When Dortmund arrived at the airport in Morocco, there were already a large number of journalists waiting, most of them from China. www.biquge.info The person they most wanted to interview was not Borussia Dortmund's manager Jurgen Klopp, but Zhou Yi, who wanted to hear what Zhou Yi thought about the semi-finals of the Club World Cup.

"I am very happy that Guangzhou Hengyuan can reach the semi-finals, they have made history in Chinese football. Zhou Yi congratulated Guangzhou Hengyuan.

Then he said: "Borussia Dortmund will give it their all to prepare for this game. We've played against them this summer, but I'm sure Hengyuan has changed a lot from the last time they met. ”

What he said was somewhat similar to Zheng Zhi's.

"We don't underestimate the enemy, and we can't talk about underestimating the enemy. ”

Zhou Yi's answer was very formulaic and couldn't find anything wrong, but it also made reporters feel bored. Of course, this is Zhou Yi's consistent style of facing reporters, but reporters just want to dig out something deep.

So a reporter asked Zhou Yi bluntly: "What do you think about Zheng Zhi's joining the national team?"

Zhou Yi stretched out his hand and kicked the ball to Gao Hongbo's side: "You asked the wrong person about this, I can't decide who can enter the national team and who can't." Instead, you ask for guidance from Gao. ”

Zhou Yi's answer did not surprise the reporters, this is a textbook-like diversion of the topic......

There are also reporters who are unwilling, and simply throw out the "bomb": "There are rumors that your relationship with Zheng Zhi is ......"

Zhou Yi laughed when he heard this: "So you think I have become the top player of the national team?"

Zhou Yi's straightforward rhetorical question made the other party not know how to answer - they can't say "yes, that's what we think", right?

Zhou Yi saw that the other party was stunned, so he said: "It's okay, then I'll take this opportunity to clarify - there are no contradictions or personal grievances between me and Zheng Zhi." Whether he can enter the national team or not is not something I can decide, so I resolutely refuse to carry this pot. Of course I want the best players to be in the national team and I hope it will make us even better at next year's World Cup. But I'm just a player, not a coach, how does a coach work, and you can't comment and speculate as a player, thank you. ”

After saying that, he asked the reporters: "Do you have any questions?"

A group of reporters looked at each other, and the atmosphere was suddenly a little awkward. Some of them thought that Zhou Yi might adopt his usual "kicking the ball" method when facing this thorny question, that is, to prevaricate with ambiguous words and not answer positively.

Unexpectedly, this time Zhou Yi suddenly became fierce and scolded this kind of statement, which made the reporters suddenly a little discouraged.

But with Zhou Yi's current popularity and status, whatever he says, those who oppose him are in a weak position, not to mention that Zhou Yi is still reasonable in this matter, if the reporters still want to entangle this issue with him, it is their fault.

So the reporters shook their heads and signaled that there was no problem.

Zhou Yi smiled and nodded at them, and then left.

When Zhou Yi left, a reporter suddenly slapped his head: "Hi!"

He managed to attract the attention of others.

"How did I forget?" the reporter said, annoyed. "Zhou Yi is the one who rushed to scold reporters on the Internet!"

"Damn, after the fact!"

"Why can't you remember?!"

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Zhou Yi got on the bus and went to the hotel with the team. He has been in Dortmund for a long time, and the Chinese journalists he contacts are those who are based in Dortmund, and they mainly cover club competitions and don't talk much about domestic football. This Club World Cup, many reporters from China have come to the scene, and it has naturally brought the latest situation in domestic football.

He really didn't expect that with the World Cup approaching, the domestic heat has been so high.

This is obviously the Club World Cup, but the questions asked by Chinese reporters make people think that this is the World Cup.

Although the Champions League is the most valuable and technically and tactically advanced event in football today, the World Cup is still the most influential competition......

As for whether Zheng Zhi can be selected for the national team, Yi really can't control it this week, and he doesn't want to care about it.

Whether Zheng Zhi can be selected or not has nothing to do with him, and it can't have any impact on him.

If Director Gao wants to be elected to Zheng Zhi, Zhou Yi will not object. If Director Gao didn't choose Zheng Zhi to join the team, it would be impossible for Zhou Yi to run as a lobbyist.

As for those rumors, Zhou Yi decided to ignore them. The body is not afraid of shadows, no matter what they say, they can't hurt themselves in the slightest.

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The league match between Dortmund and Hoffenheim ended on the afternoon of the 14th, and they arrived in Morocco on the 16th, and then prepared for the semi-finals with Guangzhou Hengyuan, and the semi-finals were on the evening of the 17th, and at 3:30 a.m. Beijing time on the 18th.

The time in between can be said to be very tight.

Unlike Guangzhou Hengyuan, Bayern Munich has just arrived in Morocco and will face a game.

Hengyuan, on the other hand, has been here for almost a week and has played a match, adapting to the conditions - the venue for the semi-finals is the same as their last quarter-final match, at the Agadir Stadium.

If there is any advantage of the Guangzhou team, this is probably it.

Judging from the difference in strength between the two teams, Guangzhou Hengyuan has almost no chance of winning.

But that's not a reason for them to give up early.

At the pre-match press conference, Guangzhou's coach Lippi showed courage: "Borussia Dortmund is the European champion, but we are the Asian champion. I don't think the Asian champions are necessarily inferior to the European champions. ”

And Klopp naturally did not dare to look down on Guangzhou Hengyuan: "We have played against each other in China, and they have left a very deep impression on us. We're going to give it our all. ”

It's just that no one knows if the two of them are telling the truth.

Is Lippi bluffing? Is Klopp talking about the scene?

Because objectively speaking, Hengyuan's strength is inferior to Dortmund.

If both sides go all out, Hengyuan will not be able to beat Dortmund.

Unless Dortmund underestimates the enemy.

Will Dortmund be underestimated?

It's hard to say, maybe it will, maybe it won't.

If Dortmund underestimates the enemy, coupled with the physical and psychological fatigue caused by intensive events and labor expeditions, Hengyuan will not have no chance if he uses tactics properly.

There is also a lot of speculation and discussion about this match on Chinese social networks, and it is clearly divided into two factions - one group believes that Hengyuan is participating in the Club World Cup for the first time, mainly learning, and it is already great to be able to compete with Dortmund in official matches, this is their opportunity to learn from the experience of European cash football, it does not matter how the result of the game is, the important thing is to gain valuable experience in the game to help the team grow.

On the other hand, if there is such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, why can't we make it a goal to win? Dortmund is not an invincible Cosmos team, and Hengyuan is not as weak as some people think. Those who think that Hengyuan will definitely lose are soft bones who can't stand up after kneeling for a long time, and they have no confidence in their own country's team......

The two factions quarreled online, neither could convince the other, and their views seemed to be reasonable.

The "learning school" thinks that those who think Hengyuan can win give Hengyuan too much pressure. The "Positive Radicals" consider the "Learners" to be capitulationists without self-confidence.

It is also because everyone attaches too much importance to this game that there will be such a controversy.

The controversy only subsided before the game began, because everyone had no energy to put it online to quarrel, but had to wait in front of the TV to watch the game live.

Real die-hard fans won't even let go of the warm-up of both teams before the game, the reporters in front of the report, and the studio commentary in the back.

It can be seen from the starting lists of both sides announced before the game that both sides sent the main lineup in this game.

This starting line-up alone seems to confirm the pre-match claims of both teams – they were all at their best.

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In the dressing room, the players waited quietly for the game to begin, close enough to their appearance, and now all that remained was the manager's final advice.

Lippi paced back and forth in the dressing room, and the eyes of the Hengyuan players followed him back and forth.

But Lippi just paced back and forth, did not speak, and the players did not make a sound, and there was silence in the dressing room.

This silence lasted for a while before being broken by Lippi himself.

"Do you think this is the way we can't get any closer to this Club World Cup?"

Someone said, "No!"

The head coach wants to promote and suppress first, and of course the players have to cooperate - in this case, the head coach asks this kind of thing, of course, to boost morale, and the head coach will definitely say: "Of course not!"

Therefore, as a player, you have to be a qualified person, you have to understand the meaning, and say this sentence in advance, isn't it better?

But this time the situation was different, and Lippi shrugged: "Yes." Our best result in the Club World Cup is probably the semi-finals. ”

Huh?

At this point, almost everyone in the locker room was stunned - what was the situation?

Isn't it the same as the set script?

"To be honest, no matter how hard the mouth is, it can't make up for the gap between us and Dortmund. I'm sure no one will be unconvinced, right?" said Lippi, spreading his hands. "We are really weaker than Borussia Dortmund in terms of strength. This is not called surrender, this is called recognizing oneself. But recognizing the gap between yourself and your opponent doesn't mean you're going to fail. Think of this as the final of the Club World Cup, and bring out all your strengths in the game, without thinking too much about anything else. That's the only thing I ask of you. ”

At the same time, in the dressing room of Dortmund, Klopp was also telling his players: "Don't think that the Guangzhou team is very easy to deal with, otherwise it will be you who will make a fool of yourself in front of the world! I have only one request for you, that is, go all out, show your best condition, and beat them in the shortest possible time!"