Klopp's substitution adjustment was considered by Schalke 04 to be like a dog jumping off the wall, a complete mistake and a rational adjustment. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info no problem to replace Saheen, but replacing Hummels is certainly debatable.

If you want to strengthen the control of the midfield, shouldn't the norm be to replace a striker and replace a midfielder?

Defense is the foundation of everything, and replacing a defender now is tantamount to weakening the defense, so what's the point of strengthening the control of the midfield?

Of course, it is not surprising that Jurgen Klopp has made such a change, because he is such an all-or-nothing manager himself, and he is a complete gambler. Sometimes, he can win a bet, but there is no gambler in the world who can always win.

Just because Jurgen Klopp has won a bet before, it doesn't mean he can still win this time.

In the view of Schalke 04's manager Jens Keller, Klopp's adjustment is Schalke 04's opportunity to seize the relatively empty opportunity in their backline and strive for another goal, so that there is no suspense about the outcome of this game.

Keller took over the dismissed coach Stevens as the team's head coach before the winter break. Prior to that, he was coaching at Schalke 04's Under-17s, who said Keller was not an over-manager of the team and that he would be in charge until the end of the season.

Stevens was dismissed for leading the team to poor results, and when he was dismissed, Schalke 04 had even fallen out of the Champions League zone, without a win in six consecutive games.

Keller's main task when he takes over is to get the team back into the Champions League zone and qualify for next season's Champions League. For Schalke 04, although playing in the Champions League will make them poor results in the league, qualification for the Champions League is related to huge financial revenue, which is a money that cannot be easily given up. In addition, if you can participate in the Champions League every year, it is also good for the cultivation of the team's strength, look at Dortmund today, it is a good example for them. Borussia Dortmund have played in the Champions League every year, and they have won a two-game title in the domestic league, and the team has grown by leaps and bounds.

Keller also knows that he has a heavy responsibility on his shoulders. He only arrived at the club in July last year and signed Schalke 04 to a two-year Under-17 contract. His Schalke U17 team has had a very good record in the youth league, and as of his first team position in charge of Schalke 04, his U17 team has won all 13 games in the Western League, and with the Under-17 youth team and Schalke 04 first team using a similar formation, the transition between Keller and Stevens will not be too difficult.

In charge of the Under-17s, Keller's Schalke 04U17 scored 77 goals in 13 games, with a very strong attacking firepower, and he led the team to a 4-3 win over Borussia Dortmund in the Ruhr derby against Borussia Dortmund's youth team in the Youth League. What Schalke 04 failed to do in the first team, he achieved in the youth team, so he can be regarded as a coach with experience in winning derbies in the Ruhr area.

Now his Schalke 04 first team has a two-goal lead over Borussia Dortmund in the Ruhr derby, and seems to have proved his experience in Schalke 04U17's youth team useful.

So in response to this adjustment of Dortmund, he also made adjustments.

That is to strengthen the attack, in response to the situation that Dortmund only has three defenders, let Schalke 04's attack be more violent, try to score another goal in the shortest possible time, and then shrink the line and start defending.

With a three-ball lead, how can you keep it until the end of the game.

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After receiving the latest instructions from the manager, Schalke 04's players continued to attack Borussia Dortmund's goal after the start of the second half, while using their mad dog-like pressing in midfield to maintain the advantage on the field.

Especially for Zhou Yi, it is not just a Yang Muge, other Schalke 04 players will also help Yang Muge defend Zhou Yi if they have the opportunity.

When Zhou Yi was defense, it was difficult to turn around, and Dortmund's attack naturally couldn't be organized.

That was one of Dortmund's problems in organising the attack in the first half.

But the second half was a little bit different than the first.

Because Shaheen is on the field.

When Zhou Yi was deeply encircled, he didn't need to look for passing targets and paths everywhere like in the first half, and now he only needs to lock on to Shahin. The opponent surrounded him, and he passed the football to Shahin.

Searching for just one pass is far less difficult than finding many passes.

So in the second half of the game, the Schalke 04 players, including Yang Muge, found that they wanted to stop Dortmund's attack, and it was not as easy as in the first half.

When the football was still passed to Zhou Yi, Yang Muge pounced on Zhou Yi, in addition to him, Hogel also rushed to Zhou Yi, intending to wrap up left and right.

Zhou Yi didn't pass the football out immediately after getting the ball, but adjusted it, that is, when he was adjusting, Yang Muge and Hogel forced up, of which Yang Muge was close to him in the back, and Hogel was waiting for the opportunity to move.

Zhou Yi, who was surrounded by it, passed the football out, and he passed it to Shahin, who was not far away to pick him up.

Because he himself attracted two Schalke 04 players, Shaheen didn't even have a Schalke 04 player around him.

"Sha Xin received the ball! This ball is beautiful!" Duan Xin shouted.

Shahin, who received the ball, turned and took the ball forward, and then before the other Schalke 04 players could press it, he sent the ball diagonally to the other side of the pitch and landed at the feet of Dortmund striker Lewandowski, who was in front of him.

After Lewandowski got the ball, Gotze was already forward at high speed, so Lewandowski passed the football to Gotze, and finally Gotze completed a high-quality shot, the ball was saved by Schalke 04's goalkeeper Hildebrand, and Dortmund won a corner.

After Hildebrand made a save on the ball, the TV broadcaster gave Shaheen a close-up, regretting that Götze didn't score with that kick and was holding his head in his hands.

Marcel Leif sighed: "Shaheen's long pass was very accurate to find Lewandowski, this scene really makes us feel like we are going back to two years ago, when Shaheen was also wearing a Dortmund shirt and frequently sent such long passes on the field......"

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Borussia Dortmund won a corner and with Schalke 04 under the pressure of Schalke 04, any set-piece they could get up front was worth taking seriously, so the Dortmund players, who were adept at headers, crowded into the box and prepared to go for the top.

And Zhou Yi didn't go up to join in the fun, he didn't have an advantage in height or strength, and the bounce was not very good, so he ran into the penalty area, except for adding chaos, it was meaningless. So when it comes to corners, if he doesn't take the penalty, then he waits outside the penalty area for the second spot.

The corner was handed to Shaheen, who had just delivered a pinpoint long ball.

After he set up the football, he took a look at the situation in the penalty area, it was a mess, Schalke 04 and Dortmund players were entangled, you have me, I have you, it is difficult to separate them. And they all have movements on each other's hands, pulling the bear's hug...... When the ball is kicked in front of the goal, he doesn't know who will grab it.

Referee Gagelman apparently noticed the situation as well, so he blew the whistle for a timeout, then ran into the box, called out the two players on both sides who were the most obvious pullers, Hummels and Hevedes, and gave them verbal warnings not to make too much physical contact.

Both of them obviously thought that it was the other party's responsibility, so they were very unconvinced, but in front of the referee, it was too obvious that it was not good, so they finally nodded and said that they would pay attention.

But when they returned to their positions, their hands were quickly on each other's feet. Gagelman is also used to such situations, and if he has to keep both players from touching physically, then by the 90th minute, the corner may not be able to be opened, so he can only turn a blind eye to the chaos in the penalty area now.

Shaheen stood far away in the corner flag area, watching what was happening in the box, and he found that after the referee suspended the game, the situation still did not improve, and the box was still in chaos.

At such times, of course, he can still choose to kick the football into the front of goal and then throw the responsibility on his teammates who are fighting for the ball in front of goal. Let them fight for a chance with little hope at all. It's not wrong to do that, not every corner can be scored anyway, so you have to allow it to lose.

But Shaheen didn't want to do that, because for Dortmund now, every corner kick is a valuable opportunity to score, why did manager Klopp repeatedly tell himself how to play in the second half at halftime?

It's not because if the team loses this game, they will probably lose the league title. So a win in this Ruhr derby is crucial.

He wants to help the team take every opportunity to score.

It was a shame that Gotze didn't score in that kick just now, and he knew that the chances of passing the ball without defensive pressure like he had done before would probably be less and less common in the following games.

We must seize every opportunity and never be perfunctory!

Thinking of this, he shifted his gaze to the outside of the penalty area, where there were much fewer people, and most of the players on both sides were concentrated in the penalty area, which made the outside of the penalty area feel like the suburbs of a bustling city, deserted.

Zhou Yi was there, setting his sights on Shahin.

The eyes of the two people met in the air, and suddenly a tacit understanding appeared in the depths of their hearts at the same time. (To be continued.) )