Chapter 453 Understand Naturally
The failure to win Barcelona at home made Dortmund's players feel a little depressed. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
After all, they had been training secretly for nearly half a month.
But in fact, if you calm down and think about it, it would be too childish to be able to beat Barcelona with half a month of secret training.
Even Jurgen Klopp is aware of the problem, and the mighty Barcelona are not so easy to beat.
So is this season's Champions League a place to go?
Of course not.
Jurgen Klopp told them on the first day of the team's return to training that the team would train for the next six days with only one purpose: next week's midweek game against Barcelona.
As for the inclusion of a Borussia Dortmund home game against Stuttgart...... It doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter if you lose this game.
Klopp has no intention of giving up on competing with Barcelona, and neither does Zhou Yi.
In addition to expressing this opinion on the Internet and in interviews with reporters, he devoted all his energy to training.
He trained in the team during the day and in the virtual space when he slept at night, for which he did not choose to play against Stuttgart in the virtual space, and he gave up all the games in those days and changed to training, he trained non-stop in the black room, as if to train the passing and receiving of the ball as a physical instinct.
In the weekend's game against Stuttgart, Dortmund really didn't pay much attention to it, because many of the main players, including Zhou Yi, did not start. And even if the Dortmund players who played, their minds were not in this game, their hearts flew to Barcelona......
In the end, the absent-minded Borussia Dortmund drew 2-2 at home to Stuttgart.
It was just luck that we didn't lose, if it wasn't for the last moment when the goal post at the Stadio de West**** was the first shot from Gentner......
In the eyes of the outside world, Dortmund's draw with Barcelona at home and then at home to Stuttgart fully shows that the game against Barcelona has affected the league, and the players are absent-minded on the pitch, in a sluggish state, like sleepwalking.
Although it can be seen from Klopp's pre-match line-up that this is the result of Klopp's voluntary abandonment. But many people think that Klopp's abandonment is meaningless.
Borussia Dortmund can't beat Barcelona away from home, so instead of doing their best in the Champions League, it's better to play the league honestly......
With 28 league games to go, Dortmund's lead over points has gone from a maximum of 10 points to seven, with six league games to go, and for Bayern Munich, anything is possible.
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Zhou Yi didn't bother Zhou Yi with a near-loss to Stuttgart in the league, and he was glad that the game against Stuttgart was finally over, and now he can choose Barcelona as his opponent in the virtual space.
So he adjusted his training and competition plan in the virtual space, he appropriately reduced the training time and increased the number of games.
If he hadn't been able to play one game a day in the virtual space, he would have been able to spend all his time playing against Barcelona.
Because he wants to know more about this team, from all sides. Sun Tzu's Art of War has a cloud: know yourself and know your opponent and will not be defeated in a hundred battles.
If you want to beat Barcelona, you have to know Barcelona well enough so that you know what weaknesses they have and you can exploit them......
He's got to know as if he's been playing in this team for 10 years.
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That day finally came, and Dortmund ended their training on home soil and flew to Barcelona en masse to challenge the incredibly powerful "Cosmos Team".
When they arrived at the airport in Barcelona, a number of reporters rushed to interview them.
In an interview, Klopp said "we're ready." This was ridiculed by the local Catalan presenter on the news in the evening as being ready to lose.
Zhou Yi also refuted the idea that everyone thought they were eliminated in an interview: "I have never seen a 0:0 situation in the first round be considered to be eliminated early. Isn't the two-legged home and away game just about something happening in the second leg?"
"But it's Barcelona's home stadium after all, and it's too difficult for Borussia Dortmund to beat Barcelona here. A reporter asked. "You know, Barcelona haven't lost on their home turf this season!"
The journalist is right, Barcelona have not lost at home in La Liga this season. Up to the 31st round of the league, Barcelona has played 16 home games, 15 wins and 1 draw, with a home win rate of 93.8%, and the home team has scored 64 goals and conceded only 9 goals, which is a huge home advantage that speaks for itself.
In the Champions League, Barcelona are also unbeaten in four home games this season with three wins and one draw. In those four games, they have scored fifteen goals and conceded only three, which is also a huge advantage.
Barcelona can't afford to lose at home to Borussia Dortmund in any way, as they have absolute confidence on their turf.
Zhou Yi nodded: "Of course, it is not easy to beat them at home in Barcelona. Please note, however, that this is a two-legged home and away match. ”
He repeated the phrase again, but the reporters were confused.
Yes, the Champions League knockout rounds are played over two legs, home and away, is there anything wrong with that?
Is that why you were able to beat Barcelona away from home?
Zhou Yi didn't explain much, and finally said: "If you know, you will naturally understand." ”
The subtext is naturally "if you don't understand, you won't understand".
The reporters really didn't expect to have to play a guessing puzzle to do an interview, and they were so tired......
In this regard, the local media in Catalonia commented, "Zhou Yi's confidence is a little inexplicable, maybe he doesn't know what he is talking about, so in the face of repeated questions from our reporters, he has always avoided talking about it." This is understandable, because he doesn't know how to explain it at all......"
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Before the start of the game, the Camp Nou was already full, but the atmosphere in the stadium was not too enthusiastic, and everyone felt that Barcelona eliminated Dortmund at home, and there was no suspense. So the atmosphere in the stadium was nowhere near as lively as when Barcelona hosted Inter Milan.
The situation was very critical for Barcelona at the time.
Because in the first leg, Barcelona lost 1:3 away to Inter Milan. At the time, everyone thought Barcelona had been pushed to the edge of a cliff. Local Barcelona media called on Barcelona fans to unite and go to the stadium to watch the game, cheer on the team and put pressure on rivals Inter Milan.
So before the second leg of the match, not only was the Camp Nou full, but the fans also spelled out the huge Barcelona team emblem and slogan, creating the atmosphere of the devil's home stadium.
But unfortunately, not long after the game started, the game went in a completely different direction because of Butzkes's plot against Motta......
Facing Inter Milan who were on the bus all the way, Barcelona did not score a goal until the last minute, but they were still eliminated with an aggregate score of 2:3.
In fact, this is just like the national anthem of the People's Republic of China, if it is not at the critical moment of survival, it is impossible for Barcelona's home stadium to give the visiting team that kind of "like a big enemy" courtesy.
In the dressing room, Zhou Yi was explaining to his players why he said that in an interview.
'It's hard to beat Barcelona away from home, no team has done that this season. I'm not going to say we were the first to do it. But it's a two-legged home and away game, so there's an away goal, right? We don't need to beat Barcelona away, we just need to draw them away from home! 1:1 is enough for us to get them home!" Zhou Yi said, spreading his hands. "It's not impossible to draw them, is it? ”
Zhou Yi raised two fingers, "In the league it is Sevilla, in the Champions League it is AC Milan." Speaking of AC Milan, we knocked them out in the quarter-finals, so we're better than them, right?
When Zhou Yi said this, many teammates showed thoughtful expressions.
Klopp, who saw this scene on the side, couldn't help but laugh, although Zhou Yi was just twenty years old, but I don't know why, when Klopp saw the back of what he said in the locker room, he couldn't help but think that if Zhou Yi retired, he could come to be a coach. He doesn't speak very loudly, and he doesn't use a lot of beautiful and incendiary language, but for some reason, when the words come out of his mouth, people can't help but believe that what he says makes sense.
Just like what I just said.
In fact, after careful analysis, what Zhou Yi said is a fallacy - first of all, others can do it, but it does not mean that Dortmund can also do it. Secondly, football is not a simple equation, just because AC Milan drew with Barcelona, you can't think that AC Milan's strength is the same as Barcelona, nor can you think that Dortmund is stronger than AC Milan because Dortmund beat AC Milan, nor can you think that Dortmund can also draw Barcelona because AC Milan drew with Barcelona.
Equating this kind of thing is actually a very amateurish and naïve approach.
But when the words came out of Zhou Yi's mouth, no one would question him for the first time that he was wrong, but would fall into thinking, feeling as if it was the reason Zhou Yi said.
This kid was born with a kind of demagogic magic. Fortunately, he chose football over politics......
Although he knows that Zhou Yi is talking nonsense and arguing with strong words, Klopp still has to support Zhou Yi at this time, because he also needs the team to have such a consensus - at the home of Barcelona, we can do anything.
So he slapped his face, drawing everyone's attention to himself, and then raised his voice and said impassionedly: "Zhou Yi is right!