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So while everyone was happy, it didn't last long.

Next, they have games to play.

The media were a little longer excited than the Dortmund side, who touted their team and claimed that they were unstoppable.

Since the tenth round of the league, Jurgen Klopp's Dortmund has maintained a winning record in all competitions, winning six consecutive league games and two consecutive Champions League wins, a total of eight games, all of which have been won.

It's not entirely unreasonable to say that they're unstoppable.

However, Borussia Dortmund ended their winning streak in the final round of the Champions League group stage against Twente, drawing 3-3 away from home.

In this game, Zhou Yi didn't even go away, and not only him, but Gotze, Kagawa Shinji and others did not appear in the game squad. Jurgen Klopp rotated almost half of the team, so it wasn't too unthinkable to end up with FC Twente to draw 3-3.

Dortmund had already qualified as the top of the group ahead of schedule anyway, and it didn't matter what the final game was like.

In the post-match press conference, Jurgen Klopp was also asked about the winning streak.

"I don't think there's anything to regret when the winning streak ends, it's a burden for my team to keep winning, it doesn't matter if you win or lose a game like this. If losing this group stage can get us the Champions League, then I will not hesitate to lose the game. ”

Later, a Chinese reporter asked: "After a while, Zhou Yi will leave the team and go back to participate in the Asian Cup, will this affect the team?"

Klopp frowned when he heard this question, not because he was unhappy with it, but because it did give him a headache.

Zhou Yi is leaving the team to participate in the Asian Cup......

When the team is in good shape, it lacks a central midfielder. When I insisted on letting Zhou Yi be the single core, why didn't I think that there would be the Asian Cup?

And the Asian Cup, like the Africa Cup, is not scheduled in the summer, but in the winter!

Forget about the Africa Cup of Nations, they are in the southern hemisphere, and the winter in the northern hemisphere is the summer in their southern hemisphere, and football should be played.

And Asia in the northern hemisphere, what is the excitement with it?

Jurgen Klopp apparently forgot that although Qatar is located in the northern hemisphere, the summer temperatures there are in the 40s, which is not suitable for football...... So it can only be scheduled in winter.

And in the future Qatar World Cup, it is also very likely to be held in winter, and it will not be Klopp alone who will suffer, but the entire European League......

"Yes, the Chinese Football Association has negotiated with us, we will let Zhou Yi go to the Asian Cup, there is a lack of an important main player, to say that it has no impact on the team at all, it is impossible. But Dortmund is a team, a team, and our other players have the ability to fill the void left by Zhou Yi...... All in all, we will ......"

After Klopp answered the Chinese reporter's question, another Japanese reporter raised his hand and asked: "What do you ...... about Shinji Kagawa going back to participate in the Asian Cup?"

Klopp really wanted to flip the table.

That's right, there's also Shinji Kagawa!

Damn it!

There are two less main players at once!

Klopp, who was obviously impatient, repeated the answer he had just given to the Chinese reporter to the Japanese reporter, and he just changed the name of the player, and even a fool could see his perfunctory attitude.

The Asian Cup is indeed a very bad thing for Dortmund.

The 2011 Qatar Asian Cup starts on January 7 and will last until January 29, almost a month.

Although the Bundesliga has a winter break, it can't rest until February. Moreover, even if they can be suspended until February, the Asian Cup will affect Zhou Yi and Shinji Kagawa to participate in training camps with the team.

The second half of this season's Bundesliga season starts on January 14, and in the 18th round of the league, Borussia Dortmund away to Bayer Leverkusen, this game is the first game of the second half of the Bundesliga.

Judging from the schedule of the Asian Cup, the group stage was not even finished at that time.

It was a real headache for Jurgen Klopp.

But he can't help but let go, an event like the Asian Cup is a game that FIFA stipulates that clubs must release people, otherwise the national team can sue the club to FIFA and ask for compensation.

This is one of the reasons why Jurgen Klopp's side have been spreed with points during this time.

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After an away Champions League group stage, Borussia Dortmund returned to Germany with two league games to play before the winter break.

In the sixteenth round of the league, Dortmund returned to their home stadium to face Werder Bremen.

Zhou Yi, Gotze and Shinji Kagawa, who did not go away in the Champions League group stage, all returned to the starting line-up to help Borussia Dortmund beat Werder Bremen 2-0 at home, winning seven consecutive league games.

Borussia Dortmund travel to Eintracht Frankfurt in a week's time, and after this game, the Bundesliga will enter a winter break and the players will receive half a month's vacation. Most of the players choose to accompany their families on vacations to the warmth and picturesque scenery of southern Europe.

Zhou Yi and Shinji Kagawa will leave the team and return to China to participate in the preparation for the Asian Cup.

Regarding the Asian Cup, reporters not only asked Klopp, but also Zhou Yi and Shinji Kagawa.

Strictly speaking, today's Chinese football and Japanese football are not on the same level, and Chinese football lags behind Japanese football too much, but everyone is still very interested in the confrontation between Chinese and Japanese football, whether it is Chinese reporters or Japanese journalists.

Especially when there are two players in a team, China and Japan, and both players are still stars in their respective national teams.

Zhou Yi will not talk about it, although he is young, he is the absolute main force of the Chinese national team.

And what about Shinji Kagawa?

Half a year ago, he couldn't be selected for Japan's 23-man squad for the World Cup, but now with his outstanding performance in Dortmund, he is already the main force of the Japanese national team. This can be seen from the number of his jersey for the Japanese national team - number ten, which symbolizes the core and main number.

And for Shinji Kagawa, there is also good news - because of his outstanding performance in Dortmund this half season, he also won the honor of the Bundesliga Player of the Half.

If nothing else, both will be in the spotlight at the Asian Cup.

"Me and Kagawa?" Zhou Yi, who was surrounded by Chinese and Japanese reporters, was a little surprised that they would ask questions about the Asian Cup in advance. "The Asian Cup hasn't started yet, has it?"

"There is still more than half a month to open, right? The Chinese team is in Group A, the Japanese team is in Group B, according to the rules of the knockout round, the first in Group A will play against the second in Group B, and the second in Group A will play against the first ...... in Group B."

"Well, isn't it over if you take the first place in the group?" Zhou Yi said.

If they all win the group, if they can still meet, they will have to wait until the final......

"If we meet, do you think the Chinese team can beat the Japanese team?" This question was not asked by a Japanese reporter, but by a Chinese reporter.

"As long as you give it your all, nothing is impossible. Zhou Yi replied neither humbly nor arrogantly, neither arrogantly saying that he would definitely win, but also not feeling inferior that he would definitely not win.

Shinji Kagawa is also facing the same problem as Zhou Yi.

They were also surrounded by Japanese and Chinese journalists.

The Japanese reporter didn't seem to care much about whether the two teams could meet and who would win, but was a little more gossipy: "Kagawa, you have a good relationship with Zhou San, right?"

"Yes, we communicate a lot in private, and it's a good relationship. Shinji Kagawa nodded in acknowledgement.

"So what do you often talk about together?"

"I can talk about any topic, Zhou Sang is the same as ordinary young people......"

Chinese reporters still care about the topic of Sino-Japanese football confrontation: "If you want to meet Zhou Yi, it will be either in the first round of the knockout round or in the final......

Shinji Kagawa smiled and waved his hand and said, "I don't want to meet him before the final!"

Chinese reporters love to hear this, because Shinji Kagawa thinks that Zhou Yi is a powerful opponent that he doesn't want to meet.

However, some Chinese reporters still want to get to the bottom of the matter: "So if you meet him, who do you think will win?"

"Although I have a good relationship with Zhou Sang, if we meet in a match, I will not lose to him. Shinji Kagawa said in the same way. 'I'll give it my all to beat him. ”

He also showed the qualities of a professional footballer.

"Do you have any agreement about the Asian Cup?" This question, which has the flavor of the second middle school, was asked by a Japanese reporter.

"Well, I don't think so. Shinji Kagawa frowned and thought about it.

Faced with this question, Zhou Yi shook his head directly and said, "No." ”

This is really a bit disappointing for the media - there is no agreement, how can this be hyped?