Chapter 203: Back in the League

In China, everyone is most concerned about Zhou Yi's "wizard" ability, while in Germany, everyone is most concerned about the results of these two Champions League semi-finals, Bayern Munich defeated Barcelona 4-0, and Borussia Dortmund defeated Real Madrid 4-1. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

Both teams scored two goals in the game and played against opponents who were unable to fight back. This score basically means that the two Bundesliga teams have reached the Champions League final, and there is no big suspense.

But why this is so, this is what everyone is most interested in.

You know, the Bundesliga was once inferior to Ligue 1 and was considered unattractive and on the decline...... The reason given is that the Bundesliga's fiscal health policy has left Bundesliga clubs with little money to buy famous stars, which is not attractive to stars and, naturally, to sponsors and fans.

And in Europe, the competitiveness of the Bundesliga teams is also weak, and only Bayern Munich can carry the banner of the Bundesliga. But what can only Bayern Munich do? Every time in a European competition, everyone sees Bayern Munich a Bundesliga team being besieged by other countries.

For a few years, Bayern Munich even got mixed up to play in the UEFA Cup, and the Bundesliga side that replaced him in the Champions League did not perform well enough.

Everyone is talking about who is the number one league in Europe today in the Premier League and La Liga, while the Bundesliga has long been ignored.

But now, it is really surprising that the two heroes of the Western Super League have been beaten so badly by the top two in the Bundesliga.

Looking back now, the Bundesliga's fiscal health policy may have made them less attractive to big-name stars, but it gave young players in Germany room to grow.

Borussia Dortmund, for example, are the youngest team in the Bundesliga, but such a young team has performed well in both the league and the Champions League, which does not seem to match their youthful characteristics.

The results speak for themselves, and the Bundesliga has quietly grown into a towering tree when no one pays attention.

Now the Champions League semi-finals are just their time for results.

The German media are cheering the progress of German football and believe that the success of the Bundesliga will be reflected at national team level, and they have reason to expect more from next year's World Cup in Brazil.

Although the German media, especially Dortmund, have made a lot of noise about the victory with Real Madrid.

But for the Borussia Dortmund players, they'd do well to forget about this game now.

So in the first training session after the game, Klopp spent 20 minutes giving everyone an "ideological and political lesson", asking them to erase all memories of the game from their brains and then focus on the next league game.

In the league, Borussia Dortmund are going to catch up with Bayern Munich, and they can't afford to make mistakes in any game. They will be away to Fortuna Dusseldorf in the next round of the league and of course this game must be won.

For Dortmund these days, there is no competition that needs to be conceded for another competition.

Especially after the victory against Real Madrid, Klopp was even more unwilling to give up a certain game.

After Gotze's transfer, Borussia Dortmund's players were united again through the victory over Real Madrid.

After such twists and turns, the current situation is even more commendable, how can it be easy to give up the hope of competing for a championship?

Having just experienced the game against Real Madrid, the players were very excited in this game, Klopp was worried about the collapse after the excitement, and in the game against Fortuna Dusseldorf, the players will not be able to perform at their normal level.

He has to make the players value the game from the bottom of their hearts.

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The 31st round of the league is fast approaching, with Borussia Dortmund away to Fortuna Dusseldorf, and this game is preceded by Bayern Munich's home game against Freiburg.

In the end, Bayern Munich beat Freiburg 1-0 at home, and the scene was not pretty, and Bayern Munich also seemed to have some loss of strength after beating Barcelona 4-0, which caused Dortmund to be even more vigilant.

Either way, they won and got the crucial three points, temporarily leading Dortmund by five points with one more game against Borussia Dortmund.

If Dortmund can't win Fortuna Dusseldorf away from home, whether it's a draw or a loss, they will be opened up by Bayern Munich.

Despite the importance of the game, Jurgen Klopp rotated the starting line-up to a certain extent, not very much, retaining quite a few players who started the last game, and only rotating in a few positions.

For example, Lewandowski, who was in good form in the last game and scored four goals alone, sat on the bench in this game, and it was Mark Wagner who started in his place.

Of course, Zhou Yi was not rotated.

In the twentieth minute, Dortmund took the lead.

It was Zhou Yi who scored the goal, and the one who assisted him was ...... Mark Wagner.

Mark who was pulled to the outside of the penalty area passed a good ball to Zhou Yi, who was inserted in front, and Zhou Yi calmly shot in the big penalty area, and the football flew into the far corner of the goal against the turf. Fortuna Dusseldorf's goalkeeper Giffel was not able to save the goal.

"Zhou Yi! This is his tenth goal in the league this season! This season is the most goal since his debut! Zhou Yi, who not only has assists, but can also score is getting better and better!" Duan Xin excitedly introduced.

Everyone said before that Zhou Yi had a lot of assists, but not many goals, on the one hand, it shows that he is indeed very selfless, but does it also show that his scoring ability is not good?

This season, Zhou Yi has significantly improved the number of goals, at least some people who question his low scoring ability have temporarily shut up.

So far this season, he has contributed as many as 18 assists in the league, and it seems that this season will not only become his personal record high in terms of goals, but also set a record in assists.

After the goal, Zhou Yi took the initiative to run to hug Mark, not only to thank him for this assist, but also to give him encouragement and support. After Lewandowski's senior year, everyone was talking about Lewandowski, and Zhou Yi wanted Mark to know that as his good friend, he was always by his side.

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Neither side scored again in the first half, with Dortmund going into the break with a one-goal lead.

In the 69th minute, Klopp made his first substitution, replacing the starting midfielder Reitner with Lewandowski instead of Mark Wagner, which may also indicate that Klopp was satisfied with Mark's performance in this game and wanted to try to reunite Lewandowski and Mark.

If these two guys can play well and make one plus one greater than two, it will definitely be a big help for Dortmund's attack.

Borussia Dortmund fans and the media are confident that the duo's forward line will help the team continue to compete in the domestic league and Champions League next season.

Also replaced was Kuba, who replaced 20-year-old Bittencourt, who started the game.

As a result, as soon as Kuba came on the field, he received an assist from Zhou Yi and scored a goal to help the team take a two-goal lead!

And Zhou Yi's assists have also increased to the nineteenth, which is only one short of twenty assists. Twenty assists is the Bundesliga's record for assists in a single season, set by Wolfsburg's Sisimovic in the 2008-2009 season.

And now it's only the 31st round of the league, Zhou Yi already has 19 assists, and there are three rounds left in the league, as long as he can complete an assist, he will chase Rice Simovic and share this record with him. But if he can get one more assist, he can set a record of his own!

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After taking a two-goal lead, Jurgen Klopp used up his last substitution, bringing on Reus for Zhou Yi. It is clear that after leading by two goals, he is already thinking about the second leg of next Tuesday's Champions League semi-final. He didn't feel that a 4-1 home win over Real Madrid would give Dortmund peace of mind, and he wanted to give Zhou Yi more rest in order to stay out at the Bernabeu next Tuesday. Zhou Yi's attendance rate this season has been much higher than in previous seasons, and he was always replaced early in previous games, but this season, he insisted on playing until the end of many games.

This shows that Zhou Yi's physical fitness has been greatly improved compared to before, which is naturally the credit of the physical training plan formulated by the Dortmund coaching staff for Zhou Yi.

But now is the end of the league, no matter how good the physical fitness of the players is, they may be physically exhausted at the last moment, and for the purpose of protection, of course, Zhou Yi must be replaced.

Besides, with a two-goal lead, it's a relatively safe score.

"Ah...... Zhou Yi was substituted, and it seems that he will have to wait a little longer to see him chase the record of Misimovich......" Marcel Leif was a little regretful. However, he can also understand Klopp's substitution.

Dortmund's midfield control, which replaced Zhou Yi, has decreased.

In the final moments, Fortuna Dusseldorf, unwilling to lose at their home stadium, launched a fierce attack on Dortmund's goal, and in the 88th minute, Adam Bozek scored a goal to make the score 1-2.

It was a huge boost to the morale of the Dusseldorf players, and with three minutes of stoppage time and five minutes to go, it was entirely possible that if they were lucky, they could have scored again!

So in the final moments, completely ignoring the defense, they launched a desperate attack on the Dortmund goal.

In such a situation, I believe that Bayern Munich fans will definitely cheer for Fortuna Dusseldorf.

Jurgen Klopp has made targeted changes, and although he no longer has a place to make substitutions, he can make changes to the players on the pitch. He asked everyone to recycle and defend, holding on until the last second.

His tweaks worked.

Until the end of the game, Fortuna Dusseldorf were unable to score.

In the end, Dortmund won 2:1 away from home with a goal and an assist from Zhou Yi.

Continue to chase Bayern Munich by two points.

However, the suspense of the league title will not last long, because the next round will be Dortmund's home match against Bayern Munich.

In this game, as long as the winner is decided, the suspense of the championship is basically over.

A win for Borussia Dortmund would put them one point ahead of Bayern Munich and win all of their remaining two league games to win the title.

A win for Bayern Munich would leave them five points ahead of Borussia Dortmund, with only one more win in the remaining two league games to win the title.

The most important thing is that the victory of this direct dialogue is a huge mental motivation for the winning team, and there is almost no chance of making a mistake and losing the advantage in the following game.

Fortunately, both Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich have established a big enough advantage in the first leg of the Champions League semi-finals to not make them too anxious and distracted.

Now, as long as they are in a normal state of mind and finish their second leg semi-finals, they can put all their energy into the fight for the league title.