The news that Borussia Dortmund had scored the fourth goal and that Mainz had been sent off at the same time as a defender quickly reached Bayern Munich.

Someone on the bench sighed.

Mainz have worked hard, scoring two goals against Dortmund at home to Dortmund, falling behind twice and equalising twice.

However, Dortmund still won a two-goal lead with strong strength......

With game time running out, a two-goal lead basically means that Dortmund have won the game and have three points in hand.

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After Borussia Dortmund took a 4-2 lead, Klopp began to prepare for a substitution.

From the 80th minute onwards, he made a gradual substitution.

The first to be replaced is Zhou Yi, as the core of the team, he needs to rest more time, since the victory has been decided, of course, let Zhou Yi seize the time to rest.

He was replaced by Mkhitaryan.

A minute later, Borussia Dortmund made another substitution, with Reus coming off and midfielder Jokic on the pitch.

In the 84th minute, Jurgen Klopp used up his last substitution, bringing on Mark Wagner for Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.

And Mainz, who has one less person, cannot threaten Dortmund's goal at all, even if Dortmund makes such a large substitution, Dortmund still has the advantage on the field.

Bayern Munich in the 86th minute of the game, the goalkeeper Lucas Reid, who started in place of the injured Neuer, kicked the football directly to the front court in the backfield and passed it to Robben who inserted at high speed.

Bayern Munich lead Braunschweig 2-0 away from home, but they are still one point behind Borussia Dortmund.

In the face of Dortmund's victory, Bayern Munich's victory looked a bit boring......

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The last two games were over, with Borussia Dortmund beating Mainz 4-2 at home and Bayern Munich beating Braunschweig 2-0 away.

There has been no change in the standings and points margin for either side.

With three league games remaining, Bayern Munich are still hopeful of a comeback, but to be honest, their fate is no longer in their hands......

Even if they win the next three league games, it will still depend on Dortmund's face, and if Dortmund also wins, nothing will change.

After the league game, both teams will start preparing for the Champions League semi-finals.

This is the match between the Bundesliga duo and the La Liga duo.

They also have a chance to repeat the final of last season.

If that's the case, I'm afraid everyone will shout: "I've seen this plot!"

After the match against Mainz, Klopp did not let the players rest.

The next day, everyone came to the Bracker training base for normal training, and after the training, Zhou Yi was called to the head coach's office by Klopp alone.

"Did you watch the game at home the night after our last Champions League game?" he asked straight to the point.

Zhou Yi was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect Klopp to ask about what happened ten days ago as soon as he opened his mouth, he nodded after thinking about it and gave Klopp a positive answer.

"Which one?"

"Atletico Madrid and Barcelona. Zhou Yi replied.

"Hmm......" Klopp is quite satisfied with Zhou Yi's performance, taking the initiative to observe the team's semi-final opponents, ordinary players will not do this, they will let themselves go after the game and training, and they don't want to be involved with football at all. After all, training and playing all day long, no matter how much you love football, you have to have time to do something else.

"How do you feel?" Klopp asked, clasping his hands around his chest.

Zhou Yi first lowered his head and recalled, after all, it was ten days ago, and he experienced many Bayern Munich and Mainz games in the middle, and there were some details that he needed to recall carefully.

"Atletico Madrid's pressing and the quick counter-attacks after pressing were amazing...... Especially in the first 20 minutes of the game, it was fierce...... I think Barcelona was stunned by those 20 minutes of pressing, and the whole team didn't find their rhythm and form. They defended well, and then they played sharply on the counter-attacks on that basis...... Although the score was 1-0, I felt that Atletico Madrid's advantage on the field was much greater than this scoreline...... I think Atletico Madrid should have played their best game of the season......"

When Zhou Yi first spoke, there was still some hesitation in his tone, but the more he spoke, the smoother it became, and his memory became clearer and clearer.

As he spoke, Klopp nodded, and Zhou Yi's feelings were similar to his own.

After Zhou Yi finished speaking, he asked again: "Then do you think they can still play like this when we meet them?"

Zhou Yi thought for a while: "I don't know, but they should use similar tactics as this game." ”

Klopp was very satisfied with Zhou Yi's answer, and he joked: "Yes, especially since we have a central midfield core similar to Xavi. ”

After speaking, he opened the drawer of his desk, took out a USB drive from it, and handed it to Zhou Yi.

"It's a video of the game that the coaching staff has re-edited, so you can take it back and take a good look at it, mainly to see how Atletico Madrid is trying to contain Barcelona's attack. There are also some simple stats from the coaching staff on the game that will help you understand the game. ”

Zhou Yi took the USB drive.

Klopp saw him take the USB drive, and said with a smile: "You know that I like to gamble." Outsiders call me a 'gambler'. I do like the thrill. So since the Champions League was restructured, no team has been able to successfully defend the title, and I'm going to take a gamble this time. ”

Zhou Yi held the USB drive in the palm of his hand and said to Klopp: "I thought you were going to give up one side again." ”

Klopp laughed: "What to give up? We are now ahead of Bayern Munich in the league and reached the semi-finals of the Champions League, so give up at this time?

Listening to Klopp's answer, Zhou Yi also laughed.

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When Zhou Yi got home, he turned on the TV in the living room, then plugged in the USB drive given by Klopp, and couldn't wait to watch it.

Cortana looked at him like this and asked curiously, "What are you looking at?"

"The video of our semi-final opponents, the coach gave me today. ”

Cortana suddenly realized that she would no longer bother Zhou Yi so that he could concentrate on watching the game video.

It's not a full footage, it's an edited reel of highlights, but it's still long, much longer than the game highlights posted on those sites.

In addition to the game screen, there are also some "special effects" added by the Dortmund coaching staff, such as circleing key players and drawing their running routes, so that people watching the video can understand the tactics of both sides more intuitively.

By watching the video of the game, Zhou Yi's memory of this game became clearer in his mind.

In the opening game, the attacking line composed of Villa, Adrian and Raul Garcia on Atletico Madrid's side violently attacked Barcelona's back line from the beginning. Moreover, they consciously adopted the high ball impact play style in response to Barcelona's lack of anti-high ball ability, which is exactly what makes Barcelona feel scrambling.

Just five minutes into the game, Atletico Madrid had scored. It was a chance to sit out from the top of the air when Villa's cross from the left was headed wide by Adrian and Koke followed up with a left-footed volley.

Gave Barcelona the fastest goal conceded in the history of the knockout stage......

After Atletico Madrid took the lead, they continued to pounce on Barcelona's defence.

Barcelona were forced to be helpless and had a poor collective performance.

After the opening three, Atletico Madrid showed their tenacious defensive ability and waited for opportunities to counter-attack, creating a number of absolute good chances.

If it weren't for Barcelona's goalkeeper Pinto's excellent performance in this game, the score would definitely be more than 1:0.

In addition, the British referee Webber was also controversial in the game, as he missed Mascherano's foul in the box twice during the game without any indication. If those two penalties had been awarded, the game could have ended sooner.

Atletico Madrid had a chance to score until the final minute of the game – Raul Garcia passed the ball and Rodriguez fired a powerful shot only to be denied by Pinto, who had done well.

As Zhou Yi said to Klopp, this is not a game in which Atletico Madrid started the game obscenely, stealing a goal, and then putting a bus to defend until the end of the game. It was Atletico Madrid who took the initiative from the start and completely suppressed Barcelona, but only won the game by one goal because of the excellent performance of Barcelona goalkeeper Pinto.

Atletico Madrid's frantic pressing made Barcelona's midfield almost dysfunctional.

Iniesta and Messi were forced to show nothing. Andres Iniesta was substituted in the 72nd minute. And Messi made a series of mistakes, 39 passes, 10 errors, and four shots on goal all missed the goal. Xavi made 100 successful passes out of 100 times, a 100 per cent pass completion rate, but only one dangerous pass. Sergio Busquets has also been in poor form, missing eight of his 82 passes as a defensive midfielder and winning only one of his six headers. Neymar lacked flashes under pressure from Juanfran Thiago and Gabi, with only one header just wide of the ......