Chapter 186: Reacquaintance

After leaving Radeksburg, the Dortmund team arrived in picturesque Switzerland for their second training camp. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoThis training camp is mainly based on technical and tactical training, mainly to let the players have a further understanding of the team's basic tactics.

Last season was Klopp's first season in charge of Dortmund, and after Dole led Dortmund to 13th in the league, Klopp's first season in charge of Dortmund could be considered good, finishing sixth, just one step away from qualifying for next season's Europa League.

Borussia Dortmund, on the other hand, showed some signs of Klopp's tactical thinking last season.

Then this season, Klopp will deepen and mature this tactic.

Jurgen Klopp's tactics are, in short, the most important thing to do is to emphasise running.

All the players don't play from their own position, they run the whole game. When defending, there is a crazy high press, and when attacking, it is a crazy fast push.

It sounds a bit like the tactics adopted by Zhou Yi's opponent in the U19 German Cup final, Freiburg's U19.

When Zhou Yi was in Dortmund U19, he played football with the trident composed of Gotze and Mark, so it was not difficult for Zhou Yi to adapt to the rapid advance in the attack. Moreover, his talent is more suitable for this kind of fast-moving football, because he has to take the football and then observe the situation, and he has already observed everything before the football is under his feet.

He naturally handles the ball faster than other players.

So in physical training, Zhou Yi's performance is not outstanding, and the deepest impression he leaves on everyone may be that he is the most embarrassed after every training.

But when it came to technical and tactical training, when the whole team began to practice together, Zhou Yi made everyone's eyes shine.

On the first day of training, Grosskloitz was just about to raise his hand on the wing and signal Zhou Yi to pass the ball to him. As a result, he was only halfway up his hand when he saw that the football had flown towards him, and he hurriedly raised his foot to stop the ball, but it was too hasty, so he stopped the football off the sideline......

Assistant coach Bouquit's whistle blew and training was about to restart, with the rest of the players running in vain.

"Kevin, don't get distracted in training!" Bwach shouted.

Grosskloitz defended himself aggrievedly: "I didn't get distracted, coach!"

Then he set his sights on Zhou Yi's ...... Back.

I had just run to the position when he passed the football...... Did he know in advance that I was going to run to this position and ask him for the ball?

Grosskloitz's mind was full of question marks.

Training continued, and Paraguayan striker Lucas Barrios, who had just moved from Chile's Colo Colo this summer, saw an opening behind two of his defenders as he moved forward.

He hesitated, the vacancy was hidden from his position, and he wasn't sure if his teammates would be able to spot it in time.

But the striker's instinct made him jump forward quickly, and as soon as he got between two defender teammates, the ball appeared on his side!

He reflexively stretched out his foot to intercept the football, and then took advantage of the situation to shoot with his foot, and the football went into the net!

Although Weidenfeller made a save, because Barrios shot too fast and suddenly, he was still half a beat slow to react.

There was a cheer from the sidelines – after arriving in Switzerland, unlike the fully enclosed physical training in Radeksburg, the training here is semi-closed, even if it is sometimes open to the public. Klopp was open to the public for the first training session here, so it was not close to the head coach that watched Dortmund train on the sidelines, but also the Dortmund die-hard fans and journalists who had traveled all the way from Germany.

As the team's latest signing this season, Barrios spent 4.2 million euros on the team, and how well he performs and whether his strength is worthy of this price is naturally a question of great concern to the media and fans.

Seeing Barrios score with this beautiful shot, many people were very happy and naturally cheered.

The people outside the stadium were cheering, but Barrios, who scored the goal, did not have an excited expression on his face, but was stunned - the series of actions just now were completely instincts that did not go through the brain, and his brain did not react to how the football arrived so quickly just now, causing him to be a little scrambling, and the ball stopped a little embarrassed, if it wasn't for luck, maybe the goal couldn't go in......

He sneaked a glance at the head coach Jurgen Klopp on the sidelines and saw that he was also applauding, and he was glad in his heart.

He then turned his gaze to his teammates. Before he ran the position, he remembered that it was the young Chinese Zhou Yi who took the ball.

Did he pass the ball?

Originally, he was quite complacent when he discovered the hidden void, but now it seems that someone discovered the void before him......

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Barrios only saw Klopp clapping from the sidelines, thinking that Klopp was delighted with his performance.

But what he didn't know was that he was thinking too much......

While Klopp applauded, his eyes were fixed on Zhou Yi.

Zhou Yi passed the ball very decisively, and passed it immediately after taking the ball, without looking up to observe or hesitating.

This is very much in line with what Jurgen Klopp observed when he was in the youth team.

Over the past few months, Zhou Yi's ability in this area has not degraded, but has become stronger.

This was a relief to Klopp.

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After a six-on-eight offensive session, the team was given a short break.

The players came to the sidelines to drink water and rest, while assistant coach Bouist Bouchi came to Klopp's side from the pitch.

Jurgen Klopp asked Bouács: "How's it going?"

Bwach nodded: "It makes sense that kid can be the core as soon as he goes to the U19s." He's super clear and has a good understanding of the team's tactics. But there's one thing I don't understand...... How can he get the ball to the right place right after receiving it? Doesn't he need to look at it?"

Klopp shrugged: "Didn't you notice that he was always swinging his head from side to side in training? ”

As soon as Klopp said this, Bwach really remembered that in training, Zhou Yi was indeed constantly shaking his head.

"So...... This kid will probably be playing in our first team soon......" Bouis lamented, adding that there is a real shortage of young talent these days. Dortmund has just come out with a Götze, and now another Zhou Yi has emerged.

"Not necessarily. Klopp didn't expect that to answer him, much to Bouác's surprise.

Klopp looked at a surprised Bwach and said: "This kid is a bit very prominent, but the shortcomings are also very prominent. ”

'You mean his fitness, but after the previous squeezing training, his fitness has improved a lot and he is good enough for the first team......,' said Boukiac.

"Nope. It's not enough. Klopp shook his head. "Because he still has to defend. ”

Bwach was stunned for a moment, then reacted and sighed, he felt sorry for Zhou Yi. If Zhou Yi had been able to receive formal professional training in the junior team of Dortmund FC at the age of eight or nine, like Gotze, he would have been a regular player in the first team by now......

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On the player's side, Grosskloitz grabbed Zhou Yi with a head full of question marks: "Hey, boy, you caused me to be criticized by the coach!"

Zhou Yi was confused: "What's wrong?"

"The ball just now, I just ran to the place, your ball arrived, I didn't react at all, it stopped, and the coach said I was distracted. Where am I wandering?"

Zhou Yi suddenly realized, and then looked at Grosskloitz with a smile.

"I found that you didn't have to look up to find someone before you passed the ball, so how did you know I'd show up in that place and you passed the ball over?" Grosskloitz asked.

Zhou Yi asked Grosskloitz rhetorically: "There is an obvious gap in front of you, will you not run up?"

"Of course it will run......," Grosskloitz seemed to understand before he finished speaking.

"That's it. Zhou Yi spread his hand. "Since you're going to run over, wouldn't it be better for me to pass the ball a little earlier so that you can catch the ball just in time for you to run?"

The conversation between Zhou Yi and Grosskloitz also attracted the attention of other players, Zhou Yi's performance in the offensive training just now was seen by everyone, the ball reached his feet, and the speed would become faster, because he rarely hesitated after taking the ball, looking up and looking around, as soon as he received the ball, he would immediately pass the football out, not necessarily a straight ball, and some were seemingly ordinary horizontal passes and return passes, but in short, the speed of the pass was very fast, and there was hardly much time to stay and think. He's not like other people who have to watch and think about the ball and then pass the ball.

It also made the other players who cooperated with him and received his pass feel a little uncomfortable.

They actually have doubts in their minds. After listening to the conversation between Zhou Yi and Grosskloytz, the team's midfielder Kuba asked: "But Zhou Yi, how can you guarantee that the football will not be passed on in advance?"

Zhou Yi didn't know how to explain, so he had to say: "Isn't it that it hasn't been passed on? Kevin didn't expect it, so he stopped big." ”

He can't always say, "Because I've been training with you guys in the virtual system for a long time, I know each of you's running style and speed, so I know how to pass the ball best." ”

In fact, in the virtual system, when he first started practicing with these teammates, he often did not cooperate tacitly.

At that time, he didn't know his new teammates at all, and he didn't know how to cooperate with them.

It is also in the continuous training and running-in that I find the feeling little by little and accumulate experience.

Zhou Yi seems to be integrating into the team quickly, and that's just because he has taken the step of "everything is difficult at the beginning" in the virtual system.

Kuba was not very satisfied with Zhou Yi's answer, and he asked, "What if? What if it spreads big?"

"Of course you can make a mistake in passing, but I think it's a risk to take. Even if he doesn't receive the ball and has the kind of situation he just had in training, it's better to make a mistake on the side than in the middle, right?" replied Zhou Yi.

Kuba was speechless, because Zhou Yi was right.

Whether you should take a risk, in addition to looking at the opportunity or not, also depends on the place where the risk is taken, if it is at the front of your own penalty area, then you should never think about taking risks, but should choose the safest way to handle the ball. But if it's on the side, the risk is completely insignificant in the face of huge benefits.

Shahin, the core of the team's midfield, also raised his doubts: "Zhou Yi, the ball from Barrios just now, if I'm not mistaken, when he stepped forward, you turned your back to him, right?"

As soon as Shaheen said this, everyone remembered that Zhou Yi took the ball with his back to the goal before assisting Barrios. But as soon as he received the ball, he turned and slid it straight to send the ball into the space between the two centre-backs before creating a chance for Barrios to shoot.

"That's right. Zhou Yi nodded.

"And how did you know there was a vacancy?" Shahin was curious.

"Uh, I saw that. ”

"Do you have eyes on the back of your head?" Grosskloitz thought Zhou Yi was bragging.

"I saw it before I caught it. Zhou Yi said. "So I passed the football right away, and if I had delayed a little longer, that space might have been gone. ”

Shaheen had to nod his head when he said this, in fact, when Zhou Yi passed the football, Subotic and Hummels were already closed.

It was indeed a little later, and there would be no need for the ball to be passed there.

Zhou Yi's answer made Shahin no longer have any doubts.

Weidenfeller asked Gotze again: "Mario, is this how Zhou Yi played when he was in the youth team?"

Gotze nodded: "Well, he's always been like this, passing the ball after he gets it. ”

"Didn't make a mistake?" Weidenfeller's eyes widened, a little surprised.

"Absolutely. "There were times when he made a mistake with the ball. ”

Weidenfeller breathed a sigh of relief: "Scared me, I thought he had zero mistakes." ”

"No, Uncle Roman. Then it's not a human, it's a robot. Gotze hurriedly comforted Weidenfeller's frightened heart.

"But even so, Zhou Yi is quite powerful. Weidenfeller sighed, "It's only eighteen years old......

Gotze pointed to himself and said, "Uncle Roman, I'm a year younger than him." ”

Weidenfeller hurriedly smiled and patted Gotze's head: "You are also amazing, Mario! Our Dortmund academy has really produced a lot of outstanding young people in recent years! Coach Klopp is also a coach who likes to give young people opportunities, I think our Dortmund has a drama this time!"

Gotze turned his head to look at Zhou Yi, who was surrounded by his teammates, and he was answering all kinds of questions that everyone asked him. The players seem to have a lot of curiosity about this teammate who has been with them for half a month. It was as if I wanted to get to know him again.