No matter where Zhou Yi goes, there will always be a Valencia player next to him, not necessarily the same person, sometimes it is striker Soldado or Mata, sometimes it is Albelda or Joaquín in midfield......

He's constantly changing his position on the pitch, and the defenders around him are changing all the time, but what hasn't changed is that no matter what, someone is guarding him. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

It's not a man-to-man defence, it's a zone defence.

The advantage of this kind of defense is that the overall formation of the team will not be chaotic, and there will be no situation where someone follows out, only to be taken advantage of by the opponent when there is no one behind him.

For example, in the first game of the Dortmund league, against Leverkusen, Heynckes used a man-to-man defense to deal with Zhou Yi, but after Vidal was pulled out, Leverkusen's midfield was unbalanced and was used by Dortmund to concede goals.

Valencia manager Unai Emery used zone defence to avoid such a situation.

However, there are also weaknesses in zone defense - the weakness of zone defense is that the marking is not tight, and it is easy to give the opponent more space and time.

Unai Emery made some changes to the zone and made the formation of the whole team tighter, especially in the middle, so that the flanks looked a little more open, but the middle was very tight. In this way, the space that Zhou Yi can obtain is greatly compressed.

While this would allow more space on the wings, Emery is more concerned with defending the middle than restricting the wings. In any case, Zhou Yi can't easily organize an attack.

From the current point of view, under such a defense, Zhou Yi will pass the football out as soon as he receives the ball. In such a tense atmosphere, it is difficult to organize any threatening attacks.

“...... Valencia should be hoping to use this shrinking defence to limit Zhou Yi's play and turn him into a pure passer......" Marcel Leif analyzed. "But I don't think Dortmund necessarily have to rely on Zhou Yi to organise the attack, and anyone can take advantage of this huge wing. ”

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Although Zhou Yi looked like he was being driven around by Valencia's tight defense, he could only ensure that the football was not lost, and could not guarantee that the ball was passed threatening at all.

But in fact, in Zhou Yi's mind, although he kept running, he could see the running positions of both sides on the court clearly, and generated a constantly changing overlook map in his mind, just like using a satellite cloud map to see the weather, at a glance, and can predict the future according to some laws, basically doing eight or nine without leaving ten.

From the bird's eye view, it can be clearly seen that Valencia's players are basically concentrated in the area between the two ribs of the field, with very few people on the wings, and at the same time, in order to keep the three or even four lines compact, they are also very hard to compress the front and back. As a result, there are many areas on the pitch that Valencia can't cover.

It's just that those places are a bit far away from you, and it's hard to get a ball through with a short pass like you normally would.

So don't use short passes, use long passes.

Thinking of this, Zhou Yi found that as he moved to the right side of the court, a relatively large gap appeared in the upper left corner.

Because everyone's center of gravity and attention are attracted by football, that corner is the farthest place from football, and naturally it is also the weakest place for defensive strength.

There's an opportunity.

All that's needed now is a long, accurate pass.

In the process of observation and thinking, Zhou Yi continued to run to the right, as if he was going to become a full-back.

In doing so, he pushed Grosskloitz to the front and turned him into a winger.

The football was passed over.

The focus of Dortmund's attack seems to be on this side, and that's what everyone thinks.

But after taking the ball, Zhou Yi suddenly turned around and passed the football in the opposite direction - the upper left corner of the stadium!

There, Borussia Dortmund's left-back Schmelzer had already cut in at high speed, and when he reached the slot, Zhou Yi's pass arrived at its destination.

Schmelzer stopped Zhou Yi's pass when he raised his foot, very calmly, because no one came up to force him at all.

"Schmelzer!beautiful long pass! Zhou Yi!" Marcel Leif exclaimed excitedly.

The Dortmund fans, who were not very numerous with the team, also let out a loud cheer, which for a while drowned out the cheers of the Valencia fans in the sky above Mestalla.

After receiving the ball, Schmelzer took a slight step into the box and sent in a cross. Barrios stepped forward on a counter-run run to get the ball in front of Valencia defender Mathieu.

But it's a pity that the ball he pushed out was over the crossbar!

"Ahhh "Barrios! He wasted this great opportunity! Otherwise Dortmund would have taken a 1-0 lead away from home! And the game had only been three minutes! It was Dortmund's first shot of the game, and it was much more dangerous than Alberto Costa's long-range shot!"

As Barrios topped the ball high, there was a loud exclamation over Mestalla. It was the frightened cries of Valencia fans and the sighs of their lives.

In front of Dortmund's bench and coach's bench, there was also a group of people holding their heads in their hands and looking up to the sky and sighing. They weren't glad that Valencia had survived, on the contrary, they were sorry that they didn't get the first goal!

"Barrios, Barrios, Barrios—!" Klopp tugged at his hair, his mouth repeating Barrios's last name with annoyance and anger in his mouth. "What the hell!"

"Oh! Zhou Yi's foot transfer is so beautiful!" In the group, Yang Muge also exclaimed.

"That Barrios is too bad, isn't it? I won't be able to get this ball high!" Sun Pan regretted that Zhou Yi's pass was wasted like this.

"It seems that Zhou Yi's long pass is really practiced......" Guo Nu said. "His progress is truly visible to the naked eye......"

He Ying didn't speak, just stared at the TV screen, and the phone was placed next to it, but it was not picked up.

Although he didn't see what everyone was talking about, his feelings were the same as Guo Nu's, that is, Zhou Yi's progress was really obvious...... Now I think back to the rookie high school student who just joined the team, and now Zhou Yi is basically two people.

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"Barrios! it's a crime!" Zhou Jianliang slapped his thigh in annoyance, and the snap startled Li Cuiyun next to him.

She glared at her husband, but it was clear that he was completely immersed in the game at this time, completely unaware of the self around him.

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After the restart, Valencia took possession of the ball and used the flanks to launch a new attack into the Dortmund penalty area.

In the end, Joaquin's cross also created a threatening shot, and Soldado's shot was saved by Weidenfeller and held in his arms.

It's kind of a color for Barrios' header just now.

Then the two sides began a fierce attack.

Yes, it's an attack.

Borussia Dortmund did not shrink their defense just because they were playing away from home, and played very conservatively.

Similarly, Valencia, who are playing at home, have no reason to play conservatively.

The head coaches of both teams are passionate representatives of the young Zhuang faction, and it is difficult for these two teams to meet each other, and the game is very boring.

So the game went on in a fast-paced and high-pitched confrontation.

Fast-paced means that both sides have a fast transition between offense and defense.

And the high confrontation naturally means that this game is not a polite exchange of greetings between gentlemen, but a collision of flesh and flesh, and sweat splashing.

Zhou Yi, as the core of Dortmund's midfield, was naturally targeted by Valencia.

Emery knows very well that if he wants to paralyze the whole of Dortmund, Zhou Yi is someone who must not let go.

So he adopted that kind of zone defense, specifically for Zhou Yi's characteristics of constantly changing positions in the game.

It can be seen that Emery has studied Zhou Yi and put a lot of effort into it.

However, as the match progressed, Emery gradually frowned.

Because he found that Zhou Yi was not the same as he expected.

Before this game, Zhou Yi had not participated in any Champions League games, so it was not easy to get the video of Zhou Yi's game in the Champions League. He was only able to study Zhou Yi's performance in the league.

After research and analysis, he mastered some characteristics of Zhou Yi's playing in the league, and designed his own defensive tactics accordingly.

This set of defensive tactics has a premise, that is, Zhou Yi's performance is the same as his in the league.

That's fine.

But the problem is that the Bundesliga and the Champions League are not the same.

The difference between the Champions League and the Bundesliga is clear in just one statistic – in the Champions League, the speed of passing is between 10 and 15 percentage points faster than in the Bundesliga.

That's the feeling Zhou Yi experienced in a virtual match.

With such a large increase, if you are an inexperienced player, you may not be able to adapt to it.

Unai Emery thinks Zhou Yi will definitely not fit in, after all, he is very young, he is only 19 years old this year, so young and lacking enough experience, once he encounters a situation that is different from what he expected, his performance will fluctuate.

A little more pressure on him at this time is enough to make him collapse.

However, after watching the game on the sidelines for ten minutes, Emery felt that Zhou Yi showed no signs of collapse, but was more like an experienced veteran in the Champions League......

This is not scientific!

What is the origin of this kid?