Zhou Yi gave Reus a thumbs up because Reus had run beautifully, accurately ran into the open space, and seized a good opportunity - if Reuss received the ball, it would be behind the entire Mainz backline, but it was not offside, because he started it at the moment of Zhou Yi's pass. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Although Royce didn't receive the ball, he still gave Zhou Yi a thumbs up and praised Zhou Yi for his beautiful pass.

Zhou Yi's praise may be a simple form, but Royce's praise comes from the admiration of his heart - just now Zhou Yi was obviously busy getting rid of the defense, and when he turned around, he even turned his back to himself, in that case, he was able to accurately judge that he would step forward and appear in this place, and then send the football over, which is indeed amazing......

Two people, you give a thumbs up, I give a thumbs up, it seems very simple and commonplace, which is often seen on the court.

But in the eyes of Mainz's defenders, it has an unusual significance.

This was the first time Zhou Yi organized an attack since coming on the field, and he almost allowed Dortmund to form a threatening shot.

People say that Zhou Yi is now the top midfielder in the Bundesliga.

This phrase is very simple, and it is even used very widely. But after fighting with Zhou Yi, you can really feel the correctness of this sentence applied to Zhou Yi.

The Mainz players realised that even if they tightened their defence, the remaining ten minutes would be difficult for them, and they felt a lot of pressure......

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Mainz tightened their defence, which gave Borussia Dortmund more attacking opportunities.

In the face of the "wall" built by the Mainz players near the penalty area, Zhou Yi was not impatient, he kept passing the ball and running, or using gestures to direct his teammates to pass the ball, and constantly looked for routes that could pass the ball, all of which became an overlook map in his mind, and he then found the best one from these routes.

Then, when the football came to his feet, he could naturally stop looking at it and send the football over with one kick.

For Zhou Yi's defense of organizing offenses, although Mainz is shrinking the defense, he always feels that there are still many loopholes, and he is a little tired to deal with it.

During this time, it was Dortmund who bombarded the goal around Mainz.

If this is Dortmund's home stadium, it must be a killing sensation at this moment.

Of course, there was a lot of noise in the stadium right now, mostly the shouts of the Mainz fans, the cries of fear for their goal, and the noise that interfered with Dortmund's attack.

Such an environment may affect others, but it will not interfere with Zhou Yi. He is like a sophisticated computer, calculating the ever-changing situation on the pitch at a rapid pace, while at the same time his feet are constantly running, receiving and passing.

With these movements of his, there are more and more circuits in his brain, and they start to become fewer and fewer.

When there was only one line left, Zhou Yi suddenly increased his speed!

Teammates passed the ball from the side to the middle, Zhou Yi rushed up against the ball, it was a high ball, it was not difficult to stop, but stopping the high ball would also make Dortmund's attack waste some time. Time is very important, and football is essentially about the excellence of the two sides competing for time and space.

Zhou Yi is unwilling to waste time, which means that the optimal route he planned before is no longer optimal.

So Zhou Yi chose another solution - he jumped into the air, and then twisted his waist hard, but instead of a header, he used his chest to knock the football into the edge of the penalty area in front of him.

Aubameyang received the ball that was hit by Zhou Yi's chest here, and he smoothed the ball with the outside instep to take the ball from the side of the defender of Mainz next to him into the penalty area, followed by a crisp shot!

The ball arced and flew to the far corner of the goal against the turf.

Mainz goalkeeper Karius fell to the ground, but it was still a little too late, he did not touch the football, the ball flew under his hands, then flew into the goal, spun around the goal, and finally got caught in the net and did not move......

"Aubameyang! Dortmund equalized in just five minutes, and those five minutes were five minutes since Zhou Yi played!" Duan Xin shouted excitedly.

"TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang - !! he equalised for Borussia Dortmund! It was a beautiful 'raid'! It wasn't a great chance, but it ended up being a goal!' said Marcel Leif with emotion. "Zhou Yi's pass was very clever, and Aubameyang's stopping and shooting were also in one go, decisive and accurate! The two men completed a delicate combination to help Dortmund equalize! In the 75th minute, the two sides were back on the same running line! But we have reason to believe that although the two teams are evenly divided, the scene will definitely not be as dull and boring as before the goal!"

Marcel Leif is so sure because of his understanding and trust in Zhou Yi.

With Zhou Yi playing in this game, how could Dortmund be willing to just get a draw away from home? They are chasing Bayern Munich and Bayer Leverkusen!

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After the goal, Aubameyang reflexively wanted to run to the corner flag to celebrate the goal, but he quickly thought of something more important than that, so he spun around and ran back, and then hugged Zhou Yi.

If Zhou Yi stopped the incoming ball, it might be a different result.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang certainly has Zhou Yi to thank for the assist, although he did it himself well......

More teammates flocked to the two of them to celebrate the goal.

Facing the disadvantage of being behind on the road, it took Borussia Dortmund to equalise after just five minutes, which certainly deserves to be celebrated.

However, Zhou Yi, who was in the crowd, did not mean to celebrate, he said to his teammates: "Our goal is not to draw, but to win!"

He reminded everyone not to be too forgetful in celebrating, and there was not much time left for them.

Although Zhou Yi is not the captain, what he says is useful.

Hearing him say this, everyone stopped celebrating and turned around and ran back together.

They have to hurry up and try to score more goals, this game is a must win!

After falling to third in the league, Dortmund have little room to maneuver unless they want to abandon the league.

But how can there be a reason to surrender in advance if the league is not played halfway?

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In the short time that Borussia Dortmund players have celebrated their goals, Mainz manager Thomas Tuchel has made new adjustments.

In fact, after Aubameyang's goal, there was a choice question in front of Mainz: A, choose to attack aggressively, continue the previous fast-paced play, and strive to regain the lead in a short period of time. B, temporarily abandon the previous fast-paced style of play, defend and counterattack, anyway, it should be Dortmund in a hurry now, because they are thrown to third in the league by Bayern Munich and Bayer Leverkusen and they can't afford to draw now.

Tuchel quickly made the choice – to abandon his previous fast-paced style of play, shrink his defence, let Dortmund press up and attack, and then play the open space behind them.

This is the safest thing to do.

After the restart, Dortmund did press hard to get on the attack, hoping to get another goal in the hurry.

For Borussia Dortmund, all it takes is one goal. It could be a few minutes away, like the one they had before, but it could also be that they couldn't find it until the end of the game – the ball is round, anything can happen. Sometimes, it's not even like you put in a lot of effort to get the results you want.

Especially when Mainz tightened their defense and played counter-attacks.

Dortmund did launch a couple of attacks after kick-off, but they were also seized by Mainz to play two counter-attacks, and it seems that Mainz's counter-attack was more threatening.

Generally, when a team encounters such a situation, it will temporarily shrink and slow down the pace of the game to think about the long term.

But Dortmund didn't do it, or Zhou Yi didn't plan to do it. As if he didn't know what was hidden in this kind of press-up attack, he kept sending the ball forward to help Dortmund burn the fire directly in front of the Mainz goal.

It seems to be a battle with Mainz to see who will score first.

Didn't Zhou Yi know that the vacancy behind him would be used by the other party's counterattack?

Of course I know, but Zhou Yi has other considerations - now that Dortmund has just equalized, it is the time when morale is at its highest, and if you slow down at this time, it will be tantamount to abandoning your martial arts. You can't pass up an opportunity because you're afraid of conceding a goal.

Dortmund was held back for most of the game and needed to vent it or burn themselves in turn.

All Zhou Yi could do was to do his best to find the right breakthrough for this surging anger, so that the magma under the ground would erupt from the crater and destroy the world.

After an unsuccessful attempt to pass the ball in the middle, Zhou Yi moved to the wing.

When he received the ball on the wing, he lowered his center of gravity, leaned to the right, and made a stance to break down from the right. Mainz South Korean left-back Park Joo-ho, who was defending him, shook his upper body, but quickly realized that Zhou Yi was a feint, so his lower body stood up and did not move because of this, which also made Zhou Yi unable to cut inside.

Zhou Yi really was a feint, he leaned his body and quickly retracted it, and his feet didn't move either, just relying on the shaking of his upper body, hoping to fool the defenders.

But Park Joo-ho saw through his feints in time. Let the game go from dynamic to static all at once.

Zhou Yi could only stop, unable to move on. When the player with the ball comes to a complete stop, the difficulty of defending is correspondingly reduced. At the same time, because he stopped, Dortmund's entire attack had to stop, although it was only a momentary stagnation, but there could also be a mistake in coordination - for example, Zhou Yi stopped, but the receiving player did not stop, so when Zhou Yi passed the ball again, the receiving player may be offside......

When Zhou Yi stopped, he raised his foot and made another move to pass the ball, but he did not finally pass the football, but only made a false shot, because in the penalty area, Schiebert was offside, if the ball was passed, Dortmund's attack would end there.

Park Joo-ho took it for granted that he had seen through Zhou Yi's feints that put Dortmund's attack in such an embarrassing situation.

He was not wrong to understand it that way, but it seemed a little prematurely happy.

Because just when Zhou Yi took his foot back, he suddenly kicked it out again!

This time it wasn't a feint, he pushed the ball with the inside of his foot, pushing the ball into the penalty area, and the ball went right between Park Joo-ho's legs!

A crotch pass!

When the other Mainz defenders saw Zhou Yizhen's pass, they all reflexively raised their arms, signaling that the ball was offside!

But neither the referee nor the linesman thought so.

Schiebel is offside, yes, but he didn't participate in the attack, Zhou Yi's pass passed from behind Schiebel and fell near the penalty spot, here, Aubameyang is like a black panther, killing the general, and then taking advantage of the situation to take the football passed by Zhou Yi to the left!

"Chance!!"