not long after this mistake, Klopp made a substitution, replacing Papastathopoulos with Friedrich.

Of course, this is not because of Papastathopoulos's wrong pass, but because Papastathopoulos was actually a little injured after the match against Zenit St. Petersburg, and he played with an injury in this game.

It can also be seen from this mistake that the injury affected him.

“...... Papastathopoulos was returned early because he was not well injured...... For Dortmund fans, seeing their players being replaced due to injury, I'm afraid they have to get used to it, right? It's really evil, Dortmund has basically injured defensive players this season, and offensive players are quite safe......" Duan Xin said that he felt quite incredible.

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After Papastathopoulos was substituted, Dortmund's attack was not as fierce as before, perhaps because Papastathopoulos's mistake gave Dortmund's players some scruples.

It wasn't until the 45th minute that Aubameyang received a pass from Mark in the box and fired a powerful shot, only to be blocked by a defender.

It was the last shot on goal of the first half for both sides.

Then the half ended with the score 0:0.

'Borussia Dortmund started the game with very good momentum but unfortunately they couldn't score. During the attack, there was a lot of thunder and little rain. After Papastathopoulos was substituted, they slowed down the tempo of their attack, and there were naturally not as many dangerous attacks as before...... But overall, Dortmund dominated the first half. Let's see how the two sides adjust at halftime......"

As a result, there were no substitutions on either side at half-time.

At the start of the second half, Dortmund continued to press Nuremberg, as they did at the beginning of the first half.

Under such a fierce attack, in the 51st minute, Dortmund won a free kick on the left side, and Zhou Yilai took the free kick. Among the skills that Zhou Yi is good at, free kick scoring must not be among them. But it's not a direct free-kick that shoots a goal, it's an indirect free-kick.

Zhou Yilai, who is good at passing, takes indirect free kicks, which is not surprising.

He sent the ball straight into the box and over Mark's head with precision!

Mark leaps high and heads over!

Nuremberg's goalkeeper Schaefer made a flying save, he held the ball up, but it didn't go far, the ball went straight up, Hummels rushed up and jumped up in front of the goal line, and headed the ball into the goal!

"Hummels shoots!

Marcel Leif shouted.

"Dortmund has finally broken the deadlock!" Duan Xin was also very happy.

Many people breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts.

If Borussia Dortmund keep besieging their opponents and can't score, their mentality will change over time, and maybe Nuremberg will have a chance.

After all, Dortmund's defence is not reassuring.

It's much better to be one goal ahead now, the pressure is released and Dortmund can play more with ease and ease.

Indeed, Dortmund played better after taking the lead and attacked more threateningly.

In the 54th minute, three minutes after Hummels scored, Mark received a cross from Yan Min in the penalty area, and Yuyue headed the goal......

Four minutes later, Borussia Dortmund were awarded a free-kick, this time by Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, who fired straight at the goalkeeper and the ball flew just over the crossbar and into the stands at the back!

"Borussia Dortmund are really attacking! If it goes on like this, Nuremberg will have to concede a goal...... "Marcel Leif said.

He hadn't finished saying this for long, and in the sixty-fourth minute, Dortmund had a great chance.

Zhou Yi received the sideline ball thrown by Schmelzer on the left side of the frontfield, stopped and turned, got rid of the defense, and then broke through diagonally from the side to the penalty area.

In the face of the Nuremberg players who came up to defend him, he made a decisive cross.

Mark followed up with a shot from the edge of the penalty area and calmly pushed the ball into the net from the bottom right corner.

"Mark Wagner! Dortmund leads Nuremberg 2:0! What did I say before? What did I say before? Nuremberg still conceded a goal! Dortmund's offensive firepower is too fierce, and if Nuremberg has been passively defending, it will be difficult to resist......