Chapter 142: The First Half

Everyone off the pitch is worried about Dortmund, but Zhou Yi on the pitch has no such worries. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

He doesn't think the current situation is bad for Dortmund.

Both sides have chances, it's the normal rhythm of a normal game.

Napoli's attack was certainly fierce during this period and also created a threat to Dortmund's goal. But on the other hand, when Napoli are attacking so hard, are they still playing defensive counter-attacks?

Naturally, there will be some vacancy behind them...... And that's exactly what Dortmund can take advantage of.

So it didn't take long for Dortmund to launch an attack on the left flank, and in the small space, the three players quickly passed back and forth, found an opening, and then Zhou Yi went straight through, and Durm cut in and crossed. It's a pity that when Mark grabbed points with people in the penalty area, he had a push in his hand and was blown an offensive foul by the referee, otherwise this is also a threatening attack.

Napoli took advantage of Callejon's shot to hit the post and launched another onslaught at Dortmund's goal.

Their cross from the edge of the box was cut off by Sven Bender, who suddenly rushed forward from the back line, and then Sven Bender immediately passed the ball forward and Dortmund launched a counter-attack.

Sven Bender: He passes the ball forward to Mark who pulls back.

Mark did not stop the ball, nor did he try to turn with the ball when his back was facing the direction of the attack, but directly flicked the football sideways to the side and passed it to Zhou Yi's feet.

Because it was a quick counterattack, there are now a lot of gaps in the midfield, but Zhou Yi didn't pass the football out right away, although there are many gaps, but there are not too good opportunities.

He chose to take the ball himself.

Mark was running forward, and Aubameyang started to cut forward on Zhou Yi's left, running and running diagonally into the middle, hoping to open up space for Zhou Yi.

But Napoli's defense did a very good job in this retreat, the formation was well maintained, and it was not torn apart by Aubameyang's running, and Aubameyang did not run into the open space because of this.

Zhou Yi still couldn't pass the ball.

Since he couldn't pass the ball, Zhou Yi didn't hesitate, he accelerated and rushed into the penalty area, with a posture of wanting to ride alone.

Originally, in order to prevent Zhou Yi from passing, Napoli's back line was relatively backward, and no one dared to come up to rush Zhou Yi's ball, because in that case, he rushed forward, but his teammates dragged behind him to defend Aubameyang, wouldn't that be a vacancy behind him?

So the Napoli defenders were not very close to Zhou Yi, which allowed Zhou Yi to dribble all the way to the front of the penalty area.

Unexpectedly, this gave Zhou Yi a chance to shoot directly!

Zhou Yi flicked the football slightly to the left, accelerated the ball, shook off the angle, and then picked up his left foot to shoot!

It was a powerful shot!

Napoli goalkeeper Reina didn't even dare to pick it up with both hands, he chose to punch the ball out!

Even so, he couldn't hit the ball, but instead rubbed the ball and sent it flying behind him, but fortunately the ball only went over the crossbar and didn't concede a goal......

"Reyna made a crucial save!" Zhou Yi's direct shot on goal! When Napoli were defending his pass, he unexpectedly chose to shoot directly on goal!

Look, so for Zhou Yi, Callejon's attack that hit the goalpost just now didn't affect him at all. It looks like Napoli are attacking aggressively and could break the Borussia Dortmund goal at any moment. Zhou Yi was able to turn the unfavorable situation into a powerful situation for his own team.

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After the Dortmund corner, the ball was punched out by Reina jumping up and punching it out, but this time he hit it right and punched it straight into the box.

Almost all of them fell into the center circle, and Grosskreutz, who was dragged behind by Borussia Dortmund, got it.

After receiving the ball, he passed the football forward to Zhou Yi.

Zhou Yi shifted laterally, and then ran to the next place, while running, he did not forget to turn his head left and right to observe the situation, he saw that the Napoli players who were defending in front of the Napoli goal all rushed out.

This is a fixed action after every corner kick - the defenders press forward desperately, leaving behind the attacking players who have not had time to react or react a little slower, and if the attacking player who has the second landing point wants to launch an attack and go straight into the box, then the teammate who receives the ball is offside nine times out of ten.

Zhou Yi, who observed this situation, still hooked his hand at his teammate who received the ball and made a gesture to ask for the ball.

The teammate obediently passed the football over, Zhou Yi did not stop the ball, but picked up his left foot against the football, and when the football rolled over, his left foot kicked the football out.

The ball arcs in the air and flies to the right front!

It was a completely opposite pass, which greatly surprised the Napoli defenders - they saw that Zhou Yi was facing left front, but he twisted his body while passing the ball to the right!

There, there was an empty space that the Napoli players did not notice.

Mark came out of the crowd and stretched out his foot to stop the football that Zhou Yi was passing!

The Napoli players looked back at the scene and reflexively raised their arms to signal for offside.

But neither the referee nor the linesman showed any indication of the Napoli players......

"No offside, nice through stopper, nice anti-offside forward!" Marcel Leif exclaimed excitedly.

To the cheers of the Dortmund fans, Mark got up and shot!

Reina, who had abandoned the goal, reflexively fell to the ground, then stretched out his leg to expand the defensive range, and the football was blocked by his foot!

"Oh! what a pity!" He Ping exclaimed regretfully. 'Reyna made another good save and he kept out Mark's superb one-on-one shot!'

Mark, who did not score, held his head in his hands and looked at Reina with incredible eyes, unable to believe that his shot was saved. In order to increase the chance of scoring a goal, he also specially pressed the football and let the football roll against the turf to the near corner of the goal, so to speak, whether it is the angle or the strength, he has just the right hand.

But alas, Reyna reacted faster than him, or Napoli's luck was better......

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Marc's lack of a goal was the end of the first half, and in the 45th minute, Napoli's Almeiro broke through from the left and fired a long-range shot that was played by Weidenfeller.

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

Referee Carvalho soon blew the whistle for the end of the first half.

Dortmund temporarily led Napoli 1-0. However, looking at the scoreline alone is not satisfactory, as Dortmund will be aiming to beat Napoli by four goals in this game. Throughout the first half, they had a number of great chances, most of which were created by Zhou Yi, but Borussia Dortmund only took one of them. If Dortmund had taken a 2-0 lead over Napoli in the first half, it would have been much easier for them in the second half......," said Hepin.

'Napoli didn't play well in the first half and conceded just one goal. In the second half, when Dortmund couldn't score for a long time, they would have pressed the attack desperately, and then it was Napoli's chance, as long as they could score a goal on the counter-attack, they could completely destroy Dortmund......" The Italian commentator looked ahead to the second half, in his outlook, Napoli were already invincible.

In the dressing room, Jurgen Klopp did not criticize his side for scoring just one goal in the first half. On the contrary, he was encouraging them.

'We had the advantage on the pitch and as long as we were calm and we had a lot of chances in the second half. Remember, don't rush, be patient! we're more than capable of scoring three goals in 45 minutes!"

Even though Dortmund has only forty-five minutes left, Klopp still has to say the same. Once the players panicked, there wasn't enough time.

And in the away team's dressing room, Benitez is also emphasizing patience with his players: "This game is a game of patience, whoever is more calm will have the last laugh!"

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In the halftime comments of various TV stations, the hosts and guests analyzed the format of the game, but they were not very optimistic about Dortmund.

Jurgen Klopp says Dortmund are capable of scoring three goals in 45 minutes. Many people will not agree with this view.

It's hard to score three goals in 90 minutes in any game, not to mention halving the unit time, it's not as easy as doubling the difficulty.

And if Dortmund want to score three goals in the second half, they will have to go all out in attack, even at the expense of defence altogether. In this way, Napoli naturally has a lot of opportunities to fight back.

With just one goal for Napoli, Dortmund essentially collapsed.

It was hard to imagine how Jurgen Klopp would have to adjust to score three goals in the second half while keeping his own defence from conceding......

And in the home dressing room, Jurgen Klopp is making a substitution.

"Yan Min, you go in the second half!"