Chapter 251: Giving Up the League?
Bundesliga 29th round match,. Reading Book X at Zero
Bayern Munich's away game against Augsburg will kick off and it will be Dortmund's turn to host Wolfsburg until after their game.
Borussia Dortmund media ridiculed Bayern Munich: "They finally don't have to be affected by us in the game, but if there is another mistake this time, what reason will they find?"
However, although the game between Bayern Munich and Dortmund did not kick off at the same time, the game time between them and Schalke 04 clashed, so the game of Bayern Munich still had to be put on the paid Fengyun football channel.
The free sports channel is available to broadcast live Schalke 04's away game against Werder Bremen.
This kind of treatment has rarely been seen in Bayern Munich before. In the past, Bayern Munich was equal to the Bundesliga, and the live broadcast of Bundesliga games was mostly live broadcast of Bayern Munich's games.
But since Dortmund has Zhou Yi, the number of live matches of Dortmund has skyrocketed, surpassing Bayern Munich and becoming the team with the most live broadcasts on CCTV.
Then Yang Muge also played in Schalke 04, so that the number of live broadcasts of Schalke 04 also increased, and Bayern Munich's status fell to third. You can only show your face on the free sports channel if the match time does not conflict with the two teams.
Of course, this made the domestic Bayern Munich fans very unhappy.
But they are not in a rut, their anger cannot change CCTV's broadcast strategy, which is linked to advertising revenue.
The games of the teams with Chinese players will of course be more popular and concerned by the vast majority of fans, and the games of Bayern Munich are only watched by Bayern Munich fans, while the games of Schalke 04 and Dortmund may attract many fans who do not watch the Bundesliga, but care about the performance of Chinese foreign players.
Therefore, Bayern Munich, which does not attract the attention of Chinese players, can only make way for the Ruhr duo of Schalke 04 and Dortmund.
Naturally, advertisers are also happy to advertise in live broadcasts of matches featuring Chinese players.
At half past nine in the evening on April 5, Beijing time, the prime time of television.
CCTV's sports channel broadcast Schalke 04's away challenge to Werder Bremen, and Yang Muge once again started without suspense. Unless he is injured or something, he is the main force that cannot be beaten by thunder. But speaking of which, Yang Muge has not been injured so far, since playing in the first team of Schalke 04, he has only been suspended twice because of the accumulation of yellow cards, and has not received a red card in the game at all, it can be said that as a defensive back, Yang Muge plays very clean.
After losing to Borussia Dortmund in the Ruhr derby, Schalke 04 beat Hertha Berlin 2-0 at home in the last round of the league to remain in third place in the league.
Now that the league has played 28 rounds, Schalke 04 has 53 points, five points ahead of Leverkusen, which is ranked fourth, which is relatively safe, as long as he does not make consecutive mistakes, the third place in this league should not be lost.
However, in this round, they challenged Werder Bremen away, but they were not able to win.
They drew 1-1 with Werder Bremen.
Fortunately, in yesterday's game, Bayer Leverkusen lost 1-2 away to relegation team Hamburg, so Schalke 04 did not allow Bayer Leverkusen to shorten the gap.
However, in addition to Bayer Leverkusen, there is another team that can also pose a threat to Schalke 04. That's Wolfsburg, one point less than Bayer Leverkusen.
If Wolfsburg beat Borussia Dortmund in their next fixture, they will be fourth in the league with 50 points, also five points off Schalke 04.
Conversely, if Dortmund can beat Wolfsburg, there will be no problem......
In the other game at the same time, Bayern Munich played away from home, but they easily beat Augsburg 3-0 to show their strength again. It seemed that the draw at Hoffenheim in the last round of the league was a surprise, and now they have come out of the disappointment of being held to a draw.
This is not good news for Borussia Dortmund.
The pressure was like football, and it was kicked to Dortmund who were about to start the game.
When it comes to winning the league at the end of the league, the team that comes first in each round has a bit of an advantage because they don't have to be interfered with by another rival.
In turn, the team that comes late will face pressure from their opponents. Especially, if the opponent finishes an amazing game afterward.
In the 25th round of the previous league, Dortmund reversed and defeated Borussia Mönchengladbach in stoppage time, which directly affected Bayern Munich's next match with Bayer Leverkusen, and finally Bayern Munich defeated the opponent 2:1 in a thrilling way.
Now it's Dortmund's turn to taste it.
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Judging from the starting list announced by Dortmund before the game, Klopp still made some adjustments to the starting lineup for this game.
For example, Reus did not start in this game, he was replaced by Grosskreutz, and Swinder did not start, and he was replaced by Sebastian Kyle, and Yan Min, who performed well in the last game, did not start, because he was too active, had a lot of physical exertion, and needed a good rest, so Mkhitaryan replaced him in this game, and appeared on the left side of the start.
In addition, Mark Wagner did not start, and the starting center forward was Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.
Klopp even made some adjustments to the formation of the team, instead of playing the previous 442, he changed to 4231, adding a midfielder in the midfield, played by Shahin, and he replaced Mark.
This adjustment is actually not small, unlike some people predicted small repairs.
So as soon as this starting lineup was released, it was interpreted by many people as "Klopp intends to give up the league and focus on the Champions League!"
No wonder the Bayern Munich players were in such good shape and played so easily in the game today, because they knew Dortmund's starting list......
"Although the next thing is a direct dialogue with Bayern Munich, but if you lose to Wolfsburg before that, then what is the point of direct dialogue? No, they don't even have to lose to Wolfsburg, as long as they are forced to draw by Wolfsburg, they will be at a disadvantage The Bundesliga does not look at the relationship between each other's wins and losses, first look at the goal difference, in this regard, Bayern Munich has an absolute advantage. Even if Dortmund beat Bayern Munich away and tie them on points, they will still be runners-up on goal difference......
Everyone thought it was unwise for Klopp to do so.
But there are people who are not surprised: "Who is Klopp? He's a madman! It doesn't seem strange for a madman to do such a thing......
"It's just that Klopp's brain circuits can't be viewed by ordinary people's standards......"
"From this arrangement, it can be seen that Klopp is very dissatisfied with the team's first leg loss to Paris Saint-Germain, so he would rather give up the league and seek revenge on Paris Saint-Germain......"
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Bayer Leverkusen's defeat was a huge morale boost for Wolfsburg, who could win and finish fourth in the league, which is the Champions League zone.
So after the start of the game, the players of Wolfsburg worked very hard, fighting and running actively......
On the Dortmund side, because of a relatively large adjustment, even the formation has been changed, and the whole team needs a time to adapt.
During this time, they were forced by Wolfsburg to be a little embarrassed.
In the 10th minute, Wolfsburg's Perisic flicked past Hummels on the right and sent in a low cross for striker Olic to meet the shot just three metres from goal, but Papastathopoulos was close to him and he sent the ball high.
It wasn't long before Wolfsburg had another chance to attack, winning a direct free-kick from 25 yards out.
The free-kick from Wolfsburg was handed over to Brazilian centre-back Naldo.
The Brazilian centre-back, who is over 1.9 meters tall, has a powerful free-kick stunt.
Borussia Dortmund's side is also very clear, so they take this free-kick defense very seriously.
In the end, Narddo's direct free-kick was blocked by Borussia Dortmund's human wall and did not threaten Weidenfeller's goal.
In the twentieth minute, Wolfsburg continued to attack, crossing from the wing into the box. De Bruyne ran to an unmarked position at the back of the penalty area and pulled away to shoot!
At that time, there was an exclamation from the stands at West** Stadium.
However, De Bruyne ended up playing a bad shot, missing the middle of the ball and missing out on that great chance to score.
Although Wolfsburg missed the chance, they were able to break the deadlock in the 34th minute through tireless attack.
Rodriguez crossed from the left and Maranda jumped up at the back post to head the ball away from Weidenfeller.
However, the football was not played far away, but fell to the other side, and the unmarked Olic took advantage of the opportunity to cut in and shoot into the empty goal, scoring easily.
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