Chapter Ninety-One: Performance
After Zhou Yi finally walked down, Klopp was already impatient, and while holding Zhou Yi's hand, he asked eagerly: "How is it?"
Zhou Yi shook his head and said with a smile: "It's okay, coach." Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"
"Is it really okay, you said it doesn't count, Zhou Yi. I don't count. It's up to the 'doctor' to have the final say. Klopp said with a straight face.
He called Dr. Marcus Braun, the head of the team's medical team, and asked him to do a test on Zhou Yi.
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Mark Wagner, who was not selected for the squad and could only sit at home and watch the game on the TV, couldn't help but laugh when he saw Zhou Yi striding towards Klopp.
"I knew he loved acting! He must have done it on purpose to anger those Manchester City fans, ha!"
But her sister Cortana, who was next to her, frowned slightly and didn't say anything.
This kid really likes to act, but what part of the play is it, and she and her brother don't agree on it......
Not long after, the TV broadcast gave Zhou Yi a shot.
Having been substituted, he sat in a chair with his left leg stretched out and resting on a box, while a bag of ice was clearly wrapped around his ankle.
"Zhou Yi's ankle is being iced, and it looks like it's still injured...... Marcel Leif said.
He Ping was even more excited: "Now it seems that the two steps after Zhou Yi got off the field are probably pretended, just to reassure the coach, but how can it be reassured? We have a statistic here, Zhou Yi is the player who has been violated the most on the pitch by the two teams, as many as thirteen times, and it is strange that his foot is not injured under so many violations! The only thing to pray for now is not to get too seriously injured, after all, a healthy Zhou Yi is very important to Dortmund and the Chinese team......
Mark, who was in front of the TV, was also a little surprised to see this scene: "Huh?"
"What, isn't it normal for him to get hurt? The sister next to her, Cortana, snorted.
Mark is not an idiot either, so he naturally understands what his sister means by this. He played football, watched this game, and also felt that under the circumstance of being deliberately targeted by Manchester City players, Zhou Yi would really be unreasonable if he left Manchester without any "souvenirs......
So he was silent too.
But soon he suddenly turned his head to look at his sister.
"Don't look at me, I'm just an ordinary team doctor. Cortana knew why her brother was watching her. "I'm not a miracle doctor. ”
"I'm sure my sister's abilities are the best!" Mark laughed.
"You haven't even played a game yourself, what are you worried about others?" Cortana was also speechless.
"He's different, it doesn't matter if I'm hurt or something, but he can't get hurt. Unexpectedly, her brother explained to her very seriously. "He's not just our core, sister. ”
"What else could it be?" Cortana asked rhetorically.
"Yes......" Mark opened his mouth but didn't speak, because he was searching for the right words to describe Zhou Yi, but he found it difficult to use a word to accurately describe Zhou Yi as a person.
"He can't get hurt anyway, he's important!"
In the end, that's all Mark can say.
Cortana rolled her eyes, she knew that her brother cared about Zhou Yi very much, and she said again: "Don't worry, it's not a big problem." He's better than you think......"
Fortunately, he can act, otherwise he wouldn't have waited to be replaced, and he would have been lifted out of the unit price...... This kid is cunning and unlikable at times, but this is the right time to deal with opponents who have muscles in their heads.
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After Zhou Yi's departure, Manchester City rallied with all their strength and launched a fierce attack on the Borussia Dortmund goal, hoping to equalise in the remaining period.
Now it seems that victory is very slim, but if it can, it is not bad to be able to draw with Dortmund, and it is better to take a point than not to have one.
In the 90th minute, City finally had a great chance when Piszczek was punished for a foul in the box, and City were awarded a penalty.
Balotelli eventually converted the spot-kick into the Weidenfeller goal to pull one back for City.
With five minutes left and one goal down, City suddenly saw hope.
In the following stoppage time, Dortmund dropped out in full force and faced Manchester City's indiscriminate bombardment. Even Reuss, the striker, had to foul the opponent in defense to stop the opponent, resulting in a yellow card for himself.
However, the good news is that Borussia Dortmund still won Manchester City away from home.
After two rounds of the group stage, they and Real Madrid have also won two games, but are temporarily second because they have scored fewer goals than Real Madrid.
Manchester City and Ajax are in third and fourth place.
After the game, Zhou Yi was stopped by reporters in the mixed area and answered a number of sensitive questions.
When asked if he was suspected of pretending to be injured when he left the game, Zhou Yi did not speak, but raised his left foot, which was still wrapped in an ice pack and could only wear slippers, to reporters.
Asked by a reporter what he thought of the booing from the City fans, he said: "I think there must be some misunderstanding, it's my first time at the Etihad Stadium and I've never played against Manchester City before, so there should be no grudge between us. As for why they boo me? You should ask them, not me, who is also confused!"
He spread his hands.
"They definitely think that pre-game move you made was a provocation. A reporter added for Zhou Yi.
Zhou Yi shook his head: "If it's really provocative, I will draw a middle finger on the football instead of a smiley face." I'm sure no one on this planet would take a smile as a provocation, right?"
"But you're doing something unusual......"
'What's so unusual about this? I've already explained why I did it, I don't think there's any need to repeat it, it's pointless to dwell on my move and it won't allow City to win this game. Zhou Yi shook his head and said.
Some Chinese reporters are more concerned about Zhou Yi's injury, to which Zhou Yi laughed: "It's not a big problem, the ice is to be on the safe side to avoid the situation from deteriorating." But I don't think I'm going to miss the game against Australia. ”
He knew why Chinese journalists were concerned about their injuries, so he gave a standard answer.
German journalists, on the other hand, were concerned about the club's game, asking how Dortmund had won two in a row in the Group of Death, with six points alongside Real Madrid. Does this mean that the group of death is not worthy of the name, in fact, in the end it was Borussia Dortmund and Real Madrid who qualified together.
Zhou Yi disagreed: "I think so, there are a total of six games in the group stage, and now only a third of them have been played, and there are still two-thirds of the games that have not been played, everything is possible." Although Ajax is now in the last place, if you underestimate them, you will also suffer......"
He then finished the interview and limped back to the locker room.
At this moment, no one would have thought that what he just said would become a prophecy on the next match day.
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In his post-match press conference, Jurgen Klopp criticised the City players for their rude treatment of Zhou Yi during the game, and he also tactfully criticized the referee for not giving Zhou Yi more protection. He also talked about Zhou Yi's injury: "...... I don't know if he'll miss the game next day, it's up to the team doctor to make the decision, not me. If the team doctor says he can't play, then I won't let him play, and if the team doctor says he's okay, I'll let him play, it's simple. ”
When it was Mancini's turn, he expressed regret at the home defeat to Borussia Dortmund, but said nothing about Zhou's injury and his own players' rude actions.
In fact, there is nothing to mention, admitting that his player is too big, it is a slap in the face.
A reporter asked Mancini whether Manchester City's impatience in this game was due to a misjudgment of the situation and the opponent.
Mancini flatly denied this: "We have a lot of respect for our opponents, Dortmund are a strong team, we can't take them lightly. ”
But the day after the game, the local media in Manchester published an article that slapped Mancini in the face, thinking that Manchester City could see from the pre-match preparation that the players' mentality was wrong, so they would be so easily irritated by Zhou Yi.
“...... Perhaps it was the 3-2 defeat away to Real Madrid in the first group stage that gave Manchester City more illusions and ideas that made them feel that they were strong enough to break through in the group of death. But the reality is brutal. I'll admit that although they lost 3-2 to Real Madrid, they were a good game and almost took all three points from the Bernabeu. But the performance of that game has nothing to do with the performance of this game, and it is not a matter of taking for granted that the second group game was also good because the first group game was played well. And although Mancini denied it, it is obvious that Manchester City is a little underweight when facing Dortmund, they may feel that Real Madrid is better than Dortmund, they can all play Real Madrid away from home so embarrassed, back to their home stadium, beat Dortmund must be no problem, right? But it's a pity that Klopp's team has taught Mancini a good lesson, the Champions League and the Premier League are completely different games, you can't just because you won the league last season, you can't feel that you are a strong team in the Champions League, in fact, in the Champions League, Manchester City still has a long way to go......"
Manchester's media have been relentless in their criticism of Mancini and Manchester City, but it's normal that the media is usually more inclined towards Manchester United......
Losing the league title in the last three minutes of last season was a big deal for United, and now they've finally found a chance to vent their anger – we lost to them in the league, but the Champions League will teach you how to behave! )