Chapter 214: Humiliation
Before the game, a war of words between the two sides had already begun. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Bayern Munich's president, Uli Hoeness, openly criticized the Bundesliga schedule: "We have just finished playing in Barcelona and we have to rush back to Germany without stopping, and we have to go to Dortmund for a day of rest at home, and then we have to rush to Dortmund without stopping, and there are only two days in between! Borussia Dortmund, on the other hand, played a day earlier than us in the Champions League and can go home without having to move their nests and play at their home stadium...... I really don't understand why there is such a bad schedule. Why can't we postpone our match with Borussia Dortmund by one day, why can the Hamburg and Wolfsburg matches be played on the night of May 5, while we have to play on the night of May 4? Do Hamburg and Wolfsburg play in the Champions League? Can't the league be flexible with the schedule and make last-minute adjustments for special circumstances?"
Honestly, Hoeness's complaints are justified. Bayern Munich's away Champions League semi-final against Barcelona was played on the evening of May 1, after which Bayern Munich would immediately fly back to Munich by connecting flight, and it was the early morning of May 2 when they arrived in Munich.
Then the team was disbanded on the spot, but the players were only able to rest for half a day, and on the afternoon of May 2, the team had to gather for training.
On May 3, they had to fly the whole team to Dortmund again for the evening of May 4, and they couldn't go too late because they only had time to acclimatize the venue on the evening of May 3. The game started on the evening of May 4th.
In the middle, the whole Bayern Munich team is indeed "non-stop", flying from Munich to Barcelona, Barcelona to Munich, and then from Munich to Dortmund. Fly three times in four days, three places, not to mention professional players with high physical requirements, even ordinary people are exhausted after such a toss, and Bayern Munich players will soon usher in a high-intensity important game.
Hoeness was complaining about the official Bundesliga schedule, but he still teased Dortmund in his words, and Dortmund's general manager Zorke naturally did not pretend not to hear, he jumped out and retorted: "Hoeness complains that the schedule is too dense? Dortmund didn't complain about UEFA's schedule when they played the Champions League semi-finals, how did it come to Bayern Munich, and the ordinary schedule became an unacceptably bad arrangement? If Bayern Munich loses away to Borussia Dortmund, then the pot can be thrown to the Bundesliga official......"
"And, also in the second leg of the Champions League semi-finals, we were stubbornly blocked by Real Madrid away from home, and we played very hard, fighting until the last moment, and we had all our energy. And Bayern Munich, on the other hand, won against a non-combative opponent on the road. They even made substitutions in advance to prepare for the game against us, and I don't believe it to say that they spent energy in this game. It's no different from a warm-up game within the team!"
Zolke not only scolded Barcelona, but also mocked Barcelona by the way......
The two teams quarreled, the other teams lay down countless guns, Hamburg and Wolfsburg said aggrievedly, "Do you blame me for not being able to participate in the Champions League?"
Real Madrid and Barcelona were whipped again......
Fortunately, the Spanish media no longer care about what is happening in Germany, otherwise there would have been a cross-border war of words.
There was a lot of bickering among the club's top brass, and at the player level, the war of words was no less intense.
Bayern Munich centre-back Van Bitten said in an interview that the advantage is still on Bayern Munich's side: "We are two points ahead, we have a psychological advantage, so as long as we draw this game, it will be a victory." ”
Regarding Van Bitten's remarks, Zhou Yi, who is the core of Dortmund, replied: "Does he (Van Bitten) really think so?"
After getting a positive answer from the reporter, Zhou Yi made a "relieved" expression and action, and then said with a smile: "Then I'll rest assured." Because in my experience, I think that a draw can be anything, and it is often the most dangerous time, and this FLAG Van Bitten stands very well. ”
After saying that, the Chinese reporters who interviewed him laughed, and the German reporters may still be a little confused, but the Chinese reporters really understood the meaning of Zhou Yi's words too well.
In the history of Chinese football, there have been too many "what happens if you draw", and in the end, all of them backfired.
So much so that "a draw and qualifying" has become a major curse for Chinese football.
Zhou Yi said this not only to express his confidence in defeating Bayern Munich, but also to laugh at himself, so that the attitude will not be so arrogant and annoying. This is also Zhou Yi's characteristic, even if he attacks others, he will make people feel cute.
Zhou Yi's war of words was relatively gentle, and the other players were-for-tat, and the smell of gunpowder was very strong.
Bayern Munich's captain Lahm also agreed with Hoeness in an interview, believing that the schedule is too bad for them.
In this regard, Dortmund's player Grosskloitz ridiculed Lahm like a woman: "As a professional player, complaining about the schedule is really not enough for men in my opinion, the schedule is fair, and everyone may have a time when the schedule is not as good as they want, so what should I do?
In response to Grosskloitz's ridicule of the Bayern Munich captain, Schweinsteiger hit back: "The Dortmund players better not come out and talk nonsense, they are obviously the beneficiaries of the schedule. We're just fighting for our legitimate rights. ”
Piszczek scoffed: "It's the first time I've seen a league leader so careless about a small thing, and it seems that they know very well that it is a terrible thing to face us at Wester. ”
"If I were a Bayern Munich player, I would have kept my mouth shut and rested and trained during this time, instead of complaining about the lack of rest and spending all my time in the media," Kuba said. ”
There are also Bayern Munich players who have expressed confidence, such as Franck Ribery, who thinks they will win away from home: "There is nothing more exciting than beating a bitter rival and winning the league title away from home!"
Royce responded: "There's nothing more exciting than beating a bitter rival at home to win the league title. ”
Of course, in the war of words, "Mario Gotze" is a name that no one can avoid.
Before the game, the Dortmund media wrote an article criticizing Bayern Munich's behavior of poaching his team's corners everywhere as an act that harms the competitiveness of the entire Bundesliga and the entire German football.
“...... Hoeness invented a trick, that is, opponents who can't win on the pitch, they can win each other with money in the transfer market, poach the opponent's core players, both strengthen their own strength and weaken the competition, it is really a good strategy to kill two birds with one stone. The Dortmund media scoffed.
There is also public opinion that before Dortmund's home game against Real Madrid, the news that Gotze is about to transfer to Bayern Munich is a long-planned act of Bayern Munich officials, aiming to interfere with Dortmund's preparation for the Champions League semifinals and shake the hearts of Dortmund's army. In fact, Dortmund's military spirit was indeed shaken, if it weren't for the huge energy of the Dortmund team at the last moment and stabilized the military spirit under the leadership of Klopp, otherwise the final result is really hard to say......
For this statement, the media on the Bayern Munich side firmly refuted it: "...... I would like to remind the Dortmund side, which has always been talking nonsense, that it was not we Munich who first announced this news at the official level, but it was your Dortmund. It wasn't our Munich media and journalists who first broke the news...... It is nonsense to say that Bayern Munich is doing this to hit Dortmund, you must know that after this matter was suddenly exposed, it also caught Bayern Munich off guard......"
"Now the Dortmund media are starting to hype about Götze's transfer again, just to find a reason for their next failure. Turn all the hatred to Bayern Munich. I think there's a very bad ethos in Germany that is the unbridled stigmatization of Bayern Munich...... Borussia Dortmund thinks that Bayern Munich's practice of digging around hurts the interests of German football, but in fact, it is Dortmund themselves who are digging around!"
“...... The Dortmund media are always used to boasting about their academy prowess, as if the Borussia Dortmund first team were all people from their academy. Not to mention Reuss and Grosskloitz, according to UEFA's definition, players who have been registered with the club for three seasons between the ages of 15 and 21 are the academy players who have been trained by the club. Reus and Grosskloitz both played in Red and White Allen, who threw them like garbage to the regional league teams? Not to mention Zhou Yi, who had no professional training until he was 17 years old, his experience in the Dortmund youth team was more of a transition to the first team, and his current achievements have nothing to do with the development of the Dortmund academy ...... a dime."
“...... Sven Bender was poached from Munich in 1860 by Borussia Dortmund, by Gundogan from Nuremberg, and by Subotic from Mainz...... Even the veteran Kyle and Weidenfeller were poached from Freiburg and Kaiserslautern...... He said all day that he was training the academy, and then he was stolen by Bayern Munich, but he didn't look in the mirror and examined himself......"
The media response in Munich was very sharp and to the point. In fact, Dortmund, like Bayern Munich, has to poach people from various teams to form their own first team. But this is actually a very normal transfer behavior. It's just that from their respective standpoints, there will be different interpretations.
In the midst of the war of words, some media ran to interview Gotze and asked him if he would have mixed feelings about the upcoming match.
Gotze shook his head: "Not really. I'm a Borussia Dortmund player now and my mission and goal is to help Borussia Dortmund win the title. I'll talk about it with Bayern Munich next season. ”
He is still very confident in saying this, in the two-legged match against Real Madrid, he assisted a goal, scored a goal, and also created a penalty, saying that he is the hero of Real Madrid's Champions League final, I believe there will be no objections.
Jurgen Klopp refused to talk about Götze: "Götze is still my player, what do you want me to say?"
Grosskloitz was also reluctant to talk about Götze in an interview, but his intention was not to get Götze out of this storm of public opinion, but to disdain to mention Götze's name: "Don't mention that person's name to me." ”
Royce, as a good friend of Gotze, will naturally not be let go by the media at this time, he is relatively gentle: "Everyone has the right to choose, Gotze made his choice, as his friend, all I can do is bless him." But I also believe in his work ethic and he's going to give it his all in the next games. ”
What does Zhou Yi think of the topic of Gotze?
"Where to go is Götze's freedom, and no one can blame him for that. Of course, the timing of this news being exposed is indeed a bit ...... Subtle, but that's not Götze's responsibility. I don't think there's any need to hold on to that. Gotze himself certainly doesn't want this to happen, so let's turn our attention to the game. Honestly, the transfer market is left to the managers, and now it's the football field......"
A reporter asked: "Will you go to Bayern Munich one day?"
Hearing this question, Zhou Yi smiled: "How is it possible? I go to Bayern Munich to win the championship I won in Dortmund again? ”
With that, he waved his hand, turned and walked away.