Chapter 155: The fierce Ruhr derby
The Ruhr derby, the highest-profile fixture of the tournament, is scheduled for Sunday's final appearance. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Prior to this, Bayern Munich had narrowly beaten Fortuna Dusseldorf 3-2 at home, although the process was a bit thrilling, but Bayern Munich won in the end and got three points, which was enough.
The two teams, Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund, shot themselves in the head with a revolver that only had one bullet in their hands, and Bayern Munich escaped this time. The gun was now in Dortmund's hands, and the threat and pressure of death fell on Dortmund.
Schalke 04 was in the Ruhr derby at their home stadium last season, and Schalke 04 watched Borussia Dortmund beat them at the Schalke Stadium and stepped on their corpses to reach the championship, which was a great shame for Schalke 04.
Now they have a good chance of revenge.
If Dortmund can be allowed to lose the league title because of the loss to them, then Schalke 04 will feel very honorable. The hatred of their sworn enemies makes them not care whether Bayern Munich will profit from the fish, they just want to see Dortmund in pain and despair.
As was evident from the pre-match release of the starting line-up, they had no intention of saving any quality in the Ruhr derby, even though it was the Champions League quarter-final at home to Galatasaray three days later.
Schalke 04's fans were also very supportive, booing the Borussia Dortmund players as soon as the game began. As soon as a Dortmund player gets the ball, there is a shrill boo over the pitch.
Among them, Zhou Yi received the largest boos.
On the one hand, he is the most threatening player in the Dortmund team, and on the other hand, because of his past with Schalke 04, the most famous is that he used Newton's second law to humiliate the media reporters who supported Schalke 04, which made the entire Schalke 04 supporter camp a laughing stock of German public opinion at that time.
So in the eyes of Dortmund fans, how cute Zhou Yi is, and how hateful he is in the eyes of Schalke 04 fans.
Fortunately, the fans of Schalke 04 did not hate the house and Wudi to hate Zhou Yi's good friend Yang Muge, of course, this is also because Yang Muge's own performance is very good and his attitude is also very professional. Never talk about the relationship between him and Zhou Yi, as long as he plays, Zhou Yi will definitely work harder than anyone else to defend Zhou Yi, these Schalke 04 fans are in their eyes, and they are not fools, of course, they will not offend their players because of an opponent.
To put it mildly, if it was Yang Muge two years ago, no one would care about him at all. But now Yang Muge, even if Schalke 04 doesn't want him, he has a place to go, how many teams in Europe want to get such a low-key and diligent midfielder. There are too few defenders who are willing to stay in the back and defend at the back, and since the playmaking midfielder has become popular, each midfielder has a heart that is uneasy about the status quo and has the courage to attack. If a midfielder can't get into the attack, he seems embarrassed to say that he is a midfielder.
In such a situation, the coach is not allowed to cross the middle line, but Yang Muge, who is not allowed to cross the middle line, is really a sweet spot in the eyes of many coaches.
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In this game, Yang Muge's task is to curb Zhou Yi's play, of course, his defense of Zhou Yi is not an unprincipled close defense, not that he must follow Zhou Yi wherever he goes, he still has to be in his own position.
If Zhou Yi didn't come up in the second half when he attacked Dortmund, Yang Muge didn't go up either, and he defended in his own position.
But if Zhou Yi crosses the halfway line and enters the midfield of Schalke 04, then he will be locked by Yang Muge, and it will not be so easy to get rid of him.
In the fifth minute, Zhou Yi took the ball in the front court, and as soon as he turned around, he collided with Yang Muge, and the ball under his feet was also stabbed off by Yang Muge. Both men then fell to the ground, but referee Gagelman did not blow the whistle.
However, Yang Muge poked the football out before he fell, completed a steal, and the football was stabbed by him to Draxler, and also allowed Schalke 04 to launch a counterattack.
Zhou Yi also seemed helpless about Gagelman's decision, but he also knew that this was the characteristic of the Ruhr derby, and if there was no physical contact, what would he call "the hottest derby in Germany"?
Yang Muge pulled him up, and then ran away. can still remember to pull him up, it is enough to show that Yang Muge is very humane, if he is replaced by someone else, he will yell at Zhou Yi and accuse him of faking fall......
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Schalke 04 has indeed undergone very detailed preparations in this game, and Yang Muge's defense of Zhou Yi is just a microcosm of Schalke 04's defense in this game.
In response to Dortmund's offensive tactics, Schalke 04's head coach Jens Keller's countermeasures were all kinds of pressing at the expense of physical strength, not only against Zhou Yi alone, but also against everyone in Dortmund.
Even when the Dortmund players passed the ball back to goalkeeper Weidenfeller, Schalke 04's starting forwards Farfan and Huntelaar would have one of them go up and press, even if Weidenfeller could make their pressing useless with a big kick.
This level of pressing makes it difficult for the Dortmund players.
Because this is a Ruhr derby, pressing is not just pressing, it also includes a lot of physical contact, which can be called for a foul if it is in a normal game, but it is taken for granted in a Ruhr derby, and if it is also blown, the game will not be able to go. Therefore, the referee Gagelman's scale is relatively wide, which ensures that the game can be carried out smoothly and smoothly, just like the ball of Yang Muge and Zhou Yi just now.
However, there are pros and cons to everything, and the disadvantage of this is that it is not very easy to control the tempers of the players on both sides......
Of course, the Ruhr derby is already known for its popularity, so that's not unusual.
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In the twelfth minute, Schalke 04 relied on their frantic pressing in front of the field to snatch a chance directly from the feet of the Dortmund players.
Sven Bender was surrounded when he got the ball at the back, and in a second, he had no chance to play, he had to choose to protect the ball, and if the Schalke 04 player tried to grab his ball, there was a good chance that he would be fouled.
But when Hogel came up and pushed him to the ground and then cut off the football, referee Gagelman didn't blow for a foul on Hogel. Instead, he motioned for the game to continue.
Hogel broke the ball and handed it to full-back Atsuto Uchida, who then played the ball down the middle before Draxler slotted it into the back of the net.
"1:0!!Julian Draxler!!" Marcel Leif shouted. "Schalke 04 takes the lead!"
As the football flew into the Dortmund goal, there was a huge cheer over the Schalke Stadium.
"Schalke 04 is ahead, but I think the happiest people right now are probably not Schalke 04 fans, but Bayern Munich fans!" said Chinese commentator Duan Xin. Then he laughed.
There were many voices on the Chinese Internet that scolded him as a Bayern Munich fan......
It's really no secret that Duan Xin is a Bayern Munich fan, everyone knows this.
The domestic Bayern Munich fans ridiculed the domestic Dortmund fans who scolded Duan Xin and couldn't afford to lose.
Fans on both sides have done it on the domestic network.
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And while the Chinese fans were fighting online, the match between Borussia Dortmund and Schalke 04 was getting more and more intense.
The Dortmund players believed that Schalke 04's goal was born from a foul, so when the Schalke 04 players celebrated the goal, they collectively protested to referee Gagelmann. However, their protests were ineffective, and Gagelman did not deny the goal because of this.
So after the start of the game, there was some change in the mentality of the backward Dortmund players.
They are also moving bigger.
Schalke 04 was naturally not to be outdone, so the scene became more and more hot.
In the 23rd minute, Dortmund's full-back Piszczek received the first yellow card of the game, which was considered by the Dortmund players as evidence that referee Gagelmann favored the home team Schalke 04 - everyone plays like this, why give our people a yellow card, and not give them a yellow card?
But soon, in the 28th minute, Gagelman also gave Schalke 04 striker Huntelaar, who was too big in the scramble, a yellow card, which can be regarded as finding a balance.
But that balance doesn't help this game and doesn't make much sense...... (To be continued.) )