Chapter 122: A Crucial Victory

Reuss' goal ended the suspense of the game - there was no suspense before, but Arsenal could theoretically have equalised. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info and now there is no theoretical possibility.

The remaining tens of seconds were all time for the Dortmund fans to cheer and celebrate.

When the referee blew the full-time whistle, the cheers of the Dortmund fans reached a climax.

"It's over! Borussia Dortmund won a crucial game at home to qualify for the Champions League! They beat Arsenal 3-1 at home!"

The TV broadcast focused the camera on Yan Min.

“...... Yan Min, who came off the bench to change the direction and outcome of the game, was a big contributor to Borussia Dortmund's home win against Arsenal!" Marcel Leif spoke highly of Yan Min's performance.

In the camera, Yan Min raises his arms and shouts in celebration of victory.

Then he was hugged by Zhou Yi.

"Good boy, steal my limelight!" Zhou Yi smiled and patted Yan Min's head. "How does it feel?"

Yan Min smiled and said to Zhou Yi: "It's so cool! Haha!

Zhou Yi looked at Yan Min so happy, and originally wanted to remind him to pay attention to his speech and behavior when facing reporters for a while. But if you think about it carefully, it doesn't make sense to say this to Yan Min now, maybe this is Yan Min's style? Everyone has their own style, and you can't ask others to be consistent with your own style. What he wants to do is his business, and he can't control it.

And the world of football is not as complicated as people think, as long as you perform well, then no matter how many moths you have off the field, you can still earn the respect of others.

It's a brutal world where the winner is king, but it's also a great place for the capable.

So Zhou Yi just patted him on the shoulder and said to him, "Come on! But don't get carried away!"

Yan Min nodded: "I know, Zhou Yi knows!"

Sure enough, Yan Min was soon dragged by reporters to the comprehensive area for an interview.

Zhou Yi watched from afar as Yan Min stood in front of the camera lens with his hands behind his back, answering reporters' questions. There was no shyness or unnatural expression on the kid's face.

This kid has a great future......

Zhou Yi said with emotion in his heart.

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After Yan Min was interviewed, Zhou Yi was also pulled over.

Although Yan Min was in the limelight in the end, Zhou Yi's performance was actually very good, and even more important.

His goal in the first half gave Dortmund the lead, and in the second half, when the team was in trouble, he was also consistent, helping them find scoring opportunities. In the end, he assisted Yan Min to score a very beautiful goal.

The goal that completely sealed the victory in the end was also instigated by him.

Without Zhou Yi's outstanding performance in the midfield, even if Yan Min played, he would just be a headless fly.

"May I ask Zhou Yi, after winning this game at home, has Dortmund's prospects of qualifying from the group become brighter?"

"It's not going to be bright, but it's better than losing. There are two games to go and we will give it our all and try to win like this one. Zhou Yi replied.

"Yan Min has been very good off the bench, do you think he will start at Borussia Dortmund next?" the reporter then asked a somewhat tricky question.

This question seems quite ordinary, but considering Zhou Yi's identity, it is difficult for him to answer.

In terms of position, Yan Min has a lot of competitors, including Aubameyang and Kuba.

After all, the number of people who can play is limited, and if someone performs well and can get more opportunities, it means that someone's chance of playing will be weakened.

With Zhou Yi's current important position at Dortmund, it is not too much of an exaggeration to say that his opinion can influence the arrangement of the head coach's staff.

If Zhou Yi publicly supports Yan Min, what do they think of Aubameyang and Kuba?

Will this affect the atmosphere of unity within the team, will it affect Yan Min and other teammates, and will it make people think that Yan Min can occupy a place in Dortmund by relying on Zhou Yi's support?

So Zhou Yi can't just say anything.

However, this question is not difficult for Zhou Yi.

You must know what Zhou Yi is best at as a midfielder, of course, is passing.

So the ball kicked by the reporter was quietly kicked to the manager Klopp: "This is something the manager needs to think about, right? ”

As for how Klopp will face such a problem, Zhou Yi doesn't care......

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In the post-match press conference, Klopp was indeed asked a similar question by reporters.

Yan Min's excellent performance in this game is certainly worth being happy about, but Aubameyang's condition is not bad, and in addition, there is Kuba, the team's old minister, and his performance has been very stable.

Now that there are three players on the left flank, how is Klopp going to do that?

Klopp is also very cunning, not making any public promises in front of the media, not revealing any of his real thoughts.

'It's a question that I and the coaching staff will naturally think about, but I would say that I'm glad to see more and more players in the squad who are doing well, even if they are all in the same position, and I'm sure none of my players are afraid of competition. Because that's how we've always had our line-up. He said.

After the game, some media analyzed for Klopp that Yan Min's excellent performance is definitely good news for Dortmund, who need to fight on multiple fronts this season. Because Klopp also rotates at Borussia Dortmund anyway, in fact, except for a few people, no one is necessarily a starter.

So for Klopp, there is no such thing as a "happy trouble".

As long as Borussia Dortmund have performed well on all fronts this season, then a player like Yan Min has no worries about not playing at all.

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At the same time that Borussia Dortmund beat Arsenal 3-1 at home, Napoli also beat Galatasaray 3-2 at home.

As a result, Arsenal and Napoli are currently in the top two of the group with nine points, with Arsenal temporarily in first place due to their superiority against Napoli. With the victory in this game, Dortmund has six points and ranks third in the group, but it is three points away from first and second, and there is still hope of qualifying.

If Borussia Dortmund lose at home to Arsenal, it will be very slim to qualify from the group.

With two rounds of group stage remaining, they will host Napoli and travel away to Galatasaray.

With only three points behind, Dortmund can level points with Napoli as long as they can beat Napoli at home, and then decide whether they can qualify from the group in the final round.

This shows how crucial and important Dortmund's victory over Arsenal is now.

And Yan Min, who created this key victory, naturally became the object of attention after the game and became famous almost overnight.

Chinese and German media lined up to interview him, and his photos frequently appeared in German media.

It's good to be famous, but there are also people who worry that he will get carried away by fame.

There are too many examples of football, especially Chinese football, becoming famous at a young age and then relegating to degenerate.

On the Chinese Internet, some fans even begged the Chinese media to stop "praising and killing" Yan Min.

However, Zhou Yi can see in the team's training that Yan Min does not seem to have been affected, and his frequent exposure in front of the media has not affected his training. At the very least, he was training very hard and full of energy as before, and he didn't slack off in training because of a good performance in a game.

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After the game against Arsenal, Borussia Dortmund welcomed Wolfsburg in the league, this time away to Pizza.

Considering that he had just finished the Champions League group stage with Arsenal, Klopp used a rotation in this game.

And what the Chinese media and fans are most concerned about is not whether Zhou Yi can play, but whether Yan Min can get the chance to start.

In the eighteen-man roster announced the day before the game, Yan Min was among them.

However, the 18-man squad is not equal to the final starting list, and Chinese fans and media believe that Yan Min's performance in the last Champions League group stage is a matter of course for him to enter the 18-man squad, which is not in suspense.

The key is whether to start or not.

And they won't know until two hours before the start of the game.

Until then, though, various media outlets can speculate on the starting lineup for this game.

In most of the starting lineup speculated by the media, Yan Min's name is among them.

It's very simple, Yan Min's performance in the last game was very good, and he came off the bench, there is no problem in physical fitness, and there is no need to rest in this game, so everyone really can't think of a reason why Yan Min has to play as a substitute.

Finally, two hours before the game, Dortmund announced the starting line-up for this game, and as everyone predicted, Yan Min's name was prominently listed.