When the players returned to the locker room after the warm-up, the stands were almost full, and there were fewer and fewer fans gathered outside the stadium, those with tickets had already entered, and those without tickets were drinking with friends in their taverns while waiting for the game to start. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Only a handful of people are still reluctant to wait outside the stadium, hoping to wait for a refund or two.

It's just that such lucky ones are very rare.

There are only two Ruhr derbies in a season, and how many people will not watch such an important game, and then return them after buying a ticket?

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Yang Muge sat in his place, on his right was his friend Draxler of the youth team, and on his left was Hao Junmin of the first team, his compatriot, his senior.

The current international of the Chinese national team, who transferred to Schalke 04 during the winter break last season.

Last season, there were four consecutive starts, and the first game of the new season also got the opportunity to start, the second game became a substitute, and the third game did not even enter the squad.

As the only two Chinese in the team, he naturally knows Yang Muge, and because of Zhou Yi, the two can be regarded as close.

Zhou Yi was teammates with Hao Junmin when he was in the national team, and when he heard that Hao Junmin was going to Schalke 04, he specifically mentioned Yang Muge to him.

In this Ruhr derby, the Chinese media was very disappointed that Hao Junmin was not able to enter the squad for the game, otherwise they would have been able to hype up the gimmick of "Chinese Derby".

Last season, Zhou Yi led Dortmund to the derby at Schalke Stadium, and Hao Junmin was not in the squad.

The Chinese derby in the Ruhr area, which the Chinese media wants to see, looks like it will have to wait for more.

The three of them sat in the stands, also discussing the next game.

Draxler still has a lot of confidence in his team, and despite a poor start to the season and yet to win, he thinks the derby will be different, with Schalke 04 coming up with their first win of the season and then going all the way back to their rightful place.

In comparison, Yang Muge is not so optimistic. Since the beginning of the new season, Schalke 04 has played three league games, one Champions League group stage, lost all four games, and has zero points, ranking 17th in the league - second to last, only pressing on Stuttgart on goal difference.

Head coach Magath is having a hard time......

Hao Junmin basically didn't know German, so he couldn't get involved in this discussion deeply, and he could only rely on Yang Muge's translation to understand what Draxla was saying. He also expressed his opinion in Chinese and Yang Muge - he also thinks that the team has not been doing well recently, but he also thinks that the derby is a game with different meanings, and the two derbies of each season have to be taken out separately, and the previous performance cannot be used as a reference at all. Maybe this derby will really be a turning point for the team to turn the league table around?

Yang Muge disagreed with either of them, and he turned to the optimistic Draxler in German and said: "But Dortmund has Zhou Yi, and he is really good this season." ”

After listening to Yang Muge's words, Draxler was stunned for a moment, and then fell into silence.

Zhou Yi, this is really a name he least wants to hear at this time......

The derby at this stadium last season is still fresh in my mind. Schalke 04 lost to Zhou Yi in the end.

When Draxler fell silent, Yang Muge turned back and said to Hao Junmin in Chinese: "Brother Hao, don't forget that the core of Dortmund is Zhou Yi......

When Hao Junmin heard this, he was also silent.

Before coming to Schalke 04, Hao Junmin was very confident in himself, because he had just scored a very beautiful goal from a small angle in a friendly match against the German national team. It was precisely because of that goal that he was valued by Schalke 04. At home, his agent also told him that he was fully capable of establishing himself in Germany.

Later, before she could get there, a Zhou Yi who was already playing in Germany appeared, and he performed well.

He thought to himself that Zhou Yi, a former amateur player, could play the main force in Dortmund, so he went to Schalke 04, and the main force did not run.

But as a result, when he actually came to Schalke 04, Magath's first training session gave him a dismount - the intensity of the training made him want to vomit, not to vomit from nausea, but to vomit from tiredness......

In a state of extreme fatigue, people can have some stress reactions, which can lead to vomiting.

If Hao Junmin hadn't held back, he might have vomited directly on the training ground. In that case, it's a loss for an adult......

Then he heard that the manager of Dortmund next door, Jurgen Klopp, trained as hard as Magath.

And with such training, the seemingly thin boy persevered?

Just thinking of this, Hao Junmin felt incredible. In his heart, the evaluation of Zhou Yi is also changing.

Then, as he stayed in Germany, the more he discovered his naivety.

Is it not a problem to play the main force in Schalke 04?

It's a good thing he didn't tell anyone else about this careful thought at the beginning, otherwise he would have become a laughing stock now.

Chinese football and German football are like two completely different parallel worlds, and there is no possibility of intersecting at all.

For a while, he even began to wonder if he wasn't fit to play. Why can't he put on a decent performance when he gets on the pitch, no matter how hard he trains?

At this time, when he looked at Zhou Yi again, his eyes became complicated.

When I first met Zhou Yi in the national team, everyone was also observing Zhou Yi, and he was no exception. Whether it is a game or training, Zhou Yi has indeed shown that he can be selected for the national team. But in Hao Junmin's view, Zhou Yi's strength in the national team is not as strong as the media boasted, at least when he was training and playing in the national team, there was absolutely no such performance as "standing out from the crowd" - at that time, in China, there were indeed a very small number of media who used such an adjective that made the international players not very comfortable.

Oh, standing out from the crowd, of course Zhou Yi is a crane, we are a flock of chickens?

That's too bad, isn't it?

Anyway, everyone thinks that Zhou Yi's performance in the national team is far from reaching a level that greatly exceeds everyone's understanding. Hao Junmin also speculated on his prospect of joining Schalke 04 - since Zhou Yi's ability can play the main team in Dortmund, why can't he get a place in the main lineup of Schalke 04 with more experience and better skills than him?

But when he came to Germany, he could experience the high level of European football at the closest distance, and then looked at Zhou Yi's performance at Dortmund, and he realized that the situation was not right.

In particular, Schalke 04 hosted Borussia Dortmund in the Ruhr derby last season. At that time, Hao Junmin was also watching the game in the stands, but he didn't sit with Yang Muge, he saw Zhou Yi's performance with his own eyes. Then I was surprised to find that Zhou Yi wearing a Dortmund jersey and Zhou Yi wearing a Chinese team jersey are completely different, whether it is the performance on the court or the temperament, they are different.

There are some details, Hao Junmin also plays football, so it can naturally be seen.

For example, the speed of passing and running is faster than when I was in the national team.

At first, Hao Junmin wondered if he was delusional.

But after watching the whole game, he realized that it was not an illusion, but a fact.

But why did Zhou Yi have such a change, judging two people in the club and the national team?

Hao Junmin's first reaction was that Zhou Yi would not contribute to the national team, and he would keep his strength to play club games. This is somewhat unpatriotic and politically incorrect......

But if he really can't work, then why is his performance in the national team also very good?

Hao Junmin couldn't figure out this question.

Later, he gradually became familiar with Yang Muge, he asked Yang Muge what kind of person Zhou Yi was, and accidentally heard Yang Muge say that Zhou Yi was a very helpful person, and he was very good at thinking about others, and he would think very carefully.

Knowing this time, Hao Junmin suddenly opened his mouth and understood why Zhou Yi's performance in the national team and the club was a little different.

It's like two cars, the engine is the same one, four liters of displacement, turbocharged, and the power is the same, for example, they are both 422 horsepower, the maximum power is 310 kilowatts, the maximum power speed is 5,500 rpm, and the maximum torque is 600 Nm...... Judging by the data, it is a very good eight-cylinder engine.

However, the first car was mated to a top four-speed gearbox, and the second was paired with a nine-speed gearbox.

So which car performs better in actual driving?

Hao Junmin is the one who drives, and of course he knows, there is no doubt that it is the one with the nine-speed gearbox.

Because the first car, the highest fourth gear, when the speed exceeds 100 kilometers per hour, the engine speed will be very high, whether it is a kind of damage to the engine or the gearbox, it is not comfortable to drive at all, and the frustration when changing gears is obvious.

And what about the second car? The nine-speed gearbox can make this car very smooth when accelerating, the power response is positive, there will be no frustration when upshifting, even if it is more than 100 kilometers per hour when accelerating and overtaking, it is also very easy, the gearbox and the engine cooperate tacitly, almost make you feel the existence of gear shifting.

It was clear that the gearbox of the first car did not bring out the full power of this excellent engine. The second paragraph is fine.

In such a situation, if you have to let the first car use this engine in a four-speed gearbox, you can only reduce the power of the engine and make it able to adapt to the gearbox. For this engine, this is actually a waste of ability, but it can be matched with the gearbox, so that the car is not so uncomfortable to drive.

As for Zhou Yi's Chinese team and Dortmund, it is the relationship between an excellent engine and two gearboxes. The national team has a four-speed gearbox, while Dortmund has a nine-speed gearbox. If Zhou Yi does not reduce his "output power", then it will be very uncomfortable for him to cooperate with the Chinese team in fourth gear, and if he wants to become suitable for the national team, he will naturally make his engine look less awesome than the data performance......

When he returned to Dortmund, he had a gearbox that perfectly matched his abilities, and he could fire all his firepower without any scruples, and at this time he looked like he was awesome and worthy of those dazzling stats.

So it's not that Zhou Yi's ability is mediocre, but that the national team is too poor, he doesn't need and can't perform too dazzling, after all, he is a midfield organizer, if he is extraordinary, causing other teammates to can't keep up with his rhythm, then how can he organize the attack?

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When Hao Junmin was silent, the atmosphere suddenly became hot, because the starting lineup of Schalke 04 in this game was being broadcast on the radio at the scene.

Every name that is reported will cause a tsunami of cheers.

The cheers also interrupted Hao Junmin's thoughts, pulling him out of his melancholy.

Beside him, Draxler was cheering loudly for every player along with the other fans.

After reporting the Schalke 04 players, the live broadcast only introduced the Dortmund players with the weak sentence "Let's welcome our opponent Dortmund".

And at this moment, all the boos rang out in the Schalke stadium.

After the boos, players from both sides came out, and Hao Junmin and Yang Muge saw Zhou Yi among the Dortmund players. Against the cacophony of cheers and boos, his expression was calm.

"Players from both sides are on the field!